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Voices/Letters It’s all about open space and local ag.....................................................4 The Week in Review Found body, stuck snowmobilers and Santa ...............................6 Briefs Beer, Marsy’s Law and the sheriff .........................................................................6 Etc. How to deal with an abusive relationship................................................................7 News County growth policy balks at guiding future development ................................8 News Some UM budget emails deemed public, others private ......................................9 Opinion Buyouts of grazing allotments win important bipartisan support.................10 Opinion He didn’t die with dignity, but I celebrated anyway ......................................11 Feature Bold predictions for 2016................................................................................14
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Arts How classic rock became the music for people who hate music ..........................18 Music Sunraiser, Hardin Scott Band and Drive-By Truckers.........................................19 Books Roaring Fork takes the drama overboard ..........................................................20 TV Five Netflix shows for a post-holiday binge..............................................................21 Film Half-baked characters undercut Joy......................................................................22 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films.......................................................23 What’s Good Here ’Tis the season for takeout ............................................................24 Happiest Hour The year in beer (and wine and spirits)..............................................26 8 Days a Week New year, same old blurb ....................................................................27 Mountain High Rattlesnake Resolution Run................................................................33 Agenda Quit Smoking Hotline ......................................................................................34
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missoulanews.com • December 31–January 7, 2016 [3]
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STREET TALK
by Derek Brouwer
Asked Tuesday afternoon at Zootown Brew This issue marks our fourth annual list of bold predictions. What’s your boldest prediction for 2016? Followup: What’s one thing that happened in 2015 you never saw coming?
Jebidiah Pinnell: Finally, maybe making some headway with global warming. It sounds like China and some other countries are actually going to start dealing with the emissions. He who shall not be named: Trump. I don’t think anyone saw that coming.
Nathan Duvardo: I’m from California, so I’m hoping that we start making some changes with our drought situation. You’re fired: Trump was a good answer. I’ll take Trump. For someone who is running for office, he’s so not afraid of just offending people, just outright publicly, and not feeling sorry for it.
Zachary Sibson: I just think a lot of good things for me are going to happen. Backstabbed: Being betrayed by my best friend. I didn’t see that.
Grace Virginia Lindgren: Consumerism and materialism will be turned down and love and hope will be replacing them. That’s what I would prefer. Hitched: Everyone else is going to talk about Star Wars, so I’m not. I wasn’t planning to get married this year, but it was absolutely the right thing to do.
Molly Jones: I’m going to graduate and hopefully be employed. Going north: I moved to Columbia Falls, and I didn’t know I was going to do that.
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Soiled
On the other hand
Greater limitations
A recent article in the Missoula Independent, “Line in the Soil” (see Dec. 3), focused on the proposal to consider and mitigate the impacts subdivisions have on agriculture in Missoula County. Unfortunately, the author missed the most important part of the story—the soil. Pretty much everything we humans do depends on this essential, life-giving force. Soil is the source of the food we all need to survive. Although too often forgotten, soil is as important to life as the water we drink and the air we breathe. Farm and ranch land is not just “open space.” Quality soils have specific, beneficial properties. They require less water and are the easiest to keep healthy and farm profitably. They grow the widest variety of crops with the least environmental impact. Well-managed land traps carbon in the soil. Farmland soils are the most resilient to extreme weather, such as drought and flooding, essential characteristics in the face of climate change. Much of the planet’s biodiversity lives in the soil. The soil literally sustains us. The problem is that fertile soils are scarce, endangered and irreplaceable. That’s true here and across the globe. According to the American Farmland Trust, the United States loses nearly 50 acres of farmland every hour. Gone. That’s part of the reason why our community needs to plan for local agriculture and our food future. Originally, Missoula County had about 130,000 acres of agricultural soil, which is only 8 percent of the total land area. Much of that is already paved over, however. Between 1986 and 2008, nearly 29,000 acres of productive land was converted to non-agricultural use—an average of three football fields a day. Yes, a day. More recently, over 2,000 acres were subdivided—45 percent on agricultural land—between 2007 and 2014, obviously a sluggish period that is now ending. We need mechanisms in place to save some fertile ground in the face of development. After many years of public process and research, the Missoula County Commissioners are now considering the Planning Board’s proposal to do just that. Please join me in urging the commissioners to meet their moral and legal obligation to plan for our community’s food future. Comments can be sent to: caps@co.missoula.mt.us Neva Hassanein Missoula
As a project manager and land use planner for the past nine years, I’ve worked on residential, commercial and industrial projects with Missoula County landowners. Unfortunately, many of these projects have not been feasible due to the cost imposed by adhering to the current county subdivision regulations. While parts of the subdivision regulation changes will add much needed predictability that will benefit economic development, I am concerned that the section on agricultural mitigation standards will have unintended and harmful consequences.
As a board member of the Missoula Building Industry Association and a general contractor, I’m concerned about proposed changes to the county’s subdivision regulations that claim to preserve agricultural lands. I hope the county commissioners will focus on protecting the economic development gains made in recent years and continue to promote voluntary efforts to preserve farm and ranch land, as well as other types of open space. The subdivision regulations are the wrong vehicle for preserving farming and ranching and aren’t supported by most of the valley’s ag families. The proposed policy would actually be counterproductive to the nationally recognized voluntary conservation efforts for which our valley is known. Why fix a system that not only isn’t broken but is a benchmark for how to manage rural land? Ag mitigation here should be similar to what’s done in other counties around the state and be balanced with the needs of the people who live here. Instead, the proposals before the commissioners would place greater limitations on how owners can choose to use their property than any other county in Montana. Missoula’s economy is coming back, but it’s still tough for working families to find a place to live within city limits, or even outside, but still fairly close to town. If you are earning the median household income in Missoula of just under $45,000 annually, good luck finding a decent home you can responsibly afford for 30 percent of your income. The added costs proposed in this policy will only drive up the cost of building affordable housing for Missoula’s working people. As affordable housing options become more scarce in Missoula, more potential homebuyers will choose to live outside of Missoula County, particularly in Ravalli County, with more affordable options and fewer restrictions dictating how owners are able to use their property. Email the commissioners at bcc@co.missoula.mt.us or call 2584877 and voice your views on this wrong-headed policy. Wade Hoyt Missoula
“Unfortunately, the author missed the most important part of the story— the soil.”
Preservation of agricultural lands is an important community goal, so it’s unfair that it should fall solely to individual farmers and ranchers struggling to keep their lands economically viable. Attaching agricultural land regulations to the subdivision process unnecessarily punishes county landowners who need to maintain the value of their land in order to secure operating loans to keep farming and ranching, as several bankers have testified. A fair vehicle for ag lands conservation would be the county’s open space bond program. I’m also troubled by the impact of the proposed changes on affordable home ownership and attracting employment opportunities. Much of the soils slated for conservation aren’t a quality fit for farming, nor are the soils guaranteed to be farmed by a farmer if they are set aside. Meanwhile, land close to town and near infrastructure is prime for workforce housing and large technology or advanced manufacturing campuses. Let’s not push median-income earners and business capital out of our county through this shortsighted policy. Please join me in emailing the Missoula County Commissioners at bcc@co.missoula.mt.us and asking them to vote no on Jan 13. Paul Forsting Missoula
Correction: Two images in last week’s “Year in photos” feature were attributed to the wrong photographer. The shot of Bobby Lee Springfield inside Al’s & Vic’s and DJ Red Velvet working at Foxxy Friday were both taken by Cathrine L. Walters. The Indy regrets the error.
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WEEK IN REVIEW
VIEWFINDER
by Alex Sakariassen
Wednesday, Dec. 23
Ski patrol at Lost Trail Powder Mountain begin an intensive search for 65-year-old missing skier Bart Pickard of Corvallis, who was last seen the previous day. The efforts are called off on Sunday due to snowfall on the mountain.
Thursday, Dec. 24 The Missoula County Attorney’s Office files homicide and kidnapping charges against Sarah Rae McKnight and Scott Austin Price. The couple is allegedly behind two Dec. 21 stabbings that left one woman dead and another injured.
Friday, Dec. 25 A stand-up paddle boarder, festively attired as Santa Claus, celebrates Christmas with a float through downtown Missoula on an icy stretch of the Clark Fork.
Saturday, Dec. 26 In two separate incidents, Missoula County Search and Rescue assists stuck snowmobilers near Lake Dinah and off Highway 200. Deputy Bob Parcell tells MTN News the three people stuck near Lake Dinah required a helicopter to fly them out.
Sunday, Dec. 27 A search-and-rescue team discovers the body of Charlie Ann Wyrick while searching Pattee Canyon along the Deer Creek drainage. The woman had allegedly alerted a coworker of her abusive boyfriend and said to check the area if she went missing. On Monday, the Missoula County Attorney’s Office charged Wyrick’s boyfriend, Emmanuel F. Gomez, with deliberate homicide and partner or family member assault.
Monday, Dec. 28 Former Kalispell standout quarterback Brock Osweiler leads the Denver Broncos in a comeback victory over the Cincinnati Bengals on Monday Night Football. Osweiler throws for 299 yards and a touchdown.
Tuesday. Dec. 29 The Missoula County Sheriff’s Office releases a request for information about Douglas Nelson, who has been missing for more than a month. The Michigan man was supposed to be traveling to Missoula but it’s unclear if he ever arrived.
Charles Morris unloads a trailer of pine boughs—formerly holiday decorations along a fence near Hayes Creek—at Missoula Parks and Recreation’s Christmas tree collection site near Fort Missoula. The city’s annual tree recycling program will continue to run through Jan. 12, with drop-off locations at Fort Missoula, McCormick Park, Playfair Park and EKO Compost.
Ballot initiatives
Pushing for Marsy’s Law In the past month, signature gathering began for a state ballot initiative that seeks to enshrine victims’ rights in the state constitution. Marsy’s Law in Montana is based on the California Victims’ Bill of Rights Act, passed in 2008 in the memory of Marsalee Nicholas, a college student who was stalked and murdered by an ex-boyfriend. Derek VanLuchene, director of Helena-based national victims’ advocacy group Ryan United, is one of the law’s proponents. In 1987, his 8-year-old brother, Ryan, was abducted from the yard of their Libby home and murdered by a previously convicted sex offender. “[Marsy’s Law] makes the rights of victims a lot stronger than they are now,” VanLuchene says. “I work with a lot of victims who are confused and they don’t know why things are happening.” In California and other states that have passed similar
Marsy laws, victims are read their “Marsy’s Rights” and given a booklet explaining their legal status and resources. Marsy’s Law also gives victims and their families the right to testify at every stage of a criminal proceeding. Chuck Denowh, director of the Marsy’s Law for Montana ballot committee, says Montana is one of 18 states that doesn’t include victims’ rights in the state constitution. “We feel it’s important that crime victims have rights on a coequal level with people who are accused or convicted of a crime,” Denowh says. The measure will require 49,000 signatures to be eligible for the 2016 ballot. Denowh declines to disclose how many signatures have been gathered so far, but says the effort is generating support from the law enforcement community and victims’ rights advocates. State Rep. Tom Berry, R-Roundup, and state Sen. Debby Barrett, R-Dillon, have already expressed support for the measure, as well as Kelsen Young, executive director of the Montana Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence.
Jamie Rogers, the victims’ program manager for the state Department of Corrections, notes the DOC already requires that victims and their families be notified if an inmate is moved or released. “As far as the Department of Corrections is concerned, we have already enacted in law the components of Marsy’s Law that would affect the DOC,” Rogers says. Proponents like VanLuchene say Marsy’s Law stands to make the most difference in preventing victims from being taken by surprise during the charging and trial processes. The state currently requires that victims of domestic violence be provided with a form explaining their rights, but that doesn’t extend to plaintiffs in other types of crimes. “In Montana, we do a pretty good job, but this will be going a step further to ensure that they’re not left out of that whole process,” VanLuchene says. “It’s not a party issue, it’s not a Democrat or Republican thing, it’s just the right thing to do for crime victims.” Kate Whittle
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[news] Sheriff’s office
Case set for hearing T.J McDermott defeated former Missoula County Undersheriff Josh Clark to become sheriff in 2014, but the detritus from their bitter campaign may not get cleaned up until well into 2016 or beyond, with taxpayers on the hook for the costs. A two-day state hearing to determine whether McDermott discriminated against Clark by assigning his former political rival to graveyard patrol and stripping him of supervisory duties is scheduled to begin June 21. But Clark’s attorneys have already filed a parallel complaint in Missoula County District Court, which they plan to pursue if the discrimination case before the Montana Human Rights Bureau isn’t resolved to their client’s liking. The civil suit, filed Dec. 18, accuses McDermott of wrongfully discharging Clark by creating an “intolerable” working environment and intentionally inflicting emotional distress. McDermott and county officials have denied the claims since Clark filed a human rights complaint in March 2015. “Most people are aware that Mr. Clark resigned his position without any complaints after working only three shifts,” McDermott notes in a statement this week. In September, however, an HRB investigator found reasonable cause to conclude that the sheriff had retaliated, in a report that painted an unflattering portrait of the sheriff ’s office. A subsequent “conciliation period” between parties was unsuccessful, so the case will next be heard by an independent officer in the Office of Administrative Hearings. Such hearings are significantly more detailed than the earlier HRB investigation, involving a discovery and deposition process not unlike that of a district court case, Chief Administrative Law Judge David Scrimm says. The hearing officer could either confirm or reverse the earlier investigator’s finding. Of the 57 human rights cases certified for hearings in fiscal year 2015, only 12 resulted in a finding of discrimination, according to bureau statistics. However, while County Attorney Jason Marks noted in case filings that Clark’s proposed $750,000 in damages is 10 times more than the state’s largest human rights settlement, affirmative OAH decisions have yielded six-figure awards, Scrimm says. Clark’s attorney, Nicole Siefert, says the requested damages were calculated using criteria specified by the
HRB. A copy of the damages worksheet Siefert provided shows requests for five years of lost income, worth over $380,000, plus another $300,000 in reduced pension benefits and $100,000 for emotional distress. She adds that attorney’s fees, too, could reach $100,000 by the time the case is resolved. Marks, in an email, calls Clark’s demands “utterly unreasonable,” adding Clark was reassigned in accordance with Montana law. “We look forward to a full review of the facts and the law governing the reassignment of Undersheriffs after an election before the hearing officer in June,” Marks writes. Derek Brouwer
Beer
Little cause for alarm Anheuser-Busch InBev has put America’s craft brewing industry increasingly on edge over the past year. The multinational beer conglomerate announced deals last summer to acquire several Colorado-based independent beer distributors. November marked the finalization of a $107 billion merger with fellow beverage giant SABMiller. And over a single week in December, AB InBev bought up three more craft breweries—London’s Camden Town Brewery, Colorado’s Breckenridge Brewery and Arizona’s Four Peaks Brewing. Adding fuel to the fire last month were revelations regarding a new incentive program AB InBev intends to roll out targeting independent distributors nationwide. According to details leaked to the Wall Street Journal, the program could net distributors up to $1.5 million in reimbursements for marketing support costs, provided 98 percent of the products they sell are AB InBev’s. But for all the uproar generated nationally, folks in Montana’s craft beer industry aren’t quite ready to sound the alarm. “We are concerned about what this could mean for Montana breweries and are watching this closely,” says Matt Leow, executive director of the Montana Brewers Association. “But we have no indication that Montana distributors would go along with the An-
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heuser-Busch InBev scheme.” Kristi Blazer sees the new program as more of a carrot than a stick, and one that wholesalers in this state probably wouldn’t find too appetizing. As executive director of the Montana Beer and Wine Distributors Association, she’s had conversations with several of her members about AB InBev’s proposal already. In her opinion, she doesn’t see “any significant or even important changes” in Montana. All but one craft outfit here—Big Sky Brewing—are small enough not to count against a distributor’s non-AB InBev products, she says, and given the uncertainty surrounding how long the incentive program would be in place, it wouldn’t make long-term sense to drop a craft label just to qualify. “Consumer demand and the love of craft in Montana is going to likely outweigh any incentive program,” she says. Leow, too, says he’d be “surprised” if a Montana distributor opted to drop a craft label from its portfolio to qualify for the incentive program. He believes many of those companies see the value in carrying local beer and adds consumer demand for craft is powerful enough that if a distributor were to act on AB InBev’s promise, “the deal could backfire.” Even so, Leow’s not letting his guard down amid AB InBev’s latest attempt to retake some of its lost market share “at the expense of local craft beer.” “While we do not expect Montana distributors to do this, it is quite likely that distributors in other states would go along,” he says. “That could adversely affect Montana breweries that are selling beer in those states and rely on local distributors to get their beer to market.” Alex Sakariassen
ETC. In the days since law enforcement officials discovered the body of 26-year-old Charlie Ann Wyrick in Pattee Canyon, Missoula residents have struggled to comprehend the alleged string of events that led to her death. According to court documents, Wyrick went missing on Dec. 21. Authorities arrested her boyfriend, Emmanuel F. Gomez, on Christmas Eve for partner assault and charged him three days later with deliberate homicide. The charging documents outline a highly abusive relationship, with Wyrick’s friends and coworkers informing police of bruises, broken ribs, a hospital visit and a warning about where to search if Wyrick ever went missing. The violent details aren’t what first jumped out at YWCA Executive Director Cindy Weese. Rather, it’s the sheer number of bystanders in Wyrick’s life who were aware of the nature of her relationship with Gomez. There’s no judgement in Weese’s observation. In fact, she says, victims of domestic violence often turn to friends, coworkers and family before reaching out to service providers. If there’s anything in Weese’s voice, it’s empathy. “I actually feel for those folks,” she says. “I know that survivors of domestic violence homicide victims often cannot forgive themselves for not doing something to intervene, and that’s what I think is the second tragedy here.” Intervention is a word we’ve heard a lot lately. It comes up on flyers and in advertisements encouraging people to step in when a situation involving potential sexual assault arises. Oddly enough, though, that language hasn’t carried over as widely when it comes to domestic violence, something Weese hopes this latest tragedy will change. “I think most of us are reluctant to intervene,” she says. “It’s awkward. We don’t want to strain friendships. But when we think about the impact that it could have, that it could actually save someone’s life, I think the risk is worth it.” Considering victims may not be aware of the wealth of services available in Missoula, now might be a good time to get informed. The YWCA offers a 24-hour crisis hotline at 542-1944 or tollfree at 800-483-7858. Missoula County also runs a Crime Victim Advocates program, which can be reached at 258-3830. It’s important information to have—not just for each of us, but perhaps for the friend, colleague or family member who may come to us someday.
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Plan of inaction County growth policy balks at guiding future development by Laura Lundquist
Members of the Missoula Consolidated Planning Board believe the county’s newly proposed growth policy may hardly be worth the paper it’s printed on. The result, critics say, could be not only poorly planned development but also subpar public safety in one of the fastest growing counties in the state. The situation troubled the majority of the board a month ago, after Community and Planning Services, or CAPS, staff and consultant Dave DeGrandpre presented a draft of the Missoula County Growth Policy. Board members’ frustrations mounted during the two-hour meeting, which received no interest from the public. “There are a lot of words in this. But there’s a real breakdown between the action items and the performance indicators to the point where it’s almost circular,” says planning board member and recently elected city council member John DiBari. “An absurd example of what’s written is where the action item is, ‘Explore the opportunities to tie shoes,’ and the performance indicator is,‘Opportunities to tie shoes explored.’” CAPS has already spent a year and paid three consulting companies $85,000—not to mention the money spent on CAPS’s own efforts—trying to update a policy written jointly with the city and released in 2005. State law requires growth policies to be reviewed and, if necessary, updated every five years, but the county split from the city’s process in 2014. Each developed its own policy with the intention of providing guidance for growth over the next 10-20 years. While the planning board recently lauded the city’s new policy for its vision, the county’s policy contains little more than details on current conditions. Any future plans were purposely left vague, says CAPS Assistant Director Karen Hughes. “Part of what we were trying to respond to was our public, who have some different opinions about the role of government and some pretty strong opinions about the limited role of government,” Hughes says. “So we certainly have those voices in our minds when we think about a growth policy for the whole county.” The question is whether those voices represent the 43,000 who live in the
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county but outside the city of Missoula. Hughes says attendance was low in two rounds of countywide meetings, about 100 citizens each. In the third round, planners dropped half of the public meetings to present the draft plan to community councils. DeGrandpre says comments “covered the entire spectrum, from ‘zone us now’ to ‘get the hell out of here.’”
“At some stage, as leaders, we have to do something about it.”
The Montana Department of Commerce predicts that 6,300-7,400 people will move into areas of the county outside of Missoula in the next 20 years. According to state law, the county’s growth policy is supposed to include strategies for promoting affordable housing, reducing the threat of wildfire and mitigating climate change. The draft document, however, makes no recommendations in its wildfire section, even though the county is participating in a mapping study of fire-prone areas. Although a planning board subcommittee already explored local climate change actions, such as increasing public access to solar power, the plan does not include a climate change section. When voicing his frustration with the plan, board member and former state legislator Ron Erickson cited the high wildfire
danger in the county’s narrow wooded canyons and the wide-ranging views of residents who may live there. “At some stage, as leaders, we have to do something about it. We can’t just say, ‘Well, some people don’t like regulations,’” Erickson says. Board members leveled the most criticism at the lack of a land use planning map, which would show where future development would best achieve goals that almost all public respondents said were important. They include maintaining healthy rivers, wildlife, agriculture and a rural setting, among others. The 1999 state law says growth policies aren’t required—Ravalli County doesn’t have one—but if they exist, they must contain certain things, including land use maps. The maps and strategies aren’t regulatory and intend to provide guidance only, although land use decisions must correspond with the growth policy. Still, Missoula County planners decided against including a map, deferring instead to independent neighborhood plans. The different plan designations would be too difficult to depict on a map, Hughes says. “There’s a lot of reluctance to work with government to develop future land use designations,” Hughes says. That reluctance has produced neighborhood plans developed without planning expertise or that haven’t been updated in more than a decade. Gaps will exist on the map because some communities, such as Frenchtown, have no plan, says CAPS planner Lewis YellowRobe. Despite the issues raised at the December meeting, the Missoula Consolidated Planning Board rejected the draft policy by only one vote. Some board members said they’d change their vote if planners improved a few sections and added a land use map. YellowRobe says the policy will be resubmitted at the Feb. 2 planning board meeting without an updated land use map. Instead, he says, they’ll insert a map from 1998. editor@missoulanews.com
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Comment confusion Some UM budget emails deemed public, others private by Derek Brouwer
Students, staff and faculty at the University of Montana expressed shock and fear in November when President Royce Engstrom said more than 200 jobs would be the next casualties of an ongoing enrollment crisis. The Department of Geography was “puzzled and disturbed by this completely unexpected surprise announcement,” its faculty left wondering if the department had been targeted by mistake. A professor of languages said the proposed cuts were “breaking the spirit of this campus,” and one staff member said employees “suddenly feel expendable, replaceable, and scared.” These remarks were part of more than 700 pages that flooded university inboxes in the days following Engstrom’s announcement through email channels the president created to solicit comment from campus and community members. A handful praised Engstrom’s leadership, but nearly all of the responses, obtained by the Indy through a public records request, were critical of the administration’s management or its proposed cuts. The comment system served as the primary venue for campus members to make the case for their jobs as Engstrom decides what to cut. As such, the emails reflect a campus in turmoil and offer a trove of information about departments under fire. Yet, the process by which members of the campus community could criticize Main Hall’s budget management may itself have been bungled. Some who sent comments, including associate professor of liberal studies Brad Clough, did so believing Engstrom and his cabinet would read them personally. “I was appealing to him about why there shouldn’t be cuts in my department,” he says. Indeed, a summary report forwarded to Engstrom compiled by Faculty Senate leaders notes “the majority of remarks were addressed to the President, and it was apparent that many of the writers hoped or expected you would read their full comments.” Others, however, apparently were assured their remarks would be kept confidential and that neither Engstrom nor the public would see them. One of those was Steve Schwarze, chair of communications studies, who says he penned a “pointed” letter under
the impression that only a few faculty senators would read it. Neither understanding of the process reflects what actually occurred. Individual comments weren’t sent to Engstrom’s desk, and confidentiality, according to a public records expert, is a promise the university can’t keep. In response to the Indy’s request, UM released the emails but redacted the names and email addresses of most senders, including instances where commenters signed their names, saying confidentiality was “essential to the integrity of the process.” The university did agree to release names attached to com-
photo by Cathrine L. Walters
Hundreds of people responded to UM President Royce Engstrom’s call for comments on his budget proposal. But not everyone knew who was reading them, or whether they might become public.
munity submissions and for those that were also sent directly to the president, resulting in a comment process that was private for some and public for others. But anonymity is a promise the president’s office never explicitly made. In his remarks describing the comment process, Engstrom said only that staff, student and faculty groups would review submissions and summarize them for his review. The president structured it that way so submissions could be reviewed “more
quickly and in an organized manner,” according to Vice President for Integrated Communications Peggy Kuhr. She says Engstrom did not consider other options, such as an anonymous survey form, but that he “wanted to assure that people could freely express their views.” Attorney Mike Meloy, who frequently represents Montana newspapers in public records lawsuits, says the president’s remarks about the process don’t come close to creating an expectation of privacy. Even though faculty, student and staff leaders say they personally assured at least some of their constituents that their comments would be kept private, Meloy says their justification isn’t likely to be upheld in court. “This is an important policy determination that the university is making, and the public has a very significant interest in knowing what the basis for the policy is,” he says. “In some instances, it’s important as much to know the person making the comment as the substance.” Staff Senate Chair-elect Maria Mangold doesn’t think many of the employees she represents—the group to be most affected by the looming layoffs—would have spoken up if they feared their comments could be traced back to them. “There’s a lot of looking around and wondering if [they’re] going to be tapped on the shoulder as someone who’s going to be laid off,” she says. Similarly, Faculty Senate Chair Bill Borrie says professors expected their comments were an “internal, private conversation” rather than public comment. But Nancy Hinman, a professor of geosciences, says she sent her two-page letter, which included a list of four specific “solutions,” with the expectation that it would be publicly available to anyone requesting it. “I did not send it to the president because he asked us to use our lines of representation to compile and forward our comments,” she says. Hinman’s name was hidden from the file released by UM officials, but an apparent redaction error left her phone number visible. dbrouwer@missoulanews.com
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Out to pasture Buyouts of grazing allotments win important bipartisan support by Tom Ribe
Idaho’s White Cloud Mountains seem like an unlikely place for the beginning of a positive shift in public land management. They gleam high and cold above the seemingly endless sagebrush plains of southern Idaho, one of the most conservative states in the West. Yet it was here last year that Republicans worked with environmentalists to plant a legislative seed that may help reverse a century of decline for native plants and wildlife all over the West. Summers last only a few weeks in the White Cloud Mountains, and with off-road vehicles and mining closing in on these once-remote expanses, environmentalists have campaigned since the 1970s for wilderness protection. Recently, frustration with congressional inaction led to a push for a 600,000-acre national monument, which President Obama seemed ready to endorse. Then the Republican Idaho congressional delegation agreed to compromise on a 275,000-acre wilderness bill that passed last August. Wilderness bills, though rare these days, sometimes include unfortunate concessions, such as the Hondo Wilderness bill in New Mexico, which had to reduce acreage to accommodate mountain bikers. But the Boulder White Clouds wilderness bill included a provision that both ranchers and environmentalists supported, and it’s one that may help shift public land grazing throughout the West. It allows ranchers to voluntarily sell or donate their federal grazing leases back to the Forest Service on 700,000 acres surrounding the newly designated wilderness. In turn, the Forest Service will permanently close the affected grazing allotments. In large part, ranchers agreed to relinquish these allotments after years of predator/cattle conflicts within the Sawtooth National Recreation Area. Though other localized buyout programs have passed Congress since 1998, ranchers have defeated national buyout legislation because of the precedent-setting nature of ending grazing allotments and because some ranchers consider federal grazing areas their private property.
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The Boulder White Clouds bill reveals that an aging population of ranchers, struggling to make ends meet in a drought-affected, urbanizing West, may be ready to ride off into the sunset. According to BeefResearch.org, 65 percent of ranchers are over age 55 and only 12 percent are under 45 years old. As the majority of ranchers reach retirement age, most don’t have children willing to do the hard work and earn the low pay
“An aging population of ranchers, struggling to make ends meet in a drought-affected, urbanizing West, may be ready to ride off into the sunset.” that comes with ranching in the arid West. Buyouts offer ranching families a chance to end their ranching careers with a decent income. Farther south, in New Mexico’s Gila Mountains, nonprofit organizations have been working for years to develop a grazing allotment buyout plan to restore overgrazed Forest Service land and reduce cattle/Mexican wolf conflicts. Many ranchers say they are ready to take privately funded buyouts on a half-million acres of public land, but the Forest Service is making things difficult: It is blocking the buyouts because having fewer cattle
allotments to manage means budget cuts for the agency. The Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management spent about $128 million in 2013 administering their grazing programs while receiving only $12 million in receipts from ranchers, a small fraction of which goes back to the agencies. These direct costs to taxpayers stand beside incalculable indirect costs, such as watershed damage and the spread of flammable cheatgrass where cattle have trampled biotic crusts. There’s also the impact of grazing on hundreds of millions of acres of sage grouse habitat and recreation areas in high-altitude wilderness areas. Since 2011, a bill to permit permanent federal grazing allotment buyouts has languished in Congress. Called the Rural Economic Vitalization Act, it would authorize buyouts on any federal lands and would be a critical tool for agencies facing endangered species conflicts, such as the BLM with sage grouse or the Forest Service with bison, wolves and 170 other species. If passed, the bill would allow conservation groups, ranchers and agency managers to end grazing on key areas in a way that promises both dignity for the rancher and restoration for the land. This market-based solution should appeal to conservative politicians (as it has in Idaho) as well as to many ranchers of retirement age. By endorsing grazing buyouts in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area, Idaho’s congressional delegation has given the national buyout campaign the biggest bipartisan push it has received to date. Idaho especially stands to gain if agencies can relieve grazing pressure on sage grouse habitat. Ending grazing with buyouts will finally begin the long process of native plant restoration over hundreds of millions of acres of public land. Tom Ribe is a contributor to Writers on the Range, an opinion service of High Country News (hcn.org). He is a conservationist and writer who watches the West from the southern end of the Rocky Mountains in Santa Fe.
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Dead man’s party He didn’t die with dignity, but I celebrated anyway by Laura Pritchett
My father’s recent death was not beautiful, and neither were any of the other deaths I’ve witnessed of late. This has left me wondering about a better path. Death is not easy, to be sure, but these were made particularly painful by medical interventions—or perhaps I witnessed the confusion between saving a life and prolonging the process of dying. So I threw a party. Or rather, I held my first Death Café, and it turned out to be a lively, invigorating affair. In Europe, there’s a tradition of gathering to discuss important subjects—a café philo, for a philosophical café, or café scientifique, a scientific café, and now there are café mortel, or death cafés. A death café isn’t an actual place; it’s a temporary event in various locations, such as my home, complete with decorations and, in my case, a cake with “DEATH: THE FINAL FRONTIER” scrawled on top. My gathering was comprised of spunky friends, all in our middle years, all of us healthy. As it turns out, this is the segment of population that most seems to care about shaping the end of a life. A Pew Research Center study found that less than half of people over 75 had given much thought to the end of their lives, and incredibly, only 22 percent of them had written down wishes for medical treatment. The same study, though, found a sharp increase in all adults putting something in writing (six of 10 of us), which indicates that percentage-wise, it’s the slightly younger folks who are preparing now for their inevitable deaths. This does not surprise me. For the last 14 years, I’ve been one of the 28 million Americans currently helping someone die. Baby Boomers and Gen Xers are caught in an unprecedented tide of caretaking both children and parents (not to mention ourselves and our own aging bodies); we are the first generation to be caught in this particular kind of caregiving-and-slow-death crisis. With medical intervention and technological wizardry, we’re forced to
make decisions about procedures and medicines and ethics as never before. And we find ourselves without much guidance in a culture that’s conflicted and confused about dying. Which is why we’re willing to talk. At my Death Café, I encouraged us not to focus on the deaths we’d witnessed in the past, but rather to speak of the deaths we want for ourselves in the fu-
“Baby Boomers and Gen Xers are caught in an unprecedented tide of caretaking both children and parents.”
ture. Various results emerged. Half were afraid of the suffering that can precede death; half were afraid of death itself. Few of us had practiced death (“pretend this next breath is your last; what does that feel like?”), but all of us were convinced that doing so would only intensify and enlarge our lives. The zeitgeist of this new movement is just now gaining momentum, but I can feel its strength and power. An unprecedented 66 percent of Americans now think there are instances in
which doctors should allow a patient to die instead of doing everything possible to save that patient’s life. People would like to die—sometimes would like others to die—and this doesn’t make us morbid or crazy or unethical or mean. No. We are merciful and kind. We are as moral as we are mortal. We just want to know how to gracefully do what is going to happen anyway. What lies ahead is unexplored territory, much like death itself, really. California recently passed “Death with Dignity” legislation, and the state representative in my hometown is reintroducing a similar bill in Colorado. Don’t get me wrong: I am all for funding research, finding cures and offering respite to caregivers. But it’s also our ethical duty to try for a chin-up, heartsteady end. My father contracted pneumonia after 14 years of suffering with Alzheimer’s. He was given antibiotics and I was not in a legal position to object, but I’d have asked for comfort care only—not because I didn’t love him, but because I loved him enough to want him to have as natural and relaxed a death as possible. Instead, I saw him grimace in pain and fear. I saw tubes and syringes and the sores on his body. I saw the family he’d worked so hard to create break apart under the pressure. I saw his blue eyes fade, and they taught me well: This could happen to you, too. Death is perhaps the greatest mystery we face and the actual act of dying is the last physical act of our lives. We can strive to do it our way and to do it well. If anything deserves preparation, or some renewed clarity, death might be it. Which is why I suggest throwing a lively party. Laura Pritchett is a contributor to Writers on the Range, an opinion service of High Country News (hcn.org ). She lives in rural Colorado and her novel, Stars Go Blue, is based on her experience with her father.
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ONE-MAN ARSENAL – According to the flabbergasted sheriff of rural Chesterfield County, South Carolina, “This has completely changed our definition of [what constitutes] an ‘ass-load’ of guns.” Brent Nicholson, 51, had been storing more than 7,000 firearms (most of them likely stolen) in his home and a storage building on his property. Every room of the house was stacked with weapons, and it took four tractor-trailer trips to haul everything away, with help of 100 law enforcement officers. Nicholson also had 500 chainsaws, at least 250 taxidermied deer, elk, and alligator heads, and more. No motive was obvious to deputies. (Nicholson would still be living in the shadows today if he hadn’t run that stop sign on Oct. 21 with bogus license plates on his truck.)
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POLICE REPORT – The Human Fanny Pack: Brandon Wilson, 26, was arrested in November in Cedar Rapids, Iowa—his second bust of 2015 in which a substantial number of crack cocaine “baggies” were found in his rectum. Fifty-one were recovered this time (counting the ones with marijuana), down from the 109 discovered in his February arrest. Police in November also found $1,700 cash on him (but just in his pocket). LEADING ECONOMIC INDICATORS – Following the release of Apple’s yearly financials in October (and based on sales of its iPhone 6), the company announced that, apart from other assets, it was sitting on $206 billion in cash—about like owning the entire gross domestic product of Venezuela, but all in cash. Another way of expressing it: Using only its cash, Apple could buy every single NFL, NBA, MLB, and NHL team, plus the 20 most valuable international soccer teams—and still have plenty left. Or, as the BGR.com blog also pointed out, it could instead simply give every man, woman and child in America $646 (coincidentally, about what a new iPhone 6 sells for). Even if Armageddon doesn’t happen, the CEO of the massive online retailer Overstock.com believes there is a “10 to 20 percent” chance of a world financial meltdown in the next few years, and he is arranging to be back in business in the aftermath. Patrick Byrnes told the New York Post in November he has stashed away enough food in a well-fortified facility in Utah’s Granite Mountain to serve his 2,000 employees for “30 to 60 days,” along with several thousand other emergency preparations and $10 million in gold. But, he insisted, he’s not a gun-toting “prepper”; the plan is only about tiding employees over until the Internet and banking systems are back up and running. THE CONTINUING CRISIS – In November in Harare, Zimbabwe, Mison Sere, 42, was judged winner of the fourth annual “Mister Ugly” contest after showcasing his seemingly random dental arrangement (some teeth there, some not) and “wide range of grotesque facial expressions,” according to an Associated Press dispatch. However, many in the crowd thought their favorite was even uglier and threatened to riot. “I am naturally ugly,” said a jealous (former winner) William Masvinu; “He (Sere) is ugly only when he opens his mouth.” Cool Moms? (1) Jennifer Terry, 44, was charged with driving her daughter and several other minors around Riverdale, Utah, in August to facilitate their tossing eggs at 10 to 20 homes. Some damage was reported, but so far, Terry is the only one charged. (2) Mandy Wells, 32, told police that she thought “for a minute” that it was a bad idea, “but did it anyway”—she invited 10 kids (aged 12 to 14) to her home for a party and served beer and marijuana. Wells, of Springtown, Texas, said her daughter, 14, smokes marijuana because the girl (go figure!) suffers from depression. WAIT, WHAT? – Kuala Lumpur International Airport took out ads in two Malaysian daily newspapers in December to find the owners of three Boeing 747-200Fs parked there for months (one for at least a year) and threatening to auction them off in 14 days if not claimed. Two are white, and one is “offwhite” (if the reader is checking his inventory). The planes’ last listed owner said it sold them in 2008. UPDATES – Russian artist Pyotr Pavlensky, 31, has devoted his career to getting on the government’s nerves and succeeded once again in November. (News of the Weird last mentioned him in 2013 when he nailed his scrotum to the floor in Moscow’s Red Square to protest police oppression.) In his latest event, he set fire to the front door of the headquarters of Russia’s security service (the FSB, formerly KGB) and has been detained—though from his cell, he demanded his charge of “vandalism” be changed to “terrorism.” A member of the Russian band Pussy Riot called the door fire “the most important work of contemporary art of recent years.” Pavlensky once sewed his lips together protesting arrests of Pussy Riot. LEAST COMPETENT CRIMINALS – Matthew Riggins had told his girlfriend earlier that he and a pal were planning to burglarize some homes around Barefoot Bay in Brevard County, Florida, and was apparently on that mission on Nov. 23 when an alert resident called 911 and the men scrambled. The accomplice was caught several days later, but Riggins himself did not survive the night—having taken refuge in nearby woods and drowning trying to outswim an apparently hungry 11-foot alligator. Thanks this week to Michael Brozyna, Bruce Leiserowitz, Paul Peterson, Robin Daley, Edgar Pepper, Neb Rodgers, Steve Dunn, Dan Bohlen, Peter Wardley, Joseph Brown, Brian Rudolph, Elaine Weiss, D.I. Moore, Jack Miller, Gwynne Platz, Charles Lewer, Dave Shepardson, Chuck Hamilton and Katy Miketic, and to the News of the Weird Board of Editorial Advisors.
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n the days before Super Bowl III, Joe Namath confidently assured the media his New York Jets would beat the heavily favored Baltimore Colts—and the media laughed at Broadway Joe’s bravado. In 1989, the sequel to Back to the Future imagined the year 2015 filled with devices like drones working for news organizations, hands-free video games and kids watching TV with their futuristic glasses—and audiences rolled their eyes at such outlandish ideas. Way back in 1900, a civil engineer named John Elfreth Watkins authored an article in Ladies’ Home Journal that declared, among other things, “ready-cooked meals will be bought
MISSOULA RESETTLES ITS FIRST REFUGEE IN YEARS While Gov. Steve Bullock hasn’t joined his many contemporaries vowing to bar Syrian refugees from their states, Montana still isn’t very welcoming to persons fleeing conflict. The state is one of
from establishments similar to our bakeries of today” and “physicians will be able to see and diagnose internal organs of a moving, living body by rays of invisible light”—and readers struggled to envision such advances. Of course, the Jets won. Drones, Xbox gaming consoles and Google Glass are now regular parts of modern society. And we hardly even think of microwavable dinners or X-ray technology as revolutionary today. The point: Bold predictions sometimes hit a stunning bullseye, no matter how crazy they may sound at the time. Even the Indy has had its fair share of winners over the years. Our inaugural bold predic-
two without a nonprofit resettlement office, and no refugees have been placed in Montana in years. Improbably, the pieces are falling into place for that to change in 2016, led by a group of Missoula residents dubbing themselves “Soft Landing.” Amid a national political climate of fear and
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tions issue correctly said the Keystone Pipeline would stall out due to public opposition. In subsequent years we correctly predicted Paul McCartney’s concert at Washington-Grizzly Stadium, former Griz basketball coach Wayne Tinkle would end up with his son Tres at Oregon State and JK Simmons would win an Oscar (see sidebar on page 16 for more results from last year). If this year’s batch of bold predictions follows recent history, at least a few things on the following list will actually happen. They might not foretell the next TV dinner or PS4, but they could influence our daily lives here in western Montana.
loathing, this local group surely must be a beacon to federal and nonprofit officials looking for safe communities to place swelling numbers of refugees from Syria and elsewhere. Opening a resettlement office is a slow administrative process, but with the urgency of the current Syrian crisis, Soft Landing volunteers will be camped at Missoula International Airport to greet Missoula’s first family of refugees by year’s end.
MONTANA’S PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY WILL ACTUALLY MATTER AGAIN Throughout the first half of 2016, presidential fever will touch down in Montana for the first time since Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama made their treks to the Treasure State in 2008. A tense primary
season will compel Clinton, now the heir apparent among Democrats, to return and stump on the education issues that have become foundational in her presidential campaign. Not to be outflanked by his primary opponent, Sen. Bernie Sanders will make an appearance alongside supporters of a ballot measure to legalize recreational marijuana use in Montana. On the Republican side, Tea Party maven Ted Cruz will launch a string of ral-
guns commit massacres on campuses, at workplaces and along streets across the country. And each time, National Rifle Association members will respond by fortifying their personal arsenals, while lawmakers at every level do nothing to curb the violence. Except in Missoula, where city council is mulling an ordinance that would make it more difficult for city residents to buy a gun without first undergoing a background check.
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hall. In 2016, Checota sets his sights on yet another storied local landmark. Last June, Marshall Mountain went up for sale to the tune of $2.95 million. The ski hill started operations in the 1940s but closed in 2003, though the lodge has continued to serve as an event hall for weddings and fundraisers. Checota revamps the lodge for summer concerts—similar to what Snowbowl does—while maintaining its rustic charm with a European-style restaurant and basement speakeasy. He will also install enough snow wands in the winter to bring back night skiing by kerosene, something Marshall Mountain offered in the 1950s.
lies across the Western states on the issue of public lands with strong backing from Americans for Prosperity and the American Lands Council. Such a tour would obviously involve a stop or two here, where legislators have been debating the merits of a transfer of public lands for years.
MISSOULA BECOMES THE FIRST MONTANA CITY TO ENACT GUN CONTROL MEASURES IN THE MASS-SHOOTING ERA It’s not much of a prediction to say that 2016 will see more bad guys with
As 2015 ended, council tabled the measure after some lengthy, contentious public hearings. In 2016, it reemerges with tweaks, such as offering background checks through the city’s police department. When the progressive majority eventually approves the measure, Missoula will be thrust into the national spotlight for blazing a trail through a trigger-happy state for the nascent local gun control movement. But just as The New York Times article goes to print, gun advocates, with the support of Attorney General Tim Fox, will hold up council’s ordinance in court.
WINTER LIGHT, THE SHORT FILM BASED ON A JAMES LEE BURKE STORY AND SHOT ON LOCATION IN MONTANA, WINS AN ACADEMY AWARD Last year, we correctly predicted that University of Montana alumnus JK Simmons would win an Oscar for his performance in Whiplash (see sidebar for our full report card on 2015’s predictions). On deck for 2016 is Winter Light, a live-action short based on local writer James Lee Burke’s story of a man’s confrontation with a couple of hunters on his land. The film, adapted by Wei-ning Yu and directed by Julian Higgins, is among 10 that have been shortlisted for an Oscar nomination. We think the glorious snow scene at the end
of the film alone will be enough to catapult it to the final round—and into the winning envelope for Best Live-Action Short.
COLUMNIST DAN BROOKS: UBER PUTS ONE OF MISSOULA’S TAXI SERVICES OUT OF BUSINESS Since the dawn of time, Missoula has had terrible taxi service. The first mammals living along the shores of Glacial Lake Missoula had to ride pterodactyls to get downtown, but the birds never showed up. Then the wheel was invented, allowing rickshaws to plausibly offer to transport early Missoulians—but those rides also never showed up. The advent of the automobile allowed Missoula taxis to not pick up customers on
the street. But this December, the Public Service Commission finally approved Uber for operation in Montana. I boldly predict that in 2016, one of our terrible taxi companies will go out of business.
NICK CHECOTA NEXT BUYS, UPDATES MARSHALL MOUNTAIN Nick Checota has already bought, renovated and revived two of Missoula’s favorite but aging venues. In fall 2012, he purchased the Top Hat Lounge, a beloved blues, jazz and rock club, and turned it into a stylish tapas bar and rising live music venue. In March 2015, Checota surprisingly took over the crown jewel of downtown Missoula, the historic Wilma Theatre, and refurbished it into a state-of-the-art concert
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his cabinet—it won’t be enough as tension and frustration mount. This will be the year UM students realize the university is theirs to lose and will raise their voices in earnest.
SOUTHGATE MALL ADDS A FERRIS WHEEL AS PART OF ITS GRAND EXPANSION Southgate Mall’s developers have already unveiled plans featuring a movie theater, redesigned landscaping and en-
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IN WAKE OF DEEPENING BUDGET CUTS, UM STUDENTS FIND THEIR ACTIVIST VOICE For a school that’s lost nearly 20 percent of its general budget in five years, the University of Montana campus has yet to ignite with protest. Sure, President Royce Engstrom has taken plenty of heat, but most of the fire has spewed from the mouths of faculty and alumni. What’s missing is the level of student revolt that has brought upheaval to other campuses
hanced pedestrian amenities, with hopes of breaking ground on the expansion in 2016. But the scope of the project will grow next year to include additional crowd-pleasing, family-friendly amenities that make Southgate’s current Griz-colored train playground look as outdated as, well, an old shopping mall. Specifically, Missoula’s mall will follow the example of businesses like Scheel’s, the sporting goods emporium that built a 65foot-tall Ferris wheel inside its new Billings location. Southgate’s Ferris wheel will no
doubt raise concerns from neighbors worried about disruption to the valley’s skyline, but after a spirited debate—and the promise of free carnival rides for kids under 8— the attraction gains approval.
ANI DIFRANCO AND EMMYLOU HARRIS VOLUNTEER AT THE ZACC’S GIRLS ROCK CAMP In summer 2015, the Zootown Arts Community Center’s inaugural Boys Rock Camp featured a visit from special guests Jeff
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in recent months. The most notable protests occurred at the University of Missouri, where thousands of students toppled a president they saw as unresponsive to racial aggression. Even the football team got involved by threatening to boycott a game, and days later the university leadership was out. UM’s student body hasn’t adopted the activist bent that’s in keeping with the liberal arts tradition they hope to defend. While Engstrom has attempted to assuage student concerns—he gave them a seat in
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The report card: So, how’d we do in 2015? Distilleries become the new craft craze: Cheers! We’re going to score this a win considering Missoula welcomed two new downtown distilleries: Rattlesnake Creek on West Alder opened in August and The Montana Distillery on Woody Street opened last December. Missoula breaks ground on memorial BMX park: Our enthusiasm got the better of us on this one. While work is still underway to establish the Tanner Olson Memorial BMX Park in Missoula, the project is still in the design phase. UM alumnus J.K. Simmons wins an Oscar: And the winner is … us! Simmons not only won, he also stole the show with an emotional acceptance speech in which he thanked his late mom and dad, Missoula legends Pat and Don Simmons. Columnist Dan Brooks: Montana Republicans overplay their hand: Political predictions are always so argumentative, but it’s pretty clear that Democratic Gov. Steve Bullock and a coalition of Democrats and moderate Republicans won the legislative session. From Medicaid expansion to the Montana Disclose Act, a strong bipartisan push toward the end saved the 2015 legislature from becoming a complete debacle. A multinational investment firm attempts to purchase Caras Park from the city, and privatize it—but fails: Nope, but the city did manage to win its water system from a multinational investment firm. The state legislature opens up medical marijuana: We’ve included something like this prediction every year and, alas, Helena won’t get stoned. State Rep. Nick Schwaderer: The Montana Legislature enacts key privacy provisions: A bit of a mixed
bag on this one. Several pro-privacy provisions did pass in 2015, including Rep. Daniel Zolnikov’s bill prohibiting service providers from disclosing a journalist’s electronic communications. However, most of the more ambitious privacy and surveillance bills wound up dying in committee. Cereal becomes the next hipster food trend: Not yet, bro, meaning there’s still at least one reason to visit Portland. The Boss plays Missoula: Bruce Springsteen recently announced a 24-date The River Tour 2016, but it includes zero appearances in the Pacific Northwest. Local fans are saying “Boooooo,” not “Bruuuuuuce.” Topher Williams, former Mountain Line community outreach coordinator: Mountain Line has more riders in 2015 than ever before, and shows a 45-percent increase in ridership over the next three years: We have a winner. Mountain Line’s Zero Fare service resulted in more than 1.2 million rides, surpassing the million-ride mark for the first time ever. New Outreach Coordinator Bill Pfeiffer adds that Mountain Line set an alltime one-month bus ridership record in October with 118,447 rides, breaking the previous record set just this past April. Overall, he says ridership is up more than 38 percent from last year. Griz football wins the Big Sky: We fumbled this one, big time. The Griz didn’t win the Big Sky (although they did reach the playoffs) and new coach Bob Stitt didn’t name Chris Chalich his starter (until injuries forced Chalich into action mid-season). It’s cool; we’ll stick to Oscar predictions in the future.
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Comedian Chris Fairbanks: Sony was behind its own cyber attack: Um, no. But Fairbanks did win a recent episode of “@midnight,” so there’s that. Missoula becomes a model for arts in public education: The grade here might be “incomplete.” Spark! Arts Ignite Learning, known nationally as the Any Given Child Initiative, offered several classroom artist residencies and partnerships with schools and community arts organizations in 2015. The progress wasn’t enough to deem the program a high-profile model yet, but if Spark! continues to impact Missoula’s educational institutions, it might get there in a few more years. Bartender Joe Berryman: Missoula breweries create record-breaking canned food drive: Berryman was largely right in his prediction. The January food drive collected an estimated 6,200 pounds of canned goods, and Bayern Brewing did indeed win the competition. However, since Bayern was victorious, Berryman says the brewery didn’t feel much pressure to build a trophy—something he adds will certainly change if another brewer wins in January 2016. Hank Green steals the virtual spotlight: If 2014 was the year of John Green (author of The Fault in Our Stars), we believed 2015 would be the year of his brother, Missoula’s own new media mogul Hank. Well, less than a month after our prediction hit newsstands, Hank received an invitation from YouTube to interview President Obama in the White House. The live-streamed special received more than 3.5 million views and Hank’s SciShow channel now has nearly 3 million subscribers. So, yes, we think we got this one right, Nerdfighters.
ital access a mandatory add-on with any print subscription. Every subscriber already pays for admission to the online version of the news, so directing readers online for all of the content one (or two or maybe eventually three) days a week won’t seem quite so traumatizing. As online publishing eats up more and more audience and advertising revenues, the writing’s on the touchscreen for daily newspapers.
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GOV. STEVE BULLOCK VS. GREG GIANFORTE FLOODS THE STATE WITH CAMPAIGN MONEY
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Ament, bassist for Pearl Jam, and John Wicks, drummer for Fitz and the Tantrums. This year the longer-running Girls Rock Camp will have its brush with fame when two female musicians with local ties share their expertise with the up-and-coming rockers. Ani DiFranco, who has collaborated with Missoula-based musician Amy Martin, will join Emmylou Harris, who makes frequent stops in Montana for the Red Ants Pants Festival and benefit concerts, to thrill campers—or, more likely, their parents— with a surprise appearance at the ZACC.
swell, fueled both by the need to reconfigure the existing Flynn-Lowney Diversion weir adjacent to Osprey Stadium and by the desire to memorialize Max Lentz, the Hellgate High School student who died in a kayaking accident in West Virginia in 2007. But even as kayakers flock to Brennan’s Wave for the annual Best in the West competition, fundraising hurdles and continued debate over the potential impacts of the new water feature will prompt another pause, pushing the actual date for completion back at least one more year.
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When local kayakers, community officials and business owners first unveiled plans for a second man-made whitewater feature on the Clark Fork back in 2010, those involved were optimistic the project would be completed by 2015. While emergency repairs to Brennan’s Wave and a lengthy design and permit process all combined to stymie that timeline, momentum will pick up in 2016 as applications filed by the nonprofit Max Wave finally gain approval. Community buy-in will once again
The Missoulian will begin distributing a newspaper only six days a week, maybe fewer, publishing news exclusively online at least once in every seven-day period. The Bozeman Daily Chronicle dropped its Monday print edition a couple years ago, along with many other dailies across the country. In fact, some major metro areas get printed editions of their daily news just three days a week. The Missoulian laid the groundwork for this change last year when it made dig-
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With buzz over Montana’s gubernatorial race rising to the national level in the latter days of 2015, the showdown between Democratic incumbent Gov. Steve Bullock and Bozeman tech mogul Greg Gianforte will take a turn for the high-priced and brutal in 2016. Gianforte’s successful wooing of wealthy donors in Las Vegas will bolster his own already deep pockets, while Democrats fearful of losing the top station in the state will rally to Bullock’s cause. Voters
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won’t be able to get a moment of peace from campaign ads, with a constant barrage of attacks focused on Bullock’s revolving door of lieutenant governors and Gianforte’s long legacy of financing religious institutions. Dark money will be particularly prevalent as both men benefit from millions of dollars in spending by outsider nonprofits. In short, the race for the governor’s office will put the low-cost 2014 election to shame and perhaps even make the Tester/Rehberg bout of 2012 look downright pedestrian. editor@missoulanews.com
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[arts]
Working overtime How classic rock became music for people who hate music by Dan Brooks
know all the lyrics to “Takin’ Care of Business” by Bachman Turner Overdrive. “You get up every morning from your alarm clock’s warning/ and take the 8:15 to the city./ There’s a whistle up above and people pushing, people shoving/ and the girls— who try to look pretty.” These words are stupid to me. I find the music that accompanies them bland yet braying. The whole thing is a vehicle to shout “Takin’ care of business,” a slogan roughly as meaningful as “Got milk?” Yet I have listened to this song maybe once a week for 25 years. It is classic rock.
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wait, ostensibly for our pleasure, so we don’t think about waiting. In the 1980s, this effect was achieved via easy listening. The hallmark of that genre, with its synthesized instruments and near-total absence of vocals, was that none of the songs was recognizable. Classic rock now performs the same function, but it works on the principle that every song is recognizable. Any new addition to the playlist threatens the whole operation. In high school, I remember thinking how old I would feel when Smashing Pumpkins
By this absence of new music, classic rock is the end of music. The lie implicit in the word “classic”—that this particular era of rock contains the best and most important songs—reflects the universal human desire to remain cool even after culture has passed us by. If you purport to love music but haven’t liked a new album since 5150, you must admit you are out of touch. But if Van Halen was, in fact, the peak of rock ‘n roll, you didn’t abandon music. Music abandoned you. When I hear the opening bars of “Takin’ Care of Business,” I want to kill myself in whatever way will take
urban speak secret codes. Only classic rock promises that you and your dad, your sociology professor and the kid behind the counter at Five Guys, your dentist and your nephew will all know the same songs. Imagine you have a friend who keeps coming to parties and asking if he can put on some music. No matter what, he always plays “Takin’ Care of Business.” People keep offering to loan him albums, to make mixes for him, to buy him a Spotify subscription, but he just wants to hear TCOB again. “This song is great,” he says. “It’s a classic.”
If you were unfamiliar with the terminology of radio programming, you might think the classic era of rock happened in the late ’60s: Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, David Bowie, etc. Although these artists occasionally play on classic rock radio, the format’s wheelhouse is the mid-’70s to early ’80s: Bad Company, Foghat, Foreigner, Journey, Boston. These are the worst bands in the history of music. I know, because I have studied their singles against my will for decades. I don’t even listen to the radio anymore, but classic rock finds me. It plays in the laundromat. It plays in the car wash and the showroom of the tire store. It plays anywhere people are contained and made to
and Nirvana became classic rock. But they never did. Except for the occasional Pearl Jam song, it’s still “Slow Ride,” “Jack & Diane,” “Hotel California” and “Space Cowboy,” from morning drive time to evening sit-numbly-with-your-family-in-Red-Robin time. This degree of stagnancy is stunning when you think about it. It’s as if, in 1967, radio stations across the country were still playing big-band jazz. The difference is that nobody really liked big band during the late 1960s, whereas millions of people still love classic rock. At least they claim to. I submit that classic rock is, in fact, music for people who are scared of music—people who want to turn on the radio but don’t want to hear anything they haven’t heard before.
the maximum number of people with me. I remember hating it when I was 15. But some people hear TCOB and remember loving it. It sweeps them back to a time when TCOB had just come out, and they were excited about it—when developments in culture were generally exciting, because it was their culture and they were young. These people are old now. The unchanging playlist of classic rock is a testament to their lost interest in music but ongoing interest in themselves. The omnipresence of classic rock is their cultural hegemony. And yet, classic rock may also be our last shared music. Every other genre is ephemeral or insular. Top 40 keeps changing; if you stop listening for a few weeks, you won’t recognize any of it. Country is for Republicans. NPR is for Democrats. Christian and
That man is awful. He is inconsiderate. His insistence on calling his own stunted taste “classic” insults anyone who cares about music. Probably someone should stop him, but no one can. And after 30 years of this behavior, we all know him. In this way, we are all sort of friends. Classic rock unites us the way the Vichy government united France. It started as a lowest common denominator and, through cultural fragmentation and media conglomeration, kept anything else from rising above it. It has exercised its hegemony for 30 years, but at least it is happening to all of is. It sucks, but it sucks for all of us together.
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Dream now Sunraiser’s Trees balances searing with pretty If you were too busy anticipating the holiday weekend, you might have missed a sweet little gem pop up on Bandcamp. Missoula’s Sunraiser released their EP To the Trees and the Hive of the Bees on Dec. 18, and it’s a powerful burst of punk/post-hardcore craftsmanship that should not be ignored. Jordan Perkic has the pipes of a pop singer, but he turns what could have been too-polished crooning into a fantastically seared and shredded sound—one that artfully matches the band’s angular riffs. On “Windows,” Perkic growls about finding “peace in this town” before belting out in a pretty interlude, “Dream now, of falling snow to appear on the trees below. It could muffle the sounds outside
my house—and my mind could make the same turnaround.” Poetic moments like these show up just often enough to provide ambience and are offset by swifter, angstier proclamations such as in “Brush of Pine,” when Perkic yells with bravado, “I will learn to feel like a child— again!” To the Trees is like a loosely knit collection of short stories where a haunted protagonist struggles through some turmoil. Throughout the album, hives and trees (and familiar chords) keep making appearances as if they were side characters. It’s a deceptively complex album with biting emotion that settles somewhere between calculated and derailed. (Erika Fredrickson)
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Hardin Scott Band, Folly Perfection can be perfectly boring. One of the things that made Adele such an interesting artist was that endearing rasp in her voice that signaled a touch of vulnerability. Now that she’s had surgery on her vocal cords she’s more in league with Celine Dion or kd lang than the smokey blues chanteuses like Bonnie Raitt or Amy Winehouse. Keith Hardin of the Hardin Scott Band sings with a voice that is pleasingly imperfect. It’s lived-in and a little rough around the edges. Songs like “Lifetime of Time,” in which he cries, “The weight of the world is on me,” are more effective for that bruised voice, and
the Crazy Horse-ish guitar solo is a good counterpoint. Lead guitarist Dave Scott also helps flesh out the vocals with some well-placed harmonies. The band is balanced and confident on mid-tempo songs like “Nervous Door” and “Snow Falling Up,” but on the more aggressive rockers like “Dioxazine,” the rhythm section feels a little anemic, falling way back in the mix. But, hey, nobody’s perfect. (Ednor Therriault) The Hardin Scott Band play Zootown Brew for First Night, Fri., Dec. 31, from 8 to 9 PM. Buttons for all events are $18. Visit missoulacultural.org for more info.
Drive-By Truckers, It’s Great to be Alive You can’t say Drive-By Truckers do things halfway. This quality has worked against them recently because their records tend to be a few songs too long, and listening to them, at times, becomes a slog. Yet here I am, extolling the virtues of their latest: a massive three-plus-hour career retrospective recorded live over three nights at San Francisco’s Fillmore Auditorium in late 2014. It’s Great to be Alive works because DBT are a live band first, and few bands of their ilk have captured in the studio what their concert vibe is all about. The material is more loose, the goings-on more raucous and the
energy level translates better coming out of the speakers. Frontman Patterson Hood benefits most from the process in that the stories he tells are being delivered to an audience, and not just into a microphone in a studio vocal booth. I dig hearing “Sink Hole,” from 2003, right up against 2014’s “Made Up English Oceans.” Eleven years and a bunch of band members separate the tracks, but it all fits. The songs of all eras have adapted well to the current lineup, and this recording provides a great, loud listen, even if you only want to tackle it chunks at a time. (Chris La Tray)
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Thrill seeker Roaring Fork takes the drama overboard by Chris La Tray
With some tweaking here and there, Cincinnati Clooney’s father.) I don’t have a knee-jerk reaction writer Jeff Howe’s debut novel, Into the Roaring against authors publishing their own work; Howe’s Fork, would hold its own among thrillers one finds final product is a cleaner read than several books strategically placed in grocery store checkout aisles. I’ve read lately from big publishing houses. But If you’re into stuff by names like Patterson, Child or there are a couple of style changes that might have Connelly, then you will likely enjoy what Howe improved the book had it gone through an estabbrings to the table. Into the Roaring Fork lacks the lished publisher. One example is that Howe writes the Cavanaugh chapters in firstuber-badass lead character that person and everything else in some of the authors I mention third. I’m not a fan of this shifttend to lean on to drive their acing point of view, and I suspect tion, but Howe is still going for it confuses plenty other readers. that taut, stripped-down, Howe handles it as well as anybreathless rollercoaster ride one could, but I still don’t care from the opening page until it for it. Another issue is that all wraps up. He succeeds in Howe often resorts to clipped many ways. two- and three-word sentences The story is set in the Rocky that aren’t really sentences, and Mountains, circa 1985. After those mess with the rhythm of graduating from Middlebury the book. The style is also inCollege in Vermont, Alex Caconsistent. Pages and pages may vanaugh convinces his girlfriend, go by without it, then in a secErin, to move to Colorado for a tion it might occur multiple year to be ski bums. A wealthy times. I found the choice took Aspen benefactor soon conme out of the story every time vinces Cavanaugh, via the lure of it occurred. easy money, to run cocaine for One final beef that ultihim. The idea is that Cavanaugh Into the Roaring Fork mately spoiled the book for me will hike 40 pounds of the stuff Jeff Howe concerns the handling of the to a remote mountain location paperback, Cameron & Greys women in his story. Sixty-four and rendezvous with couriers 328 pages, $14.99 pages in, a woman, the wife of a carrying money. They make the exchange, then hike back out their separate ways. The bank manager who is being held as insurance first trip plays out with no problems. The second against her husband failing to get cash from the quickly goes sideways. Halfway into his hike Ca- bank’s vault, is raped. It’s part of a flashback. It vanaugh crosses paths with a trio of bank robbers and serves no purpose to the story. The trio of villains kidnappers and their latest victim, a woman whose had already been established as ex-cons, bank robabduction has made national news. Mayhem ensues bers and kidnappers. How bad does their leader need to be? Meanwhile, the leader’s girlfriend, a with Cavanaugh caught in the center. Howe does a great job moving the story forward. tough woman brought up hard who we have no reaHe frequently builds to a chapter-ending cliffhanger, son to believe would idly sit by while a woman is then deftly takes us to a flashback to fill in backstory. raped, simply watches and doesn’t care at all. The This doesn’t distract from anything because the inter- scene ends. We never hear about this victim again ludes never feel like mere information dumps. They once she is set free. From that point forward, the keep the pages turning and provide insights into the female characters seem to exist either to be abused characters. Aspen, and its surrounding wilderness, or rescued, and we get little character development serves not only as a setting wonderfully captured by for any of them. If the rape scene is there to set up Howe in his prose, but also a sort of character. The a twist that happens later in the story as it relates to challenges posed by the environment become hur- the kidnappers, then it fails completely. dles that must be overcome to avert looming perInto the Roaring Fork contains some fine writsonal catastrophe, no less so than gun-toting ing and storytelling. I can overlook style choices kidnappers and cocaine thugs. that clash with my personal tastes and still enjoy a Into the Roaring Fork was self-published, book. The unnecessary rape scene is something I though Howe has secured an agent for it and gotten can’t get past. several positive reviews (including, as a random fact, a glowing fan note from Nick Clooney, George arts@missoulanews.com
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Hangover helpers Five Netflix shows for a post-holiday binge by Erika Fredrickson
“Master of None”
’Tis the season to be hung over from mulled wine and peppermint schnapps, spiked egg nog and New Year’s Eve Champagne. Or, if not, you’re likely winding down from feasts, sugar highs and family madness (good or bad). Your post-holiday cure? Netflix streaming. And specifically, these five binge-worthy shows that will help you welcome in the New Year with renewed cheer. “Marvel’s Jessica Jones” You might recognize Krysten Ritter from her leading role in the short-lived ABC series “Don’t Trust the B---- in Apartment 23,” an oddball comedy about a psychotic but charming scam artist. It’s an entertaining show, but Ritter’s new project as Marvel superhero Jessica Jones is much more satisfying. The series begins with Jones as a retired superhero turned private investigator whose dark past still plagues her. It plays heavy on hardboiled, noir tropes: Jones sipping Bourbon in late night bars or sneaking out from a one-night stand as a lonely saxophone plays in the background. If you can embrace the tongue-in-cheek clichés, you’ll realize everything else is anything but predictable. (It beats the hell out of its snooze-worthy counterpart, “Daredevil.”) Ritter’s performance is refreshing as a weird and complicated antihero who relies on wit and sexuality, without reverting to male-gaze ideals. “W/ Bob & David” I really missed HBO’s “Mr. Show” after it ended its run—17 years ago. Bob Odenkirk and David Cross have gone on to do other worthwhile projects (“Arrested Development,” “Breaking Bad”) but this new Netflix series reunites them in a sketch-comedy format. Addressing how much time has passed, the first episode begins with Bob and David stepping out of a time machine. They think they’ve just traveled from the past, but it turns out the port-a-potty-looking device is a “real-time” machine—as in, they’ve been hanging out, growing old and pooping in a box for the last 17 years. The four hilarious half-hour episodes touch on light topics and heavy—including
slavery, which unfortunately highlights the only misstep of the show: how glaringly all-white the show’s core cast still is. “Master of None” Get past the first two episodes and you’ll find this Aziz Ansari vehicle has struck the right balance between sweet and laugh-out-loud funny. The series focuses on an actor working in New York City and fully inhabits the world of millennials. The cast is fantastically diverse, with main characters being people of color. It also handles situation comedy masterfully, by embracing social disasters in a way that feels true to life rather than cynical or stereotypical. “Master of None” is what a Judd Apatow story line would look like in better, more nuanced hands. “Jane the Virgin” Like “Ugly Betty” before it, “Jane the Virgin” features Latino culture and quirky, likable characters. “Jane the Virgin” begins with the title character accidentally getting artificially inseminated. She’s a virgin ready to embark on a future with her boyfriend, but now everything has changed. Who is the father? Who is Jane’s father? What secret is the boyfriend hiding? This is a smart comedy wrapped in the trappings of a trashy telenovela. The show employs a narrator and endless cliffhanger moments, but like “Jessica Jones” it offers enough dimension to hook even the snobbiest viewers. “West Wing” Let’s go back—way back. With so many new shows on Netflix (and Amazon and elsewhere) it’s easy to overlook the pioneers that led to the Golden Age of television. “West Wing” is one of the best, with its fastpaced dialogue and idealistic—though no less complicated—look at politics in Washington, D.C. Even if you’ve seen it before, Aaron Sorkin’s masterpiece is a totally binge-worthy show to revisit—if for no other reason than to escape our real political climate. efredrickson@missoulanews.com
missoulanews.com • December 31–January 7, 2016 [21]
[film]
Hollow heart Half-baked characters undercut Joy by Molly Laich
“As long as you don’t ruin my ‘Twin Peaks’ videos everything will be fine.”
Joy is not a very good movie, but the message is so salient and relevant that in spite of itself, it may manage to move audiences anyway. Jennifer Lawrence plays the titular role in a story loosely based on the real life entrepreneur and inventor Joy Mangano. She’s the lady behind iconic products such as “The Miracle Mop” and “Huggable Hangers,” but as we will see in exaggerated detail, the road to success was not paved in gold. We first meet Joy in the Long Island home she shares with far too many people in the late 1980s. Her mother ( Virginia Madsen) has spent the last eight years propped up in a living room-turned-bedroom watching soap operas and acting like a spoiled child, generally. Joy’s been divorced from Tony (Édgar Ramírez) for two years but he still lives in the basement, where he practices his lounge singing. They’ve got two kids together, a boy and a girl, although the boy has been all but edged out of the film to make room for the mother-daughter dynamic. (The movie isn’t slavishly tied to biographical details, why not just cut out the little boy? The short answer: bad filmmaking.) Joy’s scrambling to get out the door to her job as an airline reservation specialist and all-around hero to a thankless family when hilarity comes knocking in the form of her father, played by Robert DeNiro. His latest girlfriend has had enough of him and now Dad wants to live in the basement along with the exin-law with whom he doesn’t get along. This is Lawrence’s third collaboration with director David O. Russell, after 2013’s American Hustle and her Oscar-winning role in 2011’s Silver Lining’s Playbook. Joy is just the kind of setup we’re used to seeing in a Russell picture: a grown-up family that’s
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dysfunctional but loves each other. And it’s still charming, but barely. In Silver Lining’s Playbook, the supporting characters have their own story arcs and motivations, and it makes the family unit feel real. In that film, when DeNiro sits at his son’s bedside and clumsily tries to tell him how important it is that they hang out more and talk about the Philadelphia Eagles, we’re getting an intimate look at a difficult man’s vulnerability, and it means everything. In Joy, DeNiro’s big turn comes when, after what looks to be the failure of her business, he flippantly tells his daughter that it’s his fault for ever making her believe she could succeed. The movie is filled with moments like these. Bradley Cooper in a barely there role agrees to sell Joy’s product, then tells her to give up, then gives her another shot when she whispers menacingly. (The way she won’t take no for an answer, I tell ya. This girl is the Steve Jobs of mopping.) Repeatedly people tell her she’s not good enough and that getting swindled in business is the normal course of events. At a pivotal moment on the cusp of the third act, Lawrence gives herself a hard look in the mirror and then gives herself a haircut, and it’s all uphill from there. They might have also considered calling this film “The Magic Haircut.” The film’s message is on point. I don’t doubt at all that men would unfairly inflate a businesswoman’s costs or try to steal her patented designs. It’s just hard to believe in the moment of the scene that anyone could do that to Jennifer Lawrence. For this role, she may just have too much charisma for her own good. Joy continues at the Carmike 12. arts@missoulanews.com
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OPENING THIS WEEK THE BIG SHORT Four outsiders who see the looming bust of the housing bubble decide to take on the big banks and hit ‘em where it hurts: right in the subprime loans. Starring Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Brad Pitt and Ryan Gosling. Rated R. Showing at the Carmike. BLOOD SIMPLE The Coen Retrospective kicks off with Blood Simple, Coen brothers’ debut starring M. Emmet Walsh and Dan Hedaya. The acclaimed film noir signaled the arrival of a formidable duo who would go on to make several enduring classics, including a certain bowling movie about a guy who hates the Eagles. Rated R. Showing at the Roxy Thu., Jan. 7, 7 PM. THE HATEFUL EIGHT This latest offering from Quentin Tarantino concerns an Old West bounty hunter and his prisoner getting caught in a blizzard and finding refuge in a cabin full of typically unhinged Tarantino characters. Starring Samuel Jackson, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Kurt Russell. Rated R. Showing at the Carmike and Pharaohplex. MACBETH (2015) After murdering King Duncan (David Thewlis) and seizing the throne, Mabeth (Michael Fassbender) becomes consumed with guilt as the tyrant of Scotland. Showing at the Roxy Fri., Jan. 1–Thu., Jan. 7. Visit theroxytheater.org for showtimes. MOVIE CULT: HOLY MOTORS Movie Cult returns with Holy Motors, the surreal film about a man who opens a secret door in his apartment and wanders into something far more disturbing than a hidden dumbwaiter. Showing at the Roxy Sat., Jan. 2, 10 PM. ORION: THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING After the death of Elvis Presley in 1977, a man with the voice of the King appeared. This bizarre music industry mystery probably raises more questions than it answers. Showing at the Roxy Fri., Jan. 1– Thu., Jan. 7. Visit theroxytheater.org for showtimes.
NOW PLAYING ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: THE ROAD CHIP Just in time to entertain the out-of-school tykes,
So if I sign this contract I’ll receive a new leisure suit every month, for life? Blood Simple screens at the Roxy Thu., Jan. 7, at 7 PM. Alvin and the Chipmunks are back. This time they have to travel across the country to stop Dave from getting married. Rated PG. Showing at the Carmike and the Pharaohplex.
KUNG FU MARATHON In order to survive the Kung Fu Marathon, you must become one with your Stadium Buddy. The Roxy hosts a New Year’s Eve run of Kung Fu classics Thu., Dec. 31, noon to midnight.
CONCUSSION Will Smith plays Dr. Bennet Omalu, who identified a type of brain trauma in an ex-NFL player and went up against the powerful league to make his findings known. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike.
NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: JANE EYRE Charlotte Brontë’s spirited heroine faces life’s obstacles head-on, surviving poverty, injustice and betrayal, before deciding to follow her heart. Showing at the Roxy Tue., Jan. 5, 6 PM.
DADDY’S HOME Will Farrell and Mark Wahlberg play stepdad and biological dad, competing for the children’s affections. Rated PG-13, showing at the Carmike and Pharaohplex. JOY David O. Russell reassembles the team from Silver Linings Playbook for this epic about a family dynasty spanning four generations. Starring Robert DeNiro, Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike.
POINT BREAK Loose remake of the 1991 action film starring Patrick Swayze’s hair, it’s the story of an FBI agent who infiltrates a gang of extreme-sports criminals. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike. SISTERS Two sisters decide to have one last house party before...oh, does it matter? It’s Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, y’all! Rated R. Showing at the Carmike and Pharaohplex. SPOTLIGHT Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams and Michael Keaton star in the true story of how the Boston Globe un-
covered the child molestation scandal within the Catholic Church. Rated R. Showing at the Roxy through Thu., Jan. 7. Visit theroxytheater.org for showtimes. STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS Han Solo, Luke, Leia and Chewy are back as J.J. Abrams hefts the yoke of the mighty Star Wars franchise, picking up where 1983’s Episode VI: The Return of the Jedi left off. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike, Pharaohplex, and pretty much every theater everywhere.
Capsule reviews by Ednor Therriault Planning your outing to the cinema? Visit the arts section of missoulanews.com to find upto-date movie times for theaters in the area. You can also contact theaters to spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 12 at 541-7469; The Roxy at 728-9380; Wilma at 728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 961-FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan at 883-5603.
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photo by Catherine L. Walters
’Tis the season for takeout by Jamie Rogers When I was a kid, we got Chinese takeout on Christmas Eve. Chicken and broccoli, pork dumplings, shrimp with mixed vegetables—we’d pile it onto our plates and gorge guiltlessly while watching a movie. This was the only holiday tradition in my family, and to this day Chinese food is the most comforting thing I can imagine eating. Though Christmas is over, many of us are not yet out of the holiday woods. So in honor of holiday traditions I’ve compiled a list of my favorite local takeout dishes. They are not all Chinese, but they satisfy my appetite for holiday nostalgia just the same. And let’s face it, you don’t want to clean the kitchen again. Pagoda: Pad Se-Ewe The tiny restaurant located on the northern end of Orange Street is not what it seems. The dining room only has a few booths, and the fluorescent lighting doesn’t exactly invite a leisurely meal with a friend. But the ambiance belies the quality of the food at one of my go-to takeout spots. Pagoda’s menu offers the usual American-Chinese fair: General Tso’s chicken, Mongolian beef and lo-mein are all available, but for the last few years, I’ve been ordering exclusively from the Thai menu, which might be one of Missoula’s best kept secrets. The red and green curries are both tasty, but I’m a sucker for the pad se-ewe. The rice noodles are thick and slightly chewy, and with broccoli sautéed in brown sauce, the dish is exactly the sort of salty, unctuous meal I want after another frigid and gray Missoula day. I usually get it with tofu ($8.95), but if you feel like splurging, the shrimp is awesome ($12.95). Also, a warning: Pagoda offers different levels of heat in many of their dishes. When they say “hot,” they aren’t joking. Vietnam Grill: Special Egg Fried Noodles (Mi Xao Mem) Of all the things I appreciate about this downtown eatery, the way I feel after I eat there might top the list. Vietnam Grill doesn’t punish me for pigging out. All the food I’ve had there is refreshingly light on oil and on my stomach, which is sort of miraculous considering my favorite item—the Special Egg Fried Noodles ($9)—comes with shrimp, barbecue pork and meatballs served over a bed of crispy fried noodles.
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WHAT’S GOOD HERE Vietnam Noodle: Spicy Lemongrass Tofu Noodle Soup It’s a little risky picking just one favorite from Vietnam Noodle—the family-run restaurant located in a shopping center off Brooks Street has something of a cult following, and the menu offers more than 70 items. But if you’ve never tried the Spicy Lemongrass Tofu Noodle Soup, it’s worth adding to your list of wintertime takeout staples. The broth is slightly sweet, spicy and, with a squeeze of fresh lime, a little sour. The fried tofu (they offer steamed tofu as well, but I’ve never tried it) is soft yet chewy, and the noodles are slurp-worthy. A medium bowl costs $9.95 and is more than enough food. But because the folks at Vietnam Noodle are consummate professionals, they package the noodles and broth separately for takeout orders, which means the noodles won’t get soggy if you want some leftovers. The large portion for $10.95 is the way to go. China Buffet: Everything Admittedly, I could easily have made this list twice as long, but only so many words can fit on this page. So it might seem strange that on my list of favorite takeout dishes, I include a restaurant that is, without a doubt, best experienced by going there and sitting down. But in the end, this column is really about my favorite local comfort food, and nothing is more comforting than a buffet. The steam trays at China Buffet are loaded with just about every American-Chinese dish you can think of, as well as a handful of conspicuously un-Asian items (I once had some pretty killer mac and cheese). So I won’t get too in-depth on my favorite things—if you pay the $10.49 for dinner you can literally try everything— but rather give some tips on how to approach a meal there. First off, if you live within 2 miles, I highly recommend walking. It will not take as long as you think, and as buffets encourage overeating and overeating invites self-loathing, walking off your meal will help with the guilt. Second, sit down with a strategy. I am a threeplate guy. I usually begin with standbys like barbecue pork, green beans and rice, then a dim sum-style plate with dumplings, egg rolls and crab Rangoon. I like to finish light with a visit to the sushi bar. And lastly, take your time. Going to China Buffet is recreation, like a fishing trip or a day hike, and by no means should you attempt to squeeze it into your day. Go slow and take breaks between plates. If comfort is your aim, there’s no need to rush.
[dish] Asahi 1901 Stephens Ave 829-8989 asahimissoula.com Exquisite Chinese and Japanese cuisine. Try our new Menu! Order online for pickup or express dine in. Pleasant prices. Fresh ingredients. Artistic presentation. Voted top 3 People’s Choice two years in a row. Open Tue-Sun: 11am-10pm. $-$$$
a matter of pride. Our relationship with local farmers, ranchers and other businesses allows us to bring quality, scratch cooking and fresh-brewed Black Coffee Roasting Co. coffee and espresso to Missoula’s Historic Westside neighborhood. Handmade breads & pastries, soups, salads & sandwiches change with the seasons, but our commitment to delicious food does not. Mon-Fri 7am - 2pm. Sat/Sun Brunch 9am - 2pm. Dinners on Fri & Sat nights 5 - 9 PM. $-$$
Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West 728-1358 Nothing says Bernice's like the cold, grey month of January. Come in, sit quietly, or share a table with friends in our warm and cozy dining room. Enjoy a cup of joe, a slice of cake, or a breakfast pastry as the sun beams in through our large glass windows. Want a healthy lunch? Come by in the afternoon and try a salad sampler or Bernice's own Garlic Hummus Sandwich on our Honey Whole Wheat Bread. Bless you all in 2016! xoxo bernice. $-$$
Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins • 728-8780 Celebrating 43 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $
Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street • 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a “biga” (pronounced bee-ga) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making. Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$ Bitter Root Brewing 101 Marcus St., Hamilton 363-7468 bitterrootbrewing.com The Bitter Root Brewery in downtown Hamilton is your one-stop shop for all your holiday needs. Plan your upcoming party, stock up on tasty beer and check off your holiday present list all at the Bitter Root Brewery. Open 7 days a week. Cheers! $-$$ Black Coffee Roasting Co. 525 E. Spruce • 541-3700 Black Coffee Roasting Company is located in the heart of Missoula. Our roastery is open M-F 6:30-5:30, Sat. 7:30- 4, Sun. 8-3. In addition to fresh roasted coffee beans we offer a full service espresso bar, drip coffee, pour-overs and more. The suspension of coffee beans in water is our specialty. $ Bridge Pizza 600 S Higgins Ave. • 542-0002 bridgepizza.com A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11am - 10:30pm. $-$$ Brooks & Browns Inside Holiday Inn Downtown 200 S. Pattee St. • 532-2056 Martini Mania with $4 martinis every Monday. The Griz Coaches Radio Show LIVE every Tuesday at 6pm, Burger & Beer special $8 every Tuesday. $2 well drinks & $2 PBR tall boys every Wednesday. Big Brains Trivia every Thursday at 8pm. Have you discovered Brooks & Browns? Inside the Holiday Inn, Downtown Missoula $-$$ Burns Street Bistro 1500 Burns St. • 543-0719 burnsstbistro.com We cook the freshest local ingredients as
Cafe Zydeco 2101 Brooks • 406-926-2578 cafezydeco.com GIT’ SOME SOUTH IN YOUR MOUTH! Authentic cajun cuisine, with an upbeat zydeco atmosphere in the heart of Missoula. Indoor and outdoor seating. Breakfast served all day. Featuring Jambalaya, Gumbo, Étouffée, Po-boys and more. Beignets served ALL DAY! Open Monday 9am-3pm, Tuesday-Saturday 11am-8pm, Closed Sundays. Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. • 542-7414 Doc’s is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you’re heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc’s is always an excellent choice. Delivery in the greater Missoula area. We also offer custom catering!...everything from gourmet appetizers to all of our menu items. $-$$ El Cazador 101 S. Higgins Ave. • 728-3657 Missoula Independent readers’ choice for Best Mexican Restaurant. Come taste Alfredo’s original recipes for authentic Mexican food where we cook with love. From seafood to carne asada, enjoy dinner or stop by for our daily lunch specials. We are a locally owned Mexican family restaurant, and we want to make your visit with us one to remember. Open daily for lunch and dinner. $-$$ The Empanada Joint 123 E. Main St. • 926-2038 Offering authentic empanadas BAKED FRESH DAILY! 9 different flavors, including vegetarian and (call ahead) gluten-free options, plus Argentine side dishes and desserts. Super quick and delicious! Get your healthy, hearty lunch or dinner here. Wi-Fi, Ping Pong, Soccer on the Big Screen, and music from Argentina and South America. Ask about our Take & Bake and Catering too! Mon - Wed 11a - 6p, Thur Sat 11a - 8p. Downtown Missoula. $ Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West • 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-to-order sandwiches, Fire Deck pizza & calzones, rice & noodle wok bowls, an award-winning salad bar, an olive & antipasto bar and a self-serve hot bar offering a variety of housemade breakfast, lunch and dinner entrées. A seasonally-changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available. Locally-roasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive fresh juice and smoothie menu complement bakery goods from the GFS ovens and Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day 7am-10pm $-$$
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The year in beer (and wine and spirits)
HAPPIEST HOUR March: Imagine Nation Brewing becomes Missoula’s ninth local taproom, opening above the banks of the Clark Fork on West Broadway. The brewery features a 900square-foot patio, community meeting room and, throughout the year, hosts special events like special Star Wars screenings leading up to the release of The Force Awakens. Meanwhile, The Dram Shop opens on Front Street, offering customers a wide range of brews from both local and far-flung breweries. Owners Zach and Sarah Millar hatched the idea with help from the Blackstone LaunchPad on the University of Montana campus, and the husband-and-wife team now offer more than 30 beers and ciders on tap, plus food offerings from neighbors Market on Front and the Pearl. June: Lolo Peak Brewing announces plans to build a new 8,000-square-foot, twostory brewpub and restaurant in Missoula as part of the Old Sawmill District. July: Nearly 51 years after Highlander beer was evicted from its home at the base of Waterworks Hill, Missoula Brewing Company opens a new brewery just off North Reserve to provide the city’s oldest beer a permanent home. Owner Bob Lukes offers— and bottles—a red ale, a lager, an American bock and an IPA, and serves other brews on tap. August: Rattlesnake Creek Distillery opens its doors, becoming downtown’s third distillery and tasting room. RCD features a gleaming copper-lined bar, tractor-seat-style barstools, wooden tables handcrafted by coowner Sean Hogan’s 80-year-old father and, of course, spirits. It first debuts Hogan’s Hooch, a light whiskey made with rye, barley and red wheat and briefly aged in oak barrels.
Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. • 549-7723 grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula’s Best Liquor Store! Largest selection of spirits in the Northwest, including all Montana micro-distilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines! Free customer parking. Open Monday-Saturday 9-7:30. $-$$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins • 541-4622 hobnobonhiggins.com Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. MC/V $-$$
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September: Montgomery Distillery bottles and sells Missoula’s first legal, aged whiskey to be sold since the pre-Prohibition era. The Early Release Rye Whiskey is described by the distillers as “like listening to Neil Young’s Live Rust in one sip.” In Milltown, the historic Harold’s Club closes. The blue-collar bar was once famously commemorated by poet and University of Montana professor Richard Hugo, who finished with the line, “... the goat says go so tenderly/ you can hear him through the glass.” November: J.C. McDowell, owner of Darby nanobrewery Bandit Brewing, is elected the town’s mayor. How’d the recent transplant get caught up in local politics? “We found out that as a community tasting room, a community gathering spot, people would come in and they would talk about their concerns, talk about the issues at hand, what was going on in their lives,” he says. —Independent staff Happiest Hour celebrates western Montana watering holes. To recommend a bar, bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, email editor@missoulanews.com.
The Iron Griz 515 South Ave. E. • 728-5106 irongriz.com Located at the base of Mt. Sentinel in the UM Golf Course Clubhouse, the Iron Griz proudly serves delicious, affordable, local foods. Montana food producers, partnering with the UM Farm to College Program, supply our kitchen with the freshest, highest quality meets, produce, locally brewed beer and wines. The Iron Griz will be closed December 21st through January 5th. Beginning January 6th our new hours will be WED. – SAT. Noon- 9:00 p.m. $-$$ Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins • 728-8866 ironhorsebrewpub.com We’re the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we’ll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$ Iza 529 S. Higgins • 830-3237 izarestaurant.com Local Asian cuisine feature SE Asian, Japanese, Korean and Indian dishes. Gluten Free and Vegetarian no problem. Full Beer, Wine, Sake and Tea menu. We have scratch made bubble teas. Come in for lunch, dinner, drinks or just a pot of awesome tea. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm, Happy Hour 3-6pm, Dinner M-Sat 3pm-close. $-$$ Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. (on the hip strip) • 543-7154 themissoulaseniorcenter.org Did you know the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every weekday for only $4 for those on the Nutrition Program, $5 for U of M Students with a valid student ID and $6 for all others. Children under 10 eat free. Join us from 11:30 - 12:30 M-F for delicious food and great conversation. $ The Mustard Seed Asian Cafe Southgate Mall • 542-7333 Contemporary Asian fusion cuisine. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combine the best of Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences. Full menu available at the bar. Award winning desserts made fresh daily , local and regional micro brews, fine wines & signature cocktails. Vegetarian and Gluten free menu available. Takeout & delivery. $$-$$$
Pearl Cafe 231 E. Front St. 541-0231 • pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with Dungeness Crab, Rabbit with Wild Mushroom Ragout, Snake River Farms Beef, Fresh Seafood Specials Daily. House Made Charcuterie, Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts. Extensive wine list; 18 wines by the glass and local beers on draft. Reservations recommended for the intimate dining areas. Visit our website Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Pita Pit 130 N Higgins • 541-7482 pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating. Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to name just a few. For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week. Call if you need us to deliver! $-$$ River Rising Bakery 337 Main St., Hamilton 363-4552 ORDER YOUR HOLIDAY DESSERTS EARLY! Hamilton’s favorite bakery, deli, and espresso bar. Serving all butter pastries, delicious and nutritious muffins, cream scones, and delectable desserts. Or choose from our selection of home-made soups, salads, and sandwiches found nowhere else. Open 6:30am-5:30pm Monday-Friday, 8:00am-4:00pm Saturday, 8:00am-2:00pm Sunday. Weekday local business lunch delivery available 9:00am-1:00pm. $-$$ The Starving Artist Cafe & Art Gallery 3020 S. Reserve St., Ste A 541-7472 missoulastarvingartist.com Local, high quality pastries and desserts from Missoula bakeries. Top of the line coffee blends from Hunter Bay Coffee, and specialty, hand crafted beverages. Monthly events, featured artists, and open mic night every Wednesday. The Starving Artist Cafe & Art Gallery is sure to please your palette! $ Sushi Hana 403 N. Higgins 549-7979 SushiMissoula.com Montana’s Original Sushi Bar. We Offer the Best Sushi and Japanese Cuisine in Town. Casual atmosphere. Plenty of options for non-sushi eaters including daily special items you won’t find anywhere else. $1 Specials Mon & Wed. Lunch Mon–Sat; Dinner Daily. Sake, Beer, & Wine. Visit SushiMissoula.com for full menu. $$-$$$
Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$
Taco Sano Two Locations: 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West 1515 Fairview Ave inside City Life 541-7570 • tacosano.net Home of Missoula’s Best BREAKFAST BURRITO. 99 cent TOTS every Tuesday. Once you find us you’ll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am9pm 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$
Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. • 543-3188 orangestreetfoodfarm.com Experience The Farm today!!! Voted number one Supermarket & Retail Beer Selection. Fried chicken, fresh meat, great produce, vegan, gluten free, all natural, a HUGE beer and wine selection, and ROCKIN’ music. What deal will you find today? $-$$$
Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$
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December 31–January 7, 2016
THURSDAYDEC31 Shake it one last time this year to some progressive house with a big combo party at Stage 112 and The Real Lounge. Cómo Se Va, Holdr, M-AD, Kapture, Milkcrate Mechanic, R00ster, Skillbilliez and Tempo Tantrum provide the thump. One ticket, two parties. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $2 for 18-20/free for 21 and over. First Night Missoula, a drug-free celebration, offers entertainment from hundreds of performers at dozens of venues around Missoula. One $18 button gets you into everything. For buttons and schedules, visit missoulacultural.org. First Night Missoula: It goes all day and into the night at the UC Atrium. Face Painting, 11 AM–2 PM. 6 Degrees of Separation: A Creative Mapping Project, noon–8 PM. Art on Tap: Session 1, 2–5 PM. Montana Clown Works, 4–9 PM. Art on Tap: Session 2, 6–9 PM. The Octopus, 6–9 PM. Larry and Kristina Cyr, 7–9 PM. First Night Missoula: Hear it straight from the artists at Missoula Art Museum, when the Speaker’s Bureau welcomes Wilbur Rehmann, 1–2 PM. Michael and Keleren Millham, 2:30–3:30 PM.
Do not fear the curly hat of honky tonk. Aran Buzzas plays his folky honky tonk originals as part of First Night Missoula at Break Espresso Thu., Dec. 31, 6–7 PM. All-access buttons $18. Visit missoulacultural.org.
First Night Missoula: The Missoula Senior Center hums with good energy when the Intro to African Dance Class with Tarn Ream kicks off, 1:30–2:30 PM. Sentinel High School Jazz Band, 3–5 PM. Community Drum Circle, 5:30–6:30 PM.
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[calendar] Make your midnight countdown a funky one with Shakewell at the Top Hat. The “black tie affair” features openers Mendelssohn, and a special mashup of the 15 worst songs of 2015. Doors at 9:30 PM, show at 10. $5.
First Night Missoula: The music rings from the rafters at First United Methodist Church. Gaelic Meadowlarks, 1:30–2:15 PM and 2:30–3:30 PM. Peter Edwards, MD, 4–5 PM. Mike & Tari Conroy Band, 5:30–6:30 PM, Gravely Mountain, 7–8 PM. Malarkey, 8:30–9:30 PM.
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First Night Missoula: University Center’s 3rd floor lounge is a hotbed of spoken word, with Stories After the First Snowfall, 1:30–2:30 PM. Speaker’s Bureau: Hal Stearns, 3–4 PM. Traveler’s Rest Winter Storytelling Series, 4:30–5:30 PM. Speaker’s Bureau: Franco Littlelight, 6–7 PM. Winter in the Blood, 7:30– 9:30 PM. Mechanical Wonderland, 10–11 PM. Louie Meisner, 11–midnight. First Night Missoula: A wide variety of entertainment fills the UC Ballroom. Montana Super Skippers, 2–3 PM. Celebration of Sobriety, 4–5 PM. Missoula Folklore Society, 5:30–7:30 PM. Big Sky Mudflaps, 8–9 PM. Salsa Loca, 9– 10 PM. Ring in the New Year with the Ed Norton Big Band, 10:30 PM–12:30 AM. First Night Missoula: Kendahl Jan Jubb gives a watercolor demo at Murphy-Jubb Fine Art, 201 N. Higgins, 2–3 PM. First Night Missoula: It’s song and dance on the big stage at Dennison Theatre. Quartet Caribe, 2–3 PM. Bare Bait Dance, 3:30–4:30 PM. Rocky Mountain Ballet Theatre Co., 5–6 PM. Celtic Dragon Pipe Band, 6:30–7:30 PM. (See Spotlight.) First Night Missoula: Southgate Mall bustles with activity, starting with Box Core with Sky from Ridge Fitness, 2–3 PM. Trillium Brass Trio, 2–3 PM. Missoula Taekwondo Demo Team, 3:30–4:30 PM. First Night Missoula: Enjoy some visual splendor at Dana Gallery while you take in some jazz from the Captain Wilson Conspiracy, 2:30–3:30 PM. Jazz Graffiti, 4–5 PM. Triple Sec, 5:30–6:30 PM, Jodi Marshall and Brice Todd, 7–8 PM. First Night Missoula: UC Theatre offers a little something for everybody. The Mime: Christian Ackerman, 12:30–1:30 PM. Pea Green Boat: Live Broadcast, 4–5 PM. A screening of Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid, live scored by John Sporman, 5:30–6:30 PM. Rhanda-
Maxwell Hughes provides the tunes at Draught Works Brewery, 6–8 PM. Free. Warm up this winter with organic wine and live, local music by Luna Blue at Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery. Tasting Room 4–9 PM, music starts at 6. Free.
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The Best Westerns could be the hardest working band in Missoula on New Year’s Eve. They play a free show at Draught Works Brewery 5–7 PM, then they open for the Lil’ Smokies at the Wilma at 8 PM. $15.
monium, 7–8 PM. John Floridis Trio, 8:30–9:30 PM. First Night Missoula: UC Commons is Rock Band Central, starting with Tangled Tones, 2:30– 3:30 PM. Zeppo Blues, 4:30-5:30 PM. Frederico Brothers, 6–7 PM. Full Grown Men, 7:30–8:30 PM. MudSlide Charley, 9–10 PM. Drum Brothers, 10:30 PM–12:30 AM. First Night Missoula: Downtown Dance Collective hosts a variety of movement and dance. Children of the Earth Tribe: Song and Chant Circle, 3–4 PM. International Folk Dance, 4:30–5:15 PM and 5:30–6:30 PM. Turning the Wheel, 7–8 PM. Lawrence Duncan, 8:30–9:30 PM. First Night Missoula: Missoula Insectarium offers half-price admission, 3–6 PM. SpectrUM Discovery Area offers free admission. First Night Missoula: UM’s Recital Hall hosts a variety of musical performances, starting with Tour de Saxophone, 3;30–4:30 PM. Five Valley Chorus of Sweet Adelines and Rocky Mountiainaires, 5–6 PM. Pura Vida Community Chorus and the Missoula Kids’ Choir, 6:30–7:30 PM. Montana A Cappella Society, 8–9 PM.
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First Night Missoula: Grab a hot drink and catch some great tunes at Break Espresso. Dan Dubuque plays slide guitar 4:30– 5:30 PM, Aran Buzzas plays folkytonk 6–7 PM, Acousticals play bluegrass 7:30–8:30pm, Lochwood plays five-piece bluegrass 9–10 PM.
nightlife First Night Missoula: Iridesce featuring readings from Sheryl Noethe, Henrietta Goodman, Bridget Carson, Jack Shifflett, Alicia Mountain, Melissa Mylchreest, Jared Burkhart and others. Shakespeare and Co., 5 PM. First Night Missoula: Zootown Brew is boppin’ with the Americana sounds of Britchy, 5–6 PM. Way Cool Music, 6:30–7:30 PM. Hardin Scott Band, 8–9 PM. (See Music.) First Night Missoula: MCT Center for the Performing Arts hosts Djebe Bara, 6–7 PM. Gamelan Manik Harum, 7:30–8:30 PM. Country is The Best Westerns’ business, and business is good. Join them for a little honkytonkin’ at Draught Works Brewery, 5–7 PM. Free. Spend New Year’s Eve with some great beer and the clever reggae-
rock of David Baty at Bitter Root Brewing, 6–8 PM. Free. E3 Convergence Gallery hosts some fine acoustic music from Gerygone & Twig, 6:30–7:30 PM. Crowbar Vigilantes, 8–9 PM.
Family Friendly Friday invites little ones to boogie while parental units kick back at the Top Hat, with a rotating lineup of local musicians providing all-ages tunes. 6 PM. No cover.
SATURDAYJAN02 Big Sky Revival open their (figurative) tent at Blacksmith Brewing when Amanda Curtis and Co. throw down some country-folk classics. 6–8 PM. Free.
Enjoy a two-wheel-themed New Year’s Eve when Mesozoic Mafia provide the party tunes at Free Cycles. Also Charlie Apple and a guitar duel hosted by Gavin McCourt. 9 PM. Free, donations appreciated.
Buy local, eat local at the Missoula Winter Public Market. Snag a hot cup of locally roasted coffee and check out the handmade crafts too. 10 AM, 800 S. 3rd St. W.
Dusk rock out until the last reveler is standing. Party favors and more at the Dark Horse, 1805 Regent St. 9 PM. No cover.
Coffee Can Stash has enough music to share at Draught Works Brewery, 6–8 PM. Free.
Grandmother Witch continue their residency with a New Year’s party at the VFW. 8–9 PM. Cap off your year with a roots rockin’ party at the Wilma. Bluegrass superheroes Lil’ Smokies and the Best Westerns will pluck, twang, strum and harmonize 2015 right out the door. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $15/$12 advance at thewilma.com. Trust me, when it’s the morning after the night before, you’ll want Russ Nasset and the Revelators’ music pounding in your memory. Union Club, 9:30 PM. No cover.
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If Delta blues is your thing, MudSlide Charley will go down as smooth as a Sawtooth Ridge Golden Ale at Bitter Root Brewery. 6–8 PM. Free. It’s a gala day, and as Groucho said, a gala day should be enough for any man. Don your finest finery and attend the Hammy Awards, as the Hamilton Players celebrate 20 years of thespian achievement. Hamilton Playhouse, 100 Rickets Rd. 7:30–10 PM. $25 at the box office, or visit hamiltonplayers.com. DJs Kris Moon and Monty Carlo completely disrespect the adverb with their Absolutely Dance Party at
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[calendar] cho” Dobson hosts the Live and Loco open mic at the Symes Hotel, Wednesdays from 6–9:30 PM. Call 741-2361 to book a slot, or just come hang out and party. Free.
the Badlander, which gets rolling at 9 PM, with fancy drink specials to boot. No cover. Cash for Junkers bring in the New Year with some swinging honky tonk at the Union Club. 9:30 PM. No cover.
This open mic is truly open. Jazz, classic rock, poetry, spoken word, dance, shadow puppets—share your creative spark at The Starving Artist Café and Art Gallery, 3020 S. Reserve St. Every Wed., 6–8 PM. Free.
SUNDAYJAN03 Kira Means lights up Draught Works Brewery with her original songs and guitar and keyboard magic. 6–8 PM. Free.
Wednesday Night Brewery Jam invites all musicians to bring an instrument and join in. Hosted by Geoffrey Taylor at Imagine Nation Brewing Co., 6–8 PM. Free.
The Contact Improv Jam is open to those of all abilities who are interested in contact improvisation. Every Sunday, 3:15–5 PM. Downtown Dance Collective. $5.
Grand ideas are welcome but hemlock tea is frowned upon at the Socrates Cafe, an informal meeting to discuss philosophy using the Socratic method. Missoula Public Library, the first Wednesday of every month at 7 PM.
nightlife Jazz and martinis go together like cops and pepper spray. Jazz Martini night offers live, local jazz and $5 martinis every Sunday night at the Badlander. No cover. Dig it, and dig it deep, Jasper.
MONDAYJAN04 Dig into some folk and country blues when Russ Nasset plays the Red Bird Wine Bar. 7– 10 PM. Free.
nightlife Local Deadheads have got you covered when the Top Hat presents Raising the Dead, a curated broadcast of two hours of Jerry Garcia and Co. 5–7 PM. Free, all ages. The Badlander’s latest weekly event is Blues Monday, with a rotating cast of local blues musicians hosted by Black Mountain Moan. 9 PM, no cover.
TUESDAYJAN05 artTALK is a monthly series that pairs an established artist with an emerging artist for an evening of art, ideas and dialogue. This month it’s Tyler Nansen (Looking Through Glass) and Jack Metcalf (How Am I Not Myself?). Every first Tuesday at Shakespeare & Co., 6–7:30 PM. Shootin’ the Bull Toastmasters help you improve your public
Even for a dude with a lizard head, you are the world’s worst burglar. Mesozoic Mafia make their special musical racket at Free Cycles. Also, Charlie Apple and a guitar duel hosted by Gavin McCourt. Thu., Dec. 31, 9 PM. Free, donations appreciated.
speaking skills with weekly meetings at ALPS in the Florence Building noon–1 PM. Free and open to the public. Visit shootinthebull.info for details. It’s Mule-Tastic Tuesday, which means Montana Distillery will donate $1 from every cocktail sold to a local nonprofit organization. 12– 8 PM. Chill out with a free, family friendly movie every Tuesday at the Missoula Public Library, 2 PM.
nightlife Extemporaneous hilarity will be examined when Improv Anonymous meets the first Tuesday of every month in the Missoula Public Library’s large meeting room at 5:30 PM. Free. The Craicers and Friends will make you feel all jiggy with their traditional Irish tunes at Imagine Nation Brewing Co., 1151 W. Broadway, 6–8 PM. Two-step the midweek blues away at Country Dance Lessons, featuring styles including the
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waltz, cha-cha, swing and more. Hamilton Senior Center, Tuesdays from 7–8:30 PM, and Wednesdays at a TBA location. Bring a partner on Tuesdays, but the group is open on Wednesdays. Call 381-1392 for more info. $5. You some kinda wise guy (or gal)? Prove it at the Quizzoula trivia night at the VFW, 245 W. Main St., with current events, picture round and more. Gets rolling around 8:30 PM. To get you warmed up, here’s a trivia question: In the guitar world, what is “kerfing?” Find answer in tomorrow’s nightlife. Open Mic Night at Stage 112 gives you a chance to show your stuff on a real mic on a real stage in front of a real audience. Also $2 tall boy cans of courage. 112 Pattee St., 9 PM. Mike Avery hosts the Music Showcase every Tuesday, featuring some of Missoula’s finest musical talent. Also enjoy pool and drink specials. The Badlander, 9 PM–1 AM. To sign up, email michael.avery@live.com.
WEDNESDAYJAN06 JC DuBois beats on his guitar like a beach poet rapping the bongos, playing catchy originals and tasty covers. Blacksmith Brewing Co. 6–8 PM. Free.
nightlife A Phish Happy Hour? Sounds more like a Trey Anastasio solo. Phish music, video and more at the Top Hat every Wednesday. 4:30 PM, but I know you’ll show up at 4:20. Free, all ages. (Trivia answer: It’s the notched strip that joins the guitar’s top to the sides.) Cribbage enthusiasts finally have a place to share their affliction at Cribbage Night. Enjoy a few cocktails as you look for nibs and nobs. Boards and cards provided. Rattlesnake Creek Distillers, 128 W. Alder St., Suite B. 6–8 PM. Rediscover “the magic which makes you legendary in your own mind” via the assistance of Mexican food and beer when “Pon-
Win big bucks off your bar tab and/or free pitchers by using your giant egg to answer trivia questions at Brains on Broadway Trivia Night at the Broadway Sports Bar and Grill, 1609 W. Broadway Ave. 7 PM.
THURSDAYJAN07 The Nooky Box is Missoula’s first sex-positive subscription box, with a mission to help people enjoy their bodies and their desires without fear of shame. Launch party features door prizes, free food, a kissing booth and more. Imagine Nation Brewing Co., 4–8 PM. For more info visit thenookybox.com. Many will be shocked to learn that painting existed before Bob Ross, but watercolor masters like J.M.W. Turner prefer the medium for its fluid look. Learn the ropes at Rob Peltzer’s free watercolor class. Missoula Public Library, Tuesdays, noon–2 PM.
nightlife Glorious Vistas: Art of the American West from the Permanent Collection explores the landscape and people of the Rocky Mountain West in the 19th and 20th centuries. At UM’s Montana Museum of Art and Culture. Opening reception 5–7 PM at the PAR/TV Center lobby.
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tropical tones The melodic twinkle of steel drums conjures many things—Jimmy Buffett songs, limbo contests, the time that monkey came out of nowhere and swiped my wallet in Kingston. But, like the banjo, it’s an instrument that’s almost impossible to listen to without a smile on your face. When Quartet Caribe takes the stage at the Dennison Theatre for a First Night performance, Bob LedBetter and Mack Gilcrist will be coaxing the shimmering sounds of the Caribbean from a set of steel pan drums while Mike Johns and Troy Bashor add some bottom end on bass and traditional drums, respectively. WHAT: First Night Missoula WHO: Quartet Caribe WHEN: Thu., Dec. 31, 2–3 PM WHERE: UM’s Dennison Theatre HOW MUCH: Buttons $18 MORE INFO: missoulacultural.org It’s easy to imagine the steel drum sound being as old as the Caribbean Islands themselves, but the instrument has been around barely longer than the electric bass, introduced in 1951. Winston “Spree” Simon of the John John steel band is generally acknowledged as the creator of the first steel drum in the early 1940s in Trinidad. Originally steel drums were crafted from oil
Make your mom proud and bring home the sheepskin from the KettleHouse Beer Kollege, where you’ll study the art of producing and tasting craft beer. Sign up at KettleHouse Northside, 313 N. 1st St. W. Andrea Harsell plays folk and rock at Draught Works Brewery. 6– 8 PM. Free. John Schiever mixes roots, blues and Americana into a big ol’ music
barrels which would have their bottoms hammered out into a bowl shape, with different sections of the surface flattened and tuned to create different notes. Like congas, the distinctive idiophones are typically created in sets of three: bass pans, rhythm pans and tenor pans. An essential component of calypso music, steel drums are the national instrument of Trinidad and Tobago, but also are popular in musical pockets around the world. The distinctive chiming sounds occasionally find their way outside the calypso world, the best known example in pop music being “Come Dancing” by the Kinks. Steel drums also are prominently featured in The Little Mermaid during Sebastian the crab’s big number, “Under the Sea.” Quartet Caribe play calypso, soca, reggae, salsa, samba and pop with a vibrant world beat energy that will invite dancing. Wherever it pops up, the steel drum makes it a party.
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bank during your run. Compressible gloves are a must, as your extremities lose heat the quickest. It’s recommended that you spend a few minutes extra warming up, and do it indoors. Walking toe touches and leg swings warm your muscles up more quickly. Wear reflective clothing or accessories, especially during these times when it seems like we get six hours of sunlight per day. —Ednor Therriault The Rattlesnake Resolution Run 5K features chip timing, hot soup and live music. Fri., Jan. 1, 10 AM at Rattlesnake Elementary School. $5 entry fee. For more info visit runnersedgemt.com.
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Take a tour of space from the comfortable environs of the Payne Family Native American Center with a First Night Missoula Planetarium Show. UM’s Dept. of Physics and Astronomy experts will be on hand to point out objects of interest and upcoming phenomena. Shows every 30 min. from 1–2:30 PM.
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Practice your Eskimo rolls and flat spins at the Open Kayak session. Bring your own kayak and gear, ages 14 and under require adult supervision. Currents Aquatic Center, 8–10 PM. Normal entry fees apply. Visit ci.missoula.mt.us/ 161/Aquatics.
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You’ve heard the lectures, you’ve seen the gory lung photos, you know the statistics. You just need some help. Thanks largely to the efforts of tobacco companies, cigarettes are second only to heroin and crack in the power of their addiction. It has not been shown that tobacco companies mix addictive substances into cigarettes, rather, they find ways to maximize the delivery of nicotine, the highly addictive substance that keeps you reaching for another smoke. For cigarette makers, it’s all about you getting that smoke into your lungs easier and more frequently. Etheric oils like menthol and thymol ease the smoke’s irritation that could produce coughing, thus allowing the smoker to inhale more deeply and more often alkalizing the additives that give a cigarette its flavor give it a higher pH, leaving more nicotine in its uncharged form, which allows easier absorption into the blood. Compounds with bronchiodilating properties, which are, ironically, used to fight asthma, are introduced to increase the volume of smoke taken into the lungs. While scientists are working to find cures to such diseases as cancer and Alzheimer’s, the tobacco industry has spent decades focusing the most advanced technology on increasing the bioavailability
of nicotine into the smoker’s body. With that kind of muscle working to boost the addictive properties of cigarettes, no wonder they’re so difficult to kick. Fortunately, the Montana Tobacco Quit Line is ready to help. Their newly expanded services now offer an American Indian Quit Line, dedicated female coaches and additional incentives for pregnant women. Tobacco addiction is a formidable foe, and the Quit Line is ready to help you do battle with a personalized quit plan that uses proven medications and methods, all at little or no cost. If you’re starting 2016 with a resolution to quit smoking, there’s a powerful ally in your corner. —Ednor Therriault The Montana Tobacco Quit Line is free. Call 1-800-784-8669 or visit QuitNowMontana.com. American Indian callers can reach Native coaches at 1-855-374-0037.
[AGENDA LISTINGS] FRIDAY JANUARY 1 The condoms are here! The condoms are here! It’s a great day to pick up a few hundred nonlubricated jimmie hats so you can start constructing your righteous rig for Feb. 13’s Off the Rack, Blue Mountain Clinic’s notorious fundraiser. Pick up condoms at the clinic between now and Mon., Feb. 1. For more info visit bluemountainclinic.org.
SATURDAY JANUARY 2 Buy local, eat local at the Missoula Winter Public Market. Enjoy fresh produce, frozen meat, eggs, honey and other locally sourced food. Snag a hot cup of locally roasted coffee and check out the handmade crafts too. 10 AM, 800 S. 3rd St. W.
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TUESDAY JANUARY 5 Shootin’ the Bull Toastmasters help you improve your public speaking skills with weekly meetings at ALPS in the Florence Building noon–1 PM. Free and open to the public. Visit shootinthebull.info for details. It’s Mule-Tastic Tuesday, which means Montana Distillery will donate $1 from every cocktail sold to a local nonprofit organization. 12–8 PM. Chill out with a free, family-friendly movie every Tuesday at the Missoula Public Library, 2 PM.
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Sip a fancy soda for a cause at this edition of Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery, 129 W. Front St. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to a cause each week. Family friendly, noon–8 PM.
Grand ideas are welcome but hemlock tea is frowned upon at the Socrates Cafe, an informal meeting to discuss philosophy using the Socratic method. Missoula Public Library, the first Wednesday of every month at 7 PM.
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I’m an unhappily married 30-year-old woman. I’ve been with my husband for 10 years, but we only got married seven months ago. We argue almost daily, and he spends all of his time working. Because we fight so much, the thought of him touching me has become repulsive, so we are rarely intimate. Though these problems long preceded our marriage, I felt I needed to move forward in life (marry, have kids, etc.), so I went through with the wedding. I recently got sexually involved with a co-worker, and I think I’m falling in love with him. We have all the loving passion I don’t with my husband. However, I want to have children before I’m 35. My husband can afford to raise a family, and my co-worker cannot. I can’t go on like this much longer, and I don’t know what to do. —Miserable Getting married is supposed to be something you do when you find the right person, not whichever person happens to be right next to you when the clock above your ovaries strikes “HolysmokesWe’re30!” Sure, there comes a point in a woman’s life when conceiving and carrying a baby to term is miraculous to the point where unicorns should be pawing at the delivery room door. But keep in mind that even good marriages get strained by the addition of children, thanks to the poosplosions, sleep deprivation (a form of torture violating the Geneva Conventions), and mystery rashes that look just like Ebola when you Google them at 3:03 a.m. It’s also seriously unfair to bring kids into a marriage that’s tanking. Sociologist Paul Amato calls children “the innocent victims of their parents’ inability to maintain harmonious and stable homes.” Reviewing the research on divorce’s effects on children, Amato explains that “compared with children with continuously married parents, children with divorced parents ... score significantly lower on measures of academic achievement, conduct, psychological adjustment, self-concept, and social relations.” Obviously, staying together “for the children” is a particularly bad idea when you and the husband you despise don’t even have the little buggers yet. So why did you make this “repulsive” guy your husband instead of your ex-boyfriend? It probably has something to do with our tendency to engage in ego-protecting “selfjustification.” Psychologist Elliot Aronson finds that we are prone to refuse to ac-
GENERAL knowledge our mistakes—even when they’re banging us over the head with a leftover wedding centerpiece. Our denial allows us to keep seeing ourselves as smart people who make good choices. Which keeps us mired in our bad choices. There is a way out, and it’s gritting our teeth and admitting mistakes instead of marrying them and making little bundles of stressjoy with them. For you, admitting that you screwed up by marrying this guy—the first step in unmarrying him—would take accepting the potential cost: You might not find a suitable candidate for daddyhood in time (or ever). Yes, that would be rough— but so would the possible alternative: having an adorable pair of twins who go to Harvard—because it’s a great place to mug dazed freshmen so they can feed their staggering meth habit..
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To quote the Facebook relationship status, “It’s complicated.” I went out with this man a few times and slept with him once. It didn’t work out, and now his sexy guy friend, who’s also his boss, has asked me out. However, the boss guy used to date one of my female friends. We are all in the same social circle. What’s the protocol here? Do I need to ask permission or give anybody a heads-up about my going out with the boss guy? —Puzzled It can be a little touchy for all involved when everybody’s answer to “Where have you been all my life?” is “Having sex with your friend.” But perhaps you missed the news. They passed an amendment against owning people. In, uh, 1865. So, assuming your girlfriend isn’t in a fetal position behind her couch sobbing over the boss guy, you should feel free to go out with him. But considering how often first dates end up being last dates, it’s best to avoid putting out a press release about your plans. If dating the guy does take a relationshippy turn, that’s when you give your girlfriend a little heads-up: “Hey, just wanted to let you know, I was rummaging through your trash and I found this fabulous old chair, along with your ex-boyfriend.” Stay classy—that is, avoid any temptation to go gloaty: “They both are, like, so comfy and are really perking up the bedroom!”
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Accounting Clerk Seeking a Bookkeeping Assistant with knowledge in Excel and midlevel AP/AR experience for a full-time/long term opportunity. Some Bookkeeping experience required. This position will support the Controller, as needed, answer phones, provide document scanning and shredding and be the primary on managing the Forklift 7 truck expense spread sheets. Salary/DOE. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID #26406 Administrative Assistant City of Missoula is seeking a regular, full-time ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT. High school education and two years general clerical experience OR high school education and two years course work in administrative management. Experience in a legal setting preferred. This fulltime position provides routine administrative support for the County Attorney’s Office. Will enter and update records in computerized databases; assists in preparation of case files including ordering law enforcement reports, evidence and certified records; duplicate electronic evidence; manage and follow-up on tasks related to file preparation. Skill in performing keyboarding operations at a rate of 45 WPM as evidenced by a Montana Job Service Proveit certified typing test (current within the last 6 months). Work is full-time and pay is $15.54/hr. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10171342 Apartment Complex Maintenance Employee needed to be responsible for addressing an array of apartment and property maintenance duties as specified by the Maintenance Supervisor and/or Property
Manager, and for maintaining the highest standards in customer service and curb appeal of the assigned apartment community. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID #26525 Be a Part of the ICE DAM GUYS Adventure! Short term, Hard Work, Great Pay! $75-$100/Hr. Adventurous? Hardworking? Responsible? Passionate? Love the Outdoors? Get-R-done Mentality? Willing to Travel? Have a valid DL and a clean Pickup truck? Call Mike @ 651-9648552. You’re only regret will be that you didn’t call sooner! www.icedamguys.com Embroiderer Company seeking part-time employee to operate embroidery machine. The ideal candidate will have 2 to 5 years experience in operating an embroidery machine, be able to run the machine by themselves if need, an eye for quality, attention to detail and a desire to produce a great product for our customers. Flexible hours with an option of full time in the future. Company is fast paced and fun to work for! Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID #26557 FedEx Courier Operate company vehicles and provide courteous and efficient delivery and pick-up of packages; to check shipments for conformance to features of service; to provide related customer service functions. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10171330 Gray Wolf Peak General Manager S&K Gaming is seeking applications for General Manager in Evaro. Requires expertise in all facets of Food and Beverage, C Store and Casino Operations including goal setting for all departments and financial analysis, will manage all administrative and pro-
grammatic operations. Will lead the overall direct, administration and coordination of all activities. Maintaining the highest level of integrity, a professional and motivating image for patrons and employees, and a strong work ethic, the General Manager will serve as the property’s ambassador and key strategist. Salary range DOE- $60,000 to $80,000 annually. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10169402 Home Instead Senior Care Home Instead Senior Care is looking for caring and compassionate CAREGivers to become a part of our team! Our amazing CAREGivers provide a variety of non-medical services that allow seniors to age in the comfort of their home, and meet the challenges of aging with dignity, care and compassion. This will be the most meaningful job you have ever had! Duties include, but are not limited to: Companionship and conversation. Light housekeeping tasks and meal preparation. Medication and appointment reminders. Running errands and incidental transportation. No previous experience necessary – paid training provided. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10170372 MSU Central Ag Research Center Moccasin, MT Ag Field Tech and Custodian positions. Announcement & Application @: http://jobs.montana.edu/postings/4015 http://jobs.montana.edu/postings/4045 AA/ADA/EEO/Vet Pref Employer Recruiter This is a temporary position. Progressive company is seeking a recruiter for 3 to 6 months, with potential long term employment, to manage a large volume recruiting effort as we
work to restructure and expand our company. Wage $15/hr. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID #26818 Route Driver Missoula based company is seeking a full time Route Driver. Must be familiar with Missoula and the surrounding areas, be able to pass a drug screen and have a clean driver’s record. Verifiable references in a related field required. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10170719 Sales Associate The Sales Associate represents Things Remembered to our customers. This position has primary responsibility for customer satisfaction, generating sales, engraving, housekeeping, merchandising, POS operations and loss prevention, in adherence with all company/store standards. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10171528 Store Clerk CHS is seeking a Store Clerk to join our growing team. Must have excellent customer service skills along with excellent communication skills. Work with internal and external customers in a courteous and professional manner. Conduct sales and sales delivery. Perform cashier responsibilities. Stock shelves and track inventory. Complete facilities maintenance and general cleaning. Computer Skills. Able to lift 50 lbs. Able to stand for a standard shift. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10170496 Technical Support Professional We are looking for individuals with a strong work ethic and solid customer service, communication, and problemsolving skills to join our Help Desk Support staff. This position
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PROFESSIONAL Accounting We are looking for an accounting temp to assist with 1099 preparation, business personal property tax returns, and use tax returns. Could start after Christmas and would be through approximately the end of February. $10-$13 per hour DOE and a standard 8-5 position. We are looking for someone that is efficient and accurate in data entry and proficient in Microsoft Excel. Accounting experience is preferred, but not required. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10170637 Community Development Manager This position is responsible for the economic development and fundraising strategies of the Downtown Missoula Partnership, which is comprised of the Missoula Downtown Association, the Downtown Business Improvement District and the Missoula Downtown Foundation. This includes but is not limited to: the cultivation, solicitation and stewardship of investors, developers and donors, grant writing and management, capital campaign fundraising, economic development activities, data management and support functions as they relate to the goals of the Partnership. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10170397 Conservation Program Coordinator The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, a nonprofit wildlife/habitat conservation organization seeks a detail oriented individual with a passion for conservation, excellent data entry, customer service, communication, and computer skills to provide program support to the Lands & Conservation department. Must have 2-5 years exp. in a natural resources field. Prefer degree in natural resources/biology or similar field. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10170241 Pathways Shelter Women’s Advocate YWCA is seeking a part-time PATHWAYS SHELTER
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SKILLED LABOR Automotive Technician Bridgestone Retail Operations, LLC is currently hiring for all technician positions including: Entry Level Technician, Entry Level Mechanic / Technician, Senior Mechanic / Automotive Technician. Lead Mechanic / Master Technician/ We are the nation’s largest and most advanced automotive service retailer and we’re looking for the very best automotive
techs. Our full time technicians enjoy great pay and a full range of benefits including health, dental and vision insurance as well as a 401k match retirement account. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10170303 Carpenter Residential Locally owned construction firm in search of skilled and semikilled carpenters for both residential projects. Work will be full time and long term. This is not a seasonal job we are looking for employees to continue on with our company long term. Projects are in and around the Missoula area so travel is minimal. Employees must have current valid license and clean driving record. Wage DOE. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID #26383 CHIP TRUCK DRIVERS NEEDED from the Missoula area. • Must be present to apply • Local hauls • Home daily • Good pay • Benefits • 2 years exp. required Call 406-4937876 9am-5pm M-F. Dental Assistant Who has a current dental radiograph certification for x-ray processing. Requires completion of a training program as a Dental Assistant and a minimum of one year of experience. May be subject to a background check. Seats patient, reviews medical history, and prepares patient for dental work. Arranges appropriate instruments. Assists the dentist and dental hygienist with placing or removing rubber dam, applying topical drugs as prescribed by dentist, placing or removing celluloid, plastic or metallic strips, providing suction/evacuation. Assists in taking and developing x-ray films. Sterilizes, cleans and maintains dental instruments and equipment. Assists clerical support to schedule patient appointments. Assists with maintaining dental supply inventories. Assists with maintaining patient charts, progress notes and records. The employee may risk exposure to radiation due to taking and de-
veloping x-ray films. The employee may risk exposure to biohazards (ex. blood and disinfectant chemicals), and communicable diseases. May work in the Detention Facility, which involves exposure to potentially dangerous persons and situations. May require traveling to satellite clinic locations such as Seeley Lake or Lowell School. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10170172 Iron Works Fabricator Employee will be prepping parts (deburring & machining) on assembly line. Additional duties will include welding. Employee will be standing for duration of shift. Bending and lifting #75. Appropriate PPE to be provided. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID #26714 TRUCK DRIVER TRAINING. Complete programs and refresher courses, rent equipment for CDL. Job Placement Assistance. Financial assistance for qualified students. SAGE Technical Services, Billings/Missoula, 1-800-545-4546
TRAINING Dental Assistant The Dental Assistant will assist the Dentist and support staff with patient care, office, and laboratory duties. The ideal candidate will be productive and proficient in preparing and maintaining dental instruments, materials, and equipment. Excellent communication skills and compassion required when doing patient intake, assisting Dentist, and educating patient and parent on oral hygiene and dental care. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID #26849
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Be alert for an abundance of interesting lessons in 2016. You will be offered teachings about a variety of practical subjects, including how to take care of yourself really well, how to live the life you want to live, and how to build the connections that serve your dreams. If you are even moderately responsive to the prompts and nudges that come your way, you will become smarter than you thought possible. So just imagine how savvy you’ll be if you ardently embrace your educational opportunities. (Please note that some of these opportunities may be partially in disguise.)
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In ancient times, observers of the sky knew the difference between stars and planets. The stars remained fixed in their places. The planets wandered around, always shifting positions in relationship to the stars. But now and then, at irregular intervals, a very bright star would suddenly materialize out of nowhere, stay in the same place for a while, and then disappear. Chinese astronomers called these “guest stars.” We refer to them as supernovae. They are previously dim or invisible stars that explode, releasing tremendous energy for a short time. I suspect that in 2016, you may experience the metaphorical equivalent of a guest star. Learn all you can from it. It’ll provide teachings and blessings that could feed you for years.
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The coming months look like one of the best times ever for your love life. Old romantic wounds are finally ready to be healed. You’ll know what you have to do to shed tired traditions and bad habits that have limited your ability to get the spicy sweetness you deserve. Are you up for the fun challenge? Be horny for deep feelings. Be exuberantly aggressive in honoring your primal yearnings. Use your imagination to dream up new approaches to getting what you want. The innovations in intimacy that you initiate in the coming months will keep bringing you gifts and teachings for years to come.
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By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): John Koenig is an artist who invents new words. Here’s one that’s applicable to your journey in 2016: “keyframe.” Koenig defines it as being a seemingly mundane phase of your life that is in fact a turning point. Major plot twists in your big story arrive half-hidden amidst a stream of innocuous events. They don’t come about through “a series of jolting epiphanies,” Koenig says, but rather “by tiny imperceptible differences between one ordinary day and the next.” In revealing this secret, I hope I’ve alerted you to the importance of acting with maximum integrity and excellence in your everyday routine.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In the 19th century, horses were a primary mode of personal transportation. Some people rode them, and others sat in carriages and wagons that horses pulled. But as cities grew larger, a problem emerged: the mounting manure left behind on the roads. It became an ever-increasing challenge to clear away the equine “pollution.” In 1894, a British newspaper predicted that the streets of London would be covered with nine feet of the stuff by 1950. But then something unexpected happened: cars. Gradually, the threat of an excremental apocalypse waned. I present this story as an example of what I expect for you in 2016: a pressing dilemma that will gradually dissolve because of the arrival of a factor you can’t imagine yet.
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The longest river in the world flows through eastern Africa: the Nile. It originates below the equator and empties into the Mediterranean Sea. Although its current flows north, its prevailing winds blow south. That’s why sailors have found it easily navigable for thousands of years. They can either go with the flow of the water or use sails to harness the power of the breeze. I propose that we make the Nile your official metaphor in 2016, Scorpio. You need versatile resources that enable you to come and go as you please—that are flexible in supporting your efforts to go where you want and when you want.
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In many cases, steel isn’t fully useful if it’s too hard. Manufacturers often have to soften it a bit. This process, which is called tempering, makes the steel springier and more malleable. Car parts, for example, can’t be too rigid. If they were, they’d break too easily. I invite you to use “tempering” as one of your main metaphors in 2016, Sagittarius. You’re going to be strong and vigorous, and those qualities will serve you best if you keep them flexible. Do you know the word “ductile”? If not, look it up. It’ll be a word of power for you.
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In his essay “The Etiquette of Freedom,” poet Gary Snyder says that wildness “is perennially within us, dormant as a hard-shelled seed, awaiting the fire or flood that awakes it again.” The fact that it’s a “hard-shelled” seed is a crucial detail. The vital stuff inside the stiff outer coating may not be able to break out and start growing without the help of a ruckus. A fire or flood? They might do the job. But I propose, Capricorn, that in 2016 you find an equally vigorous but less disruptive prod to liberate your dormant wildness. Like what? You could embark on a brave pilgrimage or quest. You could dare yourself to escape your comfort zone. Are there any undomesticated fantasies you’ve been suppressing? Unsuppress them! AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Frederick the Great was King of Prussia between 1740 and 1786. He was also an Aquarius who sometimes experimented with eccentric ideas. When he brewed his coffee, for example, he used champagne instead of water. Once the hot elixir was ready to drink, he mixed in a dash of powdered mustard. In light of the astrological omens, I suspect that Frederick’s exotic blend might be an apt symbol for your life in 2016: a vigorous, rich, complex synthesis of champagne, coffee, and mustard. (P.S. Frederick testified that “champagne carries happiness to the brain.”)
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): My Piscean acquaintance Arturo plays the piano as well as anyone I’ve heard. He tells me that he can produce 150 different sounds from any single key. Using the foot pedals accounts for some of the variation. How he touches a key is an even more important factor. It can be percussive, fluidic, staccato, relaxed, lively, and many other moods. I invite you to cultivate a similar approach to your unique skills in 2016. Expand and deepen your ability to draw out the best in them. Learn how to be even more expressive with the powers you already possess. Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES.
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The silkworm grows fast. Once it hatches, it eats constantly for three weeks. By the time it spins its cocoon, it’s 10,000 times heavier than it was in the beginning. On the other hand, a mature, 60-year-old saguaro cactus may take 30 years to fully grow a new side arm. It’s in no hurry. From what I can tell, Leo, 2015 was more like a silkworm year for you, whereas 2016 will more closely resemble a saguaro. Keep in mind that while the saguaro phase is different from your silkworm time, it’s just as important. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “The sky calls me,” wrote Virgo teacher and poet Sri Chinmoy. “The wind calls me. The moon and stars call me. The dense groves call me. The dance of the fountain calls me. Smiles call me, tears call me. A faint melody calls me. The morn, noon and eve call me. Everyone is searching for a playmate. Everyone is calling me, ‘Come, come!’” In 2016, Virgo, I suspect you will have a lot of firsthand experience with feelings like these. Sometimes life’s seductiveness may overwhelm you, activating confused desires to go everywhere and do everything. On other occasions, you will be enchanted by the lush invitations, and will know exactly how to respond and reciprocate.
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PUBLIC NOTICES IN THE JUSTICE COURT OF THE STATE OF MONTANA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF MISSOULA BEFORE MARIE A. ANDERSEN, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE Case No.: CV-20153322 SUMMONS FOR POSSESSION BY PUBLICATION HOWARD HORTON, Plaintiff, v. LUEANNA PIERRE et al., Defendant. TO: LueAnna Pierre North Star Court 740 Turner Street #21 Missoula, MT 59802 YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer a Complaint filed in Justice Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your answer upon Plaintiff ’s attorney, Thomas C. Orr, Thomas C. Orr Law Offices, P.O. Box 8096, Missoula, Montana 59807, within ten (10) days after service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in the case of your failure to appear or answer, relief sought by Plaintiff will be taken against you as requested. A $30.00 filing fee must accompany Defendant’s answer. DATED this 11th day of December, 2015. By: /s/ Marie A. Andersen, Honorable Judge MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-15-245 Dept. No. 3 Judge John W. Larson NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JOYCE ANN RUBLE, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have been appointed Co-Per-
sonal Representatives of the above estate. All persons having claims against the Decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or their claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Dee Ann Ellis and Brodie L. Ellis, the Co-Personal Representatives, return receipt requested, in care of their attorneys, Crowley Fleck PLLP, 305 South 4th Street East, Suit 100, P.O. Box 7099, Missoula, Montana 59807-7099 or filed with the Clerk of the Court. DATED this 17th day of December, 2015. /s/ Dee Ann Ellis, CoPersonal Representative /s/ Brodie L. Ellis, Co-Personal Representative CROWLEY FLECK PLLP, P.O. Box 7099, Missoula, MT 59807-7099 By /s/ Benjamin T. Cory, Attorneys for Co-Personal Representatives MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DP-15-246 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DORIS P. LUCKMAN, a/k/a Doris Luckman 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
MNAXLP must either be mailed to GREGORY J. LUCKMAN, 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, 2015. /s/ Gregory J. Luckman, Personal Representative REELY LAW FIRM, P.C. 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201 Missoula, Montana 59801 Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ Shane N. Reely, Esq. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-15-191 Dept. No. 4 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF PATRICIA M. RAHILLY, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All person having claims against the said decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Magdalene Rose, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 4110 Weeping Willow Drive, Missoula, Montana 59803, or filed with the Clerk of the above-named Court. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. Dated this 7th day
of December, 2015, in Missoula, Montana. /s/ Magdalene Rose, Personal Representative GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC By: /s/ Nancy P. Gibson, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Probate No. DP-15-240 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF THOMAS RICHARD TATTORY, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to KATHIE M. TATTORY, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o Worden Thane P.C., PO Box 4747, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 4th day of December, 2015. /s/ KATHIE M. TATTORY, Personal Representative, c/o Worden Thane P.C. P.O. Box 4747, Missoula, Montana 59806-4747 WORDEN THANE P.C. Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ Amy M. Scott Smith, Esq. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Probate No. DP-15-242
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mailed to Keith A. Lee, return receipt requested, c/o Worden Thane P.C., PO Box 4747, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 10th day of September, 2015. /s/ Keith A. Lee, Personal Representative, WORDEN THANE P.C. Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ Amy M. Scott Smith, Esq. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 John W. Larson Probate No. DP-15-244 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF RUSSELL B. HICKS, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Gerald R. Hicks, return receipt requested, c/o Worden Thane P.C., PO Box 4747, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 11th day of December, 2015. /s/ Gerald R. Hicks, Personal Representative, WORDEN THANE P.C. Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ William E. McCarthy MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No.: 1 Cause No.: DP-15-247 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: RICHARD L. STEVENS, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Elmer P. Bender, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o Bjornson Law Offices, PLLC, 2809 Great Northern Loop, Suite 100, Missoula, MT 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 18th day of December, 2015. /s/ Elmer P. Bender, Personal Representative Bjornson Law Offices, PLLC By /s/ Craig Mungas on behalf of R. Nick Jones, Attorneys for Elmer P. Bender, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT MISSOULA COUNTY Case No.: DV-15-944 Judge: Robert L. Deschamps, III SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION ALLY FINANCIAL INC., Plaintiff,
vs. TRAVIS HAWKINS, BILLY STAGGS and SHIRLEY STAGGS, Defendants. THE STATE OF MONTANA TO: TRAVIS HAWKINS and BILLY STAGGS YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint for Claim and Delivery in this action which is filed in the Office of the Clerk of this Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your Answer and serve a copy thereof upon the Plaintiff ’s attorney within twenty-one (21) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default, for the relief demanded in the Complaint. The object of this action is for the purpose of seizure of a certain 2011 Chevrolet Silverado, VIN 1GC1KYE8 XBF136731 as described in Plaintiff ’s Complaint for Claim and Delivery, which property is situated in the County of Missoula, State of Montana, and for the further purpose of liquidating said property pursuant to the Uniform Commercial Code (Mont. Code Ann. §§ 30-9A-101, et seq.). WITNESS my hand and the seal of said Court this 1st day of December, 2015. /s/ SHIRLEY E. FAUST CLERK OF DISTRICT COURT [Court Seal] By: /s/ Michael Evjen, Deputy Clerk NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 03/27/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200607077, Bk 771, Pg 326, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Patrick T. Beers was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Mann Financial Inc. d/b/a Mann Mortgage was Beneficiary and Title Services, Inc. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Title Services,
EAGLE SELF STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units: 93, 178, 274, & 340. Units can contain furniture, clothes, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, & other misc. household goods. These units may be viewed starting Monday, January 4, 2016 All auction units will only be shown each day at 3:00 P.M. written sealed bids may be submitted to storage office at 4101 Hwy 93 S., Missoula, MT 59804 prior to Wednesday, January 6, 2016 4:00 P.M. Buyers bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All Sales final.
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PUBLIC NOTICES Inc. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: The South one-half of Lots 16, 17, 18 and 19 in Block 20 of Car Line Addition, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to
the Official Recorded Plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201323789 BK 923 P 355, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for Credit Suisse First Boston Mortgage Securities Corp., CSMC Mortgage-
MNAXLP Backed Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-6. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if appli-
cable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 07/01/12 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of November 9, 2015, the
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amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $196,430.53. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $144,175.72, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on March 16, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7777.13715 BEERS, PATRICK T.) 1002.172506File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 04/10/08, recorded as Instrument No. 200808297 Bk: 817 Pg: 0074, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which Robert D. Hughes was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Mann Mortgage, LLC was Beneficiary and Stewart Title of Missoula County, Inc. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Stewart Title of Missoula County, Inc. as Successor Trustee. The
[C6] Missoula Independent • December 31–January 7, 2016
Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 11 in Block 2 of Elms Addition No. 1, to the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official Recorded Plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201209706 Bk: 894 Pg: 783, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 07/01/12 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of November 6, 2015, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $264,825.35. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $214,379.36, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, On the Front Steps, City of Missoula on March 24, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in
Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. HUGHES, ROBERT D. (TS# 7023.110954) 1002.273828File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 02/08/08, recorded as Instrument No. 200803260; Book 813 Page 355, mortgage records of MISSOULA Couty, Montanaa in which Teri S Lerch, a single person was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 10 in Shelby Addition, 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 04/01/15 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of November 13, 2015, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $147,186.20. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $140,644.24, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, On the Front Steps, City of Missoula on March 24, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid
PUBLIC NOTICES money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. Lerch, Teri A. (TS# 7023.114820) 1002.284162-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on February 19, 2016, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 1, Block 10 of High Park Addition No. 3, a platted subdivision to the City of Missoula, according to the recorded plat thereof in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana Donald Delaney, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to Stewart Title of Missoula, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Bank of America, N.A., a National Banking Association, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust on June 4, 2010, and recorded on June 9, 2010 as Book 861 Page 58 Document No. 201010969. The beneficial interest is currently held by Bank of America, N.A.. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust due to Death, beginning April 12, 2015. The total amount due on this obligation as of September 11, 2015 is $384,008.07 principal, interest at the rate of 5.56000% totaling $73,163.48, and other fees and expenses advanced of $24,271.40, plus accruing interest at the rate of $79.93 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary antici-
pates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: October 8, 2015 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 8 day of October, 2015, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc.,
MNAXLP Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2018 Reverse Mortage vs Donald Delaney 100292-1 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on February 19, 2016, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: A TRACT OF LAND, BEING A PART OF THE SW1/4SE1/4SE1/4 OF SECTION 35, TOWNSHIP 12 NORTH, RANGE 21 WEST, OF THE PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, MONTANA, IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, AND BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT AN IRON PIPE DRIVEN ON THE SECTION LINE 400.0 FEET S. 89°00` E. OF THE 1/16 SECTION CORNER AT THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF THE ABOVE DES C R I B E D SW1/4SE1/4SE1/4, AND RUNNING FROM THE SAID POINT OF BEGINNING: N. 51°30` W. ALONG THE RIGHT-OF-WAY FENCE, PARALLEL WITH AND 50 FEET NE OF THE CENTER LINE OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK HIGHWAY AS CONSTRUCTED AND TRAVELED, FOR A DISTANCE OF 292.0 FEET TO THE IRON PIPE AT THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF LOT 1 OF LOLOVIEW ACRES; THENCE N. 28°24` E., FOR A DISTANCE OF 296.5 FEET TO THE IRON PIPE AT THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF SAID LOT 1: THENCE CONTINUE THE SAME COURSE FOR A FURTHER DISTANCE OF 247.4 FEET TO AN IRON PIPE ON THE NORTH BOUNDARY OF THE ABOVE DESCRIBED SW1/4SE1/4SE1/4; THENCE S. 89°00` E. ALONG THE 1/64 SECTION LINE FOR A DISTANCE OF 247.0 FEET TO AN IRON PIPE ABOUT 2 FEET HIGH, DRIVE-IN THE INTERMITTENT CHANNEL OF AN OLD CREEK BED; THENCE S. 1°00` W. ALONG THE 1/64 SECTION LINE FOR A DISTANCE OF 660.0 FEET TO AN IRON PIPE; THENCE N. 89°00` W. ALONG THE SECTION LINE FOR A DISTANCE OF 266.0 FEET TO THE PLACE OF BEGINNING. RECORDING REFERENCE: BOOK 678 OF
MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 171 Terri Lynn A. Van Ostrand and BRUCE A. VAN OSTRAND, as Grantors, conveyed said real property to Charles J. Peterson at Mackoff, Kellogg, Kirby and Kloster, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Phh Mortgage Services, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust on January 13, 2006, and recorded on January 18, 2006 as Book 767 Page 1119 Document No. 200601289. The beneficial interest is currently held by PHH Mortgage Corporation dba PHH Mortgage Services . 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 $1,202.50, beginning May 1, 2015, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of September 3, 2015 is $162,121.59 principal, interest at the rate of 6.25% totaling $4,277.42, late charges in the amount of $240.44, escrow advances of $114.70 and other fees and expenses advanced of $104.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $27.76 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 15, 2015 /s/ Kaitlin Gotch Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 15 day of October, 2015 before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Kaitlin Gotch, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 02/18/2020 PHH vs Ostrand 100283-1 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on February 24, 2016, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOTS 3 AND 4 IN BLOCK 62 OF DALY`S ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. BEVERLY S HAYS and PATRICK E HAYS, as Grantors, conveyed said real property to First American Title Company of Montana, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Heritage Bank, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust on March 29, 2004, and recorded on March 30, 2004 as Book 728 Page 1530 Docu-
ment No. 200408340. The beneficial interest is currently held by U.S. Bank National Association. 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 $864.72, beginning April 1, 2015, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of October 2, 2015 is $120,813.29 principal, interest at the rate of 5.62500% totaling $3,982.79, escrow advances of $-225.67, plus accruing interest at the rate of $18.62 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 14, 2015 /s/ Kaitlin Gotch Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 14 day of October, 2015 before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Kaitlin Gotch, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 02/18/2020 US Bank National Associationvs BEVERLY S HAYSPATRICK E HAYS 100227-1 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on February 8, 2016, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 6 of WILDROSE, a platted subdivision of Missoula County, Montana, according to the official plat of record in Book 19 of Plats at Page 53. WESLEY B SWALLING, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to Western Title & Escrow , as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust on July 15, 2009, and recorded on July 16, 2009 as Book 843 Page 1243 as Document No. 200917601. The beneficial interest is currently held by Suntrust Mortgage, Inc. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1098.87, beginning May 1, 2015, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied
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PUBLIC NOTICES on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of October 1, 2015 is $134,106.53 principal, interest at the rate of 5.00% totaling $3,352.68, late charges in the amount of $176.58, escrow advances of $1,007.64, and other fees and expenses advanced of $193.70, plus accruing interest at the rate of $18.37 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE
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USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: September 29, 2015 /s/ Kaitlin Gotch Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 29 day of September, 2015 before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Kaitlin Gotch, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 02/18/2020 SunTrust v SWALLING 100304-1 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on February 8, 2016, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 4 of JOHNSON ADDITION, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. JODI MOREAU, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to Insured Titles, LLC, as Trustee, to
MNAXLP secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (MERS, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust on September 3, 2008, and recorded on September 8, 2008 as Book 825 Page 1361 Document No. 200820778. The beneficial interest is currently held by Ditech Financial LLC FKA Green Tree Servicing LLC. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,023.52, beginning September 1, 2014, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of September 21, 2015 is $145,746.31 principal, interest at the rate of 2.62500% totaling $4,370.89, late charges in the amount of $139.64, escrow advances of $2,683.51, plus accruing interest at the rate of $10.49 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such
amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the 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 se-
cured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: September 25, 2015 /s/ Kaitlin Gotch Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 25 day of September, 2015 before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Kaitlin Gotch, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 02/18/2020 Ditech Mortgage Corpvs JODI MOREAU 100347-1
These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control 541-7387 ASTAIRE•
Astaire is a 3-year-old male American Pit Bull Terrier. He is a very social boy who loves people and most other dogs. He came from an unfortunate situation with multiple intact dogs that fought repeatedly, and Astaire has the battle scars to prove it. In spite of the environment he was taken from, Astaire is a very sweet dog.Astaire needs a home that can provide him with the security he's never had.
DONNA•Donna is a 6-year-old Lab/Husky mix. She is a very sweet girl, although rather unsure around new people. Once she knows you, Donna can't wait to greet you with both front feet and the longest, wettest tongue in town! Donna was confiscated with two other dogs from a high profile cruelty case recently. She is the last of the three to find a loving forever home. RAIDER•Raider is a 4-month-old male Black Lab mix. He loves kids, dogs, and cats. Raider is crate trained and is catching on to new behaviors very quickly. His previous owner tried to dock his ears at home we are guessing. They did a terrible job, and it led to poor Raider having pretty significant medical issues in his ears. Due to this, he will be prone to chronic ear infections throughout his life.
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YORIK•Yorik is a 4-6 year-old male buff and white short haired cat. This guy is a class act. Yorik loves to entertain and seeks any opportunity to gain attention. At the shelter, Yorik has picked up the moniker of "Resident Window Washer" as he spends much of his day at the glass front door "washing" the windows with his paws. Another frequent hang out for Yorik is the sink.
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JERSEY•Jersey is a 5-7 year-old female buff and white short haired cat. She is rather shy and keeps to herself in the cat room. Jersey is a prime example of how stressful shelter life can effect otherwise social cats. Too much commotion causes this sweet girl to withdraw into herself and sometimes get cranky when she's reached her limit of stimulation. Jersey's sweet little high-pitched meow is enough to melt your heart. MEADOW• Meadow is a 2-year-old female brown tabby short haired cat. Originally from a feral colony, Meadow was taken in when she had birthed a litter of kittens. In that time frame, she shed most of her feral ways and became a very sweet and snuggly cat. When you pick her up, Meadow hugs you and presses her head up under your chin. She needs a quiet home that will encourage her to continue to come out of her shell.
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These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana 549-3934 KENAI• Kenai is a sweet girl who was trans-
ferred to us from Missoula Animal Control. She would prefer a home without cats but would make a wonderful hiking, walking, or lounging companion. This young shepherd is a blank slate who is eager to learn and fit in with her new family. Come meet Kenai at the Humane Society of Western Montana!
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DUDLEY• Dudley is a sweet lap cat who enjoys being brushed and lounging around with his person. His favorite perch is at the top of his human's pillow and he is very gentle with his paws. Because Dudley is declawed he is looking for home where he can stay inside. He is a bit of Missoula’s Locally Owned Neighborhood Pet Supply Store www.gofetchdog.com - 728-2275 a social butterfly when guests come to the house South Russell • North Reserve and enjoys the company of small dogs.
SPEEDO•Meet Speedo! Speedo is a big guy who enjoys other dogs and loves exercise. Speedo is a little independent and shy to begin with, so he is looking for a patient, adult-only forever home. He would love to be enrolled in our Basic Manners class to learn about the basics and gain confidence. If you are looking for a large companion, come meet Speedo today! SHADOW•Shadow is a little dog in a big
world. Weighing in at under 12 pounds this tiny gal would prefer a quiet home where she can relax. She loves to give kisses especially if you have a warm, fuzzy blanket for her. Shadow is ready to become your canine shadow today.
MARILYN• “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it is better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring” ~Marilyn Monroe. This little gal is no exception to that. You would never know that this little kitten came to us in pretty rough shape. She is spunky, silly and full of love. Marilyn is currently being treated for a fungal skin infection, but we have no doubt that she will kick it in no time.
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MUMBLE• If you’re looking for a cat who is good with other felines, dogs and children, Mumble might be your guy. This black-and-white beauty likes to go outdoors where he can hunt and cat around, but also enjoys being near people. Friendly and bashful, Mumble is a gentle soul looking for a forever home where he'll be appreciated for his quiet charms. missoulanews.com • December 31–January 7, 2016 [C9]
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206 & 210 South 3rd West. Lease space in historic storefront next to Boomswagger & Bernice’s Bakery. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com
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2 Bdr, 1 Bath, North Missoula home. $165,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 2 Bdr, 1 Bath, Tina Ave Condo. $139,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 2004 Silver Tips Cluster. 5 bed on 1/2 acre in Circle H Ranch gated community. $675,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 annierealtor@gmail.com 2045 South 13th West. 3 bed, 1 bath with wood floors, finished attic, basement and new roof. $195,500. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com 3 Bdr, 1 Bath, Downtown Missoula home. $270,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
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3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville home. $190,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2.5 Bath, Frenchtown home. $350,500. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4 Bdr, 2 Bath, Nine Mile Valley home on 12.3 acres. $350,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4 Bdr, 3 Bath, South Hills home. $350,500. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 442 Kensington. Totally remodeled 1 bed, 1.5 bath with fenced yard, patio, deck & garage. $234,500. Rochelle Glasgow, Ink Realty Group 728-8270 glasgow@montana.com 706 Hiberta. 2 bed, 1 bath stucco home on one +/- acre. $215,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com
REAL ESTATE 9755 Horseback Ridge. 3 bed, 3 bath on 5 acres with MIssion Mountain & Missoula Valley views. $385,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653 pat@properties2000.com Are your housing needs changing? We can help you explore your options. Clark Fork Realty. 512 E. Broadway. (406) 728-2621. www.clarkforkrealty.com Buying or selling homes? Let me help you Find Your Way Home. Please contact me, David Loewenwarter, Realtor, BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOME SERVICES MONTANA PROPERTIES 406-241-3221 LOEWENWARTER.COM Fidelity Management Services, Inc. • 7000 Uncle Robert Lane #7, Missoula • 406-251-4707. Visit our website at fidelityproperty.com. Serving Missoula area residential properties since 1981. If you’ve been thinking of selling your home now is the time. The local inventory is relatively low and good houses are selling quickly. Let me help you Find Your Way Home. Please contact me David Loewenwarter, Realtor, BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOME SERVICES MONTANA PROPERTIES 406-241-3221 LOEWENWARTER.COM Interested in real estate? Successfully helping buyers and sellers. Please contact me, David Loewenwarter, Realtor, BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOME SERVICES MONTANA PROPERTIES 406-241-3221 LOEWENWARTER.COM Lewis & Clark Neighborhood 631 Pattee Creek Drive. Across from Splash, wheelchair accessible, wonder-
ful, spacious, light, beautiful Lewis & Clark area home. Over 3300 s.f. of living space. $299,500. KD 2405227 porticorealestate.com Natural Housebuilders & Terry Davenport Design, Inc.. Building Survivalist Homes, Sustainably, Off Grid. www.faswall.com, www.naturalhousebuilder.net. Ph: 406-3690940 & 406-642-6863. “There once was an agent named Dave/Whose clients they all would rave. He’ll show you a house/loved by both you and your spouse. Both your time and money he’ll save.” Tony and Marcia Bacino. Please contact me David Loewenwarter, Realtor, BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOME SERVICES MONTANA PROPERTIES 406-241-3221 LOEWENWARTER.COM We’re not only here to sell real estate, we’re your full service senior home specialists. Clark Fork Realty. 512 E. Broadway. (406) 7282621. www.clarkforkrealty.com
CONDOS/ TOWNHOMES Burns Street Condo 1400 Burns #16. Burns Street Commons is a very special place to call home and this three bedroom upper level unit offers spacious, convenient, and beautiful living space. $160,000. KD 240-5227 or Sarah 370-3995 porticorealestate.com
442 Kensington $234,500 Cute 1 bed, 1.5 bath house on fenced & landscaped lot with deck, patio & detached oversized single garage. Total remodel throughout, including new furnace. Plans are available for expansion!
1535 Liberty Lane Ste. 117B & 110C Over 3500 sq.ft professional office space for lease in LEED Gold Certified building, The Solstice Building on corner of Broadway & Russell. Common area includes conference room, kitchen & outdoor deck. MLS #20157147
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Uptown Flats #210. 1 bed, 1 bath modern condo on Missoula’s Northside. $149,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@ gmail.com
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Uptown Flats #301. Large 1 bed, 1 bath plus bonus room with all the amenities. $210,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546.5816. annierealtor@ gmail.com
OUT OF TOWN 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville home. $200,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
LAND FOR SALE 2003 Lil Diamond Cluster. Beautiful .58 acre lot in Circle H Ranch gated community. $94,900. Rochelle Glasgow, Ink Realty Group. 728-8270 glasgow@montana.com 4 Bdr, 2 Bath, Florence home on 4.85 acres. $285,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer
@ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4.6 acre building lot in the woods with views and privacy. Lolo, Mormon Creek Rd. $99,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com NHN Old Freight Road, St. Ignatius. 40.69 acres with 2 creeks & Mission Mountain views. $199,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 2398350. shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com NHN Old Freight Road, St. Ignatius. Approximately 11 acre building lot with Mission Mountain views. $86,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 2398350. shannonhilliard5@ gmail.com NHN Rock Creek Road. 20 acres bordered on north by Five Valleys Land Trust. Direct access to Clark Fork River. $145,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350. shannonhilliard5@gmail.com
Old Indian Trail. Ask Anne about exciting UNZONED parcels near Grant Creek. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@ gmail.com
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COMMERCIAL 3106 West Broadway. 20,000 sq.ft. lot with 6568 sq.ft. building with office, retail & warehouse space. Zoned M1-2. $810,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties 2000.com
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