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Voices/Letters Design standards and $15 minimum wage.............................................4 The Week in Review Bison, Hellgate data and The Nutcracker ....................................6 Briefs Forward Montana, test scores and sidewalks .......................................................6 Etc. Star Wars: The Nerds Awaken ..................................................................................7 News Western Montana’s top six stories of the year .......................................................8 Opinion An account of our recent past, verified from the future. ...............................10 Opinion Big Ag’s industrial-scale farming meets consumer resistance........................11 Feature The year in photos ...........................................................................................14

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Arts Fond farewells, grand surprises and remarkable revivals mark 2015 ...................20 Books Looking back on standout books of 2015..........................................................21 Music Our reviewers reveal their 2015 year in music...................................................22 Film Must-see films of 2015, plus one not to see .........................................................23 Film Spotlight humanizes the work of journalism........................................................24 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films.......................................................25 BrokeAss Gourmet Christmas monkey bread .............................................................26 Happiest Hour New Year’s Eve at Plonk Wine.............................................................28 8 Days a Week With 53 weeks in the year....................................................................29 Mountain High Open kayak at Currents ......................................................................33 Agenda Gift-wrapping at Red’s......................................................................................34

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STREET TALK

by Skylar Browning

Asked Tuesday morning at Black Coffee Roasting Co. What was the biggest local story of 2015?

Followup: What’s one story from the last year that you’re eager to see disappear from the headlines?

Jules Ohman: It has to be the Krakauer book, right? I read it and I saw him speak when he was here. It was intense.

Is it the hair? Donald Trump.

One-hundred percent.

Scott Spaulding: The end of the Kaarma trial. Political junk: The presidential primary races, both Democrat and Republican.

Tricia Opstad: My biggest news story was I raised enough money for five standing desks at Rattlesnake Elementary School. The hope is to set a certain tone for innovative classrooms. Peace: All the police brutality.

Sydney Faul: For me, it was the budget cuts at the university. I got my BFA in the arts program and found the news very disturbing. It must be the hair: Donald Trump.

Lindsay Davis: The passing of the school bonds. I don’t work for the district, but I work in education and that’s an important issue to me. Drowning: The Mountain Water case. It’s not that it’s not important, but it’s just been lingering for such a long time.

Problems by design I am compelled to write about a very sad trend in our city: ugly architecture (see “Etc.,” Dec. 10). True, it can exist everywhere, and in every city. But in Missoula it is now allowed to thrive.

Examples of previous mistakes include the Catholic admin building just west of the St. Xavier Church on Pine Street. It’s an architectural train wreck of misogynous styles and mismatched brickwork that probably was never meant to be seen from the side.

Built long ago, it is doubtlessly “grandfathered” in. There’s also the Holiday Shopping Center on Brooks that has old shacks awkwardly jammed against the street. These would look at home in Guatemala, but not in Missoula.

But recently we are making more mistakes, such as the parking structure at Main and Pattee. Obviously the “artist’s conception” was a view from about two or three blocks away where one could envision the colored panels as representing mountains and the flowing pipe representing rivers.

But the actual view for 95 percent of us is immediately up close and the panels and pipe resemble nothing more than debris stacked up to hide an ugly building. How did city of Missoula planning miss this?

There’s also the health club at Russell and Third that is grossly out of scale. This is another example of a permit granted without consideration for the true mass of the structure, especially so close to the busy street.

Clearly, no setback rules were considered as applicable.

In addition, the two new AutoZone stores on Third and South Reserve stand in jarring juxtaposition to all other nearby architecture. Apparently Missoula will allow anything for a new building without setbacks or color moderation, even if it looks like a garish cardboard barbecue container box.

The very worst examples are the new Verizon stores on South Reserve and East Broadway. These two are, in my opinion, appalling examples of the abuse of signage rules and lack of city/planning review. With no limit to the offensive color schemes, grotesque lighting and unsightly proximity to busy streets, these architectural obscenities are true eyesores. Verizon has many other stores in Missoula with moderate signage and reasonable design. Why this?

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We can now expect that someone can tear down the Missoula Mercantile, replace it with a combination Car Wash/A&W Root Beer Stand/Jiffy Lube/Black Zombie Licorice and Taffy Emporium, all in a convenient drive-thru using each company’s worst corporate color schemes in a repulsive clash. On a second floor will be an adult bookstore with a bright pink neon phallus in each window.

The point is, the worst of the “ugly” buildings are some of the new buildings.

How were they allowed to be built? Are there no building architectural codes that apply? No setback rules? No color guides?

Can the entire structure be signage? How did these happen and what is being done to make certain they don’t happen again in Missoula?

“These would look at home in Guatemala, but not in Missoula.”

Shame on the planning department for allowing these new architectural disasters to be built. We Missoulians will have to endure them for decades. And double shame on Verizon and AutoZone for their open display of disdain for our community. I think Missoulians have a right to deserve better.

H. Randy Jacobson Missoula

Time for a raise There has been a lot of discussion in Missoula and throughout Montana this year about raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour for all low-wage workers. It’s a great idea that I fully support, especially for home care workers like me. But raising minimum wage is only part of the story.

I have been a home caregiver for 30 years. I work for three different caregiving agencies right now. One pays me $10 an hour, the other two pay me $11 an hour. I love my clients and the work is rewarding.

I have shared so many memories with so many families over the years.

But it’s also hard work and it’s very fastpaced. When I arrive at a home I usually help my client shower and dress, I do the laundry, maybe change the bedding, cook a meal and take the client to their doctor appointments or do grocery shopping. I work 70 hours a week, trying to make enough money to live and keep a roof over my head.

Four days of the week I work 12-hour shifts, then I work a 24-hour shift.

I’ve had as many as 11 clients at a time, and that means a lot of driving around. I need a reliable car, which also means car payments and full insurance coverage so I can take clients to their medical appointments.

This is the part of the story that I think is overlooked. Workers making less than a living wage aren’t just working one job, we are working several, piecing together enough hours at low pay to hopefully make ends meet.

Home care agencies often assign us 20 or 30 hours a week. If a client goes to the hospital, or if they pass away, we can lose hours for a while until we are assigned a new client. And that means losing pay. Even with my 70-hour work weeks, every month it’s nip and tuck whether I will have enough to cover my bills.

As it turns out, my story isn’t unusual.

According to a new report from the Alliance for a Just Society, the living wage in Montana is $14.36 an hour for a worker just trying to support herself. At our state minimum wage of $8.05, a worker has to put in more than 71 hours a week to make ends meet. A parent supporting a child in elementary school has to be paid $20.66 an hour to make enough to get by. I can’t even imagine how many hours a week that would translate to at minimum wage.

I have very little left at the end of the month for clothes, a little gift for my grandchildren or to put away savings in case of an emergency—something like a car repair or reduced hours. Home care workers, who help people stay in their homes and live with dignity, deserve a $15-an-hour minimum wage. I know it would let me work fewer hours, and I could spend more time with my grandchildren.

Lori Swartz Missoula

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WEEK IN REVIEW

VIEWFINDER

by Skylar Browning

Wednesday, Dec. 16

GQ magazine takes note of David Letterman’s enthusiasm for the Treasure State in a story titled “David Letterman Explains That Creepy Beard.” It references a Whitefish Review interview where the retired talk show host discussed, among other things, fatherhood, Montana and how to be a good houseguest.

Thursday, Dec. 17 The city of Missoula appeals the Mountain Water valuation decision, meaning that the issue of how much the utility is worth will be determined at a jury trial set to begin Jan. 11.

Friday, Dec. 18 In the wake of a scandal over the accidental release of students’ private information, Hellgate High School Assistant Principal Libby Oliver submits her resignation. An MCPS press release says it will not release any further comments on her departure.

Saturday, Dec. 19 Garden City Ballet continues its 31st season of The Nutcracker with two sold-out shows inside the Montana Theatre on the UM campus. This year’s production features 150 dancers, the largest cast in its history.

Sunday, Dec. 20 After his sold-out show at the Wilma on Saturday night, locals spot comedian Reggie Watts eating brunch at the Catalyst with three friends. Observers report he had his normally full-bodied Afro pulled back into a ponytail.

Monday, Dec. 21 A 68-year-old woman is taken to the hospital after being reportedly stabbed in the Missoula Fresh Market parking lot on South Reserve Street. Shortly afterward, police respond to a suspicious death nearby on Brooks Street.

Tuesday. Dec. 22 Gov. Steve Bullock announces a plan to allow the Yellowstone National Park bison herd outside the park’s perimeter year-round. A statement says bison will be “permitted to occupy suitable habitat ... within manageable confines and subject to seasonal limits on numbers.”

A roughly 12-foot snowman built on Dec. 19 stands guard in the South Hills at the corner of 23rd Avenue and West Foothills Drive. The National Weather Service reported snowfall levels between 4 and 7 inches in the Missoula area over the weekend.

Politics

A change at the helm Rachel Huff-Doria can pinpoint the exact moment that propelled her into the world of progressive politics.

She was attending Marshall University in 2008, caught up in the youthful buzz of the first Barack Obama presidential campaign and volunteering to help classmates register to vote. But controversy broke out, Huff-Doria recalls, when Marshall students were turned away from the polls despite assurances they could vote using campus IDs. As a result, the election became a “huge turning point” for the now 27-year-old.

“It was one of those things,” Huff-Doria says. “Sometimes you don’t realize how important voting is until someone’s trying to block you from doing it.”

Seven years later and on the eve of yet another major presidential election, Huff-Doria is fighting the same fight.

The nonprofit Forward Montana named her its new executive director in early December, replacing veteran or-

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ganizer Kayje Booker. But the battlefield is a new one for Huff-Doria, who relocated to Missoula with her husband this spring. With 2016 shaping up to be a tough election year at both the statewide and federal levels, Huff-Doria acknowledges she’s got a lot of catching up to do.

“I definitely think I’ve been trying to get a handle on the who’s who and what’s what of Montana politics, and that’s still going to just continue,” she says.

The move is something of a departure for Forward Montana as well. Booker started her stint with the nonprofit helping to register voters on the street before rising to the directorship. Her predecessor, Andrea Marcoccio, had logged months of work as a field organizer for Obama’s 2008 campaign in northwestern Montana prior to stepping into the position.

“Rachel wasn’t born in Big Sky Country, but like so many Montanans she and her husband chose this place to call home,” says Forward Montana Board Chair Gabriel Furshong. “Heading into the 2016 cycle, we feel confident that our work will continue to change the face of Mon-

tana’s electorate by engaging thousands of young people in the process.”

She may be new to the state, but Huff-Doria says she’s been aware of Forward Montana’s efforts for years, having read an early 2013 New York Times article about the organization. She’s also far from green when it comes to progressive politics in a largely conservative state. Over the past five years she worked her way up to the position of interim deputy director at the reproductive health and rights organization West Virginia Free. It was during her tenure that the nonprofit succeeded in building support for policy allowing pregnant dependents to remain covered by their parents’ health insurance.

“Statewide takeover,” she says of her plans for her new organization. “My main challenge is really gearing us up to expand our work and doing so in a really strategic and intentional way so that we can make sure Forward Montana’s not only here for the next two years but that we’re here for the next 10 or the next 20.”

Alex Sakariassen

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Juneau changes the rules Scores from Montana schools’ first go-around with new standardized tests finally arrived on Dec. 21, but there wasn’t much teachers and parents could do with them. The results were several months late, incomplete and their validity still unknown—all fallout from a series of technical glitches that marred the controversial, computer-based exams last spring.

By the numbers, the quagmire looks like this: 18 percent of students in grades 3-8 and 11 didn’t even take the Smarter Balanced, or SBAC, exams, because their schools canceled them. Another 10 percent of students who did take the exams won’t receive their marks due to technical problems. The scores the state did receive were alarmingly low, although that was expected given that students were measured for the first time against relatively new and more difficult Common Core standards.

Perhaps the most surprising development from Monday’s announcement came when Superintendent of Public Instruction Denise Juneau revealed high school juniors will not take the SBAC exams going forward. Instead, they’ll be required to take the ACT college entrance exam, which most already do since the state began offering it at no charge in 2014.

Education officials quickly lauded Juneau, who is running for U.S. Congress in 2016, for reducing the burden on students and showing a willingness to scale back an unpopular testing regime. Cheerleaders included MEA-MFT President Eric Feaver, who says he gives Juneau “high marks� for making adjustments under fire. “Nobody wants to fail again,� he says. “I think the superintendent had to do something proactively.�

The “proactive� decision, however, missed one step: It’s probably not Juneau’s to make. And the group with legal authority to set testing requirements, the Board of Public Education, wasn’t notified of the switch until the morning it was announced, according to its executive director, Peter Donovan.

The typically low-profile Board of Public Education, composed of gubernatorial appointees, wields the power to create rules for Montana schools, including the adoption of Common Core standards in 2011. This is the second time this year Juneau has changed the testing scheme before obtaining approval from the board. The first occurred last spring, when Juneau told schools they could abandon SBAC in light of technical problems, contradicting the board’s rule as well as federal law. In that case, board members agreed to go along with the superintend-

ent on the grounds that a testing company’s failures ought not undermine their relationship. Members did, however, ask to be involved the next time around.

Of course, there is a logistical challenge in seeking the board’s permission. The ACT will be administered in April; the Board of Public Education’s next scheduled meeting isn’t until January, at which time Office of Public Instruction spokesperson Emilie Ritter Saunders says Juneau intends to “recommend� the testing change.

Others groups, however, weren’t left out of the loop.

Saunders says the idea was presented to some local superintendents several weeks ago, and MEA-MFT’s Feaver says Juneau discussed it with him “a while back.�

It’s unclear how the board might react to Juneau’s latest announcement. Board Chair Sharon Carroll, an Ekalaka high school teacher, says in a statement that members will “review all matters of testing going forward� and are committed to helping the state find the appropriate ones.

Derek Brouwer

Downtown

Patio plan stalls over parking As outgoing members of Missoula City Council finished up their last meeting this week, they didn’t have to travel far to celebrate. The cake was waiting next door to council chambers at the Meagher Bar on West Pine Street. Yet just a few days before, council members and the pub’s owners had reached an impasse over a proposal to enhance the downtown venue at the expense of six city parking spaces.

On Dec. 16, members of the Public Works Committee tabled the bar’s plan to build an outdoor cafe after a majority indicated they don’t support the proposal as submitted. Though members say they’re open to alternatives, Meagher Bar partner Mike Schmechel of Billings says the decision leaves him unsure how to proceed and reluctant to invest more money into a project that has been caught between competing city interests. “I’m not saying we won’t try again, but we might

BY THE NUMBERS Comments sent to state officials regarding the Yellowstone bison management plan approved by Gov. Steve Bullock on Dec. 22. Of those, 1,900 were from Montanans.

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need a little more feedback about what might be acceptable,� Schmechel says.

Meagher Bar is the first downtown business that has sought to build out a city sidewalk, raising new questions for city officials about how to balance its vision for a vibrant downtown with ceding public space for private use.

The proposal became controversial in October, when it was set to bypass council’s review under a new rule designed for smaller changes such as awnings.

Council members balked, demanding that it be subject to public debate.

Now, parking is the sticking point. The six spaces are highly used, both for city council meetings and nearby restaurants. Parking Commission Director Anne Guest wants the city to be compensated for the lost revenue, which she estimates at $7,200-$9,600 annually. Schmechel, who developed a similar outdoor cafe in downtown Billings, offered to pay $1,800, calling the commission’s fee unfair. In debating the project, council didn’t settle on a value, with some suggesting the city ought to develop a policy to govern it.

Schmechel says the price point could make or break the project, which is why he wants more direction from council: the patio would cost more than $75,000 to build and hold only four additional tables. With a steep annual fee, “the math basically wouldn’t work,� he says.

Council Chair Marilyn Marler says she’s glad the project was moved to require public review but acknowledges the parties could communicate better. “Maybe (Schmechel) should call one of us,� she says, before suggesting that perhaps she’ll call the owners instead.

Derek Brouwer

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ETC. Garret Jolma, one of the patient filmgoers stuck waiting in line outside the Carmike 12 on Dec. 17, huddled with his arms folded together to brace against the Hoth-like cold.

Jolma wore a hand-crocheted costume with two long green tails sprouting from the back of his head. He explained that he was a twi’lek, a species of alien found in Jabba the Hutt’s retinue in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. “It’s only featured a couple times in the films, but made for a good crochet-able costume,� Jolma said.

Opening day for Star Wars: The Force Awakens was as good a time as any for fans of the sci-fi franchise to show off some intergalactic haute couture. While Jolma sported one of the more elaborate outfits, he was joined by would-be Jedis in brown robes and at least one woman who painted her face in white Amidala makeup. Others were decked out in all-black as Kylo-Ren, the new Dark Side baddie, or brought toy lightsabers to play with while waiting. Dale Guynes wore a “Save Endor� T-shirt and proudly showed off a plastic Jar Jar Binks mug. “I hope Jar Jar won’t have an appearance in this next film,� Guynes said, “but I thought the mug would be funny and a nice way to make a safe joke.�

Spirits were high among those waiting in line, but one topic turned revelers more stone-faced than Han Solo frozen in carbonite: spoilers. Jolma noted that as much as he’d anticipated the film’s opening, he was careful not to read too much about it ahead of time. “The TV spots were where I drew the line, and then I had to install a spoiler blocker on my laptop and stay away from things for a while,� he said.

Before too long, the line began moving and Jolma, Guynes and hundreds of others filed inside for the 10 p.m. screenings. Following the trailers and commercials, the gold Star Wars logo finally appeared on the screen, accompanied by the first triumphant blast of John Williams’ score. And in a small theater in Missoula, in a galaxy far, far away from any major star-studded premiere, the audience stood up and clapped at the beginning of the movie.

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That happened Western Montana’s six biggest stories of 2015

by Independent staff

Krakauer publishes Missoula Missoula is not unfamiliar to the spotlight or being held up as a national example, both for better and worse. But the release of best-selling author Jon Krakauer’s latest book felt different. Unlike the many glossy magazine lists lauding our rivers, mountains or breweries, or The New York Times swooping in for the occasional report on a high-profile sexual assault court case, Krakauer’s hardcover exposé—complete with an initial print run of 500,000 and a national advertising campaign—felt like a permanent branding of the community.

It was right there in the title: Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town.

When it finally hit bookshelves April 21, many found Missoula to be a frank and informative accounting of events that, however savage and unflattering to the community’s image, must be acknowledged. As the Indy’s Erika Fredrickson put it in a subsequent review, “This is a book we all needed. If you’re not going to read it because your feelings are hurt, you are definitely part of the problem.”

Among the book’s detractors was none other than Missoula County Attorney Kirsten Pabst, of whom Missoula was particularly critical. Pabst issued a thinly veiled rebuttal, stating her appreciation for the author’s focus while calling his charges against her and her predecessor, Fred Van Valkenburg, “inaccurate, exaggerated and unnecessarily personal.” Media stories also revealed Pabst had attempted to delay the book’s release by sending a last-minute letter to the publisher containing allegations of “actionable libel.”

Krakauer, in an apparent nod to the emotional storm his book created, traveled to Missoula in May for a public forum. Roughly 600 people squeezed into the event space at the Doubletree while some of the overflow crowd watched MCAT’s live online stream at the Badlander. The otherwise civil and thoughtful Q&A ended abruptly as

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Krakauer and an audience member got into a heated exchange, underscoring the rawness of the situation.

The public fervor has since subsided, but the story has yet to fade from the headlines: Krakauer’s lawsuit over records pertaining to former Griz quarterback Jordan Johnson remains active before the Montana Supreme Court.

Yoga pants and Medicaid The Montana Legislature wasted no time in attracting negative press ahead of its 2015 biennial session. Weeks before the gavel fell, media outlets across the country picked up the news that our Republican leaders were attempting to quash inappropriate attire by proposing a new dress code. In it, female lawmakers were directed to “be sensitive to skirt lengths and necklines.”

The opening days of the session itself were actually something of a slog.

A few key measures did manage to score early victories—the Montana Disclose Act swiftly passed through the Senate—but every step forward seemed overshadowed by partisan skirmishes. A statewide non-discrimination bill was tabled. There was a push to allow students to carry firearms on college campuses. Gov. Steve Bullock’s Medicaid expansion plan was dead on arrival. Proposals from the Indian Caucus couldn’t seem to gain traction.

As if those middling days of deadlock weren’t bad enough, the legislature managed once again to give national media a “WTF?” moment. In early February, Rep. Doc Moore, R-Missoula, told a reporter after a hearing on an indecent exposure bill that “yoga pants should be illegal in public.” Moore later excused the comment as merely an offthe-cuff joke, but the story had already run everywhere from the Washington Post to MTV. Montana’s lawmaking body once again became the butt of a viral joke.

Somehow, though, the legislature managed to move past its own pettiness and silliness in the session’s

second half. In the House, Democrats and a block of moderate Republicans reached across the aisle to pass the Flathead Water Compact and the Disclose Act. Sen. Ed Buttrey, R-Great Falls, introduced a compromise to Bullock’s Healthy Montana Plan that bought bipartisan support for Medicaid expansion. Lawmakers may have failed to reach an agreement on a sweeping infrastructure bill, but late victories on a number of pressing issues ensured 2015 would not go down in the books as a punch line.

UM in crisis This was bound to be a pivotal year for the University of Montana, as administrators hoped to halt a downward enrollment spiral that created yearly budget shortfalls—and plenty of angst on campus—since 2012. As a former student body president put it last spring, “I think we’re getting down to the bone here, and it’s hard to keep making cuts and keep services that are vital running efficiently.” The metaphor had been used a year earlier, too, as faculty protested budget cuts of $8.6 million in 2013: “The knife has come to the bone,” history professor Mehrdad Kia declared at a rally.

If UM’s budget was already down to the bone, the outcry that came this fall was a sign the latest round of cuts reached marrow. Despite officials’ early optimism, UM’s enrollment took another nosedive this year—and one of the worst yet. Total headcount for fall semester was around 900 students below last year, or another 6.5 percent drop. Resident, out-of-state and international students all dipped. As a result, the main campus has the fewest students in the last two decades.

The situation prompted President Royce Engstrom to announce in November that 201 full-time equivalent jobs would be eliminated by January— and that academics would not be immune. In fact, Engstrom called out a handful of departments and programs

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Missoula author Jon Krakauer addressed a packed community forum held May 6 at the Doubletree Hotel. The otherwise civil event ended when Thomas Dove, right, engaged Krakauer in a heated exchange about the fairness of the author’s reporting.

during a budget forum, including English, journalism, geography, art, languages and others.

Engstrom’s proposal quickly stirred fear and resentment among students, staff and community members, who labeled it an assault on the liberal arts. More than 200 protesters associated with a new group called UM United rallied on the Oval, while some openly called for administrative heads to roll. As the year ends, however, it’s uncertainty more than unrest that looms over UM heading into 2016.

The price of water The city of Missoula marked major victories this year in the ongoing battle to purchase its municipal water system from the global conglomerate Carlyle Group. After an eminent domain trial in early spring, District Judge Karen Townsend issued an April ruling in the city’s favor, stating the city had successfully argued that it could do a better job of owning the utility than a private

corporation. The parties were then supposed to sit down and agree on a fair price, but the issue expectedly remained in front of the court and a fiveday valuation trial commenced on Nov. 2. Missoula’s attorneys argued the utility’s leaky system is in disrepair and worth less than Carlyle’s bid of more than $140 million. A panel of three expert commissioners ruled Nov. 17 the magic number fell to $88.6 million.

Mayor John Engen initially said he was “comfortable” with the number and was hopeful at a November press conference that Carlyle would sit down and negotiate in good faith. But that hope hasn’t come to fruition. Right before the court’s deadline, the city filed an appeal against the commissioners’ decision.

The fight to determine the utility’s worth will continue at a jury trial set to begin in January.

Historic municipal ballot No elected incumbents ran for Missoula City Council last November, giving

the race a wide-open feel. The results were a little less surprising than some hoped—progressives maintained their majority—but no less notable.

Four women ran for council seats and all four won. That means seven of the 12 seats in 2016 will be occupied by a woman, marking the first time in Missoula history councilmen will be outnumbered.

Money emerged as a prevailing election issue this year, namely how much of it city leaders are spending. But if the 2015 municipal ballot proved anything, it’s that Missoula residents aren’t yet spooked by the increases. After all, voters approved a whopping $158 million school bond package to improve local school facilities. Its passage was a major win for Missoula County Public Schools, which raised a handsome war chest and campaigned vigorously for the measures.

The elementary bond passed easily on Election Day, but the high school counterpart turned out to be a nail-biter. Not until 2 a.m. did supporters learn that it had passed by a slim margin.

Busy builders Get used to the “under construction” signs around town, because they don’t appear to be going away any time soon. It seemed like every time a major construction project neared completion in 2015, another proposal popped up.

Just on Dec. 14, Missoula College’s new East Broadway campus celebrated the placing of its last beam at a ceremony attended by Gov. Bullock.

There’s still months of work left to be finished, but the building could host classes as soon as fall 2016.

Meanwhile, on North Reserve Street, home-health management company Consumer Direct is working on a $23 million campus that will become the headquarters for its national operations.

A plethora of new housing complexes emerged as well. The Polleys Square condominiums underway at the Old Sawmill District mark the final stages of an extensive revitalization of the 45-acre former mill site on the Clark Fork. The Toole Crossing apart-

ment complex at 812 Toole Street, near Draught Works, features groundfloor commercial spaces below oneand two-bedroom apartments that developers promise will “set a new standard for gracious living.”

Not all the new housing is highend. The Missoula Housing Authority is using a $610,000 state grant to build the six-unit Dakota Place low-income apartment complex on the corner of California and Dakota streets; construction began this summer.

That’s just a sampling of the construction projects from 2015, and there’s much more to come. Stockman Bank is establishing a new six-story location downtown, and Farran Realty unveiled plans for a 500-bed student housing complex off Kiwanis Park, with construction to begin in spring.

More improvements are planned for the Brooks Street corridor, following a significant facelift when the South Crossing Shopping Center was completed in 2014. Missoula City Council recently approved a $5 million pedestrian bridge to arch over South Reserve Street and connect foot and bicycle traffic to the new Lolo Trail. Farther north along Brooks, the Holiday Village shopping center received a substantial facelift, including the addition of a 30,000-square-foot Fuel Fitness and Universal Athletics’ new location. Town Pump also announced plans to build a 16-pump gas station, casino and convenience store across the street.

In addition, the long-awaited Riverfront Triangle site might be finally moving forward, with architects presenting plans to a council committee in late December for a $100 million project featuring a hotel and conference center, condos, apartments, public plaza and retail spaces. The ambitious project wouldn’t break ground until 2017 at the earliest.

Last but certainly not least, Southgate Mall revealed a $70 million expansion project for 2016, featuring an upscale movie theater that would serve beer and wine, as well as facade improvements to the main mall, pedestrian amenities and landscaping.

Details continue to be hashed out in Missoula City Council committee meetings, but developer Peter Lambros has said construction would start in early 2016. editor@missoulanews.com

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[opinion]

History lessons An account of the recent past, verified from the future

by Dan Brooks

I won’t bore you with the science, but I made a Vine dancing to “Power of Love” in the mirror and then accidentally took a Snapchat of myself watching that Vine, and now I am in the distant future. Everything has changed. Dogs are represented in Congress, almost exclusively, and watches with biometric monitoring systems tell us when to eat.

They pretty much tell us everything: where to work, when to get back to work, whom to seize. We never should have invented superintelligent watches.

But one good thing about the future is that I can read history books.

Everything is clearer from the perspective of history. The books come with fun, bold headings that help me understand the major themes of 2015 and are available in every library. Of course, if my watch finds out I went to the library, I’m in trouble. But I can take a moment to report the history of 2015 to you.

It was the year conservatives in Helena sacrificed themselves for all of us.

Finding the state legislature in gridlock, Republicans on the right concocted a genius plan to produce compromise.

They attacked moderates relentlessly.

They replaced veteran committee chairs with freshman representatives. Randy Pinnoci, R–Sun River, threatened to audit the school for the deaf and blind, and Art Wittich, R–Belgrade, convened a Human Services committee hearing on whether humans really needed services.

It worked. Mercilessly harried from their right, moderate Republicans joined Democrats to expand Medicaid coverage, reform campaign finance law and pass a state budget. Conservatives left Helena in public ignominy but private satisfaction, knowing history would vindicate them.

Realizing that what Democrats and Republicans needed was a common enemy, they selflessly dashed their fortunes on the altar of the public good.

Meanwhile, in Missoula, it was the year of no comment. County government started 2015 mired in scandal. An acrimonious election had left the sheriff ’s office with a series of political dis-

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crimination complaints, and County Attorney Kirsten Pabst appeared as a principal character in a book about rape called Missoula. But once county officials stopped talking to reporters, voters logically assumed everything was fine.

It turned out no one cared what happened to the county, as long as they didn’t read about it in the newspaper.

Without reporters to turn them against it, voters returned to their natural trust of government. Elections were suspended after incumbents won a dozen straight. Also during this period, the

“In college history, 2015 was the year the University of Montana eased into second place.” sheriff ’s office became a hereditary dynasty, and the county attorney’s office was remodeled after it began charging women to report rape.

In college history, 2015 was the year the University of Montana eased into second place. After its student population peaked in 2011, UM responded to four years of declining enrollment by offering fewer classes. The next year, it unveiled its new slogan, “UM: Because you live in Missoula already, or you’re Chinese.” That was also the year President Royce Engstrom received his $500,000 deferred bonus. A decade later, he won $1 million by correctly guessing three out of six numbers in the Montana lottery, shortly before he was

awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for burning a batch of cookies.

2015 was also the year Missoula bought a water company. Historians have not yet determined how much it cost, and the condemnation process continues to this day. The rare species of phlox destroyed to carve a peace sign into Mount Jumbo grew back in the meantime, but because no one ever repeated that stunt, the concept of peace was forgotten entirely. Wars raged across the land, and mothers punched their children into bed at night.

Missoula police were unprepared for our new culture of hyper-individualistic violence because they withdrew their request for a $250,000 mobile command center to fight “extremism” in 2015. It was the year of timid enforcement, as downtown businesses also abandoned their plan to ban tall boys— the canned alcoholic beverages, not the boys. In the years that followed, 8-foot drunks from the Rainbow Gathering tore down virtually all of our street signs, causing confusion.

But 2015 was a year of hope nonetheless. The Missoula Osprey won the Pioneer League championship.

Bookstores and live music venues remained plentiful, and craft breweries somehow became more so. After an overdue and successfully ambitious remodeling project, the Wilma Theater reopened and immediately filled with children. And the Mercantile Building would not become a 20,000-square-foot arena where human beings fought rats for sport for another 15 years.

Even the children who fight in the rat pits know the most historically significant event of 2015: We finally got an Indian restaurant. I’d tell you more, but my alarm is going off and that means my watch is about to shock me pretty hard.

No, I can’t just take it off. As we say in the future, get with the times.

Dan Brooks writes about politics, culture and the long wait for tandoori at combatblog.net.

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[opinion]

THROWBACK TO THE WAYBACK

Shifting ground Big Ag’s industrial-scale farming meets consumer resistance

by Peter Carrels

Between 2006 and 2011, farmers on the western edge of the Midwest’s farm belt in Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota and the Dakotas converted more than 1.3 million acres of grasslands to corn and soybean fields. Some people were seriously alarmed. Wildlife habitat was destroyed, and water, soil and the air itself suffered.

But that conversion of grassland into industrial-scale farming of single crops inspired sales of chemicals, fertilizer and seed—farmers call these expenses “inputs”—that exceeded $260 million per year. Given that almost 175 million acres were planted with corn and soybeans in the United States in 2015, it’s clear the more land is industrially farmed, the more profit there is for what we call “Big Ag.” Yet Big Ag’s hold on the food market isn’t as certain as it used to be. Fortune magazine reports that America’s top 25 food and beverage companies— think processed food makers—have lost some $18 billion in market share since 2009. Where did that market go?

My answer is that shoppers have read the news about the health consequences of eating too much sugar, fat and meat, and they are increasingly turning to foods that contain far less of these ingredients. “Wholesome,” “organic” and “natural” are the ingredient descriptions that Americans care more about now. They have also begun to understand the relationship between healthy farming and healthy food. Progressive food shoppers are put off by crops grown with synthetic fertilizers, hormones, neonicotinoids, genetically modified organisms and glyphosates.

What once might have seemed like a fad now appears to be a genuine social movement. Fortune quoted one former ConAgra executive who described this movement as the most transformative, dynamic and disruptive consumer shift he has witnessed in his 37 years in the food industry.

Big Ag fought back with expensive public relations campaigns that sought

to boost public support by employing well-worn themes. American consumers just didn’t understand modern farming, they said. Ads sponsored by industrial agriculture groups implied that many people don’t realize food is grown on the land and does not magically appear wrapped in plastic in grocery stores. I suggest that Big Ag is missing the point entirely: It’s not that today’s consumers don’t understand where their food comes from, it’s that they do.

“What once might have seemed like a fad now appears to be a genuine social movement.”

Another marketing theme proposed that industrial agriculture helps fulfill the responsibility of American farmers to “feed the world.” This “feeding the world” slogan has been used for several decades to explain the need for production-oriented, large-scale monoculture agriculture. But is it reasonable to think that American farmers can and should feed the world?

Fred Kirschenmann, a sustainable agriculture expert and distinguished fellow at Iowa State University’s Leopold Center, also manages his family’s 1,800-acre organic farm in North Dakota. Kirschenmann regards the expectation that American farmers can

feed the world as a distraction from more important agricultural issues and a mischaracterization of farming’s capabilities and objectives.

“There are ecological considerations that must be part of the discussion, and a whole range of social and political problems and the concept of waste that are also part of this discussion,” he says. “Climate change is another consideration.”

Who is perpetuating this mischaracterization? According to Kirschenmann, it is primarily the institutions and corporations that want to maintain the current system of monoculture agriculture. “These are the companies that sell inputs like fertilizers and other chemicals, and food processors and commodity groups,” he says. “They use the expression because they think it gives them a moral high ground from which to pursue the type of agriculture they profit from.”

In any event, just how successful have American farmers been in their socalled quest to feed the world? The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimates about 795 million people of the 7.3 billion people in the world, or one in nine, are undernourished, and this number is growing.

This is happening even though in recent years American farmers are producing record soybean and corn yields.

Kirschenmann also points out that America’s most agricultural state, Iowa, where much of the land is devoted to a single commodity crop, actually imports 90 percent of its food.

The trend is clear: American consumers increasingly want to buy food as free as possible from artificial ingredients, pesticides, sugar, fat and hormones. And bigger may no longer be considered better when it comes to producing food.

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He writes in Sioux Falls, S.D.

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[offbeat]

ARE WE SAFE? – As if 2015 weren’t bad enough for the Department of Homeland Security (e.g., in June, internal DHS tests revealed that its Transportation Security Administration failed to stop 67 of 70 guns passing through airport screeners), a U.S. congressman revealed in December that, based on a congressional staff investigation, 72 DHS employees currently appear on the FBI’s terrorist watch list. He admitted to Boston Public Radio that DHS’s record makes him squeamish about our ability to vet Syrian refugees. (Being on the FBI list is not a prohibited category for buying guns, either, and in fact, the Government Accountability Office reported that 91 percent of listees’ attempts to purchase guns in the last 10 years succeeded.)

THE CONTINUING CRISIS – The vice president of human resources at the Washington Post issued a formal memo in December to reassure female employees in its sleek new office building that people in the seventh floor’s central “hub” could definitely not see up their skirts as they walked on the indoor eighth-floor balcony overhang, even through the clear glass barriers. The memo cited HR’s “multiple” futile attempts, from many viewing angles, to see no-no’s, and thus concluded that the ladies are safe. Nonetheless, the memo encouraged all employees, when in the seventh floor “hub,” not to look up.

LEADING ECONOMIC INDICATORS – Dr. Raymond Schinazi was a federal government employee when he led the team that discovered sofosbuvir, which completely cures hepatitis C patients with an 84-pill regimen, but, as he recently told CBS News, he only worked for the government “seveneighths” of the time—and, conveniently, it was during the other one-eighth that he found sofosbuvir.

He admits now that he made $400 million selling his sofosbuvir company in 2012 to Gilead Sciences, which famously set sofosbuvir’s price for 84 pills to $84,000. Now, the Department of Veterans Affairs, with 233,000 war vets with hep C, tells Congress that it needs much more money, even though Gilead has “cut” the VA’s price in half (to $42,000 per treatment, or $9.66 billion). (In a 2013 medical journal, Dr. Schinazi revealed that sofosbuvir could be manufactured for about $17 a pill, or $1,400 for an entire treatment.)

QUESTIONABLE JUDGMENTS – “It may be the most confusing traffic light you’ve ever seen,” wrote The Boston Globe in December, describing a pedestrian crossing in Cambridge, Massachusetts. If the three clusters of three lights each are dark, drivers proceed. If a pedestrian comes along, one light will blink yellow, then solid yellow, then two solid yellows, then two reds, until two flashing red lights in each cluster appear—and in Cambridge (and only Cambridge!), flashing red lights mean ... go (unless pedestrians are actually present). The city has prepared a 12-diagram pamphlet to explain the whole thing, and officials say they have statistical proof from tests that the system enhances safety.

It was Nick Silvestri, 19, of Seaford, Long Island, who, seated in the orchestra section of the Broadway comedy Hand to God on July 2, left his seat to plug his iPhone into an “electrical outlet” on the stage set. Actors, patrons, and management went nuts, but Silvestri ultimately was allowed to stay and the show resumed. The set designer, Beowulf Boritt, said later he was proud that he had created a stage set so realistic that the electrical outlet (which of course was attached to nothing) looked so authentic.

CLICHE COME TO LIFE – The Angelina County Sheriff’s Office (Lufkin, Texas) reported responding to a 911 call about shots fired at a home on Nov. 8, but made no arrest. The male resident was sitting in his pickup, admittedly drunk, and having listened to a “sad song” on his favorite station, he of course pulled his .22-caliber pistol and shot the radio. According to the report, “Suspect’s wife took possession of the handgun and suspect.”

IRONIES – Sweet: (1) As deputy leader of Scotland’s South Lanarkshire Council, Jackie Burns was instrumental in the budgetary closing of all 24 public toilets in the area. In November, Burns was fined (the equivalent of about $60) after he, out on the town, could hold it in no longer and urinated in the street. (2) Hector Segura, 29, in town for a Washington, D.C., conference on drug policy reform (with most attendees certain that the “war on drugs” has failed) was found by police naked in a flower bed in a neighborhood near his hotel in Arlington, Virginia, with (according to police) “bath salts” the culprit. It required two Taser shots to subdue him as he pounded on a squad car.

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BRIGHT IDEAS – China’s love of beef, plus a regulation requiring that live animals imported for food be slaughtered within 55 miles of entry port, has created big business for the Australian cattle exporter Elders, which uses double-deck Boeing 747s whose only main-deck passengers “moo” instead of complain about leg room. (Business-class humans still travel upstairs.) Without the flights, the 55-mile rule could be met only by coastal Chinese cities, thus ignoring inland gourmets demanding fresh meat. Unlike the well-fed upper-deck passengers, the cattle get minimal food—for obvious reasons.

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ON THE COVER: A group of mountain bikers ride up the main trail at Blue Mountain Recreation Area on Sept. 22 while a double rainbow spans the Missoula Valley.

Thousands line Higgins Avenue on Sept. 26 for the start of the University of Montana Homecoming Parade. Former football coach Don Read served as this year’s honorary parade marshal. photo by Amy Donovan

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British progressive trance group Above & Beyond plays the Wilma Theatre on March 20. The performers were on tour to celebrate the 100th installment of Group Therapy Radio (ABGT100), a weekly two-hour mix named after their 2011 album.

Little sister Molly Schwarze, 2, makes an adorably inaudible guest appearance onstage with rapper and educator Tahj Kjelland during the Boys Rock Camp showcase on July 10 at the Top Hat. This was the first year Zootown Arts Community Center offered Boys Rock Camp, which teaches boys ages 8-16 selfesteem through a week of music instruction and play.

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Reid Reimers performs as Dr. Frank-N-Furter at the Wilma Oct. 29 in the Montana Actors’ Theatre production of Rocky Horror Show LIVE. The performance was staged with a glam-rock twist, and included usual audience participation elements such as the pre-show ceremony for Rocky Horror virgins.

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A golden retriever plows through nearly 5 feet of powder while trying to keep up with its person during a backcountry skiing excursion at Lolo Pass on Jan. 3.

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Men compete in the Fancy Dance category during the 47th annual Kyi-Yo Pow Wow at the University of Montana’s Adams Center on April 18.

Neil Young performs to a sold-out audience at the Adams Center on Oct. 1.

It was the legendary singer-songwriter’s first-ever show in Montana.

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A volunteer with the Montana Osprey Project returns two chicks to their nest just outside the Missoula Osprey baseball stadium, as the parents hover overhead. The chicks were removed in order to be weighed, banded and have blood samples drawn as part of the organization’s long-term study of heavy metal contamination in the upper Clark Fork and its effect on osprey ecology.

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Ecologist-investigator Dr. Vincent Munster of Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton wears a protective suit in the training lab. The suit is similar to the kind worn inside the site’s highly secure BSL-4, where local researchers worked this year to find a cure for Ebola. photo by William Muñoz

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Edson “House” Magana, a visiting hip-hop dance professor at the University of Montana, works on a graffiti wall during Zoofest on Oct. 3. The Indysponsored event featured more than 20 live music acts and performance artists over two days at Caras Park.

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Missoula County Sheriff’s Department personnel blockade a portion of South Seventh Street West on Aug. 10 after a powerful storm topples a large shed and a tree over a set of power lines. The evening storm uprooted dozens of trees, started several fires and knocked out power for thousands of residents throughout the Missoula and Bitterroot valleys. photo by Amy Donovan

A cowboy ends the night empty-handed during the second round of rough stock on Sept. 4 at the Ravalli County Fair.

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Bobby Lee Springfield, who serves as the unofficial in-house entertainer at Al’s & Vic’s, poses in the bar before his April First Friday collaboration with artist Jack Metcalf. “These are songs that have stood the test of time,” Springfield said of the performance. “It don’t matter if the guitar’s out of whack or what, I’ll be playin’ that thing like a snare drum.” photo by Amy Donovan

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Harmony Cronin works on fleshing and scraping a bison hide in late February. Cronin is part of the Buffalo Bridge camp, a loose collection of primitive skills practitioners who scavenge what they can from the state and tribal bison hunts occurring in the Gallatin National Forest.

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Red Velvet, a member of the DJ collective known as The Fox Den, plays a set for Foxxy Friday at the Badlander in early May. “House culture is about going out and being somewhere from 10 p.m. to 10 a.m., listening to music and losing yourself,” explained Fox Den cofounder Amory Genter of the burgeoning local scene. “It’s about not keeping track of time.”

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Emerick Bradley, 3, gets his face painted by a volunteer at the Zootown Arts Community Center in preparation of the Nov. 2 Missoula Festival of the Dead Parade on Higgins Avenue.

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Artist and repairman Dalton Weisz sews the leg onto “Sue the T-Rex” before Jurassic Quest, a touring dinosaur exhibition, which opened May 1 at the Adams Center.

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[arts]

Reflecting pool Missoula’s art scene sees fond farewells, grand surprises and remarkable revivals

by Erika Fredrickson

Wilma gets a makeover My Morning Jacket played to a sold-out audience on Oct. 5, but more importantly their concert marked the official reopening of the historic Wilma.

Top Hat owner Nick Checota took over the 94year-old hallowed theater in March and renovated it over the course of several months, giving it a modern feel while still staying true to its Louis XIV-meets-Art Deco style. The Wilma’s years of being an art-house cinema are over, but with its lavish new makeover and concerts such as Dr. Dog, Grace Potter and Lyle Lovett, its next era looks bright.

Big Sky, big screen The death of the state’s film tax incentive in January has made it difficult for the Montana Film Office to woo major motion productions. Still, this year saw the making of a handful of promising independent films, like director Kelly Reichardt’s Certain Women, based on a story collection from Helena native Maile Meloy. The film was shot around Livingston and Bozeman and stars Michelle Williams, Kirsten Stewart and Missoula’s own Lily Gladstone.

Several other films made in Montana and by Montanans also premiered in 2015, including Winter Light, a film adapted from a James Lee Burke story and now nominated for an Oscar. Love Like Gold screened at the Roxy’s inaugural Montana Film Festival, along with The Triangle and Subterranea. Doug Hawes-Davis unveiled Two Rivers, his 10-years-in-themaking film about the removal of Milltown Dam. Andy Smetanka’s highly anticipated silhouette animation about WWI, And We Were Young, premiered at Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. And, finally, members from N’Sync and the Backstreet Boys made a zombie film in Butte.

Total Fest farewell It was a tough goodbye after 14 years for regular attendees of Total Fest, the annual three-day independent music festival. Organizers of the summer staple decided to make 2015 its last year in order to move on to other projects—and they closed things up with a bang: a lineup of local stalwarts, reunions from 1990s bands and colorful performances from nationally (and internationally) beloved acts, like Big Business, made the send-off more sweet than bitter.

Headwaters ends Headwaters Dance Company took its final bow in early October with the aptly named production Beginnings and Endings. The Missoula dance company, led by Amy Ragsdale, had been around for more than 20 years, providing local opportunities for dancers

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My Morning Jacket plays the Wilma for its grand reopening Oct. 5.

and offering programs to rural audiences that don’t often get exposure to contemporary dance.

Steve Glueckert steps down Steve Glueckert, Missoula Art Museum’s tireless curator, retired after nearly 24 years of fashioning together some of the venue’s most fascinating exhibits—from glamorous to iconoclastic, splashy to spare. Over the years he’s been an invaluable resource to the arts scene, as well as to arts reporters who were always met with enthusiastic stories, colorful quotes and thought-provoking conversations.

Glueckert is also an artist, so here’s to hoping retirement brings him more hours in the day to feed his creative mind.

Meanwhile, the hiring of the Montana Museum of Art and Culture’s former curator, Brandon Reintjes, means MAM shouldn’t miss a beat when it comes to cultivating great shows.

Death of a sound genius Dale Sherrard, a sound artist who collaborated with many Missoula artists over the years, died in Jan-

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uary at age 53. He worked on big projects, like creating sound elements on Winter in the Blood for filmmakers Andrew and Alex Smith. And his influence was felt far and wide with the students he taught at the University of Montana. In a tribute to his friend published in the Indy, Andrew Smith, who also teaches at UM, wrote, “He built a sound studio, updated our editing systems, provided a sound library and led by example, regularly blowing student minds with the sprawling, spangled bandwidth of his ferocious imagination.”

Book Festival revival Even up until early this year, Montana Festival of the Book’s fate seemed in the balance. The 15-yearold event of readings, panels and book parties lost its main organizer when Humanities Montana announced in September 2014 it needed to move on.

But in May, a small coalition of authors and bookstore owners revived the festival just in time to bring it to fruition in the fall. The result? The Montana Book Festival seemed not only back on track, but reenergized, with popular events like the Pie & Whiskey reading and an Evening with Ira Glass.

Shania Hall goes to NYC Shania Hall, a young Plains Indian artist from Browning, got the chance of a lifetime when her photographs of a Montana storm were chosen for an exhibit at New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Hall, who was a high school student when she took the photos, got to travel to NYC in the spring to view the large panels of her work at The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky— one of the largest Native American exhibits in the world.

Dave Chappelle parties after hours You could almost hear the excitement ripple across the valley (okay, Facebook) when it was announced that Dave Chappelle would perform not just two but four Missoula shows in June. Audiences raved about the comedian’s standup, but it was his surprise appearance at the Badlander after one set that really took the cake. At around midnight, Chappelle came through the door of the downtown bar. He gave everyone 10 minutes to take photos and Snapchat before shutting the social media frenzy down and hosting a hip-hop set with his DJ. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

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Reading rainbow Looking back on the standout books of 2015 The Alaska Seth Kantner writes about in Swallowed by the Great Land: And Other Dispatches from Alaska’s Frontier isn’t the one of glossy travel magazines and calendar photography. But I still love spending time in Kantner’s world via his writing, where the air smells of salt and woodsmoke—when it isn’t clogged with diesel fumes and Snogo exhaust—and a pleasant afternoon may be spent watching herds of caribou storm the river just beyond the front yard. (CLT) Laura Pritchett is devoted to keen observations of people as well as place—the Rocky Mountains, wildfires and the turn of the seasons play as important a role in Red Lightning as any character. Her narrative style is a little unusual, often breaking out of traditional prose into stream-of-consciousness and poetic meanderings. In lesser hands, it might be an annoying technique, but here it helps make characters’ feelings and experiences almost palpable. (KW) In 1987, Richard “McCarthy” Coyle wrote about driving a thousand miles from Missoula to the Ozarks to find his “baby” sister’s unmarked grave. “Tree Planting” is one of many pieces in The Cherry Tree is Blossoming, a newly published selection of Coyle’s letters, poems, journals, fictions and dramas. It provides an intimate glimpse into an inventive character who lived his life—a good portion of it in Missoula—with desperate hope and unyielding rage, all of which comes through in his fierce prose. (EF) In Given World, author Maria Palaia’s women are the sort who are so often vilified in more traditional stories: neglectful mothers and wayward junkies, incapable of love or devotion. It’s enormously refreshing to read a story that talks about complicated women with so much empathy. (KW) If the typical novel is like a movie enjoyed from a serviceable but scratchy old VHS tape, then Shann Ray’s debut novel, American Copper, is like watch-

ing a film on BluRay disc. One is pulled into the saddle or onto a train by Ray’s magnificent prose and then taken on a trip through some of the most breathtaking landscapes in western Montana. (CLT) If you’re planning to sit down with David Gates’ new A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me—and you definitely should—you might want to pour yourself a stiff drink first. Maybe light up a bowl. The indulgence (if you want to call it that) will probably help you feel at home among Gates’ characters … What Gates reproduces like few other writers is a state of mind, a relationship to reality, a stance toward the world that’s at once real and extra-real. It’s that stance that makes these potentially depressing characters and their middling issues so compelling. (BT) In other hands, Hawthorn could be a mess as tangled as its subject. Missoula writer Bill Vaughn holds it all together, blending anecdotes, myth, folklore and scientific fact into as fun and interesting an offering of natural history as I’ve read. (CLT) What Jon Krakauer has given readers like me is a remedy to blindness: a clear and undeniable picture of a broken system, which reflects the broken systems in every town across the country. Missoula is a book we all needed. If you’re not going to read it because your feelings are hurt, you are definitely part of the problem. (EF) No matter what comedic license Thomas McGuane takes with his characters, these people are treated with heart. The stories in Crow Fair are excellent meditations on the regrets that so many of us face as we muddle through middle-age, and even in the midst of laughter the messages are poignant. (CLT) Reviews by Chris La Tray, Kate Whittle, Brad Tyer and Erika Fredrickson. arts@missoulanews.com

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[music]

Guilty pleasures Our reviewers reveal their favorite noise from 2015 Favorite albums of 2015: The Bottle Rockets teamed up with Eric “Roscoe” Ambel to record a stellar album, South Broadway Athletic Club.

It’s assured, funny, touching and smart. Twenty-three years into their career, this band is at the peak of their alt-country powers. On the Americana side, Jason Isbell’s Something More Than Free was even better than his debut album, a seemingly impossible feat. His songs share some stylistic DNA with Lucinda Williams, and the maturity of his solo work makes his old band, Drive-By Truckers, seem like a high school garage band.

Actually listened to: This summer I dusted off my turntable and began to rediscover my record collection. Evan Johns and the H Bombs,

Philip Walker, the Paladins, Colin James, the Fabulous Thunderbirds—so many LPs that I don’t have on CD. It’s really a trippy experience to put on a record I haven’t heard in 20 years (Elton John’s Blue Moves) and still know every damn word.

Best live shows: Junior Brown at the Top Hat just before Labor Day was a thrilling show, and I didn’t even stay long enough to see him kick a drink off the stage. I stood shoulder to shoulder with what seemed like every guitarist in Missoula and was thoroughly schooled by Brown’s Hendrixmeets-Buddy-Emmons guitar playing and irascible personality. He played all his hits, plus my favorite, “Joe the Singing Janitor.” (Ednor Therriault)

Favorite album of 2015: Father John Misty’s I Love You Honeybear is the album Neil Diamond would have made if “Sweet Caroline” hadn’t revived his career and he was forced to harvest the Eagles’ souls. Louche and ironic, Father John Misty (not his real name) sings Laurel Canyon folk about that feeling when you do too much cocaine and worry you forgot how to love.

Actually listened to: Ravi Shankar. I love Indian classical music. My experiments find that it causes 75 percent of listeners to go insane and say crazy things like, “I don’t like this.” But ragas are the Magic Eye paint-

Favorite albums of 2015: It’s no secret that Magic Mike XXL was the highlight of my summer moviegoing experience. The soundtrack was basically a best-of compilation of every sexy jam ever featured on a make-out mixtape, from Ginuwine’s “Pony” to D’Angelo’s “Untitled (How Does it Feel)” to 50 Cent’s “Candy Shop” to Nine Inch Nails’ “Closer.” And while Magic Mike was all about the fantasy life, my other favorite record was Too, by frenetic Los Angeles garage-y punks FIDLAR. With songs about drinking 40s, making lousy decisions, ill-advised road trips and screwing up relationships, FIDLAR assured me that I’m not the first 20-something to do something stupid.

ings of music: stare long enough, and they resolve into something beautiful. More beautiful than a Magic Eye painting, I promise.

Favorite live show: On Halloween, Glass Spiders heated the Palace to 140 degrees and rocked it. They played for six hours, if I remember correctly, but my memory was badly compromised. Still, I could not forget that victory lap through David Bowie’s career, with costume changes, from Ziggy Stardust through the Thin White Duke and the Station to Station era, until I thought I was going to sneeze but threw up. Then I went home, but I understand the Spiders played on. (Dan Brooks)

Actually listened to: Spotify’s annual breakdown indicates that this was the year of my appreciation of Ludacris. Whenever I needed to get a party started or just perk up early in the morning, Luda was there for me.

His new record, Ludaversal, contains some solid jams, but it’s hard to beat 2001’s Word of Mouf to get pumped up.

Best live shows: It’s hard to pick one Total Fest diamond out of a glittering treasure trove, but I do have specific memories of buttdancing to Big Business. Who said you can’t dirty dance to sludge metal? (Kate Whittle)

Favorite albums of 2015: Even before Seattle’s Bad Future played Total Fest this year, I was already obsessed with their new dark punk album, Nightchurch. Field Report’s Marigolden helped me balance out the dark edge with pretty folk anthems that I think are kind of cheesy but I love anyway. Holy Lands’ The Painter Traders Union proved you don’t have to see them play live to feel inebriated by their loud, screamy, Tom Waits-meets-Pixies-meets-wild animal experimental music. And Swamp Ritual made me want to crawl inside their new stoner metal album, Ritual Rising, and live in there forever.

Actually listened to: It was a summer of revisiting old 1990s albums, including Urge Overkill. After moving into a ground floor apartment in the fall and realizing I would no longer disturb a down-

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stairs neighbor, it was all dance parties featuring Robyn from there on out.

Favorite live show: In February, I scurried back and forth between two great shows. One was St. Paul and the Broken Bones at the Top Hat, where the band’s soul-shaking music felt like a religious revival without the religion. Meanwhile, two blocks away, local musicians who had been randomly placed into one-night-only bands for Rock Lotto played covers of female-fronted classics, including Bikini Kill and Heart. The rendition of 4 Non Blondes’ “What’s Up” turned the Palace into a room of pure drunken delight. (Erika Fredrickson) arts@missoulanews.com

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Meth. Not even once.

Goodnight Mommy In this stark, German-language horror film nestled deep in the Austrian countryside, identical twin boys become convinced their bandaged and mysterious mother is not who she says she is. What follows is a kind of Home Alone nightmare, if Kevin’s mother were the burglars, if Kevin drowned a cat in a fish tank and left it on the table as a terrible omen, and if there were two of him.

Other standout horror/sci fi this year: It Follows, Ex Machina, Crimson Peak.

Mad Max It’s a weird world when the best action film of the year is also among the most feminist. Mad Max gets the title, but it’s Imperator Furiosa’s story, and I think we all know the answer to the repeated rhetorical, “Who ruined the world?” In my original review I wrote, “[Dir. George] Miller has kept up with technological advances in film and has the good sense to ignore a lot of it in favor of practical effects. He understands that CGI works for making an amputee but looks cartoonish for car crashes.” Maybe he should direct the next Star Wars! Give it a hard R. The second best feminist film award goes to Carol, Todd Haynes’ inspired melodrama about women in love in the stifling culture of the 1950s.

The Revenant In the opening minutes of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s feel-bad romp, a man gets shot through the neck with an arrow and we watch his lifeless body fall into an open fire—and this is among the film’s most merciful deaths. The Revenant features long, uninterrupted shots—using natural light in unforgiving locations—of events so extraordinary it’s still unclear to me how the hell they pulled it off. The doltish film critic Jeffrey Wells of Hollywood Elsewhere infamously wrote, “The Revenant is an unflinchingly brutal, you-are-there, rawelement immersion like something you’ve never seen.

Forget women seeing this.” I agree up until the end, but how soon Wells forgets: It’s a lady grizzly who tears a hole in Leonardo Dicaprio’s jugular.

Room Brie Larson will certainly get an Oscar nomination for her visceral turn as the girl who was kidnapped at 17-years-old and kept locked in a shed for more than seven years with a child born out of rape.

It’s bad, but hey, they make the best of it, and when they eventually escape and are let back out into the world, the movie unfurls into unexpected and deeply satisfying psychological waters.

Second best thriller: Joel Edgerton’s The Gift, a film that toes the line between cliché and something wholly unfamiliar.

Spotlight Tom McCarthy’s film features the best ensemble cast of the year in a story about The Boston Globe’s Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation of sex scandals within the Catholic church. The movie gets the newsroom details just right, as many have said, but it’s also so smart and compassionate about the church’s many victims, the human compulsion to maintain the status quo and its devastating consequences.

Other great films this year include The Look of Silence, Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, Heart of a Dog, Tangerine and, of course, Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Some notable films I regretfully couldn’t see in time for deadline include Charlie Kaufman’s Anomalisa, Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq and Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight.

And finally, 2015’s worst cinematic experience belongs to Sean Penn in The Gunman, his awful pecs, and those 115 minutes I can never get back. arts@missoulanews.com

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Fact check Spotlight humanizes the work of journalism

by Scott Renshaw

“I’m sorry, but you’ve all been replaced by bloggers.”

If you’re skeptical about all the praise heaped on Spotlight by newspaper film critics, it’s understandable.

We’ve all got our sweet spots, and those of us who wonder if our own dead-tree outlet will be the next one to start hemorrhaging are bound to gravitate toward a story about the importance of these publications. If a movie is going to spend a lot of time telling you you’re awesome … well, come on, we’re only human.

But Spotlight is more than just a big sloppy kiss in the general direction of investigative reporting. In fact, it may be even more compelling as a look at how easy it can be to miss that something is a story. In the course of addressing issues that are particular to the real-life time frame, cowriter/director Tom McCarthy also looks at issues that are bigger than the context of turn-of-the-21st-century newsrooms, folding them into a terrific slow-burn procedural.

The main story begins in 2001, as the Boston Globe is bringing on new editor-in-chief Marty Baron (Liev Schreiber). He wants the paper’s “Spotlight” investigative news team—editor Walter “Robby” Robinson (Michael Keaton) and reporters Mike Rezendes (Mark Ruffalo), Sacha Pfeiffer (Rachel McAdams) and Matt Carroll (Brian d’Arcy James) to turn their attention to the case of a Catholic priest accused of sexually abusing several children. As they reluctantly begin digging into the case, they discover Catholic archdiocese of Boston might be engaging on a massive scale in hushing up cases of abusive priests and knowingly relocating sex offenders to other parishes.

McCarthy and cowriter Josh Singer faced a tough challenge in juggling the details of these cases—and the many newsroom employees, victims, attorneys, church officials and other peripheral characters involved in the investigation. But the script proves marvelously efficient at conveying nuts-and-bolts information while never feeling that it’s only about

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expository details. Like the reporters at the center of the story, Spotlight always feels like it’s trying to dig down to the next level.

What it finds on those next levels is generally fascinating. The story’s timeline intersects with the events of Sept. 11, 2001. Spotlight effectively conveys how a developing story, even one this potentially huge, can get set aside when an even bigger story emerges. There’s also an ongoing undercurrent dealing with the way that work fits into a business trying to survive. There’s a terrific moment where Matt Carroll discovers one of the houses used by the church as a residence for “recovering” pedophile priests is in his own neighborhood, yet is told by editors not to warn his neighbors, just to make sure the rival Boston Herald doesn’t get wind of the Globe’s investigation.

Spotlight’s most intriguing subtext, however, might be the inevitable subjectivity of the reporters.

From a prologue set in 1976, McCarthy sets the stage for Boston as a “company town” where the company in question is the Roman Catholic Church exerting its influence over the faithful. Yet this isn’t a conspiracy story in which the only conspirators are on the outside of the newsroom. There are frequent allusions to the opportunities the Globe had to dig into this story many years earlier. The restrained performances are top-notch throughout, and Spotlight explores just enough of the journalists’ personal lives to show their own emotional connections to the Catholic Church— and how it might have taken an outsider like Baron to shake them from their assumption that this couldn’t really be such a horrible story. Spotlight may make the results of old-school reporting look heroic, but it also makes that work look human.

Spotlight opens at the Roxy Fri., Dec. 25. arts@missoulanews.com

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OPENING THIS WEEK CHINESE CARRYOUT COMEDY CAVALCADE Venture out to the Roxy for the Chinese Carry-Out Comedy Cavalcade, a day-long marathon of classic comedies and Chinese food. Thu., Dec. 25, 1 PM– 9 PM. $10, includes Chinese buffet.

CONCUSSION Will Smith plays Dr. Bennet Omalu, a forensic neuropathologist who identified a type of brain trauma in an ex-football player and went up against the NFL to make his findings known. Rated PG-13.

Showing at the Carmike.

DADDY’S HOME Will Farrell and Mark Wahlberg play stepdad and biological dad, competing for the children’s affections. Rated PG-13, showing at the Carmike and Pharaohplex.

THE GOLD RUSH (1925) Charlie Chaplin’s classic involves a prospector who travels to Alaska looking for gold. While scrapping constantly with his burly peers, he falls for the lovely Georgia, who is into short men with Hitler mustaches. Showing at the Roxy Fri., Dec. 25 through Sun., Dec. 27, 5 PM and 7:15 PM. JOY David O. Russell reassembles the team from Silver Linings Playbook for this epic about a family dynasty spanning four generations. Stars Robert De Niro, Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike.

POINT BREAK Loose remake of the 1991 action film that starred Patrick Swayze’s hair, it’s the story of an FBI agent who infiltrates a gang of extreme-sports criminals.

Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike and Pharaohplex.

THE RAZOR’S EDGE The Mindful Movie series continues as Bill Murray plays Larry Darrell, an American WWI vet who returns home a different person. He discovers a book that affects him deeply and heads off to Nepal to seek spiritual help. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Roxy Sun., Dec. 27, 4 PM. SPOTLIGHT Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams and Michael Keaton star in the true story of how the Boston

Hold up. Are you saying that playing without a helmet has given me dain bramage? Concussion opens Fri., Dec. 25 at the Carmike 12.

Globe uncovered the child molestation scandal within the Catholic Church. Rated R. Showing at the Roxy Fri., Dec. 25 through Thu., Jan. 7. Visit theroxytheater.org for showtimes. (See Film.)

THE WARRIORS “Warriors, come out to play.” If you sang that as you read it, you’re in for a treat. This week’s Movie Cult classic is Walter Hill’s 1979 gang flick featuring street thugs who intimidate others by dressing like Mötley Crüe.

Rated R. Showing at the Roxy Sat., Dec. 26, 10 PM.

NOW PLAYING ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: THE ROAD CHIP Just in time to entertain the out-of-school tykes, Alvin and the Chipmunks are back. This time they have to travel across the country to stop Dave from

getting married. Rated PG. Showing at the Carmike and the Pharaohplex.

THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 2 The wait is over. The final installment in the Hunger Games series finds Katniss Everdeen fighting for survival along side her ragtag group of allies/enemies. Rated PG-13. Playing at Carmike.

SISTERS Two sisters decide to have one last house party before...oh, does it matter? It’s Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, y’all! Rated R. Showing at the Carmike and Pharaohplex.

STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS Han Solo, Luke, Leia and Chewy are back as J.J. Abrams hefts the yoke of the mighty Star Wars

franchise, picking up where 1983’s Episode VI: The Return of the Jedi left off. Rated PG-13. At the Carmike, Pharaohplex, and pretty much every theater everywhere.

Capsule reviews by Ednor Therriault.

Planning your outing to the cinema? Visit the arts section of missoulanews.com to find up-to-date movie times for theaters in the area. You can also contact theaters to spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities.

Theater phone numbers: Carmike 12 at 5417469; The Roxy at 728-9380; Wilma at 7282521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 961-FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan at 883-5603.

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Christmas monkey bread

by Gabi Moskowitz Will I be stripped of my Nice Jewish Girl status if I tell you that the Moskowitz family actually has some pretty sweet Christmas traditions? We are spiritually, religiously and culturally Jewish and so do the usual Chinese-food-and-a-movie thing on Christmas Eve, but after that, it’s Moskowitz Secular Christmas Time.

After our chop suey and egg rolls, we head back to my parents’ house where Mom gives us all special Christmas Eve pajamas. We put them on (even my father), sip spiked eggnog and listen to Dad play the piano. (Do you hate me for my nauseatingly nuclear family yet? Hope not.) In the morning, we exchange presents and eat an extravagant breakfast courtesy of Mom, consisting of mimosas, coffee, eggs, bacon and monkey bread—a lovely, sticky, caramel-y combination of fluffy biscuits, cinnamon, melted brown sugar and butter. Lots of butter.

Most people make monkey bread using canned biscuits and, though it’s delicious any way you make it, I wanted to give it a shot using a fresh egg-y yeasted bread dough. The result: scrumptious. Like one big brown-sugary cinnamon roll.

I don’t own a Bundt pan, which is what’s typically used for monkey bread, so I went free-form and it worked just fine. Feel free to use a Bundt pan if you have one though—it’ll ensure a prettier, more cohesive result.

Ingredients 1 cup warm (but not hot) milk 1 packet yeast 2 tablespoon honey 1 egg 8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted, divided 2 ¾ cups all-purpose flour, plus more for rolling 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup (packed) dark brown sugar 3 teaspoons ground cinnamon (Recipe serves 4-6)

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BROKEASS GOURMET Directions Preheat oven to 350. Grease a baking sheet or Bundt pan liberally and set aside.

Combine the milk, yeast and honey in a large mixing bowl and set aside, allowing it to activate for 2-3 minutes. Add the egg, 4 tablespoons of the melted butter, the flour and the salt and stir well to combine.

Continue stirring until a soft dough forms.

Turn the dough out onto a floured surface and knead for about 8 minutes (this can also be done in a food processor or stand-up mixer for about 4 minutes).

Transfer kneaded dough to a lightly oiled bowl and cover. Let rest in a warm spot for 30 minutes.

Combine the brown sugar and the cinnamon in a bowl. Stir well and set aside. Set the remaining melted butter in a small bowl next to the brown sugarcinnamon mixture.

Turn risen dough out onto a lightly floured surface and use your hands to pat it into a 6-by-8 rectangle. Use a sharp knife to cut the dough into about 48 1-inch squares.

To form the bread, lightly flour your hands. Pick up a square and roll it gently between your hands until you have a round ball. Dip it in the butter and then immediately into the brown sugar-cinnamon mixture and place it on the prepared pan. Continue with the remaining dough, butter and brown sugarcinnamon mixture, piling the balls on top of each other in sort of a stacked wreath.

Cover loosely with plastic wrap and let sit for 15 minutes in a warm spot.

Remove plastic wrap and bake monkey bread for 25-30 minutes, or until brown and sticky. Serve immediately.

BrokeAss Gourmet caters to folks who want to live the high life on the cheap, with delicious recipes that are always under $20. Gabi Moskowitz is the blog’s editor-in-chief and author of The BrokeAss Gourmet Cookbook and Pizza Dough:100 Delicious, Unexpected Recipes.

[dish] Asahi 1901 Stephens Ave 829-8989 • asahimissoula.com Exquisite Chinese and Japanese cuisine. Try our new Menu! Order online for pickup or express dine in. Pleasant prices. Fresh ingredients.

Artistic presentation. Voted top 3 People’s Choice two years in a row. Open Tue-Sun: 11am-10pm. $-$$$ Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West • 728-1358 It’s the little things we do together. Bernice’s takes these moments to heart. This Christmas when you want “just the right size” gift or party package, think about stopping by Bernice’s having us prepare you a personalized cookie plate, or pick up frosted Christmas trees (Yep! Those famous sugar cookies.) Packaged Bernice’s Hot Cocoa, Mini Macaroons, Gingerbread Coffeecake, and loaves of Poundcake, also make great gifts! Have you checked out Bernice’s wearables lately? Downright smart.

Gift Cards? Oh, yeah. Bernice’s wishes you a Merry Little Christmas. xoxo bernice. $-$$ Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street • 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a “biga” (pronounced bee-ga) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making. Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$ Bitter Root Brewing 101 Marcus St., Hamilton 363-7468 bitterrootbrewing.com The Bitter Root Brewery in downtown Hamilton is your one-stop shop for all your holiday needs. Plan your upcoming party, stock up on tasty beer and check off your holiday present list all at the Bitter Root Brewery. Open 7 days a week. Cheers! $-$$ Black Coffee Roasting Co. 525 E. Spruce • 541-3700 Black Coffee Roasting Company is located in the heart of Missoula. Our roastery is open M-F 6:30-5:30, Sat. 7:30- 4, Sun. 8-3. In addition to fresh roasted coffee beans we offer a full service espresso bar, drip coffee, pour-overs and more. The suspension of coffee beans in water is our specialty. $ Bridge Pizza 600 S Higgins Ave. • 542-0002 bridgepizza.com A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery.

Open everyday 11am - 10:30pm. $-$$ Brooks & Browns Inside Holiday Inn Downtown 200 S. Pattee St. • 532-2056 Martini Mania with $4 martinis every Monday. The Griz Coaches Radio Show LIVE every Tuesday at 6pm, Burger & Beer special $8 every Tuesday. $2 well drinks & $2 PBR tall boys every Wednesday. Big Brains Trivia every Thursday at 8pm.

Have you discovered Brooks & Browns? Inside the Holiday Inn, Downtown Missoula $-$$ Burns Street Bistro 1500 Burns St. • 543-0719 burnsstbistro.com We cook the freshest local ingredients as

a matter of pride. Our relationship with local farmers, ranchers and other businesses allows us to bring quality, scratch cooking and fresh-brewed Black Coffee Roasting Co. coffee and espresso to Missoula’s Historic Westside neighborhood. Handmade breads & pastries, soups, salads & sandwiches change with the seasons, but our commitment to delicious food does not. Mon-Fri 7am - 2pm. Sat/Sun Brunch 9am - 2pm. Dinners on Fri & Sat nights 5 - 9 PM. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins • 728-8780 Celebrating 43 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $

Mon-Fri 7am - 4pm

(Breakfast ‘til Noon)

531 S. Higgins

541-4622

Sat & Sun 8am - 4pm

(Breakfast all day)

Cafe Zydeco 2101 Brooks • 406-926-2578 cafezydeco.com GIT’ SOME SOUTH IN YOUR MOUTH! Authentic cajun cuisine, with an upbeat zydeco atmosphere in the heart of Missoula. Indoor and outdoor seating. Breakfast served all day. Featuring Jambalaya, Gumbo, Étouffée, Po-boys and more. Beignets served ALL DAY! Open Monday 9am-3pm, Tuesday-Saturday 11am-8pm, Closed Sundays.

Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. • 542-7414 Doc’s is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you’re heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc’s is always an excellent choice.

Delivery in the greater Missoula area. We also offer custom catering!...everything from gourmet appetizers to all of our menu items. $-$$

DECEMBER

El Cazador 101 S. Higgins Ave. • 728-3657 Missoula Independent readers’ choice for Best Mexican Restaurant. Come taste Alfredo’s original recipes for authentic Mexican food where we cook with love. From seafood to carne asada, enjoy dinner or stop by for our daily lunch specials. We are a locally owned Mexican family restaurant, and we want to make your visit with us one to remember. Open daily for lunch and dinner. $-$$

COFFEE SPECIAL

The Empanada Joint 123 E. Main St. • 926-2038 Offering authentic empanadas BAKED FRESH DAILY! 9 different flavors, including vegetarian and (call ahead) gluten-free options, plus Argentine side dishes and desserts. Super quick and delicious! Get your healthy, hearty lunch or dinner here.

Wi-Fi, Ping Pong, Soccer on the Big Screen, and music from Argentina and South America. Ask about our Take & Bake and Catering too! Mon - Wed 11a - 6p, Thur Sat 11a - 8p. Downtown Missoula. $

$10.95/lb.

Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West • 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-to-order sandwiches, Fire Deck pizza & calzones, rice & noodle wok bowls, an award-winning salad bar, an olive & antipasto bar and a self-serve hot bar offering a variety of housemade breakfast, lunch and dinner entrées. A seasonally-changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available. Locally-roasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive fresh juice and smoothie menu complement bakery goods from the GFS ovens and Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day 7am-10pm $-$$

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New Year’s Eve at Plonk Wine HAPPIEST HOUR

Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. • 549-7723 grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula’s Best Liquor Store! Largest selection of spirits in the Northwest, including all Montana micro-distilleries.

Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines! Free customer parking. Open Monday-Saturday 9-7:30. $-$$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins • 541-4622 hobnobonhiggins.com Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. MC/V $-$$ The Iron Griz 515 South Ave. E. • 728-5106 irongriz.com Located at the base of Mt. Sentinel in the UM Golf Course Clubhouse, the Iron Griz proudly serves delicious, affordable, local foods. Montana food producers, partnering with the UM Farm to College Program, supply our kitchen with the freshest, highest quality meets, produce, locally brewed beer and wines. The Iron Griz will be closed December 21st through January 5th. Beginning January 6th our new hours will be WED. – SAT. Noon- 9:00 p.m. $-$$

photo by Erika Fredrickson

What you’re doing: Gathering your friends (or a date) in one of the cozy nooks at Plonk Wine to celebrate the end of another year. The front corner of the restaurant is particularly appealing: With its cushy purple-andred seating around the Christmas tree and a view of the snowy downtown streets through the grille window, you’ll feel like you’re nestled in someone’s living room.

What you’re drinking: Wine, beer and/or spirits, but if you really have a thirst for the season try any of the holiday cocktails, including the Czech Toddy, the #plonk #psl or the Naughty Elf. What you’re listening to: After the dinner hour, Craig Hall and his Quartet, featuring Eden Atwood, provide entertainment up through the big countdown. At midnight, expect balloons and Champagne all around.

What you’re eating: Plonk’s NYE menu is a four-course prix fixe menu for $50 per per-

son. Add $30 per person if you’d like to include wine pairings. Reservations required. Or skip the eats and go straight for the Naughty Elf. What is a Naughty Elf? It’s a rich, minty cocktail made with vodka, Godiva wine, Dr. McGulicuddy’s mentholmint, white cream cacao, cream and a candy cane rim. Sound like a disaster for the waistline? “It doesn’t matter,” says manager Renee Somerset-Mucha.

“It’s puffy jacket season.” Manager Ben Burda adds, “Cocktails don’t have calories.” If someone says it out loud, it’s true, right?

Where to find it: Dinner and merrymaking begin at 5 p.m. Thu., Dec. 31, at Plonk Wine, located at 322 N. Higgins Ave. in downtown Missoula.

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

Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins • 728-8866 ironhorsebrewpub.com We’re the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we’ll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$ Iza 529 S. Higgins • 830-3237 izarestaurant.com Local Asian cuisine feature SE Asian, Japanese, Korean and Indian dishes. Gluten Free and Vegetarian no problem. Full Beer, Wine, Sake and Tea menu. We have scratch made bubble teas. Come in for lunch, dinner, drinks or just a pot of awesome tea. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm, Happy Hour 3-6pm, Dinner M-Sat 3pm-close. $-$$ Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. (on the hip strip) • 543-7154 themissoulaseniorcenter.org Did you know the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every weekday for only $4 for those on the Nutrition Program, $5 for U of M Students with a valid student ID and $6 for all others. Children under 10 eat free. Join us from 11:30 - 12:30 M-F for delicious food and great conversation. $ The Mustard Seed Asian Cafe Southgate Mall • 542-7333 Contemporary Asian fusion cuisine. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combine the best of Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences. Full menu available at the bar. Award winning desserts made fresh daily , local and regional micro brews, fine wines & signature cocktails. Vegetarian and Gluten free menu available. Takeout & delivery. $$-$$$

Pearl Cafe 231 E. Front St. 541-0231 • pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with Dungeness Crab, Rabbit with Wild Mushroom Ragout, Snake River Farms Beef, Fresh Seafood Specials Daily.

House Made Charcuterie, Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts. Extensive wine list; 18 wines by the glass and local beers on draft. Reservations recommended for the intimate dining areas. Visit our website Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Pita Pit 130 N Higgins • 541-7482 pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating. Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to name just a few. For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week. Call if you need us to deliver! $-$$ River Rising Bakery 337 Main St., Hamilton 363-4552 ORDER YOUR HOLIDAY DESSERTS EARLY! Hamilton’s favorite bakery, deli, and espresso bar.

Serving all butter pastries, delicious and nutritious muffins, cream scones, and delectable desserts. Or choose from our selection of home-made soups, salads, and sandwiches found nowhere else. Open 6:30am-5:30pm Monday-Friday, 8:00am-4:00pm Saturday, 8:00am-2:00pm Sunday. Weekday local business lunch delivery available 9:00am-1:00pm. $-$$ The Starving Artist Cafe & Art Gallery 3020 S. Reserve St., Ste A 541-7472 missoulastarvingartist.com Local, high quality pastries and desserts from Missoula bakeries. Top of the line coffee blends from Hunter Bay Coffee, and specialty, hand crafted beverages. Monthly events, featured artists, and open mic night every Wednesday. The Starving Artist Cafe & Art Gallery is sure to please your palette! $ Sushi Hana 403 N. Higgins 549-7979 SushiMissoula.com Montana’s Original Sushi Bar. We Offer the Best Sushi and Japanese Cuisine in Town. Casual atmosphere. Plenty of options for non-sushi eaters including daily special items you won’t find anywhere else. $1 Specials Mon & Wed. Lunch Mon–Sat; Dinner Daily.

Sake, Beer, & Wine. Visit SushiMissoula.com for full menu. $$-$$$

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. $$-$$$

Taco Sano Two Locations: 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West 1515 Fairview Ave inside City Life 541-7570 • tacosano.net Home of Missoula’s Best BREAKFAST BURRITO. 99 cent TOTS every Tuesday. Once you find us you’ll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am9pm 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$

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

What deal will you find today? $-$$$

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

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December 24–December 31, 2015

THURSDAYDEC24 It’s Christmas Eve, a time of togetherness.

Why not bring the whole family downtown to watch them feed Rosie, the Chilean tarantula?

Missoula Insectarium, 218 E. Front St. First cricket drops at 1 PM.

FRIDAYDEC25 The Chinese Carry Out Comedy Cavalcade is a daylong marathon of classic comedies, complete with a Chinese buffet. At the Roxy, 1 PM. $10 includes the Chinese food.

SATURDAYDEC26 It’s like a rasslin’ match set to music.

Crow’s Share, Love is a Dog from Nebraska, Jacob Osbourne and Wailin’ Jennings share a night of howlin’, strummin’ and croonin’.

Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $3 for 18-20/Free for 21 and over.

nightlife Smokestack and the Foothill Fury may or may not do an interpretive dance to express their emotions about Anaconda. They will definitely play some music, though, at Draught Works Brewery, 6–8 PM. Free.

Moneypenny play R&B at Bitter Root Brewing, 6–8 PM. Free.

Tom “The Hammer” Catmull peels off the killer acoustic tunes at Blacksmith Brewing Co. like so many Benjamins off his roll. Stevensville.

6–8 PM. Free.

We’re gonna bluegrass your brains out! Lil’ Smokies provide a raucous welcome to 2016 with a New Year’s Eve show at the Wilma. Country/Americana purveyors The Best Westerns open the show. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $15/$12 adv. Visit thewilma.com.

DJs Kris Moon and Monty Carlo completely disrespect the adverb with their Absolutely Dance Party at the Badlander, which gets rolling at 9 PM, with fancy drink specials to boot. No cover.

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[calendar] Cash that Christmas check from Grandma and buy a round for the house when Joan Zen and band take the stage at the Union Club. 9:30 PM. No cover.

Country is as country does when the Wild Coyote Band yip it up at the Sunrise Saloon. 9:30 PM. Free.

More events online: missoulanews.com

SUNDAYDEC27 Wolf & the Moons provide the music to help you quaff your Christmas weekend to a close at Draught Works Brewery, 5–7 PM. Free.

Get all keyed up with the Five Valley Accordion Association, which presents its dance jam every second and fourth Sunday of the month at alternating locations, 1–5

PM. $4/$3 for members. Email helenj4318@hotmail.com for info.

The Contact Improv Jam is open to those of all abilities who are interested in contact improvisation. Every Sunday, 3:15–5 PM. Downtown Dance Collective. $5.

nightlife Whether the weekend’s winding down or just getting started, kick back and enjoy the lolz at the No Pads, No Blazers Comedy Hour, hosted by Kyle “Turkey Pastrami” Kulseth every

Hey, does anybody have the time? Love is a Dog from Nebraska (aka the Mighty Travis) is part of a night of acoustic music with Crow’s Share, Jacob Osbourne and Wailin’ Jennings. Stage 112, Sat., Dec. 26. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $3 for 18-20/ free for 21 and over.

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[calendar] fourth Sunday of the month at the VFW, at 8 PM sharpish and lasting just one hour. Includes half-off drink specials. $3 sugg. donation.

More events online: missoulanews.com Jazz and martinis go together like cops and pepper spray. Jazz Martini night offers live, local jazz and $5 martinis every Sunday night at the Badlander. No cover. Dig it, and dig it deep, Jasper.

MONDAYDEC28 Chris Sand, the Rappin’ Cowboy, celebrates the release of his new CD Hard Lessons. Dorothy adds a special dimension to the evening at the Roxy, 8 PM. Free. All ages.

The one and only Tom Catmull brings his singular acoustic Americana style to the Red Bird Wine Bar, 7–10 PM. Free.

The Badlander’s latest weekly event is Blues Monday, with a rotating cast of local blues musicians hosted by Black Mountain Moan. 9 PM, no cover.

Local Deadheads have got you covered when the Top Hat presents Raising the Dead, a curated broadcast of two hours of Jerry Garcia and Co. 5–7 PM. Free, all ages.

More events online: missoulanews.com

WHO: Shakewell and Mendelssohn

You some kinda wise guy (or gal)? Prove it at the Quizzoula trivia night at the VFW, 245 W. Main St., with current events, picture round and more. Gets rolling around 8:30 PM. To get you warmed up, here’s a trivia question: When was the first Times Square “ball drop”? Find answer in tomorrow’s nightlife.

HOW MUCH: $5 MORE INFO: tophatlounge.com No. 5: “Shut Up and Dance,” Walk the Moon. Anthemic ‘80s pop embellished with ‘90s-era U2 guitar and a 2004 dance beat. Adds up to instantly forgettable.

No. 4: “I Can’t Feel My Face,” The Weeknd. This is the best song that Bruno Mars and Chic never recorded together.

Open Mic Night at Stage 112 gives you a chance to show your stuff on a real mic on a real stage in front of a real audience. Also $2 tall boy cans of courage. 112 Pattee St., 9 PM.

WEDNESDAYDEC30 If last year’s New Year’s resolution included sipping some fine brew while bopping to some catchy Irish tunes, you are running out of time. Fortunately, the Craicers will help you fulfill your desire at Great Burn Brewing, 6–8 P.M. Free. (Trivia answer: Dec. 31, 1907.)

nightlife A Phish Happy Hour? Sounds more like a Trey Anastasio solo. Phish music, video and more at the Top Hat every Wednesday. 4:30 PM, but I know you’ll show up at 4:20. Free, all ages.

Cribbage enthusiasts finally have a place to share their affliction at Cribbage Night. Enjoy a few cocktails as you look for nibs and nobs. Boards and cards provided. Rattlesnake Creek Distillers, 128 W. Alder St., Suite B. 6–8 PM. Rediscover “the magic which makes you legendary in your own mind” via the assistance of Mexican

No. 3: “Sippin’ on Fire,” Florida Georgia Line. Ah, yes. The Nickelback of pop country, keeping dozens of producers gainfully employed since 2011.

I’ve been to the actual Florida-Georgia line. It’s a swamp.

WHEN: Thu., Dec. 31. Doors at 9:30 PM, show at 10 WHERE: Top Hat Lounge

The Craicers and Friends will make you feel all jiggy with their traditional Irish tunes at Imagine Nation Brewing Co., 1151 W. Broadway, 6–8 PM. Two-step the midweek blues away at Country Dance Lessons, featuring styles including the waltz, cha-cha, swing and more. Hamilton Senior Center, Tuesdays from 7-8:30 PM, and Wednesdays at a TBA location. Bring a partner on Tuesdays, but the group is open on Wednesdays.

Call 381-1392 for more info. $5.

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WHAT: New Year’s Eve Black Tie Affair

Mike Avery hosts the Music Showcase every Tuesday, featuring some of Missoula’s finest musical talent. Also enjoy pool and drink specials.

The Badlander, 9 PM–1 AM. To sign up, email michael.avery@live.com.

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The last night of the year is typically a time of retrospection, a pause before we plunge into 2016 with all its unseen mysteries and challenges and knuckleheaded verbal ejaculations from Donald Trump. As evinced in the rest of this issue of the Indy, the past year has seen a lot of great music, great performances and great moments in entertainment.

But there was plenty of crap produced this year too. When Shakewell take the stage at the Top Hat New Year’s Eve, they promise to deliver a mashup of the 15 worst songs of 2015. The list of songs is a closely guarded secret, and besides, they’re on the road right now so I couldn’t get ahold of them. So here’s my Shakewell own short list of the worst songs of 2015.

TUESDAYDEC29

No. 2: “I Really Like You,” Carly Rae Jepson. “I really really really really really really like you.” Was this written during the Great Lyric Drought of 1997?

No. 1: “Kick the Dust Up,” Luke Bryan.

Watching his halftime performance during a Thanksgiving football game, I nearly refunded my feast right then and there. It was a visual flowchart of everything that’s wrong with country music, right down to the awkward old white guy prominently positioned onstage, plucking an incongruous banjo to show all the vapid dorks screaming up at Nashville’s biggest poser that this is, indeed, country music.

—Ednor Therriault

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[calendar] food and beer when “Poncho” Dobson hosts the Live and Loco open mic at the Symes Hotel, Wednesdays from 6-9:30 PM. Call 741-2361 to book a slot, or just come hang out and party. Free.

This open mic is truly open. Jazz, classic rock, poetry, spoken word, dance, shadow puppets— share your creative spark at The Starving Artist Café and Art Gallery, 3020 S. Reserve St. Every Wed., 6–8 PM. Free.

Wednesday Night Brewery Jam invites all musicians to bring an instrument and join in.

Hosted by Geoffrey Taylor at Imagine Nation Brewing Co., 6–8 PM. Free.

Win big bucks off your bar tab and/or free pitchers by using your giant egg to answer trivia questions at Brains on Broadway Trivia Night at the Broadway Sports Bar and Grill, 1609 W. Broadway Ave. 7 PM.

FIRST NIGHT

THURSDAYDEC31 Cap off your year with a roots rockin’ party at the Wilma. Bluegrass superheroes Lil’ Smokies and the Best Westerns will pluck, twang, strum and harmonize 2015 right out the door. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $15/$12 advance at thewilma.com.

Country is The Best Westerns’ business, and business is good. Join them for a little honkytonkin’ at Draught Works Brewery, 5–7 PM. Free.

Spend New Year’s Eve with some great beer and the clever reggae-rock of David Baty at Bitter Root Brewing, 6–8 PM. Free.

Shake it one last time this year to some progressive house with a big combo party at Stage 112 and The Real Lounge. Cómo Se Va, Holdr, M-AD, Kapture, Milkcrate Mechanic, R00ster, Skillbilliez and Tempo Tantrum provide the thump. One ticket, two parties. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $2 for 18-20/free for 21 and over.

Grandmother Witch continue their residency at the VFW. 9 PM. Dusk rock out until the last reveler is standing.

Party favors and more at the Dark Horse, 1805 Regent St. 9 PM. No cover.

Enjoy a two-wheel-themed New Year’s Eve when Mesozoic Mafia provide the party tunes at Free Cycles. Also Charlie Apple and a guitar duel hosted by Gavin McCourt. 9 PM. Free, donations appreciated.

Trust me, when it’s the morning after the night before, you’ll want Russ Nasset and the Revelators’ music pounding in your memory.

Union Club, 9:30 PM. No cover.

Make your midnight countdown a funky one with Shakewell at the Top Hat. The “black tie affair” features openers Mendelssohn, and a special mashup of the 15 worst songs of 2015. Doors at 9:30 PM, show at 10. $5. (See Spotlight.)

Mr. Calendar Guy wants to know about your event!

Submit to calendar@missoulanews.com at least two weeks in advance of the event to guarantee publication. Don’t forget to include the date, time, venue and cost. Or snail mail to Calendar c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801. You can also submit online. Just find the “submit an event” link under the Spotlight on the right corner at missoulanews.com.

Ed Norton Big Band plays through the midnight hour at the University Center Ballroom.

Missoula’s signature alcohol- and drug-free celebration just passed its 20th year and shows no signs of slowing down. Buy a button for $15 in advance, $18 day of event ($2 extra for a First Night Spotlight ticket) and gain entry to as many performances as you can swing. Hundreds of It goes all day and into the night at the UC Atrium. Face Painting, 11 AM–2 PM. 6 Degrees of Separation: A Creative Mapping Project, noon–8 PM. Art on Tap: Session 1, 2– 5 PM. Montana Clown Works, 4–9 PM. Art on Tap: Session 2, 6–9 PM. The Octopus, 6–9 PM. Larry and Kristina Cyr, 7–9 PM. Hear it straight from the artists at Missoula Art Museum, when their Speaker’s Bureau welcomes Wilbur Rehmann, 1–2 PM. Michael and Keleren Millham, 2:30–3:30 PM. The music rings from the rafters at First United Methodist Church. Gaelic Meadowlarks, 1:30–2:15 PM and 2:30–3:30 PM. Peter Edwards, MD, 4–5 PM. Mike & Tari Conroy Band, 5:30–6:30 PM, Gravely Mountain, 7–8 PM. Malarkey, 8:30–9:30 PM. The Missoula Senior Center hums with good energy when the Intro to African Dance Class with Tarn Ream kicks off, 1:30–2:30 PM. Sentinel High School Jazz Band, 3–5 PM. Community Drum Circle, 5:30–6:30 PM. University Center’s 3rd floor lounge is a hotbed of spoken word, with Stories After the First Snowfall, 1:30–2:30 PM. Speaker’s Bureau: Hal Stearns, 3–4 PM. Traveler’s Rest Winter Storytelling Series, 4:30–5:30 PM. Speaker’s Bureau: Franco Littlelight, 6–7 PM. Winter in the Blood, 7:30–9:30 PM. Mechanical Wonderland, 10–11 PM. Louie Meisner, 11–midnight.

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performers at dozens of venues will make it the best New Year’s Eve of the year. This year features many events that encourage creative participation. Kids under 7 are free. Visit missoula-cultural.org/first-nightmissoula for more info and a detailed schedule.

Kendahl Jan Jubb gives a watercolor demo at Murphy-Jubb Fine Art, 201 N. Higgins, 2–3 PM. Southgate Mall bustles with activity, starting with Box Core with Sky from Ridge Fitness, 2–3 PM. Trillium Brass Trio, 2–3 PM. Missoula Taekwondo Demo Team, 3:30–4:30 PM. A wide variety of entertainment fills the UC Ballroom. Montana Super Skippers, 2–3 PM. Celebration of Sobriety, 4–5 PM. Missoula Folklore Society, 5:30–7:30 PM. Big Sky Mudflaps, 8–9 PM. Salsa Loca, 9–10 PM. Ring in the New Year with the Ed Norton Big Band, 10:30 PM–12:30 AM. It’s song and dance on the big stage at Dennison Theatre. Quartet Caribe, 2–3 PM. Bare Bait Dance, 3:30–4:30 PM. Rocky Mountain Ballet Theatre Co., 5–6 PM. Celtic Dragon Pipe Band, 6:30–7:30 PM. UC Commons is Rock Band Central, starting with Tangled Tones, 2:30–3:30 PM. Zeppo Blues, 4:30-5:30 PM. Frederico Brothers, 6–7 PM. Full Grown Men, 7:30–8:30 PM. MudSlide Charley, 9–10 PM. Drum Brothers, 10:30 PM–12:30 AM. Enjoy some visual splendor at Dana Gallery while you take in some jazz from the Captain Wilson Conspiracy, 2:30–3:30 PM. Jazz Graffiti, 4–5 PM. Triple Sec, 5:30–6:30 PM, Jodi Marshall and Brice Todd, 7–8 PM. UC Theatre offers a little something for everybody. The Mime: Christian Ackerman,

12:30–1:30 PM. Pea Green Boat: Live Broadcast, 4–5 PM. A screeing of Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid, live scored by John Sporman, 5:30– 6:30 PM. Rhandamonium, 7–8 PM. John Floridis Trio, 8:30–9:30 PM. Downtown Dance Collective hosts a variety of movement and dance. Children of the Earth Tribe: Song and Chang Circle, 3–4 PM. International Folk Dance, 4:30–5:15 PM and 5:30– 6:30 PM. Turning the Wheel, 7–8 PM. Lawrence Duncan, 8:30–9:30 PM. Missoula Insectarium offers half-price admission, 3–6 PM. SpectrUM Discovery Area offers free admission.

UM’s Recital Hall hosts a variety of musical performances, starting with Tour de Saxophone, 3;30–4:30 PM. Five Valley Chorus of Sweet Adelines and Rocky Mountiainaires, 5–6 PM. Pura Vida Community Chorus and the Missoula Kids’ Choir, 6:30–7:30 PM. Montana A Cappella Society, 8–9 PM. Zootown Brew is boppin’ with the Americana sounds of Britchy, 5–6 PM. Way Cool Music, 6:30–7:30 PM. Hardin Scott Band, 8–9 PM. MCT Center for the Performing Arts hosts Djebe Bara, 6–7 PM. Gamelan Manik Harum, 7:30–8:30 PM. E3 Convergence Gallery hosts some fine acoustic music from Gerygone & Twig, 6:30– 7:30 PM. Crowbar Vigilantes, 8–9 PM.

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MOUNTAIN HIGH L ike a lot of specialized sports, whitewater kayaking has its own lexicon. In a river town like Missoula, it’s just a matter of time before you find yourself on a barstool or in a coffee shop eavesdropping on a conversation that might go as follows: “So you double pumped but still couldn’t pull off that bow stall?”

“Right! I did an awesome boof onto that foam pile, but I didn’t pry enough greenwater. Wound up pulling an ender, so I figured it was going to be either an Eskimo roll or a wet exit.”

“Well, it’s a good thing I caught that jet ferry when I did. I could see you were starting to recirculate.”

“No kidding. I was able to carp a couple of times, but if you hadn’t given me the hand of God, the shuttle bunny would have had one less paddler at the takeout.”

Need some translation? Take your rig to the Open Kayak Session at Currents Aquatic Center.

Summer kayakers can keep their skills sharp when it’s still a winter wonderland out there. And you might even pick up some new lingo.

—Ednor Therriault

Kayak Open Session is at Currents Aquatic Center Tue., Dec. 29, 8–10 PM. Normal entry fees apply, 14 and under require adult supervision.

photo by Chad Harder

THURSDAY DECEMBER 24 Santa Claus has a busy night ahead of him, but first he’s intent on carving the pow-pow at Whitefish Mountain Resort as part of the Christmas Eve Torchlight Parade. More info at skiwhitefish.com.

Slice some ice in the Winter Wonderland at Glacier Ice Rink. Sessions run through Wed., Dec. 30. $6 adults/$3 kids and seniors. Skate rental is $3.

Check glaciericerink.com for times.

SATURDAY DECEMBER 26 Join the Rocky Mountaineers for a moonlight ski session at Lolo Pass. Share a potluck at the warming hut, then head out to watch the moonrise. Contact Steve at stephenschombel@rockymountaineers.com.

TUESDAY DECEMBER 29 Join the Montana Dirt Girls every Tuesday for an all-women hike or bike somewhere in the area. You can find the upcoming trip posted at facebook.com/MontanaDirtGirls. Various locations, 6 PM.

Practice your Eskimo rolls and flat spins at the Open Kayak session. Bring your own kayak and gear, ages 14 and under require adult supervision. Currents Aquatic Center, 8–10 PM. Normal entry fees apply. Visit ci.missoula.mt.us/161/Aquatics. (See Mountain High.)

WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 30 Slice some ice in the Winter Wonderland at Glacier Ice Rink. $6 adults/$3 kids and seniors.

Skate rental is $3. Check glaciericerink.com for times.

Run Wild Missoula’s Last Wednesday Beer Run is a monthly casual run/walk open to runners of all abilities. Run or walk an easy 3–5 mile route, then gather for an adult beverage afterwards. 6 PM. For info, visit runwildmissoula.com.

THURSDAY DECEMBER 31 Start the New Year with some sick moves at the New Year’s Eve Rail Jam at Whitefish Mountain Resort. Festivities include a rail competition, torchlight parade and fireworks. Visit skiwhitefish.com.

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[community]

A 3-year-old boy should be out working on his snowman-building technique or dragging all the pots and pans for an impromptu kitchen drum solo, not fighting for his life in a Seattle hospital.

Since Easton Klemundt was diagnosed with cancer this past March, he’s undergone several rounds of surgery and chemotherapy at Seattle Children’s Hospital. This particular form of cancer, desmoplastic small round cell tumor, is rare and aggressive.

It’s one of a parent’s worst nightmares, and the struggle of fighting the disease is compounded by the staggering costs associated with it. Beyond the medical bills, there are the expenses incurred as Easton’s family travels back and forth to Seattle, where the best care is available.

To help raise funds, Red’s Bar is offering holiday gift-wrapping through 6 PM Christmas Eve, with people donating whatever amount they wish.

This is the 12th year they have offered the service, with donations going to someone in need. “It’s a

lot of fun,” says event coordinator Laurie Clark.

“People bring us their stuff, have a cold beverage and visit with friends. For many people it’s a huge stress reliever not having to wrap their gifts.”

Mike Helean, owner of Red’s Bar, agrees. “It’s a great opportunity for those husbands and wives, moms and dads who want to have some of the wrapping tasks taken off their hands. The Missoula community has been very supportive of the event and we look forward to it every year.”

In this season of giving, here’s a chance to help a family that’s facing a monumental struggle while taking a little pressure off your Christmas todo list at the same time.

—Ednor Therriault Red’s Bar offers holiday gift wrapping to raise funds for Easton Klemundt, who is being treated for cancer. Wrapping service runs 10 AM-6 PM Thu., Dec. 24.

[AGENDA LISTINGS] THURSDAY DECEMBER 24 Get your last-minute gifts wrapped and help raise funds for Easton Klemundt’s medical expenses.

Red’s Bar, 10 AM–6 PM. Donations accepted. (See Agenda.)

FRIDAY DECEMBER 25 Buy local, eat local at the Missoula Winter Public Market. Enjoy fresh produce, frozen meat, eggs, honey and other locally sourced food. Snag a hot cup of locally roasted coffee and check out the handmade crafts too. 10 AM, 800 S. 3rd St. W. Does your phone have you flummoxed? Blackberry got you buffaloed? Get some drop-in device or computer help from the Missoula Public Library’s experts. One-on-one help available 10 AM–noon.

MONDAY DECEMBER 28 Sip a fancy soda for a cause at this edition of Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery,

129 W. Front St. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to a cause each week. Family friendly, noon– 8 PM.

TUESDAY DECEMBER 29 After months of renovations and restricted access, the North Valley Public Library reopens the entire facility today. 208 Main St., Stevensville, 10 AM. Shootin’ the Bull Toastmasters help you improve your public speaking skills with weekly meetings at ALPS in the Florence Building noon–1 PM. Free and open to the public. Visit shootinthebull.info for details.

It’s Mule-Tastic Tuesday, which means Montana Distillery will donate $1 from every cocktail sold to a local nonprofit organization. 12–8 PM. Chill out with a free, family-friendly movie every Tuesday at the Missoula Public Library, 2 PM.

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

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I have a bad temper, and I’m trying to change.

Now when I’m mad, I leave the room to compose myself. Recently, my boyfriend said something that really upset me. Taking a break allowed me to calmly explain that he’d hurt my feelings. He apologized, and I could tell he truly felt bad— much worse than if I had raged on him.

Can you explain this?

—Formerly Volcanic It’s really smart to “take 10” when you’re angry—and not just because it takes that long to get the gasoline, pour it all over your boyfriend’s Xbox, and light it on fire.

As I explained recently, screaming at a guy—a verbal attack—launches the same fight-or-flight defense system as trying to use the guy’s face as a bar rag.

And once a person’s adrenaline gets let out of the gate, there’s no coaxing it back. That’s why “Braveheart” would be a Monty Python movie if the Scots, upon doing their battle cry, stopped, looked at one another, and then called to the English: “Say, luvvies ... on second thought ... shall we all put down these silly battle-axes, wash our faces, and chat out our differences o’er a cup o’ tea?”

As for why your emotional makeover led your boyfriend to go more Zen monk than poo-flinging monkey, social psychologist C. Daniel Batson explains that we have two distinct emotional responses to perceiving another person in need. The first, “personal distress,” leads us to have an “egoistic” motivation—to focus on ourselves and how we can escape our own uncomfortable feelings.

The other response is empathy—or really, “empathic concern,” which leads to an altruistic motivation: wanting to comfort the other person. You’re more likely to elicit the empathic response when your boyfriend doesn’t need to mount a defense—that is, when you approach him with quiet hurt and disappointment instead of like a hornet with boobs and a purse.

Kudos to you for recognizing that having a feeling isn’t reason to hop on it and ride it like a hoverboard. But in light of how gnarly-hard impulse control can be, what’s most impressive are your adult timeouts—putting space between having a feeling and acting on it. It is good for your boyfriend to believe he can always count on you—but not to explode and take his hand off like blackmarket fireworks you bought with the possum jerky out of the trunk of some guy’s car.

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I have noticed something odd in my relationship: The less demanding I am the more my boyfriend does what I want. Are guys so defiant, like little boys, that if you tell them what to do, they won’t do it? Curiously, if, after saying what I want, I add “but do what you want,” he usually does the thing I was hoping for. I don’t get it.

—Puzzled “Hey, baby, let’s role-play. I’ll be Stalin, and you be the tens of millions of peasants he sent to labor camps!”

Pick one—having a relationship or ruling the world’s tiniest totalitarian state. There are ways to get a man to do your bidding, and barking orders at him is among the least successful. (This is not the kind of doggy-style a man is hoping for.) Social psychologist Jack Brehm’s research on what he deemed “psychological reactance” finds what anybody with a 2-year-old knows all too well: The more you try to pressure somebody to do something the more they will “react”—that is, resist being controlled.

You can use what you’ve discovered to stealth-control a guy—trick him into bending to your will by being all “I dunno ... do what you want ...” However, what’s better is not needing to control him. You can get to that point by being consistently giving. This tends to cue our psychological mechanism for reciprocity—our internal accounting system that keeps track of gifts and favors we’ve received and bugs us when we’re in the red (kind of like a bill collector who demon-calls our conscience instead of our phone).

And, sure, this reciprocity thing can also be used to pull a guy’s strings. But, especially over time, we seem able to sniff out people’s motives. So see that you’re giving out of love rather than out of a desire to, uh, nanomanage (because micromanagement is for slackers). When generosity of spirit is what’s driving you, you’re likely to inspire the guy to give back—wanting to make you happy, as opposed to wanting to get your “honey-dos” out of the way so he can tie up two guards and tunnel out of the relationship with a sharpened toothbrush.

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Monday through Friday 8am to 5pm with an hour lunch. This person needs to be very physically capable, motivated, able to lift 50 pounds consistently, mechanically inclined and able to follow instructions. Job duties will start out with cleaning, filing and organizing saw blades. Need someone detail-oriented and safety conscious. Only applicants with a clean background who can pass a drug test will be considered. If qualified and interested please email resume to Amanda at amanda.babcock@expresspros.c om as well as complete an online application at www.expresspros.com. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10170336 Gray Wolf Peak General Manager S&K Gaming is seeking applications for General Manager in Evaro. Requires expertise in all facets of Food and Beverage, C Store and Casino Operations including goal setting for all departments and financial analysis, will manage all administrative and programmatic operations. Will lead the overall direct, administration and coordination of all activities.

Maintaining the highest level of integrity, a professional and motivating image for patrons and employees, and a strong work ethic, the General Manager will serve as the property’s ambassador and key strategist. Salary range DOE- $60,000 to $80,000 annually. Full job description at Missoula Job Service.

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Medication and appointment reminders. Running errands and incidental transportation. No previous experience necessary – paid training provided. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10170372

Route Driver Missoula based company is seeking a full time Route Driver. Must be familiar with Missoula and the surrounding areas, be able to pass a drug screen and have a clean driver’s record. Verifiable references in a related field required. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10170719

Office Assistant We are looking for a friendly and professional Office Assistant to join our team! Report directly to the manager and will assist in a wide variety of tasks: answering incoming and placing outgoing calls, help in tracking daily performance of employees and creating and analyzing reports, routine daily office tasks and other projects as assigned. Full time position with some light travel required. Must be able to think quickly and react professionally in all situations. Must be able to multitask and learn new software systems quickly. Microsoft experience required, some college preferred. Ability to multitask, organization and strong attention to detail are essential. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10170333 Recruiter This is a temporary position. Progressive company is seeking a recruiter for 3 to 6 months, with potential long term employment, to manage a large volume recruiting effort as we work to restructure and expand our company. Wage $15/hr. Full

Store Clerk CHS is seeking a Store Clerk to join our growing team. Must have excellent customer service skills along with excellent communication skills.

Work with internal and external customers in a courteous and professional manner. Conduct sales and sales delivery. Perform cashier responsibilities. Stock shelves and track inventory.

Complete facilities maintenance and general cleaning. Computer Skills. Able to lift 50 lbs. Able to stand for a standard shift. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10170496 Technical Support Professional We are looking for individuals with a strong work ethic and solid customer service, communication, and problem-solving skills to join our Help Desk Support staff. This position will be supporting a retail point of sale system. Primary responsibility is to provide professional and courteous support for end users by resolving computer software and hardware problems and delivering customer service that will result in high customer satisfaction with SEI services and build a dedicated base of customers. SEI will provide all the training you need to succeed. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10170154

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EMPLOYMENT with 1099 preparation, business personal property tax returns, and use tax returns. Could start after Christmas and would be through approximately the end of February. $10-$13 per hour DOE and a standard 8-5 position. We are looking for someone that is efficient and accurate in data entry and proficient in Microsoft Excel.

Accounting experience is preferred, but not required. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10170637 Community Development Manager This position is responsible for the economic development and fundraising strategies of the Downtown Missoula Partnership, which is comprised of the Missoula Downtown Association, the Downtown Business Improvement District and the Missoula Downtown Foundation. This includes but is not limited to: the cultivation, solicitation and stewardship of investors, developers and donors, grant writing and management, capital campaign fundraising, economic development activities, data management and support functions as they relate to the goals of the Partnership. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10170397 Conservation Program Coordinator The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, a nonprofit wildlife/habitat conservation organization seeks a detail oriented individual with a passion for conservation, excellent data entry, customer service, communication, and computer skills to provide program support to the Lands & Conservation department. Must have 2-5 years exp. in a natural resources field.

Prefer degree in natural resources/biology or similar field.

Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10170241 Rural and Tribal Environmental Solutions is seeking qualified candidates for full-time positions as Environmental Development Specialists (Circuit Riders). Requirements: Water system management or certified Montana Water Treatment Operator/Distribution certificate. Extensive travel. Further information: Email CV/resume or request full job description from ratesvic@hotmail.com

SKILLED LABOR Automotive Technician Bridgestone Retail Operations, LLC is currently hiring for all technician positions including: Entry Level Technician, Entry Level Mechanic / Technician, Senior Mechanic / Automotive Technician. Lead Mechanic / Master Technician/ We are the nation’s largest and most advanced automotive service retailer and we’re looking for the very best automotive techs. Our full time technicians enjoy great pay and a full range of benefits including health, dental and vision insurance as well as a 401k

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Carpenter Residential Locally owned construction firm in search of skilled and semikilled carpenters for both residential projects. Work will be full time and long term. This is not a seasonal job we are looking for employees to continue on with our company long term. Projects are in and around the Missoula area so travel is minimal. Employees must have current valid license and clean driving record.

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Dental Assistant The Dental Assistant will assist the Dentist and support staff with patient care, office, and laboratory duties. The ideal candidate will be productive and proficient in preparing and maintaining dental instruments, materials, and equipment. Excellent communication skills and compassion required when doing patient intake, assisting Dentist, and educating patient and parent on oral hygiene and dental care.

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CHIP TRUCK DRIVERS NEEDED from the Missoula area.

• Must be present to apply • Local hauls • Home daily • Good pay • Benefits • 2 years exp. required Call 406-493-7876 9am-5pm M-F. Dental Assistant Who has a current dental radiograph certification for x-ray processing. Requires completion of a training program as a Dental Assistant and a minimum of one year of experience. May be subject to a background check. Seats patient, reviews medical history, and prepares patient for dental work.

Arranges appropriate instruments. Assists the dentist and dental hygienist with placing or removing rubber dam, applying topical drugs as prescribed by dentist, placing or removing celluloid, plastic or metallic strips, providing suction/evacuation.

Assists in taking and developing x-ray films. Sterilizes, cleans and maintains dental instruments and equipment. Assists clerical support to schedule patient appointments. Assists with maintaining dental supply inventories. Assists with maintaining patient charts, progress notes and records. The employee may risk exposure to radiation due to taking and developing x-ray films. The employee may risk exposure to biohazards (ex. blood and disinfectant chemicals), and communicable diseases. May work in the Detention Facility, which involves exposure to potentially dangerous persons and situations. May require traveling to satellite clinic locations such as Seeley Lake or Lowell School. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10170172 Iron Works Fabricator Employee will be prepping parts (deburring & machining) on assembly line. Additional duties will include welding. Employee will be standing for duration of shift. Bending and lifting #75. Appropriate PPE to be provided. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID #26714 TRUCK DRIVER TRAINING. Complete programs and refresher courses, rent equipment for CDL. Job Placement Assistance. Financial assistance for qualified students. SAGE Technical Services, Billings/Missoula, 1-800-545-4546

Infant Caregiver Organic EcoSchool Seeking Infant Caregiver DOE up to $14 per hour with regular raises to work between from 1pm - 5:30pm M-F. This schedule could change and is flexible. Infant & Toddler Center is seeking an EXPERIENCED individual for a lead infant caregiver position in a STARS rated facility. Must have BA in Education or related field, A.A.S. or CDA or 2 years of experience in child-care. We look for creative, fun people who are serious about their childcare and teaching career who are passionate about the environment. Must be nonsmoker, have up to date immunizations, have or obtain current First Aid/CPR, must pass criminal background check prior to hiring. Successful applicants must take all required classes related to STARS certifications.

Looking for those who are great with arts & crafts, story-time, circle time, songs, games and who love to be outside! Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10170233

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Flexible solutions for your education needs. missoula-ems.com EMT Ambulance Driver Provides ambulance transport for medical crews and patients. Assists the medical team with patient care to sick and injured patients in all age groups, neonates, infants through geriatrics. Will primarily function as a driver and may provide patient care to their level of certification while under the observation of a Registered Nurse or Critical Care Transport Paramedic. All patient care delivered will be consistent with regionally accepted EMTBasic treatment protocols. High school degree or equivalent. Current EMT-Basic certification in the State of Montana. BLS Certification. EVOC and Hazardous Materials Awareness Level certification within one year of hire. Emotional stability to function effectively in unpredictable situations. Available to work a minimum of 6 shifts per month, including one weekend, and one holiday per year. Full job description at Missoula Job Service.

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Per Diem Eye Recovery Tech. Primary Purpose: Responsible for the recovery of human eye tissue for transplant and/or research and the collection of necessary medical, behavioral, laboratory, and other data to ensure quality donor screening.

Also has primary responsibility for tissue transportation to and from the airport. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: • Performs efficient and quality surgical recovery of human eye tissue for transplant and/or research. • Collects complete and accurate medical charts, behavioral data, laboratory data, blood specimens, and other pertinent data from the recovery site and other appropriate agencies. • Travels throughout respective recovery area to collect eye tissue and medical records. • Acts professionally and respectfully as a representative of SightLife in hospital, funeral home, and transplant/donation settings. • Performs scheduled donor recoveries. • Performs timely transportation of eye tissue to and from airport and surgeon’s facilities as needed. • Performs other projects and duties as assigned. Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required Skills/Knowledge/Abilities: • Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to interact effectively with all Eye Bank, hospital, and peer agency staff. • Must be able to work days, nights, weekends and long hours when needed. • Able to interpret and follow verbal and written direction. • A personal commitment to organ donation required. • All SightLife staff are expected to be able to use Word, Excel, Outlook or their equivalents at a functional level. • Understanding and adherence to SightLife’s safety, regulatory and confidentiality guidelines. • Valid driver’s license and acceptable driving record. • Lifting; Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally. Occasionally, the employee must lift and move up to 80 lbs. Education and/or Equivalent Experience: • High School diploma or equivalent. Medical and/or Biological science background strongly preferred. To learn more about SightLife or apply to this position, please visit o u r website www.Sightlife.org/careers

day through Saturday work days. Pay is hourly or commission, depending on sales. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10170744 Salesperson Seeking a fulltime Inside Sales Representative to grow our existing customer base including national key strategic accounts and pursue new customers in the commercial aquatic market. You must be goal and customer oriented in order to achieve or exceed the monthly and annual sales target and the Company’s overall strategic goals. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID #26814

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BENEFITS AND SAFETY TECH FT position responsible for coordination of staff benefits and the organizations safety program and compliance with OSHA regulations. Working knowledge of Human Resource Principals, Workers Compensation, ACA and OSHA regulations. Advanced computer skills. Monday- Friday: 8am-5pm. $13.00-$13.50.hr.

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CASE MANAGER FT position providing targeted case management/ coordinating support services to persons age 16 or older w/developmental disabilities in Conrad, MT. Minimum requirements: BA in Human Services and 1 year exp w/individuals with disabilities. M-F: 8a-5p. $15.80/hr.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Swedish movie director Ingmar Bergman won three Academy Awards and was nominated for eight others. Numerous filmmakers have cited him as an important influence on their work. His practical success was rooted in his devotion to the imagination. “I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality,” he said. Can you guess his astrological sign? Cancer the Crab, of course! No other tribe is better suited at moving back and forth between the two worlds. At least potentially, you are virtuosos at interweaving fantasy with earthy concerns. The coming year will afford you unprecedented opportunities to further develop and use this skill.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Your mind sometimes works too hard and fast for your own good. But mostly it’s your best asset. Your versatility can sometimes be a curse, too, but far more often it’s a blessing. Your agile tongue and flexible agenda generate more fun than trouble, and so do your smooth maneuvers and skillful gamesmanship. As wonderful as all these qualities can be, however, I suggest that you work on expanding your scope in 2016. In my astrological opinion, it will be a good time for you to study and embody the magic that the water signs possess. What would that mean exactly? Start this way: Give greater respect to your feelings. Tune in to them more, encourage them to deepen, and figure out how to trust them as sources of wisdom.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You know what physical hygiene is. But are you familiar with imaginal hygiene? Educator Morgan Brent defines it like this: “Imaginal hygiene is the inner art of self-managing the imagination, to defend it from forces that compromise, pollute, colonize, shrink, and sterilize it, and to cultivate those that illuminate, expand, and nourish it.” It’s always important for everyone to attend to this work, but it’s especially crucial for you to focus on it in 2016. You will be exceptionally creative, and therefore likely to generate long-lasting effects and influences out of the raw materials that occupy your imagination.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Avoid pain and pursue pleasure. Be kind, not cruel. Abstain from selfpity and ask for the help you need. Instead of complaining, express gratitude. Dodge time-wasting activities and do things that are meaningful to you. Shun people who disrespect you and seek the company of those who enjoy you. Don’t expose yourself to sickening, violent entertainment; fill your imagination up with uplifting stories. Does the advice I’m offering in this horoscope seem overly simple and obvious? That’s no accident. In my opinion, what you need most in 2016 is to refresh your relationship with fundamental principles.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Many of the atoms that compose your flesh and blood were not part of your body 12 months ago. That’s because every year, 98 percent of you is replaced.

Old cells are constantly dying, giving way to new cells that are made from the air, food, and water you ingest. This is true about everyone, of course. You’re not the only one whose physical form is regularly recycled. But here’s what will be unique about you in 2016: Your soul will match your body’s rapid transformations. In fact, the turnover is already underway. By your next birthday, you may be so new you’ll barely recognize yourself. I urge you to take full charge of this opportunity! Who do you want to become?

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The English word “ain’t” can mean “am not,” “is not,” “are not,” or “have not.” But it ain’t recognized as a standard word in the language. If you use it, you risk being thought vulgar and uneducated. And yet “ain’t” has been around since 1706, more than 300 years. Most words that are used for so long eventually become official. I see your journey in 2016 as having resemblances to the saga of “ain’t,” Libra. You will meet resistance as you seek greater acceptance of some nonstandard but regular part of your life. Here’s the good news: Your chances of ultimately succeeding are much better than ain’t’s.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): My old friend John owns a 520-acre farm in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. Blueberries are among the crops he grows. If he arranges their growing season so that they ripen in July, he can sell them for $1.75 a pint. But if he designs them to be ready for harvest in late summer and early fall, the price he gets may go up to $4 a pint. You can guess which schedule he prefers. I urge you to employ a similar strategy as you plot your game plan for 2016, Scorpio. Timing may not be everything, but it will count for a lot.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In 1803, the U.S. government bought a huge chunk of North American land from the French government. At a price of three cents per acre, the new republic doubled its size, acquiring what’s now Louisiana and Montana and everything between.

I don’t think you’ll add that much to your domain in 2016, Sagittarius, but it’s likely you will expand significantly. And although your new resources won’t be as cheap as the 1803 bargain, I suspect the cost, both in terms of actual cash and in emotional energy, will be manageable. There’s one way your acquisition will be better than that earlier one. The Americans bought and the French sold land they didn’t actually own— it belonged to the native people—whereas your moves will have full integrity.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The coming year will be a favorable time for you to nourish a deeper devotion to truth, beauty, and goodness. Anything you do to make your morality more rigorous will generate benefits that ripple through your life for years to come. Curiously, you can add to the propitious effect by also cultivating a deeper devotion to fun, play, and pleasure. There is a symbiotic connection between the part of you that wants to make the world a better place and the part of you that thrives on joy, freedom, and wonder. Here’s the magic formula: Feed your lust for life by being intensely compassionate, and vice versa.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I predict that 2016 will be your Year of Fruitful Obsessions. In giving this positive spin to the cosmic tendencies, I’m hoping to steer you away from any behavior that might lead to 2016 being your Year of Fruitless Obsessions. One way or another, I think you’ll be driven to express your passions with single-minded intensity. Focused devotion—sometimes verging on compulsive preoccupation—is likely to be one of your signature qualities. That’s why it’s so important to avoid wasteful infatuations and confounding manias. Please choose fascinations that are really good for you.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Your symbol of power in 2016 will be the equal sign: =. Visualize it in your mind’s eye every morning for 20 seconds. Tattoo it on your butt. Write it on an index card that you keep under your pillow or on your bathroom mirror. Gestures like these will deliver highly relevant messages to your subconscious mind, like “Create balance and cultivate harmony!” and “Coordinate opposing forces!” and “Wherever there is tension between two extremes, convert the tension into vital energy!” Here are your words of power in 2016: “symbiosis” and “synergy.”

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IN THE JUSTICE COURT OF THE STATE OF MONTANA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF MISSOULA BEFORE MARIE A. ANDERSEN, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE Case No.: CV-20153322 SUMMONS FOR POSSESSION BY PUBLICATION HOWARD HORTON, Plaintiff, v.

LUEANNA PIERRE et al., Defendant. TO: LueAnna Pierre North Star Court 740 Turner Street #21 Missoula, MT 59802 YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer a Complaint filed in Justice Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your answer upon Plaintiff’s attorney, Thomas C. Orr, Thomas C. Orr Law Offices, P.O. Box 8096, Missoula, Montana 59807, within ten (10) days after service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in the case of your failure to appear or answer, relief sought by Plaintiff will be taken against you as requested. A $30.00 filing fee must accompany Defendant’s answer. DATED this 11th day of December, 2015.

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MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-15245 Dept. No. 3 Judge John W. Larson NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JOYCE ANN RUBLE, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have been appointed Co-Personal Representatives of the above 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 their claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Dee Ann Ellis and Brodie L. Ellis, the Co-Personal Representatives, return receipt requested, in care of their attorneys, Crowley Fleck PLLP, 305 South 4th Street East, Suit 100, P.O. Box 7099, Missoula, Montana 59807-7099 or filed with the Clerk of the Court. DATED this 17th day of December, 2015. /s/ Dee Ann Ellis, CoPersonal Representative /s/ Brodie L. Ellis, Co-Personal Representative CROWLEY FLECK PLLP, P.O. Box 7099, Missoula, MT 59807-7099 By /s/ Benjamin T. Cory, Attorneys for Co-Personal Representatives MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Case No. DP-15-60 Dept. No. 4 NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of BOBBIE ANNE PRITCHARD, 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 re-

quired 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 the Personal Representative, Ryan T. Knutson, return receipt requested, at Tipp & Buley, P.C., PO Box 3778, Missoula, MT 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 1st day of December, 2015 /s/ Ryan T. Knutson, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-15-191 Dept. No. 4 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF PATRICIA M. RAHILLY, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All person having claims against the said decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Magdalene Rose, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 4110 Weeping Willow Drive, Missoula, Montana 59803, or filed with the Clerk of the above-named Court. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. Dated this 7th day of December, 2015, in Missoula, Montana. /s/ Magdalene Rose, Personal Representative GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC By: /s/ Nancy P. Gibson, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No.: DR-15-745 Department No. 2 Robert L. Deschamps III Summons for Publication IN RE THE MARRIAGE OF Jennifer Turner, Petitioner and Terry Turner, Respondent.

THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS GREETINGS TO THE ABOVE-NAMED RESPONDENT: You, the Respondent, are hereby summoned to answer the Petition in this action, which is filed with the Clerk of Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file our answer and serve a copy thereof upon the Petitioner within twenty days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you for the relief demanded in the Petition. This action is brought to obtain a dissolution of marriage. Title to and interest in the following real property will be involved in this action: N/A. DATED this 4th day of December, 2015. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of Court By: /s/ Michael Evjen, Deputy Clerk

MNAXLP MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept.

No. 1 Probate No. DP-15-238 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ELMER H. DICKHAUT, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have been appointed Co-Personal Representatives of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Dennis M. Dickhaut and Janice M. Buck, the CoPersonal Representatives, return receipt requested, c/o Boone Karlberg P.C., P. O. Box 9199, Missoula, Montana 59807-9199, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. We declare, under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana, that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 3rd day of December, 2015, at Missoula, Montana. /s/ Dennis M. Dickhaut /s/ Janice M. Buck BOONE KARLBERG P.C. By: /s/ Dean A. Stensland, Esq. P. O. Box 9199 Missoula, Montana 59807-9199 Attorneys for Dennis M. Dickhaut and Janice M. Buck, Co-Personal Representatives MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept.

No. 1 Probate No. DP-15-240 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF THOMAS RICHARD TATTORY, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed 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 KATHIE M. TAT-

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PUBLIC NOTICES TORY, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o Worden Thane P.C., PO Box 4747, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court.

DATED this 4th day of December, 2015. /s/ KATHIE M. TATTORY, Personal Representative, c/o Worden Thane P.C. P.O. Box 4747, Missoula, Montana 59806-4747 WORDEN THANE P.C. Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ Amy M. Scott Smith, Esq. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept.

No. 2 Case No. DV-15-1235 NOTICE OF HEARING ON PROPOSED NAME CHANGE In the Matter of the Name Change of Pamela Diane Evock, Petitioner.

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT Petitioner, Pamela Diane Evock, has petitioned the District Court for the Fourth Judicial District for a change of name from Pamela Diane Evock to Pamela Diane Warren, and the petition for name change will be heard by a District Court Judge on the

12th day of January, 2016 at 11:00 a.m., in the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. At any time before the hearing, objections may be filed by any person who can demonstrate good reasons against the change of name. DATED this 9th day of December, 2015. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of Court By: /s/ Darci Lehnerz, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept.

No. 2 Robert L. Deschamps, III Probate No. DP-15-176 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF LUTHER ERNEST LUCERO, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed 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

MNAXLP mailed to Keith A. Lee, return receipt requested, c/o Worden Thane P.C., PO Box 4747, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 10th day of September, 2015. /s/ Keith A. Lee, Personal Representative, WORDEN THANE P.C. Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ Amy M. Scott Smith, Esq. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept.

No. 3 John W. Larson Probate No. DP-15-244 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF RUSSELL B. HICKS, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed 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 Gerald R. Hicks, return receipt requested, c/o

Worden Thane P.C., PO Box 4747, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court.

DATED this 11th day of December, 2015. /s/ Gerald R. Hicks, Personal Representative, WORDEN THANE P.C. Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ William E. McCarthy MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT MISSOULA COUNTY Case No.: DV-15-944 Judge: Robert L. Deschamps, III SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION ALLY FINANCIAL INC., Plaintiff, vs. TRAVIS HAWKINS, BILLY STAGGS and SHIRLEY STAGGS, Defendants. THE STATE OF MONTANA TO: TRAVIS HAWKINS and BILLY STAGGS YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint for Claim and Delivery in this action which is filed in the Office of the Clerk of this Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your Answer and serve a copy thereof upon the Plaintiff’s attorney within twenty-one (21)

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days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default, for the relief demanded in the Complaint. The object of this action is for the purpose of seizure of a certain 2011 Chevrolet Silverado, VIN 1GC1KYE8XBF136731 as described in Plaintiff’s Complaint for Claim and Delivery, which property is situated in the County of Missoula, State of Montana, and for the further purpose of liquidating said property pursuant to the Uniform Commercial Code (Mont. Code Ann. §§ 30-9A101, et seq.). WITNESS my hand and the seal of said Court this 1st day of December, 2015. /s/ SHIRLEY E. FAUST CLERK OF DISTRICT COURT [Court Seal] By: /s/ Michael Evjen, Deputy Clerk NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 03/27/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200607077, Bk 771, Pg 326, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Patrick T. Beers was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Mann Financial Inc. d/b/a Mann Mortgage was Beneficiary and Title Services, Inc. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Title Services, Inc. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: The South one-half of Lots 16, 17, 18 and 19 in Block 20 of Car Line Addition, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official Recorded Plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201323789 BK 923 P 355, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for Credit Suisse First Boston Mortgage Securities Corp., CSMC Mortgage-Backed Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-6. 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 07/01/12 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of November 9, 2015, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $196,430.53. This amount includes the outstanding princi-

pal balance of $144,175.72, 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 March 16, 2016 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# 7777.13715 BEERS, PATRICK T.) 1002.172506File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on February 1, 2016, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Tract 4-A of Certificate of Survey No. 1692, located in the Northeast quarter (NE1/4) of Section 21, Township 19 North, Range 16 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. DANIEL J MARTIN and M Katherine STILLWELL-MARTIN, as Grantors, conveyed said real property to Pinnacle Title & Escrow, LLC, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to

Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust on March 9, 2006, and recorded on March 10, 2006 as Book 770 Page 434 Document No. 200605440. The beneficial interest is currently held by U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee, successor in interest to Bank of America, National Association as successor by merger to LaSalle Bank NA as trustee for Washington Mutual Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates WMALT Series 20065.

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 $847.29, beginning June 1, 2014, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of September 19, 2015 is $165,427.80 principal, interest at the rate of 3.50000% totaling $7,405.37, late charges in the amount of $169.44, escrow advances of $3,473.31, and other fees and expenses advanced of $3,824.46, plus accruing interest at the rate of $15.87 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

PUBLIC NOTICES 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 22, 2015 /s/ Kaitlin Gotch Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss.

County of Bingham) On this 22 day of September, 2015 before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Kaitlin Gotch, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 02/18/2020 Select Portfolio Servicing Inc.vs DANIEL J MARTINM-Katherine STILLWELLMARTIN 100206-1 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on February 1, 2016, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 7 IN BLOCK 1 OF SUSAN ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. EULA G JACOBSEN and KEITH E JACOBSEN, as Grantors, conveyed said real property to Insured Titles, LLC, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, Inc. , as Beneficiary,

by Deed of Trust on October 24, 2002, and recorded on October 24, 2002 as Book 691 Page 208 Document No.

200230935. 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 $942.67, beginning June 1, 2014, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of September 7, 2015 is $128,772.35 principal, interest at the rate of 5.87500% totaling $10,211.56, late charges in the amount of $140.20, escrow advances of $3,115.17, and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,577.20, plus accruing interest at the rate of $20.73 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any.

Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale.

The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount

MNAXLP 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 22, 2015 /s/ Kaitlin Gotch Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 22 day of September, 2015 before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Kaitlin Gotch, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 02/18/2020 Citimortgage Incvs EULA G JACOBSENKEITH E JACOBSEN 100255-1 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on February 19, 2016, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 1, Block 10 of High Park Addition No. 3, a platted subdivision to the City of Missoula, according to the recorded plat thereof in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana Donald Delaney, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to Stewart Title of Missoula, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Bank of America, N.A., a National Banking Association, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust on June 4, 2010, and recorded on June 9, 2010 as Book 861 Page 58 Document No. 201010969. The beneficial interest is currently held by Bank of America, N.A.. 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 due to Death, begin-

ning April 12, 2015. The total amount due on this obligation as of September 11, 2015 is $384,008.07 principal, interest at the rate of 5.56000% totaling $73,163.48, and other fees and expenses advanced of $24,271.40, plus accruing interest at the rate of $79.93 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: October 8, 2015 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc.

Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 8 day of October, 2015, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2018 Reverse Mortage vs Donald Delaney 100292-1 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on February 8, 2016, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 6 of WILDROSE, a platted subdivision of Missoula County, Montana, according to the official plat of record in Book 19 of Plats at Page 53.

WESLEY B SWALLING, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to Western Title & Escrow , as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary,

by Deed of Trust on July 15, 2009, and recorded on July 16, 2009 as Book 843 Page 1243 as Document No. 200917601. The beneficial interest is currently held by Suntrust Mortgage, 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 $1098.87, beginning May 1, 2015, 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 1, 2015 is $134,106.53 principal, interest at the rate of 5.00% totaling $3,352.68, late charges in the amount of $176.58, escrow advances of $1,007.64, and other fees and expenses advanced of $193.70, plus accruing interest at the rate of $18.37 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 29, 2015 /s/ Kaitlin Gotch Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 29 day of September, 2015 before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Kaitlin Gotch, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he

executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 02/18/2020 SunTrust v SWALLING 100304-1 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on February 8, 2016, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 4 of JOHNSON ADDITION, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. JODI MOREAU, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to Insured Titles, LLC, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (MERS, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust on September 3, 2008, and recorded on September 8, 2008 as Book 825 Page 1361 Document No. 200820778. The beneficial interest is currently held by Ditech Financial LLC FKA Green Tree Servicing LLC. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,023.52, beginning September 1, 2014, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan.

The total amount due on this obligation as of September 21, 2015 is $145,746.31 principal, interest at the rate of 2.62500% totaling $4,370.89, late charges in the amount of $139.64, escrow advances of $2,683.51, plus accruing interest at the rate of $10.49 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 benefici-

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15 Anonymous Richard in court cases 16 Where it's happening 17 Like some French sauces 18 Observation from one person to another, part 1 20 Observation, part 2 22 Street of bad dreams?

23 "Ice Age" sloth 24 Allow 25 Stick (out) 28 Singer who dropped "McEntire" from her performing name 30 Last name in cartoon skunks 32 Appease fully 33 Possible pigeon perch 35 Baseball Hall-of-Famer Tony 36 Observation, part 3 40 "Oh ___! -- it's full of stars!" (line from the novel "2001") 41 "And there you have it!"

42 Rake in 43 British artist Lucian 45 BBQ specialty 49 180 degrees from SSW 50 Membership charge 51 Red or Dead follower 53 "Poetry Out Loud" org.

54 Response to the observation, part 1 57 Response, part 2 60 "The Kiss" artist Gustav 61 Baby food, typically 62 Legendary coach Parseghian 63 Word before craft or board 64 Northernmost NYC borough 65 Modern, in Munich 66 Make some z's

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9 What's happening 10 Titanic obstacle 11 Pair of bunnies?

12 Bitterly regret 13 Golfer's support 19 Mountaintop feature 21 First name among early "SNL" regulars 25 Crows' cousins 26 "Reader" founder Eric 27 Lowest two-digit positive integer 29 "Good Eats" host Brown 31 "Pet" annoyance 32 Say some naughty words 34 LAX listing 35 Pomade alternative 36 Blue used in printing 37 Shrek, for example 38 "Undersea World" explorer Jacques 39 Evades the seeker 40 Checkers pieces 43 Pool table fabric 44 Grant another mortgage 46 Describing a living organism process (unlike, say, from a test tube) 47 Yuppie's German car, slangily 48 "Being and Nothingness" author 50 UPS rival 52 Goth necklace pendants 54 Small songbird 55 1950s Hungarian leader Nagy 56 Tesla founder Musk 57 "Be on the lookout" message 58 Low-down sort 59 Prefix sometimes seen around vasectomies

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PUBLIC NOTICES ary, 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 25, 2015 /s/ Kaitlin Gotch Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 25 day of September, 2015 before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Kaitlin Gotch, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 02/18/2020 Ditech Mortgage Corpvs JODI MOREAU 100347-1 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on February 8, 2016, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Unit 2 of Amazing

[C8] Missoula Independent • December 24–December 31, 2015

Drive Condominium Association, a residential condominium situated on the following described real property in Missoula County, Montana, to wit: Tract 1 of Certificate of Survey No 5940, located in the Northeast onequarter of section 35, Township 12 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. Together with an interest in the general common areas and the limited common areas as they are defined to the Declaration of Condominium recorded December 7, 2009 in Book 851 at Page 1227 Micro Records. Subject to the Declaration of Condominium recorded in Book 851 at Page 1227 Micro Records, the Condo 000212 and the Bylaws of Amazing Drive Condominium Association, Inc. in Book 851 at Page 1232 Micro Records, all recorded December 7, 2008 Meredith M Hale, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Insured Titles, LLC, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated November 18, 2010 recorded November 18, 2010 in Book 869 Page 662 under Document No 201022769. The beneficial interest is currently held by Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae).

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 $622.72, beginning December 1, 2014, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges

MNAXLP against the property or loan.

The total amount due on this obligation as of June 9, 2015 is $114,443.26 principal, interest at the rate of 4.50% totaling $3117.00, late charges in the amount of $24.54, escrow advances of $1,027.58, and other fees and expenses advanced of $156.23, plus accruing interest at the rate of $14.11 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 30, 2015 /s/ Kaitlin Gotch Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 30 day of September 2015, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Kaitlin Gotch, known to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that she executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 2-18-2020 Seterus V Hale 42125.021 NOTICE THAT A TAX DEED MAY BE ISSUED TO: ALL INTERESTED Pursuant to section 15-18-

212, Montana code annotated, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: 1. As a result of a property tax delinquency, a property tax lien exists on the following described real property in which you may have an interest: 2. The property taxes became delinquent on December 1, 2012. 3. The property tax lien was attached as the result of a tax lien sale held on July 12, 2012. 4. The property tax lien was purchased at a tax lien sale on the 9th day of January, 2014 by Equity Trust Co FBO Pizzini/Ranney, PO Box 1409, Elyria, OH 44036. 5. The lien was subsequently assigned to Equity Trust Co FBO Pizzini/Ranney. 6. As of the date of this notice, the amount of tax due is: $11,315.87 Taxes: $8925.20 Penalty: $156.85 Interest: $ 1893.51 Cost: $340.31 Total: $11315.87 7. For the property tax lien to be liquidated, the total amount listed in paragraph 6 must be paid by January 6, 2016. 8. If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid to the county treasurer on or prior to January 6, which is the date the redemption period expires, or on or prior to the date on which the county treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed, a tax deed may be issued to the purchaser on the day following the date that the redemption period expires or on the date the county treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed. 9. The business address and telephone number of the county treasurer who is responsible for issuing the tax deed is: Missoula county treasurer, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, (406) 2583234. Dated this 11th day of December, 2015 Equity Trust Co FBO Pizzini/Ranney, PO Box 1409, Elyria, OH 44036.

These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control 541-7387 ASTAIRE•

Astaire is a 3-year-old male American Pit Bull Terrier. He is a very social boy who loves people and most other dogs. He came from an unfortunate situation with multiple intact dogs that fought repeatedly, and Astaire has the battle scars to prove it. In spite of the environment he was taken from, Astaire is a very sweet dog.Astaire needs a home that can provide him with the security he's never had.

DONNA•Donna is a 6-year-old Lab/Husky mix. She is a very sweet girl, although rather unsure around new people. Once she knows you, Donna can't wait to greet you with both front feet and the longest, wettest tongue in town! Donna was confiscated with two other dogs from a high profile cruelty case recently. She is the last of the three to find a loving forever home.

RAIDER•Raider is a 4-month-old male Black Lab mix. He loves kids, dogs, and cats. Raider is crate trained and is catching on to new behaviors very quickly. His previous owner tried to dock his ears at home we are guessing. They did a terrible job, and it led to poor Raider having pretty significant medical issues in his ears. Due to this, he will be prone to chronic ear infections throughout his life.

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YORIK•Yorik is a 4-6 year-old male buff and white short haired cat. This guy is a class act.

Yorik loves to entertain and seeks any opportunity to gain attention. At the shelter, Yorik has picked up the moniker of "Resident Window Washer" as he spends much of his day at the glass front door "washing" the windows with his paws. Another frequent hang out for Yorik is the sink.

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JERSEY•Jersey is a 5-7 year-old female buff and white short haired cat. She is rather shy and keeps to herself in the cat room. Jersey is a prime example of how stressful shelter life can effect otherwise social cats. Too much commotion causes this sweet girl to withdraw into herself and sometimes get cranky when she's reached her limit of stimulation. Jersey's sweet little high-pitched meow is enough to melt your heart.

MEADOW• Meadow is a 2-year-old female brown tabby short haired cat. Originally from a feral colony, Meadow was taken in when she had birthed a litter of kittens. In that time frame, she shed most of her feral ways and became a very sweet and snuggly cat. When you pick her up, Meadow hugs you and presses her head up under your chin. She needs a quiet home that will encourage her to continue to come out of her shell.

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These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana 549-3934 KENAI• Kenai is a sweet girl who was trans-

ferred to us from Missoula Animal Control. She would prefer a home without cats but would make a wonderful hiking, walking, or lounging companion. This young shepherd is a blank slate who is eager to learn and fit in with her new family. Come meet Kenai at the Humane Society of Western Montana!

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DUDLEY• Dudley is a sweet lap cat who enjoys being brushed and lounging around with his person. His favorite perch is at the top of his human's pillow and he is very gentle with his paws. Because Dudley is declawed he is looking for home where he can stay inside. He is a bit of Missoula’s Locally Owned Neighborhood Pet Supply Store www.gofetchdog.com - 728-2275 a social butterfly when guests come to the house South Russell • North Reserve and enjoys the company of small dogs.

SPEEDO•Meet Speedo! Speedo is a big guy who enjoys other dogs and loves exercise. Speedo is a little independent and shy to begin with, so he is looking for a patient, adult-only forever home. He would love to be enrolled in our Basic Manners class to learn about the basics and gain confidence. If you are looking for a large companion, come meet Speedo today!

SHADOW•Shadow is a little dog in a big

world. Weighing in at under 12 pounds this tiny gal would prefer a quiet home where she can relax. She loves to give kisses especially if you have a warm, fuzzy blanket for her. Shadow is ready to become your canine shadow today.

MARILYN• “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it is better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring” ~Marilyn Monroe. This little gal is no exception to that. You would never know that this little kitten came to us in pretty rough shape. She is spunky, silly and full of love. Marilyn is currently being treated for a fungal skin infection, but we have no doubt that she will kick it in no time.

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MUMBLE• If you’re looking for a cat who is good with other felines, dogs and children, Mumble might be your guy. This black-and-white beauty likes to go outdoors where he can hunt and cat around, but also enjoys being near people.

Friendly and bashful, Mumble is a gentle soul looking for a forever home where he'll be appreciated for his quiet charms. missoulanews.com • December 24–December 31, 2015 [C9]

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All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Federal and State Fair Housing Acts, which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, marital status, age, and/or creed or intention to make any such preferences, limitations, or discrimination. Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, and pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18. This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate that is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. To report discrimination in housing call HUD at toll-free at 1-800-8777353 or Montana Fair Housing toll-free at 1-800-929-2611

REAL ESTATE 2 bedroom, 1 bath, $750, quiet culde-sac near Good Food Store, DW, coin-op laundry, off-street parking.

HEAT PAID. NO PETS, NO SMOKING, Gatewest 728-7333 2 bedroom, 1 bath, $875-$895, off 3rd Street, new 6 Plex, w/d hookups, patio, A/C, storage & offstreet parking. W/S/G paid, NO PETS, NO SMOKING. Gatewest 728-7333 2 bedroom, 1.5 bath, $825, newer townhouse condo, washer/dryer in unit, microwave, carport & off-street parking. S/G paid, NO PETS, NO SMOKING. Gatewest 728-7333 3712 W. Central #3. 2 bed/1 bath, Target Range, W/D hookups, storage, shared yard, pet? $775. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 62+ Community 2+ bed, 2 bath, $750/mo includes heat, basic TV, garage available for $50/mo.

NO SMOKING/PETS. 549-8095 or 274-0138 Palace Apartments 149 W. Broadway is currently renting 1 and 2 bedroom apartments, starting at $550. Income limits apply at this property. The Palace is a beautiful, historic, recently remodeled property with elevators and onsite management. The units are light and airy with tall ceilings and wood floors.

Centrally located near bus line, the river and Caras Park. The only tenant-paid utility is electric; about $15$25 monthly. Call Elizabeth Marshall 406.549.4113 ext. 130 for more info!

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UTILITIES PAID Close to U & downtown

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Studio, 1 bath, $550, quiet cul-desac near Good Food Store, DW, coin-op laundry, off-street parking, HEAT PAID. NO PETS, NO SMOKING, Gatewest 728-7333

MOBILE HOMES Lolo RV Park. Spaces available to rent. W/S/G/Electric in$460/month. cluded.

406-273-6034 Lolo, nice park. Lot for single wide 16x80. Water, sewer and garbage paid. No dogs. $280/mo.

406-273-6034

DUPLEXES 1012 Charlo. 2 bed/1 bath, Northside, W/D hook-ups, shared yard, storage $700. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 1310 Mitchell St. “B”. 3 brd/1.5 bath, Northside, single car garage, W/D, DW. $1100. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 1706 Scott St. “B” 1 bed/1 bath, Northside, lower unit, shared yard, all utilities paid, pet? $700 Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 2412 Gilbert. 2 bed/1 bath, Rattlesnake, new flooring & fresh paint,

524 S. 5th St. E. “B”. 2 bed/1 bath, 2 blocks to U, W/D, all utilities included. $1000 Grizzly Property Management 542-2060

HOUSES 212 ½ S. 5th Street East. 1 bed/1 bath, newly remodeled, close to U and downtown. $775 Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 808 Hendricksen: 2 Bedroom, Wood floors, Carport, Hook-ups, Pet OK. $895. Garden City Property Management 549-6106 Property Professional Management. Find Yourself at Home in the Missoula Rental Market with PPM. 1511 S Russell • (406) 721-8990 • www.professionalproperty.com

Realty Group. 728-8270 glasgow@montana.com

HOMES

206 & 210 South 3rd West. Lease space in historic storefront next to Boomswagger & Bernice’s Bakery.

Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group.

2 3 9 - 8 3 5 0 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com

2004 Silver Tips Cluster. 5 bed on 1/2 acre in Circle H Ranch gated community. $675,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 5465816 annierealtor@gmail.com

223 W. Front Street: ~1,000 square feet, By Caras Park & Carousel, Downtown, $1,250 per month.

Garden City Property Management 549-6106

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RENTALS OUT OF TOWN

1535 Liberty Lane, Suites 117B & 110C. Professional office space with common area on corner of Russell & Broadway. Rochelle Glasgow, Ink

20230 Ninemile: Frenchtown 2 Bedroom, Basement, Garage stall, Pet OK. $795. Garden City Property Management 549-6106

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MHA Management manages 7 properties throughout Missoula.

All properties are part of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program.

The Missoula Housing Authority complies with the Fair Housing Act and offers Reasonable Accommodations to persons with Disabilities.

single garage, W/D. $1050. Grizzly Property Management 5422060

1235 34th St. • Missoula (406) 549-4113 missoulahousing.org

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

251-4707 Uncle Robert Lane 2 Bed Apt. $760/month fidelityproperty.com

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GardenCity

Property Management

422 Madison • 549-6106 For available rentals: www.gcpm-mt.com

Grizzly Property Management, Inc. "Let us tend your den" Since 1995, where tenants and landlords call home.

715 Kensington Ave., Suite 25B 542-2060• grizzlypm.com

Finalist

Finalist

2045 South 13th West. 3 bed, 1 bath with wood floors, finished attic, basement and new roof. $195,500. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com 3 Bdr, 1 Bath, Downtown Missoula home. $270,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4 Bdr, 2 Bath, South Hills home. $205,000. BHHSMT Properties.

For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 442 Kensington. Totally remodeled 1 bed, 1.5 bath with fenced yard, patio, deck & garage. $234,500. Rochelle Glasgow, Ink Realty Group 728-8270 glasgow@montana.com 6743 Linda Vista. 4 bed, 3 bath with 2 car garage and great city views. $312,000. Vickie Honzel,

Lambros ERA Real Estate. 5312605 vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com 706 Hiberta. 2 bed, 1 bath stucco home on one +/- acre. $215,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com 9755 Horseback Ridge. 3 bed, 3 bath on 5 acres with MIssion Mountain & Missoula Valley views. $385,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653 pat@properties2000.com Are your housing needs changing? We can help you explore your options. Clark Fork Realty. 512 E. Broadway. (406) 728-2621. www.clarkforkrealty.com Buying or selling homes? Let me help you Find Your Way Home.

Please contact me, David Loewenwarter, Realtor, BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOME SERVICES MONTANA PROPERTIES 406-241-3221 LOEWENWARTER.COM Fidelity Management Services, Inc. • 7000 Uncle Robert Lane #7, Missoula • 406-251-4707.

Visit our website at fidelityproperty.com. Serving Missoula area residential properties since 1981.

REAL ESTATE If you’ve been thinking of selling your home now is the time. The local inventory is relatively low and good houses are selling quickly. Let me help you Find Your Way Home. Please contact me David Loewenwarter, Realtor, BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOME SERVICES MONTANA PROPERTIES 406-241-3221 LOEWENWARTER.COM Interested in real estate? Successfully helping buyers and sellers.

Please contact me, David Loewenwarter, Realtor, BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOME SERVICES MONTANA PROPERTIES 406-241-3221 LOEWENWARTER.COM Lewis & Clark Neighborhood 631 Pattee Creek Drive. Across from Splash, wheelchair accessible, wonderful, spacious, light, beautiful Lewis & Clark area home. Over 3300 s.f. of living space. $299,500. KD 2405227 porticorealestate.com Natural Housebuilders & Terry Davenport Design, Inc.. Building Survivalist Homes, Sustainably, Off Grid. www.faswall.com, www.naturalhousebuilder.net. Ph: 406-3690940 & 406-642-6863.

“There once was an agent named Dave/Whose clients they all would rave. He’ll show you a house/loved by both you and your spouse. Both your time and money he’ll save.” Tony and Marcia Bacino. Please contact me David Loewenwarter, Realtor, BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOME SERVICES MONTANA PROPERTIES 406-241-3221 LOEWENWARTER.COM

Condo for Sale-901 Rodgers St 2BR/1.5 bath, 2 level condo, quite Northside neighborhood. Carpet throughout, laminate flooring in LR. Close to downtown, bike to UM, bus stop on same block. Includes W/D (not coin-op),carport pkg & storage unit. Great investment opportunity, must see. $89,900 view at forsalebyowner.com Listing ID: 24027866 or 406.214.7519 Uptown Flats #210. 1 bed, 1 bath modern condo on Missoula’s Northside. $149,000.

Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com Uptown Flats #301. Large 1 bed, 1 bath plus bonus room with all the amenities. $210,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546.5816. annierealtor@gmail.com

LAND FOR SALE 2003 Lil Diamond Cluster. Beautiful .58 acre lot in Circle H Ranch gated community. $94,900. Rochelle Glasgow, Ink Realty Group. 728-8270 glasgow@montana.com

We’re not only here to sell real estate, we’re your full service senior home specialists. Clark Fork Realty. 512 E. Broadway.

(406) 7282621. www.clarkforkrealty.com

CONDOS/ TOWNHOMES 2 Bdr, 1 Bath, Tina Ave Condo. $145,000. BHHSMT Properties.

For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com Burns Street Condo 1400 Burns #16. Burns Street Commons is a very special place to call home and this three bedroom upper level unit offers spacious, convenient, and beautiful living space. $160,000. KD 240-5227 or Sarah 370-3995 porticorealestate.com

6743 Linda Vista Blvd. • $312,000 • Turn key 4 bed, 3.5 bath on 17,400 sq.ft. lot • Vaulted ceilings, arched doorways & lots of natural light • Kitchen nook, dining room & finished basement • Back deck & oversized double garage • City & mountain views all around

Rochelle Glasgow Cell:(406) 544-7507 glasgow@montana.com www.rochelleglasgow.com

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REAL ESTATE

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

Lolo, Mormon Creek Rd. $99,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com NHN Old Freight Road, St. Ignatius. 40.69 acres with 2 creeks & Mission Mountain views. $199,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350. shannonhilliard5@gmail.com NHN Old Freight Road, St. Ignatius. Approximately 11 acre building lot with Mission Mountain views. $86,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350. shannonhilliard5@gmail.com NHN Rock Creek Road. 20 acres bordered on north by Five Valleys Land Trust. Direct access to Clark Fork River. $145,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 2398350. shannonhilliard5@gmail.com Old Indian Trail. Ask Anne about exciting UNZONED parcels near Grant Creek. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com

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

with office, retail & warehouse space. Zoned M1-2. $810,000.

Pat McCormick, Properties 2000.

2 4 0 - 7 6 5 3 pat@properties2000.com

OUT OF TOWN 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville home. $190,000.. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit...www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville home. $200,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2.5 Bath, Frenchtown home. $367,500. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2.5 Bath, Lolo home. $225,000. BHHSMT Properties.

For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4 Bdr, 2 Bath, Florence home on 4.85 acres. $285,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more

info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

HAPPY HOLIDAYS

- FROM CLARK FORK REALTY!

4 Bdr, 2 Bath, Nine Mile Valley home on 12.3 acres. $350,000. BHHSMT Properties.

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

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