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Vol. 20, No. 11 • March 12–March 19, 2009

Western Montana’s Weekly Journal of People, Politics and Culture

Scope: Local favorite Severt Philleo returns to the limelight Ochenski: Baucus’ plan to tax health benefits makes no sense Writers on the Range: Libby finally gets a shot at justice

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nside Cover Story Even when Missoula County’s unemployment rate reached an all-time low of 2.2 percent in late 2006, the city carried a reputation for being a difficult place to find work and make a living. Now, with no community immune to the global recession, statistics Cover photo by Chad Harder show Missoula’s job market has finally caught up to its reputation. We profile six Missoulians struggling to find their worth in trying times.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

News Letters Blue dog Dems, dirty work and timber woes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 The Week in Review Gas explosion rocks downtown Bozeman . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Briefs Chickens, clemency and parkland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Etc. The Walgreens robberies signal a new trend on college campuses . . . . . . . 7 Up Front Indian nations wrestle with border requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Ochenski Baucus’ proposal to tax health benefits makes no sense . . . . . . . . . 10 Writers on the Range A Montana town gets its shot at justice. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Agenda The fourth annual Black & White Ball . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

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Flash in the Pan Tomato wars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 8 Days a Week Looking for work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Mountain High Gear for the Garhwal Gear Drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Scope Local favorite Severt Philleo returns to the limelight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Books Stillman saddles up to save wild mustangs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Film Filmmaker Gita Saedi Kiely headlines Lunafest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Film Soderbergh gets personal with epic Che . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

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STREET TALK Asked Monday afternoon in the downtown area.

Inside Letters Briefs Up Front Ochenski Range Agenda News Quirks by Ashley Sears

This week the Indy looks at how Missoula’s tight job market affects the unemployed. What is your best advice for job seekers applying for new jobs? Follow-up: What is the worst job that you have ever had?

Monica Vandermars: I’ve had to be really creative and flexible, and it has helped me. But if you look around, people are still working and still buying so you have to look at what market is out there and go from there. Hair today: I’d have to say when I was a hotel maid. It’s pretty shocking how people leave hotel rooms, especially the amount of beer cans and hair that’s in the bathroom.

Julie Hilley: The best advice I could give is getting an education, and making yourself competitive that way. Also presenting yourself in a positive, professional manner both physically and emotionally. Border run: Driving a pilot car out of Shelby, Mont., when I was in high school. I would meet drivers at the Canadian border and I’d be the little car with the flashing lights and the “Wide Load” sign that would lead them all the way down to Cody, Wyo., and back. They called me the “Silver Jewel” because I drove a silver Honda and my name is Julie. Lisa Gibson: Don’t look in the classifieds. The businesses that typically put ads in the paper legally have to advertise, so they typically already have other people in mind for the job. There’s a great book called What Color Is Your Parachute that helps find what your passion is and narrow down the options of where and how to look for jobs in that field. You’ve got to figure out what you love and start from the bottom, volunteer, or do whatever you have to do. In the cup, please: I had to work with specimens in a lab…it was gross.

Hobbie Hare: Blend your talents and link them all together. Network like hell and do a lot of shameless self-promotion. Nighty knight: I was a nighttime security aid at a residential group home for severely emotionally disturbed adolescence. Needless to say, I never let myself fall asleep.

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Smooth Opper-ator Dirty work is just that and the politics of it even more so. A picture worth a thousand words? Indeed. The picture in your story (see “Dirty Work,” March 5, 2009) of our governor with Department of Environmental Quality Director Richard Opper says everything we need to know about who ultimately calls the shots as to what DEQ will and will not do. With regards to the new plant in Thompson Falls, Opper says as long as the plant can meet emission thresholds in the future, the past is irrelevant. Hmmmmmm. Does this mean that if I apply to work for the DEQ and I get the job, but the DEQ later finds out that I “forgot” to mention that I’m banned for life by the SEC from securities trading and that the IRS is investigating me because I didn’t file income tax returns for several years, that my past is “irrelevant”? Judging from the missteps on tax returns by Obama’s cabinet nominees, I think not. Yet the above describes exactly what the original co-owner of the Thompson River plant did do. Obviously the ethical standards at DEQ are very low, and governor what’s-hisname approves. Safe to say from reading your story that Richard Opper is a smooth talker and a smooth Opper-ator. John Marshall Hot Springs

Industry issues I just read the letter to the editor from Greg Seitz concerning the timber industry (see “Letters,” Feb. 19, 2009). Seitz liked Matthew Koehler’s guest editorial titled “Prescribed burn” (see Feb. 5, 2009). Seitz prefers Koehler’s recommendation, which would deal with forest restoration and wildfire fuels reduction in a “responsible way,” meaning the government does it at a cost rather than sell the trees to the timber industry, returning receipts to the government and to the public schools. Seitz wants it both ways. He (and Koehler) want the timber industry gone, but Seitz laments the fact that the high cost of logging equipment won’t be available to fight fires. He also thinks it is sad that we are losing the high paying logging jobs “so crucial to the uneducated.” Seitz calling these people uneducated is elitist and off-the-wall. Seitz should follow some of these contract loggers around sometime. He would find that they must manage millions of dollars worth of equipment at a profit, under difficult conditions of weather and long distance operations. They have to be highly skilled to maintain and

repair these machines. Many of these men have college degrees in business and/or engineering or forestry. And believe me, those who do not have college degrees do become highly educated in the hard knocks of managing a business—that is, those that survive. The timber industry’s problem does not result from lack of education or business management capability. It results from the fact that the environmentalists have terrorized the U.S. Forest Service so totally that it can no longer market timber and thus conduct stewardship in our forests

Obviously the “ethical standards at DEQ are very low, and governor what’s-his-name

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through timber harvest. They do this even though it would provide commodity value for the forest products we all use, and benefit the overall ecosystem. Seitz feels quite comfortable (smug) that we have gotten “beyond conflicts and now we can concentrate on finding value-added uses for trees previously considered junk, so that we can reap economic benefit while we restore overcrowded forests.” I remind Seitz that the Montana timber industry (which the powerful Montana environmental organizations have so effectively and gleefully destroyed) was always able to adapt to changing markets, and was always able to embrace new technology, greater efficiency, and greater productivity. What it was not able to survive was the shut down of raw material availability by those environmental organizations. “Now the timber industry is going or gone,” writes Seitz. He implies that now Koehler’s WildWest Institute can “tone down the rhetoric.” He makes big talk about how “true value-added products” will be the new market for burned and bark-beetle-killed timber that is no longer usable by the lumber mills. But the truth is that industry can no longer trust the Forest Service concerning the long-term availability of standing timber, green or dead. There will never be any real opportunities in wood fiber investments until we come back to our senses as a culture and rediscover that there is real value in managing our forests long term through timber harvest. As I see it,

having been a professional forester for 57 years, the national forests have been neglected for 30 years— that being the length of time during which forest stewardship, through timber harvest, has been vastly curtailed. Now the national forests are overgrown old firetraps plagued by disease, bark beetles and overcrowding. We as a culture have failed to recognize and acknowledge the forests’ high intrinsic real commodity value, and we have failed to recognize the timber industry as the only efficient tool to take good care of forests. Meanwhile, we will let the forests continue to burn. We will buy our wood products from foreign countries that as time goes on will have greater and greater control over prices paid by American consumers. Eventually Seitz’ and Koehler’s grandchildren, along with mine, will not be able to afford those prices. This sad result will be just what we all deserve. Jack Mahon Townsend

Blue dog Dems I was accused yesterday of being a damn Republican because I said our city government failed us by not removing snow from our streets and our federal government is trying to bankrupt our country. I explained that I’m a “blue dog” Democrat—socially liberal and fiscally conservative. I could care less if the checker at Rosauers smokes a joint after work, but I think California is correct in wanting to legalize pot so they can tax it. I don’t care if Steve marries Nadya or Jose, but Steve becomes financially responsible (food, clothing, college, health care) for any children Jose or Nadya have from prior relationships. I think the people who gave us leash laws should wear leashes attached to the deer that our dogs used to keep out of town. And I think I’ll vote for the dark side in future elections until Democrats go into financial rehab and the city of Missoula learns how to remove snow from our streets. Jean Hoggatt Missoula

Correction: Last week’s story, “Color coded,” incorrectly referred to Thomas Sayers Ellis as the Richard Hugo Visiting Poet, based upon information we received from a University of Montana press release. UM corrected that release after our deadline, saying Sayers is actually part of the Creative Writing Program’s Spring Reading Series, which is made possible by the President’s Writers-InResidence Series.

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WEEK IN REVIEW

Letters

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Up Front

Ochenski

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VIEWFINDER

• Wednesday, March 4

News Quirks by Chad Harder

Anxious fly-fishermen fill the Wilma Theatre for the third annual Fly Fishing Film Tour. Oregon’s Mayfly Media sponsors the vicarious event to torture, er, satiate fly-fishermen during winter months.

• Thursday, March 5 An early morning gas explosion levels multiple buildings in downtown Bozeman, killing 36-yearold Tara Bowman. The Bozeman Fire Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives continue to investigate the cause of the blast.

• Friday, March 6 The Missoula Housing Authority begins construction of “The Garden District,” a 37-unit, $6 million affordable housing development on the former Intermountain Lumber site at 119 S. Russell Street. The MHA hopes to open the development in November.

• Saturday, March 7 Sonya Rogers scores a game-high 22 points to lead the Lady Griz over Portland State at Dahlberg Arena, 70-60. The win clinches the regular-season Big Sky title for UM and secures home-court advantage for the conference tournament. Later in the day Montana State ends the men’s season with a 56-54 upset in the conference tournament quarterfinal.

• Sunday, March 8 Kory Burgess of the Missoula Rural Fire Department beats 1,555 other firefighters to win the 18th annual Scott Firefighter Stair Climb in downtown Seattle. Burgess climbs the 69-story Columbia Center in a record 10 minutes, 55 seconds. The Missoula Rural Fire Department and the Missoula City Fire Department place first and second in the competition, respectively.

• Monday, March 9 After mulling it over for a week, Ward 2 Council Member Pam Walzer decides to reconsider her decision on Chickasaw Place, a 10-acre Orchard Homes development denied annexation by the council on March 2. Walzer’s decision means the council will revisit the subdivision vote on March 16.

• Tuesday, March 10 District Judge John Larson sentences Anthony St. Dennis to 100 years in prison for stomping 56year-old Forrest Clayton Salcido to death on the California Street bridge in December 2007. St. Dennis, 19, will be eligible for parole after 40 years.

Neither cold, nor wind, nor snow, nor darkness could diminish the Missoula Telemark Challenge race series at Snowbowl on March 7. Racers arrived in various costumes, including camouflage, a giant fish suit and no costume whatsoever. Wrapping up its 25th year on Saturday, March 14, the series is the second-longest running telemark race in the country.

Economy

Builders’ one bright spot The Missoula Organization of Realtors (MOR) released the 2009 Missoula Housing Report Thursday and the numbers looked expectedly bleak. Foreclosures are up, annual sales are down, rental prices are up, lot sales are down and building permits are way down. In 2007, for instance, the city of Missoula issued 435 building permits. Last year, that number plunged to 290. The downward trend spreads to the county and city building departments as well. Those offices, funded almost exclusively by building fees, have struggled to keep budgets in the black. The city building department laid off four employees this year, while the county laid off one. The Missoula County Clerk and Recorder’s Office also reports revenue 30 percent below the county’s projected budget, according to Chief Administrative Officer Dale Bickell. One office, however, seems to be treading water. The Office of Planning and Grants (OPG) reports fees from the subdivision

review process are actually up from last year and in line with budget projections. But nobody’s sure what to make of the increase. City Finance Director Brentt Ramharter believes the trend reflects builders planning for an improved economy. Collin Bangs, a developer at the Missoula-based firm Coldwell Banker Steinbrenner, doesn’t know if those fees are residual projects lingering from the days before the recession, or if they do signal a possible building surge once the economy improves. “One of the problems in the development industry,” Bangs says, “is that it takes you so damn long to do things.” Bangs suggests one way to distinguish between new and lingering projects would be to assess the number of pre-applications for subdivisions. But OPG Director Roger Millar says that pre-application numbers aren’t completely reliable. “Pre-aps are down,” he says. “But one of the questions I have on pre-aps is, ‘How many pre-aps actually result in applications?’ When times are good, we have a lot of people coming in and pre-applying with us and they

may or may not follow up. Honestly, what I don’t know is, how that happens when times are bad.” Jesse Froehling

Death Row

Clemency efforts renewed Relief is hard to come by on death row. But an attorney representing Montana State Prison inmate Ronald Smith, the only Canadian citizen facing capital punishment in the United States, says his client feels relieved after a March 4 court decision ordered the government to renew efforts in seeking clemency for Smith. “He was happy, and very pleased that his government returned to policies it’s had for him for over 24 years,” says Helena-based attorney Greg Jackson. The decision, handed down by Justice Robert Barnes, overturns policies instituted in November 2007 by Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. In a controversial decision, Harper’s cabinet advocated to deny aid in clemency cases for Canadian citizens

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found guilty of murder in democratic nations. This sweeping policy change came less than two weeks after Canadian officials were quoted by several news agencies affirming their government’s desire to seek clemency for Smith from Gov. Brian Schweitzer. Also, court records show that both Smith’s attorneys and Canadian officials were in contact with Schweitzer in the days leading up to the changes. Justice Barnes noted in his decision that the change in policy was “made quickly and without any widespread or considered consultation.” Due to this Barnes ordered Canadian officials renew efforts with Smith’s legal team immediately. Smith has been incarcerated on death row since 1983 for a double homicide committed in 1982. At that time Smith requested execution, but soon began efforts to overturn the sentence. Jackson says the Canadian Federal Court decision comes at a crucial time, because last year’s policy shift left those arguing on Smith’s behalf with a bleak outlook. “We’ve never outright sought clemency because we’ve had [appeals],” Jackson says. With those appeals running out, he says it will be good to have the weight of a nation behind their efforts. Smith’s attorneys will argue before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on April 6. Should that court not overturn Smith’s sentence, a final appeal will be filed with the U.S. Supreme Court. Denied there, only Montana’s governor can prevent the execution. Patrick Duganz

Chickens

PEAS Farm’s fledglings The PEAS Farm’s first foray into selling eggs began three weeks ago with the delivery, via USPS Priority Mail, of 250 baby laying hens. Ever since, project manager Heather McKee and University of Montana students have been pampering the chicks in their brooders, cleaning their little bottoms for two hours each morning to prevent “pasting up,” or clogging, which can be deadly. Eventually the chicks will begin laying eggs and take to the fields to control weeds and pests and fertilize crops.

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The PEAS Farm, which stands for Program in Ecological Agriculture and Society, plans to sell “egg shares” this summer and fall. In November, many of the hens—along with mini coops and handbooks—will be sold to the public. This makes the farm an incubator for fledgling Missoula chicken raisers starting their own backyard flocks, now legal after the city’s contentious “urban chicken ordinance” passed more than a year ago. “I think it was two-parted why I really cared to start this project—for education, and

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The PEAS Farm’s breeds include Silverl a c e d Wy a n d o t t e s , B u f f O r p i n g t o n s , Dominiques and Light Brahmas. “All super-fat, super-heavy breeds, very docile and very friendly,” McKee says. “But being cold hearty was the biggest reason that I picked these guys out.” On Easter Sunday, anyone interested in buying hens can go to the PEAS Farm, pick out their favorites (for $20 each), choose a coop model, and return in November to bring them home and establish their own backyard flocks. “We’ll wait and see how that plays out,” Franceschina says. Matthew Frank

Parkland

City closes land loophole

also to get regional-appropriate birds in peoples’ backyards,” says McKee. The city’s granted more than 40 licenses for backyard chickens since the ordinance passed and “we’ve never really had any problems at all,” says animal control supervisor Ed Franceschina. The PEAS Farm, a partnership between UM and nonprofit Garden City Harvest, has already sold about half of the 70 available egg shares. For $70, the shares provide customers with a dozen eggs each week from mid-July through October. “There’s a lot of interest—and certainly a growing interest—in good eggs,” says Erin Barnett, director of Local Harvest, a food website with a nationwide directory of small farms and farmers’ markets. “The word is out that the ones in the grocery store, if you knew everything that went into making them, you’d be grossed out. And the taste is different—there’s all the omega-3s with farmfresh eggs and all of that.”

The City Council closed a loophole Monday that had allowed some developers to cut corners on required parkland. Parkland dedication applies only to subdivisions larger than two lots. Subdivisions with up to five lots are also exempt as long as each lot holds only a single-family home. All other subdivisions must dedicate land or money toward parks. The ordinance originally added up parkland based on the size of the lot, not the number of dwelling units. As lot sizes grew larger, parkland dedication requirements shrunk. Jackie Corday, the open space program manager at Missoula Parks and Recreation, says developers have exploited that loophole by constructing large, multifamily apartment complexes on larger lots, minimizing parkland dedication. The city’s new ordinance amends the old law by figuring parkland by dwelling unit, not by lot size. The formula is a bit complicated, but Corday explained it most succinctly with an example. On Monday evening, Corday showed the council how the ordinance would have played out in the Flynn Ranch subdivision, a 78-unit complex on five acres. Under the old ordinance, the developer was required to dedicate only 5,200 square feet of land toward parks. Under the new ordinance, the dedication would have increased to one acre—nearly seven times as much parkland. Jesse Froehling

BY THE NUMBERS

5,500

Estimated number of wolves in the continental United States. The growing population led Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to announce March 6 that the gray wolf would be removed from the endangered species list in Montana and Idaho. Gray wolves remain protected in Wyoming.

etc. What happened to the good old days when college students only hung upside down for keg stands, ripped bong hits, and occasionally took a roommate’s Ritalin to fuel an all-nighter during finals? Nowadays, students hold up pharmacies with guns and bear spray to get their fix. We never saw John Belushi do that in Animal House. Unless you were high last week, you probably know what we’re talking about: Police arrested University of Montana student Daniel Nania for allegedly robbing the same Missoula Walgreens three times in five weeks. When authorities searched Nania’s Gerald Avenue apartment, they found about 10,000 prescription pills, including Oxycontin, Oxycodone, Percodan and Alprazolam (Xanax), as well as $3,132 in cash. Police believe Nania, 21, sold the drugs from his residence. He now faces up to 20 years in federal prison. Mike Frost of the Self Over Substance program at UM’s Curry Health Center says the case reflects a trend on today’s college campuses. Through the 1990s, college students primarily used alcohol, tobacco and marijuana, then hallucinogens became popular, followed by ecstasy in the early 2000s. In the last few years, Frost says pharmaceuticals and narcotics predominate. “And with narcotic withdrawals, getting off the drug itself is miserable, it’s horrid, and it takes a long time,” says Frost. “People just can’t tolerate it so they go back to using all the time, and people often times do things they normally wouldn’t do to get it. It really changes their morals and personality, and how far they’re willing to go.” The problem extends well beyond college campuses. Mark Long of the Montana Narcotics Bureau reports 320 deaths were related to pharmaceuticals in 2008 compared to just five involving meth, which grabs most of the headlines. And U.S. Attorney Bill Mercer said during the press conference following Nania’s arrest that “prescription drug use is the emerging, the arrived problem that we are trying to deal with in terms of drug addiction.” Mercer went on to acknowledge how this case “really does bring fear to the hearts and minds of the people in the city of Missoula.” The problem’s more serious, of course, than wishing for the simpler days of Belushi and National Lampoon’s fictional Delta House fraternity. Back then Dean Wormer was the only one striking fear in anyone. Now we’re not sure what’s more frightening: the extent of Nania’s alleged crimes, or the realization that he appeared to have enough customers to keep having to re-supply.

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CALLING ALL : S T S I T R A Security v. sovereignty LOCAL Inside Letters Briefs Up Front Ochenski Range Agenda News Quirks

Indian nations wrestle with new border requirements

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by Krista J. Kapralos

Two hours north of his home on Indians see their tribal documents as a ing traditional regalia to using a tribal the Tulalip Indian Reservation in sign of their status as members of sov- ID, says John Stensgar, a Homeland Washington state, Les Parks was ereign nations. The new requirement, Security delegate for the Colville stopped at the U.S.-Canada border. A part of the Western Hemisphere Travel Confederated Tribes. American Indians U.S. border guard eyed the bouquet of Initiative, will affect American Indians heading north to attend ceremonies eagle feathers hanging from the truck’s throughout the country, but it’s likely have been forced to divulge informarearview mirror, and Parks knew what to hit particularly hard up here, tion about traditions that have no because of the close ties between bearing on border security. Even was coming. “What are those? Why do you have northwestern tribes and tribes in Amnesty International has reported on the harassment Indians face at them? What were you doing in Canada, British Columbia. the checkpoints. and why do you want to “The government’s return to the U.S.?” always trying to take our The questions came like rights away from us,” bullets, Parks says, and Stensgar says. “We’ve never grew harsher still when he given up the right to estabgave them his Tulalip tribal lish laws in the best interest identification card instead of our membership.” of his driver’s license or Stensgar says the federal U.S. passport. government is constantly “We’re always up there seeking more oversight of visiting and trading back tribal governments. Casinos and forth,” says Parks, who are closely supervised, for often delivers crab and example, and tribes are limother shellfish to his relaited in how they can use tives in Canada in exchange their land. Many non-gamfor salmon from the Fraser ing economic plans must be River. “Our tribal ID should approved by the Bureau of suffice, but it’s been getIndian Affairs. ting progressively worse. Stensgar says his tribe may I’ve struggled through develop passports of its own hours of paperwork and to replace the federally sancquestioning.” tioned tribal ID. Several tribes, Cultural and ancestral including the Onondaga in ties are strong between New York, have tried this, many U.S. and Canadian but with limited success. tribes. “Our spiritual pracStill, Stensgar hopes a tices are closely tied to our Colville passport will one relatives across the borday be honored alongside der,” says Jewell James of U.S. passports. the Lummi Nation, just Photo courtesy of Mark Mulligan Tr i b a l l e a d e r s a n d south of the U.S.-Canada line in Washington. “We’ve Bald eagle feathers hang from the rearview mirror of Homeland Security offialways hoped the U.S. and Les Parks’ pickup truck. Parks was recently hassled at cials have also considered the U.S.-Canadian border after presenting his tribal ID using an “enhanced tribal Canada would continue to instead of a passport. ID” with a security chip in recognize that we have the The Jay Treaty, signed in 1794, lieu of a passport. Under the Tulalip inherent right to cross the border and guaranteed unrestricted passage for plan, any ID presented at the border be with our relatives.” Statistics are hard to come by, but American Indians crossing the north- would be connected to the tribal the National Congress of American ern border of the newly created United database maintained at Tulalip. But Indians, a Washington, D.C.-based States. Nearly 100 years later, north- the federal government won’t have advocacy organization, says it receives western tribes signed treaties with the direct access to this data—a detail frequent complaints of problems at the federal government that exchanged tribal leaders say is key to retaining land for medical care, education and sovereignty. border. Theresa Sheldon, a Tulalip Indian And beginning June 1, crossing the the right to continue living in their traborder could become even more diffi- ditional manner. The U.S. border was who often travels on tribal business, cult. Travelers trying to return to the extended to the continent’s western says she tries to educate security offiUnited States from Canada or Mexico edge in 1846, and by the mid-1900s, cials about sovereignty by using her will be required to present either a everyone crossing it was required to tribal ID. “People say, ‘Isn’t this an old issue? passport or a driver’s license enhanced show identification. For American Indians, that meant using cards issued Just get a passport!’” Sheldon says. with an identification chip. “But these are our rights. We don’t That’s likely to be a problem for by their tribes. That changed after Sept. 11, 2001. want them taken away.” American Indians in the Pacific Northwest who prefer to use their trib- American Indians have been detained editor@missoulanews.com al ID cards. Like Parks, many American at the border for everything from wear-

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Sometimes you have to wonder what they put in the water coolers in Washington, D.C. One of those times was just this week when our own Sen. Max Baucus rolled out the funding scheme for his vision of reforming American health care. In short, Baucus thinks we should tax insurance premiums paid for by employers as employee income and use the revenue to fund his â&#x20AC;&#x153;mandatory insuranceâ&#x20AC;? health plan. Maxâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s funding scheme would treat any payments by employers as taxable income to the employees. The example reporter Mike Dennison gave in an article this week is fairly simple: â&#x20AC;&#x153;If the actual cost of the policy for your family is $12,000 a year (not an unusual amount) and your employer pays $8,000 of that cost, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re getting $8,000 a year in tax-free income.â&#x20AC;? Those payments nationwide amount to an estimated $245 billion a year, making them what Baucus considers the largest, single cumulative tax break in America. Under Maxâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still-forming health care concept, that $245 billion would be used to bolster his plan to have all Americans buy health insurance. But there are a number of reasons why Baucusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; plan may never become law. First, this country is in its worst economic crisis in 50 years and the idea that we should increase the tax burden on average Americans at this point seems downright nutty. With more than 8 million of our fellow citizens out of work, it also seems like political suicide for a Democrat to be suggesting what is basically a massive â&#x20AC;&#x153;tax and spendâ&#x20AC;? plan. Another problem with Baucusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; plan is that the insurance premiums he wants to tax as income never actually go to employees. Instead, the money goes straight into the coffers of the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bloated insurance companiesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in many cases the same insurance conglomerates, such as AIG, now being bailed out with hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars. Finally, any tax applied uniformly across the board, regardless of income level or ability to pay, is simply regressive. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re making millions as the CEO of some recently bailed-out financial institution, for instance, the tax burden from considering the insurance premiums paid by your employer as income will be barely noticeable. But stick the additional taxes for $8,000 of income they never even received on someone making the Montana average of about $30,000 a year and the financial burden is a considerably greater part of their available income.

Even worse than Maxâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tax plan is the other half of the pictureâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the spend part. Baucus shocked health care advocates across the nation by insisting that a single-payer plan, which is used in various incarnations by virtually all of the other industrialized nations of the world, is â&#x20AC;&#x153;off the table.â&#x20AC;? Instead, Baucus has decided to come up with what he calls â&#x20AC;&#x153;a uniquely Americanâ&#x20AC;? health care system that leaves the insurance industry firmly between citizens and their health care providers. Unfortunately, Max has yet to tell the American people what it will cost to

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Perhaps Baucus thinks his Montana constituents are only a small part of the big picture he wants so badly

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implement his system of taxing and spending. For one thing, any effort to track, verify and tax employer-paid insurance premiums nationwide is going to require thousands of new federal employees and perhaps whole new agencies. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll need someplace to work, too, so toss in the additional and ongoing costs for new buildings and continuous maintenance, energy, etc. And since federal bureaucracies, like all bureaucracies, only tend to get bigger with time, best be adding in some longterm multipliers to those costs. In the initial press releases announcing his intent to introduce legislation containing his health-insurancecare plan, Baucus portrayed his idea as being based on what is now generally regarded as a failing experiment by Massachusetts to mandate that everyone have health insurance. What was missing then, and continues to remain unknown, are the details of how Max intends to force people to buy increasingly expensive health insurance.

Given the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s economic plight, the idea of forcing anyone to buy what they canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t afford seems unlikely to survive even an initial vote. Moreover, since Maxâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plan lacks the necessary details of who would have to pay for whatâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;or how the nation would cover the costs for those who cannot payâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;we are basically being asked to simply trust Baucus to design a plan significantly different from those successfully used in other countries, put a funding system into place to pay for it, and then fork over hundreds of billions to the insurance industry to continue to provide what is widely regarded as substandard health coverage to more than 300 million Americans. On the other hand, there are some good ideas moving forward that make a lot more sense than Baucusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; halfformed proposals. HR 676, for instance, is a single-payer plan, already introduced in the House by Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., and backed by hundreds of unions and organizations in 49 states. According to the billâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s supporters, the measure would institute a single-payer health-care system by expanding a greatly improved Medicare system to everyone residing in the United States. It would cover every person for all necessary medical care including prescription drugs, hospital, surgical, outpatient services, primary and preventive care, emergency services, dental, mental health, home health, physical therapy, rehabilitation (including for substance abuse), vision care, hearing services including hearing aids, chiropractic, durable medical equipment, palliative care, and long term care. It would also end deductibles and co-payments and save hundreds of billions annually by eliminating the high overhead and profits of the private health insurance industry and HMOs. Perhaps Baucus, as chair of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, thinks his Montana constituents are only a small part of the big picture he wants so badly to paint. Or perhaps Max has forgotten that we sent him there to work for usâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;not the insurance companies that pour so much gold into his campaign coffers. Now might be a very good time for Montanans to remind him. Helenaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s George Ochenski rattles the cage of the political establishment as a political analyst for the Independent. Contact Ochenski at opinion@missoulanews.com.

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Trials and tribulations A poisoned Montana town gets its shot at justice by Andrea Peacock

I got goose bumps recently, when U.S. District Court Judge Donald Molloy read the charges against W.R. Grace & Co. and five of its former executives in a Missoula courtroom. I’m sure I wasn’t the only one. For the first time since 1999, when the news broke that hundreds of people had died from asbestos-contaminated vermiculite mined in Libby, relatives and other victims were finally given the chance to confront those executives face to face. When I started covering this story, the idea of anyone doing jail time was unlikely. The state attorney general explained that making criminal charges stick would be next to impossible. Residents of Libby would just have to make their peace with what had been done to them. Two questions vexed me over the years: How could Grace have treated the people in Libby so poorly? And how did the people who’d lost so much find the strength of character to move on with their lives? There are now more than 274 names on the Libby “death list,” and another 1,200—out of a community of about 12,000—who have been diagnosed with asbestos-related diseases through a federal screening program. More cases are discovered every month. That these five men sitting in court have been called to account for their actions feels like a victory. All older gentlemen, their wives sitting in the audience, they look like the grandfathers they probably are. I believe they belong in jail, and I wonder if this trial, which may take five months, has made them feel any remorse. A corporation has no conscience. So while the asbestos victims hungered for an apology from Grace, it’s not surprising there never was one. But would these men be here now if they and the company had made amends? Contrition is powerful. When Gayla Benefield and Eva Thomson sued Grace over their mother’s death— Margaret Vatland spent more than a decade struggling to breathe before

she finally passed away, killed by the asbestos fibers which came home from Grace’s mine on her husband’s work clothes—Benefield says she would have settled the whole thing for an apology. The corporation agreed to one so long as she promised to keep it to herself—not exactly an offering of true remorse, she says.

“I’ve talked with Libby miners who say they might have been willing to forgive Grace for their own illnesses, but never for the lung ailments and other diseases suffered by their

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children.

I’ve talked with Libby miners who say they might have been willing to forgive Grace for their own illnesses, but never for the lung ailments and other diseases suffered by their children. The corporation can never claim ignorance. Grace kept meticulous records, documenting the extreme potency of its particular asbestos fibers, the ease with which they become airborne, and the decline of the miners’ health. It did this for three decades. But

because the Clean Air Act statute under which the defendants are charged did not exist until 1990, the year the mine closed, the evidence of Grace’s actions before that date has to be carefully tailored to support the charges. The federal government charges that the company and its executives conspired to violate the Clean Air Act by knowingly releasing asbestos into the air, endangering anyone who came in contact with it. The expectations placed on the government’s attorneys are palpable in the courtroom, accentuated by the David v. Goliath atmosphere: There are 30 lawyers involved, but only three sit at the prosecution’s table. As the testimony proceeds, I am struck anew by the contrast between the people I’ve met in Libby, and these corporate men. When Mel and Lerah Parker, owners of the Raintree Nursery, finally understood the extent to which their property was contaminated, they closed up shop and barred the public from their land. Grace executives, with the benefit of full knowledge, never warned a soul. Les Skramstad, who helped bring Libby’s tragedy to the public’s attention, long grieved over his unwitting role in exposing Little League ballplayers to asbestos as they played next to the vermiculite export plant where he worked. What makes one man care, and another not? Les is gone now, a victim of mesthelioma, a rare, asbestosrelated cancer, but he never had an answer for that one. As one defense attorney put it during opening statements, “What they are trying to say is that [W.R. Grace executive] Harry Eschenbach is a bad man. That he didn’t care about the workers of Libby and was willing to let them suffer death and disease.” A lot of residents of Libby would agree with that. Andrea Peacock is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org ). She is the author of Libby, Montana: Asbestos and the Deadly Silence of an American Corporation, and lives in Livingston.

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Thu. 12 March Learn more about their campaigns when you attend the next meeting of Community Action for Justice in the Americas (CAJA), which goes down at 6:30 PM at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 363-5292 or visit cajistas.blogspot.com.

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Historically speaking, Afghans have proven impossible to control, but you’ll have plenty of guidance when you join the group Knitting for Peace, which meets every Tue. from 11 AM–1 PM at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 543-3955.

Last year’s 300-plus attendees further cemented the ball’s place in the Five Valleys annual social calendar, and this week’s repeat performance by Full Grown Men and the fab catering of Finn & Porter combine for a positive economic, not to mention epicurean, forecast. Get yourself all dolled up and turn out for this festive celebration of diversity and strength under the Big Sky. —Jonas Ehudin The WMGLCC’s fourth annual Black & White Ball begins at 7 PM at the Doubletree Hotel on Sat., March 14. $40. Get tickets at gaymontana.org/bwball or call 543-2224.

The World Affairs Council of Montana hosts Gallup Center for Muslim Studies’ Dalia Mogahed, who presents “Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think” at 7:30 PM in the UM University Center Ballroom. Free.

Wed. 18 March Take the legislative reins when you join Leadership Bitterroot for a bus trip to Helena, which leaves at 7 AM for a full day at the Capitol before returning at 7 PM. $35 includes lunch, tour and transportation. Call 363-2400. Help get our girls into the woods this summer, while concurrently battling breast cancer, when you take in Lunafest, a program of short films by, for and about women at 6 PM in UM’s University Center Theater. $10/$5 students. Visit ywcaofmissoula.org or call 5436691. (See Film in this issue.) Reinvigorate our radical heritage when you meet up with the Industrial Workers of the World at 6:30 PM in the Union Hall as they continue their plotting with a May Day Planning Meeting. Free.

Thu. 19 March Three former and one current Montana mayor—yes, Engen will be in the house—take part in the Sustainable Business Council Lecture Perspectives on Sustainable Community: A Mayoral Forum, which begins with a 5:30 PM social time at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts. Free. Call 824-7336. Tell Missoula Parks & Recreation how you’d like your land managed when they host a Public Open House for just that purpose at 6:30 PM at the Missoula City Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine St. Free. Call 5526263 or 552-6265. Help rebuild a shattered homeland when you attend a Benefit for the Children of Gaza, featuring Barbara Lubin, executive director of the Middle East Children’s Alliance, and musical storyteller Jack Gladstone, at 7 PM at the Bigfork United Methodist Church, 750 Electric Ave. Donation based. Call 755-3704.

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

CURSES, FOILED AGAIN – Alejandro Melendez, 20, called 911 to report that two men with guns were watching him but then hung up. When the dispatcher called back, police records show he asked the dispatcher to hang on a moment. The dispatcher then overheard Melendez making a drug deal and called police, who arrested him after finding cocaine in his pants. HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN – Japan has discovered there’s more gold in sewage than in some of the world’s best mines. Reuters reported that the Suwa sewage treatment facility in Nagano prefecture recorded finding 1,890 grams of gold per ton of ash from incinerated sludge. The official noted that Japan’s Hishikari Mine, one of the world’s most productive, yields 20 to 40 grams of gold per ton of ore. Speculating that the facility’s gold is the result of precision-equipment manufacturers in the vicinity that use the metal, the official said the prefecture expects to earn more than $167,000 for its gold this fiscal year. DRINKING-CLASS HEROES – Spirit Airlines began requiring flight attendants to wear aprons with a Bud Light beer logo on the front. When the cabin workers objected, the airline, which touts itself as “the ultra-low cost” carrier, said it wouldn’t pull the logo. Instead, Spirit official Misty Pinson told the St. Petersburg Times, the South Florida-based airline should “be commended” for finding innovative ways to reduce operating costs and for keeping passenger fares low. Spirit was the first airline to charge for checking a single bag. WHERE’S PRAWO? – After Irish police were unable to locate Polish traffic offender Prawo Jazdy, who has been issued more than 50 tickets, all for different addresses, investigators learned that officers who stopped visiting Poles for violations had been using “Prawo Jazdy” as the violators’ name because it’s printed in the top right corner of the driving license. “Prawo Jazdy is actually the Polish for ‘driving license’ and not the first and surname on the license,” an internal police memo revealed. “It is quite embarrassing to see that the system has created Prawo Jazdy as a person with over 50 identities.” BEAUTY’S ONLY SKIN DEEP – Investigators in Tampa, Fla., announced that Sharhonda L. Lindsay, 32, was wanted for practicing medicine without a license after she gave two women cosmetic injections to boost their buttocks. Hillsborough sheriff’s official J.D. Callaway told the St. Petersburg Times the victims paid Lindsay, whom they were referred to by word of mouth, a total of $750 for 60 injections but then experienced pain and discomfort and were hospitalized with internal injuries. After Sheyla Hershey, 28, was turned down for trying to get her ninth silicone injection to enlarge her 34FFF breasts because the state of Texas has limits on the amount of silicone that can be injected into implants, the Houston woman traveled to Brazil and boosted her figure to a 38KKK. Britain’s Daily Star reported that even though doctors have warned that her breasts, containing more than a gallon of silicone, are in danger of exploding, Hershey said, “To me, big is beautiful. I don’t think I have anything to worry about.” FRUITS OF RESEARCH – Keeping too tight a grip on gaming consoles and furiously pushing the buttons can cause a newly identified skin disorder marked by painful lumps on the palms, according to Swiss scientists, who labeled the affliction “PlayStation palmar hidradentitus. Their finding, reported in the British Journal of Dermatology, was based on the case of a 12-year-old girl who showed up at a Geneva hospital with the painful lesions, which disappeared after doctors recommended the girl stop using her PlayStation. Children who talk on their cell phones while crossing streets are 43 percent more likely to be hit by a car than when their phones are turned off, according to researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The study, reported in the journal Pediatrics, also found that the 77 children ages 10 and 11 taking part in the study took about 20 percent longer to begin crossing the street and also forgot to look both ways in about 20 percent of the crossings. SLIGHTEST PROVOCATIONS – Carlos Navarro, 38, beat another man with a golf club, according to police in Falmouth, Mass., who reported that the 50-year-old victim held the door open for Navarro, who failed to thank the man. When the older man uttered a sarcastic “thank you,” Navarro told police he felt disrespected. The two argued until Navarro went to his car, selected a driver from his golf bag and bashed the victim several times in the stomach and legs. Calvin Edwards, 48, pulled a pocket knife on his brother while the two were “scuffling over chicken wings” at their home in Fort Pierce, Fla. According to the police report, Edwards said he was looking in the oven for a wing and planned to take out a tray of wings, when his brother told him to get another tray. He explained he pulled the knife because his mother and brother started yelling at him, and he “needed to defend himself.” Police charged Gildazio Costa, 54, with punching his girlfriend in the head at their home in Framingham, Mass., during a five-hour argument over the operating hours of the public library. Baltimore police said a 58-year-old man stabbed his 19-year-old son in the left buttock because the teenager had refused to take off his hat in church. Amilcar H. Guerra, 50, stabbed three people in a mobile home, according to authorities in Manatee County, Fla., because he was angry at the brand of beer they bought. STRANGE BEDFELLOWS – A record 43 political parties registered for Israel’s Feb. 10 elections, but only 33 fielded candidates, among them an alliance of elderly Holocaust survivors and pot lovers. Campaigning under the banner of “The Moral Choice,” the “Holocaust Survivors and Grown-Up Green Leaf” party advocated improving social conditions for the country’s 250,000 Holocaust survivors and for the legalization of cannabis. Despite hoping the merger would win public attention, the party registered 0 percent of the total vote, well below the 2 percent threshold required to win a seat in parliament. NATURE’S REVENGE – A Sumatran tiger mauled two illegal loggers to death in Indonesia while they slept next to a pile of stolen wood in a protected forest, according to Didy Wurdjanto of the state conservation agency. The victims were the fourth and fifth deaths by the critically endangered cats on Sumatra island, Wurdjanto said, pointing out, “This time it was the loggers’ fault.”

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ven when Missoula County’s unemployment rate reached an all-time low of 2.2 percent in late 2006, the city carried a reputation for being a difficult place to find work and make a living. Baristas with graduate degrees served coffee, former big-city professionals made tacos, too many friends to count juggled multiple jobs to make ends meet. Now, with no community immune to the global recession, statistics show Missoula’s job market has finally caught up to its reputation. Unemployment reached 5.5 percent in December, the highest since 1997. The Missoula Job Service reports a record number of walk-ins a

month—more than 7,000 in January. Labor Ready fills with job seekers each morning at 5:30, most of whom sit watching television, playing cards or thumbing a book, waiting for work that rarely gets offered. The few new job listings posted around town—for even the most menial work—attract hundreds of applicants. The situation in surrounding areas appears worse. In Flathead and Ravalli counties, unemployment rates hit 8.7 and 8.3 percent, respectively, in December. The national unemployment rate jumped to 8.1 percent in February. (The federal government releases unemployment statistics a month or two in advance of state and county numbers.)

Jim McMahon Jim McMahon attended his first job interview at the age of 62. “And I was scared just crapless,” he says. After mustering his courage, McMahon got all “spiffied up” and “went in with the attitude, ‘You know, I am going to make you like me. That’s all there is to it.’” It was his first job interview after applying for 37 different positions. McMahon found himself unemployed after working 42 years in the tire business servicing semis, logging trucks and off-road vehicles. In December 2007, Davis Transport laid off McMahon and about 10 other employees, in part because high fuel prices forced the company to reorganize. He had worked at the company for 16 years. “In your mind you’re invaluable,” says McMahon. “The company can’t run without you. And that’s great, because you have to have that feeling, even at just a common labor job like I had for so

As bleak as the unemployment situation appears in Missoula, economist Larry Swanson stresses the need for perspective. Missoula experienced 7.5 percent unemployment in 1992 and 10.2 percent in 1991, fluctuations inherent to the region’s boom and bust economies. “Montana and Missoula and western Montana, historically, have had such a bumpy economy that all you have to do is go back over time and you can see—been there, done that,” says Swanson, who works for the Center for the Rocky Mountain West. That said, Swanson believes the local numbers will still get worse before they get better.

many years. And then, one day, the ax falls. Anybody with a lick of sense can see it coming.” McMahon worked for a local parts store in early 2008, but then, “as the economy kept sinking and the orders kept getting smaller, I was just taken off the schedule,” he says. “There were no more hours for me.” McMahon collected unemployment for the next five months. He applied for more than three-dozen jobs, but none called to offer an interview. He thought all he was cut out to do was change tires, he says, and there certainly weren’t any more jobs doing that. “I guess the worst part about the whole unemployment situation is you realize you don’t have much value anymore,” he says. Nor did his 401k. During his time at Davis Transport, McMahon put 15 percent of his paycheck into his retirement fund, and the company matched it. But when the economy tanked, so did his nest egg. “When I want to check my 401k I just go to the bathroom and

Montana’s unemployment rate jumped from 5.0 percent in December to 5.6 percent in January, the Bureau of Labor and Statistics announced March 11. If Montana continues its current climb behind the national trend, Swanson predicts a report of 6.2 percent unemployment for February. “We’re actually living the story the papers will be reporting in two months,” he says. The dismal state of the local economy will not come as news to the men and women profiled in this story. They represent a cross-section of everyday Missoulians struggling to find their worth in a changing job market.

lift the lid up from the toilet and look down the bowl,” he says. “And there it is, right down at the bottom, what’s left of it.” McMahon’s wife of 39 years, Anita, refused to let him get depressed. He credits her with smacking him upside the head and telling him to “Square up, stupid!” And then, after applying for the fourth time at the same local business, he was asked to interview for a full-time housekeeping position. Determined and dressed to the nines, McMahon made his case, and was offered the job. “I said, ‘I want it. I’ll take it. Right now,’” he says. “I was just tickled to death to get it.” He started two weeks ago. The day before beginning his training, McMahon said: “I told them going in that I’ve got five good years left in me. At the end of five years, I’d love to walk into my supervisor’s office, shake his hand, thank him very much for the opportunity he has given me, wish him the very best, and tuck my lunch bucket under one arm, my jacket under the other, and just waddle on down the street.”

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Hal Edwards Hal Edwards worked at the mill in Bonner for 35 years, moving up from general labor to quality control and safety. His wife worked at the same mill for 29 years. But in July 2007, the Stimson plywood plant shuttered and Edwards and his wife were among 130 workers who lost their jobs. The layoffs foreshadowed the broad effects a deeply troubled housing market would have on Montana’s already struggling forest products industry. In 2008 Montana’s wood products industry

employed about 9,070 workers, down from the industry’s recent high of about 11,000 workers in 2002 and the all-time high of more than 13,000 in 1978, according to figures from the University of Montana’s Bureau of Business and Economic Research. Recent layoffs at Plum Creek and other timber companies ensure the number of people working in the industry has dropped even further. After the Stimson layoffs, Edwards, 58, quickly landed a position at Montana Glass. But that job also succumbed to the hobbling housing market. He was laid off again in January 2008 and remains unemployed today. “We went from working at Stimson and mak-

ing between $70,000 and $75,000 a year between the two of us to, when they shut the mill down, making half that,” says Edwards. “Now that I’m not working it’s been reduced again... It hasn’t been a slight change in our lifestyle—it’s been a dramatic change in our lifestyle.” Edwards and his wife Kim, 53, have raised eight children. Five were once enrolled at the University of Montana at one time—Dad wears his Griz jacket proud—and one kid, a high school senior, still lives in the house. He’s looking for work, too. “So basically the whole family is unemployed,” Edwards laughs. When the mill closed, Edwards and his wife both received displaced worker grants through the union. Kim opted to be retrained and enrolled in the College of Technology ’s two-year medical assisting program. According to Barry Good, dean of the College of Technology, Kim’s decision reflects one common option for unemployed workers. He reports that spring enrollment jumped 103 students from last semester to 1,744 total, an uncommon increase. “I suspect that the reason there’s an increase in enrollment right now at the College of Technology between fall and spring is because of the situation with the economy,” says Good. With his wife in school, Edwards focused on distributing his resume to businesses all over Missoula. The one job he really wanted and felt qualified for involved meter

reading for NorthWestern Energy. But the opening was also referred to 703 job seekers at the Missoula Job Service, the vast majority of whom probably applied, according to supervisor George Palmer. “For one single job that was very close to the record,” Palmer says. Edwards estimates he has about 20 applications submitted elsewhere. He peruses sites like findmissoulajobs.com and craigslist.com daily, but he says only one or two labor jobs pop up each week. Meanwhile, he’s adjusting to a new life of frugality and free time. “We’ve never had to worry about grocery shopping,” he says. “If we wanted to go to the store it was nothing to spend a couple hundred dollars. Now we have a set list, and if there’s one thing over the list that we see that’s on sale maybe we’ll go ahead and buy it. We shop all the sales, like the cereal sale at Rosauers. It’s kind of embarrassing because I’ve never had to do that, but it’s part of our life now.” He has plenty of projects around the house— like finally putting in that new Pergo floor in the kitchen—but doesn’t have any money to tackle them. “So I got the old bread maker out,” he says. “I’ve been making bread—four or five loaves of bread a week—just trying to, you know… because I’ve got lots of spare time. It’s nice to be able to go back and do those simpler things. One day I made a loaf of white bread, I made a loaf of banana nut bread and four dozen peanut butter cookies.” Edwards says he has a couple promising leads, mainly warehouse and customer relations work—jobs he thinks are well-suited to someone with 35 years experience doing various duties at the Bonner mill. “I do have a pretty good background,” he says. “And I just hope that, because I don’t have the degree in animal husbandry, that they say, ‘This guy went to the college of hard knocks and he’s got a lot of good experiences. He’s got some good years left in him so let’s take a chance and see what happens.’ That’s what I’m hoping for.”

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Jenny Harris Rising paper costs and dwindling advertising revenue have caused newspapers across the country to announce layoffs or outright closures at a startling pace. In Montana, papers owned by Lee Enterprises are among the hardest hit. The Missoulian and Butte’s Montana Standard both laid off at least 13 employees in the last year. The Helena Independent Record and Billings Gazette also laid off at least 10. Lee’s stock, which traded for more than $40 a share in 2004, has dropped to less than 35 cents. The trend leaves new reporters like Jenny Harris looking for work. Harris, 24, grew up in Missoula and graduated from Montana State University with a degree in English literature. After working 15 months at the Ravalli Republic, the paper eliminated her position. “The hardest part, I think, was that it’s a small newsroom in a small community and really you’re friends with everybody,” says Harris, who was voted the region’s best reporter in a reader’s poll. Now, living in her parents’ basement, she questions the future of journalism and focuses on casting a broad net to find her next opportunity. “I’m young and just starting out in this business,” Harris says. “I’d like to keep going but I don’t know where it’s going. I don’t know if it’s reliable. I don’t know if there are any more jobs. I don’t know if it’s the end of the newspaperman. So it’s really time to take a deep breath and look at more law books, I don’t know…” Law school provides just one option for Harris. She applied to several schools, including the University of Montana, but worries the student loan debt could make it a “life sentence.” She also applied for about 25 jobs in and around Missoula—restaurant, clerical, and even timber construction positions—to no avail. “I think for every applicant you’ve got 20 people behind you who are way more qualified,” she says. For now, Harris works as a house sitter and babysitter to help

get by. She’s also preparing for a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Africa. At the end of the month she, along with four other young Montana women, will travel to Togo, Benin, Burkina Faso and Ghana as part of a Rotary Club student exchange fellowship for young professionals. Their itinerary includes a month touring hospitals and educational facilities on western Africa’s Ivory Coast, highlighted by spending Togo’s Independence Day administering the polio vaccine. Harris applied for the fellowship while still employed by the Republic and with the support of her publisher.

Tom Dunton A few years ago, a couple from New Jersey vacationing in Missoula fell in love with the university district and bought a beat-up, 900-square foot home. After renting it to students for a couple years, they hired remodeler Tom Dunton to completely gut it and add an addition. Now they live in Missoula part of the year. “I think they paid $200,000 for the house, and then put $300,000 into it,” surmises Dunton, “but the house they sold in Jersey paid for everything— and they even put money in the bank.” In today’s market, fewer homeowners can afford to sell a high-priced New Jersey property and invest in a comparatively cheap home in Missoula. As Dunton says, “With all the foreclosures in the other places, people aren’t selling their homes.” It’s one of the ways Missoula is being pulled into the national recession, and he’s feeling the repercussions. Dunton, 55, worked at Smurfit-Stone Container Corp.’s Frenchtown paperboard mill for 20 years as a boiler operator. He ran a handyman job on the side, and in 2001, when the local building industry began its boom, “I chose to let go of the security of a 20-year paycheck and break out on my own,” he says. He started Advantage Home Improvement. After starting his own business, Dunton joined Garramone Builders in 2006 as a superintendent. But in December, the company let him go.

“Builders are on the front line of this slowdown,” says economist Larry Swanson says. “When it got to us, we saw a slowdown in real estate activity, which then translated into a slow-

“Through the confusion of being unemployed and being let go it was still nice to walk away with something really positive and something that came out of that,” Harris says. The trip only suspends Harris’ job search temporarily. She’s unclear what she’ll do when she returns, but cherishes the fact that she’s in a more flexible position than most. “There are a lot of people who are married and have children and have a mortgage, and I’m young and single and still navigating my way,” she says. “It could be much worse.”

down of construction activity, because much of our construction activity is residential. The slowdown in real estate and residential construction translates into a slowdown in commercial construction.” Swanson says the bulk of Missoula’s—and the country’s—newly unemployed comes from construction industries. “I think when things were really booming,” Dunton says, “you had people—and I’ll put myself in that same boat—who were very good with a one- or two-man operation who, due to demand, ramped up, got a bigger crew, went after larger projects than just the one- or two-room remodel to fullhouse remodels.” Then demand fell off. Dunton currently collects unemployment. However, he fully expects to be back on the job site with Garramone within six to eight weeks, when the weather turns warmer and building activity picks back up. Projects are already in the queue, he says. Fortunately, while the savings he banked

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away during the good times are dwindling, “I’ve positioned myself to where I’m not in a tailspin.” Today, custom homebuyers are still around, but there’s been a sharp decline in the number of spec homes being built, Dunton says. “There are owners that we’ve worked with— they’ve got their plan, we have their permits, they bought the property and we’re building them exactly what they want,” he says. “And that ranges anywhere from over a $1 million house to a $300,000 house, where before you might have done a couple spec homes and the builder would go to the bank for a construction loan hoping it would sell.” But Dunton, who has three kids in Missoula who all work in the industry, believes Missoula’s market is bound for a rebound. With its low prices relative to other parts of the country, stable employment anchored by the University of Montana and because Montana lenders didn’t hand out sub-prime loans willy-nilly, he sees the market somewhat protected from the worst of the global recession. “At times I think we speak a self-fulfilling prophecy,” he says. “‘The sky is falling, the sky is falling.’ So therefore people are waiting for the sky to fall. I think people have to be fiscally responsible, but actually the opportunities—you have to be careful—but the opportunities right now are great. We have the ability and, done correctly, we can weather this storm and insulate our local economy, I think fairly readily. It’s not all doom and gloom.”

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Jammye Haroldson On a Wednesday morning at Missoula’s Labor Ready office, five men play cards at a table while Jammye Haroldson sits nearby reading a book. Others watch television and thumb through magazines. Some showed up as early as 5:30 in the morning hoping for temporary work and some quick cash, but no one appears headed to a job site anytime soon. Haroldson, 40, has been waiting for hours at Labor Ready every day for two weeks. He’s only been offered a job once, but he couldn’t accept it due to a conflicting meeting with the Office of Public Assistance to get food stamps. Haroldson’s unemployment status has little to do with the recent economic downturn, but his story shows that when the economy contracts and unemployment rises, the first to feel it are those already struggling. Last year, Haroldson worked as a driver for Jim Palmer Trucking. On September 29, 2008, he was heading to Illinois for a delivery when, on I80 in Iowa, an SUV crossed the median and struck another SUV before sideswiping Haroldson’s rig. Two people died and five others were injured. The police report claimed it was a suicide attempt by the SUV driver, and the Department of Transportation called it a “non-preventable accident.” Haroldson flew home to Missoula, received counseling and was back behind the wheel after just a few weeks. Then in January this year, he hit a patch of ice while driving in Washington and jackknifed his truck. Police said he was driving too fast for conditions. Jim Palmer then deemed his insurance premium too high. After a total of eight years with the company, he was fired. Haroldson doesn’t qualify for unemployment insurance compensation because, technically, the accident was his fault. And now, with no income whatsoever, he and his family are on the brink. “Since then I’ve probably put in 30 applications,” he says. “I filed at Wal-Mart, K-Mart, Target,

Lowes, Home Depot. I’ve filed for dishwashing jobs at several local restaurants. Janitorial positions. Right now I’d push a broom just doing anything.” Two businesses have called Haroldson, but neither offered interviews. When he follows up on his own, he hears that most companies are not hiring. “Come the first of the month—not to be negative or anything—I see us getting an eviction notice,” he says. “If we can’t pay the rent…” Haroldson, who spent 10 years in the military, needs a job to support his wife and two children, ages 12 and 18. His wife suffers from multiple sclerosis and is unable to work, and his youngest son, who suffers from enuresis, is in

state custody. Haroldson doesn’t specify why his son was taken away, but says not having a job is an impediment to getting him back. While Child and Family Services declines to talk about any specific cases, the agency does anticipate an increase in the number of children placed in state care because of the economy. Coral Beck, a regional administrator, says they haven’t seen the increase yet. “When you factor in a lot of different struggles people have, like chemical dependency and mental health issues and domestic violence and all of those things—one piled on top of the other piled on top of the other—at some point there is something that is the straw that breaks the camel’s back,” she says. “Sometimes economics is that

Hiring help Three tips from local experts on how to land a job Even in a crummy job market, the occasional new job still gets posted. With competition peaked for those open positions, we asked three local experts to offer advice on how to get your resume or application to the top of the pile.

Know the company George Palmer of Missoula Job Service recommends that applicants study the company they want to work for, understand its philosophies, and be ready to articulate how your skills are transferable to the position.

Tailor your resume Mike Heuring, director of University of Montana’s Career Services: “Without fail when a student or community member or an alumni comes in and talks to me, and they say, ‘Mike, I’m having no luck. I’m sending out hun-

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dreds of these things and I’m not getting any bites,’ the first and only question I have to ask them is, ‘Have you customized your letter and resume and targeted it to those things in the job description that they’re looking for, so as they read your resume and cover letter it reads very much like that job?’ They say, ‘No.’ Invariably, they say, ‘Hell no, that takes too much time.’ Looking for a job is a job.”

Play up prior performance Lynne Nelson of Nelson Personnel says if you’re able to land an interview, don’t dwell on what your duties have been, but on what you’ve actually accomplished for former employers. “I like to call it SAM,” she says. “It means what did you ‘save’ the company, ‘achieve’ or ‘make.’ Using this acronym will help.” Nelson also suggests writing a handwritten thank-you note after the interview. Make sure they get it the next day.

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straw that breaks the camel’s back. But it’s not solely the only issue. There’s usually a multitude.” Unless Haroldson can convince the state otherwise—and soon—another family will foster his son until he’s 18. “Basically [to get my son back] I need to have income coming into the house, and I have to have a house over my head and transportation. Well, I meet one of the three,” Haroldson says. “I got transportation—but I’m about to lose that because if I don’t have money to pay for gas, I’m going to be walking.” Which is why he sits reading a book at Labor Ready, every morning, hoping to be put to work. “Life ain’t far,” he says. “Nowadays it ain’t.”

Sheila Mischke Sheila Mischke realized what was on the other side of the bubble and slid off before it popped. She worked as a real estate agent in Missoula for about nine years before noticing a slump in sales and getting out of the business in November 2006. Her husband Craig also left the the industry at the same time. “We realized that the market was probably getting saturated and we were peaking out,” Sheila says. “So we went out on our own, and he started doing handyman work and I went into another line of work to hedge our bets.” According to the Missoula Organization of Realtors (MOR), total home sales in Missoula dropped from 1,385 in 2007 to 994 in 2008. The Mischkes count themselves among the many real estate agents in Missoula who, as a result, either jumped out of the business entirely or have found other ways to supplement their income until the market recovers. MOR membership dropped to 605 in February, down from a high of 778 in September 2007. Statewide, the Montana Board of Realty Regulation reports 888 Realtors declined to renew their licenses in 2008, about 15 percent of the group’s total in 2007. And the number of new licensees fell about a third between 2007 and 2008. “I have met several [Realtors] already who have fulltime jobs somewhere else doing other things,” says Sheila. “They’re keeping it under their hat, they’re not telling people, but they really aren’t working as realtors anymore, even though they are in the association and paying their dues.” Sheila knew the writing was on the wall when mort-

gage companies began to fail. She had deals fall through at the last moment. “We started to see how you could get to closing and the sellers would sign, and there’d be a pre-approved buyer waiting to sign in two hours, and, literally, their lending institution went under and they couldn’t sign,” she says. “It happened to us twice.” To make ends meet, Sheila, 44, and Craig, 41, started to “flex.” She kept her broker’s license and continues to occasionally take referrals. Last fall she became a certified real estate instructor and began teaching the county’s pre-licensing class for real estate agents. She also picked up a job at Albertson’s as a checker, and another at Hastings as a barista, a job she still has. Craig remains an “at-your-service handyman.” “I have no pride,” says Sheila. “As far as I’m concerned, it’s better to be working anywhere than to sit around feeling sorry for yourself. It just does not fly.” The circumstances made for a difficult 2008. The family of four—the Mischkes have two children, ages 12 and 14—survived on about half the income they had when Sheila and Craig worked in real estate. When Sheila’s mother became ill and Sheila had to leave town to care for her, money was even tighter. “We scrambled, but we survived,” she says. But Sheila’s “flex” strategy continues to pay off. A couple weeks ago Fidelity Real Estate tapped her to head up its new property management division. The company’s move reflects how real estate businesses are diversifying to stay afloat during the downturn, just like Sheila did. “This has been a two-year process, but I think as most people have pointed out to us—it’s hard for us to remember this—we were a year ahead of the game,” she says. “So going into this I think we’re pretty set. If things go as planned and I can grow this property management office like I think I can, then we’ll just be fine.”

the $$–$$$...$15 and over The Keep Restaurant 102 Ben Hogan Dr. 728-5132 Steak - Seafood - Fine Wines and Spirits. Serving dinner 5pm-10pm seven days a week. Cocktail hour Mon-Thur 5pm-6pm in our fireside lounge. The ideal setting for weddings, receptions, and rehearsal dinners. Dates still available in 2009, call today. For dinner reservations call 728-5132. www.thekeeprestaurant.com $$-$$$ 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. $$-$$$ Pearl Café & Bakery 231 E. Front St. • 541-0231 Country French Specialties, Bison, Elk, Fresh Fish Daily, delicious salads and appetizers. Breads and desserts baked in house. Reservations recommended for the warm & inviting dining areas, or drop in for a quick bite in the wine bar. Now, you may go to our website Pearlcafe.US to make reservations or buy gift certificates, while there check out our gorgeous wedding and specialty cakes. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Red Bird Restaurant & Wine Bar 111 N. Higgins Ave. 549-2906 A hidden culinary treasure in the Historic Florence Hotel. Treat yourself to a sensuous dining experience, service, cuisine and ambiance delivered with creative and elegant detail. Seasonal menus featuring the freshest ingredients. New wine bar open Monday - Saturday, 5:00 - 10:30. Enter through the Florence Building lobby. $$-$$$ Scotty’s Table 131 S. Higgins Ave. 549-2790 Enjoy the warm ambience of our cozy neighborhood bistro with an urban feel. Our chefs transport flavors from Europe and the

Mediterranean offering a creative New American twist on classic fare. Featuring the freshest ingredients from local growers. Serving lunch Tuesday through Sat. 11:00-2:30, and dinner Tuesday through Sun. 5:00close. Beer and wine available. $$–$$$. Sushi Bar & Japanese Cuisine 549-7979 Corner of Pine & Higgins Located in beautiful Downtown Missoula, serving traditional Japanese cuisine and exquisite sushi. Sushi Hana offers a variety of traditional and local favorites, including nigirisushi, maki-sushi rolls and sashimi. In addition, we offer Tempura, Teriyaki and appetizers with a delicious assortment of sauces. Expanded selection of sakes, beer and wine. Open 7 days a week for Lunch and Dinner. $$–$$$

$–$$...$5–$15 Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street • 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzone, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using "biga" (pronounced bee-ga) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making. Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Now featuring our winter menu. Lunch and dinner, Mon.-Sat. $-$$ The Bridge Pizza Corner of S. 4th & S. Higgins Ave. 542-0002 Dine-In, Drive-Thru, Delivery... Truly a Missoula Find. Popular with the locals. Voted best Pizza. Everything from hand-tossed, thin-crust, stone-deck pizza to wild salmon burritos, free-range chicken, rice & noodle bowls, ribs, pasta, salads, soups & sandwiches, "Pizza by the Slice." Local brews on tap and wine by the glass. Open every day for both lunch & dinner. $-$$ Food For Thought 540 Daly Ave 721-6033 Missoula “Original” Coffeehouse/Cafe located across from the U of M campus. Serving breakfast and lunch seven days a week. Also serving cold sandwiches, soups,

salads, baked goods and an espresso bar til close. Mon thru Thurs 7am - 8pm Fri & Sat 7am - 4pm Sun 8am - 8pm. www.thinkfft.com $-$$

Good Food Store 1600 South 3rd West 541-FOOD Our Deli features all natural made-to-order sandwiches, soup & salad bar, olive & antipasto bar, fresh deli salads, hot entrees, rotisserie-roasted free-range chickens, fresh juice, smoothies, organic espresso and dessert. Enjoy your meal in our spacious seating area or at an outdoor table. Open every day 7am - 10pm. $–$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins 541-4622 Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. We also offer catering. www.justinshobnobcafe.com MC/V $-$$ HuHot Mongolian Grill 3521 Brooks 829-8888 At HuHot you’ll find dozens of meats, seafood, noodles, vegetables and homemade sauces for the timid to the adventurous. Choose your favorites from the fresh food bars. You pick ‘em…we grill ‘em. We are as carnivore, vegetarian, diabetic, losalt and low-carb friendly as you want to be! Start with appetizers and end with desserts. You can even toast your own s’mores right at you table. A large selection of beer, wine and sake’ drinks available. Stop by for a great meal in a fun atmosphere. Kid and family friendly. Open daily at 11 AM. $-$$

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Noodle Express 2000 W. Broadway 541-7333 Featuring a mixture of non-traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Polynesian contemporary dishes. Phone ahead ordering is enhanced with a convenient PickUp window. $-$$ Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. 543-3188 Don't feel like cooking? Pick up some fried chicken, made to order sandwiches, fresh deli salads, & sliced meats and cheeses. Or mix and match items from our hot case. Need some dessert with that? Our bakery makes cookies, cakes, and brownies that are ready when you are. $-$$ Paul’s Pancake Parlor 2305 Brooks • 728-9071 (Tremper’s Shopping Center) Check out our home cooked lunch and dinner specials or try one of 17 varieties of pancakes. Our famous breakfast is served all day! Monday is all you can eat spaghetti for $6.95. Wednesday is turkey night with all of the trimmings for $6.95. Eat in or take-out. MF 6am-7pm, Sat/Sun 7am-4pm. $–$$.

The Mustard Seed Asian Café Located outside Southgate Mall Paxson St. Entrance 542-7333 Contemporary Asian Cuisine served in our all new bistro atmosphere. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combined from Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences to appeal to American palates. Full menu available in our non-smoking bar. Fresh daily desserts, microbrews, fine wines & signature drinks. Take out & delivery available. $$–$$$.

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by Ari LeVaux

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If you eat tomatoes in America between the months of December and May, chances are slaves picked some of the tomatoes. Ninety percent of the nation’s winter tomatoes are grown in Immokalee, Fla. Workers are mostly migrant Latinos like Mariano Lucas Domingo, an illegal Guatemalan. According to an article in this month’s Gourmet magazine, Domingo lived in the back of a locked truck for two and a half years, and was often shackled and beaten by his crew boss, who also kept his salary. Since 1997, Florida Law Enforcement has freed more than 1,000 slave laborers, and that only counts the cases that resulted in convictions against negligent crew bosses. Meanwhile, thousands more workers are regularly beaten, misled and cheated in Immokalee. In response to workers organizing for better conditions, one farm boss was reported as saying, “The tractor doesn’t tell the farmer how to run the farm.” The simple, humanistic thing to conclude here is that conditions should change for the workers, and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW ) is working to do that (more of that in a moment). But there is a deeper question also worth asking: “Do we need tomatoes in the winter?” I think the answer is no. Unfortunately, that would mean the CIW would have nobody to advocate for, because thousands of farm jobs would evaporate. But consider this: A typical Immokalee day begins at 5 a.m. when workers assemble in a parking lot full of old school busses. A different crew boss manages each bus, and he chooses the youngest and most fit for the day’s work. On a good day, workers earn about $50 for picking, literally, a ton of tomatoes. Much of their paycheck is then siphoned off to pay for the high rents charged for sub-par housing. Benefits generally included as part of a rental agreement cost extra—like $5 for a shower from a cold hose. The CIW originated in 1993, when a few

Ask Ari:

I recently moved to Missoula and would like to get a community supported agriculture (CSA) share this summer. Unfortunately all the CSAs I’ve contacted are full. Any ideas? —Desperately Seeking CSA!

363-4567 upstairs 217 Main St. Hamilton, MT Danielle Dupuy owner

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KFC, have agreed to the raise, as has McDonald’s. Burger King has so far refused. Steven Grover, Burger King’s vice president of global food safety, quality assurance and regulatory compliance, cites legal complexities of implementing the raise to explain why Burger King hasn’t signed on. “We just can’t find a legal way to do it,” he told QSR, a fast food industry trade journal. Despite Grover’s claims that he wants to play ball with CIW, according to QSR he recently instructed his buyers to find alternate tomato suppliers, rather than deal with CIW. And last year, as reported elsewhere, Grover was caught red-handed using his daughter’s online identity (“surfxaholix36”) to defame the CIW with comments like: “The CIW is an attack organization lining the leaders pockets…They

make up issues and collect money from dupes that believe their story…The people protesting don’t have a clue regarding the facts. A bunch of fools!” So, dear readers, I guess it’s time to boycott Burger King. Oh wait, most of you probably don’t go to Burger King anyway. And therein lies the issue: fighting for better worker conditions in an industry that shouldn’t exist. The chemical-intensive and monocropping techniques used to grow those tomatoes in Immokalee are bad for the planet, as is all of the petroleum burned in the tomatoes’ shipment. So while in the short term I’m in favor of workers getting paid and treated fairly, in the long term I think it would be best for the industry as a whole to fail. Josh Slotnick, director of the PEAS Farm and instructor of sustainable agriculture at the University of Montana, agrees. “I’m psyched to see the workers organize,” he says. “But it’s like sticking a skinny Band-Aid on a nasty infection. Ideally, conditions in their home countries wouldn’t be so bad that these workers felt the need to leave home and take these jobs that are so horrible nobody here wants to do them. These people should be growing their own tomatoes for their own communities back home, and we should be getting our tomatoes, in season, from here in Montana—not Florida.” Obviously, we can’t grow tomatoes in winter in Montana. But is this really a problem? Those Immokalee tomatoes, which are picked green and ripened later, don’t taste like tomatoes anyway. They only look like tomatoes. But the Montana tomatoes I have frozen and canned from last summer still taste like real tomatoes, while the winter salads I’ve been making with cabbage and frozen kale aren’t in the least bit lacking without them. And while my burger might not be quite the same without a slice of fresh tomato, the homemade ketchup I pour on top more than compensates.

Lightning round

This week we’re tackling lots of short questions.

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workers began meeting in a church. Since then, among other accomplishments, CIW was awarded the 2007 Anti-Slavery Award by Anti-Slavery International, and has been successful, via a series of restaurant boycotts, in a campaign to persuade some of the larger purchasers of Immokalee tomatoes to pay for a penny per pound raise to the pickers. A penny may not sound like much, but it’s the difference between $50 and $70 for that ton of tomatoes. To date, Yum! restaurants, which include Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, Arby’s and

That’s a very good question. I believe Homestead Organics, in Hamilton, still has space. You can contact them through www.montanahomegrown.org. Also, the Missoula Food Co-op sells boxes filled with foods grown on area farms. There is no season-long commitment with these food

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boxes, which can be purchased on a week-byweek basis. If anyone else knows any CSA’s with open memberships closer to town, let me know. You ran a recipe a while back for a simple salmon marinade that used soy sauce and amino acids, but I don’t recall the few other simple ingredients. If I’m barking up the right tree, could you please reply with the recipe? —Fully Marinated

That marinade was equal parts soy sauce and liquid amino, plus sugar and fresh dill. While I generally use it when making salmon jerky, it works great in the broiler or on the grill.

My name is Alex Cheng. I have a business transaction that would benefit us. This project has to do with funds transaction. Please write to my private e-mail to enable me to provide you with details on what I propose. —Mr. Alex Cheng

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Thanks for the letter, MAC, but this is a food column. Feel free to write back if you have a food-related question.

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My garlic is sprouting. Can I plant it? —Clove Quest You can plant it, CQ, but it won’t grow into mature garlic with a bulb. For that to happen you needed to plant it last fall.

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the Posh Chocolat 119 South Higgins 543-2566 Next to the Historic Wilma Building in downtown Missoula. The chocolate lovers paradise is now also a great place for lunch. With a total remodel, serving freshly made sweet and savory crepes, delicious quiches, soups, seasonal salads and artisanal European style pastries. And don't forget what's been keeping us busy since 2005; stop in and try our single origin, 100% Ecuadorian, hand crafted Truffles. www.poshchocolat.com. $-$$ The Press Box 835 E Broadway 721-1212 Enjoy our breakfast special, Monday through Friday, 7 AM to noon. We have great pizza, burgers & appetizers, and more! 21 beers on tap. Continually voted best sports bar in Missoula. Enjoy any game, any time at The Press Box. pressboxsportsbar.com. $-$$$ SA WAD DEE 221 W. Broadway 543-9966 Sa-Wa-Dee offers traditional Thai cuisine in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. Choose from a selection of five Thai curries, Pad Thai, delicious Thai soups, and an assortment of tantalizing entrees. Featuring fresh ingredients and authentic Thai flavors-no MSG! See for yourself why Thai food is a deliciously different change from other Asian cuisines. Now serving Beer and Wine! $-$$ Sean Kelly’s 130 West Pine 542–1471 Open for Lunch and Dinner! Check out our new menu: Sesame House Salad, Soba Vegetable Pasta, Warm Brie Salad, the Dubliner, Eggplant Parmesan Sandwich, and Great Italian Pastas. Irish favorites, too: Pasties, Fish and Chips & Shepherd’s Pie. “where the Gaelic and the Garlic mix!!” $-$$ Uptown Diner 120 N. Higgins 542-2449 Step into the past at this 50's style downtown diner. Breakfast is served all day. Daily Lunch Specials. All Soups, including our famous Tomato Soup, are made

from scratch. Voted best milkshakes in Missoula for 12 straight years. Great Food, Great Service, Great Fun!! Monday - Sunday 8a.m. - 3p.m. $-$$

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. $

Vietnam Noodle 2100 Stephens 542-8299 A true Vietnamese dining experience! Enjoy our authentic beef noodle soup, spring rolls, pad thai, Vietnamese style hot & sour soup, noodle soup bowls & daily lunch/soup combo specials. We suggest that you also try our new stuffed hot peppers. For your cooking pleasure at home, we have an Asian grocery next to our restaurant! Get a free meal on your birthday when you bring 5 or more friends. $-$$

Bucks Club 1805 Regent 543-7436 Missoula’s best Food & Drink Values. 2-for-1 food specials daily. Eat the legend. Burgers for a buck. Over 1,000,000 sold. Great Breakfast served daily. If you go away hungry, don’t blame us. Mon.–Sat. Open 7 AM and Sunday 8 AM. $

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. $-$$

$...Under $5 Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West 728-1358 Where Myrtle Avenue ends at Bernice's, a tiny bakery sits as a veritable landmark to those who enjoy homestyle baked goods, strong coffee, community, and a variety of delicious treats. Join us for lunch if you'd like. Crazy delicious. Crazy cheap. 30 years and still baking. Open Every Day 6AM to 8PM. $

Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins 728-8780 Celebrating 36 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and

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Cold Stone Creamery Across from Costco on Reserve by TJ Maxx & Ross 549-5595 Cold Stone Creamery, the ultimate ice cream experience! Our smooth and creamy ice cream is made fresh daily using our secret recipe. Come in for our weekday specials. Get $5 off ice cream cakes with your business card. Get Gift Cards any time. Treat yourself to a 10minute vacation at Cold Stone Creamery. $-$$ Le Petit Outre 129 South 4th West 543-3311 Twelve thousand pounds of oven mass…Bread of integrity, pastry of distinction, yes indeed, European hand-crafted baked goods, Pain de Campagne, Ciabatta, Cocodrillo, Pain au Chocolat, Palmiers, and Brioche. Several more baked options and the finest espresso available. Please find our goods at the finest grocers across Missoula. Saturday 8-3, Sunday 8-2, Monday-Friday 7-6. $

Bitterroot Valley Main Street Cafe 363-4567 upstairs 217 Main St. Hamilton Danielle Dupuy presents...A little taste of France in the Bitterroot. Serving Gourmet French American Cuisine. As of January 13, introducing Le Petits Plats menu (small plates) to enjoy with premium wines & European beers. Also featuring a tapas menu (small bites) and a cheese and dessert menu is also available. Serving dinners only Tues.-Sat. 5-9pm. Reservations.

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Arts & Entertainment listings March 12–March 19, 2009

THURSDAY March

Give your kids something to strive for when the Children’s Museum of Missoula, 225 W. Front St., offers the program Afterschool Adventures: Playdate with an Artist at 3 PM. $4.25/members free. Call 541-PLAY. See how you can help draw more people to the valley when you attend the Missoula Convention and Visitors Bureau board meeting at 3:30 PM in the MonTEC Conference Room, 1121 E. Broadway. Free. Call 532-3250. The Pancake Supper gets your gluten count skyrocketing at 4 PM, after which a little bingo will have you feeling normal in no time, and it all goes down at the Missoula Senior Center, 705 S. Higgins Ave. Cover TBA. Call 543-7154. This month’s Real Meals for Women event begins with food prep at 5 PM at the Orchard Homes Community Center, 210 N. Grove St., and clean up is done by 9 with leftovers and recipe cards for you to take home. $7/obo, EBT accepted. RSVP ASAP 546-4697. UM’s Gallery of Visual Arts hosts an opening reception for the BFA Senior Thesis Exhibition from 5–7 PM on the first floor of the UM Social Science Building. Free. Call 243-2813. Put your wee beastie’s flailing to good use when you sign them up for the ongoing Y Music Dance Therapy Group for kids aged 6–9, which teaches ways to use your body to manage big feelings, soothe tattered nerves and develop social skills, and meets every Thu. at 5 PM at the YMCA, 3000 S. Russell St. $16 per session/four session minimum. Call 721YMCA or visit ymcamissoula.org.

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The family reacts to Papa’s program of DIY root canals with varying levels of enthusiasm. Clockwise from top left, Rebecca Sporman, Justin Fatz, Alissa Tucker and Lili Hardy hit the stage when the MCT Community Theatre rolls out Bye Bye Birdie at 8 PM on Fri., March 13, with shows running through Sun., March 22. $15–20. Call 728-1911 or visit mctinc.org.

of Predatory Lenders—a country-crossing look at everyday Americans dealing with credit card debt—are followed by discussions. Free, donations appreciated. Visit peaceand justicefilms.org.

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An eight-week workshop offers a chance for people who’ve had cancer, dubbed Cancer, Courage and Creativity, takes place at 5:30 PM every Thu. through Apr. 30 at Living Art’s Reserve Street studios. Free, donations appreciated. RSVP 549-5329 or ysteinprograms@livingartofmontana.org.

The UM Peace and Justice Film Series continues at 5:30 and 7:30 PM in the UM University Center Theater, where screenings of Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era

Tarn Ream offers four weekly Introduction to African Dance classes, which begin with stretching at 5:30 PM and continue until 7 every Thu. through March 26, in the Sussex

School Gym, 1800 S. Second St. W. $10 per class/$35 for all four. Call 549-7933. All genres are encouraged—excepting, perhaps, death metal—every Thu. at 5:30 PM at Tangled Tones Music Studio, 2005 1/2 South Ave. W., where musicians bring their noise makers and synergy builds a joyful sound during the Tangled Tones Pickin’ Circle. Free. Call 396-3352. Budding artists between the ages of 13 and 18 can experiment with supplies, tour the galleries for inspiration and craft something magnificent during Teen Open Studio Night at the Missoula Art Museum at 6 PM. Free. Call 7280447 ext. 230. The valley’s haven for year-round thrashers, Fiftytwo Skatepark, on El Way past the Missoula

Airport, hosts Girls’ Skate Club Night every Thu. at 6 PM, which means girls skate for free. Guys are welcome, but should plan on parting with a few bucks. Call 542-6383. Learn more about their campaigns involving fair trade, indigenous rights and Colombia in general when you attend the next Community Action for Justice in the Americas (CAJA) meeting, which goes down at 6:30 PM at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 3635292 or visit cajistas.blogspot.com. Attend a Digital Recording Workshop and learn to use Apple’s GarageBand at 6:30 PM at the Tangled Tones Studio, 2005 South Ave. W., which is followed by an hour of music lab time. $35. RSVP 529-2601 or lcleminshaw@bresnan.net. Lake Missoula Cellars, 5646 W. Harrier, hosts a Local Artist Showcase featuring James Green, Ryan Bundy, Kevin Van Dort and Shane Clouse at 7 PM. Free. Call 541-8643. Help UM’s Students for Choice inspire the next generation of pro-choice leaders at 7 PM in UM’s University Center Ballroom, where VOICES.POWER.POLITICS features the presentation “Gender and Sexism in the 2008 Elections” with Salon.com political and feminist blogger Rebecca Traister. Free. In conjunction with tomorrow’s opening of the photography exhibit Amazonia at the ZACC, UM’s Urey Lecture Hall hosts Paulo Sotero, whose lecture, “Brazil and the Amazon: A Rising Environmental Power,” begins at 7 PM. Free. Dr. Freiss, a naturopathic physician with the Golgi Clinic, offers up a defense of fever with his presentation, “How Hot is Too Hot?: What Parents Should Know About Children’s Fevers” at 7 PM at Meadowsweet Herbs, 180 S. Third St. W. Free. Call 728-0543. Leave it to the Ninemile Working Group to host Carleen Gonder, whose 7 PM presentation end your event info by 5 PM on Fri., March 13, to calendar@missoulanews.com. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to Comrade Calendar c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367.

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Finding stray contact lenses is even trickier under fancy stage lighting. From left, Aubrey Clark and Clare Antonioli set minds a-twitter as the UM Spring Dance Showcase continues through Sat., March 14, in the UM PARTV Center’s Open Space. $8/$5 required students. Call 243-4581.

Wildlife Forensics: A Key Tool to Fight Poaching goes down at the historic Ninemile Ranger Station in Huson. Free. Call 626-4587. When the Roxy Theater invites you to their monthly Natural History Night, you’d better believe they know which side their popcorn’s buttered on. Or something like that. Anyway, at 7 PM, enjoy a double feature with Satoyama: Japan’s Secret Water Garden and Norfolk Broads. $5. Call 728-9380 or visit wildlifefilms.org. The UM Spring Dance Showcase offers two programs of high-energy innovations wherein 35 dancers pretty much cover the movement spectrum: Program I takes place at 7:30 PM in UM PARTV Center’s Open Space. $8/$5 required students. Call 243-4581. The real hip hop is over here: The Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., gives you something to pop and lock about every Tue. at 8 PM during Hip Hop Class. Call 541-7240 for pricing. Long-time Missoula midwife and health care reform advocate Dolly Browder talks about raising the focus of maternity care in national health care reform during a 7 PM presentation in the Missoula Public Library’s downstairs meeting room. Free. Call 543-6826. Let it all hang out—well, maybe not all of it— during L.I.V. Karaoke’s Ladies’ Night at the High Spirits in Florence starting at 9 PM. Free. Call 273-9992. Bring your instruments of entertainment, but leave the drum kits at home, as Polson’s East Shore Smoke House, half a mile north of the Finley Point turnoff on Highway 35, hosts a weekly “semi-unplugged” Blues Jam from 8–11 PM. Free. Call 887-2096. Bowling and karaoke go together like vacation and job retention during Solid Sound Karaoke at Westside Lanes at 8:30 PM. Free. Call 541-SING. Lying ass bitch or not, you’re warmly invited to The Other Side, where Fishbone takes absolutely no flack at 9 PM. $15/$13 advance. It’s short notice, but it’s cheap as hell: Take in a local band showcase, featuring the Chalfonts, the Magic Square, Skin Pancake and No Deficit, at 9 PM at the Elk’s Lodge. $1, for real.

The heavens open, the price of well drinks plummets and a tsunami of pure unabashed booty dancing hails your arrival every Thu. at the Badlander, where Dead Hipster DJ Night rewards you with rock, indie, krunk, pop and more at 9 PM. $2. Missoula’s most ballady balladeer, Russ Nasset, graciously picks up a gig at the Old Post Pub, playing every other Thu. at 10 PM. Free. Bassackwards Karaoke turns your world underside-up every Thu. at 9 PM at Deano’s Casino on Airway Boulevard. Free. Call 531-8327. Join the ranks of the Missoula Metal Militia, led by DJs Hot Pocket and Uranus, at the Palace Lounge at 9 PM. $3. A Front Street tradition is reborn with the return of Candlelight Acoustics, an every-Thursday event at the Top Hat featuring singer-songwriters sharing their gifts in the luminous glow at 9 PM. The doors open at 5, and this week, the Fiance inhabits the spotlight. Free. Call 728-9865. Here’s a better reason than stray ping pong balls for you to get on stage: The Union Club and Teri Llovet host Jammin’ at the Union, an open mic/jam night, every Thu. at 9 PM, so bring that axe and get to work. Free. As per contractual stipulations, Sean Kelly’s erects padded walls around the stage when Bob Wire busts out a solo show at 9:30 PM. Cover TBA. Call 542-1471.

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The two-day event known as Mismo’s Magical Meet begins at 3 PM at Valley Christian School with the boys’ competition and continues on Sat., March 14, with a full day of girls’ contests. Free. Call 728-0908 or 360-0396. Boys aged 7–13 can express that excess energy in an aesthetic way every Fri. at 3:30 PM, when the ZACC, 235 N. First St. W., presents their Boys’ Art Group and encourages artsy exploration of the gross and the weird in a variety of media. $65/four classes. Call 549-7555 or visit zootownarts.com. Beginner Belly Dance for kindergarten–second grade meets every Fri. at 4:30 PM at the Belly Tent Dance Studio, 2016 Strand Ave., Ste. B. $7. Call 207-8302. If you know an outstanding person who happens to be female, hurry: At 5 PM, you’ll have passed the deadline to nominate her for the YWCA’s 20th Salute to Women awards, for which a banquet dinner takes place on May 14. Call 5436691 or visit ywcaofmissoula.com. Mustn’t forget the mid-range: Beginner Belly Dance for third–fifth grade meets every Fri. at 5:15 PM at the Belly Tent Dance Studio, 2016 Strand Ave., Ste. B. $7. Call 207-8302. Kids aged 7–12 can artistically chow on pizza and slurp soda whilst watching a movie and learning a new glazing technique each week at 5:30 PM during Kids’ Pottery Night at the ZACC, 235 N. First St. W. $20 includes 10 percent off all pottery. RSVP 549-7555. Ding! It’s round two of our own local amateur fashion design competition, Project Selvedge, wherein seven fierce competitors face judgment of their latest works at 6 PM at Selvedge Studio. Free.

nightlife The Second Friday tradition continues at the ZACC, 235 N. First St. W., where an opening reception for Amazonia, an exhibit of photography that ponders the future of the rainforest, begins at 6 PM. Free. Call 549-7555. (See Spotlight in this issue.) The Ms. Galaxy Pageant premiers the 2009 International Competition at Hamilton’s Roxy Twin Theatre at 6:45 and 9 PM, with door prizes, swimsuit footage and more. $10/under 12 free. Call 369-3110.

The Gravely Mountain Boys perform a benefit concert for the Arlee Community Development Corporation at 7 PM at the Hangin Art Gallery and Coffee House, which will be followed by an open bluegrass jam. Free. Call 726-5005 or 370-3358. Get down with the silky smooth sounds of the Discount Quartet, whose three-piece flava expands to fill every nook ‘n’ cranny of Zootown Brew, 121 W. Broadway, at 7 PM. $5. Dreamy vampires fill the screen when the UM University Center Theater screens Twilight at 7 PM. $4/$2 with Griz card. The second annual Reel to Real Food Film Fest, which features six films related to local food and agriculture systems, begins at 7 PM at the Roxy Theater and runs through Sun., March 15. $5 per screening/$12 for all three. Call 880-0543. The Missoula Public Library’s World Wide Cinema series presents In Love We Trust, a Chinese film in which a couple decides to illegally have another child to save their firstborn from a blood disease, at 7 PM. Free. Call 721-2665. The UM Spring Dance Showcase offers two programs of high-energy innovations wherein 35 dancers pretty much cover the movement spectrum: Program II takes place at 7:30 PM in UM PARTV Center’s Open Space. $8/$5 required students. Call 243-4581. Leave your comfort zone and discover something shiny and new when Tia Troy and Seth James play Lake Missoula Cellars, 5646 W. Harrier, at 7:30 PM. $5. Call 541-8643. The UM Department of Music presents the Symphonic Wind Ensemble at 7:30 PM in UM’s University Theatre. $10/$5 student and seniors. Call 243-6880. Simple circle and partner dances bring you closer to that One Big Unnamable Thing when Dances of Universal Peace features live music and no need for experience at 7:30 PM at the Open Way Mindfulness Center, 702 Brooks St. Freewill donation. Call 251-3010. The Whitefish Theatre Company, 1 Central Ave., presents Edward Albee’s 1962 groundbreaking drama Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at 7:30 PM. $14/$10 students and seniors. Call 862-5371 or visit whitefish theatreco.org.

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I hereby distance myself from this one: The No Means Yes Party kicks off at 9 PM at Dauphine’s Cafe, 130 E. Broadway, and features music by Dr. Agony and the Mystery Date, Streetlight People, Pluto’s a Planet and March of the Black Queen. $5. Montana Rep Missoula raises money for the Crystal Theatre with a production of Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde— featuring returning Missoula theater mainstay Severt Philleo— at 8 PM at the Crystal Theatre. $20. Call 243-4581. (See Scope in this issue.) It’s a family-friendly trip back to the days of poodle skirts and serious hair goop when the MCT Community Theatre presents Bye Bye Birdie at 8 PM. $20. Call 728-PLAY or visit mctinc.org. Wrap your mind around the furious string-picking of Head for the Hills, who paint the Badlander a bluer shade of grass with a little help from one Jessica Kilroy at 9 PM. $8. (See Spotlight in this issue.) DJs Brand One and Rob Harper spin hella hip hop, funk, house & electro at 9 PM at the Palace Lounge. Free. Russ Nasset and the Revelators help green you up at the Union Club at 9 PM. Free. It’s time for an all-request video dance party to celebrate the week’s end: Feelgood Friday featuring hip hop video remixes with The Tallest DJ in America at 9 PM at The Broadway Sports Bar and Grill, 1609 W. Broadway. Free. Call 543-5678. Belt out a few bars of somethin’ sexy at East Missoula’s Reno Casino and Cafe’s karaoke night, brought to you by Karaoke by Figmo, every Fri. and Sat. night at 9 PM. Free. Be thankful that the freedom to speak includes the freedom to sing when you sidle up to the mic at karaoke night at the VFW, kicking off at 9 PM. Free. Release your inner Kool Moe Dee when Larry’s Six Mile Casino and Cafe in Huson presents an evening with Grayhound Karaoke at 9 PM. Free. Call 546-8978. Check your six-shooters at the door, ladies, it’s Sho Down at 9 PM at the High Spirits in Florence. Free. Consider this fair warning to shore up the foundation: Landslide plays Sean Kelly’s at 9:30 PM. Cover TBA. Call 542-1471. No doubt you’ll feel no regret when you plop down no money to hear No Shame rock Harry David’s at 9:30 PM. Free. The antidote to whatever Friday the 13th hex you’ve acquired is the 10 PM performance by the oldtimey pluckers of Wise River Mercantile, who play the Old Post Pub. Free. They bring the groove rock all the way from Portland, Ore.: Yep, it’s Dorado at the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA. Call 728-9865. He lives to spin: DJ Dubwise just can’t stop the dance tracks once they start at 10 PM at Feruqi’s. Free. Call 728-8799.

SPOTLIGHT leafy lungs

Montana’s Greatest Snow Place

In the words of the immortal Bush—the band, not the puppet—“Breathe in, breathe out.” And now, thank the rainforest. This week, images from our global atmosphere refinery come to the Zootown Arts Community Center (ZACC) with the opening of the photography exhibit Amazonia.

Only 90 Miles South of Missoula

In Brazil, debate regarding the Amazon region has dominated public discussion for decades. A region of profound resource potential, as well as extreme fragility, the rainforest will not sustain

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present levels of exploitation forever. In the interest of the people living in the area, as well as the rest of humanity, this exhibit aims to bring the debate to a larger audience. It is believed that encouraging broader discussion and contemplation of Brazilian natural

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A two-day Tool Making Workshop runs 9 AM–4 PM through Sun., March 15, at the Clay Studio, 1106-A Hawthorne St. $175. Call 543-0509. Platinum-grilled producers-to-be can attend a Digital Recording Workshop and learn to use Apple’s GarageBand at 10 AM at the Tangled Tones Studio, 2005 South Ave. W., which is followed by an hour of music lab time. $35. RSVP 5292601 or lcleminshaw@bresnan.net. Your next installment of Sam’s Spade Garden Tools and Wares’ Garden Lecture Series, “Virtues of a Minimum-Till Garden,” begins at 10 AM and features organic grower Rod Danie leading the interactive discussion. Free. RSVP 363-1293. The party begins early, with familyfriendly music and food at 10 AM, when a Celtic Celebration sweeps into Caras Park like a potato famine before turning into a more, um, adult-appropriate affair—read: Booze—at 2 PM, from whence the fete rolls on ‘til 10. Free, unless you consume items like food and drink. Donate your used yet functional mountain/outdoor gear to Mountain Shepherds, a community-owned eco-tourism group in the Himalayas, during the month-long drive Gear for the Garhwal: A Mountain to Mountain Community Service, which has drop-off points at

Jonne Roriz’s “Means of Transportation” appears in Amazonia.

resource issues in America will help raise the South American nation’s profile in this country, a change that will inspire cooperation and understanding on an international level. Whatever the outcome in the long run, here’s your chance to see beautiful images from a faroff land that’s inextricably linked to you and everyone you know.

Pipestone Mountaineering, the Trailhead, Bob Wards and the UM Outdoor Program. Call 370-2294. It says what it does and it does what it says: The Missoula Art Museum presents the Saturday Family Art Workshop: Spring Scenes with Fabric at 11 AM, in which Michelle Weber guides your clan into the wonderland of little no-sew fabric landscapes. $5 per participant. Call 728-0447. Author Donna Love shares her book Henry the Impatient Heron with the amassed throngs during an 11 AM Story Time at the Missoula Public Library. Free. Call 721-2665. Join Hanna Hannan for a Clay Class for Kids and Families—7–13 years of age, or 4–6 with parents—at noon at the ZACC, 235 N. First St. W. $20. Call 549-7555. Missoulians get ornery if they go too long without a parade: Feed that jones at noon at the XXXX’s at the north end of Higgins Avenue, where the St. Patrick’s Day Parade assembles for the long walk to Grizzly Grocery. Free. Learn how to respond to nonhuman medical emergencies when Footloose Montana sponsors a Dog First Aid and CPR Class at noon at the Missoula Red Cross Service Center. $50/$20 to retake. RSVP 493-6220 or mtpetfirstaid@ earthlink.net. Practice your rapid eye movement when you check out all that’s new during a Ten Minute Tour every Sat. at noon at the Missoula Art Museum. Free. Call 728-0447.

—Jonas Ehudin

The UM Spring Dance Showcase offers two programs of high-energy innovations wherein 35 dancers pretty much cover the movement spectrum: Program II takes place at 2 PM in UM PARTV Center’s Open Space. $8/$5 required students. Call 243-4581. Author Donna Love reads from and signs her book Henry the Impatient Heron during a 2 PM Book Launch Party at Barnes and Noble. Free. Give the kids something to populate nightmares—okay, just kidding— when you traipse over to the Montana Natural History Center, 120 Hickory St., for the Saturday Kids’ Activity Sneaky Snakes at 2 PM. $2/members free. Call 327-0405. It’s a family-friendly trip back to the days of poodle skirts and serious hair goop when the MCT Community Theatre presents Bye Bye Birdie at 2 PM. $15. Call 728-PLAY or visit mctinc.org. Veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan can join facilitator Chris Poloynis every Sat. at 3 PM, when Spartans Honour, an outdoor PTSD support group, meets at Greenough Park’s southernmost footbridge. Free. Call 327-7834. The UM Department of Music presents a student recital by clarinetists Kristen Engebretson and Ty Wes at 3 PM in UM’s Music Recital Hall. Free. Call 243-6880. Hanna Hannan and community guests present the six-week adultsonly course Nicaraguan Pottery and Clay: Hand Building every Sat. through April 11, at 3 PM at the

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SPOTLIGHT lucky love In the 59 years since it first opened on Broadway, the musical Guys and Dolls has been presented by legions of stage and screen actors. But according to director and new UM faculty member Jere Hodgin, the old girl’s still capable of surprising audiences. In the interest of education, a brief synopsis: Dedicated gambler Sky Masterson, always looking for an angle, takes on a bet from high-roller

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From left, Madison Monroe and Chris Torma are, respectively, a doll and a guy.

Citing recent well-received runs in London and Melbourne—and excusing a current New York production that’s met with negative reviews— his take on Guys and Dolls is that it’s a timeless piece, a canvas open to reinterpretation and novelty. —Jonas Ehudin

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ZACC, 235 N. First St. W. $80/sixweek course. Call 549-7555 or visit zootownarts.com. Satisfy that thirst for something beyond ordinary wine at the Hidden Legend Winery, at Sheafman corner and Highway 93 S., where the honey wine flows and the local music rolls every Sat. at 5:30 PM. Free. Call 363-6323.

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wine, Posh Chocolat chocolate and Groundhogs coffee—begins at 7 PM at Lake Missoula Cellars, 5646 W. Harrier, with music by the Donna Smith Jazz Trio. $25. Call 542-2833. The second annual Reel to Real Food Film Fest, which features four more films related to local food and agriculture systems, begins at 7 PM at the Roxy Theater and runs through Sun., March 15. $5 per screening/$12 for all three. Call 880-0543. The UM Spring Dance Showcase offers two programs of high-energy innovations wherein 35 dancers pretty much cover the movement spectrum: Program I takes place at 7:30 PM in UM PARTV Center’s Open Space. $8/$5 required students. Call 243-4581. You are not to associate this event with the ZACC, 235 N. First St. W., even though it takes place beneath it: Feast your ears on a five-band show at 7:30 PM when Bombs & Beating Hearts, The Mooks, Birds Mile Home, T.S.M.F. and the Chalfonts play in the basement. $5. The Missoula Symphony Orchestra and Chorale, led by Darko Butorac and Dean Peterson and featuring guests Jasmina Halimic, Kimberly Gratland James, Hugo Vera and Jeremy Milner, does Verdi proud as they hammer out his “Requiem” at 7:30 PM in UM’s University Theatre. Call 721-3194. The Whitefish Theatre Company, 1 Central Ave., presents Edward Albee’s 1962 groundbreaking drama Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at 7:30 PM. $14/$10 students and seniors. Call 862-5371 or visit whitefishtheatreco.org.

Shake it to the tunes of Heart to Heart, who rock the Missoula Senior Center, 705 S. Higgins Ave., at 8 PM. $5. Call 543-7154. Whatever your gender, you’ll find something worthy of a guffaw, or something, when the Hamilton Performing Arts Center presents Defending the Caveman at 8 PM. $24.50–34.50. Call 363-7946 or visit hamiltonpas.org. The Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., requests you don your flashiest 80’s garb and shake it ‘til it nearly falls off when Dance Party USA begins at 8 PM to raise professional development funds. $7 suggested donation. L.I.V. Karaoke night, which starts at 8 PM at the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., is proof that it’s hard to soar with, oh, well... nevermind. Free. Call 531-7800. Montana Rep Missoula raises money for the Crystal Theatre with a production of Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde—featuring returning Missoula theater mainstay Severt Philleo—at 8 PM at the Crystal Theatre. $20. Call 2434581. (See Scope in this issue.) It’s a family-friendly trip back to the days of poodle skirts and serious hair goop when the MCT Community Theatre presents Bye Bye Birdie at 8 PM. $20. Call 728-PLAY or visit mctinc.org. Solid Sound Karaoke proves that music can also be a liquid or a gas, but never plasma, at Westside Lanes at 8:30 PM. Free. Call 541-SING. Once the scene at the Doubletree begins to fade, head to the Elk’s Lodge, where The Q Ball: The Black & White Aftermath begins at 9 PM, features the Duke on the wheels of steel and your bodacious booty all over the dance floor. $5/$6 under 21 or $2/$3 under 21 with Black & White Ball ticket stub. Try something a little bit local on for size when Baba Ghanoush and The Wartime Blues play the Badlander at 9 PM. $5.

The Full Moon Prophets foresee a long night of swaying posteriors and groping ganglia when they play the Union Club at 9 PM. Free. Relive your most energetic days of denim vests and black T-shirts when notable Canadian AC/DC tribute band BC/DC shoots to thrill at 9 PM at The Other Side. $15. The Frenchtown Club, 15155 Demers St., lets the karaoke genie out of the bottle at 9 PM. Turn south after taking exit 89 from I-90. Free. Call 370-3200. Feel free to perform “Bella Ciao” by Mirah & The Black Cat Orchestra during karaoke night at 9 PM at the VFW but don’t be surprised if someone tells you we’re in Missoula, and so it’s time to start talking American. Free. If you get nervous in front of crowds, just imagine they’re all naked at East Missoula’s Reno Casino and Cafe’s karaoke night, brought to you by Karaoke by Figmo at 9 PM. Free. You can expect just about anything— except smoke—when the Palace Lounge, 147 W. Broadway, presents CUE with DJ Hickey at 9 PM every Sat. Free. Check your six-shooters at the door, ladies, it’s Sho Down at 9 PM at the High Spirits in Florence. Free. Warm up the leprechaun in you as venerable Celtic band Malarkey plays Sean Kelly’s at 9:30 PM. Cover TBA. Call 542-1471. If you loved the music in the old Ritz, you’ll be thrilled to know that DJ Concave brings that same flava to Boomer’s Pub every Sat. at 9:30 PM. Free. Call 531-1510. SWYL returns their own style of hard rockin’ funk to the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA. Call 728-9865. DJ Dubwise supplies dance tracks all night long so you can take advantage of Sexy Saturday and rub up against the gender of your choice at 10 PM at Feruqi’s. Free. Call 728-8799.

SUNDAY

March

You’re hereby invited to Hamilton’s Carriage House, 310 N. Fourth St., every Sun. at 9 AM, in order that you might bear witness to Rev. Kathianne Lewis’ message from the Center for Spiritual Living in Seattle. Free. Call 375-9996. Sunday brunch at 10 AM with jazz from Three of a Kind is classy so don’t just roll out of bed and head into the Blue Canyon Kitchen & Tavern, located in the Hilton Garden Inn at 3720 N. Reserve Street. Free. Get there early, and get there hungry: The UM University Center hosts the International Food and Culture Festival from noon–5 PM, with tasty bites from over 30 countries to tempt your gullet and dancing, drumming, fashion and more from far, far away. The Missoula Food Bank will also be accepting canned goods and donations. $2/$1 under 12/sample prices vary. Call 243-2226. As part of UM’s International Week, professor James Sears presents “Rafting Through Siberia: A 500mile Geological Journey” at 2 PM in the UM University Center Theater. Free. Playing bingo at 2 PM at the Missoula Senior Citizens Center is your chance to yell “BOING!” Free. Call 543-7154.

It’s a family-friendly trip back to the days of poodle skirts and serious hair goop when the MCT Community Theatre presents Bye Bye Birdie at 2 PM. $15. Call 728-PLAY or visit mctinc.org. The Missoula Symphony Orchestra and Chorale, led by Darko Butorac and featuring guests Jasmina Halimic, Kimberly Gratland James, Hugo Vera and Jeremy Milner, does Verdi proud as they hammer out his “Requiem” at 3 PM in UM’s University Theatre. Call 721-3194. The final day of the Reel to Real Food Film Fest, which features two more films related to local food and agriculture systems, begins at 4 PM at the Roxy Theater. $5 per screening/$12 for all three. Call 880-0543. The Whitefish Theatre Company, 1 Central Ave., presents Edward Albee’s 1962 groundbreaking drama Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at 4 PM. $14/$10 students and seniors. Call 862-5371 or visit whitefishtheatreco.org. The Second Wind Reading Series delivers the sweet sounds of prose by Dee McNamer, with a side of poetry from Caitie Moore and Lisa Schumaier, at 5:30 PM in the Palace Lounge. Free.

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Wintergreens—featuring a local, organic dinner and smashing silent auction—at 6 PM in the Palace Hotel, which was formerly known as Casa Pablo’s. $15/under 10 free. RSVP 523-3663. Find your muse at the bottom of a highball glass when Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School rolls into the Union Hall at 6 PM for three hours of incredible modeling by the incredible Jaycey and the phenomenal Caitlin, music by DJ Mermaid, delicious cocktails, drawing and debauchery. Dry art media are encouraged. $8. Visit sketchymissoula.com. It’s a family-friendly trip back to the days of poodle skirts and serious hair goop when the MCT Community Theatre presents Bye Bye Birdie at 6:30 PM. $18/$15 under 19. Call 728-PLAY or visit mctinc.org. UM’s Italian Club presents Caterina in the Big City, the tale of a small fish in a big pond, anthropomorphically speaking, at 7 PM in UM’s University Center Theater. Free, sponsored by the National Italian American Foundation (niaf.org). Dig up some fossilized tunes when the Montana Early Music Festival returns to St. Paul Lutheran Church, 202 Brooks St., where the 7:30 PM program includes such hits as D. Scarlatti’s “Stabat Mater” and Francisco Valls’ “Missa Scala Aretina.” $18. Call 543-5059. The Whitefish Theatre Company, 1 Central Ave., presents Edward Albee’s 1962 groundbreaking drama

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Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at 7:30 PM. $14/$10 students and seniors. Call 862-5371 or visit whitefishtheatreco.org. Euchre is one of those games that goes great with beer because you can tell what the cards look like even if your vision is a little blurry. See what I mean, or try to anyway, tonight at Sean Kelly’s just-for-fun Euchre Tournament at 8 PM. Free. The weekend isn’t over until you wrap it up with Jam Night at the Finish Line, 153 Meridian Road in Kalispell, where Landslide hosts at 8 PM. Free. Call 2570248. Kick off the latter hours of your day of rest when the Badlander’s Jazz Martini Night welcomes saints and sinners alike with jazz DJs at 9 PM with a live jazz band at 10. Free. Hear ye, hear ye: AmVets Club offers a new spin on karaoke night, and it’s known as “Jheryoake.” Delve into the mystery at 9 PM, when Happy Hour gets the crowd loose until 10. Free. Hate smoky pool halls? No sweat—and no smoke: Head underground when The Palace, 147 W. Broadway, features a rotating cast of Random Rock DJs at 9 PM every Sun. Free.

MONDAY March

SPOTLIGHT king of the hills It’s not surprising that audiences at Head for the Hills (H4TH) shows experience a sense of inspiration bordering on that tingly sense you get right before passing through to nirvana. With great technical skill and a confirmed unwillingness to be bound by traditional bluegrass constraints, H4TH exemplifies and expands that high Rocky Mountain sound: light and airy, quick and unpredictable, pretty much a soundtrack for an evening of joyous stomping.

WHO: Head for the Hills and Jessica Kilroy WHEN: Fri., March 13, 9 PM WHERE: The Badlander HOW MUCH: $8 When the Badlander hosts the Fort Collins foursome, who head into the studio in May to craft a follow-up to their 2007 debut Robber’s Roost, you can expect a strong showing from the group that’s shared the stage with the genre’s

Tune in to KGVO—that’s 1290 on your AM dial—at 8:30 AM for a discussion regarding re-establishing passenger rail service through southern Montana when Missoula City Council member Dave Strohmaier joins host Pete Deneault on the show “Talk Back”. Free. Oh, and call in your thoughts and questions once they announce the phone number. Eight days of Ravalli County Kids’ Health Screenings—including review of immunization records, vision, hearing, speech/language and more—begin at 9 AM at Corvallis Primary School, with subsequent events through Fri., March 27. Free. Call 961-3261 for an appointment today, or call 549-6413 for other sites. That beanie won’t save your melon: Protect your head with the help of St. Patrick Hospital, which holds another Low Cost Helmet Sale from 10 AM–1 PM on the fifth floor of their Broadway Building. $7–20, depending upon the sport. Call 329-5660. UM’s International Week begins with an Opening Ceremony, featuring speakers and

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Bar, 111 N. Higgins Ave., at 7 PM. Free. Call 549-2906. Try some acrobatics on for size when Cathy Clark presents six weeks of Lindy Hop Workshop every Mon. at 7 PM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. Call 541-7240 for pricing. You’ve got another chance to connect the dots this evening when the VFW hosts bingo at 7 PM. Free. UM’s Italian Club presents Caterina in the Big City, the tale of a small fish in a big pond, anthropomorphically speaking, at 7 PM in UM’s University Center Theater. Free, sponsored by the National Italian American Foundation (niaf.org). There’s a meditation group at Osel Shen Phen Ling Tibetan Buddhist Center, 441 Woodworth Ave., where sadhana practice, visualization and mantra recitation cleanse the doors of perception at 7 PM. Call 543-2207. biggest names, from David Grisman and Sam Dig up some fossilized tunes when Bush to Nickel Creek and Tim O’Brien. the Montana Early Music Festival launches into a second Once Missoula fave Jessica Kilroy gets your evening at St. Paul Lutheran Church, dancing feet warmed up and dispels any con202 Brooks St., where the 7:30 PM th cerns regarding Friday the 13 mayhem, this program comprises a total Bach-ashow’s capacity for inspiration will move you thon from the Brandhout Ensemble, brightly across the bustling floor and onward into with a smattering of soloists to keep NewGrass’ resonant future. you shaking thy money maker. $15. Call 543-5059. —Jonas Ehudin The UM Department of Music presents a student recital by flautist Heather Zimmerman and bassoonist Adam Finch at 7:30 PM in The Red Bird, 111 N. Higgins Ave., presents a UM’s Music Recital Hall. Free. Call 243-6880. five-course dinner paired with Lange Wines at some point this evening. $85 includes The Wild Mercy Reading Series, a side project of UM’s Environmental Studies departfood, wine and gratuity. RSVP 549-2906. ment, saves the best for last as it presents Young people with an eye for the stage can pick poet/farmer Josh Slotnick and writer/eater up a few tricks of the trade every Mon. at 5 PM Jeremy Smith at 7:30 PM at the Missoulian when the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Angler, 401 S. Orange St. Free. Main St., presents Musical Theater Dance for Experience momentum, balance, and timing 11–15 Years. Call 541-7240 for pricing. tuned with a strong drummer-dancer connecStart down the path that ends in a Las Vegas tion every Mon. at 7:30 PM with West African dressing room every Mon. at 6 PM when the Sabar dance class at the Teranga Arts School, Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., 2926 S. Third St. W., across from Hawthorne presents Show Girl 101. Call 541-7240 for Elementary. $10. Call 721-3854 and drum up pricing. directions at terangaarts.googlepages.com. Underwrite the efforts of Hamilton’s At Be Here Now Sangha you can learn the Supporters of Abuse Free Environments with a basics of meditation every Mon. night at 7:30 benefit screening of the film Until the PM at the Open Way Mindfulness Center, 702 Violence Stops, a look at the success of Eve Brooks St. Open to all religions and levels of Ensler’s Vagina Monologues at battling gender practice. Free, but donations appreciated. violence, at 7 PM at the Roxy Twin Theater in The UM President’s Lecture Series offers Hamilton, where a social hour begins at 5:45. up UM Regents Professor of Philosophy $10. Call 363-2793. Albert Borgmann, whose presentation You’ll know you’re in the right place when your “Politics and the Pursuit of Excellence” ears are soothed by the triumphant tremolo of begins at 8 PM in the University Theatre. Free. The Acousticals, who play the Red Bird Wine Call 243-2981.

dancers, in the University Center Atrium. Events continue through the week. Visit www.umt.edu/ip/events/InternationalWeek.ht m for a full schedule. One example of the abundant offerings comprising UM’s International Week is the 3:30 PM presentation “Indigenous Community Development in Mexico, Canada and the U.S.” by Native American Studies professor David Beck, which takes place in Room 326 of UM’s University Center. Free. Two sessions of the popular World Rhythm Youth Hand Drumming Class take place at the Tangled Tones Music Studio, 2005 South Ave. W. every Mon.: At 4:30 PM, kids aged 5–7 can get their grooves on, and a class for those 8 and above begins at 5:15. $30 per month/drum rental: $15 per month. RSVP 396-3352 or visit tangledtones.com.

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Feel the luck o’ the square-ish as the Lolo Square and Round Dance Center, 9955 Highway 12 west of Lolo, presents a St. Patrick’s Day Dance at 8 PM. Cover TBA. Call 273-0652 or 273-0141. Unite the clans with Geneva Bybee, who presents Tribal Fusion Bellydance at 8 PM every Mon. and Wed. at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. Call 541-7240 for pricing. Dr. Lindsey Doe tells you how caffeine, marijuana, alcohol, antidepressants, performance enhancers and meth—among many others— relate to the mind and body’s participation in sex at 8:30 PM in UM’s University Center Room 330. $6. Visit doctordoe.com. For once in your life, leave the bar with a slightly thicker wallet with DJ Hickey’s Rawk and Roll Bingo Night every Mon. from 8:30 PM until midnight at the Badlander. $1 per card, and the opening round’s always free. The Milkcrate Mechanic keeps the groove fine tuned when he presents random music for random people, featuring rotating DJs and acts, free pool and mad krunk every Mon. at 9 PM at the Palace Lounge. Free. Bring the value of x to Sean Kelly’s open mic night, hosted by Mike Avery at 9:30 PM, and see if you can determine the angle of repose. Free.

TUESDAY March

Bend, stretch and play every Tue. and Thu. at Happy Mama, 736A S. First St. W., where Yoga for Everybody eases the suffering at 9:30 AM. $12 drop-in/$10 advance. Call 880-6883. It’s a smorgasbord for mouth and ears when the Missoula Senior Center hosts a St. Patrick’s Day Music and Lunch that begins with Celtic jams at 10:30 AM and starts feeding the masses at 11:30. Cover TBA. Call 543-7154. Historically speaking, Afghans have proven to be impossible to control, but you’ll have plenty of guidance when you join the group Knitting for Peace, which meets every Tue. from 11 AM–1 PM at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 543-3955. ‘Tis a day for the looking at some art: UM’s PARTV Center hosts two exhibit openings, with Campus Picks opening in the Meloy Gallery, and The Fra Dana Collection in the Paxson Gallery. Free. Dr. Tim gets the St. Patrick’s Day Festival started at noon at Sean Kelly’s, where the corned beef and cabbage leads to the 5 PM opening of the beer garden. Later, you’ll enjoy live tunes by the Celtic Dragon Pipe Band and Malarkey. Cover TBA. Call 542-1471. Find strength and the will to fight at the Breast Cancer Support Group, which meets at noon each Tue. at St. Francis Xavier Church, 420 W. Pine St. Free. For the latest Latin cardio dance craze, try a dose of Zumba every Tue. at noon at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. Call 541-7240 for pricing. Get gooey during Open Instructed Studio at the Clay Studio, 1106-A Hawthorne St., every Thu. at 6 PM through May 5, with no class April 7. $168/eight-week session. Call 543-0509. In a course inspired by two exhibiting artists’ work, students aged 6–11 can create sculptures and collage paintings that use the stuff and things of everyday life every Tue. through March 24, at 4 PM at the Missoula Art Museum. $40/$36 members. Call 728-0447.

nightlife It’s Tuesday, and you ate your last shamrock for breakfast, so why not Dine With the Elks from 5:30–7 PM? This week, corned beef and cabbage, steamed new potatoes, braised cabbage and carrots, salad bar and Guinness parfait the flashy pianizing of Adrienne Dussault. $9 per plate. RSVP 549-0542. Jody Mosher offers another weekly dose of playful, happy and fantastic cardiovascular exercise—aka Nia—every Tue. at 5:30 PM at the Teranga Arts School, 2926 S. Third St. First class free/$6 each thereafter. Hey, it beats spending three years doing meth: Attend a Peace Corps Information Session at 5:30 PM in Room 154 of UM’s Lommasson Center to learn about opportunities to help foster a new era of international cooperation, brotherhood and apocalypse avoidance. Free. Three weeks of construction instruction await as the six-session course “Building with Habitat” begins at 6 PM at the UM College of Technology and continues to meet every Tue. and Thu. through Mar. 19. Free, so visit habitatmsla.org or call 549-8210. Extend your happy hour in the most natural way I can think of when Cash For Junkers offers four hours of drinking music starting at 6 PM at the Holiday Inn-Downtown at the Park. Free. Don’t it make your green grass blue? The pickin’ circle begins at 6 PM, and house pickers Pinegrass play at 9:30 PM at the Top Hat. Cover TBA. Call 728-9865. Margarete de Soleil assists you in pushing the possibilities of drawing when she presents the four-week class Drawing: Wet and Dry Media, which meets every Tue. at 6 PM through Mar. 24. $50/$45 members. Call 728-0447. It’s a spicy good time when the Downtown Dance Collective’s Heather Adams presents beginning salsa dance lessons at 6 PM, followed by intermediate/advanced at 7, every Tue. at the Badlander. $5 suggested donation. The Indy’s your Celtic Dragon Pipe Band Headquarters: Catch the majestic pipes and drums at 6 and 8 PM at the Iron Horse Brew Pub, at 6:30 and 9 in Sean Kelly’s outdoor heated beer garden and at 7:15 at the Rhino. Free, but don’t let them see you following them around. The YWCA of Missoula, 1130 W. Broadway, hosts weekly support groups for women every Tue. at 6:30 PM, where groups for Native women and children meet as well. New group members with children are asked to arrive at 6:15, without kids at 6:25. Free. Call 543-6691. A single bracelet does not jingle: Unity Dance and Drum’s all-levels West African Dance Class meets every Tue. evening at 6:30 PM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. $10/class or $35/four classes. Call 549-7933. See to your chakras’ proper education with Beginner Bellydance for sixth–eighth grade every Tue. at 6:30 PM at the Belly Tent Dance Studio, 2016 Strand Ave., Ste. B. $7. Call 207-8302. UM’s Wilderness Institute sponsors their annual Wilderness Lecture Series, which continues with Jon Turk’s 7 PM lecture “Talks with a Siberian Shaman: Viewing Wilderness Through Magic or Logic” in Room 106 of UM’s Gallagher Business Building. Free. Call 243-6956 or visit www.cfc.umt.edu/wi. The UM Community Lecture Series presents UM history professor David Emmons, whose lecture “A Case of Mistaken Identity: Myth and Reality in Montana and

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Motion explores the science of movement through exhibits including an interactive hang glider simulator, a giant turntable from the San Francisco Exploratorium, and other hands-on experiences where your family can experiment with gravity, waves, and friction.

SPRING BREAK SCIENCE SMORGASBORD Spring Break workshops will be held Monday-Friday from 9 am4pm for ages 8-12. Cost is $45 per day or $195 for the whole week. Registration required in advance. Here is a list of the smorgasbord samplings: Monday, 3/30: ROCKIN’ RUBE GOLDBERG MACHINES Explore the physics of motion. Build over-engineered apparatuses that perform simple tasks in complex ways. Tuesday, 3/31: ROBOTIC CITY PART 1 Use MIT-created PICO Cricket robots to create a virtual city with moving parts and creatures. Wednesday, 4/1 : ROBOTIC CITY PART 2 Build onto the city’s framework and create new structures and systems. Students do not need to enroll both days. Thursday, 4/2: THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF WEATHER Launch a weather balloon that collects important atmospheric data and learn about exciting weather phenomena. Friday, 4/3: ART AND MOTION Create random and calculated art pieces using exhibits on the floor and created machines.

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Western History” begins at 7 PM in the University Center Theater. Series: $20/$15 UM alumni/$10 students. Call 243-5211 or visit grizalum.com. If you can’t read this and you’re not interested in Tiny Tales, allow me to suggest the 7 PM informal English conversation group Talk Time, which is led by TEFL instructor Adam Hart and meets the first and third Tue. of the month at the Missoula Public Library. Free. Call 721-2665. You’re invited by Turning the Wheel to take part in some BodyCentered Creative Expression to live music every Tue. at 7 PM. $5–10 donation. Call 543-4414 for location and more details. The Rocky Mountain School of Photography, 210 N. Higgins Ave., presents Neil Chaput de Saintonge, whose illuminating 7 PM lecture “Understanding Light for Landscape Photography” will have you itchin’ to buy a really big floodlamp before your next trip to Glacier. Free. Call 543-0171. The World Affairs Council of Montana hosts a community discussion with senior analyst and executive director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies Dalia Mogahed, who presents “Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think” at 7:30 PM in the UM University Center Ballroom. Free. The UM Department of Music presents a student recital by soprano Lydia Jessop and trombonist Russell Johnson at 7:30 PM in UM’s Music Recital Hall. Free. Call 243-6880. The UM Department of Drama/Dance presents Guys and Dolls at 7:30 PM in the UM PARTV Center’s Montana Theatre. $18/$14 student and seniors/$8 under 13. Call 243-4581. (See Spotlight in this issue.) Hey, there’s no need to drive to Butte: Keep your green beer green by sticking around the valley, as Malarkey plays Sean Kelly’s at 8 PM. Cover TBA. Call 542-1471. You’ve practiced in front of the mirror long enough—head to the High Spirits in Florence, where open mic night

Is it me, or is this band slightly off-kilter? Saviors of St. Patrick’s Day in Missoula, the Celtic Dragon Pipe Band mobs and toots throughout the downtown area beginning at 6 PM on Tue., March 17. See their listing under nightlife for a full schedule.

features a drum set, amps, mics and recording equipment and awaits you and your axe at 8 PM. Free. Call 2739992 to reserve your spot. Whitefish musicians trade their skills for free drinks as the Great Northern Bar hosts Open Mic Night, which begins at 8 PM with an acoustic jam circle, heads into an electric set at 9:30 and features fine hosting by members of the Canyon Creek Ramblers. Free. Call 862-2816. The connection to St. Patrick should be obvious: The Fidgets and DJ Kris Moon musically entertain the Badlander at 9 PM. Free. Venture into a St. Patrick’s Day Party you’re unlikely not to remember forgetting when the Workers play the Union Club at 9 PM. Free. Wear a shamrock in your hair, and perhaps a couple in your ‘pits, when Unwashed Productions presents a St. Patrick’s Day Punk Show with the Hardigans, 10MT40’s and Come Up Swinging at the Palace Lounge at 9 PM. $5. Be your own American Idol during “Jheryoake”—that’s karaoke with Jerry Reeb—every Tue. at 9 PM—with Happy Hour until 10—at the AmVets Club. Free. The Broadway’s Tuesday Night Comedy takes place every Tue. at 9

Missoula County Competitive Funding Opportunity Missoula County is currently accepting competitive applications from governmental or non-profit organizations that are currently engaged in substance abuse prevention work in Missoula County. If your organization meets one or more of the following criteria you may be eligible for funding: (1) maintains a coalition that coordinates substance abuse prevention efforts; (2) provides community education about the risks and costs of abusing alcohol, tobacco and other drugs; (3) offers supervised non-school hour activities that give young people alternatives to drug use and opportunities for positive youth development; or (4) provides early intervention to help youth and families address alcohol, tobacco and other drug problems. Activities must be research based. Funding will be for twelve months, beginning July 1, 2009 and ending June 30, 2010. For more information or to receive an application form, please call Peggy Seel, Senior Grants Administrator at 258-4743. Applications may also be picked up at the Missoula Office of Planning and Grants, 435 Ryman Street. Deadline for submittal is Wednesday, April 29, 2009, 5:00 p.m.

PM and is followed by dancing with tunes from the Tallest DJ in America. $5/$3 students. Call 543-5678. The moon’s always full and the pack’s always howlin’ at the Wolf Den’s Open Mic Night in Polson. Free. 9 PM. Call 883-2054. The Irish Ramblers play the St. Patrick’s Day Celebration and Party at the Great Northern Bar and Grill in Whitefish at 9:30 PM. Free.

WEDNESDAY

March

Take the legislative reins when you join Leadership Bitterroot for a bus trip to Helena, which leaves at 7 AM for a full day at the Capitol before returning at 7 PM. $35 includes lunch, tour and transportation. Call 363-2400. If you’ve avoided resolving your sexual issues for want of funding, take note: For the next two days, clinical sexologist Dr. Lindsey Doe is reducing her rates to 33 percent of her regular fee, which brings it all the way down to $35/hour. RSVP 544-1271 pronto. Local artist Bob Phinney speaks about sketching and drawing during a meeting of the Art Associates of Missoula at 10 AM in the Missoula Art Museum’s Education Center. Free. Call 543-0697. Once your kids attend Ready? Set... Read!, an early literacy program for children aged 3–7, at 11 AM at the Children’s Museum, 225 W. Front St., every other Wed., your tactic of spelling out naughty words may no longer be effective. $4.25 admission/members free. Call 541-7529. It’s healthier than heroin: Lunchtime Junkies Jogging and Walking Club offers a one-hour community run and training session every Wed. through April 22, so meet at noon at Currents Aquatic Center in McCormick Park. $10. RSVP 721-PARK or 552-6266. UM’s International Week continues with lecturer Samir Bitar’s presentation “Born in Jerusalem, Palestine,” which begins at 2 PM in Room 332 of UM’s University Center. Free. For a full schedule, visit www.umt.edu/ip/events/ internationalweek.htm.

Young urban people can add to their movement repertoire every Wed. at 5 PM when the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., presents Breakin’ for Kids. Call 541-7240 for pricing.

nightlife Help get our girls into the woods this summer, while concurrently battling breast cancer, when you take in Lunafest, a program of short films by, for and about women—including Star Spangled Blues by Missoula filmmaker and professor Gita Saedi Kiely—at 6 PM in UM’s University Center Theater. $10/$5 students. Visit ywcaofmissoula.org or call 5436691. (See Film in this issue.) Learn how to set financial goals, create budgets and savings plans, understand credit reports and much more when you attend Financial Fitness Classes at homeWORD, 127 N. Higgins Ave., Ste. 303, every Wed. through Mar. 25, at 6 PM. $10. RSVP by visiting www.homeword .org/hoc/ff_reg istration.htm or 532-4663, ext. 14. Learn to bump and grind, shimmy and shake and strut your stuff like a pro every Wed. evening at 6 PM during a Burlesque Dance Class at the Belly Tent Dance Studio, 2016 Strand Ave. Call Kelli Neumeyer at 531-2482. Reinvigorate our radical heritage— however your artistic, DIY obstructionist mind desires—when you meet up with the Industrial Workers of the World at 6:30 PM in the Union Hall

as they continue their plotting with a May Day Planning Meeting. Free. A revolving cast of local singers and musicians makes up the band Katy and Friends, who do the rocking every Wed. at 6:30 PM at the Cottage Inn in Kila. Free. Call 755-8711. UM’s International Week continues continuing with the presentation “Tanzania Through the Eyes of UM Students,” which begins at 7 PM in Room 333 of UM’s University Center. Free. For a full schedule, visit www.umt.edu/ip/events/ internationalweek.htm. Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks wolf specialist Liz Bradley presents the adult-oriented lecture “Wolves: A Natural History Perspective” at, appropriately enough, the Montana Natural History Center at 7 PM. $4 suggested donation. Call 327-0405. If you know the difference between His Knobs and His Knees, bring that skill to the Joker’s Wild Casino, 4829 N. Reserve St., where the Missoula Grass Roots Cribbage Club invites players both new and old to see how many ways they can get to that magical number 15 at 7 PM. Free. Call Rex at 360-3333. The UM Department of Drama/ Dance presents Guys and Dolls at 7:30 PM in the UM PARTV Center’s Montana Theatre. $18/$14 student and seniors/$8 under 13. Call 2434581. (See Spotlight in this issue.) It’s a family-friendly trip back to the days of poodle skirts and serious hair

goop when the MCT Community Theatre presents Bye Bye Birdie at 8 PM. $18/$15 under 19. Call 728PLAY or visit mctinc.org. The Montana Actors’ Theatre presents a preview show of Sarah Ruhl’s new comedy Dead Man’s Cell Phone at 8 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $7/$5 student rush at 7:30. Call 945-2904 or visit mtactors.com. Wednesdays are for the tango, and nobody know this like the Downtown Dance Collective, where Abby and Diego offer three tango options beginning at 8:30 PM every week. Call 541-7240 for pricing. Bang your head at 9 PM when Viscosity Breakdown, _pollen and Thetan Revival make large and scary sounds at the Badlander at 9 PM. $5. Before you call them the “fairer sex,” consider the evening from a record’s point of view: DJs Mermaid, The Siren, Lady Stuff n’ Such and the Cosmic Diva make disks feel the burn when they host Ladies’ Night at the Palace Lounge at 9 PM, which begins with breakdance lessons from the Downtown Dance Collective. Free. You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but neither will help you emit that high lonesome sound every Wed., when the Old Post Pub hosts a Pickin’ Circle at 9 PM. Free. Spit the gorf out of your taorht with

Bassackwards Karaoke every Wed. at 9 PM at Deano’s Casino on North Reserve Street. Free. Call 531-8327. L.I.V. Karaoke puts the crowd in high spirits at the High Spirits in Florence starting at 9 PM. Free. Call 273-9992. This Missoula legend has nothing to do with ground beef: Wasted Wednesday at the Top Hat offers unlimited tap beer and M-Group at 10 PM and the wisdom you’ll gain is worth the $7 cover many times over. Call 728-9865. Longevity is the man’s secret weapon: DJ Dubwise spins mad flava all over the ladies’ drink specials starting at 10 PM at Feruqi’s. Free. Call 728-8799.

THURSDAY

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Explore movement as an avenue for deeper self-understanding every Thu. at 9 AM when Hillary Funk Welzenbach hosts an Authentic Movement Group at Teranga Arts School, 2926 S. Third St. W. $25/session. RSVP 541-2662. Birth Mama of Missoula presents an intensive Childbirth Class every Thu. at 9 AM. Call 546-6452 for info, and to register for an upcoming doula training in April. Kids aged 1.5–4, and, of course, their parents, are invited to explore

the way the groove penetrates and unites us all when Tangled Tones Music Studio, 2005 South Ave. W., presents Rhythm Tykes every Thu. at 10 AM through Feb. 12. $40 for five weeks/$10 drop-in. RSVP 3963352 or visit tangledtones.com. School’s out early, which means it’s time for the Teen Zine Club, which meets every Thu. at 2:30 PM at the ZACC, 235 N. First Ave. W., for the continuing adventures of the selfpublishing and somewhat famous. $10 per month. Call 239-7718 or email info@slumgullion.org. Blow off your homeroom class so you can be at the Missoula Art Museum at 3 PM, the better to take part in Marie Watt: Exhibiting Artist Workshop for Teachers. Free. Call 728-0447.

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Exhibiting Native American artist Marie Watt discusses her exhibit, Heirloom, during the Missoula Art Museum’s 5:30 PM Artini: Heirloom, Ritual, Story, which also features DJ Mermaid scratching tiny bubbles into your cerebellum while you swill beverages and indulge in the Red Bird’s fine edible wares. Free. Call 728-0447. Help provide proof to funders when you attend the training How To Take Great Habitat Pictures 101 at 6:30 PM at St. Paul Lutheran Church, 202 Brooks St. Free. Call 549-8210. Tell Missoula Parks & Recreation how you’d like your land managed when they host a Public Open House for just that purpose at 6:30 PM at the Missoula City Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine St. Free. Call 552-6263 or 552-6265. The Montana Community Autism and Aspergers Network invites you to their monthly meeting at 6:30 PM in the large meeting room at the Missoula Public Library. Free. Internationally acclaimed artist, teacher and healer—and honoree of the Dalai Lama— Mansankho Banda presents a multicultural, movement-based community workshop to benefit NCBI Missoula at 7 PM at the YWCA of Missoula, 1130 W. Broadway. $20 suggested donation. Call 543-6691 or 541-6891. Help rebuild a shattered homeland when you attend a Benefit for the Children of Gaza, featuring Barbara Lubin, executive director of the Middle East Children’s Alliance, and musical storyteller Jack Gladstone, at 7 PM at the Bigfork United Methodist Church, 750 Electric Ave. Donation based. Call 755-3704. Author Christopher Preston signs and reads from his book Saving Creation at 7 PM at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 721-2881. The UM Department of Drama/Dance presents Guys and Dolls at 7:30 PM in the UM PARTV

Center’s Montana Theatre. $18/$14 student and seniors/$8 under 13. Call 243-4581. (See Spotlight in this issue.) It’s a family-friendly trip back to the days of poodle skirts and serious hair goop when the MCT Community Theatre presents Bye Bye Birdie at 8 PM. $18/$15 under 19. Call 728PLAY or visit mctinc.org. The Montana Actors’ Theatre presents a preview show of Sarah Ruhl’s new comedy Dead Man’s Cell Phone at 8 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $7/$5 student rush at 7:30. Call 945-2904 or visit mtactors.com. If you’ve ever strayed from your faith, or if you just like honest-to-goodness rock ballads and mood music, try Jerry Joseph and the Jackmormons on for size at 9 PM at The Other Side. $10. Join the ranks of the Missoula Metal Militia, led by Universal Choke Sign, Beefcurtain and Doomfock at the Palace Lounge at 9 PM. $3. My tea water’s boiling, so I gotta go, but before I do, I want to let you know about this opportunity: The Missoula Children’s Theater offers the summer course, Next Step Prep, the academy for musical theater, to students entering 9–12 grades. The application deadline is Sun., March 15, so you’ve got no time to waste. Check out the full details, including scholarship cash, when you visit mctinc/nextstepprep, or call 728-1911. And if you’d like to see something listed in this here calendar, send your event info by 5 PM on Fri., March 13, to calendar@missoulanews.com. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to Comrade Calendar c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367.

As we stand here on the edge of yard sale season—in our hopes and dreams, at least—you’ve probably got a stack of old outdoor gear taking up room in your garage, closet or back seat. Before you start slapping price stickers on that treasure trove of tents, sleeping bags, jackets and backpacks, allow me to appeal to your philanthropic side: On Sat., March 14, the month-long Gear for the Garhwal Gear Drive begins, with drop-off locations at Bob Wards, the Trailhead, Pipestone Mountaineering and UM’s Outdoor Program. The drive is organized by the Nature-Link Institute, a nonprofit study abroad program accredited by the UM College of Forestry and Conservation, which has taken students to study in India’s Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve Park since 2004. In that time, the program developed a relationship with Mountain Shepherds, a community-owned eco-tourism outfit that aims to empower local youth to manage their traditional lands in sustainable ways. And that’s where your old shells, climbing gear, headlamps and sleeping pads come into play. Once April 19 rolls around, Nature-Link’s next batch of travelers will hand-deliver the amassed stockpile to their Himalayan counterparts. The project’s slogan—“A mountain to mountain community service”—sums it up well, and in this age of ever-increasing connectivity, extend a hand of outdoor friendship that reaches around the globe. Contact the Nature-Link Institute at 370-2294, or visit nature-link.org. And with clear consciences, we move into the week’s offerings. You’re probably totally on top of your training program for April’s GrizzlyMan Adventure Race, but just in case that’s not totally accurate, try this on for size: At 7 PM on Thu., March 12, REIMissoula presents an adventure race clinic with orienteer and tracker Matt Condon titled “Intro to Navigation and Orienteering.” It’s free, and you don’t have to RSVP. But call 8290432 if you like. The less adrenaline-dependent will instead head to the Ninemile Ranger Station in Huson, where at 7 PM on Thu., March 12, Carleen Gonder presents the lecture “Wildlife

Forensics: A Key Tool to Fight Poaching.” Free. Call 626-4587. Rather than take on either of those, the birdloving set will flock to Fish, Wildlife & Parks’ Spurgin Road office, where at 7 PM on Thu., March 12, the Audubon Society presents another advanced birding class, “Sparrows,” with Bob Martinka. The class costs $15, or $60 for the whole series. RSVP 549-5632. Your weekend’s about to get a bit more complicated. It begins with the Rocky Mountaineers, who invite you to join them for

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a trek up Lolo Peak on Sat., March 14. Snowshoes or skis are requisite, and you’re to contact Chris at hammaneater@gmail.com if you’re interested. Fans of bikes will instead be attracted by a ride led by Missoulians on Bicycles (MOB), which begins with a 10 AM meeting for carpooling at K-Mart on Brooks St. before heading to the Lolo Conoco for the “Happy Trails to Stevi” ride. Alternately, you can meet up at the Conoco at 10:30. Call Lech at 543-4889. Hate bikes and mountains? Well, then you probably like dogs, which is why you should consider two-days of Dog Skijoring

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Races and Demos, which begin at 10 AM on Sat., March 14, at the Glacier Outdoor Center in West Glacier. If getting dragged around by a hound doesn’t tickle yer fancy, there are groomed trails for you to ski instead. Call 888-5454. Another option for the day involves travel to the Whitefish Mountain Resort, where Sat., March 14, witnesses the onset of the Nate Chute Hawaiian Classic, a two-day snowboard fest that includes banked slalom and boardercross races. The first 110 entrants will compete, and they’ll pay $35 each. Call 862-2910 or visit skiwhitefish.com. Kids in Missoula can slip into naturalist mode with the Montana Natural History Center, which presents the Saturday Kids Activity Sneaky Snakes at 2 PM on Sat., March 14. The $2 fee is waived for members. Call 327-0405. Get some solid snooze hours that night, as Sunday sees a pair of repeat performances: On Sun., March 15, the Rocky Mountaineers celebrate the re-opening of Mount Jumbo with a mellow hike, and the MOB offers the 35-mile Big Flat Mudflinger, which begins at 10 AM at Open Road Cyclery on Orange St. Call Steve at 721-4686 about the former, and Wayne at 721-3095 regarding the latter. Around the state, plant people are starting to wake back up. Case in point, the Flathead Chapter of the Montana Native Plant Society holds their general meeting at 5:30 PM on Wed., March 18, in Columbia Falls’ Glacier Discovery Square, with the program “Landscaping with Native Plants” to follow at 7. Free. Call 892-0129. Education continues as the theme of the evening, as the Northern Rocky Mountain Grotto—aka The Spelunkers— meets at 7 PM on Wed., March 18, at Pipestone Mountaineering for a slide show with Tina Oliphant called “Expedition to Blood Cave, Bob Marshall Wilderness.” Sounds creepy, yet somehow alluring. Before they’re de-listed and everybody’s got one mounted above the fireplace, catch “Wolves: A Natural History Perspective” with Fish, Wildlife & Parks wolf specialist Liz Bradley at 7 PM on Wed., March 18, at the Montana Natural History Center. There’s a $4 suggested donation. Call 327-0405. Thanks for your time. We now return you to the rest of the paper. calendar@missoulanews.com

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Wilde nights Local favorite Severt Philleo returns to the limelight by Erika Fredrickson

Despite these incidents, Philleo says he loves In the late 1990s through the turn of this made a point of appearing with Oscar Wilde in century, Severt Philleo entertained Missoula many public restaurants. I shall continue to do so being back in Missoula. And he believes this play delivers a message that will resonate more with audiences with Marlene Dietrich impressions, whenever I choose and with whom I choose.’” Last Saturday, Philleo arrived at Bernice’s Missoula audiences familiar with some intolertheater performances and evenings in drag singing with groups like the Jodi Marshall Trio. Bakery sporting a stylish faux-leopard cuffed hat ance, whereas in L.A. or New York the topic might He was the local celebrity in every way. In fact, and a silver-buttoned retro jacket. The outer layer be dismissed as merely “lovely.” But it’s not just a play about tolerance. It’s for four straight years Philleo won the Indy’s hid the fact that he still had on his pajama top Best of Missoula award for Best Actor and Best underneath and, he admitted, was hung over about the tragedies and complexities of love and family. Douglas’ desire to take revenge on his from his first night back in Missoula. Actress. “I saw the most wonderful shoes last night,” father, the powerful Marquess of Queensbury, Even when not technically performing on stage, Philleo remained the center of attention, he says. “In Missoula! And I got to see the suffra- ultimately results in Wilde’s imprisonment. And often decked out in dapper suits or elegant dress- gettes. The most beautiful girls in the world are when Wilde writes in a poem, “Yet each man kills es at private parties and local watering holes. In right here.” The International Women’s Day the thing he loves,” Douglas asks him the mean2000 Philleo moved to his hometown of Polson to parade coupled with three big rock shows and ing. Wilde retorts, “You ought to know.” But take care of his mother, eventually inheriting her the First Friday Art Walk had turned downtown despite their dysfunctional relationship that was house when she died. In 2004, he moved to Palm into a madhouse. But Philleo’s first night back sometimes cruel but always passionate, Douglas Springs, Fla. and recently began selling wellness products with Arbonne International—though he still loves his cigarettes and bourbon. Philleo returns to Missoula this week for a Crystal Theatre benefit performance of “A Wilde Night with Severt Philleo,” a staged reading of Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde. The 1997 play by Moisés Kaufman (The Laramie Project) deals with Wilde’s relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas (aka “Bosie”), which led to charges of “committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons” and his subsequent imprisonment and downfall. Philleo plays Douglas while the Montana Rep’s artistic director, Greg Johnson, plays Wilde. A who’s who of Missoula actors fills out the rest of the cast. “Originally Greg wanted me Photo by Chad Harder to play Oscar Wilde and it was Severt Philleo stars in Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde. like, there’s no way,” says Philleo. “I’m not intelligent enough, I’m not a literati. I don’t understand why we have to was bittersweet. In the James Bar men’s bath- and Wilde loved each other and that, Philleo make perfect sentences and not split infinitives.” room, Philleo noticed a blemish on his cheek and says, is also the point. “Everyone encouraged Oscar to leave On the other hand, Philleo says he understands pulled some facial powder from his bag to fix it. “And here I was in the men’s room shuffling England, but it was his home. And this is my his character’s enthrallment with Wilde. “You have to imagine the idea of being with through this bag, which in Montana could look home,” he says. “But we have to reassess the someone who you just sit with and love what’s like a purse, and I’ve got a big diamond brooch way that we treat each other. Open your mind, coming out of their mouth,” he says. “The text— on,” he says laughing wildly. “And this fellow read some Oscar Wilde, put a flower in your the language—is beautiful. It’s like a cucumber walks in and he yells, ‘Men’s room!’ And I looked lapel, wear a diamond brooch, kiss your wife sandwich: crusts definitely cut off, spread with up, like, ‘Of course, you’re absolutely right. You and say, ‘I love you.’ Honestly, it is about that. This play is cucumber sandwiches and silver rich goat cheese and seasoned with white pepper think I’m Shirley MacClaine!’” But the situation later at the Union Club was cigarette cases and it’s a courtroom drama. But and pickled red onions. This is my Romeo and Juliet right here. It is! It really does follow star less comical. Philleo was reminiscing with a if you really listen to it, it’s a bunch of people Salish-Kootenai woman about Polson when a crying out saying, ‘Let me speak. Let me have crossed lovers.” my life.’” And with that comparison in mind, the play’s drunken man took a punch at his face. “We had been having a great time talking to a tragedy, too, showing how intolerance leads to The reading of Gross Indecency: The each other,” he says. “And then this little man— destruction. “Oscar Wilde was an Irishman who just hap- who was not so little, but I put him in my mind as Three Trials of Oscar Wilde stages at the pened to be brilliant,” says Philleo. “He went to little because he really frightened me—started an Crystal Theatre Friday, March 13, and Oxford, wrote beautiful plays and, through unwit- altercation while I was talking to a lady. And Saturday, March 14, at 8 PM. $20. ting foibles, was condemned to die. It goes maybe he didn’t think she was a lady or I was a efredrickson@missoulanews.com beyond tolerance. One of my lines is, ‘I have gentleman. But that is what is so offensive.”

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You might not have heard of HB 418, which is From Cortés’ use of horses in his conquest of currently before Montana’s state Senate. It hasn’t Montezuma’s Aztecs—eased by natives believgotten much press in the local newspapers. But ing the strange animal to be a kind of god—to nationally, the bill has woken up message boards, the battle of Little Bighorn’s only cavalry surblogs and activists, and papers in places like vivor, a horse named Comanche, Stillman cenBoston, Las Vegas, and Columbus, Ohio have ters the drama on the horse, in effect emphapicked up on the story. In short, the bill—spon- sizing its contribution to our collective sored by the aptly named Ed Butcher, R-Winifred— history. This approach is heightened by Stillman’s would clear legal roadblocks for the construction of a slaughterhouse for horses, the only one of its bold narrative choices, her vivid descriptions and kind in the country, if built. Proponents of the bill language, and her penchant for occasionally narrating scenes from a horse’s argue that horse owners point of view. This language need a place where they can is especially engaging when dispose of injured or sick anishe, for instance, relates the mals. Opponents argue that first meeting of armor-bound horse slaughterhouses are Conquistadores with the inhumane and pose a risk to A ztec emperor ’s famed the environment. But left out jaguar guards, or when in the debate is that wild describing the acts in Buffalo horses, thanks to a lastBill’s Wild West show. But minute rider slipped onto a she can go overboard—quite 2004 U.S. Senate approprialiterally, as she did speculattions bill by Sen. Conrad ing what the horses must Burns, might be sold for have seen and felt when they slaughter and consumption were tossed over the side of abroad to any horse slaughan early American-bound terhouse. Montana could be European ship: The horses where mustangs go to die. “faltered as they took in the Wild horses have a large peripheries with their big and passionate following. satellite eyes…and as their Like many passions, advoca- Mustang eyes swept the horizon they cy for America’s mustangs Deanne Stillman may have experienced a vesisn’t entirely logical—for hardcover, Houghton Mifflin tigial sense memory of the starters, the country’s wild Harcourt wide-open space in the New horses aren’t technically 368 pages, $25.00 World where they had once “wild,” they’re feral. That is, the herds are formed from escaped domesticat- roamed before it had a name.” The book is also marred by Stillman’s almost ed animals (re-)introduced to North America by Old World explorers and settlers. For another, excessive advocacy on behalf of the American the country’s wild herds live in some of the mustangs. For example, the last section of most fragile ecosystems, where, if their num- Mustang is pure advocacy for the country’s wild bers grow too high, they can damage the water horses, and as such, it’s the least enjoyable. supply and dwindling native plant species. The Stillman describes the horse roundups and most forceful argument for the preservation of slaughter that led to congressional protection of wild horses is also the basis of the U.S. law, The free-roaming horses, and rails against any attempt Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of to question that protection, too casually brushing 1971. The act protects horses on public lands aside concerns for the environment or livestock. from “capture, branding, harassment, or death,” It’ll no doubt resonate with those who agree with on the basis that free-roaming horses “are living Stillman on the issue, but the tone will seem offsymbols of the historic and pioneer spirit of the putting to the undecided. Still, Stillman gives us a powerful and vivid West.” And that’s essentially the argument that author Deanne Stillman makes in her powerful description of the horse and its place in our history. As such, Mustang is a powerful voice advobook, Mustang. Centering her book on the history of the cating for wild horses’ continued presence in our horse on the North American continent, American landscape. Even so, I can’t shake this Stillman takes us to the prehistoric plains 1952 newspaper editorial that Stillman quotes: where the horse evolved, all the way through to “The wild horses, harmless and picturesque as the reintroduction of the horse by the earliest they are, are a pleasant reminder of a time when explorers and settlers, to the spread of horses all the West was wilder and more free.” In this era to the indigenous peoples of the Great Plains, of quickly onrushing economic and environmento the end of the American frontier and the cre- tal catastrophes, can we expend the capital and ation of the Western mythos in Hollywood. energy on “pleasant reminders”? Unlike other standard histories of the West, arts@missoulanews.com Mustang offers the horse as the protagonist.

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cast Del Toro and not Zac Efron, who probably looks more like Che Guevara, but doesn’t quite have Del Toro’s gravitas. The second part of Che, though, is only about that gravitas. For that reason, it’s a much more difficult film than Part One, but no less an artistic achievement. In Part One, Soderbergh can establish the character of Che as vibrant and inventive and excited, but also cautious and concerned and introspective. He doesn’t whitewash Guevara’s life; he shows executions and anger. But he also shows aspects that are left out of a lot of American representations of the Cuban revolution: the concern for the poor, Che’s work as a doctor and teacher and his interest in spreading literacy and health care. Having established his character in the first film, Soderbergh looks at his character’s limits in the second. As the movie meanders through beautiful highland forests, a handheld camera takes in intimate scenes of small bands of weary and undersupplied soldiers. Sweeping shots of mountains Demian Bichir, left, gives Benicio del Toro a timeout in Che. and valleys—while beautiful— hint at the revolutionaries’ styles, alterations in film stock, the insertion of distance from the people. Where the first part newsreel footage, and rapid editing. It gives the showed hordes of troops and admirers and entire enterprise a frenzied sense of youth and cities full of welcoming citizens, in the second, Che has to deal with peasants who hate and disrevolution. In the second part, the narrative is strictly trust him, and soldiers who barely have the will linear. The camera work is consistently hand- to go on. Soderbergh does a good job of both showing held. The film stock is always the same washedout color. And the story is slow and plodding Guevara’s determination and questioning the and painful, creating an atmosphere of defeat legitimacy of the Bolivian plan. And throughout the second part, one feels the grim sense that and death. So the first part is a lot more fun. It’s prob- Guevara has gone a step too far. The tragic end is a traditional part of epic stoably the most riveting movie ever made about an Argentinean who leads a communist revolu- rytelling, and Soderbergh definitely gives tion in a Caribbean nation. Starting with a din- Guevara’s life the epic treatment. What he doesner in Mexico City, winding its way through the n’t do is make Guevara more than human, or jungles of Cuba, and circling high society in beyond reproach. He also doesn’t fall for the trap New York City in the early ’60s to arrive at the of turning the film into a simple political comUnited Nations, only to then head back through mentary on Guevara’s life. The biggest mistake all those locales, Che: Part One creates a clear would have been to try to create a politically balimpression of an era and the central moments anced film, giving voice to all opinions on Che’s life and works. in a life. Instead, Soderbergh creates a more personal Benicio Del Toro is pretty much perfect in the lead role. The part demands the kind of film, and I’m sure commentators from all parts of charisma and sex appeal that could get your the political spectrum will fault him for that. But face turned into an iconic poster and your name Che is a work of art much more than it’s an dragged through the mud by right-wing blog- attempt at political statement-making, and on gers 40 years after your death. But more impor- that front, what Soderbergh has done is truly tantly, it demands that you have an actual per- impressive. sonality, a degree of depth and enough doubt Che: Part One opens Friday, March 13, at to show that the ideas you put forward aren’t the result of reading a script or having memo- the Wilma Theatre. rized an ideology, but rather come from an arts@missoulanews.com actual inner world. And that’s why Soderbergh Che, the film about the adult life of Che Guevara, is a movie in two parts. However, even though those two parts are directed by the same man, star the same actor and tell, in succession, the same story, they look and feel nothing alike. In the first film, director Steven Soderbergh turns up the director dial to infinity, using every trick ever created in the name of Louis B. Mayer. There are sequences in both color and black and white, a nonlinear narrative that jumps around in time and space, a wide variety of shooting

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Scope Books Film Movie Shorts Advice Astrology OPENING THIS WEEK Che, Part One Benicio Del Toro delivers a revolutionary performance in the first half of a biography of Argentine doctor, Marxist and soldier Ernesto “Che” Guevara. This episode, dubbed “The Argentine” takes us through the defeat of Cuban dictator Batista and includes a recreation of Che’s 1964 appearance at the UN. Not Rated. Showing nightly at the Wilma Theatre at 7 and 9:15 with Sun. matinees at 1 and 3:15.

figure out why he/she says they’ll call, and then doesn’t. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike 10 at 7 and 9:50 with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1 and 4 and no shows Sun. after 9. Paul Blart: Mall Cop In lieu of brute force, unarmed New Jersey security guard Kevin James must use all his wit and brainpower to save his beloved workplace from a gang of terrorist/thieves à la Die Hard. Rated PG. Showing at the Carmike 10 at 4:15, 7:15 and 9:25 with

9:30 with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1:30 and no shows Sun. after 9. Watchmen In this highly anticipated adaptation of the celebrated mid-’80s graphic novel, a group of retired superheroes reunites after the murder of one of their own to investigate a nefarious plot that holds the future of humanity at stake. Rated R. Showing at the Carmike 10 at 4:30, 7, 8 and 10:25 with Fri.–Sun. matinees at noon, 1 and 3:30 and no shows Sun. after 9 and at the Village 6 at

The Last House on the Left When the gang of killers who left their daughter for dead unknowingly seeks refuge in her home, the young woman’s parents open up a serious can of whoop ass in this remake of a 1972 horror flick. Rated R. Showing at the Village 6 at 4:20, 5:45, 7:15, 8:15 and 9:45 with Fri.–Sat. shows at 10:45, Sat.–Sun. shows at 12:45, 1:30 and 3:15 and no Sun. shows after 7.

NOW PLAYING Confessions of a Shopaholic Isla Fischer (Definitely, Maybe), a good-time lovin’ New Yorker who’s honed her shopping skills to the point of massive debt, spends the duration of this film in a quest for employment by her favorite glamour magazine. Save me the aisle seat. And a barf bag. Rated PG. Showing at the Carmike 10 at 4:10, 7 and 9:30 with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1:15 and no shows Sun. after 9. Coraline 3D The first stop motion animated feature to be originally filmed in 3D, this film is based upon Neil Gaiman’s book and follows a little girl whose discovery of an alternate universe behind a door in her house leads eventually to dark realizations. Rated PG. Showing at the Carmike 10 at 4:15, 7 and 9:30 with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1:30 and no shows Sun. after 9. Gran Torino Clint Eastwood’s a racist and curmudgeonly Korean War vet who warms to his Hmong neighbors once he accepts humanity’s four universal connections: beer, guns, cars and payback. Actually, this is reportedly another touching and mature move away from Dirty Harry. Rated R. Showing at the Carmike 10 at 7 and 9:35 with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1 and 4 and no shows Sun. after 9. He’s Just Not That Into You Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston, Drew Barrymore and Jennifer Connelly struggle to

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Miss March Showing Fri.–Sun. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 12:10, 2:20, 4:50, 7:10 and 9:25 and Mon.–Thu. at 1:35, 4:10, 7:10 and 9:25. Paul Blart: Mall Cop Showing Fri.–Sun. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 12:25, 2:35, 4:40 and 6:55 and Mon.–Thu. at 2, 4:20 and 6:55. Also playing at the Entertainer in Ronan at 4, 7 and 9:10. The Pink Panther 2 Steve Martin returns as bumbling Inspector Clouseau, who faces consternation from John Cleese’s Inspector Dreyfus in this sequel to the 2006 installment of this crossgenerational crowd-pleasing franchise. Rated PG. Showing Fri.–Thu. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 1:30 and 7:15. Race to Witch Mountain Showing Fri.–Thu. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 1, 2:30, 3:30, 5, 6, 7:30, 8:30 and 9:45 with Fri.–Sun. matinees at noon. Also playing at the Mountain in Whitefish at 4, 6:50 and 9 with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1:30 and at the Showboat in Polson at 4:15, 7 and 9.

Miss March A boy falls into a coma and awakes four years later to find that his lily-white girlfriend has become a Playboy centerfold. Bring the kids. Rated R. Showing at the Village 6 at 5:20, 7:35 and 9:45 with Sat.–Sun. shows at 1 and 3:10 and no Sun. shows after 7. Race to Witch Mountain Cabbie Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson picks up two teens who happen to be aliens on the lam in this reboot of the family-pleasing Disney franchise. Rated PG. Showing at the Carmike 10 at 5:10, 5:40, 7:30, 8 and 9:50 with Fri.–Sat. shows at 10:20, Fri.–Sun. matinees at 12:30, 1, 2:50 and 3:20 and no shows Sun. after 9.

The Last House on the Left Showing Fri.–Thu. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 1:15, 4:05, 7:05 and 9:40.

Personally, I’d like to see Muppets banned from live action movies. Miss March opens Friday at the Village 6.

Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1:15 and no shows Sun. after 9.

7 and 10:25 with Sat.–Sun. shows at noon and 3:30 and no Sun. shows after 7.

The Reader Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes star in this screen adaptation of Bernhard Schlink’s best-selling novel of the same name, a man in post-WWII Germany learns that his former lover stands accused of Nazi war crimes. Rated R. Showing at the Village 6 at 7 and 9:50 with Sat.–Sun. shows at 1 and 4 and no Sun. shows after 7.

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Slumdog Millionaire Danny Boyle (Trainspotting) directs a cast of Bollywood stars, who carry the weight of this well-edited tale of a Mumbai street urchin’s surprising success on a TV game show, a performance that raises suspicions leading to revelations of poverty, brutality and a yearning for love. Rated R. Showing nightly at the Wilma Theatre at 7 and 9:10 with Sun. matinees at 1 and 3:10. Taken Liam Neeson is a retired CIA agent who turns into a “crime-fighting machine” when his daughter is kidnapped in Paris by Albanian sex slave traders. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Village 6 at 4:20, 7:05 and 9:20 with Sat.–Sun. shows at 1:30 and no Sun. shows after 7. Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail Tyler Perry reprises his role as combative granny Madea, whose high-speed highway hi-jinks land her in the poky, where she takes a young inmate (Keshia Knight Pulliam) under her considerable wing. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike 10 at 4:15, 7 and

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Coraline 3D Showing Fri.–Sun. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 12:20, 2:40, 5:05, 7:20 and 9:50 and Mon.–Thu. at 1:40, 4:25, 7:20 and 9:50. Fired Up High school buds and football comrades Shawn and Nick decide to join the cheerleading squad, attend summer cheer camp and lead their new posse to victory. Or maybe they were just trying to score. Whatever. Rated PG-13. Showing Fri.–Thu. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 7:35 and 9:40. Gran Torino Showing Fri.–Thu. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 4 and 9:30. He’s Just Not That Into You Showing Fri.–Sun. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 9:30 and Mon.–Thu. at 9:05. Hotel for Dogs Based upon the Lois Duncan book of the same name, this star-flecked film—Lisa Kudrow, Kevin Dillon, and Don Cheadle, to name a few—follows two orphans who force their dog—and any other strays they can round up—to squat an abandoned hotel. Shortly thereafter, the dogs organize a chapter of Food Not Bombs. Rated PG. Showing Fri.–Sun. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 12:05, 2:25 and 4:45 and Mon.–Thu. at 1:50 and 4:35.

The Reader Showing Fri.–Sun. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 12:45, 3:45, 6:55 and 9:35 and Mon.–Thu. at 1:05, 3:45, 6:55 and 9:35. Slumdog Millionaire Showing Fri.–Sun. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 12:50, 3:40, 6:40 and 9:20 and Mon.–Thu. at 1:20, 3:50, 6:40 and 9:20. Also playing at the Mountain in Whitefish at 4:15, 7 and 9:15 with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1:45. Taken Showing Fri.–Sun. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:25 and 9:50 and Mon.–Thu. at 1:45, 4:05, 6:55 and 9:10. Also playing at the Mountain in Whitefish at 4:15, 7 and 9:15 with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1:45. Watchmen Showing Fri.–Thu. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 1:30, 3, 4:30, 5:30, 7, 8 and 9 with Fri.–Sun. matinees at noon. Also playing at the Mountain in Whitefish at 4:30 and 7:30 with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1:30 and at the Showboat in Polson at 4 and 7:15. Capsule reviews by Jonas Ehudin. Moviegoers be warned! Show times are good as of Fri., March 13. At press time, movie listings were unavailable for the Pharaohplex in Hamilton. Show times and locations are subject to change or errors, despite our best efforts. Please spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities by calling ahead to confirm. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 10/Village 6—5417469; Wilma—728-2521; Pharaohplex in H a m i l t o n — 9 61- F I L M ; R o x y Tw i n i n Hamilton—363-5141. Stadium 14 in Kalispell-—752-7804. Showboat in Polson, Entertainer in Ronan and Mountain in Whitefish—862-3130.

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You note that every other woman has left him, like it’s some accomplishment that you’re still there. Sorry, but “Woman survives on barely any dignity for five straight years” isn’t quite on par with “Woman trapped in car for five days stays alive by drinking her own urine and eating the headrest.” You spin what you had with him as some great love story, and that’s not totally off. Your denial of reality is right out of Titanic—the scene where DiCaprio’s character is about to freeze to death in the North Atlantic, but first manages to mutter, “I don’t know about you, but I intend on writing a strongly worded letter to the White Star Line about all of this.” Next, you claim he’s “a good guy.” How so? When he’s screaming and maybe even throwing things at you, does he stop for a moment to write a check to the American Cancer Society? Of course, you were never “the one,” just the one who paid his VISA bill. And guess what: He hates you for it—for being somebody who’d do anything to keep him around—and probably hated himself for needing you too much to ditch you. You weren’t his girlfriend; you were his caseworker. You don’t love him; you enable him. And, you weren’t with him for who he is but for who you’re not. Being with him makes you feel like somebody, and keeps you too busy cleaning up the giant litterbox that is his life to look at your own. To be fair, you two do have one big thing in common: a really low opinion of you.

Don’t get your hopes up about the ADD meds, which were apparently sold to you as the Glinda the Good Witch of pharmaceuticals. They might help him be more focused and less impulsive, frustrated, and angry, but there’s no medication in the world that will make a mean guy nice. Remember, this is a man who told you he “wasted” five years with you. If you ever loved somebody, you don’t say stuff like that to them. (If you have nothing nice to say, well, be a dear and make something up.) Like psoriasis, the guy’s bound to come back. In preparation for his return, change the locks, change your phone number, and pledge to stay out of relationships until you couldn’t imagine putting up with a guy like him. In the meantime, if you’re jonesing to feel needed, become a Big Sister (bbbs.org), and light up somebody’s life without paying five years of their electric bills.

THIS SNUB’S FOR YOU You say we guys shouldn’t let rejection bother us, but take it as a sign to approach the next woman. Well, it’s a big deal to be rejected. It’s an even bigger deal to then see the girl laughing with her friends about what just happened. —A Man What were you, curious about what it was like to be one of the Christians thrown to the lions? Unless you’re some rare golden boy, there’s no worse time to hit on a girl than when she’s in a group. She isn’t really out with friends; she’s out with 12 Judge Judys. Each is sure to find something wrong with you—because you aren’t hitting on her, or because she’s trying to protect her friend (perhaps from ever having a boyfriend). You can resent what it takes to get dates, or you can do what it takes: Look around your daily life to chat up unaccompanied women, and stop basing what you think of you on what other people seem to think of you. While the sound of female laughter is an adult version of the wedgie, consider the alternative: the sound of the clock ticking away the decades as you sit home staring at the chalk outline of your sex life. Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or e-mail Advice A m y @ a o l . c o m ( w w w. a d v i c e goddess.com)

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “One often meets one’s destiny on the road taken to avoid it,” says a French proverb. Sometimes, in fact, you can’t even get properly aligned with your highest potential unless you try to escape it. Only by seeking an alternate route are you led into the circumstances that ultimately activate the fullness of your gifts. These mysteries will soon have personal meaning for you, Taurus. Upcoming plot twists will lead you to where you didn’t even know you needed to go.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): As I compose your horoscope, I’m sitting in a restaurant in San Francisco’s Chinatown dining on something the menu refers to as a Milky Golden Prize Delight Bun. And I’m thinking, I bet it’s going to be a kind of Milky Golden Prize Delight week for you Cancerians . . . a Sweet Creamy Lusty Elixir week . . . a Rich Thick Tasty Brilliance week. If you can manage it, I suggest you try to have a dream one of these nights in which you find a delicious morsel of the sun in a bowl of pudding, and savor it all while listening to the full moon sing you a thrilling lullaby.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I predict that you will go to a grungy thrift store to shop for bargain kitchen items but will instead buy a magic snow globe depicting a dolphin drinking beer from a fountain that’s shaped like a silver stiletto pump, and when you get this talisman home you will discover that it gives you the power to hover and cruise a few feet off the ground, plus tune in to the secret thoughts of people who confuse you, and even time-travel into the past for brief ten-minute blasts that allow you to change what happened. And if my prediction’s not accurate in every detail, I bet it will nonetheless be metaphorically true.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The foxglove plant can either be a hex or a healer. If you eat its flowers, your heart rate will zoom to a dangerous rate and your digestive system will go haywire. If, on the other hand, you have certain cardiac problems and partake of the foxglove’s leaves, they will steady and strengthen your heart. I bet you can think of several influences in your life whose powers can be equally contradictory. According to my reading of the omens, it’s an excellent time to get very clear about the differences, and take steps to ensure that you’ll be exposed as little as possible to the negative effects.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The agitation and commotion seem to be dying down. The bitching and moaning are diminishing. And yet, from what I can tell, the Big Squeeze is still squeezing you, which probably means that it’s going to get trickier for you to extricate yourself. Want my advice? Don’t take “maybe” for an answer. Negotiate with a mischievous look in your eye. Learn more about the productive value of unpredictability by studying three-year-olds and free spirits who have nothing to lose. Most importantly, do whatever it takes to deflect the propaganda and slip past the symbolic gestures so that you can penetrate to the core of the real feelings.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Here’s what I’m looking for,” said a personal classified I read online. “Someone who can tear me away from living inside my head . . . who sees things in me that I don’t see myself.” That’s exactly what I want for you right now, Scorpio. Whether this someone shows up in the form of an ally or enemy or beloved animal or invisible friend, I don’t care. The important thing is that he or she awakens you to certain mysteries about you that you’ve been blind to, and helps free you from the unconscious delusion that all of reality is contained inside the boundaries of your skull.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): This would be a perfect week to practice writing love letters. It’s not yet a favorable time to actually send the love letters you compose, however. You need some work before you’ll be ready to produce the finished products. You’ve got to drain off the chatter that’s at the top of your head before you’ll be able to penetrate to the more interesting truths that lie at the bottom of your heart. But if you do your homework— churn out, say, at least three eruptions of rabid amour—you’ll prepare yourself well to craft a thoughtful meditation that will really have a chance to make an impact.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I decided to call my cable TV company to inquire about a mistake on my bill. From past experience, I suspected this would be a visit to the suburbs of hell. My expectations were soon fulfilled. After being cycled through three phases of the automated system, I was told by a machine that I’d get to speak with an actual person in 16 minutes. Then I was delivered into the aural torment of recorded smooth jazz. But a minute into the ordeal, something wonderful happened. The muzak gave way to a series of great indie rock tunes, including three I’d never heard before. A song that I later determined to be Laura Veirs’ “Don’t Lose Yourself” became my instant new favorite. By the time the billing consultant was ready for me, my mood was cheery. I predict a comparable sequence for you, Capricorn. An apparent trip to the suburbs of hell will have a happy ending that exposes you to fresh sources of inspiration.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In response to the recession, some companies have come up with an ingenious way to avoid raising prices: They reduce the amount of product they offer by shrinking the packaging. The makers of Skippy Peanut Butter, for instance, restructured the bottom of the jar so that only 16.3 ounces could fit inside instead of the previous 18. In the coming weeks, Aquarius, I suspect you will be having to deal with metaphorical versions of this strategy. Now that I’ve told you, maybe you won’t be fooled.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In the past few weeks you have veered close to the edge of blissful triumph. From what I can tell, you averted total ecstatic breakthrough and fantastic raging success by only the narrowest of margins. If you don’t want to go all the way in the coming days—if you’d rather remain faithful to your fear of success and fall back into your humdrum comfort zone—you should slam on the brakes immediately. But I warn you: The cosmic pressure to push you over the top into loopy, grinning, shameless victory is almost irresistible.

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98 Chevrolet XCab Diesel 4x4 NICE Truck $6,895 Toby Kundig 406-871-1830 RONANDODGE.COM 08 Dodge 1500 Quad Cab 4x4 Now Only $18,995 Tina Baltz 406-261-3660 RONANDODGE.COM

’06 Subaru Legacy AWD, 26k, clean & sporty $15,985 Missoula Nissan Hyundai - 549-5178 missoulanissan.com ‘05 Subaru Outback 3.0 LL Bean AWD #8332B Was $18,995 Now $17,992 www.flanagan motors.com 406-721-1381

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Public Notices MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT

Missoula County is currently accepting applications from governmental or health and human service non-profit organizations that provide basic/critical needs assistance to at-risk populations in the Missoula area. For more i n fo r m a t i o n o r t o r e c e i ve a Missoula County CommunityBased Organization (CBO) application form, please call 258-3712. Applications may be picked up at the Missoula Office of Planning and Grants, 435 Ryman Street. The deadline for submittal is Wednesday, April 15, 2009. MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE REGULATION BEFORE THE PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF MONTANA UTILITY DIVISION DOCKET NO. D2008.9.119 IN THE MATTER OF the Application of Mountain Water Company for Authority to Increase Rates and Charges for Water Service to Its Missoula, Montana, Customers NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON STIPULATION – MOUNTAIN WATER COMPANY’S REQUEST TO INCREASE RATES AND CHARGES Please take notice that on March 31, 2009, at 7:00 p.m., at the Missoula City Council Chambers, 140 West Pine Street, Missoula, Montana, the Montana Public Service Commission (PSC) will conduct a hearing on a Stipulation in settlement of the Mountain Water Company’s (Mountain or Mountain Water) application in this docket, as described below. On September 29, 2008, Mountain Water filed an application with the PSC requesting an increase in rates and charges for water service to its customers in and near Missoula, Montana. The request was for a total annual revenue requirement increase of $2,518,665. In addition to Mountain’s revenue requirement increase request, there has been consolidated in this docket for final review and approval three power cost adjustment changes that have been approved by the PSC on an interim basis. Also consolidated in this docket is a request by Mountain to make the power cost tracker tariff permanent. The Mountain applica-

Public Notices tion was noticed on October 14, 2008. The Montana Consumer Counsel (MCC), and the City of Missoula (City) intervened in this docket, and Procedural Order No. 6954 was issued on November 7, 2008. On February 6, 2009, the parties – Mountain, MCC and the City – filed a Stipulation with the PSC, “as a reasonable settlement of the issues raised in this docket.” Neither the MCC nor the City have filed intervenor testimony in this docket. The Stipulation includes the following: 1) Mountain should be authorized on a final basis an annual revenue requirement increase of $2,044,916, spread among rate classes as proposed by Mountain in its application, or as directed by the PSC; 2) the three purchased power cost tracker adjustments, approved on an interim basis, should be approved on a final basis, and the power cost tracker tariff should remain in effect at least until the PSC issues a final order in Mountain’s next general rate case; and 3) if the PSC directs that certain flat rate irrigation services should be changed to metered service, that change should not become effective for three years. Mountain Water’s current final tariffed rates for most metered residential service is approximately $38.80 per month (assumes 1500 cubic feet of water used and a typical 5/8 x 3/4 inch meter). This compares to approximately $43.50 per month proposed by Mountain in its application and approximately $41.90 per month proposed by the parties in the Stipulation. Mountain’s current final tariffed rate for basic residential flat rate service is approximately $42 per month (4 rooms and 1 bathroom). This compares to approximately $47.35 per month proposed by Mountain in its application, and approximately $45.45 proposed by the parties in the Stipulation. Mountain’s current final lawful rates and tariffs, rates and tariffs proposed in its application, and rates and tariffs proposed in the Stipulation may be viewed in their entirety by accessing the document at the PSC website http://psc.mt.gov/eDocs/eDocument s/. (Please type in Docket D2008.9.119; and press submit.) If necessary, please call the PSC at 406444-6199 for assistance in accessing information on the website. The public may also inspect these documents at Mountain’s office at 1345 W. Broadway, Missoula, Montana. Questions regarding the Stipulation and other matters pertaining to Mountain’s rates and tariffs may be directed to Arvid Hiller, Mountain Water General Manager, at 406-7215570. The MCC may also be contacted at 406-444-2771. The purpose of the hearing will be: 1) to admit evidence into the record as necessary; 2) to hear a description of, and argument and testimony (if necessary) from the parties in support of, the Stipulation; 3) for Mountain and the intervenors to answer questions from the PSC and PSC staff on the Stipulation and, as necessary, on the Mountain application and information contained in the application; and 4) to provide an opportunity for members of the public to comment on the Stipulation. Written public comments on the Stipulation may be submitted to the PSC through the PSC’s web-based comment form at http://psc.mt.gov/Consumers/comments/ or mailed to the Public Service Commission, 1701 Prospect Avenue, P. O. Box 202601, Helena, MT 59620-2601. Anyone needing an accommodation for a physical, hearing, or sight impairment in order to attend or participate in the hearing should contact the PSC at 406-4446199 by March 20, 2009. The PSC will make every effort to accommodate individual impairments. BY THE MONTANA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION GREG

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Public Notices

JERGESON, Chairman KEN TOOLE, Vice-Chairman GAIL GUTSCHE, Commissioner BRAD MOLNAR, Commissioner JOHN VINCENT, Commissioner

Woody, Missoula, Montana, 59802, (406) 523-5140. Your failure to appear at the hearing constitutes a denial of your interest in custody of the Youth, which denial will result, without further notice of this proceeding or any subsequent proceeding, in judgment by default being entered for the relief requested in the Petition. A copy of the Petition hereinbefore referred to is filed with the Clerk of District Court for Missoula County, telephone: (406) 258-4780. WITNESS the Honorable Edward P. McLean, Judge of the above-entitled Court and the Seal of this Court, this 5th day of March, 2009. /s/Ed McLean District Court Judge

BEGINNING; CONTAINING 1.65 ACRES MORE OR LESS. The abandonment of this county road by both the City of Missoula and County of Missoula is necessary and advantageous for the following reasons: 1. The City of Missoula and the County of Missoula have jurisdiction over the road easement to be vacated due to the agreement by the County of Missoula to transfer their interest in “Miller Creek Road” to the City of Missoula. 2. Some of the land and owners directly affected reside in the city and some in the county. 3. The portion of the public right-of-way that this petition requests be vacated does not provide exclusive access to any private land, as there is a present roadway operating called Miller Creek Road. 4. The County/City has a standard 60-foot roadway entitled Miller Creek Road (See Attached Exhibit B) without the use of the road easement to be vacated. 5. The portion of the public right-of-way that this petition requests be vacated is relatively short and isolated and has no purpose in the current planned improvements of Miller Creek Road, and would not in the future, since the road narrows again at Briggs and as it progresses up Lower and Upper Miller Creek Roads. 6. The portion of the public right-of-way that this petition requests be vacated had been abandoned in favor of the current roadway operating called Miller Creek Road (See Attached Exhibit B) a. The record books showing the road easement in question were removed from the County Clerk and Recorder’s Office for at least 50 years, if not 100 years. b. The County/City intended to destroy the books containing the record of this road easement. c. The County/City granted subdivision permits and allowed housing to be built within the easement to be vacated. d. The County/City did not consult or incorporate this road easement when significant changes were planned to Miller Creek Road. e. The County/City did not mention the road easement regarding the Miller Creek Road project until August of 2008, over a year after the City had represented its intention not to cause harm to landowners’ properties during the remodeling of Miller Creek Road. 7. The damage to private property owners, and liability of the city for their damages, outweighs any interest the County/City may have in maintaining the road easement to be vacated. a. The County/City has a duty to keep all public easement records available to the public. b. The County/City breached this duty by allowing the public record of the road easement to be vacated to disappear for up to 100 years. c. Property owners, relying on the public record, built property improvements, including homes, within this easement. d. Consequently, all of the homeowners along the easement to be vacated will suffer considerable harm in terms of use and resale of their properties if the easement is not vacated. A PUBLIC HEARING on the above requested abandonment will be held before the Board of County Commissioners at their regular meeting on March 18, 2009 at 1:30 P.M., Room 201, Missoula County Courthouse. Interested parties are requested to be present at that time to be heard for or against the granting of this petition. Written protest will be accepted by the Commissioners’ Office, Room 204, Missoula County Courthouse, prior to the hearing date. /s/ Vickie M. Zeier, Clerk & Recorder /Treasurer By Kim Cox Assistant Chief Deputy Clerk & Recorder, 200 W. Broadway St. Missoula, MT 59802 (406) 2583241 Date: February 19, 2009

Part 203. The security is subject to forfeiture if the successful bidder does not enter into the contract within 30 days of bid acceptance. Bids will be accepted until 3:00 PM, Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at which time bids will be opened and read. If your firm is interested and qualified, please submit three copies of your proposal to: Barbara Berens, County Auditor, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. Bids must be sealed and marked “Proposal for Partnership Health Center Dental Chairs.” Interested firms may obtain a complete project description on Missoula County’s website at http://www.co.missoula.mt.us/bidsandproposals or by contacting Barbara Berens, 406-258-3227 or bberens@co.missoula.mt.us.

Registration Number on the Bid Form. Forms for registration are available from the Department of Labor and Industry, P.O. Box 8011, 1805 Prospect Ave., Helena, Montana 59604-8011. Information on registration can be obtained by calling 1-406444-7734. All laborers and mechanics employed by CONTRACTOR or subcontractors in performance of the construction work shall be paid wages at rates as may be required by Federal Law. The CONTRACTOR must ensure that employees and applicants for employment are not discriminated against because of their race, color, religion, sex or national origin. BUY AMERICAN: All of the iron, steel and manufactured goods to be incorporated into the Project shall be produced in the United States. BIDS TO REMAIN OPEN: The Bidder shall guarantee the Total Bid Price for a period of 90 calendar days from the date of bid opening. Proposals must be sealed and marked “Wye Area Sanitary Sewer, Phase 2 RSID 8489, opening April 9, 2009,” and marked “Sealed Bid” with the CONTRACTOR’s name, address, Montana Contractors Registration Number, and be addressed to: Missoula County Public Works Department, 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, MT 59808. No facsimile bids will be accepted. Any objection to published specifications must be filed in written form with the Office of County Commissioners prior to the scheduled time of bid opening. No bid will be considered which includes Federal excise tax, since the County is exempt therefrom and can furnish to the successful bidder certificates of exemption. WAGE RATES: This project is partially funded with Federal Funds; therefore, the Contractor shall not pay less than the latest Federal Davis Bacon minimum wage as determined by the U.S. Secretary of Labor. A copy of said wage rates are attached as part of the specifications in Section 00910. FUNDING AGENCY PROVISIONS: BIDDER’S attention is directed to the Funding Agency Special Provisions for Montana Public Facility Projects of the Contract Documents (section 00900). Successful BIDDER shall be required to comply with all applicable articles therein, including the Additional Special Provisions for SRF, Section 1.05. PRE-BID CONFERENCE: Prospective bidders are encouraged to attend a pre-bid conference, which will be conducted jointly by the OWNER and ENGINEER at the Missoula County Public Works Office, 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, MT 59808 at 2:00 p.m. on March 26, 2009. PROJECT ADMINISTRATION: All questions relative to this project prior to the opening of bids shall be directed to the ENGINEER. It shall be understood, however, that no specification interpretation will be made by telephone, nor will any “or equal” products be considered for approval prior to award of contract. The ENGINEER for this project is: WGM Group, Inc. 3021 Palmer, P.O. Box 16027, Missoula, MT 59808-6027 Attn: Cody Thorson (406) 728-4611. OWNER’S RIGHTS RESERVED: The OWNER reserves the right to reject any or all bids, to waive any informality in a bid, or to accept the lowest responsive and responsible bid and bidder, and to make awards in the interest of the OWNER. The low bid shall be deter-mined on the basis of the lowest Basic Bid, or lowest combination of Basic Bid and accepted Alternative Bids if alternatives are included. The OWNER may accept in any order; any, all, or none of the Alternative Bids. AWARD CONTINGENT: Without limiting the foregoing, it is expressly stated that final award of the Contract is contingent upon securing appropriate financing. Owner: Missoula County By: Bill Carey, Chair

Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Tim Lien, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 4110 Weeping Willow Drive, Missoula, Montana 59803, or filed with the Clerk of the abovenamed Court. DATED this 17th day of February, 2009. /s/ Tim Lien, Personal Representative

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DP-09-23 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JOSEPHY ALFRED JOHNSON, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Barbara A. Johnson has been appointed Personal Representative of the the Estate of Joseph Alfred Johnson. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Barbara A. Johnson, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, in care of Cunningham Law Office, 818 West Central, Suite 1, Missoula, MT 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 24th day of February, 2009. /s/ Kyle D. Cunningham, Attorney for Personal Representative, Barbara A. Johnson

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT Missoula County, Montana Office of Planning and Grants Fire Review Services Request for Qualifications The County of Missoula, Montana is seeking proposals from professionals with the appropriate qualifications and staff resources to review subdivision projects for compliance with fire safety requirements per the Missoula County Subdivision Regulations and Uniform Fire Code. OPG is seeking statements of qualification from individuals or firms interested in providing this service. Those interested in applying may find the submittal requirements on the OPG website at http://www.co.missoula.mt.us/opgweb/ or by contacting OPG at 406258-4657 or opg@co.missoula.mt.us. The submittal deadline is 5:00 P.M., March 30, 2009. MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DN-06-19 Department No. 3 District Judge John W. Larson SUMMONS AND CITATION IN THE MATTER OF DECLARING H.S. A YOUTH IN NEED OF CARE TO: STEVEN LEE SMITH RE: H.S., born October 14, 2005 to Jessica Stratton YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, Child and Family Services Division (CFS), 2677 Palmer, Suite 300, Missoula, Montana 59808, has filed a Petition to Terminate the Father’s Parental Rights or for said youth to be otherwise cared for; Now, Therefore,YOU ARE HEREBY CITED AND DIRECTED to appear on the 16th day of April, 2009 at 10:00 a.m. at the Courtroom of the above entitled Court at the Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, then and there to show cause, if any you may have, why the father’s rights should not be terminated; why CFS should not be awarded permanent legal custody of the youth with the right to consent to the youth’s adoption; and why the Petition should not be granted or why said youth should not be otherwise cared for. Steven Lee Smith is represented by Patrick Sandefur, 210 North Higgins, Suite 234, Missoula, Montana, 59802, (406) 721-5337. Your failure to appear at the hearing constitutes a denial of your interest in custody of the youth, which denial will result, without further notice of this proceeding or any subsequent proceeding, in judgment by default being entered for the relief requested in the Petition. A copy of the Petition hereinbefore referred to is filed with the Clerk of District Court for Missoula County, telephone: (406) 258-4780. WITNESS the Honorable John W. Larson, Judge of the aboveentitled Court and the Seal of this Court, this 19th day of February, 2009. /s/John W. Larson District Court Judge MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DN-07-20 Department No. 1 Judge Edward P. McLean Related Cause Nos. DN-0721, DN-07-22 SUMMONS AND CITATION IN THE MATTER OF DECLARING F.B. A YOUTH IN NEED OF CARE. TO: AMY BERRY; PENDER BLOCK AND ALL PUTATIVE FATHERS OF F.B. Re: F.B., born October 14, 1992, to Amy Berry YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, Child and Family Services Division (CFS), 2677 Palmer Street, Suite 300, Missoula, Montana, 59808, has filed a Petition for Termination of Parental Rights of Pender Block and All Putative Fathers of F.B. or for said Youth to be otherwise cared for; Now, Therefore, YOU ARE HEREBY CITED AND DIRECTED to appear on the 15th day of April, 2009 at 9:00 a.m. at the Courtroom of the above entitled Court at the Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, then and there to show cause, if any you may have, why the Father’s parental rights should not be terminated; why the Petition should not be granted or why said Youth should not be otherwise cared for. Pender Block is represented by the Office of State Public Defender, 610 Woody, Missoula, Montana, 59802, (406) 523-5140. Amy Berry is represented by Courtappointed attorney Susan Boyer, 610

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a petition has been filed with the County Commissioners requesting to vacate the herein described right-ofway, which runs parallel and is duplicative of the current Miller Creek Road (as defined in legal description below and located in Missoula County) And further described in the Road Book of the Missoula County Department of Public Works Surveying Division and shown on the attached Exhibit A as: The area to be abandoned is that portion of land described in the following legal description and not currently being used as the county road known as Miller Creek Road (found in Legend of attached map designated as “Portion of City Annexed per City Resolutions No. 6179, 6287, and 7184”) and designated in the Legend on the attached illustration as “portion of public highway easement per Book 155 Deeds, Page 60 lying westerly of present city limits” and “portion of public highway easement per Commissioner’s Journal, Book G, Page 410 lying westerly of present city limits. A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN THE EAST HALF OF SECTION 1, TOWNSHIP 12 NORTH, RANGE 20 WEST, PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, MONTANA; MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: COMMENCING AT THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER (SW 1/4 NE 1/4) OF SAID SECTION 1; THENCE S03’21J09”W ALONG THE EAST LINE OF SAID SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER (SW _ NE _), 147.50 FEET; THENCE PERPENDICULAR TO LAST SAID LINE N86’38’51”W, 33.20 FEET TO A POINT ON THE WESTERLY LINE OF THAT CERTAIN TRACT OF LAND DESCRIBED IN BOOK 626 MICRO, PAGE 0344 ON FILE AND OF RECORD IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, LAST SAID POINT ALSO BEING THE POINT OF BEGINNING; THENCE CONTINUING N86’38’51” W, 26.80 FEET TO THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF THAT CERTAIN TRACT OF LAND DESCRIBED IN COMMISSIONER’S JOURNAL BOOK G, PAGE 410, ON FILE AND OF RECORD IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA; THENCE SOUTHERLY AND SOUTHWESTERLY ALONG THE WESTERLY LINE OF THAT CERTAIN TRACT OF LAND DESCRIBED IN SAID COMMISSIONER’S JOURNAL BOOK G, PAGE 410 THE FOLLOWING TWO (2) COURSES: 1) S03’21’09”W, 1572.12 FEET; 2) S26”32’47” W, 575.20 FEET TO A POINT ON THE NORTHERLY LINE OF TRACT 4-A OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 4508, ON FILE AND OF RECORD IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA; THENCE S53’33’101’E ALONG SAID NORTHERLY LINE, 61.12 FEET TO A POINT OF THE WESTERLY LINE OF THAT CERTAIN TRACT OF LAND DESCRIBED IN SAID BOOK 626 MICRO, PAGE 0344, SAID POINT ALSO BEING A POINT ON A NON-TANGENT CURVE CONCAVE NORTHWESTERLY AND HAVING A RADIUS OF 1281.06 FEET, A RADIAL LINE TO LAST SAID POINT BEARS S54’30’08”E; THENCE NORTHEASTERLY AND NORTHERLY ALONG THE WESTERLY LINE OF THAT CERTAIN TRACT OF LAND DESCRIBED IN SAID BOOK 626 MICRO, PAGE 0344 AND ITS NORTHERLY PROLONGATION THROUGH TRACTS 1 AND 2 OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 4295, ON FILE AND OF RECORD IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA THE FOLLOWING TWO (2) COURSES: 1) ALONG SAID TANGENT CURVE THROUGH A CENTRAL ANGLE OF 31’54’51” AN ARC LENGTH OF 713.56 FEET; 2) N03’35’01”E, 1428.49 FEET TO THE POINT OF

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL Dental Delivery Units Partnership Health C e n t e r, a 5 0 1 ( c ) ( 3 ) F e d e r a l l y Qualified Health Center, is currently soliciting sealed bids for three complete dental chairs to include delivery systems, chair-side monitors, appropriate cabinetry and lighting and one x-ray unit. The proposal should include delivery and installation on the second floor at the Partnership Health Center Clinic located at 401 West Railroad Street, Missoula, Montana.. Each proposal shall specify each and every item as set forth in the attached specifications. Any and all exceptions must be clearly stated in the proposal. Failure to set forth any item in the specifications without taking exception may be grounds for rejection. Partnership Health Center reserves the right to reject all proposals and to waive any informality. Proposals must be accompanied by security in the amount of ten per cent (10%) of the amount bid and must be in a form specified in the Montana Code Annotated, Title 18 Chapter 1

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT SECTION 00100 INVITATION TO BID RECEIPT OF BIDS: Sealed bids will be received at the office of the Missoula County Public Works Department, 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, Montana, 59808, until 2:00 p.m. local time on April 9, 2009, for the construction of the “Wye Area Sanitary Sewer - Phase 2” Project. DESCRIPTION OF WORK: The work includes approximately 56,000 lineal feet of sanitary sewer gravity main (8” to 18”), approximately 7,000 lineal feet of sanitary force main (2” and 8”), one wastewater pumping station, and appurtenant work. PROJECT FINANCING – The Missoula County “Wye Area Sanitary Sewer - Phase 2” is a project funded in part by the Federal Government through the State Revolving Fund (SRF) Loan Program in conjunction with Special Improvement District No. 8489 and is subject to all applicable Federal/State regulations, as indicated within the specifications. SITE OF WORK: The site of the work is located in Missoula County immediately northwest of the City of Missoula. COMPLETION OF WORK: All work must be substantially completed within 220 calendar days after the commencement date stated in the Notice to Proceed. OPENING OF BIDS: The bids will be publicly opened and read starting at 2:00 p.m. on April 9, 2009 at Missoula County Public Works Department, 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, Montana (Phone (406) 258-4753). OBTAINING CONTRACT DOCUMENTS: The documents are entitled “Wye Area Sanitary Sewer – Phase 2”. Copies of the Contract Documents may be purchased by mailing check or money order to: WGM Group, Inc. 3021 Palmer, P.O. Box 16027, Missoula, MT 59808-6027 Attn: Cody Thorson (406) 728-4611. Documents will be shipped via UPS Second Day Service. If shipping by other means is required, Bidder shall include their UPS/Federal Express/Airborne account number with their request for documents. Copies of half-size set of Drawings and Contract Manual may be obtained upon paying a nonrefundable fee of $150.00. Full-size drawings are not available for bidding. Make checks payable to “WGM Group, Inc.” SCHEDULE: Each Bid shall be accompanied by the CONTRACTOR’s schedule of construction. The schedule shall include all major work items included in the bid and detail the CONTRACTOR’s activities to complete the Project in accordance with the Contract Documents. BID SECURITY: Each Bid shall be accompanied by Bid Security made payable to OWNER in an amount of ten percent (10%) of the Bidder’s maximum Bid price and in the form of cash, a cashier’s check, certified check, or bank money order drawn and issued by a national banking association located in Montana or by any banking corporation incorporated under the laws of Montana; or a Bid Bond (on form attached if a form is prescribed) issued by a surety authorized to do business in Montana meeting the requirements of Paragraph 5.01 of the General Conditions. The bid security shall identify the same firm as is noted on the bid proposal forms. The bid bond shall act as a guarantee that the bidder, if his bid is accepted, will promptly execute the Contract, secure pay-ment of worker’s compensation insurance, and furnish a satis-factory faithful performance bond in the amount of 100 percent of the contract price and a payment bond in the amount of 100 percent of the contract price. CONTRACTOR’S REGISTRATION: CONTRACTOR’s and any of the CONTRACTOR’s subcontractors bidding or doing work on this project will be required to be registered with the Montana Department of Labor and Industry (DLI). No Bid shall be considered that does not carry the bidder’s Montana Contractor’s

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Probate No. DP-09-30 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MARY E. FOSHAG, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either by mailed to Burt Foshag, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 6425 Linda Vista Blvd., Missoula, MT 59803 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 1st day of March, 2009. /s/ Burt Foshag, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-09-29 Dept. No. 4 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JEAN G. LIEN, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV-08-1358 Dept. No. 4 SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION. CITY OF MISSOULA, Plaintiff, v. BARBARA S. KOESSLER, as trustee of Barbara S. Koessler Revocable Trust, all known and unknown heirs and assigns of LEILA McDONALD, CORINNE M. TURMAN and CECIL THURSTON, and all other persons, unknown, claiming or who might claim any right, title, estate or interest in or lien or encumbrance upon the real property described in the complaint adverse to the Plaintiff’s ownership or any cloud upon Plaintiff’s title thereto, whether such claim or possible claim be present or contingent, Defendants. THE STATE OF MONTANA sends greetings to the above named Defendants and all other persons, unknown, claiming or who might claim any right, title, estate or interest in or lien or encumbrance upon the real property described in the complaint adverse to the Plaintiff’s ownership or any cloud upon Plaintiff’s ownership or any cloud upon Plaintiff’s title thereto, whether such claim or possible claim be present or contingent: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in the action, which is filed in the office of the Clerk of this Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you in the County wherein you reside, and to file your answer to the Complaint and serve a copy thereof upon the Plaintiff’s attorney within 20 days. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you, be default, for the relief demanded in the Complaint. This action is brought for the purpose of quieting title to land situated in Missoula County, Montana, and described as follows: A tract of land located in the Southeast Quarter of Section 1, Township 12 North, Range 20 West, Principal Meridian, Montana; more particularly described as follows: Commencing at the Northwesterly corner of Lot 48 of South Side Homes, A recorded subdivision of Missoula County, Montana, said corner being a point on the Northerly line of that parcel of land described in boo 788 Micro, Page 1258 on file and of record in Missoula County, Montana; thence N 86º34’28” W continuing along last said Northerly line 30.0 feet to the point of beginning; then N 86º34’28” W continuing along last said Northerly line 38.1 feet to a point on the Southeasterly right-of-way of Lower Miller Creek Road, last said point being on a nontangent curve concave Northwesterly and having a radius of 1341.06 feet, a radial line to the last said point bears S 68º58’52” E; thence along last said non-tangent curve through a central angle of 6º36’08”, an arc length of 154.5 feet to a point on the Westerly right-of-way line of Upper Miller Creek Road; thence S 03º25’42” W along last said Westerly right-of-way line, 149.7 feet to the point of beginning; containing 2,623 square feet, more or less. WITNESS my hand and Seal of said Court this 4th day of March, 2009. (SEAL) /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of Court By: Richard Goodwin, Deputy Clerk MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV-09-319 Dept. No. 2 Robert L. Deschamps III NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE In the Matter of the Name Change of Christopher D. McAlexander, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Christopher Dale McAlexander to Christopher Dale Dennison. The hearing will be on April 14th, 2009 at 11:00 a.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. DATED: 3/5/09. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: Bobbi Hainline, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DP-09-31 IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF RICHARD P. GREIL, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Elva M. Greil has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the Deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice, or their claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Christian, Samson, Jones & Chisholm, PLLC, Attorneys for the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 310 West Spruce, Missoula, MT 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 26th day of February, 2009. CHRISTIAN, SAMSON, JONES & CHISHOLM, PLLC. /s/ Kirby S. Christian, Attorney for Personal Representative, Elva M. Greil MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Probate No. DP-09-28 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF HOMER D. SICKELS, 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 b mailed to Carol S. Williams, return receipt requested, c/o Worden Thane P.C., PO Box 4747, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the aboveentitled Court. DATED this 17t day of February, 2009. /s/ Carol Jean Williams, a/k/a Carol S. Williams, Personal Representative

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-09-35 Dept. No. 2 Judge Robert L. Deschamps III. NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF Alyce M. Dover, 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 CARA L. LIGHTFIELD, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 160 Highmore Street, Lolo, MT 59847, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. Dated this 6th day of March, 2009. /s/ Cara L. Lightfield, 160 Highmore Street, Lolo, MT 59847 NOTICE OF SALE UNDER MONTANA TRUST INDENTURE Trust Indenture: Dated February 21, 2006 Grantor: Clay A. Mathews, P.O. Box 1327, Victor,,, Montana 59875 Original Trustee: Stewart Title of Ravalli County, LLC, 1920 North First, Suite B Hamilton, Montana 59840. Beneficiary: First Security Bank of Missoula, P.O. Box 4506, Missoula, Montana 59806. Successor Trustee: Christopher B. Swartley, Attorney at Law, Christopher B. Swartley, PLLC, P.O. Box 8957, Missoula, Montana 59807—8957. Date and Place of Recordation: February 23, 2006 as Instrument No. 567502, records of Ravalli County, Montana. The undersigned hereby gives notice that on the 30th day of June, 2009, at the hour of 10:00 a.m. in front of the Ravalli County Clerk and Recorder’s Office, 215 South Fourth Street, Suite C, Hamilton, Montana, Christopher B. Swartley, as Successor Trustee under the above-described instrument, in order to satisfy the obligation set forth below, has elected to and will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash, lawful money of the United States of America, payable at the time of sale to the Successor Trustee, the interest of the above-named Trustee, Successor Trustee, and Grantor, and all of its successors and assigns, without warranty or covenant, express or implied, as to title or possession, in the following described real property: Lot B-3 of Bullseye situated in Ravalli County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. TOGETHER WITH the right to use with others a 60 foot road and utility easement from U.S. Highway 93 to Lot B-3, shown as Bullseye Lane, on subdivision plat of Bullseye Subdivision. Subject to a Deed of Trust dated February 1, 1999, in favor of Norwest Mortgage, recorded at Book 180 of Mortgages, Page 899. Subject to easements and encumbrances of record. The defaults for which this foreclosure is made are the failure of the above-named Grantor, and to pay when due the monthly payments of interest, and principal due on maturity as provided for in the Deed of Trust and Modifications thereto. The Loan matured on January 30, 2008 and the entire balance of principal and interest became due and payable.. The sum owing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is Ninety-nine Thousand Nine Hundred Seventeen and 20/100ths Dollars ($99,917.20) principal, plus interest thereon at the rate of NY Prime plus 1.5% (currently 4.75%) from and after March 20, 2006 to January 23, 2009, in the amount of Seventeen Thousand Six Hundred Sixty and 77/100ths Dollars ($17,660.77), plus per diem interest thereafter at the rate of Thirteen Dollars ($13.00), plus all costs, expenses, attorney’s and trustee’s fees as provided by law.. DATED this 28th day of January, 2009. /s/ Christopher B. Swartley Christopher B. Swartley, Successor Trustee Christopher B. Swartley, PLLC, P.O. Box 8957, Missoula, Montana 59807-8957 STATE OF MONTANA :ss. County of Missoula. This instrument was acknowledged before me on the 28th day of January, 2009, by Christopher B. Swartley, Trustee. /s/ Roxie Hausauer Notary Public for the State of Montana.. Printed name: Roxie Hausauer ((NOTARIAL SEAL) Residing at: Lolo, MT My commission expires: 1/6/2013 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE 27 9026M TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on April 27, 2009, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: TRACT 12B OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 1720, LOCATED IN THE S 1 /2 OF SECTION 19, TOWNSHIP 14 NORTH, RANGE 20 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. BEING THE SAME FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY CONVEYED BY DEED FROM BEVERKY A WALKER VERWORN TO ROGER D HART JR AND KAREN S HART JOINT TENANTS DATED 11/09/1998 RECORDED ON 11 /16/1998 IN BOOK 562, PAGE 0803 IN MISSOULA COUNTY RECORDS, STATE OF MT Roger D Hart Jr. & Karen S Hart, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Finiti Title, LLC, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Citifinancial, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated April 3, 2007 and Recorded on April 5, 2007 in Book 794, Page 1374, as

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Document No. 200708077. The beneficial interest is currently held by Citifinancial, Inc.. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee dated December 10, 2008, and recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. A default has occurred in the performance of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,789.70, beginning August 16, 2008, 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 December 5, 2008 is $245,157.22 principal, interest at the rate of 8.0040% now totaling $7,426.31, late charges in the amount of $0.00, escrow advances of $0.00, suspense balance of $0.00 and other fees and expenses advanced of $345.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $52.92 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 safe. The bid price must be paid in cash at the time of sale. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10TH day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the 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. Dated: December 16, 2008 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA County of Stark Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 On December 16, 2008, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, 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 Nicole Schafer Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 03/28/201 1 ASAP# 2999718 02/26/2009, 03/05/2009, 03/12/2009

of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7037.17301) 1002.108095-FEI

The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.19273) 1002.108964-FEI

encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Tract 5: A parcel of land located in and a portion of the Northeast one-quarter of Section 25, Township 16 North, Range 20 West, Principal Meridian, Missoula County, Montana, and more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the Northeast corner of said Section 25, a fence corner; thence S. 00 degrees 14’57” W., along the East line of said Section 25, a distance of 1119.00 feet to a set rebar on the West rightof-way of a road, said point being the true point of beginning; thence continuing S. 00 degrees 14’57” W., along said Section line and along said right-of-way, a distance of 200.00 feet to a set rebar; thence S. 64 degrees 39’01” W., 1471.43 feet to a set rebar on the West line of the Southeast onequarter of the Northeast one-quarter of Section 25; thence N. 00 degrees 06’52” E., along said West line of the Southeast onequarter of the Northeast one-quarter, a distance of 455.84 feet to a set rebar; thence N. 74 degrees 17’06” E., 1381.34 feet to the true point of beginning, as shown on deed. Exhibit No. 2798, filed December 7, 1971, records of Missoula County, Montana. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. , beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to . Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 09/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of January 12, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $92,162.25. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $88,377.90, 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 May 22, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.19334) 1002.108693-FEI

bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7777.28803) 1002.109468-FEI

C2. S.27&#186;33’12” W., 575.00 feet to the point of beginning. Debra Ann Finley, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Charles J. Peterson, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust Dated August 7, 2001 and Recorded on August 13, 2001 in Book 666, Page 567, as Document No. 200119620 and Re-Recorded on September 5, 2001 in Book 667, Page 860, as Document No. 200121908. The beneficial interest is currently held by PHH Mortgage Corporation, A default has occurred in the performance of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,249.60, beginning September 1, 2008, 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 December 4, 2008 is $127,384.92 principal, interest at the rate of 7.125% now totaling $3,217.43, late charges in the amount of $1,971.06, escrow advances of $907.72, suspense balance of $0.00 and other fees and expenses advanced of $42.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $24.87 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any, Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid in cash at the time of sale. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the 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. Dated: December 30, 2008 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 State of North Dakota County of Stark On December 30, 2008, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson , 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. Jessica Hopkins Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 12/24/2014 ASAP# 3018123 03/12/2009, 03/19/2009, 03/26/2009

sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid in cash at the time of sale. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the 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. Dated: December 18, 2008 Charles J. Peterson MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 State of North Dakota County of Stark On December 18, 2008, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson , 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. Nicole Schafer Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 03/28/2011 ASAP# 3014239 03/05/2009, 03/12/2009, 03/19/2009

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 01/11/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200701583 Book 790, Page 1121, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Shawn Diehl, married Deanna Diehl was Grantor, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and American Title & Escrow was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded American Title & Escrow as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: A tract of land located in the NE 1/4 of Section 28, Township 15 North, Range 21 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as Tract 20A2B of Certificate of Survey No. 3013. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 200810524 Book 818, Page 900, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Chase Home Finance LLC. 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 07/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of January 2, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $222,327.07. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $219,675.89, 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 May 15, 2009 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

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 05/01/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200610260, Book 773, Page 1009, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Patti Royer was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., solely as nominee for EquiFirst Corporation was Beneficiary and First American Title Company of Montana was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First American Title Company of Montana as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 3A of Cobban and Dinsmore’s Orchard Tracts, Lot 8 and Longpre Addition, Lot 1, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for the Structured Asset Securities Corporation Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, 2006EQ1. 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 07/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of January 7, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $201,570.83. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $190,760.81, 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 May 18, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7777.28075) 1002.108434-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 03/06/08, recorded as Instrument No. 200805786 Book 815, Page 361, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Blake F. Bushman, a married person was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 5 of Ponda Rosa Acres, a platted subdivision in Missoula, Montana, according to the official recorded plat of record in Book 8 of Plats at Pages 25 and 26. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 09/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of January 14, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $365,049.77. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $355,417.26, 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 May 26, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time.

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 04/07/05, recorded as Instrument No. 200507978 Book 750, Page 611, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Keith E. Kominek, married man was Grantor, Union Federal Bank of Indianapolis was Beneficiary and Chicago Title Insurance Co. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Chicago Title Insurance Co. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lots 6, 7, 8 and the East one-half of Lot 9, Lots 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16 in Block 16 of the Townsite of Frenchtown, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Also, a strip, piece or parcel of land in the Northwest onequarter of the Southwest one-quarter of Section 35, Township 15 North, Range 21 West, Montana Principal Meridian, more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the point where the West line of said Northwest one-quarter of the Southwest one-quarter of Section 35 intersects the South line of Mullan Road; thence running Southeasterly along the said South line of Mullan Road 66 feet; thence Southwesterly 93 feet to the West line of said Section 35; thence North on the West line of Section 35, 107 feet to the Place of Beginning. Recording reference: Book 735 Micro Records, at Page 1518 less and except that portion conveyed in Bargain and Sale Deed recorded in Book 189 of Deeds at Page 268. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. , beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for BSABS 2005-AC3. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 09/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of January 12, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $136,656.74. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $131,999.60, 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 May 22, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7777.28501) 1002.108700-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 09/30/97, recorded as Instrument No. 9721844 Book 518, Page 926, and modified by Agreement recorded 5/14/2007 as Instrument No. 200711704 Book 797, Page 300, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Barbara A. Larsen, a single person was Grantor, Norwest Mortgage, Inc. was Beneficiary and Insured Titles Inc. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Insured Titles Inc. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust

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NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 12/23/05, recorded as Instrument No. 200600274, Book 767, Page 104, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Dale S. Martell, Susan L. Martell, as husband and wife was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., solely as nominee for American Brokers Conduit was Beneficiary and First American Title Insurance Company was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First American Title Insurance Company as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 17H of the Amended plat of Cobban and Disnmore’s Orchard Homes, Lot 17, a platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for CSMC Mortgage-Backed Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-4. 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 10/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of January 17, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $173,286.02. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $168,056.95, 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 May 29, 2009 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

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on April 27, 2009, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 5 in Block 2 of Webber Addition, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to official recorded plat thereof. Kristy Tripp and Benjamin Tripp, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Services, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated June 13, 2007 and recorded June 18, 2007 at 11:58 o’clock A.M. in Book 799, Page 766 as Document No. 200715233. The beneficial interest is currently held by GMAC Mortgage LLC. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee dated December 15, 2008, and recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. A default has occurred in the performance of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $2,146.74, beginning September 1, 2008, 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 December 30, 2008 is $280,517.28 principal, interest at the rate of 6.5% now totaling $7,526.58, late charges in the amount of $538.50, escrow advances of $824.44, suspense balance of $1109.75 and other fees and expenses advanced of $54.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $49.9551 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 in cash at the time of sale. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the 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. Dated: December 17, 2008 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA County of Stark On December 17, 2008, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, 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. Joan Meier Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 02/23/2013 ASAP# 3000853 02/26/2009, 03/05/2009, 03/12/2009 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on May 11, 2009, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: A tract of land located in the N 1 /2 of Section 22, township 12 North, Range 17 West, P.M.M. Missoula County, Montana, being more particularly described as tract C2 of Certificate of Survey no. 3534. Less and excepting that portion of Tract C2 of Certificate of Survey no. 3534 more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the Southeast corner of Tract C2, Certificate of Survey No. 3534, thence northwesterly, along the Frontage Road right-of-way, along a non-tangent curve, whose center bears C29&#186;00’21”W., 4074.20 feet, an arc length of 160.00 feet; thence N27&#186;33’07” E., 574.09 feet; thence S. 62&#186;26’40” E., 160.00 feet; thence along the East boundary of said Tract

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on May 8, 2009, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: A tract of land located in the SE1/4SW1/4 of Section 32, Township 13 North, Range 19 West P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana, and more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the Southwest corner of Lot 7, Block 2 Country Homes Addition No. 2, an official subdivision of Missoula County, Montana, said point of beginning being a found iron pin; thence N.89&#186;51’E., along the South boundary of said Country Homes Addition No. 2, a distance of 180.50 feet to an iron pin; thence S.0&#186;09’E., along the West boundary of the property described in Missoula County Book 21 of Deeds at page 1248, a distance of 75.70 feet to an iron pin; thence S.89&#186;51’W., a distance of 180.50 feet to an iron pin on the East boundary of Lot 4, County Homes Addition, an official subdivision of Missoula County, Montana; thence N.0&#186;09’ West along the East boundary of said Lot 4, a distance of 75.70 feet to the point of beginning. RECORDING REFERENCE: Book 102 of Micro Records at page 1333. Elizabeth F. Marsh, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated October 13, 2005 and Recorded October 10, 2005 under Book 762 in Page 788 as Document No. 200527542. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, Inc.. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee dated December 15, 2008, and recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. A default has occurred in the performance of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $2,682.95, beginning June 1, 2008, 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 December 18, 2008 is $301,304.29 principal, interest at the rate of 6.7500% now totaling $12,811.13, late charges in the amount of $703.71, escrow advances of $2,513.09, and other fees and expenses advanced of $67.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $55.72 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 in cash at the time of sale. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the 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. Dated: December 19, 2008 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 State of North Dakota County of Stark On December 19, 2008, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson , Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument

Public Notices and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Nicole Schafer Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 03/28/2011 ASAP# 3014548 03/05/2009, 03/12/2009, 03/19/2009

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NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on May 8, 2009, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 3 of Wetland Estates, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. APN #: To Be Determined Brian Corr, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated August 13, 207 and Recorded August 13, 2007 in Book 803, Page 808, as Document No. 200720943. The beneficial interest is currently held by Flagstar Bank, FSB. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee dated December 18, 2008, and recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. A default has occurred in the performance of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $5,346.52, beginning September 1, 2008, 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 January 9, 2009 is $644,109.45 principal, interest at the rate of 7.125 % now totaling $20,127.84, late charges in the amount of $1,094.80, escrow advances of $3,887.66, and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,305.50, plus accruing interest at the rate of $125.73 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid in cash at the time of sale. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10`h 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. Dated: 12/22/2008 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee Mackoff Kellogg Law Firm P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 586021097 State of North Dakota County of Stark On 12/22/2008, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson , 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. Nicole Schafer Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 03/28/2011 ASAP# 3015233 03/12/2009, 03/19/2009, 03/26/2009

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1333 Toole #C-13 $132,500 2bed/2bath newer condo close to downtown. KD Dickinson – Portico Real Estate – (406) 240-5227

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1400 Burns St 1,2 & bedrooms $99,500-$159,500. Affordable, brand new condos! Open House MF 11-1 KD Dickinson – Portico Real Estate – (406) 240-5227 2bd/1ba, 2car gar Immaculate 217 South Ave W. $232,000 Close to Univ. Anne Jablonski 5465816 www.MoveMontana.com 3 bdrm/2bath on 2 acres near Potomac. Family room and large utility room. Pine trees, RV parking & patio. $259,900 MLS# 806573 Janet 532-7903 or Robin 240-6503 riceteam@windermere.com. Text:44133 Message:12884 for pics 3BD/2BA, DECK & SHED 4721 Sage St. in Westview Mobile Park. Anne Jablonski 546-5816 www.MoveMontana.com 4 Bedroom, cedar home on 11

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Price reduced: $185,900 - 2 story in a cul de sac, central neighborhood with large yards, raised beds and 2 car garage. Priscilla @ Pru Missoula 370.7689 Priced Reduced! Large family home on 1.2 Acres. $285,000. Call Lara 406-531-5582 UPDATED CENTRAL MISSOULA HOME. 2 Bdr/1 Bath, single level, single attached garage, new flooring, interior paint, updated kitchen, new furnace and more, $149,900. Prudential Montana. Call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696 or view photos and virtual tours at...

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Land for Sale 1/2 acre in Mullan Road area with great views. Sewer stubbed to the lot. Close to river access, golf and shopping $109,900 MLS# 801617 riceteam@windermere.com Janet 532-7903 or Robin 240-6503. Text:44133 Message:12887 for pics

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Beautiful parcel with water rights at additional cost. Perfect property to escape to rural Montana but still only 20 minutes to downtown Missoula. $179,000. MLS# 900454. Janet 532-7903 or Robin 2 4 0 - 6 5 0 3 riceteam@windermere.com. Text:44133 Message:12888 for pics

20,000 SQ FOOT LOT IN GREAT ALBERTON LOCATION. 0.46 acres with all utilities present, zoned residential with potential for commercial re-zoning, $79,000. Prudential Montana. Call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696 or view photos and virtual tours at... 5 ACRES OF UNZONED LAND ON LOLO CREEK. 320’ of creek frontage, 2 40x60 buildings with 17 storage units and office space, caboose, large shop/commercial building, 2 mobiles, easy Hwy 93

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New listing!! 40 x 82 insulated shop on one acre by the Wye. Three 14 foot and one 8 foot overhead doors, framed in office area, and 7 foot security fence. $339,900 MLS#901478 Janet 532-7903 or Robin 240-6503 riceteam@windermere.com. Text:44133 Message: 12595 for pics

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CLASSIFIEDS Homes for Sale

Homes for Sale

Great Location 2881 Mary Jane • Missoula 3 Bed/2 Bath/Double Garage Across the street from a neighborhood park and a neighborhood coffee shop!

KD Dickinson • Broker/Owner • 240-5227 1400 Burns St 1, 2 & 3 bedrooms $99,500-$159,500. OPEN HOUSE M-F 11-1

921 S 4th St W. • MLS#900678 $249,500 • 2bed/1bath, bonus, great upgrades, dble garage.

832 Cherry St. • MLS# 900054 $239,500 • 2bed/1bath, new kitchen & bath, garage, deck.

1333 Toole #C-13 • MLS# 901187 $132,500 • 2bed/2bath newer condo.

Liz Dye • Broker • 531-4508

2348 River Road • MLS# 803923/803924 • $769,000 2.27 acre parcel - zoned RLD 4 2527 Valley View • MLS#805739 $224,900 • 3bed/1.5 bath with beautiful Missoula views! OPEN HOUSE SUN 12-2

2505 Floral Court • MLS#807945 $247,000 • 3bed/3 bath, corner lot with great yard. 115 North Ave East • MLS#900646 $349,000 • 3 Bedroom/ 2 Bath Arts & Crafts.

Tract 1 35269 Washoe Rd., Potomac • MLS#709551 • $105,000 5.28 moderately treed acres with Union Creek frontage.

2195 Big Flat Rd. MLS#808291 • $399,900 3bed/3bath, horse property in Big Flat with irrigation & H20 rights priced to sell.

Justin Armintrout • Realtor 546-0768 2280 Greenough Dr. • MLS#900633 $399,900 • 4bedrooms/2bath

MLS# 901489 $209,000

1723 Ethel Lane • MLS#900844 $175,000 • 3 Bedroom/ 2 Bath Modern Townhome.

Greg Zugay • Realtor • 396-6146 4011 Houk Way, Stevi MLS#806996 • $199,000 2bed/1bath on 1 acre. Views in every direction.

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2141 Raymond • MLS #901594 $349,900 • 3 bedroom/2 bath First time EVER on the market

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For Lease • 1001 SW Higgins, Suite 104

$185,900 2 story home with nice fenced yard. Central location. Priscilla Brockmeyer

370.7689

Erin Doherty • Realtor • 239-8240 Marlies Borchers • Realtor • 370-5758

Professional office space in the Panorama Park Building. 1,400+ sq. ft., 2 offices, large reception area, bathroom and kitchen. Could easily be converted into more office spaces. $1,650 a month. Broker Owned 544-2125

Lorianne Arnot • Realtor • 360-1363

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"A Wilde Night with

Severt Philleo" Featuring a staged reading of GROSS INDECENCY, THE THREE TRIALS OF OSCAR WILDE, by Moises Kaufman. Starring Severt Philleo, a past Missoula theatre mainstay, and Greg Johnson, Artistic Director of the Montana Rep. Also starring Grant Olson, David Mills Low, Ezra LeBank and many others. All proceeds to benefit the Crystal Theatre!

Two nights ONLY!!!

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Friday and Saturday, March 13 & 14, 8:00pm Crystal Theatre Info or tickets: 243-4581