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MONTANA’S REAL ID “WIN” INDIANS? NOT SO MUCH ENROLLMENT DECLINE COMEDY STOIC WHEN THE 1491s HIT THE STAGE IS WORSE THAN REPORTED OPINION DOESN’T CHANGE MUCH NEWS UM
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Voices/Letters Election, election and more election......................................................4 The Week in Review Mick Holien, hunting and earthquakes........................................6 Briefs No Safe Sallys, Missoula Haunted House and GOP moves ..................................6 Etc. Time to get out the vote ...........................................................................................7 News UM enrollment decline worse than reported........................................................8 News Cleaning up under Reserve Street proves no easy job..........................................9 Opinion What does Montana’s REAL ID “win” actually accomplish?. ..........................10 Opinion Farmers team up with the Humane Society on behalf of animals .................11 Feature Creating a softer landing for refugees in Missoula ..........................................14
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STREET TALK
by Derek Brouwer
Asked Tuesday afternoon inside the University Center What are you dressing up as for Halloween this year? Followup: What scares you the most during this time of year?
Kaley Harrison-Walker: Beer pong. I’m putting the pong balls on my shirt, and I have the cups on my waist. Moonstruck: This time of year? It’s a lot darker now and creepier with the time change.
Alex Mustard: A breathalyzer costume. It’s just a fake picture of a chart that shows how drunk someone is, and then it has a little blowing device where you blow into. Left for dead: Zombies.
Sam Rivey: Syndrome from The Incredibles. He’s like a red-headed evil villain. I have most of that down, so I can pull it off. Light a match: The dark.
Paige Walker: Aphrodite—it was on the shelf, grab and go. Credit overload: Registering for spring classes. That’s scary.
Nick Perrien: My work uniform, because I have work. It’s just a black polo and black pants, name tag. Slashers: I always think watching Halloween movies with Michael Myers is pretty creepy.
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Coming clean After reading Dan Brooks’ opinion article “Back of the line” in the Oct. 22 Independent, I felt like I needed to come clean. I have, unpopularly among my friends, voted against the $158 million school bond. I also voted against the 2013 school technology levy. In the last two to three years I have voted against pretty much every school bond or levy that has come up. I hear it already. “It’s for the children!” “How could you vote against things so essential to our kids’ education?” “Our schools need our support!” I really believe that the schools do need our support. I don’t believe that constantly throwing money at problems works. Especially not in a community that has consistently low wages, higher-than-national average housing and already ridiculously high property taxes. I agree with Dan Brooks’ concern that Missoula voters will begin to “vote with their fatigue.” In fact, I believe that has already started to happen. While I do think many of the city-wide improvements that are asked for are worthwhile, it seems our community is being financially stretched further and further. It’s great to have updated and newer amenities in our community and some of these improvements are important. But Missoula is lacking in some solid, essential social and economic basics: good paying jobs and affordable housing. How does the city expect continued growth and support when the majority of residents struggle to get by on a weekly basis? The reason I have continually voted against school bonds and levies isn’t because I have something against children (I have five) or quality education. One reason is it’s the only form of protest I have when it seems that no “powers that be” care to hear an opposing voice. More importantly, it’s because after having kids in the MCPS system for over 10 years I have seen the district continually ask for more and more money without seeing any real improvements—or the improvements are only temporary. Schools are academically underperforming and are continuing to decline. There are several schools that have had serious repair needs for over 10 years that have gone completely unaddressed. There have been costly, ineffective add-ons to schools (some that don’t meet ADA requirements) that have not effectively reduced overcrowding. None of these “solutions” stopped the academic decline in the schools, yet all have cost taxpayers increasingly more money. I’m also concerned that the bond is being rushed through. There are many campaigns pushing the need for this enormous bond and how we must get it done right away. Missoula County Public Schools has historically, in my opinion, been unable to create
a comprehensive, long-range plan to solve the problems of our local public schools. I wonder how many more bonds will be created in the future to fix all the problems that lack of planning in this bond creates. I think, as a community, we need to take a step back from this bond and ask some real questions. Is it really going to fulfill the needs of students and teachers that it is designed to do? Is it really going to contribute to reversing the decline of academic success in our schools? Is the MCPS board going to be accountable for the content of this bond? I don’t object to improving our schools (or paying for it) as long as it actually does improve the academic environment and success rates for our students rather than creating another endless cycle of unproductive, cashheavy bonds. In short, we should be getting what we pay for. Marilyn Morrison Missoula
“I say enough is enough”
Vote Murray So many incumbents have decided not to run in this year’s city council races that my hopes rose on the thought of correcting municipal policies of the homogenous membership. I live and own in Ward 1, which has seen redistricting that allows the entirety of the Rattlesnake neighborhood to go without a resident representative should voters make hasty choices. My first and only home is there. The thought of losing representation on the city council is deeply disturbing. However, something I find more disturbing are the housing policies of Heidi West. West is advocating for property price controls and higher taxes. In an ill-contrived effort at affordable housing, her policy makes the same mistakes that created the ghettos of larger metropolitan areas. As an alternative form of rent control, West will make attempts to not only reduce rent prices allowed by landlords but also cap the price of property itself. Aside from the obvious effect of never breaking the cycle of poverty or allowing upward mobility in her control zones, there are a series of other exceptionally detrimental effects from such policy. In the long run, controlled housing markets reduce the incentive of landlords to improve properties, in turn reducing our quality
of living. The capped prices increase, not decrease, property shortages by reducing the inherent desire of homebuilders to produce. Further, they encourage discrimination because the demand is inflated by the government. As much as I’m aware that fairness and sustainability are the desires of my beloved Missoula, I hope everyone in Ward 1 will join me in voting for accountability and good policy. Heidi West is not the answer for Missoula. Her policies reflect a desire to represent the development corporation she advises and a poor understanding of basic economics. It would make more sense to hand our rent or property tax money to the poor than support her. Say no to the many shades of corruption and please vote for Bill Murray. Nick Fry Missoula
Vote DiBari John DiBari will make an excellent Missoula City Council member. He is dedicated, thoughtful and willing to work hard to make our city an even better place. John is pragmatic and diligent. He’s been knocking on doors (over 2,100) talking with folks from his ward and has heard loud and clear that people are concerned with financial issues and how our community develops and grows. I am confident that he will represent the interests and priorities of Ward 4. Please join me in voting for him. Tom Platt Missoula
No more taxes Taxed enough already? Most of us are. This year’s election will increase taxes once again. The schools are asking for $158 million from us, the taxpayers. In most cases you’ll be paying an extra $200 for schools on top of what they already receive from us. Remember the government has said no cost of living increases for retirement next year, yet your property tax keeps increasing. The schools didn’t have their wish list until September. I say a wish list since most of these items the schools want aren’t needs. It’s like getting the Holiday Sears catalog and wishing for everything. We don’t need all of these things but want them. I’d rather see a needs list first, then a bond total. This is why many of us will be voting no on both the high school and elementary school bonds. Remember we passed a tech levy in 2013 that gave close to $900,000 to schools. Where was that money wasted? Now the schools want more money for technology. Most of us don’t and can’t afford to buy computers every two years. I say enough is enough. Vote no and stop taxing our property. This is a mail-in ballot election, so get your ballots mailed in. How much of a tax increase can you afford? Mike Fellows Missoula
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WEEK IN REVIEW
VIEWFINDER
by Robin Carleton
Wednesday, Oct. 21 At least 160,000 Montanans take part in the Great Montana Shakeout earthquake drill at 10:21 a.m. Organizers of the drill note that Montana is one of the most seismically active states in the country.
Thursday, Oct. 22 After announcing that Grizzly Sports Properties did not renew his contract for next year, longtime sports announcer Mick Holien posts a thank you to listeners on his Facebook page. “I am hopeful that my career ends in the NCAA playoffs for both football and basketball,” he writes.
Friday, Oct. 23 The Missoula Children’s Theatre announces it reached its $1 million goal in the One Million Reasons To Say Yes campaign, which started in May. The funds help support MCT’s mission of providing arts education and theater programs for kids.
Saturday, Oct. 24 Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks marks opening day of general hunting season. An unusually flowery FWP press release states that “About 100,000 hunters will be afield this weekend ... Rural coffee shops have ordered extra bacon and eggs and stocked up on homemade pie.”
Sunday, Oct. 25 Missoula City Cemetery hosts the annual Stories and Stones, with experts dressed in period garb giving historic presentations at the gravesites of influential Missoulians. Filmmaker Andy Smetanka discusses the history of the Wilma, though sadly he does not dress in character as Edna Wilma Simons Sharp.
Monday, Oct. 26 In the second-ever use of the state’s Wireless Emergency Alert System, Montanans receive text messages about an Amber Alert for two kidnapped children. The children are found the next day.
Tuesday, Oct. 27 The Missoula County Elections Office opens a satellite location on the University of Montana campus for the first time so students can easily register to vote before the Nov. 3 election.
Kevin Bradford-Parish won the men’s pro category 1/2 at the Rolling Thunder cyclocross race held at Big Sky Brewery on Oct. 24. The 33year-old from Spokane completed the 13-lap course more than 30 seconds ahead of second-place finisher Joseph Maloney.
Halloween
Ghouls take over fairgrounds As darkness falls in the Missoula Valley on a weekend evening, shrieks begin to emanate from a corner of the Western Montana Fairgrounds. A glowing sign reveals the source: the Missoula Haunted House, now in its third year of public operation. A trip through the house takes perhaps 10 minutes, maybe less if a group gets nervous and starts to run. But it’s the result of weeks of work by the team at Roothead Studios production company, which is owned by Ben Jacobson and Richard Davenport. They started decorating a livestock barn on Sept. 1, using recycled materials to create a maze of dimly lit, twisting corridors and creepy scenes. Actors dressed as zombies and madmen will leap out at guests, sometimes wielding a real chainsaw and cackling. One room of the house features a 16-foot-tall papier-mâché giant’s head sitting atop wrecked cars. In reality, the junked cars
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were crushed by the giant claw at Pacific Steel several weeks prior. “We believe this is something Missoula needs,” Jacobson says. “This kind of entertainment, we wish there was a lot more of it. We would love to take a break and go see haunted houses like this.” Jacobson and Davenport first started setting up elaborate haunted houses in backyards and barns during college parties, and in 2013 they made the Missoula Haunted House a public attraction at the fairgrounds. They estimate that about 4,000 customers went through the house last year over two weekends of operation. “We’re pretty obviously into Halloween, but there’s some people out there—and I mean this in the most positive sense—that just, like, eat, drink and sleep Halloween,” Davenport says. “And when you end up putting on the biggest haunted house in a town, they kinda come out of the woodwork.” Before going into the Missoula Haunted House,
guests are assured the actors won’t touch them. But Davenport and Jacobson might add a special “full-contact” night at the house next year, where actors can grab those who dare to pass. Full-contact houses have been successful elsewhere in the country, including the infamous Blackout in Los Angeles, where participants endure simulated waterboarding and wander through pitch-dark rooms alone for extended periods of time. “I’ve talked to people I know who would love to do that. They’re obsessed with horror movies and they really love that rush, and they don’t quite get it from this,” Jacobson says. While Missoula Haunted House isn’t likely to become nearly as bizarre as Blackout, Jacobson and Davenport still want to keep finding novel ways to provoke genuine scares. “It’s kind of like jumping off a bridge into the river or a gnarly rope swing or skydiving,” Davenport says. “Those are more inherently dangerous actually, you
[news] can plummet to the earth and die. But there’s something about being scared when you know you can’t actually die. There’s a safety net there.” “You feel alive when you come out,” Jacobson adds. “You survived, and you have a rush, that adrenaline feels good.” The Missoula Haunted House continues through Oct. 31. Kate Whittle
Business
No Safe Sallys invites women The meeting started out sedately enough, with about 15 women gathered in the Two Sisters Catering kitchen to decorate mini cupcakes for donation to local nonprofits. Then, things got messy. “We were going to take turns and smash [other cupcakes] on a paper on the floor, but that didn’t end so well,” says Sara Kauk, who organized the cupcake event. “It just became one big smash, which was super fun. Cupcakes on the floor, in each other’s faces—it became more like the food fight you had when you were a kid.” The cupcake smash was hosted by No Safe Sallys, an organization founded by Kauk and a few friends to provide local businesswomen with offbeat ways to meet up and network. Other events have included a ziplining excursion and informal coffee meetings. Kauk, a Montana native who specializes in graphics and web design, runs the DesignMissoula firm. She came up with the idea for No Safe Sallys after feeling shy at traditional networking events. “To put me in front of someone and have to do an elevator pitch is super awkward,” she says, “and so I thought, well, we need a group in Missoula where it’s about doing some fun activity that’s not so focused on, ‘What is your business, how did it start, stand up in front of everyone and explain this,’ but more about the relationships.” Her plans coalesced sometime in May, when six other women joined to form the core No Safe Sallys group. The organization is seeking 501(c)(6) status to become a tax-exempt entity, and any local businesswoman is welcome to join their activities without needing a formal membership. As for the name, Kauk explains that a “Safe Sally” is shorthand for someone who’s timid and fearful. She and the rest of the No Safe Sallys aim to encourage each other to take risks, “think outside the box” and support one another in professions that are sometimes male-dominated.
(Women named Sally are certainly welcome, she adds.) Kauk’s sister and fellow cofounder, Brandi Ries, runs her own local law firm. Ries says on a day-to-day basis, it’s challenging to fulfill the demands of being a mother and a spouse while still working full time. “On a much bigger level, a more societal issue is how women, we’re still not getting paid equally for the work that we do,” Ries says. “There is a devaluing of women that happens in the workplace. That’s not just by men, that’s also by other women. We need to work together to change that.” In coming months, Ries says No Safe Sallys will roll out a community campaign called Seven Simple Acts of Kindness, where they’ll be reaching out to local schools to talk to young kids about leadership and community engagement. “We all bring different values to the table, and being inclusive of everyone, it makes our world better,” Ries says. Kate Whittle
Politics
The shifting face of the GOP With several months under his belt and a busy 2016 election cycle on the horizon, freshly minted Montana Republican Party Chairman Jeff Essmann feels his tenure is off to a solid start. He’s drafting monthly newsletters to keep county central committees, Republican activists and donors abreast of the party’s direction. He’s convened a strategic advisory team to plan for what he hopes will be a string of electoral victories in 12 months and says he sees a deep pool of candidates developing in the likes of Elsie Arntzen and Corey Stapleton. “I know there are other Republicans looking at various races,” says Essmann, who also serves as a state legislator. “And I am confident we’ll have a strong Republican candidate on every one of those statewide races—not to mention Congressman [Ryan] Zinke and Attorney General [Tim] Fox.” But in the wake of a legislative session that saw conservative losses on issues like Medicaid expansion and campaign finance reform, tensions within the party have been playing out publicly and prominently. Less than two months into Essmann’s stint as chairman, the party lev-
BY THE NUMBERS Retired U.S. Forest Service leaders who signed an Oct. 19 letter urging the federal government to cancel drilling permits in the Badger-Two Medicine, citing “irreparable harm from fossil fuel exploration and development” to the area.
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eled accusations of misconduct against the office of Attorney General Tim Fox—the top Republican state officeholder—stemming from its ongoing lawsuit to declare open primary elections unconstitutional. GOP officials demanded that Deputy Attorney General Jon Bennion be removed from the case, claiming he had improperly contacted then-executive director Chris Shipp. The legal motion caught Fox’s office by surprise. A letter drafted days later by Assistant Attorney General J. Stuart Segrest questioned why the issue couldn’t have been handled amicably, adding that Essmann had contacted Fox’s office the day after the filing “to ask General Fox for assistance with fundraising so the Party could meet payroll in the coming months and extinguish a $54,000 debt.” The back and forth ended when Bennion withdrew from the case Aug. 21. Speculation continued to run rampant in early October when Shipp—just 10 months into the job—resigned as the GOP’s executive director. However, Shipp says he always intended to leave the directorship prior to the 2016 cycle and stayed on “to help [Essmann] get up-to-speed.” “It was time to move on to the next chapter,” he adds. Essmann says the hunt is now on for Shipp’s replacement. His search committee is reviewing more than a dozen applicants, and Essmann aims to have a new executive director in place by Dec. 1. There may be a few fresh faces among the party’s staff. GOP infighting and criticism from on the left may be rampant. But Essmann—himself a controversial and polarizing figure in Republican politics—feels confident about the months ahead. “I intend to focus on the job, raise money, recruit decent candidates wherever they’re needed,” he says. “That’s my role, it’s a background role, and I intend to function like that.” Alex Sakariassen
ETC. It’s hard to say which is more American: our tradition of casting a vote in a ballot box or the endless bickering over when and how and where we do it. Then there’s the arm twisting required to even get voters to the polls. It seems like a whole lot of hassle during oddyear city elections—like the current one in Missoula—when so few residents seem to take the time to choose their local leaders. Municipal races and school bonds may lack the glamour of a presidential election or statewide campaign, but don’t tell that to the people of Forward Montana. The group hosted a voting party on the UM Oval on Tuesday complete with a golf cart, photo booth and “Vote, F*cker” yard signs. Is that a cardboard cutout of Beyonce and Nicki Minaj from the “Feeling Myself” music video with a hole in the middle for a photo op? Democracy, you have our attention. The golf cart was used to transport selfietakers over to the University Center, where the Missoula County elections office set up a late registration station so students could more easily cast their ballots. The county approached the one-day event as a test run of a model they hope can boost turnout and limit long lines in future elections. The Nov. 3 election has garnered a little more interest this year for reasons beyond the Beyonce cutout. Missoula County Public Schools placed a whopping $158 million facilities bond package on the ballot, calling it a referendum on local education. Critics call the bonds—as well as recent robo calls from Mayor John Engen reminding folks to vote—a gross overreach. It’s just the sort of heated issue that could drive voter turnout. But the numbers aren’t there yet. With a week remaining to return mail-in ballots, around 34 percent of registered voters had done so, according to election officials. If you haven’t handed yours in, now’s the time. Officials also say nearly 10 percent of all mailed ballots came back as undeliverable. If you didn’t receive yours, late registration is taking place at the Missoula County Fairgrounds from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Thursday and Friday, 8 a.m. to noon on Monday, and 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Election Day. No golf carts are planned, but the Mountain Line’s Route 1 should do just fine.
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Asked to summarize the ongoing enrollment drop at the University of Montana, Provost Perry Brown takes the next 14 minutes to explain. He begins precisely where President Royce Engstrom did during his annual address in August, by suggesting the small classes of the past four years are a kind of correction to the record number of students who attended UM during the economic recession. “Actually, we just dropped back to the pre-recession period. We’re almost back to normal now,” Brown says. “That was a blip, an anomaly.” In fact, the situation is worse. After another large drop this fall, UM’s main campus hasn’t been so empty since 1995. In five years, the UM student body has plummeted from an all-time high (11,638 students in 2010) to a 20-year low (9,681 now), according to full-time equivalent data provided by the Office of University Planning, Budgeting and Analysis. Even after figuring in two-year students from Missoula College, a sector that has grown, the university is as small as it was in fall 1999. And while some reports refer to the recent annual drops as a “dip” or “decline,” enrollment data posted to the university’s website suggests something closer to free fall. There are plenty of ways to slice the numbers, most of which suggest a worsening crisis. UM’s annual online census report indicates total headcount enrollment is down 908 students from a year ago, or 6.5 percent, lower still than the preliminary figures announced earlier this month. Resident, out-ofstate and international student categories all dropped. Out-of-state freshmen, who typically pay higher tuition, are down 27 percent from last year. The downward trend has left university officials scrambling to address the problem even as they continue to scratch their heads over its causes. In the meantime, departments face continued budget cuts. Brown lists several forces working against the university, from low unemployment to tapering Montana high school graduation classes to “a period where we did have a lot of national publicity that wasn’t all positive,” referring to scrutiny over UM’s han-
dling of sexual assault reports. He also points to the popularity of engineering programs and economic troubles in Brazil and China, countries that compose a large chunk of UM’s international student population (down 17 percent), in an effort to illustrate the complex factors at play. But some aspects of the enrollment situation continue to confound officials, Brown says. This fall’s headcount, particularly for
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University of Montana administrators are scrambling to stave off plummeting enrollment numbers that have reached a 20-year low.
freshmen, came in lower than UM planners predicted. Brown says an unusual number of students attended summer orientation and signed up for classes, then never showed up. As a result, this year’s freshman class is the smallest of the decline period, at 1,739 students between both campuses. On the other hand, Montana State University in Bozeman enrolled over 3,000 freshmen this year, half from out of state, as the university set another overall enrollment record. While its engineering program accounted for the bulk of the increase, other programs are also growing, MSU data shows. The diverging trajectories between UM and MSU create a situation where, for the first time in recent memory, one of Montana’s flagship universities is substantially larger than the other—by nearly 40 percent among full-time equivalents on four-year campuses, according to data provided by the Office of the Commissioner of Higher Education.
The office doesn’t necessarily see this trend as a problem, Deputy Commissioner Kevin McRae says, though he acknowledges decreasing enrollment creates challenges on individual campuses. OCHE manages the state’s universities as a system, and as long as a high school graduate attends one of them, “we view that as a win,” McRae says. Enrollment is declining on a majority of Montana campuses, something McRae attributes to the shrinking high school population. But he hasn’t seen any evidence that would-be UM students are flocking to Bozeman and says OCHE believes Engstrom and his administration have a “sound” plan in place. “You really have to take the long-haul approach. If four years of enrollment decline were followed by another four years of enrollment decline, I’d bet you’d have tight margins,” he says. With enrollment in UM programs dropping across the board, university officials say they are conducting a “full court press” to recruit and keep more students. “This is clearly the most important issue that we’re dealing with,” Brown says. Those efforts began several years ago. Early on, the university hired an Iowa-based marketing firm to contact prospective students through phone and email, but the firm was let go last year when its work didn’t yield results and led to mistakes, Brown says. One set of communications incorrectly referred to the university as “Montana State.” UM now conducts its recruitment in-house. In 2013, a university working group urged the administration to make enrollment its top priority and generated a list of recommended actions. Around the same time, Engstrom told the Montana Board of Regents that UM is facing an enrollment “problem.” A significant change came last week, when Engstrom announced that Vice President for Student Affairs Teresa Branch will retire at the end of the year and that her replacement will focus on “enrollment management.” Brown says the administration will be looking for a candidate “who thinks about enrollment management every day and maybe even dreams about it at night.” dbrouwer@missoulanews.com
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Clearing camp Cleaning up under Reserve Street proves no easy job by Alex Sakariassen
Emotions are mixed below the Reserve Street bridge. Volunteers clad in work gloves wander through the fallen leaves bagging discarded cans, wrappers, cigarette butts and errant strips of cardboard. A few others busy themselves taking down tents and folding up blue tarps. Travis Mateer, homeless outreach coordinator for the Poverello Center, gathers up a cache of unopened food. Oct. 22 marked the third annual cleanup of the homeless camps along the Clark Fork in western Missoula. And while the effort is intended to improve health and safety and deter settlement by the city’s homeless population, it’s impossible to ignore that the job requires dismantling numerous makeshift shelters. Driving that point home, one volunteer approaches Mateer with a recovered first aid kit complete with prescription pill bottles. Mateer recognizes the name, sets aside the kit and vows to return it to its owner. “He’ll be really happy to get this back,” Mateer says. The Pov conducted an intense outreach campaign weeks ahead of the cleanup, warning camp denizens of the exact date and nature of the event so they could vacate the area and remove any valuables. Still, items like a basketball, tents and an elaborate tarp-and-log structure held together with dozens of screws and five-inch lengths of rebar are still present. Several stone fire pits remain warm and smoking. “This is not necessarily a good-feeling thing to be doing, taking away people’s personal things,” Mateer says. “It can be tough on the volunteers, like the girl who had some trouble today because she wasn’t sure if what she was picking up was an active camp.” The Missoula City-County Health Department took its first run at cleaning up the swath of Montana Department of Transportation-owned property below Reserve Street back in 2011, hiring a contractor to do the work. Six months later a crew of volunteers returned to the site, hauling out 5 tons of trash. The shared goals behind the effort have attracted a diverse set of partners including the Pov, the Clark Fork Coalition and the Western
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Environmental Health Specialist Travis Ross, right, and a gathering of volunteers bag trash from a pile consolidated by residents of homeless camps below the Reserve Street bridge during a recent cleanup.
Montana Trail Riders Association, who provided two volunteers and a pair of ATVs this month. Travis Ross, an environmental health specialist with the county’s water quality district, says the final tally of trash removed during the latest cleanup was 3.17 tons, or 30 cubic yards. “My sense is that the volume is going down, at least the concentration over time,” Ross adds. “It’s still a huge volume of trash, don’t get me wrong. But it’s just not accumulating at the rate that it was.” Removing all that waste isn’t just a matter of public health and safety. Much of the area lies within the Clark Fork’s floodplain, creating a scenario where high water events could wash trash downstream. Ross says he’s received numerous calls in years past about propane bottles and grocery bags floating into irrigation ditches or getting hung up in logjams. According to volunteer coordinator Katie Racette, one of the Clark Fork Coalition’s driving interests in helping with the effort is to ensure that potential pollutants are removed well before spring runoff. Several of the recent cleanup volunteers were students recruited from the University of Montana’s environmental studies program. “All those camps that we were cleaning up were either in dry channels ... or are on the floodplain,” Racette says. “When the spring runoff comes along, it would have washed out everything.”
The situation below Reserve Street has improved since the collaborative cleanup days began, and the homeless community is now buying into the idea. Individuals living in these camps have attempted to consolidate their trash in a single spot to ease collection. Volunteers managed to bag most of that site in less than an hour before fanning out to tackle the more time-consuming task of combing the floodplain floor for scattered garbage. Those involved in the cleanup agree the continued presence of these camps— and the need for the event—is indicative of a far greater problem. Mateer refers to “major gaps in the system” that force people onto the margins of society. Some suffer from chemical dependency or mental illness, others may be unaware of local services. While pulling apart a small structure mere feet from the Clark Fork, Ross says the cleanup is a small step in the right direction. “If we just treat this place like a No Man’s Land, we’ll never move closer to a solution.” One of the biggest questions on the minds of those clearing out the camps is how quickly the folks living here will be back. Mateer offers one possible answer, based on his weekly visits to the area. “Some of them, probably tomorrow,” he says. asakariassen@missoulanews.com
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Dubious victory What does Montana’s REAL ID “win” actually accomplish?
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[10] Missoula Independent • October 29–November 5, 2015
by Dan Brooks
Last week, the Department of Homeland Security granted Montana a second extension of the deadline to comply with federal Real ID requirements, until October 2016. That’s good news for me, since without that extension, I wouldn’t have been able to fly home. I’m in New York, one of a majority of states ground beneath the boot heel of federal overreach, and my Montana driver’s license is my only government-issued photo ID. After religious hillbillies flew planes into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001—an event I witnessed while standing in line for an egg sandwich— Congress adopted new standards intended to make state driver’s licenses harder to forge, collectively known as Real ID. Real ID passed in 2005, with an implementation schedule that would require compliant identification in order to board commercial aircraft no sooner than 2016. A driver’s license from any state that meets DHS standards will work. A driver’s license from Montana will not, since the state legislature forbade implementation of Real ID standards in 2007. Our representatives in Helena worried the feds might somehow use those standards to collect information about us, and they declared Real ID an unconscionable infringement on states’ rights. Ah, states’ rights: the principle enshrined in the Constitution, if not explicitly written there, that Congress can’t tell Montana what to do. Real ID would infringe on our right to govern ourselves by putting a DHS-approved security marking on Montana driver’s licenses. That’s it. There are two other elements of compliance with Real ID that the 2007 law expressly forbids, but they are “full compliance with federal law” and “submission of a final certification package for Real ID compliance,” as the Missoulian puts it. Basically, if we put that DHS stamp on there, we’re good. I’m no constitutional scholar, so I won’t comment on whether that would violate our state’s rights. It does, however, seem like a petty reason to defy the
federal government, especially if it means Montanans can’t use our driver’s licenses to board planes. What we have here is a conflict between a theoretical problem— Washington, D.C., might not have the right to tell us to put stamps on our driver’s licenses—and a real problem, that hundreds of thousands of Montanans will no longer have federally valid ID. But graphic design is not the issue here. The issue, at least according to a
“It’s like declaring victory over Crazy Mike’s because you haven’t returned their copy of Mystic Pizza.”
press release from the governor and the attorney general, is privacy. I quote Gov. Bullock: “Real ID raises real concerns about the unnecessary collection of Montanans’ personal and private information by the federal government. Our state has taken significant steps, independent of a federal mandate, to bolster the security of licenses, while protecting the right to privacy that Montanans hold dear.” That press release is headlined “Governor Bullock, Attorney General Fox secure victory over Real ID,” which might risk overstating the triumph of a deadline extension. It’s like declaring victory over Crazy Mike’s because you haven’t returned their copy of Mystic Pizza. But I’m more concerned about the governor and attorney general’s remarks about pri-
vacy, which combine loose talk with good old-fashioned pandering. It’s unclear how, exactly, the federal government will use Real ID to violate our privacy. The DHS has already said it won’t use the program to access state DMV databases or other information about drivers. Real ID is a national standard for how identification cards are designed and printed, not a national ID card. The implication that it will somehow give Homeland Security a back door to our personal information is more suited to a chain email from your aunt than a press release from the governor. More importantly, we already know about several concrete and troubling ways the DHS is violating Montanans’ right to privacy, through blanket surveillance by the NSA. I don’t recall the governor or the attorney general standing up to that. Now that I know the feds are vacuuming up my emails, texts and call records, Bullock and Fox’s warning that they might look at my driver’s license seems like standing in a house with no roof and complaining that someone left the door open. If Real ID is a scheme for the U.S. government to gather information about me, it’s the second-best one I know about. In a decade of real and alarming infringements on Montanans’ constitutional rights, Bullock and Fox seem to have picked the pettiest one. I don’t think that’s a coincidence. I think my governor and attorney general may have deliberately chosen a low-stakes game so they can make a loud public gesture in defense of privacy and states’ rights without risking actual trouble. If that’s what they’re doing, they should rethink it. Privacy is a red-meat issue for voters because we have real reasons for concern. Maybe Helena could stand up for states’ rights on one of those. Dan Brooks writes about people, politics, culture and old Julia Roberts movies at combatblog.net.
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One bad day Farmers team up with Humane Society on behalf of animals by Pete Letheby
Like all farmers and ranchers, Kevin Fulton has experienced his share of tough days at work. But he does everything possible to make sure that his animals— goats, sheep, cattle and chickens—never have to experience more than one bad day themselves. “If we can provide an environment where our animals only have one bad day in their lives, we’ve done our job,” he said. “That’s in contrast to the animals in factory farms who only have one good day in their lives—the day the misery ends for them. That’s a big difference.” Fulton, 55, owns and operates a 1,000-acre organic farm on the edge of Nebraska’s isolated Sandhills, where he’s produced grass-fed beef that’s been served in upscale restaurants from San Diego to New York. The town closest to his spread is Litchfield, population 250. Yet though he lives far from the people in the urban areas that he serves, Fulton has become a national spokesman for animal welfare. He is, you might say, a poster child for the Humane Society of the United States. This borders on treason for those engaged in conventional agriculture, which is big on the use of chemicals and antibiotics and not heavily concerned about the welfare of confined farm animals. Most notably, Fulton helped to inaugurate the Humane Society’s trailblazing agricultural advisory councils. His involvement with the group began in fall 2010, after Wayne Pacelle, the Humane Society’s longtime president, visited Nebraska for a town hall meeting to discuss the welfare of farm animals. Pacelle was most interested in finding out about confined animal operations, which, he’d been told, were brutal and anything but humane. That’s when Fulton came forward. “The Humane Society was getting beat up out here in the ag community,” Fulton recalled. “Many farmers thought the organization was worse than the antichrist. The ag industry was painting it as, ‘You’ve never been on a farm and you’re all a bunch of vegans.’ I told Wayne, ‘You
need to get farmers more involved on the front lines to fight these battles.’” The result: Fulton decided to start a progressive farm and ranch movement in cooperation with the Humane Society. It’s been just five years, but today 19 states have their own or shared Humane Society agricultural advisory councils, all with farmers as members. The most recent states to climb on board were Washington, Oregon and Idaho, forming the Northwest Advisory Council.
“The Humane Society was getting beat up out here in the ag community. Many farmers thought the organization was worse than the antichrist.”
Although the councils have no legislative or governmental authority to enact changes, they have had an impact through lobbying, education and recruiting farmers to join a cause that resonates with the American public. Perhaps most importantly, the Humane Society councils have put conventional agriculture on notice— or perhaps on edge—by bringing it under sharper scrutiny. This has an impact: Conventional farmers are not particularly worried about being attacked from the outside, but they seriously dislike being challenged by their fellow farmers and ranchers.
The ag councils’ approach is simple: Farmers and ranchers need to respect the land and treat farm animals humanely, an approach that consumers find sympathetic. His fight for altruistic standards has earned Fulton some threats from fellow Nebraskans, who’d like him to just clam up and go away. But Fulton, who, in his younger days, worked as a college strength and conditioning coach and competed in countless weightlifting and strongman competitions, isn’t fazed by threats. When former Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman vowed to “kick HSUS’ ass” out of Nebraska, Fulton simply became more energized. He points out that Nebraska now has well over 50,000 Humane Society supporters. This is more than the number of farm operations in the state. “I am Humane Society,” Fulton says. “And I am Nebraska. I’m not going anywhere.” There is increasing evidence that Fulton’s insider approach is making inroads. A rapidly growing number of major U.S. food companies and restaurant chains—from Wendy’s to Aramark to McDonald’s to, most recently, General Mills—are moving away from inhumanely produced animal products. Some states’ recent overzealous “ag-gag” laws, which outlaw photos of farm operations, have also sparked a backlash from consumers who can’t help wondering just why the industrial farms are so secretive. What, they ask, is Big Ag hiding from the public? What’s more, two former presidential candidates—Nebraska’s Bob Kerrey and Kansas’ Bob Dole, both known for their sturdy Midwestern common sense—recently signed on as Humane Society advisors. Who would have ever imagined that? Reform of confined farm operations must be long overdue, Dole and Kerrey reason. Change is a good thing. Pete Letheby is a contributor to Writers on the Range, an op-ed service of High Country News (hcn.org ). He is a journalist and freelance writer in Grand Island, Neb.
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DOING TIME RIGHT – In October, a Harvard University debate team (three-time recent champions of the American Parliamentary Debate Association) lost a match to a team of prisoners from the maximum-security Eastern New York Correctional Facility. Prison debaters “are held to the exact same standards” as college debate teams, according to the director of Bard College’s Prison Initiative, which coaches the inmates. Prisoners took the “pro” side of public schools having the right to turn away students whose parents had entered the U.S. illegally (though team members personally disagreed). The Bard trainers pointed out that the inmates perfected their presentation despite (or perhaps because of) the prison prohibition on Internet access. COMPELLING EXPLANATIONS – A black alleged gang member, Taurus Brown, 19, under arrest in Clearwater, Florida, in September for having a marijuana cigarette casually tucked behind his ear as he talked politely to a white police officer, tried to flee on foot but was quickly taken down. Asked why he ran, Brown replied (according to the police report): “I don’t like white people touching me. White people do weird stuff.” UNCLEAR ON THE CONCEPT – The Merit Systems Protection Board is (wrote The Washington Post) “a personnel court of last resort” for federal employees unfairly punished by demotion or firing—which is just what employee Timothy Korb needed when his federal agency suspended him in 2013, allegedly for revealing at a staff meeting that the agency’s actual case backlog was much worse than it was letting on. Korb’s employer, ironically, is the Merit Systems Protection Board, and in September 2015, an administrative law judge upheld his claim of unfairness. SHAMELESS – In rare bipartisan action, the U.S. Senate is preparing a bill to ban taxpayer funds for those military salutes at sporting events. Teams (the legislators believe) already benefit from the fanfriendly staging of heartwarming patriotic displays. (The Pentagon had paid $5.4 million just to the National Football League over the last four years.) An NFL spokesman, finally playing catch-up, said in September, “(N)o one should be paid to honor our troops.” LEGISLATORS IN ACTION – In a recent resolution, Blount County (Tennessee) Commissioner Karen Miller called for her fellow commissioners and state officials all the way up to the governor to prepare for “God’s wrath” for recent national policies (same-sex marriage, etc.) she disagrees with. Though other states might be in for a smiting, Miller’s resolution calls on God to spare Blount County (by the “safety of the Passover lamb”). In October, the commission tabled the resolution, 10-5, but she promised to reintroduce it. By September, Cindy Gamrat and Todd Courser were finally out of the Michigan Legislature—Gamrat by guard-escorted removal after her formal expulsion and Courser by preemptive resignation—following the pair’s months-long “secret” sexual affair and clumsy handling of its revelation. Courser’s original defense strategy was to plant a bogus story of a gay-sex scandal, hoping to discredit as hysteria any news about his actual affair, but when that failed, he issued a 1,900-word plea, liberally quoting the Bible, acknowledging his hypocrisy and hoping for salvation from his colleagues (who failed to come through). THE WEIRDO-AMERICAN COMMUNITY – “Officially” declaring oneself not subject to the laws of any jurisdiction (i.e., a “sovereign”) opens a wide range of career choices. The FBI and Las Vegas police say that in Rick Van Thiel’s case, once his porn industry career ended (because someone stole his video equipment), he “decided to go into the medical field,” becoming “Dr. Rick” with expertise performing dozens of abortions, circumcisions and castrations (plus cancer treatments and root canals). Proudly avoiding actual licensing, Van Thiel promoted “alternative” remedies, with an office in a Nevada compound of trailers that one hesitant “patient” described as something out of a horror movie. Van Thiel, arrested in October, nonetheless staunchly defended his ability (acquired, he said, by watching YouTube medical videos). (Bonus entertainment: In court, he will be acting as his own lawyer.) PERSPECTIVE – In June, Tennessee’s much-publicized program to kick drug users off of welfare rolls (and only from welfare rolls, among all people receiving any type of state subsidy) wound up its first year cutting off fewer than 40 people out of 28,559 people on public assistance (”temporary assistance to needy families”). Nonetheless, the sponsoring legislators said they were pleased with the program and planned no changes. The state paid a contractor $11,000 to conduct 468 drug tests, but did not disclose staff costs of processing applications, deciding who to test and managing cases. LEAST COMPETENT CRIMINALS – Not Ready for Prime Time: It was at 7:30 a.m. on Oct. 8 that, according to Dallas police, Kristopher Jones, 18, and a buddy decided it would be Joy’s Donut shop they should rob. As they exited the store (one carrying the shop’s cash register), a uniformed, offduty officer (who apparently had pulled up to the store—for doughnuts) saw the whole thing and arrested Jones (though his partner was able to flee). Thanks this week to Joan Condell, John Baker and Bruce Leiserowitz, and to the News of the Weird Board of Editorial Advisors.
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aser Yahya and Pakhshan Abdulla felt nauseous as they arrived in Missoula last month. The drive from southern Illinois had been long. Pakhshan, pregnant with twins, was experiencing intense morning sickness. Their 5-year-old boy, Asos, was restless in the backseat of their Dodge Caravan, which was packed with everything the family owned. Naser worried about the fact they didn’t have much money or a place to sleep. But they made it to the valley of their dreams, where the surrounding mountains looked almost like those in Kurdistan, in northern Iraq, the home to which they couldn’t return. Naser and Pakhshan came to the United States in 2012 to study advanced university degrees just as U.S. troops left Iraq, leading to a burst of violent insurgency. The couple realized they wouldn’t be able to return anytime soon, but their student visas didn’t allow them to work in the states. “So we just got stuck between those two countries,” Naser says. Instability in Iraq brought particular risk for the Kurds, an ethnic
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minority long persecuted by government regimes, especially under Saddam Hussein’s rule. Naser says his village, an hour or two north of Erbil, has been burned several times. Naser and Pakhshan had another reason to fear returning home, a secret they carried with them to Illinois. Shortly before leaving Kurdistan, Naser met Christian missionaries who slipped him a copy of the Bible. His family read it, and once in America, they began attending church. The faith grew in them, but they didn’t tell relatives, suspecting their conversion wouldn’t be accepted. It was on these grounds the family applied to the U.S. government for political asylum. Three years later, in July 2015, their application was approved. By then, though, aspects of their relatively comfortable life in America were less secure. Financial support from Iraq had ceased and they couldn’t afford another semester in graduate school. But they were finally eligible to work and they could count on several months of refugee assistance. They also had a path to become American citizens. This was their chance to start anew.
The U.S. has resettled more refugees and harbored more asylees than any other country, and hundreds of cities have offices where they can go for help activating their short-term government benefits, find housing and apply for jobs. Montana communities have no such offices and thus very few refugees. Still, in light of the good news, Montana hung in Naser’s imagination. He viewed it as a place that felt like home, where his family could also practice their new religion openly. They chose Missoula upon the advice of friends who had spent time here in the 1980s. “They told me, ‘It is a nice city, you can go there,’” Naser says. The family arrived on Sept. 9, 2015. Naser won’t forget the date, because he says it is also the day he learned one of his brothers, a sniper with the Kurdish Peshmerga military, was killed while fighting the Islamic State, or ISIS. “We were tired from the road,” Naser says. “At the same time … we were very disappointed from the war. So we were in a very, I mean, desperate situation. I don’t know how to explain it.” Though Naser says he knew Montana had few refugees, he underestimated what
lie ahead. Upon arrival he hopped from office to office, looking for assistance. He doesn’t remember everywhere he went, but the stops included the YWCA, Salvation Army, the Poverello Center and the housing authority. Many people—he calls them “friends”—did what they could to help, he says, but “the challenges were related to other issues, like services, like immediate housing.” One friend secured the family a hotel room for a night, which became four, then five. It’s not uncommon for refugees in America to stay in hotels briefly until housing becomes available, but Naser’s family was beginning to struggle with grief and uncertainty. Their government benefits hadn’t kicked in yet. Pakhshan was sick and without proper medication. They couldn’t cook in the hotel room, nor find comfort in Middle Eastern cuisine. Asos, too, was missing some of his first days of kindergarten. “My wife started to cry after seven days in Missoula,” Naser says. “She started to cry, and every night I was just helping her to stay strong, to be positive, because she was always saying, ‘Naser, we don’t have a place to live, we don’t have money, what should we do?’”
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“I said, ‘No, don’t worry, I think it’s getting better.’” They didn’t have time to wait and see. Some cousins lived in Lincoln, Neb., a city with a large refugee population and better services. They would go there. After a week in Missoula, they called it off. “At the end we were unable to do anything,” Naser says. “We just say, ‘Sorry,’ to our friends. ‘Obviously, we have to go back.’”
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he same time Naser and Pakhshan were in Missoula, a group of residents had refugees on their minds. Specifically,
that photo a year ago and been totally moved by it. But to see it as a mom, it’s heartbreaking. I will cry right now if I pull the image into my head. You can’t even imagine that that could be your baby child. And that he’s one of hundreds, one of thousands.” More than four million Syrians— nearly one in five—have registered as refugees with the United Nations since the country’s civil war erupted in 2011, and millions more have fled their homes within the country. The conflict began as an Arab Spring-inspired revolution to overthrow the regime of Bashar al-Assad, whose religious minority family has ruled
by conservative Arab countries such as Saudi Arabia, Kia says. At the same time, many western countries are also uncooperative. The U.S., historically the world’s most generous country toward refugees, has been slow to step into the current crisis, which involves two of America’s most contentious political issues: immigration and the Middle East. The Obama administration does plans to increase the annual refugee limit from 70,000 to 100,000 in coming years, but with only a fraction of the total earmarked for Syrians. As it currently stands, none of those refugees would be resettled in Montana,
Their group, which they dubbed Soft Landing Missoula, quickly grabbed attention. They picked up interviews with local media and added 200 members to their Facebook group in just a few days. Suddenly, Poole, a new mother who makes jewelry from home, found herself leading more volunteers than she knew what to do with. She and Shappee scrambled to organize meetings and corral the critics who were already trolling their group online. The following week Poole met with another group of Missoulians who were developing their own refugee-focused project. They met around the dining room
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aser and Pakhshan’s family photos could be those of any middle-class American family. Their digital albums record trips around the country, to museums and cities and parks, as well as birthday parties and dinners with friends. In one a young Asos sits at the head of a table, his eyes fixed upon a heap of noodles as the family tries authentic Chinese food for the first time. Beneath the Facebook post, a friend reminds the parents to watch the boy’s portions. Unlike refugees, who first register with the United Nations and are screened abroad for possible resettlement in another country, asylum-seekers
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Missoula chef Ray Risho prepares a traditional Syrian dinner in his home this month to raise Naser Yahya and Pahkshan Abdulla wear traditional Kurdish clothes to celebrate Kurdish money for Soft Landing Missoula, a group of local residents hoping to start a refugee resettlement Flag Day last year in southern Illinois, where the two were studying in graduate school before their asylum application was approved in July. program in the city.
the photographs of Syrians in boats and on beaches in Europe, where the largest refugee crisis since World War II was washing up on shore. The images that rattled the globe were published on Sept. 3. They showed a Syrian toddler lying on a Turkish beach, having drowned during his family’s attempt to reach the European Union. Newspapers put the child’s lifeless body on their front pages. “The shocking, cruel reality of Europe’s refugee crisis,” read The Guardian headline. Two Missoula mothers, Mary Poole and Kim Shappee, called each other after being struck by the images, wondering what they could do. “I’m a new mom,” Poole says. “I have my first baby, he’s 10 months old. My little son, my little guy, Jack. Seeing that baby lying on that beach, with his little shoes, just facedown in the sand, it’s heartbreaking. It’s heartbreaking. I could have seen
Syria for decades. As Assad cracked down on protesters, thousands of armed rebel groups emerged. ISIS then gained a foothold in parts of the country, further intensifying the fighting. More than 200,000 people had been killed by the start of this year, according to the UN. Syrians caught in the crossfire initially fled to neighboring countries, including Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan, which have provided temporary shelter to millions of refugees. Those countries started reaching their limits last year, says University of Montana history professor and Middle East expert Mehrdad Kia, forcing Syrians to look farther abroad. “These people are generally folks who have left their apartments and cars and TVs and really their life behind in Syria,” he says. “Syria had one of the largest middle classes in the Arab world.” The more moderate views of the Syrian middle class haven’t been welcomed
something Poole quickly discovered when researching the issue online. “The entire nation is lit up,” she says of a map she found on the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement website. “Then there’s these two little gray states, Wyoming and Montana, that don’t have anything.” So as Poole and Shappee were thinking of ways to help, they hit upon an idea: Bring 10 Syrian refugee families to Missoula. Poole acknowledges their initial goal came from thin air, with little conception of how refugee resettlement works. The number seemed reasonable, and they were confident Missoula would welcome international newcomers—it had already done so for Hmong and Eastern European communities resettled here before. Plus, Poole says, it felt more significant, and perhaps more exciting, than “donating the hundred dollars over and over and over again.”
table at the home of international chef Ray Risho, who described for guests his own Syrian roots. After sketching mission statements and brainstorming initial steps, they turned their attention to an Iraqi family—Naser’s family—who had recently moved to town. Betsy Mulligan-Dague, the executive director at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, was asked to tell the group what she knew. It wasn’t much. A week earlier she had been asked to accept donations to benefit the family, who she understood had just arrived. “They started pouring in,” she says. But before she could get in touch with the individuals who were assisting the Iraqis, she heard the family had left. “My takeaway from this,” says Holly Truitt, director of UM’s SpectrUM Discovery Area and one of those looking to help, “was that we had a really abrupt landing in Missoula.”
request refugee status after arriving in their country of destination. (If an asylee’s application is denied, he can be deported.) Immigrants of both types are often well educated or have professional skills, even if they don’t speak English. Even so, they rely on short-term cash and social assistance from the U.S. government to help them find housing and employment. It’s a transition period that, as Naser’s family discovered, leaves them highly vulnerable. This safety net is material, but Naser adds that his family’s trouble in Missoula was also psychological. With no refugee office to go to, Naser describes a sense of isolation and fear that swelled with each day. His brother’s death sharpened those feelings, which he tries to express using more general terms. “[Refugees] will ask about basic services for them because they don’t know the language, they don’t know the culture,
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they don’t know where to go,” he says. “So they will wait for the government or the community to help them. But when they don’t have this stuff they just think about other things.” If Naser and Pakhshan had shown up to Missoula before 2008, they would have found an office not unlike those in other states. For years Missoula played host to refugee populations from the former Soviet Union and Southeast Asia. Most notably, a few hundred Hmong refugees from Laos were resettled 40 years ago with the help of smokejumper and CIA agent Jerry “Hog” Daniels. Later, Missoula resettled exiles from Eastern Europe, including those from Belarus, the Ukraine and parts of Russia. A resettlement nonprofit serving the groups, the Missoula Refugee Assistance Corporation, dissolved eight years ago, IRS tax filings indicate, and Montana reverted to a bare-bones system. Since then, Montana’s refugee program has essentially been limited to part of one staffer in the Department of Public Health and Human Services. Katherine Quittenton has served as the state’s coordinator for 15 months. According to the department, refugee work makes up only 8 percent of her assigned duties. Her training consisted of a two-hour conference call with federal officials. Montana is the only state to have a refugee coordinator but no resettlement agency ( Wyoming has neither). As such, none of the 70,000 refugees approved by the government each year are resettled here, though Quittenton says the state won’t deny services to those who show up by other means. Four families are receiv-
ing services at present, according to DPHHS. The arrangement could be excused in a rural, mountainous state where around half of its residents still live in counties designated as frontier. Yet neighboring Idaho has built one of the most robust refugee resettlement programs in the country, bringing in 1,000 or so refugees annually through programs in Boise and Twin Falls, according to the state’s non-
He’s also on the board of a Helena-based nonprofit, Refugee Center Online, that last year found itself aiding refugees who fell through the cracks. In June 2014, Jessica Marks got a phone call from a federal official at the Roosville Border Crossing in Eureka. The official called Marks after stumbling upon the Refugee Center Online. Marks created the project as a master’s student in Bozeman after spending time in refugee
much English. The woman was also eight months pregnant. The state refugee coordinator’s office allegedly said the Cuban family would not be eligible for services here, but Marks believed otherwise based on a special provision in U.S. law for Cuban and Haitian asylum-seekers. An Eureka nonprofit arranged a ride for the Cuban family to Helena while Marks looked for emergency housing and tried to compel the state to help. The
“If you’re in the dark not knowing what’s going on, just seeing people coming into your community, of course you kick against it. I live in a beautiful community that I know will open their arms if they knew what it was about.” profit Idaho Office for Refugees. Thirtyfive came from Syria last year, director Jan Reeves says. Advocates who have worked with refugees in Montana, meanwhile, say the state’s passive approach leaves communities unprepared for those who do arrive, forcing volunteers to scramble and putting refugee families in precarious positions. “It’s bogus, I’m sorry,” says Wilmot Collins, a former Liberian refugee who resettled in Helena in 1994. “Do we have the office just for show or do we have the office because we really mean it?” Collins serves as the Montana representative to a UN refugee advisory group.
camps on the Thai-Myanmar border. She noticed many of the refugees were tech savvy, yet most refugee resources available online were aimed at administrators and case managers, not refugees themselves. The Refugee Center Online tries to fill the gap. The nonprofit never envisioned managing individual cases, but Marks was versed in refugee law, so she was concerned with what she heard from the border agent in Eureka. Someone dropped off a Cuban family at the U.S./Canadian border, the official told Marks, and nobody knew what to do with them. The family spoke several languages, but not
photo courtesy of Wilmot Collins
process wasn’t easy. At one point, Marks says, a DPHHS staffer hung up on her. It took nearly seven weeks for the family’s cash benefits to get approved and for Marks’ organization to be authorized to provide case management services, a delay Marks calls “unacceptable.” “In the meantime, there was literally nowhere for them to stay,” she says. After requests to more than a dozen local organizations were denied, Marks decided to pay for short-term housing. Ten days before the family’s benefits kicked in, their baby was born. Unusual cases like this pose challenges for any state, Marks says, but if
Montana leaders put more effort into resettling refugees, she says the families who come here wouldn’t be put at such risk. “Right now our office is only reactive,” Marks says. “If we were doing it proactively instead of just reacting to these urgent crisis situations, then our resettlement system would look a lot different, and I think that would actually have a positive benefit as well for these crisis situations because people would have more of an understanding of how to deal with a refugee, they would have seen a refugee before, they would have a resource to ask.” The problems weren’t isolated, either. Several months later, as Marks began assisting a second Cuban family, she was instructed by the state’s case management partner, Denver-based Lutheran Family Services, to limit her work to emergency situations or, as one email specifically put it, “ideally zero hours.” The request was the result of a clerical error by the state after it let its contract lapse with Lutheran Family Services. DPHHS wrote in an email to the Indy the contract issues did not affect services to refugees. Lutheran Family Services declined to comment on its work in Montana. Marks felt the state’s disorganization put her in an ethical bind and endangered her clients’ trust. When the issues between the state and Lutheran Family Services lingered for a second month, the Refugee Center Online abandoned refugee case management in Montana. Quittenton with DPHHS says the state generally processes refugee benefits in three to four weeks, with some coming together even quicker.
photo by Derek Brouwer
Wilmot and Maddie Collins, former Liberian refugees now living in Helena, resettled in Jenny Montgomery, standing at left, speaks to members of Soft Landing Missoula during a recent Montana in the 1990s. Wilmot says Montanans will be more open to refugees once they meeting at the downtown Missoula distillery she co-owns. Montgomery says she joined the group understand their experiences and the complicated U.S. resettlement process. as a way to return the hospitality she experienced while living in Damascus with a Syrian poet.
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missoulanews.com • October 29–November 5, 2015 [17]
“We had one individual that it did take a little longer,” Quittenton adds, but the individual lived with relatives in the meantime. “Typically that’s what we see when they come to Montana. They have relatives here.” Delays can occur when refugees don’t know to contact the state, Quittenton says. In Naser’s case, she explains DPHHS was “not aware that they were here until they were here for three weeks.” Naser, who was in touch with a Missoula case worker, says his family was in Montana for fewer than 10 days total.
but they’re very vocal, they’re very energetic and they’re highly motivated,” Maly says. “Our best defense against ambush is, we’re totally transparent about this … We’re not going to do this in the dark so nobody knows about it.” After their initial burst of enthusiasm, the members of Soft Landing Missoula likewise are being more deliberate in their approach. Shortly after announcing their plan to resettle 10 Syrian families in Missoula, Poole says they realized that such a
A tight housing market hasn’t stopped communities such as Boise from serving refugees, according to Reeves, Idaho’s refugee coordinator. Reeves says the program has built a network of partnerships between property managers, city leaders and local organizations to help refugees create new lives. In addition to core services, other programs help refugees obtain capital and find careers that align with their professional skills. When the recession put locals on edge, Reeves says he and the
with a stylish clarity that would splice easily into a public radio broadcast, and getting his message across Montana airwaves, it turns out, is one of his goals. Collins is worried that the current crisis in Syria is stoking as much fear as goodwill (“We know Islam got a bad rap”) and says many Montanans don’t understand the complex, lengthy process refugees undergo to be resettled. “If you’re in the dark not knowing what’s going on, just seeing people com-
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n wake of the Syrian conflict, Missoula residents weren’t the only ones proposing that Montana could do more for refugees. Over the summer a Helena man, Stephen Maly, pitched it in an op-ed circulated to state leaders and printed in the Helena Independent Record. “I’ve got a serious What if question,” his column began. Maly, who serves on the board for WorldMontana, a nonprofit that organizes international visits for the state, pointed out that despite the state’s rich immigrant history, Montana now has the smallest proportion of foreign-born residents in the country. He went on to suggest ways refugees could contribute to local communities, asking readers to imagine eating at a local Syrian-owned restaurant. “I know there are people who will be skeptical about this proposition,” Maly wrote. And there were. The column immediately spurred a post on an anti-immigration blog called “Refugee Resettlement Watch” warning Montanans that “the mosques will follow.” The blog, which specifically questions the “wisdom” of bringing Muslim refugees to America, urged readers to begin investigating the backers behind Maly’s organization and to write letters to the newspaper. A few letters followed, as did a rebuttal column. This sort of pushback stamped out an effort last year to open a resettlement office in Wyoming, the only other state without one. The state’s Republican governor had told federal officials he was interested in opening a center, only to back off when opposition emerged. Maly says while response to his op-ed encouraged him to move forward, it also gave him a taste for how fraught the issue could become. He’s now trying to build support in a careful, open way. “There are some people just watching, watching, watching, and as soon as any one of us speaks out loud, they’re going to come down and ambush the thing. I’m convinced they’re a very small minority,
came back on a scholarship to Carroll College, but Collins spent 31 months in Ghana waiting for his refugee application to be approved. When he finally met his daughter, she was nearly 2 years old. He first worked as a janitor in Helena before eventually picking up shifts as a substitute teacher. “I still remember my first day in class when I was subbing, one of the little girls said, and I quote, ‘Oh, the janitor is teaching today,’” Collins says. “Instead of just cleaning up for the kids, now I was impacting knowledge in their minds. And it took off from there.” Collins says he is excited to see support for refugees emerging in Missoula and elsewhere, but notes that expanding the state’s resettlement program will ultimately require support from political leadership. “The state has to buy in,” he says. Maly and Soft Landing aren’t yet ready to call upon local leaders for their help. Requesting a vote of support from Missoula City Council was one of Soft Landing’s initial goals, but the group decided to hold off until their ideas were fully vetted. Gov. Bullock’s office showed similar restraint when asked if the state has a responsibility to expand its refugee program in light of the situation in Syria. “Seeing photos of refugees fleeing violence in their home country is heartbreaking,” he said in a statement. “Montana historically has one of the smaller refugee programs in the nation. If Montanans and our churches want to welcome new families to the state, we can have discussions about how that can be accommodated with private and federal resources that are available.”
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photo by Amy Donovan
Mary Poole, a local jewelry maker and mother of 10-month-old Jack, is leading an upstart effort to bring refugees to Missoula. She helped organize a group called Soft Landing Missoula after seeing images of a Syrian toddler washed up on a Turkish beach.
specific goal doesn’t quite mesh with the federal resettlement system. Instead, they now hope to attract one of nine nonprofit agencies that work with the Office of Refugee Resettlement to open an office in Missoula so the city could again host an active resettlement program. Poole says the group wants to consider all aspects of resettlement, including Missoula’s tight employment and housing markets, to make sure refugees can succeed and be accepted by the community. “We get that it’s more challenging than, ‘We’re friendly, happy, hippie people here,’” she says. “We get that. But I also think Missoula is up for the challenge. I really do.”
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Boise mayor’s office created a planning group that could enable residents to provide input on the city’s program. Soft Landing meetings so far have been held on weekday mornings inside Montgomery Distillery, where as many as 40 people talk over crying infants and a humming ventilation system about the challenges ahead. At the most recent meeting, the distillery’s co-owner, Jenny Montgomery, suggested the group could eventually hold public forums, much like John Krakauer did when his controversial book on Missoula was released earlier this year. Public discussion is just what Collins, the former Liberian refugee, says he’s been hoping to prompt. Collins speaks
ing into your community, of course you kick against it,” he says. “I live in a beautiful community that I know will open their arms if they knew what it was about.” Collins was a teacher in Liberia when the country’s brutal civil war broke out in 1989. His wife, Maddie, had recently finished medical school. The couple stood in line for three days to board a UN peacekeeping cargo ship the same month rebels captured and dismembered President Samuel Doe in the streets of Monrovia. They ended up in Montana because Maddie had been an exchange student at Helena High School, in the same class as current Montana Gov. Steve Bullock. With the help of her former host family, Maddie
hen Naser’s family eventually arrived in Nebraska, they quickly found refugee centers to help them settle in. “The refugee services are very accessible here, very easy,” he says. “Not only me. I mean, a lot of refugees all over the world come to the city.” They don’t have permanent housing yet, but Naser says officials have put the wait time at six months. By then, Pakhshan should have given birth to their twins. In the meantime, Naser is applying for jobs and for school, with hopes of eventually finishing a doctorate in international law and human rights. But he says that he and his wife haven’t flushed Missoula from their memory, either. “I mean, still I like Montana, and someday, if my situation gets better, someday I’ll come back to Missoula to live there,” he says. “My wife also, she likes to live there. But the reality was different from our dreams.” dbrouwer@missoulanews.com
Menu of Events Special prix fixe menus from Pearl Café, The Starving Artist Café and Art Gallery, Finn & Porter, Red Bird, Sushi Hana, Good Food Store, Iron Griz, Carvers Deli, Hafa @ Stage 112, The Trough at the Old Dairy, Buttercup Market, Brooks & Browns, Bitter Root Brewing, Taste of Paris (see pages 20 & 21 for details)
savormissoula.com Plus Monday, November 16:
Thursday, November 19:
• $1.00 Not Just Sushi Night at Sushi Hana. 5:00 – 9:30pm. • Good Food Store Cooking Class. Leek “Scallops” with Wild Mushrooms & Black Jasmine Rice. With Emily Walter, Good Food Store Cooking School Manager. 6:30pm; $5.00. Contact GFS Customer Service desk at 541-3663 to enroll. • Moscow Monday at Montgomery Distillery. $1.00 from each cocktail sold will go to a local nonprofit. 12:00 – 8:00pm.
• Good Food Store Cooking Class. Taleggio Mac & Cheese with Asian Pulled Pork Salad. Presented by The Trough’s Chef Suzanne Phillips. 6:30pm; $5.00. Contact GFS Customer Service desk at 541-3663 to enroll. • Foodie Trivia at Brooks & Browns, 7:00 – 10:00pm. Great prizes!
Tuesday, November 17: • Sake Pairing at Sushi Hana! Presented by Monica Samuels, who has an exceptional understanding of pairing sake with food. Monica will take your thoughts about sake to a different level while Sushi Hana shares their new menu from new owners. 6:30pm; $70/person. Limited Seating, Call 549-7979 to purchase your ticket. • Good Food Store Cooking Class. Clam & Mussel French Stew. Presented by Pearl Cash, Chef/Owner, Pearl Café. 6:30pm; $5.00. Contact GFS Customer Service desk at 541-3663 to enroll. • Mule-Tastic at Montana Distillery. $1.00 from each cocktail sold will go to a local nonprofit. 12:00 – 8:00pm.
Wednesday, November 18: • Meet Your Rancher – Stewards of the Land, at Buttercup Market (1221 Helen Avenue). Gather information about land stewardship/conservation, while enjoying food samples and beer & wine samples. Free event with nominal charge for samples. Presented by Buttercup Market & Café, Oxbow Cattle Company, Western Montana Growers Cooperative, and Community Food & Agriculture Coalition. 6:00 – 8:00pm. • Good Food Store Cooking Class. Potato Gnocchi with Gorgonzola & Walnuts. Presented by Red Bird Chef Matt Cornette. 6:30pm; $5.00. Contact GFS Customer Service desk at 541-3663 to enroll. • Grammy-Award-Winning Snarky Puppy live at The Wilma, 8:00pm. Tickets: $26 advance; $30 DOS available at Rockin Rudy’s and thewilma.com. • $1.00 Sushi Night at Sushi Hana. 5:00 – 9:30pm.
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Friday, November 20: • Good Food Store Cooking Class. Acorn Squash & Apple Stew. Presented by Red Bird Chef Matt Parris. 6:30pm; $5.00. Contact GFS Customer Service desk at 541-3663 to enroll. • Foodie Flix at the Roxy! Double Screening of Roxy Film Academy’s “What I Bring to the Table” starring local students in cooking shows using kid-friendly, locally sourced recipes, followed by Magnolia Pictures “A Place at the Table.” 5:00pm. $8.00/adult; $7/senior; $5/child “Chef,” starring Jon Favreau , Robert Downey Jr., John Lequizamo and Scarlett Johansson, is the story of a chef who loses his restaurant job and starts up a food truck in an effort to reclaim his creative promise, while piecing back together his estranged family. Rated R. 9:00pm. $8.00/adult; $7/senior • Malarkey at Ten Spoon Vineyard: Venture up the Rattlesnake and enjoy wine by the glass or flight (4 small tasters), antipasto plates by Biga Pizza (or bring your own picnic), free bread sticks, and live music by Malarkey. Tasting Room open 4:00 – 9:00pm; Music 6:00 – 8:30pm.
Saturday, November 21: • Good Food Store Cooking Class. Rosemary & Gorgonzola Waffle with Bacon Whipped Cream. Presented by The Starving Artist Café’s Chef Hannah Freas. 10:30 am; $5.00. Contact GFS Customer Service desk at 541-3663 to enroll. • Foodie Flick at the Roxy! A special kids’ matinee showing of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” the 2005 remake of the classic, starring Johnny Depp, Freddy Highmore and Helena Bonham Carter. Rated PG. 3:00pm. $8.00/adult; $7/senior; $5/child.
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Prix Fixe Menu Iron Griz
Buttercup Market
515 South Ave E., 728-5106
750 Serving Sun. – Mon. & Thur. – Sat. 11:00am – 10:00pm
$
1221 W. Helen Ave., 541-1221 $
750 Serving 11:00am – 2:00pm
Meatloaf patty melt – meatloaf slice topped with caramelized onions and Swiss cheese served on house-made sourdough bread.
2 tacos made from grass-fed Oxbow Cattle Company brisket that is braised in Imagine Nation Brewery Ubuntu Robust Porter, topped with organic black beans, house-made queso fresco, sliced Hakurai turnips, bell peppers and cilantro from Western Montana Growers Co-Op and served with Casa Pablo’s chips & Buttercup salsa & sour cream
15 Serving Sun. – Mon. & Thur. – Sat. 11:00am – 10:00pm
$
During Savor Missoula, participating establishments offer a prix fixe menu of $30, $15, $7.50, or $5 per person. Restaurants will also feature their regular menus during the promotion.
Choose one from each course: 1st course: • Grilled flatbread – created daily with an assortment of farm-fresh toppings • White truffle pub chips – hot pub chips with white truffle salt • Cup of today's soup – our soups are made fresh daily with lots of local ingredients 2nd course: • Grilled pork loin – tender, moist pork loin from Smith Farms in Whitehall, MT, with house-made applesauce • Quinoa-stuffed Portobello – grilled mushroom filled with a mixture of quinoa, parmesan, and sautéed greens • Wagyu beef burger – 1/3-pound Wagyu beef patty and your choice of cheese on a homemade bun 3rd course: • Huckleberry cheesecake – our Montana Huckleberries are paired with fresh cheesecake baked in the campus bakery • Seasonal fruit indulgence and whipped cream – ask your server for today's selection. • Chocolate flourless torte – this is a gluten-smart dessert that contains no wheat flour. It does contain plenty of chocolate and house-whipped cream.
Food lovers: Dine out at as many participating restaurants as you like during Savor Missoula; explore new dining opportunities or enjoy old favorites. There are no tickets or passes required!
Prix Fixe Menu
750 Serving 9:30am – 5:00pm
30 Serving 5:00pm – Close
$
1st Course: Winter caprese salad with roasted tomatoes, mixed greens, mozzarella and pesto vinaigrette or cannellini bean and rosemary soup with red pepper puree 2nd Course: Braised pork shank in red wine and mushroom sauce with creamy polenta, sauteed greens and parsnip ribbons 3rd Course: Marsala and chopped chocolate mousse with almond cookie
The Starving Artist Café & Art Gallery
111 N. Higgins Ave., 549-2906 $
5 Serving Mon. – Sat. All Day
403 N. Higgins Ave., 549-7979 $
[20] Missoula Independent • October 29–November 5, 2015
750 Serving 5:00pm – 9:00pm
$
750 Serving 11:30am – 3:00pm
Mini sampler plate: 2 Tokyo wings 1 beef or veggie lumpia Side of rice
15 Serving dinner 5:00 – 9:00pm Sun. & Thur.; 5:00pm – 9:30pm Fri. & Sat.
$
Tokusei: One California roll and 8 Nigiri, served with miso soup and sunomono salad or Choose from one of our Tempura dishes: chicken & vegetable, seafood & vegetable, shrimp & vegetable, or gourmet vegetable. Served with miso soup and sunomono salad.
100 Madison St. (in the Doubletree Hotel), 542-4660 1st Course: Pickled golden beets, arugula, feta and pepitas with an apricot vinaigrette 2nd Course: Duck a l ’orange served with parmesan saffron risotto and roasted brussels sprouts and carrots 3rd Course: Chef Jess’s dessert
112 N. Pattee St., 543-7512
Our daily lunch special, served with miso soup and sunomono salad
Finn & Porter
30 Serving 5:00pm – 10:00pm
Hafa at Stage 112
Sushi Hana
Waffles & coffee! Any of our NEW waffles made in-house are up for grabs, as well as delicious, locally roasted drip coffee.
$
30 Serving Mon. – Sat. 5:00pm – 9:00pm 1st Course: Insalta Mista – mixed vegetables, fresh greens, red wine vinaigrette 2nd Course: Chicken Parmesan – house-made pasta, tomato ragù 3rd Course: Tiramisù – espresso-soaked ladyfingers, mascarpone cheese, cocoa
3020 S. Reserve St., 541-7472 $
Choose any two of the following: • Any half cold sandwich selection • Cup of soup • Small house salad • Small deli salad
Red Bird
231 East Front St., 541-0231
Good Food Store 1600 S 3rd St W., 541-3663 $
200 S. Pattee St. (in the Holiday Inn Downtown), 532-2056 $
30 Serving 5:00pm – 10:00pm Choose an appetizer: • Calamari with a vodka red sauce • Chilled broccoli, carrot and bacon salad tossed with a house-made slaw dressing Choose an entree: • Hand-cut bacon-wrapped filet mignon loaded with crab, drizzled with hollandaise sauce and served with rosemary roasted Yukon potatoes and grilled asparagus • Roasted quail stuffed with wild rice, wild mushrooms and mandarin orange with an orange reduction, served with seasonal vegetables Choose a dessert: • Huckleberry cheesecake with a flourless chocolate torte “bow-tie”, drizzled with huckleberry reduction • Monkey bread, an individual gourmet glazed cinnamon pull-apart
Savor Bitterroot
1300 S. Reserve St., 543-9393 $
Pearl Café
Brooks & Browns
Carvers Deli All prices are per person
750 Serving 11:00am – 9:00pm • Turkey cranberry panini • Kale slaw • Chocolate pumpkin cookie
2106 Clements Rd., 721-3322
7
50 Serving 8:00am – 8:00pm • Half market club sandwich with roasted turkey, Daily's bacon, avocado, provolone, greens, tomato with house-made fire-roasted red bell pepper and artichoke aioli • Cup of soup – choose from one of our many savory soup options
All prices are per person
Bitter Root Brewing 101 Marcus St., Hamilton, 363-7468 $
15 Serving 5:00pm – 8:00pm 1st course: Fall salad – roasted butternut squash, sweet potatoes, almonds, blue cheese, caramelized shallots & apples, tossed in house-made honey-beet vinaigrette 2nd course: 6oz sirloin steak topped with porter-herb butter, roasted fingerlings and ginger roasted carrots
Taste of Paris 109 N. 4th St., Hamilton, 369-5875 $
7
50 Serving 8:00am – 11:30am Maple Syrup & Butter Crepes with a Latte
15 Serving 11:30am – 3:00pm
$
Ham & Brie Sandwich (Baguette or Croissant) and Soup Served with ham (“Jambon de Paris”) and double cream Brie cheese, with French Onion Soup or soup of the day • Chocolate Mousse for dessert.
The Trough at the Olde Dairy $
All prices are per person
$
30 Serving 5:30pm – 8:00pm • Taste of Paris House Salad: Crown of cucumber stuffed with spring mix, seedless grapes, dried cherries, sautéed pecans and crumbled blue cheese, dressed with our fresh raspberry vinaigrette. • Scallops: Delicate pearl scallops and button mushrooms in a light wine creamy sauce, served with rice and fresh tomatoes. • Fresh cream puff filled with “crème pâtissière”, topped with our house chocolate sauce and Chantilly whipped cream
missoulanews.com • October 29–November 5, 2015 [21]
Prix Fixe Menu Iron Griz
Buttercup Market
515 South Ave E., 728-5106
750 Serving Sun. – Mon. & Thur. – Sat. 11:00am – 10:00pm
$
1221 W. Helen Ave., 541-1221 $
750 Serving 11:00am – 2:00pm
Meatloaf patty melt – meatloaf slice topped with caramelized onions and Swiss cheese served on house-made sourdough bread.
2 tacos made from grass-fed Oxbow Cattle Company brisket that is braised in Imagine Nation Brewery Ubuntu Robust Porter, topped with organic black beans, house-made queso fresco, sliced Hakurai turnips, bell peppers and cilantro from Western Montana Growers Co-Op and served with Casa Pablo’s chips & Buttercup salsa & sour cream
15 Serving Sun. – Mon. & Thur. – Sat. 11:00am – 10:00pm
$
During Savor Missoula, participating establishments offer a prix fixe menu of $30, $15, $7.50, or $5 per person. Restaurants will also feature their regular menus during the promotion.
Choose one from each course: 1st course: • Grilled flatbread – created daily with an assortment of farm-fresh toppings • White truffle pub chips – hot pub chips with white truffle salt • Cup of today's soup – our soups are made fresh daily with lots of local ingredients 2nd course: • Grilled pork loin – tender, moist pork loin from Smith Farms in Whitehall, MT, with house-made applesauce • Quinoa-stuffed Portobello – grilled mushroom filled with a mixture of quinoa, parmesan, and sautéed greens • Wagyu beef burger – 1/3-pound Wagyu beef patty and your choice of cheese on a homemade bun 3rd course: • Huckleberry cheesecake – our Montana Huckleberries are paired with fresh cheesecake baked in the campus bakery • Seasonal fruit indulgence and whipped cream – ask your server for today's selection. • Chocolate flourless torte – this is a gluten-smart dessert that contains no wheat flour. It does contain plenty of chocolate and house-whipped cream.
Food lovers: Dine out at as many participating restaurants as you like during Savor Missoula; explore new dining opportunities or enjoy old favorites. There are no tickets or passes required!
Prix Fixe Menu
750 Serving 9:30am – 5:00pm
30 Serving 5:00pm – Close
$
1st Course: Winter caprese salad with roasted tomatoes, mixed greens, mozzarella and pesto vinaigrette or cannellini bean and rosemary soup with red pepper puree 2nd Course: Braised pork shank in red wine and mushroom sauce with creamy polenta, sauteed greens and parsnip ribbons 3rd Course: Marsala and chopped chocolate mousse with almond cookie
The Starving Artist Café & Art Gallery
111 N. Higgins Ave., 549-2906 $
5 Serving Mon. – Sat. All Day
403 N. Higgins Ave., 549-7979 $
[20] Missoula Independent • October 29–November 5, 2015
750 Serving 5:00pm – 9:00pm
$
750 Serving 11:30am – 3:00pm
Mini sampler plate: 2 Tokyo wings 1 beef or veggie lumpia Side of rice
15 Serving dinner 5:00 – 9:00pm Sun. & Thur.; 5:00pm – 9:30pm Fri. & Sat.
$
Tokusei: One California roll and 8 Nigiri, served with miso soup and sunomono salad or Choose from one of our Tempura dishes: chicken & vegetable, seafood & vegetable, shrimp & vegetable, or gourmet vegetable. Served with miso soup and sunomono salad.
100 Madison St. (in the Doubletree Hotel), 542-4660 1st Course: Pickled golden beets, arugula, feta and pepitas with an apricot vinaigrette 2nd Course: Duck a l ’orange served with parmesan saffron risotto and roasted brussels sprouts and carrots 3rd Course: Chef Jess’s dessert
112 N. Pattee St., 543-7512
Our daily lunch special, served with miso soup and sunomono salad
Finn & Porter
30 Serving 5:00pm – 10:00pm
Hafa at Stage 112
Sushi Hana
Waffles & coffee! Any of our NEW waffles made in-house are up for grabs, as well as delicious, locally roasted drip coffee.
$
30 Serving Mon. – Sat. 5:00pm – 9:00pm 1st Course: Insalta Mista – mixed vegetables, fresh greens, red wine vinaigrette 2nd Course: Chicken Parmesan – house-made pasta, tomato ragù 3rd Course: Tiramisù – espresso-soaked ladyfingers, mascarpone cheese, cocoa
3020 S. Reserve St., 541-7472 $
Choose any two of the following: • Any half cold sandwich selection • Cup of soup • Small house salad • Small deli salad
Red Bird
231 East Front St., 541-0231
Good Food Store 1600 S 3rd St W., 541-3663 $
200 S. Pattee St. (in the Holiday Inn Downtown), 532-2056 $
30 Serving 5:00pm – 10:00pm Choose an appetizer: • Calamari with a vodka red sauce • Chilled broccoli, carrot and bacon salad tossed with a house-made slaw dressing Choose an entree: • Hand-cut bacon-wrapped filet mignon loaded with crab, drizzled with hollandaise sauce and served with rosemary roasted Yukon potatoes and grilled asparagus • Roasted quail stuffed with wild rice, wild mushrooms and mandarin orange with an orange reduction, served with seasonal vegetables Choose a dessert: • Huckleberry cheesecake with a flourless chocolate torte “bow-tie”, drizzled with huckleberry reduction • Monkey bread, an individual gourmet glazed cinnamon pull-apart
Savor Bitterroot
1300 S. Reserve St., 543-9393 $
Pearl Café
Brooks & Browns
Carvers Deli All prices are per person
750 Serving 11:00am – 9:00pm • Turkey cranberry panini • Kale slaw • Chocolate pumpkin cookie
2106 Clements Rd., 721-3322
7
50 Serving 8:00am – 8:00pm • Half market club sandwich with roasted turkey, Daily's bacon, avocado, provolone, greens, tomato with house-made fire-roasted red bell pepper and artichoke aioli • Cup of soup – choose from one of our many savory soup options
All prices are per person
Bitter Root Brewing 101 Marcus St., Hamilton, 363-7468 $
15 Serving 5:00pm – 8:00pm 1st course: Fall salad – roasted butternut squash, sweet potatoes, almonds, blue cheese, caramelized shallots & apples, tossed in house-made honey-beet vinaigrette 2nd course: 6oz sirloin steak topped with porter-herb butter, roasted fingerlings and ginger roasted carrots
Taste of Paris 109 N. 4th St., Hamilton, 369-5875 $
7
50 Serving 8:00am – 11:30am Maple Syrup & Butter Crepes with a Latte
15 Serving 11:30am – 3:00pm
$
Ham & Brie Sandwich (Baguette or Croissant) and Soup Served with ham (“Jambon de Paris”) and double cream Brie cheese, with French Onion Soup or soup of the day • Chocolate Mousse for dessert.
The Trough at the Olde Dairy $
All prices are per person
$
30 Serving 5:30pm – 8:00pm • Taste of Paris House Salad: Crown of cucumber stuffed with spring mix, seedless grapes, dried cherries, sautéed pecans and crumbled blue cheese, dressed with our fresh raspberry vinaigrette. • Scallops: Delicate pearl scallops and button mushrooms in a light wine creamy sauce, served with rice and fresh tomatoes. • Fresh cream puff filled with “crème pâtissière”, topped with our house chocolate sauce and Chantilly whipped cream
missoulanews.com • October 29–November 5, 2015 [21]
[arts]
Party monsters To stay alive, Disco Bloodbath 5 comes out from the underground by Erika Fredrickson
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n his 1999 memoir, Disco Bloodbath, a Manhattan celebutante named James St. James chronicled the rise of the electronic music scene in the late 1980s through the early 1990s—and a murder that happened at a New York club called The Limelight. The 2003 movie Party Monster, starring McCauley Culkin, was based on the true story, and eventually the book was renamed Party Monster, too. But for Missoula music promoter Logan Foret, “Disco Bloodbath” seemed like a much better term for the highly dramatized account. Five years ago, he borrowed the name and created an electronic music dance party, which he debuted on Halloween 2010. “I loved this weird tale,” he says. “It tells that story of the dark side of this genre. And every genre has its dark story.” Like Go Ask Alice did for the anti-drug movement, St. James’ tale feeds some of the worst fears the public has had about the electronic music scene. Foret’s repurposing of the title was a way to both indulge in the kind of boogeyman feeling of Halloween and also to poke fun at the panic the genre still induces when it comes to both actual and imagined issues of party culture. The first year of Disco Bloodbath, Foret took over an empty space on Front Street (formerly Pipestone Mountaineering, now the Montgomery Distillery) and transformed it into what felt like a guerrilla-style club. A long line snaked down the street and around the corner, and by the time the DJs had started cranking out music, the place had filled to its 2,000-person capacity. The next year, Foret rented the Bitterroot Gymnastics space in the industrial area on the northwest side of town and packed it to around 4,000 people. The third year, he corralled more than 3,000 people into the Big Sky Kartway warehouse. But deciding to stick to an incendiary name hasn’t made things easy for the promoter. “I love the branding and the aggressiveness of the name,” he says. “But I think we both know I’m not going out and getting a ton of sponsors for an event called Disco Bloodbath.” It might come as a surprise, then, that Foret is not a fly-by-night sort of guy—at least not anymore. When he first moved to Missoula for college, he was inspired by the atmosphere at the live electronic shows of thenlocal band Signal Path. Foret and his DJ friend Timothy Heightman starting throwing shows as the Bass Face Krew using cheeky marketing tactics. For their electronic music residency at the Top Hat, they’d pin show fliers to the collars of dogs and set the dogs loose on campus. They’d wheat-paste posters onto bus stops and other unauthorized public and private spaces. “We were trying to push boundaries,” he says. “At the shows we incorporated live painters with music and themed events. We were trying to provide artistic
photo courtesy of Keaton Foley
Disco Bloodbath 5 includes five venues this year, one of which will be undisclosed until the night of the show.
content that wasn’t in Missoula but was in other cities. We were promoting hard.” It was fun, but it was also meaningful, Foret says. At one Bass Face show, a kid came up to Foret and Heitman and started writing on a piece of paper. “He wrote that he was deaf and that our shows are the only shows he goes to because of the low-end frequencies that resonate from dubstep,” Foret says. “It was the only music he could feel. He would lay down on the subwoofers for the entire show. I remember Tim and I looking at each other and thinking, ‘Holy crap.’ We almost started crying.” Foret grew up in Chicago around other kids obsessed with music. He moved to Arizona for high school where he attended with kids from all over the world—Spain, Germany, Mexico and Russia. “I didn’t speak their language and they didn’t speak English very well,” Foret says. “But everyone was really into electronic music. Not having any lyrical content—it’s the same with classical music—you get to experience the same thing without needing a common language.” Foret started putting together dance parties in the basements of his friends’ homes, convincing their parents that it was a safer environment than somewhere off the radar. “I don’t know how I did it,” he says. “It wasn’t about drinking and drugs and getting messed up.
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We’d go down in these basements at noon, cover the windows so no light could get in and we’d dance around.” Foret’s penchant for promoting has taken him from basement parties to illegal warehouses to established venues around town. He promotes big shows of various genres, like this week’s Of Montreal, on a regular basis. For the Missoula Downtown Association, he helped created the design for Winter Brewfest in Caras Park a few years ago. He did staging and production for Big Sky Pride last year. He cofounded the DAT Music Conference, a grown-up festival now in its second year that combines electronic music shows with panel discussions. He branded and developed The Silver Cloud Music Festival held this summer at the 50,000 Silver Dollar Bar. And he recently consulted for VidCon, the popular video conference spearheaded by Hank Green. Still, last year, Disco Bloodbath was canceled because Foret was unable to come to an agreement with the police department. The party was supposed to take place at the Hive event center on Third Street. The issues presented by the police included noise, parking and concerns about safety, though Foret claims he jumped through all the hoops necessary to alleviate those issues. This year, for Disco Bloodbath 5, there’s no need for permits. Foret booked five venues downtown, in-
cluding Stage 112, The Real Lounge, the VFW and Monks. (The VFW provides an unusual turn for the electronic and hip-hop centered party: it features rock bands covering Dead Kennedys, Kiss and Tom Waits.) The Fox Den, a seasoned group of House DJs, will host a party at a fifth, undisclosed space. “We’re calling it the Speaker Easy, but we’re not releasing the location until the night of the show,” Foret says. Having a mystery space and holding onto the Bloodbath name is Foret’s nod to the outlaw history of the electronic music scene—even if the rest of it sometimes feels like a compromise. “To be able to experience Disco Bloodbath with 4,000 people as opposed to 400 or 500 people—it’s going to be different,” Foret says. “It’s that raw guerrilla-style promotion that gave us our start, but I guess we all have to grow up sometime. This is going to be more intimate, a gallery style way of showcasing the creativity of these production companies. I’m happy it’s molding into something new.” Disco Bloodbath presents shows at Stage 112, the Real Lounge, Monks, VFW and a TBA location, Sat., Oct. 31, starting at 8 PM. $15/$10 advance gets you into all venues. 18-plus. Visit the Disco Bloodbath Facebook page for info and tickets. efredrickson@missoulanews.com
[music]
In the game Zombie proves MC Lars is still on top If you’ve heard of “postpunk laptop rap,” you’ve heard of MC Lars, and vice-versa. The Bay Area rapper emerged on the scene with his Laptop EP in 2004, featuring tracks about iPods, copycat emo bands and his Swedish-American family. His early stuff wasn’t necessarily technically impressive, but it was clever and easily approachable, even if it did seem like a novelty act. More than 10 years later, MC Lars presents his fourth studio album, The Zombie Dinosaur LP. It’s packed with more memes and pop culture references than a “Simpsons” episode—including a tribute track to “Simpsons” character Hans Moleman. The production is more professional these days, but the spirit is still goofy. Most of the tracks are upbeat, witty and memorable, with guest
appearances ranging from longtime Bronx MC Kool Keith to Stza from Leftover Crack. MC Lars also seems to have set out to prove how hard he’s willing to work while still delivering rhymes about Brooklyn hipsters and “Game of Thrones.” He’s opened for Nas and Snoop, played Warped Tour, given a TEDx talk and volunteered for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. He has some dedicated fans, considering how Zombie Dinosaur was funded by a Kickstarter campaign that raised $42,000. Will rap songs about Hans Moleman still be funny in another 10 years? We’ll have to wait and see. (Kate Whittle) MC Lars plays Stage 112 Thu., Oct. 29, at 8 PM along with Koo Koo Kanga Roo.$12/$10 advance at Rockin Rudy’s and 1111presents.com. All ages.
Wand, 1000 Days Wand’s newest album is like that YouTube video of the guy covering every era of music for the last 50 years in three minutes, or the time in high school you tried to play your two favorite albums simultaneously: confusing, schizophrenic, nostalgic and relentlessly poppy. Often the vocals of frontman Cory Hanson evoke a lost Beatles track. In the background, though, heavy metal power chords mix with psychedelic sounds obviously inspired by Pink Floyd. As another song climaxes, it reminds you of something else completely: a Neutral Milk Hotel song crossed with a David Bowie track dripping in glam rock. It is as if the L.A.-based band is asking scientific ques-
tions about sound: If you take the best qualities of the best bands of the past, do you get the best music? What if Black Sabbath had known about Ty Segall? What if the Beatles had gotten back together? Like, in the ’90s? Three albums into the experiment, the results seem muddled and unclear—much like the music. In 1000 Days, the songs are catchy and at times the guitar (both acoustic and electric) certainly sings. But the band still seems to be searching for something greater than the sum of its parts. (Sarah Aswell) Wand plays Stage 112 Tue., Nov. 3, at 9 PM with FUULS, MASSFM and Iron Eyes. $6/$3 advance at ticketfly.com.
Promised Land Sound, For Use and Delight Somewhere in all this giant mound of sound, there’s a pretty good band. Most of the songs on Promised Land Sound’s second album, For Use and Delight, start out with a nice idea that establishes a mood, but by the middle of each track a mob of textures and noise have stormed the gates. On “Otherworldly Pleasures,” the Nashville band seems to strive for a My-Morning-Jacket type of atmospheric rock, but with little logic or focus. So many different guitar sounds weave in and out that I pictured some high school kid ditching sixth period so he could hang out at Guitar Center and try out every effects pedal they have on display. The in-
strumental “Dialogue” is more restrained, starting out with some clean finger picking that has the feel of an early Led Zeppelin acoustic track. The musicians throw in some stomping and clapping so popular with the vestand-banjo crowd, but then it devolves into the inevitable jam. If they could rein in their ideas and not try to cram a music store’s worth of instruments on every song, Promised Land Sound’s sound would have better definition and more impact. Like they say, less is more. (Ednor Therriault) Promised Land Sound plays the Palace Mon., Nov. 2, at 9 PM. Cost TBA.
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[comedy]
Alive and kicking The 1491s hit the road for more madcap capers by Erika Fredrickson
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When members of the Native American sketchcomedy group the 1491s went on “The Daily Show” last year, they confronted a small group of Washington Redskins fans about the team’s racist name. It was a funny and pointed segment in typical Jon Stewart fashion, though the 1491s (along with a few other Native American guests) played mostly stolid straight men to the satirical antics of show correspondent Jason Jones. In their own daily life, the 1491s are the ones who make the points and get the laughs. Their YouTube videos and live performances dismantle the romanticized image of the stoic Indian. “We are people of color, we are in the minority, and our humor is aimed at what we know,” says Migizi Pensoneau, the Missoula-based member of the troupe (and occasional writer for the Indy). “I don’t want to sound like a damned Republican, but we aren’t very politically correct. That said, we don’t make fun of victims or tragedy. But we’ll make fun of ourselves.” Ever since “The Daily Show” segment aired and garnered widespread media attention—positive and negative—the 1491s have been on a roll. Members Dallas Goldtooth, Bobby Wilson, Ryan Red Corn, Sterlin Harjo and Pensoneau are scattered far and wide—in Chicago, Phoenix, Pawhuska and Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Missoula, respectively—but most of them were able to tour the states from fall of last year through this spring. They sometimes do sketch comedy and sometimes give talks about diversity in academic settings. Their videos can be goofy or, like Red Corn’s “Bad Indians” video poem, poignant as hell. (“They used to say the only good Indian is a dead Indian / I must be no good at being Indian cuz I feel alive and kicking...”) “We are trying to say something and we aren’t,” Pensoneau says. “We are not one thing or another.
We are just 1491s. We do what we do—whatever that is.” In June, the 1491s started a food fight at a friend’s Denver restaurant. “We did an invite with a blast on Facebook,” Pensoneau says. “As soon as the restaurant closed there was a line around the block.” Pensoneau had written a poem for Goldtooth to read out loud and the audience was given cues to react. “They would boo or cheer or throw food anytime he said certain things like ‘white woman,’” Pensoneau says. “It turned into a food fight of peanuts and Indian tacos. We did help clean up.” Besides the food fight, the group performed at the Pan Am Games in Toronto in July. They also recently uploaded a YouTube video called “Blasphemy,” in which they get struck down by lightning every time they do something culturally taboo, like offer to smoke up a non-Indian with a peace pipe or wonder, momentarily, what the sacred eagle’s meat might taste like. This week, the 1491s kick off another tour starting in Missoula with a show for the University of Montana’s 10th Annual Diversity Symposium. All five members will be present, Pensoneau reveals, which is a rarity. There will be no food fights, but Pensoneau mostly resists answering too many other questions. He’d rather it be a surprise. “If you’ve seen the videos you know you can probably expect a lot of shirtlessness,” he says. “And not in the Magic Mike XXL way. It’s like Magic Mike extra small. I’m just going to say there are tights involved.” UM’s DiverseU presents the 1491s at the UC Ballroom Wed., Nov. 4, at 7 PM. Free. efredrickson@missoulanews.com
[theater]
Cherry busting Dos and Don’ts for The Rocky Horror Show Live by Ednor Therriault
DO: Bring props. Part of the fun is responding The Rocky Horror Show Live is relentlessly entertaining—bursting with bawdy jokes, catchy songs to action in the play with well-timed tossing of rice and enough gender bending to tie a Gordian knot in during the wedding scene, shooting the aforemenyour fishnet hose. So why would anyone bring a tioned squirt guns during the rainstorm and other newspaper to the show? Because there is a 100 per- audience hijinks. DON’T: Bring toast, confetti or hot dogs. There’s cent chance of rain, that’s why. This rain will be comno “toast” scene in the live show anyway, ing from hundreds of squirt guns brandished by and anyone who’s had a food fight at savvy audience members all pulling their Ole’s will tell you hot dogs make an triggers at just the right moment. awful mess. Respect this spectacular If none of this makes any sense at new venue. Also, absolutely do not all, you must be a Rocky throw or squirt toward the Horror Show virgin. In stage. this case the term has DO: Buy a prop bag in nothing to do with sex, the lobby. Five bucks, although there are and it has everything some parallels with you’ll need. And the your First Time. You dough goes to help probably didn’t know offset the cost of a exactly what to expect. pretty expensive proMaybe you had a couple duction. of drinks first. You might DO: Learn have giggled nervously the “Time Warp.” when a nipple made its It’s easy, and first appearance or you you’ll feel much might have yelled out more comfortable something inappropristanding up with ate at an awkward moeveryone else to do the ment. You may have dance than being the gotten some wet spots on clueless dork who stays your clothes. Fortunately, in their seat, wondering unlike with sex (unless what the hell’s going on your sex life is way different and why everyone than mine), a thousand photo courtesy of Terry Cyr keeps yelling “Slut!” other people will be laughing, dancing and singing Rocky Horror Show Live stars, from left, Jeff Med- w h e n e v e r J a n e t ’ s ley, Erynn O’Brien, Reid Reimers and Amy Lala. name is mentioned. right along with you. DO: Yell “Slut!” Being part of the audience at the Rocky Horror Show Live at the Wilma has every time Janet’s name is mentioned, but not during some important differences from attending a screening the songs. Ditto with “Asshole!” and Brad. DON’T: Heckle the actors. Yelling at the screen of the movie. The Montana Actors’ Theatre’s stage show, directed by Rosie Ayers, hews closer to the gothic during the movie is de rigueur, but not during the B-movie roots of the original play, along with a healthy live show, except for the standard talk-backs. DON’T: Get onstage. During the movie, people dose of ’70s glam. The actors, crew and musicians want the audience to have as much fun as humanly possible, sometimes climb onstage to join the action. Not here. so here are some important guidelines for Rocky Hor- This is a live show. Somebody is already up there doing that. ror Show virgins. DO: Participate in the cherry-busting Virgin CerDO: Dress up. This is a sexy show full of risqué humor and lots of skin. Gender lines are pretty much emony before the show. It’ll get you in the spirit erased. Dress as a character, or just express your own faster than you can say, “Don’t dream it, be it!” MAT presents The Rocky Horror Show Live idea of Rockyness. DON’T: Wear nice clothes that you want to keep at the Wilma Thu., Oct. 29, at 8 PM, and Sat., Oct. spotless. Although the stage show isn’t nearly as messy 31, at 8 PM and midnight. $29–$49 at as the movie, expect some spatter. (Pro tip: Don’t wear ticketfly.com. a striped shirt. Ask a Rocky Horror diehard why. If I told you here it would water down the mystique.) etherriault@missoulanews.com
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[film]
Apple man Double Screening of Roxy Film Academy’s “What I Bring to the Table” starring local students in cooking shows using kid-friendly, locally sourced recipes, followed by Magnolia Pictures’ “A Place at the Table.”
Steve Jobs looks shiny, feels empty by Molly Laich
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[26] Missoula Independent • October 29–November 5, 2015
There’s something about the Steve Jobs story that seems to deeply resonate with the American people. The cofounder of Apple computers came from a lower middle-class family and was raised by adoptive parents. A real “color outside the lines” kind of guy, he dropped out of college to build the company that would later go on to sell us all the greatest tech gadgets we never knew we always wanted. Everyone was all, “Nobody wants to buy an attractive, user-friendly computer with all the components built into it!” But Steve persevered. Jobs’ story represents what are now in vogue ideas about the intersection of capitalism and creative thinking, how a person can change the world with innovative ideas and come to know themselves at the same time. When he died in 2011, the Internet mourned him. Just 19 days later the authorized biography Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson hit shelves, and didn’t it seem as though a shocking number of people were reading it? That the book reveals Jobs may have been a bit of an egomaniacal tyrant only strengthens the man’s allure. Now we have Steve Jobs the motion picture, adapted by Aaron Sorkin from Isaacson’s book. You’ll recognize Sorkin as the author of every walking and talking political conversation you’ve ever seen on TV or film, such as “The Newsroom,” “The West Wing” and The Social Network. Danny Boyle—the man behind Trainspotting and Slumdog Millionaire—directs. Michael Fassbender plays Steve Jobs in a performance I can’t help but call “transformative,” particularly when you compare it to Ashton Kutcher’s embarrassingly bad turn in the forgotten clunker Jobs (2013). This film takes place in three distinct segments that correspond with major product launches in Jobs’ career: The unveiling of the Mac-
intosh in 1984, the big flop of a computer called Next in 1988 (whose operating system helped reclaim his position at Apple) and finally the iMac in 1998 that marked the beginning of Apple’s steady colonization of our hearts and minds. You remember, it was the big blue computer with the built-in speakers that Jennifer Lopez threw into the pool in her first-ever music video. These sequences happen mostly in real time, with a few flashbacks to add context to the characters’ weighty, rapid-fire conversations. Kate Winslet stars as Joanna Hoffman, Jobs’ marketing strategist, work wife and conscience. “You have six minutes to have a heartfelt conversation with the daughter you tried to abandon before you go onstage,” she often says, or its equivalent. Seth Rogen plays Steve Wozniak, cofounder of Apple and the guy who actually built the computers. Primarily, the Steves bicker before every product launch over “respect” and whether or not they have any for one another. Steve Jobs is by most measures an unobjectionable film. It’s briskly paced and intelligent, with memorable performances throughout—and yet I couldn’t help feeling both manipulated and bored. The script does a valiant job of distracting from the contrivances of its structure—do we really need to have this conversation about what went wrong at that board meeting 10 years ago now?—but I’m not quite sold. Jobs’ redemption in the third act feels sentimental and shoehorned in, and overall I found the dialogue sharper than the industry standard but lamer than what I’ve come to expect from Sorkin. How’s this for faint praise: Steve Jobs is the best Apple CEO biopic of the decade. Steve Jobs continues at the Carmike 12. arts@missoulanews.com
[film] JEM AND THE HOLOGRAMS Live adaptation of a popular ‘80s cartoon, the movie tells the story of a young girl who rockets to fame as an underground video star. Rated PG. Showing at the Carmike.
OPENING THIS WEEK BURNT After crashing his career with drugs and misbehavior (like every “Chopped” contestant), a chef cleans up and goes to London to start over. Bradley Cooper stars. Rated R. Showing at the Carmike.
THE LAST WITCH HUNTER Vin Diesel plays Kaulder, a cursed warrior targeted by the resurrected Queen Witch he already killed once. This time it’s personal. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike, Pharaohplex.
CREEPSHOW George A. Romero’s cult favorite takes the Halloween triple-feature beyond the witching hour. Enjoy these five tales of terror, and see if you can get any sleep afterwards. Rated R. Showing at the Roxy Sat., Oct. 31 at 11 PM. HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 The Harry Potter series concludes. They’ve still got three more of The Dark Lord’s horcruxes left to destroy in a final epic battle to round out the series. Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson star. Rated PG13. Showing at the Roxy, Thu., Oct. 30 at 7 PM and Sun., Nov. 1 at 3 PM. JUMBO WILD This hour-long documentary explores the efforts of developers to expand B.C.’s Whistler ski resort into the Jumbo Valley and the work of those trying to protect the wilderness area. Showing at the Roxy Sun., Nov. 1 at 5 PM and 7 PM. LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING The Roxy presents The Lord of the Rings trilogy, starting with The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. A meek Hobbit sets out on a journey to destroy the One Ring and the evil lord Sauron. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Roxy Thu., Nov. 5, 7 PM. MET LIVE: OTELLO The Met’s lavish production of Verdi’s classic opera. Showing at the Roxy, Sat., Oct. 17, 11 AM. THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: TANNHÄUSER Broadcast in HD, the Metropolitan Opera performs Wagner’s Tannhäusen. Showing at the Roxy Sat., Oct. 31, 10 AM. OUR BRAND IS CRISIS Sandra Bullock and Billy Bob Thornton star in this comedy-drama about some political hacks sent to South America to try and influence the election. Based on the 2005 documentary. Rated R. Showing at the Carmike, Pharaohplex.
Announcement: Donald Trump has contracted permanent laryngitis. This Changes Everything opens Fri., Oct. 30 at the Roxy. PODCAST FEST The first Missoula Podcast Festival gathers audio shows from Last Best Stories, as well as a special presentation of Amy Martin’s podcast, Learning Their Place. Playing at the Roxy, Thu., Nov. 5, 7:30 PM. TALES OF HALLOWEEN Halloween triple-feature, part two, is this anthology of ten super creepy stories designed to make you jump out of your seat. Don’t spill your organic popcorn! Rated R. Showing at the Roxy Sat., Oct. 31, 9 PM. TRICK ‘R TREAT The Roxy’s Halloween triple-feature kicks off with Trick ‘r Treat, a collection of four horror tales that will scare the bejesus out of you. Rated R. Showing at the Roxy Sat., Oct. 31, 7 PM. TRUTH Cate Blanchett and Robert Redford star in the story of the journalistic shit storm that cost Dan Rather and Mary Mapes their careers over the 2004 CBS report investigating George W. Bush’s military service. Showing at the Roxy Fri., Oct 30–Thu., Nov. 5.
NOW PLAYING BRIDGE OF SPIES Steven Spielberg directs Tom Hanks in this Cold War thriller based on the true story of a prisoner swap with Russia for the pilot of a downed American U-2 spy plane. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike, Pharaohplex. CRIMSON PEAK Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth) directs this horror film about an aspiring young writer who gets swallowed up by a bizarre house. Rated R. Showing at the Carmike, Pharaohplex. EXPERIMENTER Peter Sarsgaard and Winona Ryder star in the story of a 1961 series of experiments using electric shocks to test people’s willingness to obey. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Roxy, Fri., Oct. 23–Thu., Oct. 29.
TV NITE The Roxy presents TV Nite. Every Monday they’ll show retro TV shows and classic commercials. Showing at the Roxy Mon., Nov. 2 at 7 PM.
GOOSEBUMPS R.L. Stine’s imaginary demons come to life and cause a major amount of annoyance. Stars Jack Black. Rated PG. Showing at the Carmike, Pharaohplex, Showboat.
ZOMBIES OF THE LIVING DEAD Missoula’s own Christian Ackerman presents his new low-budget zombie flick about a strange new radiowave that is causing the undead to rise. That’s always so annoying. Two shows at the Roxy Thu., Oct. 29, 6 PM and 9 PM.
HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 2 Andy Samberg, Adam Sandler and Selena Gomez provide the vocal fireworks as Dracula tries to bring out the monster in his grandson. Rated PG. Showing at the Carmike, Showboat, Pharaohplex.
LEARNING TO DRIVE As her marriage falls apart, a Manhattan woman takes driving lessons from a Sikh instructor who is struggling with his own marriage problems. They help each other get it in gear, if you catch my drift. Rated R. Showing at the Roxy Fri., Oct. 23 through Wed., Oct. 28, 6 PM and 8 PM. THE MARTIAN Left for dead on the Red Planet, an astronaut attempts to survive until a rescue mission can come for him. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike, Pharaoh, Showboat. STEVE JOBS Hollywood’s best teamed up for this biopic of Apple innovator Steve Jobs. Michael Fassbinder is getting rave reviews for his depiction as the dickish genius. Rated R. Showing at the Carmike. (See Film.) THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING Can we get a grip on global warming and somehow improve the world’s economy in the process? Based on Naomi Klein’s book, this documentary explores that concept. Showing at the Roxy Fri., Oct. 30–Thu., Nov. 5. WOODLAWN True story of a high school football player in the early '70s (you can tell by his sideburns) who tries to fight the racism displayed by his teammates. Sean Astin Rudy stars. Rated PG. Showing at the Carmike. Capsule reviews by Ednor Therriault. Planning your outing to the cinema? Visit the arts section of missoulanews.com to find upto-date movie times for theaters in the area. You can also contact theaters to spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 12 at 541-7469; The Roxy at 728-9380; Wilma at 728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 961-FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan at 883-5603.
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[dish]
BUTTERFLY HERBS Pumpkin pie cinnamon rolls by Gabi Moskowitz
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[28] Missoula Independent • October 29–November 5, 2015
I know a lot of people think the annual arrival of pumpkin lattes and pumpkin beers indicate the onset of fall. For me, it happens when I start dreaming about cooking with pumpkin. Today, while wandering the aisles of my local grocery, I found myself lingering near the canned pumpkin. Finally, I popped a couple of cans into my basket and started daydreaming about all the things I could do with them. Enjoy these cinnamon rolls plain or with icing. Personally, I think they’re moist enough to go without anything extra, but if you’re an icing person, whisk together 2 tablespoons of milk, ½ cup powdered sugar and a few drops of vanilla, and drizzle it over these all-stars. (Note: If you don’t have pumpkin pie spice but you do have cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger, use a mixture of those instead.) Ingredients 1 packet yeast ($1.50) 2 tsp sugar (pantry) 1 ½ cups canned pumpkin ($1.50 for a 15-oz. can) 3 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for rolling and baking (pantry) pinch salt (pantry) 1 tbsp vegetable oil (pantry) ½ stick butter, at room temperature ($1 for a stick) ¾ cup brown sugar (pantry) 1 ½ tsp pumpkin pie spice ($1.50 for 1 oz.) (Makes 8-10 rolls; estimated cost: $5.50) Directions Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Lightly flour a baking sheet and set aside.
BROKEASS GOURMET Combine yeast, ½ cup warm water and sugar together in a mixing bowl. Stir gently and let sit to activate for five minutes. Stir in canned pumpkin, flour and salt until a sticky dough forms. Knead dough on a floured surface for four to five minutes or until very elastic (this can also be done in a food processor or stand-up mixer). Pour the vegetable oil into a mixing bowl and transfer dough to the bowl. Turn dough over to make sure the oil coats it thoroughly. Cover bowl with a clean dish towel and place in a warm spot for 30 minutes. While dough rises, combine the butter, brown sugar and pumpkin pie spice. Mix well until a creamy paste forms. Once dough has risen, punch dough down and transfer to a lightly floured surface. Roll out into a large rectangle (about 12-by-16 inches). Use a rubber spatula or butter knife to spread the butter-sugar mixture all over the expanse of the dough. Roll up tightly, pinching to seal, so you have a 10-inch long cylinder. Use a sharp knife to carefully cut the cylinder into 8-10 disks. Arrange disks on the floured baking sheet. Bake for 13-16 minutes, or until edges have turned golden-brown. Let cool slightly and serve warm. Makes 8-10 cinnamon rolls. BrokeAss Gourmet caters to folks who want to live the high life on the cheap, with delicious recipes that are always under $20. Gabi Moskowitz is the blog’s editor-in-chief and author of The BrokeAss Gourmet Cookbook and Pizza Dough:100 Delicious, Unexpected Recipes. She is also the producer of “Young & Hungry,” an ABC Family comedy inspired by her life and writing.
[dish] Asahi 1901 Stephens Ave 829-8989 asahimissoula.com Exquisite Chinese and Japanese cuisine. Try our new Menu! Order online for pickup or express dine in. Pleasant prices. Fresh ingredients. Artistic presentation. Voted top 3 People’s Choice two years in a row. Open Tue-Sun: 11am-10pm. $-$$$
Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins • 728-8780 Celebrating 43 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $
Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West • 728-1358 November brings a chill in the air and a desire for PUMPKIN! Bernice's is rockin' out pumpkin bread and pumpkin pies just in time for Thanksgiving. But that ain't all. Enjoy a warm cup of joe on a chilly fall mornin' while nibblin' a piece of Bernice's already famous Pumpkin Coffeecake. Or order any one of our delicious pies with a dozen parkerhouse rolls for Thanksgiving. Place that order early. The earlier the better. Bernice's…a tradition on Thanksgiving dinner tables around Missoula since 1978. xoxo bernice $-$$
Cafe Zydeco 2101 Brooks • 406-926-2578 cafezydeco.com GIT’ SOME SOUTH IN YOUR MOUTH! Authentic cajun cuisine, with an upbeat zydeco atmosphere in the heart of Missoula. Indoor and outdoor seating. Breakfast served all day. Featuring Jambalaya, Gumbo, Étouffée, Po-boys and more. Beignets served ALL DAY! Open Monday 9am-3pm, Tuesday-Saturday 11am-8pm, Closed Sundays.
Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street • 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a “biga” (pronounced bee-ga) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making. Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$ Black Coffee Roasting Co. 525 E. Spruce • 541-3700 Black Coffee Roasting Company is located in the heart of Missoula. Our roastery is open M-F 6:30-5:30, Sat. 7:30- 4, Sun. 8-3. In addition to fresh roasted coffee beans we offer a full service espresso bar, drip coffee, pour-overs and more. The suspension of coffee beans in water is our specialty. $ Bridge Pizza 600 S Higgins Ave. • 542-0002 bridgepizza.com A popular local eatery on Missoula's Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula's place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11am - 10:30pm. $-$$ Brooks & Browns Inside Holiday Inn Downtown 200 S. Pattee St. • 532-2056 Martini Mania with $4 martinis every Monday. The Griz Coaches Radio Show LIVE every Tuesday at 6pm, Burger & Beer special $8 every Tuesday. $2 well drinks & $2 PBR tall boys every Wednesday. Big Brains Trivia every Thursday at 8pm. Have you discovered Brooks & Browns? Inside the Holiday Inn, Downtown Missoula $-$$ Burns Street Bistro 1500 Burns St. • 543-0719 burnsstbistro.com We cook the freshest local ingredients as a matter of pride. Our relationship with local farmers, ranchers and other businesses allows us to bring quality, scratch cooking and fresh-brewed Black Coffee Roasting Co. coffee and espresso to Missoula’s Historic Westside neighborhood. Handmade breads & pastries, soups, salads & sandwiches change with the seasons, but our commitment to delicious food does not. Mon-Fri 7am - 2pm. Sat/Sun Brunch 9am - 2pm. Dinners on Fri & Sat nights 5 - 9 PM. $-$$
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Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. • 542-7414 Doc’s is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you’re heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc’s is always an excellent choice. Delivery in the greater Missoula area. We also offer custom catering!...everything from gourmet appetizers to all of our menu items. $-$$ El Cazador 101 S. Higgins Ave. • 728-3657 Missoula Independent readers’ choice for Best Mexican Restaurant. Come taste Alfredo’s original recipes for authentic Mexican food where we cook with love. From seafood to carne asada, enjoy dinner or stop by for our daily lunch specials. We are a locally owned Mexican family restaurant, and we want to make your visit with us one to remember. Open daily for lunch and dinner. $-$$ The Empanada Joint 123 E. Main St. • 926-2038 Offering authentic empanadas BAKED FRESH DAILY! 9 different flavors, including vegetarian and (call ahead) gluten-free options, plus Argentine side dishes and desserts. Super quick and delicious! Get your healthy, hearty lunch or dinner here. Wi-Fi, Ping Pong, Soccer on the Big Screen, and music from Argentina and South America. Ask about our Take & Bake and Catering too! Mon - Wed 11a - 6p, Thur Sat 11a - 8p. Downtown Missoula. $ Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West • 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-to-order sandwiches, Fire Deck pizza & calzones, rice & noodle wok bowls, an award-winning salad bar, an olive & antipasto bar and a self-serve hot bar offering a variety of housemade breakfast, lunch and dinner entrées. A seasonally-changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available. Locally-roasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive fresh juice and smoothie menu complement bakery goods from the GFS ovens and Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day 7am-10pm $-$$ Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. 549-7723 grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula’s Best Liquor Store! Largest selection of spirits in the Northwest, including all Montana microdistilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines! Free customer parking. Open Monday-Saturday 9-7:30 www.grizzlyliquor.com. $-$$$
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[dish] Asahi 1901 Stephens Ave 829-8989 asahimissoula.com Exquisite Chinese and Japanese cuisine. Try our new Menu! Order online for pickup or express dine in. Pleasant prices. Fresh ingredients. Artistic presentation. Voted top 3 People’s Choice two years in a row. Open Tue-Sun: 11am-10pm. $-$$$
Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins • 728-8780 Celebrating 43 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $
Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West • 728-1358 November brings a chill in the air and a desire for PUMPKIN! Bernice's is rockin' out pumpkin bread and pumpkin pies just in time for Thanksgiving. But that ain't all. Enjoy a warm cup of joe on a chilly fall mornin' while nibblin' a piece of Bernice's already famous Pumpkin Coffeecake. Or order any one of our delicious pies with a dozen parkerhouse rolls for Thanksgiving. Place that order early. The earlier the better. Bernice's…a tradition on Thanksgiving dinner tables around Missoula since 1978. xoxo bernice $-$$
Cafe Zydeco 2101 Brooks • 406-926-2578 cafezydeco.com GIT’ SOME SOUTH IN YOUR MOUTH! Authentic cajun cuisine, with an upbeat zydeco atmosphere in the heart of Missoula. Indoor and outdoor seating. Breakfast served all day. Featuring Jambalaya, Gumbo, Étouffée, Po-boys and more. Beignets served ALL DAY! Open Monday 9am-3pm, Tuesday-Saturday 11am-8pm, Closed Sundays.
Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street • 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a “biga” (pronounced bee-ga) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making. Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$ Black Coffee Roasting Co. 525 E. Spruce • 541-3700 Black Coffee Roasting Company is located in the heart of Missoula. Our roastery is open M-F 6:30-5:30, Sat. 7:30- 4, Sun. 8-3. In addition to fresh roasted coffee beans we offer a full service espresso bar, drip coffee, pour-overs and more. The suspension of coffee beans in water is our specialty. $ Bridge Pizza 600 S Higgins Ave. • 542-0002 bridgepizza.com A popular local eatery on Missoula's Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula's place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11am - 10:30pm. $-$$ Brooks & Browns Inside Holiday Inn Downtown 200 S. Pattee St. • 532-2056 Martini Mania with $4 martinis every Monday. The Griz Coaches Radio Show LIVE every Tuesday at 6pm, Burger & Beer special $8 every Tuesday. $2 well drinks & $2 PBR tall boys every Wednesday. Big Brains Trivia every Thursday at 8pm. Have you discovered Brooks & Browns? Inside the Holiday Inn, Downtown Missoula $-$$ Burns Street Bistro 1500 Burns St. • 543-0719 burnsstbistro.com We cook the freshest local ingredients as a matter of pride. Our relationship with local farmers, ranchers and other businesses allows us to bring quality, scratch cooking and fresh-brewed Black Coffee Roasting Co. coffee and espresso to Missoula’s Historic Westside neighborhood. Handmade breads & pastries, soups, salads & sandwiches change with the seasons, but our commitment to delicious food does not. Mon-Fri 7am - 2pm. Sat/Sun Brunch 9am - 2pm. Dinners on Fri & Sat nights 5 - 9 PM. $-$$
JUST ENJOY 2-for-1 drinks Mon-Fri 7am - 4pm
(Breakfast ‘til Noon)
531 S. Higgins
541-4622
Sat & Sun 8am - 4pm
(with entree) 3-6pm Mon-Fri
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$1 OFF drinks with happy hour special appetizers
LUNCH & DINNER VEGETARIAN & GLUTEN-FREE NO PROBLEM
(Breakfast all day)
Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. • 542-7414 Doc’s is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you’re heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc’s is always an excellent choice. Delivery in the greater Missoula area. We also offer custom catering!...everything from gourmet appetizers to all of our menu items. $-$$ El Cazador 101 S. Higgins Ave. • 728-3657 Missoula Independent readers’ choice for Best Mexican Restaurant. Come taste Alfredo’s original recipes for authentic Mexican food where we cook with love. From seafood to carne asada, enjoy dinner or stop by for our daily lunch specials. We are a locally owned Mexican family restaurant, and we want to make your visit with us one to remember. Open daily for lunch and dinner. $-$$ The Empanada Joint 123 E. Main St. • 926-2038 Offering authentic empanadas BAKED FRESH DAILY! 9 different flavors, including vegetarian and (call ahead) gluten-free options, plus Argentine side dishes and desserts. Super quick and delicious! Get your healthy, hearty lunch or dinner here. Wi-Fi, Ping Pong, Soccer on the Big Screen, and music from Argentina and South America. Ask about our Take & Bake and Catering too! Mon - Wed 11a - 6p, Thur Sat 11a - 8p. Downtown Missoula. $ Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West • 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-to-order sandwiches, Fire Deck pizza & calzones, rice & noodle wok bowls, an award-winning salad bar, an olive & antipasto bar and a self-serve hot bar offering a variety of housemade breakfast, lunch and dinner entrées. A seasonally-changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available. Locally-roasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive fresh juice and smoothie menu complement bakery goods from the GFS ovens and Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day 7am-10pm $-$$ Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. 549-7723 grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula’s Best Liquor Store! Largest selection of spirits in the Northwest, including all Montana microdistilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines! Free customer parking. Open Monday-Saturday 9-7:30 www.grizzlyliquor.com. $-$$$
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October 29–November 5, 2015
THURSDAYOCT29 Nicholas Minaj returns to Missoula after a summer of laying waste to East Coast clubs. He’ll be throwing a wild-ass party for Dead Hipster Night at the Badlander, with confetti blasts, custom visuals and more. 9 PM.
nightlife Dragon Hollow becomes Haunted Hollow this Halloween. Bring the wee ones down for carousel rides, flashlight tours of a haunted Dragon Hollow, and all kinds of freaky fun. 6–8 PM, $6/$4 for 12 and under. Old and new songs mix it up when Tom Catmull and John Sporman team up for some quality tunage at Bitter Root Brewery. 6–8 PM, free. Americana top hand Russ Nasset plies his folk trade with originals and covers at Draught Works Brewing, 6–8 PM. Free. Get brassy when Brassknot bring their traditional horn ensemble to the Lolo Peak Brewery. 6–8 PM. Free. Oooh! The Missoula Haunted House is dishing out thrills at the Missoula Fairgrounds. 7–11 PM. $10, Express Line ticket $15, includes a Liquid Planet gift card.
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Yes, I chose the shirt and the wallpaper. Why do you ask? Of Montreal play Stage 112 with Diane Coffee Fri., Oct. 30. Doors at 7:30 PM, show at 8:30. $20/$18 in advance at 1111presents.com, Rockin Rudy's or call 877-987-6487.
Leg warmers up! A Chorus Line continues at the UM, presented by the School of Theatre and Dance. PAR/TV Center, 7:30 PM. $20/$16 students and seniors/$10 for 12 and under. It’s time to get down. Way down at DJ
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[calendar] Dance Night at the Eagles Lodge. 8 PM. No cover.
HALLOWEEN NIGHT Try out your pull-toy costume at Wildwood Brewery’s Halloween Costume Contest. Winner announced at 7 PM. First prize is a case of beer. Food and music, potluck at 5:30 PM. Free. Halloween for Hospice will support HCF granting programs and their Community Education Campaign. Carnival games and a costume contest at JC Penney court in Southgate Mall. 4:30–7 PM. $1 per game, $2 entry fee for costume contest.
The Grotesque Burlesque Carnival of Flesh returns for Halloween. Performers include The Cigarette Girls’ Ambrosia Sa’lad and Bitsy Blitz, Universal Choke Sign, Blessiddoom and Undun. Prizes and drink specials all night. The Dark Horse, corner of Regent and Strand, 8 PM. $5.
Dance to Skippin’ a Groove at the Missoula Folklore Society’s Halloween Contra dance. Missoula Senior Center, 8–11 PM. Get more info at missoulafolk.org.
So much blood! Send more dancers! Disco Bloodbath 5 will drench downtown with music from over 50 DJs and performers.
Paint your Halloween blue at the Alcan Bar. Blue Eyed Crow will be playing the blues, and a costume contest will keep the craziness on a high level. 9 PM, no cover.
The Missoula Haunted House provides some Halloween thrills at the Missoula Fairgrounds. 5–7 PM. $10, Express Line ticket $15, includes a Liquid Planet gift card.
406 presides over the Halloween party at the Sunrise Saloon. Costume contest at 9 PM, music at 9:30. No cover.
This show is all treat, no trick. Glass Spiders will cover David Bowie hits and more obscure songs from the Get your HalThin White Duke loween night uncomplete with derway with live plenty of cosmusic from Hardtume ch-ch-chwood Heart, and changes. I just Glass Spiders photo courtesy of Amy Donovan sample some hope they have Caramel Apple Cold the legs to pull it Smoke Scotch Ale. Oh, and a cos- One ticket covers Stage 112, off. The Palace, 9:30 PM, $10. tume contest, of course. Kettle- the Real Lounge, Monk’s Bar, Will you glue wigs all over house Northside, 6 PM. Free. Union Hall, and the VFW. $15/$10 your body and go as a hairball to How about a little murder advance. 8 PM, 18 and over. the Union Club’s infamous cosmystery with your dinner? The ticketfly.com. tume party? Just make sure it’s seHalloween Hoedown Homicide, ¡Ay Caramba! Latin Dance cure because you’ll be dancing all written by Maria Yost, features din- Night goes all Halloweeny with night to Band In Motion. 208 E. ner by A Moveable Feast. Stensrud their Dia de Los Muertos Celebra- Main St., 9:30 PM. Free. Playhouse, 7 PM. Tickets available tion. Celebrate Day of the Dead, Party ‘til you’re sore in the at stensrudplayhouse.com. Halloween, or Samhain, whatever Boognish at the HalloWEEN party. Spiders from Outer Space has nothing to do with David Bowie. This is a haunted hayride “through a wave of destruction.” Popcorn balls, hot cider and cocoa will be available at this fundraiser for the Daly Mansion Preservation Trust. Daly Mansion, 7–11 PM, $5. Partake in some Halloween fun with Addams Family: the Musical at Big Sky High School. There will be a costume contest during intermission at the Oct. 31 show. 7:30 PM, $7. Attendees are encouraged to bring non-perishable food items for the food bank. Country Boogie Boys provide the swell tunes for a night of Halloween dancing. Costume contest to boot, at the Eagles Lodge 8 PM–1 AM. No cover.
rattles your bones. Downtown Dance Collective, doors at 8 PM, lesson at 8:30, party starts at 9. $10. The Badlander’s Halloween Party Spectacular features DJs Kris Moon and Monty Carlo providing the beats for Absolutely Halloween. Costume contest and Monster Mash drink specials. The Badlander, $5. Nice gams, sir! The cult classic The Rocky Horror Show Live rocks the Wilma Theater this Halloween. Doors open one hour before each show for a performance by the Cigarette Girls Burlesque Troupe. Thu., Oct. 29, 8 PM. Two Halloween shows Sat., Oct. 31, 8 PM and 11:45 PM. $29–$49 at thewilma.com or rockyhorrormissoula.com. (See Arts.)
Locksaw Cartel takes the stage to celebrate the deeply weird glory that is Ween. Top Hat, 10 PM. $5. MudSlide Charley has a long, sordid history with Charlie B’s. But then, who doesn’t? Get glad ‘n greasy with one of Missoula’s favorite blues bands at the bar where Halloween is redundant. 10 PM. Free. Be a real-life Ghostbuster at Ghost Tours: Paranormal Investigations. Use the coolest high-tech gear to gather info in the darkness of the Ravalli County Museum long after closing, in rooms that are not on the regular tour. Not suitable for little kids. 10 PM–3 AM, $25/$20 for members. Unlicensed nuclear accelerators not provided. (See Spotlight.)
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Nice gams, sir! The cult classic The Rocky Horror Show Live rocks the Wilma this Halloween. Doors open one hour before each show for a performance by the Cigarette Girls Burlesque Troupe. Thu., Oct. 29, 8 PM. Two Halloween shows Sat., Oct. 31, 8 PM and 11:45 PM. $29–$49 at thewilma.com or rockyhorrormissoula.com. (See Arts.) Seeing The Cold Hard Cash Show is the next best thing to seeing the Man In Black in the flesh. Sunrise Saloon, 9 PM. No cover. The final Tribute Residency show at the VFW features Judgment Hammer as Anthrax, Beatlezvox as Devo, Frederick Krueger and the Sweet Dreamers as The Misfits, and Grandmother Witch as Jimmy Buffet. 9 PM, $5 for 18–20, $3 for 21 and over. Northern Cali rapper MC Lars joins freaky dance-pop duo Koo Koo Kanga Roo for a wild, audience-involving show at Stage 112. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $12/$10 adv. at 1111presents.com. (See Noise.) Brothers Gow return with their West Coast funk-rock at the Top Hat. 10 PM, free show.
FRIDAYOCT30 Enjoy some premature amplification at Abduction IX, before the goblins take over. Crack Sabbath, Guerrilla Radio, Swamp Ritual and more keep the dance floor full. Also, the Dark Arts Fair, performance artists, and more. Broadway Bar, 8 PM. $13–$15 at ticketfly.com.
nightlife Dragon Hollow becomes Haunted Hollow this Halloween. Bring the wee ones down for carousel rides, flashlight tours of a haunted Dragon Hollow, and all kinds of freaky fun. 6–8 PM, $6/$4 for 12 and under. How about a little murder mystery with your dinner? The Halloween Hoedown Homicide, written by Maria Yost, features dinner by A Moveable Feast.
Stensrud Playhouse, 7 PM. Tickets available at stensrudplayhouse.com. Oooh! The Missoula Haunted House is dishing out thrills at the Missoula Fairgrounds. 7–11 PM. $10, Express Line ticket $15, includes a Liquid Planet gift card. We’ll have bizarre celebrations when indie outfit Of Montreal plays Stage 112, along with Diane Coffee. Doors at 7:30 PM, show at 8:30. $20/$18 in advance; tickets available at 1111presents.com, Rockin Rudy’s and 877-987-6487. Leg warmers up! A Chorus Line continues at the UM, presented by the School of Theatre and Dance. PAR/TV Center, 7:30 PM. $20/$16 students and seniors/$10 for 12 and under. If you want to boogie to some country, boy, do we have the band for you. Country Boogie Boys play the Eagles Lodge, 8 PM–1 AM. No cover. Patty Griffin brings her Grammy-winning roots and folk songs to the newly rejuvenated Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. Show is sold out. Shannon and the Clams bring their Bay Area post-punk garage rock to the VFW, with the Skurfs, FUULS, and UK’s Shopping. 8 PM, 18 and over. For UM students, the Tower of Terror Halloween Party will test your gaming skills and your speed in this race to the top of Jesse Hall. 8–10 PM. For more info, call 243-2130. Band In Motion will get some hips swaying and toes tapping and heads bobbing at Cowboy Troy’s on Hwy. 93 S. in Victor. 8 PM, no cover. Pride and Prejudice continues at the Hamilton Playhouse, 8 PM. $15/$8 for 12 and under. For tickets, visit hamiltonplayers.com. Cashmere Cat make a stop in Missoula to pump the joint full of EDM. The Palace, 9 PM. $16 advance. Local rockers Miller Creek join the Dead Hipster madness at the Badlander. 9 PM, $5. The Heartless Bastards return to Missoula, surfing the garage rock wave of their new album, Restless Ones. Slothrust opens at the Top Hat, show at 9. $24/$20 advance at ticketfly.com.
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Tom Catmull’s Radio Static make a ton of noise for just t hree guys. And it’s good noise, at that. Union Club, 9:30 PM. Free. 406 brings country and Southern rock to the Sunrise Saloon. 9:30 PM, no cover.
SATURDAYOCT31 The Grotesque Burlesque Carnival of Flesh returns for Halloween. Performers include Universal Choke Sign, Blessiddoom and Undun. The Dark Horse, corner of Regent and Strand, 8 PM. $5.
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[calendar] Try out your pull toy costume at Wildwood Brewery’s Halloween Costume Contest. Winner announced at 7 PM. First prize is a case of beer. Food and music, potluck at 5:30 PM. Free.
nightlife The Missoula Haunted House provides some Halloween thrills at the Missoula Fairgrounds. 5–7 PM. $10, Express Line ticket $15, includes a Liquid Planet gift card.
Dance to Skippin’ a Groove at the Missoula Folklore Society’s Halloween Contra dance. Missoula Senior Center, 8–11 PM. Get more info at missoulafolk.org. The Badlander’s Halloween Party Spectacular features DJs Kris Moon and Monty Carlo providing the beats for Absolutely Halloween. Costume contest and Monster Mash drink specials. The Badlander, $5.
costume contest will keep the craziness on a high level. 9 PM, no cover. 406 presides over the Halloween party at the Sunrise Saloon. Costume contest at 9 PM, music at 9:30. No cover. Will you glue wigs all over your body and go as a hairball to the Union Club’s infamous costume party? Just make sure it’s secure because you’ll be
Party ‘til you’re sore in the Boognish at the HalloWEEN party. Locksaw Cartel celebrates the deeply weird glory that is Ween. Top Hat, 10 PM. $5. MudSlide Charley has a long, sordid history with Charlie B’s. But then, who doesn’t? Get glad ‘n greasy with one of Missoula’s favorite blues bands at the bar where Halloween is redundant. 10 PM. Free.
nightlife Bob Mislivec provides the musical entertainment at Draught Works Brewery. 6–8 PM, free. Jazz and martinis go together like cops and pepper spray. Jazz Martini night offers live, local jazz and $5 martinis every Sunday night at the Badlander. No cover. Dig it, and dig it deep, sister.
Get your Halloween night underway with live music from Hardwood Heart, and sample some Caramel Apple Cold Smoke® Scotch Ale. Oh, and a costume contest, of course. Kettlehouse Northside, 6 PM. Free. How about a little murder mystery with your dinner? The Halloween Hoedown Homicide, written by Maria Yost, features dinner by A Moveable Feast. Stensrud Playhouse, 7 PM. Tickets available at stensrudplayhouse.com. Leg warmers up! A Chorus Line continues at the UM, presented by the School of Theatre and Dance. PAR/TV Center, 7:30 PM. $20/$16 students and seniors/$10 for 12 and under. Nice gams, sir! The cult classic The Rocky Horror Show Live rocks the Wilma this Halloween. Doors open one hour before each show for a performance by the Cigarette Girls Burlesque Troupe. Thu., Oct. 29, 8 PM. Two Halloween shows Sat., Oct. 31, 8 PM and 11:45 PM. $29–$49 at thewilma.com or rockyhorrormissoula.com. (See Arts.) ¡Ay Caramba! Latin Dance Night goes all Halloweeny with their Dia de Los Muertos Celebration. Celebrate Day of the Dead, Halloween, or Samhain, whatever rattles your bones. Downtown Dance Collective, doors at 8 PM, lesson at 8:30, party starts at 9. $10. So much blood! Send more dancers! Disco Bloodbath 5 will drench downtown with music from over 50 DJs and performers. One ticket covers Stage 112, the Real Lounge, Monk’s Bar, Union Hall, and the VFW. $15/$10 advance. 8 PM, 18 and over. ticketfly.com.
This floor was just waxed, I can tell. Patty Griffin brings her Grammy-winning roots and folk songs to the newly rejuvenated Wilma Fri., Oct. 30, at 8 PM. Show is sold out.
Country Boogie Boys provide the swell tunes for a night of Halloween dancing. Costume contest to boot, at the Eagles Lodge 8 PM–1 AM. No cover. Pride and Prejudice continues at the Hamilton Playhouse, 8 PM. $15/$8 for 12 and under. For tickets, visit hamilton players.com. Paint your Halloween blue at the Alcan Bar. Blue Eyed Crow will be playing the blues, and a
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dancing all night to Band In Motion. 208 E. Main St., 9:30 PM. Free. This show is all treat, no trick. Glass Spiders will cover David Bowie hits and more obscure songs from the Thin White Duke complete with plenty of costume ch-ch-ch-changes. Ziggy Stardust might also make an appearance. I just hope they have the legs to pull it off. The Palace, 9:30 PM, $10.
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Pride and Prejudice continues at the Hamilton Playhouse, 2 PM. $15/$8 for 12 and under. For tickets, visit hamiltonplayers.com.
The annual Festival of the Dead Parade celebrates Dia de los Muertes. Dress to march in the parade and meet at the XXXX’s on N. Higgins, or cheer from the sidewalk along the parade route down Higgins. 6:30–9 PM.
Shake off that Halloween hangover, Sparky. Nothing clears the cobwebs like some fiddle tunes by the Montana Fiddlers. Sunrise Saloon, 1 PM.
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Britt and Richie, is the duo playing acoustic Americana at the Red Bird Wine Bar, 7–10 PM. Free. Shakey Graves brings his astonishing one-man band to the expansive Wilma stage. Tennis opens up. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. Sold out show. The Badlander’s latest weekly event is Blues Monday, with a rotating cast of local blues musicians hosted by Black Mountain Moan. 9 PM, no cover.
It’s 2:30 in the morning. It’s pitch black and the musty smell of history is making your nose itch. You’re creeping through the basement of the Ravalli County Museum, and the only sound is the hum and tick of the 115-yearold brick building gradually settling in on itself. Suddenly a vibration tickles your thigh, and you jump a foot off the ground, dropping your EVP recorder. A
tion gear to gather evidence of paranormal activity. Stories of ghosts and spirits have circulated for years around the museum, which was built as the Ravalli County Courthouse in 1900 by A.J. Gibson. The building was saved from the wrecking ball in 1979 when residents voted to convert it into a museum, and it now serves as the social hub of Hamilton. The Farmer’s Market
Nashville psychedelic rockers Promised Land Sound bring their textural musical journeys to the Palace, with locals Ancient Forests. Doors at 9:30 PM, show at 10. $5. (See Noise.)
TUESDAYNOV03 Historian and author Ellen Baumler will be sharing her knowledge of the creepy, the spooky and the possibly ghostridden places across Montana. North Valley Public Library, Stevensville, 6:30–8 PM. Free.
WHAT: Ghost Tours: Paranormal Investations WHO: Ravalli County Historical Society WHEN: Sat., Oct. 31, 10 PM–3 AM WHERE: Ravalli County Museum, 205 Bedford, Hamilton HOW MUCH: $25/$20 for members MORE INFO: ravallimuseum.org
flashlight goes on. You look around at your fellow ghost hunters, wishing you’d remembered to power down your cellphone. You also wish you’d brought extra underwear. Spare skivvies are just one item no self-respecting ghost hunter should be without, especially when you’re deep in the bowels of Hamilton’s famous museum after midnight on Halloween. The museum is hosting three Ghost Walks this fall, the final one occurring on Halloween night. Participants will be allowed to explore areas of the museum that are normally off-limits to the public and will be armed with all manner of state-of-the-art detec-
THE takes place on its lawn through the summer, and it’s the central point of several street fairs and festivals. The old courtroom and judge’s chambers have been the focus of previous tours, and several incidents have been captured with cameras and audio equipment. Floating red balls of light, cold rushes of air, words drawn with a ghostly finger in the dust on a chair and many other unexplained phenomena have been witnessed by the ghost hunters. Maybe you’ll see some signal from the other side. Just keep those clean undies handy. —Ednor Therriault
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[calendar] ZACCercise will get your blood pumping and your extremities waving around like one of those fan-powered dancing guys outside the phone store. Led by Patricia Thornton every Tuesday at ZACC. 12:15–1 PM. $5 sugg. donation.
nightlife Extemporaneous hilarity will be examined when Improv Anonymous meets the first Tuesday of every month in the Missoula Public Library’s large meeting room at 5:30 PM. Free. The Sentinel High School and Meadow Hill School bands will be performing a concert at Sentinel’s Margaret Johnson Theater at 7:30 PM. Free, all are welcome. You some kinda wise guy (or gal)? Prove it at the Quizzoula trivia night at the VFW, 245 W. Main St., with current events, picture round and more. Gets rolling around 8:30 PM. To get you warmed up, here’s a trivia question: What star of Stand By Me died on Halloween? Find answer in tomorrow’s nightlife. Mike Avery hosts the Music Showcase every Tuesday, featuring some of Mis-
soula’s finest musical talent. Also enjoy pool and drink specials. The Badlander, 9 PM–1 AM. To sign up, email michael.avery@live.com. L.A.’s WAND joins FUULS, MASS FM and all-caps spoilsports Iron Eyes for a night of genre-mixing fun at Stage 112, 112 Front St., doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $6/$3 adv., visit ticketfly.com. 18 and over. (See Noise.)
WEDNESDAYNOV4 Twin Cities string band frenzy comes to Missoula when Pert Near Sandstone takes the stage at the Top Hat. Dead Winter Carpenters open. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $14/$12 advance at tophatlounge.com.
nightlife Anyone is welcome to join the free Acoustic Bluegrass picking circle every Wednesday evening, sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Bluegrass Association at Tangled Tones Music Studio, 2005 South Ave. W, Suite F. 6–9 PM. Free.
This open mic is truly open. Jazz, classic rock, poetry, spoken word, dance, shadow puppets—share your creative spark at The Starving Artist Café and Art Gallery, 3020 S. Reserve St. Every Wed., 6–8 PM. Free. Wednesday Night Brewery Jam invites all musicians to bring an instrument and join in. Hosted by Geoffrey Taylor at Imagine Nation Brewing Co., 6–8 PM. Free. Grand ideas are welcome but hemlock tea is frowned upon at the Socrates Cafe, an informal meeting to discuss philosophy using the Socratic method. Missoula Public Library, the first Wednesday of every month at 7 PM. (Trivia answer: River Phoenix.) The 1491s is a group of irreverent, off-thehook Native Americans. Enjoy their sketch comedy in the UC Ballroom, 7 PM. Free. Kim Heacox will be reading from and signing her new book, Jimmy Bluefeather. Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins, 7 PM. (See Mountain High.) Win big bucks off your bar tab and/or free pitchers by using your giant egg to answer trivia questions at Brains on Broadway Trivia Night at the Broadway Sports Bar and Grill, 1609 W. Broadway Ave. 7 PM.
THURSDAYNOV5 Manic Focus brings many styles into a beat-heavy sound. The Top Hat, doors at 9:30 PM, show at 10. $10, 18 and over. Nowhere to be found is Beth Huhtala’s collection of works reflecting her experiences abroad and how culture can be retold and recreated through folk tales. Opening reception at UC Gallery, 4-6 PM, free. The exhibition runs November 2-23.
nightlife Wet your whistle to the sounds of Lockwood at the Draught Works Brewery, 6–8 PM. Free. The Open Country Reading Series presents their final event of the year. Novelist Steven Sherrill and poet Michael Earl Craig will read from their works, followed by music from singer-songwriter Rachel Richardson. Crystal Theatre, 7 PM. Free. It’s time to get down. Way down at DJ Dance Night at the Eagles Lodge. 8 PM. No cover. The Wild Coyote Band provide music designed to make you dance and swing at the Sunrise Saloon. 9 PM, free. Wisenheimers will be cracking wise at John Howard’s Homegrown Stand-Up Comedy at the Union Club. Sign up by 9:30 PM to perform; things usually start around 10. Free. Pale People lead a night of local rock, with two other bands to be named after we go to press. The Palace, doors at 9:30 PM, show at 10. Free. Milo, Safari Al, Milky Way and more converge for a night of rhythm and libations at Stage 112. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $5, 18 and over.
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Don’t act like you didn’t hear that. UK band Shopping join Shannon and the Clams, the Skurfs and FUULS at the VFW Fri., Oct. 30. Show at 8 PM .
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he landscape we inhabit can play such an important part in some books that it’s almost a character in the story. Much like James W. Hall, Randy Wayne White and Carl Hiaasen write of Florida’s natural beauty and the destructive encroachment of greedy developers, Kim Heacox portrays a wild Alaska that is losing ground—literally—to energy company exploration. His debut novel, Jimmy Bluefeather, is set in southeast Alaska, motherland to the Tlingit tribe for countless generations. It’s this tribal perspective of the Pacific Northwest that provides the backdrop to his story of a troubled young man who bonds with his 95year-old grandfather when the two decide to carve a cedar canoe together. One of the story’s main conflicts
comes, ironically, from PacAlaska, a Native American corporation. As Jimmy and Old Keb take the canoe on a journey to the deepest wilderness, the reader is treated to descriptions of unspoiled wildlands that are quickly disappearing thanks to our increasing need for new sources of fossil fuels. Whether it’s Alaska, Florida or Montana, this maddening conflict is becoming all too common. —Ednor Therriault Kim Heacox reads from and signs copies of Jimmy Bluefeather at Fact & Fiction Wed., Nov. 5, at 7 PM.
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THURSDAY OCTOBER 29 Hey, they were here first. Learn to manage your garden or farm in the midst of wildlife habitat. Regional experts will be on hand at the PEAS Farm, 5– 7 PM. Free, but registration required. Visit missoulaeduplace.org. (See Agenda.) Brains! Imagine a Zombie outbreak has wiped out major cities throughout the globe. You are invited to attend the Zombie Preparedness class at REI, where you will learn valuable survival techniques that could save your life. P.S.: These same techniques could be invaluable in the event of any natural disaster in an urban environment. 7 to 8:30 PM at REI. Free. Have a beer and mingle at The Wilderness Institute’s 40th Anniversary Celebration reception for faculty, staff, students and friends. Flathead Lake Brewing Co., 424 Higgins. 7:30–10 PM.
SATURDAY OCTOBER 31 Join an REI Outdoor School instructor to learn how to use your pocket-sized navigator to pinpoint
your location, mark waypoints and navigate to distant points. 10:30 AM–12:30 PM. $50/$30 members. Visit rei.com to register. Make sure to wear a costume to the game when the Griz take on Portland State. Is there a contest? We have no idea, but it will sure freak out those Vikings. Kickoff at 3 PM. For tickets go to griztix.com.
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Sometimes you answer the doorbell to find a high school kid selling chocolate to raise funds for his school club. Or it might be a candidate for local office, ready to extol his or her virtues and get your vote. In Missoula, you might open your door to find a deer on your porch, asking if you wouldn’t mind opening the side gate so she can get to that hydrangea bush in your backyard, thank you very much. Okay, they’re not quite that brazen yet, but keeping the ubiquitous ungulates away from your plants is a real challenge. And it’s not just the deer, of course. Dozens of other critters treat our lawns and landscaping like one big salad bar. So what can you do? Poisons present obvious dangers to pets and children, not to mention tainting the very produce you’re trying to protect. Traps? If it works, there’s either a gruesome carcass to deal with or a pissed off critter to release into the wild, and it’ll probably beat you back to your house. Rabbits, raccoons, voles, mice, skunks, squirrels, woodchucks and countless other herbivores are per-
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sistent. Once they find a decent source of food, they’re dialed in. Admitting that you’re powerless is the first step in solving the problem. The best solution may be to find a way to coexist. To that end, the Missoula County Weed District will host a workshop where you can learn what to grow and how to grow it in a way that will help you live with the wildlife that, let’s face it, was here long before we ever turned over a spade of dirt. —Ednor Therriault The Missoula County Weed District’s Horticulture Series will feature several experts at the PEAS Farm Thu., Oct. 29, 5–7 PM. Free, but registration required at missoulaeduplace.org.
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Hey, they were here first. Learn to manage your garden or farm in the midst of wildlife habitat. Regional experts will be on hand at the PEAS Farm, 5– 7 PM. Free, but registration required. Visit missoulaeduplace.org. (See Agenda.)
The Missoula Area Secular Society presents the M.A.S.S. Lunch, where atheists, secular humanists, agnostics and other freethinkers meet. The group meets on the first and third Sunday of every month for brunch at 10 AM at the Stone of Accord, 4951 N. Reserve St. Free to attend, but the food costs you. Visit secularmissoula.org.
Partake in some Halloween fun with Addams Family: the Musical at Big Sky High School. There will be a costume contest during intermission at the Oct. 31 show. 7:30 PM, $7. Attendees are encouraged to bring non-perishable food items for the Missoula Food Bank.
SATURDAY OCTOBER 31 Mingle among the sweet abundance at the Missoula farmers markets and People’s Market, with produce, arts, crafts, baked goods, hot breakfasts and strong coffee at the XXXXs, Pine Street and riverside parking lot east of Caras Park. Things get running about 8 AM and last ‘til 1 PM. Halloween for Hospice will support HCF granting programs and their Community Education Campaign. Carnival games and a costume contest at JC Penney court in Southgate Mall. 4:30–7 PM. $1 per game, $2 entry fee for costume contest.
MONDAY NOVEMBER 2 Sip a fancy soda for a cause at this edition of Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery, 129 W. Front St. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to a cause each week. Family friendly, from noon–8 PM. Former military members are invited to the Veterans for Peace Western Montana Chapter meeting, which will work to inform and advocate about peace issues. Meets at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave., on the first Monday of every month at 4 PM. Visit veteransforpeace.org to learn more.
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 3 Draught Works Brewing’s Cheers for Charity night supports a local charity or nonprofit. Every Tuesday the Northside brew pub donates 50 cents of each pint sold between 5 PM and closing time.
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Members of the gazelle species known as the springbok periodically engage in a behavior known as pronking. They leap into the air and propel themselves a great distance with all four feet off the ground, bounding around with abandon. What evolutionary purpose does this serve? Some scientists are puzzled, but not naturalist David Attenborough. In the documentary film Africa, he follows a springbok herd as it wanders through the desert for months, hoping to find a rare rainstorm. Finally it happens. As if in celebration, the springboks erupt with an outbreak of pronking. “They are dancing for joy,” Attenborough declares. Given the lucky breaks and creative breakthroughs coming your way, Cancerian, I foresee you doing something similar. Halloween costume suggestion: a pronking gazelle, a hippety-hopping bunny, a boisterous baby goat.
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In the last ten days of November and the month of December, I suspect there will be wild-card interludes when you can enjoy smart gambles, daring stunts, cute tricks, and mythic escapades. But the next three weeks will not be like that. On the contrary. For the immediate future, I think you should be an upstanding citizen, a well-behaved helper, and a dutiful truth-teller. Can you handle that? If so, I bet you will get sneak peaks of the fun and productive mischief that could be yours in the last six weeks of 2015. Halloween costume suggestion: the most normal person in the world.
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): How dare you be so magnetic and tempting? What were you thinking when you turned up the intensity of your charm to such a high level? I suggest you consider exercising more caution about expressing your radiance. People may have other things to do besides daydreaming about you. But if you really can’t bring yourself to be a little less attractive—if you absolutely refuse to tone yourself down—please at least try to be extra kind and generous. Share your emotional wealth. Overflow with more than your usual allotments of blessings. Halloween costume suggestion: a shamanic Santa Claus; a witchy Easter Bunny.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): On a January morning in 1943, the town of Spearfish, South Dakota experienced very weird weather. At 7:30 a.m. the temperature was minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit. In the next two minutes, due to an unusual type of wind sweeping down over nearby Lookout Mountain, thermometers shot up 49 degrees. Over the next hour and a half, the air grew even warmer. But by 9:30, the temperature had plummeted back to minus 4 degrees. I’m wondering if your moods might swing with this much bounce in the coming weeks. As long as you keep in mind that no single feeling is likely to last very long, it doesn’t have to be a problem. You may even find a way to enjoy the breathtaking ebbs and flows. Halloween costume suggestion: roller coaster rider, Jekyll and Hyde, warm clothes on one side of your body and shorts or bathing suit on the other.
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The ancient Hindu text known as the Kama Sutra gives extensive advice about many subjects, including love and sex. “Though a man loves a woman ever so much,” reads a passage in chapter four, “he never succeeds in winning her without a great deal of talking.” Take that as your cue, Virgo. In the coming weeks, stir up the intimacy you want with a great deal of incisive talking that beguiles and entertains. Furthermore, use the same approach to round up any other experience you yearn for. The way you play with language will be crucial in your efforts to fulfill your wishes. Luckily, I expect your persuasive powers to be even greater than they usually are. Halloween costume suggestion: the ultimate salesperson.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I encourage you to be super rhythmical and melodious in the coming days. Don’t just sing in the shower and in the car. Hum and warble and whistle while shopping for vegetables and washing the dishes and walking the dog. Allot yourself more than enough time to shimmy and cavort, not just on the dance floor but anywhere else you can get away with it. For extra credit, experiment with lyrical flourishes whenever you’re in bed doing the jizzle-skazzle. Halloween costume suggestion: wandering troubadour, street musician, free-styling rapper, operatic diva, medicine woman who heals with sound.
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I expect you to be in a state of continual birth for the next four weeks. Awakening and activation will come naturally. Your drive to blossom and create may be irresistible, bordering on unruly. Does that sound overwhelming? I don’t think it will be a problem as long as you cultivate a mood of amazed amusement about how strong it feels. To help maintain your poise, keep in mind that your growth spurt is a natural response to the dissolution that preceded it. Halloween costume suggestion: a fountain, an erupting volcano, the growing beanstalk from the “Jack and the Beanstalk” fairy tale. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.” So says Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield. Can you guess why I’m bringing it to your attention, Sagittarius? It’s one of those times when you can do yourself a big favor by sloughing off the stale, worn-out, decaying parts of your past. Luckily for you, you now have an extraordinary talent for doing just that. I suspect you will also receive unexpected help and surprising grace as you proceed. Halloween costume suggestion: a snake molting its skin.
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Speaking on behalf of your wild mind, I’m letting you know that you’re due for an immersion in revelry and festivity. Plugging away at business as usual could become counterproductive unless you take at least brief excursions to the frontiers of pleasure. High integrity may become sterile unless you expose it to an unpredictable adventure or two. Halloween costume suggestion: party animal, hell raiser, social butterfly, god or goddess of delight. Every one of us harbors a touch of crazy genius that periodically needs to be unleashed, and now is that time for you.
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I hope you will chose a Halloween costume that emboldens you to feel powerful. For the next three weeks, it’s in your long-term interest to invoke a visceral sense of potency, dominion, and sovereignty. What clothes and trappings might stimulate these qualities in you? Those of a king or queen? A rock star or CEO? A fairy godmother, superhero, or dragon-tamer? Only you know which archetypal persona will help stir up your untapped reserves of confidence and command.
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): It’s time to stretch the boundaries, Pisces. You have license to expand the containers and outgrow the expectations and wage rebellion for the sheer fun of it. The frontiers are calling you. Your enmeshment in small talk and your attachment to trivial wishes are hereby suspended. Your mind yearns to be blown and blown and blown again! I dare you to wander outside your overly safe haven and go in quest of provocative curiosities. Halloween costume suggestions: mad scientist, wild-eyed revolutionary, Dr. Who. Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES.
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “A very little key will open a very heavy door,” wrote Charles Dickens in his short story “Hunted Down.” Make that one of your guiding meditations in the coming days, Leo. In the back of your mind, keep visualizing the image of a little key opening a heavy door. Doing so will help ensure that you’ll be alert when clues about the real key’s location become available. You will have a keen intuitive sense of how you’ll need to respond if you want to procure it. Halloween costume suggestion: proud and protective possessor of a magic key.
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PUBLIC NOTICES MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DP-15-202 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF VALERIE YULE WALTHER, a/k/a Valerie Y. Walther, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above! named Estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to PETER R. WALTHER, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Reely Law Firm, P.C., 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 13th day of October, 2015. /s/ Peter R. Walther, Personal Representative REELY LAW FIRM, P.C. 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201 Missoula, Montana 59801 Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ Shane N. Reely, Esq. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No.: DV15-109 Dept. No.: 3 John W. Larson Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of James Jerome Woody, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from James Jerome Woody to James Jerome Silber. The hearing will be on 11/19/2015 at 9:00 a.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: 10/5/2015 /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Darci Lehnerz, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Probate No. DP-15-203 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF RALPH J. FESSENDEN, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Susan Geske, the Personal Repre-
sentative, return receipt requested, c/o Boone Karlberg P.C., P. O. Box 9199, Missoula, Montana 59807-9199, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. I declare, under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana, that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 15th day of October, 2015, at Missoula, Montana. /s/ Susan Geske BOONE KARLBERG P.C. By: /s/ Julie R. Sirrs, Esq. P. O. Box 9199 Missoula, Montana 598079199 Attorneys for Susan Geske, Personal Representative
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MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Probate No. DP-15-207 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF Catherine Marie Price , Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Claudius C. Alick, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, in care of Paul E. Fickes, Esq., 310 West Spruce Street, Missoula, Montana, 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. Dated this 15th day of October, 2015. /s/ Claudius C. Alick c/o Paul E. Fickes, Esq. 310 West Spruce Street, Missoula, Montana 59802
MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Cause No. DP-15-196 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF: RICHARD D. BROWN, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Mark W. Brown, has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Mark W. Brown, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o, Timothy D. Geiszler, GEISZLER STEELE, PC, 619 Southwest Higgins, Suite K, Missoula, Montana 59803 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 1st day of October, 2015. GEISZLER STEELE, PC. BY: /s/ Timothy D. Geiszler, Attorneys for the Personal Representative. I declare under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 1st day of October, 2015. /s/ Mark W. Brown, Personal Representative
MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Probate No. DP-15-204 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF FRANK SHELBY BERNATZ, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Julie Anne Bernatz Coley and Lindsay Olivia Bernatz Beighle have been appointed Co-Personal Representatives of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the Deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Christian, Samson & Jones, PLLC, Attorneys for the Co-Personal Representatives, c/o Aaron M. Neilson, return receipt requested, at 310 West Spruce, Missoula, Montana 59802, or filed
MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP15-197 Dept. No. 4 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF CECELIA R. MURRAY, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to WILLIAM C. MURRAY, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, in care of Douglas Harris, Attorney at Law, PO Box 7937, Missoula, Montana 598077937 or filed with the Clerk of the above-named Court. DATED this 9th day of Oc-
tober, 2015. /s/ William C. Murray, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY, Dept. No. 3 Probate No. DP-15-199 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JANICE L. HOWARD, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said decedent are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must be mailed to Keith Twingley, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, in care of Marion C. Passmore, Stutz & Passmore PLLC, at P.O. Box 1259, Choteau, MT 59422, or filed with the Clerk of the above entitled Court. DATED this 9th day of October, 2015. /s/ Keith Twingley, Personal Representative /s/ Marion C. Passmore, Attorney NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 14, 2015, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: THE NORTH ONE-HALF OF LOT 1 AND THE NORTH ONE- HALF OF LOT 2 IN BLOCK 14 OF BUTTE ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT THEREOF RECORDING REFERENCE: BOOK 705 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 789. Joe Long, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Services, Inc, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on October 11, 2006 and recorded on October 16, 2006 in Book 785, Page 371 under Document No. 200626757. The beneficial interest is currently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. First American Title Company of Montana,
Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $469.23, beginning June 1, 2011, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of May 29, 2015 is $153,441.43 principal, interest at the rate of 2.0% totaling $12,510.96, late charges in the amount of $182.10, escrow advances of $6,648.69, and other fees and expenses advanced of $6,224.04, plus accruing interest at the rate of $8.41 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the benefi-
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These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control 541-7387 THEODORE•
Theodore is a 2-year-old male American Pit Bull Terrier. This sweet fellow loves big plush ball toys and will carry them everywhere he goes. Theo might take a little time to form a bond with a new owner, but once he does, the affection never ends. He definitely needs a cat-free home, and doesn't get along with most other dogs. Theodore would make a great family dog as well as outdoor adventure buddy.
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LENA•Lena is a 6-year-old female Rottweiler/German Shepherd mix. Lena loves people, but really does not enjoy dogs or cats. She would need to be in an only-pet household, but would love to have a few older kids to play with. She is a lover, and despite her age, has short bursts of being very playful. Lena has been adopted and returned to the shelter twice in her lifetime. FINNLEY•Finnley is a 3-year-old Chocolate Lab mix. He is a very intelligent dog and knows many commands and hand signals. Finnley understands the commands "Come" "Sit" and "Kennel." He would make a great prospect as a hunting dog, but will chase deer, so he needs a securely fenced yard. He'd do best in an active home with only adult owners. Finnley has been in and out of the shelter since August.
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ZOEY•Zoey is a 3-year-old female Black and White Tuxedo cat. She is a very playful and curious girl. Zoey demands having the run of the whole house and is definitely the start of the show. Her playful ways turn into a bit of an attitude when she hasn't had enough time out of her kennel. She doesn't enjoy being confined, which means she is not having the time of her life at the shelter.
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SCARLETTE•Scarlette is a 5-7 year-old female Brown and White Tabby cat. She was abandoned on our shelter porch in August. At that time, Scarlette was very thin and scared. She is now up to a healthy weight and has become more comfortable around people. Scarlette would prefer a quiet home that allows her to continue to come out of her shell in her own time. MEADOW• Meadow is a 2-4 year-old female Brown Tabby. Meadow is not the most social cat at the shelter and would prefer a home that provided her little human interaction. Meadow was found as a feral cat with kittens. She was taken in while the kittens nursed and were weaned. Once her kittens were grown, she was spayed and brought in to the shelter to find a home.
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These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana 549-3934 SUZIE• Suzie loves people. Watch her look at you with those big eyes and you can feel your heart melting! Suzie is house-trained, cratetrained, and knows lots of words such as "sit," "leave it" and "stay," among others. Suzie is great with kids and gets along with most other dogs. She is looking for a family that doesn't mind if she tags along and does whatever activities they are doing.
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PINK• Pink is a beautiful lady who was recently transferred to us from another facility. Talkative, young and a true explorer, Pink loves people and gets along with most dogs. Pink is looking for an active family with a tall fence. Friendly, social and active, Pink would love to go Missoula’s Locally Owned Neighborhood Pet Supply Store to a home with canine siblings. To hone in her www.gofetchdog.com - 728-2275 skills and manners as a lady, she would also love South Russell • North Reserve to be enrolled in our Basic Manners class.
PRINCE•Prince is an active, friendly guy who is looking for an active and patient family. Due to his high energy levels, Prince would excel in a home with adults. He himself is active, smart and friendly and loves playing fetch, going on car rides and going on walks and hikes. If you are looking for an active boy who will be lots of fun to hang around, come meet him today!
SOFT PAWS• Soft Paws is a sweet and mellow tabby. She may seem shy at first but warms up quickly and loves to be pet and brushed. This friendly kitty also loves her toys and her Temptations cat treats. Come meet Soft Paws at the Humane Society of Western Montana!
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[C6] Missoula Independent • October 29–November 5, 2015
PUBLIC NOTICES ciary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: August 6, 2015 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho )) ss. County of Bingham) On this 6 day of August, 2015, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, known to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that she executed the same. /s/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2018 BAC Vs. Long 42019.517 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 21, 2015, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 28 of The Valley Subdivision, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof Kyle Hibler, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Services, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated July 23, 2012 and recorded July 23, 2012 in Book 897 Page 429 under Documents No 201213552. The beneficial interest is currently held by U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pur-
suant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $664.68, beginning April 1, 2013, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of June 30, 2015 is $148,472.46 principal, interest at the rate of 3.375% totaling $11,672.79, escrow advances of $9,999.88, plus accruing interest at the rate of $13.73 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and
MNAXLP expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: August 11, 2015 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 11 day of August, 2015, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, known to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that she executed the same. /s/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2018 Us Bank V Hibler 41345.999 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 28, 2015, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: A tract of land located in the NE¼ of Section 29 and W½NW¼NW¼ of Section 28, Township 13 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana, being more particularly described as Tract B of Certificate of Survey No. 4367 JEFFREY S. MALEK, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to First American Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on August 14, 2003, and recorded on August 19, 2003 in Book 715 Page 419 under Document No. 200330670. The beneficial interest is currently held by U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS TRUSTEE FOR CSFB
M O RTG AG E - B AC K E D PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 20048. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,486.89, beginning April 1, 2010, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of August 31, 2015 is $224,518.46 principal, interest at the rate of 6.00000% now totaling $74,090.94, late charges in the amount of $0.00, escrow advances of $32,443.98, suspense balance of $0.00 and other fees and expenses advanced of $7,794.65, plus accruing interest at the rate of $36.91 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described prop-
erty to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being
made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and
expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL
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PUBLIC NOTICES BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: August 25, 2015 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 25 day of August, 2015, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Shannon Gavin
Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2018 J P Morgan Chasevs JEFFREY S MALEK 100179-1 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 28, 2015, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 3 in Block 1 of Scenic View Estates No. 1, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Christopher Lee Williams, as Grantor(s), conveyed said
MNAXLP real property to Title Services, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to American Federal Savings Bank, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated July 10, 2013 and recorded July 10, 2013 in Book 915, Page 1215 under Document no. 201313449. The beneficial interest is currently held by JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,087.99, beginning July 1, 2014, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of May 31, 2015 is $221,276.53 principal, interest at the rate of 4.12500% totaling $9,127.68, escrow advances of $2,867.27, suspense balance of $-43.52 and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,999.30, plus accruing interest at the rate of $25.01 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may be-
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come due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust
and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: August 24, 2015 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 24 day of August, 2015, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, known to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that she executed the same. /s/ Diana Steinmetz Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 07/16/16 Chase V Williams 42073.019
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2012 36th St. 4 bed/2 bath, single garage, some recent updates. $1700. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 The Missoula Housing Authority complies with the Fair Housing Act and offers Reasonable Accommodations to persons with Disabilities.
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109 Saranac. 4 bed, 2 bath on corner lot backing park. Fireplace, mountain views, fruit trees & 2 car garage. $250,000. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 5312605. vickiehonzel@lambros.com
2 Bdr, 1 Bath, North Missoula home. $165,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 2045 South 13th West. 3 bed, 1 bath with full basement and large fenced yard. $215,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350 shannonhilliard5@ gmail.com 216 Tower. 2 bed, 1 bath bungalow on 1/2 acre near Clark Fork River. $185,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653 pat@properties2000.com 2523 Rattlesnake Dr. Missoula Gem. Price Reduced: $439,000. Buyer’s agent welcome. Beautiful older home on large fenced lot with stunning views of Mount Jumbo. 3 bed, 2 bath, 1,793 sqft, 2 car garage with large unfinished basement and 3 bonus rooms. Lovely oak floors, spacious kitchen, screened-in back porch, established trees and a beautiful yard with vegetable and flower gardens. Park-like lot with .55 acre. Contact Catherine at 4935127. 3 Bdr, 1 Bath, Downtown Missoula home. $295,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
6892 Alisha Drive. Brand new 3 bed, 2 bath with 3 car garage in Linda Vista. $389,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653 pat@properties2000.com 706 Hiberta. 2 bed, 1 bath one one +/- acre in Orchard Homes. $215,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com 9755 Horseback Ridge. 3 bed, 3 bath on 5 acres with MIssion Mountain & Missoula Valley views. $385,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653 pat@properties2000.com Are your housing needs changing? We can help you explore your options. Clark Fork Realty. 512 E. Broadway. (406) 728-2621. www.clarkforkrealty.com Buying or selling homes? Let me help you Find Your Way Home. Please contact me, David Loewenwarter, Realtor, BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOME SERVICES MONTANA PROPERTIES 406-241-3221 LOEWENWARTER.COM East Base of Mount Jumbo 970 Discovery. Awesome 3 bedroom East Missoula home in a great ‘hood with gorgeous views! $185,000 KD 2405227 porticorealestate.com If you’ve been thinking of selling your home now is the time. The local inventory is relatively low and good houses are selling quickly. Let me help you Find Your Way Home. Please contact me David Loewenwarter, Realtor, BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOME SERVICES MONTANA PROPERTIES 406-241-3221 LOEWENWARTER.COM Interested in real estate? Successfully helping buyers and sellers. Please contact me, David Loewenwarter, Realtor, BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOME SERVICES MONTANA PROPERTIES 406-241-3221 LOEWENWARTER.COM
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3 bed, 3 bath Farviews home. 209 Imperial Way. Great views. Very quiet street. $325,000. For more information call Michelle Hall, at Lambros 531-5298 or visit HallRealtyMT.com
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4 Bdr, 2 Bath, South Hills home. $205,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
Lewis & Clark Neighborhood 631 Pattee Creek Drive. Across from Splash, wheelchair accessible, wonderful, spacious, light, beautiful Lewis & Clark area home. Over 3300 s.f. of living space. $320,000. KD 2405227 porticorealestate.com
442 Kensington. Totally remodeled 1 bed, 1.5 bath with fenced yard, patio, deck & garage. $239,900. Rochelle Glasgow, Ink Realty Group 728-8270 glasgow@montana.com
Lower Rattlesnake. 1149 Harrison St. Gorgeous 4 bd 2 ba, 1922 Craftsman home. Excellent condition, huge, bright modern kitchen, formal dining, 2 family rooms. Close to UM,
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Uncle Robert Ln #7
251-4707 100 S. Curtis 2 Bed w/Garage Duplex $795/month
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Uncle Robert Lane 2 Bed Apt. $745/month
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1924 Kensington. Classic 3 bed, 1 bath with hardwood floors and large fenced yard. $193,000. Pat McCormick Properties 2000. 2407653 pat@properties2000.com
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512 North 1st. Remodeled 2 bed, 1 bath with single garage. $199,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8359 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com 515 Cooley. Northside 2 bed, 1 bath with double garage across from park & community gardens. $255,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com
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6743 Linda Vista. 4 bed, 3 bath with 2 car garage and great city views. $312,000. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate. 5312605 vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com
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REAL ESTATE downtown, Mt. Jumbo hiking. See on Zillow or forsalebyowner.com #24037586. Buyer’s agents welcome. 549-3506 for private showing. Price reduced. New roof on its way! $465,000. Milwaukee Trail Home 2144 Trail St. Very beautifully
updated 3 bedroom 2 bath home right on the bike trail; large private back yard with gorgeous landscaping. $286,500. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Natural Housebuilders & Terry Davenport Design, Inc.. Building Survivalist
Homes, Sustainably, Off Grid. www.faswall.com, www.naturalhousebuilder.net. Ph: 406-3690940 & 406-642-6863. Near Good Food Store 1952 S 4th W. Centrally located 3 bedroom home in great shape with a double lot and tons of gardening, chicken coop and shop. $200,000. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Real Estate. NW Montana. Tungstenholdings.com. (406)2933714 “There once was an agent named Dave/Whose clients they all would rave. He’ll show you a house/loved by both you and your spouse. Both your time and money he’ll save.” Tony and Marcia Bacino. Please contact me David Loewenwarter, Realtor, BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOME SERVICES MONTANA PROPERTIES 406-241-3221
LOEWENWARTER.COM We’re not only here to sell real estate, we’re your full service senior home specialists. Clark Fork Realty. 512 E. Broadway. (406) 7282621. www.clarkforkrealty.com WHO CARES? We do, in good times & bad... Auto; SR-22; Renters; Homeowners. JT Zinn Insurance. 406-549-8201. 321 SW Higgins. Find us on Facebook.
CONDOS/ TOWNHOMES 821 Turner. Modern 3 bed, 2.5 bath Turner Street Townhouse with single garage. $215,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350. shannonhilliard5@gmail.com Burns Street Condo 1400 Burns #16. Burns Street Com-
mons is a very special place to call home and this three bedroom upper level unit offers spacious, convenient, and beautiful living space. $160,000. KD 240-5227 or Sarah 370-3995 porticorealestate.com Condo for Sale-901 Rodgers St 2BR/1.5 bath, 2 level condo, quite Northside neighborhood. Carpet throughout, laminate flooring in LR. Close to downtown, bike to UM, bus stop on same block. Includes W/D (not coin-op),carport pkg & storage unit. Great investment opportunity, must see. $89,900 view at forsalebyowner.com Listing ID: 24027866 or 406.214.7519 Uptown Flats #210. 1 bed, 1 bath modern condo on Missoula’s Northside. $149,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com Uptown Flats #301. Large 1 bed, 1 bath plus bonus room with all the amenities. $210,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546.5816. annierealtor@ gmail.com Uptown Flats #306. 1 bed, 1 bath corner unit on top floor with deck & community room. $155,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 annierealtor@gmail.com
LAND FOR SALE 18 acre building lot with incred-
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ible views. Lolo, Sleeman Creek. $129,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4.6 acre building lot in the woods with views and privacy. Lolo, Mormon Creek Rd. $99,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com NHN Edgewood. 3.53 acres on backside of Mount Jumbo. $79,900. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate. 531-2605 vickiehonzel@lambros.com NHN Old Freight Road, St. Ignatius. 40.69 acres with 2 creeks & Mission Mountain views. $199,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350. shannonhilliard5@gmail.com NHN Old Freight Road, St. Ignatius. Approximately 11 acre building lot with Mission Mountain views. $86,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 2398350. shannonhilliard5@ gmail.com NHN Rock Creek Road. 20 acres bordered on north by Five Valleys Land Trust. Direct access to Clark Fork River. $149,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350. shannonhilliard5@gmail.com NHN Roundup. Two 20 acre, unzoned, bare land parcels. $3,000,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com
Old Indian Trail. Ask Anne about exciting UNZONED parcels near Grant Creek. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com
OUT OF TOWN 14980 Big Horn, Huson. 3 bed, 2 bath on 5 acres. $425,000. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate. 531-2605 vickiehonzel@ lambrosera.com 15520 Mill Creek, Frenchtown. High-end 5 bed, 3.5 bath with 3 car garage. Basketball court & gym. Fantastic views. $595,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties 2000.com 2 Bdr, 1 Bath, Stevensville home. $159,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville home. $200,000.. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2.5 Bath, Frenchtown home. $367,500. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4 Bdr, 2 Bath, Nine Mile Valley home on 12.3 acres. $350,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or www.mindypalmer.com
REAL ESTATE
Homes 2144 Trail Street Beautifully Updated 3 Bed, 2 Bath Home on the Milwaukee Bike Trail!! .............................$286,500 1952 S 4th St. W Solid 3 Bedroom Home With Amazing Landscaped, Private Yard .......................................$200,000 631 Pattee Creek Dr. Spacious 3 Bed, 3 Bath. Full Finished Basement..........................................................$320,000 970 Discovery Bright & Well-Designed ........................................................................................................$185,000 715 Gary Target Range Mid-Century Home ..................................................................................................$259,000 2004 Silver Tips Cluster Rustic Meets Romantic..........................................................................................$675,000
5 Bdr, 3 Bath, Alberton area home on 20 acres on Petty Creek. $465,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
8905 Mormon Creek Road. Private Lolo Peak 3 bed, 3 bath on over 4 acres with fireplace, deck, hot tub & fantastic views. $395,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com
Homes With Land 856 Duck Bridge Lane Awesome Tiny Farm................................................................................................$265,000 581 Fescue Slope, Florence Amazing Mtn. Views On 6.12 Acres ..................................................................$289,000 Burns Street Commons Next to Food Co-op & Bistro! #14 or #16 ............................................................$160,000 Uptown Flats #306 Modern Amenities.......................................................................................................$155,000 Uptown Flats #210 Efficient 1 Bed ............................................................................................................$149,000
Land Old Indian Trail 4.77 Acres. South Facing Slope of Hillside at Base of Grant Creek .........................................$90,000 Old Indian Trail 15 Acres. Views of Lolo Peak & Missoula Valley ..................................................................$148,000 Old Indian Trail 19.77 Acres Buy Both Above For Less ................................................................................$230,000 40 Acres Prime Unzoned Land Near 44 Ranc ................................................................................................................$3M 9435 Summit 40x60' Shop + Almost 2 Acres ..............................................................................................$250,000
Featured: 2144 Trail Street $286,500 – 3 bed, 2 bath on Milwaukee Bike Trail with large private yard & loads of new upgrades
1952 South 4th West $200,000 – 3 bed, 1.5 bath with open floor plan near Good Food Store. Room for additional house in back
856 Duck Bridge Lane $265,000 – Awesome farm on 1.95 acres overlooking Clark Fork River. 3 bed, 2 bath & guest cabin
2004 Silver Tips Cluster $675,000 – Craftsman-inspired, fully furnished 5 bed, 4 bath on 1/2 acre in gated community
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1924 Kensington • $193,000 Classic, updated 3 bed, 1 bath with hardwood & tile floors, large fenced yard & carport
Pat McCormick Real Estate Broker Real Estate With Real Experience
pat@properties2000.com 406-240-SOLD (7653)
5 bedroom 2.5 bath home. Listen to the creek & enjoy outdoor recreation while minutes from town. Land features Grant Creek frontage, 6.3 acres mixed timber & meadows. $395,000 Contact Matt for more information 406-360-9023
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109 Saranac Drive • $250,000 • Ranch style on landscaped 10,708 sq.ft. corner lot backing neighborhood park • 3 bed, 1 bath, dining room, large living room with fireplace on main level • 1 bed, 1 bath, family room in lower level • 2 car garage, UG sprinklers & fruit trees
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AUCTION A UCTION By B y Or Order der of the Court Court Appoint Appointed ed Receiver Receiver
Case # DC DC-13-12415, -13-12415, in the District District Court Court of Dallas County, County, Texas, Texas, 14th Judicial Dis District trict
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 18th @ 7:00 PM Sale Site: Hilton Garden Inn, 3720 N Reserve St, Missoula
CIRCLE H RANCH 12 Lots & 602 Acres
Offered Individually - Located off Butler Creek Road
Gated Community 1% Br Broker oker Private Roads C o-Op Available Available Co-Op Private Water System Protective Covenants 3,000 SF min. with Architectural Review
WEST POINTE SUBDIVISION
Selling as a Whole - Located off Butler Crre eek Ro Road
25 Improved Lots with Infrastructure 30 Residential Lots with Entitlements 10.63 Acres Common Area 39.10 Additional Acres
ALSO SELLING INDIVIDUALL LY - 2 HOMES IN WEST POINTE SUBDIVISION 6544 MacArthur Drive - 3 Bedroom, 2.5 Baths 6465 MacArthur Drive - 3 Bedroom, 2.5 Baths Jeff L. Moore, NAI Crowley MooreLicense # RRE-BRO-LIC-9403 and Randy Wells, Auctioneer, Realty Auction Services, LLC
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