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AT THE MOCCASSIN POST OFFICE, FOLKS FEAR THEIR TOWN’S LAST LIGHT WILL BE DOUSED

WOLVES TOO CLEVER MONTANA’S OLDEST RED IF ROBOTS LIKED MUSIC, NOISE NEWS ARE COMMENT FOR MONTANA HUNTERS? EXITS WITHOUT REGRETS IT’D BE TALKDEMONIC

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One of the more notable movements in food lately is built around the doctrine of locavores, who believe that the food that comes from your backyard is better than anything that comes from afar to a supermarket. In that vein, we’ve asked five local chefs to give you a look inside their kitchens and offer recipes for a soup, salad, appetizer, entrée and dessert that capitalize on local or locally-available ingredients...........................................................14 Cover by Chad Harder

News Letters The feds duped Montanans with medical cannabis busts ..............................4 The Week in Review Our little earthquake, a pipeline postponed and more ..........6 Briefs Elusive wolves, a new health insurer, plans for a new hotel............................6 Etc. Why we heart county clerk extraordinaire Vickie Zeier .......................................7 Up Front The Transition movement comes to Missoula.............................................8 Up Front The Moccasin P.O. on the chopping block..................................................9 Ochenski Don’t think you can beat the Occupy movement ....................................10 Comment 100-year-old Elsie Fox exits stage left.......................................................11 Agenda Missoula Water Now presents Blue Gold .....................................................12

Arts & Entertainment Flash in the Pan Cooking with squash, from soup to pie........................................19 Happiest Hour Flathead Lake Brewing’s Holiday Ale ..............................................20 8 Days a Week Now is our winter of content...........................................................22 Mountain High Bitchin’ ski movies at The Roxy ......................................................33 Scope Painter Rick Bartow’s toothsome show at MAM.............................................34 Noise Talkdemonic, DJ Abilities, Abelina Valley, Andre Nickatina.............................35 Books Fred Haefele captures Montana’s soul in Extremophilia ..............................36 Film Senna, a documentary, will make your heart race............................................37 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films ...................................................38

Exclusives Street Talk....................................................................................................................4 In Other News...........................................................................................................13 Classifieds ................................................................................................................C-1 The Advice Goddess................................................................................................C-2 Free Will Astrolog y .................................................................................................C-4 Crossword Puzzle....................................................................................................C-7 This Modern World ...............................................................................................C-11

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Asked Monday, Nov. 14th, in the University Center at the University of Montana.

The holiday season is officially here. What’s the best Thanksgiving you’ve ever had? Follow-up: What’s the worst Thanksgiving you’ve ever had?

Travis Brown: My best Thanksgiving was two years ago. Me and my brother just sat around and got stoned and ate a ton of turkey. Leg up: My girlfriend came to dinner at my parents’ house for Thanksgiving when I was a freshman. My mom and brother were bickering, which led to throwing turkey legs at one another. My little sister then chucked a pie straight into my girlfriend’s face. I didn’t get laid that night.

Bob Athearn: My best Thanksgiving was about 60 years ago, when I was about 10 years old. My mom took us to a Duncan Hines-approved restaurant. I can still taste the turkey and pumpkin pie from that day. Yin, yang: My worst Thanksgiving was during my first marriage. My wife and I fought the entire day, and we ended up getting divorced about two years later. I later found out that she was a certified schizophrenic, and I no longer feel guilty. Mary Kettering: My best Thanksgiving was as a kid. My Mormon neighbors brought some really religious Mormon friends and their kids to our house. The kids weren’t allowed to tell us their first names, so we threw Beanie Babies at them until they did. Turkey sandwich, ma’am? Last year, Thanksgiving at my grandma’s got really weird. My dad and my aunt were talking about sex, while my 83-year-old grandmother ate silently in between them. It was really awkward. Rick Graetz: Every Thanksgiving is great for me. I generally go down to Utah or Colorado and hike with friends in the desert. It’s nice to get out of town every now and again. Hey, lighten up, okay? I’ve never had a bad day, much less a bad Thanksgiving. I teach Geography classes here at the university and I have a great job, a caring family and amazing friends. When you get to be my age, every day you’re alive is a good day. Sam Brown: My Thanksgivings are generally pretty good. They usually start off boring but they always end well. My family is really traditional and boring, so I usually just get shit-faced off wine and watch football. (S)mashed potatoes: Like I said earlier, my family is really boring, so I have to find things to do to keep myself entertained. Any Thanksgiving where there’s not alcohol and T.V. would suck.

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Set up by the feds It wasn’t clear at the time, but when the federal government abruptly steamrolled dozens of medical marijuana providers in Montana in March, it marked the start of a radical national reversal in Obama administration policy. It was President Obama himself, as a candidate in 2008, who promised to stop caring about legal medical marijuana operators in states like Montana. And it was Obama whose Justice Department in 2009 told U.S. attorneys to focus on other issues, and to leave alone those marijuana patients and providers who performed in “clear and unambiguous compliance” with their state’s laws. But in its dramatic 2011 reversal of this policy, the federal government treated honorable Montanans as second-class citizens. Earlier this month, the feds gave California’s marijuana dispensaries 45 days of advance notice to shut down. In contrast, Montanans, all of them registered with the state health department to grow and dispense marijuana to legal patients, got zero warning of a federal policy change. They had been judged as legal, by all appearances, by state and local law enforcement officials, but unlike their many thousands of California counterparts, didn’t receive the courtesy of notice that the feds were about to reverse its policy. Why? To add insult to injury, the federal government is now prosecuting these Montanans against whom local and state law enforcement officials had not acted. Indeed, some of those being targeted by federal law enforcement had maintained continuous and close relations with local law enforcement. They were proceeding professionally and had no interest in breaking the law. Now, instead, the nation’s taxpayers are funding a DEA witch-hunt that targets them in direct contradiction to Obama’s promises both as a candidate and in his initial policy actions once in office. Apparently, the DEA either didn’t get the memo or ignored it. Perhaps “Drug Czar” Gil Kerlikowske, director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, needs to be replaced. We all know what repeating the same thing over and over and expecting a different result constitutes. This situation in our state is simply unfair. It’s unfair because in effect the feder-

al government set some of these people up—promising a new policy, then pulling the carpet out from under those who believed a new direction of hope and change was in the works. It’s also cruel. It’s cruel because federal courts—in further contradiction to Obama’s promises—don’t allow any consideration of a person’s adherence to state and local law. The U.S. Attorney in Montana is pursuing prosecutions that won’t permit any fairness as to what is discussed in court. No mention of the state law or of compliance with it. No

“Why are taxpayers now paying to persecute Americans who merely responded honestly to campaign promises and policy pronouncements of our president on medical marijuana?” mention of meetings with local and state officials to ensure that compliance with the law was in place. And who is being targeted by the federal government? It isn’t everyone. The party that unquestionably profited the most from Montana’s medical marijuana law, NorthWestern Energy, hasn’t been indicted. But NorthWestern was well aware of what many of the state’s caregivers were doing, visited their locations and helped upgrade their electrical infrastructure on a regular basis. The company is no less guilty of a “conspiracy to violate federal drug law” than were the legal Montana caregivers now in the government’s crosshairs. And Montana banks are no less guilty of “money laundering” than the caregivers

might be, either. Under federal law, to take money from a patient, deposit it in the bank and use it to pay the electricity bill constitutes “money laundering.” Don’t think for a second that banks whose clients had the word “cannabis” and “marijuana” in their business names didn’t know what was going on. Federal prosecutions are being very selective, for what seems to be political purposes, in who is targeted by the DEA. This situation in Montana and elsewhere magnifies the counterproductive results of modern day prohibition and needs to end immediately. This is the sort of thing that weds Occupy Wall Street to the legions of Americans who know the socalled “war on drugs” has been a complete failure. Today’s prohibition effort repeats our history in alcohol prohibition, in demonizing drug addiction, and has enriched organized criminals while criminalizing average Americans seeking relief from pain and disease. This all comes at tremendous cost to the treasury, with no impact on drug use or the problems it causes. While I am personally a strong supporter of the Obama administration and Montana’s U.S. attorney, Mike Cotter, I am confused and disappointed. This administration has some serious explaining to do, not just to Montanans but to the voters in every medical marijuana state. Some of these states—like Michigan, Colorado, Washington and Oregon—are must-win states for Obama next year. Why are taxpayers now paying to persecute Americans who merely responded honestly to campaign promises and policy pronouncements of our president on medical marijuana? William Strizich Great Falls

Humbled by Wal-Mart Kudos to Jamie Rogers for his piece “The witching hour” (Nov. 10, 2011). It sheds light on a phenomenon many of us know nothing about. I was deeply touched and stunned by the details of midnight shopping for economic reasons. Sometimes those of us living well need this sort of glimpse into another reality. Humbling. Ann B. Nash Bow, Wash.

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The animal morgue I had a hard time with this piece (“Animal house,” Nov. 3, 2011). It was well written and informative, unsentimental and direct, so that wasn’t it. And not because of politics—I am not judging or moralizing about hunting or taxidermy. But reading about this process did strike me personally. I just kept thinking how odd (for me) it seems to go to all that trouble to kill something and then go to even more trouble to make it look like it is alive. And then I couldn’t get the vision of a human morgue out of my mind, imagining lifeless people being manipulated into life-like poses instead of deer and antelope. This article, in all its

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detail and obvious respect for the artists and their craft, still left me with a feeling of loss. Posted on November 8, 2011 at 8:17 p.m.

Second nature I would like to remind you that people are in fact manipulated into life-like poses every day at funeral homes everywhere. It’s called the embalming process and it will happen to most of us. We do this to preserve them in their entirety and to honor and celebrate their life at their funeral. Similarly, we preserve the animals to remember those special moments that we experienced while enjoying the outdoors. Hunting is about

respect and appreciation for animals and the environment alike. Hunting is an incredibly structured and calculated method of wildlife control and preservation. Hunters contribute more to land management and wildlife preservation than any other group. We still consume the meat from the animals that are mounted, and by sending them to the taxidermist, we preserve the parts of the animal that cannot be consumed. If you would consider it more humane to eat the head and antlers, give me a forwarding address and I will gladly send them to you when I fill my next tag. Posted on November 11, 2011 at 11:47 p.m.

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The Missoula City Council begins interviewing municipal judge candidates to replace Donald Louden, who after more than two decades officially steps down Nov. 18. Council has until Dec. 18 to fill the vacancy. Eight candidates are in the running.

• Thursday, November 10 The Obama administration announces it will consider alternate routes for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, which, as currently proposed, would cut through eastern Montana en route from Alberta’s tar sands to refineries on the Gulf Coast. The move delays a final decision until after the 2012 election.

• Friday, November 11 The U.S. Geological Survey reports that a 3.3-magnitude earthquake strikes southeast of Clinton just before 11 a.m. Folks across western Montana report feeling rumbling from the quake, which is later upgraded to a 4.2.

• Saturday, November 12 In basketball, the St. Mary’s College Gaels score the final five points, including a buzzer-beating put-back, to beat the University of Montana Lady Griz 67-65 in the consolation game of the Maggie Dixon Classic in Chicago. Montana junior Katie Baker scores a careerhigh 25 points.

• Sunday, November 13 While driving eastbound on an icy Highway 200 near Lincoln, David Jonathan Darger, 27, of Victor, loses control of his Mitsubishi Galant, slides into the westbound lane, and is T-boned by a Mitsubishi Montero, killing him. The 57-year-old driver of the Montero is transported to St. Peter’s Hospital in Helena.

• Monday, November 14 The American Civil Liberties Union appeals Donaldson and Guggenheim v. State of Montana to the Montana Supreme Court. The suit, which seeks legal recognition for same-sex couples, argues that the Montana Constitution guarantees fair and equal treatment for everyone.

• Tuesday, November 15 Montana opens its three-month bison-hunting season in areas outside Yellowstone National Park. This year marks the first time bison can be hunted in Park County’s Gardner Basin. As many as 144 bison can be legally harvested—but only if the bison decide to migrate outside park boundaries.

Rime collects on subalpine fir needles high in the Lolo National Forest. The crystals—more than two-inches long here—can grow quickly when sub-zero water droplets in fog or clouds come in contact with anything.

Healthcare Stranger in town Early this month, Oregon-based health insurance provider PacificSource Health Plans signed a letter of intent to purchase a sizable chunk of Montana’s second largest health insurer, New West Health Services. New West announced earlier this year that it would be exiting the commercial insurance market, and originally intended to sell to Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Montana. Antitrust officials intervened, stating that such a transfer would give Blue Cross too dominant a share in Montana’s market. Enter PacificSource, a not-for-profit founded in 1933 by 21 physicians at Pacific Christian Hospital in Eugene. The company began an ambitious growth strategy several years back, buying up providers like Bend, Ore.-based competitor Clear One Health Plans and expanding into markets in central Oregon, Washington and Idaho. PacificSource is already a familiar name to 1,500 Montana members who enrolled with the company after the $46 million Clear One purchase in 2010.

For the rest, however, PacificSource is a stranger. President and CEO Ken Provencher says the biggest challenge PacificSource now faces is building a brand and establishing a community presence in Montana, as it did in Idaho. When PacificSource bought Boise-based Primary Health in 2009, Primary had 15,000 members. PacificSource has increased Idaho enrollment to 35,000 members. “The communities…in Montana are very similar to communities where we’ve had success in the past, and where we think our model works really well,” Provencher says. Provencher took the helm at PacificSource in 2001, after his predecessor and the company’s chief financial officer resigned over financial irregularities discovered during a state insurance investigation. He’s since focused on expanding not only PacificSource’s geographic footprint but also its market presence. The acquisition of Clear One marked the company’s first involvement in Medicare and Medicaid. Provencher has also directed PacificSource to continue emphasizing healthy living in its members’ communities; last fall, PacificSource gave the University of Oregon

a $1 million grant to help students and faculty quit tobacco. “We’ve really put an emphasis on being an effective community partner and an investor in improving health,” Provencher says. PacificSource is set to inherit up to 10,000 customers from New West, adding to its 261,000-member network across the Pacific Northwest. Provencher says he doesn’t anticipate any major changes for former New West members. Alex Sakariassen

Missoula downtown Developers propose riverfront hotel Missoula City Council this week began considering a proposal to build on the city’s long-languishing, undeveloped 1.87-acre parcel at the corner of North Orange and West Front streets known as the “Fox Site,” part of the Riverfront Triangle. “If we can pull this off, I will be very happy,” says Missoula Redevelopment Agency Assistant Director Chris Behan. Behan is reserving his optimism—because the

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city has been unsuccessful in its first six attempts to develop the prime piece of riverfront real estate. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like waking up every morning and thinking its Christmas, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not,â&#x20AC;? he says. The MRA in May invited developers to submit their vision for the property. A selection committee and the MRA board chose one of five proposals. This week, they recommended that city council grant developer Hotel Fox, LLC exclusive right to negotiate an agreement with the city to develop the land. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We feel confident in at least starting negotiations,â&#x20AC;? Behan says. Hotel Foxâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s proposal calls for a 200-plus-room hotel with a 15,500-square-foot conference space and a health club that will be open to guests and the public. An indoor-outdoor swimming pool overlooking the Clark Fork would stretch out alongside a restaurant and retail shops. Hotel Fox partners include the Missoulabased Farran Groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pat Corrick and Jim McLeod, who have been working through financing challenges to develop the Intermountain Lumber site on Missoulaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Russell Street. Other partners include Dieter Huckestein, Sean Averill and Scott Ringer. Averill and Ringer are based in the Flathead Valley. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Having a convention-hotel facility, I think, is key for the city,â&#x20AC;? Ringer says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re just very excited about it.â&#x20AC;? Building the Fox Hotel is estimated to cost $37.6 million. According to Behan, it would be funded with private funds, loans, tax credits and, potentially, tax-increment financing through the MRA. If council signs off on the deal, Behan says the MRA will support the developers as they engage in a market study and set to work drawing up architectural plans, all in the hope that the seventh time will be the charm. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Until they can get some of this work done, we wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know,â&#x20AC;? Behan says. Jessica Mayrer

Hunting Those wily wolves On Monday morning, the Big Bear Tannery in Darby took in an â&#x20AC;&#x153;awesomeâ&#x20AC;? black wolf, says owner Donna Hellyer, giving the taxidermist four of the 12 wolves shot in the districts surrounding Darby this wolf hunting season, Montanaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The number of wolves taken thus far doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t meet our expectations,â&#x20AC;? Hellyer says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but the number weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re getting of whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been taken weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re happy with.â&#x20AC;? The number of wolves killed so far isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t meeting the expectations of Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks,

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either. As of Nov. 15, more than halfway through the season, 73 wolves had been shot statewide, well short of the 220-wolf quota. The discrepancy is especially stark around Darby. In Management Unit 210, which stretches from Frenchtown to southeast of Dillon, and from the Montana-Idaho boarder to Butte, nine wolves have been shot; the quota is 36. In the much smaller Management Unit 250, the West Fork of the Bitterroot, three wolves have been shot, and the quota there is 18. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The concern is that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not reaching the quota,â&#x20AC;? says FWP Wildlife Biologist Craig Jourdonnais. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shared by a lot of

folksâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;including the FWP Commission, which finds itself considering extending the season by a month, to Jan. 31. But Jourdonnais expects a turnaround. Over the last couple of weeks, as snows have come, more and more hunters passing through the Darby check station have reported spotting wolves, he says. Hellyerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hopeful, too. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Most guys that are going out are going out looking for game, and after the season closes after Thanksgiving, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be going out looking for wolves,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And so hopefully thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be more takenâ&#x20AC;ŚWe have a lot, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re just very wily. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re just very good at avoiding people.â&#x20AC;? Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re so good that Idaho has resorted to trapping in order to reduce wolf numbers there. Montanaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wildlife officials havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t proposed trappingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;yet. Meanwhile, the Big Bear Tannery is running a special this season: $1,600 for a full wolf mount. Rugs run $120 a foot. Matthew Frank

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Signs of the times The last few weeks saw an explosion of campaign signs in Missoula. Most were related to the city council races that wrapped up Nov. 8., but several plugged a candidate whose big day wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come until next year, and they appeared where such signs arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t allowed: the public right-of-way. A number of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ron Paul 2012â&#x20AC;? signs popped up curbside around Missoula early this month, including at the intersection of South First Street and Orange. They lingered for several days before disappearing, whisked away by residents who recognized a violation of a city ordinance. Missoulaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s public works department typically deals with problem signs on public property. The Ron Paul signs, however, fell outside the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s typically complaint-driven enforcement of the law. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The only ones we proactively remove are very large ones we construe to be hazardous,â&#x20AC;? says Bruce Bender, chief administrative officer to Mayor John Engen. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re sight obstructions.â&#x20AC;? Bender adds that political signs appear for a relatively short time and are usually too small to be considered a public safety concern. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We tend to ignore them.â&#x20AC;? Someone didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. Missoula resident Paul Bowles removed the sign on First and Orange. It had nothing to do with Ron Paul, he says. He would have removed a Barack Obama campaign sign, too. Private use of a public right-of-way is illegal, and Bowles felt a responsibility to maintain the property he and every other Missoulian owns. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If somebody puts a sign up there, in my opinion itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a bad reflection on that candidate and their supporters,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It shows a lack of understanding of the law and respect for the rest of us.â&#x20AC;? Bowles notes a number of Ron Paul signs still out on North Reserve Street, many adjacent to businesses that may not support the Republican presidential hopeful. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Is Town Pump endorsing Ron Paul?â&#x20AC;? Bowles asks. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know that, but thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the sign, out on the right-of-way by Town Pump.â&#x20AC;? City Attorney Jim Nugent says campaign signs are historically less of a concern on the public right-ofway. Most complaints the city receives are about real estate signs. But the lawâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s there for a reason, he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was in Spokane a couple weeks ago, and when we got off at the exit, I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe how many signs were at the first intersection,â&#x20AC;? Nugent says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was just blanketed, literally blanketed, on all corners of the intersection.â&#x20AC;? Alex Sakariassen

Years local skiers have shredded Rocky Mountain powder at Montana Snowbowl. In honor of the ski areaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 50th anniversary, Bayern Brewing is unveiling a new brew, Groomer, Thursday, Nov. 17.

etc. Nine minutes after Missoulaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s citywide elections came to a close last week, our phone rang. To our delight it was Missoula County Clerk and Recorder Vickie Zeier, who, with characteristic efficiency, ticked off the first election results ward by ward. We were struck by the fact that Zeier made time to call us in the middle of keeping the countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s whiz-bang ballot-counting machines up to snuff and tallying city council results. Our admiration grew into something stronger when we realized we werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the only ones Zeier calledâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;she personally contacted multiple media outlets, election junkies and at least one council candidate with updates almost hourly until after 10 p.m., when all the votes were counted. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll just come out and admit it: We heart Vickie Zeier. Forgive us for romanticizing, but weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re still smitten with Zeier in the afterglow of election night. We see the soft-spoken administrator as a champion of democracy. Perhaps more than anyone else, she knows the value of one person, one vote. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I do understand how important [votes] are,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One vote makes a difference and, you know, this election shows us that.â&#x20AC;? Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re lucky in Missoula to have responsive officials. But Zeier stands out as especially conscientious. Even after working for 27 years in county government and overseeing dozens of elections, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s anything but a calloused bureaucrat content to rest on her laurels while ticking off the days till retirement. This public servant is so invested that sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been known to tear up when criticized in public. That was the case in 2009, when Zeier and the Missoula County Board of Commissioners, aiming to reconcile an increase in absentee voting with a tight budget, moved to shutter polling places. For Zeier, it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t easy to stomach claims that she was disenfranchising voters. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was hard to hear that people thought that of myself and my staff,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I do become pretty emotional with elections.â&#x20AC;? With Missoulaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s citywide election season coming to a close, Zeier is already prepping for next time, ensuring, for instance, that election judges will be ready to roll and AutoMark wheels are greased. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The 2012 elections are going to be crazy,â&#x20AC;? she says. We can barely wait until our phone rings again after polls close Nov. 6, 2012.

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What comes next Transition arrives in Missoula with a question mark by Skylar Browning

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But not all attendees shared the same Anne Little sat in a corner of the are honored, new groups are formed and University Congregational Church on a all of them can adapt to a community’s optimism. Jay Bostrom, a Spanish teacher at recent Thursday night, selling copies of a specific needs. In practice, established Big Sky High School, takes part in a study book she thinks will save Missoula. The Transition Towns have created community group that originated out of Occupy Transition Handbook, written by Rob supported agriculture, shared transport, Missoula. The “free school” meets every Hopkins, presents a grassroots framework local currencies and energy-saving clubs. Thursday evening at the University Center— for how a community can become more Various Missoula nonprofits are already “we decided to become ‘Occupy the resilient in an age of climate change and doing some of these things, but a local University,’” he says—and happened to peak oil. The Transition movement origi- Transition effort would better coordinate make the Transition movement its first focus. The mullers recently reached out to nated six years ago in the United Kingdom and build around them. “The movement is very young, but the the group, and Bostrom, who admits he’s and, since the publication of Hopkins’ book in 2008, has spread to more than concepts behind it have been in action in still skeptical of the Transition concept, went to the UCC expecting to 900 towns, cities and neighhear ideas from the community. borhoods across the world. He was surprised the event Little, who ordered “as many instead focused mostly on copies as she could” through Running, who closed his presFact & Fiction for last week’s entation with suggested susintroductor y Transition tainability solutions. Running meeting, is part of a growing mentioned, among other number of locals who believe things, buying a Prius and it’s time the movement replacing one’s gas lawnmower reached Missoula. with an electric one. Members “I think it’s our only of the audience yelled out that hope,” says Little, who he should consider eliminating serves as vice chair of Photo by Steele Williams his lawn altogether. the Missoula Urban “For many of us, it was trouDemonstration Project, or Missoulians gather on the evening of Nov. 15 to mull the MUD. “I think we can’t Transition concept at the UM FLAT (Forum for Living with bling that that was how a Appropriate Technology). Transition Town meeting was expect big government to help us in any way, shape or form. Missoula for a very long time,” says Little. being presented to the community,” says They’ve had their chance and failed. Now “MUD itself has been doing these things for Bostrom. “I would have liked to hear ideas it’s time we do something for ourselves.” 30 years, with things like the tool library from others in the room. Frankly, and with More than 100 people filed into the and truck-share program. In a way, all due respect, I think they would have had better ideas and not the same tired lines of UCC to learn more about the local effort, Transition is like MUD on steroids.” Many attendees of the introductory cultural capitalism.” which technically has yet to start. The group Brown understands the criticism and that organized the event is called Transition meeting had already participated in some Town Missoula? (motto: “Help us remove form of the Transition Network. Derek concern. While grateful for Running’s the question mark”). It’s made up of nine Kanwischer, who helped found the UM presence and enthusiasm, she regretted women referred to as “mullers”—as in, they FLAT sustainability house, first learned not budgeting more time for group disare mulling whether or not to make about Transition Towns a year ago and cussion and specific talk of Transition Missoula an official Transition Town. The built an informational website (transition- Towns. But Brown quickly points out that meeting’s featured attraction was a presen- missoula.org) in hopes of starting some- the movement is in its infancy and mistation by climate expert and University of thing in Missoula. He’s now working with takes are going to happen. In fact, the handbook itself includes a prominent Montana professor Steve Running, who the mullers. isn’t affiliated with the Transition Network “What I like is that there isn’t a focus “Cheerful Disclaimer!” It reads: “Just in but recognizes “this is a smart time for peo- on policy or technology,” Kanwischer case you were under the impression that ple to get more self sufficient in both a per- says. “The focus is on how you live and Transition is a process defined by people sonal and communal way.” how the community lives. We have a com- who have all the answers, you need to be “Part of what appeals to many of us is munity that’s already really powerful, and aware of a key fact. We truly don’t know if that Transition is in line with many of Transition Town puts the emphasis on uti- this will work. Transition is a social experiment on a massive scale.” Missoula’s core values,” says Claudia lizing that.” Brown isn’t under any false illusion. Brown, one of the mullers. “Our role as Hudson Spivey, a student in UM’s the initiating group is to educate and raise environmental studies program, attended She understands there’s only so much she awareness and organize, but ultimately it the meeting after taking part in similar and the other mullers can do. After all, will be up to others to decide where to events in Roseburg, Ore. Transition Town there’s a question mark in the group’s take this.” didn’t take off there for a variety of rea- motto for a reason. The next Transition Town Missoula? The Transition concept operates sons, he says, including the fact that most under the premise that energy supplies of those interested couldn’t avoid driving meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. are dwindling and communities must to each of the meetings. “Missoula is small 29, at noon in the Missoula Public work together now to prepare for the enough for this to actually work,” says Library. future. The handbook details how that Spivey. “If there’s any place Transition sbrowning@missoulanews.com collaboration can occur so existing groups Town could happen, it’s here.”

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Return to sender Can a small post office in central Montana survive? by Jamie Rogers

Pillar, Mont.; in Angora, Neb., Graham, Fla., and Acosta, Pa., residents of oft-forgotten places are facing the closure of what, in some cases, is the only lit storefront in town. According to Coleen Robinson, postmaster of Ingomar, Mont., the concern is nearly existential: “If our post office goes away, does our town go with it?” Though no customers in any zip codes will be left without access to mail, Von Bergen believes some residents’ lives will be significantly disrupted by the closure. Among her customers, she says, is an illiterate woman with diabetes who trusts Von Bergen to help her pay her bills, read her mail and call when her medication is in. Another customer, a 90-year-old woman, lives across the street in a house with a stack of wood and a red phone booth in the front yard (the booth was a gift from her son). Von Bergen says the woman was born in that house, has lived there all her life and has never driven a car. When Von Bergen told her that the office might close, she says, the woman shot back, “I have no intention of learning to drive.” Shortly before Von Bergen closes for the day, the lobby is suddenly Photo by Elizabeth Costigan crowded. There are three generaDon Taylor exits the post office in Moccasin after sending a letter. tions: grandmother and grandfather, She began working for the United States that Sally stops in everyday and that her daughter-in-law and granddaughter. When Postal Service in 1978 and was appointed dementia is getting worse. “We all try and Von Bergen sees the girl, Kiyanah, who is 9, Moccasin’s postmaster in 1987. Back look out for her.” she coos and feigns shock at how big she then, she says, Moccasin was a different This summer, the United States Postal has gotten. Kiyanah is bashful at first, town: “Every house was filled and we Service announced that it would begin watching her feet and keeping a shoulder had two farmers that actually lived in reviewing nearly 3,700 USPS retail locations firmly connected to her mother’s hip. She town, and they plowed the streets in the for possible closure. In a statement, lives in Portland, Ore. with her parents but winter. Everybody took care of every- Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe said, comes to Moccasin a few times a year to body else.” “Our customer’s habits have made it clear visit her grandparents. And Von Bergen. Kiyanah’s grandmother tells Von Today, driving by on Highway 200, a that they no longer require a physical post few smoking chimneys and a car parked office to conduct most of their postal busi- Bergen that Kiyanah has brought her a out front of the post office are the only way ness. The Postal Service of the future will be present. Von Bergen raises her eyebrows to tell Moccasin is really still a place. Of the smaller, leaner and more competitive and it and asks Kiyanah what she has brought. buildings not leaning precipitously toward will continue to drive commerce, serve Kiyanah places a thin cardboard box with two cupcakes on the counter. Von Bergen collapse, most are boarded up. The school, communities and deliver value.” Though Von Bergen says she under- makes a whooping sound and asks Kiyanah which has been abandoned for decades, is the tallest structure around save for the stands why her post office is on the chop- if she can eat them both right away. Asked if she knows the Postmaster in grain elevator across the highway, and it ping block, she also feels there is a disconlooms over the western edge of the com- nect between policy makers in Washington Portland, Kiyanah smiles and blurts out a munity from a plot of unkempt bramble and communities such as Moccasin: “They “No!” Her mother adds, “Whenever we go and tall, dry grass. When asked how many don’t have a fix on what rural people to the post office to send a package to people now live in Moccasin, Von Bergen endure. I can see why they think it’s fluff to Moccasin, the lady behind the counter stands up straight, closes her eyes and have a post office in every little town…but a l w a y s a s k s , ‘ W h e r e t h e h e c k i s points through the walls of the post office. until you’ve lived in one, you can’t under- Moccasin?’” stand the heart that a post office gives to a At this Von Bergen smiles and says, “I She counts under her breath: 26. always tell people we’re just right in the As Von Bergen explains how her community.” In mid-December, Moccasin, along heart of the state—but don’t blink, ’cause workload has diminished and why she thinks over-the-counter sales are down, a with hundreds of other post offices across you’ll miss us.” woman opens the lobby door and sticks the country (including 84 in Montana), will her head through. She appears to be in learn its fate. In Decker, Loma and Pompeys editor@missoulanews.com On a cold fall day in Moccasin, Pamela Von Bergen leans over the counter and explains why her post office might close. Von Bergen, 64, has hair turning from gray to white and skin weathered by decades of the dry air and strong winds of central Montana. Born in the Belt area, she moved to Moccasin with her husband, a “local boy” and farmer, in 1968. They bought their first house for $500 ($250 before harvest, $250 after).

her 60s but her youthful eyes and a floppy stocking cap make that uncertain. She’s already laughing. “Well, hello, Sally,” Von Bergen says. Sally’s response is jumbled by a fit of giggling. Von Bergen asks her how she’s doing, and Sally says she is just out for her daily “run through town.” The exchange lasts a few minutes before Sally leaves. Von Bergen watches through the lobby window as Sally walks away. She explains

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Our winter of discontent You can’t club Occupy into submission

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With cold weather moving in, the massive Occupy movement will become harder to maintain. Add to that the politicians with their excuses for unleashing cops on the occupiers, and keeping up the physical presence of disenchanted citizens that has rocked the nation and world will be a daunting proposition. But don’t expect the Occupy movement to fade away as the snow flies. Instead, it will likely continue to evolve through what may come to be known as America’s Winter of Discontent. The root causes of the Occupy movement seem to be a mystery to the established political regime as well as the disaster capitalists they serve. Homelessness, hunger, education and a general feeling that 99 percent of the population is in bonded servitude to benefit the 1 percent at the top are no closer to being resolved now than they were months ago when Occupy first took its case to the pirates of Wall Street. While the bat-shit crazy Republican presidential contenders would just as soon waterboard anyone who doesn’t agree with their point of view, it’s also apparent that their Democratic counterparts are treating Occupy as if it were somehow a toxic nightmare instead of a realistic look into the dark soul of our nation. President Obama, for instance, would rather worry about Iran, Pacific free-trade agreements and starting some new African wars than dealing with the malcontents doggedly freezing on the streets and in parks across the nation. But wait, one might say, aren’t these the very people who swore oaths to uphold and protect our Constitution when they took office? Yep, they are. Yet it’s all too clear that the constitutional rights of the occupiers are being shredded every day with impunity in this former Land of the Free. Take free speech. Some will recall the famous roots of that movement in the ’60s, when what were then called “radicals” took over college campuses to protest the increasing U.S. involvement in Vietnam as well as the burning issues of civil rights and racial and gender equality. The response then was much the same as the response now—those in power turned on the protesters, using not only clubs and tear gas, but also the rifles of the National Guard,

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who, with live bullets, killed four students during an anti-war demonstration at Kent State University. As a university student in the ’60s, I vividly recall a peace march that turned violent in large part due to the tactics employed by the police, who formed a barricade and decided to push the thousands of students out of the street. It’s virtually impossible to push a throng around, since those in the back have no idea what is happening to those in the front. When the clubs started swinging and unarmed students started getting seriously hurt, they panicked and ran in all directions, with cops in hot pursuit.

These horrific incidents are being viewed by millions who find it difficult to believe that armed and armored cops have anything to fear from those they are beating. My outlook has never been the same since the day I saw a burly, helmet-clad cop run down a young co-ed, grab her by her ponytail, which was flying out behind her as she ran away, and club her to the ground from behind. That’s when “serve and protect” took on a different meaning, not only in my life but in the lives of hundreds of thousands of citizens all across the nation. Those images don’t go away. And now, for a whole new generation, they are being repeated from sea to shining sea. In what are being called acts to protect the public, Occupy members are being clubbed, gassed, arrested and seriously injured by police in major urban centers on an almost daily basis. Thanks to the internet and ubiq-

uitous cell phone cameras, these incidents are being viewed by millions who find it difficult to believe that armed and armored cops have anything to fear from those they are beating. Our nation is losing its conscience through ever more harsh “clear and control” tactics. Beating people to the ground has never been a long-term solution to society’s ills. As we’ve seen around the globe in the last year, the more the incumbent regimes turn to oppression, the more the citizens resist. We’re fortunate that the Occupy movement remains dedicated to peaceful, non-violent demonstrations. That hasn’t been the case in other places around the world—those were AK-47s in the air during the Arab Spring, not protest signs, and the blood in the streets didn’t all belong to the rebels. I hope America’s version of this global revolution can remain non-violent—at least from the Occupiers’ side, since it’s too late for the other side. But sooner rather than later, our political leaders had best begin to seriously address the root causes of the discontent. Where are the bills from Congress to help the masses? Where is the legislation to limit the usurious interest rates and penalties credit card companies routinely employ? Where is the legislation to truly help homeowners whose mortgages are underwater? Where is the budget that, for once, gives to the people instead of subsidizing useless and pointless military adventures? Instead, politicians and their wellheeled supporters are counting on the weather and the cops to silence the cries of the masses. We have this Winter of Discontent to deal with the very real issues the Occupy movement exposes. Now, in the next few months, our leaders must act. Should they once again fail to do so, we’ll likely face an American Spring—and the long, hot summer of civil unrest that will undoubtedly follow. Helena’s George Ochenski rattles the cage of the political establishment as a political analyst for the Independent. Contact Ochenski at opinion@ missoulanews.com.

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Montana communist Elsie Fox, outspoken to the end by Brian Kahn

I have begun the dying process, Elsie Fox said over the phone. Her voice was clear and steady, the diction perfect and precise, a way of speaking so essentially dignified that it commanded attention. She was 100 years old. Five months earlier, she’d charmed Bill Clinton, the former president having come to Miles City to urge voters to support his wife in the June 2008 primary. Meeting Elsie, he turned on the charm, only to be swept away by hers. They couldn’t pull him away. Later, he told the town mayor he’d just met a remarkable woman. Truer than he knew. I met her when she was 96, after I’d given a talk in Miles City. A short, pale, handsome woman with a sharp nose and sparkling black eyes, she was wearing a formal coat with a mink collar. “I know your voice from the radio,” she said, “and I want to meet you.” Seeing her, hearing that voice was enough. “Actually,” I said, “it is I who want to meet you.” The next day I interviewed her for my radio show. She was born in a log cabin on the Powder River on December 4, 1907. Her father herded horses across the West, then went looking for gold. “He wasn’t a bad man,” she told me, “not a drunk or a womanizer. But he was away from home up to two years at a time, and often did not send money.” Elsie saw her mother sob, preparing to ask her brother for help. “I told myself right then I would never be dependent on any man.” In the ’20s, she headed for Seattle. Work with an advertising firm paid for stylish clothes. A virgin, she wanted to learn about sex. “I picked an older man,” she told me, “thinking he would be experienced and gentle. I was not disappointed.” In 1929, the stock market collapsed. The Great Depression came. “I couldn’t understand it,” Elsie said. “There were still trees in the forest and salmon in the streams. But there was no work. So I went to the library to see what I could learn, and I found Karl Marx.” Later, she saw a man selling a radical newspaper. “Young man,” she said, “I have been hoping to meet some communists.”

“Lady,” he replied, “I believe I can help you out.” She attended meetings, responded to the party’s call for economic and social justice. She joined up. “One of the things about the communists that is not well known,” she said, “is that they threw great parties. The communist women tended to dress rather severely. I, on the other hand, always dressed to kill.” She laughed as she told me that, a deep, sexy laugh.

“President Hoover told us that the benefits of big business would trickle down to the people. Sound familiar? And what did we the people do? We the people marched from one end of the country to the other to demand change. We the people educated the working class…We the people organized…We the people united to help our neighbors.” She said that Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal— Social Security, unemployment insurance, public service jobs—arose through pressure from the people. “That’s the way it happened, folks. We did it then, you can do it now!” When she finished, women from their teens to their 70s stood, cheering. Last winter, the Miles City mayor called to say Elsie had been hospitalized for congestive heart failure and was resting comfortably, surrounded by friends. I called and she came on the line. “It’s always so good to hear your voice, dear,” she said. “Tell me, what do you think of the current crisis? Is this the end of capitalism?” I thanked her for the Photo courtesy Karen Stevenson life she’d led and the causes she had fought for Some in the party were sure she would over all that time. “You’ve led a noble life, not last. “Well, a lot of them dropped out. I used your time well.” was in the party for 30 years.” “You know,” she said. “A lovely thing She married a communist organizer, happened to me. One of the hospital cooks and got a job with the radical was Eskimo and African-American. And she International Longshore and Warehouse said to me, ‘I want to thank you. I enjoy Union. She worked her way up to execu- many of the things I do because of people tive secretary at union headquarters. Her like you.’ Wasn’t that wonderful!” FBI file ran 400 pages. In 1962, J. Edgar I told her the mayor and I had a Hoover told the Secret Service she was longstanding argument we’d kept secret “potentially dangerous.” from her. Sitting in her mobile home, I’d asked “What was that, dear?” how she felt about her long commitment to “We’ve been arguing about which one the socialist cause. She paused. “Well, we of us is going to run off with you.” were wrong about Stalin, about important She laughed her deep, sexy laugh. aspects of the Soviet Union. But we were Then she said seriously, with her perfect right on the basic issues. Women’s rights. diction, “I’m fortunate that I haven’t lost my An end to racism. Justice for workers. And good looks.” the threat of fascism.” Elsie Fox died Thursday, November 3, At 98, she spoke in Bozeman to a 2011. She was 103. Mother’s Day crowd of 500. She said Brian Kahn hosts the public radio proshe saw her mother vote in 1916, exercising a right made possible by the gram Home Ground, and in 2009 won the struggle of suffragettes. She spoke Montana Governor’s Award for the Humanities. about the Depression.

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So we all know plastic water bottles are lame, lazy and a genius stroke of marketing. We all use them at times, and I hope you at least feel a pinch of guilt when you do. I know I do. Today, in Grand Canyon National Park, plastic water bottles are the biggest source of garbage, according to the National Park Service. The park tried to ban the bottles, even installed “free water stations,” aka drinking fountains, but don’t you know it, at the last minute the ban was nullified. According to The New York Times, CocaCola, bottler of Dasani water, contributes millions of dollars to the National Park Foundation. The fight over bottled water in the Grand Canyon is about more than litter. The Colorado River’s water has been considered a commodity since the first cities were built in the arid southwestern United States Water the world over is the next big commodity.

In Missoula, as the Clark Fork Coalition and Mayor John Engen attempt to secure assurances that The Carlyle Group will not send Missoula’s water elsewhere if it purchases Mountain Water, it makes one consider what it must be like for the millions of people on the planet whose access to water is out of their control. For a glimpse into the lives of those without access to safe, clean water and perhaps the not-so-distant future of water around the globe, M i s s o u l a Wa t e r N o w hosts the documentary Blue Gold at the Top Hat, exploring the geopolitical and economic implications of water control as well as the toll water supply manipulation has on all of us. —Jason McMackin

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The Kiwanis Club of Missoula is looking for some little lady ballers in grades six to eight to join up and play some hoops. The season runs Jan. 9–Mar. 24. Register by Thu., Dec. 1. Free. missoulakiwanis.org. The Missoula Nonprofit Network hosts a Reaching Mellenials workshop with speaker Andrea Marcoccio of Forward Montana. City Life Community Center. 11:30–1 PM. Free for members of MNN $10 for others. missoulanonprofit.org The Recreating Holidays for Families in Transition Workshop and discussion helps individuals who have had a death in the family cope during the holidays. Missoula Public Library. 5:30–6:30 PM. Free. Schooling the World: The White Man’s Last Burden is a film that investigates what happens when crackers bring “modern” education to the Indian Himalayas, part of the Peace and Justice Film Series. UC Theater. 7 PM. Donation suggested for entry.

Missoula Water Now presents Blue Gold at the Top Hat on Sun., Nov 20. 7 PM. Free.

Dr. Kevin M. Cahill, director of the Center for International Humanitarian Cooperation, delivers the facts in his talk Romance and Reality in Humanitarian Action, part of the President’s Lecture Series. UC Ballroom. 8 PM. Free.

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 19 The Center for Autism Related Disorders hosts the Montana Autism Conference. Topics include applied behavioral analysis and effective treatment programs. The conference is open to parents, caregivers, students and practitioners. University Center Theater. 8:30–5 PM. Free.

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 20 Discuss what it takes to change our attitudes towards nature at Earth Ethics. Missoula Public Library. 2–4 PM. free.

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 18

TUESDAY NOVEMBER 22

Donate blood, maybe skip the rest of the workday, perhaps an afternoon cocktail, then nap before the kids get home? Jus’ sayin’. 10–2 PM. American Red Cross.

The Northern Rockies Rising Tide has weekly meetings this and every Tue. at at Freecycles, 732 S. First St. W. at 6:00 PM, where participants fight climate change through grassroots resistance.

The YWCA Brown Bag Lunch Discussion hosts Gail Kimbell’s talk My Experience as the First Woman of the U.S. Forest Service. 12–1 PM. Free. ywcaofmissoula.org. A topic after my own heart: The Professionalization of Humanitarianism. The seminar will be given by Dr. Kevin M. Cahill, who has five decades of experience in humanitarian efforts. Gallagher Business Building, Rm. 123. 3:10–4:30 PM. Free. Call it what you like, but something fishy is going on with the climate. Climate change law expert Michael Gerrard delivers the 2011 Hampton Lecture on

YWCA Missoula, 1130 W. Broadway, hosts YWCA Support Groups for women every Tue. from 6:30–8 PM. An American Indian-led talking circle is also available, along with age-appropriate children’s groups. Free. Call 543-6691.

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 24 The Kiwanis Club of Missoula is looking for some little lady ballersin grades six to eight to join up and play some hoops. The season runs Jan. 9–Mar. 24. Register by Thu., Dec. 1. Free. missoulakiwanis.org.

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 e-mail 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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Inside Letters Briefs Up Front Ochenski Comment Agenda News Quirks

I N OTHER N EWS Curious but true news items from around the world

Grizzly Volleyball this Week:

Friday, Nov. 18th @ 7pm Montana v. Idaho State

CURSES, FOILED AGAIN - A witness observed a boy who appeared to be breaking into a pickup truck in Port Charlotte, Fla. When confronted, the suspect fled, but as he did, the witness told Charlotte County sheriff’s deputies, his shorts fell down, revealing red boxer undershorts. The deputies reported that they located the suspect, Antonio Kleiss, 14, and “asked him to pull down his tan shorts a little, and he revealed that he was wearing red boxer shorts underneath.” Recognizing the shorts, the witness identified Kleiss, who was charged with burglary and attempted grand theft. (United Press International)

Military Appreciation Game – Free admission for all active military and veterans with ID.

Saturday, Nov. 19th @ 7pm Montana v. Weber State Senior Night – Join the Griz as they honor their seniors at the last volleyball game of the season!

Authorities arrested Dale Foughty, 56, after they said he entered a convenience store in Onslow County, N.C., wearing a Spiderman mask and waving a sword, and demanded money. The clerk pulled out a broom and poked the robber in the stomach. A second clerk joined in the struggle, during which the suspect lost his mask and had part of his ponytail ripped out. He fled empty-handed, but sheriff’s deputies found him nearby. (Associated Press)

Lady Griz Basketball this Week:

Sunday, Nov. 20th @ 2pm Montana v. Idaho

WOE BE WE- After Charles Bolden, the administrator of NASA, declared that deflecting a near-earth object (NEO), such as an asteroid or a comet, will be “what keeps the dinosaurs—we are the dinosaurs, by the way—from becoming extinct a second time,” he admitted that the space agency couldn’t afford to tackle that task, even if it wanted to. He explained that the annual federal allocation for “planetary defense” is $5.8 million, which represents a mere 0.03 percent of NASA’s budget and is barely adequate merely to locate NEOs and track their orbits. (The New Yorker)

Please bring a food donation to any Grizzly Athletics event to help support the Student Athletic Advisory Council food drive!

RUDE AWAKENING - After a couple staying at a tree-house bed-and-breakfast in Taklima, Wash., fell to the ground, they sued Josephine County for $1.2 million for physical, financial and emotional injuries. The suit filed by Michelle M. Buswinka and Maurice L. Breslin charged, among other things, that the county failed to stop the Out ’n’ About Tree House Treesort from building structures without a permit. County Legal Council Steve Rich said the county had threatened to tear down the tree houses over permit issues but ultimately allowed it to operate with five tree houses. On its website, however, the resort lists 18 tree houses, as well as rope bridges, zip-lines and rope swings. (Grants Pass Daily Courier) WHY BANKS ALWAYS WIN - During the 2008 financial crisis, trading companies Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley declared themselves to be banks so they’d be eligible for emergency loans from the Federal Reserve Bank. When the Fed issued the Volcker rule, which bans banks from trading when their own money is at risk, Susquehanna Financial Group analyst David Hilder reported the firms would shed their bank status to avoid having their activities constrained. (CNBC) RESCUES OF THE WEEK - Firefighters had to be summoned to free a man from a straw dispenser at a McDonald’s restaurant in Ipswich, England. The victim tried to remove straws from an opening at the rear of the dispenser that workers use to refill it but became trapped. The rescue crew took 20 minutes to free him. (Britain’s East Anglian Daily Times) Firefighters in Vallejo, Calif., rescued a 21-year-old man who spent nine hours stuck in a child’s swing. The man told police he became stuck after making a $100 bet with friends, then lubricating himself with laundry detergent so his legs would fit through the swing’s two leg holes. When he couldn’t get out, his friends left him overnight. Summoned by a groundskeeper who heard his screams for help the next morning, firefighters cut the swing chains, then took the victim to a medical center and used a cast cutter to slice the swing off his body. (Vallejo’s Times-Herald) SILENT TREATMENT - To encourage civility among reckless drivers and inattentive pedestrians, Mayor Carlos Ocariz of the Sucre district of Caracas, Venezuela, assigned 120 mimes dressed in clown suits and white gloves to wag their fingers at offenders. “Many times, the mimes can achieve what traffic police cannot achieve using warning and sanctions in their efforts to maintain control,” Alex Ojeda, head of a cultural organization that hired professional actors to train the mimes, said, although he conceded that changing motorists’ behavior might take time. At a ceremony for newly trained mimes, Ocariz vowed to continue the initiative “until the streets of Sucre are full of creativity and education.” (Associated Press) OLD HABITS DIE HARD - While Mark Burgin was on trial for robbery in Franklin, Tenn., he was arrested for robbing a jewelry store during his lunch break. Describing the heist as “a grab and run,” jeweler Mike Walton provided police with a description that led them to Burgin. Judge Robbie Beal kept the news from the jury until they delivered a verdict—guilty—and then police charged Burgin. (Nashville’s The Tennessean) Charles Burnett, 29, held up the same New York City bank three days in a row, using the cash to pay for a suite at a nearby luxury hotel during his spree and hiring a chauffeur-driven SUV to take him to his final heist. “I considered him a VIP because he was going to spend like $500,” driver Rafael Rubio said. By then, bank staffers recognized the 6-foot-1, 275-pound thief as “the same dumb ass who hit us yesterday,” one of them said. Two passing police officers also recognized Burnett as he left the bank, pursued and tackled him. He was holding a sack with $10,002 in it. Officers found $3,000 more in his hotel room. (New York Post) DRINKING-CLASS HERO - After sponsoring a bill to legalize carrying a gun into bars in Tennessee, state Rep. Curry Todd was arrested in Nashville for drunken driving while possessing a loaded .38caliber pistol. State law makes it a misdemeanor to consume alcohol while carrying a firearm in public. The police affidavit stated that Todd, who refused to take a Breathalyzer test, was “almost falling down at times” and was “obviously very impaired and not in any condition to be carrying a loaded handgun.” Todd made national news last year for commenting on a federal law requiring the state to extend prenatal care to women regardless of their citizenship that illegal immigrants “go out there like rats and multiply.” (Associated Press) THE SHARPIE LOOK - Sheldon Williams, a student at Texas’s Marshall Junior High School, complained that when he violated a school rule banning “designs shaved into the hair,” the principal used a permanent marker to fill in the design lines. (Shreveport, La.’s KSLA-TV)

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photos by Chad Harder Food is a paradox. We consume it, and increasingly, it consumes us. One of the more notable movements in food lately is built around the doctrine of locavores, who believe that the food that comes from your backyard is better than anything that comes from a supermarket, and that the food from a local market is better even than, say, the chocolate-dipped pears that are shipped to Montana from Oregon in a Harry and David gourmet gift basket.

As hard as it is for us to get past the mere idea of chocolate-dipped pears—chocolate-dipped pears!—we generally concur. And so, in that vein, we’ve asked five local chefs to give you a look inside their kitchens and offer recipes for a soup, salad, appetizer, entrée and dessert that capitalize on local or locally-available ingredients. Individually, the fruits of any one of these recipes could brighten a repast. Together, they’d make an outstanding holiday meal. Bon appétit!

The Silk Road’s Jacob Osborne has your appetizer

Jacob Osborne’s turkey liver pâté

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ilk Road chef Jacob Osborne likes to use all of an animal. Even the organs. It’s more sustainable that way, he says— plus, the flavors in the meat and organs of an animal correspond to one another and so can tie a meal together. “Things that are considered delicacies in other countries often arise out of necessity,” Osborne observes as he works in the Silk Road’s kitchen. “People ate liver because they couldn’t afford to not eat liver. It’s a cheap form of protein. We’ve gotten away from that, but I think it’s starting to come back…Chefs are focusing a lot on using whole animals.” That’s why, when we asked him to help us with an appetizer, Osborne, a veteran chef who’s also worked at Brooks & Browns and Sapore, chose to share with us his recipe for duck liver pâté: It can easily be adapted to use the turkey liver that most people use only in stuffing or stock, or just give to the lucky dog.

Making pâté is fairly simple, though you’ll need to start it a couple of days ahead of time to prepare it properly. And that can be a good thing, as it allows you to complete most of the dish before guests arrive and clutter your kitchen.

Jacob Osborne’s turkey liver pâté INGREDIENTS 1 turkey liver (or 2 duck livers) 1 cup milk 2 cups heavy cream 1 star anise 3 cloves garlic 3 sprigs fresh thyme peel of 1 orange 3 or 4 tablespoons cream sherry 1/2 pound unsalted butter a handful of mixed mushrooms salt and pepper olive oil

Rattlesnake Gardens’ Tony Underkoffler has your soup

he kitchen at Rattlesnake Gardens echoes with the squeak of a well-used sausage stuffer at 9:30 a.m., as Tony Underkoffler cranks out a tray of homemade spicy Italian sausage, a staple for tomorrow’s pasta special and a potential ingredient in this weekend’s soups. The air’s thick with the smell of Italian seasonings. A pot on the stove emits an occasional whiff of fresh chicken soup base. It’s not a bad way to start the morning. As Underkoffler twists a final length of sausage into links, the casing breaks in a few places. “You know,” Underkoffler says, “those old Polish ladies, all they have to do is flip this stuff in the air”—he pauses to gesture as if twirling sausage in front of his face—“and they get perfect links. Never break a one.” Cook Mike O’Connell, standing near the sink, chimes in: “Well, when your first word is ‘kielbasa’…” The banter is as thick as the chili warming in the corner. If there’s one word that applies to most of the food that comes out of Underkoffler’s kitchen, it’s “homemade.” From the soup base to the sausage, the pizza dough to the corn muffins, the cooks at Rattlesnake Gardens keep their culinary masterpieces as fresh as possible. That’s probably one of the reasons they have such a loyal base, Underkoffler says, adding, “Some people eat here seven days a week… “Right now we’re doing our own corned beef,” he continues. “Weekends, our breakfast is pretty much everything from scratch. We make our own breakfast sausage, we make our own biscuits and gravy.” Homemade goes for the recipes, too. It isn’t just Polish women rolling sausages that the cooks chitchat about; Underkoffler

DIRECTIONS Two days before the meal, soak the liver in milk with a touch of salt and pepper and let it sit overnight (this helps to mellow its flavor). The next day, take the liver out of the milk and pat dry with a paper towel. While it’s drying, make the cream reduction: Pour two cups of heavy whipping cream into a saucepan and bring it to a boil. Wrap the garlic cloves, sprigs of thyme and orange peels in cheesecloth and tie it with a piece of butcher’s twine, then drop it into the saucepan. “I like using cream reductions as well as butter just because it gives you a chance to impart some flavors that you don’t otherwise have,” Osborne says. Lightly boil the cream until it’s reduced from two cups to about one. While the reduction’s boiling, drop the liver in a hot, oiled frying pan. Sear it

says a majority of their menu ideas come from conversations in the kitchen. The restaurant’s owner, Craig MacDonald, is open to pretty much every new recipe his staff dreams up, Underkoffler says. Jamaican jerk burgers with mango slaw and curried mustard? Heck yeah. Andouille sausage sandwiches sliced thin and piled high with roasted red peppers, cheddar cheese and mayo? When it’s on a fresh bun from Le Petit Outre with a cup of chicken tortilla soup on the side? Absolutely.

powder and fresh cilantro—the kind of recipe that doesn’t take a professional kitchen to prepare. “It’s a great atmosphere to work in,” kitchen newbie Loni Anschuetz says from her potato-dicing station. Underkoffler, she says, has been “teaching me soups. I’ll ask him, ‘How do you make this?’ And I’ll make it. I have three kids, so they love it.” Underkoffler grew up in a Pennsylvania Dutch family and learned to

one”—it was mostly grill work—“but it was a job. Then I ran the Waterfront Pasta House for six years before I moved up [to Rattlesnake Gardens].” Underkoffler’s been with Rattlesnake Gardens about eight years now. He couldn’t live without a food processor these days, but he still swears by a cook’s most important tool: “Your hands.” His wealth of cooking experience has made him something of a go-to among friends. These days he keeps holidays pretty small, just the

Tony Underkoffler’s curried sweet potato-apple soup SOUP INGREDIENTS 3 tablespoons butter* 4 cups peeled and diced sweet potatoes (about 3 medium potatoes) 2 cups peeled and diced Granny Smith apples (about 2 medium apples) 1 small onion diced 2 tablespoons grated ginger 1 1/2 teaspoons curry powder 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg (freshly grated if possible) 1 cup applesauce 4 cups chicken broth* salt and pepper *Can substitute oil for butter and veggie broth or water for chicken broth, if you want your soup vegan.

Tony Underkoffler’s curried sweet potato-apple soup

“Coming up with new stuff is the most challenging—making it fun for people,” Underkoffler says. “I think the most fun I had lately was making a southwest spicy meatloaf. It had black beans and corn in it, with a blackberry chipotle glaze.” With the temperature dropping and the holiday season already on the doorstep, Underkoffler is tailoring his specials toward more wintry fare. That means sides of smashed butternut squash, pork loin entrées slathered with cider gravy and a curried sweet potatoapple soup with a dollop of yogurt, curry

Filling the cheesecloth

cook from his mother and grandmother. He’s made the rounds since he moved up the kitchen ladder from an early dishwashing stint back East. He worked in Denali National Park as a line cook for three-and-a-half years, then relocated to Utah for the skiing. The pursuit of snow took him to Big Sky, where he landed a gig as head line cook at the ski resort. He eventually followed an ex-girlfriend to Missoula. “The first job I got was the Silvertip Casino,” he says. “Not too proud of that

kids and his girlfriend, but he used to do the potluck Thanksgiving thing. A few years back, a friend in Chicago called him up for tips on preparing his first Thanksgiving turkey. Underkoffler was glad to help out. Cooking’s just what he does. “I just enjoyed it growing up,” he says. “I’d help my mom and my grandma cook, and it naturally progressed into a profession from there. My brothers and sisters would make ham-and-cheese sandwiches. I’d break out the pan and start cooking.”

on both sides; don’t cook it through. Set it aside. When the reduction’s ready, take out the cheesecloth. Drop the liver into a blender or food processor and pulse a few times, then slowly pour the reduction into the blender and blend until smooth. The heat of the cream will finish cooking the liver. Don’t pour so much that it gets watery; you want it to have the viscosity of a thick sauce. Next, add small pieces of cold butter, being sure to blend each piece completely before adding the next piece. Once all the butter is incorporated, taste the pâté and season with salt and pepper if needed. Then pour the mixture through a fine strainer into a pâté mold. Wrap the mold and put it in the refrigerator overnight to harden. The next day, before your guests arrive, sauté mushrooms in olive oil. Osborne uses a mix of portabella,

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SOUP DIRECTIONS Melt butter in soup pot. Add onion and cook until onion turns translucent (about 3 to 4 minutes). Add ginger and cook for another minute. Add sweet potatoes, diced apples, curry powder and nutmeg. Stir well and cook for another 3 to 4 minutes. Add chicken broth and applesauce and stir well. Bring to boil and then reduce to a simmer and cook until sweet potatoes are tender (about 30 minutes). Puree soup in a blender until smooth. Season with salt and pepper. GARNISH INGREDIENTS 1/2 cup yogurt 1/2 teaspoon curry powder 2 tablespoons fresh chopped cilantro GARNISH DIRECTIONS Mix ingredients together and put a dollop of mixture on soup. —Alex Sakariassen

chanterelle, oyster, shitake, crimini and button mushrooms. While they’re sautéing, add the cream sherry, which pulls out the mushrooms’ flavors. Remove the pan from heat and let a tablespoon of butter melt into the sherry, making a sauce. Now for the presentation: Take the pâté mold out of the fridge and turn it upside down on a serving plate. If it doesn’t slide out of the mold, try heating the mold with a lighter. Then fill out the plate with the mushrooms. Splay pear slices on top. Garnish with another sprig of thyme. Serve with sliced baguette. “One thing about pâtés,” Osborne says, “is you can really form it into whatever you want it to be.” Indeed, molding pans come in all kinds of shapes. There are even molding pans shaped like turkeys. —Matthew Frank

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The Pearl Café’s Walker Hunter has your salad

n the final Saturday of the season at the Clark Fork River Market, Walker Hunter is on the prowl for Brussels sprouts. Hunter, a 33-year-old chef for the upscale Missoula restaurant Pearl Café, scours the farmers markets every Saturday for the restaurant’s evening specials. Sometimes he’s looking for particular ingredients, but mostly he’s looking to see what’s in season, in order to spark a meal’s design. Hunter is a kinetic guy with sleeve tattoos and the kind of rebelliousness that gets young, adventurous chefs onto reality TV shows or in profiles in The New Yorker—the kind that fuels tell-all memoirs of life in the kitchen trenches.

“You all out of Brussels?” he asks a vendor. “Steven has some,” the vendor says. “I didn’t have any today.” Hunter knows many of these farmers by name and chats with them along the way. We finally find a few Brussels sprout stalks among the market tables, which are overflowing with mushrooms, squash, onions and carrots—a surplus from a late growing season. “When you’re working with the seasons, you’re always at that intersection of two thoughts,” Hunter observes. “It’s what is available and what is desirable…When we’re coming up with specials, it’s always, ‘Is this dish making sense?’”

Walker Hunter’s roasted-chanterelle-and-Brussels-sprout salad with cider vinaigrette

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Hunter finds another ingredient at Charlie Hopkins’s mushroom table. Hopkins just sold his last lobster mushrooms, but he has lots of chanterelles. “Even better,” says Hunter. “There’s not much you can’t do with chanterelles.” The fall salad Hunter is planning will be used as a topping on quail, but it can also be eaten as a salad dish. The final, main ingredient is pea shoots, something usually found at Missoula markets in spring. This year they’re available at several tables with the typical fall fare. And so this salad isn’t just a tribute to fall, it’s a reflection of this particular fall.

“To have pea shoots and Brussels sprouts side by side, it’s a gesture to what this year’s been like,” Hunter says. “Everyone was bitching in June because there weren’t any sun-ripened tomatoes. But now it’s late and we still have pea shoots. This salad is really a way to do a fall thing but lighten and brighten it a little.” He carries his market goods into the back door of the old brick building where Pearl resides and starts preparing the salad. (I have to document the recipe; chefs like Hunter go by instinct, not a formula.) Hunter learned the basics of line cooking when he was 16 at Steve’s Restaurant, a family-style, from-scratch joint in his hometown of Rumney, N. H., in the foothills of the White Mountains. He learned efficiency and multi-tasking, but not technique. “It was short order,” he says. “Flip, chop, press, microwave, plate, ship.” While he was in college at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, Hunter cooked at Red Hook Brewery, where he had more time and leeway to be creative. By the time he came to Missoula to get his MFA in Creative Writing, he says, he was beginning to learn how to approach cooking intuitively. He spent time talking about technique with fellow chefs who were seasoned at top restaurants in Missoula such as Red Bird and Scotty’s. Then he learned the ropes from Pearl owner Pearl Cash and from Ryan Smith, whom he now cooks alongside. There are restaurants that offer a broad range of familiar food to entice everyone. At Pearl, where specials often are built around seasonal and locally raised ingredients, there’s what Hunter calls a contract of trust. Customers expect the chefs to take creative license. That contract can be broken on either side. Chefs don’t always read their customers correctly, as when Hunter— who says he likes trashy food because “I’m kind of trashy”—tried to do a fancy version of fish and chips: halibut with a cornmeal crust and truffle salted potato rounds. No one bought it. “That was one of those situations where I thought I was being clever and whimsical,” he says. “But it went down in flames.” And then there are the customers who want to swap ingredients rather than try what a chef has put together, or they’re dismayed when, say, a chanterelle-and-Brussels-sprout salad is a topping on fish. That’s fine, says Hunter—he respects that—“but ideally, what we do is present people with something they didn’t know they wanted, but

they trust us enough to know they will enjoy it.” Perhaps not surprisingly, Hunter has voluminous opinions about salad, although they might more properly be called feelings. Still, in this recipe (see sidebar), there is ample room for choice. The chanterelles and Brussels sprouts are combined with butter and infused with sprigs from sage, rosemary and thyme. The pea shoots, celery root and apples are tossed in right before serving, to keep them crisp. But you could forego the pea shoots and just

could do it…It wouldn’t be very hard at all. But it’s not the full experience of a meal.” And then he comes out with this pronouncement: “Today is just a kick-ass fall day. This is the kind of day I want a pie. I want a roast. I want a casserole. And a salad that embraces what we have around here. There’s only so much you want shipped over here from France when you can find something that represents what it means to cook that food here and now.”

1/2 pound celery root (about one small bulb), cleaned, peeled and sliced into matchsticks 1 medium-sized sweet apple, such as a Bitterroot Macintosh, cored, quartered and sliced 3 tablespoons butter 1 shallot 4 cloves garlic 3 sprigs each of sage, rosemary and thyme 1 ounce Pecorino Romano cheese (optional) VINAIGRETTE INGREDIENTS 1/4 cup cider vinegar 1/2 cup good apple cider 1/2 teaspoon Dijon mustard 1 medium shallot, minced 1 clove garlic, minced 3/4 cup good olive oil DIRECTIONS Preheat oven to 400 degrees. In a large pan over medium-high heat, melt butter and add chanterelles and Brussels sprouts along with herbs and two crushed garlic cloves. Let cook on stovetop until browning begins (about 3 minutes). Transfer to oven and roast uncovered for 15 minutes or until the mushrooms and Brussels sprouts are browned and tender. Remove from oven and let cool to room temperature. Discard herbs and garlic. For the vinaigrette, reduce the apple cider by half, leaving approximately 1/4 cup. In a blender, add reduced cider, cider vinegar, shallots, garlic and mustard. Blend on high while adding oil in a slow, steady stream to emulsify. May be made up to three days in advance and refrigerated. Immediately before serving, toss Brussels sprouts, chanterelles, greens, apples, red onion and celery root with vinaigrette. Finish with shaved Pecorino if desired.

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make it a vegetable side. You could replace it with wilted kale and chard to give it a hardier texture. You could sprinkle cheese over the mushrooms and Brussels sprouts, broil it and make a vegetarian entrée. As designed by Hunter, this salad, as a piece of a larger fall meal—even a Thanksgiving meal—does what all good salads do: cleanses the palate. Holiday meals are heavy by design. A good salad is light and acidic. “If you just sat down and tried to eat turkey and gravy, turkey and gravy,” he says, and pauses. “It’d be fine, actually. I

Walker Hunter’s roastedchanterelle-and-Brussels-sprout salad with cider vinaigrette SALAD INGREDIENTS 10 ounces of chanterelle mushrooms, thoroughly cleaned and cut into one-inch-thick strips 10 ounces of Brussels sprouts, halved 1 bunch (7 ounces) of pea shoots, arugula, watercress or another hearty salad green 1/2 of a smallish red onion, finely diced

NOTES • For vegan diners, you can omit the Pecorino, instead roasting the mushrooms and Brussels in oil. • Add sliced bacon to the roasting pan for more meat-oriented diners. • This salad works as a great side for roasted or grilled meats, especially duck and pork. It’s also delicious with salmon or trout. • Check your local grocery for “poultry blend” pre-packaged herb bundles, which usually contain the necessary herbs for this recipe at an affordable price. The Missoula Community Food Co-op offers a vegetable bag for $15 that contains many of the ingredients for this recipe, fresh and local; contact them for availability, 728-2369. —Erika Fredrickson

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The Red Bird’s Jim Tracey has your entrée

n a recent, brisk fall day, the Red Bird Restaurant kitchen begins to warm as staffers bustle around, preparing for dinner service. There’s jazz on the radio—a sweet clarinet emits an upbeat bebop—as Red Bird co-owner and executive chef Jim Tracey points to a large, golden-brown tenderloin, two thick slabs of pâté, duxelles— made with mushrooms, shallots, butter and Madeira wine—and a flat slab of puff pastry that will, when our cooking lesson is complete, envelop our beef Wellington in a flaky crust. People think beef Wellington is hard to make, Tracey says. “But it’s not.” There’s some dispute about this dish’s origins, but most culinary historians agree that it’s named for Arthur Wellesley,

gladly try new dishes and then carefully replicate them at home. His mother and grandmother cooked for days to prepare for huge parties they’d have around Christmas, Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day. He was reared surrounded by four sisters and dozens of family members. Holidays were a time when they all came together and feasted for hours. Tracey was just a kid when he first went to work in a kitchen, helping in his great-grandfather’s restaurant in Sea Isle City. Later, when Tracey moved west, to Colorado, he worked in restaurants to pay his way through college. When he made his way to Missoula to attend the University of Montana, he met Christine Littig while working at the Old Post Pub.

ers that many say are among the best in Missoula. The wine bar has helped sustain the enterprise as the local and national economies linger in the doldrums and people eat out less, Tracey says. “It just brings in a completely different crowd.” Tracey, 38, is something of a selfmade man. He never went to a culinary school. Instead, he’s enlarged his knowledge and feel for food over the years through books, colleagues and, like his mother, sampling food wherever he goes. “Everything taught me,” he says. It’s also his knowledge of the Missoula community that helps sustain the Red Bird. He understands, for instance, the Garden’s City’s apprecia-

SAUCE INGREDIENTS 2 carrots 1 onion 1 garlic bulb 2 tablespoons flour 2 tablespoons tomato paste stems from mushrooms 1 cup Madeira wine 5 cups beef stock. DIRECTIONS Cook butter, onion and carrots on low until they’re caramelized. Add one whole garlic bulb cut in half. Stir in two tablespoons of flour—a roux, “which is basically a thickener,” Tracey says. Add two tablespoons of tomato paste and cook the sauce for five minutes before adding mushroom stems left over from the duxelles and one cup of Madeira. Reduce again until nearly no liquid is left. Then add five cups of beef stock. Simmer for a while, then strain, and “you’re good to go with the sauce,” Tracey says. EGG WASH INGREDIENTS 1 egg 1 tablespoon milk 1 tablespoon water DIRECTIONS Mix egg with 1 tablespoon of water and 1 tablespoon of milk. That way your egg doesn’t get gunked up. OTHER INGREDIENTS Center cut beef tenderloin Pâté—You can skip this ingredient, or substitute with another. Tracey say prosciutto is a good option. Puff pastry—Make it yourself, or buy the shell in the grocery store’s frozen food aisle.

the first Duke of Wellington, who led the English Army when it helped trounce Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. In any case, the dish is exquisite. Topped with rich and buttery Madeira sauce, beef Wellington comes across as fancy—as something you labored over all day. Yet it’s an entrée that just about anyone can make. It gives even novices like us a chance to flex our culinary muscle. Tracey says his mom used to make beef Wellington for Christmas. The man who oversees one of Missoula’s most esteemed restaurants grew up surrounded by people who loved to cook. His grandparents’ house in southern New Jersey’s Sea Isle City was always filled with the aroma of a pie baking in the oven, he says, or of a sauce simmering on the stove. His paternal grandmother was Italian, he explains, and she carried with her a love of sharing good food. “Every time anybody would walk in the door, she’d go make them something.” Tracey says his mother further expanded his culinary horizons. She’d

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When Littig moved on to launch the Red Bird in 1996, Tracey went with her. (Littig now owns Bernice’s Bakery with her husband, Marco.) It was Littig’s vision that drove the Red Bird, Tracey says: using locally grown food to craft upscale cuisine. “It’s just kept evolving from what she started.” In 2001, Tracey and his wife, Laura Waters, were looking to start their own restaurant, eyeing Whitefish as a potential launching ground. At the same time, Littig, who had just had her second child, decided she wanted to sell the Red Bird, he says. “She offered the place to me. I thought about it. And I was like, ‘Why would I started a new place when I could just do this?’” He and Waters jumped in. They’ve continued to cultivate the Red Bird’s reputation as a warm and welcoming spot to enjoy locally raised food prepared with five-star flair. Five years ago, they launched the Red Bird’s wine bar, which offers a separate and more casual menu from the dining room, with burg-

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tion for homegrown cuisine and the people responsible for growing it.

Jim Tracey’s Beef Wellington DUXELLES INGREDIENTS 1/2 cup butter 1 cup diced shallots 6 cups diced mushroom, button or shitake 1 tablespoon thyme 1/2 teaspoon black pepper 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/4 cup Madeira DIRECTIONS Remove mushroom stems and set them aside (you’ll need them later). Dice mushroom tops. Sauté shallots in 1/2 cup of butter until they’re translucent, not brown. Add mushroom tops. Cook mushrooms and shallots until the liquid is gone. Be patient. (“Keep stirring it and stirring it,” Tracey says.) Add fresh thyme, black pepper, salt and Madeira. Cook until liquid is reduced.

PUT TING IT ALL TOGETHER Preheat oven to 400 degrees and place pâté on the flattened puff pastry. Spread the pâté across the pastry with a spoon, then sprinkle duxelles on top of the pâté before placing the tenderloin on top. Wrap pastry around the meat and brush egg wash along the pastry edges to seal the pastry shut. Roll the wrapped tenderloin over, so the seam is at the bottom. Cut a couple of slits in the dough on top of the uncooked Wellington— this allows steam to escape when cooking and better ensures the Wellington doesn’t get soggy. Use the remaining puff pastry to cut out decorations, like a Christmas tree, if that suits you. Apply decorations on top of the Wellington. Bake at 400 degrees. Check temperature with a meat thermometer—Tracey serves the dish when the meat is cooked to about 130 degrees. Let it sit a few minutes before serving. —Jessica Mayrer

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Peter the Pie Guy has your dessert

eter Clavin never expected to find himself in Missoula—living in a converted Northside church with six roommates, scrambling through the communal kitchen on a Thursday night, prepping to make four apple pies and two pumpkin pies (one of each being gluten-free) and explaining how an East Coast professional became better known as Peter the Pie Guy. A few years ago, Peter the Pie Guy was a paralegal living in Washington, D.C, contemplating his next step in life. He imagined grad school and teaching. He

imagined writing. He even imagined—and ended up going on—a year-long jaunt to Lithuania, where he taught English. But becoming a successful baker of beautifully crafted pies in Montana? No way. Clavin hardly cooked at all when he moved west. “When it comes to baking, I’m really a one-trick pony…But now I spend almost every Thursday and Friday night doing exactly this,” he says while rolling dough on a wooden kitchen table and then stirring a bowl of freshly sliced apples from the Bitterroot’s Home Acres Orchard. “I lose hours in here. Some nights, it’ll be 2 or 3 in the morning before I know it.” Peter the Pie Guy emerged unexpectedly and mostly out of necessity. Shortly after he moved to Missoula for graduate school in 2008, Clavin’s beloved pit bull, which he adopted in Lithuania, underwent two surgeries to remove a chew toy that was lodged in her small intestine. Clavin couldn’t afford the veterinary bills so he organized a pass-the-hat benefit with some roommates at the converted church. Artists donated 40 paintings for an auction and others made scores of items for a bake sale. Clavin decided to contribute five Betty LouBerry pies, named after his dog. The event raised $1,100. The pies were a hit. “Partly because of the reaction from my friends that night, I decided it was worth a shot to sell them at the market,” he says. “That first week, I took three of the sorriest-looking pies you’ve ever seen—and still sold out.” Since becoming a staple at the Clark Fork River Market in 2009, Peter the Pie

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Guy has steadily built a devoted following. He’s gone from initially selling about five pies every Saturday—at $3 or $4 per slice, $20 or $25 per pie—to 16 a day this past season. He also takes regular orders through his website (www.peterthepieguy.com) throughout the year and often barters with other local merchants in pies; his “car guy” is fixing a busted window on his Nissan in exchange for a chicken pot pie. His extensive menu—from sweet fruits to savory mushrooms, cheeses and meats— also offers customers a choice of traditional, glutenfree or vegan pies. His signature selling points are a “perfect pie crust” made from a secret recipe, reduced sugar in the pie filling and, now, a classic latticed presentation. “If you’re going to be the Pie Guy,” he says, “you may as well do everything you can with the pies.” Clavin, 33, has no formal training in a kitchen. He credits his mother and brother as “great bakers” who shared with him some early secrets, including the “perfect pie crust” recipe. He’s collected other recipes

here and there that he liked, all of which he keeps in a beat-up blue folder from his days studying literature in the University of Montana’s graduate program. The rest, he says, came naturally. “I realized the other day that I’ve made over 600 pies in the same little oven,” he says. “It’s amazing that it’s grown the way it has, that it’s become who I am.” Therein lies the tricky part of Peter the Pie Guy’s success: It was never his aspiration to become known for his pies. Clavin earned his masters from UM in 2009 and is currently applying to doctorate programs. He still wants to teach. When he’s not working 9 to 5 at Creative Arts Publishing or baking, he publishes a local literary journal, the name of which is the French symbol “ç” (although you may call it “cedilla”). On a certain level, the pies are nothing but a way to supplement his income. “It’s tough because I find myself trying not to embrace this persona all the time, and yet more and more people only know me as ‘the Pie Guy,’” he says. “It’s great, but I’m hoping that’s not it for me.” Watching him at work, one would never notice any struggle with identity. In the old church’s kitchen, as he continues to prepare those four apple pies and two pumpkin pies, Clavin appears entire-

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ly within his element. Roommates come and go, guests pepper him with questions, Betty Lou occasionally scurries over for attention and, at one point, half the kitchen loses power. Yet Clavin never loses his rhythm, meticulously crisscrossing strips of dough over a pile of apples speckled in cinnamon and sugar. At least for tonight, Peter the Pie Guy is thriving.

Aunt Sandy’s pumpkin pie, by way of Peter the Pie Guy INGREDIENTS 6 ounces pumpkin (canned or fresh) 1 9-inch pie crust 2 eggs lightly beaten 1/2 cup sugar 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg 1/2 teaspoon ginger 1/4 teaspoon cloves 1 cup evaporated milk DIRECTIONS Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Combine eggs, sugar, salt and spices and beat well. Blend in pumpkin. Add milk, then beat well again. Bake pie at 450 degrees for 10 minutes, then at 350 degrees for 35-45 minutes. —Skylar Browning

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Breakfast, lunch, dinner—and pie FLASHINTHEPAN Winter squash—along with turkey, eggnog and perhaps your crazy aunt Bertha—has a place at most holiday tables. But unlike the others, there is a seasonal reason for the inclusion of winter squash. And by seasonal, I don’t mean holiday season. As the warm part of the year belongs to greens and tomatoes, the cold months belong to that hard-shelled, long-storing cucurbit. I’ve got a stash of more than 200 buttercup squashes from a crop that friends and I grew in a shared garden on borrowed land. At first this mountain of blue/green spheroids looked insurmountable, and I wondered what I would possibly do with them all. But as I started cooking, the pile began to look almost pitifully inadequate. Now I know that I’ll be depending on, and enjoying, those squashes all through the long, cold winter. In many English-speaking countries outside of the U.S., the word “pumpkin” refers to the entire diversity of winter squash. In the U.S., pumpkin is a particular type of this expansive family. If more people realized this, they would likely have at least one dish they could make from winter squash. That dish would be pie. And the making of squash pies would be progress, because today most cooks and consumers seem to consider dealing with winter squash a chore, more like Christmas shopping than the gift that it is. I’m going to change that for good with three winter squash recipes that will give you a whole new perspective on this underappreciated staple. First, a chocolate squash pie that will make you hoard your squash like a squirrel stashing acorns. Next, a soup that’s as simple as it is satisfying. And finally, a roasted squash with roots that will have you popping those crispy chunks like potato chips. The mediocre reception that winter squash often receives has a lot to do with the most common cooking advice given to neophyte chefs. “Simply cut the squash in half, scoop out the seeds, and bake it face-down on a cookie sheet at 350 until soft,” goes the protocol. Those who follow such directions are usually told to serve their squash dressed in butter and maple syrup, or some other

sweetener. To me, that’s like serving milk with cream, or bacon with grease. Baking squash is a fine means to an end, like pie or soup, but left at that, a chunk of baked squash tends to remain on the plate after the action has moved to the living room couch. Here’s how to make squash into dishes that will be eaten for pleasure, not duty.

Chocolate winter squash pie Bake the squash as described above, and as the squash is baking, make a crust (or use a store-bought one). Then prepare the following chocolate sauce. Mix half a cup of sugar and half a cup of unsweetened cocoa powder. Melt half a stick of but-

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squash mixture. Bake for 45 minutes at 300 degrees Fahrenheit, or until an inserted knife comes out clean. Let the pie cool to room temperature so the chocolate layer doesn’t smear when you cut it.

Winter squash soup While the inherent sweetness of winter squash is apparent in pie, it doesn’t get in the way of this savory soup. The trick here is combining baked and simmered squash. Start with one in the oven, as above. Take another squash, or the other half of a big squash, and skin it with a knife. Cut it into small pieces until you have a cup’s worth. Saute an onion, chopped, in olive oil until translucent, and add the cut squash. Then add two cups of water and simmer. Add two cups of the baked squash, mashed, and cook to a soft, chunky consistency. Add salt and raw pressed garlic to taste, and serve.

Winter squash as roasted root Winter squashes can act like honorary roots and can be roasted along with fellow winter storage crops like potatoes, carrots and parsnips. Cut roots and squash into one-inch chunks, coat with olive oil, sprinkle with salt and pepper, and cook under the broiler, stirring Photo by Ari LeVaux frequently. In about half an hour, the ter over low heat, add the chocolate-and-sugar mix- roots and squash will be crispy on the outside, soft ture and stir it all together. Add more cocoa powder on the inside and perfectly at home alongside any if you like your chocolate dark. Stir until completely other components of your winter feast. combined, then add half a cup of milk. Pour the mixStarchy winter squashes like buttercup, sunshine, ture into the crust—it should be about half an inch kabocha and blue hubbard work best for all of these deep—and put the crust in the freezer. Let the baked squash cool, then scoop the flesh out recipes, because the starch adds body. Avoid pumpof the shell and into a food processor. For a two- or kins, butternuts and other watery squashes. And avoid three-pound squash, add three medium eggs, a cup of spaghetti squash, which doesn’t work at all. If any of these dishes survive the night, they milk (or soy milk, almond milk, etc.) and a tablespoon each of dried shredded coconut and cracked tapioca. reheat excellently the next day. The roasted roots Blend and taste. It will probably taste really good, so be can accompany breakfast eggs, and the soup makes careful. Note how sweet the squash mixture is, even in a nice lunch. The pie, which almost certainly won’t the absence of added sugar. Of course, the sweetened survive the night, makes a tasty treat any time of day. And months later, when the holidays are a chocolate beneath the squash pie filling helps. Once the chocolate sauce has frozen solid inside warm, fuzzy memory, these winter squash recipes the crust, remove it from the freezer and add the will keep giving.

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Bagels On Broadway 223 West Broadway (across from courthouse) • 728-8900 Featuring over 25 sandwich selections, 20 bagel varieties, & 20 cream cheese spreads. Also a wide selection of homemade soups, salads and desserts. Gourmet coffee and espresso drinks, fruit smoothies, and frappes. Ample seating; free wi-fi. Free downtown delivery (weekdays) with $10.00 min. order. Call ahead to have your order ready for you! Open 7 days a week. Voted one of top 20 bagel shops in country by internet survey. $-$$

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Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West 728-1358 November brings a chill in the air and a desire for PUMPKIN! Bernice’s is rockin’ out Pumpkin Bread and Pumpkin Pies just in time for Thanksgiving. But that ain’t all. Enjoy a warm cup of joe on a chilly Fall mornin’ while

Big Sky Drive In 1016 W. Broadway 549-5431 Big Sky Drive In opened June 2nd 1962. We feature soft serve ice cream, shakes, malts, spins, burger, hot dogs, pork chop sandwiches and breaded mushrooms all made to order. Enjoy our 23 shake and malt flavors or the orange twist

ice cream. Drive thru or stay and enjoy your food in our outdoor seating area. Lunch and dinner, seven days a week. $-$$ Black Coffee Roasting Co. 1515 Wyoming St., Suite 200 541-3700 Black Coffee Roasting Company is located in the heart of Missoula. Our roastery is open Monday – Friday, 7:30 – 2. In addition to fresh roasted coffee beans we offer a full service espresso bar, drip coffee, pour-overs and more. The suspension of coffee beans in water is our specialty. Blue Canyon Kitchen 3720 N. Reserve 541-BLUE (adjacent to the Hilton Garden Inn) www.bluecanyonrestaurant.com We offer creatively-prepared American cooking served in the comfortable elegance of their lodge restaurant featuring unique dining rooms. Kick back in the Tavern; relish the cowboy chic and culinary creations in the great room; visit with the chefs and dine in the kitchen or enjoy the fresh air on the Outdoor Patio. Parties and special events can be enjoyed in the Bison Room. Winter Hours: 4pm - 9 pm Seven Days a Week. $$-$$$

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The Bridge Pizza Corner of S. 4th & S. Higgins • 542-0002 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 11 to late. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins • 728-8780 Celebrating 39 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ Claim Jumper 3021 Brooks • 728-0074 Serving Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner 7 days a week. Come in between 7-8 am for our Early Bird Breakfast Special: Get 50% off any breakfast menu item! Or Join us for Lunch and Dinner. We feature CJ’s Famous Fried Chicken, Delicious Steaks, and your Favorite Pub Classics. Breakfast from 7am-11am on Weekdays and 7am-2pm on Weekends. Lunch and Dinner 11am-9pm Sun-Wed and 11am10pm Thurs-Sat. Ask your Server about our Players Club! Happy Hour in our lounge M-F 4-6 PM. $-$$$ Cold Stone Creamery Across from Costco on Reserve by TJ Maxx & Ross • 549-5595 Cold Stone Creamery offers the Ultimate Ice Cream Experience. Ice Cream, Ice Cream Cakes, Shakes, and Smoothies the Way You Want It. Come in for our weekday specials. Get Gift Cards any time. Remember, it's a great day for ice cream at Cold Stone Creamery. $-$$ 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 service within a 3 mile radius. Double Front Chicken 122 W. Alder 543-6264 Number of years ago Double Front was built, 101. Number of years it’s been cooking chicken,

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HAPPIESTHOUR Holiday Ale ’Tis the season: Flathead Lake Brewing’s Holiday Ale is the ideal beer for when snow’s piling up, the fire’s crackling, you’re wearing that tacky Christmas sweater and picking over the last of Thanksgiving leftovers, and you need a buzz while you’re unpacking ornaments and untangling those goddamn Christmas lights. What it is: Holiday Ale is a medium-bodied, Montana-grown two-row pale, with caramel, chocolate and honey malts plus pumpkin, molasses, orange peel and spices. “It’s like an Oktoberfest,” says Flathead Lake Brewing taproom bartender Nathan Roessmann, “but more distinct.” It has a deep, reddish-brown color. “But don’t be deceived,” says fellow bartender Nicole Bostwick, “it’s not as heavy as it looks.” Flathead Lake brewed Holiday Ale last year, too, but that batch had more spices, such as cinnamon and nutmeg, Bostwick says. This year’s version is a bit less of a dessert beer, though it’s still sweet, rich and warming. You might be able to justify having another, because its alcohol content dropped from 7.4 percent to 6.6 percent. Perhaps that’s enough of a drop to keep you from falling off the ladder as you’re stringing lights.

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Where to find it: For a limited time at the Flathead Lake Brewing Co. of Missoula’s taproom, 424 N. Higgins Avenue, and at its brewery in Woods Bay, five miles south of Big Fork on Highway 35. —Matthew Frank Happiest Hour celebrates western Montana watering holes. To recommend a bar, bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, e-mail editor@missoulanews.com.

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Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins • 541-4622 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 $-$$ Holiday Inn Downtown 200 S. Pattee St. • 532-2056 Have you discovered Brooks and Browns? Warm up your chilly nights with our Hot Jalapeno Artichoke Dip. We have Classic French Onion Soup and hearty Bison chili made in house daily. Fall in love with our Bacon Cheeseburger Meatloaf-stuffed with crispy Daily’s bacon and cheddar cheese, served with cheddar mashed potatoes and corn. And finish the best meal in town with our New Orleans style Bread Pudding with warm caramel sauce and Big Dipper vanilla bean Ice cream. We still have Happy Hour from 4-7 every day and on game days we offer wings specials and all your favorite local micro-brews. Everyone loves our SUNDAY BINGO NIGHT! Sundays 6-9 pm at Brooks and Browns. Same happy Hour specials ($5 pulled pork sliders, ? order wings, ? nachos; $6 Bud Lite pitchers) Have you discovered Brooks and Browns? Inside the Holiday Inn, Downtown Missoula. Hunter Bay Coffee and Sandwich Bar First Interstate Center • 101 East Front St hunterbay.com • 800.805.2263 Missoula’s local roaster since 1991 - now open downtown in the First Interstate Center! Stop by for hand-crafted gourmet coffees and espressos plus madefrom-scratch, healthy sandwiches and soups. Enjoy the sunshine from our patio! Free Wi-Fi and Free Parking in the upper deck lot. Open Monday through Saturday. Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins • 728-8866 www.ironhorsebrewpub.com We're the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we'll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$ Iza Asian Restaurant 529 S. Higgins • 830-3237 www.izarestaurant.com All our menu items are made from scratch, featuring dishes from Thailand, Japan, Indonesia, Korea, Nepal, and Malaysia. Extensive tea menu. Missoula's Original Bubble Teas. Beer, Wine and Sake available. Join us in our Asian themed dining room for a wonderful IZA experience. Jazz Wednesdays starting at 7pm. Lunch 11:30-3:00, Happy Hour 3-6, Dinner 5-10. Late night happy hour 9-10pm. $-$$ Jakers 3515 Brooks St. • www.jakers.com Every occasion is a celebration at Jakers. Enjoy our two for one Happy Hour throughout the week in a fun, casual atmosphere. Hungry? Try our hand cut steaks, small plate menu and our vegetarian & gluten free entrees. For reservations or take out call 721-1312. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve • 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$ Le Petit Outre 129 S. 4th West • 543-3311 Twelve thousand pounds of oven mass…Bread of integrity, pastry of distinction, yes indeed, European hand-crafted baked goods, Pain de Campagne, Ciabatta, Cocodrillo, Pain au Chocolat, Palmiers, and Brioche. Several more baked options and the finest espresso available. Please find our goods at the finest grocers across Missoula. Saturday 8-3, Sunday 8-2, Monday-Friday 7-6. $ The Mustard Seed Asian Café Southgate Mall • 542-7333 Contemporary Asian Cuisine served in our all-new bistro atmosphere. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combined from Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences to appeal to American palates. Full menu available in our non-smoking bar. Fresh daily desserts, microbrews, fine wines & signature drinks. Takeout & delivery available. $$-$$$ Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. • 543-3188 Don’t feel like cooking? Pick up some fried chicken, made to order sandwiches, fresh deli salads, & sliced meats and cheeses. Or mix and match items from our hot case. Need some dessert with that? Our bakery makes cookies, cakes, and brownies that are ready when you are. $-$$ Paul’s Pancake Parlor 2305 Brooks • 728-9071 (Tremper’s Shopping Center) Check out our home cooked lunch and dinner specials or try one of 17 varieties of pancakes. Our famous breakfast is served all day! Monday is all you can eat spaghetti for $8.50. Wednesday is turkey night with all of the trimmings for $7.75. Eat in or take-out. M-F 6am-7pm, Sat/Sun 7am-4pm. $–$$. Pearl Café 231 E. Front St. • 541-0231 Country French specialties, bison, elk, and fresh fish daily. Delicious salads and appetizers, as well as breads and desserts baked inhouse. Extensive wine list; 18 wines by the glass and local beers on draft. Reservations recommended for the intimate din-

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days a week THURSDAY November

The Kiwanis Club of Missoula is looking for some little lady ballers grades 6–8th to join up and play some hoops. The season runs Jan. 9–Mar. 24. Register by Thu., Dec. 1. Free. missoulakiwanis.org. Read to them now, keep them out of prison later. Tiny Tales Storytime for kids 0 to 18 months at the Missoula Public Library is free and the best way to ensure you make your little people into good people. Large meeting room. 10:30 AM. The Missoula Nonprofit Network hosts a Reaching Mellenials workshop with speaker Andrea Marcoccio of Forward Montana. City Life Community Center. 11:30–1 PM. Free for members of MNN, $10 for others. missoulanonprofit.org The book that launched a million teenage spiritual quests, Herman Hesse’s Siddhartha, is the focus of the Bitterroot Public Library’s Brown Bag It book discussion. 12–1 PM. Free.

nightlife Bluesman Guy Davis is a hard working man. He’s accomplished a lot. He was in the movie Beat Street. Look it up. He’s playing two sets down at the Top Hat. The music begins at 6 PM, with Dan Dubuque, Javier Ryan, Kevin Van Dort and Three-Eared Dog, playing before and after Davis’s sets. $20/$16.50 advance at Rockin Rudy’s or tophatmissoula.com. The Recreating Holidays for Families in Transition workshop and discussion helps individuals who have had a death in the family cope during the holidays. Missoula Public Library. 5:30–6:30 PM. Free. Make autumnal wreaths with native goodies not gross old Chinese cancer plas-

David Wilcox has wood, cords of it. The James Taylor-style folk guitarist plays at 8 PM on Sat., Nov. 19 at the Hamilton Performing Arts Center as part of the Bitterroot Performing Arts series. $27.50/$22.50 in advance at bARTc.org or call 363-7946.

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Que bueno! The Downtown Dance Collective has weekly classes in Intermediate Spanish Dance. Castanets? Yes. Skirt work? Yes. Advanced heel work? Que usted lo sepa! 5:45–7PM. The Britt is back, 907 Britt that is, and she is letting her folk and roll rip down at the Bitter Root Brewery. 6–8:30 PM. Free. Missou get down with the fondue night Altoona Lodge is hosting at the Missoula Winery. Pick it, dip it, chow it down. Drink some dee–lish wine, too. What a night. 7 PM. $80 per couple Schooling the World: The White Man’s Last Burden is a film that investigates what happens when crackers bring “modern” education to the Indian Himalayas, part of the Peace and Justice Film Series. UC Theater. 7 PM. Donation suggested for entry. The Adult Foreign and Independent Film Series at the Bitterroot Public Library features Mine, stories about pets adopted after Katrina and the struggles between former and current owners. Sad stuff. 7 PM. Free. Leisure suit plus beer goggles not required: Trivial Beersuit, Missoula’s trivia night for the layperson, begins with sign ups at 7:30 PM and trivia shortly thereafter at the Lucky Strike Bar & Casino, 1515 Dearborn Ave. Includes prizes like a $50 bar tab, and trivia categories that change weekly. Free. Email Katie at kcgt27@gmail.com. Join the UM School of Music for a Composer’s Benefit Concert, where you hear hot-off-the-paper original compositions from the schools best and brightest composers. The show benefits Composition Division and workshops. 7:30 PM. Music Recital Hall. $11/$6 Seniors/ $5 Students. The University Players present their annual festival for all us ADDers, the Ten Minute Play Festival, which includes plays, written, directed and performed by UM students. Masquer Theatre. 7:30 PM. Free. Boing! It’s the House of Bounce Dubstep Party with bounce castles, henna tattooing and face painting. Minnesota is the headlining performer and locals Simpleton and MetaTron open. 8 PM. UC Ballroom. $10/$7 adv.

Impress your friends, significant other or anyone who will listen when you rock the mic at karaoke at Harry Davids, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, 9 PM. Call 830-3277. Hold onto your trucker hats, The Badlander’s Prehab dance party is bound to make you go bonkers on the dance floor with sets of hip hop and electronic music from local DJs Kris Moon, Vyces and Hotpantz, plus $1 wells and $1 Pabst from 9 PM to midnight. $2, or free with a promo coupon. For now, I think there are enough bad puns around here. Party Trained plays the Sunrise Saloon. 9 PM. Free. You don’t know Hopeless Jack & the Handsome Devil. They’re playing some nazty blues with Bozeman’s “dirty bluesrock/sludge-grass” band Abelina Valley and locals Fiancee. The Palace. 9 PM. $5.

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He’ll cure your tremors with a sweet shot of country: Russ Nasset hits up the Old Post, 103 W. Spruce St., for a solo set this and every other Thu. at 10 PM. Free. Get wild and woolly at the Dead Hipster Dance Party at Sean Kelly’s. Party starts at 10 PM, and oh lordy, there are $1 well drinks until midnight. $3. Check out deadhipster.com.

FRIDAY November

Artist Nancy Seiler invites you to tour her new studio and see new acrylic paintings. 330 Brooks Ave. 11–8 PM. Free.

Let master of non-linear drawing Rick Bartow guide you through “the process” during his Master Class. Bartow focuses on the process, rather than technique. Open to artists of all levels. 1–3 PM. $20. (See Scope in this issue).

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The Missoula Public Library hosts a Young Adult Writers Group for aspiring baristas (I kid, I kid). Fact: writing is awesome. Boardroom. 3:30 PM.

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He ain’t heavy, he’s my band leader. Guy Davis plays on Thu., Nov. 17, at the Top Hat. 6 PM. $20. And in Whitefish at the O’Shaugnessy Center Fri., Nov. 18, at 7:30 PM. $27.

Soirée de la Chanson, featuring sing-a-longs of French classics led by M. Pascal Bardet. Fact: 101 French girls can’t be wrong. 8–10 PM. $5.

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Gently Used Holiday Decoration Benefit Sale Join us after Thanksgiving for two fun-filled days of holiday decorations! Find some new-to-you ornaments, greeting cards, home decor and other must-haves at the the Red Willow Learning Center. All proceeds benefit the Learning Center making a wide variety of programs available.

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What a world, children’s author/illustrator Jan Brett will roll into town in a freakin’ tour bus covered with her work and meet fans at Barnes and Noble. Henry Rollins is not amused. 5–7 PM. Free. Hard to believe, but El 3-Oh! is getting their gyspy jazz on up at the Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery once again. It’ like comfort food for your ears. 5–8 PM. Free. Opposites. I love opposites! Wait, these aren’t opposites. They are one in the same. It’ll still be a fine time, though, when Christian and the Sinners per form at Family Friendly Friday. Top Hat. 6–8PM. Free. Get tripped out, brah, when Mars Retrieval Unit jams it out with Capt. Triptastic lights and smoke at the Bitter Root Brewery. 6–8 PM. Free. Prove you’re the real deal foodies by attending the Winemaker’s Dinner, which is a benefit for Sipping for Scholarships. The cuisine and wines of Tuscany are paired in five courses and bound to scintillate. Bigfork Center for the Performing Arts. 6:30 PM. $125 ($75 is tax deductible), limited to 40 people. Tickets available at the Jugtree. Call it what you like, but something fishy is going on with the climate. Climate change law expert Michael G e r r a r d d e l i v e r s t h e 2011 Hampton Lecture on Climate Change, Politics and Law. Gallagher Business Building, Rm. 106. 7 PM . Free. The newest member of UM Creative Writing faculty, author David Gates, will give a reading at Dell Brown Room in Turner Hall. Homey

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ain’t no joke, Pulitzer Prize nominee and all. 7 PM. Free. Let me have your attention for a moment, the Bitterroot Accidental Theatre Company invites you to the cuss–filled David Mamet farce, November. Leave the kids at home as this show is rated ‘M’ for really flippin’ Mature. South Valley Family and Child Center. 515 Madison in Hamilton. 7 PM. $10. Let the girl sing it, people! The UM School of Music presents mezzosoprano Katie Osuamkpe as part of its Student Recital Series. Music Recital Hall. 7:30 PM. Free. Once, while in high school jazz band, we played “Walking on Sunshine” by Katrina and the Waves at a contest. It was embarrassing, to say the least. I bet the UM Jazz Concert won’t feature any of that sort of nonsense. University Theater. 7:30 PM. $11/$6 seniors/$5 students.

Bad Neighbor is the rock and roll personification of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. Harry David’s. 9 PM. No Cover. Lil’ Smokies look good, taste good, s o u n d g o o d . Yu m m y - k i n s ! Badlander. 9 PM. $5. Diagnose disease and demonstrate your medical steez at Dark Dreams: Pathological Desires, a medical themed fetish party featuring sets of industrial and electronic music by local DJs ir8prim8, Erastaroth, and HauLi, plus a live set by Bozeman’s electronic, gothic, darkwave, industrial music artist Damsel in the Dollhouse, at 9 PM. $5/$10 for those aged 18-20. What if the Justice Band had Aquaman, Wonder Woman, Robin and the Wonder Twins in it? I guess you’ll have to go to the Eagle’s Lodge and see who really is in the Justice Band. 9 PM.

If you’d like to get an early start on your seasonal affective disorder, then crawl under your bed. But if you want a cure, come to the Guy Davis blues show; he’s too busy stomping his foot and wailing away to make you sad. The O’Shaughnessy Center in Whitefish at 7:30 PM. $27.

Honky-tonkin’ is what the Mark Duboise Band does best and they’ll be doin’ it at the Sunrise Saloon. 9:30 PM. Free.

Fishbowl Friday at the Lucky Strike Sports Bar in the Five Valley Bowling Center will give you the courage to get your karaoke on with Kaleidoscope. 8 PM to close.

Talkdemonic is an avant garde , do-what-you-like duo that NPR will soon fawn all over. You don’t want your parents to know about them before you do, right? Get to the Top Hat. 10 PM. $10.

Married musicians Eden Atwood and Claude Pineault make musical magic of the jazz and acoustic varieties at the Missoula Winery. 8 PM. $5.

He lives to spin: DJ Dubwise just can’t stop the dance tracks once they start at 10 PM at Feruqi’s. Free. Call 728-8799.

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Fact: Cash for Junkers is playing the Union Club. This is no misprint, so haul your hind end down there and do some rump shakin’. 9 PM. Free.

November

The Wild Coyotes are gonna howl at the moon down the ‘Root at the Rustic Hut. 9 PM. Free.

The Clinton Women’s Club hosts their Annual Holiday Bazaar, with knitted articles, ornaments,

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SPOTLIGHT getting wordy You know Claude Alick from the Golden Rose, where he’s been a bartender for the last 17 years. And if you sit at the bar you probably have witnessed him hold court about literary craft, so you also know that he’s a writer. His 2009 novel Dancing with the Yumawalli was based on his life growing up in the small island village of Jean Anglais, south of St. Georges, with 11 brothers and sisters. It was in local bookstores but he also sold it from behind the bar, which made the transaction all the more personal. That’s Alick for you: a grinning, witty wordsmith who also knows how to pour a good drink. Currently, Alick is working on a play about Haiti. He’ll be reading some of his work at the Second Wind Reading this Sunday, and it totally WHO: Claude Alick and Mackenzie Cole WHAT: Second Wind Reading WHEN: Sun., Nov. 20, at 5 PM WHERE: Top Hat HOW MUCH: Free behooves you to hear his voice outside the walls of the Rose. You won’t be disappointed. That’s not all. Montana poet Mackenzie Cole will also be reading. He’s working on a collection

walking sticks and other bazaar items (not bizarre items, but maybe I’m wrong about that). 9–2 PM. 20359 E. Mullan Rd. A Candy Cane Christmas Craft Fair, a Candy Cane Christmas Craft Fair, a Candy Cane Christmas Craft Fair (say it three times fast!) will be held at the Valley Christian School gymnasium. 9–3 PM. Free.

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of poems, which he says are on the themes of abuse, trauma, horses and painting. “Somehow they all congeal in my mind,” he wrote to me in a recent Facebook message. Cole’s been published in 491, Camas, The Big Sky Journal, Fresh Water and the anthology Many Windows. In one of his poems, “A dull mark” he describes a bird as small as a tennis ball but with a call that’s a “long thundering.” But then he turns it upside down and says: “Lean in until you can smell the paint/and you will see I was the bird/and the woman looking for the bird.” Good poetry is like a magic trick. And the final act is the prestige. Come find out how it all ends.

Cats do more than try to devise ways to eat you while you are sleeping, they write books, too. At least Sweetie Pie the cat, who stalks the halls of the Conrad Mansion Museum in Kalispell, does. See her sign The Conrad Cat at the museum and join her for a milk champagne toast (bring your own saucer). 10–12 PM. For info: conradmansion.com.

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Living Art of Montana’s Creativity for Life workshop hosts Word Drawings for anyone facing illness or loss, with Patricia Lawrence. 10:30–12:30 PM. Free. The Downtown Dance Collective will be kicking up up, umm, bop-bop Kids Vibrations Music and Rhythm Program at 11 AM. $5$20 suggested donation.

Phillip Glass’s truth-seeking opera loosely based on the life of Ghandi, Satyagraha, is broadcast by The Met: Live in HD to Missoula’s Roxy Theater. 11 AM. $20. The Ohrmann Museum and Gallery south of Drummond (the place with the wonderful metal sculptures in the yard) hosts a Christmas Open House. Don’t be lame and not go. 11–5 PM. Free. Missoula Children and Nature wants your kids to learn that nature is awesome at their Nature Art program, which uses goodies from the great outdoors to make pretty things for grandma’s fridge. ZACC. 1–3 PM. Free. missoulachildrenandnature.org Here you go, drunkards and science lovers, a class for the both of you (unless you are one in the same). MUD’s Beer Brewing for beginners and intermediates teaches you how to make a chocolate stout and you get a growler of the stuff out of the deal. Sorry kids, you gotta be 21. $20/$10 for members. 1–4 PM. mudproject.org. Now you can go X-mas shopping. The Moscow Ballet’s Great Russian Nutcracker is here to bring in the season and unleash the holiday pixie dust on us all. At the University Theatre. 1 PM. $27.50$102.50. griztix.com.

nightlife Do you like love, love? What about dancing? If you answered yes to both of these questions then you are in luck as the Moscow Ballet brings the teenage love-fest Romeo and Juliet to the University Theatre. 5 PM. $27.50-$102.50. griztix.com. The Steel Toe Flos bring some assonance and/or alliteration along

with some randy lady folk to the Tenspoon Vineyard and Winery. 5–8 PM. Free. The reggae gods command ye to witness Chele Bandulu and its emphasis on the third beat at the Bitter Root Brewery. 6–8 PM. Free. The Polytana Potluck for those forward-thinking Pollyannas who are poly-active, poly-curious or poly-supportive. There will be a pie auction as well to raise money for 2012 Sushi Social. The Atrium, 127 N. Higgins. 6–8 PM. Call LIndsey at 544-1271. Let me have your attention for a moment, the Bitterroot Accidental Theatre Company invites you to the cuss–filled David Mamet farce November. Leave the kids at home as this show is rated ‘M’ for really flippin’ Mature. South Valley Family and Child Center. 515 Madison in Hamilton. 7 PM. $10. Anything goes at An Evening with Cole Porter, brought to you by the UM Cabaret, which is directed by Andy Meyers and Kati Pearson and includes people you know and love such as Cameron Fehring, Reid Reimers and Rebecca Schaeffer. Zootown Brew at 121 W. Broadway. 7 and 9 PM. $5. Do the right thing...Dance! The Missoula Medical Aid Salsa Ball and 13th Annual Fundraiser gives you the opportunity to help out rural and impoverished communities and shake your little tush on the dance floor, yeah, on the dance floor. MCT Center for the Performing Arts. 7–11 P M . $ 50 / $ 25 f o r s t u d e n t s . missoualmedicalaid.org. Like most things Russian, the Glacier Symphony and Chorales performance Russian Mythic is huge, featuring 150 performers. Prokofiev’s

Alexander Nevsky cantata is the featured piece. Flathead High Performance Hall. 7:30 PM. $10 to $32, youth through grade 12 admitted free (contact in advance for youth seating). gcsmusic.org. Singer/songwriter David Wilcox brings his baritonical ways and James Taylor-esque guitar gimmickry to the Hamilton Performing Arts Center for the second show in the Bitterroot Performing Arts series. 8 PM. $27.50/22.50. bARTc.org. Kris Moon and the irrepressible Monty Carlo guarantee to keep you dancing to an assortment of hip hop, electronic and other bass-heavy beats ‘til the bar closes, during Absolutely at the Badlander at 9 PM. 2 for 1 Absolut drinks until 11 PM. Free.

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Swig drinks while listening to oldschool rock hits, ‘80s tunes or modern indie rock songs when Dead Hipster presents Takeover!, which features “drinkin’ music” DJ’d by the Dead Hipster DJs starting at 9 PM at the Central Bar & Grill, 143 W. Broadway St. Includes drink specials and photos with Abi Halland. Free. What if the Justice Band had Aquaman, Wonder Woman, Robin and the Wonder Twins in it? I guess you’ll have to go to the Eagle’s Lodge and see who really is in the Justice Band. 9 PM. How on earth do you name your band Grand Funk? Was Dink Floyd taken? Anywho, Grand Funk outta Whitefish brings the noise as well as the funk to the Top Hat. 9 PM. $5. The Mark Duboise Band brings their love of old time country and a modicum of modern faves to the Lumberjack Saloon stage. You can dance by the light of a fireplace, sweet. 9 PM. Free.

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A HOMESTEAD HOLIDAY: NIGHTY NITE FREE OPENING, SUNDAY 11/20, 1-4 PM Help us make ornaments and stockings, and decorate the tree. Hear stories, enjoy refreshments, and listen to holiday carols with harpist Velma Cameron.

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Joan Zen will be playing her top–wait, what? Joan Zen is a band, not a chick? Joan Zen, the band, brings some neo-soul action to the Union Club. 9 PM. Free. Raise them up from underground legends to Jay-Z birthday party playing check-cashers by jamming out to DJ Abilities (formerly of Minneapolis indie rap powerhouse Eyedea and Abilities) with On Be Lo (formerly of underground legends Binary Star), along with locals Shaymlus (of Shaymlusly Elliterate) and the Codependents, at the Palace at 9 PM. $10/$8 advance at Ear Candy Music, with a $5 surcharge for those ages 18-20. (See Noise in this issue). Chereal intends to play some dance music favorites at Harry David’s. Here’s a question: Will they play “Barbie Girl” by Aqua? C’mon Barbie, let ‘s go party at 9 PM. Free. Are Tom Catmull and the Clerics patriotic Americans? Playing the Sunrise Saloon must count for something. 9:30 PM. Free. DJ Dubwise supplies dance tracks all night long so you can take advantage of Sexy Saturday and rub up against the gender of your choice at 10 PM at Feruqi’s. Free. Call 728-8799.

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SUNDAY

November

The Ohrmann Museum and Gallery south of Drummond (the place with the wonderful metal sculptures in the yard) hosts a Christmas Open House. Don’t be lame and not go. 11–5 PM. Free. Remember when Christmas meant howling winds, bear cracklins and Bible lessons by candlelight? No?! Head over to the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula and see a Homestead Holiday. The homesteader cabin will be open and decorated, story tellers will be onsite and holiday carols will be plucked by harpist Velma Cameron. 1–4 PM. Free. Go with the jam when The Rocky Mountain Grange Hall, 1436 S. First St. south of Hamilton, hosts a weekly acoustic jam session for guitarists, mandolin players and others, from 2–4 PM. Free. Call Clem at 961-4949. Discuss what it takes to change our attitudes towards nature at Earth Ethics. Missoula Public Library. 2–4 PM. free.

Hamilton’s Art City is holding its 32nd annual holiday open house. The city is made up of handmade ornaments, new works of arts and music. 2–8 PM. Free. Like most things Russian, the Glacier Symphony and Chorales performance Russian Mythic is huge, featuring 150 performers. Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky cantata is the featured piece. Flathead High Performance Hall. 7:30 PM. $10 to $32, youth through grade 12 admitted free (contact in advance for youth seating). gcsmusic.org.

nightlife Reading out loud is fundamental when the UM MFA students pair up with esteemed writers in the community for the Second Wind Reading Series, 5 PM at the Top Hat. This week features poet Mackenzie Cole and the prose of Claude Alick. Free. (See Spotlight.) Fact: Autoharps are badass. And we have badass Autoharp Hall of Fame inductee Bryan Bowers strumming and plucking magic at the Downtown Dance Collective, along with local musician/MCPS orchestra director Eric Hutchins. 7:30 PM. $10. Close out the weekend in style with $4 martinis from 7:30 PM to mid-

Love me? Love my pituitary? The Hunting Accident plays some fine pop music at the Badlander Mon., Nov. 21, at 9 PM. $5.

night and live jazz & DJs during the Badlander’s Jazz Martini Night. Free. Live jazz starts at 8 PM with the Trevor Riddle Experience and continues with the D.R. Trio.

MONDAY

November

Those looking for mother to mother breast feeding support can find it when the La Leche League meets every first Mon. of the month, 10 AM at the First Presbyterian Church, 201 S. Fifth St. W., and the third Mon. of the month, 6 PM in the small meeting room of the Missoula Public Library. Free. Children and babies are always welcome.

nightlife Open mic at the VFW seems like a fine idea, especially with 2 for 1 drink specials for musicians and the working class. Call Skye on Sunday at 531–4312 to reserve your spot in the line-up or I bet you could roll in and be all, “Dude, I do a perfect Sublime.”

Night this and every Monday at 8:30 PM. Call 542-1471 after 10 AM on Monday to sign up. SIN (Service Industry Night) at the Badlander features extra super drink specials for service industry folks. Bring your iPod and they’ll play your music. Every Monday 9 PMclose. Free. Shoot from your lazer and not from your hip when Milkcrate Monday’s at the Palace presents Lazers and Rap, featuring sets of hip hop by locals Tahjboh, Codependents, Mite Aswel, Tonsofun, Mateo Mblem, and Wormwood, with DJ’ing by Special K, at 9 PM. Free, with free pool, $6 pitchers of PBR and a lazer light show. Besides being a way to get rid of nosy cousins, The Hunting Accident is also a great way to purvey pop music to the peoples. Help,

Mike TV and locals Sick Kids XOXO join them. 9 PM. $5.

TUESDAY

November

Hey hunters and other liars, come on down to the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation conference room and work on your elk camp locution at the Shootin’ the Bull Toastmasters. All are invited. 12–1. 5205 Grant Creek Dr. Free.

Let the sprouts make a mess somewhere besides your living room at the MAM’s Preschool Art Start, a class designed to stimulate creativity with fun, hands-on projects using shaving cream, clay dough and more, facilitated by Allie De Pu. 2–3:30 PM. $10. missoulaartmuseum.org.

Get some much needed spiritual guidance at Between the Worlds, 205 W. Main St., Hamilton, at their Spiritual Discussion Group, this Monday with Morning Star Jameson. Call 363-2939 with questions. Finally, a place where you can go be a man with other men and do manly stuff. The place, of course, is Harry David’s on Men’s Night. Two for $5 wells and free snacks throughout the Monday Night Football game. Stick around for some karaoke after the game if you’re man enough to sleep on the davenport when you get home. 7 PM–12 AM. So you think you can fill in the blank? Prove it at Sean Kelly’s Open Mic

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nightlife Mix choice beverages with and progressive politics during the return of Forward Montana’s Progressive Happy Hour, which begins at 5:30 PM at the Badlander. Free. Call Forward Montana at 542-8683 for more info. Let someone else do the dishes this and every week for the Tuesday Night “Early” Dinner at the Elks Lodge, 112 N. Pattee St., 5:30 to 7 PM for $9 ($14.95 on the last Tues. of the month for prime rib). Membership not required. Call 549-05423 by noon on Mon. to make reservations. The Northern Rockies Rising Tide has weekly meetings this and every Tue. at at Freecycles, 732 S. First St. W. at 6:00 PM, where participants fight climate change through grassroots resistance. Throw your jazz hands in the air and join Chris Duparri and Ruthie Dada every Tuesday evening for Jazz Martini Night, with $2 off all top-shelf martinis at Brooks and Browns, 200 S. Pattee. Free. YWCA Missoula, 1130 W. Broadway, hosts YWCA Support Groups for women every Tue. from 6:30–8 PM. An American Indian-led talking circle is also available, along with age-appropriate children’s groups. Free. Call 543-6691. Missoula author Fred Haefele profiles my neighbors/reads from Extremophilia: River Rats, Timber Tramps, Biker Trash, and Realtors. Fact and Fiction. 7 PM. Free.

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Your search for that high, lonesome sound ends now, because the Old Post hosts a Pickin’ Circle this and every Wed. at 9 PM. Free. The music is coming from inside the machine when the Palace hosts Harvest Kitties, a night of various styles of electronic music with M e t a t r o n , I l l e g i t i m a te C h i l d r e n , DubBudda and Soundsiva, 9 PM. Free. Grandma Billy says to get off your keister meester and do the trance dance but don’t you dare pee-pee your pants, when the Palace hosts Progressive, a night of progressive house and trance music with local TBA DJs. Also includes a progressive beer special with 25 cent drafts starting at 9 PM and going up 25 cents every half hour. Free.

THURSDAY November

nightlife Leisure suit plus beer goggles not required: Trivial Beersuit, Missoula’s trivia night for the layperson, begins with sign ups at 7:30 PM and trivia shortly thereafter at the Lucky Strike Bar & Casino, 1515 Dearborn Ave. Includes prizes like a $50 bar tab, and trivia categories that change weekly. Free. Email Katie at kcgt27@gmail.com.

Can you say blast off? The Lucky Strike has $3 Fireball shots, $2 domestic beers and $1 shots. The only logical landing is Planet Karaoke. 9 PM to close.

Hold onto your trucker hats, The Badlander’s Prehab dance party is bound to make you go bonkers on the dance floor with sets of hip hop and electronic music from local DJs Kris Moon, Vyces and Hotpantz, plus $1 wells & $1 Pabst from 9 PM to midnight. $2, or free with a promo coupon.

The Blox is not a New Jack Swing Krew, but they will be rockin’ the Badlander Live and Local Night. 9 PM. Free. Bay Area rhymesayer Z-Man brings us his Agame and multiple personalities, with DJ True Justice, plus locals Shaymlus (of Shaymlusly Elliterate) and the Codependents, at the Palace at 9 PM. $5/$10 for those aged 18-20, with advance tickets at Ear Candy Music.

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Someone finally gets a book signing right. Jeremy Cowan signs his book Craft Beer Bar Mitzvah and serves up samples of tasty brews. Fact and Fiction. 7 PM. Free.

nightlife Pizza and trivia go together like two things that don’t necessarily but could at Front Street Trivia Night. Note the move to Wednesday night (because football). 7 PM at Mackenzie River Pizza, 137 W. Front St. Free.

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John Floridis keeps it level on Wednesdays at the Tamarack Brewing Co. 7–10 PM. Free. Pub Trivia answer: Butte America’s Our Lady of the Rockies.

Sean Kelly’s invites you to another week of free Pub Trivia, which takes place every Tue. at 8 PM. And, to highlight the joy of discovery that you might experience while attending, here’s a sample of the type of question you could be presented with. Ready? What is the name of the second tallest statue in the US? (See answer in tomorrow’s nightlife.)

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Get some much needed spiritual guidance at Between the Worlds, 205 W. Main St. in Hamilton at their Spiritual Discussion Group, this Monday with Morning Star Jameson. Call 363-2939 with questions.

Nate Hegyi, lead singer/songwriter of Wartime Blues, keeps the folk and Americana flowing freely when he plays with a rotating cast of friends this and every other Thu. at the Old Post, 103 W. Spruce St., at 10 PM. Free. Get wild and woolly at the Dead Hipster Dance Party at Sean Kelly’s. Party starts at 10 PM, and oh lordy, there are $1 well drinks until midnight. $3. Check out deadhipster.com. Hello. Give blood. Put on snow tires. Stay focused. Please send me your event info by 5 PM on Fri., Nov. 18 to calendar@missoulanews.com. Alternatively, snail mail your events to The Calemandar c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax 543-4367. Find me also on twitter.com/#!/8DaysMissoula. Finally, you can submit things online in the arts section of our website. Scroll down a few inches and you’ll see a link that says, “submit an event.”

MOUNTAIN HIGH I began snowboarding during a dark time in our nation’s history. A time when our fair nation was a fractured, divisive place. A time when we were intolerant, hateful and full of guile. This time was the ’90s, and I was snowboarder in a skier’s world. No more, though. We boarders and skiers are now united in our love of the pow-pow. The Backwoods Project brings together both disciplines when they present Level 1’s ski film After Dark and Think Thank’s snowboarding-centric Ransack Rebellion at the Roxy Theater. After Dark is a wet dream of skiing godliness featuring a wide of array styles, from off-piste freestyle shenanigans to terrainpark hucking and street-style sickness. The film also has a couple of Montana rippers, Wiley Miller and Adam Delorme, going big all over North America, with a few dee-lish vignettes shot in Cooke City. When it comes to creativity and pure athleticism, Ransack

Rebellion is top-shelf stuff. Riders use every surface imaginable—playground toys, cyclone fences, monster rails and a pile of miscellaneous junk: a jibber’s delight. The funds raised by the films support the Backwoods Projects’ efforts to build an affordable and accessible public terrain park and encourage an active lifestyle for Missoula’s youngsters. But wait, there’s more. On the heels of one of the most ridiculous-looking film trailers ever made comes Red Bull Media House’s The Art of Flight. Edge of the World is sponsoring this film showing at the Wilma, which focuses on big mountain backcountry, helicopters and uncharted territory. The event is a fundraiser for the Missoula Avalanche Foundation. Ransack Rebellion and After Dark play at the Roxy Theater at 8 PM and 9 PM on Fri., Nov. 18. $10. backwoodsproject.org. The Art of flight screens at the Wilma Sat., Nov. 19, at 8 PM. $5.

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THURSDAY NOVEMBER 17 The Montana Chapter of Conservation Biology holds research symposium titled Conservation. University Center, conbio.org/chapters/montana.

the Society for their fourth annual Connectivity and 3rd floor. 8:30 AM.

Get your little sponges down to the MNHC’s miniNaturalists Pre-K Program so they can develop the necessary skills to cultivate a love of the outdoors. Kids ages two to five are welcome when accompanied by an adult. 10–11 AM. $1 for members, $3 for all others. montananaturalist.org. A 2011/2012 season pass to Snowbowl gets you on the hill and into the Bayern Brewery’s Groomer Keg Tapping Party. Try the new brew and talk about how sweet your Daffy Duck is. 4–6 PM.

Children’s author Donna Love will give a Powerpoint presentation on her book The Wildlife of Elk. It don’t get much wilder than Powerpoint, am I right? 7 PM. Grizzly Claw Trading Co. Free. The Art of Flight snowboard film sponsored by Edge of the World is the type of epic kind grind that will make you wish summer never existed. Wilma Theatre. Your $5 donation goes to the Missoula Avalanche Foundation. 8 PM.

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 20 Heck-darn if Great Divide ski area isn’t gonna be open from noon until 4 PM. Why not. $10.

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You’ll be climbing up a wall at Freestone Climbing Center’s Ladies Night each Thursday. 935 Toole Ave. 5–10 PM. $6.50/$5 students.

Let me see your kayak roll, dip baby dip into the Grizzly Pool and learn the art of the Eskimo Roll in this twonight course. $45. 7:30 PM. Register with the UM Outdoor Program. 243-5172.

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The Montana Chapter of the Society for Conservation Biology holds their 4th annual research symposium titled Connectivity and Conservation. University Center, 3rd floor. 8:30 AM. conbio.org/chapters/montana.

Pull up the suspenders on the woolen knickers or slink into your spandex “Go” suit and check out the fun and frolic that is the five-day long Yellowstone Ski Festival in West Yellowstone. New trails, kids’ clinics and a fashion show (fer sheezy!). yellowstoneskifestival.com

Sam’s Spade Garden Tools and Wares down the Root in Hamilton is having its ninth annual open house, with nature crafts for kids and a raffle benefitting the Bitterroot Audubon Society. The prize is a half-day bird-watching float trip on the BItterroot River. 6 PM. Free. Active outdoor lovers are invited to the Mountain Sports Club’’s (formerly the Flathead Valley Over the Hill Gang) weekly meeting to talk about being awesome, past glories and upcoming activities. Swan River Inn. 6–8 PM. Free.

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 19 Humans are weak and live in houses. Animals are badass pimps that live outside, but how? The Montana Natural History Center will teach the children how the critters do it during their Saturday Kids’ activity Keeping Warm with Feathers and Fur. 2–3 PM. $3/$1 members. Ages five and up.

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 24 Thanksgiving with the fam got you down? No big d. Tell ‘em you got called into work and haul your hind end down to Big Sky Resort’s season opener. Early season lift tickets are only $58. Yes, I am being facetious about the lift ticket price. bigkskyresort.com Gobble, gobble, go! The Turkey Day 8K and 3K Family Fun Run is a flat out-and-back fun-a-thon on the Kim Williams Trail, beginning and ending at Toole Park. Prizes. Strollers and walkers allowed. Gloves for participants. Sounds like MSO to me. 9:30 AM. Go to runwildmissoula.org to register and for more info. You’ll be climbing up a wall at Freestone Climbing Center’s Ladies Night each Thursday. 935 Toole Ave. 5–10 PM. $6.50/$5 students. calendar@missoulanews.com

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Rick Bartow gives the darkness light in Dog’s Journey by Erika Fredrickson

Dream analysts often say that nightmares about instance—and striking color smudges in red, orange, teeth falling out are subconscious reactions to anxiety. green and yellow. Those images of American Indian herIn painter Rick Bartow’s young adult life, the night- itage aren’t done carelessly. “I never lived on a reservation, so it would be silly of mare of crumbling teeth wasn’t a dream; it was a real life reaction to being an alcoholic. He was an artist me to go around in buckskin and toot my own horn,” then, he says, but not a disciplined one. He fought Bartow says. “I walk a line in between. I enjoy my involvetooth and nail to do something practical, but he always ment with Native American spirituality, which helps me leave what’s behind me behind, and look to something stuck to it. “I was very insecure about it,” he says. “I kept my art better ahead.” really small and when I was drinking I’d get drunk and have bonfires and throw my work all in the fire and burn it up. There’s not much work left of the early years, but I don’t think it was worth a fig, to tell you the truth.” Now, as a celebrated regional artist in his hometown of Newport, Ore., he makes a living from his art, working in several different studios. (He’s currently working on a top secret commissioned piece, which he wants to tell us about but is contractually obligated not to.) With 32 years of sobriety under his belt, Bartow finds that teeth show up everywhere in his spooky, dream-like paintings. In “Coyote and the Myth,” an upright, manlike body with a coyote’s head bares its row of sharp teeth, as does the bear in “Bear’s Journey.” A red bull, also standing as if he were morphing into a two-legged devil, shows a white smile, smeared as if someone were trying to wipe it clean, and the teeth here are small but plentiful. Even in “Crow’s Creation” the beaked crow is haunted by a ghostly figure with square-pegged teeth peeking through it like a hungry spirit. Besides the teeth, Bartow’s paintings are marked by shadows and a refusal of traditional lines. In his current, nationally touring exhibit Dog’s Journey: A 20 Year Survey, now at the Missoula Art Museum, the animals of his creations seem in mid-disappearance (or mid-appearance), as if they’re moving from one dimension to the next. The eeriness gives them a certain darkness. Coyote & the Myth Part of that darkness is from the alcoholism, plus PTSD and survivor’s guilt Bartow suffered from his service in the The iconic animals go back to caves in Spain and Vietnam War. France. They’re found in the oldest artifacts and “It’s all a process of trying to reclaim my life,” he says. ancient remains of wild Eastern Europe. It’s something “I’m particularly aware of my shortcomings and I’m trying everyone can trace back to. to change that. So the work is really a big part of therapy “John Trudell, the Native American activist, said in a sort of an obtuse way.” that we’re all Indians if you go back a number of genBartow grew up with a non-Native mother and a erations,” says Bartow. “We were all sort of back-tofather who was a Wiyot American Indian. He uses ancient back at night for protection, you know. We all began in symbols and iconic animal imagery—the trickster, for a less than graceful manner.”

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Don’t dismiss Bartow’s work for sheer seriousness, though. If you don’t linger on the darkness, it’s easy to see that these mythical animals are funny, too. His piece “May Wit’l Elk” shows a bull elk in a corduroy suit and tie, putting up his human hands as if to say, “Don’t ask me!” And so it’s not surprising that Bartow’s as inspired by Hieronymus Bosch’s “Garden of Earthly Delights,” with its densely packed landscape of bodies topped by bird and pig heads, as he is by Native mythology. “You can either get involved with what the image is saying or you can enjoy the goofiness of it and not have to deal with the seriousness of spiritual pursuit or religiosity,” he says. Bartow’s body of work includes sculpture, printmaking, mixed media and ceramics. He’s shown work at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian and the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden at the White House, among a long list of other venues. Beyond his collectors and the Froelick Gallery, where he’s represented, Bartow has found other meaningful things to do with his work. On his third sober birthday, he had a new tooth put in. His Newport dentist, a patron of his work, gave him two new front teeth in exchange for paintings. His work continues to change as he gets better—spending time at a ceremonial sweat lodge, talking with a therapist, keeping himself busy. His paintings, he says, range from ghastly to corny, depending on the way his life is going. “I don’t pretend to understand it,” he says. Several years ago he nearly died of a heart condition. Six months ago he had a stroke and woke up blind. It was shocking but temporary. To Bartow, it’s a parable for life and work. You make sense out of chaos and sometimes you’re successful. “I’ve been extremely lucky,” he says. “I’ve kind of been knocked to my knees in order to figure out what gratitude is.” “In Native America,” he adds, “if we have the temerity or wisdom to ask for help then we put out a little offering—tobacco, or something. I’ve found that art is that system of reciprocity: The more you put in, the more you gain. Still, a lot of times the gifts we receive aren’t the gifts we want. People still die and get sick, and people still change. Sometimes what we’re a part of isn’t pretty—and sometimes it is.” Rick Bartow gives a gallery talk for MAM’s Artini night Thu., Nov. 17, at 6 PM. Free. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

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I won’t pretend to know what kind of musical taste robots have. Heck, they could be raging Neil Diamond fans. But with every new album, Talkdemonic begins to sound more and more like the audio equivalent of Isaac Asimov. Welcome to 2100 A.D. I guarantee you’ll dig the sound. Talkdemonic’s Kevin O’Connor and Lisa Molinaro have been racking up accolades from reviewers since their debut album, Mutiny Sunshine, back in 2004. Willamette Week named the duo Portland’s Best New Band in 2005, and we can’t stop gushing every time they come to town. Now, with the release of their fourth album, Ruins, Talkdemonic offers yet another journey through the futuristic digital plane they call home. With each album Talkdemonic strikes a better balance between the orchestral and the electronic.

DJ Abilities When DJ Abilities’ dexterous digits are in action, it’s almost like watching an octopus stretching out its arms. Just YouTube this Milkwaukee-based hip hop DJ and you’ll see his fingers manipulating vinyl records and a mixer with astounding precision and speed. He’s a wizard behind turntables, and has been for years. In fact, in 1999 and 2001, he won the DMC Regional Championships, a highly regarded competition that’s like the Olympics for hip hop DJing and

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If we all must die, why can’t classic rock die, too? It should have long ago, particularly since much of it was dead on arrival (Bad Company, Pink Floyd post-Meddle, Peter Frampton). It lives on because your uncle Scott sings “Feel Like Makin’ Love” into a pistol-shaped paint sprayer, high on paint fumes, while coating the interiors of McMansions eggshell white. Yet here we are in 2011 and Bozeman’s Abelina Valley has the temerity to identify themselves as “blues rock,” which is code for classic rock and probably the least cool thing on the planet, except for Japanese skinheads. So props to AV for doing something that is explicitly un-Pitchfork. AV is best when they swing and strut, like on the groove-heavy “Dark Gypsy Majik,” which kicks off with

Andre Nickatina Bay Area rapper Andre Nickatina takes me back to a time when music seemed regional, was made up of secretive cults that wrote and read zines, who traded cassette tapes and made localized references, which only those in the know could possibly understand, or at the very least, pretend to understand. Without leaving her parents’ basement, a gal could get decent directions to Dick’s Drive-In over in Seattle from Sir Mix-A-Lot’s “Posse on Broadway.” Like any decent rhymer with more than a dozen releases to his name, Nickatina’s verses guide listeners through

Acoustic elements rise to greater dominance on tracks like “Revival” and “Chimera,” and rat-a-tat drum licks lend “Palace Walk” a march-like immediacy. Talkdemonic’s electronic flourishes still prevail, but Ruins feels more like a collection of musical conversations than a compilation of laptop-dependent compositions. The opening half of “Violet” does seem almost out of place on the album, a sort of jerky, in-studio game of red-light, green-light. But just as quickly—and on the same track, no less—Talkdemonic reaches a level of visionary elegance that would move even the most stoic of robots. (Alex Sakariassen) Talkdemonic plays the Top Hat Fri., Nov. 18, at 10 PM. $10.

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scratching. Besides his deft skills behind the decks— which hip-hop heads would aptly call “dope”—you might also recognize DJ Abilities as the former producer and DJ for Eyedea and Abilities, a critically acclaimed but now-defunct Minneapolis hip-hop group. Essentially, he’s a big deal in the American indie hip-hop scene. And according to his Twitter feed, he also puts on a kickass live show. One recent post by a fan gushes that he’s “a god on the turntables.” If that’s not the ultimate endorsement to check out his fancy fingerwork this week, I don’t know what is. (Ira Sather-Olson) DJ Abilities plays the Palace Saturday, Nov. 18, with One Be Lo and locals Shaymlus and Codependents. $10/$8 advance at Ear Candy Music, with a $5 surcharge for those aged 18-20. a bluesy guitar figure made up of hammerons and pull-offs bolstered by a couple layers of dirty, harmonizing guitars and a chunk-a-chunk-a rhythm section. The apocryphal acoustic sound of “Annabelle” isn’t anything spectaculatory lyrically (“Woman, bring your love to me”), but the spooky slide and plodding percussion is reminiscent of the shipboard sounds made during Eric the Red’s sojourns to Greenland. Too bad Abelina Valley can’t travel back to 1975 and become golden gods. (Jason McMackin) Abelina Valley plays the Palace Thu., Nov. 17, at 9 PM with Portland, Ore.’s Hopeless Jack & the Handsome Devil and locals Fiancee. $5. the daily quandaries of a lifestyle that may or may not exist (the neighborhood-famous coke dealer, who does the usual gangsta-ass activities, i.e. buys rims, spends money, shoots fools, gets high, gets revenge, gets laid, gets high again). His rhymes are full of single entendres and neologisms. The vocal delivery isn’t especially notable but has the effortless sound of someone who has been doing this shizzle forever, and his light lisp makes him recognizable enough, particularly when he decides to talk-sing. What’s great about Nickitina and artists at his level is that they have nothing to lose and everything to gain by being themselves, something most Top 40 rhymers can’t be. (Jason McMackin) Andre Nickatanin plays the Wilma Theatre Fri., Nov. 18, at 8 PM. $26 at Rockin Rudy’s or ticketfly.com. All tix from his rescheduled show in Sept. will be honored.

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According to my online dictionary, an ple. Indicative of that is “Billionaires Without extremophile is “a microbe able to thrive in the most Boundaries,” a lucid scrutiny of Ameya Preserve in extreme conditions.” And, according to Missoula-based Paradise Valley and the “glitzification” of Big Sky counauthor Fred Haefele, extremophilia is an “intemperate try, as well as a meditation on the wealthy and their love” of said organisms. In his new collection, Haefele need to have three or four houses. There isn’t a real dud in this collection. Even the tweaks the idea from microbe-centric to human-centric, and gives us 17 non-fictional snapshots of people deal- lengthiest, least engaging of the bunch, “The Lost Tribe ing with geographically and mentally extreme land- of Indian,” is redeemed by Haefele’s obvious joy in ridscapes. His brand of extremophilia comes in several ing a revamped Indian motorcycle and the agony of forms, including logging, firefighting and hunting—all having it taken away after the manufacturer goes bust. environments where extremophiles are most likely to From Evel Knievel’s notably unspectacular funeral to a tongue-in-cheek look at be found. Haefele, who is best “America’s first professional known for his award-winning tree-sitter extraction team,” memoir Rebuilding the Haefele’s vision is an authenIndian—about the journey of tically tuned instrument of rebuilding a vintage motorcyirony and pathos, deconcle at mid-life—embodies the structing personal and extremophiliac writer in a regional eccentricities and blending of blue-collar and making them tangible for a academic approaches. And he universal audience. During a has a penchant for finding an dangerous spill in the Clark epiphany in each experience. Fork in “Under the Rapids,” Extremophilia, which the author reconciles with aptly includes a foreword by his estranged daughter, extreme outdoors writer which leads him to question Steven Rinella, ties together the nature of survival, family Haefele’s smart vignettes and the role of metaphor taken from such diverse venwhen everything has already ues as salon.com, Big Sky been said. Journal and Newsday. The It’s impossible not to stories are quietly swaggering finish Extremophilia in one sketches of the edge, sitting, and maybe worth finarranged as seamlessly as the ishing twice in that same fragments of an autobiograspan of time. Haefele’s prose phy. Most are only a couple of Fred Haefele reads from Extremophilia pages long, testifying to at Fact & Fiction Tuesday, Nov. 22, at 7 is convincingly warm, with incisive commentary and Haefele’s aphoristic self- PM. Free. humor as he connects the restraint, and a great example of what Goethe meant when he quipped that “genius dots of his experience to say something enormous about experience itself. knows when to stop.” Perhaps the most personally illuminating piece is In the first essay, “Confessions of a Faller,” Haefele recounts his days felling trees outside Lincoln, Mont., “Prankster, Pass By,” which details Haefele’s infatuation and his nights boozing in the Front Street bars of with Ken Kesey and an encounter with the counterculMissoula. “Fire on the Mountain” is a flashback to the tural icon that almost was, as well as every young author’s stint volunteering as a fire-fighting sawyer and writer’s journey to find the right voice. Extremophilia is a wide-ranging, wide-eyed a rumination on his limitations, while “After the Flood” is a propulsive history of Missoula as filtered through assortment of reportage, anecdote and memoir, with flooding. Says Haefele, “I believe the relentless hydro- prose so uncluttered and clean you could eat off it. dynamics that shaped this place… have long been part These are tall tales about forestry, motorcycles and of the collective unconscious of its inhabitants.” literature that all happen to be true. The writing is Constantly in these crisp surveys he caps his powerful reminiscent of Hunter S. Thompson, but with an ecostorytelling voice with sparks of nuanced insight, and logical bent, and mixed with the wryly blunt style of this is what makes his book something far more sub- Denis Johnson. “A good line in a story,” Haefele notes, “is like the stantial than an amusing batch of short travelogues. In Haefele’s writing, there is the workingman’s Montana right shot at the right time. It fills your heads with its of cold and heat and exhaustion and the writer’s sound.” These stories echo the noise of Haefele’s often Montana of scholastic wildness and crazy bouts of erudition. Both require an extremophile’s perseverance, hilarious and consistently poignant mind. All in all, it’s a top-notch collection of understated gems. If you’re and he duly provides it. The Montana ethos pervades Haefele’s world with- wondering why you reside in Montana, either look out out the cloying habit of informing his readership of this the window—or just read some Haefele. fact. With one or two exceptions, Extremophilia is a psychological profile of the American West and its peoarts@missoulanews.com

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Racing heart Senna’s restraint makes for a winning doc by Dave Loos

The graveyard of documentaries that fail to do their stories justice is large and grows every year. Not Senna. In the film’s climactic scene, we are sitting with Brazilian auto racing legend Ayrton Senna as he navigates the twisting course of the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix at speeds topping 200 miles per hour. This is real footage. We’re seeing what Senna saw from the open-air cockpit of the vehicle. We also know that Senna is about to die. Writing about it is enough to make the heart pound as it did in the theater. As we hover at eye level less than three feet above the pavement, the scene unfolds over an agonizing 10 seconds, then 20 seconds, and finally, after close to a minute of

life—and give us a portrait of a man who above all loved racing in its purest form. This is achieved using mainly conventional documentary techniques: archival racing footage; past and present interviews with fellow racers, friends and family members; and a standard chronological progression. It’s all proof that you don’t have to break any new cinematic ground when you’ve got such a powerful narrative. Senna first came to Europe in 1978 as an 18-yearold to compete on the go-kart circuit, and he quickly advanced through the minor leagues of single-seater racing. In 1984 he moved up to Formula One, and four years later he would win the first of three F1 champi-

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waiting, the film quick-cuts to an aerial view of the race and the accident that we know is coming. It’s as gripping as a documentary gets, as much for the drama on the racetrack as for the fact we care deeply for the person in that car. This is how stories should be told on screen. For a period of time in the late ’80s and early ’ 90s, Senna was, along with Michael Jordan, one of the most famous athletes on the planet. His sport was Formula One auto racing, which not only explains why Americans have never heard of him but also why releasing a documentary about the Brazilian legend in this country is something of a cinematic risk. We care as much about F1 as we do about other international sporting obsessions like rugby and cricket, which is to say, just about nil. So the fact that in less than two hours British director Asif Kapadia makes us love a man we’d never heard of and successfully sucks us into the drama and action of a foreign sport is a double accomplishment. Senna is one of the best films of the year, documentary or otherwise. I don’t think I’m ruining anything by telling you Senna dies. It’s a fact all but announced in the trailers and strongly foreshadowed from the first few scene of the documentary. Had he lived, Senna would be 51 years old today and almost assuredly retired from racing. We tend to romanticize our icons—athletic or otherwise—who die tragically in their prime, as Senna did. That can make it hard to differentiate the man from the myth, especially as time rolls on. What Senna does with such subtle artistry is strip away the money and fame and women—all of which were abundant in his

onships. To its credit, Senna doesn’t rush through these important early years, pausing along the way to show interviews with the young 20-something driver while concurrently delving into the ins and outs of F1 racing. As with many big-time sports, money and politics played a large role in F1 racing, and the film makes a pretty good case that the Brazilian phenom repeatedly got a raw deal from the powers overseeing the sport as he moved up the ranks. As storylines go, the one showing Senna’s fierce rivalry with French champion Alain Prost—even when the two were teammates—adds a wonderful spark and a delicious true-life villain who plays the part with aplomb. In a film about cars racing at ungodly speeds around hairpin turns, restraint is an unlikely virtue. But there is patience at work here that will give you goose bumps. From what must have been thousands of hours of B-roll footage of pre-race meetings and downtime, Kapadia discovered wonderful snippets of the humble and introspective racing star. These shots, like the climactic scene, all last longer than you would expect, as if giving us a chance to see inside Senna’s mind. The most powerful scene is, of course, one of the last, as our subject sits with a pained expression in the cockpit of his new car, one that he has yet to fully test in competition: Ayrton Senna has a bad feeling about this race, and at that moment we feel utterly helpless. Let the heart pounding commence. Senna ends its run at the Wilma Theatre Thu., Nov. 17. arts@missoulanews.com

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COURAGEOUS Four police officers face a tragedy that changes everything. They spend the rest of the story dealing with whatever that tragedy is, but mostly, the movie seems to be about fatherhood. Alex Kendrick directs, writes and stars. Carmike 10: 1, 4, 7 and 10. Mon–Thu: no 1 PM show. Stadium 14: 3:30.

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to dance and the tractor that loves him. I hope he can return that love. Carmike 10: 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:40. Mon.–Thu: No 1 PM show. Village 6 Fri: 4, 7 and 9:40. Sat: 1, 4, 7 and 9:40. Sun: 1. 4. 7. Mon.–Thu: 4, 7. Stadium 14: 1:15 and 6:50. Pharoahplex: 6:50 and 9:10, with Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9:10 show on Sun. Mountain: 2, 4:30, 7, 9:10. Mountain: 4, 7, 9:15. IMMORTALS In this adventure starring Stephen Dorff, Zeus is all, “Ah, Hades no, King Hyperion ain’t getting a weapon that can destroy all of Greece and mankind,” so he totally enlists a mortal to stop that jerk. Carmike 12: 1:50, 4:40, 7:35 and 10:15. 3D: 1:25, 4:30, 7:20 and 10. Pharaohplex: 6:50 and 9:10 with matinees at 3 PM. No 9:10 show on Sun. Village 6: 1, 4 and 7. 3D: 9:40 and midnight on Fri. and Sat. Stadium 14: 3D: 12:10, 1, 3:10, 4, 6:10, 7, 9 and 9:45, Fri.–Sun., with midnight shows Fri. and Sat. 1, 2, 3:45, 4:30, 6:30. 7, 9 and 9:30 Mon.–Tue. Mountain: 2:15, 4:30, 7:15 and 9:20. IN TIME What if you were Justin Timberlake and you stopped aging at the age of 25? Nice, right?

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JACK AND JILL Adam Sandler plays twin brother and sister. Makes funny voices. Gets kicked in the groin. Rides a donkey. Learns something about family, accepting human foibles. Carmike 12: 1:45, 4:10, 6:50, 9 and 11:15 on Fri. and Sat. Village 6: 1:15, 4:30, 7:30 and 9:35, with 11:45 PM shows on Fri. and Sat. Pharaohplex: 7 and 9 PM, with matinees at 3 PM Sat. and Sun. No 9 PM show Sun. Stadium 14: Fri.–Wed.: 12:10, 1:10, 2:30, 3:30, 4:50, 6, 7:10, 8:30 and 9:30, with midnight shows on Fri. and Sat. Thur.: 1, 2, 3:30, 4:30, 6, 7:10, 8:30 and 9:30. Mountain: 2, 4, 7 and 9. Showboat: 4:15, 7:15 and 9:15. PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 Sisters befriend a ghost in 1988. Perhaps the ghost will take them to a David Lee Roth concert. Carmike 10: 1:10, 4:05, 7:35 and 9:50. Village 6: Fri: 4, 7 and 9:35. Sat. and Sun: 1, 4,7 and 9:15. Mon.–Thu: 4 and 7. Pharaohplex: 7 and 9, with Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9 pm show on Sun. Showboat: 4,7 and 9. Special Midnight show on Thu. Stadium 14: 9:30, with midnight shows on Fri. and Sat.

A VERY HAROLD AND KUMAR 3D CHRISTMAS Mega bros Harold and Kumar burn one in their third adventure. The “one” being somebody’s dad’s prized Christmas tree. No kidding, this is the “plot.” Village 6: 4:10 and 7:30 nightly, with Sat. and Sun. shows at 9:45 and matinees at 1:30. Pharaohplex: In 2D at 7 and 9 PM, with 3 PM matinees on Sat. and Sun. Stadium 14: 1:05, 6:55, 9:35, with midnight shows on Fri. and Sat. THE WAY Emilio Estevez directs his dad Martin Sheen in the story of a man who died while traveling recovering the body of his estranged son El camino de Santiago. Let the allusions to real life do what they will. The Wilma: Sun.–Thur. 7 and 9:10, Fri. and Sat. 9 PM. Sat. 3 pm. Stadium 14: 1 and 3:45. Capsule reviews by Molly Laich and Jason McMackin Moviegoers be warned! Show times are good as of Fri., Nov. 18. Show times and locations are subject to change or errors, despite our best efforts. Please spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities by calling ahead to confirm. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 10/Village 6–541-7469; Wilma–728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton–961-F I LM; S t a d i u m 14 i n K a l i s p e l l – 752 - 78 0 0 . Showboat in Polson, Entertainer in Ronan and Mountain in Whitefish–862-3130.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): If you go into a major art museum that displays Europe’s great oil paintings, you’ll find that virtually every masterpiece is surrounded by an ornate wooden frame, often painted gold. Why? To me, the enclosure is distracting and unnecessary. Why can’t I just enjoy the arresting composition on the naked canvas, unburdened by the overwrought excess? I urge you to take my approach in the coming weeks, Aries. Push and even fight to get the goodies exactly as they are, free of all the irrelevant filler, extraneous buffers, and pretentious puffery. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Judge a moth by the beauty of its candle,” said the 13th-century poet Rumi. More prosaically put: Evaluate people according to the nobility and integrity of the desires they’re obsessed with. Do you want to hang around with someone whose primary focus is to make too much money or please her parents or build a shrine to his own ego? Or would you prefer to be in a sphere of influence created by a person who longs to make a useful product or help alleviate suffering or make interesting works of art? It’s an excellent time to ponder these issues, Taurus—and then take action to ensure you’re surrounded by moths that favor beautiful candles. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In Santa Cruz there used to be a nightclub that featured live rock bands on a big stage but enforced a strict policy forbidding its patrons from dancing. The one time I went there, the music was loud and infectious, and I naturally felt the urge to move in vigorous rhythm. Moments after I launched into my groove, a bouncer accosted me and forced me to stop. I think this situation has certain resemblances to the one you’re in now, Gemini. Some natural response mechanism in you is being unduly inhibited; some organic inclination is being unreasonably restrained or dampened. Why should you continue to accept this?

CANCER (June 21-July 22): During the time a blue crab is growing to maturity, it is very skilled at transforming itself. It sheds its exoskeleton an average of once every 18 days for an entire year. You’re in a phase with some similarities to that period of rapid ripening, Cancerian. Your commitment to change doesn’t have to be quite as heroic, but it should be pretty vigorous. Could you manage, say, two moltings over the course of the next 30 days? If done in a spirit of adventure, it will be liberating, not oppressively demanding.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Progress isn’t made by early risers,” wrote author Robert Heinlein. “It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.” That’s exactly the kind of progress you are in an excellent position to stir up in the coming weeks. You don’t have to match the stress levels of the Type A people who might seem to have an advantage over you, and you won’t help yourself at all by worrying or trying too hard. The single best thing you can do to supercharge your creativity is to think of yourself as a “happy-go-lucky” person while you go around dreaming up ways to have more fun.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Our elders know you don’t find the answer by asking thousands of questions,” says an essay on the website of the environmentalist group The Last Tree (thelasttree.net). “The wise way is to ask the right question in the beginning.” I recommend this approach for you in the coming weeks, Virgo. Given the sparkly mysteriousness that now confronts you, I know you may be tempted to simultaneously try a lot of different routes to greater clarity. But the more effective strategy in the long run is to cultivate silence and stillness as you wait expectantly for the intuition that will reveal the simple, direct path.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In a review of James Gleick’s book The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood, The Week magazine reported that “the world now produces more information in 48 hours than it did throughout all human history to 2003.” From that dizzying factoid, we can infer that you are more inundated with data than were all of your ancestors put together. And the surge will probably intensify in the coming weeks. You are in a phase of your astrological cycle when you’ll be asked to absorb and integrate a voluminous amount of interesting stuff. Don’t be hard on yourself if you sometimes need to slow down to digest what you’ve been taking in.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In his poem “Ode to the Present,” Pablo Neruda tells us how to slip free and clear into the luxuriously potent opportunity of the present moment. The here-andnow is so ripe and willing, he says, so malleable. “Take a saw to its delicious wooden perfume,” he continues, and then “build a staircase. Yes, a staircase. Climb into the present, step by step, press your feet onto the resinous wood of this moment, going up, going up, not very high…Don’t go all the way to heaven. Reach for apples, not the clouds.” Such good advice for you, Scorpio! It’s a perfect time to learn more about the magic of the present moment as you free yourself from “the unrepairable past.” (Read the poem at bit.ly/NerudaOde.)

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Seminal psychologist Carl Jung wasn’t afraid of applying his scholarly analytical skills to the phenomena of pop culture. Late in life, he even wrote a thoughtful book on UFOs called Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies. To be as thorough and careful as he could possibly be about such an elusive subject, he wrote an afterword to his main argument, to which he added an epilogue, which in turn was followed by a concluding supplement. I hope that you are as scrupulous in wrapping up loose ends in the coming week, Sagittarius, especially when you’re dealing with enigmas and riddles. As you seek resolution and completion, go well beyond the bare minimum.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A great deal of land in the Netherlands has been reclaimed from the sea by human effort. But the system of dikes that holds back the primal flow is not a foolproof or permanent guarantee against flooding. That’s why more and more people are building homes that can float if they have to. “We are actually trying to move away from fighting against the water,” says architect Koen Olthuis. “We are beginning to make friends with the water.” I recommend you adopt this as a useful metaphor, Capricorn. During the coming months, you should be doing a lot of foundation work. What can you do to add buoyancy?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): According to my old philosophy professor Norman O. Brown, “Our real choice is between holy and unholy madness: open your eyes and look around you— madness is in the saddle anyhow.” Let’s take this hypothesis as our starting point, Aquarius. I propose that in the coming weeks you make an effort to get more accustomed to and comfortable with the understanding that the entire world is in the throes of utter lunacy. Once you are at peace with that, I hope you will commit yourself to the sacred kind of lunacy—the kind that bestows wild blessings and perpetrates unreasonable beauty and cultivates the healing power of outlandish pleasure.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): It won’t be enough to simply maintain your current levels of strength, clarity, and intelligence in the coming weeks. To stay healthy, to keep up with the rapidly evolving trends swirling in and around you, you will have to actively push to get stronger, clearer, and smarter. No pressure, right? Don’t worry, the universe will be conspiring to help you accomplish it all. To trigger the boost you’ll need, imagine that you have a reservoir of blue liquid lightning in the place between your heart and gut. Picture yourself drawing judiciously from that high-octane fuel as you need it, bringing it first to your heart and then to your brain. Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700.

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PUBLIC NOTICES CITY OF MISSOULA NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Missoula City Council will hold a public hearing on December 5, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 140 West Pine, Missoula, Montana, to consider a resolution to amend the City of Missoula Subdivision Regulations, Article 3, entitled “Subdivision Design Standards” Section 3-020 entitled Streets, Access and Transportation.” For further information, contact Tom Zavitz, Office of Planning & Grants at 258-4983. If you have comments, please mail them to: City Clerk, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein CMC, City Clerk CITY OF MISSOULA NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Missoula City Council will hold a public hearing on November 21, 2011, at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 140 West Pine, Missoula, Montana, to consider a resolution amending the annual appropriations for the Missoula Redevelopment Agency as set forth in the fiscal year 2011 budget and the Capital Improvement Program that increases the total Missoula Redevelopment Agency by $4,843,380. A copy of the resolution is on file in the City Clerk office. For further information, contact Brentt Ramharter, Finance Director at 552-6108. If you have comments, please mail them to: City Clerk, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein CMC, City Clerk CITY OF MISSOULA NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Missoula City Council will hold a public hearing on December 5, 2011, at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 140 West Pine, Missoula, Montana, to consider an ordinance amending Title 20, the City Zoning Ordinance to incorporate text amendments to Section 20.45.020 entitled “Parcel and Building Standards in Residential Districts.” For further information, contact Jen Gress, Office of Planning & Grants at 258-4949. If you have comments, please mail them to: City Clerk, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein,CMC City Clerk CITY OF MISSOULA The Missoula Fire Department has applied for a permit to burn a house at 2241 South 3rd Street West as a training exercise in March of 2012. The public is invited to comment in writing. Comments must be received by 5:00 p.m. on December 9th, 2011, at the Health Department, 301 West Alder, Missoula, MT 59802. Fax: (406) 258-4781. Email: scoefield@co.missoula.mt.us. More information and a copy of the application are available at the Health Department. Phone: (406) 2584755 MISSOULA COUNTY MISSOULA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT NOTICE TO BIDDERS Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received and publicly opened at 2:00 p.m. local time on Thursday, December 15, 2011 by the Missoula County Airport Authority at the airport Terminal Conference Room for the construction of “Airport Improvements” to include the following: Equipment, Furnishings and Accessories for the New Air Traffic Control Tower. This work is to include fur-

nishing all items listed in the Equipment Bid Documents, as well as furnishing all labor, tools and equipment and performing all work required for installation, wiring, connecting, adjusting, testing, demonstrating and warranting same for the new Missoula International Airport Air Traffic Control Tower. Bids must be in triplicate, sealed and delivered to: Missoula County Airport Authority 5225 Highway 10 West Missoula, MT 59808 At or before 2:00 p.m., local time on Thursday, December 15, 2011, and marked “Bid for Equipment, Furnishings and Equipment for Missoula International Airport.” The bidder’s name and address shall appear in the lower left hand corner of the envelope. All bids must be accompanied by lawful monies of the United States or a Cashier’s Check, a Certified Check, Bid Bond, Bank Money Order or Bank Draft, drawn and issued by a National Banking Association located in the State of Montana, or by any Banking Corporation incorporated under the Laws of the State of Montana, in an amount equal to not less than five (5%) percent of the total bid, payable to the order of the Missoula County Airport Authority as liquidated damages in the event said successful bidder shall fail or refuse to execute the contract in accordance with the terms of his bid. After a contract is awarded, the successful bidder will be required to furnish a separate Performance and Payment Bond, each in the amount of one hundred (100%) percent of the contract. Plans, specifications, bidding and contract forms may be inspected at the Airport Director’s Office – Missoula International Airport or may be requested via email at the following address: tammy@wepayne.com The Missoula County Airport Authority reserves the right to reject any or all bids or to waive any formality or technicality in any bid in the best interests of the Owner. The Missoula County Airport Authority further reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to enter into contract negotiations with any responsible bidder, regardless of whether such bidder submitted the lowest bid. Bidders may not withdraw Proposals for a period of sixty (60) days after the bid opening date. There will be no pre-bid conference. However, additional components of the new ATCT equipment that are not a part of this solicitation will be installed by the FAA, and it is highly advisable that prospective bidders visit the site prior to submitting their proposals in order to fully understand the scope of work required. Refer to the bid document package, Section 3: Special Requirements and Instructions. Signed: /s/ Cris Jensen Airport Director Missoula County Airport Authority MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Probate Case No. DP-11-186 NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of Mable Lena Harding, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must be mailed to the Personal Representative, return receipt requested of filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 31st day of October, 2011. /s/

Donald Wayne Harding, 4425 Shepard Lane, Missoula, MT 59802 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DP-11-200 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF LaVELLA JANEANE McGUIRL, a/k/a LaVella J. McGuirl, L. Janeane McGuirl, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named Estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to JAMES McGUIRL, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Reely Law Firm, P.C., 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 10th day of November, 2011 /s/ James McGuirl, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, COUNTY OF MISSOULA PROBATE NO. DP-11-181 DEPT. NO. 3 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF Kathryn R. Hudson, a/k/a Katherine R. Hudson, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned was 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 William E. Dreiling, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested PO Box 9311, Missoula, MT 59807, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 12th day October, 2011. /s/ William E. Dreiling, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DN-11-19 Department No. 1 Judge Edward P. McLean SUMMONS AND CITATION IN THE MATTER OF DECLARING C.B., A YOUTH IN NEED OF CARE. TO: JUSTIN BORCHERS RE: C.B., born May 14, 2010 YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, Child and Family Services Division (CFS), 2677 Palmer, Suite 300, Missoula, Montana 59808, has filed a Petition to Terminate Father’s Parental Rights for said Youth to be otherwise cared for; Now, Therefore, YOU ARE HEREBY CITED AND DIRECTED to appear on the 7th day of December, 2011 at 9:00 a.m. at the Courtroom of the above entitled Court at the Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, then and there to show cause, if any you may have, why the Father’s rights should not be terminated and why the Petition should not be granted or why said Youth should not be otherwise cared for. Justin Borchers is represented by Court-appointed attorney Kelli Sather, 610 Woody, Missoula, Montana, 59802, (406) 523-5140. Your failure to appear at the hearing constitutes a denial of your interest in custody of the Youth, which denial will result, without further notice of this proceeding or any subsequent proceeding, in judgment by default being entered for the relief requested in the Petition. A copy of the Petition hereinbefore referred to is filed with the Clerk of District Court for Missoula County, telephone: (406) 258-4780. WITNESS the Honorable Edward P. McLean, Judge of the above-entitled Court and the Seal of this Court, this 4th day of November, 2011. /s/ EDWARD P. MCLEAN District Court Judge MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DN-11-32 Department No. 3 Judge

John W. Larson SUMMONS AND CITATION IN THE MATTER OF DECLARING J.M., A YOUTH IN NEED OF CARE. TO: THE FATHER AND ALL PUTATIVE FATHERS OF J.M. Re: J.M., born October 18, 2010 to Johnna Styrman YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, Child and Family Services Division (CFS), 2677 Palmer Street, Suite 300, Missoula, Montana 59808, has filed a Petition to Terminate the Father’s Rights of J.M.’s father and all putative fathers or for said youth to be otherwise cared for; Now, Therefore, YOU ARE HEREBY CITED AND DIRECTED to appear on the 22nd day of December, 2011 at 4:30 p.m. at the Courtroom of the above entitled Court at the Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, then and there to show cause, if any you may have, why your parental rights to J.M. should not be terminated; why CFS’ temporary legal custody of J.M. should not be extended; why the Petition should not be granted or why said youth should not be otherwise cared for. The father and all putative father’s is represented by the Office of Public Defender, 610 Woody Street, Missoula, Montana, 59802, (406) 523-5140. Your failure to appear at the hearing constitutes a denial of your interest in custody of the youth, which denial will result, without further notice of this proceeding or any subsequent proceeding, in judgment by default being entered for the relief requested in the Petition. A copy of the Petition hereinbefore referred to is filed with the Clerk of District Court for Missoula County, telephone: (406) 258-4780. WITNESS the Honorable John W. Larson, Judge of the aboveentitled Court and the Seal of this Court, this 28th day of October, 2011. /s/ JOHN W. LARSON District Judge MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-11-187 Dept. No. 3 Judge John W. Larson. NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF CORDELIA C. SLATER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the Decedent are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to BRADFORD J. BROWN, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, 2803 Allison Court, Bozeman, MT 59718, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 31st day of October, 2011. /s/ Bradford J. Brown 2803 Allison Court, Bozeman, MT 59718 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Ed McLean Cause No. DV-11-965 SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION PHH Mortgage Corporation, Plaintiff, -vs- F. Duke Hermann; First Security Bank of Missoula; and all other persons, unknown, claiming or who might claim any right, title, estate or interest in or lien or encumbrance upon the real property described in the complaint adverse to plaintiff’s ownership or any cloud upon plaintiff’s title thereto, whether such claim or possible claim be present or contingent, Defendants. ))THE STATE OF MONTANA TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: ALL OTHER PERSONS, UNKNOWN, CLAIMING OR WHO MIGHT CLAIM ANY RIGHT, TITLE, ESTATE OR INTEREST IN OR LIEN OR ENCUMBRANCE UPON THE REAL PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN THE COMPLAINT ADVERSE TO PLAINTIFF’S OWNERSHIP OR ANY CLOUD UPON PLAINTIFF’S TITLE THERETO, WHETHER SUCH CLAIM OR POSSIBLE CLAIM BE PRESENT OR CONTINGENT: You are hereby summoned to answer the Complaint in this action, which is filed in the

office of the Clerk of this Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your Answer and serve a copy thereof upon the Plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in case of your failure to appear or Answer, Judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. This action relates to a quiet title action and the foreclosure of a Deed of Trust upon the following described real property in the County of Missoula, State of Montana: LOT 27 AND 28 IN BLOCK 54 OF CAR LINE ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. TOGETHER WITH PORTIONS “C” AND “D” OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 5681, BEING A PORTION OF THE NORTHWEST ONEQUARTER OF SECTION 32, TOWNSHIP 13 NORTH, RANGE 19 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA WITNESS my hand and seal of said Court, this 28th day of October, 2011. (SEAL OF THE COURT) /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of the District Court By /s/ Susie Wall Deputy Clerk of Court Dated this 13th day of October, 2011. MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM Attorneys for Plaintiff 38 Second Ave E Dickinson ND 58601 Tel: (701) 227-1841 By: /s/ Charles J. Peterson, Attorney #2429 Attorney for the Plaintiff THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION RECEIVED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR. NOTICE Pursuant to the provisions of the Federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that unless you dispute the validity of the foregoing debt or any portion thereof within thirty days after receipt of this letter, we will assume the debt to be valid. On the other hand, if the debt or any portion thereof is disputed, we will obtain verification of the debt and will mail you a copy of such verification. You are also advised that upon your request within the thirty day period, we will provide you with the name and address of your original creditor, if different from the creditor referred to in this Notice. We are attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Cause No. DP-11-192 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF GORDON F. ALFSEN, 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 Dorothy Brownlow, Public Administrator, return receipt requested at Missoula County Attorney’s Office, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 3rd day of November, 2011. /s/ Dorothy Brownlow, Deputy County Attorney MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Cause No. DP-11-194 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF FRANCES M. BUMGARDNER, 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 decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Woodford Glen Bumgardner,

Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 4110 Weeping Willow Drive, Missoula, Montana 59803, or filed with the Clerk of the abovenamed Court. DATED this 3rd day of November, 2011. /s/ Woodford Glen Bumgardner, Personal Representative GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC /s/ Nancy P. Gibson, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DP-11-193 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF NADINE ROSE PHELPS, 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 decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Stephen Arthur Whitlock, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 4110 Weeping Willow Drive, Missoula, Montana 59803, or filed with the Clerk of the above-named Court. DATED this 3rd day of November, 2011. /s/ Stephen Arthur Whitlock, Personal Representative GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC /s/ Nancy P. Gibson, Attorney for Personal Representative Auction Storage Contents 6B, 15B 10 a.m. 11/22/11 2122 South Ave West Missoula, Cash 2409371. NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER MONTANA TRUST INDENTURE TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: 1. Notice is hereby given to the public and to the following: 4B’s Restaurants, Inc. P.O. Box 7369 Missoula, MT 59807-7369 Four Bs Restaurant Inc. P.O. Box 7369 Missoula, MT 59807-7369 Bonnie J. Krantz 42648 Leighton Road Ronan, MT 59864 Lee Bayley 5540 N. Drumheller Street Spokane, WA 99205 Missoula County Treasurer 200 West Broadway St. Missoula, MT 59802-4216 2. Property. This Notice concerns the following described Real Property: Portion “A” of Certificate of Survey No. 4565, located in the SE NE of Section 7, Township 13 North, Range 19 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. Tracts A and B of Certificate of Survey No. 3501, located in the SE NE of Section 7, Township 13 North, Range 19 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. LESS AND EXCEPTING that portion conveyed to the State of Montana by Deed recorded in Book 21 of Micro at Page 16. 3. Loan Secured by the Real Property. Loan No. 2421396-001: MetLife Capital Financial Corporation (MetLife”) made a loan to 4 B’s Restaurants, Inc. (“4B’s”). 4B’s executed a Montana Trust Indenture, Security Agreement, Assignment of Leases and Rents, and Fixture Filing encumbering the Real Property to secure payment and satisfaction of a Promissory Note in the original principal amount of $2,000,000.00. 4B’s also executed a Security Agreement and an Assignment of Rents and Leases to secure the loan obligation. GE Commercial Finance Business Property Corporation, a Delaware corporation, became the successor to MetLife. On July 26, 2010, GE Commercial Finance Business Property Corporation executed an Assignment of Interest in Mortgage or Deed of Trust and Assignment of Leases and Rents to US Acquisition Property VIII, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company. 4. Montana Trust Indenture Securing the Loan Obligation. Grantor 4B’s Restaurants, Inc., executed and delivered to MetLife (beneficiary) a Montana Trust Indenture, Security Agreement, Assignment of Leases and Rents, and Fixture Filing described as follows: Date: December 31, 1996 Grantor: 4B’s Restaurants, Inc. Original Trustee: Western Title & Escrow Lender/Beneficiary: MetLife Capital Financial Corporation Recorded in the records of

Missoula County, Montana, as follows: Date: December 31, 1996 Book/Page: Book 494, page 0981, Document No. 9628353 GE Commercial Finance Business Property Corporation, the successor corporation to MetLife, executed and delivered to US Acquisition Property VIII, LLC, an Assignment of Interest in Mortgage or Deed of Trust and Assignment of Leases and Rents described as follows: Date: July 26, 2010 Assignor: GE Commercial Finance Business PropertyCorporation Assignee: US Acquisition Property VIII, LLC Recorded in the records of Missoula County, Montana, as follows: Date: August 30, 2010 Book/Page: Book 865, page 17, Document No. 201016524 Substitute Trustee. The following was substituted as Trustee: Dean A. Stensland Boone Karlberg PC 201 West Main, Suite 300 P. O. Box 9199 Missoula, MT 59807-9199 Telephone: (406) 543-6646 Facsimile: (406) 549-6804 by a written document recorded in the records of Missoula County, Montana as follows: Dated: August 17, 2011 Recorded: August 18, 2011 Document No.: 201113870 Book/Page: Book 881 of Micro Records at Page 1097 5. Default. 4B’s Restaurants, Inc., is in default of the terms and obligations contained in the Promissory Note, Montana Trust Indenture, Security Agreement, Assignment of Leases and Rents, and Fixture Filing, Security Agreement and Assignment of Leases and Rents. 4B’s Restaurants, Inc., is in default due to the failure to timely pay US Acquisition Property VIII, LLC. 4B’s Restaurants, Inc., is currently in a Chapter 7 Bankruptcy. By court orders dated August 16, 2011, the court approved the Chapter 7 Trustee’s abandonment of the Real Property and granted US Acquisition Property VIII, LLC, relief from the automatic stay. 6. Amount Owing. The amounts owing are as follows: Loan No. 2421396-001: Principal: $497,300. .53 Interest through 8/26/11: $120,, 399. .04 Insurance and improvements: $ 15, ,448.. 11 Fees and other balances: $ 22,, 755. .94 Attorney Fees and costs (8/6/10- 8/26/11): $ 7, ,710. .24 Trustee’s Sale Guarantee: $ 1,446.00 Delinquent property taxes (2010) plus penalty and interest: $ 56, ,801. .97 TOTAL $721, ,861. .83 Interest continues to accrue on this Promissory Note and loan at the daily rate of $122 .25305 from August 27, 2011, until paid. The total balance due on this obligation secured by the Montana Trust Indenture, Security Agreement, Assignment of Leases and Rents, and Fixture Filing is the sum of the above items, plus attorney fees and costs allowed by law. The exact amount owing as of the date of sale will be provided upon request made to the under signed prior to the date of said sale. 7. Acceleration. Notice is hereby given that the Beneficiary under the Montana Trust Indenture, Security Agreement, Assignment of Leases and Rents, and Fixture Filing previously elected to consider all principal and interest immediately due and payable as a consequence of the default under the Promissory Note, Montana Trust Indenture, Security Agreement, Assignment of Leases and Rents, and Fixture Filing. 8. Notice of Sale. Notice is hereby given that the Beneficiary under the Montana Trust Indenture, Security Agreement, Assignment of Leases and Rents, and Fixture Filing and the Trustee hereby elect to sell or cause to be sold the Property described above to satisfy the obligations secured by the Montana Trust Indenture, Security Agreement, Assignment of Leases and Rents, and Fixture Filing. The sale will be held at the following date, time and place: Date: January 18, 2012 Time: 10:00 a.m. Place: Missoula County Courthouse 200 West Broadway Missoula, MT The Trustee will sell the Property at public auction to the highest bidder, in cash, in lawful money of the United States, all payable at the time of the sale. DATED this 26th day of August, 2011. By: /s/ Dean A. Stensland Successor Trustee STATE OF MONTANA : COUNTY OF MISSOULA This instrument

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PUBLIC NOTICES was acknowledged before me on the 26th day of August, 2011, by Dean A. Stensland. /s/ A.. Melissa Otis Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at Missoula, Montana My Commission Expires: August 15th 2013l NOTICE OF TRUSTEE S SALE Trustee Sate Number. 11-02021-5 loan Number: 0038439279 APN: 1089204 TO BE SOLD for cash at Trustee’s Sale on March 1, 2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, recognized local time, on the front steps to the County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula the following described real property in Missoula County, Montana, to-wit: TRACT 2A2 ON CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 5518, A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN THE NE 1/4 OF SECTION 30, TOWNSHIP 18 NORTH, RANGE 19 WEST, PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN MONTANA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA TOGETHER WITH A 45’PRIVATE ACCESS AND UTILITY EASEMENT ACROSS TRACT 2B AS DISCLOSED ON CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO 5201. More commonly known as;26053 SHOW HORSE LANE.ARLEE.MT LISA M, KOETTER AND MICHAEL E. KOETTER, WIFE AND HUSBAND, as the original grantors), conveyed said real property to ALLIANCE TITLE & ESCROW CORP., as the original trustee, to secure an obligation owed to WELLS FARGO HOME MORTGAGE, INC, as the original beneficiary, by a Trust Indenture dated as of February 19, 2004, and recorded on February 23, 2004 in Book. 726 at Page 1403 under Document No. 200404701, in the Official Records of the Office of the Record of Missoula County, Montana (“Deed of Trust”). The current beneficiary is: WELLS FARGO BANK, NA SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO WACHOVIA BANK, N.A. (the “Beneficiary”). FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY was named as Successor Trustee (the “Trustee”) by virtue of a Substitution of Trustee dated October 15, 2011 and recorded in the records of Missoula County, Montana. There has been a default in the performance of said Deed of Trust Failure to pay when due the following amounts which are now in arrears as of October 25,2011: Balance due on monthly payments from February 1,2011 and which payments total: $9,524.09; Late charges: $380.99: Advances: $80.00; Other: $60.00: There is presently due

on the obligation the principal sum of $143,395.32 plus accrued interest thereon at the rate of 3.87500% per annum from January 1,2011, plus late charges. Interest and late charges continue to accrue. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds include the trustee’s or attorney’s fees and costs and expenses of sale. The beneficiary has elected to sell the property to satisfy the obligation and has directed the trustee to commence such sale proceedings. The beneficiary declares that the grantor is in default as The beneficiary has elected to sell the property to satisfy the obligation and has directed the trustee to commence such sale proceedings. The beneficiary declares that the grantor Is in default as described above and has directed the Trustee to commence proceedings to sell the property described above at public sale In accordance with the terms and provisions of this notice, 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 in cash. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed. The sate 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 aforesaid 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 trustee’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default theretofore existing. SALE INFORMATION CAN BE OBTAINED ON LINE AT www.lpsasap.com AUTOMATED SALES INFORMATION PLEASE CALL 714-730-2727 DATED:October 26, 2011 FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY, Trustee,By: Rozalyn Tudor, Authorized Signature ASAP# 4132160 11/17/2011, 11/24/2011, 12/01/2011 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 11/23/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200730688 Bk-809 Pg-589, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which William L. Cook, a single person was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.

was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Unit 2905 O’Shaughnesy Street #104 of Meadow View Condominiums, a residential condominium according to the Declaration of Condominium under Unit Ownership Act Pertaining to Meadow View Condominiums recorded in Book 759 of Micro Records at Page 1093, records of Missoula County, Montana, situated on Lots 75, 76 and 77 of Hellgate Meadows, Phases 1 and 2, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Together with an undivided 6.11 percent interest in the general common elements and the right to use any limited common elements appertaining to said unit as such elements are defined in said Declaration of Condominium. 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 08/01/10 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of September 15, 2011, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $161,372.45. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $147,386.70, 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 on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on January 25, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary 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 incurred 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 non-monetary 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 USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.96361) 1002.202866-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 04/01/04, recorded as Instrument No. 200408722, Bk 729, Pg 83, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Sharon E. Oliver was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Mann Financial Inc. d/b/a Mann Mortgage was Beneficiary and Insured Titles, LLC was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Insured Titles, LLC as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 14A of Car Line Addition No. 2, Block B, Lots 13, 14 15 and 16, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201018312, BK 866, PG 405, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, NA. 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 06/01/10 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of September 22, 2011, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $159,412.50. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $140,941.04, 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 on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on January 31, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary 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 incurred 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 non-monetary 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 USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.78546) 1002.172549-FEI

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 19, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 65B of Country Crest No. 3B, Lot 65, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof John L. Nickelson and Debra K. Nickelson, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Company of Montana, Inc, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on December 18, 2008 and recorded on December 24, 2008 in Book 831, Page 59 under Document No. 200827870. The beneficial interest is currently held by Guild Mortgage Company. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,798.65, beginning April 1, 2011, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of August 31, 2011 is $290,323.86 principal, interest at the rate of 6.00% now totaling $7,403.67, late charges in the amount of $269.79, and other fees and expenses advanced of $659.28, plus accruing interest at the rate of $48.39 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The

NOTICE THAT A TAX DEED MAY BE ISSUED

TO THE FOLLOWING INTERESTED PARTIES (REGARDING THE REAL PROPERT Y DESCRIBED BELOW) WHOSE CURRENT ADDRESSES ARE UNKNOWN: Perry D. Lord Cornelia Lord Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation Any Assigns, Successors, Heirs, Devisees or Beneficiaries of or to the Above Parties Any Other Parties Claiming an Interest, Whether Legal or Equitable in the Real Property Described Below Pursuant to section 15-18-212, Montana Code Annotated, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: 1. As a result of a property tax delinquency, a property tax lien exists on the following described real property in which you may have an interest (Missoula County Tax Parcel/ID No. 1293603):

TO THE FOLLOWING INTERESTED PARTIES (REGARDING THE REAL PROPERT Y DESCRIBED BELOW) WHOSE CURRENT ADDRESSES ARE UNKNOWN: Larry N. Mooring Hae Suk Mooring Chuck Reid Country Classic Dairies Pension Plan Bitterroot Valley Ranches Owners Association Any Assigns, Successors, Heirs, Devisees or Beneficiaries of or to the Above Parties Any Other Parties Claiming an Interest, Whether Legal or Equitable in the Real Property Described Below Pursuant to section 15-18-212, Montana Code Annotated, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: 1. As a result of a property tax delinquency, a property tax lien exists on the following described real property in which you may have an interest (Missoula County Tax Parcel/ID No. 5815314):

Missoula County Treasurer’s Abbreviated Legal Description: SECTION: 36 TOWNSHIP: 15N RANGE: 14W ACRES 1.791, IMPROVEMENTS ON STATE LAND LOT 12 COS 5714, SPERRY GRADE STATE LEASE #3062040 GEOCODE: 04-2435-36-2-02-11-0099 Full Legal Description: LEASEHOLD INTEREST IN STATE OF MONTANA LEASE NO. 3062040, LOCATED ON A PARCEL OF LAND LOCATED IN THE NW1/4 AND SW1/4 OF SECTION 36, TOWNSHIP 15 NORTH, RANGE 14 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNT Y, MONTANA, BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS LOT 12 OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 5714. 2. The 2007 property taxes (second half ) became delinquent after 5:00 p.m. on June 2, 2008. 3. The property tax lien was attached as the result of a tax lien sale held on July 16, 2008. 4. The property tax lien was purchased at a tax lien sale on July 17, 2008, by: Missoula County, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. 5. The lien was subsequently assigned on May 26, 2011, to: Eric J. Bashore, P.O. Box 80242, Billings, MT 59108. 6. As of November 17, 2011, the amount of tax due is: TAXES: $1,719.47 PENALT Y: $34.37 INTEREST: $353.89 COST: $919.54 TOTAL: $3,027.27 NOTE: Interest continues to accrue at a rate of 5/6 of 1% per month. 7. For the property tax lien to be liquidated, the total amount listed in paragraph 6, plus any subsequent accrued interest, must be paid by January 23, 2012, which is the date that the redemption period expires or expired. 8. If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid to the county treasurer on or prior to January 23, 2012, which is the date the redemption period expires, or on or prior to the date on which the county treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed, a tax deed may be issued to the purchaser/assignee on the day following the date that the redemption period expires or on the date the county treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed. 9. The business address and telephone number of the county treasurer who is responsible for issuing the tax deed is: Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, Telephone: (406) 258-4847 or (406) 258-3271.

Missoula County Treasurer’s Abbreviated Legal Description: SECTION: 25 TOWNSHIP: 11N RANGE: 19W TRACT 101 OF BITTERROOT VALLEY RANCH IN SW4 GEOCODE: 04-1976-25-2-02-05-0000 Full Legal Description: LOT NO. 101 LOCATED IN SECTION 25, TOWNSHIP 11 NORTH, RANGE 19 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNT Y, MONTANA, CONTAINING 11 ACRES, MORE OR LESS, BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED ON THE MAP RECORDED IN THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK AND RECORDER OF SAID COUNT Y (BOOK 423 PAGE 410). 2. The 2007 property taxes ( first half ) became delinquent after 5:00 p.m. on November 30, 2007. 3. The property tax lien was attached as the result of a tax lien sale held on July 16, 2008. 4. The property tax lien was purchased at a tax lien sale on July 17, 2008, by: Missoula County, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. 5. The lien was subsequently assigned on September 15, 2009, to: Eric J. Bashore, P.O. Box 80242, Billings, MT 59108. 6. As of November 17, 2011, the amount of tax due is: TAXES: $1,251.85 PENALT Y: $25.06 INTEREST: $295.73 COST: $946.13 TOTAL: $2,518.77 NOTE: Interest continues to accrue at a rate of 5/6 of 1% per month. 7. For the property tax lien to be liquidated, the total amount listed in paragraph 6, plus any subsequent accrued interest, must be paid by January 23, 2012, which is the date that the redemption period expires or expired. 8. If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid to the county treasurer on or prior to January 23, 2012, which is the date the redemption period expires, or on or prior to the date on which the county treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed, a tax deed may be issued to the purchaser/assignee on the day following the date that the redemption period expires or on the date the county treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed. 9. The business address and telephone number of the county treasurer who is responsible for issuing the tax deed is: Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, Telephone: (406) 258-4847 or (406) 2583271.

FURTHER NOTICE FOR THOSE PERSONS LISTED ABOVE WHOSE ADDRESSES ARE UNKNOWN: 1) The address of the interested party is unknown. 2) The published notice meets the legal requirements for notice of a pending tax deed issuance. 3) The interested party's rights in the property may be in jeopardy.

Dated at Missoula, Montana this 17th day of November, 2011. By: /s/ Eric J. Bashore, P.O. Box 80242, Billings, MT 59108

Missoula Independent Classifieds Page C6 November 17 – November 24, 2011

sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: August 15, 2011 /s/ Dalia Martinez First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee First American Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 15th day of August, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the forgoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Marti A Ottley Notary Public Inkom, ID Commission expires: 8/15/2012 Guild v Nickelson 41291.540 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 19, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED PREMISES, IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, TO-WIT: LOT 13A

PUBLIC NOTICE The Missoula Consolidated Planning Board will conduct a public hearing on the following item on Tuesday, December 6, 2011, at 7:00 p.m., in the Missoula City Council Chambers located at 140 W. Pine Street in Missoula, Montana. 1. Rezoning Request — JTL A request from Knife River, represented by pLAND Land Use Consulting, to amend the JTL Special District zoning to expand the allowable hours of operation. The property is located between Wheeler Dr and I90, _ mile west of Reserve St. See Map H.

The Missoula Board of County Commissioners will hold a public hearing on item #1 at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, December 21, 2011 in Room 201 of the Missoula County Courthouse at 200 West Broadway. Your attendance and comments are welcomed and encouraged. The request and exact legal description is available for public inspection at the Missoula Office of Planning and Grants, City Hall, 435 Ryman, Missoula, Montana. Telephone 258-4657. If anyone attending any of these meetings needs special assistance, please provide 48 hours advance notice by calling 258-4657. The Office of Planning and Grants will provide auxiliary aids and services.

PUBLIC NOTICES OF CARLINE ADDITION BLOCK 17, LOTS 13A AND 16A, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. BEING THE SAME FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY CONVEYED BY WARRANTY DEED FROM CAROLYN J WALKER TO CHARLES P SMITH, DATED 01/14/2000 IN BOOK 621, PAGE 1662 IN MISSOULA COUNTY RECORDS, STATE OF MT Charles P. Smith, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Finiti Title, LLC, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to CitiFinancial, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated March 4, 2008 and recorded March 10, 2008 under Document# 200805054, Book 814, Page 0619. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiFinancial Inc. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $522.78, beginning August 12, 2010, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of August 30, 2011 is $46,994.82 principal, interest at the rate of 11.6292% now totaling $6,193.76, and other fees and expenses advanced of $98.08, plus accruing interest at

the rate of $14.97 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the

JONESIN’ C r o s s w o r 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 ADEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: August 10, 2011 /s/ Dalia Martinez First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee First American Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 10th day of August, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the forgoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Cassidy M Wilcox Notary Public Blackfoot, Idaho County, Bingham Commission expires: 7/16/2013 Citifinancial Vs. Smith 41499.919 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on

RESOLUTION NUMBER 2011-113 A RESOLUTION OF INTENT TO ZONE UNZONED PROPERT Y LEGALLY DESCRIBED AS MAHLUM MEADOWS SUBDIVISION, LOCATED IN SECTION 21 OF TOWNSHIP 14 NORTH, RANGE 20 WEST, P.M.M., IN MISSOULA COUNT Y (SEE MAP D), TO C-RR1 (RESIDENTIAL) WHEREAS, 76-2-201 M.C.A. authorizes the Board of County Commissioners to adopt zoning regulations; and, WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners did adopt zoning regulations for Missoula County through the passage of County Resolution 76-113, as amended; and, WHEREAS, 76-2-202 M.C.A. provides for the establishment and revision of zoning districts; and, WHEREAS, a request to rezone the property legally described above was reviewed by the Missoula Consolidated Planning Board at a public hearing held October 18, 2011; and, WHEREAS, a notice of public hearing was advertised in the Independent on September 29 and October 6, 2011; and, WHEREAS, a hearing was held by the County Commissioners of Missoula County on October 26, 2011, in order to give the public an opportunity to be heard regarding the proposed amendments to the zoning district; and, WHEREAS, the County Commissioners resolve to make a clear record of their intent to condition the zoning to require a water supply for firefighting; and WHEREAS, the County Commissioners will permit the option of either a public water system for fire protection or storage tank-related improvements, including a dry hydrant, to provide water for firefighting, subject to review and approval by the County Fire Inspector; and WHEREAS, the developer of Mahlum Meadows may bond for required improvements as provided for in Section 8.08 of the Missoula County Zoning Resolution; and WHEREAS, bonding for required firefighting improvements requires the developer to provide County Public Works and the County Fire Inspector a cost estimate for firefighting-related improvements, and an improvements agreement and security in a form approved by the County Attorney’s Office; and WHEREAS, the improvements guarantee shall have an expiration date no later than November 30, 2013, and the developer shall provide a security guarantee for the amount specified in the cost estimate and noted in the improvements agreement with an expiry date of December 31, 2013 or later and in a form approved by the County Attorney’s Office; and WHEREAS, the County Commissioners intend to permit the improvements guarantee to be renewable on a limited basis, subject to their review and approval. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of County Commissioners of Missoula County will receive written protest for a period of thirty (30) days after publication of this notice on November 10, 2011, from persons owning real property within the contiguous boundaries of the C-RR1 (Residential) zoning district; and FURTHER BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of County Commissioners of Missoula County will zone Mahlum Meadows Subdivision C-RR1, subject to application of any legal protest; and FURTHER BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of County Commissioners of Missoula County will zone Mahlum Meadows Subdivision C-RR1, subject to installation of required firefighting-related improvements, or provision of the required bond for these improvements. FURTHER, copies of the C-RR1 zoning district are available for inspection at the office of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder and the Office of Planning and Grants PASSED AND ADOPTED THIS 2nd DAY OF NOVEMBER, 2011

BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ATTEST: MISSOULA COUNTY /s/ Vickie Zeier ________________________________ Vickie Zeier, Clerk and Recorder

/s/ Jean Curtiss _____________________ Jean Curtiss, Chair

___NOT AVAILABLE FOR SIGNATURE__ APPROVED AS TO FORM AND CONTENT: Bill Carey, Commissioner /s/ James McCubbin ________________________________ James McCubbin, Deputy County Attorney

/s/ Michele Landquist __________________________ Michele Landquist, Commissioner

December 20, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 5 IN BLOCK 9 OF HILLVIEW HEIGHTS NO. 3 AND 4, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. James Greene and Janet Greene, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Tucker Harris, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to CitiFinancial Mortgage Company, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated July 31, 2001 and Recorded on August 09, 2001 under Document # 200119439, in Bk-666, Pg386. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, Inc. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,545.02, beginning September 15, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of August 31, 2011 is $117,304.53 principal, interest at the rate of 6.02% now totaling $44,308.46, late charges in the amount of $884.50, escrow advances of $35,088.34, suspense balance of $-1,944.72 and other fees and expenses advanced of $5,949.18, plus accruing interest at the rate of $19.34 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and 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

EAGLE SELF STORAGE

will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units: 58, 336, 345, 362, and 440 Units contain furniture, 2 handcrafted log beds, cloths, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds & other misc household goods. These units may be viewed starting Monday November 28, 2011. All auction units will only be shown each day at 3 P.M. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage office at 4101 Hwy 93 S., Missoula, MT 59804 prior to Tuesday November 29, 2011, 4:00 P.M. Buyers bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All sales are final.

by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: August 15, 2011 /s/ Becky Stucki First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee First American Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 15 day of August, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Becky Stucki, 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 forgoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Blackfoot, ID Commission expires: 2/18/2014 CitiMortgage v Greene 41499.823 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 20, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 100 OF PONDEROSA HEIGHTS, PHASE 2, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Anthony M Cerasani, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Services, Inc, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated December 11, 2008 and Recorded on December 17, 2008 under Document #200827443 in B: 830 P: 1031. The beneficial interest is currently held by US Bank, NA. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $2,670.10, beginning February 1, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of August 18, 2011 is $417,000.00 principal, interest at the rate of 6.625% now totaling $27,519.05, late charges in the amount of $534.04, escrow advances of $6,013.20 and other fees and expenses advanced of $219.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $75.69 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: August 16, 2011 /s/ Becky Stucki First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee First American Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ) )ss. County of Bingham) On this 16 day of August, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Becky Stucki, 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 forgoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Amy Gough Notary Public Bingham County, Blackfoot Commission expires: 5/26/2015 US Bank V Cerasani 41810.163 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 27, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following

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PUBLIC NOTICES described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 1 IN WEST POINTE, PHASE I, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY. MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF Gregory B Hanson and Cookie Hanson, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Company of Montana Inc, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on February 27, 2008 and recorded on February 27, 2008 in Book 813, Page 1270 under Document No. 200804175. The beneficial interest is currently held by GMAC Mortgage, LLC. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $2,053.10, beginning May 1, 2011, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of July 19, 2011 is $332,753.22 principal, interest at the rate of 5.875% now totaling $5,851.37, escrow advances of $1,189.29 and other fees and expenses advanced of $16.50, plus accruing interest at the rate of $53.56 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: August 19, 2011 /s/ Becky Stucki First American Title Company, LLC Successor Trustee First American Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ) )ss. County of Bingham ) On this 19 day of August, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Becky Stucki, 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 forgoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Shauna Romrell Notary Public Idaho County, Bingham Commission expires: 06/04/2016 GMAC v Hanson 41965.577 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on January 17, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: TRACT C OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 4748, LOCATED IN THE SOUTHWEST ONE-QUARTER OF SECTION 2, TOWNSHIP 13 NORTH, RANGE 19 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. Charles Eubank and Gwen Knight-Eubank, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Insured Titles, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated March 19, 2004 and recorded March 19, 2004 in Book 728, Page 548, as Document No. 200407358. The beneficial interest is currently held by The Bank of New York Melton Trust Company, National Association fka The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A, as successor to JP Morgan Chase Bank NA as Trustee. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded In the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana, The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $3,578.48, beginning September 1, 2009, 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 September 16, 2011 is $374,417.71 principal, interest at the rate of 10.625% now totaling $84,513.87, late charges in the amount of $8,981.03, escrow advances of $12,118.04, suspense balance of $1,872.65 and other fees and expenses advanced of $8,266.04, plus accruing interest at the rate of $108.99 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and 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: September 9, 2011 /s/ Becky Stucki First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee First American Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham) On this 9 day of September, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Becky Stucki, 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 forgoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Marti A Ottley Notary Public Inkom, ID Commission expires: 8/15/2012 GMAC V Eubank 41342.525 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on January 3, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main door of the First American Title Company located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN THE NW1/4 OF SECTION 35 TOWNSHIP 15 NORTH, RANGE 21 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS TRACT 26B OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 5269. NW1/4 SECTION 35, T15N, R21N, TRACT 26B, COS 5269, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA A.P.N.:2283602 Nancy L Miles, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Co., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated March 30, 2006 and Recorded March 31, 2006 in Book 771, Page 481, as Document No. 200607232. The beneficial interest is currently held by Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee of the Residential Asset Securitization Trust 2006-A7CB, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-G under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement dated May 1, 2006. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $991.51, beginning January 1, 2010, and each month subsequent, which monthly installment would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation as of August 4, 2011 is $185,310.96 principal, interest at the rate of 4.375% now totaling $13,578.84, late charges in the amount of $1,239.50, escrow advances of $5,794.75, and other fees and expenses advanced of $5,746.50, plus accruing interest at the rate of $22.21 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amount 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 pain, 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 day by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: August 26, 2011 /s/ Dalia Martinez First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee First American Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham) On this 26th day of August, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the forgoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Marti A Ottley Notary Public Inkom, ID Commission expires: 8/15/2012 Indymac V Miles 41482.963 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on January 9, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 116 OF MALONEY RANCH PHASE VII, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF Darren D. Crusch and Charlene S. Crusch, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Western Title and Escrow, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Community Bank- Missoula, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on April 30, 2007 and recorded on April 30, 2007 in Book 796, Page 269 under Document No. 200710227. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, Inc., successor in interest to ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, Inc. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,364.53, beginning April 1, 2011, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of July 25, 2011 is $217,668.49 principal, interest at the rate of 4.25% now totaling $3,691.92, late charges in the amount of $285.78, escrow advances of $1,950.64 and other fees and expenses advanced of $62.50, plus accruing interest at the rate of $25.34 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors, if such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the

obligation secured thereby (including costs and 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: September 1, 2011 /s/ Becky Stucki First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee First American Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham) On this 1 day of September, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Becky Stucki, 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 forgoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Blackfoot, Idaho Commission expires: 2/18/2014 CitiMortgage V Crusch 42011.500 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Trustee Sale No: 11-02673-5 Loan No: 0216018101 APN: 5851412 & 4620839 TO BE SOLD for cash at trustee’s sale on March 1, 2012, at the hour of 11:00 AM, recognized locate time, on the front steps to the County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, the following described real property in Missoula County, Montana, towit: Parcel I: Tract A1 of Certificate of Survey No. 2365, a tract of land located in the Southwest one-quarter of Section 13, Township 13 North, Range 23 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. Parcel II: Tract 1 of Certificate of Survey No. 6143, a tract of land located in the Northwest one-quarter of Section 24, Township 13 North, Range 23 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. More commonly known as: 4275 PETTY CREEK ROAD, ALBERTON, MT. TODD TRAUTMAN AND JODI TRAUTMAN, AS JOINT TENANTS, as the original grantor(s), conveyed said real property to FIRST AMERICAN TITLE COMPANY, as the original trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR MANN MORTGAGE, LLC, as the original beneficiary, by a Trust Indenture dated as of August 10, 2009, and Recorded August 10, 2009, under Document No. 200919902, Bk 845 Pg 746 in the Official Records of the Office of the Record of Missoula County, Montana (“Deed of Trust”). The current beneficial is: Wells Fargo Bank, NA, (the “Beneficiary”). FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY was named as Successor Trustee (the “Trustee”) by virtue of a Substitution of Trustee dated July 28, 2011, and recorded in the records of Missoula County, Montana. There has been a default in the performance of said Deed of Trust: Failure to pay when due the following amount which are now in arrears as of October 26, 2011: Balance due on monthly payments from February 1, 2010 and which payments total: $24,542.07: Late charges: $841.50: Advances: $2,122.25: Other: $15.00: There is presently due on the obligation the principal sum of $165,981.40 plus accrued interest thereon at the rate of 5.50000% per annum from January 1, 2010, plus late charges. Interest and late charges continue to accrue, Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds include the trustee’s or attorney’s fees and costs and expense of sale. The beneficiary has elected to sell the property to satisfy the obligation and has directed the trustee to commence such sale proceedings. The beneficiary declares that the grantor is in default as described above and has directed the Trustee to commence proceeding to sell the property described above at public sale in accordance with the terms and provisions of this notice. 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 in cash. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed. 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 aforesaid 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 trustee’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default theretofore existing. SALE INFORMATION CAN BE OBTAINED ON LINE AT www.lpsasap.com AUTOMATED SALES INFORMATION PLEASE CALL 714-730-2727 DATED: October 26, 2011 FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY, Trustee, By: Rozalyn Tudor, Authorized Signature ASAP# 4132150 11/17/2011, 11/24/2011, 12/01/2011 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Trustee Sale Number: 11-04099-3 Loan Number: 0087270195 APN: 2244806 TO BE SOLD for cash at Trusty’s Sale on March 16, 2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, recognized local time, on the front steps to the County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula the following described real property in Missoula County, Montana, to-wit: LOT 5 AND 6 IN BLOCK 78 OF URLINS’S ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY Of MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. APN# 2244806 More commonly known as:621

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NORTH 4TH STREET WEST,MISSOULA, MT RICHARD M. GOTTLIEB, A SINGLE PERSON, as the original grantors), conveyed said real property to ALLIANCE TITLE & ESCROW CORP., as file original trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Wells Fargo Bank, NA, as the original beneficiary, by a Trust Indenture dated as of June 19,2008, and recorded oh June 27,2008 tinder Document No. 200815204, in the Official Records of the Office of the Record of Missoula County, Montana (“Deed of Trust). The current beneficiary is: Wells Fargo Bank, NA. FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY was named as Successor Trustee (the ‘Trustee’’) by virtue of a Substitution of Trustee dated October 12, 2011 and recorded in the records of Missoula County, Montana. There has been a default In the performance of said Deed of Trust: Failure to pay when due the following amounts which are now in arrears as of September 27,2011; Balance due on monthly payments from May 1.2011 and which payments total: $716.50: Late charges: 5143.02: Advances: $0.00 There is presently due on the obligation me principal sum of $78,133.66 plus accrued interest thereon at the rate of 6.00000% per annum from April 1,2011, plus late charges. Interest and late charges continue to accrue. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds Include the trustee’s or attorney’s fees and costs and expenses of sale. The beneficiary has elected to sell the property to satisfy the obligation and has directed the trustee to commence such sale proceedings. The beneficiary declares that the grantor is in default as described above and has directed the Trustee to commence proceedings to sell the property described above at public sale in accordance with the terms and provisions of this notice. 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 in cash. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed. The sate purchaser shell be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale; The grantor, successor in Interest to the grantor or arty other person having an interest In the aforesaid property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sate, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in Merest 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 trustee’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default, occurred and thereby cure the default theretofore existing. SALE INFORMATION CAN BE OBTAINED ON www.lpsasap.com AUTOMATED SALES INFORMATION PLEASE CALL 714.730.2727 DATED: October 24, 2011 FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY, Trustee By: Mariah Booker, Authorized Signature ASAP# 4125573 11/10/2011, 11/17/2011, 11/24/2011 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 02/13/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which SHARLA V CENIS, AND CHRISTOPHER E CENIS as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to CHARLES J. PETERSON as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 07/27/2009 and recorded 08/10/2009, in document No. 200919833 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 845 at Page Number 677 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: ALL THAT CERTAIN PARCEL OF LAND SITUTATED IN MISSOULA COUNTY, STATE OF MONTANA, BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS LOT 6 IN BLOCK 10 OF WEST VIEW, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF: FILED IN PLAT BOOK 529, PAGE 406, RECORDED 02/02/1998. BY FEE SIMPLE DEED FROM JOANNE L. MCKEON AND JOANNE L. MCCOLLOM AKA AS SET FORTH IN DEED BOOK 529, PAGE 406 DATED 01/29/1998 AND RECORDED 02/02/1998, MISSOULA COUNTY RECORDS, STATE OF MONTANA. Property Address: 262 RIDGEWAY DR, LOLO, MT 59847-9608. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 07/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH

ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $137,764.46 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 4.875% per annum from 07/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. 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 charges against the proceeds to 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 Dated: 09/28/2011, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0109989 FEI NO. 1006.144124 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 02/17/2012, at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee, at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which BRUCE ANDERSON as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to STEWART TITLE as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 06/29/2005 and recorded 07/01/2005, in document No. 200516365 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 755 at Page Number 413 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: THE EAST 90 FEET OF THE SOUTH 140 FEET OF BLOCK 11 OF HAMMOND ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF, MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: COMMENCING AT A POINT 670 FEET SOUTH FROM THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF BLOCK 32, MONTANA ADDITION; THENCE SOUTH 140 FEET; THENCE WEST 90 FEET; THENCE NORTH 140 FEET; THENCE EAST 90 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING; LYING AND BEING IN THE NW1/4 NW1/4 OF SECTION 27, TOWNSHIP 13 NORTH, RANGE 19 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. RECORDING REFERENCE: BOOK 626 OF MICRO AT PAGE 2277 Property Address: 240 DALY AVENUE, Missoula, MT 59801. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF CWMBS, INC., CHL MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH TRUST 2005-HYB6, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-HYB6. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 05/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $407,946.10 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 5.625% per annum from 05/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. 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 charges against the proceeds to 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 Dated: 10/04/2011, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0113971 FEI NO. 1006.144339 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 02/17/2012, at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee, at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which JOHN C MOSS as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to FIRST AMERICAN TITLE as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 02/20/2007 and recorded 03/08/2007, in document No. 200705526 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 793 at Page Number 341 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOTS 17 AND 18 IN BLOCK 66 OF SCHOOL ADDITION, IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 1408 HOWELL STREET, MISSOULA, MT 59802 Property Address: 1408 HOWELL STREET, Missoula, MT 59802. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by U.S. BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF THE LXS 2007-7N TRUST FUND. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 01/01/2010, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $133,385.07 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 7.50% per annum from 12/01/2009 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. 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 charges against the proceeds to 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 Dated: 10/04/2011, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 10-0148477 FEI NO. 1006.119982 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 02/15/2012, at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee, at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which CLINTON J ADCOCK AND AMBER K ADCOCK, AS JOINT TENANTS as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to TITLE SERVICES as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 01/16/2009 and recorded 01/22/2009, in document No. 200901326 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 832 at Page Number 357 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: TRACT 9A OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 4379, LOCATED IN THE SOUTHWEST ONE-

PUBLIC NOTICES QUARTER OF SECTION 36, TOWNSHIP 14 NORTH, RANGE 20 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. Property Address: 6003 AIRWAY BLVD, Missoula, MT 59808. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 05/01/2010, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $313,492.39 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 5.00% per annum from 04/01/2010 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. 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 charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trusteeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fees and attorneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 Dated: 09/30/2011, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 10-0139822 FEI NO. 1006.117071 Notice of Trusteeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 02/10/2012, at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the

interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee, at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which LESLIE I. CONNELL as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to STEWART TITLE OF MISSOULA COUNTY, INC. as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 09/25/2008 and recorded 09/30/2008, in document No. 200822419 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 827 at Page Number 204 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 448 OF PLEASANT VIEW HOMES NO. 4, PHASE 2, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 3841 Lexington Avenue, Missoula, MT 59808. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 10/01/2009, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $223,424.51 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.375% per annum from 09/01/2009 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and

conditions of said Trust Indenture. 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 charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trusteeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fees and attorneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 Dated: 09/28/2011, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 10-0108987 FEI NO. 1006.110520 Notice of Trusteeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 02/10/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which ANTHONY M GORDON, AND RENEEA J GORDON, AS JOINT TENANTS WITH RIGHT OF SURVIVORSHIP as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON, ATTORNEY LICENSED IN THE STATE OF MONTANA as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 10/03/2008 and recorded 10/08/2008, in document No. 200823029 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 827 at Page Number 814 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 9A OF LOWâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ADDITION NO. 10, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. TOGETHER WITH A 15 FOOT WIDE SEWER AND

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NO 2, SUID #2401908. Parcel No. 2401908. The real property is also described in the records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder as: Tract 1 of Seeley Lake Estates #2, according to the official plat thereof filed in the Clerk and Recorderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office, Missoula County, Montana. 2. The property taxes became delinquent on May 31, 2008. 3. The property tax lien was attached as the result of a tax sale held on July 18, 2008. 4. The property tax lien was purchased at a tax sale on July 18, 2008, by Missoula County whose address is 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. 5. The lien was subsequently assigned to Jaci Investments, LLC, whose address is P.O. Box 6655, Helena, MT 59604, and a tax deed will be issued to it unless the property tax lien is redeemed prior to the expiration date of the redemption period. 6. As of the date of this notice, the amount of tax due, including penalties, interest, and costs, is:Tax: $815.57 Penalty: $16.34 Interest: $67.52 Costs: $449.18 Total: $1348.61 7. The date that the redemption period expires is 60 days from the giving of this notice. 8. For the property tax lien to be redeemed, the total amount listed in paragraph 6 plus all interest and costs that accrue from the date of this notice until the date of redemption, which amount will be calculated by the County Treasurer upon request, must be paid on or before the date that the redemption period expires. 9. If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid to the County Treasurer on or prior to the date the redemption period expires, or on or prior to the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed, a tax deed may be issued to Jaci Investments, LLC, on the day following the date on which the redemption period expires or on the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed. 10. The business address and telephone number of the County Treasurer who is responsible for issuing the tax deed is: Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, (406) 258-4847. Further notice for those persons listed above whose addresses are unknown: 1. The address of the interested party is unknown. 2. The published notice meets the legal requirements for notice of a pending tax deed issuance. 3. The interested partyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rights in the property may be in jeopardy. Notice That A Tax Deed May Be Issued Pursuant to section 15-18-212, Montana Code Annotated, notice is hereby given: 1. As a result of a property tax delinquency a property tax lien exists on the real property in which you may have an interest. The real property is described on the tax sale certificate as: Subdiv.11N 16 W 12 NW4 SW4 LESS RIVER LESS R/W, Parcel No. 2445300. The real property is also described in the records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder as: The NE SW of Section 12, Township 11 North, Range 16 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. EXCEPTING THEREFROM a tract of land

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