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Vol. 20, No. 45 • Nov. 5–Nov. 12, 2009
Western Montana’s Weekly Journal of People, Politics and Culture
Up Front: UM scholarship funding remains dicey Ochenski: Don’t fall for the sugary stimulus spin Scope: Penélope Baquero introduces Eco sapien art
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Vol. 20, No. 45 • Nov. 5–Nov. 12, 2009
Western Montana’s Weekly Journal of People, Politics and Culture
Up Front: UM scholarship funding remains dicey Ochenski: Don’t fall for the sugary stimulus spin Scope: Penélope Baquero introduces Eco sapien art
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News Letters Two letters on one bad column.......................................................................4 The Week in Review Halloween, hockey and talk radio............................................6 Briefs Snowbowl, foreclosures and UM salaries..........................................................6 Etc. Cheers and jeers following Election Day..............................................................7 Up Front UM’s scholarship stability remains sketchy..................................................8 Ochenski How the White House distorts the economic recovery..............................9 Writers on the Range See the whole world as a cherished park.............................11 Agenda Help manage the Blackfoot River .................................................................12
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This week the Indy profiles local artist Penélope Baquero in advance of her First Friday show at Bernice’s Bakery. What’s your favorite part of Missoula’s monthly art walk? Follow-up: If you had to display your best creative work for First Friday, what would the exhibit be?
Bridgette Migneault: I love the sense of community you get here in Missoula. I’ve lived around the world and I always come back here. There’s so much to do. I love the local artists and especially that the local businesses contribute A closet artist: My closet doors. I take broken mirror glass and glue it onto large closet doors, paint it and add beads. They’re really heavy, like 60 pounds. Or maybe I would read some poetry.
Brittani Ferris: I like to go out and see everyone I know, or see the different artists and what they are doing with their work. The free wine is great, too. Too timid to perform: If I wasn’t so shy about singing in front of people I would sing a song that I wrote.
Lisa Simecek: I like the peoplewatching, the free wine and food, and the free art. It’s a good social gathering. A tad risqué: I actually do a lot of painting and I draw 1950s pin-up girls, so I would love to show that.
Ryan Farley: Mainly, I love that Missoula is a social town, and it’s another great way this town shows its colors. When I was younger it was all about the free wine and cheese. Now it’s about the community and getting out. Big on the tunes: Secret Powers playing somewhere! It would be great to see some live music featured for a First Friday event. It’s the best artistic expression.
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Honor the act Sen. Jon Tester is selling his Forest Jobs and Recreation Act (see “Etc.,” Oct. 29, 2009) with the refrain that it’s a “made-in-Montana plan that honors Montana values and traditions.” The problem is, these are federal lands belonging to all Americans. One senator and a selfselected handful of his constituents have decided on their own to scrap seven federal Wilderness Study Areas, open federal roadless land and weaken America’s National Wilderness Preservation System with “unique provisions” that set damaging precedents. “It’s a new way of doing business,” he tells us. I attended Tester’s recent open house and regret that I didn’t show up with my own sign: “No thank you, Senator Tester. Honor the made-inAmerica Wilderness Act.” While I applaud him for attempting to end the stalemate, weakening wilderness protection for future generations is just a bad way of doing business. Kathleen Stachowski Lolo
Confusing, misguided Incensed by a rather innocuous question, Drew Pogge’s tirade against hunting (see “Got your elk yet?” from Writers on the Range, Oct. 8, 2009) was as confusing as it was misguided. Apparently responding to claims made elsewhere, Pogge first insists that hunting is not a sport. As an assertion based entirely on context, semantics and perspective, a person can call it whatever they want. The author displays his own narrow perspective when he calls elk “dumb” for being road kill, overlooking qualities that allow them to thrive across the millennia: Their tremendous speed and agility, hulking bodies, ability to endure long periods of heat and cold, and a sense of smell we humans can only imagine. Pogge criticizes hunting for being unfair, yet fails to explain the fairness of his long-distance feedlot “T-Bone,” meat in which the raising, killing, processing and transport are all outsourced. Content in dealing only with the end product, Pogge is dismissive of any hunter who prizes their game as the inexpensive, local and organic food source that it is. He is predictable in
trotting out the well heeled, trophy hunter card, but their existence doesn’t alter the legitimacy of hunting for meat one bit. Away from Front Range ski lifts, Pogge might see hunters as workingclass people trying to manage a part of their food economy for themselves. In failing to do so, he ignores important questions about where our food should come from and alienates a group—hunters—that might otherwise be reliable partisans in the environmental conservation arena. Joe Welke St. Mary
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Just plain bad The “Got your elk yet?” column in the Oct. 8 Indy has got to be the worst article I have read yet. It had the sound of a desperate attempt to get a high school paper in on time. To print an article of such low quality, and directly after Headwall printed a much healthier and moving piece about the same topic, seems careless. Come on, you know better writing than this. On the other hand, I’m looking forward to reading the recent “Alone on the Range” feature (Oct. 8, 2009) and do enjoy the presence of your paper in our town. Ashlea Wolf-Sherman Missoula
A call to senators I’m not just mad, I’m furious. Our senators have apparently forgotten their oath of office that committed them to uphold the Constitution. Sens. Tester and Baucus and other elected officials have violated their oaths and violated the rule of law, literally risking the foundations of this great country, with the pending attempt to nationalize our health insurance and health care industries. There is nothing in history or government theory that could make us believe these socialistic schemes will be successful or beneficial. They will increase our already out-of-control debt, decrease the quality and accessibility of health care, and will decrease our personal freedoms. But the real danger is they violate the rule of law upon which the freedoms and prosperity of our nation depends. Similarly, attempts to control and tax our energy industries are equally illegal and unconstitutional, and must be vigorously opposed. The boiler-plate responses I have received from Tester and Baucus in response to my previous inputs—my positive inputs—concerning these issues only serve to convince me that they are not listening. In fact, neither acknowledged nor responded to my particular issues, but simply parroted the “party line.” How patronizing and how disrespectful of their constituency! In the past I have appealed to Tester and Baucus to be statesmen, not politicians. Now I appeal to them to be patriots, not traitors. Dennis W. Hicks Hamilton
Beach makes waves I recently watched a re-airing of “A Killing at Poplar River” on Dateline NBC about Barry Beach (see “The wrong man?” Oct. 12, 2006). I was curious to know if the people of Montana care at all about the Nees family. If they do, then why are they allowing Kim’s real killers to walk free while an innocent man is still sitting in prison? It’s corruption at every level. It is unspeakable what is going on in your state. Every citizen of Montana should be rallying—not just to free Barry Beach, but to put the real killers behind bars. Kathy Ulrich Somerset, Pa.
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President Barack Obama signs the National Defense Authorization Act, which includes a measure modeled after a Montana National Guard program requiring screening for post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health issues up to two years after combat troops return home.
• Thursday, October 29 Northsiders rejoice as Missoula’s Scott Street Bridge reopens after three-plus months of nearly non-stop and dusty construction to repair its 30year-old deck. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act paid for the $2.6 million project.
• Friday, October 30 An armed man holds up Montana Lil’s Casino on the corner of Brooks and Reserve sometime around 6 a.m. Authorities say the suspect, who was wearing a gray and blue parka and a mask, made off with a large but undisclosed amount of cash.
• Saturday, October 31 Vampires, flappers and one very drunk angel croon along as Secret Powers covers the entirety of the Beatles’ Abbey Road during the Badlander/Palace Halloween bash. Volumen top off the show with a set of David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust. The bands are planning a split-release of the live performances.
• Sunday, November 1 The Missoula Maulers fall to the Butte Roughriders 2–1 at Glacier Ice Rink, ending Butte’s 32-game losing streak. The game’s lone highlight turns out to be the second intermission figure skating performance by a young boy dressed as Indiana Jones—he snaps a whip at fake rocks while eluding imaginary bad guys.
• Monday, November 2 Locals come out in droves to remember those who have passed over to the other side during Missoula’s annual Day of the Dead celebration. Highlights include zombies dancing down Higgins Avenue to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” and the evening-ending dance circle.
• Tuesday, November 3 Election Day gets off to an ironic start when Missoula’s latest progressive talk radio station, KMPT 930 AM, abruptly switches format and starts broadcasting conservative talk radio. A campaign to revive the liberal format emerges almost immediately.
Unity Dance and Drum and the University of Montana African Dance Class gather a crowd for a high-energy dance performance during Day of the Dead festivities at Caras Park Monday night. Following the performance, Vanessa Many and others from the crowd formed an impromptu dance circle.
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Terrain park test run Last month, Gregg Janecky, an enterprising University of Montana student and a freestyle skier and snowboarder, towed three rails and a bunch of barrels up the windy road to Montana Snowbowl. Those items are the making of an experimental terrain park set to debut on the ski hill this winter. “I’ve been in Missoula for about four years now,” Janecky says, “and I watched the end of the tiny terrain parks fall apart and go away…And so last spring, with the help of a couple local shops, I put together a proposal that I submitted to Snowbowl.” The proposal, sent to Snowbowl owner Brad Morris in May, requested permission to build and organize a terrain park one weekend per month during the ski season to demonstrate the worth of the project. Snowbowl accepted, perhaps signaling a willingness to finally embrace a terrain park Missoula freestyle skiers and riders have long desired.
“At the end of the year, hopefully I can prove to them that they want to take this on as a full-time part of their resort,” says Janecky, 21. Janecky’s dubbed the all-volunteer effort the Backwoods Project, soliciting support from local businesses and groups such as Backcountry Racks and Skis, Edge of the World, the Montucky Snowboard Team and Wolff Auto. He created a website, and he’s been up on the Snowbowl run High Roller planning the park. Could the Backwoods Project be the beginning of a permanent terrain park at Snowbowl? “It just depends,” Morris says. “These terrain parks require a lot of maintenance. The thing that’s happened a lot of times at Snowbowl is that we have enough different kinds of natural terrain that people lose interest in them. But with more of an organized event, I think it’s a better way to do it.” On Nov. 12, Edge of the World and KBGA 89.9 FM will present two snowboard video premieres at the Wilma Theatre with proceeds to benefit the project. Matthew Frank
Health Care
Nonprofit’s plight Dave Hutchins, the facilities manager at popular local nonprofit Home Resource, finds himself and his family stuck in a predicament that puts the shortcomings of the current health care system into stark perspective. Hutchins’ 6-year-old son Elijah, a leukemia survivor with Down syndrome, is covered by Montana Medicaid, which has paid more than $1 million in medical bills. Those costs include Elijah’s six-month stay in a Spokane, Wash., hospital in 2004 and biannual oncologist visits. “I’ve reached a point in my employment where if I make any more money—if I was working full-time, which I’m not right now—he would lose his coverage,” explains Hutchins. The predicament means that Hutchins, 33, also a pre-engineering student at the University of Montana, only works 25 hours a week at Home Resource, which works to the local nonprofit’s detriment. “Dave is one of our very best employees,” says Home Resource co-director Matt Hisel. “We have a ton of great employees, but I
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would rank him right at the top. But we’ve actually had to cut back his hours.” Hisel says it’s a perfect example of why the health care system must be overhauled. “Right now he’s trapped in a situation where he’s adding to the taxpayer burden,” explains Hisel, “and not contributing to it as much as he potentially could. So all of this is why it’s very clear to me that addressing health care reform is an economic stimulus.” Hisel explains that trying to provide health insurance for his employees has proven incredibly difficult over the years, partly because the nonprofit’s been lured into plans with relatively attractive rates only to see the rates rise as much as 39 percent the next year. “Something needs to change that allows Dave to increase his wages and work to his full capacity,” says Hisel, “both for his own fulfillment and for Home Resource’s higher productivity.” Matthew Frank
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are now getting their hands dirty. Merle Unruh, owner of Montana Westgate Realty, says his office dealt with 15 to 20 foreclosed properties in the last year. Before 2008, Unruh hadn’t dealt with a single foreclosure in several years. “We’ve had three orders within the past seven days to go out and inspect for occupancy status and determine secure, vacant premises,” Unruh says. “You definitely don’t want to treat those folks with disrespect. Most of them are well-meaning and just caught in this economic difficulty.” Plettenberg says the stories she hears
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Foreclosures rock Ravalli Ravalli County Clerk and Recorder Regina Plettenberg counts 388 trustee sale notices filed with the county over the last year. That’s more than one a day, and a tragic indicator of rampant foreclosures in the Bitterroot. Since early November 2008, notices of sale for foreclosed properties in Ravalli County have spiked 186 percent over the previous year and 260 percent over 2007. Plettenberg says the county filed as few as 84 notices in 2006. “It’s very sad, especially in a small community like down here in Ravalli,” Plettenberg says. “It’s hard when you see a lot of these names of people you know. It’s very hard.” Plettenberg didn’t have statistics for how many notices have concluded in sales, but says anecdotally that those figures have increased as well. “Back in ’04–05, we rarely saw those trustee’s deeds,” Plettenberg says. “Now we see them more and more.” The bump in foreclosures in the Bitterroot has spawned a highly competitive real estate market, and agencies that once shied away from trading foreclosed homes
from people checking on the status of sales are “heartbreaking.” Just last week Plettenberg spoke with a lady who had managed to catch up with her mortgage payments and wanted to make sure the sale notice was cancelled. “She was telling me, though, that she was afraid it was just going to start all over again,” Plettenberg says. “They didn’t know how they were going to keep the property. A lot of people are really trying to stay in their homes, they just don’t know how they’re going to do it.” Alex Sakariassen
Labor
UM’s contentious contract University of Montana employees currently mulling over a new contract that holds salaries flat for two years were stunned to learn Friday that Montana State University’s
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(MSU) incoming president will earn $280,000 annually. The contract up for vote would bring the minimum wage for hourly employees up to $10 per hour. If the deal goes through, salary employees earning less than $45,000 per year will receive a lump-sum payment of $450, with part-timers receiving $225. Otherwise, salaries will remain flat. UM employee and Ward 2 City Councilor Stacy Rye says the proposed contract will force dining service workers, groundskeepers and administrative employees campuswide to continue living hand to mouth. “The administrators who work here view the humans that work here as negotiable,” Rye says. “We don’t make living wages.” UM Vice President Jim Foley defends the contract proposal, saying that by agreeing to bring the minimum wage up, the university is working to ensure its employees earn enough to live on. “This is not a minor issue to us,” Foley says. “This agreement recognizes the needs of the lowest paid employees.” Rye says if the contract is approved, she will have received a 45-cent per hour raise after four years of employment. “It’s unconscionable,” she says. Meanwhile, incoming MSU president Waded Cruzado is slated to receive $75,000 more than her predecessor, Geoff Gamble. And because the Montana Board of Regents has historically kept MSU and UM presidential salaries in synch, many believe UM President George Dennison will get a big bump from his current $205,050 salary. But Montana Board of Regents Director of Labor Relations Kevin McRae says it’s too early to speculate. “If regents find there is an equity issue, there could be an adjustment,” he says. McRae says the regents empathize with employees struggling to make ends meet, but luring a qualified candidate to MSU required a higher salary. As news of Cruzado’s wage agreement got out, phones at the Montana Public Employees Association (MPEA)—the union responsible for negotiating the pending contract—started ringing. “It just comes at a time when people are very frustrated,” says MPEA Director Quinton Nyman. Jessica Mayrer
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etc. Just moments after KPAX anchor Jill Valley announced the results of Missoula’s City Council elections, we spotted Ward 2 incumbent John Hendrickson looking subdued at The Depot bar. He held a Coors Light can in one hand and a shot in the other—and for good reason. In arguably the biggest race of the day, Hendrickson lost his seat to 28-year-old union leader Roy Houseman by a 262-vote margin. Hendrickson’s loss signals another blow to Missoula’s shrinking conservative minority, and the mood inside The Depot reflected the severity of the defeat. Ward 5 incumbent Dick Haines, another curmudgeonly conservative up for reelection, sat with his arms crossed and head down as the results were announced—and he managed to win his race against Mike O’Herron. “Remember, the battle is going to be ours for the next four years,” said Ward 3 Councilman Jon Wilkins as he left the depressing scene. Wilkins, a registered Democrat, often votes with the conservative minority, which is now down to just four seats on the 12-person council. Things couldn’t have been more different at the Union Club, where local progressives celebrated another strong election. Popular incumbents Bob Jaffe, Dave Strohmaier and Marilyn Marler held onto their seats by convincing margins, and Mayor John Engen, who ran unopposed, spoke of his second term plans. But the man of the evening was undoubtedly Houseman. The crowd greeted him with cheers of “Roy!” as he entered the bar, causing the precocious politician to blush through his signature Abraham Lincoln beard. “He’s got an unusual quality for a politician in that he’s humble,” said Ward 1 Councilman Jason Wiener. “It’s not an accident that he won.” Houseman, who has served as president of the Local 885 steelworkers union for nearly two years and is currently one of the laid-off workers at Smurfit-Stone, took the victory in stride. “Honestly I wasn’t stressed one way or the other,” he said. In fact, Houseman spent the day doing what he’d done since filing for the race—walking from door to door in his ward. “People were like, ‘Hey Roy, it’s like the third time I’ve seen you,’” he joked. “But you’re never sure until the very end.” After Tuesday’s results, two things do seem sure in local politics: Missoula residents should get used to seeing more of Houseman, and the conservative minority is in for a long two years.
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Rocky foundation UM scholarship funding remains tough to project by Alex Sakariassen
An emergency fundraising effort by the University of Montana Foundation at the beginning of the year succeeded in averting a major scholarship funding crisis on the UM campus. But with the country struggling to regain economic stability and many of the foundation’s scholarships backed by private investments, the funding forecast for next school year remains difficult to project. “We maintained scholarships this year pretty much the same as last year, and we’re hoping we’ll be able to do
question. The UM Foundation launched a fundraising program last December titled “1,000 Promises to Keep” and succeeded in raising $250,000 to counter the effects of a faltering economy. The sum still fell far short of preserving the foundation’s scholarships, prompting President George Dennison to pull $1.5 million from a general account financed through UM license plate sales. Interest from the account has helped supplement shortfalls in academic scholarship funding for years.
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the same next year, hoping the stock market improves,” says Mick Hanson, financial aid director at UM. “It hasn’t been as bad a year as last year, but it still hasn’t recovered.” Officials at the UM Foundation remain mostly positive regarding the continued stability of scholarship funding. But contributions from the foundation totaled $3.9 million in fiscal year 2009, and any fluctuations in the stock market could challenge its ability to meet that same level in 2010. Hanson says the delicacy of the situation has him “absolutely nervous.” “I’m expecting that we’ll have some drop-off in scholarships next spring, but I don’t know that for sure,” Hanson says. “Realistically speaking, I think we have to be aware that we did use some [emergency funding] last year and I’m not sure how the gifts to the foundation have gone this year.” The UM Foundation awards an estimated 500 privately funded scholarships a year ranging in value from $500 to $2,000. These scholarships, which are mostly merit based, contribute to tuition and other expenses for 1,000 UM students. But the recession threw scholarshipfunding levels for fall 2009 into serious
“You know as well as I do, when you take the money and you spend it, the income is gone forever,” Hanson says. “And that’s what we did.” Mark Armstrong, communication and marketing director at the foundation, says he has watched the stock market carefully the past few months, aware that fluctuations could hurt the private investments that back the majority of scholarships. With the market appearing stronger, he sees no immediate need for a “round two” of “1,000 Promises to Keep.” “Based on where the economy is today—and we’re going to watch it very closely—we don’t think that’s going to be necessary right now,” Armstrong says. “Hopefully this kind of success and this kind of fundraising and support from our donors will continue…That’s not to say the market won’t dip to the south here on us and we’ll have to readjust. But based on where things are now, we’re pretty optimistic.” If the stock market does take another plunge in coming months, Armstrong says the foundation can rally with a fundraising program in a matter of weeks. Whether a second program would inspire the same
amount of support from private donors is entirely speculative. For now, students like Logan Bloom, 21, are just glad their scholarship money has held out another year. Bloom, a UM junior from Stevensville, says the scholarships he receives from the Montana University System and the UM Foundation are his ticket to higher education. “Last year, I was stressing,” says Bloom. “I was sitting there thinking, ‘Great, what if my scholarship’s gone? What am I going to do?’ I’m already working, so there’s not much I can do with that…It’d be really difficult to keep my grades up with working more.” Bloom’s younger sister, Seeley, and older brother, Mackenzie, are also on academic scholarships at UM. His father works in construction in Ravalli County and his mother is an elementary school secretary, but they don’t have the kind of money it takes to put three kids through college at once, Bloom says. “Pretty much the deciding factor for me coming to the university was those scholarships,” Bloom says. “I’m basically going to school for free, besides paying rent and whatnot. Without that, I’d have all my student loans like everyone else. With my family, since we’ve got three kids in college already, I couldn’t ask my parents to help me out. I’m already working a job, so I think it’d just be overwhelming. I don’t know how a lot of kids do it.” Bloom has only one more year at UM before completing his business degree. At this point he’s more worried about his sister, who started at UM this year. “She could be in trouble because she has one or two smaller university scholarships,” Bloom says. “Hopefully we just keep building awareness of this to the donors and alumni, try to get more donations.” The security of endowed scholarships may remain questionable, but Armstrong puts a positive spin on the situation. He notes the UM Foundation experienced its second most lucrative fundraising period between June 2008 and June 2009, and says if things don’t improve other emergency funding options still exist. But the money’s tight enough to leave Hanson appreciative of whatever funding sources he can find for students. “We’re thankful for every scholarship dollar available,” he says. asakariassen@missoulanews.com
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Stimulus spin White House distorts extent of economic recovery When the big news broke this week that “the recession is over,” I didn’t notice a lot of Montanans out dancing in the street and partying. That, no doubt, is because unemployment continues to climb, retirement accounts remain ravaged and the prospects for jobs with livable wages and benefits remain elusive. The realities barely resemble the spin being spewed by Congress and the White House, although they nearly broke their arms patting themselves on the back with last week’s announcement. According to a press release issued by the White House, the $787 billion stimulus program that squirted out of Congress early this year has “created or saved” 640,329 jobs nationwide despite the fact that unemployment in the United States is now pushing toward 10 percent and has doubled that in many hard-hit areas. But as political spin-meisters such as Vice President Joe Biden like to remind us, it would be much worse had the government not spent all those hundreds of billions of dollars it didn’t have. Biden then went on to say that if you add the jobs due to a whopping $288 billion in tax cuts, the real total is “more than 1 million jobs.” No sooner had the jobs figures come tumbling out of the politicians’ mouths, however, than they were disputed nationally as wildly optimistic. Even here in Montana, the governor’s budget director, David Ewer, put the real number of jobs “saved or created” at about 4,100 rather than the 6,247 figure put out by the White House. Maybe a couple thousand jobs is no big deal, but it is worrisome that even in a state like Montana, with less than a million people, the D.C. analysts could be off by a full 33 percent on their estimates. As Ewer told reporters: “Those [4,100 job] numbers are being reported using the method required by the federal government. We’ve been told how those numbers get reported. I’m not going to represent that those are actual created jobs. Those numbers are artificially high in the state and the nation [and] are going to come down.” But if you really want to see how much spin and politics is being fed to us these days, compare the current accounting with the estimates put out by the White House last February on the impact the stimulus spending would have in Montana. According to “The Job Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan,”
12,300 jobs would be created or saved over the next two years. “Jobs created will be in a range of industries from clean energy to health care, with over 90% in the private sector,” the plan stated. Particularly worthy of notice is the White House assurance that “over 90 percent” of the jobs would be created in the private sector. In fact, according to the Associated Press, the zip codes to which most of the government
“Not only are we being misled about the number of jobs produced through the massive stimulus spending, we are also being misled as to who got
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those jobs.
stimulus money has been distributed are in Helena—the state capital zip code, to be specific. As the AP reported: “Recent reports say that money spent so far—still only a portion of more than $800 million in federal stimulus money allocated by the state—has mostly benefited teaching and government jobs.” So here’s the situation: Not only are we being misled by our own federal government about the number of jobs produced through the massive stimulus spending, we are also being misled as to who got those jobs. And that raises yet another serious concern for the future. While there’s nothing wrong with creating or saving jobs in government and education, the real question is what happens after the stimulus money runs out? Put bluntly, who will pick up the tab for maintaining those jobs into the future? Unfortunately, while government does an excellent job of consuming revenue, it does a
pretty poor job of creating it. One need only look at the recent $2 billion loss to the state’s retirement investment portfolio to understand that government will never be able to make up those losses and will, as with continuing the stimulus jobs, turn without hesitation to the taxpayers to pick up the tab. If Montana’s taxpayers are going to somehow come up with the revenue necessary to fund the so-called stimulus jobs, where will they get it? The federal government can crow that the “recession is over” because of a slight uptick many relate directly to the massive expenditures for Cash for Clunkers and the first-time homebuyer credit of $8,000, but those aren’t jobs. They don’t put people to work on a permanent basis, and they will not produce increasing tax revenues to support the Bridge-to-Nowhere now being built with the borrowed dollars of the stimulus program. The grim reality is that the future of the nation will likely produce less tax revenue, not more, as the Baby Boomers crawl into retirement and begin massively consuming revenues for health care while their tax revenue production plummets. The smaller generations following will then be burdened not only with trying to generate enough taxes to support their parents and grandparents, but will have to support the distinctly non-private sector government jobs created by the stimulus program. On top of that, they’ll have to somehow find the additional revenues to pay back the national debt, which is now hitting record highs of $13 trillion. Those expecting the United States to somehow jump back up to the unsustainable and tremendously damaging levels of our former highly consumptive society are, like the White House, primarily peddling spin and fiction rather than facing the hard truths that confront us as a nation. Few politicians are willing to address these very real issues and their impacts. In fact, most would rather look longingly through rose-colored glasses. Sooner or later, however, we will have to face these grim realities, as will our kids. And we deserve, sooner rather than later, the truth—not more fairy tales from our government. Helena’s George Ochenski rattles the cage of the political establishment as a political analyst for the Independent. Contact Ochenski at opinion@missoulanews.com.
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The idea of a “nation’s park” was first conceived in 1832, by the Pennsylvaniaborn artist and ethnographer George Catlin. On a journey up the Missouri River, he encountered a large party of Sioux at Fort Pierre, intoxicated on the whiskey they’d received in trade for the tongues of some 1,400 bison. The animal carcasses lay strewn outside the stockade, emitting a god-awful stench. Appalled by this “debauchery of man and nature,” Catlin climbed a nearby bluff and pondered “the deadly axe and desolating hand of cultivating man.” Then he hit on his great idea. If only, he thought, “by some great protecting policy of the government,” there could be created “a magnificent park…a nation’s park, containing man and beast, in all the wildness and freshness of their nature’s beauty.” That is the first recorded expression of what might be called the “national park idea.” Catlin’s role in the history of the parks has remained obscure not least because his concept of a “nation’s park” was so extravagantly different from the park system that eventually emerged. He envisioned a gigantic preserve 100 miles wide running eastward from the Rocky Mountain crest and sprawling all the way from Mexico north to Canada. And he saw it as a place that would be valued not only for its flora and fauna and scenery, but also for its human inhabitants and varied ways of life. What we got instead, some 40 years later, was Yellowstone Park. Wondrous as it is, our first national park is a muchdiminished version of Catlin’s original vision. What’s more, as evidenced by the unpeopled photographs of Ansel Adams, the parks have been conceived and managed as places devoid of any permanent human presence. Catlin was a child of the Romantic Era, at odds with modernity and especially opposed to what he saw as the dehumanizing effects of industrialization. But he realized that his attitude toward nature—like our own—was historically conditioned. Unlike his preindustrial forebears, Catlin felt that
“the further we become separated from that pristine wildness and beauty, the more pleasure does the mind of enlightened man feel in recurring to those scenes.” More than a century later, environmental historian Roderick Nash wryly observed that, “Cities, not log cabins, produce Sierra Clubbers.”
“That yearning for unspoiled nature as a refuge from the pace of modern life still moves us today, but it is based on some wildly mistaken assumptions
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That yearning for unspoiled nature as a refuge from the pace of modern life still moves us today, but it is based on some wildly mistaken assumptions about nature. The idea that humankind and nature exist in opposition is worthless when it comes to living in nature, something we are all obliged to do. Like it or not, we function as part of nature. We are not merely tourists on this planet, here to gaze upon selected exotic landscapes in admiration. The history of the national parks has another lesson to teach, one not steeped in 19th-century sentimentalism
but born of 20th-century realities. The 1916 statute that created the National Park Service defined its mission as “to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wildlife therein, and to provide for the enjoyment of same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.” That language created a dilemma. For nearly a century, critics have argued that the objectives of “conservation” and “enjoyment,” or “preservation” and “use,” are not merely incompatible, but downright contradictory. The long-standing controversies of park management hinge on those spare sentences, ranging from the flooding of Glen Canyon to the endless wrangling over snowmobiles in Yellowstone. But out of those struggles some principles have emerged and may now constitute the parks’ most important legacy for the new century. Preservation and use should be understood as complementary and not contradictory—as mutually necessary and not mutually exclusive. Those concepts need to be exported from the places where they have historically been contested—the national parks— and made to inform holistic policy in the wider world as well. We must move beyond the Romantic Era’s conception of the parks—and of nature—as exclusive enclaves where humans dare to tread only as reverential sojourners. This means, among other things, that we need to “de-exoticize” our notion of what is a park. We could begin to do that by seeing the world in its entirety as a national park, directing toward the everyday places where we live and labor the same values of respect and stewardship that we have historically reserved for our “best places.” David M. Kennedy is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org ). He is co-director of the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University in California.
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So many of us have played on the Blackfoot River at one time or another. Whether you’ve floated in the company of friends, or waded on the shores of Johnsrud with your family, that pristine waterway sees a hefty amount of summer users. That’s exactly why concerned river rats are taking action. At present, no comprehensive plan is in place to manage recreation on the Blackfoot. So, in conjunction with Montana’s Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP), a handful of citizens were appointed in 2007 to a committee. Over a number of meetings, the committee hashed out issues and came up with recommendations for FWP to use when it needs to regulate user behavior. A few of these involve guidance on trash, noxious weeds, human waste and a proposed permit system. You can read up on the specifics in a document called the Draft Recreation Management Plan and
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 5 Aspen Hospice of Montana is currently looking for volunteers to help offer comfort, pain relief and emotional support for those who are near the end of their lives. Call Lois at 642-3010. If free speech and social media issues get you riled up, in a good way, then consider becoming a board member of Missoula Community Access Television, which is currently looking to fill four volunteer, unpaid board positions. Call 542-6228 to request an application. If you’ve got an interest in preserving Missoula’s historic hotspots, and live in the Eastside District (which includes the area of East Pine between Pattee Street and Rattlesnake Creek), apply to be as a volunteer on the Historic Preservation Commission. Pick up an app at City Hall, 435 Ryman St. or online at www.ci.missoula.mt.us/vacancy. Apps are due by 5 PM Nov. 25. Call 552-6078.
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 7 Missoula is a bona fide bike town. If you don’t have one already, you’ll be able to make your own recycled bike after you volunteer for two hours at Missoula Free Cycles, 732 S. First St. W., on Saturdays at 2:30 PM. Call 800809-0112.
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No one likes to get their foot caught in a trap, especially animals, so support trap-free public lands by gorging on pizza when Footloose Montana holds an all-you-can-eat pizza fundraiser at Biga Pizza, 241 W. Main St., from 5–8 PM. $10. Call 274-7878.
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Environmental Assessment for the Blackfoot River. It’s freely available to download off the Internet or by calling FWP. After you read it, FWP wants your comments—either by e-mail, phone or snail mail by Nov.16. More immediately, there’s an open house in Missoula Nov. 5 where you can drop off your comments and talk with FWP officials about the proposal. –Ira Sather-Olson FWP hosts an open house regarding the Blackfoot River’s proposed recreation management plan Thu., Nov. 5, from 6–8 PM at the Holiday Inn–Downtown at the Park, 200 S. Pattee St. Free. Grab a copy of the plan by visiting http://fwp.mt.gov/recreation/management/river/blackfootPl an.html or calling FWP at 542-5562.
AM–5 PM each day in Rooms 332 and 333 of UM’s University Center. $35 for materials. RSVP by calling Nancy Berg at 243-4973. Veterans can find support with trained facilitator Chris Poloynis every Mon. at 2 PM, when PTSD group Spartans Honour meets at the Missoula Veterans Affairs Clinic, 2687 Palmer St. Free. Call 829-5400. If you’re 18 or under and your life has been affected by someone else’s drinking, get support with others by joining the Al-Ateen 12Step Support Group, which meets this and every Monday at 7 PM at First United Methodist Church, 300 E. Main St. Free, use alley entrance. Call 728-5818 or visit www.alanon.alateen.org.
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 10 Find the strength and will to survive in the company of others during a breast cancer support group at St. Francis Xavier Parish, 420 W. Pine, every first and third Tue. of the month at noon. Free. Call 329-5656. You can fight for peace in many different ways, but how about knitting for it? Find out when the group Knitting for Peace meets every Tue. from 1–3 PM at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 543-3955. Missoula’s YWCA, 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. Those that have problems with anorexia or bulimia can find a shoulder to lean on during a meeting of Anorexics and Bulimics Anonymous, which meets this and every Tue. at 7:30 PM in the Memorial Room of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 202 Brooks St. Free. E-mail abamissoula@gmail.com.
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I N OTHER N EWS Curious but true news items from around the world
CURSES, FOILED AGAIN – A man told police he was eating hot dogs in a park in Worcester, Mass., when another man approached, lifted up his shirt to show what appeared to be a handgun, grabbed one of the hot dogs and began eating it. “In doing so,” police officer Joseph Francese noted in his report, “mustard spilled onto the suspect’s shirt.” According to the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, police identified Antonio J. Judd, 35, as their suspect after spotting him wearing the shirt with the telltale mustard stain. Judd pleaded guilty to larceny. Welsh police said Dean Gardener, 19, and Jason Fender, 22, attacked two men walking along a Swansea street in wigs, short skirts and high heels. The victims turned out to be cage fighters, who promptly punched their attackers to the ground and walked off. The Daily Mail said police identified Gardener and Fender from closed-circuit television footage of the incident. “You know it cannot have been a good night,” defense attorney Mark Davies told the newspaper, “when you get into a fight with two cross-dressing men.” ISSUING A CHALLENGE TO BIOENGINEERS – Growing demand for chicken wings has given rise to “boneless wings,” fashioned from skinless boneless chicken breasts, which are now cheaper than wings. As recently as May 2008, skinless boneless breasts sold for 57 cents more than wings, but in seven of the past 11 months, wholesale wing prices have topped breast prices, according to the Agriculture Department. The New York Times reported that most experts expect wing prices to continue to rise at least until the Super Bowl in February. Noting the days of cheap wings might be gone forever, Adam J. Scott, a founder of the Atlanta-based chain Wing Zone, told the Times, “If they can figure out how to grow chicken with four wings, we’d be in really great shape.” TORTURE ROCK – The government used rock music to torment terror suspects and coerce confessions at the U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to recently declassified documents obtained by the National Security Archives, a research division of George Washington University. Among the artists whose music was played at ear-splitting levels to “create futility” with uncooperative detainees are AC/DC, Marilyn Manson, Neil Diamond, Tupac Shakur, Limp Bizkit, Christine Aguilera, the Bee Gees, Nine Inch Nails and Rage Against the Machine. Also included was Barney the Dinosaur’s theme song. The Washington Times reported that some of the musicians are banding together with the National Campaign to Close Guantanamo to protest the use of their songs to torture detainees, expressing outrage that the music was used without their knowledge. SMART PHONE, DUMB OWNER – Aaron R. Klein, 24, couldn’t pay his $57.75 tab at a bar in Brookfield, Wis., so he left his cell phone as collateral and said he’d come back the next day to settle up. After Klein left, according to a criminal complaint filed in Waukesha County Circuit Court, a bartender searching the phone for Klein’s name or number found seven pornographic images of children that had been downloaded to the phone. He called police, who arrested Klein when he returned to the bar. They searched his home computer and found between 300 and 400 child pornography images, leading to felony charges. WAY TO GO – When heavy rain caused flooding in Chattanooga, Tenn., Sylvester Kitchens, 46, bragged he could swim an overflowing storm ditch and dared onlooker to bet him $5 he couldn’t. He got no takers, the Associated Press reported, but jumped in anyway. He bobbed along for about 150 feet before grabbing a chain link fence above the ditch. He lost his grip while family members tried to toss him a lifeline, and washed away into an underground culvert. Rescuers found his body four days later. Three members of a Florida family were electrocuted while trying to erect an antenna in Palm Bay, Fla. Witnesses told WKMG-TV News that Melville Braham, 55, Anna Braham, 49, and Anthony Braham, 15, were raising a HAM radio antenna onto their roof when they lost control of the pole. It struck an overhead wire, sending 13,000 volts of electricity through the antenna while the victims were holding it. “The house is on fire,” said a woman who placed a 911 call. “The house is blowing up.” BACKSEAT DRIVER – When sheriff’s Deputy Kristin Rozycki stopped a vehicle for speeding in Erie County, N.Y., she found Michael G. Spagnola, 38, sitting in the back seat insisting that he had not been driving. Suspicious because he was the only occupant, Rozycki determined that Spagnola was the driver and had climbed into the back seat to avoid a ticket, a conclusion that Spagnola later confirmed, leading to a charge of driving while intoxicated. NOT-SO-FUNNY MONEY – Federal authorities charged Rickey A. Kempter, 50, with counterfeiting money they said he intended to use to pay an exotic dancer for a private session at a motel in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Court documents show Kempter and the dancer took a taxi to the motel, where Kempter asked the driver to hold a roll of $50 bills. The driver “noticed the money was ‘funny looking’ and that several of the $50 Federal Reserve notes were not cut evenly” and “had the same serial numbers.” The Wyoming Tribune Eagle reported that when investigators questioned Kempter, he admitted making the 24 bills on a printer at his home and explained he wanted to “front like the money was there” to pay for the dance. FOLLOW-UPS – Paul Romero and Brandy Romero pleaded guilty in October in Evangeline Parish, La., to trading their cockatoo and $175 to Donna Greenwell for two children she was caring for. Authorities suspended the couple’s five-year prison sentences in exchange for their testimony against Greenwell, who prosecutors said “instigated” the transfer in February when she responded to the Romeros’ advertisement to sell the bird. Dennis LeRoy Anderson, 62, pleaded guilty in October to DWI charges resulting from hitting a parked vehicle last August in Proctor, Minn., while driving a motorized La-Z-Boy chair. Anderson claimed he was driving the chair without incident until a woman jumped on it and knocked it off course. The Duluth News Tribune reported that Anderson had to forfeit the chair—powered by a converted lawnmower with a Briggs & Stratton engine, and equipped with a stereo, cup holders and other custom options—to Proctor police, who plan to auction it with other forfeited items.
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Steven Barrios, the grand dame of Montana’s Two Spirit Society, is among the American Indians leading an effort to erase homophobia on the reservation. “We’re reclaiming our place in the circle,” he says. “Until the two-spirit people are brought back into that circle, that circle is never going to be completely mended.”
Two spirits, one purpose Gay and lesbian American Indians look to the past to shape a better future on the reservation by Jessica Mayrer • photos by Anne Medley
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s a child growing up on the Blackfeet Reservation in northwest Montana, Steven Barrios dressed in girl’s clothes. By 10 years old, kids were calling him queer. As a handsome teenager, other boys sometimes attacked him. “The kids were real bad toward anybody who was different,” says Barrios, now 57. “We were always getting beat up.” Nobody really knew how to respond to the effeminate boy on the reservation. Barrios laughs now, recalling how even authority figures struggled with how to control the children who constantly pestered him. “One of the teachers said, ‘You better leave Steven alone or he’ll hit you with his purse,’” Barrios remembers. “I told the teacher, without thinking, ‘If you don’t shut your mouth, I’ll hit you with it too.’” Barrios says he was paddled for the outburst, but he couldn’t help himself. He’s never been capable of hiding. Sitting in his living room in Browning, Barrios looks distinctly feminine with his lipstick,
Two spirits Magenta Marie Spinningwind, Storme Webber and Isaac Dowd stand together wearing orange tallow face paint. The paint signals that they have a prayer that needs answering.
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shining silver jewelry and long black hair up in a twist. His impeccable posture reinforces his strength and confidence. “I just like to enhance my looks a little more like everybody else,” he says of the makeup. “I wear it here on the reservation all the time.” Barrios discovered his sexuality before mainstream culture—and especially reservation culture—embraced homosexuality. When he was a teenager in the 1960s, many gay American Indians didn’t feel safe coming out of the closet, making role models tough to find. Barrios left the reservation in search of an openly gay community and broader life experience. He attended beauty school in Seattle, became a hairdresser and traveled throughout the West. But despite finding pockets of gay culture, Barrios says he was still unsatisfied. “Going out and partying—all the stuff you do in the cities—you’re having sex,” he says. “You’re not respecting who you are.” Barrios eventually found himself stuck between
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Journalist George Wharton James discussed WeWha in a travelogue published in 1920: “She was a remarkable woman, a fine blanket and sash maker, an excellent cook, an adept in all the work of her sex and yet strange to say, she was a man. There never has been as yet, any satisfactory explanation given, as far as I know, of the peculiar custom followed by the Pueblos of having one or two men in each tribe, who foreswear their manhood and who dress as, act like and seemingly live the life of a woman.”
According to Canadian historian Hugh Dempsey, chief curator emeritus of the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, Alberta, Running Eagle refused to forego cooking and sewing duties while on the warpath, despite the protests of men who didn’t want their leader performing menial tasks. “In Blackfeet society and Before European fur traders came to northern Montana, Blackfeet hunted buffalo across the rolling plains. While traveling and camping in small a lot of native societies, bands, each member of the tribe had a job and contributed to the group’s collective survival. That’s if you’re born different, largely why it didn’t behoove Blackfeet to exclude those with differences, explains tribal member you’re looked upon as if Rosalyn LaPier. Homosexuals and gender blenders were sanctioned by Blackfeet society two primary ways, LaPier you’ve been touched by says. Families decided a child was born into the wrong sex and simply switched, or an individual the supernatural.” would receive a mandate through a vision quest. “They were spoken to through the supernatural and told to live their lives as a different gender,” —Rosalyn LaPier says LaPier who, while earning her doctorate in environmental history at the University of Montana, is researching Blackfeet religious views. “In Blackfeet society and a lot of native societies, if you’re born different, you’re looked upon as if you’ve been touched by the supernatural.” Anthropologist Will Roscoe estimates more John Hawk Co-Cke applies makeup to Steven Barrios before a talent show than 150 North American tribes recognized gay, lesheld during last summer’s annual Montana Two Spirit Society gathering. bian and gender-mixed people before Europeans About 60 people attended the four-day event. arrived in North America. But as the new arrivals flooded the continent, colonialism and Christianity a contemporary tribal society that didn’t want “We’re reclaiming our place in the circle,” A similar two-spirit history existed within the wreaked havoc on traditional communities. French much to do with gay people and a homosexual cul- Barrios says. “Until the two-spirit people are Blackfeet. A 1941 article in American arrivals dubbed Whe-Wa and men like him ture largely comprised of white men. Determined brought back into that circle, that circle is never Anthropologist points to “manly hearted women” “berdache,” from the Persian word “berdaj,” meanto find a better connection between his ancestry going to be completely mended.” living among the tribe. According to the article’s ing “kept boy,” or “whore.” And the phrase stuck. and lifestyle, he returned to the reservation in the author, anthropologist Oscar Lewis, these women As the United States attempted to bring 1990s and started reaching out to other indigenous ••• were aggressive, independent, ambitious and bold. American Indians into the fold, many native tradigays, many of whom shared stories similar to his Blackfeet like Barrios talk proudly of two-spirit “They are known to be more demonstrative, to tions were lost. Religious ceremonies like the sun own. history and the stories passed down through the take the male position in sexual intercourse,” Lewis dance—a celebration of regeneration featuring Around the same time, an indigenous gay, les- generations. One of the best-publicized examples wrote. dancing, drumming and fasting usually during the bian, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersexed comes from We-Wha, a cultural ambassador from the Some consider the female Blackfeet warrior summer solstice—were outlawed, punishable with (GLBTQI) social movement was taking off on reser- Zuni tribe. In 1886, We-Wha met President Grover Running Eagle an example of a manly hearted jail and denial of rations. Berdache were forced to vations throughout the country. Dubbed the two- Cleveland in Washington, D.C., and the 6-foot-tall woman. In the early part of the 19th century, she wear men’s clothes and cut their hair. spirit movement, members of the group aimed male passed as a woman during his six-month stay. famously led war parties against the Crow. As colonialists imposed their own ideas of gento rebuild the social inclusiveness tribal societies Newspapers dubbed him the “Indian Princess.” der and sexual ideology, modern held before colonialists imported reservation homophobia took root. Christian ideals about sexuality and Two spirits today face the challenge gender. of overcoming the lingering hostility Today, members of two-spirit and fear imported during forced societies across North America are assimilation. drawing from indigenous tradition— But people like Barrios have been based upon a foundation of live-andworking to change that, building the let-live ideology and cooperation—to modern two-spirit movement for shape a future that doesn’t discrimidecades. Its origins trace back to nate against people based on gender Randy Burns and Barbara Cameron, expression or sexual orientation. who created Gay American Indians Two spirits still have a long way (GAI) in 1975, an advocacy group to go, of course. Fanning himself with aimed at carving out a place on the an eagle feather—sacred among the reservation for GLBTQI American Blackfeet—Barrios talks about the Indians. homophobia that still exists on the Cameron, who died in 2002, reservation. In fact, he was last talked about forming GAI in an interassaulted about five years ago. Three view with The Advocate published in men jumped him just a few miles 1976. from his Browning home. “I was really alienated,” she told “They kicked the shit out of me,” the magazine. “I felt trapped between Barrios says. “I had to crawl to my car my Indian culture and the society. I was so beat up.” That’s the position of most gay Indians, After standing tall through years because it’s the position of Indians as a of insults and abuse, Barrios isn’t whole. I really align myself with Indians about to stand down. And now the first and gay people second.” grand dame of Montana’s Two Spirit In the late ’80s, HIV catalyzed the Society is one among a handful of American Indians leading an effort to Travis Goldtooth, left, and Mary Lou Van Voorhis chat before a talent show at the annual Montana Two Spirit Society two-spirit movement. Limited gathering. “One of the things you will find about gay men is their beadwork always matches,” quipped Van Voorhis. resources and institutionalized homoraise their voice in the community.
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phobia hindered government-sponsored HIV outreach and treatment efforts, wrote Brian Joseph Gilley in his book, Becoming Two Spirit. GAI then stepped in and began providing medical and social services, creating a template for other indigenous advocacy organizations. New groups soon popped up across the nation, rejecting modern Anglo-Saxon ideas of gender and sexuality. HIV outreach money trickled into reservations, funding testing and sparking a discussion about sex. Communications networks formed where none had been before. Amid this mobilization, in 1990, during a Native GLBTQI summit in Manitoba, Canada, the derogatory term “berdache” was formally condemned and officially replaced with “two spirit.” Two-spirit societies began forming in Denver, Oklahoma, Kansas and both coasts. The Montana chapter formed more than 13 years ago through the efforts of people like Barrios, John Hawk Co-Cke and Two Spirit Society creator David Herrera. Barrios beams as he talks about the history of the movement, and especially of Whe-Wa and Running Eagle. “We were always there,” he says. And now he’s determined to secure two spirit’s place well into the future. ••• John Hawk Co-Cke’s father was a Methodist minister and his mother a Baptist. Both taught their children that American Indian culture is, in God’s eyes, sinful. That never sat well with Co-Cke. Growing up in Oklahoma, he played with pompoms and dolls. His brothers, embarrassed by him, asked Co-Cke to stay in the backyard and out of sight. As an adolescent, Co-Cke hungered to understand why he was different from his brothers and wanted to find other people who, like him, didn’t fit in. He left home, looking for a husband in Dallas’ gay bars. Instead, he found booze, drugs and sex. “I remember laying there and saying, ‘There’s got to be a better life than this,’” he says. Co-Cke struggled to rid himself of an internal voice—perhaps a result of his religious upbringing—that told him he was an abomination. Alcohol quieted the voice for a while, but it inevitably came back louder than before. “It’s a sadness that nobody—you can’t fill it,” he says. Co-Cke eventually stumbled upon the two-spirit concept. After being initially intrigued by the idea, he attended his first retreat in Oklahoma and was hooked. But as he started looking for more guidance and seeking two-spirit ancestors, he came up empty. Most died before being able to pass along their wisdom, Co-Cke says, leaving him to fill in the gap. Co-Cke immersed himself in history, finding black and white photos of Whe-Wa spinning yarn and digging up stories of Running Eagle capturing horses and conquering Crow. Then the dreams came. He says his ancestors called him to lead the ones still lost. Today, Co-Cke educates people about two-spirit history at gatherings throughout the country. He brings the black and white photos of Whe-Wa and the others wherever he goes. “I want young ones to see this,” he says. His teachings also include telling other twospirit people to sit in silence. That’s when answers come, he says. “The voice is patient and the old ones are patient,” he says, “and they’ll wait until you’re ready.”
Two spirits pray next to the sacred fire in a Lubrecht Forest cabin. “Two-spirit people were not the evil people that they were once made out to be,” says Two Spirit Society creator David Herrera. “Instead, they were revered [historically on the reservation]. They were the medicine people, the caretakers.”
Co-Cke and Barrios also sit in silence together. Specifically, they make their way to Running Eagle Falls in Glacier National Park whenever they get a chance. That’s where Running Eagle’s vision quest directed her to be a warrior, Barrios says. Co-Cke and Barrios leave medicine bundles—containing objects of spiritual significance—and pray to their ancestors at the site. The visits help Co-Cke advise other two-spirit people, as well as find balance in his own life. “We can get butch if we have to, and we can get feminine if we have to,” he says. “We’re comfortable
er to powwow, partake in traditional ceremonies and tell their stories. “We’re here to make a family, that’s really what we’re doing,” said Farand Gunnels, a Crow from Billings who attended this summer’s four-day gathering at Lubrecht Forest. Each day of the annual event aimed to deepen the connection among two-spirited people and their communities. On Saturday morning, Mary Lou Van Voorhis started the day by blessing breakfast, thanking the ancestors for food and for the time together.
either way, and that’s the healing. In life, we all need to be balanced.”
“We share a path now,” she said to those gathered. Later in the day, Blackfeet Anna Bullshoe painted faces with orange tallow next to a sacred fire in a rustic cabin. The face paint lets it be known a prayer needs answering, according to Holy Old Man Bull, a transgender Blackfeet who attended from San Francisco.
••• As the two-spirit movement continues to grow, more and more American Indians are attending annual gatherings. The Montana Two Spirit Society attracts participants from all over the nation togeth-
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“It’s like sending a flare up to heaven,” he said. After dark, with the smell of wild sage filling the air, the group prepared for a traditional powwow that showcased the distinct two-spirit style. Van Voorhis donned gentlemen’s regalia worn traditionally by Oklahoma and plains tribes. Carrying a fan made with two golden eagle feathers given to her by a peyote man, Van Voorhis smiled as the men arrived in bone chokers, animal skins and brilliantly beaded headdresses. Travis Goldtooth led the way in lipstick and blue eye shadow. His two black braids hung delicately on either side of his face. “One of the things you will find about gay men is their beadwork always matches,” quipped Van Voorhis. A white wolf-pelt hat sat atop 50-year-old Storme Webber’s graying dreadlocks, the pelt tapering into a plush cape. Khaki shorts and combat boots completed Webber’s ensemble. At the start of the powwow, two-spirits stepped in synch, the drumbeat a guttural thud. Holy Old Man Bull, 52, decided to dance even though he has a hard time walking. Later, couples held tubers between their foreheads during a potato dance, slowly swaying. Potatoes dropped and rolled across the floor. Whoops and cries filled the hall. Drums shook the forest into the night. “It takes me back to my ancestors,” said Webber, a blend of Alaskan Alutiiq, African American and Choctaw. The rituals help the group connect to its roots. Older two-spirit people are both happy and compelled to pass them down, explained Van Voorhis, who cofounded the Denver Two Spirit Society in 1999. “We will dress you, and we will teach you how to dance,” she said. The morning after the powwow, Webber fed the campground’s sacred fire, taking one of several shifts necessary to keep it burning throughout the event. Webber, who traveled from Seattle for the gathering, explained the two-spirit movement is based upon transformative ideology.
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“The idea is cooperation. The idea is that you don’t take more than what you can use,” she said. “And if you have more, then you share that. There’s something beautiful and even revolutionary in that.” A two-spirit identity, she continued, affirms that something outside of American competitive society exists. “It’s life saving, as well as life changing,” she said. Many of those who the attended the July gathering believe the movement provides a spiritual connection and a feeling of belonging that GLBTQI American Indians often can’t get any other way. “We’re always searching and we’re always learning,” says Blackfeet Anne Pollock. “We’re thirsty. We’re thirsty for someone to identify with. We’re thirsty to find out how you found your way to a healthier lifestyle. I guess I’m hooked on the spiritual part.” Before joining the Montana Two Spirit Society, Farand Gunnels didn’t know much about traditional native culture. The only exposure he had came from his macho uncles. Growing up in Billings, the light-skinned boy with soft brown eyes always felt like an outsider. “I kind of shut down who I was. I tried to be invisible, quiet,” says Gunnels, now 36. “I felt like I couldn’t tell anyone. I felt like I had to live a lie.” He stared when he first spotted Barrios more than five years ago. “He just kind of glowed to me,” Gunnels says. “I was just like, wow, he’s such a beautiful person. He’s native.”
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Joey Criddle, John Hawk Co-Cke, Mija Howlett and Steven Barrios, from left to right, sing during the annual Montana Two Spirit Society gathering in Lubrecht Forest.
As Gunnels stayed up late with the others telling stories during that first gathering more than five years ago, something shifted. “I was them,” he says. “It was so powerful.” Gunnels is now freshly educated about two-spirit history. Armed with the knowledge that people like him have always existed, much of the fear he once had about embracing Crow culture has disappeared. For instance, a woman traditionally makes the feast when her husband is given an Indian name. When Gunnels was named, his partner David cooked the feast. He had been accepted. “I’m being put on the path to learn about my tribe,” Gunnels says.
••• At home in Browning, Barrios cuts, colors and perms his client’s hair from his kitchen, watching traffic whiz by on the way to or from Canada. Barrios talks freely about sex and he passes out condoms to women who come to him for haircuts, suggesting they give them to their teenage children. Barrios says his house is one of the only places Blackfeet GLBTQI people in crisis can go. “I never turn nobody away,” he says. “You don’t know if you turn them away what they’re going to go do.” About 14 people meet informally for occasional Blackfeet Two Spirit Society gatherings. Barrios
says the local group marched in a parade through Browning recently—a first. He says the crowd cheered. It’s evidence that two-spirit people are slowly getting their message out, and gaining acceptance. But having had their history erased once, Barrios is committed to never letting it happen again. “We need somebody to carry on that history and make sure that it’s documented,” he says. To that end, the Montana Two Spirit Society is looking to expand. Ideally, the group will conduct outreach on all seven Montana reservations, Barrios says, to let GLBTQI youth know they aren’t alone. “You do have family,” Barrios says. “We take care of one another.” In the meantime, Barrios’ house smells like fresh laundry. A half-packed suitcase sits on the couch beneath a mirror given to him by Holy Old Man Bull; white buffaloes are etched into its stained-glass edges. Barrios just returned from a Seattle Pride conference and the International Two Spirit Gathering in Colorado. He must leave again the next day for a Montana Gay Men’s Task Force meeting in Missoula that aims to curb HIV and hepatitis C transmission. The grand dame of Montana’s two-spirit movement says he’s not going to slow down until GLBTQI people are again safe in their communities. “We’ve carried our heads down for so many long months, for such a long time,” he says. “We’ve been swept under the rug, to the corners. It’s time we stand up and be proud, and show who we are.” jmayrer@missoulanews.com
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the 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. $$–$$$. 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 Pick-Up 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. M-F 6am-7pm, Sat/Sun 7am4pm. $–$$. Posh Chocolat 119 South Higgins 543-2566 Next to the Historic Wilma Building in downtown Missoula. The chocolate lovers paradise is now also a great place for lunch. With a total remodel, serving freshly made sweet and savory crepes, delicious quiches, soups, seasonal salads and artisanal European style pastries. And don't forget what's been keeping us busy since 2005; stop in and try our single origin, 100% Ecuadorian, hand crafted Truffles. www.poshchocolat.com. $-$$
Red Robin 2901 Brooks Street 830-3170 www.redrobin.com Half the price, twice the fun! Halfy Hour at the Southgate Mall Red Robin®! Half price bar drinks Monday – Friday, 4-6 p.m. and Monday – Saturday, 9-10 p.m. Enjoy a drink with one of our insanely delicious Gourmet Burgers, Bottomless Steak Fries. Or, snack on one of our shareable starters with friends! $-$$ SA WAD DEE 221 W. Broadway • 543-9966 Sa-Wa-Dee offers traditional Thai cuisine in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. Choose from a selection of five Thai curries, Pad Thai, delicious Thai soups, and an assortment of tantalizing entrees. Featuring fresh ingredients and authentic Thai flavors-no MSG! See for yourself why Thai food is a deliciously different change from other Asian cuisines. Now serving Beer and Wine! $-$$ Sean Kelly’s 130 West Pine 542–1471 Located in the HUB of the LOOP! Open for Lunch and Dinner, featuring a Sat.-Sun. Brunch 11-2pm. Great Fresh food With Huge Portions. Traditional Irish fare combined with tasty specials from around the globe! FULL BAR, BEER, WINE, MARTINIS, 100% SMOKE FREE. "Where the Gaelic and the Garlic Mix!" $-$$ Staggering Ox 1220 SW Higgins • 542-2206 123 E Main • 327-9400 Home of the famous Clubfoot Sandwich - unique, portable, delicious! We serve fantastic sandwiches on fresh-baked bread. Call in your order and pick it up on your way to play $-$$ The Stone of Accord 4951 N. Reserve St. 830-3210 Serving Award Winning Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinners 7 days a week! All of your favorite Irish classics, plus a daily selection of Chef's specialties. A fully stocked bar, wine and liquor store and the Emerald Casino make The Stone of Accord the perfect place for an enjoyable meal. 6:30am-2:00am $-$$
Uptown Diner 120 N. Higgins 542-2449 Step into the past at this 50's style downtown diner. Breakfast is served all day. Daily Lunch Specials. All Soups, including our famous Tomato Soup, are made from scratch. Voted best milkshakes in Missoula for 14 straight years. Great Food, Great Service, Great Fun!! Monday - Sunday 8a.m. - 3p.m. $-$$ 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. $-$$ What’s For Dinner Meal Delivery Service 406-207-2203 Delicious, affordable meals delivered to your door. Fresh dinner menu changes weekly, frozen dinner and dessert menus change monthly. Order by noon on Monday, deliveries are made Tuesday. Meals start at only $7.50 per portion. Menus and ordering available at www.WhatsForDinnerMissoula.com. $-$$ Wok-ee Mountain Asian Restaurant 11300 US Hwy 93, Lolo 273-9819 Brand new Thai & Chinese cuisine featuring original recipes. Specializing in curry. Extensive menu, vegetarian options and many soup options as well including Vietnamese style pho, Tom Yum, wonton and more. Wok-ee Mountain Asian Restaurant is perfect for take out or dine in. $-$$
$...Under $5 Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West 728-1358 Where Myrtle Avenue ends at Bernice's, a tiny bakery sits as a veritable landmark to those who enjoy homestyle baked goods, strong coffee, community, and a variety of delicious treats. Join us for lunch if you'd like. Crazy delicious. Crazy cheap. 30 years and still baking. Open Every Day 6AM to 8PM. $
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Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins 728-8780 Celebrating 37 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ Cold Stone Creamery Across from Costco on Reserve by TJ Maxx & Ross 549-5595 ColdStone Creamery ice-cream cakes will make your party perfect. With super-premium, home-made ice cream and layers of moist cake, we can make you the belle of the ball. Call a day ahead and we will decorate it with anything you want - from princesses to giant robots to unique holiday scenes. Bring in your business card for a $5 discount. $-$$
Indulge Bakery 700 SW Higgins Ave 544-4293 indulgebakery.wordpress.com Now open! Enjoy international flavors from baci di dama to pizzelles, gourmet cupcakes, scones and decadent cinnamon rolls. Specialty breads hot and fresh between 3 and 5pm daily. October special: Sugar skulls for Dia de los Muertos! Special orders encouraged. Open M-F 7am-6:30pm; Sat. 9am-4pm See us on Facebook! $
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 82, Monday-Friday 7-6. $
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If you believed a certain baby food would make your child smarter, would you buy it? Infant formula manufacturers are betting that you would. Since 2002, several baby food companies have fortified their products with synthetic versions of DHA and ARA, long-chain fatty acids, aka oils, that occur naturally in breast milk and have been associated with brain development. The oils are produced by Martek Biosciences Corporation from lab-grown algae and fungus, and extracted with hexane, according to the company’s patent application. Hexane is a neurotoxin. A growing number of parents and medical professionals believe these additives are causing severe reactions in some babies, and it’s been repeatedly shown that taking affected babies off of DHA/ARA formula makes the problems go away almost immediately. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has received hundreds of letters about the issue from upset parents. Ohio mother Karen Jensen says that due to health complications she was unable to breastfeed her daughter, and so fed her daughter Neocate, a formula containing DHA/ARA. “At two weeks my daughter would often stop breathing in her sleep, and was having various other serious health conditions,” Jensen told me in an e-mail. After many trips to the hospital and thousands of dollars in health care bills, Jensen says, “we tried the Neocate without the DHA/ARA in it. Within 24 hours we had a brand new, entirely different baby. She had no abdominal distress, no gas, she smiled and played and for the first time ever we heard her laugh.” Jensen’s story is echoed many times over in letters urging the FDA to ban DHA/ARA from baby foods, or to require warning labels advising parents that some babies may experience adverse reactions like bloating, gastrointestinal distress, vomiting and diarrhea. While only a fraction of babies seem to react in this way, it’s a common enough occurrence to have earned DHA/ARA baby formula the nickname “the diarrhea formula” in the neonatal unit of an Ohio hospital, according to a nurse, Sam Heather Doak, who works there. In 2001, the FDA had concerns about the safety of DHA/ARA formula additives, and notified
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Martek of the agency’s plans to convene a group of scientists to study the issue. Martek wrote back: “Convening a group of scientific experts to answer such hypothetical concerns would not be productive.” A month later, the FDA caved. While quick to protest examination of DHA/ARA safety, Martek had already pounced on the hypothetical benefits of its oils. In a 1996 briefing to investors, Martek explained that “Even if [the DHA/ARA blend] has no benefit, we think it would be widely incorporated into formulas, as a marketing tool and to allow companies to promote their formula as ‘closest to human milk.’”
Mead Johnson Nutritionals took the opportunity to heart, drawing the ire of breastfeeding advocates when it began promoting its Enfamil Lipil, containing DHA/ARA, as “The Breast Milk Formula.” Mead Johnson was also involved with a report in the Sept./Oct. issue of the journal Child Development, in which a Dallas-based team of scientists provided evidence that DHA/ARA in baby food improves mental function in infants. Several members of the team received research funding from Mead Johnson, as well as the coveted currency known as “consulting fees.” The Child Development report claims that infants fed DHA/ARA baby formula (supplied free of charge by Mead Johnson) showed greater ability to solve certain problems, like pulling a blanket with a ball on it toward them. The researchers say this problem-solving ability correlates with enhanced IQ and vocabulary development later in life. “New evidence favors baby formula,” announced the Los Angeles Times, in an ambiguously worded headline that begs the question: Over what is baby formula favored?
Breastfeeding advocates bristled at the suggestion that formula could be better for babies than breast milk. “Parents will be encouraged to forego breastfeeding in favor of a hyped-up infant formula,” complained Barbara Moore, president and CEO of Shape Up America, a pro-breastfeeding nonprofit. “Breast milk has other benefits not related to mental development. The [Center for Disease Control] promotes breastfeeding to confer maximal protection against swine flu and other infections.” Charlotte Vallaeys, a researcher for the Wisconsin-based Cornucopia Institute has written a weighty report on the risks and benefits of baby formula containing DHA/ARA. She told me that the Mead Johnson-funded team behind the Child Development story is “the only group that has found real differences in cognitive development” resulting from the addition of DHA/ARA to formula. Not that other researchers haven’t looked. To make sense of the growing body of research on the subject, a team of scientists led by Karen Simmer, a professor of newborn medicine in Australia, compiled a review, published in the Cochrane Library in January 2008, of the available literature. The team found that “feeding fullterm infants with milk formula enriched with [DHA/ARA] had no proven benefit regarding vision, cognition or physical growth.” A March 2009 review by the European Food Safety Authority also found the available data “insufficient to establish a cause and effect relationship” between DHA/ARA and brain development. While serious questions have been raised regarding DHA/ARA’s safety, the issue remains in limbo, with concerned parents, medical professionals and advocacy groups pushing one way, and deep-pocketed corporations pushing the other. The FDA did instruct Martek and other formula companies to conduct post-market surveillance of the health impacts of DHA/ARA-containing products, but after seven years no reports of any surveillance have been submitted. Until conclusive proof emerges on the safety and/or benefit of DHA/ARA in baby formula, it’s buyer beware for parents of newborns. Last I checked, breast milk remains widely available, and free of charge.
Cold chickens
Having just passed my first year on the chicken bandwagon, I’m watching the temperatures cool off and wondering what measures I should take to winterize my chickens. —Clucked?
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days conspire to slow down laying. Rigging a light in the coop and turning it on in the morning or evening will help keep you in eggs. Leave extra food in the coop for them to eat during their extended days. When temperatures plummet in the dead of winter, one common mistake people make is to insulate the coop to a point where air circulation is limited. This causes humidity to build up, which can cause frostbite. It can also cause a buildup of ammonia gas from their droppings, which can damage the chickens’ lungs.
The chickens do pretty well huddling together to keep warm, but if you want to put a heat-producing bulb in the coop, they’ll probably huddle near it. Make sure they have plenty of grain to eat, especially in the afternoon, so they can roost with their crops full of grain. You also want to make sure they have plenty of non-frozen water. Send your food and garden queries to flash@flashinthepan.net
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Arts & Entertainment listings November 5–November 12, 2009
Heidi Meili Steve Fetveit Forget American Apparel–post-apocalyptic garb wins out with “Trash Dolls,” a collection of costumes made entirely from recycled materials created by the artist collective FayRay. Adelaide Every, second from left, hosts a First Friday reception that includes the fashion display, as well as her exhibit Plastique Magique, which features art made with plexiglass and refuse. Badlander. 6PM. Free.
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Kids and parents experiment with rhythm and more during Rhythm Tykes, a class for kids 18 months–4 years old this and every Thu. at 10 AM at Tangled Tones Music Studio, 2005 South Ave. W. $40 five classes/$10 class. Call 396-3352. If you can’t read this, you may be a baby below the age of 36 months, in which case the Missoula Public Library wants you for Tiny Tales, a movement, music and singing program at 10:30 AM every Tue., Thu. and Fri. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Your skill at creating something functionally wicked, like a beer stein or a vase, comes in
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handy during the ZACC’s Paint Your Own Pottery Studio, which runs from 12–8 PM Mon.–Fri. and every Sat. from noon–5 PM at the ZACC, 235 N. First St. W. Price ranges from $5–$20, depending on the cost of pottery. Call 549-7555 or visit www.zootownarts.com. Enjoy vibrant masks, paintings, pencil drawings and more all themed around the Day of the Dead when Hamilton’s Salon 21, 840 S. First St., presents works by Lacy Z displayed through the month of November. Free to spectate. Call 363-0021. Learn about U.S. history from the perspective of American Indians when the Missoula Public Library presents a screening of the PBS series We Shall Remain with the episode “Geronimo” at 1 PM at the library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Call 721-BOOK.
Cure that case of tinnitus with some non-distorted tunes when the UM School of Music presents a Student Chamber Recital at 2:10 PM and again at 7:30 PM in the Music Recital Hall of UM’s Music Building. Free for both performances. Call 243-6880. If art loses hands-down to video games, then the Missoula Public Library’s your gig, where Game On! invites teen gamers to glue their eyes on Guitar Hero, Rock Band and more on the big screen and mow snacks at 3:30 PM the first Thu. of every Month. Free. Call 721-BOOK. end your event info by 5 PM on Fri., Nov. 6, to calendar@missoulanews.com. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to Calendar Playa c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367.
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If you’ve got the artistic gusto to create a rad ornament, and wanna help support YMCA child care programs, you can join others during a holiday ornament decorating activity starting at 4:30 PM at the YMCA of Missoula’s blue gym, 3000 S. Russell St., or at the same time at the Missoula County Fairgrounds’ Floriculture Building. Free. The ornaments will be sold during a fundraiser at the Mannheim Steamroller concert on Nov. 12. Call 721-YMCA.
nightlife Wiggle those hips and strike poses of elegant expression when former UM dance prof Amy Ragsdale leads a Beginning to Intermediate Modern Dance class at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., every Thu. at 5 PM. Cost TBA. Call 541-7240. Digital photo montages of skeletons mix with abstract slices of something or other to represent one artist’s interest in exploring the horrors of nuclear war when UM MFA student Pamela Caughey presents an opening reception for her exhibit Half-Life from 5–7 PM at the University Center Art Gallery. Free. Call 243-4991. All genres are encouraged—excepting, perhaps, stoner rock—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.
After the revolution we’ll need a new Betsy Ross, which is why you should pick up some tips every Thu. at Selvedge Studio, 509 S. Higgins Ave., where their Sewing Lounge begins at 6 PM. $9–10 hour. Call 541-7171. 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. Contemplate your week over a cold one while Missoula’s Isaac M brings acoustic heat with a folk set at the Bitterroot Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton, at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-7468. Extrude, carve, pinch, coil and explore texture and design with wonderful slabs of mud during The Clay Studio of Missoula’s Handbuilding Class, which runs for six weeks this and every Thu. from 6–9 PM until Dec. 17, with no class on Nov. 26, at the studio, 1106 Hawthorne St. Unit A. $126/$120 members. Call 543-0509. Feeling too straight and separate? Remedy that situation pronto at Gay Men Together, a safe and affirming place for gay and bisexual men, at 7 PM at the Western Montana Gay and Lesbian Community Center, 127 N. Higgins Ave., Ste. 202. Free. Call 543-2224. Find out what sort of impact wolf reintroduction has had on elk in Yellowstone Park when MSU prof Scott
Creel leads the Montana Chapter of the Society for Conservation Biology lecture “Wolf Predation and Elk Dynamics in the Yellowstone Ecosystem” at 7 PM in the University Center Theater. $3 at the door. Call 370-8709. Squeeze yourself into the shoes of a former financial news reporter who becomes a website hawker and dope smoker trying to save his house and marriage when author Jess Walter reads and signs copies of his book The Financial Lives of Poets at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave., at 7 PM. Free. Call 721-2881. You’ll probably develop a serious case of traveler’s envy when Mandela van Eeden presents the talk “Walking About Australia: The Vast Island” in Room 210 of UM’s McGill Hall at 7 PM. Free. Call 243-5172. Perhaps you’ll realize why you blank out certain parts of your life as you witness Eurydice and her struggle to recall her former lover during UM’s production of Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl with a performance at 7:30 PM in the Masquer Theatre in UM’s PARTV Building. $14/$12 seniors and students/$8 children 12 and under. Call 243-4581 for tickets. (See Theater in this issue.) Old dudes juggle and liven up the place with some comedic antics while classic jazz from the 1920s and 1930s commands you to shake a tail when the Mud Bay Jugglers perform with the Tune Stranglers at 7:30 PM at
SPOTLIGHT Labor busts
Imagine coming home after a long day at work. You’re ready to decompress and eat dinner, and the last thing you expect is a bomb to explode in your face, am I right? Well, that’s exactly what happened to Frank Steunenberg, the former governor of Idaho who died when a bomb detonated as he was entering his house on a snowy December night in 1905. His assassination, and the subsequent trial, burned itself into the nation’s consciousness. It also revealed the venomous anger of some Idaho laborers who weren’t so pleased with Steunenberg’s oppressive, union busting policies.
WHAT: Big Trouble–The Idaho Project, reception and gallery talk WHO: Artist Scott Fife WHEN: Fri., Nov. 6, 5–8 PM WHERE: Missoula Art Museum, 335 N. Pattee St. HOW MUCH: Free
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As the story goes, Steunenberg’s assassin, a man named Harry Orchard, planted the explosive in retaliation for the governor’s anti-union initiatives. You can get a visual snapshot of this tense moment in American history during a reception for Seattle artist Scott Fife’s exhibit Big Trouble–The Idaho Project, a series of archival cardboard busts that feature characters from the infamous incident and trial. The richly detailed pieces include the faces of Steunenberg, Orchard and former president Teddy Roosevelt. Fife constructed these works using a minimal amount of ingredients: cardboard, glue and sheet rock screws. He also gessoed and sanded the heads, which have a coarse yet eerily realistic appearance. Some of you have probably already seen the busts, since they’ve been on display at the Missoula Art Museum since the beginning of October. But if you’re curious about Fife’s artistic process, and want to know how he dreamed up these larger-than-life creations, you’re in luck, since he’ll be in Missoula for the reception and is slated to discuss his work during a gallery talk at 7 PM. —Ira Sather-Olson
the Ronan Performing Arts Center in Ronan Middle School, 35885 Round Butte Road. $14/$12 advance at True Value Hardware in Ronan. Call 800823-4386 or visit www.accessmontana.com/bigproductions. Bring yer guitar, bass or other instrument of choice every Thu. night to The Cellars, 5646 W. Harrier, when it holds an open-mic style artists’ showcase at 8 PM. Free. Interested musicians should Call 541-8463. Bowling and karaoke go together like drinking booze and then voting during Solid Sound Karaoke at Westside Lanes at 8:30 PM. Free. Call 541-SING. Sorry ladies, but Thu. nights belong to the dudes at Men’s Night at The Office Bar, 109 W. Main St. in Hamilton, where the testosterone-fueled karaoke begins at 9 PM. Free. Call 363-6969. Bassackwards Karaoke turns your world underside-up every Thu. at 9 PM at Deano’s Casino on Airway Boulevard. Free. Call 531-8327. Get your fix with Sandy Bradford and Mark Souhrada when they host the jam at Los Caporales in Columbia Falls at 9 PM. Call 892-5025. Join several hundred people and revel in the glory of debauchery when cheap well drinks and laptop-fueled hip-hop, crunk, electronic, pop and mashed-up tunes hit the Badlander every week where Dead Hipster DJ Night gets the booties bumpin’ and the feet stompin’ at 9 PM. $3. Now’s your time to juggle a beat with your feet in a cavernous setting when DJ DC rocks the AmVets Club with hits starting at 9 PM. Free. See a plethora of patterns and colors— after a few pitchers—and muster up the courage to belt out some prize-winning classics during Kaleidoscope Karaoke every Tue.–Sun. at the Lucky Strike Casino, 1515 Dearborn Ave., at 9:30 PM. Free. Call 721-1798. Score yourself some intense grooves when 20 Grand funks up the Great Northern Bar & Grill, 27 Central Ave. in Whitefish, at 9:30 PM. Free. Dance with a cougar or two, or not, every Thu. at 10 PM when the James Bar, 127 W. Alder St., hosts The Social Club, featuring DJ Fleege spinning an expansive array of tech house and progressive electro dance tunes. Free. Cross your karaoke sword with others under the influence of that music box you sing along to during Combat DJ and Karaoke nights, this and every Thu. at the Press Box, 835 E. Broadway St., at 10 PM. Free. He’ll cure your tremors with a sweet shot of country: Russ Nasset hits up the Old Post, 103 W. Spruce St., for a solo set this and every other Thu. at 10 PM. Free. Mellow is likely to be the vibe when you jibe to the sounds of Boston’s Chris Trapper, who plays a solo set of alt-acoustic pop at the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA.
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The Missoula Public Library hosts a preschool storytime geared toward children 3–6 years old every Fri. at 10:30 AM. This week, Confessions of an Eco-Warrior by Dave Foreman. Just
kidding. (Did I need to tell you that?) Free. Call 721-BOOK. If you can’t read this, perhaps you’re simply pre-literate, in which case the Missoula Public Library wants you for Tiny Tales, a movement, music and singing program for babes up to 36 months at 10:30 AM every Thu., Fri. and Tue. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Toddlers always learn a thing or two from books like Going Rogue: An American Life by Sarah Palin at Toddler Story Time, which includes age appropriate stories (of course), from 10:30–11:15 AM in the downstairs meeting room of the Bitterroot Public Library, 306 State St. in Hamilton. Free. Call 363-1670. Have a beer in support of those who douse fires when Stevensville’s Blacksmith Brewing Company, 114 Main St. in Stevensville, donates 50 cents of each beer sold today to Stevi’s local volunteer fire department. Free to attend. Call 777-0680. Learn about U.S. history from the perspective of American Indians when the Missoula Public Library presents a screening of the PBS series We Shall Remain with the episode “Wounded Knee” at 1 PM at the library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Call 721-BOOK.
nightlife Local art mainstay Dirk Lee presents a series of new work titled Variations on a Theme Without Content and Too Much Craft throughout the month of November and December at A&E Architects, 222 N. Higgins Ave. Free to spectate. Your First Friday walk bursts at the seams with landscape and wildlife photography courtesy of local shooters Kristi DuBois, Nelson Kenter and Kip Sikora when Five Valleys Land Trust, 117 W. Broadway St., holds a First Friday reception from 5–8 PM. Free. Visit www.fvlt.org. Photography by Farah Martin and paintings by Julia LaTray mix with an assortment of other art as well as music, drinks and food during a grand opening/First Friday reception for Cat’s Eye Designs at their digs, 137 E. Main St., from 5–8 PM. Free. Call Cat at 213-400-1847. Local photog DeAndria Gutzmer honors the Day of the Dead and her “joyful and soulful celebration” with imagery during a First Friday reception at Mariposa Studio, 438 E. Broadway St., from 5–8 PM. Free. Call 241-1625. If you find yourself wandering around downtown Missoula on First Friday from 5–8 PM, don’t be surprised if you get stopped by a gaggle of folks with a video camera (among them local author Josh Wagner), as they’ll be doing an impromptu film shoot for a webisode and they want you to participate by acting out roles on the spot. Free to spectate and to engage. Enjoy screen printing, painting and photography with an eye toward the eclectic when artists Lucas Childress, Jeremy Haas, Brody Klemer and Jazmine Raymond host a First Friday reception at Contraption (formerly Big Sky Embroidery), 610 S. Higgins Ave., starting at 5 PM and running until midnight, with music by DJ Kris Moon starting at 8 PM. Free. Heads aren’t likely to roll when you take in the stunningly detailed archival cardboard heads comprising Scott Fife’s exhibition Big Trouble–The Idaho Project during a reception for his work at
the Missoula Art Museum, 335 N. Pattee St., from 5–8 PM, with a gallery talk with Fife at 7. Free. Call 728-0447. (See Spotlight in this issue.) Colorful nude paintings, which run the gamut from pop art to realistic watercolors, mix tastefully with wine and cookies when artist Melissa Clark holds a First Friday reception for her work at Betty’s Divine, 521 S. Higgins Ave., from 5–8 PM. Free. See what the future holds for visual arts when UM’s latest crop of aesthetic purveyors show off their wares during an opening reception for the 15th Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition from 5–7 PM in the Gallery of Visual Arts, in UM’s Social Science Building. Free. Call 243-2813. Surrealism seeps into organic images of connections with nature when artist Penelope Baquero presents her exhibit Ecosapien Evolution with an opening reception at Bernice’s Bakery, 190 S. Third St. W., from 5–8 PM. Free. (See Scope in this issue.) Enhance your night with art that veers towards the unconventional during a First Friday exhibit/reception form 5–9 PM at the Ceretana Studios, 801 Sherwood Ave., featuring recent works by Ceretana residents, as well as works from the Day of the Dead celebration. Free. An evening of fantastically colored mixed media works begs for your attention when artists Patricia Thornton and Sheilah Healow present a First Friday reception for their work at The Catalyst, 111 N. Higgins Ave., from 5–7 PM. Free. Timber finds itself crafted by the finest calloused hands during the Dana Gallery’s Woodworker’s Show, which features craftsmanship from
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artists like Bruce Adams, Sandy Volkmann and David Hamilton during a First Friday reception for the show from 5–8 PM at the gallery, 246 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 721-3154. Take a break from the insanity of life and center yourself with some doodles when Beth Jaffe presents her series Sanity Doodles at Front Street Pasta and Wraps, 247 W. Front St., with a reception at 5 PM. Free. Peruse a series of black and white photos that stray away from the ones and zeros of the digital format when Herbert Swick presents a First Friday exhibit of his traditional darkroom photography at Yellowstone Photo, 321 N. Higgins Ave., from 5–8 PM. Free. Kids get in on even more First Friday action at the Children’s Museum of Missoula, 225 W. Front St., where art appreciation, snacks and more greet youngsters from 5–8 PM. Free. Call 541-PLAY. Framework glass and mixed media sculptures take center stage when Barbara Allen Dillon presents a First Fr i d a y r e c e p t i o n f o r h e r e x h i b i t The Change of Climate at The Missoula Artists’ Shop, 304 N. Higgins Ave., from 5–8 P M. Free. Visit missoulaartistsshop.com. Classic scenes of Missoula and Montana get treatment from high dynamic range imaging when Lewis Kelly presents his photos with a First Friday reception at Butterfly Herbs, 232 N. Higgins Ave., from 5–8 PM. Free. Functionality is key, as is an appreciation for ceramic pots, when Archie Bray artist-in-residency Gwendolyn Yoppolo shows off works of her functional pottery during a reception for the exhibit Linger: New Work by Gwendolyn Yoppolo at the Clay Studio of Missoula, 1106 Hawthorne St. Unit A, from 5:30–9 PM. Free. Call 543-0509. Processors might overheat due to the romantic intensity exuded by the photos on the walls of Computer Central, 136 E. Broadway St., when it hosts a First Friday reception for photographer Kate Wenniger for her show With Love...Possibilities Are Endless from 5:30–7:30 PM. Free. Moms and dads can sip wine and squeeze through galleries downtown while their kids create art with other youngsters during a Kids’ First Friday at the ZACC Gallery, 235 N. First St. W., from 5:30–8:30 PM. $15, register by emailing holly@zootownarts.com or calling 549-7555. Join photographers Jonathon Qualben, Terry Cyr and Jen Doscher as they exhibit photos of dancers from
the Downtown Dance Collective (images that will also be featured in DDC’s 2010 calendar) during a First Friday reception at 6 PM upstairs from the collective at The Loft of Missoula, 121 W. Main St. Free, with music by Casey Jo. Call 541-7240. Take a few hours for rest, enrichment and something higher than yourself when Rabbi Gershon Winkler leads a Shabbat service from 6–8 PM at the Har Shalom Synagogue, 3035 S. Russell St. Free, with a potluck dinner to follow. Bring a vegetarian dish if you plan to stay for dinner. Call 549-9595. Plexiglass, paint and refuse meld into works of art when Adelaide Every presents her exhibit Plastique Magique with a reception at the Badlander from 6–9 PM. Free. Includes an 8 PM presentation of “Trash Dolls,” a collection of costumes made entirely from recycled materials created by the artist collective FayRay. Your musical ATM dispenses bluegrass when Cottonwood Draw plays the Brooks and Browns Lounge at the Holiday Inn–Downtown at the Park, 200 S. Pattee St., at 6 PM. Free. Wine finds good company with a preview of Home Resource’s new project called ReVamp, which apparently includes prototypes of items to be sold at Home Resource’s new location— during a First Friday public viewing of the project at The Loft of Missoula, upstairs at 121 W. Main St., at 6 PM. Free. Call 541-8300. If there’s a gap in your memory fill it with the travel experiences of others during the First Friday exhibit The Gap Year: Travel Photography by Eric and Katrina Weckenbrock at CTA Architects and Engineers, 306 W. Railroad St., from 6–8 PM. Free. In our ever evolving technological world, twitter meetups (tweetups) are now a thing of the present, especially when you head to Fidos and Felines, a tweetup from 7–9 PM at The Broadway, 1609 W. Broadway St., where you’re asked to bring an item to donate to the Animeals wishlist, and perhaps have a beer or two with other twitter enthusiasts too. Free. Visit smcmissoula.com/events/ fidos-and-felines. Now’s your chance to gander at music videos and short films of 10 minutes or less made by locals during the MCAT Movie Club’s Night of Shorts III, which runs from 7–9 PM at the Roxy Theater, 718 S. Higgins Ave. Free. Features an awards ceremony, as well as a people’s choice award, where you can vote on your favorite film. Call 542-6228. A dog named Scruffles finds himself in a series of mischievous adventures
when Heather Glenn Vines signs copies of her Scruffles Adventure Series children’s books at 7 PM at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 721-2881. Learn about turning your insecurities and doubts into creativity and more during the lecture/workshop Creativity & Addiction, lead by Linda Leonard which starts with a lecture today at 7 PM, and follows on Saturday with a workshop from 9 AM–5 PM, all at Bozeman’s Gran Tree Inn, 1325 N. Seventh Ave. $120, includes Friday lecture and Saturday workshop/$10 Friday lecture only/$5 Friday lecture for students. Call 587-9300 or visit montanafriendsofjung.org. Perhaps you’ll realize why you blank out certain parts of your life as you witness Eurydice and her struggle to recall her former lover during UM’s production of Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl with a performance at 7:30 PM in the Masquer Theatre in UM’s PARTV Building. $14/$12 seniors and students/$8 children 12 and under. Call 243-4581 for tickets. (See Theater in this issue.) Don’t get caught without soul or passion and glean some advice from a bluesman who knows his licks when Kevin Van Dort plays soul, rock and blues with a special guest at 7:30 PM at The Cellars, 5646 W. Harrier. $5, with wine and barbecue available for purchase. Call 541-8463. Keep kids’ minds active and healthy at after school programs by attending The F l a g s h i p P r o g r a m ’ s C h o c o l a te Extravaganza and Cabaret, a benefit for Flagship that features a performance by the cabaret group Bits & Pieces, as well as a dessert buffet made by locals like John Engen, Jill Valley and more starting at 7:30 PM at the Missoula Children’s Theatre, 200 N. Adams St. $25 per person at the door or by calling 532-9825. The shimmering qualities of natural reverb act as your ears’ best friend when the UM School of Music presents a Student Chamber Recital at 7:30 PM in the Music Recital Hall of UM’s Music Building. Free. Call 243-6880. Your First Friday isn’t complete without a shot of acoustic folk when David Boone and Amy Martin play a double-header coffee house concert at Break Espresso, 432 N. Higgins Ave., at 8 PM. $8. There’s always a pair of tight wranglers in sight when the Crab Creek Wranglers dust up the floor with country and bluegrass at the Symes Hotel in Hot Springs, 209 Wall St., at 8 PM. Donations appreciated. Call 741-2361.
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BETTY’S DIVINE 521 S. Higgins, 721-4777 Stop by Betty's Divine for a showing by local artist Melissa Clark. The exhibit features colorful nude paintings, ranging from bright pop art to realistic watercolors. Free flowing Wine and scrumptious Cookies. 5-8pm BUTTERFLY HERBS 232 N. Higgins, 728-8780 Please join Butterfly Herbs for their November First Friday celebration where classic scenes of Missoula and Montana get treatment from high dynamic range imaging when Lewis Kelly presents his photos with a First Friday reception at Butterfly Herbs, 232 N. Higgins Ave., from 5–8 PM. Free. HEALTHY HUMMINGBIRD MASSAGE & ARTS CENTER 725 Alder, Suite 27, 207-6269 Featuring art by Eli Suzukovich III. Many of the illustrations are pieces of old and new stories & legends. Other images are stories yet to be told, reflections on daily experiences, and the retelling of strange events & people the artist often encounters. Come and enjoy good company and great art at Healthy Hummingbird Massage & Art Center. 207-6269
HIGHLAND WINDS GALLERY/SHOP 1520 S. 7th St. W., 541-7577 Come join us in our annual Fondue Feast! Munch delicious cheese fondue on french bread, or chocolate fondue & fruit if that is your interest. View the new painting, Nambe, and a new collection of small Giclees capturing life in Missoula and Montana. Fondue served from 5 - 8. (Hours: 4 - 9 Fridays, 9 - 4 Saturdays, or by appt.) MISS ZULA'S 111 N. Higgins, 541-7376 Joe Jindrich, will present a variety of works from the last 20 years consisting of portrayals of wildlife and abstract with conceptualized movement. This theme evolves into his frames creating art that favors a looseness of form. An artist reception will be held Friday, Nov. 6 from 5-8pm during Missoula's First Friday celebration.
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Toxic fumes take on an aesthetically pleasing tone when local artist Lucas Childress presents a series of his screen prints, like the one pictured here, during a First Friday reception Fri., Nov. 6, at Contraption, 610 S. Higgins Ave., starting at 5 PM with music by DJ Kris Moon starting at 8 PM. Free.
If you follow Judaism, now you can explore the concepts of chaos, emptiness, darkness and light at The Four Layers: A Kabbalistic Journey with Rabbi Gershon Winkler, a two-day seminar that starts with an intro session today from 8–9:30 PM, then restarts again at 10:30 AM on Saturday and runs until 6 PM, all at the Har Shalom Synagogue, 3035 S. Russell St. $95/$85 students. Call 549-9595 or visit har-shalom.org.
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.
The Clerics when they play the Union Club at 9:30 PM. Free. Mix one part alka seltzer tablet and two parts beer and you’ve got a recipe for longevity when The Lifers play Florence’s High Spirits Club & Casino, 5341 Hwy. 93 N. in Florence, at 9:30 PM. Free. 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. Twist thine legs around one another and see how high you can jump to the jammy bluegrass sounds of Fort Collins, Colo.’s Whitewater Ramble, who play the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA. You best bet there’s no bloodshed on the front lines when Wartime Blues brings its peaceful strand of Americana/folk to the Old Post Pub, 103 W. Spruce St., at 10 PM. Free.
If you liked Tolkien’s mines of Khazad-dum, you’ll love tunneling through the AmVets Club, where DJDC rocks dance music to slay orcs to at 9 PM. Free.
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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. Feel free to shake it like a salt shaker when DJ Sanchez cranks out the jams at The Office Bar, 109 W. Main St. in Hamilton, every Fri. at 9 PM. Free. Call 363-6969. Learn to sing “Dancing Queen” in tongues when Bassackwards Karaoke invades the Alcan Bar & Grill in Frenchtown, 16780 Beckwith St., every Fri. at 9 PM. Free. Call 531-8327. Hoot ‘n holler in a drunken collar when Troy’s J.D. Smith and the 3 Legged Dog roots up the Badlander with a show at 9 PM. Free. They build trails and give back to our wildlands, so give thanks and celebrate with members of the Montana Conservation Corps during their commencement party, which features music by Voodoo Horseshoes, Tonsofun, Josh Clinger and DJ Karl K at 9 PM at the Palace. $3. Donations encouraged. They’re the ones wearing the pants in your ongoing relationship with Americana, so heed the good word of song slingers Tom Catmull and
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If you’ve got a keen interest in forestry, or own lots of land and want to learn more about topics like forest health and property rights law issues, check out the Forestry Mini-College, a series of 12 concurrent classes on forestry related issues which runs from 8 AM–5 PM today in UM’s Forestry Building. $25, includes classes, lunch and refreshments. Register by calling 243-2775. Your bedtime tales of college-age debauchery fall a little short of the mark. Family Storytime offers engaging experiences like stories, fingerplays, flannel-board pictograms and more at 11 AM at the Missoula Public Library. Free. Call 721-BOOK. The New York Metropolitan Opera won’t be here in person, but you can witness Giacomo Puccini’s Turandot in high definition video in the comfort of a seat at the Roxy Theater during The Met: Live At the Roxy at 11 AM at the theater, 718 S. Higgins Ave. $18 adults/$16 students and seniors at any GrizTix outlet or www.griztix.com. Visit www.morrisproductions.org. Get your body’s energy systems back in sync during a BodyTalk Lecture and Clinic at 11 AM at the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Free,
with first-come, first-served sample sessions from 11:30 AM–1 PM. Call Debra at 728-6347. Get a 20 minute shot of artistic pleasure, with engaging gallery guides to lead you along, when you take a tour of the Missoula Art Museum’s latest exhibition from Scott Fife titled Big Trouble–The Idaho Project at noon at the museum, 335 N. Pattee St. Free. Call 728-0447. See if you think that business idea of yours is still viable when Mike Chaet, co-author of Loops: The Seven Keys to Small Business Success, talks about his book at 12 PM at Waldenbooks in Southgate Mall, 2901 Brooks St. Free. Take a journey through the lasting impact of WWI on painters and writers of the time when Ted Hughes and Lisa Simon present the lecture “The Renaissance Ideal: Dominant Artistic Values from the Renaissance and the Roots of Modernism” at the Missoula Art Museum, 335 N. Pattee St., at 1 PM. $5/Free for members and students with ID. Call 728-0447. Preschoolers explore and create clay critters when Hanna Hannan leads a preschool arts class from 1–2 PM at the Zootown Arts Community Center, 235 N. First St. W. $15. Register by e-mailing holly@zootownarts.com or calling 549-7555. Missoula is a bona fide bike town. If you don’t have one already, you’ll be able to make your own recycled bike after you volunteer for two hours at Missoula Free Cycles, 732 S. First St. W., on Saturdays at 2:30 PM. Call 800-809-0112. Wander through Missoula’s very own DIY art hotspot during an informational tour of the Zootown Arts Community Center, 235 N. First St. W., from 3–4 PM. Free. RSVP with Hanna Hannan by e-mailing info@zootownarts.com or calling 549-7555.
nightlife You’re always welcome to get your groove on to the cracks and crevices of Cellar Door, who play Stevensville’s Blacksmith Brewing Company, 114 Main St. in Stevensville, at 5:30 PM. Free. Call 777-0680 Folk, country, rockabilly and the blues mesh into an elegant series of licks when Andrea Harsell and Louie Bond play the Brooks and Browns Lounge at the Holiday Inn–Downtown at the Park, 200 S. Pattee St., at 6 PM. Free. The dirt on your shoes turns a sleek shade of blue when Mudslide Charley rocks some blues at the Bitterroot Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton, at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-7468. Experience some Judaistic blessings during a Havdalah Ritual, which marks the end of Shabbat, at 6 PM at Har Shalom Synagogue, 3035 S. Russell St. Free. Call 549-9595 or visit har-shalom.org. Perhaps you’ll realize why you blank out certain parts of your life as you witness Eurydice and her struggle to recall her former lover during UM’s production of Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl with a performance at 7:30 PM in the Masquer Theatre in UM’s PARTV Building. $14/$12 seniors and students/$8 children 12 and under. Call 243-4581 for tickets. (See Theater in this issue.) Clarinets and trumpets weather any sort of harmonic differences when Jessica Simonson and Corinne Smith play their respective musical weapons of choice during a student recital at the Music Recital Hall, in UM’s Music Building, at 7:30 PM. Free. Call 243-6880. Old dudes juggle and liven up the place with some comedic antics while classic jazz from the 1920s and 1930s commands you to shake a tail when the Mud Bay Jugglers perform with the Tune Stranglers at the University Theatre at 7:30 PM. $22. Call 243-4051 for tickets or visit www.griztix.com. Get dressed to the nines and ready yourself to boogie like an oldschooler when the Missoula Folklore Society holds its Town and Gown contra dance, featuring a beginners workshop at 7:30 PM, followed by music from Out of the Wood with caller Roy Curet from 8–11 PM at the University Center Ballroom. Free, but donations to cover costs accepted. Call 243-5153.
There’s probably no shortage of good spirits on tap when Celtic song slingers Tra La Gael play the Symes Hotel in Hot Springs, 209 Wall St., at 8 PM. Donations appreciated. Call 741-2361. 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. 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. 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. Here’s your chance to get freaky on the dance floor. AmVets Club offers up DJDC and his dance music to the hungry horde at 9 PM. Free. The Frenchtown Club, 15155 Demers St., lets the karaoke genie out of the bottle at 9 PM. Turn south after taking exit 89 from I-90. Free. Call 370-3200. When DJ Sanchez commands the turntables every Sat. at 9 PM at The Office Bar, 109 W. Main St. in Hamilton, nobody’s exempt from the mandatory “dance down the bar” rule. Free. Call 363-6969. Even Pat Robertson gets down to the heathenish sounds of rock ‘n roll when Norman, Okla.’s Evangelicals praise the Palace with indie rock, along with tour mates Holiday Shores, at 9 PM. $5. The Racquet and Colin Johnson open. (See Noise in this issue.) DJs Kris Moon and Monty Carlo are guaranteed to keep you dancing to an assortment of hiphop, electronic and other bass-heavy, booty-busting beats ‘til the bar closes, or at least until the vodka runs out, during Absolutely at the Badlander at 9 PM. Free. Set the avalanche hazard to extreme when Landslide tumbles themselves to the stage of the Union Club for a show at 9:30 PM. Free. Mileage rebates come in the form of R ’n B and blues licks when Zeppo MT plays Florence’s High Spirits Club & Casino, 5341 Hwy. 93 N. in Florence, at 9:30 PM. Free. DJ Dubwise supplies dance tracks all night long so you can take advantage of Sexy Saturday and rub up against the gender of your choice at 10 PM at Feruqi’s. Free. Call 728-8799. You might get lost in a sea of ukes when ukelele group Saint Denni and the Uke Troop play the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA.
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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. Catch new thoughts with the Science of Mind Community during a Sunday service via the Internet when Rev. Kathianne Lewis spreads a spiritual message for your viewing pleasure at the Carriage House in Hamilton, 310 N. Fourth St., at 10 AM. this and every Sun. Free. Call Barb at 375-9996. Quench your urge to watch football with others on several different televisions every Sun. at Lucky Strike Casino, 515 Dearborn Ave., and, if you’ve got the the gusto, belt out some bars during their karaoke contest which starts a 9:30 PM. Free. Call 549-4152. An 80-year-old man deals with the pain of being a former internment prisoner and living homeless by creating art. Watch him come to grips with his painful past after meeting a filmmaker during a screening of the documentary The Cats of Mirikitani at the Missoula Art Museum, 335 N. Pattee St., at 1 PM. Free. Call 728-0447.
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SPOTLIGHT f u l l p l a te If you’ve never worked in a restaurant before, know this: It’s stressful. I got a taste of the hustle and bustle of the dining industry as a dishwasher at Tipu’s Tiger when I was 19. While I definitely don’t long to be back in the dish pit, the experience made me realized just how much those in the restaurant biz bust their butts so we can have a bite to eat. If you disagree, just step inside the shoes of Sam Peliczowski, the main character in the one-act play Fully Committed by Becky Mode. The comedy depicts a day in the life of Sam, a non-working actor who pays his bills by taking reservations at a posh restaurant in Manhattan. On any given shift he handles a deluge of phone calls, endures lots of snobbery and tries to please overzealous customers.
WHAT: Fully Committed WHO: Montana Rep Missoula WHEN: Tue., Nov. 10–Sat., Nov. 14, and Tue. Nov. 17–Sat., Nov. 21, 7:30 PM nightly WHERE: Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. HOW MUCH: $10/$15 Fri. and Sat But that’s not the only thing he juggles. Over the course of the 90-minute play, Sam transforms into 40 different characters, all played by the same person. One minute he’ll be his dad, who’s yearning for his son to return home for Christmas, and the next he’ll morph into a badgering patron. He even slips into a few cameos, including sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer. Local actor Justin Fatz, right, takes on this multi-tasking feat when
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Montana Rep Missoula’s rendition of Fully Committed graces the stage of the Crystal Theater starting Tuesday. “He is a tight rope walker who also has to juggle, and there’s no net…it’s an incredible challenge for him,” says director David Mills-Low. These demands on Fatz translate into what seems like a 20-minute play, Mills-Low says, since there’s no time to get bored with any particular character. And in a town like Missoula, where a number of people hold restaurant service jobs, Mills-Low thinks there should be plenty of dramatic fat for people to chew on, whether you’ve labored in an eatery or just dined in one. “I think because the characters are so specific, it has a very universal appeal,” he says. —Ira Sather-Olson
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Got a pile of clothes just sitting around the house? Bring them back to life during Swap–A–Rama–Rama, a giant clothes swap and clothing remake workshop where you can trade your clothes with others and add artistic flair to your existing garb using sewing stations and silk screening machines, all at the University Center Ballroom from 1–5 PM. $5 suggested donation. Visit sorrmissoula.blogspot.com. Playing bingo at 2 PM at the Missoula Senior Citizens Center is your chance to yell, “Republicans offer the best plan for health care reform!” Free. Call 543-7154. Tip your hat to members of the armed forces during a Veteran’s Day weekend program at the Rocky Mountain Museum of Military History, at Building T-316 at Fort Missoula, which starts at 2 PM and features exhibits on Montanans in battle, the Civil War and more. Free. Call 549-5346. If you believe everything is interconnected, sacred and alive, help form a Medicine Circle which will meet every Sunday afternoon at a TBA time and place. Call 541-212-3377 for more info.
nightlife No one likes to get their foot caught in a trap, especially animals, so support trap-free public lands by gorging on pizza when Footloose Montana holds an all-you-can-eat pizza fundraiser at Biga Pizza, 241 W. Main St., from 5–8 PM. $10. Call 274-7878. Experience full immersion and “learning by doing” during an introductory meditation course this and every Sun. from 6–8 PM for five weeks at the Open Way Mindfulness Center, 702 Brooks Ave. $50 for the five-week
course, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Register by calling 546-4697. Improvisational movement with others takes on a jammy vibe during contact dance improv, this and every Sun. from 6:30–8:30 PM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. $5. Musicians are welcome and encouraged. E-mail missoulacontactimprov@gmail.com. You too can practice guided, affirmative and visual meditation with others when Rev. Jennifer Hackenbruch leads a session every second and fourth Sunday of the month from 7–8 PM at Unity Church, 546 South Ave. W. Love offering appreciated. Call 370-9631. I’m sure they can clear their throats while busting out some sweet notes, so see some throat singers from the Russian province of Tuva when Chirgilchin performs at 7:30 PM in the Music Recital Hall in UM’s Music Building. $10/$5 students and seniors. Call 243-6880. Incidents of child abuse come back to life for a man trying to keep the past in the past during a staged reading of David Harrower’s Blackbird at 7:30 PM at Whitefish’s O’Shaughnessy Center, 1 Central Ave. $8, suitable for older students and adults. Call 8625371 or visit whitefishtheatreco.org. 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 and jazz bands starting at 7:30 PM. Free. This week: Jazz from the Donna Smith Trio, the Sam White Quartet and DJ Gary Stein. 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.
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Help save someone’s life when you attend a two-day suicide prevention training seminar which runs today and tomorrow from 8 AM–5 PM each day in Rooms 332 and 333 of UM’s University Center. $35 for materials. RSVP by calling Nancy Berg at 243-4973. Now that you’ve moved here, it’s time to start speakin’ ‘Merican and learning about our wonderful banking and health care systems (you can tell I’m joking, right?), as well as our educational system during Adult Basic Education courses at the Dickinson Lifelong Learning Center, every Mon. and Wed. at 8:30 AM at the center, 310 S. Curtis St. Free. Call 542-4015. Veterans can find support with trained facilitator Chris Poloynis every Mon. at 2 PM, when PTSD group Spartans Honour meets at the Missoula Veterans Affairs Clinic, 2687 Palmer St. Free. Call 829-5400. Kids in first through fifth grade stir their artistic passions after school during the ZACC’s Young Artist Afterschool Program where instructor Hanna Hannan leads art projects, field trips, tours and more from 3–5:30 PM every weekday until Dec. 23 at the ZACC, 235 N. First St. W. $12 per day, with busing available. Visit www.zootow-
narts.com or call 549-7555. Why was Jeffrey Dahmer so twisted? Or Charlie Manson so wacky? Perhaps you’ll find out during “The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind Is Designed to Kill,� a lecture by David Buss, a psychology professor from the University of Texas–Austin, at 3:10 PM in Room 123 of the Gallagher Business Building. Free. Call 243-2981.
nightlife If you devote 5:30 to 8:30 PM on Monday or Wednesday nights to silent meditation, political drinking or other non-kid-friendly endeavors, the Parenting Place offers free child care and dinner at 1644 S. Eighth St. W. Call 728-KIDS to reserve a spot. What reason have you got for lying around the house watching the tube when Florence’s High Spirits offers Free Pool at 6 PM? Free. Call 273-9992. Excite your nimble fingers with wheelthrowing, glazing and firing techniques during a beginning pottery class which runs this and every Mon. from 6–9 PM for six weeks at the Clay Studio of Missoula, 1106 Hawthorne St. Unit A. $126/$120 members. Call 543-0509. Get this: Every Mon., Lolo’s Square Dance Center, 9555 Hwy. 12, begins with beginners’ lessons at 6:30 PM and then moves into full square dance party mode at 8. First two beginners’ sessions free/$4 thereafter. Call 273-0141. You’ve got another chance to connect the dots this evening when the VFW hosts bingo at 7 PM. Free. Joining up with UM’s French Club Le Cercle Francophone means you can repeatedly ask people “Pourquoi suisje en vie?� or just brush up on your French skills when the club meets this and every Mon. at James Bar, 127 W. Alder St., at 7 PM. Free If you’re 18 or under and your life has been affected by someone else’s drinking, get support with others by joining the Al-Ateen 12-Step Support Group, which meets this and every Monday at 7 PM at First United Methodist Church, 300 E. Main St. Free, use alley entrance. Call 728-5818 or visit www.al-anon.alateen.org. He’s your musical therapist on your wine drenched journey. John Floridis, plays an acoustic set at the Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins Ave. Ste. 100, at 7 PM. Free. See what way you swing in the contentious right to die debate when you attend “Aid in Dying,� a panel discussion on the ethical implications of the Baxter v. Montana case which features Scott Crichton of the ACLU of Montana, as well as UM prof Mark Hanson, and others, at 7 PM in Room 123 of UM’s Gallagher Business Building. Free. Call 243-6605. A son goes to great lengths to deceive his mother into thinking they still live in communist East Germany during a screening of the film Good Bye Lenin! in Room 11 of UM’s Liberal Arts Building at 7 PM. Free. Call 243-5418. Incidents of child abuse come back to life for a man trying to keep the past in the past during a staged reading of David Harrower’s Blackbird at 7:30 PM at Whitefish’s O’Shaughnessy Center, 1 Central Ave. $8, suitable for older students and adults. Call 8625371 or visit whitefishtheatreco.org. My best guess is because it feels good. Find out what I’m talking about when you attend the lecture “Why Women
Have Sex: Strategies of Human Mating,� presented by David Buss, a psychology prof with University of Texas–Austin, at 8 PM in the University Theatre. Free. Call 243-2981. Bingo is no longer in the domain of the geriatric when Colin Hickey leads Rawk ‘n Roll Bingo at 8:30 PM at the Badlander with the first bingo card for free, subsequent cards for $1. Free. Who says America never invented a pub sport? Beer Pong proves them all wrong at the Office Bar, 109 W. Main St. in Hamilton, where alcohol and performance anxiety climax into a thing of beauty at 9 PM. Free. Call 363-6969. Expect an abnormally awesome Monday when Oakland’s Crown City Rockers, dubbed “the West Coast’s finest live hip-hop band,� breaks out a groove at the Palace with opener Luckyiam PSC at 9 PM. $10. Locals Slopstar, Tonsofun and the Milkcrate Mechanic open. See if you can become a star under the spotlight at Sean Kelly’s open mic night, hosted by Mike Avery at 9:30 PM. Free.
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Polyrhythms replace your ritual cup of morning Joe during a men’s drumming circle which meets this and every Tue. from 7:30–8:30 AM through the end of Nov. at Tangled Tones Music Studio, 2005 South Ave. W. Free. Call Matthew at 396-3352. Find the strength and will to survive in the company of others during a breast cancer support group at St. Francis Xavier Parish, 420 W. Pine, every first and third Tue. of the month at noon. Free. Call 329-5656. Your skill at creating something functionally wicked, like a beer stein or a vase, comes in handy during the ZACC’s Paint Your Own Pottery Studio, which runs from 12–8 PM Mon.–Fri. and every Sat. from noon–5 PM at the ZACC, 235 N. First St. W. Price ranges from $5–$20, depending on the cost of pottery. Call 549-7555 or visit www.zootownarts.com. You can fight for peace in many different ways, but how about knitting for it? Find out when the group Knitting for Peace meets every Tue. from 1–3 PM at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 543-3955. Teens ages 13–18 stir their creative juices during Teen Media Club every Tue. at 4 PM at the Missoula Public Library computer classroom, where video creation, music mixing and digital art formulation are all the rage. Free. Call 721-2665.
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It’s always a glutenous good time when Wheat Montana, 2520 S. Third St. W., presents Black Mountain Bluegrass at 5:30 PM. Free. Call 327-0900. Find out how animals are adapting to our rapidly shifting planet when noted UM wildlife bio professor L. Scott Mills leads the discussion “Wildlife Biology in a Changing World” at 6 PM at the University Center Ballroom. Free. Call 243-4689. Expand your skills with clay beyond newbies with larger pieces and more during an intermediate throwing class this and every Tue. from 6–9 PM for six weeks at the Clay Studio of Missoula, 1106 Hawthorne St. Unit A. $126/$120 members. Call 543-0509. Missoula’s YWCA, 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. Go beyond your limits, in a positive way, during the class “Beyond Limits” this and every Tue. from 6:30–9 PM until Nov. 24 at Kalispell’s Shining Mountains Center for Positive Living, 475 Eighth Ave. East N. Cost TBA. Call 257-6539. You never know what you’ll find— except for probably a bunch of womyn—at Womyn’s Night at 7 PM at the Western Montana Gay and Lesbian Community Center, 127 N. Higgins Ave., Ste. 202. Free. Call 543-2224. Grab the rooster sauce and get spicy when the Downtown Dance Collective’s Nelson Barahona presents beginning salsa dance lessons at a new time of 7 PM followed by intermediate/advanced at 8, every Tue. at the Badlander. $7/per class per person. Follow your dreams of becoming the next Willie Nelson, and get buy-oneget-one-free drink tickets, during an open mic night every Tue. at the Brooks and Browns Lounge at the Holiday Inn Parkside, 200 S. Pattee St., from 7–10 PM, with sign-up at 6 PM. E-mail moorebeej@yahoo.com. You can stop dancing, singing and laughing by yourself and do it in the
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company of others when Turning the Wheel presents an adult movement and improvisational dance/voice class lead by facilitator Lizzi Juda with musical accompaniment by Nathan Zavalney this and every Tue. from 7–8:30 PM until Dec. 8 at 1042 Monroe St. $48 six-class/$40 preregist e r e d . C a l l 8 53 - 0 361 o r e - m a i l ann.stevenson@gmail.com.
Thrust yourself into the dreadful and deathly mind of Edgar Allen Poe as he tries to hammer out a detective story during a one-night-only special performance of the Montana Repertory Theatre’s rendition of Ron Fitzgerald’s The Poe Project, at the Masquer Theatre, in UM’s PARTV building, at 7:30 PM. $8. Call 243-2854 or visit www.montanarep.org.
The revolution comes home to roost during “Rebel for Dignity,” a discussion featuring students who lived with the Zapatistas in southeast Mexico from 7–9 PM at UM’s Urey North Underground Lecture Hall. Free.
See what it’s like to juggle 40 characters while trying to maintain your sanity as a restaurant reservations manager during Montana Rep Missoula’s performance of Becky Mode’s Fully Committed, which starts at 7:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $10, with a $5 student rush at 7 PM. Call 243-4581 or visit www.montanarep.org. (See Spotlight in this issue.)
Granite becomes more than just something you step on when Jennifer Carey reads and signs her book What’s So Great About Granite? at 7 PM at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 721-2881. Teens exercise their powers of creative decisiveness at the Missoula Public Library’s teen board, which meets once a month at 7 PM at the library, 301 E. Main St., to plan teen events, suggest materials and recommend teen-centric services. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Those that have problems with anorexia or bulimia can find a shoulder to lean on during a meeting of Anorexics and Bulimics Anonymous, which meets this and every Tue. at 7:30 PM in the Memorial Room of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 202 Brooks St. Free. E-mail abamissoula@gmail.com. A benefit with music is a benefit worth checking out, especially if it’s free and from composers honing their skills, so be sure to check UM’s Composers’ Club Fall Benefit Concert, which starts at 7:30 PM in the Music Recital Hall in UM’s Music Building. Free. Call 243-6880. Enjoy a night of Beatles idolization when Imagine, a Beatles tribute band, plays Polson’s High School Auditorium, 111 Fourth Ave. E. in Polson, at 7:30 PM. $15/$12 advance/$10 kids ages 11–18/ Free ages 10 and under. Tickets available at various locations, including True Value Hardware in Ronan or Fiddlesticks School of Music in Polson. Call 800-823-4386 or e-mail cmc@ronan.net.
Sean Kelly’s invites you to another week of free Pub Trivia, which takes place every Tue. at 8 PM. And, to highlight the joy of discovery you might experience while attending, here’s a sample of the type of question you could be presented with. Ready? Who wrote the song “Everybody’s Problem”? (Find the answer in the calendar under tomorrow’s nightlife section.) You’ve practiced in front of the mirror long enough—head to the High Spirits in Florence, where open mic night 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. Enjoy Tunes on Tuesdays with Christian Johnson from 8:30–11 PM, an acoustic open mic jam every Tue. night at Red’s Wines & Blues in Kalispell. Free. Call 755-9463. The Broadway’s Tuesday Night Comedy takes place every Tue. at 9 PM and is followed by dancing with tunes from the Tallest DJ in America. $5/$3 students. Call 543-5678. Rehash the music of others, or have the guts to play a few of your own, when the Canyon Creek Ramblers host an open mic night this and every Tue. at 9 PM at the Great Northern Bar & Grill, 27 Central Ave. in Whitefish. Free, with free beers for performers.
There’s no need to be sorry for the benevolent hangover you might get at Bring Your Friends Vol. III: Sorry For Partying, a special Tue. night dance party featuring DJs Kris Moon and Fleege bringing tha heat in the form of techno, electro and other dance styles starting at 9 PM at the Badlander. Free, with drink specials until midnight. See a plethora of patterns and colors— after a few pitchers—and muster up the courage to belt out some prize-winning classics during Kaleidoscope Karaoke every Tue.–Sun. at the Lucky Strike Casino, 1515 Dearborn Ave., at 9:30 PM. Free. Call 721-1798.
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Morning Melodies, a free, fun-filled, family-friendly music event tailored to preschoolers, occurs every Wed. at Montana Coffee Traders in downtown Whitefish at 10 AM. Free. Vets can glimpse Missoula’s history, for free, when the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula hosts an open museum day in honor of Veterans Day from noon–5 PM where vets can peruse historical artifacts, slurp coffee and munch cookies, all for free at the museum, building 322 at Fort Missoula. Call 728-3476. Runners, get working on your core during a core strength training class this and every Wed. for 11 weeks from 12:15–1 PM upstairs at the Runner’s Edge, 325 N. Higgins Ave. $75/$68 Run Wild Missoula Members. RSVP with Alison Laundrie at alison@thepilatesplayground.com.
nightlife Dudes and duderinos, it’s your time to imbibe all day with drink specials this and every Wed. when the Frenchtown Club, 15155 Demers St. in Frenchtown, hosts Men’s Day. Free. Call 370-3200. Hops always seem to retain their lusciousness when the flavorful bluegrass of Bitter Sweet hits Stevensville’s Blacksmith Brewing Company, 114 Main St. in Stevensville, for a show at 5:30 PM. Free. Develop eloquence in the face of inebriation, as well as impressive business contacts, when Toastmasters meets this, and every, Wed. at 6 PM in St. Patrick Hospital’s Duran Learning Center. Free. Call 728-9117. Blue Argon plays eclectic blues, R&B, and jazz featuring Colleen Cunningham, Steve Sellars and Jim Clayborn every Wed. at 6 PM at Red’s Wines & Blues in Kalispell. Free. Call 755-9463. It’s once again time to render flesh, muscles and an assortment of body parts into a work of genius during the Missoula Art Museum’s non-instructed figure drawing classes, from 6–8 PM this and every Wed. at the museum, 335 N. Pattee St. $7/$5 members. Participants must be 18 and over. Call 728-0447. Excite your nimble fingers with wheelthrowing, glazing and firing techniques during a beginning pottery class which runs this and every Wed. from 6–9 PM for six-weeks at the Clay Studio of Missoula, 1106 Hawthorne St. Unit A. $126/$120 members. Call 543-0509. Having fully bitched out Barnes & Noble, the Missoula Stitch ‘N’ Bitch
needlework circle brings the circle of warm fuzzies to the Good Food Store, where you can knit purls of wisdom every Wed. at 7 PM. Free. BYO yarn and needles, and check out missoulaknits.blogspot.com. Being square will never be as much fun as it is at square dancing lessons every Wed. at the Kalispell Senior Center. 7 PM. $4, children 12 and under must bring an adult. Call 752-4964. 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. In case of emergency, break finger puppet: Family Storytime offers engaging experiences like stories, fingerplays, flannel-board pictograms and more at 7 PM at the Missoula Public Library. Free. Call 721-BOOK. See what it’s like to juggle 40 characters while trying to maintain your sanity as a restaurant reservations manager during Montana Rep Missoula’s performance of Becky Mode’s Fully Committed, which starts at 7:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $10, with a $5 student rush at 7 PM. Call 243-4581 or visit www.montanarep.org. (See Spotlight in this issue.) Hump day isn’t just for binge drinking anymore. It’s also a day for playing games of chance with other like-minded booze lovers when Sean Kelly’s presents Hump Day Bingo, this and every Wed. at 8 PM. Free. Call 542-1471. Historian Edward Linenthal lays down the truth about “The Problems and Promise of Public History” by discussing a handful of national monuments during an illustrated presentation in Room 106 of UM’s Gallagher Business Building at 8 PM. Free. Call 243-2987. Your hips get a little spicy when Los Angeles’ Ozomtali heats you up with hip-hop, salsa, dancehall, cumbia, funk and more when they play the Wilma Theatre at 8 PM with Nathen Maxwell of Flogging Molly. $22 advance at Rockin Rudy’s or www.ticketfly.com. 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. The answer to this week’s trivia question: The British pop band Pulp wrote “Everybody’s Problem” in 1983. It was apparently their second single. The tenets of women’s lib broadens to include cheap drinks and DJs spinning dance tracks when Feruqi’s hosts ladies’ night every Wed. at 9 PM. Free. Be sure you’ve downed enough PBR in order to have the courage to sing “We Are 138” by The Misfits, or a similar tune, during Kraptastic Karaoke at the Badlander at 9 PM. Free. They spit rhymes so someone can eat, so don’t pass up a night of Hip-Hop for Famine Relief, featuring locals Traffic, Tonsofun, Special Peoples, Ironing Board and Dirty Needle taking over the mic at the Palace at 9 PM. $5, with all profits donated to the Oxfam Foundation. $1 off cover charge if you bring a canned good to donate. Fight for the right to belt out a semicoherent version of The Darkness’ “I Believe in a Thing Called Love” every Wed. during Combat Karaoke at
Rowdy’s Cabin, 4880 N. Reserve St., at 10 PM. Free. Call 543-8001.
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Aspen Hospice of Montana is currently looking for volunteers to help offer comfort, pain relief and emotional support for those who are near the end of their lives. Call Lois at 642-3010. Kids and parents experiment with rhythm and more during Rhythm Tykes, a class for kids 18 months–4 years old this and every Thu. at 10 AM at Tangled Tones Music Studio, 2005 South Ave. W. $40 five classes/$10 class. Call 396-3352. If you can’t read this, you may be a baby below the age of 36 months, in which case the Missoula Public Library wants you for Tiny Tales, a movement, music and singing program at 10:30 AM every Tue., Thu. and Fri. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Shake it ‘til you break it when the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., offers Booty Ballet every Thu. at noon. $12/$10 members. Call 541-7240. Your skill at creating something functionally wicked, like a beer stein or a vase, comes in handy during the ZACC’s Paint Your Own Pottery Studio, which runs from 12–8 PM Mon.–Fri. and every Sat. from noon–5 PM at the ZACC, 235 N. First St. W. Price ranges from $5–$20, depending on the cost of pottery. Call 549-7555 or visit www.zootownarts.com. Even if your toddler makes some smooth dance moves, your 3- to 6year-old might need some work, so bring them to another installment of Creative Movement Class every Thu. at 4 PM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. Call 5417240 for pricing.
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nightlife Put a smile on your face and a tune in your head—join guitarist Craig Wickham every Thu. from 5–7 PM at Red’s Wines & Blues in Kalispell. Free. Call 755-9463. Wiggle those hips and strike poses of elegant expression when former UM dance prof Amy Ragsdale leads a Beg inning to Intermediate Modern Dance class at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., every Thu. at 5 PM. Cost TBA. Call 541-7240. Missoula Art Museum only members are invited, but if you’re one, you’ll get the chance to meet ‘n greet with author and former UM creative writing prof William Kittredge during a reception at 5 PM at the museum, 335 N. Pattee St. Members RSVP by Nov. 10 by calling 728-0447. All genres are encouraged—excepting, perhaps, stoner rock—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. Gypsies come out during Troupe Night class every Thu. at 5:30 PM at the Belly Tent Dance Studio, 2016 Strand Ave. $25/month for every class you can make it to. First class is free, $7 drop-in after. Call Blair at 531-3000.
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After the revolution we’ll need a new Betsy Ross, which is why you should pick up some tips every Thu. at Selvedge Studio, 509 S. Higgins Ave., where their Sewing Lounge begins at 6 PM. $9–10 hour. Call 541-7171. 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. Connect your mind and soul to whatever deity you deem divine during a taize chanting circle with Rev. Jennifer Hackenbruch and Erin Barnes the second and fourth Thu. of the month at 6 PM at 2237 S. Third St. W. Free. Call 370-9631. Teens can blur reality with pencil and paper when UM prof and local artist Edgar Smith leads the Missoula Art Museum’s Teen Open Studio Night with the theme “drawing abstraction” from 6–8 PM at the museum, 335 N. Pattee St. Free. Call 728-0447. Your addiction to snowboard porn gets a quick fix during Edge of the World and KBGA’s premier of Absinthe’s Neverland, as well as Burton’s B Movie, starting at 6 PM at the Wilma Theatre with music provided between films by DJ Fleege. $6 per person at the door or advance at Edge of the World. The screening is also a fundraiser for The Montana Backwoods Project, an org that aims to bring freestyle ski and snowboard terrain to Missoula. John Floridis’’ guitar lights up like Ohio’s Cuyahoga River did in 1969 when he strums folk rock tunes at the Bitterroot Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton, at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-7468. Remove the mental sludge from your brain during a book discussion of Dr. H. Spencer Lewis’ Mental Poisoning at a meeting of the Fellowship Club at 6 PM at the Bitterroot Public Library, 306 State St. in Hamilton. Free. Call 363-1670.
Feeling too straight and separate? Remedy that situation pronto at Gay Men Together, a safe and affirming place for gay and bisexual men, at 7 PM at the Western Montana Gay and Lesbian Community Center, 127 N. Higgins Ave., Ste. 202. Free. Call 543-2224. Learn why noted author and former UM prof William Kittredge thinks the arts are important, and why they lead to moments of fresh insight during the Missoula Art Museum distinguished artist lecture titled “Hard Wired and Fancy Free” at the Missoula Children’s Theatre, 200 N. Adams St., at 7 PM. $5/free members and students with ID. RSVP by calling 728-0447. Get a deeper understanding of how Hollywood has disparaged the Arab world through cinema during a screening of the documentary Reel Bad Arabs at 7 PM at the University Center Theater. Free. Visit peaceandjusticefilms.org. Find out what it’s like to write for a paycheck during the lecture “Put Your Writing to Work” featuring Penny Orwick, a technical writer at Steyer Associates, at 7 PM at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 721-2881. The real hip-hop is over here. The Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., gives you something to pop and lock about every Thu. at 7:20 PM during beginning and intermediate HipHop Class. Call 541-7240 for pricing. See what it’s like to juggle 40 characters while trying to maintain your sanity as a restaurant reservations manager during Montana Rep Missoula’s performance of Becky Mode’s Fully Committed, which starts at 7:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $10, with a $5 student rush at 7 PM. Call 243-4581 or visit www.montanarep.org. (See Spotlight in this issue.) Mannheim Steamroller just might be your parents’ favorite Christmas music, so if mom and dad live in town and they love blasting their ears with synthesized Christmas tunes, take them to “The Christmas Music of Mannheim Steamroller
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by Chip Davis” at 7:30 PM at UM’s Adams Center. $65/$45. Call 243-4051 for tickets or visit griztix.com. Bring yer guitar, bass or other instrument of choice every Thu. night to The Cellars, 5646 W. Harrier, when it holds an open-mic style artists showcase at 8 PM. Free. Interested musicians should Call 541-8463. Bowling and karaoke go together like drinking booze and then voting during Solid Sound Karaoke at Westside Lanes at 8:30 PM. Free. Call 541-SING. Sorry ladies, but Thu. nights belong to the dudes at Men’s Night at The Office Bar, 109 W. Main St. in Hamilton, where the testosterone-fueled karaoke begins at 9 PM. Free. Call 363-6969. Bassackwards Karaoke turns your world underside-up every Thu. at 9 PM at Deano’s Casino on Airway Boulevard. Free. Call 531-8327. Get your fix with Sandy Bradford and Mark Souhrada when they host the jam at Los Caporales in Columbia Falls at 9 PM. Call 892-5025. Join several hundred people and revel in the glory of debauchery when cheap well drinks and laptop-fueled hip-hop, crunk, electronic, pop and mashed-up tunes hit the Badlander every week where Dead Hipster DJ Night gets the booties bumpin’ and the feet stompin’ at 9 PM. $3. Now’s your time to juggle a beat with your feet in a cavernous setting when DJ DC rocks the AmVets Club with hits starting at 9 PM. Free. Even metalheads and rockers have a charitable spirit, so do your part to rock out and help the Watson’s Children Shelter buy a new building during a benefit featuring Salt Lake City’s Royal Bliss, Missouri’s Shaman’s Harvest and locals Universal Choke Sign at the Palace at 9 PM. $5 minimum donation. See a plethora of patterns and colors—after a few pitchers—and muster up the courage to belt
out some prize-winning classics during Kaleidoscope Karaoke every Tue.–Sun. at the Lucky Strike Casino, 1515 Dearborn Ave., at 9:30 PM. Free. Call 721-1798. Dance with a cougar or two, or not, every Thu. at 10 PM when the James Bar, 127 W. Alder St., hosts The Social Club, featuring DJ Fleege spinning an expansive array of tech house and progressive electro dance tunes. Free. Cross your karaoke sword with others under the influence of that music box you sing along to during Combat DJ and Karaoke nights, this and every Thu. at the Press Box, 835 E. Broadway St., at 10 PM. Free. Snack on some tater chips while sweeping yourself into outlaw hillbilly heaven when Hailey, Idaho’s The Damphools Americana up the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA. We just got word on this, but if you haven’t heard yet, you’ll have one more chance to catch the Montana Repertory Theatre’s run of Ron Fitzgerald’s The Poe Project on Tue., Nov. 10, at 7:30 PM at UM’s Masquer Theatre for $8. If you’re unfamiliar with Fitzgerald, he is a writer for the popular Showtime series “Weeds” and most recently scribed narratives for the NBC show “Friday Night Lights.” Essentially, his play creates a scenario where Poe hears voices in his head as he tries to hammer out a detective story. The Montana Rep just got done touring this show, so now it’s time to show them another round of local love. If you’d like to send me some love, in the forms of events listings, I would take up the offer, however, please Send your event info by 5 PM on Fri., Nov. 6, to calendar@missoulanews.com. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to Calendar Playa c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367. You can also submit stuff online. Just head to the arts section of our website and scroll down a few inches and you’ll see a link that says “submit an event.”
If you’re like me, you probably get wary when navigating your bike in the slicker-than-snot terrains of our local roadways once a fresh layer of snow hits the ground. In the end, you probably just learn to deal with it and hope you don’t careen into a stop sign. This week, you can pick up some tips on how to best avoid a potentially hairy wreck on your two-wheeler during the Icicles and Bicycles Celebration, a free winter bike riding celebration from 4:30–7 PM on Friday at Adventure Cycling Association, 150 E. Pine St., where experts share pointers on piloting your bike through the winter months. Mayor John Engen will also be on hand to discuss his “Bike Light Initiative” and local bike shops plan to show off their hottest winter clothing and gear. Also, bring an appetite, as you’ll be able to munch on some food and drinks while taking in the simmering sounds of local bluegrassers Baba Ganoush. Call Beth Petersen at 721-1776 ext. 211. But if you’re situated up in the Flathead, or don’t mind taking a trip up north, you should plan your Friday accordingly. Head to Whitefish to see the Patagonia Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival, an event sponsored by the Flathead/Kootenai Chapter of the Montana Wilderness Association that features films about skiing, urban homesteading and our need for roadless areas. The films start rolling at 7 PM at the O’Shaughnessy Center, 1 Central Ave. in Whitefish, and tickets are $10 at the door or at all Montana Coffee Traders locations, as well as RMO and The White Room. Visit wildmontana.org or e-mail mwafkc@wildmontana.org. If you’re in Missoula, get some rest so you can rise early Saturday to join members of the Five Valleys Audubon Society for a free half-day birding field trip near the Smurfit-Stone Container mill. A similar outing in 2007 reportedly led to sightings of tundra swans, dunlins and other winged creatures. So if you’ve got an urge to see avians, meet at the UM Field House parking lot at 9:30 AM, or alternately meet at the main gate of the mill at 10 AM. Call Larry Weeks at 549-5632 or visit fvamissoula.org.
with a story or two about the rugged waterway during this free Flathead Audubon Society event. Call Paula L. Smith at 837-0181. If surging waters don’t get the hairs on your neck to stand up but massages do, sit tight in your cubicle in Missoula on Monday and then head over to Room 129 in UM’s Skaggs Building from 6:30–9 PM so you can ease your tense muscles during a massage clinic hosted by UM’s Physical Therapy Student Association which runs each night through Thursday. A 20 minute session costs $10 and 40 minutes of bliss costs $18, with all profits benefiting the student org. Appointments are required, so call 243-4753. As your tension subsides on Monday night, kick your chill factor up a notch by soaking up the natural history and ecology of raptor migration in the western United States when Steve Hoffman of the Montana Audubon Society leads a discussion on the topic at 7:30 PM in Room L14 of UM’s Gallagher Business Building. Free. E-mail pmcregan@bresnan.net. Once hump-day hits, engage your mountain climbing senses when those masters of mountaintop ascension, The Rocky Mountaineers, meet at 7 PM at Pipestone Mountaineering, 129 W. Front St. After you’ve pulled up a chair, get ready to hear Jim Wilson talk about his summer trip to the Alps during this free event. Visit rockymountaineers.com. As we round out the week, make sure to end it on a shrubby note when you scuttle yourself over to hear Loren Bahls talk about “Weeds, Relicts, and Endangered Species: Exploring the Little World of Diatoms and a Parallel Universe of Montana Native Plants” at 7:30 PM in Room L09 of UM’s Gallagher Business Building. Photo by Peter Kearns Free. Visit mtnativeplants.org. Also, it’s come to my attention that any and all powder shredLater on, whiz back down to Missoula and stuff your face with pizza for a good cause during a pizza party fundraiser for ders shouldn’t miss out on the Missoula premier of two snowboard Footloose Montana at Biga Pizza, 241 W. Main St., from 5–8 films on Thursday, Neverland and B Movie, at the Wilma Theatre PM. You’ll have to part with $10, but that nabs you as much pizza at 6 PM. The snow-porn fest costs $6, with tickets at the door or as your stomach can handle. All proceeds go to the organization, Edge of the World, and also features DJ Fleege spinning before and a group that aims to educate the public on the dangers of steel- in-between screenings. It’s also a fundraiser for the Montana Backwoods Project, a group of folks who want to create freestyle jawed animal traps. Call 274-7878. As your workweek begins, those in the Flathead should peep an ski and snowboard terrain in Missoula. Visit backwoodsproject.com. I’ve given you a lot this week, so don’t waste anymore time. audio/visual presentation Monday night by outdoor author John Fraley at 7 PM in the Community Room of The Summit, 205 Get out there with haste. Sunnyview Lane in Kalispell. Fraley plans to discuss the Middle Fork of the Flathead River, from its beginnings up to the present, along calendar@missoulanews.com After feeding your birding addiction, spend the rest of Saturday relaxing and then scoot back up to the Flathead on Sunday to watch, or take part in, the 2009 Montana State Cyclocross Championships which start with registration at 9 AM and the first race at 10:30 AM at Herron Park, just west of Kalispell. It’s free to spectate, but $25 to enter the race. If you’re unfamiliar with the sport, think of it as a cross between mountain biking and street riding, except that these cyclists have to navigate a series of obstacles and varying landscapes. Call Steve Muller at 261-9250.
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World view Penélope Baquero introduces the idea of Eco sapien art by Ali Gadbow
Penélope Baquero says she doesn’t think her in creating an alternative lifestyle to the current Haenke’s predictions for Eco sapiens go art is going to change the world, but she hopes it one where people live in their own spaces not beyond a shift of ideals, according to Baquero. might speak to somebody. The Colombian-born necessarily knowing that they share resources.” She recalls his description of scientific advances artist, dancer, educator and mother speaks as By contrast, an intentional community strives that include human uses of chlorophyll to gather humbly about her ambitious goals for herself and to recognize how members share resources and energy from the sun, like plants, and the image her community as she does about her art. how this can be done more sustainably. struck her quite literally. “[Humans] are taking steps to transform the “There are so many people out there who’ve “I started seeing all these pictures of people way we relate to the earth,” says Baquero. “There’s been doing this since the cultural revolutions of with leaves growing out of them and fruits coming not a critical mass yet. There’re not a lot of people the ’60s and ’70s, and now we’re getting better at through their feet, because he described this as a doing it. But we are going in that direction.” it,” she says, “but still it’s hard, especially with new form of the human race where we would be in As a young woman, Baquero left her home in human connections and communication.” complete understanding that we are the Earth, and Colombia and the traditional that we have an intimate relationroad to success to join the ship with Earth,” she says. “That’s Rainbow Peace Caravan, a travhow the seed got planted, and of eling eco-community dedicated course I have informed my expeto spreading the word about rience by living in the ecovillage sustainable ecology through trying to create this work and to performance and art. see myself as somebody who can Baquero had always made manifest this evolution.” sculptures as gifts for friends and At first, as Baquero tried to family, and she was passionate capture her visions on canvas, about dance and performance, the images seemed forced and but she was also realistic. An unrealistic, but she came to artist’s life could be hard. She understand them as tools, or “litwanted to see the world, so she tle ideas for us to visualize ourearned a degree in finance and selves transforming,” she says. international relations. Then, in Baquero thinks of herself as her words, she “decided to go join an urban type. She isn’t disposed the circus—the ecology circus.” to “digging in the dirt,” she says, Life on the traveling caravan but her convictions have driven gave Baquero an opportunity to her to connect more intimately perform as an actress, to explore with the natural world. Wrestling singing and to see the world, with the concept of Eco sapiens is, from Mexico to the ends of South for her, a personal transformation, America. She used her organizaand metamorphoses aren’t easy. tional skills to build relationships “How painful it is!” says between the group and the comBaquero. “Imagine a tree growing munities it visited. She also met out of your body. That is painful. artist and Missoula native Jason And to see yourself as dependent Gutzmer, a founding member of on the Earth, that is difficult, the traveling community, and the because we’re always making two eventually married. decisions that are not Eco sapien.” It wasn’t until Baquero and Though Baquero sees this Gutzmer relocated to Missoula transformation as beautiful, it is that Baquero started thinking Penélope Baquero’s “Tree of Life” is part of her First Friday exhibit at also frightening and difficult. One seriously about visual arts. Bernice’s Bakery. At first, Baquero says, her images seemed forced and unre- painting depicts a sturdy, curvabut she came to understand them as tools for transforming people’s Having an artist for a husband alistic, ceous Tree of Life in the Mexican view of the world. had made her curious about her tradition, hung with delicately own capacities, and Baquero developed this new Sundog’s early successes and growing pains rendered artifacts of daily life, like a folded towel, interest by pursuing a master’s through the informed a theme that began to develop in bicycle and a military tank. Each object cradled in the University of Montana’s Creative Pulse residency Baquero’s mind, a concept of a new kind of branches seems delicate and fragile compared to the program in integrated arts and education. In human being: not Homo sapiens, but Eco sapiens. robust tree. At first the viewer may be tempted to 2006, she had her first solo show. The prefix eco- is derived from the Greek interpret each image: The bicycle is good; the tank is Baquero’s newest project, the Eco sapien oikos, or house. Lately it has come to mean bad. But it becomes difficult to give any object a defseries, had been brewing for a while, and a call for “green” or “environmentally friendly” and refers inite value, and the tree itself overwhelms all. art to hang in Bernice’s Bakery gave her the push generally to the ecology of our planet, our home. “Nature goes beyond judgment of human she needed to start working. Baquero says she did- So this new race isn’t based on thinking (sapiens) action,” says Baquero, “the Earth doesn’t really n’t make the work specifically for the space, “but it’s about itself (homo) but about its environment, its need us.” so exciting to think they’ll be at this particular place home and the planet Earth. But we need the Earth. That may be the first in Missoula because it’s so central to Missoula culThe term was popularized by David Haenke, lesson of becoming Eco sapiens. ture, and I feel so embraced by Missoula.” coordinator of the North American Bioregional Community is important to Baquero and her Congress and one of the founders of a growing Penélope Baquero’s Ecosapien Evolution husband, who are co-founders of the nascent ecological movement that attempts to explore exhibit opens at Bernice’s Bakery Friday, Nov. 6, local “intentional community,” called Sundog humanity’s place in the ecology of the planet with a reception from 5-8 PM. Ecovillage. Baquero explains that an intentional rather than consider “the environment” as somearts@missoulanews.com community “involves people who are interested thing external to civilization.
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Evangelicals
The Evening Descends Dead Oceans
The first thought that comes to mind when I listen to Evangelicals is that they’ve probably listened to a few too many My Morning Jacket records. They have the same reverb heavy, falsetto-ish vocals, with a distant, hollowed-out sound beneath their “shimmering” pop. The record is as much a collection of soundscapes as songs, because they generally stay away from much groove or consistent melody. It just kind of meanders with a wall of
Holiday Shores
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Holiday Shores may be one of the most appropriately named bands in the business. Warmly welcomed at the College Music Journal Festival last month in New York City, the Florida-based group strings together classic surf rock and lo-fi tunes drenched with reverb on their debut full-length album. The sound itself is unrefined, mechanical and even confusing at times. But, remarkably enough, this aspect creates the charm behind Holiday Shores. “Tremor Rolls Down The Peak,” a particularly well-built song, conjures a satisfying amount of echoing guitar riffs with subdued drums and hollowed-out organ chords. Frontman Nathan Pemberton often sits back and lets the instruments take the focus—a smart
Railcars
Cathedral With No Eyes Stumparumper Records
I think Railcars, aka Aria Jalali, just gave me a reason to appreciate poppy synth hooks and even poppier vocals. That’s thanks to the contrasting walls of howling distortion that cake every sound on Cathedral With No Eyes, the newest EP from this Los Angeles-based pop-noise outfit. This is punishing stuff, but it’s certainly not just a noise record. In fact, beneath the overdriven grime on tracks like “Castles” and “Passion of
Devendra Banhart What Will We Be Reprise Records
Expectations seem to be a bigger demon for freak folk flag bearer Devendra Banhart than any other member of the weird beard tribe. Music critics alternately dub the dude the next great Neil Young-inspired songwriter, or a self-righteous mess of creative indecision. Now-defunct Harp magazine once memorably wrote, in apparent praise, that Banhart has “a deeper connection to the cosmos than most of us share.” That sort of lofty crap is exactly what gets in the way of just listening to Banhart. Take What Will We Be, his sixth studio release. It’s fun. It’s catchy. It’s all over the map—musically, lyrically and in overall quality—but that’s exactly what
keyboards, guitar noodlings and samples floating in and out of the mix. I dig the song “Skeleton Man” enough, but I could never muddle through the entire record in one sitting without getting a little buzzed on anxiety. For some reason this kind of ethereal pop makes me nervous. It may be just a little too whimsical for my taste, with too many sound effects and spoken words vying for my attention. Frankly, it makes me want to break something, and not in that warm, cathartic kind of way. I’m always curious to know how bands like this pull off their stuff live. I know MMJ is a lot more “rock” live, and that may be the case for Evangelicals as well. At least I hope so. (Chris La Tray) Evangelicals plays the Palace Saturday, Nov. 7, at 9 PM with Holiday Shores and The Racquet. $5. move considering the album’s likeability actually stems from the quirky crudeness of its instrumental muck and underproduction. My Morning Jacket, The Shins and even the Beach Boys all seem like obvious influences for Holiday Shores. But the finished product of the band’s sound is not too derivative or heavy on one style. Still, Holiday Shores’ approach may be lost in a studio recording. Giving the band a listen at a live show may be the best way to understand and appreciate its dense sound. (Kelsey Bernius) Holiday Shores plays the Palace Saturday, Nov. 7, at 9 PM with Evangelicals and The Racquet. $5. Saint Edmund (Rebirth)” you’ll find danceable electronic beats and washes of guitar that mingle with melodic synth tones, which shift up and down in pitch. At times it sounds like Jalali’s machines are dying a slow, decaying death, only to be resurrected instantaneously. It’s a deliciously odd mixture of aggression and playfulness that manages to work, especially when Jalali’s catchy vocals are added to the mix. You could call this bastardized electronic pop on amphetamines, and it seems perfect for sweaty anarchic dance parties in dank, dimly lit basements. Whatever it is, if you consider yourself a fan of anything put out by American avant-garde purveyors Load Records, and don’t mind excessive fuzz in your musical diet, you’ll dig this EP as much as I do. (Ira Sather-Olson) keeps it interesting. “16th & Valencia, Roxy Music” sounds like disco rock. “A n g e l i k a ” g o e s f o r straight Cat Stevensstyled folk. On “Baby,” Banhart light-heartedly sings of “bow-tied kangaroos,” traveling by “choo choo train” and “giving 80 billion years of giggling a whole new world to live in.” Is What Will We Be groundbreaking or epic? Hardly. It’s silly and airy and indecipherable at its best. When Banhart misses—“Rats” is some sort of schizophrenic Led Zeppelin rip-off—he fails miserably, but then skips along to whatever’s next. For better or worse, that’s exactly what makes him—and this album—worth a listen. (Skylar Browning)
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Modern myth UM’s Eurydice delivers stunning imagery by Erika Fredrickson
Greek mythology doesn’t seem grounded enough in our modern world for us to completely identify with it. The stories play out like any fable or parable, populated with actual characters but meant for moral lesson. It’s not that they’re boring, they just don’t seem like our stories. E. Annie Proulx or Don DeLillo might be better picks to accurately express our modern mythology. But the themes of Greek myth–humility, patience, respect—stand the test of time. They have a stripped down clarity you don’t get with the postmodernism of DeLillo. Simple is best. And so it takes a deft vision to recraft a Greek myth in a modern setting without seeming heavy
wedding, is lured by a stranger to his condo after he promises to give her a letter from her dead father. When she falls to her death, she reunites with her father in the Underworld. This is where Ruhl roots the script—it’s less about Orpheus and more about the relationship between father and daughter; she actually wrote the play for her dead father. Lodge’s Eurydice is light on her feet and merry, curious with a lilting laugh. In the beginning, when Eurydice is still alive and talking with Orpheus about books and love and music, it’s hard to care about her fate. At that point, she seems like an affected movie star, romantic in a melodramatic way. But after Eurydice dies, Lodge’s portrayal turns exquisite. In the Underworld she’s been dipped in water (presumably the Water of Oblivion from Greek mythology) to make her forget language and who she is. At first she thinks her father is a bellboy and she’s in a hotel. She asks for a room. She cries and laughs. She thinks her father is a tree to sit under. She stands on top of a letter to read it because she doesn’t understand literally how to read anymore. The other actors take advantage of fun roles. Zach Thiessen as the Lord of the Photo by Anne Medley Underworld is easily likable with his wacky Shanna E. Lodge stars in the title role of the UM costumes, props and smartass lines. The “choTheatre & Dance program’s production of Eurydice. rus of stones,” played by three actors in wild disco-styled tights, provide dynamic banter as handed. Playwright Sarah Ruhl (Dead Man’s Cell the Underworld’s Greek chorus that tries to Phone) does a magnificent job in doing this with browbeat Eurydice and her father into forgetting her play Eurydice. language. And Daniel Haley’s Orpheus comes In the original version, Orpheus, a musician, mar- across with believable earnestness. ries an Oak nymph, Eurydice, who is killed by a poiBut it’s Eric D. Hersh as the father and Lodge who sonous snake and taken to the Underworld. Orpheus make Eurydice breathtaking. In one scene, Hersh gets permission to take Eurydice back to the land of carefully builds a room out of string for Eurydice. It’s the living with him as long as, during their journey an incredibly intense moment, heightened by the home, he never looks back at her. But, of course, he play’s soundtrack of melancholy orchestral music. He can’t help himself, looks back and she vanishes. teaches her the meaning of words and together they Ruhl is surprisingly literal with her approach swap memories. In scenes that could easily come off to the story. I’d expect a contemporary version to as saccharine and cheesy, Hersh and Lodge interact in subvert the Underworld to complete metaphor, such a genuine manner, with such nuanced persistbut Ruhl refrains. In her version, too, Orpheus ence against the despair of their characters’ situation marries Eurydice, she dies (from falling down that you can’t help but be moved by it. I’m not a crier stairs rather than a snake bite) and ends up in a and I couldn’t stop welling up with tears. It’s not that very literal Underworld. What makes the play dif- it’s a sad play; it’s haunting. It’s like the ache of nosferent is in how Ruhl reimagines the Underworld. talgia. The whole play feels like the fleeting moment New arrivals come by elevator. The Lord of the from a dream in which you’re talking to dead loved Underworld wears sunglasses and ’80s-styled ones, where language is malleable. clothes. What happens down there is topsy-turvy, Sarah Ruhl’s taken the larger-than-life, weighty often nonsensical, but within a modern context. themes that mythology uses and created an intiThe University of Montana’s production of mate story. Played differently, the characters could Eurydice, directed by Ezra LeBank, takes full advan- be cardboard, delivering lines about the ideas of tage of Ruhl’s beautifully scripted story. The stage language and death, but not delivering the viscerevokes aquatic imagery with a small pool of water, al blow of those things. This production fulfills the platforms that look like pooled raindrops and an lyrical story with devastating poignancy. elevator in which it’s always raining when the door opens. The set, designed by Mike Monsos, depicts Eurydice continues at the Masquer Theatre exactly what it needs to but nothing more specific in UM’s PARTV Center Thursday, Nov. 5, through than what’s listed in the program: “Place: The Saturday, Nov. 7, at 7:30 PM nightly. $14/$12 World and the Underworld. Time: now and then.” seniors and students/$8 children 12 and under. Shanna E. Lodge pulls off a nimble performance efredrickson@missoulanews.com as Eurydice, a bookworm who, on the night of her
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When I found out that the two new releases I and with the art of bringing them together. Using might get to see this weekend were Kenny primarily his voice and his body—hands, shoulOrtega’s “documentary” on Michael Jackson and ders, legs—he is able to communicate to Beardon Mira Nair’s biopic on Amelia Earhart my initial that he wants the music to slow down. response went something like this: I’d rather have “Drag it a bit. . . . like you’re dragging yourself my brains scooped out of my cracked-open skull out of bed,” Jackson tells Beardon. But, it isn’t in by a zombie in possession of a red, long-handled words that Jackson is really able to say what he Dairy Queen sundae spoon than see either of wants. He schools Beardon in song and dance. these two pics. Maybe even a zombie from the After the extended dialogue in music and body “Thriller” video. Seriously. the two have regarding the pacing of “The Way The two screen scenarios involving the “King You Make Me Feel,” Beardon says to Jackson of Pop” and “Lady Lindy” each reanimated in what looked like uncomplicated and sentimentalized cinematic celebrations of the celebrity dead seemed only to promise two hours of tedium spent sitting in a comfortable chair in a nice dark room. And both films seemed ironically appropriate viewing for the Halloween weekend—both a species of zombie exploitation flicks. Films in which dead “stars” are brought back to life to stumble around for the benefit of the audience are not exactly my cup of tea, or my bowl of brains, for that matter. The choice between zombie number one (the guy with the glove), or undead corpse number two (the one wearing the soignée bomber jacket) was not a great one as far as I was concerned. Always pointing fingers. I rather glumly set off to have my brains consumed at the 4:20 Carmike 10 Friday matinee “Can’t nobody hear what you hear.” Jackson’s showing of Michael Jackson’s This Is It. response is telling: “I want it the way the audiI was way off the mark. The film was decided- ence hears it.” ly not the graveyard that I, never an MJ fan, The concert was constructed around expected. Quite the contrary. The film is not well Jackson’s catalogue of hits, primarily those that constructed—it seems almost asleep or uncon- come out of the transformative, hit-generating, scious in its form—but Jackson lives in the full- award-winning 1982 album Thriller. “Beat It,” ness of his artistic power in it. “Billie Jean,” “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’,” and Don’t look for This Is It to do anything to “Thriller” are all represented in the film, as are match or even appropriately frame what Jackson, some new numbers: “This Is It,” for instance. with all his visual and musical genius, was capable Videos made specifically to accompany the conof producing. What the film does do, however, is cert performance are included along with footage document the power of Jackson the artist. of the concert rehearsals. A reach back to the days Despite its awkward, shambling, ham-handed of the Jackson Five, with a medley of songs melodramatic cinematic “style,” the film follows including “The Love You Save,” and “I’ll Be and records Michael Jackson preparing for a There” is particularly satisfying, accompanied as it world tour—and he’s not the creature of the is by montage shots of the group and Diana Ross deadening narratives of tabloid journalism and grooving to what is still badass Motown magic. American celebrity culture. There is pleasure for Jackson’s fans, really There is some of the otherworldliness, the for any viewer of this film, to be had in seeing sheer strangeness of the man on display here—his the new “videos” of the old hits, but to watch constant and often unmotivated invocation of the Jackson build a performance is truly astoundprinciple of “the love” is a marker of the curious, ing. This film, as flawed in some ways as its inexplicable way in which Jackson lived his per- star—albeit in different terms—does the work of sonal life. But never mind all that distracting documenting a socially significant artist still noise. It’s the music and the fluid glide of his honing his craft and re-creating musical and dancing that really matters. Jackson performs performance art in the pop music genre he with an extraordinary skill and craft that leaves once dominated. absolutely no doubt about the validity of his I’m still not an MJ fan, but I get it now. supernova status. When Jackson begins to rehearse “The Way Michael Jackson’s This Is It continues at You Make Me Feel” with his musical director, the Carmike 10 and Village 6. Michael Beardon, Jackson demonstrates his arts@missoulanews.com uncanny virtuosity with sound and movement
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OPENING THIS WEEK THE BOX Donny Darko’s director makes Cameron Diaz decide between quick cash or the death of a stranger, thanks to a box-toting weirdo. Carmike 10: 4:20, 7 and 9:35 with additional Fri.–Sun. shows at 1:30. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:50, 3:40, 6:50 and 9:30; midnight Fri.–Sat. and Mon.–Thu. at 1:05, 3:40, 6:50 and 9:30.
Kalispell: Fri.–Thu. at 1:10, 4:10, 7:05 and 9:35 and midnight on Fri.–Sat. ASTRO BOY A robotic boy vicariously learns what it’s like to be human and aims to save his homeboys from danger in this 3-D animated movie. Carmike 10: 4 with additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1. Stadium 14 in Kalispell:
LAW ABIDING CITIZEN Jamie Foxx is a crooked attorney who runs into trouble when a vengeful Gerard Butler appears to settle some scores. Carmike 10: 4:35, 7:20 and 10 with additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:20. Phraohplex in Hamilton: 7 and 9 with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Thu. at 1:15, 4:05, 6:40 and 9:15 and
SAW VI The dirty work of Jigsaw continues through the hands of a corrupt detective in yet another installment of this ceaseless series. Carmike 10: 7 and 9:40. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 7:10 and 9:25 and midnight on Fri.–Sat. and Mon.–Thu. at 7:10 and 9:20.
COCO BEFORE CHANEL Audrey Tautou plays the famous French fashionista Coco Chanel in this biopic that traces her leap to the lap of luxury. Wilma Theatre: 7 and 9 with no 9 show on Wed. and Sun. matinees at 1 and 3. DISNEY’S A CHRISTMAS CAROL Jim Carey begs for laughs as the curmudgeonly Ebenezer Scrooge in this 3-D remake of the Charles Dickens’ classic. Carmike 10: 5:10, 5:40, 7:30, 8, 9:50 and 10:20 on Fri.–Sat with additional Fri.–Sun. shows at 12:30, 1, 2:50 and 3:20. Village 6 in 2-D: 7:30 and 9:50 with additional Sat.–Sun. shows at 12:30, 2:50 and 5:35. Pharaoplex in Hamilton: 7 and 9 with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun at noon, 12:40, 2:20, 3, 4:40, 5:20, 7, 7:40, 9:20 and 10; midnight Fri.–Sat. and Mon.–Thu. at 1, 2, 3:30, 4:30, 6, 7, 8:30 and 9:30. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4, 7 and 9:15 with additional Sat.–Sun. show at 1:30. Showboat Cinema in Polson: 4:15, 7:15 and 9:15. THE FOURTH KIND A psychologist prods the minds of people in a small Alaskan town to see if they were probed by aliens. Village 6: 7:10 and 9:40 with additional Sat.–Sun. shows at 1:45 and 4:35. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:05, 2:25, 4:50, 7:20 and 9:40; midnight on Fri.–Sat. and Mon.–Thu. at 1:25, 4:10, 7:20 and 9:40. THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS Ewan McGregor is a reporter aiming to get the lowdown on the U.S. Army’s plans to end war and kill goats using ESP. Carmike 10: 5:35, 7:45 and 9:55 with additional Fri.–Sat. shows at 1:15 and 3:25. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 7 and 9 with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:20, 2:40, 5, 7:25 and 9:40; midnight on Fri.–Sat. and Mon.–Thu. at 1:20, 4:05, 7:10 and 9:25. MORE THAN A GAME Five b-ball players, including NBA star LeBron James, ascend the hard knocks of life through games of hoops. Wilma Theatre: 7 and 9, with no 7 show on Wed. and Thu., and Sun. matinees at 1 and 3.
NOW SHOWING AMELIA Hilary Swank jumps into the cockpit as Amelia Earhart in this exploration of the famed flying feminist’s aerial adventures and subsequent disappearance. Stadium 14 in
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“Nobody puts baby in the corner.” The Men Who Stare At Goats opens Friday at the Carmike 10.
Fri.–Sun. at 12:05, 2:20 and 4:35 and Mon.–Thu. at 1:35 and 4:20. CIRQUE DU FREAK: THE VAMPIRE’S ASSISTANT A teen sheds suburban innocence in order to join a clan of bloodsucking miscreants and ends up breaking a vampire cease fire. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Thu. at 1:20, 4, 6:55 and 9:25 and midnight on Fri.–Sat. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4:15, 7:15 and 9:30 with additional Sat.–Sun. show at 1:45. COUPLES RETREAT Vince Vaughn and Jason Bateman travel to an island resort with their wives, only to learn that an excruciating couples therapy sesh is mandatory in order to live it up. Carmike 10: 4, 7:15 and 9:50 with additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 6:50 and 9:10 PM with Sat.–Sun. matinee at 3 and no 9:10 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:55, 3:55, 6:45 and 9:20; midnight on Fri.–Sat. and Mon.–Thu. at 1, 3:55, 6:45 and 9:20. INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS Brad Pitt aims to kick some serious Nazi ass with his Jewish war buddies in this latest offering from Quentin Tarantino. Village 6 in 35mm: 7:20 and 10:30 with additional Sat.–Sun. shows at 1 and 4:10.
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midnight on Fri.–Sat. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4:15, 7:15 and 9:30 with Sat.–Sun. show at 1:45. MICHAEL JACKSON’S THIS IS IT Watch Jacko’s last stage performances, plus behind-the-scenes footage, in this documentary that chronicles the eccentric pop icon’s final tour. Carmike 10: 4:20, 7 and 9:40 with additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:45. Village 6: 7 and 9:40 with additional Sat.–Sun. shows at 1:45 and 4:20. Pharoahplex in Hamilton: 6:50 and 9:10 with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9:10 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Thu. at 1, 3:50, 7, 9:35 and midnight Fri.–Sat. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4, 7 and 9:15 with additional Sat.–Sun. show at 1:30. Entertainer in Ronan: 4, 7 and 9:15. PARANORMAL ACTIVITY A couple that moves into a new pad cramps the style of a spectral being and has to endure its hellish wrath. Carmike 10: 4, 7 and 9:45 with additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 7 and 9 with additional Sat.–Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:10, 2:35, 4:55, 7:15 and 9:25; midnight on Fri.–Sat. and Mon.–Thu. at 1:55, 4:25, 7:15 and 9:25. Showboat Cinema in Polson: 4, 7 and 9.
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers team up for a stunning spectacle that follows Max on his quest to hang out with freakish ogres. Carmike 10: 4:10, 7 and 9:35 with additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:30. Village 6: 7 and 9:35 with additional Sat.–Sun. shows at 1:30 and 4:10. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Thu. at 1:15, 3:45, 6:45 and 9:20 and midnight Fri.–Sat. ZOMBIELAND Woody Harrelson plays a gun-toting, redneck southerner who takes pleasure in seeing zombie guts splatter on walls. Village 6: 7:40 and 9:50 with additional Sat.–Sun shows at 1:10, 3:20 and 5:30. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:15, 2:15, 4:45, 7:20 and 9:45 and midnight on Fri.–Sat. and Mon.–Thu. at 1:45, 4:15, 7:20 and 9:30. Moviegoers be warned! Show times are good as of Fri., Nov. 6. 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: C a r m i k e 10 / V i l l a g e 6 – 5 41- 74 6 9 ; Wi l m a – 728 - 2521 ; P h a r a o h p l e x i n H a m i l t o n – 9 61- F I L M ; R ox y Tw i n i n H a m i l t o n – 36 3 - 5141 . S t a d i u m 14 i n Kalispell–752-7804. Showboat in Polson, Entertainer in Ronan and Mountain in Whitefish–862-3130.
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FOR BETTER OR MUCH, MUCH BETTER I’m 39, and married four years to a woman I dated for two. She’s the mother of my two stepchildren, 13 and 16. The problem is, I may be in love with a girl from high school, the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen. I’ve always felt she was the one I was meant to be with. She was popular, and, well, I was not. Still, I can’t honestly say that if I’d asked her out, she’d have said no. I wrote her love letters and sent roses on her birthday, which she called to thank me for. Over the years, I haven’t stopped thinking about her, and dream about her frequently. At my high school reunion, I heard she’s single. She’s my Facebook friend, and I wanted to say hi, but she’s never on. Yesterday, my dream about her was so emotional that I nearly woke up in tears. I love my wife, but she’s more like my best friend. Should I let this affect my marriage? Could I, should I, pursue the woman of my dreams? —Pining You’re seriously wondering whether you should let this “affect” your marriage? Right. “Hey, Honey, it’s been real, but I heard from this drunk guy at my reunion that my high school crush is single and hot as ever. No, no…I haven’t slept with her. Or seen her. Or spoken with her for 20 years. But, I friended her on Facebook, and I just can’t keep denying she’s my soul mate after learning she ‘had a great workout and is headed out for some yummies and cocktails!!!’” You aren’t in love with her; you’re in love with being the kind of guy who gets a girl like her. You’ll do anything to pretend this could be a reality, like telling yourself you can’t honestly say the hot popular girl wouldn’t have gone out with you, if only you’d asked. Sure. Just as you can’t honestly say your dog won’t wake up tomorrow and speak Greek, or that you won’t win enough in the lottery this weekend to be able to buy Cuba. Boohoo, are you not completely fulfilled? I’m reminded of a woman—the mother of four young children—who read Eat, Pray, Love and informed her husband that she, too, needed to “find herself” (translation: travel to Italy and find herself a hot young Latin lover). Um, wrong. What Married Mommylady needs to find is a better preschool for her 3year-old. Sorry, but once you have kids, by birth or by marriage, you can’t just jump ship because you spotted some-
thing glittery in the water. Of course Crushgirl’s more appealing than your wife—or any real woman. As a creation of your as-of-yet unmatriculated high school imagination, she never gets her period or PMS. She never wants you to turn off the game or stop bugging her for sex or take out the garbage or shut the hell up already. And, yoohoo, remember those vows you took? I’m guessing they weren’t “Do you take this placeholder until the girl you really love Facebooks you back?” This is the life you’ve chosen, and you can keep clocking out of it or take pride in making it the best you can. Whenever you feel like taking a toke off the high school hottie pipe, go find your wife, brush a little piece of hair from her face, and tell her she’s beautiful and how much she means to you. Try that on your crush, and you’re effectively confessing, “For 23 years, I’ve been stalking you in my head.” But, hey, with any luck, you can get your divorce decree on the same day as the restraining order.
TYING THE NOT For two years, I wanted to marry the woman I was dating. She wants to be married but said she’d never have strong enough feelings for me. I guess I assumed she’d never “waste” years with me unless she secretly thought I might be Mr. Right. —Frustrated If you say to a woman, “I wonder what our kids will look like,” it’s kind of a bad sign if she says, “Yeah, me too, and if your kids will end up playing with my kids.” Unlike all the people who string romantic partners along, this woman did right by you—giving you the gift of no hope. As for her “wasting” time, maybe she wants to marry but is content for now with the extended-stay one-night stand. When somebody tells you you’ll never get what you want, you have a choice: stick around and continue never getting it, or make tracks and seek it somewhere else. Sometimes, leaving can help your partner see a gaping hole in their life (and here’s hoping it isn’t because you tripped on the power cord to their media center when you stormed out).
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Humane Society Volunteer Orientation Do you love animals and have a few hours to help improve the lives of homeless pets? If so, come to the Humane Society of NW Montana Volunteer Orientation meeting on Thursday, November 12, at 6pm. Volunteers assist in animal care, community education, reception area/ client relations, foster care, fundraising, mobile adoptions, dog walking, and many other capacities. For more information, please call 752-PAWS (7297). The Humane Society Animal Adoption Center is located at 3499 Hwy 93 N in Kalispell.
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——MISSOULA’S ART GYM —Shadow Mountain Art Studio - Missoula’s Art Gym “Come exercise your creative self!” Drawing & Painting Classes for Children & Adults. North Reserve Business Center - 2825 Stockyard Rd., A10 Questions? call 239-4460 Turn off your PC & turn on your life! Guitar, banjo, mandolin, and bass lessons. Rentals available. Bennett’s Music Studio 721-0190 BennettsMusicStudio.com
EMPLOYMENT GENERAL ASSISTANT BOOKKEEPER / DISPATCHER, P/T, Msla. Part time Assistant Bookkeeper/Dispatcher needed for local business. Requires a minimum of 1 year experience in an office environment & strong math & business English skills. Will work Monday - Friday, noon to 5 p.m. for 20-30 hours per week, with up to 2 weeks of full time training. Pay starts at $9/hr with raise to $10/hr upon proven ability, some health insurance offered. #2976527 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 ! BARTENDING ! $300-Day potential, no experience necessary, training provided. 1-800-9656520 ext. 278 CENSUS CREW LEADER, P/T Temporary, Msla. US Census Bureau is seeking Census Crew Leaders to assist with taking the 2010 US Census starting in Spring 2010. Work should commence in January and continue for 8 or more weeks. Wage varies from $11.34 to $13.61/hr depending on location plus $.55/mile. Census practice tests are available on line at www.2010.census.gov/2010censusjobs A hard copy test is also available at the Missoula Job Service Front Desk. Estimated hours range from 20 to 60 hours/month. Full background checks are required. Testing is starting for this position. #2976545 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 CENSUS TAKER, P/T Temporary, Msla. US Census Bureau is seeking Census Takers to assist with taking the 2010 US Census starting in Spring 2010. Recruiting is starting now to allow interested seekers to have their applications submitted ASAP. Work should commence in January and continue for 8 or
more weeks. Wage varies from $11.34 to $13.61/hr depending on location plus $.55/mile. Census practice tests are available on line at www.2010.census.gov/2010censusjobs A hard copy test is also available at the Missoula Job Service Front Desk. Estimated hours range from 20 to 60 hours/month. Full background checks are required. Testing is starting for this position. #2976543 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 CHILDCARE AIDE, F/T & P/T, Msla. A Missoula day care is seeking an experienced (1) full-time and (1) part-time CHILDCARE AIDE. Employer is firm on experience. Must have at least a year verifiable experience caring for infants and children in a child care facility. NO EXCEPTIONS. Hours per week will vary and will be discussed during interview. Part time will work 20 or more hours per week, full time will be 32-40 hours per week. Pay is $7.25 to start until all paperwork is completed and turned in. #2976544 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE, F/T, Msla. Employer is seeking full-time Customer Service Representatives for inbound calls only for Missoula company. Pay range is from $10/hr to $12.50/hr with shift and previous experience considered. Also have opportunity to make additional pay for bonuses and incentives. Must be willing to work all shifts, weekends, holidays, and overtime as needed. #2976536 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 FRONT HOUSE SUPERVISOR, F/T, Msla. A busy Union Truck Stop is seeking a fulltime Front House Supervisor. No experience necessary as employer is willing to train. This is a drug-free workplace and requires a pre-employment drug screening. Will be working various shifts
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including nights and weekends. Rate of pay will be depending on experience and will include tips. #2976540 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 HVAC SERVICE TECH AND MAINTENANCE, F/T, Msla. HVAC business is seeking a HVAC Service Tech/maintenance worker with at least 2 years experience. Will be responsible for service, cleaning and diagnosis. Must know service and maintenance end of business. Need to have sheet metal experience. Requires valid driver’s license and good driving record. Must be able to lift and move 100 lbs. Will need own service hand tools. Says he does not need installers. 24 hour a day company. Might have to work on-call. Will work Monday - Friday, day shift. Pay is $10 an hour plus, DOE. #2976521 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 Mystery Shoppers earn up to $150 Day. Undercover shoppers needed to judge retail and dining establishments. Experience not required. Call 877-3081186
PRODUCTION LABORERS, F/T, Temporary, Msla. Are you looking for steady work? PRODUCTION & MANUFACTURING LABORERS needed for a busy and growing local company. Position is full-time with potential for permanent placement, in a demanding and rewarding environment. Pay is $9.50 per hour with potential for overtime. Position is in Lolo. MUST have own reliable transportation and be available to work swing shift. Must be able to pass a Background Check and Drug Screen. No felonies. Must be able to pass a Math Test administered by Nelson Personnel. #2976528 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 RV DELIVERY DRIVERS NEEDED. Deliver RVs, boats, and trucks for PAY! Deliver to all 48 states and Canada. For details log onto www.RVdeliveryjobs.com STATE OF MONTANA POSITIONS, FT & PT, Various locations throughout Montana: Want to serve Montana citizens? Positions are available for locations throughout the state. Access the state job listings at: http://mt.gov/statejobs/statejobs.asp
BASIN ELECTRIC JOB OPENINGS Basin Electric, a consumer-owned regional cooperative headquartered in Bismarck, North Dakota has the following openings at the Dry Fork Station located in Gillette, WY. • Mechanical Technician I (2 positions). . . . . . . . . . Closing Date November 17, 2009 • Mechanical Technician II (4 positions). . . . . . . . . . Closing Date November 17, 2009 • Lead Mechanic (1 position). . . . . . . . . . . Closing Date November 17, 2009 • Electrical and Instrument I (2 positions). . . . . . . . . . Closing Date November 17, 2009 • Electrical and Instrument II (3 positions). . . . . . . . . . Closing Date November 17, 2009 • Lead Electrical and Instrument (1 position). . . . . . . . . . . Closing Date November 17, 2009 • Assistant Station Operator (3 positions). . . . . . . . . . Closing Date November 18, 2009 • Operator (3 positions). . . . . . . . . . Closing Date November 18, 2009 • Station Operator (3 positions). . . . . . . . . . Closing Date November 18, 2009 • Lead Station Operator (3 positions). . . . . . . . . . Closing Date November 18, 2009 • Lead Laboratory Technician (1 position). . . . . . . . . . . Closing Date November 18, 2009 Qualifications for each of these positions are listed on our website www.basinelectric.com. Click on “Jobs”. If you are interested in any of the above positions, please complete the profile and application process at the above website. If you have questions pertaining to any of these positions please call (701)557-5484 or email dmeyhoff@bepc.com EXCELLENT SALARY AND BENEFIT PACKAGE. Basin Electric Power Cooperative 1717 East Interstate Avenue, Bismarck, ND 58503 An Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V
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EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING COORDINATOR, F/T, Msla. EMPLOYMENT & TRAINING COORDINATOR needed to coordinate a training and employment program for about 75 older workers in 5 Montana counties, including Missoula, Ravalli, Granite, Deer Lodge, and Silver Bow. Competitive salary, excellent benefits. Benefits include health coverage, retirement plan, flexible spending accounts, sick leave, holidays, vacation pay, and life insurance. #2976538 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060
SOCIAL WORKER, P/T, Msla. Missoula skilled nursing facility is seeking a part time Social Worker to coordinate appropriate social services for residents. Employer prefers bachelor’s degree in Social Work or related field and 2 years experience in long-term care or applicable experience. Must be empathetic; have attention to detail; respectful of residents, staff and management; and able to work successfully for positive outcomes. Schedule to be discussed at interview, will work about 24 hours per week. Pay is $10 to $14/hour depending on experience, includes benefits: Health, Dental, Vision insurance; 401K; vacation and sick leave. #2976519 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 TECH SUPPORT/ DOCUMENTATION/SOFTWARE TEST, F/T, Msla. Full-time TECH SUPPORT/TECHNICAL D O C U M E N TAT I O N / S O F T WA R E TESTER needed for Missoula employer.
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SKILLED LABOR ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF MAINTENANCE, F/T, Msla. A Missoula aviation company is seeking a full time Assistant Director of Maintenance/Chief Inspector. MUST have previous FAR-145 experience and prior aviation management experience. Work week will be M-F from 8:00 AM TO 5:00 PM. Rate of pay will depend on experience. #2976520 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 LOCKSMITH, F/T, Msla. Employer is seeking a full time experienced Locksmith. Must have at least 1 to 2 years experience as a locksmith OR successfully completed Locksmith training. NO EXCEPTIONS. Base pay will be between $10.00-15.00 an hour DOE plus bonuses. Paid vacation, holidays and retirement plan available. Overtime possible. #2976541 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 OWNER OPERATORS: Your hard work, along with our great rates, miles and dispatch = Success. Montana based refrigerated carrier. Call 406-266-4210 TRUCK DRIVER TRAINING. Complete programs and refresher courses, rent equipment for CDL. Job Placement Assistance. Financial assistance for qualified students. SAGE Technical Services, Billings/Missoula, 1-800-545-4546
TRAINING/ INSTRUCTION PRE-SCHOOL TEACHER, F/T & P/T, Msla. A Missoula Montessori school is seeking a part to full time PRESCHOOL TEACHER. Some early childhood education and Montessori experience is preferred. Will work closely with staff to provide education and activities to children aged 2 to 5 in a positive, upbeat manner. Must have at least a High School diploma and proof of immunizations upon employment: MMR, tetanus, DPT. Background check will be conducted. Work 30 to 40 hour, Monday-Friday. Schedule may vary and will be discussed in interview. Pay starts at $9/hour and can negotiate reduced childcare costs. #2976525 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 PRIMROSE MONTESSORI: Assistant position available serving preschool children aged 3-5. Call Nancy 728-7383
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ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF THEATRE, F/T, Msla. The University of Montana College of Visual and Performing Arts is seeking a full time Assistant Professor of Costume, Technology & Design. Will be teaching 3-4 courses per semester in the areas of stagecraft, all levels of costume construction and manipulation, costume technology, costume design and may include other courses depending on candidate’s qualifications. Will also serve as costume designer or cutter & draper for 2-3 productions per year. This is a fulltime, tenure-track year position beginning fall semester 2010. The starting pay will be $43,000-$45,000/year. Screening will begin 12/01/09; applications are accepted until position is filled. #2976524 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060
MISDEMEANOR SUPERVISION OFFICER, F/T, Msla. Seeking a full-time MISDEMEANOR SUPERVISION OFFICER. Requires a bachelor degree or equivalent. The successful applicants must obtain a First Aid/CPR Card and attend the State Probation and Parole Basic Academy. Requires a valid driver’s license. The work schedule is Monday 8AM to 4PM and Tuesday thru Friday from 10AM to 6PM. Pay starts at $13/hour and increases to $15.72 after successful completion of probationary period. #2976533 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060
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Montana Headwall is seeking an experienced, aggressive, professional sales representative to help grow our recently launched quarterly magazine. Headwall captures the best of Big Sky country and its spectacular abundance of outdoor activities. Packed with adventure and loads of fun, each issue of Headwall appeals to active, energetic recreation enthusiasts throughout Montana and the Pacific Northwest. You can check out our most recent issue at montanaheadwall.com. Montana Headwall has a growing circulation, currently at 15,000, and is distributed at more than 400 locations in Montana, Washington, Oregon, Idaho and California. We're looking for a part-time commission-based advertising sales specialist who is self-motivated, organized and well connected in the outdoor community. If you have three or more years’ experience in print media sales, are an account prospecting superstar, and motivated by commission sales, then we want to talk to you! This is an independent contractor position – work from your own home!
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FARMERS UNION OIL of Rugby, ND, is seeking a qualified CEO/General Manager. A full service retail energy, agronomy, and farm supply cooperative with sales of $45 Million and three branch locations. A strong background in finance, communication, and personnel management is desired. Send or fax (701-223-9078) resume to: Larry Fuller, 5213 Shoal Drive, Bismarck, ND 58503, larry.fuller@chsinc.com
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): A whitewash happens when you use deceit to cover up the messy facts about a situation. A blackwash is just the opposite: It’s when you invoke candor as you reveal complications that have previously been veiled. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, the coming weeks will be prime time to enjoy a jubilee of blackwashing. But I suggest that you proceed gently. Remember that not all hidden information is a sign of malfeasance or evil intentions. Sometimes the truth is so paradoxical and nuanced, it’s hard to get it completely out in the open all at once. And sometimes people are motivated to keep things secret mostly because they’re afraid to cause pain. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Dear Rob: I’ve read horoscope columns written by many astrologers, and yours is the only one that’s not prejudiced against at least one of the signs. You really do treat everyone equally. You play no favorites. But that’s exactly the bone I have to pick with you. I’m wondering if you’ve got a passion deficiency or something. It seems abnormal not to display a hint of bias now and then. -Suspicious Taurus.” Dear Suspicious: My own birth chart includes elements of both Taurus and Libra. The Taurus part of me has strong feelings and deep passions, while the Libra part of me is fair-minded and well-balanced. They’ve worked out a synergistic arrangement that allows me to maintain my equilibrium as I feed my intensity. I recommend this approach to you right now. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Personally, I’ve never been very smart about making investments. At least in that area of my life, my intuition seems to work in reverse. I often do the precisely wrong thing at the wrong time. Billionaire businessman George Soros, on the other hand, is a genius. When facing a decision about which way to go financially, he says he becomes a jungle animal guided by actual sensations in his body. You Geminis have arrived at a phase when your choices could have long-term effects on your relationship with money. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you’ve got the potential to be like Soros rather than me. Trust your instincts.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): This will be a smooth, easy, and graceful week for you — if, that is, you get yourself out of the way and allow the universe to do its job. Can you do that? It doesn’t mean you should be passive or blank. On the contrary, in order for the cosmos to perform its magic, you should be on the lookout for what captivates your imagination and be primed to jump when life says “jump!” Be both relaxed and alert; receptive and excitable; surrendered to the truth and in intimate contact with your primal power. Then the song will sing itself. The dream will interpret itself. The beauty will reveal itself.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Everything that emancipates the spirit without giving us control over ourselves is harmful,” said Goethe. Luckily, Virgo, you’re in the midst of a process that may emancipate your spirit and give you more control over yourself. Here are two ways you could cash in on this potential: 1. Brainstorm about a big dream even as you attend to the gritty details of making the dream a reality. 2. Expand your imagination about your tricky situation even as you burn away the illusions you have about your tricky situation.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Have you heard about the new sport of chess boxing? Two competitors play chess for four minutes, then put on boxing gloves and try to punch each other for three minutes; they continue this rhythm for up to 11 rounds. I suspect you’ll soon be asked to meet a similar challenge, going back and forth between two contrasting modes. If you treat this challenge as a fun game rather than a crazy-making exertion, you’ll do fine.
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): A 13-year-old girl shocked everyone by winning a plowing contest in England. Driving a 12,000-pound tractor and pulling a five-furrow plow, Elly Deacon did a better job than all of the middle-aged male farmers she was competing against. What’s more remarkable is that she was a newcomer, having had less than a week’s experience in the fine art of tilling the soil with a giant machine. She’s your role model for the coming week, Scorpio. Like her, you have the potential to perform wonders, even if you’re a rookie, as you prepare a circumscribed area for future growth.
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I hope that by now you have finished scrabbling along on your hands and knees over burning hot shards of broken glass. The next and hopefully final phase of your redemptive quest should be less torturous. In this upcoming chapter, the operative metaphor might be assembling a jigsaw puzzle with 200 pieces, all of which are red. Amazingly enough, you actually have it in you to accomplish this improbable feat—as long as you don’t spread out the puzzle pieces all over the burning hot shards of broken glass. Find a nice, clean, quiet place to do your work.
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): According to psychologist Carl Jung, one of the most potent influences that our parents have on us is their unlived lives. Whatever dreams they didn’t pursue, whatever longings they didn’t fulfill, are likely to worm their way into our core, often without our conscious awareness. There they get mixed up with our own dreams and longings, causing us confusion about what we really want. The coming weeks will be a good time for you to get clear about this. You’ll have the power to untangle your own deepest, truest desires from the muffled wishes your mommy and daddy deposited in you.
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): According to Leonardo da Vinci, you could magnify the power of your prayers or meditations ten-fold by bathing in purple light. Back in his time, that was easiest to accomplish by standing near a church’s stained glass window that was tinted purple. These days you can get the same effect with the help of a purple light bulb. Alternately, you could simply close your eyes and visualize yourself surrounded by a shimmering purple glow. I recommend this practice for you in the coming days. It’s an excellent time to do anything and everything to intensify your spiritual power. P.S. Experts in color theory say that purple nurtures the development of the imagination, which would be of great value to you as you tone and firm your devotional impulses.
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Awesome” has become a commonplace word that is used to express gladness about small triumphs and simple pleasures. Today, for instance, a woman at the local cafe uttered a sweet “Awesome!” when someone pointed out to her where she could find an electrical outlet to plug in her laptop. Back in the old days, however, “awesome” was a portentous term invoked only rarely. “Awe” referred to an overwhelming feeling of wonder, reverence, admiration, inspiration, or even agitation in the face of a sublime or numinous experience. In the coming week, Aquarius, I expect you will experience more than your usual quota of both kinds of awesome.
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Mathematician Charles Babbage (1791-1871) is considered a “father of the computer.” Among his many inventions, he created a mechanical calculator that was a forerunner of the magical device that’s so indispensable today. And yet Babbage had other obsessions that were not as useful. For his own amusement, he once counted all of the panes of glass that had been broken in a factory over a period of 10 months, and investigated the cause of each break. He also spent an inordinate amount of time estimating the statistical probability that the miracles reported in the Bible had actually occurred. I bring this up, Leo, in the hope that you will concentrate on your own equivalent to Babbage’s calculator, and not get sidetracked by meditations on broken glass and Biblical miracles.
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PUBLIC NOTICES MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT
Missoula County NOTICE TO PROSPECTIVE BIDDERS The Missoula County Facilities Management Department is soliciting sealed bids for custodial services for five buildings and 1 suite of offices. Bids will be accepted until 3:00PM, Monday, November 30, 2009 by the Office of the County Auditor at which time bids will be opened and read. All work is to be performed in accordance with specifications shown below. Interested parties may schedule a tour of the premises by contacting Larry Farnes (406-258-4756). Proposals must be sealed and marked “Proposal for Custodial Services” and 3 copies submitted to: Barbara Berens, County Auditor, 200 W Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. Missoula County reserves the right to reject any and all bids. TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS FOR CUSTODIAL SERVICES AT: 1.) Missoula County Courthouse and Annex, 200 W. Broadway 2.) Missoula County Health Department, 301 W Alder 3.) Missoula County Print Shop, 223 W Alder 4.) Missoula County Rural Initiatives, 317 Woody 5.) Missoula In Motion, 127 W Spruce 6.) Missoula County Weed and Extension, 2825 Santa Fe Court Work requirements - all locations: Clean premises every night on Monday through Thursday between
the hours of 5 PM and 7 AM, and once over the weekend between 7 PM Friday and 7 AM Monday. Courthouse and Annex: Provide one full time and one half time custodian between the hours of 8 AM and 5 PM Monday through Friday. Adjust night schedule to accommodate evening meetings; unlock doors prior to meeting and lock up afterwards; conduct walk through to insure that no unauthorized parties remain on premises and that all offices are locked. Day Shift: (Courthouse & Annex) Offices will be cleaned according to the following schedule: 1.) Clean Sheriff’s Civil Offices each morning Monday through Friday. 2.) Clean 9-1-1 Emergency Operations Center each morning Sunday through Saturday.3.) Clean Justice Court during the hours of 12 noon to 1 PM Monday through Friday. 4.) Clean Sheriff’s Department third floor offices during the hours of 3:30 PM to 5 PM Monday through Friday. 5.) Clean all other offices at night. All Locations Daily responsibilities will include but not limited to the following: 1.) Clean and sanitize all rest rooms and restock supplies. Maintain restrooms throughout the day. 2.) Clean around all outside entrances and empty and clean all ash receptacles. 3.) Clean interior and exterior of all entrance doors. 4.) Clean and sanitize all drinking fountains. 5.) Change any burned out light bulbs or fluorescent tubes
while minimizing disruption to business. Inform maintenance of fixtures with bad ballasts. 6.) Mop entrances, stairs and halls during inclement weather. Put out “wet floor” signs. 7.) Clean up spills on floors and carpets as needed. 8.) Carry a pager and respond to departments as requested. 9.) Inform maintenance of any needed repairs. Twice Weekly: 1.) Wind all clocks. Weekly: 1.) Thoroughly clean all offices, including ceiling diffusers, walls, baseboards and under desks. Dust desktops when requested by user. Monthly: 1.) Buff all hard surfaced floors. Quarterly: 1.) Strip and wash all hard surface floors*. 2.) Shampoo and extract all carpeted areas*. *Frequency may increase during the winter months. Annually: 1.) Clean all windows inside and out. The contractor shall furnish all restroom paper products, air freshener, and hand soap. The contractor shall also furnish all trash liners, cleaning supplies and equipment required to accomplish work as specified. Green products should be used if cost effective. Equipment furnished by the contractor shall be the size and type best suited for accomplishing the various phases of work. Equipment shall be suitable for operation from existing sources of the County furnished electrical power and shall have a low noise level of operation. Equipment considered by the County to be improp-
er or dangerous will be removed and replaced by the contractor with satisfactory equipment. The County will not be held responsible for loss or damage to any equipment belonging to the contractor stored on County premises. The contractor will agree to hold the County harmless against and from all losses from any acts or omissions of the contractor. The contractor will be required to maintain general liability insurance in the amount of one million dollars ($1,000,000) per occurrence and two million ($2,000,000) in the aggregate. All insurance policies must be from an insurance carrier licensed to do business in the State of Montana. Contractor agrees to furnish proof of required insurance to the County prior to commencing work under this Agreement. The contractor will be required to carry Workers Compensation Insurance during the term of the contract and meet all existing regulations for prevailing wage rates as required by the State of Montana. The contract shall be in force for three (3) years from December 1, 2009 through November 30, 2012 or from the date the contract is signed by both parties, whichever is later, and may be renewed for an additional three (3) year term upon satisfactory negotiation of the cost of services. Monthly cost for janitorial services listed above are: First year:_____ Second year: _____ Third year: _____
MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT NOTICE INVITING PROPOSALS Notice is hereby given that sealed proposals will be received at the PUBLIC WORKS DIVISION, 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, MT 59808, until 10:00 o’clock a.m. November 6, 2009 at which time the bids will be opened and read in the conference room, Missoula County Public Works, for the purpose of purchasing of one-hundred fifty (150) tons of Hyrdro-Melt Liquid Deicer. Specifications and bid procedures for this purchase can be obtained at the Public Works Division, 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, MT 59808.. A performance bond will be required. Proposals must be accompanied by a certified check, cashier’s check, bank draft, or bid bond in the amount of ten percent (10%) of the amount of the bid as a guarantee that the successful bidder will enter into the contract. The Board of County Commissioners of Missoula County, Montana, reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Proposals shall be sealed and marked “Proposal for Liquid Deicer – 2009” and addressed to: Public Works Division 6089 Training Drive Missoula, MT 59808
MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT
NOTICE OF HEARING RATIFY CHANGES TO THE AIR POLLUTION CONTROL PROGRAM MISSOULA - The Missoula Board of County Commissioners will conduct a hearing on changes to the Missoula City-County Air Pollution Control Program. The changes have been proposed to help prevent Missoula from exceeding the new, lower Federal fine particulate (PM2.5) standard. Regulation changes for residential and industrial wood burning devices were proposed and adopted by the Missoula City-County Air Pollution Control Program Board on September 17, 2009 and are now slated to be ratified by the Board of County Commissioners. The Commissioners will conduct the hearing at their regularly scheduled Public Meeting on Wednesday, November 18, 2009, at 1:30 p.m., in Room 201 of the Missoula County Courthouse Annex. Any person wishing to be heard on the matter may submit written or other materials to the Commissioners and/or speak at the hearing. Comments may also be submitted anytime prior to the hearing by mail or personal delivery to the Commissioners at their offices in the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802; by fax at (406) 721-4043; or by e-mail at
bcc@co.missoula.mt.us Additional information on the hearing may be obtained from Environmental Health at 258-4755 or www.co.missoula.mt.us/airquality. DATED THIS 2nd DAY OF November, 2009. /s/ Bill Carey, Chairman, Board of County Commissioners
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NOTICE OF HEARING The Missoula Board of County Commissioners will conduct a hearing on the following project: Boyer Conservation Easement A hearing on a proposal to amend proposed conservation easement terms for a project approved for Open Space bond funding. The Boyer project was approved in July 2009 for the use of $245,000 in Open Space bond funding towards the purchase of a conservation easement on 752 acres of land in the Frenchtown area. The landowner is Joseph W. Boyer Jr., represented by Five Valleys Land Trust. The landowner proposes two changes to easement terms that were included in the bond project application review process. The first would allow sand and gravel excavation from two sites totaling less than acre for onsite agricultural
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PUBLIC NOTICES purposes. The second would allow the landowner to retain the right to extract subsurface oil and gas if the extraction occurs from property not subject to the easement. The Commissioners will conduct the hearing at 1:30 p.m., Wednesday, November 18, 2009, in Room 201 of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 W Broadway, Missoula, Montana. Any person wishing to be heard on the matter may speak at the hearing and/or submit written or other materials to the Commissioners at the hearing or by mail, fax or personal delivery to the Commissioners at their offices in the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, FAX (406) 721-4043. Copies of the proposed project are available for public inspection at the Missoula County Office of Rural Initiatives, 317 Woody, Missoula, Montana. Telephone 258-3432; or you may contact Pat O’Herren in Rural Initiatives at 258-4981. If anyone attending any of these meetings needs special assistance, please provide advance notice by calling 2583422. Missoula County will provide auxiliary aids and services.
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SHERIFF’S SALE Dept. No. 3, Cause No. DV-09-760 FIRST SECURITY BANK OF MISSOULA, a Montana banking corporation, Plaintiff, Against MARTIN JEFFREY PLOYHAR, DONNA JEAN PLOYHAR, STATE OF MONTANA DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, STATE OF MONTANA DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIES, and INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, Defendants. To Be Sold at Sheriff’s Sale: TERMS: CASH, or its equivalent; NO personal checks. On the 3rd day of December A.D., 2009, at 10:00 o’clock A.M., at the front door of the Court House, in the City of Missoula, County of Missoula, State of Montana, that certain real property situate in said Missoula County, and particularly described as follows, towit: A. Tract C of Certificate of Survey No 969, a tract of land located in the North one-half of Section 30, Township 13 North, Range 15 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. B. The Southwest one-quarter of the
Southwest one-quarter of Section 29, Township 13 North, Range 15 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. LESS a strip of land 60 feet in width along the South boundary adjacent to the Section line common to Sections 29 and 32 of the above mentioned parcel of land. Together with all and singular the tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining. Dated this 12th day of November A.D., 2009.. /s/ MICHAEL R. McMEEKIN Sheriff of Missoula County, Montana By Patrick A. Turner, Deputy MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DV-08-881 NOTICE OF NAME CHANGE IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF: LONDON CHANCE HALLMARK, MINOR CHILD OF JESSICA TAYLOR, Petitioner. TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED HEREIN: PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a verified Petition for Name Change of LONDON CHANCE HALLMARK to obtain an order of this Court granting leave to assume the name of CHANCE PARKER TAYLOR, will be presented to the above-entitled Court, at the Missoula County Courthouse at Missoula, Montana, on Wednesday the 9th day of December at 1:30 p.m. or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard and that that at such time, application will be made for the relief sought in the said Petition. DATED this 21st day of October, 2009. WELLS & MCKITTRICK, P.C. /s/ Tal M. Goldin
MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DP-09-172 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JUDITH L. WANG, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Carl Ibsen, 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 above-named Court. DATED this 5th day of October, 2009. /s/ Carl Ibsen, Missoula County Government
Notice of Public Sale Notice is hereby given that the following described public property will be sold to the highest bidder for cash or certified funds: Item Quantity Year Bid 1. 1 2. 1 3. 1 4. 1 5. 1 6. 1 7. 1 8. 1 9. 1 10. 3 $60,000/ea. 11. 1 12. 1 13. 1 14. 1 15. 2 16. 1 17. 1 18. 1 19. 1 20. 2 21 1
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Sealed bids will be accepted until 3:00 PM, Monday November 16th, 2009 at: Missoula County Public Works 6089 Training Drive, Missoula MT 59808 TERMS OF SALE: Bids must be submitted in a sealed envelope and legibly labeled “Bid-Sale of Surplus Equipment, Opening November 16th, 2009”, contents of the envelope must include the Item Number, Item Description, Bid Amount, Method of Payment, and Name/Address/Phone Number of the bidder. Bids received after the time set for the bid opening will be rejected. Missoula County reserves the right to waive any and all informalities, to reject all bids, accept any bid deemed to be in the County’s best interest, and to negotiate terms with bidders on items. The sale is on an “as is, where is” basis. No warranty is expressed, implied or is being extended by Missoula County or any of its representatives to prospective buyers. Missoula County assumes no responsibility for the item(s) after the purchase or liability associated with the use or sale of equipment after purchase. Any costs associated with the removal of the equipment form Missoula County premises are the responsibility of the successful bidder(s). Payment of any and all equipment shall be completed within five working days from the date of the sale and all equipment shall be removed from Missoula County premises no later than 12:00 PM, Friday, November 20th, 2009.
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Personal Representative GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC /s/ Nancy P. Gibson, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DP-09-74 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DORIS H. ANDRUS, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above named estate. All persons having claims against the said decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Jon M. Andrus, 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 above-named Court. DATED this 23rd at of April, 2009. /s/ Jon M. Andrus, Personal Representative GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC /s/ Nancy P. Gibson, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA TWENTY-FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, RAVALLI COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DP-0965 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DENNIS D. ALBRIGHT, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Charlotte KahlerTraylor has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must be mailed to Kyle D. Cunningham, attorney for the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at CUNNINGHAM LAW OFFICE, 818 W. Central Ave., Ste. 1, Missoula, MT 59801 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 15th day of October, 2009. /s/ Charlotte Kahler-Traylor, Personal Representative NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 06/05/03, recorded as Instrument No. 200320548, Bk 708, Pg 1169, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which John Cross, a married person and Lei Ann Cross was Grantor, Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, Inc. was Beneficiary and First American Title was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First American Title 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 and being a portion of Lots 1 and 2 in Section 26, township 15 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana, being more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the point where the original centerline of the highway intersects the Flathead Indian Reservation Boundary line, said point bears S. 53 degrees 13’ 51’’ E., 281.32 feet from the intersection of the Indian Boundary line and the North line of said Section 26; thence S. 43 degrees 47’ W., 298.35 feet; thence N. 47 degrees 57’ 25’’ W., 139.02 feet; thence N 43 degrees 47’ E., 285.5 feet to a point on the Flathead Indian Reservation Boundary line; thence S. 53 degrees 13’ 51’’ E., along said boundary line a distance of 140.00 feet to the Point of Beginning. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 06/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of September 8, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $68,983.78. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $67,173.02, 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 January 19, 2010 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 inter-
est 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# 7023.06887) 1002.133046-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 04/18/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200608819, Bk 772, Pg 2068, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Ricky J. Bunch and Bonnie Bunch was Grantor, Wells Fargo Financial Montana, Inc. was Beneficiary and First American Title Company was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First American Title Company as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 30 of Williams Addition, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 08/22/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of September 14, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $197,548.72. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $185,720.86, 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 January 25, 2010 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# 7777.11312) 1002.133604-FEI Notice of Trustee’s Sale T.S. NO. 090160894 Title Order No. 090752989MTGSI THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 03/17/2010, at the hour of 11:00 AM sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee, at the following place: On the front steps to the County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT.. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which ALLAN DALE FREY, AND A’LSA MARJO SCOTT, HUSBAND AND WIFE
as Grantors, conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 01/04/2007 and recorded 01/18/2007, in document No. 200701256 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 790 at Page Number 794 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: PARCEL 1: TRACT D OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 5108 A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN THE SOUTHWEST ONE-QUARTER OF SECTION 14, TOWNSHIP 13 NORTH, RANGE 20 WEST, PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN MONTANA, MISSOULA COUNTY MONTANA PARCEL 2: AN APPURTENANT NON-EXCLUSIVE EASEMENT AND RIGHT-OF-WAY FOR PRIVATE ACCESS AS DESCRIBED IN BOOK 579 AT PAGES 1898 AND 1900 MICRO RECORDS. Property Address: 1655 FREY LN, MISSOULA, MT 59808 The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 08/01/2009, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $183,193.71 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.25% per annum from 07/01/2009 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. Dated: 11/12/09 RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. Successor Trustee 2380 Performance Dr, TX2-985-07-03 Richardson, TX 75082 ASAP# 3327856 11/12/2009, 11/19/2009, 11/26/2009 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 28, 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 A140 OF CANYON EAST, PHASE 3, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Ryan L. Quagliana, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Commonwealth Land Title insurance Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated August 27, 2007 and recorded August 28, 2007 as document number 200722425, in Book 804, Page 858. The beneficial interest is currently held by OneWest Bank FSB. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,672.33, beginning April 1, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of August 10, 2009 is $198,578.34 principal, interest at the rate of 6.75% now totaling $6,062.41, late charges in the amount of $261.84, escrow advances of $327.03, and other fees and expenses advanced of $284.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $36.72 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
PUBLIC NOTICES added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: August 20, 2009 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA County of Stark August 20, 2009, 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. Miranda Marx Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 05/05/2015 ASAP# 3318999 10/29/2009, 11/05/2009, 11/12/2009 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 29, 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: PARCEL I: TRACT A OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 4750, LOCATED IN THE NORTHWEST ONE-QUARTER OF SECTION 11, TOWNSHIP 15 NORTH, RANGE 22 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. PARCEL II: TOGETHER WITH A 30 FOOT WIDE PRIVATE ROAD AND PUBLIC UTILITY EASEMENT AND RIGHT OF WAY OVER AND ACROSS THE EASTERLY 30 FEET OF THE S&#189;S&#189;NW&#188;NW&#188; OF SECTION 11, TOWNSHIP 15 NORTH, RANGE 22 WEST, P.M.M., FOR INGRESS AND EGRESS FROM SAID TRACT TO THE EXISTING PRIVATE ROAD. ALSO TOGETHER WITH A 30 FOOT PRIVATE ACCESS AND PUBLIC UTILITY EASEMENT AS SHOWN ON CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 4750
Kirk R Helm & Jennifer L Helm, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Fidelity National Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Long Beach Mortgage Company, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated May 10, 2006 and Recorded on May 11, 2009 under Document #200610842 in Bk-774, Pg-196. The beneficial interest is currently held by Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for Long Beach Mortgage Loan Trust 2006-6. Charles J. Peterson is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,275.29, beginning March 1, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of 083109 is $160,117.70 principal, interest at the rate of 9.25% now totaling $8,622.77, late charges in the amount of $229.56, escrow advances of $4,134.34 and other fees and expenses advanced of $166.70, plus accruing interest at the rate of $40.58 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: August 21, 2009 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee Mackoff Kellogg Law Firm P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 State of North
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Daniel Morgan Andrew Pierce 433 W. Alder • 830-3875 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on January 11, 2010, 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: The North one-half of lots 11, 12, and 13 in block 70 of school addition, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof, recording reference: Book 743 Page 1057 micro records. Commonly known as: 720 Bulwer Street, Missoula, MT 59802 Alan Jason Mogseth, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Source, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated January 25, 2007 and Recorded February 16, 2007 in Book 792, page 189 under Document No. 200703914. The beneficial interest is currently held by Provident Funding Associates, L.P. Charles J. Peterson is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1069.97, beginning May 1, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of August 31, 2009 is $145,801.80 principal, interest at the rate of 6.25% now totaling $3,786.50, late charges in the amount of $230.90, escrow advances of $120.88 and other fees and expenses advanced of $81.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $24.97 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 proper-
ty and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: September 1, 2009 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 9/1/09, 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. TERI LYNN STECKLER Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 9/22/2012 ASAP# 3332966 11/12/2009, 11/19/2009, 11/26/2009 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Tuesday, the 15th day of December, 2009, at the hour of 10:15 a.m., at the front door of the Missoula County Courthouse, located at 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana 59802, Martin S. King, Attorney at Law, Successor Trustee, in order to satisfy the obligations set out below, has been directed to sell and has elected to sell at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash, payable at the time of sale, and without warranty or covenant, express or implied as to title, possession, encumbrances, condition or otherwise, the interest of the Successor Trustee, Martin S. King, and the Grantor PLATINUM BUILDERS, LLC in and to the following described real property, situated in Missoula, Montana to wit: Lot 49 of Lolo Creek Trails Phase 1, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Said sale will be made in
accordance with the statutes of the State of Montana, and the terms and provisions of: that certain Construction Deed of Trust recorded October 13, 2006, in Book 785, page 244, as Document No. 200626630 in the records of the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, State of Montana, wherein PLATINUM BUILDERS, INC. is Grantor, FIRST INTERSTATE BANK is the named Beneficiary, and TITLE SERVICES, INC. is the named Trustee; that certain Appointment of Successor Trustee dated July 31, 2009, and recorded August 4, 2009, in the records of the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana, in Book 845 at page 165 as Document No. 200919321, wherein the Beneficiary substituted Trustee Title Services, Inc. with Martin S. King, attorney at law, as Successor Trustee. This foreclosure is made because the Grantor, PLATINUM BUILDERS, LLC, and the Guarantor, Anthony M. Cerasani, have defaulted in the terms of said Construction Deed of Trust and the corresponding Promissory Note in that they have failed to pay the payment due upon maturity of said Note and otherwise defaulted on said Construction Deed of Trust, and pursuant to the the terms of the Construction Deed of Trust, the Beneficiary has exercised its option to declare the full amount secured by such Construction Deed of Trust immediately due and payable. That the principal sum now owing on the obligation secured by said Construction Deed of Trust is the sum of Two Hundred Five Thousand One Hundred Twenty-five and No/100 Dollars ($205,125.00), together with interest at the note rate, until the date of sale. That on the date of sale, presuming no other payments are made and that the sale is not postponed, there will be due and owing the sum of Two Hundred Five Thousand One Hundred Twenty-five and No/100 Dollars ($205,125.00) in principal; Six Thousand Four Hundred Fifty-one and 60/100 Dollars ($6,451.60) in interest; and Two Hundred One and 15/100 Dollars ($201.15) in late fees, totaling the sum of Two Hundred Eleven Thousand Seven Hundred Seventy-seven and 75/100 Dollars ($211,777.75), together with costs and expenses of foreclosure and related trustee fees, costs and attorney fees allowable by law. DATED this 12th day of August, 2009. /s/ Martin S. King, Successor Trustee STATE OF MONTANA) :ss. County of Missoula). On this 12th day of August, 2009, before me, the undersigned a Notary Public for the State of Montana, personally appeared Martin S. King, Attorney at Law, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within Notice of Trustee’s Sale as Successor Trustee, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same as such Successor Trustee. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand affixed my official seal the day and year in this certificate first above written. (SEAL) /s/ Rhonda M. Kolar, Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at Missoula, MT My commission expires: January 24, 2012 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that on Tuesday, the 15th day of December, 2009, at the hour of 10:00 a.m., at the front door of the Missoula County Courthouse, located at 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana 59802, Martin S. King, Attorney at Law, Successor Trustee, in order to satisfy the obligation set out below, has been
directed to sell and has elected to sell at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash, payable at the time of sale, and without warranty or covenant, express or implied as to title, possession, encumbrances, condition, or otherwise, the interest of the Successor Trustee, Martin S. King, and of the Grantor PLATINUM BUILDERS, LLC in and to the terms and provisions of: Lot 12 of Ponderosa Heights, Phase 1, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Said sale will be made in accordance with the statutes of the State of Montana, and the terms and provisions of: that certain Deed of Trust recorded July 12, 2007, in Book 801, page 721, as Document No. 200717872 in the records of the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, State of Montana, wherein PLATINUM BUILDERS, INC. is Grantor, FIRST INTERSTATE BANK is the named Beneficiary, and INSURED TITLES is the named Trustee; that certain Appointment of Successor Trustee dated July 31, 2009, and recorded August 4, 2009, in the records of the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana, in Book 845 at page 164 as Document No. 200919320, wherein the Beneficiary substituted Trustee Insured Titles with Martin S. King, attorney at law, as Successor Trustee. This foreclosure is made because the Grantor, PLATINUM BUILDERS, LLC, has defaulted in the terms of said Deed of Trust and the corresponding Promissory Note in that it has failed to pay the payment due upon maturity of said Note and otherwise defaulted on said Deed of Trust, and pursuant to the terms of the Deed of Trust, the Beneficiary has exercised its option to declare the full amount secured by such Deed of Trust immediately due and payable. That the principal sum now owing on the obligation secured by said Deed of Trust is the sum of Seventy-two Thousand No/100 Dollars ($72,000.00), together with interest at the note rate, until the date of sale. That on the date of sale, presuming no
CLARK FORK STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 11, 88, 104 and 157. Units can contain furniture, cloths, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, other misc household goods, vehicles & trailers. These units may be viewed starting November 16th, 2009 by appt only by calling 541-7919. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 3505 Clark Fork Way, Missoula, MT 59808 prior to November 19th, 2009, 4:00 P.M. Buyer's bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All Sales final.
other payments are made and the sale is not postponed, there will be due and owing the sum of Seventy-two Thousand and No/100 Dollars ($72,000.00) in principal; Three Thousand Five Hundred Forty-six and 73/100 Dollars ($3,546.73) in interest; and One Hundred Thirty-five and 49/100 Dollars ($135.49) in late fees, totaling the sum of Seventy-five Thousand Six Hundred Eighty-two and 22/100 Dollars ($75,682.22), together with costs and expenses of foreclosure and related trustee fees, costs and attorney fees allowable by law. DATED this 12th day of August, 2009. /s/ Martin S. King, Successor Trustee STATE OF MONTANA) :ss. County of Missoula). On this 12th day of August, 2009, before me, the undersigned a Notary Public for the State of Montana, personally appeared Martin S. King, Attorney at Law, known to me to the be the person whose name is subscribed to the within Notice of Trustee’s Sale as Successor Trustee, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same as such Successor Trustee. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal the day and year in this certificate first above written. (SEAL) /s/ Rhonda M. Kolar, Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at Missoula, MT My commission expires: January 24, 2012
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REAL ESTATE HOMES FOR SALE 2 bdrm 2 bath manufactured home. Addition for possible den or office. Shop & extra space in dbl garage. Zoned for multifamily or commercial. $135,000. MLS#906610. Janet 532-7903 or Robin 240-6503 Windermere RE. Text:44133 Message: 12594 for pics 3BD/1 Ba Nice home on 3 city lots with privacy fenced yard in Alberton, $125,000 Kevin & Monica Ray of Access Realty at 406-207-1185 www.YourMT.com 3BD/2BD home, vaulted ceilings, two-car garage, large patio, nature trail 45 minutes from Missoula. $240,000. Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406207-1185 www.YourMT.com 3BD/3BA Luxury Home on 10 acres, 4 car garage, huge tiled walk-in shower, soaking tub, office/den, timber-framed cathedral ceilings $688,000 Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406207-1185 www.YourMT.com 4 BD/2BA home, ready-to-finish basement. 17-foot ceilings, office/den, master suite, 2-car garage. 44 Ranch, $297,000! Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406-207-1185 www.YourMT.com 4BD home, 39.5 acres. Certainteed siding, radiant heat, fireplace, wildlife, gravel pit! $824,900 Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406-207-1185 www.YourMT.com AMAZING HOME OVERLOOKING ALBERTON GORGE. 4 Bdr/3 Bath, Double Garage, Vaulted Ceilings, Spectacular Views from inside and out, Outdoor Pool & Hot Tub, Decks & Patios, and much more. $395,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy9 to 74362, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com
BEAUTIFULLY UPDATED TARGET RANGE HOME. WALK TO THE RIVER. 4 Bdr/2 Bath, 4 Carg Garage, Sun Room with Hot Tub, great family room with full wet bar and much more. $334,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy11 to 74362, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com GORGEOUS FLORENCE AREA HOME ON 2 ACRES. 4 Bdr/3 Bath, great views inside and out, large deck, outdoor sauna, and more. $285,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy3 to 74362, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com GORGEOUS SLANT STREETS CRAFTSMAN. 3 Bdr/2 Bath, many original features including hardwood, built-ins, beautiful mouldings & windows, large kitchen, dining room, full basement & more. $379,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy20 to 74362, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com GORGEOUS STEVENSVILLE AREA HOME ON 10 ACRES. 4 Bdr/2 Bath, single-level living, double garage, hardwood and tile flooring, beautifully landscaped, great deck with outdoor living space, and much more. $474,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy13 to 74362, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com GREAT DOWNTOWN MISSOULA LOCATION. 3 Bdr/2 Bath, Double Garage, High Ceilings, Hardwood Floors, Built-Ins, Walk to Downtown. $329,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy8 to 74362, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com HANDCRAFTED CUSTOM HOME ON PETTY CREEK. 3 Bdr/2.5 Bath, 3.3 Acres, slate and hardwood floors, vaulted ceilings, guest quarters, heated double garage, $695,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy6 to 74362, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com
Log cabin with no close neighbors. Beautiful views of flint Creek, Mission, Rattlesnake & Sapphire Ranges. $99,900 MLS# 906248 Janet 532-7903 or Robin 2406503 riceteam@windermere.com. Text:44133 Message:12590 for pics Past Bitterroot Parade of Homes winner NEW 4 BD/3BA with many upgrades Alder cabinets, Large Master Suite, Tile, & Views of the Bitterroots $344,000 Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406207-1185 www.YourMT.com Price Reduced! BRING OFFERS! Price reduced to $379,000. 4BD/2.5BA home on 1 acre in Target Range. Mature landscaping, interior updates, large barn. MLS#905260. Call Kristin Stratford at Prudential Missoula Properties: 544-2833. REDUCED PRICE! 3bdrm, 1 bath, single garage. Fenced yard and covered front porch. Newly remodeled. MLS# 808575 $84,900 Janet 532-7903 or Robin 240-6503 Windermere RE. Text:44133 Message:18883 for pics SINGLE LEVEL LIVING JUST A SHORT WALK TO DOWNTOWN STEVI. 4 Bdr/3 Bath, Open floor plan, large living room, great mountain and valley views. $239,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy15 to 74362, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com SLANT STREETS BUNGALOW ON A CORNER LOT. 3 Bdr/1 Bath, fenced yard, great location just steps from Rose Park and a short walk/bike ride to downtown & UM. $239,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy17 to 74362, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com Well-maintained 3BD house, 45 minutes from Missoula, hardwood floors, storage shed, updated appliances. $125,000 Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406207-1185. www.YourMT.com
LAND FOR SALE 19602 SQ FT lot in Mullan Road area with great views. Sewer stubbed to the lot. Close to river access, golf and shopping $89,900 MLS# 908063 riceteam@windermere.com Janet 532-7903 or Robin 240-6503. Text:44133 Message:12890 for pics 3.5 ACRES ON PETTY CREEK. Great location less that 3 miles from I-90. Awesome building spot overlooking creek and with valley/mountain views. Builder available. $185,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy14 to 74362, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com 5BD/3BA 3,000+ sq. ft. Lolo home on 15.6 Acres, updated kitchen, cozy fireplace, $415,000 Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406207-1185 www.YourMT.com Beautiful 14 acre parcel just west of Huson. Meadow with trees & pasture. Modulars or double wides on foundation ok. $184,900. MLS#906774. Janet 532-7903 or Robin 240-6503 riceteam@windermere.com. Text:44133 Message:12881 for pics Beautiful park-like setting, private trout ponds, nature trail, stunning views. Lots start at $39,000. Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406-207-1185. www.YourMT.com
OUT OF TOWN 800 square foot cabin near hunting, fishing, and skiing in beautiful Haugan, MT. $83,000. Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406207-1185. www.YourMT.com AUCTION! Was $249,000, now $179,900 or best reasonable offer. 4BD/2.75BA home on 1/5 wooded acres in Thompson Fallsfor sale by owner. Office, family room, carport- NICE! (406) 8273234. Home to be sold Sunday evening, 11/22 to highest bidder. Gorgeous leveled 80 acres of farming land in St. Ignatious with 3 Bed/ 2 Bath manufactured home. Amazing views of the Mission Mountains. 58503 Watson Road MLS # 706304 Price: $520,000 Call Priscilla @ 370-7689, Prudential Missoula.
AUCTION! Was $249,000 Now $179,900 (or best reasonable offer) • Thompson Falls - By Owner • 4BD/2.75 BA on 1.5 wooded acres • Office, family room, carport - NICE! 827-3234 • Inspection 11/21 & 11/22 12-5PM Home will sell 11/22 to highest bidder.
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COMMERCIAL 3 Quizno’s Franchise Sandwich Businesses For Sale! $650,000Missoula, MT. Call Loubelle for info: 240-0753.
330 N. Easy St. • $199,500
Wonderful location at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac. This home has been well cared for and has many updates such as paint, appliances, lighting, A/C and underground sprinklers. This home is over 1,000 sq. ft. and has a large insulated/sheet rocked garage plus a huge storage shed for over flow. There is a master bedroom, plus 2 additional bedrooms and a full bath. Large yard bordering open space and lovely views of the mountains. Property has access to river front park. Call today for your private showing. MLS# 907496
Tanning Salon $65,000- Top of the line equipment, excellent client base. 10 years same location. Call Loubelle at Fidelity RE 240-0753 or 543-4412. www.missoulahomes.com
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Absolutely Charming! 510 South Avenue West, Missoula 2 bed, 2 bath, 2 large bonus rooms Fully fenced yard, excellent patio for entertaining, long driveway. Energy star windows & 2 single car garages.
Janet Rice 532-7903 Robin Rice 240-6503 riceteam@windermere.com www.missoulahomesonline.com • 40x82 insulated free span building • 1 acre with security fence • Three 14' overhead doors • 9292 Futurity Drive • $324,900 MLS#901478 Text:44133 Message: 12595 for pics
• BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY! • 2BD/2BA Modular home on 1 acre • 30x36 shop w/ 1BD/1BA living quarters • 62 - 10x15 storage rental units • $489,900 • MLS#905529 Text:44133 Message: 12597 for pics
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• 20 acres in Blackfoot Valley • Beautiful fenced pasture land • Great recreation area • Trees and seasonal stream • $149,900 • MLS#905366 Text:44133 Message: 12589 for pics
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15 minutes from Missoula with nice building sites and access to the Blackfoot River. $149,000 for either 5 acre parcel or buy both for $285,000. MLS# 902286
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PRICE REDUCTION • BRING OFFERS! • 1 Acre Home in Target Range • 4BD/2.5BA plus large barn • Mature landscaping & interior updates
$379,000 • MLS# 905260 Missoula
1840 Humble Road Missoula
Grant Creek Log home on 26+ private acres $525,000
Borders Lolo National Forest. Ski out your back door, drive 10 minutes to Snowbowl Ski area, or take a hike in 3 different directions in the summer! Located just 15 minutes from downtown Missoula!The main house is a 3 bd, 2 bath, 3 story log home, with completely renovated bathrooms, newer 3 car open garage with tons of storage built above it and a small guest cabin!
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