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nside Cover Story I’ve seen fire and I’ve seen floods: The year in photos 2011 ................................14

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News Letters The peek-a-boo of homelessness ....................................................................4 The Week in Review A Christmas day stabbing and more.........................................6 Briefs NEMO Arms expands in the Flathead Valley.....................................................6 Etc. Who’re we kidding with a war on pot?.................................................................7 Up Front A look back at 2011 in news: Water, flames and dumb bills.......................8 Ochenski Brace yourself for the Year of the Lame Duck..........................................10 Range There’s a weird beauty in environmental disasters........................................11 Agenda The Citizens’ Law Enforcement Academy ....................................................12

Arts & Entertainment Flash in the Pan Milk is murder ...............................................................................20 Happiest Hour New Year’s cocktails.........................................................................21 8 Days a Week And so we go on, dog-less and unafraid..........................................23 Mountain High The James M. Adie Memorial Ski Run.............................................29 Scope The year in arts and Insane Clown Posse .......................................................30 Noise Our critics’ picks for best music releases of 2011...........................................31 Books The cream of 2011 books reviewed in the Indy ............................................32 Film Our critics’ picks for best movies in 2011.........................................................33 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films ...................................................34

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

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STREET TALK

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Asked Tuesday, Dec. 20, on the corner of Higgins and Broadway Avenues. What are you doing for New Year’s Eve? Follow-up: Next year is 2012, when the world is supposed to end. What are you doing to prepare?

Charlie Dee: I’m going to stay around downtown Missoula and hit the pubs. Revisin’ the prophesizin’: I am not prepared for the end. 2012 is just a myth, some astrological nonsense thing. Plus, now I hear the Mexicans are saying that it’s all been misunderstood, that it’s not so much a destruction of the Earth as it is a new beginning.

Beth Judy: I’m undecided—either spending it with my girlfriend’s children and my girlfriend or spending it with another girlfriend and her boyfriend, or maybe both. So I’ll be either in town or out of town—how’s that for uncertainty! Big picture: I’m laughing.

Heath Day:: I guess I’ll be hanging out with people who drink, but I’m staying at the Pov and I haven’t had a drink in 23 months. Sky, not falling: I’m not preparing at all. I see it as just another Y2K, another way for folks to scare people enough to make money off them.

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It’s wretcherous Drinking a beer with friends after a day of early-season skiing at Snowbowl, someone asked, “How are conditions?” A simultaneous “wretched” and “treacherous” were heard. Thus a new skicondition was termed: “wretcherous.” As that was the situation, we all needed to promote the utmost atmosphere of safety. To me, that means the owners of Snowbowl should take the lead and their mountain manager should follow closely. The rest of us, some with years of experience, must be heard when we voice concerns over safety and management policies. Participants at all levels must be looked out for and must look out for one another. We each have a voice and we should be allowed, if not encouraged, to state our views, which ultimately, hopefully, will see that we all have a safe and happy season. Mike McGovern Missoula

Would the lynx worry about you? How can we make Snowbowl the envy of the greenies? Very simple! Let Snowbowl have unlimited expansion. If we can get all the skiers in Missoula to go to Snowbowl, think of all the fuel that would be saved and the C02 that would-

Barbara Moy: I have no idea yet. Try between the lines: Nothing. If it ends today, it ends today. I’m not one of those people who latch on to one little piece of scripture and act like it’s something important. When it ends, it ends. Whether it happens before I die or not is no big deal.

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“If we can get all the skiers in Missoula to go to Snowbowl, think of all the fuel that would be saved and the C02 that wouldn’t be in the air.” Tester’s fine in my book In February, Congressman Denny Rehberg announced that in 2012 he would be seeking Senator Jon Tester’s seat in the U.S. Senate. While Tester is actively working to prevent post office

closures all over rural Montana, striving to help these communities maintain essential services as well as a sense of identity in an uncertain future, Denny Rehberg is playing politics with the public lands of Montana. With his eye on the Senate seat, Rehberg has sought blockage of Tester’s Forest Jobs and Recreation Act, bipartisan legislation that allows greater latitude for timber harvests, designates substantial tracts of land as protected wilderness and facilitates effective public lands management through local stakeholder involvement. The FJRA without question will lead to a more localized and responsive form of management of public lands. Instead, Rehberg has decided to rally behind HR1505, legislation which endows the Department of Homeland Security with the authority to control all federal lands within 100 miles of the United States border. The bill would allow bureaucrats exempt from judicial review to make decisions regarding some of this state’s public treasures, like Glacier National Park and the Bob Marshall Wilderness. This contradicts not only Rehberg’s stated philosophies of reducing the scope of government, but also flies in the face of the stated wishes of his constituents. Let him know. Adam Tew Billings

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Now you see ’em Charmine McKinley: I don’t have the foggiest, but I will be staying away from amateur hour. I was a bartender for 15 years, and New Year’s is the time that everyone’s loose, even those that aren’t very good at drinking. Perspective: Being as I’ve got advanced breast cancer and odds are not good that I’ll be alive, I guess I’m not too worried about the end of the world.

n’t be in the air. As for destroying the lynx habitat, as a trapper I know lynx habitat and this is not it. And the lynx is not close to being endangered, so don’t worry about it. They are doing just fine. Mike Dey Missoula

You know, I fail to understand the issue with homeless people [“The invisible man,” Dec. 22]. I fail to understand why we have them when the U.S. gives out so much money to other poor countries. Being homeless is not an option to me. Our nation should address the issue just as it addresses issues in other poor countries. When we as a people fail to take care of our own first, it speaks volumes concerning our humanity. That’s not to say that all homeless people want help, but the ones that do should be given that opportunity to get off the streets and improve our society by being productive, law-abiding citizens. Dec. 27, 12:28 p.m. As a single woman who walks around downtown frequently, I tend to ignore the homeless. I do it because I have been approached for help and, whether I help or not, have had very negative experiences. A group of men

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sitting on a sidewalk watching a lone woman walking by is very unnerving. It’s not that I don’t feel compassion, it’s that I put my money for the homeless in the spare-change jars at local businesses. Dec. 27, 9:10 a.m. A moving story made for the season. I found myself questioning my behavior toward the homeless (in Tampa, Fla.) and resolving to change. Jayme Feary has some serious talent. His portrayal of the cruel insensitivity foisted upon him by 99 percent of the people he encountered is skillful. Once my emotions settled down, I thought about how the homeless are able to deal with being ostracized and survive such destitution. I counted my blessings and walked over to the table where my mother-in-law’s Christmas feast lay. As I satisfied my palate, I thought about some poor choices I have made during my 60 years, of the type that could have broken my spirit. Your article has made me realize that I must reclaim some long-lost

humanity. No longer will I look away from the homeless panhandler, male or female, toothless or pregnant. I will acknowledge each and every one with a smile and a hello. And, I will hand them a list of local resources where they can register for services. This I will do in spite of how they wag their tales. Dec. 25, 12:23 p.m. Excellent, thank you. One strategy I use to help is this: If someone is sitting at the entrance to a store with a “please help” sign while I’m in the store, I buy them something—a Cliff bar, a bottle of vitamin water, and if he has a dog with him, something for the dog, and hand it to the person on my way out. At the times of year when I’m pretty certain I’m going to encounter someone somewhere, I’ve kept a bag of those items in my car ready to go. It’s not much, it’s not money, but it’s some nutrition and acknowledgement of another human. Dec. 23, 9:56 a.m.

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Missoula Police Chief Mark Muir releases the results of a mandatory department review on the use of force during an Oct. 23 party that resulted in two University of Montana football players being tased. Muir says the review justifies the officers’ action and that accusations of excessive force are “highly inaccurate.”

• Thursday, December 22 Former Flathead High standout Brock Osweiler throws for 395 yards and two touchdowns in Arizona State’s 56-24 loss to Boise State in the MAACO Las Vegas Bowl. Despite the result, Osweiler breaks ASU’s single-season mark for pass completions.

• Friday, December 23 For the second major holiday deadline in a row, the Indy office computers are rendered unusable by the Tech Gods. Staff members decide to fill the time by caroling throughout the Orange Street neighborhood (not really), shopping for last-minute gifts (sorta) and drinking even though it’s only 9 a.m. (yes).

• Saturday, December 24 Shoppers fill local stores in search of last-minute Christmas gifts. At The Green Light in downtown Missoula, one employee helps an especially clueless husband locate “the most comfortable pants in the world” for his wife. Even better, the employee giftwraps them for him, saving an immeasurable amount of stress.

• Sunday, December 25 A 28-year-old Missoula man lands in the hospital after he’s stabbed during an argument over beer. Law enforcement says the dispute occurs at roughly 11:30 Christmas Eve on the 1600 block of Cooley Street. The investigation continues. No one has yet been arrested.

• Monday, December 26 Missoula-area resident Stephen Millhouse arrives in Ventura, Calif., on foot after walking more than 1,200 miles from Missoula in an effort to raise money for homeless people. During his trip to L.A., he hopes to raise one penny per mile from enough people to reach his goal of $1 million. Proceeds will be donated to programs that provide food and shelter, he says.

• Tuesday, December 27 A propane tanker and a passenger vehicle collide on North Reserve Street, prompting law enforcement to close the street between Mullan and Third. The tanker driver suffers minor injuries. The lone occupant of the passenger vehicle, 22-year-old Jessica Hill, of Missoula, dies from injuries sustained during the accident. Emergency responders say the tanker’s cargo remains contained.

Although beavers girdle cottonwoods and other hardwood trees in Missoula (above) and along the entirety of the Clark Fork River, the nocturnal rodents do their work at night and are rarely seen.

Occupy Missoula Ghost town Traffic rushes by on Broadway on a chilly day just before Christmas as Missoula County Facility Manager Larry Farnes shakes one of the few remaining tents at the Occupy Missoula camp on the County Courthouse lawn. “Anybody home?” Farnes asks, directing his voice into the large green Army tent that’s served as camp headquarters for several weeks. A sleepy occupier in baggy pajama bottoms pops out. He rattles off his name and social security number and tells Farnes that’s the only information he’ll provide. “You guys don’t understand what it is to be a hard-working American citizen,” he says. The occupier, who tells the Indy his name is “Mike” and asks that his last name not be published, is one of only a handful of full-time protesters remaining at Occupy Missoula. He says he’s also been working as a bell ringer for the Salvation Army. Two tents dot the courthouse lawn’s east side on this chilly morning. On the west side, Mike and another man are alone in the encampment headquarters. “There haven’t been any protests for days,” Farnes says. He’s accompanied by uniformed law

enforcement, acting under orders from the Missoula Board of County Commissioners. On Dec. 21, the board, citing mounting complaints from the public, Occupy’s refusal to pack up their tents during the day and the costs of keeping the area clean, said they’d begin taking measures to clear the area. “We…can no longer provide a facility to the camp that is funded with taxpayer money,” the commissioners said. With that in mind, the county this week is crafting an ordinance that will prohibit camping on county property. It would additionally require any group using the courthouse lawn to secure a special use permit. “Protests and demonstrations are still welcome on the courthouse lawn,” commissioners said, “but sponsors of demonstrations that encourage prolonged use of the public space—a space we are charged with managing—must offer assurances that activities on County property will not jeopardize the health, welfare, and safety of the general public, or restrict the public’s rightful use of a public space.” In a statement released last week, Occupy’s working group told commissioners that their tents are a form of political protest and, as such, are protected under the First Amendment. This

week, the group is deliberating about how best to move ahead. Jessica Mayrer

Keystone XL Pipeline Trike power On Oct. 13, Tom Weis drew a line in the sand. “They’re not bringing their pipeline into our country,” he told those who had gathered at Montana’s northern border to oppose construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. Weis then hopped in his “rocket trike,” an enclosed tricycle with a backup electrical motor that looks like a small yellow spaceship, and started peddling. Over the course of 10 weeks, Weis worked to raise awareness of the environmental dangers Keystone presents while cycling the length of the proposed pipeline, 1,700 miles across six states. “It just shows that there are different ways of doing things,” he says. TransCanada’s request of the federal government to approve the pipeline, which would transport oil sands crude from Alberta to the Gulf Coast, has become a political hot potato. Environmental watchdogs like Weis say Keystone construction

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would leave America’s heartland vulnerable to pipeline leaks. Equally troubling for Weis is the fact that oil sands crude requires a significant amount of energy and water to turn it into fuel. Ultimately, he sees pipeline construction as a bad way to perpetuate a petroleum-dependant status quo. Weis isn’t alone in his opposition. The Dalai Lama opposes the pipeline, as do more than 100 mayors in dozens of states. Late last summer, more than 1,200 pipeline protestors were arrested in Washington, D.C. The proposal also has significant support. Montana’s congressional delegation, Gov. Brian Schweitzer and the Montana Chamber of Commerce all say Keystone XL can be done responsibly and will provide much needed fuel, jobs and tax revenue. “It will be one of the largest, if not the largest, property-tax payers in the state of Montana,” says Montana Chamber of Commerce Government Relations Director Jon Bennion. Bennion also says that a new pipeline would enable Montana oil producers to ship inexpensively their product and further fuel job growth. “This is going to directly encourage production of Montana and North Dakota oil,” he contends. Weis doesn’t buy it. He says investing in wind turbines, solar panels and geothermal systems is the way to go, financially and environmentally. “The problem with embracing something like this toxic tar sands pipeline,” he says, “is it takes our country in the exact opposite direction of where the jobs are.” Jessica Mayrer

Firearms Aiming at the civilian market Kalispell-based weapons technology firm NEMO Arms is primed to make the Flathead Valley a hub of state-of-the-art firearms manufacturing. Having just announced the acquisition of a local gun manufacturer, NEMO’s aim has drifted from military contracts to a new target: the civilian gun market. NEMO Vice President Clint Walker says the recent acquisition of SI Defense, a 30-year-old firearms manufacturer owned by the Sonju family, is the company’s first step in machining its own designs not far from its Flathead headquarters. NEMO and SI Defense will officially move under one roof in late January, he says. “I don’t know if there are any other companies in the firearms business that have the ability to concept an idea on a bar napkin and engineer that in-

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house and cut that part in a day,” Walker says. Those behind the company—mostly CIA, special forces and federal enforcement veterans—have worked together on military contracts for years. Walker says it’s not uncommon for firearm manufacturers to have ex-military personnel on staff or working as product representatives. “What is uncommon is to have a pedigree that’s behind the formation of a company.”

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cision bolt-action rifles. They’re also considering a handgun line; Walker says the company has no such designs yet, but with the recent acquisition, that goal is just a bar napkin away. Alex Sakariassen

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The number of boats inspected for invasive aquatic species in Glacier National Park this year. None were found. Glacier contains the headwaters of three continental-scale watersheds. An infestation would threaten fish, plants and the entire ecosystems of downstream waterways.

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NEMO, which stands for New Evolution Military Ordnance, originally formed in spring 2011 with the intent of getting into the military market. Major General Paul Vallely, a Flathead resident, former counter-terrorist commander and two-tour Vietnam vet, says that all changed when NEMO and SI Defense both realized just how lucrative a joint venture could be. SI Defense’s parent company, Sonju Industries, has specialized in aerospace development for decades. SI Defense will now allow NEMO to incorporate precision aerospace technology into its name-brand firearms. “It was a merger that was just meant to be,” Vallely says. Vallely adds that as development progresses, NEMO will likely start employing veterans to test and fine-tune its weapons. Success on the civilian market could mean even more jobs for the Flathead Valley, Walker says. NEMO plans to roll out a civilian-geared line of assault rifles within the next few months. But Walker says the company’s long-term goals include working with another Flathead manufacturer to develop pre-

Nick Linstedt smokes a cigarette behind the Happy Days Car Wash on Brooks Street on a brisk December afternoon. Linstedt, 22, washes cars for a living. He hasn’t thought much about the raise he’ll get Jan. 1, when Montana’s minimum wage goes from $7.35 to $7.65. But it will certainly help. “They should raise it,” he says. Linstedt has three small children. His wife stays home with the kids. The family does okay with what they have, he says. Still, he says, his earnings limit them. “I can’t go eat at none of the nice restaurants like everybody else.” According to the Montana Department of Labor and Industry, Linstedt is one of roughly 20,000 workers statewide who will directly benefit from the minimum-wage hike. Full-time employees who earned $7.35 hourly in 2011 will bring in roughly $600 more in 2012, to earn a total pre-tax annual income of $15,912. The raise comes as a result of an initiative passed by Montana voters in 2006 that mandated annual cost-of-living increases. As a result of the law, Montana minimum-wage earners will have received $2.50 in total increases as of Jan. 1, 2012. “We’re really happy about it…I know it’s going to help tens of thousands of Montanans directly,” says Missoula Area Central Labor Council President Mark Anderlik. Anderlik, who also serves as executive officer for Unite Here Local 427, which represents roughly 500 maids, hospitality workers and dishwashers across the state, says that while the raise is good news, much more needs to be done to ensure Montana’s workers earn a living wage. According to U.S. Census data, 15 percent of the state’s residents live in poverty. “It’s just the tip of the iceberg [of what] we need to do in order to bring more economic equality and economic justice in this country,” he says. According to the state Department of Labor and Industry, as of Jan. 1, Montana’s minimum wage will be higher than it is in 18 other states. Washington tops the chart at $9.04. Jessica Mayrer

etc. A new study by the National Institutes of Health shows one out of every 15 high school students smokes marijuana on a near daily basis and that weed is now more prevalent among 10th graders than cigarettes. According to the survey, other drug use is down—meth, cocaine, heroin, even booze—but the pot numbers reflect the highest use in 30 years. Some experts pointed to one reason for the dramatic rise: medical marijuana. The New York Times quoted R. Gil Kerlikowske, the federal drug czar, saying there’s a newfound perception that pot isn’t harmful, “fueled in part by wider familiarity with medicinal marijuana and greater ease in obtaining it.” It’s been a while, but scoring a bag of pot as a teenager was never really that hard, and this was long before 16 states and the District of Columbia made it legally available to patients. The notion of a “wider familiarity” with pot also seems like a stretch. Knowledge and awareness of pot has suffused the river of popular culture since 1967. It only takes the eyes in your head to refute these experts—and that’s not good for the experts. Medical marijuana has become a red herring in a drug war without end. Kerlikowske and others seem to be speaking for the Obama administration, which by its jackbooted actions in Montana and elsewhere has signaled that when it comes to drugs, even pot, it’s to the right of the Tea Party. There’s still more at play, not least a generational evolution in the way marijuana is perceived. Rail about it if you must, but almost any citizen under 30 who hasn’t been brainwashed by religious extremists is as likely to tell you pot is harmless as she is to support gay marriage—and just think of her, sighing about your narrowmindedness over your grave. The fruits of that evolution could be staring right at you. On Missoula’s hip strip, for example, Pizza Pipeline, the longtime Hellgate High lunchtime hangout, has been replaced by a new headshop called Mellow Mood, a bright spot in a faltering economy. The Pipeline used to have dozens of teenagers lined up for cheap slices and giant fountain drinks. No doubt those students will still get the munchies. Now it seems equally certain that they’ll take our wisdom with a big grain of sinsemilla, even as they ace their chemistry exams.

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mile, 700,000-barrels-a-day Keystone XL In May, workers at UM’s existing natA year ago, Montana’s medical mari- pipeline, which, en route between ural gas-fired heating facility also came juana industry was booming. Caregivers Alberta’s tar sands and oil refineries on the out against the proposal, claiming, in were setting up shop all over the state. Gulf Coast, would cut through eastern part, that UM brass would “not let facts The number of medical patients was Montana and under the Yellowstone and get in the way of the agenda.” The open approaching 30,000. Caregivers had several other rivers. Beyond the potential records search also revealed that Vice believed what the Obama administration for spills, the debate over the Keystone XL President Bob Duringer had written this said in 2008, that it would defer to state weighs the importance of “conflict-free” in an email to those writing the project’s medical marijuana laws. That changed on oil, as Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer has environmental assessment: “We all need March 14 when federal agents raided 26 termed it, against the implications of tap- to remember that what we are constructmedical marijuana facilities around ping the second-largest pool of carbon on ing is a public relations story, not a Montana, sending shockwaves through earth, which, according to NASA climate scientific analysis. We need to be straight the industry and scaring many into getting scientist Jim Hansen, would spell “game with the facts but tilt the story towards our perspective.” out entirely. The raids marked the begin- over” for the climate. ning of an unannounced reversal in national policy, but it was state policy that dealt a near-fatal blow to Montana’s pot industry. The Republican-dominated Montana Legislature passed Senate Bill 423, which sought to remove profit from the industry and drastically reduce the patient count. Some called it “repeal lite.” In May, Gov. Brian Schweitzer let the bill become law without his signature. Medical marijuana advocates questioned the constitutionality of the law. Right before the law was to hit Photo by Chad Harder the books on July 1, a district judge issued a preliminary injunc- Red light, green light: megaloads meet Montana tion that blocked key components Because the pipeline crosses an interStill, UM insisted that the boiler of it from going into effect. Meanwhile, national border, President Obama will would pencil out despite plummeting advocates began collecting the more help to decide its fate. Thousands of natural gas prices. And in November, than 24,000 signatures they needed to activists have taken to the White House Duringer said that some of the project’s place a referendum of Senate Bill 423 on the ballot in November 2012. In early demanding that he reject it. Last month, as opponents were engaged in “a lower October, the Secretary of State’s office pressure from both sides mounted, level of eco-terrorism.” Obama delayed his administration’s deciOn Dec. 2, UM pivoted 180 degrees: verified the referendum. The court case is still pending, leav- sion until after the 2012 election. Montana It called an impromptu press conference ing the state’s law in flux. By the end of Rep. Denny Rehberg, a proponent of the at which President Royce Engstrom November, Montana’s medical marijua- pipeline, recently introduced a measure announced that the school was suspendna patient count had dropped to fewer that would force Obama to make a deci- ing its biomass plans indefinitely, citing sion on it within 60 days—a tactic that the very reasons—cost and emissions— than 20,000. seems to be welcomed by both sides, once that critics had argued for months. again putting the president at odds with Oops Loads will roll On July 1, an Exxon Mobil pipeline the country. Imperial Oil appeared primed to running beneath the Yellowstone River move forward with its proposal to move near Billings burst, sending at least 1,200 UM says “uncle” All year, controversy over a pro- hundreds of oversized loads through barrels—or 50,000 gallons—of oil down posed biomass boiler plagued the Idaho and Montana to Alberta’s tar sands the longest undammed river in the lower University of Montana. The school’s this spring. And they weren’t alone. 48 states. The river was at flood stage. Oil coated wetlands, wildlife, vegetation and intentions were good: It sought to ConocoPhillips moved two loads up crops along and above its banks for miles. reduce its carbon footprint and burn a Highway 12 and through Missoula in Exxon Mobil said last month that it expects locally sourced fuel. But in the spring, early March, drawing scores of protesters the cleanup to cost $135 million (1.3 per- opponents of the $16 million project, led who tried everything—even sitting in the cent of the company’s $10.3 billion in by the WildWest Institute’s Matthew middle of Reserve Street—to stall the third-quarter profits). Several affected Koehler, conducted an open records heavy haul. But companies eyeing the search and found that UM officials had corridor from the Port of Lewiston to the landowners have sued the oil giant. The spill ramped up scrutiny of misled the public about the boiler’s pro- Canadian border hit a snag in July. Missoula District Court Judge Ray TransCanada’s proposed $7 billion, 1,711- jected emissions and costs.

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Dayton issued a temporary injunction against Imperial Oil’s megaloads, leaving one load stranded in the parking lot at the Hot Springs Resort. Missoula County jumped into the fray this summer, suing the Department of Transportation for violating the Montana Environmental Protection Act by approving Imperial Oil’s proposal. Imperial Oil responded to repeated delays by chopping down the megaloads and transporting them via the Interstate. Idaho protesters decided to block the loads anyway, leading to several arrests. As fall approached, some critics saw their worst fears realized when a load belonging to Washington-based Nickel Bros. held up a late-night medical emergency on Highway 287 between Augusta and Choteau. The Idaho Transportation Department—a supporter of the heavy haul—suspended Imperial Oil’s shipments in December after one load collided with a van, only to lift the injunction two weeks later. No one was injured in the van incident, but it bolstered concerns critics have been voicing for more than a year.

officials. U.S. District Court Judge Donald Molloy rejected the settlement in April, but the ruling came too late. One day earlier, Sen. Jon Tester had successfully attached a rider to a must-pass budget bill congressionally delisting wolves in Montana and Idaho. The fall hunt was on, but Tester’s move drew widespread criticism for setting a dangerous new precedent for political delisting of endangered species. Bison made headlines as well when Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks announced plans to relocate quarantined bison from Yellowstone to two Indian reservations and two plots of state land. Controversy rained down on the state land proposals, but just when FWP issued a recommendation only to relocate bison to Fort Peck and Fort Belknap, Gov. Schweitzer slammed on the brakes. Now he’s in a standoff with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over genetic purity and efforts to relocate Yellowstone bison to the National Bison Range in Moiese; FWS turned down the proposal.

the amount going to attorneys. U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Hogan finally put the matter to rest in June, though attorneys cautioned that an appeal could still be forthcoming. Sadly, even if the money at last makes it into the hands of plaintiffs, Cobell will never see the fruits of her 16-year battle. The warrior for Native American justice died Oct. 16 after a much more personal battle: with cancer. Hundreds turned out for her funeral on Oct. 22, lining the streets of Browning. The local radio station dedicated the entire day to tunes by Elvis Presley, Cobell’s favorite musical artist, and the funeral procession blasted those songs in her honor.

Bread and water

On Dec. 22, 2010, Mountain Water Co. announced that it intended to sell Missoula’s water supply to the world’s largest private equity firm, The Carlyle Group. The news took just about everyone in Missoula by surprise. Mountain’s owner, California-based Park Water Co., hadn’t asked Missoula officials if they wanted to purchase the utility before the announcement, despite the fact that Wet, wet, wet Missoula has made it no secret Last winter’s La Niña was a that it would love to call the boon for Montana skiers, but utility its own. ultimately it left many in the Simply because of state wishing they were high Carlyle’s sheer size—the comand dry. The Clark Fork River in pany manages $160 billion in Missoula crested at 12.7 feet in assets across the globe—the mid-June, flooding the Tower deal seemed an odd match. Street neighborhood and forcCompany employees have ing several evacuations. Dozens included political bigwigs such of volunteers showed up to as former British Prime help fill and transport sandMinister John Major, former bags, but significant damage Secretary of State James Baker had already been done. Across III, George H.W. Bush and Montana, phone lines went George W. Bush. Since its 1987 down, flood debris littered founding, the firm has invested roadways and rising water damin industries that include aged bridges. In May, Gov. health care, defense and housBrian Schweitzer deployed the ing, and it’s been fodder for the Montana National Guard to the likes of liberal muckrakers such Crow Reservation, one of the as filmmaker Michael Moore. parts of the state hardest hit by flooding. Schweitzer estimated Throughout 2011, Garden flood damage of at least $8.6 City residents, including a million statewide by mid-June. group calling itself “Missoula Back on Tower Street in Water Now,” mobilized in oppoMissoula, the U.S. Army Corps sition to the deal. Locals worried of Engineers attempted to save that Carlyle ownership would homes by building a temporary lead to higher water rates and Photo by Chad Harder levee, which didn’t work. The The Montana big top, in Helena that Missoula’s plentiful water levee only further directed the supply could be diverted outside current into the neighborhood, worsening of the community to benefit Carlyle. the flooding for some. The waters finally Elouise has left the building In September, Missoula Mayor John receded by July, leaving homeowners and Two years after winning an historic Engen and local water watchdogs the volunteers to clean up the mess. $3.4 billion settlement on behalf of thou- Clark Fork Coalition agreed to support sands of Native Americans nationwide, the sale of Mountain Water to the Carlyle Blackfeet heroine Elouise Cobell was Group. The agreement came after the On four legs Nature’s biggest struggles in still no closer this year to seeing the fed- city and the Clark Fork Coalition secured Montana this year didn’t take place in the eral government financially rectify an agreement with the equity firm that, backcountry but in courtrooms and decades of Individual Indian Money among other things, guarantees Missoula Congress. Ten environmental groups account mismanagement. The payments will get first dibs to buy the utility if it’s reached a settlement with the federal seem primed to come through, but crit- sold apart from its parent company. That agreement appeased some government this spring allowing man- ics of the lawsuit temporarily derailed agement of gray wolves to pass to state the settlement this spring by questioning opposition. Montana’s regulatory body,

the Public Service Commission, approved the deal Dec. 13 with additional conditions that stipulate Missoula’s water resources must stay in the community. “I believe that this...is the best that we can do and protects Mountain Water ratepayers,” said Missoula Public Service Commissioner Gail Gutsche. The deal closed Dec. 20.

Cynthia Wolken’s anti-corporate personhood referendum, which asks state and federal legislators to take a stand against corporate money in election campaigning, marking another progressive victory. All in all, progressives had a net gain of one on the 12-member city council. Freshly minted council members will take their seats in January to debate city taxes, whether talking on cell phones while driving should be legal and how Missoula should grow in the future.

Send in the clowns The 2011 Montana L egislature’s roster was stocked with Republicans, and they swung for the rightfield fences. They hacked away at funding for education and social programs and revising the state’s environmental laws. But what the 6 2 nd l e g i s l a t u r e w i l l b e remembered for were the many confounding and frivolous bills floated by rightwing ideologues, which served as fodder for comedians like Stephen Colbert while failing to serve Montanans. Photo by Chad Harder Sen. Jim Peterson, RBuffalo, proposed a “Code of Caitlin Copple enters the fray. Montana.” It was based on the book Cowboy Ethics and would On your left have directed Montanans to “Live each Progressive LGBT activist Caitlin day with courage,” “Ride for the brand” Copple worked to keep her composure and “Talk less and say more,” among Nov. 8 as she digested the news that other platitudes. The bill got Peterson she’d been elected to serve as Missoula’s on Fox News. Ward 4 city council representative. “Oh Rep. Bob Wagner, R-Harrison, intromy God,” Copple said. “I’m going to duced a “birther” bill, a perpetuation of throw up.” the unsubstantiated claim that President Copple garnered enough votes to Obama wasn’t born in the U.S. He send conservative incumbent Lyn appeared on Anderson Cooper’s show Hellegaard packing. Minutes after on CNN. Copple got wind of her win, Mike Rep. Joe Read, R-Ronan, introduced a O’Herron learned that he had ousted bill declaring that “global warming is beneanother right-leaning council member, ficial to the welfare and business climate of Renee Mitchell, whereupon O’Herron Montana.” Colbert got a hold of that one had a less quotable response. and quipped: “Visitors will flock to Glacier Their wins reflected a nearly clean National Park once it becomes Glacier sweep for the left during this year’s city- National Water Park.” wide elections. In Ward 1, former Sen. Greg Hinkle, R-Thompson Falls, Missoula County Democratic Party aimed to legalize hand-thrown spear huntCentral Committee chairman and coun- ing. Rep. Derek Skees, R-Whitefish, cil incumbent Jason Wiener beat chal- advanced a bill to nullify federal laws. Rep. lenger Mary “Maer” Seibert by more Wendy Warburton, R-Havre, proposes crethan a thousand votes. In Ward 3, pro- ating an armed “home guard.” There were gressive Alex Taft took home an easy win several more. to secure Stacy Rye’s vacated seat. Fortunately, most didn’t make it to Council president and Ward 6 represen- Gov. Brian Schweitzer’s desk. If they had, tative Ed Childers was elected to serve they most likely would have been part of another term. Ward 2 was home to the a separate and equally memorable legonly liberal loss as a political newcomer, islative sideshow from 2011: Schweitzer, 26-year-old Adam Hertz, beat Pam ever the showman, taking a red-hot Walzer by five votes in a politically schiz- “veto” branding iron to bills outside ophrenic district. Montana’s capitol. Meanwhile, locals, by a whopping 75 percent, supported Councilmember editor@missoulnews.com

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Year of the Lame Duck If it limps and quacks like one, can we put a fork in it? The Chinese name their years after animals. The Years of the Tiger, Monkey, Goat, Horse, Rooster, Dog, Pig, Rat, Ox, Dragon and Snake are repeated in 12-year cycles. Perhaps this would be a good time to follow that centuries-old tradition in the United States and kick if off with 2012. Let’s call it the Year of the Lame Duck, since our political system is chock full of lame ducks as well as lame policies and lame excuses for the lack of leadership. Perhaps the largest collection of lame ducks in the country is the U.S. House of Representatives. All 435 members, plus six non-voting members, are up for election in 2012. It’s pretty well known that a lame duck can’t fly straight and the House sure proves that. All year they’ve been going around in circles and, since the Republicans took over the majority two years ago and disabled their left wing, they can only turn further and further to the right. Montana’s race for our lone House seat has been underwhelming so far. What candidates there are, either Democrat or Republican, have yet to put out much of anything that resonates with the public or arouses the kind of energy you would hope for in a congressional race. Perhaps that’s because we’ve basically heard almost all their campaign promises before. And if we haven’t, the opportunities for a single representative to change much with his or her one vote are doubtful. Denny Rehberg has spent 10 years in the House without a single accomplishment that I find worth lauding. Speaking of Denny, let’s not overlook the Senate race where incumbent Jon Tester is facing off against Rehberg. We’re told that this is a nationally important race that will garner vast attention and unimaginable amounts of money to determine “who controls the Senate.” That’s funny. Montana only has a million people, so it’s a mystery how so much money can be spent on so few people to influence the election of one person. Maybe they’d be better off just sending checks to all voters instead of filling the airwaves and internet with their campaign promises, although that would be illegal. So heads-up for the coming flood

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of lame, lamer and lamest campaign propaganda that continues the Republican-versus-Democrat football game that politicians love so much. And then there’s the race for Montana’s next governor, since Brian Schweitzer is now a full-fledged lame duck. Schweitzer is well practiced at being lame. When he came into office, he was full of sturm und drang about how his administration would bring “a new day in

We’re told that this is a nationally important race that will garner vast attention and unimaginable amounts of money to determine “who controls the Senate.” That’s funny. Montana.” This was supposed to herald Schweitzer’s independence from corporate influence that has plagued the state since its inception. “The real treasure of Montana is the land, not what’s under it,” he said during his campaign. During his early days as governor, he claimed his dog could “smell out an oil lobbyist.” Boy, did we get fooled again. Schweitzer has virtually single-handedly refitted Montana with a version of the Coal Collar we tossed off in the ’70s. Under his leadership, we leased the massive Otter Creek coal tracts to Arch Coal for 15 cents a ton, a price so low even the Bureau of Land

Management refused to lease its coal to Signal Peak Mining at that rate. Ironically, that coal will largely be going to China to be burned in power plants that will vastly increase the amount of greenhouse gases going into the Earth’s atmosphere. At the end of Schweitzer’s first year in office, he closed his Energy Symposium in Bozeman with a rousing speech about how our future was most endangered by India and China burning coal and how we needed to lead them into the future with “clean coal” technologies. And how about Schweitzer’s big success in getting an “on ramp” for Bakken oil in the highly controversial Keystone XL pipeline, now awaiting federal approval? The deal, according to Schweitzer, is about the money Montana will get for its oil if we can get it to Gulf Coast refineries, and about how Canadian tar sands oil is “conflict free” and will make us more energy independent. The reality is that whatever oil is in the Keystone pipeline will likely be going to China, too. Add to that the just announced approval of a pipeline for Enbridge, Inc., a Canadian firm that would carry Bakken crude to Canada. Last but certainly not least, there’s President Obama. After tossing away his opportunity to lead the nation to his “change and hope” campaign promises while Democrats controlled both houses of Congress, Obama is reinventing himself for the 2012 campaign as the Obama from the 2008 campaign—and his lame Republican challengers just may wind up giving him another four years in the White House. So there it is, fellow Montanans. Pop those champagne corks, toast the New Year, eat dim sum and hope for better times, because we’re entering the Year of the Lame Duck and the November elections are a tediously long way off. Helena’s George Ochenski rattles the cage of the political establishment as a political analyst for the Independent. Contact Ochenski at opinion@missoulanews.com.

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Beauty and the beast On figuratively falling into Butte’s Berkeley Pit by Sarah Gilman

It is a dead place, boned with black, sentinel tree trunks, veined with unspeakably polluted water and laid bare under a paste-white sky. There is no sense of space or time, only pure, absolute quiet. This is one of my favorite images, called “Uranium Tailings No. 12.” It was taken at Ontario’s Elliot Lake in 1995, part of photographer Edward Burtynsky’s troubling series documenting the ravages of mining. The most disturbing part of the work is the beauty apparent in all that ugliness. The molten orange of water tainted by nickel tailings, the taupe and gray shades of soil—smooth and tender-looking as skin—wept clean of living mess. It’s an aesthetic paradox evoked by many industrial castoffs on wide-open land. The kelly-green pool of copper-laced water that lingers at the bottom of the Santa Rita Pit near Silver City, N.M. The startling colors in the salt ponds on the edge of Utah’s Great Salt Lake. The elaborate whorls of road that lace Wyoming’s gas patches. I thought of this seeming contradiction as I stood on the viewing deck overlooking the deep-blue water that now fills the notorious Berkeley Pit, a defunct copper strip mine on the edge of Butte. The billions of gallons cradled here are highly acidic and thick with heavy metal pollution. In 1995, this toxic soup killed 342 migrating snow geese that took shelter upon it in a storm. Should the water top a certain level, it could begin spilling its poison into local groundwater and ultimately the Clark Fork River. That possibility has caused enough alarm that the mining companies responsible have installed a treatment plant to divert some of the inflowing water and clean it up. And yet, throughout all this, the Berkeley Pit has managed to

nourish a weird ecosystem all its own. As Jason Zasky reported in November for the intriguingly named Failure Magazine, it is “a rich source of unusual extremophilic microorganisms … fungi, algae, protozoans and bacteria, many of which have shown great promise as producers of potential anti-cancer agents and anti-inflammatories.”

The most disturbing part is the beauty apparent in all that ugliness—the molten orange of water tainted by nickel tailings, the taupe and gray shades of soil. The dead geese even added their own germ to the mix. It’s an unusually hardy yeast—typically found only in the rectum of a goose—that can pull a lot of the heavy metals right out of the water. That means it could eventually be used to aid in toxic waste cleanup or secondary ore recovery (essentially, re-mining). “We are very grateful to the snow geese,” bioprospector and researcher Andrea Stierles told Zasky. Such resilience is not limited to the

microbial world. A dreadlocked stray dog named The Auditor managed to eke out a solitary living on the Berkeley Pit Superfund Site from the late ’80s to the early aughts, occasionally begging handouts from miners. Even the surrounding communities have managed to squeeze positive and lively things out of the dreadful situation, from creating and performing a Cool Water Hula to raise awareness about Butte’s pollution in a humorous and accessible way to constructing a new economy around the money coming in to heal this blasted ground. This may be why places like the Berkeley Pit are magnetic. These landscapes aren’t dead; they are in dramatic flux, the kind that not only destroys life but also shapes it and creates it anew. On Earth, at least, no death is absolute, not yet. No place can be wiped clean of all life or of hope. Continents rearrange. Oceans become deserts. Species come and go through the broad sweep of geologic time. But matter is conserved— some atoms that once formed the living scaffold of one thing go into building another in the weird, biological alchemy that has brought us, ultimately, from single-celled organisms to complex beings. This argument in no way justifies the human destruction of our natural environment. I offer it to seed the hope that, despite our greatest excesses, we will never be powerful enough to break the world. It always will be powerful enough to break us. Sarah Gilman is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org), where she is the associate editor.

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Hating on cops is as played out as Joeys hating on Hipsters™ and eastern Montanans hating on all the hippies in western Montana (although hating on baby boomers is just hitting its apex thanks to the Republican presidential candidates). Cops have a tough job. Part of what makes it tough is they’re required to talk to you. And, so you know, you are not all that great. Sometimes, believe it or not, you are even wrong. Sometimes, you deserve to be punished. You’re also smart enough to realize that, if you’re wrong and you deserve to be punished, you lie. Imagine what it must be like to talk to liars all day. Liars will do anything to protect themselves, even from a measly $25 seat belt ticket. “Officer, I have a serious shoulder injury which doesn’t allow me to use a seat belt. By the way, what’s your badge number? I went to high school with Chief Doug Husegeizer, ya know.” Yes, I tried that once.

In any case, the Missoula Police Department is offering its annual Citizens’ Law Enforcement Academy. CLEA takes place over nine weeks, every Thursday from 7 to 9:30 p.m., and offers interested citizens the opportunity to hear from officers about special programs like SWAT, K-9 handling, crime-scene investigation and more. Honestly, though, I know the real reason you want to do it: to go on the ride-a-long and, for some reason, be called into action and receive a medal from Mayor Engen for conspicuous bravery. —Jason McMackin

FRIDAY DECEMBER 30

Do some good business and help out local food-centric non-prof’s CFAC and Garden City Harvest by joining them at Scotty’s Table for a burger-based fundraiser. Mannix Brother’s Ranch grass-fed beef, or veggie burger (why?), plus hand-cut fries and a beer for $15. 131 S. Higgins Ave. 5–8:30 PM.

If you need help paying for childcare, head over to Child Care Resources and see about receiving up to $2,756 per month in assistance. Seriously. 105 E. Pine St. 8–5 PM. childcareresources.org. Practice being peaceful in a world of differences during the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center’s Intercultural Dialogue Group, a monthly meeting that aims to bring together people from various backgrounds for an afternoon of conversation and peacemaking, every last Fri. of the month at 4:30 PM in the library of the Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. Free. Call Betsy at 543-3955 or email peace@jrpc.org for more info.

The Bookstore at The University of Montana is gearing up for Spring Rush and looking for experienced customer service experts to work January 9th through the second week of February. We pay $8.00/hr. and successful applicants will receive a storewide discount on most items. We are looking for outgoing friendly, compassionate people. Previous retail experience including the use of a cash register and money handling is required. Also, please be willing to work weekends, holidays and overtime. These are non-student positions. Applications will be accepted through December 31st. Please apply online at montanabookstore.com. UNIVERSITY CENTER • 5 CAMPUS DRIVE • MISSOULA, MT 59801 406.243.1234 TOLL FREE 888.333.1995

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The Northern Rockies Rising Tide fights for the northern Rockies, including tackling the megaload issue and so much more. Jeannette Rankin Peace Center back room. 510 S. Higgins Ave. 7–8:30 PM.

SATURDAY DECEMBER 31 If you have compulsive-eating problems, seek help and support with others during a meeting of Overeaters Anonymous, which meets this and every Sat. at 9 AM in Room 3 in the basement of First United Methodist Church, 300 E. Main St. Free. Visit oa.org.

MONDAY JANUARY 2 Get your GED or brush up for college entrance exams at the Lifelong Learning Center. Classes are Mon.-Thu. from 8–12 PM and Tue. and Wed. 6–8 PM. 310 S. Curtis Ave. Free. 523-4038. With all them new guvment rules and such, building renovators ought to check the COT’s Certified Lead Renovator Training, which will be held on Jan. 17 and 18 from 8–5 PM. $240 for non-students/$200 UM and COT students. http://www.cte.edu/outreach/lead_2012.aspx. Need to brush up on that algebra or writing course before you pay a king’s ransom to get a D in Comp 101 at the university? Sign-up for the Lifelong Learning Center’s Adult Education Program, which hosts seven weeks of college prep assistance. 310 S. Curtis. Mon.-Thu., from 8–11:30 AM. Free. Call 549-8765. The Epilepsy Support Group is designed for anyone affected by epilepsy: patients, friends, family and care workers are all welcome at the Providence Center, Room 107, 902 N. Orange St. on the first Mon. of every month, 2–3:30 PM. Call Debbie at 721-0707. Girls Today Women Tomorrow is a class for girls ages 12-14 that identifies and builds on girls’ strengths. Mon.Wed. 3:30–5:30 PM. $30 per week for nine weeks. novafrc.org.

Applications for the Citizens’ Law Enforcement Academy are due Thu., Jan. 12, and can be found at www.ci.missoula.mt.us/ index.aspx under the services tab in the police department public relations section. You can also call Laurie at 552-6230 for more information.

TUESDAY JANUARY 3 The Legally Certified Provider Orientation course presented by Child Care Resources articulates paperwork associated with child care expenses and teaches basics of child development. 105 E. Pine St. 8:30–12:30 PM. Free. childcareresources.org. Childcare Resources hosts New Provider Orientation for participants interested in licensing rules and regulations for child care licensing, as well as a look at business practices, guidance techniques and health and sanitation practices. 105 E. Pine St. 9–2:30 PM. Free. childcareresources.org. Knitting For Peace meets at Joseph’s Coat. All knitters of all skill levels are welcome. 115 S. 3rd St. W. 1-3 PM. For information call 543-3955. Pass along some of that cholesterol you picked up during them holidays by donating blood at the American Red Cross. 2401 W. Railroad, Ste. 6. 2–6 PM. Call 800REDCROSS. YWCA Missoula, 1130 W. Broadway, hosts YWCA Support Groups for women every Tue. from 6:30–8 PM. An American Indian-led talking circle is also available, along with age-appropriate children’s groups. Free. Call 543-6691.

WEDNESDAY JANUARY 4 Sign-up for Citizens Law Enforcement Academy and learn some of the ins and outs of the Missoula PD. Applications are due by Jan. 12 for the nine-week session. Guess what? It includes a ride along. Go to the City of Missoula website and head to the public relations tab in the police section. If English isn’t your native language, head to the Lifelong Learning Center’s Adult Basic Education, which aids in cultural and vocabulary studies. 310 S. Curtis. 8:30 AM. Free. Call 549-8765. How could an economy become super-powerful with help from it’s government? Find out when economist Loretta Napoleoni talks about her new book Maoconomics: Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists Than We Do, at the Chapter One Book Store, Hamilton. 252 E. Main St. 7 PM. Free.

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

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CURSES, FOILED AGAIN - David Foley intended framing his landlord in Whitefish Bay, Wis., by sending a Milwaukee television station a CD containing child pornography. The station turned the disk over to police, who discovered it contained not only the planted porn, but also a stockpile of child porn belonging to Foley. Investigators said it also identified at least two children they said the one-time mentor for the Big Brothers, Big Sisters program had molested. (Milwaukee’s WITI-TV)

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MEDIA BIAS - Upset that the news media were devoting too much coverage to crime, Mayor Mike Winder of West Valley City, Utah, began writing upbeat articles using an alias. His stories appeared in several outlets, among them Salt Lake City’s Deseret News, which had begun accepting articles from contributors after cutting its newsroom staff. Submitting articles as Richard Burwash, Winder said all he had to do to get stories published was set up a Gmail account and a Facebook page. He communicated with editors by email and phone. As an unpaid writer for several months, Burwash even quoted himself as mayor, noting after revealing his true identity, “I was an easy source.” (Associated Press)

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DECLARING INDEPENDENCE FROM FOREIGN OIL - Fritz Grobe and Stephen Voltz of Buckfield, Maine, set a distance record for a car that runs on candy and soda. During its test run, the Mark II single-seat rocket car, which uses a simple piston-and-cylinder mechanism to get it moving, traveled 239 feet, fueled by 54 bottles of Coke Zero and 324 Mentos. The previous record was 220 feet. (Associated Press)

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THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY - Police in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state reported that thieves stole 55 tons of corn from a moving train by greasing the tracks to make the wheels of the locomotive hauling the 54 cars skid and slow down. Then they pulled alongside in a tow truck and used a hook to remove the corn-filled containers. (Associated Press)

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HARD TIME - The visitor rooms at Miami’s maximum-security Federal Detention Center have been taken over by South American pole dancers posing as paralegals for incarcerated drug lords, according to attorneys who complained that if they don’t provide strippers, they risk losing clients to colleagues who do. “The majority of these young, very attractive women are non-citizens brought in exclusively for the purposes of visiting the FDC,” veteran defense attorney Hugo Rodriguez said. “Any lawyer can sign a form and designate a legal assistant. There is no way of verifying it. The process is being abused.” He added, “They take off their tops and let the guys touch them.” (Miami New Times) UNLUCKY CHARM - Diane Bozzi reported that someone targeting unlocked cars stole her mother’s ashes from her van, which was parked in Rochester, N.H. Bozzi explained she had the ashes in an urn in a bag to bring to her weekly bingo game for good luck. (Associated Press)

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The hillside above West Riverside smolders hours after a fast-moving fire ripped up the mountainside Aug. 22. The fire burned 3,800 acres.

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After a fast-moving lightning storm prevented him from summitting, Allen Byrd descends his namesake mountain in Glacier National Park.

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Another glorious day at Goldbug Hot Springs near Elk Bend, Idaho.

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Following a La Niña winter, the Clark Fork River crested at nearly 13 feet in Missoula. Floodwaters devastated homes north of Third Street in the Orchard Homes neighborhood. Residents used any means necessary—waders, ATVs, even canoes—to access their property. Photo by Chad Harder

Volunteers from the Missoula Rural Fire Department divert a freshly formed channel of the Clark Fork River by digging a trench through Randy Newman’s yard on Tower Street.

With a dam freshly removed, floodwaters at the confluence of the Blackfoot (left) and Clark Fork Rivers fill the Milltown Reservoir floodplain for the first time in a century.

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Sections of the Upper Clark Fork River Basin damaged by a century of mining received a boost in funding Dec. 19, when Gov. Brian Schweitzer authorized $116.5 million to repair the most polluted parts of the damaged landscape, like this “slicken.”

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Dee Baker crosses a creek near Seeley Lake to check his beaver trapline on an afternoon in February.

Mike Long and Rich Parker, along with the ACLU and five other gay couples, sued the state of Montana in July to obtain same-sex partner benefits. After a district judge dismissed the suit, the couples appealed to the Montana Supreme Court.

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Two excavators barricade a car parked in a no-parking zone near Flipper’s Bar and Casino Oct. 8 after the car obstructed a crew’s work on a water main.

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Six hundred runners got down and dirty at Marshall Mountain for the inaugural “Mad Mudder” on Sept. 17. The event raised nearly $20,000 for CASA of Missoula, a child advocacy organization.

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Raptor rehabilitator Brooke Tanner holds a red-tailed hawk recently shot by a BB gun. Raptors in Montana fall prey to multiple manmade hazards, including vehicle collisions, power line electrocutions and lead poisoning.

After dominating a local weekly race series, Missoula racer Sam Schultz (Subaru-Trek) won the men’s Pro XCT race at Marshall Mountain Resort. With the win, Schultz finished third in the nation.

With gold prices surging above $1,600 per ounce, RX Exploration reopened the Drumlummon Mine near Marysville, where it’s extracting millions of dollars in gold.

The state sold 1.4 billion tons of Otter Creek coal to Arch Coal for about $160 million, a move that could bring as many as 30 China-bound coal trains through Missoula every day.

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With a La Niña weather pattern bringing skiers one of the deepest winters on record, even the lower runs at Montana Snowbowl let skiers find themselves in the white room.

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A doe and her fawn groom one another in the Lower Rattlesnake on a warm August afternoon.

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Indy writer Alex Sakariassen attempted to prove how easy it is to hitchhike out of Missoula. Turned out it isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. After three hours of failed thumbing on the Interstate 90 ramp on North Orange Street, Sakariassen yielded to reality and declared his trip to Frenchtown a failure.

University of Montana student Daniel Thew, 19, drew rowdy cheers as well as police attention and UM disciplinary action for streaking naked before more than 25,000 football fans at Washington-Grizzly Stadium Sept. 10.

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The Pride Foundation hosts a drag show at the Fox Club in September. Drag kings, or women who impersonate men, are gaining popularity across the nation and changing the way people think about gender.

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After Sen. Jon Tester successfully attached a wolf-delisting rider to a must-pass budget bill this spring, the hunt was back on in Montana, with an overall quota of 220 wolves. Some districts filled their quotas before the Dec. 31 deadline. Others, like the Bitterroot Valley, didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t, prompting Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks to extend the season into late January. Linemen with NorthWestern Power reconfigure electrical lines near the University of Montana as part of a road project improving vehicle and pedestrian flow on Highway 12.

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Milk is murder FLASHINTHEPAN It was nearly dark on the last day of my hunt and I had just shot two does, a mom and her fawn standing near each other. Mom heard the first gunshot but didn’t know where it came from. As she looked toward her fawn, I shot her. After dating my last two doe licenses, I prepared to get to work. I was more than a mile from my car. The only way to take out two deer at once is to leave behind everything but the meat. This procedure takes time, and as the setting sun sent the temperature plummeting toward zero, I realized I couldn’t find my headlamp. I’d be butchering in the dark. This can be especially treacherous when it’s so cold you might not feel the nick of knife on hand. Luckily, the heat of the animals kept my hands warm. The light disappeared as I was cutting off one of the doe’s hind legs. My knife nicked her udder. Milk poured out. Before I explain what happened next, two things: First, ever since my son was born, I’ve been paying a lot more attention to milk. For the second time in my life, I had the opportunity to sample human breast milk (it didn’t do it for me like it used to). Meanwhile, in our search for alternatives to cow milk, which we find leaves a lot to be desired, I’ve become familiar with sheep and goat milk. And I’ve heard good things about camel milk, though I’ve yet to try it. The other thing is that when you’re pumped full of adrenaline and hunting endorphins—I call them “savage hormones”—you can enter a primal, wild space where you sometimes do things you might not normally do, like squeeze turds between your fingers to see how fresh they are. When you’re cutting up an animal, your adrenaline is still peaking from the hunt and the carnage can turn you into more of an animal than you already are. Many hunters encourage newbies to eat the raw heart of their first kill. Thanks to savage hormones, they often do. Combine savage hormones with my burgeoning interest in comparative milk, then put me in front of a leaky deer and, well, I decided it was time for a small snack. By the light of my cell phone, I could

see that the milk was pure white, not pink with blood. I leaned in and took a slurp of milk from the lacerated udder. It was good. Really good. Even better than sheep’s milk, which was previously my favorite. It was so good that I collected some in a clean Ziploc bag to take home for the kid. The next day, after my savage hormones wore off, taking deer

milk home to my human baby began to seem strange, not to mention dangerous, and I had little doubt that his mom would veto the treat, so I tossed the baggie. Many readers will find my field experiment disgusting, weird and perhaps barbaric. But if you think milk from dairy factories is any less disgusting, weird or barbaric, then you probably don’t know much about where milk comes from. You’ve probably never heard the cries of a mother cow and calf when they’re separated. The mom, her udder activated by

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pregnancy, is carted off to live out her biological prime in slavery, her body turned into a milk machine. When she’s done producing, she gets turned into hamburger meat. The calf, depending on its sex, will either be a milk-machine like mom or fattened into beef. Compare that scenario to the mother and fawn that lived wild, free lives, both spared the grief of losing one another. To me there’s no comparison. There are no easy answers when it comes to animal products. Our dualistic relationship with animals, especially cows, as both milk and meat providers has proven especially hard to reconcile through the ages. Jewish dietary laws have long forbidden the simultaneous cooking and/or consumption of milk and meat. Though nobody knows the logic behind this prohibition, it’s generally considered to be based on a line in Exodus forbidding the cooking of a kid goat in his mother’s milk. From there, it’s just a few conceptual steps to a ban on cheeseburgers and separate dinnerware for milk and meat. Perhaps the adjacency of milk and meat brings the inherent tragedy of consuming animals too close to home. It forces us to confront the fact that the animal murdered for burger once suckled a mother’s breast. Maybe the segregation of milk and blood is meant to keep empathy out of the kitchen and help us preserve a measure of sanity as we eat our tasty, nutritious, mammalian neighbors. I finished deconstructing my deer in the dark, feeling my way through the animal like a blind man reading Braille. I loaded the meat into my backpack, with additional sacks of meat slung over my shoulders, and hobbled back to the rig with an extra hundred pounds on my back. My hands and clothes and milk moustache were caked with blood. I drove back to civilization to clean up. Despite the brutality of hunting, I wouldn’t have it any other way. Aside from raising your own meat and milk, this is the most honest way to eat animal products that I know of. Because, acknowledge it or not, when you eat meat, you’re party to a kill.

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

Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street • 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a “biga” (pronounced beega) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making. Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$

Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West • 728-1358 It’s the little things we do together. Bernice’s takes those moments to heart. This Christmas when you want “just the right size” gift or party package think Bernice’s cookie plates, frosted Christmas trees (Yep! Those famous sugar cookies), packaged Bernice’s Hot

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

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

the The Bridge Pizza Corner of S. 4th & S. Higgins • 542-0002 A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11 to late. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins • 728-8780 Celebrating 39 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ Claim Jumper 3021 Brooks • 728-0074 Serving Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner 7 days a week. Come in between 7-8 am for our Early Bird Breakfast Special: Get 50% off any breakfast menu item! Or Join us for Lunch and Dinner. We feature CJ’s Famous Fried Chicken, Delicious Steaks, and your Favorite Pub Classics. Breakfast from 7am-11am on Weekdays and 7am-2pm on Weekends. Lunch and Dinner 11am9pm Sun-Wed and 11am-10pm Thurs-Sat. Ask your Server about our Players Club! Happy Hour in our lounge M-F 4-6 PM. $-$$$ Cold Stone Creamery Across from Costco on Reserve by TJ Maxx & Ross • 549-5595 Cold Stone Creamery offers the Ultimate Ice Cream Experience. Ice Cream, Ice Cream Cakes, Shakes, and Smoothies the Way You Want It. Come in for our weekday specials. Get Gift Cards any time. Remember, it's a great day for ice cream at Cold Stone Creamery. $-$$ Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. • 542-7414 Doc’s is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you’re heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc’s is always an excellent choice. Delivery service within a 3 mile radius. Double Front Chicken 122 W. Alder 543-6264 Number of years ago Double Front was built, 101. Number of years it’s been cooking chicken,

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75. Number if years in the Herndon family, 49. Always getting that perfect chicken dinner, timeless. Come find out why we are rule of the roost. Always the best, Double Front Chicken. $-$$ Family Dental Group Southgate Mall 541-2886 Do you have a flex plan or dental benefit with funding that expires on December 31st? You are not alone. A lot of people wait until December to try and schedule dental appointments. Unfortunately, at year end many patients forfeit their unused benefits because no more appointments are available. The last few weeks of the year are often fully booked. Flathead Lake Brewing Company of Missoula 424 N. Higgins 542-3847 www.flbcofmissoula.com Known for their “Bar Burgers” a masterpiece of deliciousness; Flathead Lake Brewing Co. of Missoula is unfiltered sophistication atop the skyline of Missoula Montana. Downtown or Uptown, any way you look at it, Flathead Lake Brewing Co. of Missoula is your best destination for great food, wine and spirits. Come on in and join us. We can't wait to see you. Cheers!!! $-$$ Food For Thought 540 Daly Ave. • 721-6033 Missoula's Original Coffehouse/Café located across from the U of M campus. Serving breakfast and lunch 7 days a week+dinner 5 nights a week. Also serving cold sandwiches, soups, salads, with baked goods and espresso bar. HUGE Portions and the Best BREAKFAST in town. MTH 7am-8pm, Fri 7am-4pm, Sat 8am-4pm, Sun 8am-8pm. $-$$ Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West • 541-FOOD Our Deli features all natural made-to-order sandwiches, soup & salad bar, olive & antipasto bar, fresh deli salads, hot entrees, rotisserie-roasted cage free chickens, fresh juice, smoothies, organic espresso and dessert. Enjoy your meal in our spacious seating area or at an outdoor table. Open every day 7am - 10pm $-$$ Harry David's 2700 Paxson Plaza Suite H 830-3277 www.harrydavidsbar.com Entertainment 7 nights a week! Live Bands Friday and Saturday. Karaoke Sun, Mon, Tues. WTF Wednesdays (TBA and Drink Specials). Daily Food Specials plus Breakfast on Weekends. (Grill Hours 11-9 M-F and 10-9 Sat & Sun) $-$$

HAPPIESTHOUR New Year’s Eve cocktails New Year’s resolution: Sure, you can pop the cork on a bottle of bubbly and call it a year, but where’s the adventure in that? Perhaps 2012 should include some new customs and a little change. Here are a few tweaks to the traditional champagne.

Combine champagne, a sugar cube, a dash of bitters and a lemon twist. Serve in a champagne flute. Black Velvet: Unexpectedly delicious twist on the usual champagne mixer. Take a standard pour of brut and add a touch of black Irish stout.

Champagne Punch: Mimosa: Champagne Tragically undervalued. Anything with a dash of orange juice. that calls for the use of a Even better the next morning. punch bowl and allows for fruit and additional liquors Hobo Mimosa: For those should be embraced. This who don’t care for champagne punch practices moderation Photo by Skylar Browning wishes and caviar dreams but and tastes delicious: mix 1 1/3 cups fresh lemon juice, 1 cup sugar, 1/2 want to say they’re drinking a mimosa. This cup Grand Marnier, 1/2 cup triple sec, 1/2 cup lowbagger delight is a Pabst Blue Ribbon with a cognac and 1/2 cup orange juice. Add two bot- little OJ. —Skylar Browning tles of cold champagne and stir. Add a ton of ice or refrigerate. Garnish with fresh lemon Happiest Hour celebrates western slices or strawberries. Montana watering holes. To recommend a Chorus Girl’s Milk: A classic, otherwise bar, bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, known as the original Champagne Cocktail. e-mail editor@missoulanews.com.

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Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins • 541-4622 Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula's best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. MC/V $-$$ Holiday Inn Downtown 200 S. Pattee St. • 532-2056 Brooks and Browns Trivia Night is back. $7 Bayern Pitchers plus appetizer specials. Every Thursday from 7-10pm. $50 Bar Tab to winning team. Warm up your chilly nights with our Hot Jalapeno Artichoke Dip. We have Classic French Onion Soup and hearty Bison chili made in house daily. Fall in love with our Bacon Cheeseburger Meatloaf-stuffed with crispy Daily’s bacon and cheddar cheese, served with cheddar mashed potatoes and corn. And finish the best meal in town with our New Orleans style Bread Pudding with warm caramel sauce and Big Dipper vanilla bean Ice cream. We still have Happy Hour from 4-7 every day and on game days we offer wings specials and all your favorite local micro-brews. Everyone loves our SUNDAY BINGO NIGHT! Sundays 6-9 pm at Brooks and Browns. Same happy Hour specials ($5 pulled pork sliders, ? order wings, ? nachos; $6 Bud Lite pitchers) Have you discovered Brooks and Browns? Inside the Holiday Inn, Downtown Missoula.

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Hunter Bay Coffee and Sandwich Bar First Interstate Center • 101 East Front St hunterbay.com • 800.805.2263 Missoula’s local roaster since 1991 - now open downtown in the First Interstate Center! Stop by for hand-crafted gourmet coffees and espressos plus madefrom-scratch, healthy sandwiches and soups. Enjoy the sunshine from our patio! Free Wi-Fi and Free Parking in the upper deck lot. Open Monday through Saturday. Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins • 728-8866 www.ironhorsebrewpub.com We're the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we'll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$ Iza Asian Restaurant 529 S. Higgins • 830-3237 www.izarestaurant.com All our menu items are made from scratch, featuring dishes from Thailand, Japan, Indonesia, Korea, Nepal, and Malaysia. Extensive tea menu. Missoula's Original Bubble Teas. Beer, Wine and Sake available. Join us in our Asian themed dining room for a wonderful IZA experience. Jazz Wednesdays starting at 7pm. Lunch 11:30-3:00, Happy Hour 3-6, Dinner 5-10. $-$$ Jakers 3515 Brooks St. • www.jakers.com Every occasion is a celebration at Jakers. Enjoy our two for one Happy Hour throughout the week in a fun, casual atmosphere. Hungry? Try our hand cut steaks, small plate menu and our vegetarian & gluten free entrees. For reservations or take out call 721-1312. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve • 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$ Le Petit Outre 129 S. 4th West • 543-3311 Twelve thousand pounds of oven mass…Bread of integrity, pastry of distinction, yes indeed, European hand-crafted baked goods, Pain de Campagne, Ciabatta, Cocodrillo, Pain au Chocolat, Palmiers, and Brioche. Several more baked options and the finest espresso available. Please find our goods at the finest grocers across Missoula. Saturday 8-3, Sunday 8-2, Monday-Friday 7-6. $ The Mustard Seed Asian Café Southgate Mall • 542-7333 Contemporary Asian Cuisine served in our all-new bistro atmosphere. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combined from Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences to appeal to American palates. Full menu available in our non-smoking bar. Fresh daily desserts, microbrews, fine wines & signature drinks. Takeout & delivery available. $$-$$$ Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. • 543-3188 Don’t feel like cooking? Pick up some fried chicken, made to order sandwiches, fresh deli salads, & sliced meats and cheeses. Or mix and match items from our hot case. Need some dessert with that? Our bakery makes cookies, cakes, and brownies that are ready when you are. $-$$

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Paul’s Pancake Parlor 2305 Brooks • 728-9071 (Tremper’s Shopping Center) Check out our home cooked lunch and dinner specials or try one of 17 varieties of pancakes. Our famous breakfast is served all day! Monday is all you can eat spaghetti for $8.50. Wednesday is turkey night with all of the trimmings for $7.75. Eat in or take-out. M-F 6am-7pm, Sat/Sun 7am-4pm. $–$$. Pearl Café 231 E. Front St. • 541-0231 Country French specialties, bison, elk, and fresh fish daily. Delicious salads and appetizers, as well as breads and desserts baked inhouse. Extensive wine list; 18 wines by the glass and local beers on draft. Reservations recommended for the intimate dining areas. Visit our website Pearlcafe.us to check out our night-

ly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Philly West 134 W. Broadway • 493-6204 For an East-coast taste of pizza, stromboli, hoagies, salads, and pasta dishes and CHEESESTEAKS, try Philly West. A taste of the great “fightin’ city of Philadelphia” can be enjoyed Monday - Saturday for lunch and dinner and late on weekends. We create our marinara, meatballs, dough and sauces in-house so if “youse wanna eat,” come to 134 W. Broadway. Pita Pit 130 N. Higgins 541-PITA (7482) • pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating. Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to name just a few. For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week. Call if you need us to deliver! Authentic Thai Restaurant 221 W. Broadway • 543-9966 sawaddeedowntown.com Sa Wa Dee offers traditional Thai cuisine in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. Choose from a selection of five Thai curries, Pad Thai, delicious Thai soups, and an assortment of tantalizing entrees. Featuring fresh ingredients and authentic Thai flavors- no MSG! See for yourself why Thai food is a deliciously different change from other Asian cuisine. Now serving beer and wine! $-$$ Sean Kelly’s Empire Grill 130 W. Pine St. • 542-1471 Located in the heart of downtown. Open for lunch & dinner. Featuring brunch Saturday & Sunday from 11-2pm. Serving international & Irish pub fare. Full bar, beer, wine, martinis. $-$$ Silvertip Casino 680 SW Higgins • 728-5643 The Silvertip Casino is Missoula’s premiere casino offering 20 Video gaming machines, best live poker in Missoula, full beverage liquor, 11 flat screen tv’s and great food at great prices. Breakfast Specials starting at $2.99 (7-11am) For a complete menu, go to www.silvertipcasino.com. Open 24/7. $-$$ NOT JUST SUSHI Sushi Hana Downtown offering a new idea for your dining experience. Meat, poultry, vegetables and grain are a large part of Japanese cuisine. We also love our fried comfort food too. Open 7 days a week for Lunch and Dinner. Corner of Pine & Higgins. 549-7979. $$–$$$ Taco Del Sol 422 N. Higgins • 327-8929 Stop in when you're in the neighborhood. We'll do our best to treat you right! Crowned Missoula's best lunch for under $6. Mon.-Sat. 11-10 Sun 12-9. Taco Sano 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West Located next to Holiday Store on Hip Strip 541-7570 • tacosano.net Once you find us you'll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9am 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. Ten Spoon Vineyard + Winery 4175 Rattlesnake Drive 549-8703 www.tenspoon.com Made in Montana, award-winning organic wines, no added sulfites. Tasting hours: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 5 to 9 pm. Soak in the harvest sunshine with a view of the vineyard, or cozy up with a glass of wine inside the winery. Wine sold by the flight or glass. Bottles sold to take home or to ship to friends and relatives. $$ Uptown Diner 120 N. Higgins 542-2449 Step into the past at this 50's style downtown diner. Breakfast is served all day. Daily Lunch Specials. All Soups, including our famous Tomato Soup, are made from scratch. Voted best milkshakes in Missoula for 14 straight years. Great Food, Great Service, Great Fun!! Sun - Wed 83pm, Thurs - Sat 8-8pm $-$$ Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$ YoWaffle Yogurt 216 W. Main St. • 543-6072 (Between Thai Spicy and The Shack) www.yowaffle.com Let YoWaffle host your next birthday party! YoWaffle is a self-serve frozen yogurt and Belgian waffle eatery offering 10 continuously changing flavors of yogurt, over 60 toppings, gluten free cones and waffles, hot and cold beverages, and 2 soups daily. Build it your "weigh" at 42 cents per oz. for most items. Open 7 days a week. Sun-Thurs 11 AM to 11 PM, Fri 11 AM to 12 AM, Sat. 10 AM to 12 AM. Free WiFi. Loyalty punch cards, gift cards and t-shirts available. UMONEY. Like us on facebook.

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Grab them little socket lickers and bring ‘em on down to the Roxy’s Family Friendly Matinee screenings of Sesame Street: Elmo’s Music Magic and The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland. 718 S. Higgins Ave. Noon.

nightlife Oh my stars, it’s a Live and Local Family Friendly Variety Show, starring David Simmons, Bob Wire, Neal Lewing and The Sweaterbacks, at the Crystal Theater. 515 S. Higgins Ave. $12/$10. I’m telling all y’all it’s The Kalling Wilson Conspiracy performing, with piano toucher Keaton Wilson, trumpeter Jeff Stickney and double-bass dynamo Steve Kalling, at Bitter Root Brewery. 6–8:30 PM. Free.

The North will rise again. 28 North kicks out some jams at the Top Hat, with Airstream Safari, on Sat., Dec. 31, at 9:30 PM. $10/$8 with formal attire.

Fans of grammar, logic and rhetoric: grab your liberal arts degrees and head down to the Central Bar and Grill’s Trivia Night, hosted by local gallant and possible Swede Thomas Helgerson. 143 W. Broadway. 8 PM. Free.

Get wild and woolly at the Dead Hipster Dance Party at Sean Kelly’s. Party starts at 10 PM, and oh lordy, there are $1 well drinks until midnight. $3. Check out deadhipster.com.

Watch ‘em get down or join the fray during Ecstatic Dance Missoula’s end of year communion of freeform conscious dancing, with DJ Logisticalone and O5iri5, at Inner Harmony Yoga. 214 E. Main St. Ste. B. 8–11 PM. $5-$10 suggested donation.

FRIDAY

John Smith is gonna mellow you out and cheer you up with some acoustic guitarage after the holiday blark-fest. Union Club. Free. 9 PM.

Since the kids are probably already taller than Martin Scorcese, there’s no reason those between the ages of 10 and 16 can’t make a movie when you sign them up for Cell Phone Cinema Workshop at the Roxy. The course is five days long and begins Mon., Jan. 9. 4–6 PM. $100. wildlifefilms.org.

Perpetual partiers Party Trained do their thing at the Sunrise Saloon. 1100 Strand Ave. 9 PM. Free. Go bonkers on the dance floor during the Badlander’s Prehab dance party, featuring electronic and hip hop spun by DJs Kris Moon and James Two, plus $1 wells and $1 PBRs from 9 PM to midnight. $2 or free with promo coupon. The Juveniles begin their month-long residency at the VFW, where they’ll play for the next four Thursdays. Joining them this week are Ax Raccoons and One Day Wonders. 10 PM. Free.

December

Ditch the bologna sandwich and pack your satchel full of snot absorbing tear wipers for the Roxy’s Family Friendly Matinee screenings of ET and The Wizard of Oz. 718 S. Higgins Ave. Noon.

nightlife El 3-Oh! returns to the Ten Spoon Vineyard tasting room for some of that gypsy jazz all the kids rave about. 5–9 PM. Free.

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Family Friendly Friday features Trevor Rogers and the Franklin Street Fun Collective for you and your children’s listening pleasure. Top Hat. 6–8 PM. Free. It ain’t the Kit Kat Klub but the Crystal Theatre is hosting a NYE Cabaret with a plethora of talented and silly and burlesquian people, including David Simmons, Robin Rose, Jamie Parnell, Marilyn Rice, Alicia Bullock-Muth and special guest Ophelia Uppe-Bouvier. 515 S. Higgins Ave. 7:30 PM. $12/$10 students, seniors, military. Take a toodle on up to the Symes Hot Springs Hotel, grab a soak and check out John Patrick Williams do some singer/songwriter stuff with a capo. 8–10 PM. Free. The Electric City’s very own America’s Liquor Down Band performs all kinds of rock and roll down at the Dark Horse Bar, but will they perform the splits? 9 PM. Free. end your event info by 5 PM on Fri., Dec. 30, to calendar@missoulanews.com. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to Calemandar c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367.

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SPOTLIGHT new lang syne Besides being alcohol-free and family-friendly, the great thing about the Missoula Cultural Council’s First Night Missoula event is there are ponies to ride. That, and the fact First Night nearly takes over the whole city for the entire day. There is music at the university, sonnets on the sidewalks, mimes, ice sculptures, fencing expositions and singers, both young and old. The only knock on First Night might be that it’s impossible to do it all. But we’ll propose a schedule and if you don’t care for it, go to the Cultural Council website and create your own day and night of fun, frolic and festivities. Our itinerary assumes you have kids during the day and the evening will be kid-free. Ready? Let’s go. First things first, you’ve got to buy a button to get into the scheduled events. The buttons are $15 or $12 in advance, if purchased from the new First Night Headquarters, at 327 E. Broadway Ave.

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campus, may as well check out Hal Stearns’ 2 p.m. lecture titled Montana Tales at the North Underground Lecture Hall. If the kids are getting fidgety from all this yakking, head up to the Glacier Ice Rink for an hour of ice time. Consider feeding the children at this point, because…it’s pony time at Caras Park! Take a loop around the park with Parson’s Pony Farm. Since you’re nearby, head over to the Missoula Courthouse to see how the ice sculptures are looking. After that, drop the little nippers at grandma’s.

Here’s when you and the old man/lady head to the University Center. Get loose with Salsa Loca WHERE: Greater Missoula in the UC Ballroom at 6 p.m., and HOW MUCH: $15/$12 adv./Kids 7 and under are free then catch some poetry up at the third floor conference room. You don’t want to peak too early. Children 7 and under receive free buttons. The button is your talisman. It will take you places. Now that Head back to the ballroom for Left Lucy’s bluesy, rootsy musical stylings. If you’ve got the stones, or a you’ve bought your button, we gotta hustle. change of shoes, haul hiney down to the Wilma Boom, we’re at Currents Aquatic Center at 11 Theatre to catch some of Montana’s freshest faces a.m. for some waterslide and hot tub action. May as singing and competing at First Night Star, an well get loose early. But you’ve only got an hour. (At “American Idol”-esque event (this will cost an extra this point it should be fairly obvious that I don’t have $2). It’s getting close to 10 p.m. Hop in the Subie kids. No way you’re getting in and out of a fun zone and see hypnotist Mark King at the University like that in an hour, but we can dream.) Next stop Theatre. Finish strong in the UC Ballroom with a is at the Todd Building on the UM campus for the romantic dance as the Ed Norton Big Band plays Incredible Edible Bugs lecture given by Annika you into the New Year. Johns from noon until 12:45 pm. Since we’re on –Jason McMackin WHEN: Sat., Dec. 31, from noon until midnight

Thrash-metal provocateurs Judgement Hammer will have you acting like a maniac and possibly give you whiplash when they perform along with stoney rockers Tidal Horn, glory rockers American Falcon and Shramana. Palace. 9 PM. $5. The dubstep freakfest Archaic Revival, with DJs Lui and Keen, along with quadruple turntable bad boy toys Brand One and Enkrypted and rhymer MC Linkletter. Visual delights by Lui and Amber Bushnell. The Palace. 9 PM. Free. Be a real patriot and dance to Whiskey Rebellion while chastising Alexander Hamilton’s ancestors. Union Club. 9 PM. Free. Classic rockers The Mighty Flick plans to burn it down at the new

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Elbow Room (figuratively, of course). 9 PM. Free. County Line keeps it between the mustard and the mayo when they play the Sunrise Saloon. 9:30 PM. Free. He lives to spin: DJ Dubwise at 10 PM at Feruqi’s. Free. Call 728-8799. Bluegrassin’ and mom sassin’—that’s how the Lil’ Smokies roll, so get a drank and join ‘em. Top Hat. 10 PM. $5.

SATURDAY

December

Joan Zen brings her voice and the whole darn band at the Bitter Root Brewery. Free.

If you have compulsive-eating problems, seek help and support with others during a meeting of Overeaters Anonymous, which meets this and every Sat. at 9 AM in Room 3 in the basement of First United Methodist Church, 300 E. Main St. Free. Visit oa.org. Live your gimmick, Missoula, and boogie down to the Heirloom Holiday Market for dope as the dickens local goods. Ceretana Granery. 801 Sherwood Ave. 10–12 PM.

nightlife The Wild Coyote Band kills it like Wayne Nance down at the Hamilton Eagle’s Lodge. 8–1 AM. David Boone gets you a squirt closer to the new year with a perform-

ance up at the Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery tasting room. 4175 Rattlesnake Dr. 5â&#x20AC;&#x201C;9 PM. Free. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the 13 plates, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t start no freakinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; drama when the Voodoo Horseshoes and Temper-airily take the stage for a New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rockinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Eve party at the Roxy Twin Theater in Hamilton. 7 pm. All ages. $5. It ainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the Kit Kat Klub but the Crystal Theatre is hosting a NYE Cabaret with a plethora of talented and silly and burlesquian people, including David Simmons, Robin Rose, Jamie Parnell, Marilyn Rice, Alicia Bullock-Muth and special guest Ophelia Uppe-Bouvier. 515 S. Higgins Ave. 7:30 and 10 PM. $12/$10 students, seniors, military. Get your swerve on at the Downtown Dance Collectiveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s NYE Latin Dance, featuring salsa, meringue, cumbia and more, with DJ Heart. 121 W. Main St. 8 PM. $16 couple/$10 individual, with a dollar of each entry going to Missoula Aging Services. Check it and direct it when DJ Tiger Lily brings the tuneage to the Missoula Wineryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s NYE celebration, which also has hors dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;oeuvres, wine, champagne and the omni-present party favors. 8 PM. $12. This sounds like a crazy, spooky timeâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Prisoners of Time New Years Eve Party: Rock â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;til Midnight. So are you prisoner if it only goes until midnight? Who cares? Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fireworks! Symes Hot Springs Hotel. 8 pm until, well, you know. Donate to the cause. Swig drinks while listening to oldschool rock hits, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;80s tunes or modern indie rock songs when Dead Hipster presents Takeover!, which features â&#x20AC;&#x153;drinkinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; musicâ&#x20AC;? DJâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d by the Dead Hipster DJs starting at 9 PM at the Central Bar & Grill, 143 W. Broadway St. Includes drink specials and photos with Abi Halland. Free. Classic rockers The Mighty Flick plans to burn it down at the new

Elbow Room (figuratively, of course). 9 PM. Free. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a country-scented, two-steppinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; NYE with County Line, at the Sunrise Saloon. 9 PM. $6 includes champagne and party favors (but not those kind of party favors). Raise your fist to the Guardians of Asgard and celebrate a Metal NYE with Universal Choke Sign, Rikshaw, Judgement Hammer and Blessiddoom, at the Dark Horse. 1100 Strand Ave. 9 pm. $6. Shane Clouse and Stomping Ground ring in the new year with some classic and modern country tunes at the Broadway Bar and Grill. $4. 9 pm.

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Cock the hammer. Judgment Hammer shreds The Palace, with American Falcon, Tidal Horn and Shramana, on Sat., Dec. 30, at 9 PM. $5.

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MONDAY

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Get your GED or brush up for college entrance exams at the Lifelong Learning Center. Classes are Mon.Thu. from 8–12 PM. and Tue. and Wed. 6–8 PM. 310 S. Curtis Ave. Free. 523-4038.

Close out the weekend in style with $4 martinis from 7:30 PM to midnight and live jazz and DJs during The Badlander’s Jazz Martini Night. Live jazz starts at 8 PM with the Donna Smith Trio. Free.

Go ahead and “treecycle” that bug-

infested pagan symbol you call a Christmas tree down at Playfair and McCormick Parks, Ft. Missoula’s South Ave. lot and EKO Compost, 1125 Clark Fork Ln. Please remove the decorations. Seriously.

nightlife Do some good business and help out local food-centric non-prof’s CFAC and Garden City Harvest by joining them at Scotty’s Table for a burger-based fundraiser. Mannix Brother’s Ranch grass-fed beef, or veggie burger (why?), plus hand-cut fries and a beer for $15. 131 S. Higgins Ave. 5–8:30 PM. Wine goes good with everything, but especially Monday night music, this week with Discount Quartet. 7–10 PM at the Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins Ave. Free.

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Do some rhymin’ and stealin’ in a drunken state at Milkcrate Monday’s with the Milkcrate Mechanic’s License to Ill, which features DJs Enzymes from PDX, Jackrabbit, Lui and the Mechanic himself, starting at 9 PM. Free, with free pool and $6 pitchers of PBR.

TUESDAY

January

Occupy Missoula General Assembly takes place at the Union Hall. 208 E. Main St. 5:30 PM.

nightlife Aim your sights on the 8 ball when the Palace hosts a weekly 9 ball tournament, which is double elimination and starts with sign up at 6 PM, followed by games at 7. $10. You saw House Party, you still can’t do the “Kid ‘N Play.” Do something about it by taking the Downtown Dance Collective’s Beg./Int. Hip Hop dance class, with Heidi Michaelson. 1221 W. Main St. 6–7 PM. ddcmontana.com

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Throw your jazz hands in the air and join Chris Duparri and Ruthie Dada every Tuesday evening for Jazz Martini Night, with $2 off all top-shelf martinis at Brooks and Browns, 200 S. Pattee. Free. Sean Kelly’s invites you to another week of free Pub Trivia, which takes place every Tue. at 8 PM. And, to highlight the joy of discovery that you might experience while attending, here’s a sample of the type of question you could be presented with. Ready? What was the biggest selling album on iTunes in 2011? (See answer in tomorrow’s nightlife.) Open up your listening holes and call the country kittens and check out the honky tonkin’ stylings of Aran Buzzas and the stank blues of P.D. Lear at Badlander’s Live and Local Night. Music at 10 PM. Free. Nashville recording artist Geoff Elwee strums some acoustic tunes. I guess we shouldn’t expect him to play guitar; maybe it’s an acoustic theremin. Sunrise Saloon. 100 Strand Ave. 9 pm. Free. Bow down to the sounds at Royal Reggae, featuring dancehall jams by DJs Supa, Smiley Banton and Oneness. 9 PM. Free.

WEDNESDAY

January

Check out The Wild Mare in Corvallis for their First Wednesday Wine Tasting at 6 PM, where you can taste some wine, have some appetizers, you know, whatever. This month features wine from Oregon. 283 2nd St. thewildmare.com. Pub Trivia Answer: Adele’s 21.

How could an economy become super powerful with help from it’s government? Find out when economist Loretta Napoleoni talks about

her new book Maoconomics: Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists Than We Do, at the Chapter One Book Store, Hamilton. 252 E. Main St. 7 PM. Free. Join the Downtown Dance Collective’s Tango Connections and unleash your inner-Swayze during a five-week course. Taught by Patrick Marsolek and Lori Mitchell. 8:30–9:30 PM. 121 W. Main St. $9 per class. ddcmontana.com. Program yourself to party at Local Laptops, an electronic music hot tub party, with sets by Bobo, Feldman, DuBhudda, Metatron and Inevitable Thought, starting at 9 PM. Palace. Free/$5 for those 18-20.

Grill’s Trivia Night, hosted by local gallant and possible Swede Thomas Helgerson. 143 W. Broadway. 8 PM. Free. Go bonkers on the dance floor during the Badlander’s Prehab dance party, featuring electronic and hip hop spun by DJs Kris Moon and James Two, plus $1 wells and $1 PBRs from 9 PM to midnight. $2 or free with promo coupon. Missoula reggae regulars Chele Bandulu look to get irie at the Top Hat with a free show for all us broke suckas. 9:30 PM. The Juveniles begin their monthlong residency at the VFW, where

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Hip Hop for Kiddos (3-6 year old kiddos) gives kids a chance to learn all the right moves over the course of a few months. The course is taught buy Heather Adams Torma at the Downtown Dance Collective. 121 W. Main St. 5-5:45 PM. ddcmontana.com Bring your miscellany of talents down the ‘Root for the Roxy Theater’s Open Mic Night. Anything goes: comedy, juggling, music and prescient children rapping about the streets. Hamilton. 120 N. 2nd. 7 PM. $5. The Global Issues and Foreign Film Series presents The Devil’s Miner a film about a teenager who works in a Bolivian silver mine and worships the devil. Whoa. Roxy Theater. 718 S. Higgins Ave. 7 PM. Free. Fans of grammar, logic and rhetoric: grab your liberal arts degrees and head down to the Central Bar and

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originals, there is plenty of action for you. The Union Club hosts Beyond the Pale, who is not afraid to play “Middle of the Road” by the Pretenders. If downtown seems daunting, why not check out The Mighty Flick at the new Elbow Room on Stephens?

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The downtown Missoula action breaks out like this. The VFW (245 W. Main St.) hosts an ’80s-themed prom night of karaoke good times. Perhaps, you’ll sing “Closer to the Heart” or “Mr. Brownstone.” Check out The Badlander complex (220 Ryman St.) after 9 p.m. for a fine mix of activities at NYE2011: Out with a Bang, which features electronic music upstairs from Astraea’s WHAT: New Year’s Eve 2011

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Frequency, Enzymes, ir8prim8 and Kris Moon. If that isn’t getting you twisted up, toddle down into the basement and check out the rockin’ Reverend Slanky and rapping rhymers Zoopergroupe. If live music of a different stripe interests you, The Top Hat hosts up-and-comers (according to the internet) 28 North, who play straight-up modern rock that doesn’t make you hate yourself or the folks around you. They’ll be joined by locals Airstream Safari. For those who can’t stomach the idea of a band only playing

You country music fans have some choices to make as well. Shane Clouse and Stomping Ground are performing at the Broadway Bar and Grill. County Line is getting it done out at the Sunrise Saloon (1101 Strand Ave.). For those looking to do Jäger shots and have your skull split by shrieking Puerto Rican harmonics, the Dark Horse (1100 Strand Ave.) hosts a Metal NYE Party, including Universal Choke Sign, Rikshaw, Judgement Hammer and Blessiddoom. Perhaps a quieter, yet no less entertaining start to the evening is what you have in mind. Ten Spoon Vineyard and Tasting Room hosts David Boone from 5 to 9 p.m., and the Missoula Winery has DJ Tiger Lily on hand from 8 ‘til after midnight. (Warning: Tiger Lily has been known to cause rump-shaking on occasion.) Or maybe you just want to feel the beat of the rhythm of the night. The Downtown Dance Collective’s (121 W. Main St.) NYE Latin Dance with DJ Heart begins at 8 p.m. and will spin you right round, baby, with salsa, merengue and many more Latin dances. Honestly there are many more ways to stick a fork in 2011, so take a glance at the calendar. One last thing: Don’t you dare drink and drive. Find yourself a designated driver or walk off that JJ’s at the end of the night. –Jason McMackin

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Get wild and woolly at the Dead Hipster Dance Party at Sean Kelly’s. Party starts at 10 PM, and oh lordy, there are $1 well drinks until midnight. $3. Check out deadhipster.com. Make your resolution to be more organized come true by sending your event info by 5 PM on Fri., Dec. 30 to calendar@missoula news.com. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to The Calemandar c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367. You can also submit stuff online. Just head to the arts section of our website at missoulanews.com.

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Let Kalispell Parks and Rec handle the kids during Christmas break during Freeze Out Camp (kinda sounds like something the Old Stinky Trapper once experienced up in Leadville). Tons o’ fun kid activities planned. Bring lunch, a snack and dress for the weather. Kindergarten–sixth grade. 7:30–5:30 PM. $25 per day or $20 with resident ID card. Call 758-7975.

Head on up to Lakeside for the Blacktail Bash Cross Country Ski Race and burn off at least three of the 17 beers you had the night before. 5K and 10K distances. Registration starts at 10:30 AM. Race is at noon. $25 for a family/$10 for individuals. For more info, call Chad 257-2381.

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

Clean out your system and run off them party favors at the Rattlesnake Resolution Run. The race begins at Rattlesnake Elementary School and has two distances, 5K and 10K, and is walker friendly. Participants receive a soup bowl and a spoon for the post-race vittles. Portions of the proceeds go to the Rattlesnake Elementary PTA. 11 AM. $25/20. runnersedgemt.com.

FRIDAY DECEMBER 30 Hey little archers and aspiring archers, Bowhunter Certification Courses will be held Sat., Jan. 23 and Sat., Feb. 11, from 8:30–5:30 PM. The field course for both will be Sun., Feb. 12, from 1–4 PM. 3201 Spurgin Rd. Register by following the education links at fwp.mt.gov. Let Kalispell Parks and Rec handle the kids during Christmas break during Freeze Out Camp (kinda sounds like something the Old Stinky Trapper once experienced up in Leadville). Tons o’ fun kid activities planned. Bring lunch, a snack and dress for the weather. Kindergarten–sixth grade. 7:30–5:30 PM. $25 per day or $20 with resident ID card. Call 758-7975.

MONDAY JANUARY 2 At Slacker Mondays, from 6 PM until close, slackline fans can come to Freestone Climbing Center at 935 Toole Ave. to test their balance. $13/$10 for students. Visit freestoneclimbing.com.

WEDNESDAY JANUARY 4

Active outdoor lovers are invited to the Mountain Sports Club’’s (formerly the Flathead Valley Over the Hill Gang) weekly meeting to talk about being awesome, past glories and upcoming activities. Swan River Inn. 6–8 PM. Free.

Since I am half Salamander, methinks you should check out the Montana Natural History Center’s lecture on salamanders and other amphibians presented by Andrew Olsen. A LIVE giant salamander will be in attendance. 120 Hickory St. $4/Free for members.

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THURSDAY JANUARY 5

Be a citizen scientist and participate in the annual Audubon Society Christmas Bird Count. Be on the look out for snowy owls and oddities, meet in the conference room of the Stevensville Ranger Station. 88 Main St. 7:30 AM. For more details call Dave at 777-7426 during the day or 777-2929.

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

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The way we were

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Fourteen defining moments in the 2011 Missoula arts scene by Erika Fredrickson

Summer series revival Missoula’s Big Sky Brewing Company concert series returned in April after a six-year hiatus. The brewery brought in big acts such as Modest Mouse and the Decemberists, plus electronic favorites Pretty Lights. The concert series kicked off in 2004 with John Fogerty and BB King, and in 2005 brought in the likes of Willie Nelson and 50 Cent.

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turing Kris Moon and other DJs. The end result: Missoula now has twice the reason to steeze it up.

State poet Longtime Missoula poet and Missoula Writing Collaborative founder Sheryl Noethe was chosen Montana’s Poet Laureate, replacing cowboy poet Henry Real Bird. “Not every state has a poet laureate,” said Noethe in an August interview. “I’m so thrilled to live in a state that does honor poetry. It’s just such a grand gesture.”

The Insane Clown Posse did $2,000 of damage to the Wilma Theatre auditorium and another $1,000 to offices in the building’s basement due to a deluge of Faygo Diet Root Beer. The hip-hop duo is notorious for spraying its audience with the Detroit-based soda; the Wilma gig resulted in as much as six inches puddled on the floor. Though ICP and its fans reported a successful Oct. 1 show, Wilma owners won’t be having them back any time soon.

Butte poet and author Ed Lahey died in April. The beloved wordsmith and descendant of miners and bootleggers was a strong voice in Montana’s literary world. The local literary publication Ç dedicated a December reading, featuring 30 local writers at the Crystal Theater, in his honor.

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Then again, the Wilma went up for sale in late September. The historic building, built in 1921, got a significant makeover after the Rocky Mountain Development Group bought it in 2007. RMDG business partners Rick Wishcamper and Justin Metcalf added a digital marquee, invested $500,000 to update the 1,100-seat Louis XIV-style theater, converted apartments into 34 condos, created office space and jazzed up the condo lobby. Interested buyers have already surfaced in response to the $1.8 million listing.

Greg Mortenson, best-selling author of Three Cups of Tea and Stones Into Schools, came under fire after a “60 Minutes” interview questioned his journalistic integrity and purported that funds for his nonprofit to build schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan were used inappropriately. The Bozeman-based writer also faces a lawsuit filed by two Montanans, including state Rep. Michele Reinhart of Missoula. The lawsuit claims Mortenson committed fraud by inducing them to donate to his nonprofit and to buy his book.

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In its fourth year putting on popular Thursday night dance parties at The Badlander, the Dead Hipster crew moved its operation to Sean Kelly’s. The Badlander soon launched its own Thursday dance party called Prehab fea-

The Montana Actors’ Theatre disbanded in the middle of its 2011-2012 season just shy of auditions for its annual—and popular—Rocky Horror Show. MAT put on four productions this year, including local playwright Larke

Schuldberg’s Sound of Planes and a Spanish-Americanstyle reinvention of Twelfth Night. Word is that it’s a hiatus, but MAT’s absence leaves a hole in Missoula’s experimental/edgy theater scene. Meanwhile, the Crystal Theatre, where MAT produced its shows, has diversified its offerings, adding band concerts, poetry readings, burlesque and other entertainment.

Science and sound Experimental favorites Yo La Tengo played to a crowd of moviegoers at the Wilma during the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. The band did a live scoring to eight of Jean Painleve’s vintage marine-life films, providing a loud, sometimes beautiful, often cacophonous avantgarde experience.

Reunion shows A May reunion show at the Palace featuring punk band Humpy and demonic tongue-in-cheek metal band Spanker brought back memories from days of yore. Sasshole, who had already reunited in 2010, rounded out the collection of favorites from Missoula’s venerated Jay’s Upstairs years. A few months later, old school punk band the Sputniks also reunited, making it a summer of reminiscing for the rock scenesters of a decade ago.

Worldly appeal The ubiquitous art of Monte Dolack went from populating local homes, businesses and beer labels to hitting the radar of the United Nations. The UN selected 24 pieces of the popular local artist’s work for a Geneva, Switzerland exhibit titled Year of Forests.

Clay celebration In June, Helena’s Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts celebrated 60 years as a ceramics hub and workshop/residency center that has drawn renowned artists from around the world. Missoula marked the occasion with exhibits at the Clay Studio of Missoula, Missoula Art Museum and the Montana Museum of Art and Culture, showcasing hundreds of artists including Archie Bray masters Rudy Autio and Peter Voulkos.

Best in show Two concerts stood out in another strong year of live shows. Soul revivalists Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings whipped up one of the year’s best with a November date at the Wilma. The Decemberists’ July show at Big Sky Brewery gave audience members a thrill, but the real treat came when frontman and former Missoulian Colin Meloy made a surprise appearance at the Union Club later that night to play with Tom Catmull and the Clerics. Current Cleric Gibson Hartwell played with Meloy in the late, great Missoula band Tarkio.

Vigilante justice Scott H. Biram, the one-man-band from Austin, Texas, played in Missoula twice this year, but his March show got a little Old West-style rowdy. When an an inebriated audience member inexplicably threw a shot glass at the blues-punk musician as he strummed on stage, the entire Palace crowd—led by Biram—chased the kid out of the basement and onto the street. No one caught him, but Biram rallied the crowd back to the stage and played an amazing final set. Photo by Abi Halland

Mike Gill surfs the crowd during a Dec. 15 Dead Hipster Dance Party at Sean Kelly’s.

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These go to ’11 The year’s sweetest music to our critics’ ears by Erika Fredrickson, Jason McMackin, Dan Brooks, Robert Meyerowitz and Ira Sather Olson

In Butter’s Removable Beast, Lisena Brown and Hermina Harold paint dark, pretty landscapes mined—as they once confessed to me—from their apocalyptic dreams. “Cracker Bones” and “Skeletor” are the best kind of earworms, made even more irresistible by Bethany Joyce on cello and Brown’s creeping piano. This alchemy is so bewitching you’ll crave it, sometimes for days on end. (EF)

jumprope and tympani. The group of longtime Missoula musicians has created a collection of strange tunes mixed with frantic sadness and wild nostalgia, but rendered in the most fun way possible. Instant classics like “Strawberry Cake” linger in perfect pedal steel, making it impossible not to put it on repeat. (EF)

Red Fang’s Murder In the Mountains is the most elegant hard rock album since the Melvins’ Houdini. We can throw pinecones at each other and holler about whether RF is metal enough or heavy enough, but who gives a bippity-boppity-boo? Sure, these songs might be a titch too produced for some, but overall it roars. ( JM)

Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Daptone’s bestknown artists, tore The Wilma apart in November. The label’s also home to many more neo-soul acts and in late 2011 it dropped a nugget-studded, bargain-priced compilation, The World of Daptone Records, with five songs by Jones and company and 15 more by Naomi Shelton and The Gospel Queens, The Budos Band, The Daktaris and others. You know what’s great about this? The world needs to dance more, and so do you. (RM)

Black Cobra’s newest monolithic beast of a record, Invernal, is what I’ll be playing when all hell breaks loose and Yellowstone National Park’s super-volcano erupts and death becomes imminent. This San Francisco sludge metal duo (consisting solely of a guitarist and drummer) crafts deep-dish slabs of pummeling, bass-heavy riffage that’s both fierce and disarmingly addictive, and that can only be described as pure fury mixed with moments of calm. These dudes pretty much slay any other twopiece metal outfit around. (ISO)

woven in with warrior battle cries. “Trick Doves” is epic with its galloping riffs and menacing bassline. I don’t know what happens exactly in the last song, but I’m pretty sure the band slays some dragons and uncovers buried treasure. (EF)

stripped down style. Her singular sound, along with the tasty guitar licks, means Dirty Radio is tailor made for a Sunday afternoon toodle up Rock Creek with your best gal. ( JM)

It was a good year for bad kinds of music. Rock and roll continued its long decline from the night I drank my first wine cooler, but clever weirdos produced great albums on the fringes of pop. Consider Kurt Vile, whose Smoke Ring For My Halo distilled Neil Diamond through the Stones to sound like everything and nothing, like what 40 years of barroom radio could have been. (DB)

Mordecai is a band made of vintage parts hammered together in a dilapidated garage by youthful mad scientists. The band’s eponymous album from local Killer Tree Records boasts nine Stooges-style grungy songs that always feel dangerously and deliciously on the verge of falling apart. It’s a hungry, honest collection best heard on vinyl; it was recorded in an 80-year-old YMCA in Butte. (EF)

I keep thinking that among the year’s best I ought to pick something more sophisticated than Sunny Sweeney’s second album, Concrete—like the updated cumbia of Afritanga: The Sound of Afrocolombia or even a Rolling Stones vintage live album (there were two good ones in 2011). Yet the plain truth is that Sweeney makes dependably fine country pop. “Staying’s Worse Than Leaving” was a monster in my mind and a minor hit in real life. (RM)

For sheer, brutal weirdness, no album of 2011 was less cool than Destroyer’s Kaputt. A masterpiece of what can only be called smooth jazz, it’s an album about coke lounges and wounded narcissism that sounds like Hall & Oates, if Hall & Oates were one gay vampire. My 16-year-old self would hate it. My 2011 self listened to it 136 times. (DB)

The flexibility of genre was so great in 2011 that good work could even be done in the field of TV On the Radio. With Nine Types of Light, everyone’s favorite band to make you listen to at parties shed its pretensions and did what it does right: funk. Tracks like “Second Song” remind us that music is for dancing, and dancing forgets to resent hipster orthodoxy. (DB) Fact: While listening to Leave Home by The Men I have bench-pressed over 60 tons. But the music isn’t all bombast, boners and ear-scouring noise. And it isn’t just ’90s name-checking, although the band reminds us of everyone while maintaining its particular voice. All killer, no filler. ( JM) Instruments on Stellarondo’s eponymous album include wet wood, boob gourd, xylophone,

Two words: pure energy. And not the kind Information Society sang about back in ’88, Brenda. Fuck It by Bust! is youthful, angry energy backed with percussive, aggressive musicianship. Eight songs, 13 minutes: something’s gotta give. ( JM) Buck Kuts from Billings garage band Noise Noise Noise is an ironclad collection of songs that embrace a certain amount of whoa-whoa! pop-punk,

Some describe Sallie Ford’s voice as an affectation. Fine, but it’s a cool affectation, perfect for Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside’s old-timey,

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Recovering a Lost River is not only wellresearched and chock-full of historical information and scientific fact, it’s also a rollicking good read, the narrative equivalent of a raft trip through Hell’s Canyon in high water. In a world run down by innumerable stories of environmental degradation, Steven Hawley tells tales of resurrection, about people who have had the temerity to remove dams to serve the gods of freshwater, anadromous fish. (JG) Montana-raised writer Melanie Rae Thon offers a brutally lucid new collection with In This Light. Thon’s storylines are never linear. It’s as though they to take place behind a window of frosted glass, like Flannery O’Connor without the Catholic undertones. Characters exist on the fringes of consciousness. Horrible things are always about to happen to the innocent and corrupt alike. (MP) Josh Wagner’s memoir isn’t literal. It centers on a teen virgin’s pregnancy, yet by the end of Smashing Laptops: A Nomad’s Romance with Missoula the story has taken you through so many of The Zoo’s strange-but-true corners and stretched so thin your limits on whimsy that you might find yourself making room for just one more immaculate conception. (ML) Unlike many other detective novels, the sprouting threads of Feast Day of Fools actually bolster instead of splinter it. James Lee Burke concentrates on the inner lives of his characters, focusing primarily on the reasons why grifters become virtuous and the godly turn dangerous. In this world, events—fortuitous and otherwise— don’t just happen, they’re caused by carefully delineated characters. (AO) Going home is a part of almost every childhood memoir. It might be the return to a family dwelling. It might be an emotional return, a revisiting of the people and events that shaped a life for better and worse. Ruth McLaughlin’s haunting new memoir, Bound Like Grass, is both. It smolders with energy. A 1950s childhood in rural Montana might seem narrow, but Grass’s insights are universal. (AO) Recipient of a 2010 Bakeless Prize, Beautiful Unbroken is alternately despairing, funny, gross and hopeful. Mary Jane Nealon recalls traveling the country as an oncology nurse. She describes the patients she tended, grand friendships and the whirlwind of love affairs. It’s a riveting autioboigraphy of living among the dying. (MP)

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Did I mention how funny this book is? Well, it’s very funny, and could be read on that basis alone. Skewering her associates and detailing the overt chauvinism of academia in the 1970s (she was commonly referred to as “that woman with the Ph.D.”), Mary Clearman Blew’s entertaining vignettes are both sour and surreal. This Is Not the Ivy League is best when situated around the Hi-Line university and its all-consuming conflict, where “faculty offices buzzed with plots, rumors, counterplots, all at the deepest level of seriousness.” Every characterization, instead of being mere caricature, is nuanced, hilarious and ultimately tragic. (MP) In Montana native Kim Barker’s unorthodox, autobiographical coverage of insurgency and destruction, there’s no such thing as a slow news day. The Taliban Shuffle has a landscape like M*A*S*H’s and reads like Joseph Heller. Unflinching in its brutal recap of American soldiers plodding through a “forgotten war,” the book is tethered by wryness and wit. Comedy offers the purging necessary for survival in an emotionally draining climate. (MP) Extremophilia is a wide-ranging, wide-eyed assortment of reportage, anecdote and memoir with prose so clean you could eat off it. These are tall tales about forestry, motorcycles and literature that all happen to be true. Fred Haefele’s writing is reminiscent of Hunter S. Thompson’s but with an ecological bent. (MP) In An Entirely Synthetic Fish, Anders Halverson adds a light, personal touch that spins his story smoothly through what could have been an unnavigable knot of bureaucratic resource management, equal parts well-intentioned and misguided. It’s an indictment of a naïve and inertial fisheries policy that’s led to pointless expenditure, outbreaks of whirling disease and hybridization with Montana’s westslope cutthroat trout. It’s sympathetic, with the benefit of hindsight. (BT) Verlaine Stoner McDonald has taken a bursting corner of forgotten Americana and made it unforgettable. The Red Corner is a definitive account of the rise and fall of prairie socialism; a compulsively balanced tale of scheming, bootleggers, charismatic provocateurs, newspaper wars, Wild West violence, farming and Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. One lingering criticism: it ends about 100 pages too soon. (MP) arts@missoulnews.com

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Closing credits Our critics give the thumbs-up to 2011’s best films by Dave Loos, Molly Laich, Erika Fredrickson, Scott Renshaw and Skylar Browning

Hugo is the most visually stunning movie I’ve seen since Avatar; and while it’s not as technically revolutionary as James Cameron’s epic 3D ode to the Na’vi of planet Pandora, it has something of equal importance: a much better story. (DL)

There’s a lesson in Moneyball about the value of truly original thinking and the courage it takes to enact it. There are Rookie of the Year, Angels in the Outfield and Major League-levels of feel-good inspiration at play, with an added layer of realism and intelligence. When the team comes back from 11 straight losses with a record-breaking, 20-game win streak, being made to sit through an hour of disappointment and desk flipping is so worth it. (ML) The graveyard of documentaries that fail to do their stories justice is large and grows every year. Not Senna. In the film’s climactic scene, we sit with Brazilian auto racing legend Ayrton Senna as he navigates the twisting course of the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix, at speeds topping 200 miles per hour. This is real footage. We’re seeing what Senna saw from the openair cockpit of the vehicle. We also know that Senna is about to die. As we hover at eye level less than three feet above the pavement, the scene unfolds over an agonizing 10 seconds, then 20, and finally, after close to a minute of waiting, the film quickcuts to an aerial view of the race and the accident. It’s as gripping as a documentary gets, as much for the drama on the racetrack as for the fact we care deeply for the person in that car. (DL) Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life hit me somewhere primal, deep and resonant. As a piece of cinematic artistry, this family drama is undeniably singular, a dizzying and ambitious vision. But on a much more fundamental level, it’s also about a certain connection we make between the human and the divine—and the challenge we have of separating the two. (SR)

Few films nowadays succeed in transporting adult audiences back to their childhood days. Super 8 did exactly that, evoking memories of E.T., Goonies and a time when movies didn’t have to be stuffed with 3D special effects to make an impact. Here, a cast of realistic kids and a script full of wide-eyed adventure are more than enough to make movie magic. (SB) Despite a plot that revolves around a secretive wheel man (i.e. the hired getaway car driver), The Fast and the Furious this is not. Drive is dark, violent and memorable in a way few films are today. It proceeds at a pace that refuses to cater to today’s evergrowing attention-deficit Hugo audience and is all the better for it. There are nods to the pulp movies and television shows of yesteryear, yet never to the point of parody and never to the point where it feels like we’ve seen this before. (DL)

Mike Mills, who wrote and directed Beginners, has probably taken his share of liberties in telling his life story, but I couldn’t care less. Plodding along at its own speed amid a jumbled timeline, the film reflects on the World War II generation from the perspective of a lost and longing Generation Xer. It’s moving and sentimental, not manipulative or corny. It dissects the “greatest generation” with love and honesty while telling the story of a dying father as our narrator tries to stay on his own balance beam. (DL)

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City in Shadows is a love letter of sorts, filled with cutouts of iconic—though not always obvious— Missoula images. It has no people in it, but it features glittering waterscapes made by local filmmaker Andy

I loved Another Earth. And I’m sure this sci-fi movie isn’t for everyone. Certain absurd plot points require some forgiveness. It moves slowly and says little and it’s not even a little bit funny. A cynical person will say the film is too sentimental or the science is impractical, but do yourself a favor: don’t worry the science. Pretend you’re reading about a poem. (ML)

Smetanka’s optical illusions. It’s just six minutes but its bursting colors and bewitching soundtrack of bird calls, banjo and singing saw make it feel like a dream you don’t want to leave. (EF) Give Werner Herzog credit for letting the drawings tell the story in Cave of Forgotten Dreams. Yes, there are obviously scripted moments but generally the focus remains where it should. Long periods of silence allow us to slowly acclimate to a mesmerizing environment. When the director remarks, “These are the images of long-forgotten dreams,” I can’t help but agree. There’s nothing else on earth like them. (DL) The Big Sky Documentary Film Festival provides at least one utterly unforgettable selection each year. Marwencol earns that prize in 2011. Mark Hogancamp has created an Another Earth entire world in his backyard consisting of Barbie dolls and G.I. Joe figures, each based on a friend or neighbor and each with his or her own detailed narrative. The reasons why he’s created this alternate reality and what comes of it make for a powerful story about perseverance, decency, community and art. (SB) I enjoyed Blue Valentine much the way I enjoyed last year’s Winter’s Bone, which is to say I felt a little masochistic by the end, unable to shake images and scenes that are chilling and haunting and uncomfortable in ways rarely attempted these days. There’s a reason for this, of course—people go to movies to escape the very things that Blue Valentine and Winter’s Bone magnify to a degree that can suck all the air out of a theater, unwilling to let anyone exhale for two hours. It’s tense, it’s frustrating and in the right hands, under the right direction, it also can approach brilliance. (DL)

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NOW PLAYING THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN A boy and his dog have marvelous shipboard, airborne and motorcycle-straddling adventures around the globe. Starring Simon Pegg, Daniel Craig and Carey Elwes. Directed by Spielberg. Carmike 12: 12:15, 2:45, 5:25 and 8:05 pm. 3D: 1:15, 4, 6:40 and 9:15 pm. Pharaohplex: 7 and 9 pm. 3D: 3 pm, Sat. and Sun. Stadium 14: 3:30 pm, Fri.-Mon. 1:45 pm, Tue.-Thu. 3D: 12, 2:30, 3:30, 5, 7:30 and 10 pm. 1, 3:30, 7 and 9:30 pm, Tue.-Thu.

attack the world’s power supply. Let’s hope the intrepid youth get tweeked and decide they need their iPods recharged. Starring Emile Hirsch and Olivia Thirlby. Village 6: 1:35 and 4:30 pm. 3D: 7:10 and 9:15 pm. Stadium 14: 12:05, 2:30, 4:40 7:15 and 9:40 pm. 1:20, 4, 7 and 9:30 pm, Tue.-Thu.

3:30, 6:30 and 9:30 pm. Big D: 1, 4, 7 and 10 pm. Village 6: 1, 4, 7 and 10 pm. Pharaohplex: 6:50 and 9:10 pm, with 3 pm matinees on Sat. and Sun. Stadium 14: 12:10, 1, 4, 6, 7, 9 and 9:55, with midnight shows on Fri. 1:10, 3:50, 6, 6:45, 9 and 9:40 pm, Tue.-Thu. Mountain: 1:15, 4, 6:50 and 9:20.

joins up for a spot of adventure and to find that beloved creature. Spielberg directs, cue well-lit faces. Carmike 12: 12:30, 1:30, 4:30, 5:30, 8:15 and 9:15 pm. Stadium 14: 12, 2:20, 3:15, 5:25, 6:30, 8:30 and 9:40, with a midnight show Fri. 1, 3:20, 4:15, 6:30, 7:15 and 9:30 pm. Showboat: 4, 6:50 and 9:30 pm.

THE DESCENDANTS George Clooney takes his daughters on a trip to confront the man she has been cheating on him with. Did I mention his wife is on life support? Stadium 14: 12:10, 3:30, 6:40 and 9:20, with a midnight show on Fri. 1:05, 3:40, 6:40 and 9:20 pm, Tue.-Thu.

THE MUPPETS Gen-Xers rejoice, the Muppets are getting the band back together to save their beloved theater from a rich old oil tycoon. Jason Segel, Amy Adams, Fozzie and Miss Piggy star. Carmike 12: 1:15 and 4:25 pm. Stadium 14: 12 pm Fri.-Mon. 1 pm Tue.-Thu. Mountain: 2:15, 4:30, 7:15 and 9:20.

WE BOUGHT A ZOO Matt Damon buys a struggling pet sanctuary and makes his heinous old wife played by Scarlett Johansson live there with their kids and the mechanic guy from that TV show “Wings.” Carmike 12: 1:15, 4:30 and 7:45 pm. Pharaohplex: 6:50 and 9:10 pm, with 3 pm matinees Sat. and Sun Stadium 14: 12:20, 3:30, 6:45, 9:30, with a midnight show on Fri.-

Who says I’m not Mel Torme? Mission: Impossible–Ghost Protocol currently plays at the Carmike 12, Village 6, Pharaohplex, Stadium 14 and Mountain Cinema.

ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIP-WRECKED Alvin and his bros., along with the Chipettes, fall off a cruise ship and drown. Jokes. They end up on a desert island. Starring Jason Lee and the voices of Justin Long and Amy Poehler. Carmike 12: 1:15, 4:10, 6:30 and 8:45. Village 6: 1:30, 4:30, 6:45 pm and 9 pm. Pharaohplex: 7 and 9 pm, with 3 pm matinees on Sat. and Sun. Stadium 14: 12, 12:30, 2:20, 2:40 4:30, 5, 7 and 9:10, with midnight shows on Fri. 1, 2:15. 3:30, 4:30, 7 and 9:10 pm, Tue.-Thu. Showboat: 4, 7 and 9. ARTHUR CHRISTMAS In this computer-generated kids movie, Santa’s youngest son borrows the car without asking for permission, possibly saves Christmas, possibly ruins it. Starring James McAvoy and Hugh Laurie. Carmike 12: 3D: 1:35 and 4:10. Pharaohplex: 7 and 9, with 3 pm matinees on Sat. and Sun. No 9 pm show on Sun. Stadium 14: 12:05, 2:35, 4:55, 7:15 and 9:35, with midnight shows Fri. Mountain: 2:15, 4:15, 7:15 and 9:15. Showboat: 4:15, 7:15 and 9:15. DARKEST HOUR Leave it to the aliens to land in Moscow and

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THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (U.S.) Based on Stieg Larsson’s book, a journalist gets some help finding a person from a spooky lady. Stars Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara. Carmike 12: 1:40, 5:20 and 9 pm. Stadium 14: 12, 3:20, 6:40 and 9:40, with a midnight show on Fri. 1:10, 4:20 and 7:30 pm, Tue.-Thu. Pharaohplex: 7 pm, with 3 pm matinees on Sat. and Sun. Mountain: 1, 3:55, 6:50 and 9:45 PM. HUGO Based on a children’s book no one in this office has ever read, Hugo is the story of a Parisian orphan who lives in the walls of a train station during the 1930s. There is a mystery, too, involving a robot and the boy’s father. Directed by Martin Scorcese and starring Ben Kingsley and Sacha Baron Cohen. Carmike 12: 3D: 7:35. Stadium 14: 6:30 and 9:30 pm. Pharaohplex: 3D: 6:50 and 9:10 pm, with matinees Sat. and Sun. at 3 pm. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - GHOST PROTOCOL Ethan Hunt and his crew are forced to go rogue, y’all. Told you not to bomb the Kremlin. Starring Tom Cruise and Paula Patton. Carmike 12: 12:30,

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NEW YEAR’S EVE The lives of many couples cross paths many times and many lessons are learned about love and its many splendors. Directed by Garry Marshall and starring everyone not busy that day, including Robert DeNiro, Halle Berry and Ludacris. Village 6: 4 and 7:15 pm, with 9:45 pm shows on Fri. and Sat and matinees on Sat. and Sun at 1 pm. Stadium 14: 7:05 and 9:40, with midnight shows Fri. SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS Perhaps Mr. Holmes and Dr. Watson will match wits with Professor Moriarty once again. Indubitably. Starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law. Carmike 12: 1:45, 4:45 and 8 pm. Big D: 1, 4, 7 and 10 pm. Village 6: 4 and 7 pm, with 10 pm shows on Fri. and Sat. and 1 pm matinees on Sat. and Sun. Pharaohplex: 6:50 and 9:10 pm, with 3 pm matinees on Sat. and Sun. Stadium 14: 12, 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9 and 9:45, with midnight show on Fri. No 12 pm show Tue.-Thu. Entertainer: 4, 7 and 9:30. Mountain: 2, 4:30, 7 and 9:30. WAR HORSE A young man’s horse is enlisted for use by the cavalry during WWI, so of course the young man

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life is an ambitious work that deviates from formulaic approaches to film-making. Some observers hated its experimental invocation of big ideas, while others approved. New York Times critic A.O. Scott compared the movie to Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, one of America’s great works of literature. Here’s what Scott wrote: “Mr. Malick might have been well advised to leave out the dinosaurs and the trip to the afterlife and given us a delicate chronicle of a young man’s struggle with his father and himself. And perhaps Melville should have suppressed his philosophizing impulses and written a lively tale of a whaling voyage.” Using this as a template, Cancerian, I urge you to treat 2012 as a time when you will be like Melville and Malick in your chosen field. Trust your daring, expansive vision.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Historian David McCullough wrote The Greater Journey, a book telling the stories of ambitious young American artists who relocated to Paris between 1830 and 1900. They had to move away because their home country had no museums or art schools at that time. You Virgos may want to consider seeking a similar enlargement of your possibilities in the coming months. As you seek out the resources that will help you follow your dreams, be prepared to look beyond what you already know and what’s immediately available.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The coming year will be a good time for you to consider investigating the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Devotees of this religion call themselves Pastafarians. Their main dogma is the wisdom of rejecting all dogma. Having such a light-hearted approach to spiritual matters would be quite healthy for you to experiment with. For extra credit, you could draw inspiration from a church member named Niko Alm. He convinced authorities to allow him to wear a pasta strainer on his head for his driver’s license photo. Having a jaunty approach to official requirements and formal necessities will also serve you well.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I love the way they celebrate the New Year in Stonehaven, Scotland. A procession of revelers swings big flaming baskets around on the ends of long chains. I recommend that you carry out a comparable ritual as you barge into 2012, Leo. Symbolically speaking, it would set the perfect tone. The coming months should be a kind of extended fire festival for you—a time when you faithfully stoke the blaze in your belly, the radiance in your eyes, and the brilliance in your heart. Are you ready to bring all the heat and light you can to the next phase of your master plan? I hope so. Burn, baby, burn.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): For much of the 19th century, aluminum was regarded as a precious metal more valuable than gold. It was even used for the capstone of the Washington Monument, dedicated in 1884. The reason for this curiosity? Until the 1890s, it was difficult and expensive to extract aluminum from its ore. Then a new technology was developed that made the process very cheap. In 2012, Taurus, I’m predicting a metaphorically similar progression in your own life. A goodie or an asset will become more freely available to you because of your increased ability to separate it from the slag it’s mixed with.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Professional basketball player Ron Artest petitioned the court to let him change his name to “Metta World Peace.” “Metta” is a Buddhist term that signifies lovingkindness and benevolence. When the new moniker finally became official, Metta World Peace sealed a radical shift away from his old way of doing things, symbolized by the time he leaped into the stands in the middle of a game to punch a fan in the head. The coming months will be an excellent time for you Libras to initiate a rite of passage that will expedite an equally dramatic transformation.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Many of the questions we had as children never got resolved or answered to our satisfaction. They still remain marinating in the back of our minds. Meanwhile, fresh queries keep welling up within us as the years go by. After a while, we’ve got a huge collection of enigmas, riddles, and conundrums. Some of us regard this as a tangled problem that weighs us down, while others see it as a sparkly delight that keeps making life more and more interesting. Where do you stand on the issue, Scorpio? If you’re in the latter group, you will be fully open to the experiences that will be flowing your way in 2012. And that means you will be blessed with a host of sumptuous and catalytic new questions.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The first half of 2012 will be an excellent time to for you to exorcize any prejudices you might be harboring toward anyone who lives or thinks differently from you. You’ll be able to see your own irrational biases with exceptional clarity, and are also likely to have exceptional success at scouring yourself free of them. This will give you access to new reserves of psychic energy you didn’t even realize you were shut off from. (P.S. I’m not saying you possess more intolerance or narrow-mindedness than any of the rest of us. It’s just that this is your time to deal brilliantly with your share of it.)

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In Botticelli’s painting The Birth of Venus, the goddess of beauty and love is shown arriving on dry land for the first time after having been born in the ocean. Naked, she is trying to cover her private parts with her hand and thigh-length hair. Her attendant, a fully clothed nymph, is bringing a cloak to cover her up. Analyzing this scene, art critic Sister Wendy suggests it’s actually quite sad. It symbolizes the fact that since we humans can’t bear the confrontation with sublime beauty, we must always keep it partly hidden. Your assignment in the coming year, Capricorn, is to overcome this inhibition. I invite you to retrain yourself so that you can thrive in the presence of intense, amazing, and transformative beauty.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The coming months will be an excellent time to take an inventory of your life to determine whether there are any ways in which you act like a slave. Do you find it hard to defeat an addiction that saps your energy and weakens your ability to live the life you want? Are there institutions that you help sustain even though they cause harm to you and others? Is it hard for you to change or end your relationships with people who are no damn good for you? Are you trapped in a role or behavior that is at odds with your high ideals? Discover what these oppressors are, Aquarius—and then summon all your intelligence and willpower to escape them.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): California engineer Ron Patrick put a jet engine in his silver VW Beetle. Now he’s got a 1,450-horsepower vehicle—but it’s not legal for him to drive on public highways. In the coming year, Pisces, I suspect you’ll be tempted to try something similar: create a dynamic tool with a modest appearance or a turbo-charged source of energy in a deceptively small package. But if you do, please make sure that you can actually use it to improve your ability to get around and make your life better. Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700.

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include Design Development Plan, phased development plan and cost estimates for Missoula County-owned portion of Fort Missoula Regional Park (FMRP), approximately 62 acres. Missoula County, Montana Submittal Deadline: Monday, February 13, 2012 Late submittals will NOT be accepted. Attention: Missoula County Fort Missoula Regional Park Design Development Project RFQ 317 Woody Missoula, MT 59802 Five (5) copies, plus one electronic copy, of the proposal must be received by the deadline. Questions should be directed to County Parks’ Office (lmoisey@co.missoula.mt.us) (406)2584716 To view the full RFP, including project overview; scope of services; and organization and submittal requirements; please visit Missoula County Website at http://www.co.missoula.mt.us/bidsandproposals/bidandproposals.htm MISSOULA COUNTY INVITATION TO BID RECEIPT OF BIDS: Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received at the office of the Missoula County Director of Public Works, 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, Montana, 59808, until 2:00 P.M. local time, on January 19th, 2012 for the construction of the Missoula County On-Site Pressure Sewer Project. DESCRIPTION OF WORK: The work includes the demolition of existing septic tank, installing new, sanitary forcemain piping and grinder pump station, and abandoning existing septic drain field including appurtenant piping, sitework, and facilities required for the operational pressure sewer system. The sanitary forcemain is supplied by the Owner, but all remaining items shall be supplied by the Contractor. In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for site cleanup and other miscellaneous work items involved with pressure sewer system per plans and specifications. PROJECT FINANCING: The “Missoula County On-Site Pressure Sewer Project” is funded by Missoula County. Bidders must meet all requirements of the appropriate Federal/State, County and City agencies, as indicated in

the specifications. SITE OF WORK: The work as mentioned above will be as shown on the plans and defined in the specifications. COMPLETION OF WORK: All work must be substantially completed within fourteen (14) calendar days for all bid items after the commencement date of construction is agreed upon by Missoula County and the said Contractor. However, if a construction date is not able to be agreed upon, the Owner shall make the final decision once the Owner issues the Notice to Proceed. Contract time will be extended in accordance with the contract documents. DOCUMENT EXAMINATION AND PROCUREMENTS The Bidding and Contract Documents may be examined at the following locations “Missoula County On-Site Pressure Sewer Project”: Missoula County—Public Works 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, MT 59808 HDR Engineering, Inc. 1715 South Reserve Street, Suite C Missoula, MT 59801 Missoula Plans Exchange 201 N. Russell, Missoula, MT 59801 Great Falls Builders Exchange 202 2nd Ave. S., #1 Great Falls, MT 59405 NW Montana Plans Exchange 2303 US Highway 12 East, Kalispell, MT 59901 Billings Builders Exchange 2050 Broadwater Avenue, Suite A Billings, MT 59102 Helena Plans Exchange 1530 Cedar Street, Ste. C, Helena, MT 59601 Butte Builders Exchange 4801 Hope Road Butte, MT 59701 Bozeman Builders Exchange 1105 Reeves Road West Bozeman, MT 59718 Copies of the Contract Documents may be purchased by mailing check or money order to: Attn: Devie Bessette HDR Engineering, Inc. 1715 South Reserve Street, Suite C Missoula, MT 59801 PH: 406-532-2200 A complete set of the Contract Documents and Project Manual will be furnished to the Contractor making application therefore from HDR Engineering, upon payment of $60.00 by company check, cashier’s check, or bank money order (cash can not be accepted). No refunds will be allowed. Full-size drawings are not available. BID SECURITY: Proposals must be accompanied by cash, cashier’s check, certified check, or bank

money order drawn and issued by a national banking association located in the State of Montana, or by any banking corporation incorporated in the State of Montana, or by a bid bond or bonds executed by a surety corporation authorized to do business in the State of Montana in the amount of ten percent (10%) of the total bid as a guarantee that the successful bidder will enter into the required contract. The bid security shall identify the same firm as is noted on the bid proposal form. Performance and Payment Bonds will be required of the successful bidder in the amount of one hundred percent (100%) of the aggregate of the proposal for the faithful performance of the contract, and protection of Missoula County against liability. BIDS TO REMAIN OPEN: The Bidder shall guarantee the Total Bid Price for a period of 60 calendar days from the date of bid opening. Contractor and any of the contractor’s subcontractors doing work on this project will be required to obtain registration with the Montana Department of Labor and Industry (DLI) except as listed in MCA 39-9-211. Information on registration can be obtained from the Department of Labor and Industry by calling 1-406444-7734. Contractor is required to have registered with the DLI prior to bidding on this project. (“Bid Only” registration is available for out-of-state contractors.) All laborers and mechanics employed by contractor or subcontractors in performance of this construction work shall be paid wages at rates as may be required by law. The contractor must ensure that employees and applicants for employment are not discriminated against because of their race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Successful contractors and vendors are required to comply with Missoula County’s Business Licensing requirements. Proposals must be sealed and marked “ Missoula County On-Site Pressure Sewer Project”, “Opening” January 19th, 2012 at 2:00 PM and marked “Sealed Bid” with the Contractor’s name, address, current state license number, and, Montana Contractors Registration Number and be addressed to: Missoula County Director

of Public Works 6089 Training Drive Missoula, MT 59808 No facsimile bids will be accepted. Any objection to published specifications must be filed in written form with the Board of County Commissioners Office prior to the scheduled time of bid opening January 19th, 2012 at 2:00 PM. WAGE RATES: This project is funded by Missoula County. As a result, Montana Prevailing Wage Rate Determination (Davis Bacon Wage Rates for Public Works Contracts in Montana) applies to this project. A copy of the said wage rate is attached as part of the specifications in Section 00825. PRE-BID CONFERENCE: Prospective bidders shall attend a mandatory pre-bid conference which will be conducted jointly with the Owner and Engineer, at the Missoula County Road Department Shop, located at 6089 Training, Missoula, MT 59808 at 2:00 p.m. on January 12th, 2012. If the Prospective bidder does not attend the mandatory pre-bid conference, the bidder shall be considered non-responsive. PROJECT ADMINISTRATION: All questions relative to this project prior to the opening of bids shall be directed to the Engineer. It shall be understood, however, that no specification interpretation will be made by telephone, nor will any “or equal” products be considered for approval prior to award of contract. The Engineer for this project is: Sean Everett, P.E. HDR Engineering, Inc. 1715 South Reserve Street, Suite C Missoula, MT 59801-4708 Telephone: (406) 532-2200 OWNER’S RIGHTS RESERVED: The Owner reserves the right to reject any or all bids, to waive any informality in a bid, or to accept the lowest responsive and responsible bid and bidder, and to make awards in the interest of the Owner and to re-advertise. The bid shall be determined on the basis of the lowest responsible bidder for all bid items listed in Section 00300. Bids received that do not include pricing for all Bid Items will be considered non-responsive. The Owner reserves the right to authorize construction of any combination of, or all of, bid items defined at the bid amounts presented in the Contractor’s Bid Proposal Date: December 29th, 2011 Owner: Missoula County By: Amy Rose Missoula County Public Works MISSOULA COUNTY SECTION 00100 INVITATION TO BID Missoula County seeks bids for construction of the Upper Miller Creek Road. Sealed bids will be accepted by: Missoula County Public Works Office, Attn: Greg Robertson, P.E., 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, MT 59808 until 1:30 PM local time on January 12, 2012, and then publicly opened and read aloud in the Conference Room at the offices of the Missoula County Public Works. The project consists of the reconstruction of approximately 7500 lineal feet of 36’ wide street from Mockingbird Lane to Linda Vista Boulevard. Construction will include: Installation of stormwater catch basins and piping, Recycling existing asphalt and base gravels Installing concrete sidewalk, curb and gutter Installing asphalt surfacing. Installing paint striping and signage The contract documents consisting of drawings, specifications, and bidding documents may be examined or obtained at the office of Professional Consultants, Inc., 3115 Russell, Missoula, MT 59801. The required deposit is $ 225.00 per set, which is nonrefundable. In addition, the drawings and project manual may also be examined at the Missoula Plans Exchange, 201 N. Russell, Missoula, MT (406) 549-5002. There will be a Pre-Bid Conference at the Linda Vista Golf Course, 4915 Lower Miller Creek Road, Missoula, MT at 1:30 PM on January 5, 2012. Interested CONTRACTORS are encouraged to attend. CONTRACTOR and any of the CONTRACTOR’S subcontractors doing work on this project will be required to obtain registration with the Montana Department of Labor and Industry (DLI). Forms for registration are available from the Department of Labor and Industry, P.O. Box 8011, 1805 Prospect, Helena, Montana 59604-8011. Information on registration can be obtained by calling 1406-444-7734. CONTRACTOR is not required to have registered with the DLI prior to bidding on this project, but must have registered prior to execution of the Construction Agreement. All laborers and mechanics employed by CONTRACTOR or subcontractors in performance of the construction work shall be paid wages at rates as may be required by Missoula County and the State of Montana. The CONTRACTOR must ensure that employees and applicants for employment are not discriminated against

because of their race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Each bid or proposal must be accompanied by a Certified Check, Cashier’s Check, or Bid Bond payable to Missoula County, in an amount not less than ten percent (10%) of the total amount of the bid. Successful BIDDER(s) shall furnish an approved Performance Bond and a Labor and Materials Payment Bond, each in the amount of one hundred percent (100%) of the contract amount. Insurance as required shall be provided by the successful BIDDER(s) and a certificate(s) of that insurance shall be provided. Sealed bids shall be marked Upper Miller Creek Road Reconstruction. No bid may be withdrawn after the scheduled time for the public opening of bids, which is 1:30 PM on January 12, 2012 local time. Missoula County reserves the right to reject any or all proposals received, to waive informalities, to postpone the award of the contract for a period of not to exceed sixty (60) days, and to accept the lowest responsive and responsible bid which is in the best interest of the OWNER. The Contractor is required to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. MISSOULA COUNTY SHERIFF’S SALE DICK ANDERSON CONSTRUCTION, INC., Plaintiff vs. MONROE PROPERTY COMPANY, LLC, Defendants. To Be Sold at Sheriff’s Sale: TERMS: CASH, or its equivalent; NO personal checks. On the 5th day of January A.D., 2012, at Ten (10:00) o’clock A.M., at the front door of the Court House, 200 West Broadway, Missoula in the County of Missoula, State of Montana, that certain real property situate in said Missoula County, and particularly described as follows, to-wit: LOCATION 1: THE W1/2 W1/2 NW1/4 OF GOVERNMENT LOT 5, IN SECTION 6, T.13N., T.14W.,P.M.M., TOGETHER WITH THE NE1/4 SE1/4 NE1/4 OF SECTION 1, T.13N.,R.15W., P.M.M., ALL N MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA; CONTAINING 12.58 ACRES MORE OR LESS. LOCATION 2, 3, 4, & 6: GOVERNMENT LOT 1, AND THE E1/2 OF GOVERNMENT LOT 2 IN SECTION 1, T.13N., R.15W., P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA; CONTAINING 28.48 ACRES MORE OR LESS. LOCATION 5, 7, & 8 THE S1/2 NW1/4 SE1/4, THE E1/2 SW1/4 SE1/4, AND THE SW1/4 SE1/4 SE1/4 OF SECTION 36, T.14N., R.15W., P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA; CONTAINING 50.0 ACRES MORE OR LESS. LOCATION 9: THE SE1/4 NW1/4 NW1/4 NW1/4 SE1/4, THE SW1/4 NE1/4 NW1/4 NW1/4 SE1/4, THE NW1/4 SE1/4 NW1/4 NW1/4 SE1/4, AND THE NE1/4 SW1/4 NW1/4 NW1/4 SE1/4 OF SECTION 1, T.13N., R.15W., P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA; CONTAINING 2.5 ACRES MORE OR LESS. LOCATION 10: THE S1/2 SE1/4 NE1/4 SE1/4 NW1/4 OF SECTION 36, T.14N., R.15W., P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA; CONTAINING 1.25 ACRES. LOCATION 11: THE SW1/4 NW1/4 NE1/4 SW1/4, THE NW1/4 SW1/4 NE1/4 SW1/4, THE NE1/4 SE1/4 OF GOVERNMENT LOT 3, AND THE SE1/4 NE1/4 OF GOVERNMENT LOT 3, ALL IN SECTION 30, T.14N., R.14W., P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA; CONTAINING 9.78 ACRES MORE OR LESS. LOCATION 12: THE S1/2 SW1/4 NE1/4 NE1/4, THE W1/2 NW1/4 SE1/4 NE1/4, THE NE1/4 SW1/4 NE1/4, AND THE S1/2 SE1/4 NW1/4 NE1/4 OF SECTION 25, T.14N., R.15W., P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA; CONTAINING 25.0 ACRES MORE OR LESS. LOCATION 13: THE W1/2 NE1/4 NW1/4 NE1/4, THE N1/2 N1/2 SW1/4 NW1/4 NE1/4, AND THE NW1/4 NW1/4 NE1/4 OF SECTION 25, T.14N., R.15W., P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA; CONTAINING 17.5 ACRES MORE OR LESS. LOCATION 14: THE SW1/4 NE1/4 NW1/4, THE NW1/4 SE1/4 NW1/4, THE E1/2 NE1/4 SW1/4 NW1/4, AND THE E1/2 SE1/4 NW1/4 NW1/4 OF SECTION 29, T.14N., R.14W., P.M.M, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA; CONTAINING 30.0 ACRES MORE OR LESS. LOCATION 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, & 22: THE SW1/4 NE1/4, THE W1/2 NW1/4 SE1/4, THE SE1/4 NW1/4 SE1/4, THE S1/2 SE1/4 SE1/4, THE S1/2 N1/2 SE1/4 SE1/4, THE SW1/4 SE1/4, THE N1/2 SE1/4 SW1/4, THE NE1/4 SW1/4, THE SE1/4 SE1/4 OF GOVERNMENT LOT 2, THE E1/2 AND THE SW1/4 OF GOVERNMENT LOT 3, AND THE N1/2 OF GOVERNMENT LOT 4, ALL

IN SECTION 19; THE W1/2 SW1/4 SW1/4 SW1/4 OF SECTION 20; THE W1/2 NW1/4 NW1/4, AND THE W1/2 SE1/4 NW1/4 NW1/4 OF SECTION 29; AND THE N1/2 NE1/4 NE1/4 NE1/4 OF SECTION 30; ALL IN T.14N., R.14W., P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA; CONTAINING 284.73 ACRES MORE OR LESS. LOCATION 23: THE NW1/4 NE1/4 SE1/4 NW1/4 OF SECTION 19, T.14N., R.14W., P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA; CONTAINING 2.5 ACRES MORE OR LESS. LOCATION 24: THE SE1/4 SE1/4 NE1/4 OF SECTION 20, AND THE W1/2 SW1/4 SW1/4 NW1/4 OF SECTION 21, ALL IN T.14N., R.15W., P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA; CONTAINING 15.0 ACRES MORE OR LESS. Together with all and singular the tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining. Dated this 15th day of December A.D., 2011. /s/ CARL C. IBSEN Sheriff of Missoula County, Montana By /s/ Patrick A. Turner, Deputy MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DP-11-231 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ELIZABETH N. GIBSON, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named Estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to MARK W. GIBSON, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Reely Law Firm, P.C., 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 22nd day of December, 2011 /s/ Mark W. Gibson, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-11-223 Dept. No. 2 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF OPALMAE H. FREY, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Clifford A. Frey has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Clifford A. Frey, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Dan G. Cederberg, PO Box 8234, Missoula, Montana 59807-8234, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 14th day of December, 2011. CEDERBERG LAW OFFICES, P.C., 269 West Front Street, PO Box 8234, Missoula, MT 59807-8234 /s/ Dan G. Cederberg, Attorneys for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-11-224 Dept. No. 4 Notice To Creditors IN RE THE ESTATE OF: Perry Eraine Tschida, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Joan Tschida-Bonde has been appointed Personal Representative of the above named estate. All persons having claims against the said Deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Joan Tschida-Bonde, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Judith A. Loring, Attorney At Law, PO Box 4, Stevensville, MT 59870, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. Dated this 21st day of December, 2011. /s/ Joan Tschida-Bonde, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Probate No. DP-11-218 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JOHN S. HAINES, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to J. William Haines, return receipt requested, c/o Worden Thane PC, PO Box 4747, Missoula, MT 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the aboveentitled Court. DATED this 1st day of December, 2011. /s/ J. William Haines, Personal Representative WORDEN THANE PC, Attorneys for Personal Representative /s/ Gail M. Haviland MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DP-11-221 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF SUN CHA MAST (a/k/a KIM MAST, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Nancy P. Gibson of GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, 4110 Weeping Willow

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PUBLIC NOTICES Drive, Missoula, Montana 59803, or filed with the Clerk of the above-named Court. DATED this 12th day of December, 2011. /s/ Nancy P. Gibson, GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Probate No. DP-11-217 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF CHARLES DELANO CHARVAT, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Special Administrator of the above-named Estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Dawn K. Charvat, the Special Administrator, return receipt requested,in care of Thiel Law Office, PLLC, 315 West Pine, PO Box 8125, Missoula, Montana 59807 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 2nd day of December, 2011. THIEL LAW OFFICE, /s/ Matthew B. Thiel Attorney for Special Administrator MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-11-207 Dept. No. 3 Hon. John W. Larson NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM J. LARSON, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice, or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to CANDY OLSON, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Victor F. Valgenti, Attorney at Law, 200 University Plaza, 100 Ryman Street, Missoula, MT 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above entitled Court. /s/ Candy Olson, Personal Representative NOTICE OF HEARING ON PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME Cause No. DV-11-1319 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: You are hereby notified 1. On the 11th day of October, 2001, a verified Petition was filed with Department 4 of the Fourth Judicial District Court, Missoula, for an order changing the name of Reya Ashryn Argo, residing at 8400 Pheasant, in the city of Missoula, County of Missoula, State of Montana, to Raya Ashryn Hensen. 2. A hearing on the Petition for Change of Name will be held at the Missoula County Courthouse on January 10, 2012 at 11:00 a.m., or as soon thereafter as counsel may be heard. 3. Any objections to the change of name of Reya Ashryn Argo to Raya Ashryn Hensen should be filed in writing with the clerk of the District Court, Missoula County Courthouse, on or before January 10, 2012. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 12/14/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200732266, Bk 810, Pg 594, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which John Ricker and Dyanne Ricker was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Mountain West Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and First American Title Company of Montana Inc. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First American Title Company of Montana Inc. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lots 100A of Double Arrow Ranch Phase IV, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof, also known as Lot 100A of Certificate of Survey No. 1028. By written instrument , beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Cenlar FSB. 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 02/01/11 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of October 25, 2011, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $237,808.52. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $222,307.69, 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 7, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred

and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7367.20676) 1002.204238-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 04/02/04, recorded as Instrument No. 200409081, Bk: 729, Pg: 442, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Beverly A. Freeman and Daniel D. Freeman, wife and husband was Grantor, Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, Inc. was Beneficiary and Insured Titles was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Insured Titles as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 2 in Block 4 of Mullan Trail Phase 3, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 06/01/11 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of October 20, 2011, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $151,272.17. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $142,654.17, 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 2, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.96966) 1002.204066-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 02/14/11, recorded as Instrument No. 201103167 B: 874 P: 182, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Christopher C. Curtice, a married person and Jennifer L. Curtice was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 81 of Maloney Ranch Phase VII, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 05/01/11 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of November 7, 2011, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $361,712.12. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $343,865.45, 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 20, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.96325) 1002.204666-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE To be sold for cash at Trustee’s sale on April 20, 2012, at 10:00 a.m., on the front (south) steps of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, all of Trustee’s right, title and interest to the following-described property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 16 in Block 4 of Linda Vista, a plated subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Scott D. Tichenor and Melanie Tichenor, as Grantors, conveyed the real property to First American Title Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Missoula Federal Credit Union, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated May 16, 2008, and recorded May 21, 2008, in Book 819, Page 336, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. A Substitution of Trustee designating Kevin S. Jones as Successor Trustee was recorded December 1, 2011, in Book 886, Page 426, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. The default of the obligation, the performance of which is secured by the aforementioned Deed of Trust, and for which default of this foreclosure is made, is for failure to pay the monthly payments as and when due. Pursuant to the provisions of the Deed of Trust, the Beneficiary has exercised, and hereby exercises, its option to declare the full amount secured by such Deed of Trust immediately due and payable. There presently is due on said obligation the principal sum of $172,384.96, plus interest at a rate of 8% totaling $46,813.14, and late fees of $2,659.95, for a total amount due of $221,858.05 as of October 13, 2011, plus the costs of foreclosure, attorney’s fees, trustee’s fees, escrow closing fees, and other accruing costs. The Beneficiary has elected, and does hereby elect, to sell the above-described property to satisfy the obligation referenced above. The Beneficiary declares that the Grantor is in default as described above and demands that the Trustee sell the property described above in accordance with the terms and provisions of this Notice. DATED 5th day of December, 2011. /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Trustee STATE OF MONTANA)) ss. County of Missoula) On this 5th day of December, 2011, before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public for the State of Montana, personally appeared Kevin S. Jones, Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year first above written. (SEAL) /s/ Christy Shipp Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at: Missoula, Montana My Commission Expires: 5-7-2013 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE To be sold for cash at Trustee’s sale on April 24, 2012, at 10:00 a.m., on the front (south) steps of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, all of Trustee’s right, title and interest to the following-described property situated in Missoula County, Montana: A parcel of land located in the S1/2 of Section 32, Township 14 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana, being more particularly described as Tract 2 of Certificate of Survey No. 5630. Western States Land Company, Inc., as Grantor, conveyed the real property of Stewart Title of Missoula County, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Kerry J. Harrill and Jana L. Harrill, as Beneficiaries, by Trust Indenture recorded September 29, 2011, in Book 883 of Micro at Page 686, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. A Substitution of Trustee designating Kevin S. Jones as Successor Trustee was recorded December 5, 2011, in Book 886, Page 645, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. The default of the obligation, the performance of which is secured by the aforementioned Trust Indenture, and for which default of this foreclosure is made, is for failure to pay the monthly payments as and when due. Pursuant to the provisions of the Trust Indenture, the Beneficiaries have exercised, and hereby exercise, their option to declare the full amount secured by such Trust Indenture immediately due and payable. There presently is due on said obligation the principal sum of $400,000.00, plus late fees of $1,000.00, for a total amount due of $401,000.00 as of November 22, 2011, plus the costs of foreclosure, attorney’s fees, accrued interest, trustee’s fees, escrow closing fees, and other accruing fees. The Beneficiaries have elected, and do hereby elect, to sell the

above-described property to satisfy the obligation referenced above. The Beneficiaries declare that the Grantor is in default as described above and demands that the Trustee sell the property described above in accordance with the terms and provisions of this Notice. DATED 13th day of December, 2011. /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Trustee STATE OF MONTANA)) ss. County of Missoula) On this 13th day of December, 2011, before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public for the State of Montana, personally appeared Kevin S. Jones, Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year first above written. (SEAL) /s/ Christy Shipp Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at: Missoula, Montana My Commission Expires: 5-7-2013 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on February 14, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 1 IN BLOCK 3 OF AMENDED PLAT OF COUNTRY CLUB ADDITION NO. 2, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Brian W Jones and Kathlyen N Jones, as Grantor(s), 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 dated January 14, 2004 and Recorded on January 20, 2004 under Document # 200401525, in Bk-725, Pg-354. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, Inc. Successor in interest to ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, Inc.. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,318.29, beginning June 1, 2011, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of September 13, 2011 is $165,334.74 principal, interest at the rate of 5.75% now totaling $3,741.93, escrow advances of $467.93, and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,212.79, plus accruing interest at the rate of $26.05 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 12, 2011 /s/ Becky Stucki First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee First American Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho))ss. County of Bingham) On this 12 day of October, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Becky Stucki, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Blackfoot, Idaho Commission expires: 2/18/2014 Citimortgage V. Jones 42011.113 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on February 6, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West

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Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: PARCEL I: TRACT 43 OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 1925 LOCATED IN THE NORTHWEST ONEQUARTER OF SECTION 9, TOWNSHIP 14 NORTH, RANGE 20 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. PARCEL II: TOGETHER WITH AN EASEMENT ACROSS TRACTS 29 THROUGH 39 INCLUSIVE FOR ACCESS, INGRESS AND EGRESS AS DISCLOSED BY WARRANTY DEED RECORDED IN THE BOOK 165 OF MICRO RECORDS, PAGE 1010 Cordel M. Earl, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Fidelity Nat’l Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Indymac Bank, F.S.B., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on January 24, 2006 and recorded on February 01, 2006 in Book 768, Page 436 under Document No. 200602437. The beneficial interest is currently held by Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as trustee of IndyMac Residential Mortgage- Backed Trust, Series 2006-L1, Residential Mortgage-Backed Certificates, Series 2006-L1. 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 $1,427.93, beginning February 1, 2010, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of October 28, 2011 is $170,247.10 principal, interest at the rate of 9.125% now totaling $28,335.56, escrow advances of $770.69, and other fees and expenses advanced of $3,071.75, plus accruing interest at the rate of $42.56 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: September 30, 2011 /s/ Becky Stucki First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee First American Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham) On this 30 day of September, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Becky Stucki, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Blackfoot, Idaho Commission expires: 2/18/2014 Onewest V Earl 41969.591 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on February 6, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: UNIT NO. 6 OF THE CEDARS CONDOMINIUM situated on Tract D of Hillview Heights No. 1, in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof and according to the Declaration of Condominium on file and of record in the office of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder in Book 121 of Micro Records at page 107, filed and recorded pursuant to the provisions of the Montana Unit Ownership Act, Section 672301, et seq, R.C.M. 1947 as amended. TOGETHER WITH an undivided fractional interest in the general common elements equal to fractional ratio such unit owner’s unit bears to the total area of units and 100% right to use the limited common elements appertaining

exclusively to his or her unit Kathleen Wiley, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., A Montana Corporation, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of trust dated on July 10, 2009 and recorded on July 13, 2009 at 04:22:31 P.M. o’ clock in book 843, page 1038, under document No. 200917396. The beneficial interest is currently held by Guild Mortgage Company. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $985.12, beginning April 1, 2011, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of September 1, 2011 is $129,746.07 principal, interest at the rate of 5.50% now totaling $4,058.68, late charges in the amount of $157.60, and other fees and expenses advanced of $500.70, plus accruing interest at the rate of $19.55 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: September 30, 2011 /s/ Becky Stucki First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee First American Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 30 day of September, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Becky Stucki, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Blackfoot, Idaho Commission expires: 2/18/2014 Guild V Wiley 41291.570 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 03/29/2012, at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the

obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee, at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which SARAH N. KNAPP * AS HER SEPARATE ESTATE as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to TITLE SERVICES, INC., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. MIN# 100372406113703836, as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 11/22/2006 and recorded 11/28/2006, in document No. 200630679 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 787 at Page Number 1454 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 1A OF CARLTON TRACTS NO. 4, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 20550 OLD HIGHWAY 93, Florence, MT 59833. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF THE CWABS INC., ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-BC2. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 06/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $197,919.28 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 7.00% per annum from 06/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 11/14/2011, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0137329 FEI NO. 1006.147561 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 04/02/2012, at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee, at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which CAMERON Z GRIGGS, AND KATHLEEN M GRIGGS, AS JOINT TENANTS AND NOT AS TENANTS IN COMMON as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to OLD REPUBLIC NATIONAL TITLE CO as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. MIN#

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING THE MISSOULA COUNTY BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT will be conducting a public hearing at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 in the Missoula City Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine, Missoula, MT, on the following item: 1. Public forum for a proposal from Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks for a Special Exception to allow a fishing access site and Variances from parking, screening, buffering, and landscaping standards of the County Zoning Resolution on property legally described as Tract 2 of COS 6118 located along Harper s Bridge Road. See map S. If anyone attending this meeting needs special assistance, please provide advance notice by calling the Office of Planning and Grants at 258-4657. Missoula County will provide auxiliary aids and services. For a complete legal description or additional information regarding the special exception and variance request you may contact Jamie Erbacher at the same number or by e-mail at jerbacher@co.missoula.mt.us.

PUBLIC NOTICES 100015700052546252, as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 07/07/2005 and recorded 08/04/2005, in document No. 200519979 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 757 at Page Number 859 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: THE FOLLOWING PROPERTY SITUATE IN THE MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, TO-WIT: A TRACT OF LAND IN N1/2 OF SECTION 19, TOWNSHIP 14 NORTH, RANGE 19 WEST AND SE1/4SW1/4 OF SECTION 18, TOWNSHIP 14 NORTH, RANGE 19 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: COMMENCING AT THE NW CORNER OF SECTION 19, TOWNSHIP 14 NORTH, RANGE 19 WEST, P.M.M., THENCE N. 85 49’ 04” E., 2436.23 FEET TO A POINT IN BUTLER CREEK ROAD AND ON THE NORTHERLY LIMIT OF THAT DEED IN BOOK 212 AT PAGE 468 AND THE TRUE POINT OF BEGINNING; THENCE S. 35 16’ 43” E., 442.74 FEET; THENCE S. 38 23’ 38” E., 1081.77 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 384.92 FEET; THENCE N. 40 21’ 56” W., 1770.67 FEET TO A POINT ON THE BUTLER CREEK ROAD AND ON THE NORTHERLY LIST OF THAT DEED IN BOOK 212 AT PAGE 68; THENCE N. 40 58’ 12” E., 329.98 FEET ALONG SAID ROAD AND LIMIT TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING. BEING THE SAME PROPERTY CONVEYED TO CAMERON Z. GRIGGS AND KATHLEEN M. GRIGGS, AS JOINT TENANTS BY DEED FROM CAMERON Z. GRIGGS AND KATHLEEN M. GRIGGS, AS JOINT TENANTS RECORDED 08/13/2004 IN DEED BOOK 737 PAGE 1511, IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK AND RECORDER OF MISSOULA, COUNTY MONTANA. MORE ACCURATELY DESCRIBED AS: A TRACT OF LAND IN N1/2 OF SECTION 19, TOWNSHIP 14 NORTH, RANGE 19 WEST AND SE1/4SW1/4 OF SECTION 18, TOWNSHIP 14 NORTH, RANGE 19 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: COMMENCING AT THE NW CORNER OF SECTION 19, TOWNSHIP 14 NORTH, RANGE 19 WEST, P.M.M., THENCE N. 85 DEGREES 49’ 04” E., 2436.23 FEET TO A POINT IN BUTLER CREEK ROAD AND ON THE NORTHERLY LIMIT OF THAT DEED IN BOOK 212 AT PAGE 468 AND THE TRUE POINT OF BEGINNING; THENCE S. 35 DEGREES 16’ 43” E., 447.74 FEET; THENCE S. 38 DEGREES 23’ 38” E., 1081.77 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 384.92 FEET; THENCE N. 40 DEGREES 21’ 56” W., 1770.67 FEET TO A POINT ON THE BUTLER CREEK ROAD AND ON THE NORTHERLY LIST OF THAT DEED IN BOOK 212 AT PAGE 468; THENCE N. 40 DEGREES 58’ 12” E., 329.98 FEET ALONG SAID ROAD AND LIMIT TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING. RECORDING REFERENCE: BOOK 306 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 970. Property Address: 9800 BUTLER CREEK RD, Missoula, MT 59808-9081. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE, OF HARBORVIEW 2005-13 TRUST FUND. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 08/01/2008, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $298,586.45 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 4.125% per annum from 08/01/2008 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 11/16/2011, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0111402 FEI NO. 1006.147970 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 04/02/2012, at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the

Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee, at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which JAMES R JONES as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to CHARLES (MISSOULA) J PETERSON as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 08/31/2006 and recorded 09/01/2006, in document No. 200622490 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 782 at Page Number 530 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 3 IN BLOCK 2 OF VIRGINIA VILLAGE, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFIICAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 6 VIRGINIA DRIVE, Missoula, MT 59803-1234. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE HSI ASSET SECURITIZATION CORPORATION TRUST 2006HE2. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by

JONESIN’ C r o s s w o r their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 12/01/2010, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $184,387.24 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 9.40% per annum from 12/01/2010 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation

PUBLIC NOTICE The Missoula County Consolidated Planning Board will conduct a public hearing on the following items on Tuesday, January 17, 2012, at 7:00 p.m. in the Missoula City Council Chambers located at 140 West Pine Street in Missoula, Montana. 1. PUD Rezoning Request — Flynn Ranch Lot 1 PUD A request from Stockyard Investments, LLC to rezone property from RM1-45 to RM1-45 with a PUD overlay. The property is legally described as Lot 1, Flynn Ranch Subdivision and is located adjacent to George Elmer Drive, west of Hellgate Elementary School and north of Mullan Road. See Map I. 2. Amendment to Missoula City Subdivision Regulations, Article 4 In Response to 2011 State Legislature The 2011 Montana State Legislature revised two sections of the Montana Code Annotated, Title 76 Land Resources and Use, Local Regulation of Subdivisions statutory language to include review procedures for townhouse proposals as a subdivision exemption within existing condominium review procedures (based on HB 460)and modify the review procedures of preliminary plat approval (based on HB 522). Proposed amendments to the Missoula City Subdivision Regulations 4-040 - Review Procedure for Condominiums and 4-070 - Preliminary and Final Plats reflect these legislative changes. Your attendance and comments are welcomed and encouraged. The proposed Missoula City Subdivision Regulations, Article 4 amendments are available for public comment and can be viewed at the Missoula Office of Planning and Grants, 435 Ryman, Missoula, Montana. Send comments to Lewis YellowRobe at the Missoula Office of Planning and Grants, 435 Ryman, Missoula, Montana, 59801, or to lyellowrobe@co.missoula.mt.us. The Missoula City Council will hold a public hearing on Item #1 at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, February 6, 2012 at City Council Chambers, 140 West Pine Street, Missoula. The request is available for public inspection at the Missoula Office of Planning and Grants, City Hall, 435 Ryman, Missoula, Montana. The Missoula City Council will conduct a public hearing on Item #2 at a time to be determined. Telephone 258-4657. If anyone attending the meeting needs special assistance, please provide 48 hours advance notice by calling 258-4657. Missoula Office of Planning and Grants will provide auxiliary aids and services.

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The City of Missoula Design Review Board will conduct a public hearing on Wednesday, January, 11, 2012 in the City Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine Street, Missoula, at 7:30 p.m. to consider the following application: A request from Dave Sather of Yesco Sign Company for Special Signs; Review by the Design Review Board, Chapter 20.75.100 B.2, Signs as Part of Building . The subject property is located at 3790 N. Reserve St. (SEE MAP P). Your attendance and your comments are welcome and encouraged. Em a i l s c a n b e s e n t t o hkinnear@co.missoula.mt.us. Project files may be viewed at the Missoula Office of Planning and Grants at 435 Ryman St., Missoula, Montana. If anyone attending this meeting needs special assistance, please provide advance notice by calling 258-4657. Missoula County will provide auxiliary aids and services.

Dated: 11/16/2011, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0116624 FEI NO. 1006.147971 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 04/03/2012, at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee, at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which ROBERT D MUSCUTT as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to AMERICAN PIONEER TITLE as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 10/09/2006 and recorded 05/06/2008, in document No. 200810219 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 818 at Page Number 595 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: THE FOLLOW-

ING DESCRIBED PREMISES IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, TO-WIT: LOT 21 OF BITTERROOT MEADOWS, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 13343 GREEN TREE CT, Lolo, MT 59847-9624. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS CWABS, INC., ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-22. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 11/01/2009, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $241,919.08 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 8.875% per annum from 11/01/2009 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and

RESOLUTION NUMBER 2011-134 A RESOLUTION OF INTENT TO AMEND THE JTL SPECIAL DISTRICT ZONING FOR PROPERTY LEGALLY DESCRIBED AS ALL OF TRACT 1-A, CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY 4971 , LOCATED IN SECTION 6 OF TOWNSHIP 13 NORTH, RANGE 19 WEST, P.M.M. (SEE MAP H), TO AMEND THE HOURS OF OPERATION TO ALLOW FOR LIMITED NIGHTTIME OPERATIONS FOR PUBLIC WORKS PROJECTS WHEREAS, 76-2-201 M.C.A. authorizes the Board of County Commissioners to adopt zoning regulations; and WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners did adopt zoning regulations for Missoula County through the passage of County Resolution 76113, as amended; and WHEREAS, 76-2-202 M.C.A. provides for the establishment and revision of zoning districts; and WHEREAS, a request to amend zoning for the property legally described above was reviewed by the Missoula Consolidated Planning Board at a public hearing held December 6, 2011; and WHEREAS, a notice of public hearing was advertised in the Independent on November 17, 2011 and November 24, 2011; and WHEREAS, a hearing was held by the Board of County Commissioners of Missoula County on December 21, 2011, in order to give the public an opportunity to be heard regarding the proposed zoning amendment; and, WHEREAS, the County Commissioners resolve to make a clear record that they conditioned the approval of the zoning to require the following: 1.The gravel pit operator shall notify OPG in writing prior to any operations occurring after 6:00 PM and before 7:00 AM. The notification shall include the contract with the public agency requiring the nighttime operations, the approved Missoula City-County Health Department permits, and the dates and hours for the nighttime operations for the specific contract. 2.During hours of operation after 6:00 PM or before 7:00 AM, the gravel pit operator shall provide the following notifications two weeks prior to commencement of nighttime operations: Written notice to any Home Owners Associations representing properties within 300 feet of the JTL Special District; written notice to the owner of the Westview Mobile Home Park; posted notice at a location visible from Wilkie Street adjacent to the west boundary of the JTL Special District and at a point visible from Wheeler Drive along the south boundary of the gravel pit. 3.During hours of operation after 6:00 PM and before 7:00 AM, all vehicles and machinery shall utilize white noise indicators rather than backup beepers, until hours of darkness at which time strobing light warnings shall be utilized per OSHA requirements. In addition, any lighting installed for nighttime operations shall be shielded so that no light is emitted beyond the property. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of County Commissioners of Missoula County will receive written protest for a period of thirty (30) days after publication of this notice on December 29, 2011, from persons owning real property within the contiguous boundaries of the JTL Special District. FURTHER, copies of the amended JTL Special District are available for inspection at the office of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder and the Office of Planning and Grants PASSED AND ADOPTED THIS 21st DAY OF DECEMBER 2011 BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ATTEST: MISSOULA COUNTY Vickie Zeier, Clerk and Recorder Jean Curtiss, Chair Bill Carey, Commissioner Michele Landquist, Commissioner

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PUBLIC NOTICES costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trusteeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fees and attorneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 11/17/2011, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0138432 FEI NO. 1006.147995 Notice of Trusteeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 04/04/2012, at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee, at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which ANTHONY M CERASANI, AN UNMARRIED MAN as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 12/06/2006 and recorded 12/12/2006, in document No. 200631786 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 788 at Page Number 1055 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 12 OF BEYER MEADOWS, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 12676 CONESTOGA WAY, Lolo, MT 59847. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS CWALT, INC., ALTERNATIVE LOAN TRUST 2006-43CB, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-43CB. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 03/01/2009, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $387,000.00 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.375% per annum from 03/01/2009 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trusteeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fees and attorneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 11/18/2011, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0141266 FEI NO. 1006.148053 Notice of Trusteeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 04/09/2012, at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee, at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECON-

TRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which STEVE LLEWELLYN as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to MARK E NOENNIG as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 12/20/2004 and recorded 12/27/2004, in document No. 200435748 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 745 at Page Number 865 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 4 IN BLOCK 6 OF EL MAR ESTATES PHASE I, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 8540 MOURNING DOVE DRIVE, Missoula, MT 59808. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF THE MLMI TRUST, MORTGAGE LOAN ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-WMC2. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 07/01/2008, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $173,106.13 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 10.625% per annum from 06/01/2008 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trusteeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fees and attorneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 11/22/2011, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0021249 FEI NO. 1006.138217 Notice of Trusteeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 04/13/2012, at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee, at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which LLOYD BERMINGHAM, AN UNMARRIED MAN as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to SERVICELINK as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 05/24/2008 and recorded 06/05/2008, in document No. 200812522 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 820 at Page Number 100 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: ALL THAT CERTAIN PARCEL OF LAND SITUATE IN THE COUNTY OF MISSOULA, STATE OF MONTANA, BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS FOLLOWS: THE WEST 1/2 OF LOT 7 AND ALL OF LOT 8 IN BLOCK 42 OF SCHOOL ADDITION TO THE CITY OF MISSOULA, STATE OF MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL MAP OR PLAT THEREOF NOW ON FILE AND OF RECORD IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK AND RECORDER OF MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. BEING THE SAME PROPERTY AS DESCRIBED IN DEED BOOK 754, PAGE 971, DATED 6/14/2005, AND RECORDED 06/15/2005, IN MISSOULA COUNTY RECORDS. TAX ID: 2504205 Property Address: 1031 COOPER ST, Missoula, MT 59802-2613. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclo-

RENTAL sure is made is Grantorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 09/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $174,079.33 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 5.875% per annum from 09/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trusteeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fees and attorneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 12/01/2011, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0142378 FEI NO. 1006.148994 Seeley Lake Refuse District is accepting petitions for persons interested in inclusion into the District for the purpose of obtaining access to the Districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s solid waste disposal service. Once approved by the Board of County Commissioners of Missoula County, properties will be a part of the Districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rolls for perpetuity. Interested parties should submit a signed / dated petition and Exhibit A to the Seeley Lake Refuse District, PO Box 121, Seeley Lake, MT 59868. The petition must be postmarked by January 3, 2012. Exhibit A is to include a map, legal description, and the tax identification number of the property. GENERAL AGREEMENT In the course of making this petition request the Board of County Commissioners of Missoula County, we do hereby now present and agree as follows: That the description of property which is petitioned for inclusion in Seeley Lake Refuse District which will be assessed to pay the cost and expense thereof, is described in Exhibit â&#x20AC;&#x153;A.â&#x20AC;? That an initial charge for inclusion will be assessed against the property as described in Exhibit â&#x20AC;&#x153;Aâ&#x20AC;? on a prorated basis to be served and that the property upon annexation will be subject to assessment on the same basis as all other property within the Seeley Lake Refuse District. The undersigned constitute the owners and freeholders of the lots and lands described in Exhibit â&#x20AC;&#x153;Aâ&#x20AC;?. Unless withdrawn by a request in writing, delivered to the Board of County Commissioners of Missoula County prior to action by the Commissioners, annexing the property to the Seeley Lake Refuse District â&#x20AC;&#x201C; this petition and the undertakings contained herein shall be binding on petitioners as owners of the property and petitioners successors, heirs and assigns. We further understand that any future petition to withdraw from the District is governed by the applicable Montana Statutes. WHEREFORE, the undersigned hereby petition that the Board of County Commissioners of Missoula County, Montana, order and included the described property within the boundaries of Seeley Lake Refuse District. William P. Driscoll FRANZ & DRISCOLL, PLLP P.O. Box 1155 Helena, MT 59624-1715 Telephone: 406-442-0005 Fax: 406-442-0008 Attorneys for Petitioner, Catholic Social Services of Montana MONTANA FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, LEWIS AND CLARK COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE PARENTAL RIGHTS TO BABY GIRL M. Cause No. DDA-2011-50 NOTICE OF PROCEEDINGS AND HEARING FOR TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS TO: The unknown birth father of Baby Girl M. who was born on September 12, 2011, in Missoula, Missoula County, Montana. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a petition for the termination of your parental rights to Baby Girl M. has been filed with the Montana First District Court, Lewis and Clark County, 228 Broadway, Helena, Montana 59601. The Court has scheduled a hearing for the determination of your parental rights, starting at 1:45 oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;clock p.m. Mountain Time on Tuesday, January 3, 2012. Pursuant to Montana Code Annotated Section 42-2-605(2), your failure to appear at the hearing will constitute a waiver of your interest in custody of the child, and will result in the Courtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s termination of your parental rights. Pursuant to Montana Code Annotated Section 42-2-616(1), if you appear at the scheduled hearing and object to the termination of your parental rights and request custody of the child, the Court will then set deadlines allowing the parties to complete discovery, and will set a hearing on the determination of your rights to the child. DATED this 3rd day of December, 2011. FRANZ & DRISCOLL, PLLP /s/ William P. Driscoll, Attorney for Petitioner

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Winter Home Sales: Bargains Abound By Diane Beck, 2011 MOR President An often-heard comment from friends and clients is, “Winter is a bad time to buy a home! There will be more homes on the market in the spring!” Let’s look objectively at this notion. There is some truth in the statement. If history is any guide, there will be more homes on the market for sale in the spring versus during the winter months, November through March or even later in Montana. Many home sellers don’t want to have their homes on the market during the Holidays when they will have company or perhaps be out of town. And if there is work (painting, new carpet, etc.) that the home needs, sellers tend to feel overwhelmed and want to use the Holidays and winter months to work on the “Honey Do” list. Plus, and rightfully so, they think, “My yard looks so drab right now. It’ll look so much better in the spring when I plant my flower beds and everything is blooming.”

And remember that seller thinking that his/her yard looks drab? When searching for a home in the winter, you’ll see yards at their worst. So, when you look out over the back yard from a home’s patio or deck, you’ll see the worst view of the year. You may see into your neighbor’s yard now whereas in the spring or summer, their yard may be screened by trees. Why is this important? Certain homes are best evaluated in the winter months. If a home backs to a busy road or parking lot, you’ll want to know how well screened your home is from the road or lot – and how noisy it is. Thick trees can buffer noise in the summer months but may not buffer as well in the winter. Or, what looks like a lovely wooded and private back yard in the summer could actually become a not so lovely view of a retention pond come winter.

One last but important consideration: if you must have a home that gets plenty of sunlight, check out homes on a rainy or dreary day. If a home is too dark then, unless there are heavy or closed drapes on the home’s windows, it will still be too dark for you once you move in. So, while there may be fewer homes on the market the next few months, if you find a home you like right now, chances are the home is already well-priced and the seller will likely negotiate even more off the price. You’ll find that suffering thru the cold weather of a winter home shopping trip pays off.

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