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WHY ARE MONTANA DEER TURNING UP WITH BAD TEETH AND SHRUNKEN JUNK?
AND NOW, SOME SUGAR TO BALANCE ROAD SALT
RANGE
POOR CITY KIDS BARRED FROM THE WILDERNESS
SCOPE
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nside Cover Story Journalists generally are not great shoppers. This is probably because we’re too poor to do much damage at the mall or Neiman Marcus online, but we try to make a virtue of necessity and maintain that we prefer the more ethereal things in life. The truth is, we’re suckers for gewgaws and gadgets just like everyone else. Read on and see................................................14 Cover illustration by Kou Moua
News Letters How can a student get around UM football? ..................................................4 The Week in Review Uproar at Missoula City Council—such fun! ............................6 Briefs A roundabout debate, Lee’s bankruptcy and more ..........................................6 Etc. UM’s costly mistake...............................................................................................7 Up Front Judy Hoy says deer hereabouts are malformed...........................................8 Up Front Fracking isn’t new in Montana. Is it safe? ....................................................9 Ochenski Beware mysterious defense bills...............................................................10 Range Poor city kids are barred from the wilderness ...............................................11 Agenda Girls Way screens Miss Representation at the Roxy .....................................12
Arts & Entertainment Flash in the Pan Why are you neglecting parsnips? .................................................18 Happiest Hour Gaming Garage Bar, Casino & Liquor Store....................................19 8 Days a Week Time to get a remote starter for your life ........................................21 Mountain High Learning to make fire by friction ....................................................37 Scope The former Moth storytelling night returns ...................................................38 Art The bold works of CP Fels, unveiled at ZACC .....................................................39 Theater You Can’t Take It With You struts in another revival ...................................40 Film Martin Scorsese’s Hugo is smart eye candy.......................................................41 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films ...................................................42
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-9 This Modern World ...............................................................................................C-15
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STREET TALK
by Steele Williams
Asked Monday evening, Dec. 5, outside the Rhinoceros Bar.
Three names: Max Baucus, Jon Tester, Denny Rehberg. What do they have in common? Follow-up: If you were Max Baucus’s Secret Santa, what would you get him?
Mike Miller: They all represent their own interests, and the interests of their staff ’s future employment as lobbyists. Better define “liberal”: First, a horn o’ plenty spewing money for all the lobbyists behind his healthcare bill. Secondly, future jobs for his staff perpetuating the financial interest enshrined therein. And third, my disappointment at how ineffectual he, my fellow liberal, can too often be.
Jason Christ: They all walk this earth and are all humans like you and I. Their minds are different, just like all minds are different. We need to understand their minds and learn to tolerate them, so we can use that knowledge to defeat them. The Baucus Sutra: I would give Max Baucus the gift of Buddha, so he could become enlightened. When people grasp onto concepts or hold onto strong ideologies, they are limited to their own thinking. Obviously, his mind suffers.
Keely Williams: The one thing they all have in common is that they are all more concerned with what’s going on in Washington than with what’s going on in Montana. They are all too wrapped up in their own political aspirations to care about local stuff. Callin’ it home: A reality check. He’s been in Washington so long that he doesn’t know or care about anything that’s going on here locally.
Mike Hinton: The United States is better served by reluctant citizens than by politicians. Professional politicians are, as a whole, not genuine, and should not be voted on by the public. Internships available: I would give him a girlfriend who’s actually worth being nominated as the U.S. attorney in Montana.
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Baucus, Rehberg behind Post Office failure People wondering why the U.S. Postal Service is in financial trouble today need look no further than Montana’s congressional delegation. Sen. Max Baucus, former Sen. Conrad Burns and Rep. Denny Rehberg, along with most of their peers in Congress, voted in favor of H.R. 6407, the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006, which created the onerous mandate to pre-fund healthcare benefits for future postal retirees for 75 years over a 10year period, costing the Postal Service $5.5 billion annually. This requirement is unheard of in private industry or any other government agency, local, state or federal. It was, in fact, a poison pill designed to destroy the Postal Service as we know it. We are now seeing the fallout from this legislation. The Postal Service’s budget, which would have been revenue-neutral without this requirement even in today’s down market, is nearly $15 billion in the red after five years. Given the legal mandate to continue this disastrous course, top management says it is struggling to find ways of reducing costs without significantly affecting service. It has already closed dozens of processing centers and curtailed services it could easily sacrifice. Now comes the painful part, which is the closure of 252 more processing centers, including several in Montana, two of which are in Missoula and Kalispell. When these centers are closed, western Montana’s mail will be shipped to Spokane for route sorting. The Postal Service predicts its best-case scenario will save $1.2 million by closing our processing center. Missoula will pay dearly for this. Twenty-eight employees will be laid off. We’ll lose overnight first-class service in Montana; it will be downgraded to two to three days or more, depending on the weather. We’ll lose vital access to markets and services such as newspaper and medication delivery, absentee voting and direct mailing, among countless others. And we’ll lose one of the bits of fabric that holds a community together. I attended last week’s information and feedback session for the regional postal managers to make their case for elimination of Missoula’s processing center and for Missoulians to respond with their concerns. The managers presented a bean-counter PowerPoint detailing the financial and logistical reasoning for the proposed closure. Absent from this analysis was the increased carbon footprint generated by transporting our mail to Spokane and back or the direct economic impacts of the change in service
to western Montanans. Also missing were projected losses of the post office customer base and their impact on revenue. Most outrageously, representatives from Baucus’s and Rehberg’s offices testified on behalf of Montana postal customers. However, they failed to acknowledge their part in H.R. 6407 and no one else held them to account. Stating that the postal service’s hands were tied by law, John DiPeri, the regional manager, seemed to have no more
ices the post office provides, please write to Sens. Baucus and Tester and Rep. Rehberg to urge them to embrace Sen. Sanders’ plan to correct the mistake of 2006. Without imagination and decisive action, the finest and most efficient postal service in the world will decline to the point it cannot provide service at any price. John Snively Missoula
Student first, fan second
“The larger issue is that our public institutions are under an insidious attack by ideologues who want to set the government up for failure.”
imagination than his bosses. Rather than suggest the repeal of this bill, which largely is the source of today’s problem, he simply acknowledged the constraints caused by this legislation and recommended that we write higher-ups and our representatives in Congress to express our concerns about the specific cuts proposed. The larger issue is that our public institutions are under an insidious attack by ideologues who want to set the government up for failure. As funding for our important institutions is withdrawn, long-esteemed programs will fail one after another, providing ever more proof that government does not work. Make no mistake, our national parks and other public treasures will soon be up for sale to the lowest bidder. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, however, has recently proposed the Postal Service Protection Act, which, if enacted, will restore solvency to the Postal Service by repealing the pre-funding requirement and enabling the Postal Service to expand the services it offers to create new sources of revenue. Anyone who cares about the serv-
I was struck when I heard the news that campus is essentially shutting down because of the Griz game Friday. Not only will the parking lots for almost the entirety of campus be blocked off to students, but the bus systems will not be running their routes to campus that day and the tailgating starts at noon. To quote a campus professor of mine, students will essentially be asked to choose between “going to class and drinking and eating meat.” Students who do choose to go to class will have to find some other means of transportation to get themselves to and from campus in the middle of a Montana winter. This whole scenario leaves me asking, What is the message our administration is sending to students? That football is more important than our education? For those of you out there who don’t know, also happening on our lovely campus this Friday will be an arts and crafts showcase in the University Center; one of the biggest dance shows of the year, Dance Up Close in the Masquer Theatre; a showing of the play You Can’t Take It With You in the Montana Theater; the 26th annual sale of University of Montana art students’ works in the Art Annex; a Concerto Aria competition in the music recital hall; and a large number of very important, regularly scheduled classes as well—all of which are being upstaged by a Griz playoff game that will be on ESPN2. I am a Grizzly football fan myself and am very proud of what they have accomplished this year, but more importantly I am a student at the University of Montana. Surely, with all the brains we have here on campus, we could have found a better way of supplying football fans, students and concert and theatergoers with the means to attend the events of their choice without interfering with each other. I am shocked and angered at the choices our administration has made and the messages they are sending to all of the students, and really, to all Missoulians. Danielle Standley Missoula
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VIEWFINDER
by Brad Tyer
Police are called to restore order at a Missoula City Council meeting after critics of the city’s membership in the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives become unruly, calling the organization communist. That “may be the norm at public meetings in the Bitterroot,” Councilman Bob Jaffe writes later, “but it is definitely not OK in Missoula.”
• Thursday, December 1 Montana Rep. Denny Rehberg introduces a bill that would force President Obama to make a decision on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline within 60 days. “We’ve got thousands of shovel-ready jobs…ready to go as soon as the federal government gets out of the way,” he says.
• Friday, December 2 University of Montana President Royce Engstrom makes two big announcements: The school is indefinitely suspending plans for a biomass boiler, and it’s going to build a new College of Technology on what’s currently the university golf course.
• Saturday, December 3 In the second round of the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs, the fourth-seeded Montana Grizzlies trounce the University of Central Arkansas Bears 41-14 at Washington-Grizzly Stadium. Montana will host fifth-seeded Northern Iowa in the quarterfinals on Friday night.
• Sunday, December 4 Missoulians wake up to as much as three inches of snow on the ground. The National Weather Service reports that the 2.7 inches that fell at the Missoula International Airport breaks the previous record for the day, 2.4 inches in 1977.
• Monday, December 5 U.S. Postal Service Vice President David Williams announces that the agency plans to close more than half of its mail processing facilities nationwide, including Missoula’s and Kalispell’s. He also announces the imminent end of next-day delivery of first class mail.
• Tuesday, December 6 Public Policy Polling reports that Montana’s 2012 gubernatorial race is shaping up to be a squeaker. Of nine candidates to throw their hats in the ring, Montanans favor Republican frontrunner Rick Hill by 1 percent over presumptive Democratic nominee Steve Bullock, the state’s attorney general.
Perched in the lowest stretch of the Blackfoot River, adjacent to the Stimson Lumber Mill, workers in excavators and dump trucks remove the remnants of a berm and PCB-contaminated cooling ponds last week. They’re removing an estimated 8,500 truckloads of contaminated material from the site.
Winter roads De-icer sweet ’n’ salty Last week, the inaugural batch of a made-inMissoula biodegradable chemical that reduces the corrosive effects of road salt was trucked to a Montana Department of Transportation facility in Whitefish, marking the beginning of Rivertop Renewables’ partnership with the state. The corrosion inhibitor is among the start-up company’s “bioproducts” made of glucaric acid, a compound derived from plant sugars—which means that Montana’s roads will be flavored with sugar and salt this winter. Rivertop Renewables, founded by former University of Montana professor Don Kiely, an expert in carbohydrate chemistry, recently signed a $400,000 contract with the state to provide it with about 110,000 gallons of the corrosion inhibitor, to protect roads and vehicles. “Since this is bio-based—biodegradable, derived from sugars—it’s a very natural way to address [corrosion] and have the lowest possible environmental impact,” says Dave Wilkening, a chemist and Rivertop’s de-icing product manager.
The inhibitor, called “Headwaters,” reduces the rate of corrosion by roughly 70 percent compared to untreated road brine, he says. Montana has added corrosion inhibitors— including products made of molasses and wood pulp—to its road brines for four or five years, says Jack May, MDT’s maintenance chief in Missoula. “It’s the same thing we’ve been doing. This is just a local product.” The state’s a member of the Pacific Northwest Snowfighters Association, a consortium of regional transportation departments that sets specifications for deicing products. They’ve all agreed to add corrosion inhibitors to their sodium chloride-based liquid deicers, part of a national trend Rivertop is working to tap. “We see the market as large and growing,” Wilkening says. “The momentum is definitely toward the use of salt brines, and we figure to have a good portion of that business.” Rivertop, which holds a patent on its glucaric acid-making process through UM, is also developing a replacement for phosphates in dishwashing detergents, among other products that can be made to degrade in soil or water. In 2004, the Department of Energy identified
glucaric acid as one of the 12 most important biobased chemicals, with a projected market of at least $7 billion. Matthew Frank
Traffic A circular debate Chuck Erickson, president of the BonnerMilltown Community Council, expects fireworks at the council’s next meeting, in January. That’s when the council will take up a topic that attracts controversy like few others: roundabouts. As the Montana Department of Transportation assesses how best to ease congestion at the convergence of Highway 200, Old Highway 10 and the entrance to the Town Pump’s massive Interstate 90 truck stop—an area Erickson calls the “gateway to our community”—the agency is exploring whether a roundabout makes more sense than a conventional traffic signal. “It’s a viable option and it’s being seriously considered,” says Shane Stack, MDT’s Missoula-based preconstruction engineer. Stack says that MDT is considering closing the existing intersection of Old Highway 10 and
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” ~Mother Teresa
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Highway 200 and funneling that traffic east down a new road connecting with 1st Street, which would intersect with Highway 200 at a new signal or roundabout in front of Town Pump. He estimates the project will cost between $1 and $2 million, paid for by federal and state transportation funds. The Montana Legislature passed a resolution in 2005 encouraging the construction of roundabouts instead of right-angle intersections, largely because of safety considerations. One Insurance Institute for Highway Safety study found that converting intersections from signals or stop signs to roundabouts reduced injury crashes by 80 percent and all crashes by 40 percent. But such statistics may not be enough to sway residents of Bonner and Milltown. “I don’t really see a roundabout working there, with the big trucks that go in and out,” Erickson says. “It would have to be one humongous roundabout... A lot of the people in the community really would just like to have a traffic light there with pedestrian crossings. A roundabout seems like a neat way to go, but we’ve got quite a few truck drivers who live out here and they’re all rolling their eyes at that idea.” MDT and WGM Group engineers will discuss the options at the Bonner-Milltown Community Council on Monday, Jan. 9 at 7 p.m., at the Bonner School Library. Matthew Frank
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not support the bison range relocation, an allegation refuted in a letter from the council to the governor Nov. 29. Then he was told USFWS did not consider the ungulates brucellosis-free. Schweitzer says USFWS Director Dan Ashe backed the claim by quoting USFWS scientist Tom Roffe, who later stated he personally felt the bison were clean. “We better dang sure have the [Department of the] Interior and [Department of] Agriculture on the same page,” Schweitzer says. “Because it’s explosive to have one of those federal agencies saying they’re not necessarily brucellosis-free and to have Agriculture—the ones who manage brucellosis in this country—saying they’re absolutely brucellosis-free.”
Bison If the genes don’t fit… The Fort Peck and Fort Belknap Indian reservations could receive quarantined bison from Yellowstone National Park as early as next spring. That was the gist of Montana Fish, Wildlife and Park’s recommendation last week, which abandoned previous consideration of new herds on state land. Gov. Brian Schweitzer briefly derailed the recommendation when he told the Associated Press he would not move any bison, “live or dead,” anywhere. Schweitzer was in a standoff with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over an offer to supply genetically “pure” Yellowstone bison for the National Bison Range in Moiese. Schweitzer pitched the proposal to Department of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar in early November. “I don’t want to put all my eggs in one basket,” Schweitzer explains. DOI turned the governor’s proposal down. Schweitzer says the explanations for the denial shifted wildly over the past month. First Schweitzer was told that the InterTribal Buffalo Council would
The biggest question, Schweitzer says, came when USFWS said it was “comfortable” with the genetics of the current bison range herd. A number of those bison have cattle genes, resulting from hybridization. Genome integrity is a key argument among conservationists for the importance of the Yellowstone herd, as they exhibit no evidence of genetic contamination. Schweitzer says the declaration could devalue Yellowstone bison. It also flies in the face of previous USFWS views on genetics, particularly in regard to wolves, he adds. “If the protectors of wildlife in the West, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife, are now saying hybrids are good enough, that’s pretty explosive.” USFWS spokeswoman Diane Katzenberg says, “About the only thing I can tell you is that we are open to discussing all available option with the state of Montana and Governor Schweitzer.” Early this week, USFWS shifted back to its stance
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that Yellowstone bison are brucellosis-free. Schweitzer then gave FWP the green light to move bison to the tribes. Alex Sakariassen
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The amount raised by the Missoula Symphony Orchestra and Chorale by auctioning a choice of encores at the Holiday Pops concerts Dec. 2 and 3. Audience members bid on “Hallelujah Chorus” over “White Christmas” both nights.
Lee Enterprises reorganizes Lee Enterprises, which owns the Missoulian and the Ravalli Republic along with 46 other newspapers around the country, announced what it called “welcome news” last week: It plans on filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The company is hoping to head off looming balloon payments due on its roughly $1 billion in debt. Under the “pre-packaged” bankruptcy deal, Lee shareholders will retain 87 percent of their equity. “There will be no impact on employees, customers, vendors, contractors, contracts, company operations or corporate governance,” Lee CEO Mary Junck maintained in a prepared statement. In exchange for revamping loan terms, debt holders Goldman Sachs, Franklin Templeton and Monarch Master Funding will receive 6.7 million shares of Lee stock, or a 13-percent stake in the company, the country’s fourth largest newspaper publisher. Lee will pay a higher interest rate on its loans. It would also get some much-needed breathing room from its debt, postponing balloon payments until 2015 and 2017. “The things that we were most worried about fell into place for us,” says Missoulian Publisher Jim McGowan. University of Montana journalism professor Lee Banville says Lee, like the rest of the newspaper industry, is “far from out of the woods.” And that may not bode well for news consumers in the onenewspaper towns across Montana and Wyoming that the company serves. “If Lee really does have long-term trouble,” Banville says, “the question becomes, how are these communities going to get any news service? Who’s going to tell you what’s going on in your community, in your schools and your local government? It isn’t going to be The New York Times. And it isn’t going to be bloggers.” McGowan says the Missoulian and Ravalli Republic are adapting to the evolving landscape. They rolled out a pay-wall last summer to increase revenue, and they’re also working to diversify their products across digital mediums. “We’ve had to find new strategies,” McGowan says. “We’re trying to be cutting-edge.” Jessica Mayrer
etc. UM totally botched its biomass boiler proposal. For months, university brass scoffed at the proposal’s opponents, who argued that burning wood for energy would cost more than burning natural gas and that the boiler’s emissions would worsen Missoula’s already poor air quality. And then UM President Royce Engstrom got up in Turner Hall last Friday to say that those were precisely the reasons why the school was finally canceling its biomass effort. That it took so long for UM to publicly acknowledge the financial issues is disconcerting. It’s downright humiliating that Engstrom had to apologize on behalf of UM Vice President Bob Duringer, who recently said that critics such as the WildWest Institute’s Matthew Koehler, who was among the people who pointed out those financial realities, were engaged in “a lower level of eco-terrorism.” “While reducing carbon emissions is the right thing to do, I will not commit the university to doing so under the conditions of financial loss,” Engstrom said last week. While we’re not advocating for the failed boiler proposal, we have to wonder: Considering that UM, by its own admission, just learned an expensive lesson, why would it reject out of hand the possibility of learning still more for the same price? Put another way, if reducing carbon emissions is the right thing to do, why won’t UM even consider paying to do it? Unfortunately, amid sometimes snippy discussions of the biomass boiler’s financial projections, important questions like this were given short shrift. Must technologies that might help wean us off fossil fuels have to pay for themselves? Isn’t there value in reducing our carbon footprint, in tapping a local energy source or in providing a new if small market for local mills? And is any of that valuable enough for Missoulians to endure more polluted air? We’re afraid these questions weren’t explored in part because UM’s intransigence wouldn’t allow for it. Duringer seemed to have been conducting a public relations campaign, not vetting a promising technology. Engstrom claimed that something educational did come from the $541,000 UM spent to explore the viability of biomass. Perhaps, but it could have been so much more. As it is, what was learned seems hardly to make up for the embarrassment—a point that cannot and should not be obscured by Engstrom’s simultaneous announcement of a new College of Technology campus.
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Paying deerly Pesticides could be linked to ungulate mutations by Jessica Mayrer
Even on an icy Montana morning, 71year-old Judy Hoy feels compelled to stop her car on the side of the highway and pull out the blue metric ruler that she carries wherever she goes. Then she measures the facial bones of a dead white-tailed deer. “I just stop on the road,” she says. “Everybody thinks I’m nuts.” Hoy has always loved animals. Her first word at nine months was “Buff,” she says, her family’s dog’s name. “My mom and dad were not happy.”
had also spotted bone structure changes in hunter-harvested game. Dr. Pamela Hallock Muller, a University of South Florida professor and Hoy’s sister, signed on to lend her technical expertise. Their findings were published in this month’s issue of the journal Wildlife Biology in Practice. Five percent of the 227 white-tailed fawns that Judy Hoy examined between 1995 and 2000 had under-bites. That number spiked to 52 percent of 330 fawns between 2001 and 2010.
Photo courtesy of Judy Hoy
The pronounced under-bite of a white-tailed deer, which Judy Hoy fears may be just one result of pesticides.
Hoy has a hard time calculating the number of animals she’s cared for over the years. It’s an array of geese, goats and squirrels, along with crows, owls and eagles, all of which she nurses back to health at her wildlife rehabilitation facility south of Stevensville. She feeds baby birds with plastic medicine droppers, mends the broken limbs of squirrels and applies natural ointments to wounds. Her husband, Bob Hoy, worked as a Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks game warden before he completely retired in 2002. In the 1990s, he brought home road-kill for Judy to feed to her hungry carnivores. In 1996, the Hoys began noticing that the deer Bob brought home appeared to have genital malformations. Some were missing scrotums. Testes appeared strangely aligned, one in front of the other. Penises suddenly appeared smaller. They also saw that deer teeth stuck out and failed to align properly. Curious, Judy and Bob began what would become a 14-year study in which they examined more than 1,000 deer, elk, antelope, sheep and goats. They worked with Gary Haas, a Florence taxidermist who
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Hoy, who has no formal scientific training, surmises that pesticides in the environment are disrupting the animals’ hormonal systems. In 2008, the Montana Department of Agriculture found pesticides in 25 of 46 groundwater samples and nine of 10 surface water samples taken from the Bitterroot Valley. The herbicides prometon and atrazine were detected most frequently. The Environmental Protection Agency classifies prometon and atrazine as potential endocrine disruptors, part of a family of chemicals that scientists say trigger hormonal changes in people, animals and insects. In 2007, because of health concerns, the European Union banned atrazine. The herbicide remains legal in the U.S. as the EPA reviews scientific claims that assert, among other things, that pregnant women exposed to even very small amounts of atrazine—one part per billion—have babies with low birth weights. The Montana Department of Agriculture found even smaller amounts of atrazine—less than one part per trillion—in Bitterroot groundwa-
ter. That’s well below federal drinking water standards for people. In 2004, in response to Hoy’s concerns, Montana FWP wildlife laboratory supervisor Neil Anderson checked to see if there were other reports of malformations in wildlife. He said then–and continues to say now— that he’s not finding a significant disruption in the animal kingdom. “There’s no doubt that if there’s excessive use of chemicals and there’s a proliferation of pesticides in the environment, in certain cases it can cause some problems,” Anderson says. “I think that’s been well documented in amphibians and a few other species. Now, is it affecting the white-tailed deer, mule deer or other ungulates in Montana? I don’t know that we can come out and say that.” University of Montana wildlife biology professor Kerry Foresman echoes Anderson. “Field biologists working around the state have not noticed an increased incidence of malformations that Hoy suggests she is finding,” Foresman says. “We’d know about it.” Foresman says that because there’s a lot of variability in nature, the malformations Hoy is charting might result from natural processes, anomalies or injuries, especially in the case of road-kill. “There’s a lot of asymmetry in animals, in humans,” he says. Hoy isn’t the only one decrying the dangers of pesticides and herbicides. Theo Colborn, president of the Colorado-based Endocrine Disruption Exchange, for years has called on regulators and legislators to beef up pesticide oversight. Colborn says scientists know compounds like atrazine make people and animals sick, yet “everyone ignores it.” Legislation is in the works that could curb the impacts of hormone-altering chemicals on people and wildlife. Part of the problem now, Colborn says, is the fact that agencies like the EPA aren’t incorporating proven science into regulatory decisions. The Endocrine Disruptor Screening Enhancement Act of 2011, now before Congress, would change that by streamlining communication between researchers at the National Institute of Health and the EPA. It would also let the EPA curb the use of biologically disruptive chemicals. Judy Hoy faces challenges in getting her work to be taken seriously. Still, she says, she’s got proof that animals are being harmed: It’s all here, she says, as she points to the hundreds of photographs she’s collected of malformed deer, elk and antelope. jmayrer@missoulanews.com
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What the frack? Critics debate oil-extraction method in Montana by Alex Sakariassen
Jack Gladstone sums up his concerns about the dangers of modern oil development on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation with a spin on an old maxim: What goes down must come up. What’s going down is a laundry list of hazardous chemicals used to hydraulically fracture—or frack—oil wells. What’s on the way up is the water table at the head of two major North American watersheds. “There is not sufficient or clean science to ensure that this is safe,” says Gladstone, a renowned Montana musician and member of the Blackfeet tribe. “On the contrary,
The chemicals used in fracking include naphthalene, potassium hydroxide, 2Butoxyethanol and known carcinogens such as phenols and benzene. Oil companies have staunchly defended the procedure, pointing to numerous safety precautions like concrete-reinforced steel casing designed to prevent fracking fluids from contaminating groundwater. But FracFocus admits the possibility of those fluids entering fresh groundwater zones due to engineering problems or geological factors. On the Blackfeet Reservation, safety assurances from oil and gas developers have
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there is an emerging wave of evidence that contradicts it as being safe. We are running an uncontrolled experiment on the only home we have.” Gladstone has joined a growing community of individuals and environmental groups across the country questioning the safety of a process that dates back to the late 1940s. Fracking has long enabled the release of trapped deposits of oil and gas by fracturing deep rock formations with a combination of water, sand and chemicals. The process allows producers to create new fractures or restore old ones, stimulating yields at new and existing wells. According to FracFocus.org, a joint oversight initiative by the U.S. Ground Water Protection Council and the U.S. Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission, “60 to 80 percent of all wells drilled in the United States in the next 10 years will require hydraulic fracturing to remain operating.” With fracking activity spreading from boom areas in western North Dakota and eastern Montana to small-scale wells like those on the Blackfeet Reservation, critics have become more vocal about the potential havoc the process could wreak on the nation’s water quality.
been tested this year. Several weeks before Exxon Mobil’s Silvertip pipeline ruptured in July, spilling 1,000 barrels of crude oil into the Yellowstone River, a landowner near Cut Bank discovered a leak in an oil flow line maintained by FX Energy. Blackfeet Oil and Gas Manager Grinnell Day Chief referred to the leak—which released 15 to 20 barrels of oil and spilled into Cut Bank Creek—as an act of “negligence” on the company’s part. Keith Tatsey, a natural history teacher at Blackfeet Community College, calls such incidents “spooky.” A critic of fracking, Tatsey is anxious about the long-term impacts that oil and gas development could have on the reservation and other communities. He adds he’s nervous about the lack of knowledge most residents have about fracking. “The companies just come in and start getting signatures from mineral rights owners,” Tatsey says. “The community and members were never really educated on what it is [and] what can happen.” Montana Board of Oil and Gas Administrator Tom Richmond doesn’t agree with the recent, nationwide rash of fears over fracking. While there has been some recent activity in the state—seven wells have been fracked on the Blackfeet Reservation
alone in the past year—Richmond believes the scrutiny is driven primarily by controversy from back East. Fracking projects on natural gas deposits in New York and Pennsylvania have garnered loud criticism from environmentalists. As word trickles west, Richmond says, people begin to fear what they don’t fully understand. “The process seems controversial if they’re not familiar with it,” Richmond maintains. “We’ve never had an issue of groundwater contamination due to hydraulic fracturing in the state, and we’ve probably had several thousand wells fracked over a 60 year period—750 of them just in the last ten years—without any complaint or evidence at all of contamination.” If anything, oil and gas development has subsided in Montana in the past year. Richmond’s office signed off on 249 drilling permits in 2011, the lowest number in five years. That’s largely due to a dramatic decline in natural gas exploration, Richmond says. Montana’s Bakken-style boom ended in 2007, he adds, taking any widespread fracking activity with it. Despite the state’s long and apparently incident-free history with fracking, Montana became one of only six states in the country this September to require oil and gas companies to disclose the chemicals they use in fracking. Richmond says the move was preemptive. The EPA, the Bureau of Land Management and the Department of Energy have recently begun to look more closely at the chemicals used in the process. “We decided to get out in front of that and get some rules on the books,” Richmond says, “so that people could find the information on chemical use relatively easily.” The threat of groundwater contamination from fracking in Western states has recently gained federal attention. The EPA last month released preliminary findings from a groundwater investigation in Pavillion, Wyo. Well water in the Pavillion area boasts such high levels of methane gas that some faucets can be lit on fire. The investigation revealed the presence of 2Butoxyethanol—a chemical commonly used in fracking—in groundwater samples. But the EPA has not conclusively linked the contamination to nearby gas extraction and fracking projects, making any relationship speculative until the agency releases a final report in the next few months. Still, the EPA is exploring permanent alternative sources of water for the area.
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Homeland insecurity New defense bill will trash your rights What’s going on with the mysterious “Homeland Battlefield” provisions contained in the new National Defense Appropriation Act? The measure passed the Senate 97-3, with both of Montana’s Democratic senators voting for it. President Obama has threatened to veto it if the mysterious provisions are not removed. It’s one promise we can hope he keeps. The Defense Appropriation Act is a charade. While professing they’re working to reduce spending and get the budget under control, Democrats and Republicans are dipping into the cookie jar to throw another $660 billion at the Pentagon for next year. That ‘s $1.8 billion a day, or more than $2 million per minute, to defend the world’s only superpower. While they’re happy to dump another pot of gold down the black hole of military spending, Congress and the President continue to debate whether and how to cut vital programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Meanwhile, it’s not the vast expense of the Defense Appropriation Act that has the White House and Congress at one another’s throats—it’s the language of the act and how that will restrict what the White House says are its options for dealing with terrorists. The problems start with the way the act was drafted—in secret, by Sens. John McCain, an Arizona Republican, and Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat. Had the public been given a chance to vet it, the outcry could have killed the suspect additions. People could have insisted on a clean appropriations act. But that didn’t happen—and now, in the words of Sen. Kelly Ayotte, a New Hampshire Republican who supports it, the act will declare that “America is part of
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the battlefield.” What that means is that Congress would effectively overturn the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act, which says the military cannot be used for domestic law enforcement. Our armed forces will be able to detain “covered” people indefinitely, at home and abroad, without regard to such former staples of our legal system as habeas corpus or, for that matter, the Bill of Rights. And so much for being innocent until proven guilty. The covered people could be anyone who has substantially supported Al Qaeda, the Taliban or associated forces that are
That’s $1.8 billion a day, or more than $2 million per minute, to defend the world’s only superpower. engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners. But under the vague terms of the act, our military could conceivably detain anyone who, say, protests the creation of new theaters in George Bush’s and Obama’s wars on terror. Would carrying a sign, staging a sit-in or protesting against war fit the definition here of “a belligerent act”? Some people who are concerned with our liberties and rights say there’s a chance that Obama or a future president could use this measure to
snatch U.S. citizens at home, detain them indefinitely or do pretty much anything else they wish—and the detainees would have no access to our civilian courts. Surely this is why Obama should be threatening to veto the act. But it’s not. What’s got the White House, the defense secretary, the FBI director, the National Intelligence Agency director and the U.S. attorney general concerned is that the bill will still “jeopardize the national security by restricting flexibility in our fight against Al-Qaeda,” according to White House spokesman Jay Carney. Just when we thought the insane Bush wars were winding down and the troops could come home, what we get instead is the war brought home. Earlier this week a reader emailed me, wondering “why Baucus and Tester signed on to the NDAA, which effectively ends the Constitution and Bill of Rights in this country. I called their respective offices but the aides did not understand the bill. I am puzzled as to why so many senators supported this bill?” Public approval for Congress is now in single digits. You’d think maybe they’d get the message, that the public has had it with their secret bill drafts and the exclusion of those they’re supposed to represent from the formulation of policy. Obama’s got nothing to brag about on this one. Still, with Congress covering its ears, his veto is the best thing we can hope for. 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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Fresh-air failure The Forest Service discriminates against poor kids by Alan Durning
The summer before last, I took a fourday hike through the backcountry of the Alpine Lakes Wilderness in the Washington Cascades. I’m accustomed to rugged terrain and steep slopes, so I was impressed when, after miles of travel off the trail, I heard the voices of teenagers wafting toward me. I met the intrepid boys and expected them to be a group from NOLS, the highpriced and famously hardcore National Outdoor Leadership School based in Lander, Wyo. Instead, I found a dozen teenagers, many of whom had never hiked or camped a night in their lives. They were part of the BOLD Mountain School, a nonprofit program of Seattle’s Metrocenter YMCA. BOLD, which stands for Boys Outdoors Leadership Development, immerses urban kids, especially disadvantaged ones, in the challenges of big wilderness. The program is not just a matter of summer fun; it changes lives, instilling confidence and hope in young people who suffer severe deficits of both. Experiences like this are blessings widely shared among young Westerners from well-off families. The memories of my own youthful hikes are part of the reason I have devoted my adult life to building a Northwest that protects our wonderful public lands. In fact, outdoor experiences like these are so reliably transformative that the young people who attend the region’s exclusive private schools and colleges go on wilderness trips almost as parts of the curriculum. For the children of many poor and working-class urban Americans, though, experiencing the outdoors is a rare and exceptional gift. BOLD is just one of dozens of nonprofits that expose the less fortunate to their natural birthright. As BOLD works for Puget Sound-area young people, so Big City Mountaineers does for Oregon’s and Peak 7 Adventures helps out Spokane’s. These and many other outdoors programs across the West provide their services at no cost to public treasuries, relying instead on contri-
butions and modest participant fees to deliver young men and women to wild and beautiful places. I thought little more about my chance encounter in the mountains until recently, when I learned that the BOLD Mountain School had been banned from the Northwest’s national forest wilderness areas. The National Outdoor Leadership
These programs provide their services at no cost, relying instead on contributions and modest participant fees to deliver young men and women to wild and beautiful places. School, private schools and college outing programs remain welcome. They may, in John Muir’s words, “climb the mountains and get their good tidings.” But poor and working-class kids are forbidden entry because the YMCA does not have a guideoutfitter permit to lead such trips. Schools don’t need a permit; nor do volunteer-led groups, and NOLS got its permit years ago. BOLD cannot obtain the permit the Forest Service says it needs because the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest no longer issues them. Neither do any of the 30-odd other Northwest national forests, ranging from the Siskiyou in southern Oregon to Idaho’s Nez Perce and Alaska’s giant Tongass. In fact, no national forest today will offer outdoor-program permits. It would be easy to rail against the Forest Service, but doing so misses the
point. Starved for funding from Congress and with diminished staff to support its mission, the agency is following its Byzantine rules and regulations as best it can. Rangers’ hands, staffers insist, are tied. Under Forest Service rules such as the 2008 Guide and Outfitter Regulations, the YMCA or any other group that pays its trip leaders from fees collected in part from participants must be licensed as a commercial guiding service. To issue a guiding license, Forest Service specialists would have to run a gantlet of procedural steps, including environmental and socio-economic assessments—steps for which the Forest Service has no funding, which explains why the rangers are not issuing new permits. To untie this regulatory tangle, the Forest Service could amend its Guide and Outfitter Regulations to exempt nonprofit youth-service organizations. Or it could simply photocopy the National Park Service’s rules and adopt them. Unlike National Forest rules, National Park rules do not require licensed guides for paid trip leaders. Some people say keeping large groups out of our national forests saves wildlife and the land from the harm that such large groups inevitably inflict. This argument contains an element of truth because people are always an intrusion into wild places. But that hardly justifies allowing some groups onto our public lands while excluding others, particularly when the others are poor, working-class teenagers from cities. If anyone deserves a trip to the glorious high country of the West, it’s the young participants in BOLD Mountaineers. Alan Durning is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). He is executive director of Sightline Institute, the Northwest’s sustainability think tank, based in Seattle, Wash.
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As a dude, I can tell you that being a dude is pretty sweet. In fact, other than random acts of violence it’s a pretty straightforward deal—walk around, say what you want, dress how you like. Eat Cocoa Puffs for dinner. Play air guitar. Sitcoms have taught us that little is expected of men. We’re a litany of childish disappointments. Our wives are gate guards whose only purposes are to look good and be a foil for our shenanigans. (Hope my wife doesn’t find out about the hotrod I’m building over at my single bud’s house! I told her I was taking a Spanish class!) And that’s all nothing compared to the hooey the Kardashians are putting girls through these days. The Girls Way motivates girls from 9 to 18 to exercise and engage in creative activities from draw-
THURSDAY DECEMBER 8 Time for free and reduced-cost flu shots in the Flathead. Head to to the Flathead County Fairgrounds Trade Center from 9–6 PM. Visit flatheadhealth.org for more info. The Bitterroot Public Library, 306 State St. in Hamilton, presents a Fellowship Club meeting featuring a talk on Catherine Ponder’’s book The Healing Secrets of the Ages. 6–7:30 PM in the west meeting room of the library. Free. Call 363-1670. The Peace and Justice Film Series brings us What Would Jesus Buy?, which delves into the commercialization of Christmas. Seriously, though, He gets comped every place he goes. UC Theater.
FRIDAY DECEMBER 9 Families can get help narrowing their search for quality child care, and find out if they qualify for assistance, with Child Care Assistance, which is offered by Child Care Resources from 8 AM–5 PM Mon.-Fri. at its office, on the lower level of 105 E. Pine St. Free. Call 7286446 and visit childcareresources.org. Hey peanut, donate blood at the American Red Cross or the kid gets it. 2401 Reserve St., Ste. 6. 10–2 PM. Hey non-profits, keep The Man and natterering naybobs at bay by filling out your IRS Form 990 correctly. If you’re not sure how, head to the Missoula Nonprofit Network’s workshop about that pesky little paper. Doubletree Hotel. 11:30–12:50 P M . M N N m e m b e r s f r e e , o t h e r w i s e $ 10 . missoulanonprofit.org. The Bitterroot College Program of UM hosts a meet and greet gala to celebrate its victory and expansion. Meet the staff and students. 274 Old Corvallis Rd. 4–7 PM. Free.
SATURDAY DECEMBER 10 If you have compulsive-eating problems, seek help and support with others during a meeting of Overeaters Anonymous, which meets this and every Sat. at 9 AM in Room 3 in the basement of First United Methodist Church, 300 E. Main St. Free. Visit oa.org. The Living Art Studio hosts the Creativity for Life Workshop: Celebration Fairies with Beth Jaffe. The
ing and writing to gardening and dancing. The nonprofit also want folks to understand how the media shapes girls’ views of themselves and others, so they’re hosting a screening of Miss Representation, a film about representations of women in the media and the under-representation of women in positions of power, as well as a Q&A with Elizabeth Hubble of the UM’s Women’s and Gender Studies Program and a panel discussion with other Missoula women. —Jason McMackin The Girls Way screens Miss Representation at the Roxy Theater Wed., Dec. 14 at 6 PM. $5–$10 suggested donation. For more information go to thegirlsway.org.
workshop is for those facing illness or loss. 725 W. Alder #17. 10:30–12:30 PM. Free.
SUNDAY DECEMBER 11 The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Missoula hosts the Humanities Montana Speakers Bureau program Muslims and America...A Decade After 9/11, given by David Grimland. Mr. Grimland spent almost 30 years in the US diplomatic service, much of that time in predominately Muslim countries. 102 Macleod Ave. 10 AM. Free. Occupy Missoula General Assembly takes place at the Union Hall. 208 E. Main St. 2 PM. occupymissoula.org.
MONDAY DECEMBER 12 You don’t have to know who Bobby and Sissy are to attend the UM Institute for Gerontology Education Meeting at the Skaggs Building. All you need is an interest in the development of aging coursework, research and student involvement in the community. Noon–1 PM. Free. There’s a Bonner Milltown Community Council meeting tonight. Topics include historical interpretation and planning for the new confluence park and those darn kids recreating on Tamarack Dr. during the summer. Bonner School Library. 7 PM.
TUESDAY DECEMBER 13 Flatheaders, c’mon up to the Kalispell Regional Medical Center and give up an extra pint of blood. Do it. They bring you cookies afterward, dudes. Noon–4 PM. 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.
WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 14 Hey ladies, Soroptimist International of Hamilton is offering two Professional Technical Scholarships of $750 and $500. To qualify you must reside in Ravalli County and be attending or admitted to a technical or vocational program, plus all the usual community service and the like. Call Linda at 360-4520.
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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I N OTHER N EWS Curious but true news items from around the world
CURSES, FOILED AGAIN - After crashing his car into a utility pole in Albany, N.Y., Miguel Medina fled, according to police, who’d already been alerted because the vehicle was equipped with OnStar. Officers arrived in time to nab Medina, and charged him with driving while intoxicated and leaving the scene of an accident. (Albany’s Times Union) After Kevin Dalky, 23, crashed into a police car in Suffolk County, N.Y., injuring the driver, responding officers saw he was wearing a T-shirt that proclaimed, “I’m a drunk (Alcoholics go to meetings).” They tested him and charged him with DWI. (Associated Press) AERO DYNAMICS - The Air Force is set to certify all of its aircraft to burn fuel made from fat and the oil-bearing plant camelina in 2013, three years ahead of its goal to cut its use of fossil fuels in half. Noting that F-15 and F-16 fighter jets and C-17 cargo planes already use biofuel, Jeff Braun, director of the Alternative Fuels Certification Office, explained, “From a performance standpoint, you can’t tell the difference whether you’re burning a camelina blend, a tallow blend or another fuel that’s made up of a bunch of waste greases—fry grease and seasoning grease.” (Bloomberg News) Twice in one week, passengers on Comtel Air charter flights from India to Britain were asked to contribute additional money to cover the cost of fuel and airport fees. In the first incident, 180 passengers were told during a stop in Vienna that the cabin crew needed $32,000 to continue the flight. Passengers who lacked enough cash were allowed to leave the plane one at a time to use cash machines. Later that week, passengers were stranded at the airport in Amritsar, India, because they refused to chip in $200 each. “I understand very well that there are passengers in Amritsar,” Bhupinder Kandra, managing director of the charter line, acknowledged. “But nobody is ready to pay.” (The New York Times) JEALOUS LOVE - Driven by rage after her estranged husband started dating another woman, Laura Jean Wenke, 50, dressed in coveralls, rubber boots and bubble wrap, then drove to his office in Redwood City, Calif. There, according to San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe, she found him at his computer, shot a stun gun into his side and stabbed him in the neck. The husband survived the attack and called police, who found Wenke still in his office wearing her blood-streaked bubble-wrap outfit. (Salinas’s KSBW-TV) A British court convicted Dalwara Singh of secretly feeding steroids to his wife of 17 years so she would gain weight and become unattractive to other men. “He constantly accused her of infidelity and having affairs,” prosecutor Caroline Bray told Leicester Crown Court. Victim Jaspreet Singh Gill said the tainted food tasted bitter, but he made her eat it out of guilt by telling her he made it especially for her. She grew hair on her chin, cheeks and back, developed spotty, constantly itchy skin, and some scalp hair fell out. (Britain’s Daily Mail) TRASH TO TREASURE - A Utah company has begun turning garbage into building materials intended to replace wood. At its prototype plant in Kearns, Better World Materials can convert up to 20 tons a day of milk jugs, cereal boxes and other trash that recycling centers have rejected into railroad ties. Better World president Dalyn Judd said the company just signed a contract to produce 2by-6 planks for shed foundations and is negotiating to expand to plants in 15 states, each able to process up to 2,000 tons of rejected recyclables a day and employ 360 people. “Are we going to run out of garbage?” Judd said. “I don’t think so.” (The Salt Lake Tribune) IT’S WHO YOU KNOW - Facing eight to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to conspiring to intentionally report false revenues and earnings to cover up losses and prop up stock prices of MCSi Inc., the company he headed, Michael E. Peppel, 44, was sentenced to only seven days in federal prison. Admitting in a Cincinnati, Ohio, courtroom that the sentence was a “huge” departure from federal sentencing guidelines, U.S. District Judge Sandra Beckwith said she was moved by 113 letters of support from Peppel’s friends and family and the fact that five children, an ailing mother and brother depend on Peppel for support. Beckwith added that Peppel, whose family and friends gave him a standing ovation when the lenient sentence was announced, wouldn’t have to pay restitution to 1,300 MCSi employees who lost their jobs when the company failed or to at least 281 wipedout investors. (Dayton Daily News) When Jonathan Yates, 18, was ticketed in Centreville, Ill., for driving 43 mph in a 20-mph zone, Joann Reed, a clerk at the St. Clair County Sheriff’s Department, wrote a three-page message asking Centreville village lawyer Carmen Durso to “dismiss the case.” Reed mistakenly faxed the request to the Belleville News-Democrat newspaper. When a reporter questioned her, Reed admitted that Yates “is the son of one of our deputies.” (Belleville News-Democrat) WHEN SPELLCHECK ISN’T ENOUGH - When Democrats in Derby, Conn., nominated James R. Butler, 72, as their candidate for the 10-member Board of Apportionment and Taxation, his name was mistakenly listed on the ballot as “James J. Butler.” Butler received the most votes, but there’s a real James J. Butler, 46, who happens to be James R. Butler’s son. Av Harris of the secretary of state’s office said James J. Butler should be sworn in because he was the one elected. (Associated Press) TEMPTATION EYES - Saudi Arabia’s Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice affirmed its right to order women whose eyes seem “tempting” to cover them immediately. Saudi women already must wear a loose black dress and cover their hair and sometimes their face when they appear in public. Sheikh Motlab al-Nabet of the Ha’eal district announced the CPVPV’s authority after a Saudi man fought with a member of the committee who ordered the man’s wife to cover her eyes. The husband was stabbed twice in the hand. (Egypt’s Bikya Masr news agency) COMFY ENDING - Firefighters who found a 74-year-old woman at her home in Independence, Mo., said she had been in her reclining chair so long that her skin had fused to it and remained with the chair when she was pried from it. A fire captain described the woman as a “rotting corpse that was still breathing.” She died shortly after. (Associated Press)
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ave you ever noticed how a cornucopia—you know, that overflowing horn of plenty—seems like it could be a metaphor for a birth canal? And presents are like babies? No? Okay, never mind. We’re gathered here this week to celebrate giving with our annual gift guide. No one knows for sure when the first gift guide was published, though tantalizingly, some theorize that the pictures that early Europeans daubed on cave walls 30,000 years ago were in fact gift guides. This theory was given further support when radiocarbon analysis seemed to show that in
at least several instances, ash and pigments were used at slightly later dates to circle a wooly mammoth or place a check-mark next to a prehistoric horse. Think about it: gift guides are who we are. That said, we also ought to remark that journalists generally are not great shoppers. This is probably because we’re too poor to do much damage at the mall or Neiman Marcus online, but we try to make a virtue of necessity and maintain that we prefer the more ethereal things in life. The truth is, we’re suckers for gewgaws and gadgets just like everyone else. Read on and see.
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A CENTENNIAL CIRCLE BRICK AT UM Those years spent at the University of Montana are punctuated by any number of fond memories. Dad reminisces about hiking the M Trail. That older sibling still can’t stop talking about skipping Friday classes to ski at Snowbowl. Grandma remembers the good old days, when Griz fans stuck it out in the bleachers at Dornblaser Field. But the most indelible mark is that daily slog across the Oval. Fitting, since that’s the place where you can literally set those stories in stone. Centennial Circle rings the iconic Grizzly statue with engraved bricks, each immortalizing a friend, a professor, an alumnus or an alumna at UM. And the proceeds go back into campus improvement projects. For the Griz who never quite left, it’s the ultimate commemoration. $150. Find it at www.umt.edu/urelations/market.
the denizme an-cave n MONTANA-MADE BARSTOOLS Montana native Ian Crawford has been a businessman since age 18, but these days he’s busy crafting stools from old oak wine barrels—the perfect addition to your buddy’s man cave. The stools come in a variety of heights, styles and finishes, from the sleek, wine-stained Charleton to the squat, rustic Mini. Crawford’s company, Vinoture, offers an array of other old-growth oak products, including coat racks. Every man needs his den-like getaway. Odds are you’ll end up parking your butt there, too. Why not contribute something beyond the occasional six-pack? Priced by quote. Find it at the holiday MADE fair at the Holiday Inn-Downtown at the Park, Dec. 11; or online at www.vinoture.org.
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The temperature’s dropping on the courthouse lawn, meaning your favorite Occupy Missoula protester could be suffering a little frostbite this holiday season. Sure, she probably gives you crap for being part of “the one percent,” but maybe it’s time to show a little compassion with a green-friendly, Missoula-made hat. Jackie Priess founded JAX Hats a few years back after making hats out of an old sweater to keep her daughters’ heads warm and stylish. Her business has since gone international. Each hat has its own character and its own charm and—best of all—is 100 percent recycled. $30. Find it at Rockin Rudy’s or Green Light in Missoula, and at other retail outlets in Kalispell, Bozeman and Helena.
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A BOTTLE OF PEE Those wolves sure are wily. We’re allowed to shoot them now, but good luck getting ’em in your sights! But we know a trick: wolf urine. Territorial canines are attracted to their own pee! It’s like baiting deer with a salt lick (not that we’ve done that). But be careful: This stuff ’s pungent. Dare you to put a splash in your hunting buddy’s coffee… $29.99. Find it at www.predatorpee.com.
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Is Uncle Leo constantly ranting about the New World Order stealing his newspaper? Odds are it’s the neighbor kids playing a prank, or Leo forgetting that he cancelled his subscription a few years back, but if you want to help put his mind at ease, all it takes are a few MicroDots from Missoula-based MicroTrax—the latest in theft protection technology. One dab of MicroDot-speckled glue on the back of your cell phone or the underside of your laptop and you’re in business. All you have to do is register your kit’s validation code, place a MicroTrax sticker on the MicroDoted item and presto. Someone turns your stolen property in to MicroTrax, and they get it back to you within days. Just make sure to tell Leo not to blow all his MicroDots on one newspaper. $49.99, with a one-year MicroTrax registration. Find it at Vann’s electronic stores or online at www.micro-trax.com.
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the Griz hfardcore an MONTANA GRIZZLIES LOGO GARTER WITH LACE Diehard Griz faithful have no limits to their fanaticism, so perhaps it’s no surprise to find a logo garter with lace alongside the team store’s T-shirts, sweatshirts and pint glasses. This sexy accessory may seem like a completely unnecessary way to show your Griz pride—that is, until you see how it might become a gateway to better things. After all, how many other times in your lovemaking is it really appropriate to shout out, “Run it up the middle”? $9.95. Find it at www.thegrizstore.com.
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For some reason, rifle racks don’t come standard in pickups. Fortunately, Big Sky Racks has your back. The Bozeman-based company sells gun racks that are ceiling-mounted, for quick access and out-of-sight weapon storage that saves space in your cab. They’re popular with law enforcement agencies, but they’re also designed for hunters and anyone else who finds comfort in having their Remington within arm’s reach. Remember, hunters: no shooting from the road. $55.95 to $109.95. Find it at Bob Ward and Sons and several other several other retailers around the state. More information at www.bigskyracks.com.
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in neead friend artisti of an c outle t A CLASS AT THE CLAY STUDIO OF MISSOULA What’s better than giving someone really cool pottery? Teaching them how to make really cool pottery—which is why we suggest gifting a class at the Clay Studio of Missoula. There are all kinds of options, from single-day workshops to 10-week classes for different skill levels, all taught by talented local artists. There’s probably something in this for you, too: Whomever you give this to will surely thank you with a vase or something. $85 to $205. Find the Clay Studio at 1106 Hawthorne Street, Unit A, in Missoula, and at www.theclaystudioofmissoula.org.
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ap housoeokr eeper MOOSE-CENSE Is your house a little stinky? Try burning some poop. Seriously. Dried moose poop. A local company, Moose-Cense, hunts for moose poop, sun-dries it, packages it and sells it as incense. And it smells really good—earthy and willowy! We think it’s amazing that someone actually thought, “Let’s dry this shit and burn it and see what it smells like, and then make a business of it.” That’s some serious intestinal fortitude. And this is the kind of gag gift that will actually be used. $7. Find it at Rockin Rudy’s and at www.moosecense.com.
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This traditional nativity scene reminds us of the true reason for the season—but, you know, with moose. Montana artist Phyllis Driscoll molded figurines—a king, shepherd and drummer—that are meant to complement the original moosetivity scene, which is currently out of stock. If you’re looking to start a new set, why not also consider the beartivity option by Montana artist Jeff Fleming, featuring a Jesus bear, Mary bear, two angel bears and a Joseph bear? $43 moosetivity “Set II”; $70 beartivity. Find them at www.bigskycarvers.com.
FULL GRIZ UNIFORM Kids love to dress up as their heroes, and in Missoula it’s hard to find bigger role models than the student-athletes who play Saturdays at Washington-Grizzly Stadium. This three-piece set includes an authentic-looking Griz helmet, Griz “jersey” (it looks nothing like the actual jersey) and game pants. Taser marks and highpriced local attorney are sold separately. $45. Find it at www.fansedge.com.
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ay animoaung l lover A PEREGRINE FALCON Forget plastic crap made in China, mind-numbing video games and freaky animatronic creatures that will only haunt your little one’s dreams for years to come. This Christmas, give a gift of nature. The Bitterroot’s Raptors of the Rockies program offers the chance to “adopt” one of its birds. With a donation, you receive official adoption papers, a matted color photo of your animal and a life history since the bird’s been in ROR’s care. More importantly, your money goes to support the good work ROR does in rehabilitating some of the region’s most treasured animals. From $400 suggested donation for a Peregrine falcon to $75 for a pygmy owl. Find them at www.raptorsoftherockies.com.
you fanbroyfavorite BLACK POWDER: BLOODY FRONTIER ADVENTURE Nothing says “happy holidays” like a violent, swash-bucklin’ story about a young captain trying to rescue his lover from Mississippi River pirates. Fine, it may not be A Night Before Christmas, but Black Powder still packs a serious punch. Plus, it was created by a local! Dwayne Harris, a classically trained artist who lives in Kalispell, has been working on comics for about three years. Black Powder is the first series that he’s both illustrated and written. $2.95. Find it at Muse Comics, 2100 Stephens Avenue, #107, Missoula.
the yoursdeo-it- DIY CHEESE-MAKING KIT AND CLASS lfer Some of us are craftier than others. For that friend who gets excited when fall canning season comes, the Good Food Store’s cheese-making class will be a mindblower. Jennie Gregory teaches it once a month for two hours, giving students the tools to navigate the flavorful world that encompasses gorgonzola, mozzarella and mascarpone, among others. “You might not have found your perfect cheese yet,” Gregory says. The class comes with a cheese-making kit so the DIY-er in your life can make the stuff at home and hopefully give some of it to you. Find cooking-class gift certificates at the Good Food Store customer service desk, Missoula or call 541-3663. Class with kit is $40.
loc the a whoalalreadevrid has ev ready ery bo ok AUTOGRAPHED, FIRST-EDITION COPIES OF LOCAL CLASSICS Ever hear longtime locals talk about how much Missoula has changed over the years? Yeah, us too. And it’s hard to compete with all those “Back in my day…” stories unless you’ve logged more than 20 years in the valley. Help a loved one earn some instant street cred by gifting them autographed, first-edition copies of Missoula County Images, Vol. I and II. Alternately, for a more hardboiled reader, consider the gorgeous first-edition, signed copy of local legend Jim Crumley’s The Last Good Kiss. The original cover design is worth the price alone. $125 Missoula County Images, Volume I; $65 Volume II; $75 The Last Good Kiss. Find them at the Book Exchange, 2335 Brooks Street.
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Aunt bBickering Uncle elva and George COUNSELING SESSIONS WITH CLINICAL SEXOLOGIST DR. LINDSEY DOE If Belva and George act like they need to get it on in order to start getting along, give the couple something that will help them get away from the TV and into the hot tub. Just as someone about to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro needs sturdy shoes, carbohydrates and plenty of water, couples that want to cultivate a healthy sex life for the long haul need the right tools. That’s where Dr. Doe comes in. Missoula’s clinical sexologist has suggestions for Belva and George about how to spice things up with new sexual techniques. Doe is also adept at smart negotiation strategies, to ensure both George and Belva get what they want. “I kind of act like a sex Sherpa,” Doe says. Sessions are $105 for individuals and $125 for couples. Doe suggests six sessions and offers a sliding scale. Call 544-1271.
the em pty-ne ster GRIZ GEAR FROM GO FETCH There’s no better way to show off home-team pride at the tailgate or in front of the tube than by making Fido part of the maroon tide. The practical pooch will no doubt appreciate Go Fetch’s all-weather University of Montana outerwear with fleece lining, while daintier sports fans might check out the sleeveless Griz cheerleader outfit. Wrap it up and stuff it in a paw-shaped stocking with a Santa squeak toy, and you can’t go wrong. Find it at Go Fetch, 627 Woody Street, Missoula. Griz gear prices range from $26.95 up.
the in yosuurvivalist r fami ly A STEEL BLADE FROM ZOMBIE TOOLS Zombie Tools’ motto is, “Can’t save the world? Then prepare for its end.” This homegrown business offers a slew of steel blades capable of doing everything from fending off the living dead to skinning a freshly harvested buck. Any self-respecting survivalist will love the Tooth ($149.95). It’s a close-quarters combat knife with a 7-inch blade that’s perfect for strapping onto one’s tactical vest. We particularly like Zombie Tools’ Ferrous Wolf ($449.95).The weapon has a 34-inch blade and, according to the company’s website, “This beast will slay ice giants, zombies and meth-addicted cannibals.” Find Zombie Tools online at zombietools.net/tools/
COURTNEY BLAZON T-SHIRT WITH JOHN WATERS QUOTE Just because you’re well read doesn’t mean you have good judgment. Your bookworm friend who inexplicitly falls for the biggest losers can learn to love smartly with a very important motto by John Waters: “If you go home with somebody, and they don’t have books, don’t fuck ’em!” This locally made T-shirt by Shakespeare & Co. is printed by Garage Tees and sports this important axiom for those who ought to know better. The design by local artist Courtney Blazon is rendered with loving, unoffensive, storybook detail. The Waters quote is in small, pretty type—you know, to keep things classy. $15. Find it at Shakespeare & Co., 103 S. 3rd St. W. in Missoula.
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a enthubsiirdneighbaost r TRAILER BIRD HOUSE Bird are always traveling, so it’s no big leap of the imagination to think they’d choose an Airstream-styled abode. These trailer houses for birds by retired school teacher R. Wade Nelson of Thompson Falls give the bird lover yet another fun contraption to put in the yard. The kitschy, candy-colored trailers with names like Silver Bullet, Teardrop, Kampkar and Halfmoon are eye-catching—made of wood, with bottle-cap rims, metal tops and beaded tail lights—and can be pole-mounted for the garden or hung. $78. Find them at the Artists’ Shop, 304 N. Higgins, in Missoula. Or go to rwadenelson.blogspot.com.
HANDMADE HATS FROM THE PAST Katy Brennan, aka “Katy the Hat Lady,” travels around the country collecting ribbons and fabrics to make hats with names like “Black Forest Cake” and “The Cat’s Meow.” We didn’t travel back in time and board a steam locomotive to find this gift idea—the Whitefish milliner lives in the present, making dramatic hats for those who long for a little yesteryear flamboyance. The “Dragon Tea House hat,” for instance, boasts double tone velvet, antique French ribbon and satin flowers, and there are hidden dragons stitched on the inside. From $36 to $200. Find them at Grizzly Claw Trading Company, 3187 Highway 83 in Seeley Lake.
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DIY WINE-BOTTLE PLATE Remember when you made gifts for your family instead of buying them? Well, you’re an adult now, and the coupon book full of “free hugs” will make you look like a cheapskate—but other DIY gifts won’t. The Zootown Arts Community Center has tons of paint-ityourself pottery gift options. We like the fused glass plates as a sophisticated way to say you care. Bring in a glass bottle and add glass shards and stringers to decorate it in your style, then let the staff fuse it into a colorful, abstract art piece perfect for fancy cheese. Reusing glass in a town that generally doesn’t? Priceless. $5 to $25, depending on how much decoration you do. Bring in a wine bottle to the Zootown Arts Community Center, 235 North 1st St. W., in Missoula, and give them a week to process the glass.
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Parsnips are hardly a secret. Unlike celeriac or rutabaga, most have at least heard of parsnip, even if they can’t remember what it looks like. The fragrant taproot that resembles an ivory-white carrot was once a big deal in the old country. Medieval folks survived northern European winters on parsnips, which were used to make sweeteners as well. Slice one thinly and boil the slices in two cups of water for 20 minutes. Let the water cool, drink it and taste how sweet it is. Despite their years of service, parsnips lost ground to potatoes brought home by New World explorers. The advent of sugarcane further crushed parsnip demand. Spuds yield more pounds per acre, and more calories per pound, than parsnips. And when survival is a priority, it pays to grab every calorie you can get. But when you’re not in danger of starving, it pays to diversify. Nothing against potatoes, but they don’t come close to matching the parsnip’s resinous texture or earthy, nutmeggy flavor. And they lack the parsnip’s diversity of nutrients like folic acid, fiber, calcium and carotenoids. Parsnips take longer to grow and require more space and labor, but you don’t have to lift a finger to store them. Just leave them in the ground, insulated with straw or a blanket in cold climates, and dig them as needed through the winter. I learned the art of winter parsnip digging from an old hippy who grows a huge crop of parsnips and carrots behind his house, which is made of mud and peach pits. On nice winter days, we’d visit him and go digging for roots in the garden. My son’s first solid food was dirt licked from one such freshly dug parsnip. Carrots and parsnips are close cousins, and they cook well together in soups, roasts and purees. If you’re looking for an easy rule of thumb for parsnips, simply do with them whatever you would do with carrots. Parsnip flavor is strong, and perhaps you’ll prefer them cooked separately so their flavor doesn’t overpower whatever else you have going. Or you may decide you want that flavor in everything. As winter wore on, the carrots began to get woody; but those parsnips only grew sweeter until we dug the last one in March. By that time I had conducted extensive trials with the old hippy’s parsnips. I added them to the root mix beneath roasting birds,
and to the soups made from their leftover carcasses. I oven-roasted parsnip frites and pan-fried parsnip pudding. I mixed parsnips into mirepoix, fried rice and hash browns. Roman Emperor Tiberius was such a fan that he sent away as far as France and Germany for his parsnips, but you can make the case that he should have gone farther. In researching this column online, I’ve noticed that Brits have a lot to say about parsnips. It seems like wherever someone has something to say about parsnips, there’s a Brit in the com-
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releases an odor that has been compared to pee on a campfire. It doesn’t bother the food. While still hot, pound the parsnip rounds, along with a clove of minced garlic—ideally with a mortar and pestle, otherwise do what you do to make mashed potatoes. Because of the parsnip’s tapered shape, some rounds will have much larger diameters than others, which varies the cooking times and creates a mix of soft and chewy parts. This makes the dish more interesting. Mince a medium-sized onion or leek and sauté in a couple tablespoons of butter or olive oil on low/medium heat, until translucent. Add a teaspoon of cinnamon, which harmonizes with the parsnip’s nutmeg tones. Stir in lots of red chili flakes—preferably mild, which allows you to add a flavorful amount without hurting anyone. Turn the heat to low and stir in the mashed parsnip rounds, gently mixing them into the sauce. Each round, despite being mashed beyond recognition, will retain a semblance of individual identity as the sauce helps them untangle from each other, and you might even find that some of them (gasp) escaped smashing altogether.
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Parsnip latkes ment section to add his or her two cents. They often take the opportunity to remind the world that the biggest parsnips are from the U.K. The Guardian ran a story on parsnip wine last month, singing its praises as one of the finest wines on the planet. And British clothing retailer High and Mighty even uses the parsnip to represent the most striking of male body types, possessed by only eight percent of Britain’s men. Parsnip-shaped men have broad shoulders and a narrow waist. (The other manly shapes are “yule log,” “candle,” and “Christmas pudding.”) So let’s all thank a Brit for keeping the parsnip fire burning through the dark years. And here are two easy parsnip recipes that will keep them on your radar for good.
Half-mashed parsnips, refried in cinnamon chili sauce Cut whole parsnips, peeled or not, into half-inch rounds until you have a cup, and steam them for eight minutes. Note: steaming parsnips temporarily
Even if Jews aren’t known for parsnip wizardry, in honor of Hanukkah (and of parsnip superiority over potatoes), here’s an easy recipe for parsnip pancakes that are moist, fluffy, and full of flavor. To make six pancakes, grate two cups of parsnip and add it to a bowl in which two eggs have been beaten. Add a half-teaspoon of salt, black pepper to your liking and three green onions, sliced as thinly as possible lengthwise into two-inch matchsticks, and mix it all together. Heat a cast iron skillet on low heat with enough safflower or other high-heat oil to cover the bottom. Use your hands to squeeze together golf-ball-sized wads and place them in the skillet, gently pressing them flat but not thin. The mixture appears tenuous, and you may wonder if it will hold together. Go around each pancake with the spatula, pushing in toward the center, until the pancakes can all slide around on the hot skillet—about four minutes. Then flip them and fry the same amount on the other side. Optional dipping sauce: soy sauce, toasted sesame oil, cider vinegar, cinnamon, chile flakes and sesame seeds, in that order and all to taste.
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Cocoa, a Joyous Kringle, Mini macaroons, Gingerbread Coffeecake, Loaves of Poundcake, and so much more! Have you checked out Bernice’s wear-ables lately? Downright smart. Coffee mugs? Oh, yeah. Bernice’s wishes you a Merry Little Christmas. bernicesbakerymt.com
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. $-$$
Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street • 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a “biga” (pronounced beega) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making. Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$
Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West • 728-1358 It’s the little things we do together. Bernice’s takes those moments to heart. This Christmas when you want “just the right size” gift or party package think Bernice’s cookie plates, frosted Christmas trees (Yep! Those famous sugar cookies), packaged Bernice’s Hot
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
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ice cream. Drive thru or stay and enjoy your food in our outdoor seating area. Lunch and dinner, seven days a week. $-$$ Black Coffee Roasting Co. 1515 Wyoming St., Suite 200 541-3700 Black Coffee Roasting Company is located in the heart of Missoula. Our roastery is open Monday – Friday, 7:30 – 2. In addition to fresh roasted coffee beans we offer a full service espresso bar, drip coffee, pour-overs and more. The suspension of coffee beans in water is our specialty. Blue Canyon Kitchen 3720 N. Reserve 541-BLUE (adjacent to the Hilton Garden Inn) www.bluecanyonrestaurant.com We offer creatively-prepared American cooking served in the comfortable elegance of their lodge restaurant featuring unique dining rooms. Kick back in the Tavern; relish the cowboy chic and culinary creations in the great room; visit with the chefs and dine in the kitchen or enjoy the fresh air on the Outdoor Patio. Parties and special events can be enjoyed in the Bison Room. Winter Hours: 4pm - 9 pm Seven Days a Week. $$-$$$
the The Bridge Pizza Corner of S. 4th & S. Higgins • 542-0002 A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11 to late. $-$$ 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 11am9pm Sun-Wed and 11am-10pm 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,
75. Number if years in the Herndon family, 49. Always getting that perfect chicken dinner, timeless. Come find out why we are rule of the roost. Always the best, Double Front Chicken. $-$$ Family Dental Group Southgate Mall 541-2886 Do you have a flex plan or dental benefit with funding that expires on December 31st? You are not alone. A lot of people wait until December to try and schedule dental appointments. Unfortunately, at year end many patients forfeit their unused benefits because no more appointments are available. The last few weeks of the year are often fully booked. Flathead Lake Brewing Company of Missoula 424 N. Higgins 542-3847 www.flbcofmissoula.com Known for their “Bar Burgers” a masterpiece of deliciousness; Flathead Lake Brewing Co. of Missoula is unfiltered sophistication atop the skyline of Missoula Montana. Downtown or Uptown, any way you look at it, Flathead Lake Brewing Co. of Missoula is your best destination for great food, wine and spirits. Come on in and join us. We can't wait to see you. Cheers!!! $-$$ Food For Thought 540 Daly Ave. • 721-6033 Missoula's Original Coffehouse/Café located across from the U of M campus. Serving breakfast and lunch 7 days a week+dinner 5 nights a week. Also serving cold sandwiches, soups, salads, with baked goods and espresso bar. HUGE Portions and the Best BREAKFAST in town. MTH 7am-8pm, Fri 7am-4pm, Sat 8am-4pm, Sun 8am-8pm. $-$$ Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West • 541-FOOD Our Deli features all natural made-to-order sandwiches, soup & salad bar, olive & antipasto bar, fresh deli salads, hot entrees, rotisserie-roasted cage free chickens, fresh juice, smoothies, organic espresso and dessert. Enjoy your meal in our spacious seating area or at an outdoor table. Open every day 7am - 10pm $-$$ Harry David's 2700 Paxson Plaza Suite H 830-3277 www.harrydavidsbar.com Entertainment 7 nights a week! Live Bands Friday and Saturday. Karaoke Sun, Mon, Tues. WTF Wednesdays (TBA and Drink Specials). Daily Food Specials plus Breakfast on Weekends. (Grill Hours 11-9 M-F and 10-9 Sat & Sun) $-$$
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HAPPIESTHOUR Gaming Garage Bar, Casino & Liquor Store Who you’re drinking with: A handful of middle-aged women and one man sit quietly before Treasure Chest, Casino King and Keno machines on a recent sunny afternoon. A woman in a leopard-print coat is humming along with “Imagine” on the radio. As the afternoon wears into evening, the casino’s clientele becomes younger and remains blue-collar. Ambiance: Bartender Tanya Smith calls it “garage appeal.” There’s a red Chevy convertible and a powder-blue Ford with New Jersey plates painted on the wall behind the bar. Lifesized cardboard cutouts of James Dean, Humphrey Bogart and Elvis give the place the feel of a drive-in diner without the greasy smell. A heated, attached smoking room provides a cozy spot to take a puff.
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What you’re eating: Free snacks served from a red Craftsman Tool Center. Soak up the Caesar with peanuts, goldfish and crackers served in small plastic cups, along with Milky Way and Snickers candy bars and Red Vine licorice.
What you’re doing: Plugging dollar bills into blinking gaming machines and watching Griz games. If your luck runs out, take a break and wash your rig at the car wash next door.
How to find it: 2120 W. Broadway, west of Russell. —Jessica Mayrer
What you’re drinking: The Gaming Garage makes a mean 16-ounce Caesar for $3.50. With a $5 gaming-machine investment, well drinks, house wine and domestic draft beer are complementary for a while.
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.
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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. Rotating music and DJs. Lunch 11:30-3:00, Happy Hour 3-6, Dinner 5-10. Late night happy hour 9-10pm. $-$$ Jakers 3515 Brooks St. • www.jakers.com Every occasion is a celebration at Jakers. Enjoy our two for one Happy Hour throughout the week in a fun, casual atmosphere. Hungry? Try our hand cut steaks, small plate menu and our vegetarian & gluten free entrees. For reservations or take out call 721-1312. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve • 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$ Le Petit Outre 129 S. 4th West • 543-3311 Twelve thousand pounds of oven mass…Bread of integrity, pastry of distinction, yes indeed, European hand-crafted baked goods, Pain de Campagne, Ciabatta, Cocodrillo, Pain au Chocolat, Palmiers, and Brioche. Several more baked options and the finest espresso available. Please find our goods at the finest grocers across Missoula. Saturday 8-3, Sunday 8-2, Monday-Friday 7-6. $
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ly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Philly West 134 W. Broadway • 493-6204 For an East-coast taste of pizza, stromboli, hoagies, salads, and pasta dishes and CHEESESTEAKS, try Philly West. A taste of the great “fightin’ city of Philadelphia” can be enjoyed Monday - Saturday for lunch and dinner and late on weekends. We create our marinara, meatballs, dough and sauces in-house so if “youse wanna eat,” come to 134 W. Broadway. Pita Pit 130 N. Higgins 541-PITA (7482) • pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating. Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to name just a few. For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week. Call if you need us to deliver! Authentic Thai Restaurant 221 W. Broadway • 543-9966 sawaddeedowntown.com Sa Wa Dee offers traditional Thai cuisine in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. Choose from a selection of five Thai curries, Pad Thai, delicious Thai soups, and an assortment of tantalizing entrees. Featuring fresh ingredients and authentic Thai flavors- no MSG! See for yourself why Thai food is a deliciously different change from other Asian cuisine. Now serving beer and wine! $-$$ Sean Kelly’s Empire Grill 130 W. Pine St. • 542-1471 Located in the heart of downtown. Open for lunch & dinner. Featuring brunch Saturday & Sunday from 11-2pm. Serving international & Irish pub fare. Full bar, beer, wine, martinis. $-$$ Silvertip Casino 680 SW Higgins • 728-5643 The Silvertip Casino is Missoula’s premiere casino offering 20 Video gaming machines, best live poker in Missoula, full beverage liquor, 11 flat screen tv’s and great food at great prices. Breakfast Specials starting at $2.99 (7-11am) For a complete menu, go to www.silvertipcasino.com. Open 24/7. $-$$ NOT JUST SUSHI Sushi Hana Downtown offering a new idea for your dining experience. Meat, poultry, vegetables and grain are a large part of Japanese cuisine. We also love our fried comfort food too. Open 7 days a week for Lunch and Dinner. Corner of Pine & Higgins. 549-7979. $$–$$$ Taco Del Sol 422 N. Higgins • 327-8929 Stop in when you're in the neighborhood. We'll do our best to treat you right! Crowned Missoula's best lunch for under $6. Mon.-Sat. 11-10 Sun 12-9. Taco Sano 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West Located next to Holiday Store on Hip Strip 541-7570 • tacosano.net Once you find us you'll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9am 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. Ten Spoon Vineyard + Winery 4175 Rattlesnake Drive 549-8703 www.tenspoon.com Made in Montana, award-winning organic wines, no added sulfites. Tasting hours: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 5 to 9 pm. Soak in the harvest sunshine with a view of the vineyard, or cozy up with a glass of wine inside the winery. Wine sold by the flight or glass. Bottles sold to take home or to ship to friends and relatives. $$ Uptown Diner 120 N. Higgins 542-2449 Step into the past at this 50's style downtown diner. Breakfast is served all day. Daily Lunch Specials. All Soups, including our famous Tomato Soup, are made from scratch. Voted best milkshakes in Missoula for 14 straight years. Great Food, Great Service, Great Fun!! Sun - Wed 83pm, Thurs - Sat 8-8pm $-$$ Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$ YoWaffle Yogurt 216 W. Main St. • 543-6072 (Between Thai Spicy and The Shack) www.yowaffle.com Let YoWaffle host your next birthday party! YoWaffle is a self-serve frozen yogurt and Belgian waffle eatery offering 10 continuously changing flavors of yogurt, over 60 toppings, gluten free cones and waffles, hot and cold beverages, and 2 soups daily. Build it your "weigh" at 42 cents per oz. for most items. Open 7 days a week. Sun-Thurs 11 AM to 11 PM, Fri 11 AM to 12 AM, Sat. 10 AM to 12 AM. Free WiFi. Loyalty punch cards, gift cards and t-shirts available. UMONEY. Like us on facebook.
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The North Valley Family Center hosts a back health class for pregnant ladies with Dr. Todd Woodward. My suggestion: stay off ladders. 5501 Highway 93. 9–11 AM. Free. Time for free and reduced cost flu shots in the Flathead. Head to to the Flathead County Fairgrounds Trade Center from 9–6 PM. Visit flatheadhealth.org for more info. Let your kiddo explore the natural world with miniNaturalists Pre-K program of hands-on activities and games at the Montana Natural History Center, 120 Hickory St., from 10 AM to 11 AM. $3 per kid/$1 for members/adults are free. The irrepressible dapper dandy and allaround piano playing radster Asaph Adonai is rocking the Southgate Mall near the mall’s big old clock. Buy an Orange Julius and check out the tuneage. 2–5 PM. Free.
Dancing with ourselves. The UM School of Theatre and Dance presents Dance, Up Close, which features faculty, guest artists and students in 22 different performances. There are two programs which alternate daily. Dec. 8–10, at 7:30 PM. Matinee on Sat., Dec. 10, at 2 PM. $9/$6 students. umtheatredance.org
Borg, borg, fergie, forg, there is a Swedish Pancake Dinner at the Missoula Senior Center, at 4 PM, with bingo to follow at 6 PM. 705 S. Higgins Ave.
Mechanic and Logisticalone, plus dancing and painting performances, all starting at 9 PM. Free.
The 26th Annual Holiday Juried Art Show sponsored by UM Emerging Ceramic Artists features works made by students. Help the kids go to conferences, get scholarships and buy some decent wood for the kiln. The sale takes place at the Art Annex Ceramics Studio. 4–7 PM.
nightlife Inject yourself with a binary stream of electronic tunes at the Palace during Synergy Sessions, featuring local DJs Mike Stolin, Geetar, the Milkcrate
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David Boone sings his personal diary to you and yours in a pop, rock and blues style that’ll have you wondering why he ain’t famouser. Bitter Root Brewery. 5-8:30 PM. Free. The Bitterroot Public Library, 306 State St. in Hamilton, presents a Fellowship Club meeting featuring a talk on Catherine Ponder’s book The Healing Secrets of the Ages. 6–7:30 PM in the west meeting room of the library. Free. Call 363-1670.
Check out the sterling silver jewelry of Silpada Designs, buy what you like and 100% of the moola goes to the Humane Society of Northwest Montana, at least from 6–9 PM tonight anyway. North of Kalispell. 100 Adopt A Pet Way. Call Christine at 250-9962 for more info. The Institute of Noetic Sciences Community Group hosts Deepening Connection Through Tango, with Patrick Marsolek and Lori Mitchell. What the hell, end your event info by 5 PM on Fri., Dec. 9, to calendar@missoulanews.com. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to The Calemander c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367.
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The UM School of Theatre and Dance brings you more dancing than a gang of sailors on shore leave during Dance Up Close, Program I. This dance event features a cornucopia of modern dancing, kick-jiving and clogging. PARTV Building, Masquer Theatre. 7:30 PM. $9/$6 children. 2434581. umtheatredance.org. The UM School of Theatre and Dance brings you more dancing than a village full of Ewoks during Dance Up Close, Program II. This dance event features a cornucopia of modern dancing, kickjiving and clogging. PARTV Building, Masquer Theatre. 7:30 PM. $9/$6 children. 243-4581. umtheatredance.org. The University Choir and Chamber Choral Concert has a lot of Cs in its title. Should be and A+ event, though. University Theatre. 7:30 PM. $11/$6 seniors/$5 students. Do you love sentimentality? Miscommunication? Having your heart warmed? Then check out the MCT’s version of the classic romantic comedy She Loves Me (think You’ve Got Mail) and get warm all over with the giggles and loving love. 8 PM. $21. mctinc.org 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. Music at the Union Club on a Thursday? Word. Luckily, One Leaf Clover is giving it a squirt, so try it out. 9 PM. Free. Party Trained is a band. Sunrise Saloon. 9 PM. Free. Karaoke by Figmo at the Silver Slipper is better than any episode of “Friends,” including the ones with Reese Witherspoon in them. 9 PM. Go bonkers on the dance floor during the Badlander’s Prehab dance party, featuring electronic and hip hop spun by DJs Kris
SPOTLIGHT key science Usually, the mention of a DIY ethic in the music business is equated with either the hustler mentality of hip-hop artists or with punk rockers screening their own t-shirts and self-releasing their recordings. Rarely does jazz get a mention in DIY culture. But Bruce Anderson’s creation DalyJazz is as DIY as it gets. DalyJazz isn’t merely a jazz show that takes place in the cozy confines of Anderson’s home. It is an event, an affair. It includes a superb dinner and drinks, as well as plenty of chit-chat. It is an engaging musical experience quite unlike anything else in Missoula. Anderson manages to wrangle old friends (he was once an aspiring jazz saxophonist himself) and talented new friends via word of mouth and his endless enthusiasm for jazz.
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This month DalyJazz hosts pianist Dan Tepfer, who holds a Bachelor’s in astrophysics, which is certainly an achievement but nothing compared to his musical skill-set. His latest release Goldberg Variations/Variations,
Music by Jerry Bock Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick Based on a play by Miklos Laszlo
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is an album of once obscure J.S. Bach tunes (yeah, I said tunes) in which Tepfer plays a variation, of course, and then performs an WHAT: DalyJazz, featuring pianist Dan Tepfer. improvisation of the piece based on Bach’s works. This is great WHEN: Fri., Dec. 9 and Sat., Dec. 10, at 7 PM. stuff for the jazz newbie because one can listen to the WHERE: 240 Daly Ave., Missoula. jazz mind at work, hear choices HOW MUCH: $35, plus $5 membership fee. being made and compare and contrast the classic with the MORE INFO: dalyjazz.com modern.
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Comin’ at you with the bass and drums diggin’ a groove like the day is long funketeers Kung Fu Kongress are joined by possible grass doers and reggae-rockers G r e e n s t a r . To p H a t . 9 : 30 PM. $5.
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Families can get help narrowing their search for quality child care, and find out if they qualify for assistance, with Child Care Assistance, which is offered by Child Care Resources from 8 AM–5 PM Mon.-Fri. at its office, on the lower level of 105 E. Pine St. Free. Call 728-6446 and visit childcareresources.org.
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.
The 26th Annual Holiday Juried Art Show sponsored by UM Emerging Ceramic Artists features works made by students. Help the kids go to conferences, get scholarships and buy some
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decent wood for the kiln. The sale takes place at the Art Annex Ceramics Studio. 4–7 PM. Hey peanut, donate blood at the American Red Cross or the kid gets it. 2401 Reserve St., Ste. 6. 10–2 PM. The Missoula Public Library hosts a preschool storytime geared toward children 3–6 years old every Fri. at 10:30 AM. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Hey non-profits, keep The Man and natterering naybobs at bay by filling out your IRS Form 990 correctly. If you’re not sure how, head to the Missoula Nonprofit Network’s workshop about that pesky little paper. Doubletree Hotel. 11:30–12:50 PM. MNN members free, otherwise $10. missoulanonprofit.org.
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High schoolers go towards the literary light during the Missoula Public Library’s Young Adult Writers Group, which meets at 3:30 PM at the library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Call 721-BOOK. The Bitterroot College Program of UM hosts a meet and greet gala to celebrate its victory and expansion. Meet the staff and students. 274 Old Corvallis Rd. 4–7 PM. Free.
nightlife Eye of the Beholder framing and matting shop holds a grand reopening with goodies and art for sale. 2720 Plamer Ste. A. 5–8 PM. Come in from the cold and listen to George Carlton at Ten Spoon Vineyard. 5–9 PM. Free. The ZACC hosts the Catharine P. Fels exhibition Nothing Stuffy About This Master, a collection of woodcut prints and paintings. 235 N. 1st St. 5:30–8:30 PM. Holy madrigal dinner! Frenchtown High School performs a production of Bill Shakespeare’s As You Like It, but with the setting changed to Eastern Montana circa 1910. $10 for dinner and $10 for the play. Dinner at 6 PM, performance at 8 PM. Frenchtown High School Commons and Auditorium. Call 626-2730 to reserve seats. This week’s Family Friendly Friday is a leprechaun-friendly event when the Missoula Irish Dancers take the stage for you and your kids’ pleasure. Top Hat. 6–8 PM. Free. The Whitefish Christmas Stroll is probably a good place to check out dudes in Bugle Boy jeans, but it also has Santa, turkey bowling and a K-9 keg pull, plus caroling and then some. Downtown Whitefish. 6–9 PM. Free. Christmas comes early for those who like the cars that go “boom”
and the tubas that go “buup,” when Tubachristmas performs at the Southgate Mall. If this needs to be explained, you aren’t ready for the awesome power that is tuba power. Southgate Mall Clock Court. 7–8:30 PM. Free. If you’re a tubist who wants to play contact Gary at 728-2403 ext. 7041. The Von Trapps are back and badder than ever in the Whitefish Theatre Co.’s presentation of the flat-out best musical ever The Sound of Music. 7:30 PM. $20/$18 seniors/$10 students. whitefishtheatreco.org. The UM School of Theatre and Dance brings you more dancing than a village full of Ewoks during Dance Up Close, Program II. This dance event features a cornucopia of modern dancing, kickjiving and clogging. PARTV Building, Masquer Theatre. 7:30 PM. $9/$6 children. 243-4581. umtheatredance.org. 3J Rap Sword is not a new WuTang jam. But they are a Rocky Mtn. jam band who is up for anything, including Warren Zevon. Crystal Theater. Doors at 7:30 PM. $5. Heavens to handbells the Missoula Community Chorus joins forces with the JuBELLation Handbell Choir for an evening of panoply, featuring the works of Bach and Rutter. St. Anthony Church. 211 Tremont Ave. 7:30 PM. $8. Tickets available at Rockin Rudy’s. 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. Do you love sentimentality? Miscommunication? Having your heart warmed? Then check out the MCT’s version of the classic romantic comedy She
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Loves Me (think You’ve Got Mail) and get warm all over with the giggles and loving love. 8 PM. $21. mctinc.org The Eagles Lodge in Missoula hosts the always crafty veterans Party Trained. 8 PM. Free. “On Green Dolphin St.” probably won’t be performed by jazz musician Carla Green at Symes Hot Springs Hotel, but darnit I wish it she would. 8–10 PM. Call 7412361 for more info. Bring your desire for spiffy tricks and and hot vocal gymnastics when Zootown Effort (aka Tonsofun and Traff the Wiz) bust out some hip hop with Spokanistan’s Gasmasq, SuppaSaa, Skeptikal and Simply Dave, plus locals Codependents, staring ‘round 9 PM. Free. Bring me the head of this socalled Santa Claus! And we shall dance to the wicked beats at Dark Dreams presents: Holiday Headhunters, an evening of every kind of electronic music ever, plus some polka, with DJs Z-Mulsion, HauLi, ir8prim8 and Mike Stolin. 9 PM. Free/$5 for those 18–20. How come no one ever karaokes Donovan? “Mellow Yellow” or “Hurdy Gurdy Man”? Ask the Solid Sound KJ to fulfill my dying wish. Harold’s Club 9 PM. Free. Check out the trumpet playin’ band Zeppo, MT down at the Union Club for some good time dancin’ tunes. 9 PM. Free. Leave your galoshes at the door and pack some dancin’ boots for the Mark Dubiose Band show at the Jack. The Lumberjack Saloon out past Lolo on Hwy. 12 that is. 9 PM. Free. He lives to spin: DJ Dubwise just can’t stop the dance tracks once
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Like a fat kid loves cake. Missoula Community Theatre presents She Loves Me on Wed. and Thu., Dec. 8 and 9 at 8 PM, Sat., Dec. 10 at 2 and 8 PM and Sun., Dec. 11 at 2 and 6:30 PM. Go to mctinc.org for ticket prices.
they start at 10 PM at Feruqi’s. Free. Call 728-8799. Have a ball at the Dodgy Mountain Men bluegrass show down at the Top Hat, at 10 PM. Cover TBA.
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Come celebrate the life and writing of Ed Lahey during the Ç Issue V release party at the Crystal Theater, with readings by local poets and writers. 7 PM. $5. (See Spotlight this issue) If you have compulsive-eating problems, seek help and support with others during a meeting of Overeaters Anonymous, which meets this and every Sat. at 9 AM in Room 3 in the basement of First United Methodist Church, 300 E. Main St. Free. Visit oa.org. Kids Central Preschool hosts a Holiday Craft Fair at the Western Montana Fairgrounds’ Home Arts Building. You’ve been good, get yourself something nice. 9–3 PM. Free. The 26th Annual Holiday Juried Art Show sponsored by UM Emerging Ceramic Artists features works made by students. Help the kids go to conferences, get scholarships and buy some decent wood for the kiln. The sale takes place at the Art Annex Ceramics Studio. 4–7 PM. The Living Art Studio hosts the
Creativity for Life Workshop: Celebration Fairies with Beth Jaffe. The workshop is for those facing illness or loss. 725 W. Alder #17. 10:30–12:30 PM. Free. Living Art Montana’s Creativity for Life Workshop Winter Journals, with Hobie Hare, is here to help those facing illness or loss. Living Art Studio, Warehouse Mall, 725 W. Alder, Ste. #17. 10:30–12:30 PM. Your bedtime tales of college-age debauchery fall a little short of the mark. Family Storytime offers engaging experiences like stories, fingerplays, flannel-board pictograms and more at 11 AM at the Missoula Public Library. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Speculative Movement invites makers of sci-fi, fantasy and horror stories, art, music or whatevs to attend a meeting of the minds. 2240 Mount Ave. 11 AM. Free. I’ll make deal with you, attend the Met: Live in HD performance of Faust and I’ll grant you unlimited knowledge of opera. Roxy Theater. 11 AM. $20/$18 seniors/$15 students. Tickets available at Shakespeare and Co. and Rockin Rudy’s. Make Mee-Maw happy with your own handmade holiday card at the MAM’s Saturday Family Art Wo r k s h o p : H o l i d a y C a r d Making. 335 N. Pattee St. 11–12:30 PM. $5. You’re going shopping anyway so grab your three aunts who never
leave the house and take them to Barnes and Noble and support t h e I n te r n a t i o n a l C h o r a l Festival. Grab the voucher off the ICF website and the store will donate money to them when you use it. Also, a farmer’s grip of choirs are performing throughout the day from 11–3 PM. choral festival.org. AniMeals hosts an open house for you and your pets at AniMania. Wellness checks for the critters, cocoa for you, and the big guy himself, Santa, arrives at noon and stays until 4 PM. The whole deal begins at 10 AM. 1530 Livingston. Donations accepted. animeals.com It ain’t Christmas until the Montana Old Time Fiddlers Christmas Party says it is. Head to the Traveler’s Rest Truck Stop in Lolo to check it. Call Cindy at 207-6101 for more info. What better time than the dumb old holidays to learn self-hypnosis? Stay calm. Stay focused. Forget about Uncle Stevie’s rants about the UN. 1:30–4:30 PM. $20 or 2 for $35. Contact Patrick at 443-3439. The UM School of Theatre and Dance brings you more dancing than a village full of Ewoks during Dance Up Close, Program II. This dance event features a cornucopia of modern dancing, kickjiving and clogging. PARTV Building, Masquer Theatre. 2 PM. $ 9 / $ 6 c h i l d r e n . 24 3 - 4 581 . umtheatredance.org.
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Join the Clay Studio of Missoula for its Holiday Family Open House, where you can take the kids on a spin at the potter’s wheel, nyuk, nyuk, nyuk. 1106 Hawthorne Unit A. 2–6 PM. Free. Check out the brand new Good Medicine Gallery up in Hot Springs, featuring Native American art. Across from the high school. 4–7 PM. Free.
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nightlife Kory Quinn and the Comrades return from the gulag to perform tunes at the Bitter Root Brewery from 6-8:30 PM. Free. C’mon down and be yourself at the Contra Dance held at the Rocky Mountain Grange, with Hannah Rose Baker and Friends and lessons for you newbies. This is a fragrance free event, so leave the Drakkar Noir and Charlie at home. Lessons 6:30, dance starts at 7 PM. Call 642–3601.
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This is really happening and you can see Bob Wire perform tunes from his new album in person, for real: Off White Christmas Holiday Show with Bob Wire and Friends, at the Downtown Dance Collective. 121 W. Main St. 7 PM. $12/$8 students/$10 advance. ddcmontana.com Finn and Porter gets snazzy and jazzy, with Keaton Wilson and Steve Kalling from 7–9 PM. Free. We know you’ve still got a few
tricks up your sleeves older folks, so come down to the Saturday Night Dance with the Heart to Heart Duo, at the Missoula Senior Center. 705 Higgins Ave. 7–10 PM. The Von Trapps are back and badder than ever in the Whitefish Theatre Co.’s presentation of the flat-out best musical ever The Sound of Music. 7:30 PM. $20/$18 senior/$10 student. whitefishtheatreco.org. The UM School of Theatre and Dance brings you more dancing than a gang of sailors on shore leave during Dance Up Close, Program I. This dance event features a cornucopia of modern dancing, kick-jiving and c l o g g i n g . PA R T V B u i l d i n g , Masquer Theatre. 7:30 PM. $ 9 / $ 6 c h i l d r e n . 24 3 - 4 581 . umtheatredance.org. Christmas is coming the goose is getting fat, so check out the 39th annual (!) Bitterroot Valley Chorus Christmas Concert y’all, and please put a penny in the old man’s hat. Hamilton High School Performing Arts Center. 7:30 PM. Suggested donation of $5. Paul Kelley of The Frederico Brothers is rolling solo at the Stevensville Hotel. Acoustic country, blues and old-timey is my guess. 7:30 PM. $10. Call 240-0216 for more info. The Eagles Lodge in Missoula hosts the always crafty veterans Party Trained. 8 PM. Free.
Dimestock is gonna be “Fucking hostile,” people. Check out metal goodliness from Universal Choke Sign, Blessiddoom, Warcry and Beefcurtain. Pink beard contests and more (don’t be gross.). Dark Horse Bar. 9 PM. $7. (See Spotlight in this issue). Beads and Santa Hats. I know, right? Sweet. Beads and Santa Hats is a benefit for UM students headed to New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward to do some work. Traffic Jam will be playing tunes. Free Cycles. 732 S. 1st W. 8 PM. $5 for those 21 plus gets you an adult beverage or two/$3 for 18 and over. Chase away your early onset SAD with bluegrass/folk artist Mark Chase (ha!) at the Symes Hot Springs Hotel. 8–10 PM. Call 741-2361 for more info. The irrepressible Monty Carlo solo?! We cannot guarantee anything but 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. The Frenchtown Club, 15155 Demers St., lets the karaoke genie out of the bottle at 9 PM. Turn south after taking exit 89 from I-90. Free. Call 370-3200. Feel free to perform “Bella Ciao” by Mirah & The Black Cat Orchestra during karaoke night at 9 PM at the VFW, but don’t be surprised if someone tells you we’re in Missoula and so it’s time to start talking American. Free. Sing a fast tune or five during Greyhound Karaoke at Larry’s Six Mile Bar & Grill in Huson, 23384 Huson Road, every Sat. at 9 PM. Free. Swig drinks while listening to oldschool rock hits, ‘80s tunes or modern indie rock songs when Dead Hipster presents Ta k e o v e r ! , w h i c h f e a t u r e s “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. Leave your galoshes at the door and pack some dancin’ boots for the Mark Dubiose Band show at the Jack. The Lumberjack Saloon out past Lolo on Hwy. 12 that is. 9 PM. Free.
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If you haven’t been to the Jolly Corks (located on the Front St. side of the Elk’s Lodge) now is the time, as it presents The Bouvier Family Christmas Spectacular, with performances by Ophelia Uppe-Bouvier and Cousin Juicy Bouvier, along with DJ Serendipity. The event is a fundraiser for Elks Scholarships and Meals on Wheels. 9 PM. $5. They got me moanin’ in the moan yard and it’s all right. Who? Black Mountain Moan and their hill country blues, that’s who, along with The Turnoffs and The Best Westerns, starting at 9 PM. $5. The Palace. Unleash a two-steppin’ insurrection at Whiskey Rebellion, at the Sunrise Saloon. 9 PM. Free. Don’t be a clunker. Get off your backside and head to the Union Club for the sounds of Cash for Junkers. 9 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. Bow down to the Reverend Slanky Church of Funkitude, at the Top Hat. 10 PM. $5.
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SPOTLIGHT dimebag! What can one say about Dimebag Darrell that hasn’t already been said? He was practically born a certified shredder, purportedly banned from Texas guitar competitions while still a teenager. The guy was so rock ‘n’ roll that he was buried with Eddie Van Halen’s black and yellow Charvel guitar known as the “Bumblebee,” inside a Kiss Kasket that had been designated for Gene Simmons. But what do you care, right? Pantera was/is “jock metal.” That’s what some of you believe. On one level, you’d be right. I blame former Pantera vocalist and all-around jerk Phil Anselmo for most of that rep. But the musicians crushed sometimes. And, like it or not, they have an instantly recognizable sound, with compressed lock-step drums, grinding bass and Dimebag’s substantial notes and squealing
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It’s Food for Fines Amnesty Week at the Missoula Public Library. You know the drill. You bring food, librarians remove fines. Win-win.
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Puerto Rican harmonics (e.g. “Cemetery Gates”). So it’s no surprise that Dimestock has continued as an annual event, because he and his band are one of the most influential groups of the last twenty years. This Saturday some of the area’s most popular WHAT: Dimestock 2011, a tribute to Dimebag Darrell. metal bands, along with 96.3 The Blaze and the Dark Horse WHO: Universal Choke Sign, Blessiddoom, Warcry and Bar, plan to fete Dimebag with a Beefcurtain brutal line-up of gut-check metal, a pink beard contest and WHEN: Sat., Dec. 10, at 8 PM. I assume, many people drinking WHERE: Dark Horse Bar, 1805 Regent Ave. many shots, many times and just maybe doing some grass. HOW MUCH: $7. Sounds like a Dimebag-tested, Dimebag-approved event. MORE INFO: 963theblaze.com —Jason McMackin
December
It’s Food for Fines Amnesty Week at the Missoula Public Library. You know the drill. You bring food, librarians remove fines. Win-win.
Christmas at the Symes Hot Spring Hotel has it all: candy canes, caroling, Santa, shopping and more. Hot Springs. Noon–3 PM. Call 741-2361 for more info.
The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Missoula hosts the Humanities Montana Speakers Bureau prog ram Muslims and America...A Decade After 9/11, given by David Grimland. Mr. Grimland spent almost 30 years in the US diplomatic service, much of that time in predominately Muslim countries. 102 Macleod Ave. 10 AM. Free.
Renne D’Aoust signs her book Body of a Dancer at Fact and Fiction from 1–3 PM.
We like, like the MADE fair. So if you just gotta buy X-mas for peeps, why not buy from over 100 local and regional artists? Not convinced? Santa like, likes it, too. He’ll be there from 3–5 PM. If you sign-up on their website prior to the event, you will receive a coupon. Holiday Inn, Downtown. 11–6 P M. Free. missoulamadefair.com
Close out the weekend in style with $4 martinis from 7:30 PM to midnight plus live jazz & DJs, during the Badlander’s Jazz Martini Night. Live jazz starts at 8 PM with Josh Farmer and continues with the Front Street Jazz Band. 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. Do you love sentimentality? Miscommunication? Having your heart warmed? Then check out the MCT’s version of the classic romantic comedy She Loves Me (think You’ve Got Mail) and get warm all over with the giggles and loving love. 2 PM, $17. 6:30 PM, $19. Children $15. mctinc.org Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat, so check out the 39th
annual (!) Bitterroot Valley Chorus Christmas Concert y’all, and please put a penny in the old man’s hat. Hamilton High School Performing Arts Center. 2 PM. Suggested donation of $5. Occupy Missoula General Assembly takes place at the Union Hall. 208 E. Main St. 2 PM. occupymissoula.org. Bitter Root Brewery is holding a Pint Nite fundraiser for the Bitterroot College Program this afternoon. 2–6 PM. Get all cultured up and check out the String Orchestra of the Rockies and Karin Stevens Dance in a holiday combo extravaganza, at the University Theatre. 3 PM. $20/$15 seniors/$5 student/$25 family. sormt.org.
pitchers with a pizza or wings and karaoke at 10:30 PM, in case ten hours of football wasn’t enough action for you. Christmas is coming the goose is getting fat, so check out the 39th annual (!) Bitterroot Valley Chorus Christmas Concert y’all, and please put a penny in the old man’s hat. Hamilton High School Performing Arts Center. 7:30 PM. Suggested donation of $5. The Von Trapps are back and badder than ever in the Whitefish Theatre Co.’s presentation of the flat-out best musical ever The Sound of Music. 4 PM. $20/$18 seniors/$10 students. whitefishtheatreco.org.
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Put some swing in your second Sunday when the Ed Norton Big Band plays the Missoula Winery from 6–8 PM. 5646 W. Harrier. $5. missoulawinery.com.
Football Sunday at the Lucky Strike Casino is for lovers of the following: 22 TVs, $13 domestic
The Spork Quintet plays some jazz with pizzazz, at the Top Hat. 7 PM. Free.
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If you’re gonna lie to the kids, go all the way and have a member of the Missoula Parks and Rec Department pretend to be Santa Claus and call your kid between 5 and 8 PM on Wed., Dec. 14. Visit missoulaparks.org by today to register. You don’t have to know who Bobby and Sissy are to attend the UM Institute for Gerontology Education Meeting at the Skaggs Building. All you need is an interest in the development of aging coursework, research and student involvement in the community. Noon–1 PM. Free. No time like the present to put the kids to work at the Stumptown Art Studio’s Santa’s Workshop. Kids can learn wreathmaking, stocking stuffing and perhaps a bit of edible edification. $55 for the week or $15 per class. 3:45–5:15 PM. stumptownartstudio.org.
nightlife It’s like the 90s down at the Lucky Strike, with $1.50 PBR and Miller tall boys plus $2 Coors and Bud Lights, so you may as well karaoke some Ugly Kid Joe at 9 PM. Bonner Milltown Community Council meeting tonight. Topics include historical interpretation and planning for the new confluence park and those darn kids recreating on Tamarack Dr. during the summer. Bonner School Library. 7 PM. Get some much needed spiritual guidance at Between the Worlds, 205 W. Main St. in Hamilton during their Spiritual Discussion Group, this Monday with Morning Star Jameson. Call 363-2939 with questions.
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SPOTLIGHT ç you there When poet Mark Gibbons was asked to edit the fifth issue of Ç (pronounced “cedilla”) magazine, he knew he could find enough Montana writers to fill the pages. After all, this is a place haunted by writers— thank you, Norman McClean—and Gibbons, who’s been working with the Missoula Writing Collaborative for years and writing poetry, has known a lot of those writers for a long time. And there might not have been a particular direction beyond a certain Montana twang that Ç creators including Tim Cook and Peter Clavin were looking for from Gibbons. In April, however, Butte poet Ed Lahey died unexpectedly and not long after the memorial writer Roger Dunsmoore gave Gibbons an unpublished short story Lahey had written. The story begins with an exit interview by a psychologist with a patient at a mental hospital. The patient moves out of the hospital to his home in Butte, but the whole time he’s torn about taking medication for his manic-depressive condition and he starts having dreams in which a talking mule appears to him down in the mines.
“I started thinking about people like Rick De Marinis and Paul Zarzyski and, of course, [poet laureate] Sheryl Noethe and all the people who had been friends with Ed,” says Gibbons. “And then we invited the contributors from the previous Çs to join this party and I started asking other people who were friends of mine and at one point it got WHO: Ç / literary mag’s issue V: A Montana Trip away from me. There were too many people to ask and I realWHAT: reading, plus a tribute to Ed Lahey ized, ‘My God, I’ve got to stop.’” WHEN: Saturday, Dec. 10, at 7 PM The upcoming reading and tribute to Lahey includes about WHERE: The Crystal Theatre 30 readers such as Noethe, Dave Thomas, Dirk Lee, Claude HOW MUCH: $5 Alick, Fred Haefele and Jeremy N. Smith. All proceeds will go “It’s a really amazing story,” says Gibbons. “I toward Blind Horses Press, which is another tip of thought I’d use it as a centerpiece for the magazine.” the hat to the gritty writer. The fifth edition of Ç magazine, which is really more of a coffee table book, includes a vast amount of work—181 pages that includes 70 contributors and19 images. The themes vary, but it’s meant at its core to be a tribute to Lahey. Gibbons started collecting writers for it throughout the summer.
The Captain Wilson Conspiracy won’t break into your files, but they will play some jazz at the Red Bird Wine Bar, featuring Jeff “Feel So Good” Stickney on flugelhorn, Keaton “Keys” Wilson on keyboard and Steve “The Electric Church” Kalling on bass (Previously listed nicknames are not real.) 7–10 PM. Free. 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
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“It’s going to be like a wake,” Gibbons says. “We’re going to have continuous readings with maybe a short break for everybody to stretch.” And the $5 that goes to bottomless glasses of beer and wine will also keep you marinated for the marathon of words.
some karaoke after the game if you’re man enough to sleep on the davenport when you get home. 7 PM–12 AM. Let’s go band! The Sentinel High School bands (that’s Concert; that’s Spartan; that’s Jazz; that’s Symphony) are going to take you down to the Paradise City with some holiday music raditude at their Holiday Concert. Bring a can of food for the food bank. 7:30 PM. So you think you can fill in the blank? Prove it at Sean Kelly’s Open Mic Night this and every Monday at 8:30 PM. Call 542-1471 after 10 AM on Monday to sign up.
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Bring the wrenches and a craving for lactose during Milkcrate Monday’s with the Milkcrate Mechanic and friends, which features Lootcakes, Mite Aswel, Tahj Bo, Linkletter and Mateo Mbele spitting rhymes, starting at 9 PM. Free, with free pool and $6 pitchers of PBR. 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.”
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It’s Food for Fines Amnesty Week at the Missoula Public Library. You know the drill. You bring food, librarians remove fines. Win-win. The Cultural and Art History Club of Whitefish meets to discuss the only things that matter, l i k e J o h a n n e s Ve r m e e r. Stumptown Art Studio. 10–12 PM.
The Families First Children’s Museum holds a Fun with Yoga class for kids and their parents, apparently the Yogi Pokey is encouraged. 227 1/2 W. Front St. 11 AM. $4.25.
and give up an extra pint of blood. Do it. They bring you cookies afterward, dudes. Noon– 4 PM. No time like the present to put the kids to work at the Stumptown Art Studio’s Santa’s Workshop. Kids can learn wreathmaking, stocking stuffing and perhaps a bit of edible edification. $55 for the week or $15 per class. 3:45–5:15 PM. stumptownartstudio.org.
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.
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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.
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Occupy Missoula General Assembly takes place at the Union Hall. 208 E. Main St. 5:30 PM. occupymissoula.org.
There’s a new sheriff in town, but he has no judicial authority, he just loves to rock. The Tuesday Night Open Mic/Jam Night is now at the Lucky Strike Casino, 1515 Dearborn Ave, hosted by Louie Bond, Teri Llovet and the UFOkies. Sign up is at 6 PM and music goes 7–10 PM.
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
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Aim your sights on the 8 ball when the Palace hosts a weekly 9 ball tournament, which is double elimination and starts with sign up at 6 PM, followed by games at 7. $10 entry fee. 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. Before you take a bad picture of Junior writing his name in the snow, check the Rocky Mountain School of P h o t o g r a p h y ’ s Ta k i n g a G r e a t Photograph lecture. 216 N. Higgins Ave. 7–9 PM. Free. 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? Who is Scrooge’s business partner? (See answer in tomorrow’s nightlife.) The Broadway’s Tuesday Night Comedy takes place every Tue. at 9 PM and is followed by dancing with tunes from the Tallest DJ in America. $5/$3 students. Call 543-5678. Rehash the music of others, or have the guts to play a few of your own, when the Canyon Creek Ramblers host an open mic night this and every Tue. at 9 PM at the Great Northern Bar & Grill, 27 Central Ave. in Whitefish. Free, with free beers for performers. 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. Stomp guts and kick nuts when electrogrunge outfit Fancy Child does the heavy lifting at the Badlander’s Live and Local Night, also featuring Big in Japan’s quixotic electronic music and Mr. Phil Lesar. Music at 10 PM. Free. John Smith delivers name-brand acoustic folk at bargain basement prices. Top Hat. 9 PM. Free.
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the usual community service and the like. Call Linda at 360-4520. It’s Food for Fines Amnesty Week at the Missoula Public Library. You know the drill. You bring food, librarians remove fines. Win-win. The Toddler Playgroup at Families First Children’s Museum have a boat load of facilitated activities to tend to, including singing, games and story time. 227 1/2 W. Front St. 11 AM. $4.25. No time like the present to put the kids to work at the Stumptown Art Studio’s Santa’s Workshop. Kids can learn wreathmaking, stocking stuffing and perhaps a bit of edible edification. $55 for the week or $15 per class. 3:45–5:15 PM. stumptownartstudio.org.
nightlife Gals, the Lucky Strike Casino wants you to indulge yourselves in a variety of ways on Ladies Night, including with $3 Dirty Girls and Dirty Birds, as well by entering to win $50 gift cards to Adam & Eve and Victoria’s Secret. Did I mention erotic karaoke? No, cuz they don’t have that, just regular karaoke. Beer, it does so much and more. For example, it leads you to play pool shirtless, but it can also help WEN (Watershed Education Network) during Northside Kettlehouse Community UNite Pint Night. 50 cents of each pint goes to WEN. 5–8 PM. montanawatershed.org.
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Come to the MAM and gander at some gams during the Open Drawing Class. Caveat, you best be drawing something and not just gawkin’. 18 and older. 6–8 PM. $5. Matt LaRubbio hosts the Teen Open Studio Night at the MAM, where teens can create sweet silkscreen action, like t-shirts and posters. 6–8 PM. Ages 13–18. Free. Live and DJ’d music makes the sake and pad thai go down easily when Iza Asian Restaurant, 529 S. Higgins Ave., presents live music every Wed. at 7 PM. Free to attend. Call 830-3237. 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. 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. Hump day isn’t just for binge drinking anymore. It’s also a day for playing games of chance with other like-minded booze lovers when Sean Kelly’s presents Hump Day Bingo, this and every Wed. at 8 PM. Free. Call 542-1471. Hellbound Glory is here to play some, well, scumbag country. To be honest,
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that is the only kind of country that matters as far as I’m concerned, with Aran Buzzas and P.D. Lear. Zoo City Apparel. 8 PM. $5. Pub Trivia answer: Jacob Marley. Reach pitch perfect perfection by belting out your favorite tune with a little liquid courage during Kraptastic Karaoke, which begins at 9 PM and features $5 pitchers of Budweiser and PBR, plus $1 selected shots. Free. Just don’t speak in acronyms during WTF Wednesdays and Ladies’ Night at Harry David’s Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, where $10 pitchers of long island ice tea and 2 for $5 cran–vodka drinks make this a forgettable evening (in a fun way). Every Wed. Starting at 9 PM at the bar. Free.
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It’s Food for Fines Amnesty Week at the Missoula Public Library. You know the drill. You bring food, librarians remove fines. Win-win. Let your kiddo explore the natural world with miniNaturalists Pre-K program of hands-on activities and games at the Montana Natural History Center, 120 Hickory St., from 10 AM to 11 AM. $3 per kid/$1 for members/adults are free. The irrepressible dapper dandy and allaround piano playing radster Asaph Adonai is rocking the Southgate Mall near the mall’s big old clock. Buy an Orange Julius and check out the tuneage. 2–5 PM. Free. No time like the present to put the kids to work at the Stumptown Art Studio’s Santa’s Workshop. Kids can learn wreathmaking, stocking stuffing and perhaps a bit of edible edification. $55 for the week or $15 per class. 3:45–5:15 PM. stumptownartstudio.org.
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Missoula City Lights Tour and Dinner hosted by the Missoula Senior Center. 5 PM. Call 543-7154 for more info. It’s Artini time down at the MAM, so grab your cultural decoder rings and check out exhibiting artist Debra Magpie Earling’s tale of the Sacajawea in her work with Peter Koch, The Journals of Sacajawea. This is in conjunction with the Tell Us Something, based on the moth, which features six storytellers speaking on the theme Dear Diary. 5:30–9 PM. Free. missoula artmuseum.org. The Joan Zen Quartet jams the jazz at the Bitter Root Brewery. 6–8:30 PM. free. Tom Catmull is a fine reason to go to a bar, but $7 Bayern pitchers make it a reverse slam dunk on Dikembe Mutombo. Brooks and Brown. 6–9 PM. Free. 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. Karaoke by better than including Witherspoon
Figmo at the Silver Slipper is any episode of “Friends,” the ones with Reese in them. 9 PM.
This beat is technotronic and then a farmer’s grip more when San Francisco’s EPROM brings the bass, heavy, like an electronic motherscratchin’ ton o’ bricks, along with locals Illegitimate Children and Feldman. $8 presale at Ear Candy/$10 at the door $5 surcharge for the kids 18-20. Let’s help the up-and-coming Harvey Weinstein’s of the world by attending the Business Career in Entertainment Club Fundraiser (BCEC), with Yeti, Yukon Blonde and Matt Brand. Top Hat. 9 PM. $5. The gist is this: House of Quist plays the Union Club. It’s at 9 PM. It’s free. 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. Since we covered deadlines last week, let’s talk about giving The Calemandar a fighting chance by providing me with ALL YOUR EVENT INFORMATION: Times, dates, cost, address, you know, minutiae. Send me ALL your event info by 5 PM on Fri., Dec 9 to calendar@missoula news.com. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to The Calemandar c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367. You can also submit stuff online. Just head to the arts section of our website and scroll down a few inches and you’ll see a link that says “submit an event.”
MOUNTAIN HIGH N o doubt most boys go through a firebug phase in their youth, some never outgrow it, and many cultivate a great deal of acumen when it comes to fire-building. Just watch grown boys around a campfire: judging, eye-rolling, secondguessing the one who started it. As a youngster I learned many ways to start fires. I had 10 or so of the old plastic film canisters filled with a multitude of firemaking methods—cotton balls covered in petroleum jelly, pitch dipped in motor oil, black powder, magnesium shavings and other more secretive methods that caused more than a few near misses. The draw to fire is undeniable, and lighting one well is still considered a manly pursuit. (Not to leave the ladies out. Why, I once knew a gal who could start a fire with half of a wooden matchstick. We called her Grandma). Regardless of gender, teaching teenagers how to do anything can be tough. Ask the folks at
InnerRoads Wilderness Program: They run a sixweek intervention for at-risk teens that combines outdoor activities with family and community building. InnerRoads will also host a course on how to light a fire with a bow and drill at the Missoula REI— basically, the raddest skill on Earth. The store will be taking gifts of gently used outdoor gear for the program throughout the month of December. —Jason McMackin
Learn to make Fire by Friction with a bow and drill during InnerRoads Wilderness Program Community Night, at REI on Tue., Dec. 13 from 6:30 to 8 PM. 3275 N. Reserve St. Ste. K-2. Free. Go to youthhomes.com and click the InnerRoads Wilderness Program tab for more info.
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THURSDAY DECEMBER 8 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. History dorks unite! The Ravalli County Museum hosts a free lecture with Brian Shovers, Celebrating Montana Place Names. Learn the origins of Old Stinky Trapper Creek or if there is such a place. 205 Bedford, Hamilton. 6–7:30 PM. Free.
gear? Pay close attention because there is bunch of info coming your way. Missoula Children and Nature invite the kids and the fam along for a Snowshoe Saunter, sponsored by REI (they got the shoes, yo!). Meet at the Montana Natural History Center at 10 AM sharp. Free transport. Free snowshoes. RSVP by Dec. 8 by calling Ellie at 330-410-0236.
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Mountaineering ain’t no joke, man. Swing by REI and find out what gear you’ll need to reach the peaks at their Mountaineering Clinic. 6:30–8 PM. Free.
At Slacker Mondays, from 6 PM until close, slackline fans can come to Freestone Climbing Center at 935 Toole Ave to test their balance. $13/$10 for students. Visit freestoneclimbing.com.
Get vicarious at UM Geology Prof. Emeritus Gray Thompson’s rock climbing presentation, with pics and tales of far away lands and close calls, including the Matterhorn, Denali and the Lotus Flower Tower. UM McGill Hall, Rm. 210. 7 PM. Free.
Be a better boarder or skier and learn to tune your gear at REI’s Basic Ski and Snowboard Maintenance Class. Stay sharp, stay waxed. Leave the boards at home for this one. 6:30–8 PM. Free. Call 541-1938.
FRIDAY DECEMBER 9 All of the following sounds awesome: Run Wild Missoula hosts an Aqua Jog Class and Holiday Pool Party at Currents, one class at 5:30 and one at 6:15 PM, then hit the slides, people. 600 Cregg Ln. 5:30–8 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 DECEMBER 10 Great, you bought a transceiver. You are Mr. and Mrs. Safetytown. Now how abouts we learn to use them, hmm? No worries, the kids down at the UM Outdoor Program are here to help you figure out what all those straps and buzzers and buttons do at their Transceiver Clinic. 9–2 PM. $15. Call 243-5172. Love taking the kids out into the snow? Don’t have the
The Christmas Bird Count is blowing in my friends, but first the Flathead Audubon Society wants to prep the peeps for viewing and counting and the like, with virtual birding, slides and more. The Summit. 205 Sunnyview Ln., Kalispell. Free. If your father’s voice reminding you that you’re not good enough doesn’t keep you pumping those legs all year long, check out Run Wild Missoula’s Stay Motivated to Run Through the Winter seminar. Runner’s Edge, 325 N. Higgins Ave. 7 PM. Free. Five Valleys Audubon is meeting up to discuss bird research at the 8,000-acre private conservation property, the MPG Ranch. UM, Gallagher Business Building, Rm. L14. 7:30 PM.
THURSDAY DECEMBER 15 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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Phoenix act Missoula storytelling night rises from the ashes by Alex Sakariassen
Every story has a point. At least, that’s what I kept telling myself during Missoula Moth’s debut last January. An old friend and the event’s sole organizer, Pat Duganz, had asked me to help out by taking the stage; I grudgingly caved, thinking I had the stones. But in truth, it’s not chutzpah that allows a fool to stand before throngs of half-drunk strangers and share the most embarrassing moment of his life. No, it’s more a lapse of judgment. Here’s the story: It was fall 2007, and I’d just started as the arts editor for UM’s student newspaper, the Montana Kaimin. With Hasidic Jewish rapper Matisyahu scheduled for a Missoula concert, I arranged for a 3 p.m. phone interview on an otherwise class-choked weekday. The timing had to be perfect, I told the artist’s press rep. I had an upper-level history course at 3:30. I camped out on the third floor of the University Center on the appointed afternoon, my notebook flipped open and my battered Motorola Razor on vibrate. 3 p.m. rolled around. No call. 3:05. Still no call. 3:10. I was growing anxious. Unfortunately, so was my last meal. I dashed to the restroom to address my digestive concerns before class, and my mind drifted far away from Matisyahu. Until my phone rang, that is. Faced with the choice of either missing the interview entirely or conducting it while seated in the most intimate of situations, I went with the latter, hoping against all friggin’ hope that my note taking wouldn’t trigger the toilet’s motion-sensor flush. The Badlander crowd erupted with laughter at that last line and at the distinct squatting stance that, in spite of Duganz’s pleas, I’d committed to in the interests of thorough on-stage storytelling. I felt justified that I had, as I’d promised myself, told a story with a point: Never conduct business by phone from an automatic toilet. Missoula’s storytelling night had a rough initial run this year. The freshness and mystique of the event drew sizable audiences the first few months. But as the months passed, crowds waned. Story quality and adherence to the 10-minute rule became iffy. By May, the night had moved to the Palace with less than 20 people in attendance. Missoula Moth died a slow, quiet death that Duganz compares to getting served too much cake. “Eventually you want dessert to stop.” “The initial reaction was positive overall,” Duganz says. “What followed toward the end was inconsistency in stories, as well as length…I guess people were busier on Tuesday nights than I’d ever imagined.” This month, a revitalized storytelling night rises from those ashes. The kick-off will take place at the Missoula Art Museum Dec. 15 and feature a carefully selected lineup of six speakers. Future storytelling nights are already scheduled on a quarterly
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basis at the Top Hat through next year, each built around a single theme and enforced with a 10-minute buzzer. The inspiration for Missoula’s storytelling event debuted in a New York City living room in 1997. George Dawes Green called it The Moth. He sought to mimic the intimate atmosphere of friendly storytelling nights on a porch in his hometown in Georgia, during which moths would fly in through a hole in the screen. It worked. The Moth quickly migrated to clubs and cafes across New York, evolving into a theme-based and note-free event. The Wall Street Journal hailed it “New York’s hottest and hippest literary ticket.” The Moth is now a nonprofit with chapters in L.A., Chicago, Detroit, Ann Arbor and Pittsburgh. Duganz initially pictured Missoula’s storytelling scene as little more than “a dozen friends drinking beers and telling stories, but with a stage.” What he got was a steady stream of stories—some comedic, some tragic—from dozens of individuals. The challenge came in holding the public’s interest long enough to build a following. “So many people I spoke with were outgoing and wonderful, until you say, ‘Well would you tell that on stage?’” Duganz says. “That was a problem and one I was not able to fix…While I understood the social anxiety issues, I thought, and still feel, that [Moth] was a chance to overcome those issues.” Due to concerns from New York over Missoula’s use of the Moth name, the new coordinator, Marc Moss, opted to rename the event shortly after he began promoting the MAM premiere. He and the UM Bookstore—the storytelling night’s primary sponsor—are calling it “Tell Us Something.” Moss says The Moth has no problem with Missoula openly drawing inspiration from the New York model. Moss, like Duganz, recognizes a hunger in Missoula for a storytelling outlet. The way stories are told live, he says, can be more engaging than the way
they’re told on the page. But feeding that hunger can be difficult. Moss was a regular storyteller earlier this year and acknowledges the setbacks. “People have little patience for stories that ramble for a long time and have no real sense of direction,” Moss says. “Having a theme will help avoid that. [Duganz] was stoked just to get people to show up and get on stage. I am too, but I also want to keep [stories] to 10 minutes.” I won’t venture any guesses as to how long Moss can keep the flame of live storytelling flickering. Many of the stories featured earlier this year were excellently crafted. Those that weren’t made three hours an exhausting commitment. If there’s any lesson in the ashes of Missoula’s first storytelling night, it’s to exercise caution. “In retrospect, maybe it was bad to have someone tell a story about the time someone he knew killed a dog,” Duganz says. “But to me that was really honest and true, and so I wanted to hear it…My advice for going forward is to realize that some stories are probably too much.” Tell Us Something kicks off Thursday, Dec. 15, at the Missoula Art Museum at 7 PM. Free. asakariassen@missoulanews.com
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Before her time ZACC exhibit illumes the bold art of CP Fels by Erika Fredrickson
Catharine Phillips Fels started drawing cars after she found an abandoned Model-T so eaten by the natural landscape that a rose had bloomed in the middle of it. While living in Long Beach, Calif., inspired by a
junkyard, she created the “Gay Cadavers” series of prints and paintings showing colorful cars stacked in piles like joyous mounds of wreckage. The printmaking artist, who went by CP Fels, was born in 1912 and died in 1991. Now her daughter, Margery Fels Palmer, who lives in Missoula, is providing pieces for a retrospective on Fels’s work called Nothing Stuffy about this Master at the Zootown Arts Community Center, opening this week. The exhibit is an homage to a woman who was before her time in many ways, and rebellious. At the age of 16, Fels moved to Berkeley, where she attended art school and joined a circle of academics and artists who lived on the edge of convention. She signed her work CP Fels to elude the sexism she perceived in the art world of the 1940s. Her body of work captures California landscapes, from Victorian homes of Bunker Hill, Los Angeles to the shore rocks and stunted trees of the coast. Her woodcuts of birds and landscapes reveal an obsession with texture, while her paintings and collages show how enraptured she must have been by light and color. Her 1979 painting of Alay Han Aksaray Road in Turkey is gloriously bathed in golden light. Palmer, her daughter, recalls being five and singing folks songs in her parents’ home during the first folk revival in the early 1940s. While her mother taught art, art history and elementary art education at Los Angeles State, Palmer’s father, Leonard, was a philosopher and professor at Long Beach State. They hung out with rebels of the time, including Malvina Reynolds, who
wrote the political satire “Little Boxes.” They were strong supporters of civil rights. “My folks were bohemians,” says Palmer. “I grew up knowing blacks as equal.” One of Fels’s paintings that strays a little from her landscape works is a 1965 piece called “Philadelphia, Mississippi,” which shows the bodies of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, three civil rights workers who were executed there in 1964 in what was deemed a conspiracy between the Ku Klux Klan and county law enforcement. The three young men—a black man from “East of Sivas” Mississippi and two white New Yorkers—had been registering black voters. The painting shows four shadowy pictures against a periwinkle sky hovering over men splayed in a brown field. “The series is not typical of my mother’s work but she and my father had a very broad range of interests and commitments,” says Palmer. Palmer only saw this painting after her mother’s death. She didn’t know why her mother painted it, but she knew the story behind the murders: As it
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turns out, Palmer and her husband knew one of the white men and the brother of the other, who’d been a classmate of the Palmers at Antioch College. Some of Fels’s sold works have been difficult to trace. The 80-piece exhibit, however, provides a sense of Fels’s eye and passion for subject matter that spans from the Mississippi slayings to the lively, colorful boulevards around 1940s Los Angeles. The CP Fels retrospective, Nothing Stuffy About this Master, opens Friday, Dec. 9, at the ZACC, 235 N. 1st St. W. with a reception from 5:30 to 8:30 PM, which features hors d’oeuvres, wine and a printmaking demo. Free. The show continues through Jan. 9, 2012. efredrickson@missoulanews.com
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Held-fast classic UM smartly revives You Can’t Take It With You by Erika Fredrickson
ness to denote a grown-up mother, and just enough distracted delight to show that her soul has not been sucked dry. The first act establishes the household in this same mood. Maia Mills-Low plays the servant, Rheba, with confident warmth, and Diego Javier Steele plays her husband, Donald, with charming silliness. It’s still a household of its time and the black-servant aspect provides a whiff of insincerity, which produces some discomfort—are black servants in the 1930s happy just because they live with a fun family? At any rate, Kaufmann and Hart don’t address race even a little bit and most productions, unless upended dramatically, have no device for directors to remedy it. Bobby Gutierrez, Suzanne’s real-life husband, plays her stage husband Paul, who emerges often from the basement with a powder-stained face from the fireworks he makes with Mr. De Pinna, his friend. Bobby, like Suzanne, plays it all in balance—not too crazy but with enough infectious mirth. Cole Hochhalter’s Mr. De Pinna is on the over-the-top side, à la Urkel, which means you’ll either really like him or not at all, depending on your take of the 1990s TV show “Family Matters.” Essie, who constantly attends to ballet at all moments despite being horrible at it, is played spiritedly by Alexsa Prince, who’s Photo by Steele Wiliams deftly nailed roles from Viola, the girlturned-young man of Twelfth Night, to Here’s something you might have forgotten, Marcy, the hilarious party girl of Dog Sees God, based though. You Can’t Take It With You is a dig at Wall on the Peanuts characters. There are several other characters here worth notStreet, which is as relevant now as ever. It’s not an overtly political play, but its underlying message is ripe: ing—Arcadea Jenkins’s Olga and Eric D. Hersh as the the American dream as defined by money isn’t all it’s uptight and bewildered but, eventually, won-over Mr. cracked up to be. A reminder of that always does some Kirby, to name a few. Others, like the IRS rep, seem like they could revel more in the repressed, money-focused good, Mr. Scrooge. The story takes place in the New York home of sensibility of their characters. There are two big reasons alone to see this produc“Grandpa” Martin Vanderhof, which he shares with his daughter, Penny, her husband Paul, granddaughters tion. One is G. Stephen Hodgson as Essie’s boisterous Essie and Alice, a grandson-in-law Ed, servants Rheba Russian dance teacher, Boris Kolenkhov. Before there and Donald and some frequent neighbors. Grandpa were “In Russia…” Yakov Smirnoff jokes, there was was neck-deep in the business world until he realized Boris. Not many could do this role better. Hodgson he was unhappy. Now everyone is encouraged to do steals the scenes whether he’s wrestling Mr. Kirby or what he or she wants—dance, catch snakes, write plays, providing bleak cautionary tales. The second reason is paint portraits, play xylophone and make fireworks, Peter Philips as the witty, casually rebellious grandpa. among other things. When Alice decides to marry into Philips, 73, is a retired doctor now pursuing acting at a conventional family, all hell breaks loose on the night UM. His natural charm on stage makes it feel like the two families come together for dinner. Shenanigans Martin Vanderhof was written just for him. What a great abound and lessons are learned, the biggest of which character, too. After all hell breaks loose in a sit-comish is: Don’t waste your life acquiring material goods, climax of federal agents and other disasters, peace which you can’t take with you after death. Live for hap- takes over and Grandpa stands around the table for grace, addressing a higher power with, “Well, sir, here piness. Carpe diem. UM’s production of the show, directed by the tal- we are again. We’ve had quite a time of it lately, but it ented D. Marie Long, features a strong cast, most of seems that the worst of it is over.” Philips’s keen grasp whom play their roles with relish. The play opens in the of a man with wonderfully simple, common-sense family’s living room, designed beautifully by UM stu- answers makes us want to believe. You Can’t Take It With You continues at the dent Shy Iverson, with the perfect clutter of knickknacks, family photographs and stained glass to denote Montana Theatre in UM’s PARTV Center Thu., a comfortable middle-class family with quirky hobbies. Dec. 8 through Sat., Dec. 10, at 7: 30 PM nightly. Suzanne Gutierrez as Penny pets a taxidermied $20/$16 seniors and students/$10 children 12 animal on her desk as she types away at one of her sex- and under. filled melodramatic scripts. She’s good at the role in a carefully calculated way: just enough composed breeziefredrickson@missoulanews.com You Can’t Take It With You is a classic play and also, easily, a clichéd choice for high school and college drama departments everywhere. The story by playwrights George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart of an eccentric household led by a tax-evading grandfather opened in New York in 1936, so it’s several decades old. And it won the Pulitzer Prize that same year, which means it’s been deemed worthy of reviving ad nauseam for almost as long. I say this to acknowledge the theater-savvy people who groan when they hear of yet another production of it. And yet there’s a reason something’s a classic, right? Like watching The Sound of Music every Thanksgiving or A Christmas Story at Christmas time, it’s also a well-loved tradition and, like most of those, not earth-shattering.
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Scorsese magic Hugo has visual and story genius by Dave Loos
If you’ve been looking for an excuse to finally check out the Carmike 12’s new “BigD” theater—and it’s nice to have a reason when you’re going to shell out between $10.50 and $14 for the privilege—Martin Scorsese might be able to help you out. Just be forewarned that this is Marty Scorsese as you’ve probably never seen him: PG-rated. And, in perhaps an even larger departure, there’s no Leonardo DiCaprio. These changes suit him well. Hugo is a majestic film. More than that, Hugo is the most visually stunning movie I’ve seen since Avatar; and while it’s not as technically revolutionary as James Cameron’s epic 3D ode to the Na’vi of planet Pandora, it has something of equal importance: a much better story. There are so many surprising elements at play here that three days later I’m still trying to digest the wonderful sensory overload of it all, from the stunning 3D
machine called an automaton, would make for a fairly intriguing story on its own. But that’s only half of the film. Wonderfully integrated into Hugo is the partially fictionalized tale of George Méliès, the legendary French silent filmmaker and cinematic innovator who broke ground with special effects at the turn of the 20th century. In Hugo, Méliès (the always stellar Ben Kingsley) is nearing the end of his life. He’s a broken down man who lost it all during the Great War and now spends his days anonymously running a gift shop at the train station with the help of his goddaughter Isabelle (Chloë Moretz). She knows nothing about her godfather’s past, and the great fun here is watching Hugo and Isabelle piece it all together. The history lesson is fascinating. Some viewers may resent the detour Hugo takes here, and there are
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cinematography to the story itself, which diverges so drastically from what we expect—at least for those of us who haven’t read the book. Hugo is based on Brian Selznick’s 2007 illustrated historical novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret, which I was thankful for not knowing about, lest I entered the theater with expectations of any kind. The part of Hugo I expected is that it stars a mechanically inclined, orphaned boy living in a Parisian train station in 1930. Hugo (Asa Butterfield) has been living behind the walls of the station ever since his father died in a museum fire. Here in his lair, he tends to the many clocks while constantly trying to elude the station inspector. Sacha Baron Cohen, in a role so refreshingly different than Borat, is that unnamed station inspector, patrolling the grounds with menacing eyes and a troubled soul, watchdog in tow. We meet these characters, as well as others station mainstays, in the most beautiful opening shot of the year, grandly sweeping over the nighttime winter Paris skyline and into the station, past passengers and trains and stores and cafes. Like large portions of the film, including the wonderfully intricate networks of clocks throughout the station, there’s a lot of CGI at work here, but you might not notice, and you certainly won’t care. This life of Hugo, who spends much of his day tinkering with a mysterious self-operating mechanical
indeed lengthy flashbacks to Méliès’s early days as a magician who becomes obsessed with the idea of moving pictures at 24 frames per second. Scorsese re-creates the first studio where Méliès filmed, produced and even acted in hundreds of short films. We see the laborious process involved with early filmmaking, and we can feel Scorsese’s love and admiration for this early pioneer. These scenes serve a purpose in helping us know the elderly Méliès, who is reluctant to acknowledge anything about his past. That the simultaneous storylines evolve and flourish together is another magic trick. Over the course of more than two hours and multiple sidetracks, Hugo connects dots where you didn’t think dots existed. And Scorsese deserves an Oscar nomination for telling a moving story that uses special effects to its great advantage. The obvious question then is whether Hugo would hold up as well under 2D circumstances (it’s playing in both formats at the Carmike), and the honest answer is probably not. Hugo is that rare film that combines visual and storytelling elements with equal expertise. It’s the difference between seeing a good and a great film. Don’t wait for the DVD with this one. Hugo continues at the Carmike 12. arts@missoulanews.com
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NOW PLAYING ARTHUR CHRISTMAS In this computer-generated kids movie, Santa’s youngest son borrows the car without asking for permission, possibly saves Christmas, possibly ruins it, starring James McAvoy and Hugh Laurie. Carmike 12: 6:35 and 9:10. 3D: 1:35 and 4:10.
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3D: 1:15, 4:25 and 7:35. Stadium 14: 3D: 1, 2:30, 4, 7, 8 and 9:45, with midnight shows Fri. and Sat. 1, 4, 6, 7, 8:45 and 9:45 Mon.–Thu. Pharaohplex: 3D: 6:50 and 9:10 PM, with matinees Sat. and Sun. at 3 PM. 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
9. Village 6: 4:15 and 6:40 PM, with 9 PM shows on Fri. and Sat. and matinees at 1:45 PM on Sat. and Sun. Pharaohplex: 7 PM and 9 PM, with matinees at 3 PM Sat. and Sun. Stadium 14: 12:10, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10 and 9:30, with midnight shows on Fri. and Sat. and no 4:50 show Mon.–Thu. MARGIN CALL The emotional story of bankers losing their minds and our money in the early part of the financial crisis, starring Jeremy Irons and Kevin Spacey. Wilma Theatre: 7 pm nightly, with 1 pm matinee on Saturday. MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE A young woman escapes from a cult and seeks to re-assimilate into normal society; however, nightmares from her recent past destroy her notions of reality. Starring Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen’s little sister Elizabeth Olsen. Wilma Theatre: 9 pm nightly, with 3 pm matinee on Saturday. THE MUPPETS Gen-Xers rejoice, the Muppets are getting the band back together to save their beloved theater from a rich old oil tycoon. Jason Segel, Amy Adams, Fozzie and Miss Piggy star. Carmike 12: 1:15, 4, 6:40 and 9:15. Stadium 14: 12, 1, 2:30, 3:30 5, 6:15, 7:30, 9 and 10, with midnight shows at Fri and Sat. 1, 1:45, 3:30, 4:30, 6:15, 7:15, 9 and 9:45 Mon.-Thu. Mountain: 2:15, 4:30, 7:15 and 9:20. OPERA IN CINEMA: DON GIOVANNI Opera in Cinema presents a live performance of Mozart’s classic opera about a dirty little bugger who meets his match. Carmike 12: Tue., Dec. 13 at 7 pm PUSS IN BOOTS A sword-wielding pussy cat makes a bunch of puns and later meets Shrek. Carmike 12: 1, 4, 6:50 and 9:15. No 6:50 or 9:15 on Sat. Village 6: 4:20 and 6:45, with shows at 9:15 PM on Fri. and Sat. and matinees at 1:20 PM on Sat. and Sun. Stadium 14: 2:30, 7:15 and 9:30, with midnight shows on Fri. and Sat. 6:30 and 9 pm Mon.–Thu. 3D: 12:05 and 5:15 pm Fri.–Sun. 1 and 3:30 pm Mon.–Thu. TOWER HEIST Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy “assemble the team” (the comedy team that is) and try to steal back money they lost in a Ponzi scheme to the always evil Alan Alda. Carmike 12: 1:30, 4:30, 7 and 9:35. Village 6: 4:15 and 7:20, with Fri. and Sat. and Sun. shows at 9:50 and Sat. and Sun. matinees at 1:45. Mountain 14: 12:15 and 9:15 pm Fri.–Sun. 1 and 9:15 Mon.–Thu. Mountain: 2:15, 4:30, 7:15 and 9:15. Showboat: 4, 7 and 9.
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NEW YEAR’S EVE The lives of many couples cross paths many times and many lessons are learned about love and its many splendors. Directed by Garry Marshall and starring everyone not busy that day, including Robert DeNiro, Halle Berry and Ludacris. Carmike 12: 1, 4, 7 and 10 PM. Big D: 1:30 and 4:30 PM. Village 6: 4 and 7:15 PM, with 9:45 PM shows on Fri. and Sat and matinees on Sat. and Sun at 1 PM. Pharaohplex: 6:50 and 9:10, with matinees Sat. and Sun. at 3 PM. Stadium 14: 12, 1:10, 3, 4:10, 6, 7:10, 9 and 9:55, with midnight shows Fri. and Sat. and 1:10, 1:45, 4:10, 7:55, 8:15 and 9:55 shows Mon.-Thu. Mountain: 2, 4:15, 6:50 and 9:15. Showboat: 4, 7 and 9:20. THE SITTER Hey Uncle Buck, don’t tell mom the babysitter’s a college kid who is about to have an adventure in babysitting himself, starring Jonah Hill. Carmike 12: 7:25 and 9:35 PM. Village 6: 4:30 and 7:10 PM, and 9:15 shows on Fri. and Sat. with mati-
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jerk. Carmike 12: 3D: 1:25, 4:30, 7:20 and 10. Village 6: 7 PM, with 9:40 shows on Fri. and Sat. Stadium 14: 3D: 1:15, 4:15, 7:15 and 9:45, with midnight shows Fri. and Sat. Showboat: 4:15, 7:15 and 9:15. J. EDGAR As director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover had secrets. Perhaps director Clint Eastwood and soon-to-be power actor of the year Leo DiCaprio will demonstrate how those secrets reflected the times and humanity in general. Village 6: 4 and 7 PM, with 10 PM shows on Fri. and Sat. and matinees at 1 PM on Sat. and Sun. Pharaohplex: 7, with 3 PM matinees on Sat. and Sun. Stadium 14: 3 and 6:15, with midnight showings on Fri. and Sat. Mon.–Thu.: 3:25 and 6:15. Mountain: 2, 4:30, 7 and 9:30. 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 and
TWILIGHT: BREAKING DAWN PART I Edward and Bella must save themselves and their unborn child from the ravages of wolves and sanguisugent opportunists. Carmike 12: 1, 4, 7 and 10. Village 6: 4 and 7:15 PM, with shows at 10 PM on Fri. and Sat. and matinees at 1 PM on Sat. and Sun. Pharaohplex: 6:50 and 9:10, with matinees at 3 PM on Sat. and Sun. No 9:10 on Sun. Stadium 14: 1:05, 4:05, 7:05 and 9:45, with midnight shows on Fri. and Sat. Mountain: 2, 4:15, 7 and 9:15. Capsule reviews by Jason McMackin. Moviegoers be warned! Show times are good as of Fri., Dec. 9. 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 12/Village 6–541-7469; Wilma–728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton–961-FILM; Stadium 14 in Kalispell–752-7804. Showboat in Polson, Entertainer in Ronan and Mountain in Whitefish–862-3130.
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GIVE TILL IT HERTZ For 10 years, this woman and I have had a hot-and-cold long-distance relationship, the temperature of which she’s always controlled. She’s 56; I’m 46. Last year, she felt ready to try for something lasting. She couldn’t afford to travel, so I paid for her flight. She stayed with me for two wonderful, passionate months, and then we vacationed together in February. I paid for her flight, rental car, hotel, and meals. Again, it was very passionate. Last month, we vacationed together again, funded by me. The day she arrived, she declared her sex life a thing of the past. I was stunned and found sharing the bed rather challenging, but I’ve never forced myself on any woman and I’m not about to start. My friends are now fuming. I counter that in funding everything, it was never my intention to be paying for “horizontal refreshment.” Was she wrong to agree to this trip and then change the terms of our relationship? Am I in denial in not feeling angry?
—Wondering When you’ve been romantic with a woman for a decade and you’re taking her on yet another “passionate” getaway, it’s reasonable to expect she’ll be interested in doing more in bed than letting you watch as she does the crossword puzzle. (If she’s feeling kinky, you could be in for some mind-blowing sudoku.) It cost you, what, $3,000—the price of a TV the size of a small European country—to have her personally deliver the news that she wouldn’t be having sex with you? You’d be leading your friends in fuming if you hadn’t gotten all tangled up in your self-image as a gentleman. And no, just because a man buys a woman something—dinner, for example—that doesn’t mean she owes him sex. But, let’s be honest; we all know he isn’t buying dinner out of an overwhelming desire to feed hungry females free lobster, and it isn’t brotherly benevolence that’s behind an all-expenses-paid vacation from a man who does not earn a living as a game show host. The question is, was this woman’s lack of pre-vacation disclosure a random act of jerkhood, utterly unpredictable, like a Russian satellite landing on some poor schlub’s beater Yugo? Or, more likely, was it utterly predictable based on years of your showing her you’d take whatever she dished out? Your lack of anger is telling. Anger gets triggered when you feel somebody’s shorted you on something you were entitled to—like the courtesy of a phone call (before you paid for yet anoth-
er “passionate vacation”) informing you that the birds are taxidermied and the bees are dead. Chances are, you’re a too-nice guy—a guy whose “niceness” is actually suckuppy-ness, who believes his perceived loserhood will be “cured” if only he can get into a relationship. Ironically, the loserhood is caused by the willingness to do anything for love. That doesn’t get you love; it gets you doing anything and everything for it and ending up with blue balls and a big hotel bill. In the future, even if you can’t quite believe you deserve a mutual relationship, you need to risk acting as if you do, and speak up and even bail whenever one turns out not to be. Everything won’t always be 50/50, but you and a woman you take on a romantic vacation should be on the same page about the proper placement of the “Do Not Disturb” sign: on the doorknob all weekend, as opposed to around her neck.
ODD MANISCHEWITZ OUT Several of my Jewish friends have found love on JDate. I am a 32-year-old man who isn’t Jewish and has no aspiration to convert but would like to give JDate a try. Huge faux pas? —Lapsed Catholic JDate advertises that its mission is sustaining “Jewish traditions”—apparently including the tradition of pissing off one’s parents by getting together with a Catholic. Where I live, in the 21 to 41 age group, I counted 279 non-Jewish JDaters, including four lesbians looking for nice Jewish girls. The thing to be wary of is that people are prone to be overly inclusive at the point of sale. A woman may sincerely believe some interfaithy thing can work, and then the relationship gets serious and her parents lay on the pressure, and before you know it, you’re getting dumped for Shlomo McShlomowitz. Should you end up dating some hot Hebrew, as tempting as it is to focus on all the ways you’re compatible, you’d better dig into all the ways you’re not. Sure, relationships are compromise, but it’s one thing to put off the zombie movie till next weekend and another thing entirely to try to answer the question “What will the children be?” with “Jewish on Wednesdays and Catholic on the weekends?”
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): What’s the most beautiful thing you’ve ever seen in your life? To answer that question is your first assignment. It’s OK if you can’t decide between the three or four most beautiful things. What’s important is to keep visions of those amazements dancing in the back of your mind for the next few days. Play with them in your imagination. Feel the feelings they rouse in you as you muse about the delights they have given you. Regard them as beacons that will attract other ravishing marvels into your sphere. Now here’s your second assignment: Be alert for and go hunting for a new “most beautiful thing.” TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Not to dream boldly may turn out to be irresponsible,” said educator George Leonard. I certainly think that will be true for you in the coming months, Taurus. In my astrological opinion, you have a sacred duty not only to yourself, but also to the people you care about, to use your imagination more aggressively and expressively as you contemplate what might lie ahead for you. You simply cannot afford to remain safely ensconced within your comfort zone, shielded from the big ideas and tempting fantasies that have started calling and calling and calling to you. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Researchers at the University of Oregon claim that in certain circumstances, they can make water flow uphill (tinyurl.com/UphillFlow). I’m not qualified to evaluate their evidence, but I do know that in the coming week you will have the power to accomplish the metaphorical equivalent of what they say they did. Don’t squander this magic on trivial matters, please, Gemini. Use it to facilitate a transformation that’s important to your long-term well-being.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Dear Rob: Is there any way to access your horoscope archives going back to 1943? I’m writing a novel about World War II and need to see your astrological writings from back then. —Creative Cancerian.” Dear Creative: To be honest, I wasn’t writing horoscopes back in 1943, since I wasn’t anywhere near being born yet. On the other hand, I give you permission to make stuff up for your novel and say I wrote it back in 1943. Most of you Cancerians have good imaginations about the past, and you’re currently going through a phase when that talent is amplified. While you’re tinkering with my history, have fun with yours, too. This is an excellent time for members of your tribe to breath new life and fresh spin into a whole slew of your own personal memories.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): At Chow.com, food critic L. Nightshade gathered “The 78 Most Annoying Words to Read in a Restaurant Review.” Among the worst offenders: “meltingly tender,” “yummilicious,” “crazy delicious,” “orgasmic,” “I have seen God,” “symphony of flavors,” and “party in your mouth.” I understand the reluctance of any serious wordsmith to resort to such predictable language in crafting an appraisal of restaurant fare, but I don’t mind borrowing it to hint at your immediate future. What you experience may be more like a “party in your head” than a “party in your mouth,” and “crazy delicious” may describe events and adventures rather than flavors, per se. But I think you’re in for a yummilicious time.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In “Nan You’re a Window Shopper,” British recording artist Lily Allen sings, “The bottom feels so much better than the top.” She means it ironically; the person she’s describing in the song is neurotic and insecure. But in using that declaration as a theme for your horoscope this week—the bottom feels so much better than the top—I mean it sincerely. What you have imagined as being high, superior, or uppermost may turn out to be mediocre, illusory, or undesirable. Conversely, a state of affairs that you once considered to be low, beneath your notice, or not valuable could become rather interesting. And if you truly open your mind to the possibilities, it may even evolve into something that’s quite useful.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Emily Rubin invited authors to write about a specific theme for a literary reading she organized in New York last September: stains. “What is your favorite stain?” she asked prospective participants, enticing them to imagine a stain as a good thing, or at least as an interesting twist. Included in her list were chocolate, candle wax, lipstick, grass, mud, wine, and tomato sauce. What are yours, Libra? This would be an excellent time to sing the praises of your best-loved or most provocative blotches, splotches, and smirches—and have fun stirring up some new ones.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Mickey Mouse is a Scorpio, born November 18, 1928. Bugs Bunny is a Leo, coming into the world on July 27, 1940. In their long and storied careers, these two iconic cartoon heroes have made only one joint appearance. It was in the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit. They got equal billing and spoke the same number of words. I’m predicting that a comparable event will soon take place in your world, Scorpio: a conjunction of two stars, a blend of two strong flavors, or a coming together of iconic elements that have never before mixed. Sounds like you’re in for a splashy time.
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Some martial artists unleash a sharp percussive shout as they strike a blow or make a dramatic move—a battle cry that helps channel their will into an explosive, concise expression of force. The Japanese term for this is kiai. A few women’s tennis players invoke a similar sound as they smack the ball with their racquet. Maria Sharapova holds the record for loudest shriek at 105 decibels. The coming weeks would be an excellent time for you to call on your own version of kiai, Pisces. As you raise your game to the next level, it would make perfect sense for you to get your entire body involved in exerting some powerful, highly-focused master strokes. 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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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Harvey Ball was a commercial artist who dreamed up the iconic image of the smiley face. He whipped it out in ten minutes one day in 1963. Unfortunately for him, he didn’t trademark or copyright his creation, and as a result made only $45 from it, even as it became an archetypal image used millions of times all over the world. Keep his story in the back of your mind during the coming weeks, Sagittarius. I have a feeling you will be coming up with some innovative moves or original stuff, and I would be sad if you didn’t get proper credit and recognition for your work.
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PUBLIC NOTICES CITY OF MISSOULA INVITATION TO BID Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received at the City Clerk’s Office, City Hall, 435 Ryman Street, Missoula, 59802-4297 until 3:00 p.m., Tuesday, December 20th, 2011 and will be opened and publicly read in the Mayor’s Conference Room, City Hall
at that time. As soon thereafter as is possible, a contract will be made for the following: Installation of 75 feet of 36 Inch diameter Cure in Place Sewer Pipe Liner and Bypass Pumping Bidders shall bid by City bid proposal forms, addressed to the City Clerk’s Office, City of Missoula, enclosed in separate, sealed envelopes
marked plainly on the outside, “Proposal for Installation of 36” Sewer Pipe Liner and Bypass Pumping, Closing 3:00 p.m., Tuesday, December 20th, 2011.” Pursuant to Section 18-1-102 Montana Code Annotated, the City is required to provide purchasing preferences to resident Montana vendors and \ or for
products made in Montana equal to the preference provided in the state of the competitor. Each and every bid must be accompanied by cash, a certified check, bid bond, cashier’s check, bank money order or bank draft payable to the City Treasurer, Missoula, Montana, and 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 for an amount which shall not be less than ten percent (10%) of the bid, as a good faith deposit. The bid security shall identify the same firm as is noted on the bid proposal forms. No bid will be considered which
includes Federal excise tax, since the City is exempt there from and will furnish to the successful bidder certificates of exemption. The City reserves the right to determine the significance of all exceptions to bid specifications. Products or services that do not meet bid specifications must be clearly marked as an exception to the
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specifications. Vendors requesting inclusion or preapproved alternatives to any of these bid specifications must receive written authorization from the Wastewater Collections Supervisor a minimum of five (5) working days prior to the bid closing. The City reserves the right to reject any and all bids and if all bids are rejected, to re-
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PUBLIC NOTICES advertise under the same or new specifications, or to make such an award as in the judgment of its officials best meets the City’s requirements. The City reserves the right to waive any technicality in the bidding which is not of substantial nature. Any objections to published specifications must be filed in written form with the City Clerk prior to bid opening at 3:00 p.m., Tuesday, December 20th, 2011. Bidders may obtain further information and specifications from Pat Brook, Collections Supervisor at the City Wastewater Division at (406) 552-6600. Bid announcements and bid results are posted on the City’s website at www.ci.missoula.mt.us/bids. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein City Clerk CITY OF MISSOULA PUBLIC NOTICE OF CITY COUNCIL MEETING SCHEDULE FOR 2012 The City Council has set its meeting schedule for 2012. They will meet the first four Mondays of each month at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 140 West Pine Street, Missoula, Montana except the following dates noted below: January 2, 2012–New Year’s Day Holiday (holiday falls on Sunday) January 16, 2012— Martin Luther King Day February 20, 2012– President’s Day May 28, 2012—Memorial Day July 9, 2012 September 3, 2012– Labor Day October 8, 2012– Columbus Day November 12, 2012—Veteran’s Day (holiday falls on Sunday) November 26, 2012 December 24, 2012 The agenda for each meeting will be posted on the outside door of the Ryman Street entrance of City Hall at least 2 days prior to the meeting and on the City’s web page at www.ci.missoula.mt.us/cityclerk. BY ORDER OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MONTANA. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein CMC City Clerk MISSOULA COUNTY MISSOULA COUNTY REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS Missoula County seeks to secure the services of a professional Employee Wellness Service for the purpose of conducting Health Screenings and providing education and promotion of a healthy lifestyle for Missoula County employees and their families. Statements of qualifications will be accepted until 5:00 PM, Wednesday, December 21, 2011 by the Missoula County Risk and Benefits office. A complete description of the desired services and submittal requirements is located on the Missoula County website at http://www.co.missoula.mt .us/bidsand proposals or from Heidi Fritchen, Missoula County Risk and Benefits, hfritchen@co.missoula.mt.us. MISSOULA COUNTY MISSOULA COUNTY REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS Missoula County seeks to secure the services of a multidisciplinary design
firm capable of a phased, multiyear implementation of a series of improvements to the Missoula County Fairgrounds. The firm selected will evaluate the existing condition of the buildings and grounds and propose and design improvements using concepts developed by the consulting firm of Crandall Arambula, PC. Statements of qualifications will be accepted until 5:00PM, Friday, January 20, 2012 by the Office of the County Auditor, 200 W Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. A complete description of the desired services and submittal requirements is located on Missoula County’s website at http://www.co.missoula.mt.u s/bidsandproposals or from Barbara Berens, Missoula County Auditor, bberens@co.missoula.mt.us. 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 furnishing 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,
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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 a d d r e s s : 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 MISSOULA COUNTY NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING AMENDING THE BY-LAWS OF THE MISSOULA COUNTY BOARD OF TRUSTEES FOR THE HISTORICAL MUSEUM AT FORT MISSOULA TO CHANGE FREQUENCY OF MEETINGS The Missoula County Board of Trustees for the Historical Museum will conduct a Public Hearing on the above item on Monday, December 19, 2011, at noon, in Building T-1, at Fort Missoula. The Board of Trustees have adopted a resolution to amend the by-laws of the Trustees to change the number of meetings from monthly to every-other month beginning in January 2012. Your attendance and your comments are welcomed and encouraged. Any person wishing to be heard on the matter may submit written or other materials to Dr. Robert M. Brown, Executive Director of the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula and/or speak at the hearing. Comments may also be submitted anytime prior to the hearing by phone, mail, fax, e-mail, or personal delivery to Dr. Brown at the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula, Building #322Fort Missoula, Missoula, MT, 59804; Fax: 406-5436277; Phone: 406-728-3476; and/or E-mail: ftmslamuseum@montana.com. If needing special needs, please provide advance notice by calling 406-728-3476. By order of the Missoula County Board of Trustees for the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula MONTANA ELEVENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, FLATHEAD COUNTY Judge Katherine R. Curtis Cause No. DV-10-1628B SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION GLACIER WILDERNESS
RESORT HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff, vs. GARY MACYNSKI and CARLA MACYNSKI, Defendants. THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS GREETINGS TO THE ABOVENAMED DEFENDANTS: 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 attorneys within twentyone (21) days after the service of the Summons, exclusive of the day of service. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default, for the relief demanded in the Complaint. WITNESS my hand the seal of said court the 29th day of November, 2011. (SEAL) /s/ Peg L. Allison, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Christopher Maestas, Deputy Clerk MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 3 Probate No. DP-11-206 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF CHARLOTTE EASTER KRESS, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Robert Bruce Easter, Jr., has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Robert Bruce Easter, Jr., the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, in care of Debra D. Parker, Parker Law Firm, P.O. Box 7873, Missoula, Montana 59807 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. Dated this 17th day of November, 2011. PARKER LAW FIRM /s/ Debra D. Parker Debra D. Parker Attorney for the Estate MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DP-11-204 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF FLORENCE E. MCGLYNN, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice, or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Patrick G. Martin, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o Paul E. Fickes, Esq., 310 West Spruce, Missoula, MT 59802 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. Dated this 11th day of November, 2011. /s/ Patrick G. Martin c/o Paul E. Fickes, 310 West Spruce Street, Missoula, MT 59802 /s/ Paul E. Fickes, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Probate No. DP-11-213 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JAMES DONALD STOVER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Candie Lynn Stover, return receipt requested, c/o Worden Thane PC, PO Box 4747, Missoula, MT 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 28th day of November, 2011. /s/ Candie Lynn Stover, Personal Representative WORDEN THANE PC, Attorneys for Personal Representative /s/ Gail M. Haviland MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Probate No.
December 8 – December 15, 2011
DP-11-212 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF BERYL CLAIRE STOVER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Candie Lynn Stover, return receipt requested, c/o Worden Thane PC, PO Box 4747, Missoula, MT 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 28th day of November, 2011. /s/ Candie Lynn Stover, Personal Representative WORDEN THANE PC, Attorneys for Personal Representative /s/ Gail M. Haviland MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-11-211 Dept. No. 2 Robert L. Deschamps, III NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF JOHN MICHAEL PECARICH, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to WILLIAM FRANK ANTONICH, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 4180 South Avenue West or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. Dated this 22nd day of November 2011. /s/ William F. Antonich, 4180 South Avenue West, Missoula, MT 59804 NOTICE OF HEARING ON PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME Cause No. DV-11-1319 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: You are hereby notified 1. On the 11th day of October, 2001, a verified Petition was filed with Department 4 of the Fourth Judicial District Court, Missoula, for an order changing the name of Reya Ashryn Argo, residing at 8400 Pheasant, in the city of Missoula, County of Missoula, State of Montana, to Raya Ashryn Hensen. 2. A hearing on the Petition for Change of Name will be held at the Missoula County Courthouse on January 10, 2012 at 11:00 a.m., or as soon thereafter as counsel may be heard. 3. Any objections to the change of name of Reya Ashryn Argo to Raya Ashryn Hensen should be filed in writing with the clerk of the District Court, Missoula County Courthouse, on or before January 10, 2012. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 09/25/09, recorded as Instrument No. 200924460, B: 848 P: 1107, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Daniel S. Dixon and Rebecca G. Dixon, joint tenants was Grantor, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title and Escrow Corporation was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title and Escrow Corporation as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 32 of the Amended Plat of Trail Creek Addition or Phase VI to the Double Arrow Ranch, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Being the same property as transferred by Warranty Deed on 06/27/2006 and recorded 06/28/2006 from Donald H. Williamson and Margaret L. Williamson to Daniel S. Dixon and Rebecca G. Dixon and not as tenants in common, joint tenants, recorded in Book 777 and Page 1176. 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 03/01/11 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of October 4, 2011, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $242,381.82. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $231,819.15, 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 February 14, 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 USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7037.78190) 1002.203415-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 07/12/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200718745, BK 802, PG 147, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Melodie Hersman was Grantor, Wells Fargo Financial Montana, Inc. was Beneficiary and First American Title Company was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First American Title Company as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lots 12 and 13 in Block 51 of Car Line Addition No. 3, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 09/17/10 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of October 3, 2011, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $225,646.99. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $218,493.42,
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 February 14, 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 USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7777.16681) 1002.203471-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 06/03/09, recorded as Instrument No. 200913795, B: 841, P: 235, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Jennifer N. Auerbach, a married 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: Lot 65 of Maloney Ranch Phase VI, 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. , beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to . 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 05/01/11 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of October 11, 2011 the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $240,885.38. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $233,685.11, 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
PUBLIC NOTICES the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on February 22, 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 USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7023.96777) 1002.203752-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on January 20, 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: DOC ID#: 00016984535505007; LOT 2 OF BACK STRETCH ACRES, A RECORD SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Sharon Evans, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Charles J Peterson, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on May 23, 2007 and recorded on May 30, 2007 in Book 798, Page 512, under Document No 200713426. The beneficial interest is currently held by BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,305.27, beginning March 1, 2010, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of September 21, 2011 is $207,582.96 principal, interest at the rate of 6.125% now totaling $20,827.94, late charges in the amount of $522.08, escrow advances of $3,879.00 and other fees and expenses advanced of $248.50, plus accruing interest at the rate of $35.35 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 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 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 foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same./s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Blackfoot, Idaho Commission expires: 2/18/2014 BAC v Evans 42019.190 Published 12/8, 15 & 22, 2011 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on January 20, 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 8-A OF LEMM’S TOWNHOUSE ADDITION AMENDED PLAT OF LOLO CENTER BLOCK 1 LOTS 7 AND 8, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF Kirt M. Foster, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Stewart Title and Escrow, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated June 12, 2003 and recorded on June 18, 2003 in Book 709, Page 582 under Document No. 200321529. The beneficial interest is currently held by BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly
JONESIN’ C r o s s w o r payments due in the amount of $432.73, beginning October 1, 2010, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of September 21, 2011 is $81,566.07 principal, interest at the rate of 3.00% now totaling $2,920.92, late charges in the amount of $64.92, escrow advances of $1,960.61 and other fees and expenses advanced of $112.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $6.704 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 17, 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 17th 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 foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public, Blackfoot,Idaho Commission expires: 2/18/2014 BAC v Foster 42019.155 Published 12/8, 15 & 22, 2011 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on January 24, 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 1, EXCEPT THE SOUTH 6 FEET THEREOF, ALL OF LOTS 2 AND 3, AND LOT 4, EXCEPT THE NORTH 4.5 FEET THEREOF, IN BLOCK 27 OF PARK ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF, AND TOGETHER WITH THAT PORTION OF THE EAST 8 FEET OF VACATED ALLEY ADJACENT THEREOF. RECORDING REFERENCE: BOOK 394 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 1066. TOGETHER WITH A PARCEL OF REAL PROPERTY 6 FEET BY 118 FEET, LOCATED IN SECTION 14, TOWNSHIP 13 NORTH, RANGE 19 WEST, M.P.M., AND MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS: THE SOUTH 6 FEET OF LOT 1 IN BLOCK 27 OF PARK ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF, AND THE EAST 8 FEET OF THE SOUTH 6 FEET OF THE ALLEY BEARING NORTH-SOUTH THROUGH BLOCK 27, PARK ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. AND A PARCEL OF REAL PROPERTY, 24 FEET BY 118 FEET LOCATED IN SECTION 14, TOWNSHIP 13 NORTH, RANGE 19 WEST, M.P.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, AND MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS: THE SOUTH 24 FEET OF THE EAST 118 FEET OF THE N1/2 OF POWELL STREET BETWEEN RAYMOND AVENUE AND GILBERT AVENUE AND BETWEEN BLOCK 26 AND BLOCK 27, PARK ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. RECORDING REFERENCE: BOOK 51 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 1227 Wanda J. Maller, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on December 5, 2005 and recorded on December 9, 2005 in Book 765, Page 995 under Document No. 200532593. 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 $948.62, 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 September 9, 2011 is $128,621.13 principal, interest at the rate of 3.00% now totaling $1,692.32, late charges in the amount of $132.76, escrow advances of $-89.42, and other fees and expenses advanced of $34.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $10.57 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 21, 2011 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 21st day of September, 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 foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Marti A Ottley Notary Public Inkom, ID Commission expires: 8/15/2012 Citimortgage V. Maller 42011.533 Published 12/8, 15 & 22, 2011 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on January 30, 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
CLARK FORK STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 186, 211, 256, 264, and OS27. Units can contain furniture, cloths, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, other misc household goods, vehicles & trailers. These units may be viewed starting December 12th, 2011 by appt only by calling 541-7919. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 3505 Clark Fork Way, Missoula, MT 59808 prior to December 15th, 2011, 4:00 P.M. Buyer's 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 final.
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PUBLIC NOTICES situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lots 21 and 22 in Block 29 of Hammond Addition No. 3, a Platted Subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Leslie Largay, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Services, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to National City Mortgage a division of National City Bank, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated December 8, 2006 and Recorded December 13, 2006 in Book 788, Page 1168 under Document Number 200631899. The beneficial interest is currently held by PNC Bank, National Association as successor by merger to National City Bank. 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 $3,301.59, beginning June 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 October 13, 2011 is $674,367.73 principal, interest at the rate of 5.875% now totaling $97,048.66, late charges in the amount of $1,155.56, escrow advances of $13,807.29, and other fees and expenses advanced of $8,439.53, plus accruing interest at the rate of $108.55 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 23, 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 23rd day of September, 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 foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Marti A Ottley Notary Public Inkom, ID Commission expires: 8/15/2012 Pnc Vs. Largay 41716.141 Published 12/8, 15 & 22, 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 03/13/2012, 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 NEDRA GASVODA, AN UNMARRIED WOMAN as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 05/12/2006 and recorded 05/18/2006, in document No. 200611513 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 774 at Page Number 867 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 358 OF PLEASANT VIEW HOMES NO. 4, PHASE 1, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 4010 O SHAUGHNESY STREET, 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 Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 04/01/2010, 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 $164,565.34 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
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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: 10/27/2011, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0127309 FEI NO. 1006.145731 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 03/21/2012, 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 LARRY L SCHMELEBECK AND ANNA SCHMELEBECK, HUSBAND AND WIFE 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 12/02/2004 and recorded 12/08/2004, in document No. 200434087 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 744 at Page Number 906 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN THE E1/2 OF SECTION 6, TOWNSHIP 13 NORTH, RANGE 16 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS TRACT 3D OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 6147. Property Address: 23727 MESSINA DRIVE, Bonner, MT 59823. 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 CWALT, INC., ALTERNATIVE LOAN TRUST 2005-J2, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-J2. 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 11/01/2010, 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 $135,298.22 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 5.875% per annum from 10/01/2010 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 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: 11/01/2011, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0097242 FEI NO. 1006.143443 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 03/08/2012, 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 HEATHER L. CHENEY, A SINGLE PERSON 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 Trust Indenture Dated 03/05/2008 and recorded 03/10/2008, in document No. 200805103 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 814 at Page Number 0668 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 11 OF 44 RANCH, PHASES 1 AND 2, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 2543 LATIGO DRIVE, 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 Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 01/01/2011, 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
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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 $265,934.37 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 5.875% per annum from 12/01/2010 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 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: 10/25/2011, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0029577 FEI NO. 1006.131938 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 03/09/2012, 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 GERALD F BLACK, A SINGLE PERSON as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 10/23/2010 and recorded 11/12/2010, in document No. 201022190 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 869 at Page Number 83 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: ALL THAT PARCEL OF LAND IN COUNTY OF MISSOULA, STATE OF MONTANA AS MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN DOCUMENT 200417035 AND BEING MORE PARTICULARY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: THE NORTH 118 FEET OF THE WEST 80 FEET OF THE EAST 95 FEET OF LOT 18 OF ORRSDALE, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 707 REDWOOD ST, Missoula, MT 59802-3119. 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. 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 08/01/2011, 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 $240,192.16 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 4.875% per annum from 08/01/2011 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: 10/25/2011, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0126213 FEI NO. 1006.145465 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 03/16/2012, 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 MARGARET LOHR, A MARRIED WOMAN AS HER SOLE AND SEPARATE PROPERTY as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 01/12/2005 and recorded 01/18/2005, in document No. 200501335 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 746 at Page Number 1048 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: PARCEL 73A OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 2277. LOCATED IN THE SE1/4 OF SECTION 20, TOWNSHIP 13 NORTH, RANGE 15 WEST, P.M.M., MONTANA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. Property Address: 695 CAMAS RD, Bonner, MT 59823-9503. 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 THE CWMBS INC., CHL MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH TRUST
2005-03, MORTGAGE PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-03. 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 03/01/2011, 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 $226,993.39 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 4.25% per annum from 03/01/2011 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: 10/31/2011, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0128367 FEI NO. 1006.146144 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 SEAN SCALLY as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE CO., AN ARIZONA CORPORATIO as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 08/05/2003 and recorded 08/11/2003, in document No. 200329559 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 714 at Page Number 669 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 1B2 OF SPRINGER’S ORCHARD HOMES, LOTS 1B-1 AND 1B-2, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 1826 RIVER ROAD, Missoula, MT 59801. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obli-
PUBLIC NOTICES gations 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 01/01/2011, 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 $169,914.38 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 3.75% per annum from 07/01/2010 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 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: 10/05/2011, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 10-0149681 FEI NO. 1006.126489 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 03/09/2012, 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 LOWELL E HOCHHALTER, A MARRIED MAN AS HIS SOLE & SEPARATE PROPERTY as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 12/01/2006 and recorded 12/01/2006, in document No. 200631124 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 788 at Page Number 393 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: 11-0125208 LOT 46 OF HAWTHORN SPRINGS, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE
OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 13320 BUNCHGRASS LN, 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 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 $237,610.69 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.25% 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: 10/24/2011, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0125208 FEI NO. 1006.146955 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 03/13/2012 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 ROBERT A HEDRICK, A MARRIED MAN AS HIS SOLE & SEPARATE PROPERTY as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 09/27/2005 and recorded 09/28/2005, in document No. 200525505 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 761 at Page Number 275 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL
DESCRIPTION: LOT 43 OF MALONEY RANCE, PHASE VI, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 6125 BRUSETT DRIVE, Missoula, MT 59803. 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 CWALT, INC., ALTERNATIVE LOAN TRUST 2005-64CB, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 200564CB. 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 06/01/2010, 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 $188,443.99 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.125% per annum from 06/01/2010 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 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: 10/27/2011, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0127647 FEI NO. 1006.145732 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 03/02/2012, 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 JAMES T HOWELL as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to AMERICAN PIONEER TITLE as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 04/10/2004
and recorded 04/22/2004, in document No. 200410678 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 730 at Page Number 2039 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 SITUATE IN THE COUNTY OF MISSOULA, STATE OF MONTANA, BEING KNOWN AS TRACT 33 OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 359A, LOCATED IN THE NORTHWEST 1/4 OF SECTION 14 AND THE SOUTHWEST 1/4 OF SECTION 11, TOWNSHIP 15 NORTH, RANGE 20 WEST, PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, MONTANA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. TAX ID: 5859838 Property Address: 1076 GRIZZLY MOUNTAIN ROAD, Missoula, MT 59808. 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 BENEFIT OF THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF THE CWABS INC., ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2004-5. 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 $145,254.64 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.375% 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: 10/18/2011, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0123767 FEI NO. 1006.144932 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 03/09/2012, 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 WILLIAM LUEDTKE as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 05/18/2006 and recorded 05/19/2006, in document No. 200611610 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 774 at Page Number 964 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 4 AND THE WEST 10 FEET OF LOT 5 IN BLOCK 3 OF FOOTHILLS ESTATES NO. 1, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. RECORDING REFERENCE IN BOOK 603 AT PAGE 2102 MICRO RECORDS. Property Address: 2515 GARLAND DR, Missoula, MT 598032011. 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 CWALT, INC., ALTERNATIVE LOAN TRUST 2006-24CB, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 200624CB. 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 $188,914.55 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.625% 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: 10/25/2011, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0126216 FEI NO. 1006.145362 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 03/23/2012, 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 DOERR AND HEATHER DOERR, HUSBAND AND WIFE as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to CHARLES PETERSON as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. MIN# 100021278844512397, as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 11/16/2006 and recorded 11/22/2006, in document No. 200630320 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 787 at Page Number 1095 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 2 OF DOERR SUBDIVISION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 11878 WINDEMERE DR, Missoula, MT 59804. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. 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 $842,140.49 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.625% 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: 11/08/2011, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0136245 FEI NO. 1006.147173
located at 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana, of the following described real property located in Missoula County, Montana: TRACT 5A OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO 2408, A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN THE NORTHEAST ONE-QUARTER OF SECTION 20, TOWNSHIP 13 NORTH, RANGE 20 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA Marvin A. Woldstad and Colette M. Woldstad, as Grantors, conveyed the abovedescribed real property, and the improvements situated thereon, if any, to Stewart Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Gateway Community Federal Credit Union, who was designated as Lender and Beneficiary in a Deed of Trust dated July 10, 2008 and recorded on July 16, 2008 as Document No. 200816641 and put of record in book 823 at Page 22 of the official records of Missoula County, Montana. Anne Blanche Adams, a licensed Montana attorney, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee dated October 7, 2011, and recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. Marvin A. Woldstad and Colette M. Woldstad have defaulted in the performance of the said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $3,679.22 for the month of June 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. As of October 5, 2011 the sum of $17,097.48 is past due. As of October 5, 2011, the total amount due was the sum of $383,755.93 principal, plus $7,800.04 accrued interest, with interest continuing to accrue on the principal at the rate set out in the Promissory Note, which is 6% per annum, and other fees and expenses that may be advanced. The Beneficiary may disburse such amounts as may be required to protect Beneficiary's interest. If Beneficiary elects to make such disbursements, sums paid shall become additional indebtedness secured by the Deed of Trust. In accordance with the provisions of the Deed of Trust, the Beneficiary has elected to accelerate the full remaining balance due under the terms of the Deed of Trust and Note and has elected to sell the interest of Marvin A. Woldstad and Colette M. Woldstad, the original Grantors, their successors and assigns, in and to the aforedescribed property, subject to all easements, restrictions, encumbrances or covenants existing of record or evident on the property at the time of sale to satisfy the remaining obligation owed. Beneficiary has directed Anne Blanche Adams, as Successor Trustee, to commence such sale proceedings. Those with an interest in the property and who appear from the public record to be entitled to notification of these proceedings are: Occupants 10980 Saddleback Lane Missoula, MT 59804 Marvin A. Woldstad 10980 Saddleback Lane Missoula, MT 59804 Colette Woldstad 2770 Rocky Draw Road Troy, MT 59935 Colette Woldstad as Conservator for Marvin A. Woldstad 2770 Rocky Draw Road Troy, MT 59935
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