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STREET TALK

by Alex Sakariassen

Asked Tuesday afternoon in downtown Missoula When describing this election year in the future to, say, your hypothetical grandkids, what words would you use?

Follow-up: What are you most looking forward to turning your attention to after the election?

Josh Harwood: The worst election of the worst year I’ve ever known. It’s been exhausting. Twinkies and SPAM: Depending on how things go tonight, either just getting back to my life or preparing for the end times.

Kelly Shipp: Contentious. I would also maybe use the word intimate, because a lot of my family are Trump supporters and it’s affected relationships. Hitting the books: Getting back to work. I’m in grad school to be a special-ed teacher, and there’s so much work to be done.

Vickie Rectenwald: Disgraceful. Petty.

Without substance. Close but not done yet: Just finishing the semester. That’s 95 percent of my attention already. I’m looking forward to making it 100.

Ryan Glennon: Chaotic. But a more positive word would be compassionate, depending on who you’re looking at.

Sorry, wrong number: Not getting random phone calls at eight o’clock every day making sure I’m going to vote. And school.

“Uncle Sam”: One word: destructive. I don’t think the way for America to come together is to be fearful and hateful. Licking wounds: Healing. I’m a retired nurse, myself, so this has been destructive and divisive. I think the election has shown us we can lose sight of our fellow citizens.

What would Iggy do?

It is a few days before the election. I have been stuck in a downward spiral of despair as I watch this country go to a bunch of ignorant racists and bigots.

Though I can't predict who will win, it doesn’t matter. The damage is done. I watch while a maniac on stage incites violence. He whips up the crowd, babbling forth an incomprehensible word soup steeped in xenophobia. Some people may wonder how we got here, but I feel like I have been watching this trainwreck approaching for some time.

People close to me know I am passionate in nature and prone to not holding my tongue. But I wish I would not have been so reserved. The Right quiets those who are offended by their overt bigotry with a false outrage about political correctness. This complaint is really just a facade that conservatives hide their bigotry behind.

I am sitting at home as I write this, listening to my Iggy Pop collection turned up really loud. It is making me feel better.

I love Iggy Pop. I love his attitude. It reminds me of being young and not worrying about offending people. Iggy’s attitude is reflected in the words he once used while describing his early band, The Stooges: “This is The Stooges, so fuck off.”

We need more Iggy Pops. We need an army of Iggy Pops. Too many people think we need to take the high road or act diplomatically in the face of this wave of fascism taking hold of our country. You’ve heard it: “When they go low, we go high.” And so, quickly and cowardly, Hillary Clinton backed off her “basket of deplorables” comment. We need to rise up and yell from the top of our lungs. I am sick of my fellow liberals getting their teeth kicked in by this rising wave of hatred. And they respond with politeness. What is most troubling to me is the number of young adults who think it is best to act diplomatically. Sure, diplomacy has its place, but not in response to people backing Trump.

It’s like these young adults are proud of themselves, proud that they can be so mature and level-headed. To them I ask, “What the hell is wrong with you?” Stand up and yell from the top of your lungs.

Who are you afraid of offending?

Brandon Hardin Bozeman

You listening, Barack?

When I found out about uranium mining threatening the Grand Canyon I was shocked. Runoff from this toxic practice makes its way into the Colorado River, which runs directly through the national

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park. This pollution threatens the ecosystems in the national park, the lives of many animals, including the endangered California Condor, and of course the 25 million people who live downstream.

Every time I hear these facts, images of small children enjoying the cool river in the summer flash through my mind.

Here in Montana we are no strangers to river mishaps. Just this past August, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks closed down 183 miles of the Yellowstone River.

“We need to rise up and yell from the top of our lungs. I am sick of my fellow liberals getting their teeth kicked in by this rising wave of hatred.

And they respond with politeness.”

This closure, and the deaths of about 10,000 mountain whitefish, are due to a parasite called tetracapsula bryosalmonae.

While I understand this is not the same as mining pollution, both Montana and the Grand Canyon are facing some river issues, so we as Montanans should sympathize.

I am here to ask President Obama to create the Greater Grand Canyon Heritage National Monument before he leaves office. I am imploring him to do this because I know that he has the power and the ability to do so. So far this year he has created the largest marine monument in Hawaii and the first-ever completely oceanic monument off the coasts of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. If he can create these monuments, I hope he understand the urgency of creating this monument in order to maintain one of the most naturally beautiful and enriched ecosystems in the country before leaving office.

Becca Mosson Missoula

Remember veterans?

Friday, November 11, is Veterans Day. In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed Nov. 11 as the first commemoration of Armistice Day with the following words: "To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country’s service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations…"

Many communities recognize our veterans every year on Veterans Day by holding parades or flag-raising ceremonies.

I would like to offer an opportunity to recognize and serve our nation’s veterans every day.

We are in critical need of volunteer drivers to transport veterans to their VA appointments.

In Montana, the group Disabled American Veterans donates vehicles to the Veterans Health Administration. These vehicles are used to transport veterans who have no other means of transportation to and from VA appointments. Volunteer drivers are needed for local transportation as well as long distance.

Many of our volunteers are veterans who want to give back to their brothers and sisters. Others who haven’t served in the armed forces volunteer to help those who gave so much to our country.

We welcome licensed drivers over 18 years old who are interested in this program to contact Voluntary Service, VA Montana Health Care, at 406-4477345 to receive more information.

Let us remember and serve our veterans not only on Veterans Day, but every day.

Terrie Casey Chief, Voluntary Service VA Montana Health Care Fort Harrison

Kitty kudos I have posted several photos of your Nov. 3 cover to let the world know that Missoula (or at least some of it) has managed to retain a sense of humor in the face of degradation, fear, aggression and gross ignorance. This Independent cover is the only thing that has made me laugh out loud about politics or issues during this whole election year. Thank you so much. I'm still smiling.

Deborah Woody Missoula

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WEEK IN REVIEW

VIEWFINDER

by Amy Donovan

Wednesday, Nov. 2

The Festival of the Dead parade marches down Higgins Avenue on a chilly evening, albeit with less sugar-skull art than normal.

The ZACC opted to cancel its free facepainting this year due to concerns about cultural appropriation.

Thursday, Nov. 3 More than 100 schools across Montana host a mock election in which students indicate whom they’d vote for. Trump wins the student vote, 3,693 to 1,672, as do Gov. Steve Bullock and Rep. Ryan Zinke.

Friday, Nov. 4 Rep. Brad Tschida (R-Missoula) sues the state commissioner of political practices, saying it’s unconstitutional that state law forbids him from talking about an ethics complaint.

Tschida complains that Gov. Steve Bullock misused the state airplane when flying to see a 2014 Paul McCartney concert in Missoula.

Saturday, Nov. 5 Several University of Montana students arrive at the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota to show their support for the tribe’s protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline. A Montana Kaimin photographer snaps a photo of an unmarked plane that’s reportedly been circling the protest camps 24 hours a day.

Sunday, Nov. 6 MCT hosts a Frozen sing-along, to the delight of local children and the disappointment of at least one area mother, who reports that she somehow expected it to be more than just watching a movie and singing along.

Monday, Nov. 7 The Missoula City Council hosts a brief meeting without Mayor John Engen, who’s been on medical leave for undisclosed reasons since at least Nov. 1. Council President Marilyn Marler steps in to serve as acting mayor.

Tuesday, Nov. 8 An Indy staffer arrives at an election party for Justice of the Peace candidate Landee Holloway, only to discover that she’d been accidentally invited via group text. Holloway graciously apologizes for the mistake, and goes on to win with 35 percent of the vote.

On the morning of Nov. 8, Nici Holt Cline wears a suffragette outfit as Missoulians—mostly women—arrive for a photo shoot at a field in the Rattlesnake. Cline organized the gathering as an Election Day show of solidarity with Hillary Clinton and asked everyone to wear “an empowering kick-ass uniform, pantsuit or otherwise.”

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Co-op seeks store-mate After changing its operation model this spring to invite public shopping, the Missoula Community Food Co-op’s finances remain shaky. The co-op, which has operated out of 1500 Burns St. since 2007, needs a “business roommate” within a few months, says board member Kim Bostrom.

“It’s pretty vital,” Bostrom says. “We grew faster than we should have, and we’re having that come back on us.”

The co-op’s model is to provide affordable, locally sourced groceries by relying on volunteer “working owner” members to staff the store, but attracting a reliable member base has been a struggle. The co-op’s membership voted in May to open the doors to the shopping public in an attempt to make ends meet.

Bostrom says the enthusiastic public response was heartening. “Especially people who have been members in the past and weren’t crazy about working their shifts— a lot of those people came back,” Bostrom says.

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But now, she says, working owners seem to have lost their incentive to show up for shifts, since they can continue to shop there regardless.

“The co-op simply can’t survive without working owners,” Bostrom says.

Nor, she thinks, can it survive without finding another local food company willing to share the space. Many co-op members had recently pinned their hopes on a potential deal with The Cloven Hoof butcher shop, a farmers market vendor that’s seeking a brick-and-mortar storefront. A butcher shop offering fresh meat—or a similar business—would be the ideal complement to the co-op and draw more customers, Bostrom says.

But the deal fell apart for several reasons, including the fact that the co-op’s kitchen isn’t set up for hot food prep. An incoming business would need to pay for any improvements.

“We can’t have a drain on our resources, because ours are stretched,” she says. “It has to be a business that comes in and knows what it’s doing.”

Without a savior, Bostrom says the co-op will have to consider downsizing and moving to a smaller location.

It’s unclear how the co-op’s instability might affect the other tenants at 1500 Burns, including the Western Montana Growers Cooperative and Burns St. Bistro. The building is owned by the North Missoula Community Development Corporation, which helped found the co-op in the early 2000s as a way to encourage local food in a traditionally low-income neighborhood.

Bob Oaks, the NMCDC head, declines to speculate on what the co-op’s future might hold.

“We’re just biding our time, I guess,” Oaks says.

For Bostrom’s part, she hopes the co-op can find better ways to target its particular niche of customer: people who care about quality food but get by on tight budgets.

“I like to point out that none of us is rich,” Bostrom says. “It’s not here so rich people can get cheaper food. We’re moderate-income people trying to eat well and locally.”

Kate Whittle

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A soft opening Soft Landing’s new office was already full when the singers showed up. Thirty well-wishers were gathered in the refugee support group’s “living room.� Some had come bearing gifts, others read the donation wish lists tacked on the walls, and a few traded words in Swahili, French and English with recently arrived Congolese refugees who have resettled in Missoula over the last few months. Kids explored a playroom and an unfinished office space.

Executive Director Mary Poole didn’t know how many people would show up to an open house in a nondescript office building on Stephens Avenue, but her group’s work does tend to act as a magnet. There was barely room to set up the TV news camera Poole hadn’t expected to see. “More love, more love,� sang Missoula members of the Montana Women’s Chorus, having squeezed into a space behind the cookie table. They stood facing the refugee families, who tapped their feet and clapped.

When the mini-concert concluded, the Quilters of Peace presented three handmade blankets to add to the dozens already created for the city’s new arrivals, who currently number about 30.

The open house seemed to reflect the swell of goodwill that has accompanied the past year’s citizen-led effort to welcome refugees to Missoula. It came on the heels of a crowd-funding push that raised more than $31,000 from 273 donors during the past month. The event also embodied Soft Landing’s vision for its first office space, which the fundraiser allowed the group to open. “It’s our community resource center,� said Program Director Molly Cottrell. “It’s not only a place to work out of for staff and volunteers alike, but a community gathering place to offer classes for refugees—and down the road refugees can teach their own classes here.�

The resource center’s main room—the living room—has a high ceiling and an accent wall painted deep aqua blue. The playroom contains books like My First Swahili Bible and pillows upholstered with images of soccer balls. In the back, there’s a kitchen and a small classroom. Cottrell hopes to install computer stations so refugees can videochat with distant family members or apply for jobs. The wish list includes items as basic as a bathroom plunger.

If the past is any indication, it won’t take long to furnish the new office. Cottrell’s volunteer list has already grown to 430 people, with locals offering to help out by

collecting produce from farmers markets and buying symphony tickets for refugee families. Soft Landing is just starting its language-tutoring program, with plans to extend it to refugees’ work sites so they can practice English on their lunch breaks. The group’s leaders expect more services will follow, now that they have a home. “Please, come, learn, teach, bring ideas,� Poole told the gathered on Sunday. “Whatever we want to do here, we can do. That’s really been the story of Soft Landing from the start.�

Derek Brouwer

Public comment

Dropping the mic on salmon Not one of the dozens of informational posters clustered about the conference room at Missoula’s Hilton Garden Inn on Nov. 3 contained what Sam Mace was looking for. A spokesman for the nonprofit Save Our Wild Salmon, Mace felt there should be at least some mention of the legal decision that precipitated the public hearing. After all, she said, it was the fifth time a judge had rejected a federal salmon recovery plan for the Columbia and Snake rivers. “You would never know walking in there that the primary reason this process is happening is because they have yet to get a legal plan in place to restore wild salmon and steelhead,� Mace said, clutching her own handouts describing the May ruling.

The hearing was one of the latest of 14 regionwide meetings hosted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Bureau of Reclamation and the Bonneville Power Administration. The agencies are in the early stages of drafting an environmental impact statement for their operations in the Columbia River Basin—namely, the management of 14 dams in Montana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon. Right now, said BPA’s David Kennedy, the goal is simply to collect general public feedback before the Jan. 17 comment deadline. “It’s true that we’re on a little bit of the edge of the Columbia River Basin here,� Kennedy said, “but Missoula still has a big role in system operations and

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Absentee ballots in Missoula County still uncounted the morning after election night. County officials explained that ballot-counting machines had been running for 24 hours straight.

President Donald Trump. As the words began to sink into the collective consciousness of Missoula and America Tuesday night, a huddle of young Trump supporters at the Top Hat eagerly awaited their man’s acceptance speech.

They snapped selfies, clinked beer bottles, grinned. Van Schultz, a Hamilton native wearing a suit complete with pocket square, did a cartwheel.

The presence of these twenty-something Donald devotees was salt in the wound for the two dozen or so other patrons still left at the Top Hat after midnight. This had been the site of U.S. House candidate Denise Juneau’s party, the spot where just an hour earlier she had delivered a speech that stopped just short of concession.

Heads hung low as the projector flashed images of Trump stepping to the podium. Some cried.

Others shouted profanities at the screen.

The cloud of disappointment and defeat had been brewing for hours all across downtown.

A few Democrats at the Union Club did their best to raise hopes, or at least dry tears. Dave Strohmaier, commanding a clear lead in the race for Missoula County Commissioner, stepped to a microphone and assured the crowd: “The sun will come up tomorrow regardless of who might be in the White House come January.� Later, he tried to explain the night’s developments. “I really think what we’re seeing here locally, in the state and nationally is a manifestation of peoples’ fears,� he told the Indy.

News of Trump’s victory coincided with a series of fluctuations in state races that deepened Democrats’ sense of loss. Missoula legislative candidates Andrew Person and Addrien Marx both fell behind late in the night. And though he’d surge back for a win by morning, Gov. Steve Bullock briefly lost his edge over challenger Greg Gianforte at a time when spirits were already bottoming out.

President Donald Trump. It will be a long time before that stops sounding strange.

But as Missoula and the nation adjust to this new and, for many, terrifying reality, the words spoken to the Union crowd Tuesday night by Missoula resident Ali Reza Tabibnejab seem especially pertinent: “Whatever happens, every single one of you did what you thought was right, and that’s what matters. The worst thing you can do right now is emotionally turn yourself off to the electoral process.�

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Posters throughout the room offered insight into the economic, social and environmental impacts of those dams. Specialists from each agency hovered, waiting to answer questions. Attendees scribbled comments on cards or typed them up on a bank of laptops near the door.

It was precisely the open-house style—in contrast to the more familiar, and often contentious, public testimony hearings—that bugged Mace. Over the past decade she’s noticed increasing attention paid by Missoulians to issues like the removal of lower Snake River dams, an interest she attributes to the local popularity of steelhead fishing and the community’s firsthand experience with dam removal. But she thinks last week’s hearing was hardly designed to inspire participation. “It’s been structured to minimize public enthusiasm,� she said. Plus, “They scheduled these hearings and this public comment period during fall fishing season, a crazy election and the holidays.�

At least one attendee appreciated the tensionfree atmosphere. Jeremy Oades, a senior in the University of Montana’s Environmental Studies Program, came in part to learn more about the agricultural impacts of dam removal. Having been “very, very naive� about the issue before walking through the door, Oades left with no complaints about the lack of open testimony. “You have the opportunity to voice your opinion and not be critiqued by anybody else in the audience,� he said. “You don’t have anybody putting eyes on you. There’s no pressure.�

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Title flight Missoula’s boxing community regroups at Ridge Fitness

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Boxing instructor Rachel Plumage, left, recently moved to Ridge Fitness. She says many of her students are women seeking a challenging workout.

On Oct. 30, the Title Boxing Club closed abruptly, shuttering Missoula’s only local venue dedicated specifically to boxing fitness after more than three years in business. The franchise’s sudden absence leaves a void for people like Jason Begay, a University of Montana professor who’d been a longtime member. The club’s instructors— many of whom were competitive fighters themselves—offered fast-paced kickboxing and boxing classes. Strenuous “power hour” classes included rounds of bag punching alternated with cardio and core exercises to keep heart rates up. Members typically left drenched in sweat.

“I liked Title because it was a really unique workout and super intense,” Begay says. “I lost 50 pounds in two years there.”

The franchise’s owners couldn’t be reached for comment by press time.

But Missoula’s boxing enthusiasts have regrouped and joined Ridge Fitness, where local boxers and mixed martial arts (MMA) fighters gather to train and fight. Two dozen punching bags hang in Ridge’s basement, where instructors host packed group boxing classes in a room adjacent to Vicki’s Quilts Down Under.

Rachel Plumage recently worked at Title,

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but is now based at Ridge. A muscular 47year-old with a sturdy handshake and a big smile, she’s taught aerobic workouts for two decades, and also has a black belt in taekwondo. It’s important to her that her students never feel threatened.

“We do mitt work sometimes, but we never hit you back. It’s always you, empowered, feeling strong,” she says. “I’m good at sparring, but I don’t like it. I can take hits, but I don’t like hitting people back. I feel bad. I would kick somebody and go, ‘Oh sorry.’”

Plumage notes that boxing classes at Ridge draw a wide age range, from teenagers to seniors — and they’re mostly women. She and two other Ridge instructors are women, and they’re determined to make the sport approachable, even if MMA fighters are training nearby. “Once they walk in the door, my goal is to make sure that they feel welcome.”

Ridge is also home to the Dogpound MMA club, which is rebounding this year after its head coach, Matthew Powers, returned to action after an injury that sidelined him for several years. Powers, a beefy man with cauliflower ears, welcomes fitness boxers to work with him. The first hour of his MMA boxing class focuses purely on technique.

“People who just want to work out can jump on the mat and get the same workout the fighters are getting,” Powers says. “I pull the new people off the mat when the fighters spar.”

Powers appreciates that women might be interested in boxing more for exercise than for sport, but he’s ready to take them to the next level if they’d like. He also teaches women’s self-defense classes, primarily using Muay Thai and Brazilian jiu jitsu methods.

“All women should know how to fight,” he says.

One women who does is Samantha Sievers, who started taking boxing classes with Powers a few years ago and got hooked. She’s now the Dogpound’s only female MMA fighter, and she’s gearing up for her fourth major competition in February. By day, she’s a nail technician who wears cardigans.

“There’s just something fun about hitting people, as barbaric as that sounds,” Sievers says, and laughs. “Even if you’re just hitting the bag, you know, you can work out everything on that bag.” kwhittle@missoulanews.com

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The spill next time State agencies bulk up pipeline spill response

by Alex Sakariassen

Over the past five years, Montana’s iconic Yellowstone River has become an unwitting poster child in the push to enhance pipeline safety. Pipeline ruptures in 2011 and 2015 discharged a combined 93,000 gallons of oil into the waterway, catching small communities off guard, necessitating multimillion-dollar cleanups, and locking state and federal agencies into years of reclamation and monitoring work.

With Montana’s late-September settlement with the ExxonMobil Pipeline Company and Attorney General Tim Fox’s recently announced plan to pursue damages from Bridger Pipeline, the state appears to be gaining ground in the aftermath of these spills. Montana’s Natural Resource Damage Program is now soliciting public comment on how to put its $12 million slice of the Exxon money to use. But in the halfdecade since the 2011 Silvertip spill near Laurel, much has already been spent—and much has changed.

The Montana Department of Environmental Quality estimates it spent $198,000 and dedicated 10,398 staff hours responding to the Silvertip spill between July 1 and Aug. 31, 2011. Since then the agency has incurred an additional $774,154 in post-emergency expenses. And the DEQ wasn’t the only state agency to rack up a bill. The Department of Natural Resources and Conservation committed $45,989 to its own response to Silvertip.

According to Kristi Ponozzo, public policy director for the DEQ, Exxon has reimbursed the agencies for these expenses independent of the recent settlement.

The ruptures have had more than just a fiscal impact on the state. Ponozzo acknowledges that the two incidents proved to be a wake-up call for the agency. Silvertip underscored a need for the agency to improve its emergency planning and response preparation, she says, and roughly 50 DEQ employees have since been trained to better respond to such incidents. Some of that training has been conducted alongside city and county governments to strengthen collaboration with the state, and the DEQ has worked to establish a closer relationship with the federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Adminis-

tration (PHMSA). The intent, Ponozzo explains, is to ensure a fast and efficient multi-agency response if similar emergencies occur in the future.

“We hadn’t done much of that,” she says.

“We have water-quality specialists and airquality specialists, but we don’t necessarily have people who regularly respond to emergency incidents or are trained in that.”

Though its authority over pipelines is limited, the DEQ has increased its focus on particular threats based on lessons learned

Sen. Matt Rosendale, R-Glendive, introduced a bill requiring the DEQ to post its newly acquired pipeline information online. Rosendale invoked the spill near his hometown, along with the lack of publicly available information on pipeline crossings, in support of the proposal.

“We’re just trying to get information out there so that the public can see what’s taking place in their counties and their state,” Rosendale said of Senate Bill 368, which passed into law without opposition.

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Rescuers clean an oil-soaked Coopers Hawk during the response to the 2011 Silvertip Pipeline spill. State agencies have worked since then to improve preparedness for future incidents that threaten the environment and public safety.

from the Yellowstone spills. The Silvertip rupture was ultimately attributed to floodenhanced scouring of the riverbed that exposed the pipeline to damage, prompting the DEQ to pay closer attention to geomorphology when approving the siting of new pipelines. The 2015 Bridger pipeline burst, upstream of Glendive, threatened the public water supply. The DEQ has since acquired PHMSA data to identify other pipeline crossings that could pose a similar risk to public health.

On the DNRC side, Public Information Officer John Grassy says his agency is now urging companies to bury new pipelines and replace old ones a minimum of 40 feet below riverbeds, using horizontal drilling. Grassy reports that Phillips 66 has voluntarily upgraded nine pipes to meet the new standard since 2011, including four below the Clark Fork and four below the Yellowstone.

Perhaps one of the biggest post-Silvertip developments came last year when

The DEQ’s website now contains data on pipelines, including the substances they transport, the companies that own them and the depth at which they pass beneath specific rivers.

The DEQ and other agencies still have much left to do to address the long-term impacts of both spills. But when it comes to meeting future incidents head-on, Ponozzo says the DEQ is far better positioned today. By way of example, she points to the 35 million-gallon wastewater spill on the Gallatin River this spring, where DEQ Director Tom Livers and an agency team were on site within a day.

“We were quicker and faster and better than we were with the Silvertip spill, where we kind of struggled with what’s going on, what’s our authority, what do we need to be doing,” Ponozzo says. “Gallatin, we were there right away and took action.” asakariassen@missoulanews.com

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[opinion]

Either/or A tale of two outcomes The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has completed the second Five-Year Review of remedial actions performed under the Superfund program at the Milltown Reservoir/Clark Fork River Superfund site (Site) near Missoula and Milltown, Montana. The purpose of the FiveYear Review is to evaluate the implementation and performance of a remedy in order to determine if the remedy is or will be protective of human health and the environment. In 2016, EPA conducted a Five-Year Review of the remedies for groundwater, surface water, sediments and soils associated with the Site.

To manage investigations and cleanup, EPA designated three operable units at the Site. Operable unit 1 focused on providing a safe water supply to Milltown area residents through establishment of a public water supply system for the town of Milltown. The Milltown Reservoir Sediments operable unit (MRSOU) is operable unit 2. It includes approximately 540 acres in the Clark Fork River and Blackfoot River floodplain. MRSOU includes the former Milltown Dam and Reservoir area as well as arsenic-contaminated groundwater. Operable unit 1 is now part of MRSOU. Operable unit 3 – the Clark Fork River operable unit – consists of 120 river miles of the Clark Fork River. It extends from the confluence of the old Silver Bow Creek channel with the reconstructed lower Mill-Willow bypass, near Anaconda, to the maximum former Milltown Reservoir pool elevation east of Missoula. The Site is also part of a larger regional cleanup effort addressing much of the upper Clark Fork River watershed.

Five-Year Review Protectiveness Statement: The remedy at MRSOU currently protects human health and the environment because potential exposure to contaminated groundwater, surface water and sediment is controlled. For the remedy to be protective over the long term, the following actions need to be taken: implement institutional controls described in an MRSOU institutional control plan, and determine if additional measures are needed to reduce arsenic concentrations below the cleanup goals.

The Clark Fork River operable unit is expected to be protective of human health and the environment upon completion of the remedial action. In the interim, exposure pathways that could result in unacceptable risks are being controlled.

Five-Year Review Schedule: EPA completed the second Five-Year Review process for the Site in September 2016. The next Five-Year Review for the Site is required within five years of the signature of this Five-Year Review.

The Five Year Review Report Availability: The second Five-Year Review Report is available to the public online at and at the following document repositories: • Missoula Public Library, 301 East Main, Missoula, MT 59802; • Grant-Kohrs Ranch, National Historic Site, 266 Warren Lane, Deer Lodge, MT 59722; • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Superfund Records Center, 10 West 15th Street, Suite 3200, Helena, MT 59626.

Contact Information: Community members who have questions about the Site or the Five-Year Review process are asked to contact: Sara Sparks, EPA Region 8 Remedial Project Manager Phone: (406) 782-7415 Email: More information is available at the site’s information repository and on EPA’s website: EPA Superfund Records Center Montana Office 10 West 15th Street, Suite 3200 Helena, MT 59626 (406) 457-5046 (866) 457-2690 (toll free)

by Dan Brooks

I’m writing this column before Election Day, but by the time it runs, all that will be decided. When this issue of the Independent hits the Verizon stores where newsstands used to be, either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump will be our next president. That means we can get back to thinking about the issues that really matter, like the new traffic lights downtown.

First things first: This is a federally funded project, so you’re not allowed to complain that the city is spending taxpayer dollars unwisely. Unless you pay any kind of federal taxes—then you might argue that Missoula shouldn’t have taken federal money that could be better spent on making college free to lower- and middle-income families or stamping tin helmets for the war with Mexico, depending on who won Tuesday night.

But the new signals and wider, more accessible sidewalks will make traffic flow more efficiently downtown.

That’ll be good for the local economy, whether it remains focused on tourism and services or, under president Trump, shifts to the loading of immigrants onto trains. Better ramps at each corner will also make life easier for disabled Missoulians, who will continue to be valued members of this community regardless of whether we just elected the first woman president or one who imitates them for laughs.

Still, the city has left itself vulnerable to criticism in its handling of this project.

Because it undertook work on three intersections at once, during the same time Pine has been blocked at Pattee Street for construction of the new Art Park, the north half of downtown has become a tangled mess. That puts a strain on local shops, which already have spent the last few months dealing with the uncertainty of whether to keep their existing business models or shift to selling canned goods and radiation suits.

Fortunately, all that has been decided now. Missoula can get back to improving signage to keep pedestrians

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from wandering into bike lanes, or making a list of all the Muslims in town.

I don’t know about you, but I’m glad to get back to business. Sometimes it seems like this election has been going on forever. I feel as though I’ve developed a kind of mania over the last

“Now that the fever has broken on this historically unprecedented election, we can gather our friends and family to reflect on the resilience of American democracy, or report them to the Bureau of Immigration.”

18 months, to the point that all I can think about is whether America’s next president will be the former secretary of state or a former game show host.

Now that the votes are in, though, we can all take either a deep breath or cover under the nearest door frame.

The next few months will be a process of returning to ordinary life. As construction of the new intersections winds down, Missoulians will adjust to

new traffic patterns, as well as either increased subsidies for state health insurance exchanges or a federal shutdown of major newspapers. Now that the fever has broken on this historically unprecedented election, we can gather our friends and family to reflect on the resilience of American democracy, or report them to the Bureau of Immigration.

The arguments that have divided us for the last several months are not as strong as the values that now bring us together, or the wall that will soon separate us from Mexico. Our petty political disagreements are behind us, unless they have moved into a new phase of recrimination at the hands of law enforcement. Regardless, the people have spoken, and we must abide by the votes they cast, or arm ourselves and take to the streets based on an article about voter fraud from a hoax newspaper our uncle shared on Facebook.

The important thing is that we have new traffic lights. That much is certain, even if our future as a republic/protofascist cult of personality is not. Those lights will shine brightly, directing motorist and permanently illegal rickshaw driver alike, reassuring us that even in this time of national discord, our basic infrastructure is still in place—at least until trade war with China forces us to harvest it for scrap metal.

Years from now, we’ll be able to tell our grandchildren or NSA interrogators that we remember the year they installed the traffic lights. It was 2016, the same year we decided to take a chance on an unusually accomplished woman, or on a man who was accused of sexually assaulting about a dozen of them.

American voters took the wheel of the ship of state once more, opting to either stay the course or steer it into an iceberg to see what happened. I, for one, am glad this election and possibly all future elections are over.

Dan Brooks writes about politics, culture, and the unknowable future at combatblog.net, for now.

[opinion]

A problem we still live with On refugee resettlement and the politics of fear

by Pat O’Connor

In 1964, Norman Rockwell completed a painting he called “The Problem We All Live With,” which portrayed four U.S. Marshals surrounding a small African-American girl in a prim white dress, her hair in pigtails, carrying school supplies. Behind the ensemble, a racial slur is etched onto a wall and a smashed tomato lies on the sidewalk.

Compared with much of Rockwell’s work, “The Problem We All Live With” seems surreal. The child’s innocence contrasts sharply with the marshals, the slur, and the tomato that, we quickly understand, was intended to strike her. The girl is the painting’s subject, but there are other subjects here as well, unseen but unavoidably present.

As western Montana continues to debate refugee resettlement, I’m reminded of this painting and the events that inspired it. The girl, Ruby Bridges, was 6 years old in 1960, when she became one of four black children to desegregate public schools in New Orleans. That event came after years of legal wrangling following the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, which declared the doctrine of “separate but equal” unconstitutional. Faced with mounting federal pressure, the city’s school board developed a plan of gradual desegregation. They began by placing select groups of African-American children in previously all-white kindergarten classrooms at William Frantz Elementary and McDonough Elementary.

The reaction was swift and brutal.

Politicians, including Louisiana state senator William Rainach and District Attorney Leander Perez, stoked fears of integration to consolidate their dominance of state and local politics. As part of this process, they developed a series of so-called Citizens’ Councils throughout Louisiana.

In their rhetoric, philosophy and strategy, the Citizens’ Councils were remarkably similar to ACT For America, an Islamophobic hate group that has recently emerged in western Montana. The Citizens’ Councils propagated a coded message of cultural preservation, states’ rights, and public safety in order to deny African-Americans’ basic humanity. They insisted that African-Ameri-

cans lacked the ability to rationally evaluate their circumstances or control their violent urges—claims that ACT has made about Muslims. Like ACT, the Citizens’ Councils trafficked in the inflammatory rhetoric of “us” (free, cultured and imperiled) and “them” (barbaric, subversive and dangerous). Behind Ruby Bridges and her fellow students, the Citizens’ Councils argued, was

“Relying upon specious evidence fed to them by craven politicians and interest groups, they succumbed to the notion that integration would invite civilization’s collapse. They were wrong. Montanans now risk making the same mistake.” a communist conspiracy to subvert the U.S. Constitution and destroy Southern culture.

ACT similarly claims that an Islamist conspiracy seeks to replace the Constitution with Sharia law.

At the Councils’ urging, white parents turned their rage on Ruby and the others.

The loudest, a group of mothers known as the “Cheerleaders,” gained notoriety for spitting on the children and telling them they had “better not come back tomorrow.” After just one day of integration, enrollment at

William Frantz plummeted from 576 to 50.

Every time a white parent pulled a child from school, the Cheerleaders and others shouted approval. By December, 15 students, including Ruby Bridges, remained at William Frantz.

No white students remained at McDonough.

White parents pulled 1,000 students from the two schools because four black girls had attempted to join them.

In Travels with Charley, John Steinbeck immortalized the Cheerleaders’ “bestial and filthy and degenerate” rhetoric. Although I sympathize with his analysis, I actually disagree with Steinbeck. The Cheerleaders and parents who pulled their children from school weren’t “bestial” monsters. They were all too human, and subject to that most human emotion: fear. They acted out of the deepest conviction that those girls portended ruination for their community and their culture. Relying upon specious evidence fed to them by craven politicians and interest groups, they succumbed to the notion that integration would invite civilization’s collapse. They were wrong, and the price they’ve paid is to remain the faceless, hateful subjects of Rockwell’s painting.

Montanans now risk making the same mistake. Congressman Ryan Zinke recently suggested that “Four out of five terrorist attacks are conducted by children” (there is obviously no credible evidence to support this claim). ACT representatives Roy White and Shahram Hadian have selected anecdotal and sensational evidence to warn audiences in Kalispell and Missoula that Muslims (who represent roughly 20 percent of the world’s population) are universally incapable of understanding the rights and responsibilities of a democracy.

Very, very few of us will ever find ourselves in Ruby Bridges’ shoes, but when we conflate all Muslims with terror and turn our backs on people in need by shutting the doors of our community, we will find ourselves in the position of her attackers. Indeed, ACT and its allies are counting on that.

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Pat O’Connor is a doctoral candidate in American history at the University of Montana.

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[offbeat]

CAN’T POSSIBLY BE TRUE – Kids as young as 6 who live on a cliff top in China’s Atule’er village in Sichuan province will no longer have to use flexible vine-based ladders to climb down and up the 2,600-foot descent from their homes to school. Beijing News disclosed in October, in a report carried by CNN, that a sturdy steel ladder was being built to aid the 400 villagers after breathtaking photographs of them making the treacherous commute surfaced on the internet earlier this year [CNN, 10-26-2016].

ROUND UP THE USUAL SUSPECTS (“YOUTH PASTORS”) – Sentenced to six years in prison for sex with teenage girls (September): former Youth Pastor David Hayman, 38 (Hackensack, New Jersey). Sentenced to six months in jail for sending inappropriate texts to teenage boys (August): former Youth Pastor Brian Burchfield (Shawnee, Oklahoma). Charged and awaiting trial for impregnating a 15-year-old girl (October): Youth Pastor Wesley Blackburn, 35 (New Paris, Pennsylvania). Sentenced to 10 years in prison for sexual abuse of a 16-year-old girl (September): former Youth Pastor Brian Mitchell, 31 (North Olmsted, Ohio).

Charged and awaiting trial for luring teenagers into prostitution (October): Youth Pastor Ron Cooper, 52 (Miami). Sentenced to 90 days in jail as part of a sex assault case involving a 13-year-old girl (September): former Youth Pastor Christopher Hutchinson, 37 (Parker, Colorado).

AN “ANT” VERSION OF HELL – Researchers in Poland reported in August the “survival” of a colony of ants that wandered unsuspectingly into an old nuclear weapon bunker and became trapped. When researchers first noticed in 2013, they assumed the ants would soon die, either freezing or starving to death, but, returning in 2015 and 2016, they found the population stable. Their only guess: New ants were falling into the bunker, “replacing” the dead ones. Thus, ants condemned to the bunker slowly starve, freezing, in total darkness, until newly condemned ants arrive and freeze and starve in total darkness—and on and on.

JUDICIAL ACTIVISM – Jackson County, Michigan, judge John McBain briefly gained notoriety in October when a Michigan news site released courtroom video of a December 2015 hearing in which McBain felt the need to throw off his robe, leap from the bench and tackle defendant Jacob Larson, who was resisting the one court officer on hand to restrain him. Yelling “Tase his ass right now,” McBain is shown holding on until help arrived—with Larson perhaps undermining his earlier courtroom statements claiming it was his girlfriend, and not he, who was the aggressor in alleged stalking incidents.

NAMES IN FLORIDA NEWS – Arrested in October and charged with kidnapping a 4-year-old girl in Lakeland: a truck driver, Mr. Wild West Hogs. Arrested in West Palm Beach in August and charged with trespassing at a Publix supermarket (and screaming at employees): Mr. Vladimir Putin. And in August, at the dedication of a new unit at Tampa General Hospital’s pediatric center, longtime satisfied patients attended, including Maria Luva, who told guests her son, now 8 years old, was born there: Ywlyox Luva.

PERSPECTIVE – In 1921, researchers for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife stated categorically in a journal that “the one predatory animal” inspiring practically nothing “good” is the mountain lion. But recent research in the journal Conservation Letters credits the animal for saving the lives of many motorists by killing deer, thus tempering the current annual number (20,000) of driver-deer collisions. Even killing deer, mountain lions still trail pussycats as predators; researchers in Nature Communications in 2013 estimated that “free-ranging (U.S.) domestic cats” kill at least 1.4 billion birds and 6.9 billion small mammals annually.

LEAST COMPETENT CRIMINALS – On the way to the police station in Youngstown, Ohio, on Oct. 19, after being arrested for, among other things, being a felon in possession of a gun, Raymond Brooks, 25, asked an officer (apparently in all seriousness) whether, after he got booked at the station, he could have his gun back. (The police report did not specify whether the officer said yes or no.)

RECURRING THEMES – Sovereigns! The director of the Caribbean Cultural Center at the University of the Virgin Islands, facing foreclosure of her home by Firstbank Puerto Rico, decided she was not really “Chenzira Davis-Kahina” but actually “Royal Daughter Sat Yah” of the “Natural Sovereign Indigenous Nation of ... Smai Tawi Ta-Neter-Awe,” and she and her equally befuddlingly named husband have sued the bank for $190 million in federal court (and begun the flood of incomprehensible paperwork). The couple’s law of “Maat” conveniently holds that attempts by federal marshals to seize their property would double the damages to $380 million.

GOVERNMENT IN ACTION – Mayor Paul Antonio of Toowoomba, Australia (pop. 100,000), admitted he had picked an uphill fight, but still has recently been handing out cards to men on the street asking them to help the city (in unspecified ways) become completely free of pornography. Though the city has several tax-paying sex businesses (even a strip club and a brothel), Antonio’s message (augmented by public confessions of men burdened by their porn habits) is directed at the internet’s ease of access to images of male “dominance and power” over females.

Thanks this week to Alex Boese, Ellen Lockhart, Neb Rodgers, Mel Birge, and John Smith, and to the News of the Weird Senior Advisors and Board of Editorial Advisors.

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ollege fairs in Alaska are scheduled along a circuit to make it “convenient” for admissions counselors from the Lower 48 to pitch to as many high school students, parents and counselors as possible in the out-of-the-way state.

Emily Ferguson-Steger represented the University of Montana on the whirlwind 10-day tour last month: a fair in Fairbanks, then a red-eye “milk-run flight” to Ketchikan for a program at K-High and another fair. Next, a flight to Sitka, followed the next day by Juneau, then Anchorage, then Kenai.

“It’s continuously getting on planes,” Ferguson-Steger says.

Between flights, she and rival recruiters vie for the attention of prospective students with brochures and banners

and big inviting smiles. This is the frontline of the college admissions recruiting game, blood sport even among public universities, for whom out-of-state tuition has become a vital source of revenue. High school visits are no longer seen as important to recruiting as web pages and email blasts, according to a recent industry survey, but they remain indispensable. In addition to visiting every high school in Montana, UM recruiters crisscross the country from Hawaii to the Midwest, spring and fall, to sell the university’s story.

It’s difficult work, and most “road warriors,” as UM’s admissions counselors call themselves, don’t last long at the job.

Ferguson-Steger has been at it a dozen years. She’s now the associate director for recruitment management, which means

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she decides where the rest of the team should be making UM’s case.

Alaska—a state of similar environment and relative proximity, where prospective students can imagine a comfortable transition to mainland life—has historically been fertile ground, and Ferguson-Steger has traveled there for each of the last 10 years. A lot has changed in that time. Rising tuition costs and shifts in the job market have given more families pause over the value of a college education. It’s become harder to convince students to travel out of state, and those students who are prepared to leave home are savvy about their options. Ferguson-Steger responds to the challenge with talk: “Robust conversations,” “honest conversations,” “authentic, organic conversations” that can lead prospective students to what she

calls “aha! moments.” Conversations are the UM road warrior’s Swiss Army knife.

Talk is one of the few tools she’s had.

Admissions has become an arms race, and UM’s recruiters have been outgunned. The University of Alabama, the fastest-growing public flagship university in the country., has 45 recruiters. Counting Ferguson-Steger, UM employs five. North Dakota State University and Eastern Washington University, similar-size schools, have twice that many. As the number of students enrolling at UM has dropped, the admissions office’s budget for promotional schwag such as magnets, pens and stickers also has shrunk.

When an excited prospect approaches Ferguson-Steger’s table having already received an invitation to apply, there’s a pretty good chance that the student is confused—the invite actually came from Montana State.

“We’re recruiting with what we actually have: the words that come out of our recruiters’ mouths,” Ferguson-Steger says.

And when you’re recruiting for the University of Montana, the talk has come to include uncomfortable questions.

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hile UM’s recruiters were on the road looking to fill the 2017 freshmen class, the university staged a September press conference at home in Missoula to discuss the latest student numbers for this fall. The event, a first of its kind, was held in the President’s Room inside Brantly Hall, but President Royce Engstrom wasn’t there. A fresh face, Thomas Crady, was the bearer of the day’s bad news.

“The bottom line is, we’re down,” he said of the fall 2016 enrollment numbers.

“I’ll be honest, he added later, “I’m very concerned about it.”

Crady has reason to worry. The newly hired vice president for enrollment and student affairs has inherited one of the worst enrollment declines of any major public university in the country (see “Bear market,” Jan. 28, 2016). The September figures show a 6.1 percent enrollment drop—the steepest decline in memory.

Since 2010, the number of undergraduates on UM’s main campus has dropped more than 25 percent. Overall enrollment is down more than 20 percent. The main campus has the same number of students today as it did in 1991—when the first president Bush was in the White House.

Administrators have wrung their hands over causes, but the effect has been clear. Tuition revenue has dropped $15 million, or 15 percent, since 2012. Last year, overall revenue turned downward for the first time at least since 2009, despite a steady level of legislative funding, prompting Engstrom to cut nearly 200 positions in a widely publicized downsizing.

The crisis is forcing UM to rethink its academic portfolio and virtually every aspect of how it does business.

The worst could be yet to come. Even after last year’s layoffs, UM can hardly expect to sustain current staffing for long.

About 84 percent of the university’s budget goes toward salaries. Engstrom says an appropriate figure would be less than 80 percent. As a result, other budgets are squeezed even further. After paying staff, some departments have as little as 2 percent of their funds left over for expenses like travel, office phones and copier paper, Vice President for Administration and Finance Mike Reid said at an October budget meeting. Last year’s staff reduction was accomplished largely by scrubbing vacant positions from the budget, and so affected only 2.4 percent of the actual workforce. Another round of layoffs could

devastate the campus and reverberate throughout Missoula’s economy.

Increasing enrollment is UM’s only viable way out. But dysfunction in the admissions office—along with the black mark of a sexual assault scandal, a demographic decrease in Montana high school students, and the spiking popularity of majors, like engineering, that UM doesn’t offer—has held the university back. During a tense meeting between faculty and Engstrom last year, for example, one professor described a straight-A high school senior in Missoula who wanted to go to UM, but never heard back about the status of her application. “If we are concerned about enrollment numbers, how is this possible?” the professor asked.

Since 2001, MSU has contracted with a high-powered national firm, Royall and Company, to manage outreach to prospective students. The Bozeman university ramped up its contract significantly in the post-recession years, at about the same time UM’s struggle to recruit new freshmen began. MSU currently pays Royall $1 million annually, MSU spokesman Tracy Ellig says.

As enrollment continued declining, UM hired its own outside contractor— Iowa-based RuffaloCODY—to manage outreach. The university paid $580,000 over two years before canceling the contract for dissatisfaction with the service in 2014. That same year, independent analysts determined that the admissions of-

biggest infusion in years, about $600,000 pulled from other parts of campus—a big bet and a risky one at a time when professors are losing their phone lines.

Past experience provides plenty of reason to be skeptical. Earlier overhauls in UM’s recruiting effort have been rolled out with confidence, new recruiting strategies and theories shown off to the public, and assurances given that they would soon bear fruit. They haven’t.

But at this stage of the game, the bigger gamble would be to do nothing at all.

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rady wasn’t looking for a new job when UM came calling. He was in charge of enrollment at Gustavus Adol-

UM’s admissions office may be small, with 15 full-time employees, but new Vice President for Enrollment Management and Student Affairs Tom Crady says their collective talents can help turn the tide on enrollment. Several staffers have stuck with the department through hard times.

UM has actively recruited students for 40 years, especially since the early 1990s, when the state tied funding more closely to enrollment. The admissions operation was caught flat-footed, however, in the face of new pressures over the last decade.

For one, the university didn’t boost recruitment spending as quickly as its competitors, as former Assistant Vice President for Enrollment Services Jed Liston points out. Liston, who ran admissions from 1994 through 2014, says UM was outspent by a factor of two, and eventually three-toone, by its cross-state rival, Montana State University.

“That makes a difference,” he says. “If someone in the state is getting 12 brochures from one school, and three from another, they think the one school must want them more.”

fice lacked “a culture of evidence”—in other words, they were winging it. Engstrom subsequently restructured the office, but neither of the administrators he assigned to oversee it had prior experience in recruitment. Over the next two years, the size of the freshman class tanked, from 1,597 students in 2014 to 1,268 this fall.

“It became quite evident to me,” Engstrom says, “that I needed to have a person who is a professional and a national leader in terms of enrollment management.” He hired Crady to a newly created vice president position in July, giving him free rein to turn enrollment around. It took an unprecedented $70,000 signing bonus—no strings attached—to get him here, but Engstrom was ready to put chips on the table. He’s giving admissions its

phus College, a small liberal arts school in Minnesota, where he was seeing success in the cutthroat world of private university admissions. His experience in private universities stretches back 30 years, mostly spent at Grinnell College, in Iowa.

UM officials were particularly attracted to Crady’s private-sector experience. “Privates have had to be more nimble,” Ferguson-Steger says. “I think he brings in some strategic thinking that a lot of us in public education don’t always venture into.”

Private schools were the first to master the science of enrollment management by bringing business strategies such as market analytics and big data to bear on managing class size, maximizing tuition revenue and building campus prestige.

The techniques have been controversial in public school settings, but have become a

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more or less necessary component of the modern university business.

For his part of the courtship, Crady considered fly fishing a draw to Montana, and he had once backpacked through the Bob Marshall Wilderness Area with his wife. But still, Crady says, he had to size up UM. Why wasn’t a flagship public university in Missoula able to recruit new students?

“I looked at staffing, I looked at resources, I looked at processing. I listened to the culture of the in-state narrative,” he says. He also considered the sexual assault scandal that had rocked the university.

“What I figured out was, I thought I could really make a difference by coming.”

Crady projects an air of practiced confidence and offers an unguarded smile.

Enrollment managers are known for their competitive spirit, and Crady fits that mold, if his boasting about his fly-fishing prowess is any indication. He talks fast and maybe a little loose, as when he says he keeps up with youth culture by reading Teen magazine in the dentist’s office, even though Teen was discontinued in 2009.

Enrollment professionals describe the admissions process as a funnel. Enrolled students are at the narrow end. How many students reach that end is largely a function of how many enter the funnel’s wide mouth. Recruiters look to cultivate curious students into applicants. Applicants are either accepted or rejected, and then admissions staffers try to convince admitted students to enroll.

Crady says UM needs to improve at every step of this process, but his primary focus is on increasing student applications, which he hopes to double in the next 18 months. To stem the current enrollment drop, applications will have to increase.

That’s because a freshman college application isn’t as reliable an indicator of enrollment as it used to be, as more and more students apply to more and more schools.

“If you’re not increasing your apps between 3 and 5 percent per year, you will likely not make an existing class target,” Crady says.

Montana’s dueling state universities offer a case study in this principle. In 2009, both UM and Montana State University received a little more than 6,000 applications. Applications to MSU have jumped 140 percent since then to nearly 15,000, accompanied by a 40 percent increase in new enrollees. UM’s application count has dropped, and so has the size of its freshman class.

Crady’s office in the Lommasson Center has a window screen propped against a cheap conference table, and the walls are two different shades—a repainting in progress, he explains. Crady asked for the touch-up. The walls were too dark.

As Crady describes his application goals, a staffer named Chris Lynn pulls up

the department’s new application page on Crady’s computer. The words “You are Montana” are splashed over an image of a pristine mountain lake. This is a key part of Crady’s plan to boost applications.

In recent years, UM ditched paper application forms in favor of an online system.

But the application forms just sat there on UM’s admissions site. Nothing was sent to notify prospective students notifying that it was time to apply. Shortly after arriving, Crady resolved to hire a private contractor to develop a new application portal that could be accessed with personalized login credentials, which were mailed to prospective students’ homes. That was before Lynn walked into Crady’s office.

tion portal. Despite the late start, the team was able to create and mail 34,000 invitations just in time for Montana’s statewide college application week.

The revamped application process is one example of how Crady and his staff are working at a breakneck pace to make what he calls “remedial” changes. In response to complaints about application processing delays, Crady hired additional support for UM’s undersized team of evaluators, while another staffer is working to implement a paperless workflow—currently, digital applications received through the new online portal are still printed for review.

Crady listed these and other efforts during the university’s most recent budget

the road warrior route. When Johnson was put on trial for rape—first in the court of public opinion, before a jury acquitted him—high schoolers started avoiding Ferguson-Steger’s table. Their college counselors, too, became icy toward the school.

In the recruiting world, it’s said to take three years before effort invested in a new market or new high school starts paying dividends. The first year builds a relationship with a high school counselor.

The second year proves the interest is serious. The third year, the first student might apply. Ferguson-Steger says it took about that long to rebuild trust in Eugene.

“Their counselors were hurt, their community was hurt. It was awkward for

Crady brings to UM decades of experience in student affairs and enrollment management from his past in the cutthroat world of private universities. He’s already shaking things up in Missoula, bringing new energy to UM’s beleaguered recruiting operation.

Lynn’s morale had been sinking. He has worked in the admissions department for six years, overseeing marketing and communications efforts. Over the last two years, he rebuilt UM’s complex system of email blasts, coordinating 148 different tailored emails that are sent to prospective applicants. He was rewarded last year by having his position reduced to half-time as part of budget cuts. “I’ve worked my butt off for this university for such a long time, and took that whole RuffaloCODY process that we paid a lot of money for and built it from scratch internally,” Lynn says. “And then once it got built, they were like, ‘Okay, we don’t need you full-time anymore.’”

Crady thought that move was “ridiculous.” He reinstated Lynn’s hours and put him to work building UM’s new applica-

committee meeting, where he was asked to explain what his office was doing with its expanded budget. Certain eyes rolled when he mentioned that students who apply through Lynn’s web portal will receive a free Griz T-shirt, but Crady was ready to preempt any criticism: “What I’m doing with these initiatives is the absolute bare minimum that I have ever done in an admissions office.

This is in no way, shape or form what I would consider to be luxurious stuff. I mean, this is basic communication activity.”

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ecruiting trips to Eugene, Oregon, became awkward in 2012. The hometown of former Grizzlies quarterback Jordan Johnson had traditionally been an important market for UM, a sure stop on

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them, and in turn it was awkward for us to sit there and not see anyone.”

The challenges UM has faced over the last six years can’t be hidden behind a glossy brochure. The university may be emerging from the pall of a nationally reported sexual assault scandal, but Montana parents are increasingly aware of the enrollment crisis that has replaced it. In Ferguson-Steger’s conversations, families don’t seem as concerned by the budget crunch itself—UM is hardly unique in its financial woes—but rather by the hard times that seem to have shaken the campus community.

“I would say the biggest challenge or question we’re faced with is the unrest that the campus itself is having ... the vocalness of people both on and off campus,” she says.

Ferguson-Steger possesses an uncanny ability to spin the questions into conversations. Those conversations allow her to reassure parents and prospective students that UM is “a university of real people, that we really want the best, that we encourage our faculty to be opinionated, we encourage our students to be opinionated in positive, productive ways.”

It’s her way to counter a damaging narrative with a personal story. UM may not have the funds to compete in terms of brochures and schwag, but authenticity is free.

“Our recruitment efforts come from this campus,” says Liston, who now directs marketing in University Relations.

“These messages come from us talking to our students and crafting them. It’s not an outside agency. It is printed at the UM print shop. It is mailed from a wonderful set of alumni who have a business here in town. It’s all mailed from Missoula.

They’re stuffing the envelopes. And when you get a call from somebody from the University of Montana, you’re getting somebody from the University of Montana. Unlike some of those other recruitment efforts that other campuses use, it’s all done from here, and it’s all a sincere message from UM to you.”

As Crady looks to make UM’s admissions operations more competitive, consultants will be part of the mix. The recruiting team has begun to partner with a firm that can better pinpoint where the road warriors should travel, and Crady is using new predictive modeling software to maximize the value of UM’s scholarship dollars. But even as he utilizes new technology to stabilize and eventually grow enrollment, Crady is essentially selling a story.

“What I’m trying to do is kind of change the narrative that I see out there, which is, ‘Oh my gosh, everything is so terrible,’” he says. “I don’t see it that way.”

Admissions staff don’t see it that way either, and they’re eager to flip the script.

“I’m done with the spin cycle,” FergusonSteger says. “I’m ready to agitate.”

Even if the admissions team is successful, crawling out of the current hole will be a long slog. Crady is targeting a 3 percent annual increase in incoming freshmen. At that pace, UM’s freshman class size won’t return to its 2008 level until 2032.

And Crady has been reluctant to publicly promise even that much. Maybe he’s just realistic.

“We have really done strategies since July that have not been done here before, and that needed to be done. We’ll see how they work. Maybe they won’t, but I’m pretty confident they will.” dbrouwer@missoulanews.com

These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control 541-7387 SHELBY• Shelby is a 7-year-old female

Bulldog Mix. She is what shelter staff affectionately term as being "intensely happy”! If Shelby could write, she'd end every sentence with a minimum of three exclamation points. Shelby loves life to the fullest, and is excited to go where ever you want to go.

MAYNARD•Maynard is a 1 1/2-year-old male Pointer mix. Maynard has been through some unfortunate experiences, which makes him rather slow to warm up to men. He was brought in by a Good Samaritan who watched him run from people who were throwing rocks at him.

Maynard has a sweet soul with a fearful temperament. With a little trust-building, he would make a great companion.

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LUCAS• Lucas is a 4-year-old male Brown Tabby. He came to the shelter with 7 other cats when his owners passed away. Lucas was the most shy cat in the bunch and preferred to hide in a cubbyhole while his siblings soaked up the attention. It has taken him a long time, but Lucas is finally coming out of his shell. All of the other cats he knew have been adopted, and now it's Lucas's time to shine!

ERNEST• Ernest is a 10+ year-old male Brown Tabby. He was found outside an apartment complex on Ernest Ave. Ernest is an older guy who enjoys affection. He is looking for a retirement home that can keep me comfortable for the rest of my days. He gets along well with other cats, loves to lounge in cat beds, enjoys wet food tremendously, and is always looking for a loving hand to scratch my ears.

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WYN• Wyn is a 10-month-old female. She is a striking and svelte young girl, and she believes she is descendant of royalty. You may call her Princess Wyn. As all true royalty, she has her snippy moments. She likes to have things her way. Wyn is still just a kitten and loves to play.

If you wear her out, she will show you her sweet and gentle side, if you're lucky.

ELLIE• Ellie is a 4-year-old female Pit Bull.

She loves water. Playing in the hose is one of her favorite games. Shelby has been waiting for a forever home since the middle of July. She likes to have all the attention for herself and would do best in a home with no other pets or young children.

These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana 549-3934 CAESAR• This canine is smarter than your average pup; Caesar already knows numerous commands and would love to try his hand at trick-training or agility! While he would prefer to go to a family without children, he does get along with other dogs. Come meet Caesar the Humane Society 5930 Highway 93 South in Missoula.

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ZAM• Zam is a 9-year-old cat who has lots of experience. This fellow has lived with children, other cats and dogs. He can be a bit bashful at first but once he gets to know you Zam is quite playful. Consider taking Zam home today, after all, November is Adopt-A-Senior-Pet month!

SEBASTIAN• Don't be fooled by this handsome pup’s striking looks, Sebastian is a total goofball and always aims to please! This Doberman is eager to find his forever home. He knows 'sit' and 'stay' and would love to learn more life skills in our Basic Manners course. Learn more on our website www.myhswm.org

SAVANNAH• Adorable kitty Savannah is everything that is good in the world. This little girl is playful, has personality for days, and loves to snuggle - she'd love nothing more than to hang out with you and be your favorite lap warmer.

Take home this sweet kitten today! We’re open Wed.-Fri. 1-6 p.m. and Sat.-Sun. noon-5 p.m.

STEWART• Stewart is an active Aussie cross who would love going on long walks.

What this pup needs is young, active family who can keep his mind and body busy! Sound like a good fit for your lifestyle? Come visit Stewart at the shelter 5930 Highway 93 South in Missoula.

BITSY• Bitsy came to us as a stray is so ready for her forever home! This charming, petite girl enjoys naps, and playing people. She is not yet spayed, but otherwise is up to date on her shots and ready to find her family! Come meet this lovely feline today 5930 Highway 93 South in Missoula.

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During Savor Missoula, participating establishments offer a prix fixe menu of $35, $20, $9.50, $7.50 or $5 per person. Restaurants will also feature their regular menus during the promotion.

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 for Savor diners!

Prix Fixe Menu Bayern Brewery $ 50 9 2-course lunch First Course: Mushroom Cream Soup Second Course: Breaded Ham Dumpling served over Beef Goulash

Brooks & Browns $ 35 3-course dinner First Course: Manhattan Clam Chowder: Baby clams, bacon, peppers, onion, tomato, carrot, heirloom potato Second Course: Salmon BLT: Grilled maple glazed Atlantic salmon, Daily’s thick-cut bacon, Dijon, lettuce, heirloom tomato on ciabatta Third Course: Pear Tart: Brown butter custard and wine poached pears Paired with Kim Crawford Sauvignon Blanc, New Zealand or Cold Smoke Scotch Ale, Montana OR First Course: Elk Chili: Ground elk, chipotle peppers, bell pepper, tomato, onion, red wine Second Course: Garden Pasta with Chicken: Seasonal vegetables, penne pasta, pesto, roasted red pepper, brined and grilled chicken breast Third Course: Pear Tart: Brown butter custard and wine poached pears Paired with Kim Crawford Sauvignon Blanc, New Zealand or Blackfoot IPA, Montana

All prices are per person

Burns St. Bistro $ 50 9 lunch Westside Meatball Sub: Locally-raised beef meatballs on made-from-scratch bread smothered in Marinara, covered with melty cheese. With fries of course.

Finn & Porter $ 35 3-course dinner First Course: Mussels stewed in Pernod and garlic, with grilled baguette Second Course: Grilled Petite Fillet of Beef with Truffle and Pecorino Gratin, and Italian salsa verde Third Course: Assorted Chocolate Truffles -milk chocolate and chili -dark chocolate and espresso -white chocolate and coconut

Good Food Store $ 50 7 lunch Turkey cranberry panini Kale slaw Chocolate Pumpkin cookie

Choose an entrée: Cold Smoke & Cheddar Meatloaf Paired with a Pint of Kettle House Cold Smoke or glass of Drumheller Washington Cabernet OR Montana Lentils, Mushroom & Squash Saute (gf, vegetarian) Paired with a can of Harvest Moon’s Beltian White Ale or a glass of Ryan Patrick Washington Riesling

Montana Distillery $ 5 & $750 cocktail specials PUMPKIN PIE MARTINI: the MT Distillery Vanilla vodka, Pumpkin, Cinnamon, Cream, Agave, Garnished with Pumpkin Spice $7.50 HARVEST MOON: our Soiled Dove Gin, Cinnamon, Agave, Cayenne, Lemon, Apple Cider, Garnished with Apple slice $5.00

Pearl Cafe $ 35 3-course dinner First Course: Roasted Beet, Amalthea Dairy Goat Cheese and Toasted Almond Salad with Orange and Balsamic Vinaigrette OR A Cup of Our French Onion Soup

Iron Griz $ 20 2-course dinner

Second Course: Cider Brined and Herb Crusted Pork Tenderloin, Grilled and Served with Wild Mushroom Cream, Cider Reduction, Butternut Squash Puree, Sauteed Greens, Pickled Crabapple and Crispy Sage

Choose an appetizer from our garden: Fried Zucchini Rampicante (vegetarian) OR Kale Caesar (gf, vegetarian)

Third Course: Dark Chocolate Mousse with Whipped Cream and Candied Kumquats

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Prix Fixe Menu Red Bird $ 35 3-course dinner First Course: Butter Lettuce with Peas, Bacon & creamy Blue Cheese dressing Second Course: Beef Bourguignon with roasted Root Vegetables with Polenta Third Course: Fried Apple Pie served with Buttermilk Ice Cream

Romaines $ 50 9 2-course lunch Large Signature Salad and Brownie OR A Small Signature Salad with a Cup of Soup of the Day and Biscuit $

20 2-course dinner Small Signature Salad or a Bowl of Butternut Squash Soup with Candied Walnuts OR Dessert of Chocolate Brownie and Huckleberry Caramel Sauce AND Oxbow Cattle Company Steak with Caramelized Shallots, Rosemary Mashed Potatoes, and Braised Kale

All prices are per person

Second Course: Entrée - CEDAR PLANK SALMON wild caught salmon broiled on a cedar plank to your liking, served on top of wild rice with almonds and mushrooms, sautéed bok choy OR PORK TENDERLOIN beet and caraway roasted pork tenderloin served with cheesy garlic mashed potatoes and sautéed seasonal vegetable

Sushi Hana $ 20 2-course dinner

Third Course: Dessert - FLOURLESS CHOCOLATE TORTE raspberry coulis, whipped cream

The Trough $ 50 9 2-course lunch, available 10am-8pm

First Course: Crab Cakes Second Course: Steven’s Maki - Creamy scallops & tuna with wasabi relish

Market Club: Roasted turkey, Daily's bacon, provolone, cheddar, tomato, romaine, and roasted red pepper aioli on a Le Petite sourdough baguette OR Pulled Pork sandwich on a Le Petite sourdough baguette topped with pepper jack and bread and butter pickles with a side of coleslaw AND Cup of one of our savory soup options

Stone of Accord $ 50 9 2-course lunch First Course: Choice of soup OR dinner salad Second Course: Choice of one of our 1/2 sandwiches with side $ $

20 2-course dinner

First Course: Choice of Small Cheesy Chips, Spinach Artichoke Dip, OR Thai Peanut Chicken Skewers Second Course: Choice of Petite Corned Beef and Cabbage, Petite Bangers and Mash, Shepards Pie, OR Chicken Leek Pot Pie

20 2-course dinner, available in the evenings Slow cooked Beef Brisket dinner with Garlic mashed potatoes and Honey glazed carrots OR The Trough Signature Lasagna with a Caesar salad AND Homemade Apple Pie w/Salted Caramel Ice Cream

Rumour $ 35 3-course dinner First Course: Salad - ROASTED BEETS with chevre cheese, maple walnuts, arugula, honey dijon vinaigrette

missoulanews.com • November 10–November 17, 2016 [19]

During Savor Missoula, participating establishments offer a prix fixe menu of $35, $20, $9.50, $7.50 or $5 per person. Restaurants will also feature their regular menus during the promotion.

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 for Savor diners!

Prix Fixe Menu Bayern Brewery $ 50 9 2-course lunch First Course: Mushroom Cream Soup Second Course: Breaded Ham Dumpling served over Beef Goulash

Brooks & Browns $ 35 3-course dinner First Course: Manhattan Clam Chowder: Baby clams, bacon, peppers, onion, tomato, carrot, heirloom potato Second Course: Salmon BLT: Grilled maple glazed Atlantic salmon, Daily’s thick-cut bacon, Dijon, lettuce, heirloom tomato on ciabatta Third Course: Pear Tart: Brown butter custard and wine poached pears Paired with Kim Crawford Sauvignon Blanc, New Zealand or Cold Smoke Scotch Ale, Montana OR First Course: Elk Chili: Ground elk, chipotle peppers, bell pepper, tomato, onion, red wine Second Course: Garden Pasta with Chicken: Seasonal vegetables, penne pasta, pesto, roasted red pepper, brined and grilled chicken breast Third Course: Pear Tart: Brown butter custard and wine poached pears Paired with Kim Crawford Sauvignon Blanc, New Zealand or Blackfoot IPA, Montana

All prices are per person

Burns St. Bistro $ 50 9 lunch Westside Meatball Sub: Locally-raised beef meatballs on made-from-scratch bread smothered in Marinara, covered with melty cheese. With fries of course.

Finn & Porter $ 35 3-course dinner First Course: Mussels stewed in Pernod and garlic, with grilled baguette Second Course: Grilled Petite Fillet of Beef with Truffle and Pecorino Gratin, and Italian salsa verde Third Course: Assorted Chocolate Truffles -milk chocolate and chili -dark chocolate and espresso -white chocolate and coconut

Good Food Store $ 50 7 lunch Turkey cranberry panini Kale slaw Chocolate Pumpkin cookie

Choose an entrée: Cold Smoke & Cheddar Meatloaf Paired with a Pint of Kettle House Cold Smoke or glass of Drumheller Washington Cabernet OR Montana Lentils, Mushroom & Squash Saute (gf, vegetarian) Paired with a can of Harvest Moon’s Beltian White Ale or a glass of Ryan Patrick Washington Riesling

Montana Distillery $ 5 & $750 cocktail specials PUMPKIN PIE MARTINI: the MT Distillery Vanilla vodka, Pumpkin, Cinnamon, Cream, Agave, Garnished with Pumpkin Spice $7.50 HARVEST MOON: our Soiled Dove Gin, Cinnamon, Agave, Cayenne, Lemon, Apple Cider, Garnished with Apple slice $5.00

Pearl Cafe $ 35 3-course dinner First Course: Roasted Beet, Amalthea Dairy Goat Cheese and Toasted Almond Salad with Orange and Balsamic Vinaigrette OR A Cup of Our French Onion Soup

Iron Griz $ 20 2-course dinner

Second Course: Cider Brined and Herb Crusted Pork Tenderloin, Grilled and Served with Wild Mushroom Cream, Cider Reduction, Butternut Squash Puree, Sauteed Greens, Pickled Crabapple and Crispy Sage

Choose an appetizer from our garden: Fried Zucchini Rampicante (vegetarian) OR Kale Caesar (gf, vegetarian)

Third Course: Dark Chocolate Mousse with Whipped Cream and Candied Kumquats

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Prix Fixe Menu Red Bird $ 35 3-course dinner First Course: Butter Lettuce with Peas, Bacon & creamy Blue Cheese dressing Second Course: Beef Bourguignon with roasted Root Vegetables with Polenta Third Course: Fried Apple Pie served with Buttermilk Ice Cream

Romaines $ 50 9 2-course lunch Large Signature Salad and Brownie OR A Small Signature Salad with a Cup of Soup of the Day and Biscuit $

20 2-course dinner Small Signature Salad or a Bowl of Butternut Squash Soup with Candied Walnuts OR Dessert of Chocolate Brownie and Huckleberry Caramel Sauce AND Oxbow Cattle Company Steak with Caramelized Shallots, Rosemary Mashed Potatoes, and Braised Kale

All prices are per person

Second Course: Entrée - CEDAR PLANK SALMON wild caught salmon broiled on a cedar plank to your liking, served on top of wild rice with almonds and mushrooms, sautéed bok choy OR PORK TENDERLOIN beet and caraway roasted pork tenderloin served with cheesy garlic mashed potatoes and sautéed seasonal vegetable

Sushi Hana $ 20 2-course dinner

Third Course: Dessert - FLOURLESS CHOCOLATE TORTE raspberry coulis, whipped cream

The Trough $ 50 9 2-course lunch, available 10am-8pm

First Course: Crab Cakes Second Course: Steven’s Maki - Creamy scallops & tuna with wasabi relish

Market Club: Roasted turkey, Daily's bacon, provolone, cheddar, tomato, romaine, and roasted red pepper aioli on a Le Petite sourdough baguette OR Pulled Pork sandwich on a Le Petite sourdough baguette topped with pepper jack and bread and butter pickles with a side of coleslaw AND Cup of one of our savory soup options

Stone of Accord $ 50 9 2-course lunch First Course: Choice of soup OR dinner salad Second Course: Choice of one of our 1/2 sandwiches with side $ $

20 2-course dinner

First Course: Choice of Small Cheesy Chips, Spinach Artichoke Dip, OR Thai Peanut Chicken Skewers Second Course: Choice of Petite Corned Beef and Cabbage, Petite Bangers and Mash, Shepards Pie, OR Chicken Leek Pot Pie

20 2-course dinner, available in the evenings Slow cooked Beef Brisket dinner with Garlic mashed potatoes and Honey glazed carrots OR The Trough Signature Lasagna with a Caesar salad AND Homemade Apple Pie w/Salted Caramel Ice Cream

Rumour $ 35 3-course dinner First Course: Salad - ROASTED BEETS with chevre cheese, maple walnuts, arugula, honey dijon vinaigrette

missoulanews.com • November 10–November 17, 2016 [19]

[arts]

Packing for somewhere Willem Volkersz’s new exhibit reaches from Nazi-occupied Amsterdam to the neon heart of America

by Erika Fredrickson

I

t was only after World War II that artist Willem Volkersz found out that a woman he thought was his grandmother was actually a Jewish woman his parents were hiding from the Nazis. He was just 2 or 3 years old when his parents brought her into their home, and he never questioned her presence.

Volkersz’s father was a paper merchant who provided materials for the underground press. There were often people coming in and out of the family’s Amsterdam apartment, though he was too young to understand who they were: endangered Jewish families, as well as his parents’ fellow Nazi resisters passing secret messages to one another.

“Our downstairs neighbors were Jews who were rounded up and ended up dying in Auschwitz,” he says. “The apartment was vacant until the head of the Green Police [the German police force] moved in.

Rather than panicking, my parents continued to do what they were doing.”

Now 77, Volkersz still recalls the “sickly sweet” smell of boiled tulip bulbs his family ate almost exclusively during the winter of 1944 to 1945 when Germans blockaded shipments of food and fuel. He remembers sneaking through barbed wire on barricaded streets and the dog tags even children wore in order to identify themselves in case of a bombing.

And even though the Nazi occupation ended when he was just 6, and his family immigrated to the United States soon after, Volkersz still finds himself going back to those memories in his art work. In one sculpture he incorporated dog tags and in another he recreated a pile of bread slices, which he cut from wood, marking his memory of eating 13 slices of white bread after the Swedish Air Force dropped food into the city at the tail end of the war.

Still, Volkersz’s work is undeniably American. His new exhibit at the Missoula Art Museum, Willem Volkersz: On Paper, features 50 drawings spanning 60 years. Much of what he draws is inspired by the first moments he set his eyes on the Seattle skyline.

“We had a pretty rich cultural kind of background and education in Holland,” he says. “But I had never seen high-rise buildings, skyscrapers and neon, that kind of traffic. Billboards.”

Volkersz’s development as an artist was directly informed by these images and by the American pop art culture of the day. At age 16, he started taking roadtrips in a 1939 Plymouth he bought for $20. “I recorded with my camera the stuff I found along the roadside,” he says, “including neon and billboards and vernacular architecture, people decorating their yards with concrete deer and critters and windmills and whirlygigs—and that became a pretty nice collec-

photo courtesy of MAM

Willem Volkersz’s “Run” is part of his On Paper exhibit at MAM.

tion of images.” He studied painting at Mills College in Oakland and ended up teaching at the Kansas City Art Institute and eventually directed Montana State University’s School of Art, from 1986 through his retirement in 2001.

Because of his fascination with kitsch and American folk art, Volkersz incorporates these images and found objects into his pieces. Early on, he became ob-

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sessed with working in neon as a way to express American culture. The MAM exhibit includes one neon sculpture—“Run!”—which features four stacked suitcases used as a backdrop for a neon woman who appears to be in full sprint. Next to her is a wooden chair tipped onto one leg, a glass perched on its edge.

Much of Volkersz’s work is influenced by the American landscape and art history from around the

world, and by his own life experiences—marriage, family, urbanization around his Bozeman home. But one project he’s worked on for the last 10 years is situated in the realm of his Amsterdam childhood. A decade ago, a teacher from his old elementary school contacted him to see if he could help with a project for the school’s 80th anniversary.

“They were doing research on how the war affected the school,” Volkersz says. Through the research, Volkersz learned that 172 students from his school had died in concentration camps. For seven months, he built 172 suitcases out of wood. “They were in three different sizes,” he says. “One for younger children, one for teenagers and one for the students who had attended the school when it was first built in the late 1920s and were in their late teens and early 20s when they were sent to concentration camps and died. On each one I painted the names of one of the students and their age and the camp they died in and the date they died.”

The suitcase installation showed at both MSU and UM, and art students helped curate the exhibition so that each show was different.

This summer, Volkersz’s suitcase project brought him full circle to his childhood. He packed six crates full of the suitcases and shipped them to Amsterdam for the school’s anniversary to become a permanent part of the Holocaust Museum of Amsterdam. On October 9, he and his wife and son boarded a plane to visit the show. At a school assembly, Volkersz addressed the 4th and 5th graders.

“I talked to them about the Holocaust and the war and how 172 kids who sat in the same room on the same benches had perished in the war,” he says.

“They were, by the time I got there, familiar with it.

It turns out that several of the students’ relatives were on the suitcases—their great-great uncles and others.” Each child picked a suitcase, and several carried their ancestors’ suitcases from the school to a bus and into the Holocaust Museum. Inside the suitcases were notes and paper flowers the kids had written to the victims.

“Oh god, it was emotional and unforgettable,” Volkersz says. “People always ask me, ‘Why suitcases?’

Well of course those kids, originally, back in the 1940s, were given maybe half an hour or an hour to pack a suitcase. And I always thought, ‘How do you make a decision? What do you pack, not knowing where you’re going?’”

Willem Volkersz talks about his On Paper exhibit at MAM Tue., Nov. 15, at 7 PM. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

[music]

Fantasmagorical Monster mashing with Missoula’s Rooster Sauce It’s partly the subject matter—sex, partying and monsters—that makes Rooster Sauce seem like the band equivalent of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Especially on their latest release, Fantasma dell’Opera, the local psychrockers channel the ghoulish sci-fi atmosphere that Dr. Frank-N-Furter gleefully cultivates in his castle. The album unfolds like an opera, with characters introducing themselves through songs. (Rooster Sauce members have fake band personas and, as with Rocky Horror, claim an origin story that begins on another planet.) On “Seven Star Disco,” bassist Sarah Lee Rooster belts out, “Feel the tomb in your womb/squeeze the blood from your hand/feed the jackal and scream” with a combination of Motown soul and garage-rock snarl. Next comes “Sex Witch,” wherein David Lee Rooster sings about being lured into an all-night sex-

capade with the titular sorceress. General Lee (aka Dr. Elektrika) stars on the strutting, Judas Priest-like “Werewoofs of Brooklyn.” And so on.

“Transmissions from the Other Side” serves as kind of a turn-in-action leading up to the opera’s end. At over eight minutes long, it’s a fine, spacey interlude, but not the most compelling compared to the other much feistier songs. Fantasma dell’Opera also includes a tambourine part by Fitz and the Tantrums’ John Wicks and some guest howlers. It’s a welcome follow-up to their last album, Secret Order of the Donkey Shadows, which came out forever ago in 2010. But you have to see the live show to really appreciate these guys. (Erika Fredrickson) Rooster Sauce plays an album release show at the Palace Sat., Nov. 12, at 9 PM, along with Blaine Janes, Fantasy Suite and The Skurfs. Free.

Purling Hiss, High Bias That a group like Purling Hiss exists in 2016 is a testament to the deep cyclical power of rock and roll. The band’s sound could easily come from 20 or 30 years ago.

Their 2014 album, Weirdon, spent about two and a half months lodged in the deck of my Subaru. It has an instantly familiar and well-worn late-’80s college-rock feel about it.

Both the words “purling hiss” and “high bias” take me back to the pre-compact disc era when word-ofmouth and print journals were the only ways you learned about new music. That deliberate, analogness—without the annoying trappings of fetishists— is what Purling Hiss emits so well. In those days, I spent way too much of my free time poring over a grunge-obsessed Seattle weekly called The Rocket,

hoping to find out about about bands like Purling Hiss, and occasionally striking gold with groups like Boise’s Treepeople or Massachusetts’ Dinosaur Jr. Unlike most bands attempting to channel a different era or tradition, Purling Hiss is comfortable in its own skin. On High Bias, the band seems to be doing exactly what it ought to, churning out guitar-heavy rock and roll with soaring vocals, huge hooks and massive volume.

With six albums recorded over their seven-year history, there’s lots of Hiss to get through, and I am hugely enjoying that task. ( Josh Vanek) Purling Hiss plays Stage 112 Mon., Nov. 14, at 9 PM, along with Mido Skip and Tiny Plastic Stars. $5.

Shakewell, Marzoula For the past five years, Missoula band Shakewell has been bringing the party. I was first exposed while passing through Caras Park with my young daughters, and we spontaneously decided to stop and dance in the grass. I can’t say I’m historically a huge fan of the genre–something that sounds like a blend of funk and jazz–but in some situations, good music and good times override personal taste.

The seven members of the neo-soul/funk/rock outfit, winner of multiple Best of Missoula awards, release their debut full-length album this week in an attempt to digitally capture the well-known foot-tapping power of their music. They traveled to Evergroove Studio in Colorado to record the album with

help from Soulive drummer Al Evans and Ropeadope Records’ Andy Hurwitz.

Crisp but loose, Marzoula is an accurate depiction of what Shakewell has always brought to the table: highly professional, groovy tracks with punchy horns and earworm refrains. The 14 songs on the album flow into each other, creating a smooth, cool, show-like experience. While the energy and fun of the live show is challenging to bottle, this presents the next-best option. In fact, it comes with a few perks: excellent production, super-technical instrumentation, and no one to spill beer on you when they groove too much or too close. (Sarah Aswell) Shakewell plays an album release show at the Top Hat Fri., Nov. 11, at 10 PM. $5.

missoulanews.com • November 10–November 17, 2016 [21]

[books]

Vehicles for songs Pulling over to stop with rural noir writer Willy Vlautin

by Chris La Tray

Author and musician Willy Vlautin has published four novels. His most recent, 2014’s The Free, features an ensemble cast of characters whose lives intersect at the outer edges of society. People who barely manage to scrape by—and who are often their own worst enemies—prevail in Vlautin’s stories, both in his books and in his songs. Few artists do these kind of characters better. The Free won The Oregon People’s Choice Award and a couple of his books have made it onto the big screen. Vlautin just finished his next novel, slated for release in 2018, but his musical life is seeing some major shifts. Earlier this year, Vlautin’s longtime band, Richmond Fontaine, released You Can't Go Back If There's Nothing to Go Back To. It’s the 11th and final studio album for the alt-country band, which started in 1994. (He also plays in a project called The Delines.) In advance of his upcoming Missoula reading, Vlautin spoke with the Indy from Germany about songwriting, rural noir and the band’s final days.

You’re on your final European tour with Richmond Fontaine. That’s bittersweet, isn’t it?

Willy Vlautin: I’ve been with Richmond Fontaine for over 22 years and most of the good things I’ve gotten in life have come from the band. That’s why I wanted to leave Richmond Fontaine in a better situation than when we started. We just made a record we all love, we’re still great friends, and the band is playing the best we ever have and doing the best we ever have. So we all thought it was the right time to pull over and stop.

The end of Richmond Fontaine doesn’t mean the end of Willy Vlautin the musician/songwriter, though.

There’s the Delines for one thing. Anything else?

WV: The Delines will start up again next year, I hope. It’s such a fun band, and Amy Boone, the singer, is so damn good that it’s a pleasure to be on the road with them. Other than that I’ll probably write instrumental music and stay home more and work on novels.

What’s one record you never go on the road without?

WV: Sorry, but I have two. Willie Nelson’s Greatest Hits and Some That Will Be, and Tom Waits’ Swordfishtrombones.

Your novel The Motel Life was made into a movie and now Lean On Pete is being made. Are you involved much at all with that project?

WV: I didn’t have much involvement. I begged them to make The Motel Life in Reno and Lean on Pete in Oregon and I got lucky on that front both times. Both projects were also fun as hell to watch come to life, but my heart is with the novel and I have

photo courtesy of Lee Posey

Willy Vlautin visits Missoula this week to read from his 2014 book The Free.

no real interest in navigating the film world. That’s a hard and tricky game I’m not cut out for.

Rural noir is often set in the South or “Deep Midwest” as I like to call it. Guys like Daniel Woodrell and Donald Ray Pollock are the high-water mark for that stuff, but those who emulate them seem to think of that genre as purely the domain of drug addicts and murderers.

Your work lives in the same social class, yet you stay away from the violence, and the addictions are somehow more human. Was that a conscious choice? Did you ever feel the need to, as Raymond Chandler once suggested, “have a man come through a door with a gun in his hand” to move the story along?

WV: I like both of those writers quite a bit, especially Daniel Woodrell. I also read a lot of crime fiction.

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In many ways crime writers are the ones who address working-class issues and working-class lives. They also have more freedom to bring up bigger social issues.

George Pelecanos is brilliant at that. For me, I’ve always wanted to write crime fiction without the crime.

Have the intensity of a crime novel, the directness and roughness, but without the crime. I’ve always wanted to write working-class stories that could keep you up in the middle of the night, but not rely on having a guy coming through the door with a gun.

Your songs are like little flash-fiction pieces. How different is your approach to writing a record from writing a novel?

WV: All my novels start as songs. I’ll get the idea of a story and I’ll flesh it out in a tune. Most of my ideas

stop at songs, but once in a while they continue to bother me even after I’ve finished and recorded it. The idea just won’t leave me alone. One song will become three, and then a story, and eventually a novel. But you’re right. Much to the dismay of my band, a lot of my songs are just vehicles for the stories. I’ve always wanted to have the listener disappear into the world of the lyrics.

As far as the process, the main difference between a song and a novel is time. A novel just takes work—day after day after day. Songs are trickier. Sometimes I think you just run into one walking down the street and you grab onto it and try your best to keep it.

Willy Vlautin reads from The Free at Shakespeare & Co. Wed., Nov. 16, at 7 PM. arts@missoulanews.com

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Neighborly love A Man Called Ove charms despite clichés

by Molly Laich

Love trumps hate.

Ove is a cranky man, recently widowed and then fired from the blue-collar job he’s worked at for 40 years. He lives in a tight-knit community that doesn’t allow cars (and how does that work, you’re wondering?

They park in garages just outside the subdivision). It seems to be an empirically cozy and happy place, but Ove finds a way to be unhappy there anyway, as evidenced by his frequent, poorly timed suicide attempts.

A Man Called Ove comes to us from Sweden, directed and adapted by Hannes Holm from a novel by Fredrik Backman. The film has so many clichés, welltrodden plot points, precious characters and heavyhanded sentiment that I almost can’t believe I’m recommending it, but here we are. First, we’re made to suffer these first act suicide attempts. Ove (Rolf Lassgård) puts on a nice suit and hangs a noose from a hook in the ceiling. They’re not going to immediately kill off the title character, so what will happen instead?

A. The rope breaks. B. He’s interrupted by the doorbell. C. He’s interrupted by the sounds of happy children while the neighbors establish residence in our collective hearts and minds. D. All of the above.

Then we’re treated to not one but two contrived instances where Ove’s heroism saves lives. First he runs into a burning building, and then there’s a man who’s passed out and fallen onto the railroad tracks.

These scenes exist to let us know that Ove is a good guy, deep down, but couldn’t they have chosen just one? If the director’s cut features Ove saving a man from drowning, I’m going to be very upset.

In the moments before his suicide attempts are thwarted, the film takes us on flashbacks into Ove’s youthful past. We learn of his mother’s death and how his relationship with his single father fostered a lifelong interest in cars and how things are built. And we meet his now-deceased wife, Sonja (Ida Engvoll), the woman

for whom all the fuss is about. Their courtship takes place in a simpler time, when men fell in love with and married the first woman they met. Sonja is pretty and likes books—two charming things—and she regards Ove with supernatural understanding. She’s one of these gals who knows the future and watches with bemusement as the fella sweats his way through it.

Back in the present day, we have all these neighbors who are abused by Ove’s cantankerous nature, but keep coming back for more anyway. Chief among them is Parvaneh (Bahar Pars). Iranian and pregnant, she cons Ove into a friendship using charm and Tupperware full of homemade cooking.

I’m recommending the film mostly on the strength of Parvaneh’s frequent, intoxicating smile.

She’s a lovely person and her grace is infectious.

More specifically, there’s a lesson to be learned in the way the members of this community understand and care for one another. More than that, the past and future come together in artful and (at times) unexpected ways, and the film has something genuine to say about grief and the loneliness of aging.

A Man Called Ove reminds me a little of 2007’s Lars and the Real Girl, in which a community colludes, as a gesture of love, in the delusion that Lars’s Real Doll girlfriend is an actual person. People aren’t that good, but what are movies but a safe space in which to pretend?

A Man Called Ove couldn’t take place in America, where we’re hopelessly divided by politics and distrustful of our neighbors—but that's why we need this film most.

A Man Called Ove opens at the Roxy Fri., Nov. 11. arts@missoulanews.com

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[film] MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN Being the new kid at school is always tough, especially when all the other students are a little peculiar. Also some of them are literal monsters. Rated PG-13. Stars Eva Green, Chris O’Dowd and Samuel L. Jackson. Playing at the Carmike 12.

OPENING THIS WEEK ALMOST CHRISTMAS Getting the family together for the holidays is easy.

Keeping the family from self-destructing is the real Christmas miracle. Rated PG-13. Stars Danny Glover, Kimberly Elise and Gabrielle Union. Playing at the Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex.

ARRIVAL Alien spacecraft appear all over the world, and a crack team of linguists, mathematicians and soldiers race against the clock to prevent another Independence Day. Rated PG-13. Stars Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner and Forest Whitaker. Playing at the Carmike 12.

SCHOOL OF ROCK When you get kicked out of your band the only sensible thing to do is pretend you’re a substitute teacher and form your own band with a class full of fourth-graders. Rated PG-13. Stars Jack Black, Joan Cusack and Sarah Silverman. Playing Wed., Nov. 16 at the Roxy.

BILLY LYNN’S LONG HALFTIME WALK The Army, an NFL team and Hollywood are lined up to call this teenage solider a hero. All he can think about are the people who didn’t make it home.

Rated R. Stars Kristen Stewart, Steve Martin and Vin Diesel. Wait, really? Playing at the Pharaohplex.

SEASONS (LES SAISONS) I deal with the changing seasons by wearing warmer socks and adding pumpkin spice to everything. The animal kingdom, however, has their own ways of dealing with the cold. Thankfully someone documented them. Rated PG. Playing Thu., Nov. 17 at the Roxy.

GIMME DANGER Jim Jarmusch brings along the original members of The Stooges to explore the early days of the proto-punk band. Rated R. Playing at the Roxy.

A MAN CALLED OVE (EN MAN SOM HETER OVE) Why can’t the new neighbors just leave this grumpy widower alone while he’s trying to kill himself? Rated PG-13. Stars Rolf Lassgård, Zozan Akgün and Bahar Pars. Playing at the Roxy.

SHUT IN Well the weather outside is frightful, but that’s nothing compared to what’s happening inside the house. Rated PG-13. Stars Namoi Watts, Oliver Platt and Charlie Heaton. Playing at the Carmike 12.

NOW PLAYING THE ACCOUNTANT What do criminal cartels, weapons dealers and terrorists have in common? They all have the same accountant. Rated R. Stars Ben Affleck, J.K. Simmons and Anna Kendrick. Playing at the Carmike 12.

AND WE WERE YOUNG Andy Smetanka’s stop-motion silhouette animation feature portrays American experiences during WWI. Not Rated. Playing Fri., Nov 11 at the Crystal.

We never treated Shemp this well. Gimme Danger opens at the Roxy Theater.

BACK TO THE FUTURE Great Scott! This teenager’s adventures in time would be a lot more fun if he didn’t accidentally keep his parents from meeting. Rated PG. Stars Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd and Crispin Glover. Playing Sat., Nov. 12 at the Roxy.

HACKSAW RIDGE Being a pacifist in the army or saving the lives of 75 men. Which do you think was harder for U.S. Army medic Desmond T. Doss? Rated R. Stars Andrew Garfield, Vince Vaughn and Luke Pegler. Playing at the Carmike 12 and the Pharaohplex.

THE BIRTH OF A NATION The story of Nat Turner’s famous Virginia slave rebellion comes to the silver screen. Rated R. Stars Nate Parker, Armie Hammer and Aja Naomi King.

Playing through Thu., Nov. 10 at the Roxy.

INFERNO Dan Brown’s globe-trotting symbologist is back to stop another biblical conspiracy from wiping out Earth’s population. At least he has a decent haircut this time. Rated PG-13. Stars Tom Hanks, Felicity Jones and Irrfan Khan. Playing at the Carmike 12 and the Pharaohplex.

CERTAIN WOMEN Rich with Montana connection, Certain Women is based on the short stories of Helena’s Maile Meloy and stars Missoula’s heavily lauded Lily Gladstone.

Rated R. Also stars Michelle Williams and Laura Dern. Playing at the Roxy.

DOCTOR STRANGE By the hoary hosts of Hoggoth! The director of Hellraiser 5 brings Marvel Comics’ Sorcerer Supreme to the big screen. Rated PG-13. Stars Benedict Cumberbatch, his ridiculous American accent and Tilda Swinton. Playing at the Pharaohplex and the Carmike 12.

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JACK REACHER: NEVER GO BACK This former military cop stops at nothing to save his partner from a bum rap. Stars Tom Cruise, Cobie Smulders and Aldis Hodge. Rated PG-13.

Playing at the Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex.

KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS Ancient vendettas and mysterious spirits send a young man on a quest to find an ancient suit of magical armor in a beautiful, stop-motion animated adventure. Rated PG. Stars the voices of Art Parkinson, Charlize Theron and Matthew McConaughey. Playing Sun. Nov. 13 at the Roxy.

STORKS Instead of delivering babies, these storks find themselves delivering packages for a giant online retailer.

Rated PG. Stars the voices of Andy Samberg, Katie Crown and Jordan Peele. Playing at the Carmike 12.

TROLLS Those ugly dolls with the colorful hair your brother melted in the microwave are back! Rated PG. Stars the voices of Justin Timberlake, Anna Kendrick and Ron Funches. Playing at the Carmike 12 and the Pharaohplex.

YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974) If you’re blue and you don’t know where to go to why don’t you go where fashion sits? PUAANT NON A RAATSSE! The Roxy screens the Mel Brooks masterpiece Sat., Nov. 12 at 7 PM. Rated PG. Stars Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn and Peter Boyle.

Capsule reviews by Charley Macorn.

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; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 961-FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan at 883-5603.

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Mazel Tov cocktails

by Gabi Moskowitz I don’t normally break this recipe out until Passover, but in case you haven’t been online recently, Trump surrogate Scottie Nell Hughes referred to the Molotov cocktails in the Jay-Z and Kanye West video “No Church in the Wild” as “Mazel Tov cocktails,” and, well, I couldn’t help myself.

I won’t comment on the election here (if you follow me on Twitter, Instagram or my personal Facebook page, you know exactly where I stand), but I think we can all agree that, regardless of what happened on Tuesday, we could all use a big icy cup (or three) of what I am now officially dubbing the “Mazel Tov Cocktail.”

Start by reducing some classic Concord Grape Manischewitz in a small pot over medium-high heat.

We’re making a syrup here. Yep, that’s right: We’re making cloyingly sweet Manischewitz even sweeter (trust me).

Next, we need to get out our cocktail shaker and fill it with 2 teaspoons of the syrup, plus blood orange juice (you can use any kind of orange juice you like— have fun with the symbolism) and vodka.

Then shake that sucker up, strain it and serve it in a pretty glass.

L’Chaim!

BROKEASS GOURMET Ingredients 1 cup Concord Grape Manischewitz wine 2 oz. vodka 1 blood orange or regular orange (half juiced, half sliced) Ice Directions To Make the Syrup Pour the Manischewitz into a small saucepan and place over medium-high heat. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and let cook until thickened and syrupy, about 15 minutes. Let syrup cool completely.

To Make the Cocktail Fill a cocktail shaker with ice, then add the Manischewitz syrup, vodka and blood orange juice.

Shake well until mixed and well-chilled.

Strain into a glass and garnish with the blood orange slice.

Serve immediately.

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 editorin-chief and author of The BrokeAss Gourmet Cookbook and Pizza Dough:100 Delicious, Unexpected Recipes.

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Sushi Lunch Combo 3 sushi rolls, miso soup and green salad

Just $12.00 406-829-8989 1901 Stephens Ave Order online at asahimissoula.com.

Delicious dining or carryout.

Chinese & Japanese menus.

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SEASONINGS for the season

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$10.95/lb.

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SUSHI SPECIALS Not available for To-Go orders

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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. $-$$$ Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West 728-1358 November brings a chill in the air and the 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’ on 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. bernicesbakerymt.com $-$$ Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a “biga” (pronounced bee-ga) which is a timehonored Italian method of bread making. Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$ 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. $-$$ Burns Street Bistro 1500 Burns St. 543-0719 burnsstbistro.com We cook the freshest local ingredients as a matter of pride. Our relationship with local farmers, ranchers and other businesses allows us to bring quality, scratch cooking and fresh-brewed Black Coffee Roasting Co. coffee and espresso to Missoula’s Historic Westside neighborhood. Handmade breads & pastries, soups, salads & sandwiches change with the seasons, but our commitment to delicious food does not. Mon-Fri 7am - 2pm. Sat/Sun Brunch 9am - 2pm. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins 728-8780 Celebrating 44 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. $ 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. $-$$ Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West • 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-to-order sandwiches, Fire Deck pizza & calzones, rice & noodle wok bowls, an award-winning salad bar, an olive & antipasto bar and a self-serve hot bar offering a variety of housemade breakfast, lunch and dinner entrées. A seasonally-changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available. Locallyroasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive fresh juice and smoothie menu complement bakery goods from the GFS ovens and Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day 7am-10pm $-$$ 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 micro-distilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines! Free customer parking.

Open Monday-Saturday 9-7:30 $-$$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins • 541-4622 hobnobonhiggins.com Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. MC/V $-$$ India Grill & Curry House 400 E. Broadway 926-2021 facebook.com/indiagrillandcurryhouse Experience Missoula's only authentic Indian restaurant! Try our unique, daily vegetarian or meat combos prepared with house-made curries and spices imported directly from India. Served with rice, naan bread, salad and dessert all served on traditional Thali-style plates. Also try our housemade Chai, Mango Lassi or our special Lemon Juice. New menu items and combos daily! Special orders and catering available. Mon-Sat - Lunch 11am-3pm / Dinner 5pm-9pm. $-$$ Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins 728-8866 ironhorsebrewpub.com We’re the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service.

Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we’ll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$

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[dish] Iza 529 S. Higgins 830-3237 izarestaurant.com Local Asian cuisine feature SE Asian, Japanese, Korean and Indian dishes. Gluten Free and Vegetarian no problem. Full Beer, Wine, Sake and Tea menu.

We have scratch made bubble teas. Come in for lunch, dinner, drinks or just a pot of awesome tea.

Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm, Happy Hour 36pm, Dinner M-Sat 3pm-close. $-$$ Liquid Planet 223 N. Higgins 541-4541 Whether it’s coffee or cocoa, water, beer or wine, or even a tea pot, French press or mobile mug, Liquid Planet offers the best beverage offerings this side of Neptune. Missoula’s largest espresso and beverage bar, along with fresh and delicious breakfast and lunch options from breakfast burritos and pastries to paninis and soups. Peruse our global selection of 1,000 wines, 400 beers and sodas, 150 teas, 30 locally roasted coffees, and a myriad of super cool beverage accessories and gifts. Find us on facebook at /BestofBeverage.

Open daily 7:30am to 9pm.

Liquid Planet Grille 540 Daly 540-4209 (corner of Arthur & Daly across from the U of M) MisSOULa’s BEST new restaurant of 2015, the Liquid Planet Grille, offers the same unique Liquid Planet espresso and beverage bar you’ve come to expect, with breakfast served all day long! Sit outside and try the stuffed french toast or our handmade granola or a delicious Montana Melt, accompanied with MisSOULa’s best fries and wings, with over 20 salts, seasonings and sauces!

Open 7am-8pm daily. Find us on Facebook at /LiquidPlanetGrille. $-$$ Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. (on the hip strip) 543-7154 themissoulaseniorcenter.org Did you know the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every week day for only $4 for those on the Nutrition Program, $5 for U of M Students with a valid student ID and $6 for all others. Children under 10 eat free. Join us from 11:30 - 12:30 M-F for delicious food and great conversation. $ The Mustard Seed Asian Cafe Southgate Mall 542-7333 Contemporary Asian fusion cuisine.

Original recipes and fresh ingredients combine the best of Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences. Full menu available at the bar.

Award winning desserts made fresh daily , local and regional micro brews, fine wines & signature cocktails. Vegetarian and Gluten free menu available. Takeout & delivery. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary KoreanJapanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$

Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. 543-3188 orangestreetfoodfarm.com Experience The Farm today!!! Voted number one Supermarket & Retail Beer Selection. Fried chicken, fresh meat, great produce, vegan, gluten free, all natural, a HUGE beer and wine selection, and ROCKIN’ music. What deal will you find today? $-$$$

Beer for your Thanksgiving table at Iron Griz

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Pearl Cafe 231 E. Front St. 541-0231 pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with King Crab, Rabbit with Wild Mushroom Ragout, Garden City Beef Ribeye, Fresh Seafood Specials Daily. House Made Charcuterie, Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts. Extensive wine list; 18 wines by the glass and local beers on draft. Reservations recommended for the intimate dining areas. Visit our website Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Pita Pit 130 N Higgins 541-7482 pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating.

Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to name just a few. For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week. Call if you need us to deliver! $-$$ Sushi Hana 403 N. Higgins 549-7979 SushiMissoula.com Montana’s Original Sushi Bar. We Offer the Best Sushi and Japanese Cuisine in Town.

Casual atmosphere. Plenty of options for non-sushi eaters including daily special items you won’t find anywhere else. $1 Specials Mon & Wed. Lunch Mon–Sat; Dinner Daily. Sake, Beer, & Wine. Visit SushiMissoula.com for full menu. $$-$$$ Taco Sano Two Locations: 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West 1515 Fairview Ave inside City Life 541-7570 • tacosano.net Home of Missoula’s Best BREAKFAST BURRITO. 99 cent TOTS every Tuesday. Once you find us you’ll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9pm 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$

Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$

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What you’re doing: Sipping on brews at the Iron Griz’s beer-tasting party. The American-style bistro at the University of Montana’s golf course recently started a weekly Tuesday Tastings night, and this event is geared toward those craving beer with their turkey. Beer aficionado Tommy Pacholik, of George’s Distributing, will guide everyone through the beer list, while Iron Griz general manager Renee SomersetMucha gives advice on beers that age well in your cellar.

What you’re drinking: The tasting list includes Hofbräu Oktoberfest (Munich, Germany), Selkirk Abbey “Infidel” Belgian IPA (Post Falls, Idaho), Monk's Café Flemish Sour Ale (Ertvelde, Belgium), plus Anthem Pear Cider out of Salem, Oregon Many of these beers have qualities similar to wines, Somerset-Mucha says, making them fine substitutes for the usual holiday beverages.

What you’re eating: The focus is beer, but chef Monty Colby and Somerset-Mucha will make small plates of Thanksgiving foods such as cranberries, turkey, potatoes and green bean casserole so drinkers can get a sense of how the flavors all come together. “I’m beer-obsessed,” Somerset-Mucha says. “I always have beer on my Thanksgiving table, and I think about that as much as I think about the food.”

How to attend: Iron Griz hosts the Thanksgiving beer tasting Tue., Nov. 15, from 5 p.m. to 7. $12 per person. Bottles available to purchase. No tickets or reservations required. 515 South Ave. E. at the UM Golf Course. Visit Iron Griz on Facebook for more info on future Tuesday Tastings.

—Erika Fredrickson Happiest Hour celebrates western Montana watering holes. To recommend a bar, bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, email editor@missoulanews.com.

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MON| 7 PM | BADLANDER Seattle rockers Candlebox join Pete RG at the Badlander Mon., Nov. 14. 7 PM. $25.

FRI | 8 PM | MONK’S Grammy winner Krayzie Bone comes to Monk’s Fri., Nov. 11. 8 PM. $30/$20 in advance.

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SUN | 8 PM | WILMA Shovels & Rope plays the Wilma Sun., Nov. 13. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $30/$20 in advance.

Jacob Sanchez Diagnosed with autism

WED | 8 PM | WILMA Portugal. The Man plays a punctuation-defying show at the Wilma Wed., Nov 16. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $37/$32 advance.

THU | 11-17 | 10 PM | TOP HAT

Lack of eye contact is a sign of autism.

Learn the others at autismspeaks.org/signs.

Shook Twins play the Top Hat Thu., Nov. 17. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $15/$12 advance.

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Release some stress during tai chi classes every Thursday at 10 AM at the Open Way Center, 702 Brooks St. $10 drop-in class. Visit openway.org.

nightlife If you haven’t seen Courtney Blazon’s volcano-inspired art exhibit, The Year Without a Summer, head on down to the Missoula Art Museum when it hosts the artist for a special question and answer session at 5:30 PM. Djebe Community Drum and Dance is a class in dance and drum traditions from many countries. Barn Movement Studio, 2926 S. Third St. every Thursday from 6–7 PM. $5 donation.

Bitterroot Public Library Fellowship Club meets the second Thursday of each month.

Community Room, 6 PM–7:30 PM. Free and open to the public.

If you just wanna party, join rapper Yelawolf, along with Bubba Sparxx, Struggle Jennings and Jelly Roll, at the Badlander for hip-hop and whiskey in the bottle. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $25. 18-plus.

Fangs for the memories! Bram Stoker’s count takes the stage at the Hellgate High School auditorium for a production of Dracula . 7:30 PM. $6.

Unleash your cogent understanding of the trivium at Brooks and Browns Big Brains Trivia Night. Get cash toward your bar tab for first place, plus specials on beer. 200 S. Pattee St. in the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM. The Dead Hipster Dance Party at the Badlander is so cool even I don’t know about it. 9 PM. 208 Ryman St. Taking surf ‘n turf to a whole new level, Trout Steak Revival plays the Top Hat. 10 PM. Free.

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There’s Karaoke today! You don’t need to be a veteran of the Great White Way to sing your heart out at the Broadway Bar. 9:30 PM. Free.

Red Onion Purple’s residency at the VFW continues with music by Moses Nesh, Boston Tea Party and Iron Eyes.

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Join other pedalers for a weekly ride to Free Cycles Missoula and back to UM. Meet at the Grizzly statue. 12:30–2 PM. Free. Contact Sandra Broadus at 406-2434599 for info.

nightlife Stoney Sasser explores the interconnectedness of humans, plants and animals with an art exhibit at the ZACC. Opening reception 5:30 PM–8:30 PM. How about we just stop drinking coffee? Insomnia Plague plays Missoula Winery. 6 PM–8 PM. $7 at the door, includes food.

Tom and Alene Tunny reflect on their time living and working across the globe with an art exhibition and auction at The Frame Shop and Gallery in Hamilton. A portion of the proceeds from this event go to support Project SAFE and its work to end violence against women. 6 PM. Director Andy Smetanka’s And We Were Young, made entirely with paper silhouettes and a Soviet home-movie camera, depicts the horror of the first World War with narration from readings of those who survived.

Screening at the Crystal Theater. 6 PM. $5.

The Top Hat presents FamilyFriendly Friday, a time where parents and their kids can socialize, listen to music, eat great food and have fun. This week The Triple Tree String Band provide the musical entertainment. Free.

Shakewell plays a release party for its new album, Marzoula, at the Top Hat Fri., Nov. 11, at 10 PM. $5.

Take a musical cruise when Geoff Lake plays Missoula Brewing.

6 PM–8 PM. Free.

Deborah and Greg Schatz explored Mongolia by horseback.

Hear about their journey at Opportunity Resources at 6:30 PM. Free.

Fangs for the memories! Bram Stoker’s count takes the stage at the Hellgate High School auditorium for a production of Dracula .

7:30 PM. $6.

Grammy winner Krayzie Bone comes to Monk’s. Joined by Pozition, Keef G, D-Rado, Shiftchanger and Flex Gang, the show starts at 8 PM. $30/$20 in advance.

The Eagles hosts the live music of Nightliner. 8 PM. Free.

Bare Bait Dance presents Rachel Lincoln and Leslie Seiters’ eveninglength dance piece An Attic an Exit. Open Space in the PARTV Center. 8 PM. $16/$14 in advance.

Spotlight I'm always anxious when Attic an Exit, the fourth wall across it, creating doorways performers leave the stage doesn't just break, it melts out of movements and invisiand enter the audience. ble lines. The constantly This fear first manifested moving scenery, made partly through movement itself when a family trip WHAT: An Attic an Exit and partly from the few to the Big Apple ended WHO: Bare Bait Dance Company props the duo uses, gives when Jennyanydots and the illusion of passageher Jellicle cats sprang WHEN: Fri., Nov. 11 at 8 PM, Sat., ways and exits. forth from the Broadway Nov. 12 at 2 PM and 8 PM and Even though I came stage, tripped on my Sun., Nov. 13 at 6 PM. home with a pocketful of mother's purse and knocked out her (hope- WHERE: UM's Open Space Theatre in cat-teeth, a heart full of anxiety and a written apolfully) fake teeth which the PARTV building ogy from someone who landed in my lap. So went on to play a corpse now when a dancer, HOW MUCH: $16/$14 advance. on two different episodes singer or actor breaks MORE INFO: barebaitdance.org of “CSI”, I know that movethe fourth wall, my heart ment should not be conrate skyrockets.

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And here I thought most artistic cephalopods worked in inks.

Charcoal Squids plays the Palace, along with MASS FM, Empty Eyes and Boston Tea Party, at 9 PM. Free.

Shakewell is celebrating the release of their new album with a night of music at the Top Hat. Doors at 9:30 PM, show at 10. $5.

Cash for Junkers plays the Union Club. 9:30 PM. Free.

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Get your fresh produce and farm direct goodies when the Missoula Valley Winter Markets kicks off at Stage 112. 9 AM-1 PM.

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Join the Indy staff at a special distillery event at The Loft. Enjoy cocktails from five different local distilleries and appetizers from Two Sisters Catering. 4 PM–7 PM. $35.

nightlife I’m very disappointed that a salsa ball isn’t a spicy new treat for when you’re on the go. The actual salsa ball is a night of dancing, food and salsa music. 7 PM–11 PM. MCT Center for the Performing Arts. $50. Denim and Diamonds invites all women who care about wildlife and the outdoors to Ladies Night Out, a night of games, raffles and silent auction. 5 PM–9:30 PM. $30.

Live from Imagine Nation Brewery, it’s Saturday Night Live! The weekly music series continues with the tunes of Dan Henry. 6 PM–8 PM. End mountain bike season in style with the 2nd Annual MTB Missoula Bike Ball at Burns Street Bistro. 6 PM–10 PM. $10 gets you entry, free food and free beer, while supplies last.

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A staged reading of Allyson Adams’s new play Save the Country, about Belle Fligelman and Jeannette Rankin, takes place at the Crystal Theater. It celebrates the centennial of Rankin’s election to Congress. 7 PM. $5 suggested donation.

Portland poet/artists Zachary Schomburg and Brandi Katherine Herrera join Missoula poet Sean Burress at the Crystal for a reading to close out the Open Country series. 7 PM. Free.

Take a bow at the Lolo Dance Center’s Harvest Ball. 7 PM–9:30 PM. Free.

Fangs for the memories! Bram Stoker’s count takes the stage at the Hellgate High School auditorium for a production of Dracula.

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The Eagles hosts the live music of Nightliner. 8 PM. Free.

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and Leslie Seiters’ new dance piece, An Attic an Exit, premiers at the Open Space in the PARTV Center. 8 PM. $16/$14 in advance.

Rooster Sauce celebrates the release of their new album with a night of music at the Palace. 9 PM. Free.

Lolo Hot Springs’ Masquerade Ball kicks off with live music and a couple’s costume contest at 9 PM. Great Scott! This 1980s band stepped into a time rift and found themselves in the far-off year of 2013. Now New Wave Time Trippers play at the Top Hat, hoping their next leap is their leap home. Doors at 9:30 PM, show at 10. $5.

Joan Zen plays the Union Club.

9:30 PM. Free.

Seattle’s Polyrhythmics give you a beat you can dance to at Stage 112. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $12/$10 advance. 18-plus.

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Sunday The monthly LGBTQ Spirituality Group meets at the Western Montana Community Center. 3-4 PM.

nightlife Savor Missoula is a weeklong celebration of all things culinary, loaded with special food-related events and prix fixe menus at participating restaurants. Dozens of local restaurants are putting together special menus and new dishes. Head over to savormissoula.com for a full lineup and schedule.

Gobble, gobble. Turkey Bingo returns to the Top Hat for its sixth

year. Enjoy a turkey dinner while filling out your cards. Funds raised at this event benefit Max’s Wave.

5 PM. $40/$35 advance.

It’s really about the notes they aren’t playing. Imagine Nation hosts Jazzination. 5 PM–8 PM. Free.

The 18-piece Ed Norton Big Band is taking a break from annoying the Ralph Kramden Orchestra to put some swing in the month’s second Sunday when they play the Missoula Winery, 5646 Harrier Way, 6–8 PM. $7. Polish your steps with $5 swing lessons at 4:45 PM. Visit missoulawinery.com.

The Second Wind Reading series welcomes Nicole Roché and Judy Blunt to the Badlander. 6 PM–8 PM. Bare Bait Dance’s Rachel Lincoln and Leslie Seiters’ new dance piece, An Attic an Exit, continues at the Open Space in the PARTV Center. 6 PM. $16/$14 in advance.

Not just the name of a disturbing Shoots and Ladders knock-off, Shovels & Rope are joined by Indianola at the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $30/$20 advance at thewilma.com

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Monday Spend the morning exploring the fall foliage before relaxing with a hot beverage with Coffee Walks. This week explore the North Hills to Homestead.

Meet at Currents Aquatics Center. 9 AM-12 PM. $5.

Unity Church of Missoula. 6:30 PM. Sally Hickman’s documentation of the changing bird species and vegetation along with the loss of open space in her Bitterroot neighborhood over the last 30 years is the subject of the Five Valleys Audubon meeting.

University of Montana’s Gallagher Business Building. 7:30 PM–9 PM. Free.

Sip a fancy cocktail for a cause at Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery, 129 W. Front St. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to Blackfoot Challenge. Bring the family! 12 PM–8 PM. Savor Missoula continues.

Head to savormissoula.com for full details and schedule.

Vo n C o m m o n Vo n days shimmy-shakes with a screening of the documentary on the golden age of burlesque,The League of Exotique Dancers, followed by a live performance and Q&A with Missoula’s Nylon Sisters. The Roxy. 8 PM. $8. 18-plus.

Relax and realign with Yoga for Wellness at the Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave., Mondays from noon–1 PM. $45 for six classes, or $10 drop-in. Call 721-0033 or visit redwillowlearning.org.

The Shuffles Dance Studio hosts tap classes for all ages and levels, Mondays through Thursdays from 4–7 PM. 500 N. Higgins Ave. Call 2108792 or drop in to observe a class. $60 for four classes.

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VonCommon Vondays screens the documentary on the golden age of burlesque, The League of Exotique Dancers, followed by a live performance and Q&A with Missoula's Nylon Sisters Mon., Nov 14.

The Roxy. 8 PM. $8. 18-plus.

Prepare a couple songs and bring your talent to Open Mic Night at Imagine Nation Brewing. Sign up when you get there. Every Monday from 6–8 PM.

Do you think it stands for Rainbow Goose? Ricky Gervais? Pete RG is joined by Seattle rockers Candlebox at the Badlander. 7 PM. $25

Bingo at the VFW: the easiest way to make rent since keno. 245 W. Main.

6:30 PM. $12 buy-in.

Helping Parents Heal, a new support group and healing group for bereaved parents and families, meets at

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Purling Hiss plays Stage 112. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $5. 18-plus.

Aaron “B-Rocks” Broxterman hosts karaoke night at the Dark Horse Bar. 9 PM. Free.

Live in SIN at the Service Industry Night at Plonk, with DJ Amory spinning and a special menu. 322 N. Higgins Ave. 10 PM to close. Just ask a server for the SIN menu. No cover.

Savor Missoula continues. Head to savormissoula.com for full details and schedule.

Learn about China’s ongoing water crisis when adjunct professor Own Sirrs gives a presentation in room 330 of the University Center. Free. 12 PM. Shootin’ the Bull Toastmasters help you improve your public speaking skills with weekly meetings at ALPS in the Florence Building, noon–1 PM. Free and open to the public. Visit shootinthebull.info for details.

It’s Mule-Tastic Tuesday, which means the Montana Distillery will donate $1 from every cocktail sold to a local nonprofit organization. 12–8 PM. Caregiver Support Group, for caregivers to an older adult or person with a disability, meets every third Tuesday of the month from 4–5 PM at Missoula Aging Services, 337 Stephens Ave. Call 728-7682 for more information.

nightlife If your idea of beer at Thanksgiving is limited to drinking a dozen Silver Bullets and passing out on the couch, come down to the Iron Griz. Learn how to successfully mix beer with your Turkey Day table. 5 PM. $12.

Join the Montana Dirt Girls every Tuesday for an all-women hike or bike. Find locations at facebook.com/MontanaDirtGirls. 6 PM. Teams compete is a set of puzzles while enjoying beer at Flathead Lake Brewing Co. 6 PM–9 PM. Free.

Dust off that banjolin and join in the Top Hat’s picking circle, 6–8 PM every Tuesday. All ages.

Learn the two-step and more at country dance lessons at the Hamilton Senior Center, Tuesdays from 7–9 PM. $5.

Bring a partner. Call 381-1392 for more info.

Show off your big brain at Quizzoula trivia night, every Tuesday at the VFW, 245 W. Main St. Current events, picture round and more. 8:30 PM. Free. Our trivia question for this week: What profession does Dan Aykroyd list on his passport? Answer in tomorrow’s Nightlife.

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Savor Missoula continues. Head to savormissoula.com for full details and schedule.

nightlife Know the basics of the country two-step? Kick your boot-scootin’ up a notch with intermediate dance lessons at Sunrise Saloon.

7 PM. $5.

Mountaineer and author O. Alan Weltzien talks about his time trekking across some exceptional mountains and signs copies of his new book. Fact and Fiction. 7 PM. Unleash your cogent understanding of the trivium at Brooks and Browns Big Brains Trivia Night.

Get cash toward your bar tab for first place, plus specials on beer. 200 S. Pattee St. in the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM. The Dead Hipster Dance Party at the Badlander is so cool even I don’t know about it. 9 PM. 208 Ryman St.

Paper Bird, the indie-rock band, not the only creature who can defeat the Rock Lobster, comes to the Top Hat. $15. Doors at 7:30 PM, show at 8. $15 Savor Missoula continues. Head to savormissoula.com for full details and schedule.

nightlife Paper Bird, the indie-rock band, not the only creature who can defeat the Rock Lobster, comes to the Top Hat. $15. Doors at 7:30 PM, show at 8. $15.

A portion of proceeds from pints bought at the Kettlehouse will be donated to the Montana Food Bank at Community UNite. 5 PM– 8 PM. Free.

The Missoula marathon running class is designed for beginning to advanced runners. Every Wednesday at 6 PM, Run Wild Missoula

in the basement of the Runner’s Edge, 304 N. Higgins. $100.

Corinna Grace, the founder of SERES, a Guatemalan organization that empowers young leadership through sustainability, speaks at the Doubletree Hotel. 6 PM. $10.

Take a ride on the Carousel with Ride-a-thon. Pledge to raise funds for the downtown icon. 6 PM. Donations welcome.

Brains on Broadway Trivia Night at the Broadway Sports Bar and Grill, 1609 W. Broadway Ave. 7 PM. Trivia answer: Writer.

Musician and author Willy Vlautin reads from his new book at Shakespeare & Co. 7 PM.

Red Onion Purple’s Residency at the VFW continues with Hermina Jean, Lego Hundy, Root Cellars and Hunter & the Gatherers. 9 PM. Shook Twins play the Top Hat. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $15/$12 advance.

Start spreading the news! There’s Karaoke today! You don’t need to be a veteran of the Great White Way to sing your heart out at the Broadway Bar. 9:30 PM. Free.

We want to know about your event! Submit to calendar@missoulanews.com at least two weeks in advance of the event.

Don’t forget to include the date, time, venue and cost. Send snail mail to Cal-eesi, Mother of Calendars, c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801. Or submit your events online at missoulanews.bigskypress.com. If you're getting your holiday shopping done early I wear a size XXL.

Author Pete Fromm spent his early 20’s babysitting salmon eggs in the Selway Bitterroot Wilderness.

Twenty-five years later he did something similar. His experiences are now a bestselling memoir. Fromm reads from The Name of the Stars at Fact and Fiction. 7 PM. Free.

Is Portugal. The Man better than Portugal. The Country? Joined by Boone Howard, the punctuationdefying band plays the Wilma.

Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $37/$32 advance.

Get up onstage at VFW’s open mic, with a different host each week. Half-price whiskey might help loosen up those nerves. 8 PM. Free.

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The Dead Hipster Dance Party at the Badlander is so cool even I don’t know about it. 9 PM. 208 Ryman St.

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The Indy Sip - Enjoy local spirits @ The Loft $35, 4pm, theindysip.brownpapertickets.com

Beer Dinner @ Iron Griz, $40, 6pm, irongriz.com Enjoy four beer-paired courses (limited to 24 people)

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Monday 11/14 Moscow Monday @ Montgomery Distillery Wine Tasting @ The Trough 6-8pm, $20 2106 Clements Rd. | 721-3322 for more info

Foodie Trivia @ the Holiday Inn - Downtown, Brooks & Browns

Cupcake decorating @ The Insectarium, 3-5pm Sponsored by Taste Buds Kitchen (Kid-friendly)

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Tuesday 11/15 Cheese Pairing Class @ Good Food Store 6pm, $5 fee - register at goodfoodstore.com

Meet Your Farmer @ Romaines Mule-tastic Tuesdays @ Montana Distillery

Foodie film @ The Roxy, The Hundred-Foot Journey, 7pm

Saturday 11/19 Foodie film @ The Roxy, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, 3pm

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THURSDAY NOVEMBER 10 Tom and Alene Tunny reflect on their time living and working across the globe with an art exhibition and auction at The Frame Shop and Gallery in Hamilton. A portion of the proceeds from this event go to support Project SAFE and its work to end violence against women. 6 PM.

The 2016 Bowl for Kids' Sake takes place at Westside Lanes on Sat., Nov. 12 and Sun., Nov. 13. Roll over to firstgiving.com/bbbsmissoula for more info.

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It’s Mule-Tastic Tuesday, which means the Montana Distillery will donate $1 from every cocktail sold to a local nonprofit organization. 12–8 PM.

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The Women’s Club Health and Fitness center hosts a 5K fun run and three hours of fun in the pool to raise funds for the Montana Cancer Screening Program. 10 AM. $27.

Nonviolent Communication Practice Group facilitated by Patrick Marsolek every Wednesday at Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. 12–1 PM. Email info@patrickmarsolek.com or 406-443-3439 for more information.

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A portion of proceeds from pints bought at the Kettlehouse will be donated to the Montana Food Bank at Community UNite. 5 PM–8 PM. Free.

MONDAY NOVEMBER 14 and celebration of the work of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America to provide one-on-one mentorship for youth. Founded in 1904 in New York, Big Brothers Big Sisters has spread to over a dozen countries worldwide and continues to help local youth our own community. So grab a ball, form a team and have fun while helping kids.

—Charley Macorn

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Gobble, gobble. Turkey Bingo returns to the Top Hat for its sixth year. Enjoy a turkey dinner while filling out your cards. Funds raised at this event benefit Max’s Wave. 5 PM. $40/$35 advance.

Just about anyone can pick up a bowling ball and hurl it down the alley with varying degrees of success. We've all spent birthday parties, cast parties and high school reunions in ridiculous shoes, hucking balls down waxed lanes since we were children. And even though there are people with different levels of ability and skill, bowling offers inflatable lane guards, ball ramps and other helpful devices to make sure everyone can enjoy and engage in this tradition. Everyone needs a helping hand sometimes, which is something Big Brothers Big Sisters knows well.

Across the country, over a half-million people participate in Bowl for Kids' Sake, a fundraiser

lows for an open discussion of spiritual experiences and afterlife evidence. 6:30 PM.

Corinna Grace, the founder of SERES, a Guatemalan organization that empowers young leadership through sustainability, speaks at the Doubletree Hotel. 6 PM. $10.

Sip a fancy cocktail for a cause at Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery, 129 W. Front St. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to Blackfoot Challenge. Bring the family! 12 PM–8 PM.

Take a ride on the Carousel for Ride-a-thon. Pledge to raise funds for the downtown icon and enjoy food, drinks and prizes. 6 PM. Donations welcome.

Find out how the Garden City grows at the weekly Missoula City Council meeting. Missoula council chambers, 140 W. Pine St. Meetings are the first four Mondays of every month at 7 PM, except for holidays.

A panel of speakers discuss the division of having a 100 percent renewable energy future for Montana. Great Burn Brewery. 5 PM–7 PM.

Helping Parents Heal, a new support group and healing group for bereaved parents and families, meets at Unity Church of Missoula. This group al-

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 17

Live and let die at the annual City Life Benefit Auction at City Life Community Center. This year’s theme draws inspiration from everyone’s favorite Double-0, James Bond. 6 PM–10 PM. $50.

AGENDA is dedicated to upcoming events embodying activism, outreach and public participation. Send your who/what/when/where and why to AGENDA, c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange, Missoula, MT 59801. You can also email entries to calendar@missoulanews.com or send a fax to (406) 543-4367. AGENDA’s deadline for editorial consideration is 10 days prior to the issue in which you’d like your information to be included. When possible, please include appropriate photos/artwork.

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issoula and the sport of mountain biking have gone hand-in-hand from the very beginning. The first bicycles modified specifically to deal with off-roading (the ancestors of contemporary mountain bikes) were purchased and upgraded here in the Garden City for an expedition of Buffalo Soldiers at Fort Missoula. This unit, which biked from the fort to Yellowstone in 1896, needed a stronger frame, better brakes and heavier tires to get the soldiers across the wild roads of late-19th century Montana. Since then, the sport of mountain biking has become increasingly popular around the world to this very day.

With autumn careening wildly into winter, it might seem like mountain bike season is over. But

you can raise up one last cup of cheer to the season at MTB Missoula's annual Bike Ball. This event, which honors not only mountain bike culture but also the resilient crews who worked to keep the mountain trails clear and clean for everyone enjoying the outdoors, features catered food and beer, a raffle and a dance party with a local DJ. So grab a ticket, wear your best black clothes and come engage in a Missoula tradition.

—Charley Macorn The 2nd Annual MTB Missoula Bike Ball takes place at Burns St. Bistro on Sat., Nov. 12 from 6 PM–10 PM. $10.

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FRIDAY NOVEMBER 11 Join other pedalers for a weekly ride to Free Cycles Missoula and back to UM. Meet at the Grizzly statue. 12:30–2 PM. Free. Contact Sandra Broadus at 406-243-4599 for info.

I don’t know about you, but wrapping up my workweek by watching some poor cricket getting devoured by a large Chilean tarantula is somehow very satisfying. Tarantula feeding at the Missoula Butterfly House and Insectarium, every Friday at 4 PM. $4 admission.

Deborah and Greg Schatz explored Mongolia by horseback. Hear about their journey at Opportunity Resources at 6:30 PM. Free.

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 12

Bistro. 6 PM–10 PM. $10 gets you entry, free food and free beer, while supplies last.

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 13 The Missoula marathon running class is designed for beginning to advanced runners. Meet every Sunday morning at 8 AM, Run Wild Missoula in the basement of the Runner’s Edge, 304 N. Higgins. $100.

MONDAY NOVEMBER 14 Spend Monday morning exploring the fall foliage around Missoula before relaxing with a hot beverage with Coffee Walks. This week explore the North Hills to Homestead. Meet at Currents Aquatics Center. 9 AM-12 PM. $5.

You’ll be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed after Run Wild Missoula’s Saturday Breakfast Club Runs, which start at 8 AM every Saturday at Runner’s Edge, 325 N. Higgins Ave. Free to run. Visit runwildmissoula.org.

TUESDAY NOVEMBER 15

Denim and Diamonds invites all women who care about wildlife and the outdoors to Ladies Night Out, a night of games, raffles and silent auction.

5 PM–9:30 PM. $30.

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 16

End mountain bike season in style with the 2nd Annual MTB Missoula Bike Ball at Burns Street

Join the Montana Dirt Girls every Tuesday for an all-women hike or bike. Find locations at facebook.com/MontanaDirtGirls. 6 PM.

The Missoula marathon running class is designed for beginning to advanced runners. Every Wednesday at 6 PM, Run Wild Missoula in the basement of the Runner’s Edge, 304 N. Higgins. $100.

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By Amy Alkon EAT SHOULD AND DIE Your response to “Torn” really missed the mark.

She is the 35-year-old woman whose friends and family think her 43-year-old boyfriend is lazy and not good enough for her and will end up living off her. She has a fulltime job with benefits, while he works part time and saves up when he wants to buy something. She says he supports her emotionally: “He ... has my back to an unreasonable degree.”

Yet, you contend that his lack of ambition may lead her to resent him. My advice to her: “If the relationship works for both of you, enjoy it. Nurture it. Keep the outside influences outside. And for crying out loud, woman, pull up your big-girl Underoos and tell your friends and family to take a deep breath and say a prayer to Saint Eff You.” –Better Idea Your advice—that “Torn” should just flip the bird at all of her boyfriend’s detractors— is the perfect solution for any woman who has a number of smelly, unsightly friends and family members cluttering up her life.

I offer a similar redo of decluttering queen Marie “KonMari” Kondo’s advice that we should go through all our stuff and see what brings joy. Yawn. The AlkonMari method: “Strike a match and run.”

But, wait, you say. He supports her emotionally. That, you insist, should be enough. Should be. And though it’s reasonable to prefer that it would be, the late Albert Ellis, co-founder of cognitive-behavioral therapy, explained that “should” involves the irrational demand that the world manifest itself in an idealized way—the way it SHOULD be. This keeps us from dealing with it as it is. For example, I should be writing this response to you in a villa in the south of France with servants, a helipad and a moat. But here in the real world, unless I start moonlighting as a drug lord, I will continue writing from the cute shack in L.A. that I share with my dog and several million termites.

Likewise, in that magical land where children’s dentists send glitter instead of a bill, the perfect husband could be a sweet man who splits his time between a lowstress part-time job and chillaxing on the couch with a doob. But women evolved to have emotional mechanisms pushing them to seek men who are willing and able “providers,” and a man’s ambition is a cue for that. Women can’t just yell at their genes, “Hey, it’s 2016, and I’m the VP of a successful startup!” As anthropologist Donald Symons explains, changing any “com-

plex adaptation,” like those driving mating psychology, takes “hundreds or thousands of generations.” This is why—as I explained to “Torn”—research finds that women married to a Mr. Mom often end up resenting him, making those marriages more likely to end in divorce.

Should “Torn” stay or go? That actually isn’t for you or me to say, because our values aren’t her values and what works for us may not work for her. That’s why I suggested she mull over the potential issues— over time—and make an informed decision about whether to go all in with her LaidBack Larry. Yeah, I know—love should “conquer all.” And yes, in a perfect world, we could respond to utility company disconnect notices with a sweet note: “Please don’t shut my lights off! XOXO!”

INVASION OF THE BIOGRAPHY SNATCHERS I’m a 32-year-old lesbian and an aspiring fiction writer. I use my life in my work, but my girlfriend gets mad when she shows up in it. I think she’s being unfair. Isn’t anything I experience fair game?

—Storyteller There she is crying, and you’re rubbing her back, all “Baby, that’s terrible.”

And then you duck out of the room and dictate everything you can remember into your phone.

Um, no. Think of the details of your girlfriend’s life like some stranger’s lunch.

The fact that their cheeseburger is within your reach doesn’t mean you get to grab it and be all “Mine! Yummeee!” As Louis Brandeis and Samuel Warren explained in an 1890 Harvard Law Review article on privacy, unless somebody is a public figure, they have a right to privacy, meaning the right to control who gets to know what about their persona and private life.

You cross the line from fiction writer to privacy invader when a character is recognizable as a particular person. It isn’t that you can’t use anything at all from another person’s life. Publishing expert Jane Friedman says you can create a composite character “with traits and characteristics culled from several people.” In other words, steal from the many instead of “the one.” Remember, it’s called an “intimate relationship” because it’s supposed to be between two people—not two people and the 8,423 others one of them gave their novel away to on Goodreads.

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PROFESSIONAL Clinical Therapist Full Circle mental health center is now hiring for a family based Clinical Therapist in the Billings and Missoula offices. Will lead therapeutic teams in providing family and individual therapy services in homes and in an office setting.

The ideal candidate is a master’s level social worker or professional counselor with experience working with children and families. Licensure is preferred but in training professionals will be considered. Some experience working with younger children, children on the autism spectrum, trauma focused cognitive behavioral interventions, and/or a working knowledge of Wraparound intervention approaches is also a plus. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10242399 Development Director A state-wide organization that works to help create better futures for individuals living with brain injury is seeking a full-time Development and Outreach Director. Reporting to the Board of Directors and working in a teammanagement model in collabora-

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Responsible for compliance with our Code of Ethics and related policies and creating and maintaining a safe workplace. Must be dependable, trustworthy, tactful and looking for long-term employment.

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SKILLED LABOR Custodian Employer is hiring a Custodian to work at Big Sky High School. Will clean and assist with maintaining building security. High School Diploma or G.E.D. preferred, completion of Adult Ed. Boiler Course or Low Pressure Boiler’s License preferred if assigned to a site requiring this training, one year prior custodial experience preferred.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): Now and then you display an excessive egotism that pushes people away. But during the next six weeks you will have an excellent chance to shed some of that tendency, even as you build more of the healthy pride that attracts help and support. So be alert for a steady flow of intuitions that will instruct you on how to elude overconfidence and instead cultivate more of the warm, radiant charisma that is your birthright. You came here to planet Earth not just to show off your bright beauty, but also to wield it as a source of inspiration and motivation for those whose lives you touch.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else,” said inventor Buckminster Fuller. I don’t fully endorse that perspective. For example, when I said goodbye to North Carolina with the intention to make Northern California my new home, Northern California is exactly where I ended up and stayed. Having said that, however, I suspect that the coming months could be one of those times when Fuller’s formula applies to you. Your ultimate destination may turn out to be different from your original plan. But here’s the tricky part: If you do want to eventually be led to the situation that’s right for you, you have to be specific about setting a goal that seems right for now.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): If you were an obscenely rich plutocrat, you might have a pool table on your super yacht. And to ensure that you and your buddies could play pool even in a storm that rocked your boat, you would have a special gyroscopic instrument installed to keep your pool table steady and stable. But I doubt you have such luxury at your disposal. You’re just not that wealthy or decadent. You could have something even better, however: metaphorical gyroscopes that will keep you steady and stable as you navigate your way through unusual weather. Do you know what I’m referring to? If not, meditate on the three people or influences that might best help you stay grounded. Then make sure you snuggle up close to those people and influences during the next two weeks.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): The coming weeks will be a good time to fill your bed with rose petals and sleep with their aroma caressing your dreams. You should also consider the following acts of intimate revolution: listening to sexy spiritual flute music while carrying on scintillating conversations with interesting allies . . . sharing gourmet meals in which you and your sensual companions use your fingers to slowly devour your delectable food . . . dancing naked in semi-darkness as you imagine your happiest possible future. Do you catch my drift, Cancerian? You’re due for a series of appointments with savvy bliss and wild splendor.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “I have always wanted . . . my mouth full of strange sunlight,” writes Leo poet Michael Dickman in his poem “My Honeybee.” In another piece, while describing an outdoor scene from childhood, he innocently asks, “What kind of light is that?” Elsewhere he confesses, “What I want more than anything is to get down on paper what the shining looks like.” In accordance with the astrological omens, Leo, I suggest you follow Dickman’s lead in the coming weeks. You will receive soulful teachings if you pay special attention to both the qualities of the light you see with your eyes and the inner light that wells up in your heart.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The Passage du Gois is a 2.8-mile causeway that runs between the western French town of Beauvoir-sur-Mer and the island of Noirmoutier in the Atlantic Ocean.

It’s only usable twice a day when the tide goes out, and even then for just an hour or two. The rest of the time it’s under water. If you hope to walk or bike or drive across, you must accommodate yourself to nature’s rhythms. I suspect there’s a metaphorically similar phenomenon in your life, Virgo. To get to where you want to go next, you can’t necessarily travel exactly when you feel like it. The path will be open and available for brief periods. But it will be open and available.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Modern toilet paper appeared in 1901, when a company in Green Bay, Wisconsin began to market “sanitary tissue” to the public. The product had a small problem, however. Since the manufacturing process wasn’t perfect, wood chips sometimes remained embedded in the paper. It was not until 1934 that the product was offered as officially “splinter-free.” I mention this, Libra, because I suspect that you are not yet in the splinter-free phase of the promising possibility you’re working on. Keep at it. Hold steady. Eventually you’ll purge the glitches.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Don’t be someone that searches, finds, and then runs away,” advises novelist Paulo Coelho. I’m tempted to add this caveat: “Don’t be someone that searches, finds, and then runs away—unless you really do need to run away for a while to get better prepared for the reward you have summoned . . . and then return to fully embrace it.” After studying the astrological omens, Scorpio, I’m guessing you can benefit from hearing this information.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Go ahead and howl a celebratory “goodbye!” to any triviality that has distracted you from your worthy goals, to any mean little ghost that has shadowed your good intentions, and to any faded fantasy that has clogged up the flow of your psychic energy. I also recommend that you whisper “welcome!” to open secrets that have somehow remained hidden from you, to simple lessons you haven’t been simple enough to learn before now, and to breathtaking escapes you have only recently earned. P.S.: You are authorized to refer to the coming weeks as a watershed.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Musician and visual artist Brian Eno loves to dream up innovative products. In 2006, he published a DVD called 77 Million Paintings, which uses technological trickery to generate 77 million different series of images. To watch the entire thing would take 9,000 years. In my opinion, it’s an interesting but gimmicky novelty—not particularly deep or meaningful. During the next nine months, Capricorn, I suggest that you attempt a far more impressive feat: a richly complex creation that will provide you with growth-inducing value for years to come.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Do you know about the Lords of Shouting? According to Christian and Jewish mythology, they’re a gang of 15.5 million angels that greet each day with vigorous songs of praise and blessing. Most people are too preoccupied with their own mind chatter to pay attention to them, let alone hear their melodious offerings. But I suspect you may be an exception to that rule in the coming weeks. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you’ll be exceptionally alert for and receptive to glad tidings. You may be able to spot opportunities that others are blind to, including the chants of the Lords of Shouting and many other potential blessings. Take advantage of your aptitude!

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Greenland sharks live a long time—up to 400 years, according to researchers at the University of Copenhagen. The females of the species don’t reach sexual maturity until they’re 150. I wouldn’t normally compare you Pisceans to these creatures, but my reading of the astrological omens suggests that the coming months will be a time when at long last you will reach your full sexual ripeness. It’s true that you’ve been capable of generating new human beings for quite some time. But your erotic wisdom has lagged behind. Now that’s going to change. Your ability to harness your libidinous power will soon start to increase. As it does, you’ll gain new access to primal creativity.

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PUBLIC NOTICES Montana Fourth Judicial District Court Cause No.: DV-16-807 Dept. No.: 4 Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Allexendra Pavley, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Allexendra Pavley to Allexendra Isabelle Pavley. The hearing will be on 11/15/16 at 3:00 p.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: 10/4/16 /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Darci Lehnerz, Deputy Clerk of Court Montana Fourth Judicial District Court, Missoula County Cause No. DV-16833 Dept. No. 1 Leslie Halligan Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Laura Arvidson, Petitioner.

This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Laura Lee Crane Arvidson to Laura Lee Cova. The hearing will be on 11/16/2016 at 1:30 p.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County.

Date: October 7, 2016. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Michael Evjen, Deputy Clerk of Court Montana Fourth Judicial District Court, Missoula County Cause No. DV-16834 Dept. No. 1 Leslie Halligan Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Jonathan Sky Wilsnack Orndoff, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Jonathan Sky Wilsnack Orndoff to Jonathan Sky Cova. The hearing will be on 11/16/2016 at 1:30 p.m.

The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: October 7, 2016. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Michael Evjen, Deputy Clerk of Court Montana Fourth Judicial District Court, Missoula County Cause No.: DV-16744 Dept. No.: 3 Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Jamie M. Goldsberry, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has

asked the District Court for a change of name from Jamie Marie Goldsberry to Jamie Marie Walter. The hearing will be on 11/17/2016 at 10:00 a.m.

The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: 10/11/2016 /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 Hon. Leslie Halligan Probate No. DP-16-68 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MARJORIE PETTINATO, Deceased.

NOTICE IS GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of this Estate. All persons having claims against this Estate are required to present their claim 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 certified mail, return receipt requested, to Martin J. Elison, PO Box 5496, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court.

DATED this 1st day of November, 2016. /s/ Loretta Duncan, Personal Representative. Martin J. Elison, Attorney for Personal Representative. /s/ M. Elison MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Probate No. DP-16-190 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM WILES, 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 months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Marlene Wiles, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Boone Karlberg P.C., P. O. Box 9199, Missoula, Montana 59807-9199, or filed

MNAXLP with the Clerk of the aboveentitled 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 4th day of October, 2016, at Missoula, Montana. /s/ Marlene Wiles, Personal Representative BOONE KARLBERG P.C. By: /s/ Julie R. Sirrs, Esq. P. O. Box 9199 Missoula, Montana 598079199 Attorneys for Marlene Wiles, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Hon. John Larson Probate No. DP-15-118 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF LOREN GETSCHMAN, Deceased.

NOTICE IS GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of this Estate. All persons having claims against this Estate are required to present their claim 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 certified mail, return receipt requested, to Martin J. Elison, PO Box 5496, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court.

DATED this 1st day of November, 2016. /s/ James Spooner, Personal Representative. Martin J. Elison, Attorney for Personal Representative. /s/ M. Elison MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA

COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Probate No. DP-16-156 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF KIM IVEY MOORE, 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 estate are required to present their claim 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 certified mailed to Western Montana Chapter for the Prevention of Elder Abuse, return receipt requested, at c/o Worden Thane P.C., PO Box 4747, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court.

DATED this 14th day of October, 2016. WESTERN MONTANA CHAPTER FOR THE PREVENTION

OF ELDER ABUSE /s/ Melissa Steigler, Executive Director Personal Representative WORDEN THANE P.C. Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ William E. McCarthy

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE

will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 12, 67, 82, 84, 154, 199, 217. Units can contain furniture, cloths, chairs, Toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, other misc household goods, vehicles & trailers. These units may be viewed starting 11/14/2016 by appt only by calling 541-7919. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 3505 Clark Fork Way, Missoula, MT 59808 prior to at 11/17/2016 at 4:00 P.M. Buyer’s bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale.

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MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Karen S. Townsend Probate No. DP-16-204 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF OPAL A. SMITH, 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 Estate are required to present their claim 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 certified mail, return receipt requested, to

The following described personal property will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder for cash or certified funds. Proceeds from the public sale for said personal property shall be applied to the debt owed to Rent-a-Space in the amounts listed below (plus as yet undetermined amounts to conduct the sale): Space/Name/$$$/Desc 1246/Scott Houghton/$403/tools 2202/ Darcey T. Anaquod/ $276/ sports equip 2248/ Elizabeth Martin/$270/instruments 4444/Kalyn Thomas/ $237/clothes 6172/ Jeannene Perez/$334/misc. SALE LOCATION: Gardner’s Auction Service, 4810 Hwy 93 S, Missoula, MT www.gardnersauction.com SALE DATE/TIME: Wed, Nov 30, 2016 @ 4:30 PM (check website for details) TERMS: Public sale to the highest bidder. Sold “AS IS”, “WHERE IS”. Cash or certified funds.

Calvin F. Smith, c/o Worden Thane P.C., PO Box 4747, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court.

DATED this 21st day of October, 2016. /s/ Calvin F. Smith, Personal Representative WORDEN THANE P.C. Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ William E. McCarthy MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP16-198 NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of FRANCES L. RUFFATTO, 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 months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Donna Ann Gilbert, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at P.O. Box 1645, Great Falls, Montana 59403, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court.

DATED Oct. 24, 2016. /s/ Donna Ann Gilbert, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY, Cause No. DP16-192, Dept. No. 4, NOTICE TO CREDITORS, IN RE THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM J. HAMILTON, DECEASED. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Goldie Golding has been

PUBLIC NOTICES appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this Notice to Creditors or the claims will be forever barred. Claims must be mailed to Goldie Golding, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o MacDonald Law Office, PLLC, P.O. Box 9222, Missoula, Montana 598079222. DATED October 21, 2016. /s/MacDonald Law Office, PLLC by Spencer T. MacDonald, Attorney for Personal Representative. \NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 12/22/03, recorded as Instrument No. 200347710 Book 724 Page 169, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which Richard J Freeman, a single person was Grantor, Wells Fargo Home Mortgage Inc. was Beneficiary and Insured Titles was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Insured Titles as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 20 in Block 6 of Wapikiya Addition No. 2, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 04/01/16 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of September 20, 2016, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $108,163.31. This amount includes the out-

standing principal balance of $104,097.33, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, On the Front Steps, City of Missoula on February 2, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time.

The sale is a public sale and any person, including Bene-

MNAXLP ficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location 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, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually in-

missoulanews.com • November 10–November 17, 2016 [C7]

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6 Chris of the "Fantastic Four" series 11 Agcy. of the Department of Health and Human Services 14 Stress, cigarettes, handing car keys to your teen, e.g.

15 1976 Olympics star Comaneci 16 Letters on a tombstone 17 Comedian Mandel, shaped like an oval?

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70 Crater Lake's st.

71 "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" refrain 72 Geometrical findings 73 "Game of Thrones" patriarch ___ Stark 74 Hit with a stun gun 75 Justin Timberlake's former group Last week’s solution

DOWN 1 God, to a Rastafarian 2 I trouble?

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12 Platter shape 13 Abbr. in an organiz 18 Exclamations of surprise 22 Mauna ___ 23 Suffix after land or man 24 Video game company with a famous cheat code 25 Philadelphia NFLer followed his coach's orders?

27 Steve who played Mr. Pink 30 "Just a ___ like one of us" (Joan Osborne line) 32 Word with bird or fight 34 Sea off Sicily 35 Prepare for shipping 37 "This won't hurt ___!"

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59 Flatten out 60 Feature of some Ben & Jerry's pints 61 "Return of the Jedi" princess 63 "___ example ..."

66 "Bah!" 67 "Curious George" author H.A. ___ 68 Singer Morrison 69 "Exit full screen" button"

PUBLIC NOTICES curred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred.

Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com.

Freeman, Richard J.(TS# 7023.117159) 1002.288760File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on February 23, 2017, 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: Lot 6A of River Road Estates Lots 6A & 7A, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. THEODORE D Weber, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to Insured Titles, a Montana Corporation, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to , National Association, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust on June 26, 2002, and recorded on June 28, 2002 as Book 684 Page 752 Document No. 200218611. The beneficial interest is currently held by LSF9 Master Participation Trust. 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 beginning December 1, 2012, 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.

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The total amount due on this obligation as of October 10, 2016 is $72,250.57 principal, interest totaling $7,372.48 escrow advances of $15,139.06, suspense balance of $-433.42 and other fees and expenses advanced of $8,509.06, plus accruing interest, 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 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

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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: October 13, 2016 /s/ Rae Albert 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 13 day of October, 2016, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Rae Albert 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/ Kaitlin Ann Gotch Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 07/29/2022 Caliber Home

Loans vs THEODORE D Weber 101331 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on March 2, 2017, 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: LOT 17 OF COUNTRY CREST NO. 3, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF JAMES B KELLER and MARGARET KELLER, as Grantors, conveyed said real property to CTC Real Estate Services, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust on February 22, 2003, and recorded on March 5, 2003 as Book 700 Page 1174 Document No. 200307579. The beneficial interest is currently held by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. First American Title Com-

PUBLIC NOTICES pany 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 beginning February 1, 2016, 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, 2016 is $88,294.02 principal, interest totaling $2,518.77 late charges in the amount of $180.16, escrow advances of $4,249.44, and other fees and expenses advanced of $3,079.91, plus accruing interest, 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,

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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: October 21, 2016 /s/ Kaitlin Ann Gotch 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 21st day of October, 2016, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Kaitlin Ann Gotch, 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/ Rae Albert Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 09-06-2022 Nationstar Mortgage LLC KELLER 101580-2

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CONDOS/ TOWNHOMES The Uptown Flats #105. Ground floor condo offers extra large south-facing patio. 1 bed, 1 bath. $161,900 Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546.5816 anne@movemontana.com

The Uptown Flats #303. 1 bed, 1 bath with all the amenities. $159,710. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 anne@movemontana.com

DUPLEXES DUPLEX - UNIVERSITY AREA LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION! Duplex 8 blocks from campus! The upper unit has three bedrooms and one bathroom. The lower unit, accessed by a separate entrance, has two bedrooms and one bathroom. Other features include a fenced back yard, large garden area and a storage building that could easily be converted back into a garage. There is plenty of off-street parking in the alley. So many options for this property!

Live in one unit and rent out the other, rent both or convert back into a single family home in one of the most coveted locations in Missoula! For more information or to schedule a showing, please contact your real estate agent or Megan Twohig at (406)370-2895

$99,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

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For Sale 2- 16x80 mobile homes in great condition $35,000 delivered and set up within 150 miles of Billings. 406-259-4663

FIDELITY MANAGEMENT SERVICES, INC. 7000 Uncle Robert Ln #7

251- 4707

LAND FOR SALE Rochelle Glasgow

18.6 acre building lot in Sleeman Creek, Lolo. $129,900.

BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

4829 Alex Lane Apt. 10 2 Bed/ 1 Bath $795/month

Cell:(406) 544-7507

Uncle Robert Lane 2 Bed/1 Bath $795/month

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4.6 acre building lot in the woods with views and privacy.

Lolo, Mormon Creek Rd.

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1201 South 6th Street, Missoula Modern Condo Unit #204

$259,900 • MLS # 20157047

2 Bedroom 3 Bathroom Unit, 1,496 sq ft. The Factory Condos Complex is possibly the ''Greenest'' Building in Missoula. High Efficiency Lighting and Energy Efficient Gas Boiler with H2O Baseboard Heat. Unit consists of 2 levels with 10 Foot Ceilings on Main Floor and 9 Foot Ceilings on the upper floor. Bamboo Floors throughout the Main Floor Highlight the Open Kitchen which has Butcher-Block Counter Tops. Fresh Interior, Brand New Appliances with Natural Gas Range. Living Area has a New Gas Fireplace Master Bath with Tiled Floors and Counter Tops.

Tylor Trenary Main Street Realty (406) 544-3310 tylor@mainstreetmissoula.com

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NW Montana Real Estate. Several large acreage parcels. Company owned. Bordered by National Forest. Timber. Water.

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(406)293-3714

sites. $49,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com

South Frontage East, Alberton.

37 acres with multiple building

3106 West Broadway. 20,000 sq.ft. lot with 6568 sq.ft. building

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with office, retail & warehouse space. $795,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653 pat@properties2000.com

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Martin’s Clean All. Successful power washing business includes truck & equipment. $80,000. Pat McCormick, Properties. 240-

14.9 acre building lot in Frenchtown. Borders public lands. $180,900. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call

OUT OF TOWN

Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4 Bdr, 2 Bath, Clinton home on 1.5 acres. $312,500. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit

www.mindypalmer.com 5 Bdr, 2.5 Bath Lower Rattlesnake home. $525,000.

BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

Uptown Flats #105 • $161.900 | Uptown Flats #303 • $159,710

309 RIDGEWAY, LOLO

Modern 1 bed, 1 bath condos at 801 N. Orange St. within walking distance to Downtown, St. Pat's Hospital, Clark Fork River & Northside Kettlehouse.

Just Listed! Come see this 3+ bedroom, 2 bath home with spectacular views, vaulted ceilings, attached double garage, beautifully landscaped yard, gas hot water heat and more! $249,900

NHN South Frontage East, Alberton • $49,000 Pat McCormick 37 recently surveyed acres with Clark Fork River Valley views and multiple building sites. Perfect for get-away cabin or year round residence.

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Call Matt at 360-9023 for more information

Hot Springs 215 Spring Street, Hot Springs. Don’t miss this one! A short walk from downtown and healing mineral springs with more than an acre of bountiful gardens and attached greenhouse!! $145,000 KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com