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NewsVoices/Letters Satire, misinformation and Early Edge ...................................................4The Week in Review J.K. Simmons, Chinese satellite launcher and Kardashians.........6Briefs Higher One, White Pine Sash and Montana films.................................................6Etc. So, who did Krakauer talk to? .................................................................................7News Pabst takes over as attorney’s office navigates changes.........................................8News The technique that’s revolutionizing aquatic science ...........................................9Opinion Social welfare spending isn’t the problem Helena needs to solve.................10Opinion Public lands aren’t about to change hands to state control ...........................11Feature Outdoorsman, businessman and man of faith: Sen. Steve Daines..................14

Arts & Entertainment Arts Healing and the art of storytelling .........................................................................18Music Mendelssohn, Cakes da Killa and Torche ...........................................................19Theater Two-man Romeo and Juliet pays tribute to the bard ......................................20Books Author Leslie Budewitz on killing and community ...........................................21Film Birdman soars best when it’s not trying to be art................................................22Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films .......................................................23Flash in the Pan Roasted roots.....................................................................................24Happiest Hour Winter BrewFest ..................................................................................268 Days a Week Can we talk about the Daines family campaign ads? ...........................27Mountain High Snow Joke half-marathon ...................................................................33Agenda Amplify Kindness .............................................................................................34

ExclusivesStreet Talk .......................................................................................................................4In Other News ..............................................................................................................12Classifieds....................................................................................................................C-1The Advice Goddess ...................................................................................................C-2Free Will Astrolog y ....................................................................................................C-4Crossword Puzzle .......................................................................................................C-6This Modern World...................................................................................................C-12

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missoulanews.com • February 26–March 5, 2015 [3]

When you think of Sen. Steve Daines, what word or words cometo mind?Follow-up: What’s one thing you hope politicians in Washington,D.C., achieve this year?

Casey Greene: My hope for Steve Daines isthat he recognizes what’s in the best interest

for Montanans with regards to protecting pub-lic lands. Designation decision: That Rep.Mike Simpson’s proposed wilderness bill in

the [Idaho’s] White Cloud Mountains, which isnot publicly supported by The Wilderness So-ciety, does not get designated and that the Na-

tional Monument proposal, which has broadcoalition support from wilderness and moun-

tain bike advocates, does come to fruition.

Stephen Egli: Rich. Remember what

you’re there for: To work to solve prob-lems instead of focusing on getting re-elected.

David O’Hagen: He does a lot ofYouTube advertising. I usually skip the

ad. Walls come tumbling down: Immi-gration. I’m pro-immigration and I’d likethem to figure out what they’re doing at

our border with Mexico. There shouldbe a process for people to come to Amer-

ica and become citizens.

Nate Rogers: Ugh. Words that wouldbe censored in this paper. Dialogue:

That the Democrats and Republicanscan actually talk to each other.

Lacey Simonich: He’s a Republican.Red. From my cold, dead hands: Ihope they don’t ban guns.

Asked Tuesday, Feb. 24, near the corner of Broadway and Spruce.

Lost in translationI was appalled to read Dan Brooks’

column in the most recent Independent

titled, “On the offensive” (see Feb. 18).It makes me wonder if the article waswritten years ago and just now beingpublished?

Otherwise, I cannot imagine whatplanet he has been living on this past yearand more. He stated that he had no ideathat Rep. Ryan Zinke was in the militaryand “it’s a little irresponsible of Zinke notto have mentioned this before.”

Not only did Rep. Zinke mentionhis service as a SEAL in his numerousspeaking engagements throughout thestate prior to the election last year butmost of the TV ads he produced alsomentioned his service. It is most irre-

sponsible of Dan Brooks to state thisand other remarks in his article that aresimply not true.

I call this very irresponsible jour-nalism and he should retract thesestatements to the public. It is also irre-sponsible of the Independent to printarticles that are not based on fact.

Myra Greene

Missoula

Lip service and liesSens. Daines and Tester are spreading

misinformation in their bid to pump uplogging of federal lands. They are doingindustry’s bidding and they don’t seem tocare if their rate of logging public forestsviolates environmental laws or not.

Tester recently told Montana PublicRadio “every logging sale in Montana right now is under litigation. Every one of them.” The Flathead National Forestwebsite, however, lists 17 approved logging projects, only four of which have been litigated.

Daines wants to force citizens to posta large bond in order to sue the ForestService, undermining the Equal Access toJustice Act in an effort to make it impossi-ble for David to take on Goliath when en-vironmental laws are being broken.Nonprofit conservation groups alreadyhave plenty invested in attending fieldtours, studying environmental documentsand attempting to reach agreement withthe Forest Service prior to filing any nec-essary lawsuits. Public lands can’t affordto have nonprofits and citizens priced outof their right to due process.

The Flathead National Forest hasbeen trying since 1974 to reduce its log-ging to comply with environmental laws.Stoltze Lumber sued the Flathead to keepthe logging inflated. In 1995 the Flatheadcut its logging levels in half and proposedin 2006 to reduce them further to betterprotect fish, wildlife and water quality.This has helped reduce litigation.

Now Stoltze has duped the WhitefishRange Collaborative into nearly doublingthe federal land available for logging byreducing protections for threatened griz-

zly bear and lynx. Environmental protec-tion is nothing more than lip service whensenators and collaborators work to getaround the law while trying to marginalizethose who would enforce it in court.

Keith Hammer

Chair

Swan View Coalition

Kalispell

Ripple effectI urge you to join the Early

Edge movement to offer the option forearly childhood education for everychild in Montana by visiting earlyedgeaction.org.

According to multiple National In-stitute for Early Education Research

studies, children who attend high-qual-ity preschool programs enter kinder-garten with better pre-reading skills,richer vocabularies and stronger basicmath skills than those who do not. This“early edge” creates a ripple effect forchildren, building their education on asolid foundation and leading to greatersuccess in life.

So which children attend pre-school? Those whose families can affordit. Studies show that lower income stu-dents are less likely to receive educa-tion at home, making pre-schooleducation more imperative than ever.Giving everyone access to great, pre-kindergarten education levels the play-ing field and provides more childrenwith a great educational foundation.

This argument isn’t simply ethical;it’s also smart economics. Every publicdollar spent on high-quality preschoolreturns $7-$9 through a reduced needfor spending on other services, such asremedial education, grade repetitionand special education, as well as in-creased productivity and earnings forthese children as adults.

As a child I attended UniversityCongregational Church’s preschoolprogram here in Missoula and feel for-tunate to have had parents who couldsend me to a private preschool pro-

gram. For those families who might nothave the resources to pay for preschool,the Early Edge program can be a posi-tive springboard for those children,leading to higher confidence, strongerliteracy, language development andmath skills.

If the initiative passes, communityblock grants will provide local schooldistricts the financial freedom to lever-age existing public and private high-quality education programs or to createnew ones. In addition, Early Edge al-lows each unique community in ourstate to build the early education pro-gram that works best for their families.Parents can opt-in or out of the pro-gram as they please, but at least all chil-dren will start with the sameopportunities.

Thank you for your considerationof this issue and initiative.

Kim Shappee

Missoula

One step closerAs we’ve seen in recent weeks, nu-

merous stakeholder groups that de-pend heavily on water resources haveannounced their support of the WaterCompact, and late last week it passedthe Senate Judiciary Committee withstrong bipartisan support. Thanks tothe educational efforts of the compactbill sponsor, Sen. Chas Vincent, whowent the extra mile make the compactand related documents and guides eas-ily accessible to the public and his leg-islative colleagues, Montanans are onestep closer to water rights certainty andavoiding the decades of litigation thatfailing to pass the Compact wouldcause.

The 8-4 vote in favor of the com-pact shows that when folks take thetime to really look into the substance ofthe bill, as those who voted for it did,that it is an agreement that is beneficialfor all Montanans. Not only will thecompact make our state stronger, but itwill protect existing water rights andensure water at levels of historic con-sumptive use for water users acrossMontana.

Without the compact, Montananswould have to foot the bill for millionsof dollars in court costs. Not onlywould individual farmers, ranchers, ir-rigators and water users have to shoul-der the litigation costs—so too wouldall the taxpayers in Montana

I commend Sen. Vincent for his re-lentless dedication to ensuring that ourwater resources are protected for fu-ture generations and that the hard-earned dollars of Montanans aren’twasted on unnecessary and avoidablelitigation.

Mary Stranahan

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The Missoula Redevelopment Agency ap-proves the use of $147,000 to help fundsidewalks and other infrastructure im-provements for a new 60-unit apartmentcomplex across the street from the GoodFood Store.

David Joseph Lenio makes his first appear-ance in Flathead County Justice Court toface felony charges stemming from threatshe made against school children and Jewson Twitter. Lenio reportedly yells, “FreePalestine,” as he’s brought into court.

Carol Ann Burrafato, who led police lastmonth on a car chase through downtownMissoula before crashing, faces numerouscharges, including fleeing from a peace offi-cer and her fourth DUI, in Missoula CountyJustice Court.

A black GMC Yukon carrying reality TV starsKim and Khloe Kardashian hits a patch ofblack ice, slides off the road between Boze-man and Belgrade, and crashes into a ditch.No injuries are reported.

University of Montana alumnus J.K. Sim-mons wins the Best Supporting ActorOscar for his role in Whiplash. In his ac-ceptance speech, Simmons encourageseveryone to “call their parents” and listento them for as long as they want to talk.

Around 11 p.m., a Chinese rocket body isseen streaking across the Montana sky asit reenters Earth’s atmosphere. The rockettravels 1,000 miles during reentry, accord-ing to the American Meteor Society, and isobserved as far south as Arizona and as farnorth as Alberta.

Missoula District Court Judge KarenTownsend sentences William AshleySandel II to 30 years in prison, with 15 sus-pended, for attacking two women lastsummer, one on the Kim Williams Trail andthe other on the Higgins Avenue bridge.

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VIEWFINDER by Cathrine L. Walters

Big Sky, big stallA bill aimed at reinstating Montana’s decade-old

Big Sky on the Big Screen tax incentive hit a road-block in the House Appropriations Com-mittee in February, confusingproponents and temporarilyhandicapping those chargedwith promoting the state asa premier film location.Montana Film Commis-sioner Deny Staggs says inthe wake of the commit-tee tabling House Bill120, his office has had tobe guarded about how itplugs Montana to the enter-tainment industry.

“Nobody’s going to come inhere and invest in shooting a film inMontana if there’s uncertainty,” Staggs says.“For us, we have to say, ‘We feel confident, we thinkit’s a good program, the numbers look good, we believethe legislature will see that the numbers are strong and

believe this is a good program.’ That’s the best we can do.”

According to the Montana Department of Com-merce, the state has paid out $702,840 in film tax credits

related to 48 productions since the incentive wasenacted in 2005. Those productions in

turn spent an estimated $9 mil-lion here, a return on invest-

ment Staggs calls a“10-to-one play.” HB 120

is “a jobs bill,” he adds,considering Mon-tanans accounted foran average of 50 per-cent of the workforcehired for those film

projects.However, Febru-

ary’s hearing before theappropriations committee

saw the emergence of the onlyopponent in the history of the incen-

tive: former state Sen. Joe Balyeat, now a lob-byist for the nonprofit Americans for Prosperity. Balyeatrelated a number of concerns to the committee, starting

with the claim that film tax credits across the country“simply don’t work.”

“There’s very little logic or fairness in taxing averageMontanans, who on average make amongst the lowest av-erage wages in the entire country, to subsidize a handfulof out-of-state rich people who make movies,” Balyeat said.

Staggs likens that stance to past opposition inother states decrying the recipients of such tax creditsas Hollywood fat-cats. But to him, the figures suppliedby the Department of Revenue tell a different story, asdoes the recent push in the North Dakota legislatureto pass a tax credit identical to Montana’s. The incen-tive is the first thing potential productions ask aboutwhen they call, Staggs adds, and gives Montana a leg-up when competing with neighboring states and placeslike New Zealand and Iceland.

The transmittal date for HB 120 is April 1, andStaggs is hopeful the legislature will move it forward.Still, having HB 120 stalled leaves the future unclear—for the Montana Film Office and for productions alreadydebating whether to film here.

“I wouldn’t doubt that if it doesn’t go through, wewould lose several projects that have been looking atus for quite some time,” Staggs says.

Alex Sakariassen

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Site’s future far from settledIn 1999, Mike Stevenson and six other investors, col-

lectively known as Scott Street Partners, bought 32 acresof contaminated and blighted land on the Northsidefrom Huttig Building Products, the last in a series of own-ers to operate a wood-manufacturing operation on thesite. Over the next 16 years, Scott Street Partners sold 11acres to the city, donated one acre for construction ofWhite Pine Park and waited for the Montana Departmentof Environmental Quality to decide how the rest of theirproperty should be cleaned of pentachlorophenol, alikely carcinogen, and other pollutants. On Feb.19, Stevenson and his partners finally found outwhat will be required for their remaining 19acres to be developed: About 9.3 acres will haveto be cleaned to a commercial standard; theother 9.7 acres must be remediated to a higherstandard suitable for residential use.

While Stevenson says he and his partnersare “happy that we’re finally making someprogress,” he doesn’t exactly sound thrilledwith the DEQ decision.

“To be quite honest with you, I think it’sprobably an—I don’t want to use the word‘overkill,’ but I think it’s an over-cleaning for theproposed use of the property and for the limi-tations within the covenant deeds that I’m re-stricted to,” Stevenson says.

One of those deeds declares that “[n]o portion ofthe Property shall be used in any manner for residentialpurposes ...” Though the deed could be modified withapproval from the DEQ, Huttig and Scott Street Part-ners, Stevenson says he won’t pursue such a change. Asa result, the decision could create unnecessary furtherdelays while Huttig gets the land up to a standard outof sync with its intended use.

But while Stevenson has argued against the residential requirement, many in the Northside neighborhood have fought for it—and they are disap-pointed more of the 43-acre plot won’t be cleaned as comprehensively.

Bob Oaks, director of the North Missoula Commu-nity Development Corporation, says the decision “does-n’t go far enough, in terms of what the neighborhood’sexpectations were,” but he does allow that it’s “betterthan what [DEQ’s] first proposed plan was, which didn’thave any cleanup for residential use.”

Missoula City Councilman Bryan von Lossbergechoes Oaks’ sentiment. Along with fellow Ward 1 rep-resentative Jason Wiener, von Lossberg sponsored a2014 resolution asking DEQ to “recognize residentialuse as as future anticipated land use” of the site and torequire enhanced cleanup.

“Obviously, I and, I’m sure, the vast majority of thepeople in the community would’ve liked to see that en-tire 19-acre parcel set to be cleaned up to that level,”von Lossberg says. “So it’s a mixed bag.”

Oaks says his group is working with a group of at-torneys “to see if we have any options to do somethingbetter there.” Huttig, too, could challenge the DEQ’sdecision, though a spokesperson for the company declined to comment for this story, saying officials arestill reviewing the decision. In addition, DEQ still has to set up a timeline and process for the cleanup.Meanwhile, Stevenson and his partners will continueto put off development.

“We’ve had many, many inquiries from commercial/industrial people who were interested in the property,but because of this continuing period of indecision as towhat the cleanup standards were going to be, it’s hard toget anyone to commit to saying, ‘I’m gonna build this 15-to 20,000-square-foot building on here and then have todig up the dirt underneath it later on,’” Stevenson says.“People don’t want to deal with unknowns.”

Ted McDermott

Privacy suit moves forwardLaw student Daniel Knudsen’s suit against the Uni-

versity of Montana over alleged privacy violations ismoving forward following an unsuccessful motion bythe university last month to have the case dismissed.Knudsen stands firm in his belief that UM erred in pass-ing his personal information to Higher One, a privatebank contracted to dole out financial aid disbursementsand refunds to students. Likewise, UM continues toclaim its contract with Higher One effectively made thebank an extension of the institution.

“The university’s position is that no student privacyrights are violated or in any way compromised,” saysLucy France, general counsel for UM. “The university

contracts, as many agencies do, with an outside com-pany to process the disbursement of financial aid andother refunds to students.”

The case’s first hearing is set for March 2 in Mis-soula District Court.

In its motion to dismiss filed Jan. 14,UM reiterated its stance that as a contrac-tor, Higher One “steps into the Univer-sity’s shoes for the purpose of processingstudent disbursements.” The motioncompared the bank to other vendors UMoutsources services to for health screens,health insurance and alcohol educationcourses. It also argued that the Family Ed-ucational Rights and Privacy Act protectsentities conducting financial aid serviceson behalf of educational institutions.

“Plaintiff ’s claims are not only frivo-lous and without merit, but also have

precarious consequences for the functioning of ourcampus,” the motion reads. “It is imperative that thisdodgy lawsuit be dismissed at this early stage.”

Knudsen’s attorneys responded to the motion bydeclaring that FERPA does not preempt state privacylaw. The filing claims privacy protections for Montanastudents are far more restrictive than the federal statute,citing the opening brief of Attorney General Tim Fox inthe state’s ongoing appeal of author Jon Krakauer’s at-tempt to obtain records relating to the Jordan Johnsonsexual assault case. FERPA “cannot save the Higher Onecontract by operation of federal preemption,” the doc-ument states. “Montana Privacy Law is more protectivethan is FERPA, so preemption does not apply.”

France counters the university’s stance isn’t thatFERPA trumps state law, rather that UM violated neither.

Knudsen says despite the fact he’s graduating in afew months, the battle is important to him, particularlyin light last year’s class action lawsuit against HigherOne. It’s not just his rights that were violated, he adds,but those of all students.

“I know that regardless of what happens here atthe local level, I will get my day in front of the MontanaSupreme Court to ask them,” Knudsen says. “And Iknow that their case history has not been nearly as per-missive of this sort of behavior.”

Alex Sakariassen

Over the past week, we and other mediaoutlets in town have been trying to figure out whoJon Krakauer interviewed for his forthcoming ex-posé on sexual assaults in Missoula. So far,though, all anyone’s found is people who didn’ttalk to Krakauer and were never even approachedby him.

The best-selling author didn’t talk to the for-mer or current president of the University of Mon-tana, the former or current chief of police or theformer or current Missoula County Attorney. Hedidn’t speak with Missoula Mayor John Engen orGwen Florio, the ex-Missoulian reporter whoplayed a key role in publicizing the flawed han-dling of rape allegations long before Krakauercame around.

So, at this point, it’s worth asking: Who didKrakauer interview?

The only answer his publisher has suppliedcame in a press release that promised “a dispas-sionate, carefully documented account” of “thesearing experiences of several women in Mis-soula.” Telling the victims’ side of the story is un-questionably important, but without the balanceof full reporting it risks undermining Krakauer’swhole endeavor. Just ask Rolling Stone.

From his public effort to wrest documentsin court, Krakauer will also undoubtedly rely onrecords to help fill in the picture. But documentsare limiting. Why not, for instance, try to speakwith Kirsten Pabst, who worked in the MissoulaCounty Attorney’s Officte, defended accusedrapist Jordan Johnson in a highly publicized trialand now serves as the Missoula County Attor-ney? She covers nearly every angle with onephone call.

These questions become important whenconsidering Krakauer’s past. Despite his strongreputation, his accuracy and reporting have comeunder fire before. Impartial critics considered partsof Three Cups of Deceit, Krakauer’s takedown ofCentral Asia Institute founder and Bozeman resi-dent Greg Mortenson, imbalanced and mis-leading. In addition, Into the Wild has beencriticized for speculating about how its subject,Chris McCandless, died, as well as for romanticiz-ing certain facts of his life.

The point of raising questions aboutKrakauer’s process isn’t to resist the intense andinevitable coverage of one of Missoula’s darkestchapters by one of the country’s most-read non-fiction authors. It’s about a basic hope that, whenfaced with such a potentially damaging portrayal,it’s at least been done fairly. From the limited in-formation available, things don’t look promising.

We asked Krakauer to respond to these con-cerns. He was unavailable for comment—but, hey,at least we tried.

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On June 10, just a week after KirstenPabst won the Democratic nomination forMissoula County Attorney and, absent aRepublican challenger in the general elec-tion, the office, she heard some big news.Outgoing County Attorney Fred VanValkenburg had signed an agreement withMontana Attorney General Tim Fox to enda two-year U.S. Department of Justice in-vestigation into the attorney’s office overits handling of sexual assault cases. VanValkenburg had resisted that investigation,even suing the DOJ to prevent it, and heaccepted the agreement with resignation,deeming it “window dressing.” Pabst, how-ever, saw things differently.

“It was a beautiful thing,” Pabst saysnow, sitting behind her desk in the Mis-soula County Courthouse office VanValkenburg previously occupied.

From 1999 until 2012, Van Valkenburgwas Pabst’s boss. It was only a couple ofmonths after Pabst resigned her positionas chief deputy county criminal attorneyand entered private practice as a defenselawyer that the DOJ first announced itwould begin looking into how the Mis-soula Police Department, the University ofMontana and the attorney’s office re-sponded to more than 350 sexual assaultreports between 2008 and 2012. She saysher predecessor’s reluctance to cooperate“concerned me, because I think if youdon’t have anything to hide, don’t hideanything.” In fact, Pabst says, she took theopposite tack, going out of her way to offerthe DOJ “a lot of ideas about the way Ithought the office could do better.”

While Pabst claims that “almost all ofmy recommendations made it into the ul-timate agreement,” Chief Deputy CountyAttorney Jason Marks says the process ofchange within the office began well beforethe AG’s agreement was even signed.

“A lot of what’s in that agreement arethings that we had implemented already,”Marks says. “The fact of the matter is, hav-ing these brought up [with the investiga-tion], we took a look at how we weredoing things and asked ourselves, ‘Are there things we could be doing better?’ And the answer was, ‘Absolutely,there are.’ So we set about trying to makethose improvements.”

Marks says many of those improve-ments had to do with dealing with casesmore expediently, with devoting moreprosecutors exclusively to domestic andsexual violence cases, and with communi-cating more efficiently and openly with vic-tims. In late 2013, for example, the officesigned a memorandum of understanding

with the Missoula Police Department com-mitting to set timelines for reviewing cases.(The next year, a similar MOU was signedwith the Missoula County Sheriff ’s Office.)Also before the agreement, Van Valkenburgincreased the number of attorneys de-voted specifically to sexual and domesticviolence from one to three. (Pabst hassince added a fourth special prosecutor.)Though he defends the motives and com-mitment of his fellow county attorneys,Marks says the changes have been part ofa highly productive “learning process.”

“There is no way there was ever any-one working in this office that didn’t careabout these [sexual assault] cases or didn’t

care about victims,” Marks says. “But thatdoesn’t change the fact that there werethings we weren’t doing well.”

According to an outside observer, theattorney’s office has made major strides to-ward greater transparency and responsive-ness. Shantelle Gaynor of Missoula’s crimevictims advocate program says a series of“good changes” at the attorney’s officebegan with the DOJ investigation and havecontinued under Pabst. Weekly meetingsbetween attorneys, advocates and law en-forcement, Gaynor says, have helped vic-tims get information, especially in thedifficult period when prosecutors are de-termining whether to charge a suspect.She also points to Pabst’s “small reorgani-zation” of the attorney’s office to create“specific point people” for sexual and do-mestic violence cases as being beneficialfor victims.

Missoula Police Detective Lt. BobBouchee says Pabst has also opened upvital lines of communication between law

enforcement and prosecutors, inviting detectives to attend daily attorneys’ meetings to discuss questions and concerns about ongoing cases and investigations. That, Bouchee says, allows“for other eyes and other heads to get together and work towards the commongoal of helping the victim.”

Though Pabst has reassigned attor-neys and reorganized aspects of the office,the change in leadership has been moreseamless than might have been expected.During her three years defending clientsagainst county prosecution, Pabst occa-sionally came into direct conflict with theoffice she now leads. Most notably, she

helped represent University of Montanaquarterback Jordan Johnson in a highlypublicized sexual assault case; Johnsonwas found not guilty of rape in 2013.While declining to comment specificallyon that case, Pabst says her experience rep-resenting the accused isn’t an impedimentbut a boon to her new work as thecounty’s chief prosecutor.

“Every file, every event, involveshuman beings,” Pabst says. “It’s not that Ilearned that being a defense attorney, be-cause we know that. We’re feeling, think-ing people. But that realization really hithome as a defense attorney, to see the pro-found effect that the system has on peo-ple’s lives and their kids and their parentsand their extended families and the peoplethat work for them. There’s just ring afterring after ring of people and lives that areaffected by decisions that are made in thesystem.”

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Making her casePabst takes over as attorney’s office navigates changesby Ted McDermott

[news]

After three years as a defense attorney, Kirsten Pabst has returned to leadthe Missoula County Attorney’s Office during a period of major reform. Shesays she’s committed to “make life better for future victims.”



Fishing with eDNAThe technique that’s revolutionizing aquatic scienceby Ben Goldfarb

[news]

The author holds up a non-native brook trout, plucked from a lake in Yellowstone National Park. eDNA can helpresearchers pinpoint invasive species, saving them hours or days of arduous searching.

Back in 2009, I passed a memorablesummer in Yellowstone, helping the NationalPark Service exterminate the alien trout thatpast generations of biologists and anglers hadcarelessly introduced. One week, in an effortto purge the park’s northeast corner of inva-sive brook trout, we used backpack shockers:ungainly apparatuses that zapped streamswith electric current, stunning nearby fishinto submission so that we could net and killthe interloping brookies.

It was hard work, plagued by uncer-tainty and inefficiency. One crew waded upa steep tributary for hours, fruitlessly wav-ing electrodes beneath logjams and water-falls, certain that the stream wasuncontaminated—only to shock an in-trepid, lonely brook trout at the headwa-ters. Sweat-soaked shoulders slumped. Aday of back-breaking work to find a singlefish? There had to be a better way.

Now, such a way exists: environmentalDNA, or eDNA. The scientific technique al-lows researchers to sample water or soil forminute traces of animal DNA—morsels ofshed skin, fecal matter or reproductive ma-terial—to verify the presence of their targetcritter. Have brook trout or other invasivespecifes infiltrated a watershed? Is the crypticIdaho giant salamander hiding in a moun-tain creek? Just grab a few water samples andrun some polymerase chain reactions, orPCRs— a method for amplifying DNA that’sused in everything from forensics to diag-nosing hereditary disease—and voila, you’vegot your answer. During my time in Yellow-stone, eDNA could have saved us hours,even days, of arduous searching.

No wonder, then, that scientists

around the West are spreading the eDNAgospel. Among the converts is MatthewLaramie, a U.S. Geological Survey ecolo-gist who recently employed the techniqueto find summer chinook salmon in north-ern Washington’s Methow and Okanaganbasins. The fish head upriver in spring,when melt-swollen creeks make tradi-tional sampling methods like snorkelingor electrofishing impractical. By contrast,says Laramie, using eDNA barely requiresgetting out of the car: “A single personcould sample the whole Okanagan Basinin a day or two.”

More important than convenience, ofcourse, is accuracy. Fortunately, eDNApasses that test. In streams where Laramieknew chinook were present, he generallyfound their DNA; in streams that the fishcouldn’t access, he didn’t. Now that thetest has been proven effective on chinook,says Laramie, it can be used to track thesalmon restoration efforts of the ColvilleConfederated Tribes, which plan to rein-troduce spring chinook into the Okana-gan within the year.

eDNA is also being employed to com-bat those pesky brook trout, an easternspecies that have displaced bull trout, athreatened native cousin, in many Westernstreams. Tracking the fishes’ relative distri-butions may help researchers like TaylorWilcox, a PhD student at the University ofMontana, understand exactly what happenswhen the invader enters a system—espe-cially whether bull trout can survive by flee-ing to connected streams elsewhere in thewatershed. Such a vast study is tailor-madefor environmental DNA.

“With eDNA, you can have reallyhigh detection probability over very largescales, and the cost of sampling is lowerthan doing backpack electrofishing,”Wilcox says. Indeed, he and collabora-tors have picked up traces of brook troutgenetic material in situations wherebackpack electroshocking had stunnednary a fish.

Still, eDNA remains immature inmany ways. The technique has only beenin widespread use for a few years, andthere are important questions it can’t yetreliably answer. How many fish—or frogs,or salamanders—live in a stream? Are theyold or young, healthy or sick? Thoughtraces of Asian carp DNA have led somescientists to suspect that the infamous in-vader has finally reached the Great Lakes,while others claim the samples could havecome from bird droppings or boats. Dis-tinguishing the DNA of close relatives likebrook and bull trout, or coho and chi-nook salmon, is also challenging. Scoop-ing up water samples might be easy, butcreating sufficiently sensitive PCR assays,claims Laramie, “is where the hard workof this method comes in.”

Nonetheless, eDNA is already changingthe face of aquatic science and conserva-tion—and as methods improve, its role willonly expand.

“There are still so many unknowns,”Laramie says with relish. “It’s a field that’sjust ripe for research.

This story originally appeared in

High Country News (hcn.org ).

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The 2015 Montana Legislature is lessthan two months old, but Republicans in Helena have already gotten tough on poor people.

In January, Sen. Art Wittich, R–Belgrade,subpoenaed welfare workers to share anec-dotes about fraud before the Health andHuman Services Committee. Weeks later,Rep. Tom Burnett, R–Bozeman, told col-leagues on his own HHS committee that wel-fare recipients need to go to church and eat“with others, at a table, not on the couch.”Shortly thereafter, the House passed HB 200,requiring people who receive federallyfunded Temporary Assistance for Needy Fam-ilies, or TANF, to take monthly drug tests.

Clearly, Republicans in Helena believewe’re spending too much money on welfare.But if they’re serious about getting people offgovernment assistance, they should look forbetter ways to enforce child support.

The majority of TANF recipients are sin-gle mothers. Forty percent of the Mon-tanans who get food stamps are children insingle-parent households. Research showsthat approximately 2 percent of welfare re-cipients use drugs—roughly the same rateas the general population. On the otherhand, only 41 percent of custodial parentsget their legally mandated child supporteach month.

The so-called crisis in social welfarespending is a crisis in child support payment.Some TANF and Supplemental Nutrition As-sistance Program recipients may be scam-ming the state for benefits they don’t need,but many, many more are stuck on welfarebecause the fathers of their children have bro-ken the law. The “crisis” in welfare spendingcomes from fathers who have shifted their ob-ligations to the state, not from mothers whoare actually raising their children.

But Republicans in Helena talk aboutsingle motherhood as if it’s not somethingfathers are doing. They’ve abandoned seri-ous policy to indulge the fantasy that peopleon welfare are immoral and spoiled. In2013, for example, Rep. Dave Hagstrom, R–Billings, wrote:

“[Welfare] creates a mindset that if Ihave kids and their dads are deadbeats, thegovernment should buy my groceries andhelp me get a job while they provide daycare for my kids and send me to school toeducate me so I can get a better job.”

This claim implies that mothers raisingchildren are somehow responsible for

deadbeat dads. It would be more accurateto say lax enforcement of child support cre-ates a mindset that if I have kids and aban-don them, nothing bad will happen to me.

Saying single mothers should workharder or be married won’t get them offwelfare, but enforcing child support pay-ments will. If more men paid their legallymandated child support, the largest singledemographic of TANF and SNAP recipientswould get more money every month. Hun-gry kids could rely on their fathers insteadof the government. We could improve thelives of the poor even as we spent lessmoney on welfare.

Massive noncompliance with child sup-port is not an easy problem to fix. In Mon-tana, single parents who apply for TANF areautomatically referred to the Child SupportEnforcement Division, which pays what fa-thers owe and hopes to be reimbursed later.This system eases the burden on single

moms, but it strains funding and lets fathersshift their responsibilities to the state.

There’s a reason nearly 60 percent ofpeople who owe child support don’t pay.Montana law allows the state to garnishtheir wages, subtract payments from theirtax returns and suspend their driver’s li-censes, but many deadbeat dads work forcash. For the same reasons they don’t com-ply with court orders, they’re more likely toskip tax returns or drive without a license.

It’s almost as if deadbeat dads were ir-responsible. But instead of focusing on thisobvious moral issue—one that directly im-pacts social welfare spending and can be ad-dressed through stronger enforcement ofexisting laws—Republicans have spent thelast two months attacking welfare moms.They should change how they think aboutthis issue, because it touches on two centralplanks of the GOP platform: reducing de-pendence on government and preservingtraditional families.

If fathers couldn’t abandon their kidswith impunity, fewer children might beborn out of wedlock. If more single mothersgot the child support to which they arelegally entitled, fewer of them would needmoney from the government to get by.

That’s a practical solution to a socialproblem. It saves the state money and en-courages traditional childrearing. It alsorests on the kind of moral argument that Re-publicans in Helena seem comfortable ad-vancing. All they need to do is stop judgingwelfare recipients and start talking aboutpeople who are actually breaking the law.

There is a welfare crisis in Montana, butit doesn’t come from single moms. Thereare people out there who would rather letthe government provide for their children—people who are lazy and immoral and tak-ing the taxpayers of this state for a ride.Republicans in Helena should get realabout who they are.

Dan Brooks writes about politics,

c u l t u r e a n d d e a d b e a t d a d s a t

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Mother’s helperWelfare spending isn’t the problem Helena needs to solveby Dan Brooks


Plenty of ink has been spilled latelyover Utah’s Transfer of Public Lands Act,the controversial law requiring the federalgovernment to turn over 31.2 million acresof public land to the state of Utah—withouteven a token payment to the U.S. Treas-ury—as well as talk of similar effortsaround the West. But should the Americanpublic take these proposals seriously?

The Utah Legislature’s legal counselnoted that its transfer law was likely un-constitutional. After all, the federal govern-ment’s right to retain and manage thefederal estate is considered settled law ac-cording to a long line of Supreme Courtcases, starting with Kleppe v. New Mexicoin 1976. Nonetheless, state legislators haveappropriated millions of dollars of Utahtaxpayers’ money to study the potentialimplications of state ownership and to lit-igate title to federal lands.

Utah Rep. Ken Ivory, the bill’s leadsponsor, continues to press the discreditednotion that certain states are somehow“entitled” to the nation’s public lands. He’sraised hundreds of thousands of dollarsfrom his fellow county commissioners toform a nonprofit group, the AmericanLands Council, to push for state takeovers.As a representative of the council, he’straveled far and wide, trying to convinceWesterners that their states are the rightfulowners of America’s national forests andBureau of Land Management lands. De-spite drawing the attention of sagebrushrebels like Cliven Bundy in Nevada andright-wing think tanks like the AmericanLegislative Exchange Council, or ALEC,Ivory’s efforts have thus far failed to spurother states to pass similar legislation.

Ivory has also been stymied in Utah.

When his bill passed in 2012, it demandedthat the federal government relinquish allfederal lands in the state by the end of2014. That deadline passed without anyfederal action, and Utah’s attorney generalhas yet to file suit to force the issue. Theissue remains alive, however; the Utah Leg-islature appropriated $2 million dollars to

hire outside counsel to strategize and sue,if necessary.

Here’s the basic question: Does Utahhave a legal leg to stand on? To seize fed-eral public lands, Utah would have to filesuit under the Quiet Title Act, which re-quires proof that the state has a valid claimof ownership. But the statute of limitationsunder this law ran long ago, with the pas-sage of the Federal Lands Policy and Man-agement Act in 1976.

Ivory’s cause is not attracting muchpolitical support either. Staunchly conser-vative editorial boards at Utah’s Deseret

News and the St. George Spectrum recentlyeditorialized against transferring federallands to the state of Utah. Even Gale Nor-ton, former Interior secretary underGeorge W. Bush, would not back Ivory ata recent conference he hosted on the issue

in Washington, D.C.Then, just before Christmas, a 784-

page economic study of the state’s pro-posed transfer found that the transferfailed to make sense financially for Utah.According to the study, even if the state gotto keep the public’s mineral royalties, itwould still come up short. Under the eco-nomic study’s most optimistic scenario—based on consistently high oilprices—Utah’s public education systemwould face a $1 billion deficit in 20 years.

In order to make the numbers workat all, the state would have to aggressivelydrill for oil in many publicly valued placessuch as the region around CanyonlandsNational Park. And even doing that, Utahwould still face a $100 million backlog indeferred maintenance costs for everythingfrom roads to campgrounds.

So here’s $2 million worth of free ad-vice to the state of Utah: Stop the madness.Congress has the exclusive authority totransfer public lands. The only viable pathforward is to pass transfer legislationthrough Congress and obtain the presi-dent’s signature—an approach that isn’tgoing anywhere. Remember, the Americanpublic hasn’t responded well to past at-tempts to seize control of their publiclands. In short, it’s time for the backers ofthis doomed land grab to admit defeat andleave America’s public lands alone.

Hillary Hoffmann is a contributor to

Writers on the Range, a column service of

High Country News (hcn.org). She is a law

professor at Vermont Law School’s Environ-

mental Law Center, specializing in natural

resources and public lands issues through-

out the West.

Road to nowherePublic lands aren’t about to change hands to state controlby Hillary Hoffmann

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CURSES, FOILED AGAIN – Jeffrey Wood, 19, announced a robbery at a convenience store in Wash-ington, D.C., where two police detectives were shopping. They were in plain clothes, but one had her badgehanging from her neck. She told the suspect, “Stop playing, I got 17,” referring to the number of bullets inher gun. Wood reportedly replied, “I got 17, too.” He was bluffing, however, and was easily arrested. (TheWashington Post)

Someone reported two men acting suspiciously in a parked car in Rexburg, Idaho, but before police could re-spond, the men, aware that they had been observed, assumed they had been discovered by undercover of-ficers. They called 911 and admitted to possessing 20 pounds of marijuana. Rexburg police, who said theyhad no idea the men were driving through town with drugs, arrived to find Leland Ryan Kaimipono Ayala-Doliente, 21, and Craig Seward, 22, standing outside their car with the pot. (Pocatello’s Idaho State Journal)

VICTIM OF THE WEEK – Adam Wisneski, 31, rode his bicycle to a Chicago police station to report astolen iPhone. He didn’t have his lock, so he asked if he could leave his bike inside the station. After fillingout a police report, he turned around to find someone had stolen his bike. (Chicago’s WBBM Radio)

FORGIVE AND FORGET - After Charlene and Charles Earle drove to a hospital in Orange City, Fla., fortreatment of injuries from a fight at home, sheriff’s deputies described the couple as “mutual combatants.”Charlene Earle is 83, 4 feet 11 inches tall and weighs 88 pounds. Charles Earle is 87. They’ve been married64 years. They told authorities they didn’t remember the incident or why they were arguing. (The DaytonaBeach News-Journal)

WHEN GUNS ARE OUTLAWED – Police said Andrew Rak, 28, threatened Will Flanagan, the formermayor of Fall River, Mass., with oversized scissors used at ribbon-cutting ceremonies. Rak reportedly stolethe prop scissors from Flanagan’s SUV, along with other items, including a small souvenir baseball bat,which he smashed against the ground outside Flanagan’s apartment while stating he was going to “kill themayor.” Flanagan, who was ousted from office by a recall election in December, confronted Rak, who said,“I’m going to kill you. You lost the election.” (Fall River’s The Herald News)

OVERREACTION – Mitzi Lynn Martinez, 50, admitted to setting fire to a tent where two men were sleep-ing after drinking beer with them at her home in Palm Bay, Fla. She said she gave one of the men $15 togo buy more beer, then got into a “heated argument” with the other one, who left. He met the other man,and they took the beer to their tent. Five hours later, Martinez lit a soft drink container filled with lighter fluidand rolled it down an embankment toward the tent, which burst into flames. Police charged her with at-tempted murder. (Orlando Sentinel)

MR. UNLUCKY – Motorist Michael S. Baumann, 20, hit bicyclist Darryl Isaacs, 50, from behind in IndianHills, Ky. Witnesses confirmed that Isaacs was signaling a left turn when he was struck and thrown backinto the car’s windshield and on to the pavement. Police Chief Kelly Spratt said Isaacs is lucky to be alive.Isaacs is a well-known personal injury attorney who markets himself as the “Heavy Hitter” and the “KentuckyHammer” for his firm’s success in recovering $500 million in benefits for his clients. (Louisville’s TheCourtier-Journal)

BUZZ KILLS – One byproduct of legalized marijuana is a rash of exploding houses, according to Coloradoauthorities, who reported 32 such blasts across the state last year. The incidents result from people usingflammable liquids, mostly butane, to extract hash oil from marijuana. “They get enough vapors inside thebuilding, and it goes off,” Grand Junction Fire Marshal Chuck Mathis said. No one has been killed, but thefires have injured dozens of people, including 17 who received skin grafts and surgery at the University ofColorado Hospital’s burn center. Arguing that such tragedies aren’t crimes because of the 2012 constitutionalamendment that legalized marijuana use, including processing, attorney Robert Corry said using butane tomake hash oil is “the equivalent of frying turkey for Thanksgiving,” where “someone spills the oil, and there’san explosion.” (The New York Times)

Spanish authorities on the resort island of Ibiza said Dimitrina Dimitrova, 29, was so excited when herboyfriend proposed to her at a scenic spot overlooking the Mediterranean Sea that she began jumping upand down, lost her balance and fell 65 feet to her death. (Britain’s Daily Mail)

SHIRKING-CLASS HERO – A.K. Verma, an assistant executive engineer at India’s Central Public WorksDepartment (CPWD), went on leave in 1990 but declined to return to work. “He went on seeking extensionof leave, which was not sanctioned, and defied directions to report to work,” a government statement said,noting that an inquiry found Verma guilty of “willful absence from duty” in 1992. He remained on unau-thorized leave for another 22 years, however, before Urban Development Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu finallyordered his dismissal to “streamline the functioning of CPWD and to ensure accountability.” (Britain’s TheGuardian)

INSENSITIVITY LESSONS – The Irish school Colaiste Eoin in Stillorgan canceled a workshop on ho-mophobic bullying after its board of management decided “both sides of the argument should be repre-sented.” (Britain’s Metro)

Philadelphia’s Bryn Mawr College drew criticism after sending overweight students an email advertising afitness program. Targeted students with “elevated” body mass indexes were identified by information fromthe school’s health center. Center Director Dr. Kay Kerr apologized “to anyone who has been upset or of-fended by our communication.” (NBC News)

THEM THAT HAS, GETS –

Although China owns at least $1.3 trillion of the U.S. debt, the U.S. government sent it $12.3 million in for-eign aid last year and is handing it another $6.8 million this year. An official for the State Department’sUSAID program said the money is earmarked to help Tibetan communities “preserve their threatened cul-tural traditions” and to help China “address environmental conservation and strengthen the rule of law.”(The Washington Times)


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On Jan. 6, Steve Dainesstrolled down the centeraisle in the U.S. Senate cham-bers, shoulders squared and

hands folded at his waist. He carried asmall, tan copy of the New Testamentpassed down from his grandfather, a pas-tor at a Lutheran Church near Ledger,and grinned as he shook hands with VicePresident Joe Biden. Sen. Jon Testershifted from foot to foot as Dainespledged to uphold the office to whichMontana voters had elected him the pre-vious November. The swearing-in cere-mony lasted all of two minutes, but ithad far more historic implications backhome. Daines officially became the firstRepublican to occupy that Senate seat inmore than a century—a remarkable as-cent for someone whose political careerdates back less than a decade.

A Bozeman native and 28-year veteranof the private sector, Daines really only be-came a familiar name in Montana politicsin 2007. Rumors were circulating through-out the state that year that the RightNowTechnologies executive was weighing a gu-bernatorial challenge against BrianSchweitzer. Daines repeatedly dismissedthe whispers, even as he founded non-profit focused on pressuring the state toreturn a large portion of its $1 billion sur-plus to taxpayers. A flurry of television andradio advertisements framed the issue inbusiness terms, casting taxpayers as cus-tomers and the state as the company thathad overcharged them. Daines ran the ini-

tiative, did ad voiceovers, even postedphotos of himself and his wife, Cindy, tothe website GiveItBack.org—a phraseDaines says was coined by his father, Clair.

“Growing up in the construction busi-ness, my dad always taught me when youovercharge the customer, you should givethem back the money,” Daines tells the In-

dependent. “And looking at the surplus, Isaid, ‘You know what, in some ways thetaxpayer has been overcharged. That’s notthe government’s money, that’s the tax-payers’ money … Let’s set aside half of itfor a rainy day—always good to keep some


U.S. Sen. Steve Daines, above, addresses a Feb. 18 joint meeting of the Montana Legislature, calling on lawmakers to come up with “Montana solu-tions” to national problems. Inset: Daines, accompanied by his wife Cindy, is officially sworn in to the Senate Jan. 6 by Vice President Joe Biden.


photo courtesy of Joy Holder

savings—but let’s give back the other halfto the taxpayers who were overcharged inthe first place.’”

Daines’ debut on Montana’s politicalstage was quickly met with reproach bythe left. The Montana Democratic Partyfiled a complaint with the state’s Commis-sioner of Political Practices alleging the ini-tiative violated campaign practice laws.The complaint was dismissed, but inspring 2008, Daines left GiveItBack.organd, two days later, filed to run for lieu-tenant governor alongside Republican RoyBrown. The Democratic Party reassertedits allegations in a second filing in March.That, too, was dismissed, but then-Com-missioner David Gallik acknowledged that“Daines’ name recognition and desirabilitywithin the conservative audience mayhave increased as a result of hisspokesperson role for the organization.”

Daines and Brown lost the race, butthe notoriety Daines garnered amongMontana conservatives paid off four yearslater when he launched a successful bid foran open seat in the U.S. House. Ninemonths into his first term, Daines re-sponded to the news of Sen. Max Baucus’pending retirement by announcing hiscandidacy for the Senate. He became thefrontrunner last summer when his Demo-cratic opponent, Sen. John Walsh, exitedthe race amid revelations that he’d plagia-rized a research paper at the U.S. Army WarCollege—information the National Repub-lican Senatorial Committee later admittedit had leaked to The New York Times.

Daines defeated Walsh’s replacement, for-mer state Rep. Amanda Curtis, by nearly 18points. According to Joel Shouse, a long-time friend of the Daines family in Boze-man, “A lot of things just fell into placekind of like they were meant to be.”

The speed of Daines’ rise from politicalunknown to the U.S. Senate has left manyin the state scrambling to figure out who,exactly, this newcomer is. He’s not a pop-

ulist farmer like Tester, nor does he com-mand the D.C. clout of Baucus. His publicspeeches and voting record paint a clear pic-ture of an ambitious young Republican,dogmatic on social issues and conservativeon fiscal ones. According to data from theSunlight Foundation, he’s voted with theGOP 94.5 percent of the time, on issuesranging from abortion bans to repealing theAffordable Care Act. Yet Daines has managed

to pull out some surprises with that other5.5 percent. A few months into his Housestint, he agreed to carry the North Fork Wa-tershed Protection Act, a conservation billpioneered by Democrats and blithely ig-nored by his Republican predecessor,Denny Rehberg. He also broke from Houseleadership early on to support reauthoriza-tion of the Violence Against Women Act.

At first blush, it’s easy for the left toloathe him and the right to laud him. Butthose reactions tend to focus only on how

he’s voted on key issues. As Montana getsto know its new senator—a dedicated out-

doorsman, polished business leader and un-apologetic man of faith—it’s starting tounderstand why he votes the way he does,and how that can create unexpected results.

The OutdoorsmanIn the waning days of his first and only

term in the House, Daines sent a letter toBrian Sybert, executive director of the

Montana Wilderness Association, askingfor thoughts on what Congress should doto increase development of traditional andrenewable energy resources in the state.The letter came shortly after lawmakershad succeeded in passing a massive publiclands package attached to the National De-fense Authorization Act—a package that in-cluded 67,000 acres of new wilderness inMontana. Daines had waffled on the Rocky

Mountain Front Heritage Act for nearly twoyears, and his support was finally won inexchange for the release of two wildernessstudy areas in eastern Montana. Daines’letter to Sybert asked for specific input onpossible recommendations for the releaseof additional WSAs.

“The tone of that letter did cause usconcern,” Sybert says, “because it seemedto be heavily weighted towards release ofWSAs versus a more balanced approachand really looking at which ones deserveprotection and which ones may deservesome other designation.”

When it comes to public lands issues,Daines frequently makes reference to beingan avid outdoorsman. His summiting ofGranite Peak, his fondness for backpackingin the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness andhis mountain-top marriage proposal to hiswife factor heavily in speech after speech asexamples of his connection to the state’swild heritage. Even seated in his office indowntown Helena, Daines comes off as

restless and ready for a hike. He shifts con-stantly in his chair, raises and lowers hislegs, flexes the polished black cowboyboots on his feet. He talks about takingweekend breaks from his summer job at hisdad’s construction company in high schoolto camp and climb. When not in school orskiing at Bridger Bowl, he says his winterswere spent poring over topo maps of theSpanish Peaks, the Crazy Mountains and

the Taylor-Hilgard Unit of southwest Mon-tana’s Lee Metcalf Wilderness.

“I had a fly rod in my hand way beforeBrad Pitt discovered it,” he quips.

To hear Mike Gaffke tell it, Daines’ en-thusiasm for the outdoors was infectious.The two became friends in high school,fishing local creeks together and huntingdeer. After graduating from BozemanHigh, Gaffke recalls, Daines and severalothers plotted a weeklong trip throughthe Beartooths. Gaffke had never been onsuch an intense outing, but says Dainesproved an adept leader.

“We started in Cooke City and cameout on the other side,” Gaffke says. “Stevewas the one that kind of led the expeditionas far as pulling out the maps and planningthe route, where we’d camp and how farwe’d go. A lot of it was off-trail, and that’ssomething I’d never done before.”

Daines says his lifelong connection tothe outdoors provides a solid foundationfor his approach to public lands policy. He

sees Montana’s wild places as “a gift,” andbalks at the notion perpetuated by somewithin his own party that Congress shouldsurrender ownership of its holdings to thestates. Daines appears to be walking a lineon the issue of transferring public lands. Hedoesn’t specifically support the transfer ofownership pushed by conservative groupslike the Utah-based American Lands Coun-cil, nor does he agree with Gov. Steve Bul-lock, the Montana Wilderness Associationand scores of others who view the debateas a waste of time and money.

“Public lands are … part of our her-itage, it’s a treasure that we have, and itneeds to be protected,” he says. “So Idon’t support the transfer of federal landsto the state. I don’t see a fiscal path thatwould make that work, for starters. WhatI do support is ensuring Montanans havea louder voice and have a greater say inhow we manage our public lands today. Ithink most Montanans think we could doa better job of managing those lands thanfederal bureaucrats 2,000 miles away.”

Daines took advantage of this month’sSenate recess to host a series of roundtablediscussions regarding forest managementreforms. In his mind, a Montana governorworking with state agencies to oversee na-tional forests like the Lolo, Kootenai andFlathead can “probably do a better jobthan having this one-size-fits-all federalmandate.” That scenario could result in“more common-sense regulations,” hesays, adding there’s a “greater appetite” forsuch reforms in Congress at present.

Daines’ desired approach to forestmanagement became gradually clearerduring his two years in the House, largelyreflected by his position on Sen. Tester’sForest Jobs and Recreation Act. Sybert saysDaines sounded “laudatory” about the col-laborative spirit of the bill early on, and hisnear-immediate willingness to carry theNorth Fork Watershed Protection Act in theHouse earned praise from conservation-


A young Steve Daines poses during a backpack trip in the Beartooths, a stretch of backcountrythe senator frequently references when plugging his connection to Montana’s public lands.

More than 500 Montanans rallied in the Capitol Rotunda Feb. 16 to oppose efforts totransfer federal lands to the states. Daines opposes a straight ownership swap, butsupports increasing state control over federal lands.

“Montana has some threads of John Denver running through it, and it has some threads of Merle Haggard running through it. Trying to figure

out that melody in our state is something I take very seriously.”—Steve Daines

photo courtesy of Steve Daines photo courtesy of Gabriel Furshong

ists. But hope dwindled as Daines beganto build a voting record that included sup-porting the 2013 Restoring Healthy Forestsfor Healthy Communities Act. The meas-ure, sponsored by Rep. Doc Hastings, R-Wash., called on the U.S. Forest Service toestablish “Forest Reserve Revenue Areas”on all national forests designed to increasetimber harvest nationwide.

“We and our broader coalition hadasked the senator—the congressman at thetime—what changes he needed to see inFJRA,” Sybert says. “We never really saw alist of specific changes, but I guess whathe wanted to see was it apply to timber re-form, forest policy reform, on all 10 na-tional forests” in Montana.

Sybert says Daines’ positions have be-come more troubling in his first month assenator. He cites four specific develop-ments as cause for concern: an amendmentaimed at undoing certain provisions of theAntiquities Act, a vote in favor of reformingthe Land and Water Conservation Fund, hissubsequent opposition to reauthorizing thefund, and his support for a proposal bySen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, to strip WSAstatus from millions of acres nationwide.

Sybert isn’t the only conservationistwith mounting doubts about Daines. Hisdedication to coal development on theCrow Indian Reservation has prompted theMissoula-based Blue Skies Campaign to dubhim “an example of what’s wrong with Con-gress.” The League of Conservation Votersthis month gave Daines a zero percent on aspecial edition Senate scorecard, citing anumber of recent votes including his unwa-vering support for the Keystone XL pipeline.

Meanwhile, Daines continues to adver-tise his status as an outdoorsman and hisappreciation for Montana’s wild places.Sybert hopes that sentiment will carry overinto his approach to federal policy. IfDaines wants to pursue increased timberharvest on national forests in Montana,Sybert says, perhaps he’ll be open to dis-cussing wilderness and other conservationdesignations as a counterweight. It’s an op-tion Daines will have to consider if he plansto get the now-senior Sen. Tester on board.

“Any sort of land management bill wecome up with needs to have three mainthings,” Tester says. “It has to have forest cut,it has to have wilderness, it has to improverecreational opportunities.” Without thoselinchpins—and a collaborative, Montana-based coalition pushing it—Tester’s supportfor any reforms will be non-existent.

The BusinessmanDaines strolls to the front of the Mon-

tana House chambers, escorted by fourstate lawmakers. He jokes in the openingof his Feb. 18 address that this is his sec-ond consecutive appearance as a fresh-man before the joint bodies of thelegislature—a nod to his relatively quickmove from congressman three years agoto newly elected senator.

Daines’ address leaps from topic totopic, starting with his recently introducedBalanced Budget Accountability Act andwinding around to overregulation by theEnvironmental Protection Agency, the im-

portance of moving forward on the Key-stone XL and the war President BarackObama is waging on the coal industry. Themost fervent applause come from Repub-lican legislators, but when he declares thatpublic lands should remain public, it’s theDemocrats who jump from their seats first.Daines outlines a broad conservativeagenda for the Senate term ahead, but themessage he imparts is concise: Solutionsto the nation’s problems aren’t going tocome from federal bureaucrats in D.C.

“They’re going to come from locallegislators like you,” he says. “They’regoing to come from Montana small busi-ness owners, from Montana families.Washington is the problem. Montana hasthe solutions.”

It’s a talking point he will repeat con-tinuously during his Montana tour.

Daines refers to his own 28-year careerin the private sector as a primer for publicoffice.” After graduating from Montana StateUniversity with a degree in chemical engi-neering, he immediately applied for and re-ceived a job with the multinationalconsumer goods manufacturer Procter &Gamble. Daines started in an entry-levelmanagement position with the company inIowa City, Iowa, overseeing a team of 30people and producing some of the com-pany’s most famous brands: Scope mouth-wash, Crest toothpaste, Head & Shouldersshampoo. He calls it a “high-pressure envi-ronment,” one that showed him “how im-portant humility is in leadership.”

“I think it really taught me the impor-tance of, when you come into a role, listenfirst, speak second,” he says.

P&G eventually tapped Daines for a jobheading up the company’s expansion intoAsian markets, a promotion that requiredDaines, his wife and their two children atthe time to relocate to Hong Kong. Daines

describes the work of outcompeting Chi-nese companies as “very, very hard” but ul-timately rewarding, not just for P&G butalso for his personal future. The experiencegave him “a global perspective,” Daines says,“something that helps me in my job today.”

“In the United States Senate today,we’re having to grapple with significantchallenges globally,” he continues, “andhaving a better understanding of wherewe fit in this larger global picture I thinkis a very important part of leading ourcountry in policy on global competitive-ness and frankly national security.”

The break Daines most often refers to,however, came after he moved back toMontana in 1997. He worked for his fa-ther’s construction company for several

years, but eventually connected with localbusinessman and fellow engineer Greg Gi-anforte, who was in the process of startinga software firm called RightNow Technolo-gies. Daines joined the company as a vicepresident in 2000, not long after Amy Wien-ing was hired to RightNow’s sales team.

“Sometimes when you had issues thatwere escalating, it was just sort of a battle in-ternally to try to resolve them,” Wiening says.“When I got to work with Steve, that wasn’tthe case. ... He was just good about listeningto the whole issue and deciding where theresolution needed to come from, whether itwas from us or from the client, rather thanalways trying to push it off like it wasn’t ourissue. It was good to have him in meetingswhere, even if people were upset or mad atus for any reason, that never flustered him.He could just take that in and process it forwhat it was. He never took it personally.”

RightNow Technologies has becomeanother favorite talking point for Daines,whether on the campaign trail or speakingbefore the legislature. In fact, he seems in-capable of mentioning the company with-

out adding that during his tenure there, thecompany created “hundreds of good jobs... averaging more than $70,000 a year.”

RightNow, and the connections builtthere, also contributed significantly toDaines’ own financial wellbeing. His 2013financial disclosure report—the most re-cent released by Daines—stated he hadpersonal assets worth between $8.9 mil-lion and $32.7 million. A large portion ofthat is attributed to properties owned byGenesis Partners, a firm Daines foundedwith Gianforte and his father, Clair Daines.

Daines stuck with RightNow Technolo-gies for nearly 12 years, resigning to run forthe House not long after the world’s sec-ond-largest software company, OracleCorp., purchased RightNow for $1.8 bil-

lion. Critics have since speculated that hisyears at the company and the money nettedby executives through the Oracle purchasewere the springboard from which Daineslaunched his political career. In fact, accord-ing to a February 2014 article in the Billings

Gazette, Daines officially filed his candidacyfor the U.S. Senate from his iPhone whileat the Bozeman offices of Oracle.

Both Procter & Gamble and Oraclehave served as prominent backers inDaines’ rise to office. Individuals and po-litical action committees associated withthe former contributed $32,900 to hisSenate campaign alone; the latter shelledout $19,590. P&G’s contributions weretopped by only two other donor sources:the Elliott Management Corporation,founded by billionaire hedge fund man-ager Paul Singer, and Koch Industries, theKansas-based multinational firm run bybrothers Charles and David Koch. TheWashington Post listed Daines as one ofseveral freshman senators in attendanceat the Kochs’ Freedom Partners confer-ence in Palm Springs this January.

The list of Daines’ top 100 contribu-tors, as compiled by the Center for Re-sponsive Politics, includes the names ofnumerous corporations with direct ties tothe issues he’s taken up in the House andSenate. Companies like Devon Energy, amajor proponent and beneficiary of theKeystone XL, and Cloud Peak Energy, themining outfit pursuing development onthe Crow Indian Reservation, have pouredthousands into Daines’ campaign coffers.

Three decades in the private sector in-fluenced both Daines’ principles and hisapproach to leadership. He talks aboutgovernment as though it is a business, withtaxpayers as the customers and govern-ment as the company providing the serv-ices they need. “I see these principles andthese skills as transferrable,” he says, “fo-cused not on ourselves and the institutionbut focused on the people that elected usto serve them in the first place.” That’s oneof the underlying messages he sees in theBalanced Budget Accountability Act, whichwould terminate congressional pay if a bal-anced budget can’t be passed. It’s an ap-proach Tester expresses seriousreservations about, as both a 10-year vet-eran of the Senate and a working farmer.

“On one hand, I agree with him, Ithink we need to get to a balancedbudget,” Tester tells the Indy. “I think ifwe did it tomorrow—which I think is whatthe bill implies; we don’t get paid until wedo it—it could have incredible draconianeffects on, I could go down the list: agri-culture, veterans, Indian Country, housingprojects and, quite frankly, how we’re at-tacking ISIS in the Middle East.”

Tester adds that if his congressionalpay was cut tomorrow, he’d be in no po-sition to continue the work. Without men-tioning Daines by name, he draws acomparison to his millionaire colleague.

“There are some folks that have a lotof dough back there,” Tester says, “andthey could withstand going a few yearswithout a salary. But I’m not one ofthem.”

Man of faithJoel Shouse moved to Bozeman from

Maquoketa, Iowa, nearly 40 years ago. Hewas a hunter and angler and quickly be-friended fellow Bozeman newbies Clairand Sharon Daines. Shouse, his wife andthe Daines eventually took to traveling to-gether, including a trip to Europe. It wasSharon, Shouse recalls, who actually firstpredicted her son’s career path.

“She always said about him, ‘Some-day, he’s going to do one of two things.He’s either going to go to seminary andbecome a pastor or he’s going to get in-volved in politics,’” Shouse says. “That wasmany years ago that she made that obser-vation about him, and she was correct.”

A civil engineer by trade, Shouse grewquite close to Steve Daines during his yearsstudying chemical engineering at MSU. Thetwo would talk shop, or Steve would simplyshare tales of his latest hunting exploits.Shouse still runs into the senator atSpringhill Presbyterian nearly every Sun-day, and holds him in high personal regard.


Asked why he supports Daines, Rep. Kerry White, R-Bozeman, cites faith and a strong family connection tothe state.


“He’s a good solid Christian guy andhe certainly is not bashful about being inchurch and exposing himself to perhapscriticism in some accounts from that,”Shouse says. “He’s the kind of people thatI feel we need to have a lot more of backthere, and I just really expect him to dogreat things.”

Daines attends Springhill Presbyteriannow, but he was baptized and confirmedLutheran. Shouse remembers that asteenagers, his daughter and Daines bothparticipated in an interdenominationalChristian ministry called The Navigators,whose outreach efforts are reflected in themotto “to know Christ and make himknown.” Later, when Daines returned toBozeman after leaving Procter & Gamble,he and Shouse became involved in found-ing a local chapter of Bible Study FellowshipInternational, another interdenominationalorganization that hosts Bible classes acrossthe globe. Shouse was the discussion leaderfor the men’s group, he says, and Daineswas the study leader.

“For, I don’t know, seven or eightyears I’d see him at 5:30 in the morningon Monday mornings when the leadershipgroup would meet, and then I’d see himagain on Tuesdays at 6:30 in the eveningswhen the men’s group would meet,”Shouse says. “I was around him an awfullot during those years, and he did an ab-solutely phenomenal job. Steve is a very,very gifted speaker and he really did justa super job.”

Watching him grow up, Shouse feelsfaith has influenced much of Daines’ life,from business to public service. He adds Gi-anforte, who recruited Daines to RightNow,was a “very strong Christian guy” too.

When asked about his most promi-nent experience in his religious life, andhow his faith has influenced his politics,Daines becomes somewhat guarded.

“I think probably the most importantthing I think about faith is probably com-ing down to the Golden Rule,” he tells theIndy, “which is do unto others as youwould ask them to do or seek them to dounto you. It really comes down to, it’s notabout us, it’s about other people. It’s notabout us, it’s about serving. And I think ifI boil it all down about faith, it’s not aboutme. It’s about serving other people.”

Yet it’s hard not to see faith contribut-ing to his votes alongside religious con-servatives on a host of issues like abortionand gay marriage. During last year’s tele-vised Senate debate in Billings, Daines ref-erenced the First Amendment andfreedom of religion in answering a ques-tion about access to contraception.Amanda Curtis quickly went on the offen-sive, tying Daines’ mention of the FirstAmendment to the U.S. Supreme Court’sruling in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby and thebelief that corporations should be able to“make my health care decisions for me.”

“As a woman,” Curtis said, “I ab-solutely disagree with that.”

Others continue to question just howextreme Daines’ religious views are. Cam-paign opponents, bloggers and the mediahave publicly discussed the senator’s con-nections to young earth creationist theory;

Mother Jones last year revisited the buzzaround Daines’ House race after his cam-paign scheduled a fundraiser at the Cre-ation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky—afundraiser Daines is quick to remind peo-ple never actually took place.

“There are parts of it that are inaccu-rate and not true, but you know what?Sometimes those things aren’t evenworth responding to,” Daines says ofsuch accusations.

Daines weaves the threads of faith andfamily tightly into the fabric of his politicalnarrative. He rarely misses a chance tomention his status as a fifth-generationMontanan, citing his great-great-grand-mother Karine Dyrud’s immigration fromNorway to the U.S. in 1869. Dyrud actually

spent much of her life in Minnesota, mov-ing to Montana sometime around 1909alongside her grown children, of whichshe had seven. In fact, Bureau of LandManagement records show the first Dyrudsto file homestead patents in the state wereKarine’s sons Anton and Adolph in 1913.By 1919, more of her children had estab-lished homesteads throughout Liberty andPondera counties. Daines—who was bornin California but moved back to the stateat age 2—doesn’t dispute these dates,though throughout his campaigns andcongressional career the focus has alwaysbeen Karine’s year of immigration.

“She came out in ’09—’08 or ’09—andshe was a founding member of the GoldenWest Lutheran Church,” Daines says.“She’s buried in that cemetery, about twomiles away from there.”

The issue of Daines’ Montana rootsmatters to many, as it often becomes a keybragging point in political campaigns.Rep. Kerry White, R-Bozeman, a staunchDaines supporter, says it shows a candi-date’s connectivity to communities

throughout the state. White, whose ownfamily recently celebrated 150 years in theGallatin Valley, doesn’t question Daines’credentials. “I think the multiple-genera-tion shows the passion he has for the peo-ple and this state,” White says.

Daines would add it demonstrates anunderstanding of Montana residents, aswell, though he acknowledges he’slearned much about the diversity of Mon-tana simply by traveling it. This isn’t a redstate or a blue state, Daines says. It’s aplace with a fierce independent, populist,Western mentality. He draws a stark con-trast between Montana and its redderneighbors like Idaho and Wyoming.

“Montana has some threads of JohnDenver running through it, and it has

some threads of Merle Haggard runningthrough it,” Daines says. “Trying to figureout that melody in our state is somethingI take very seriously, understanding thatwe do have different views in our stateand how do you best represent the peopleof Montana when I go down on the floorand cast a vote.”

Owning itDaines looks fairly laid-back at 7 a.m.

on a Thursday in a top-floor meetingroom at downtown Helena’s MontanaClub. He’s there for the weekly gatheringof Hometown Helena, and after a collec-tion of locals finish offering updates onthe condition of shelves at the HelenaFood Share and efforts to expand crisisservices for veterans, the senator launchesinto a slightly tweaked version of the pre-vious day’s legislative address. He lobs thesame attacks on D.C. bureaucrats, plugsthe same list of items on his Senateagenda. He also points out he’s the firstBobcat to be elected to the U.S. House

and Senate, explaining it hasn’t happenedbefore because “most Bobcats are toosmart to run for Congress.”

Afterwards, Daines takes questionsfrom the room, which include a query aboutObama’s veto of the Keystone XL bill passedby Congress earlier this month. When willhe veto, and will it be overridden? Dainessays Obama is getting a lot of pressure fromthe “traditional Democratic base” to kill thepipeline, and it now looks like the Senate isfour votes short of an override. “The mathdoesn’t look good,” he says.

The room clears, and as Daines sitsdown for a final cup of coffee before head-ing north to tour the Rainbow Dam inGreat Falls, Creedence Clearwater Re-vival’s “Fortunate Son” drifts out of the

kitchen door. As has often proven the caseduring his speedy rise in Montana politics,his speech contained no real surprises.Everyone knows Daines supports in-creased timber harvest, reduced govern-ment spending, moving forward on theKeystone XL. One of the primary compa-nies standing to benefit from the Key-stone—Valero Energy—has in recentannual reports cited dwindling domesticdemand for gasoline as the impetus for ag-gressively pursuing exports to other mar-kets. Daines isn’t concerned that suchstatements might undermine his promisesof economic growth and energy inde-pendence resulting from the pipeline.

“Ask a Montana farmer or rancherhow important exports are for economicgrowth and opportunity,” Daines says.“What happened in agriculture is we firststarted by working to feed our state, andthen we started feeding our country, andthen thanks to the hard work and produc-tivity of the Montana farmer and rancher,we now feed the world. … If it weren’tfor exports, Montana agriculture would be

struggling. Similarly, I think the world willbe a safer place if it’s looking to the UnitedStates as an energy supplier instead of theMiddle East.”

It’s hard to think of a better exampleof the influence Daines’ business careerhas had on his political leanings. In hismind, issues like the Keystone and coaldevelopment boil down to making theU.S. more competitive and prosperous.He wears his support for the energy indus-try on his sleeve, as he does with almostany other issue.

“Anytime you’re in leadership, there’sgoing to be people who agree with you andpeople who disagree with you,” Dainessays. “It’s the nature of being a leader. Thebest advice I received was pretty simple:Keep your skin thick and your heart tender.And I think that applies well in life, and itapplies in politics, and it applies as a can-didate in a hotly contested race.”

Tester says his first real impression ofDaines came in the days leading up to hisswearing-in to the House in 2013. Testerand Baucus went to Daines’ office to wel-come him, and what Tester saw was a mantrying to get his feet on the ground in D.C.

“I don’t think he came for any otherreason than to try to do what’s right,”Tester says.

Over the next year, Tester feels there’smuch for him and Daines to collaborate on.The two have already had a one-on-onemeeting—no staff—to discuss the path for-ward, and Tester hopes they’ll have more.They’re currently in tandem on the InternetTax Freedom Forever Act, as well as a meas-ure to grant federal recognition to Mon-tana’s Little Shell Tribe. “Like I told himwhen he got sworn in,” Tester says, “we’llwork together when we can agree andwhen we don’t agree we won’t fight a lotabout it. We’ll just do the best we can do.”

They may be finding commonground, but on many issues, the bestTester and Daines will be able to do is dis-agree. One has spent his life farming aspread in eastern Montana, worked as amusic teacher and served as president ofthe state Senate. The other grew up inwestern Montana’s backcountry, leavingthe state at 21 to begin a decades-long ca-reer in business. Political scientists havealready deemed Daines the “most conser-vative” congressman in Montana history,an assertion echoed by Curtis time andagain last year. It’s criticism he expects tohear more of, but will not nudge him awayfrom doing what he believes—and whathis experience has taught him—is right.

“Depending on who’s scorecard youuse and who’s criteria you use, you canget called a lot of different names andlabel a lot of different things,” he says. “Ina political campaign, temperatures getturned up a little bit and ultimately Istayed focused on what I thought wasright for our state. We didn’t waver fromthis ‘more jobs, less government’ messageand talking about the policies associatedwith that, and ultimately I let the votersdecide who they think should be servingthem. And the voters decided.”

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As Montanans grow more familiar with the details of Daines’ background, it’s becoming clearer why he votesthe way he does, and why he’s capable of the occasional departure from the conservative norm.


When Melissa Bangs talks about one of thescariest moments in her life, she makes itsound funny. Not necessarily laugh-out-

loud funny, at least not at first. But it sounds accessi-ble and normal, even though it was frightening andsurreal.

The moment occurred more than two years ago,in the weeks after the birth of her daughter, whenBangs was sleep deprived, manic and dealing withhormones that were completely out of whack. Withthe support of her husband and family, she was ad-mitted to Providence Psychiatric Facilities—“the loonybin,” as she sometimes calls it—and prescribed aheavy dose of medications that produced wild sideeffects. Some days she was stricken with paranoia,others found her knocked out. The medicine wouldchange, and with it her experience. All the while,Bangs struggled with the reality of not being with hernewborn, and weighed the shame and sense of failureand overall confusion of what was happening. Then,one day, she found herself playing Monopoly againstGod. As Bangs recalls the game, she doesn’t strayfrom her overall narrative of fear and frustration, butshe certainly takes the time to land a few punch lines.After all, it’s not often you’re battling over Baltic Av-enue with Him.

This is the balancing act of Playing Monopoly

With God & Other True Stories, Bangs’ new one-woman show about what happened after the birth ofher daughter. She’s careful about how she describesthe content, calling it both “wildly funny” and “deeplysad” in a press release. The same release specifies thatit’s definitely not a comedy. But for those who’ve metBangs—a Missoula native, longtime nonprofit con-sultant and exhibiting artist at Radius Gallery—it’s nosurprise to find that humor plays a key part in her lat-est work.

“If I got up in front of an audience and just tolda sad story, their defenses would never come down,”Bangs says. “But if I can get them laughing andthey’re just open, and then I deliver some sad, shock-ing details that happened, you don’t have time to putyour guard up. You’re already in.”

Bangs uses humor as a tool, and she uses it ef-fectively. She took classes with the Upright CitizensBrigade when she lived in New York City, and ithelped her develop improv skills and a sense ofcomic timing. She’s also a natural storyteller who un-derstands how to grab and keep the attention of aroom. Her talents were on display last year when shetook the stage at the Top Hat Lounge and told herbirth story as part of the regular Tell Us Somethingstorytelling series. The crowd alternated betweenlaughter and dead silence. Some cried.

“[A friend] told me, because you had me laugh-ing so much, I trusted you,” Bangs says. “Because Itrusted you, I agreed to follow you to the darkerplaces because I knew you wouldn’t leave me there.”

To be clear, Bangs does not sugarcoat the darkerplaces. The psych ward was not all board games andabsurd hallucinations. She couldn’t fathom what wasgoing on. She doubted herself in ways she’d neverimagined. She convinced herself she was destined forWarm Springs. As her doctors searched for answers,and a long list of family and friends stepped up with

support, Bangs couldn’t shake the simple fact thatshe wasn’t in the one place she was needed most:with her newborn daughter.

“I did have one moment in the psych ward whereI thought, no one is ever going to know about this,”she says. “How could I ever explain it when I didn’teven know what parts were real?”

Healing took time. When Bangs was discharged,her doctors prescribed lithium, which didn’t seem tohelp, and diagnosed her as bipolar, which didn’t seemto make sense to her or her family. Unsatisfied withmodern medicine’s answers, Bangs pursued alterna-tive measures. One of the biggest breakthroughs, shesays, was learning just how much her hormone levelswere off—something that, in hindsight, makes sensefor a 40-year-old first-time mother. She started seeinga naturopath. She tracked her diet, sleep and exer-cise. She stopped taking the lithium.

Today, she proudly says she’s off all medications,including hormone supplements. She and her hus-band are happily raising their daughter. And whileher story has already been featured on Montana Pub-lic Radio, on the front page of the Missoulian and in

a first-person story in the Mother’s Day issue of Ma-

malode Magazine, she says there’s still more to talkabout—particularly for other mothers.

“I always knew that telling this story and gettingpeople to laugh about certain parts of it would behealing for me,” she says. “What I didn’t know untillater is that friend after friend after friend, so manyof my mama friends, started sharing these deep,dark, painful experiences from their births that I hadnever heard. In far too many cases, they hadn’t toldanyone. And not only had they not told anyone, theyjust endured it. They endured it and they hadn’thealed from it. … I thought, maybe, if I tell my story,and I can do it with a big dose of self-love and with-out shame, that will help other women heal, forgivethemselves, get help and feel like they don’t have tojust endure it.”

For exactly this reason, Bangs made sure hershow spoke to others and didn’t only focus on herexperience. She used extensive research about post-partum depression and psychosis to help contextu-alize her story, as well as educate the audience.Information from support groups will be available in-

side the theater, and birth doulas will be in atten-dance. A portion of the show’s proceeds will helplaunch a new fund for local mothers who need im-mediate postpartum support and services. Ideally,she sees others starting to talk about these often un-spoken issues and beginning to heal.

That process, Bangs says, is important. She’s ina much better place today than she was two years ago,happier and healthier, but it’s not like her experienceis “tidy,” as she puts it. You don’t go through some-thing like a visit to the psych ward and just move on.She may be taking the stage this weekend to tell herstory, but she admits that story is still changing.

“My hope going in was that this performancewould be healing to other mamas out there,” she says.“Turns out, I think the performance is going to be pro-foundly healing for me in a way I didn’t expect.”

Melissa Bangs presents Playing MonopolyWith God & Other True Stories at the Crystal

Theater Fri., Feb. 27, and Sat., Feb. 28, at 7 PM.

Sold out.

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Do not pass goHealing and the art of storytelling with Melissa Bangs (plus a special appearance from God)by Skylar Browning


Melissa Bangs describes her one-woman show about her postpartum experience as “deeply sad” and “wildly funny,” but “definitely not a comedy.”

photo courtesy of Nichole Peterson and Np Images

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In the indiscriminate land ofindie rock, it’s often difficult tofind bands that don’t sound likewatered-down, homogenous im-itations of The Shins, BeachHouse and Wilco. Chord pro-gressions get recycled and weary,and those edgy and intellectuallyrics quickly seem a little lessedgy and intellectual. Soonenough, it all just blends to-gether.

Mendelssohn doesn’t havethat problem. The Chicago-born group came to Missoulain 2011 with intentions torecord their first full-length album, and now they’reproducing vinyl and digital copies of their debut LP,Years. Listeners will hear a sampling of the record atan Indiegogo campaign launch at Free Cycles thisweek, and the actual album will be pressed and readyfor distribution by early May.

The songs on Years exhibit a refreshing instru-mental diversity, integrating horns and woodwinds

with mandolin, keyboard and atypical three-piece. Imagine afolky cousin of Real Estate.Tracks like “Watching All thePastures” are subdued but notlazy, blending landscapes ofAmericana with more playful,surf-rock style guitar melodies.“U.S. Highway 20,” with itsdrifting trumpet solo and mini-mal vocals, takes a morehushed, contemplative route.

Occasionally, the band’s in-strumental complexity gets outof hand and sways toward theunwieldy and schizophrenic

side of things, but that’s probably intentional. Theyaren’t afraid to embrace a little imperfection.Mendelssohn’s members cut their teeth on jazz andworld music, so going off the rails every once in awhile is part of the process. (Micah Fields)

Mendelssohn plays Free Cycles Fri., Feb. 27,

at 7:30 PM to support their album campaign,

along with Wartime Blues and The Skurfs. Dona-

When Cakes da Killa rapsthe word “faggots,” he is morethan likely talking about hisown crew. Cakes is gay, and theinversion in connotation of thatword—problematically commonin club rap, the genre that suc-cessfully reclaimed anotherprominent epithet—is enoughreason to listen to him. The New Jersey rapper is ag-gressively out in a form that sometimes presents itselfas the only music ever to attract no gay men at all.

That constitutes a realness gap, and Cakes ex-ploits it gleefully. In contemporary hip-hop, realnessoften means conforming to the genre’s most theatri-cal stereotypes at the expense of personal expression,a la Rick Ross. But personal expression is Cakes’

thing, and he makes it a distinc-tive strength.

“They’re mad becausethey’re not real,” his hypewoman shouts at the beginningof “Get 2 Werk,” “and they lookat us for their realness.” Cakeshas a moral advantage here, andhe is right to press it. It helps

that he does so over some extremely degenerate clubbeats, atonal honks and all. This is party music. It isthe kind of party where the realer you are, the harderyou will dance, and vice versa. It’s the party rapneeds. (Dan Brooks)

KBGA presents Cakes da Killa at the Palace

Sat., Feb. 28, at 9 PM along with locals Tahj and

Twosday. $15/$12 advance at Ear Candy. 18-plus.

Cakes da Killa

I had planned on makingthis review just 200 words of“ T O O O O O O R R R R C C C H -HHE!!!!!!!!!!1111 :DDD,” be-cause that is descriptive of howthis band makes me feel. Butsince that’s not terribly inform-ative, I will use other words.Namely, that this Miami sludge-metal band’s new record, outthis month on Relapse Records,is essential listening if you’re ametalhead—and maybe if you’rea pop-punk kinda kid, too.

Restarter doesn’t vary much from Torche’s estab-lished formula of thunderous, rolling guitars crashingaround surprisingly catchy melodies. Where othermetal bands aim for maximum brutality, Torche uses

levity, only employing maxi-mum aggression where it worksto the greatest effect, as a wayto punctuate brief, memorabletracks like “Annihilation Affair”and “Blasted.”

Restarter runs a little moredissonant and drawn-out thanTorche’s last record, but like allof the band’s catalog, it’s theperfect soundtrack for longdrives on epic mountain passesor winter hikes through sleet.

The real shame here is that, with a sound that somightily evokes calving glaciers and mystical creatures,Torche insists on making their home in southernFlorida, of all places. Fingers crossed they come to ourcorner of the planet again soon. (Kate Whittle)

Torche, Restarter

Off the railsMendelssohn doesn’t have the indie rock problem


Sam Williamson and Nick Pavelich wake up eachmorning with Shakespeare on the brain. They’re soplagued, in fact, that Williamson recently told his fi-ancée, Heidi Mudd, that she should “wash thyclothes.” (He’d just finished a load and wanted tooffer her the chance to launder hers.) “I thought tomyself, ‘Don’t ever say that again!’” he says, face-palm-ing himself. But when you’re practicing scenes fromRomeo and Juliet every day for four hours a day, it’shard to separate reality from the Elizabethan.

The two Missoula actors have to spend so much timerehearsing because they are the only two people in theirupcoming production of the Shakespeare classic.Williamson plays Juliet, Pavelich plays Romeo, and theyboth play every other character as needed. They are self-directed, though Mudd offers feedback and line prompts.

“It’s a grand experiment,” Pavelich says. “We’re doingit because we can and because we think the only way toexplain why we are doing it like this is to do it like this.It’s like, why climb a mountain? Because it’s there.”

It also seems likely that no one has ever done aproduction exactly like this before.

“I Googled ‘two-man version of Romeo and Juliet’and got nothing,” Williamson says. “So either we’re boldand challenging ourselves in a unique way, or we’re thedumbest theater practitioners that ever lived.”

In the dark, cold basement of the Zootown ArtsCommunity Center, the actors stage sword fights andromantic scenes under the glow of a single fluores-cent light and strings of white Christmas bulbs. Theylovingly call it “the murder room,” and let’s face it, intheir case it’s apropos: within the stretch of their two-hour adaptation, Williamson is murdered three dif-ferent times (as Tybalt, Mercutio and Paris) beforethey both finally die in the famous double suicide.

As University of Montana theater alumni, Pavelichand Williamson are veterans of the Missoula stage.They’re best known as comedic actors, even in seri-ous plays. Pavelich inhabited wry, deadpan charactersin The Cherry Orchard, The Miracle Worker andHolocene. Williamson, known for his physical com-edy, has played several hilarious characters includingthe jolly drunk uncle, Sir Toby Belch, in Twelfth

Night, as well as recently starring in the coveted roleof Bottom in UM’s Midsummer Night’s Dream.

The two got to know each other well a few yearsago when Williamson directed a version of Macbeth

starring Pavelich as the title character. The cast per-formed it in the woods of Greenough Park. It waschallenging, marred by just enough curve balls to feellike a true Macbeth curse. The day of the show theyfound themselves short an actor. A sword broke.There were hornets everywhere. But still, those chal-lenges don’t compare to the chaos of doing a two-man version of Romeo and Juliet, sans props. “Thishas just been way more wild,” Williamson says.

The actors, who will perform the play at the Crys-tal Theater for a week-long run, picked Romeo and

Juliet for their experiment because it’s one of their fa-vorites, but also because it’s not a comedy. The vigor-ous and absurd act of playing all the characters alreadynaturally falls prey to audience laughter. And Pavelichand Williamson wanted to stray from type—from whateveryone expected of them as comedic actors.

“I think if we were to do a comedy, it takes awaythe challenge of fighting against that,” Williamsonsays. “You can find sincere moments in those come-dies, but I think a comedy would have given us toomuch cushion.”

The decision to play female characters—Julietand Juliet’s nurse—is also precarious territory, vul-nerable to criticism and speculation. But the actorsinsist this production isn’t a statement about gender.It’s also not meant to be a throwback to the old dayswhen male actors played female characters on stage.And it’s definitely not a way to get easy laughs.

“We’re trying to be absolutely honest and sincereand big in our portrayal of all of these characters,”Pavelich says. “You can lean a little too heavily on thedevice of a man playing a woman—the sexism of it—but that’s not the sort of theater we’re going for here.”

They do agree that what this production is, istheir valentine to Shakespeare. It’s a stripped downtribute to the language and what Mudd calls “the epit-ome of independent theater.” It’s also a risk that eventhe actors aren’t sure is a good idea. But they’rethrowing caution to the wind.

“Punk rock Romeo and Juliet,” Pavelich calls it.“And my mantra has been, ‘I don’t give a fuck.’”

Nick Pavelich and Sam Williamson perform

Romeo and Juliet at the Crystal Theatre Tue.,

March 3–Sat., March 7, at 7:30 PM nightly. $10.

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Bloody valentineTwo-man Romeo and Juliet pays tribute to the bard by Erika Fredrickson

Sam Williamson, top, stars as Juliet and Nick Pavelich stars as Romeo in a two-man versionof the Shakespeare classic.

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The British-style murder mystery is a veneratedgenre tradition, going back to Arthur Conan Doyle’sSherlock. Bigfork-based author Leslie Budewitzfondly recalls growing up reading Agatha Christie andNancy Drew. These days, she puts a food-loving Mon-tanan’s spin on the murder mystery with punny nov-els like Death al Dente and Crime Rib, wherea small-town mercantile owner helps solve dis-appearances and eat plenty of handmade pastaalong the way.

Budewitz is also a practicing lawyer, andwrote the 2011 award-winning nonfictionguide Books, Crooks & Counselors: How to

Write Accurately About Criminal Law and

Courtroom Procedure. She also serves as vicepresident of Sisters in Crime, an internationalnonprofit literary organization that providesnetworking for mystery writers.

Budewitz’s latest, Assault and Pepper,moves the setting to the Pike Place Market inSeattle, a bustling community that’s rife withopportunities for intrigue. We caught up withBudewitz about her love of good food andcrafting stories.

Would you say your experience as a lawyer

helps when working on a story?

Leslie Budewitz: Yeah. I will say that writ-ing mysteries is a lot more fun because I canactually kill people without having to worryabout prison.

When did you get started as a writer?

LB: I started writing at 4, literally on myfather’s desk. I did not yet understand the con-cept of paper. Happily, my parents were veryunderstanding, and my mother who’s 89 stillgives me notebooks and pens for Christmas. Iwas always interested in writing, and in tellingstories, but I didn’t really know how you didthat. It wasn’t until about, gosh, it’s 20 years now,that I started thinking I wanted to do this. I was sittingin the law library in my firm’s office in Polson oneday, and those were days when we had big law li-braries with big tables, and I had a yellow notepad,and a character came to me and I just started writingher story. … So when I decided to start writing full-length mysteries again, I really loved the lightheartedside, which is what I’m writing now, and sometimescalled the cozy mystery. That lighthearted side is verypopular right now and a lot of fun, and I decided tofocus on that. The food angle came in because ofcourse I love to eat, and I love to cook, and readerslove that.

Mystery is such an enduring genre. Why do you think

people stay engaged with mysteries?

LB: You know, there’s a mystery at the heart ofevery story, whether it’s shelved in the mystery sec-tion or some other section. We are all inherently cu-rious about other people’s experiences. We read forother people’s experiences. The type of novel we ac-tually call the mystery is just more organized that way.

How do you plot out clues and the big reveal?

LB: To tell you the truth, I don’t think a lot aboutthat. They just flow, and then I see that they’re there,and I highlight them in my word processor so that Ican identify them later and make sure they all comeback into place.

Tell me about Sisters in Crime.

LB: It was founded to promote women crime-fic-tion writers. They had discovered from their own ex-perience and from clear observation that womendidn’t get the review space or the shelf space, andthey suspected they weren’t getting the advances thatmen got. And the organization has worked ever sincethen to change those conditions.

Writing seems like a solitary thing, but it’s really not.

LB: We spend all day alone in our offices or cof-fee shops with characters who only exist because wemake them up. And truthfully, I’m a happier, health-ier person because of it. We do so much alone, andyet we have to have the community. Every accom-plishment and opportunity I have had as a writer hascome because of the writing community and contactsI’ve made.

Leslie Budewitz reads from Assault and Pep-per at Fact and Fiction Tue., March 3, at 7 PM.

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[books]

Tasty dilemmasAuthor Leslie Budewitz on killing and communityby Kate Whittle

Assault and PepperLeslie Budewitz

paperback, Berkley304 pages, $24.69


Before it got the Best Picture stamp, the bushyaura around Birdman was mostly that it was weird(it is). It’s arty. It has very long takes. It’s MichaelKeaton at his best ever, even with the hackneyed run-down of a real-life washed-up Batman playing a fake-life cinematic superhero making a thea-tah comebackvia a Raymond Carver adaptation.

Got all that? Great. No? It’s okay, because it’s timeto just talk about the long takes. Because despite allof this movie’s promise and ambitions, the truth isthose seem to be what it wants to be about. And I’mjust gonna say it: It may be art. It may be a movieabout actors acting—the Academy so digs that!—butthe filmmaking here detracts from the film. Worse, itdetracts from the weird. And the weird of Birdman

is so super good. Take the opening shot. It’s Keaton in a Walter White

getup (tighty whites) sitting cross-legged and levitating,which is never explained. The jazzy drum soundtrackis a metaphorical character until it makes an actualcameo. Things explode telekinetically. And that throatybully that is the voice in Keaton’s head? It’s reallyKeaton-as-Birdman trying to convince him to ditch aplay and do another movie. Among other things.

We hear so much sooner than we see the feath-ered and scaly alter ego of Keaton’s Riggan Thomson.That only helps to land the instantly classic scenewhen Birdman finally appears over Keaton’s shoulder.(There’s a pretty great parody of this featuring BigBird and his puppeteer. I’ll wait while you Google.)

All this to say: There’s a lot going on here in ad-dition to what turns out to be followable, solid plot.So can we please get over all the filmy wanking aboutdirector Alejandro González Iñárritu’s grueling-on-ac-tors technique to do the movie in chunky, unbrokenswaths? My guess is not, since he won Achievement inDirecting last Sunday, but still. The effect here was tomake the hallways of the St. James Theatre competewith Keaton as the star. And let’s face it: This muchwalking and brooding and talking and blowing up inhallways hasn’t happened since TV critics liked AaronSorkin. And Keaton didn’t need competition. That’swhy he should have won the damn Oscar!

So, backing up, just in case you need me to:Keaton plays Thomson, a complicated, egotistical, de-pressed actor who made superhero blockbusters be-

fore he got older and a little fatter and wanted to bethe actor he thought he could be before he donnedfeathers. He adapts Carver’s short story collection,“What We Talk About When We Talk About Love,” di-rects and stars in it. The movie-about-the-play beginsin the pre-dawn of Broadway previews.

Thomson’s most fraught relationship, other thanwith the bird voice, is with a daughter whose life hechecked out of (a tattooed Emma Stone). As a junkie-coming-good, Stone’s got a Big Oscar Scene whereshe speaks truth to her father’s worth and in it, she’smostly convincing at making you forget she was kiss-ing Peter Parker/Spider-Man a few movies ago. Thom-son’s got an ex-wife, too, a noticeably miscast AmyRyan, and you can just go ahead and forget her.

Because if there’s someone competing with thedirector and his star for Birdman’s legacy, it’s EdwardNorton. He’s a guy so adept at feeding the weird,while still providing relief from it. Here may be thebest example yet. Norton plays Mike, an actor whosaves Thomson’s play and then becomes his nemesis.The tension between Mike’s cockiness and Thom-son’s vulnerability is also, to borrow a phrase, sosuper good. It builds and tips into a fight scene withNorton in a Speedo, fresh from the tanning bed heordered just because he’s worth it. Pure theater in-side a theater and fun to watch, even if you’ve seenthe trailer or that clip a dozen times.

Other actor side dishes here—Zach Galifianakis,Naomi Watts—are tasty, too. But it’s really about themany forms Keaton and his character take in and,most memorably, outside of that many-hallwayed the-ater over 119 minutes.

In the first of those, you hear that deep, dark in-visible voice: “How did we end up here? This placeis horrible. We don’t belong in this shithole.” Andwhen he finally does get out of the bowels of the St.James, there’s freedom. There’s flying. It’s calledBirdman, after all. Well, technically, it’s called Bird-

man or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance). Be-cause why simply title a movie when you can addparentheses and make Academy-approved art?

Birdman continues at the Roxy through

March 5.

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Academy-approvedBirdman soars when it’s not trying to be “art”by Jule Banville

“Come on, Robin, to the bird’s nest!”

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OPENING THIS WEEKAMPLIFY KINDNESSKatrina Shull’s documentary commemorateslast year’s deadly Mount Jumbo avalanche andapplauds the volunteers and first responders.Premiering at the Roxy Sat., Feb. 28, at 5 PM.(See Agenda.)

FOCUSWill Smith plays a veteran con man who justmight get taken for a ride by his femme fataleex-girlfriend. Also starring Margot Robbie andRodrigo Santoro. Rated R. Carmike 12, Pharaoh-plex, Showboat.

JACKIE BROWNA flight attendant gets caught between an in-ternational arms dealer and the police. Starring Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson andRobert Forster. Screening at the Roxy Thu.,Feb. 26 at 7:15 PM, as part of the Tarantinoretrospective.

KING LEAR (STRATFORD FESTIVAL)An aging monarch has his faith in humanityshattered during a family conflict in Shake-speare’s classic. Heads up: this gets pretty vio-lent, so maybe leave the younger kids at home.Screening at the Roxy Tue., March 3, and Tue,March 20 at 7 PM. Visit mtlive.org.

THE LAZARUS EFFECTAfter medical students discover a way to bringdead people back to life, they are surprised todiscover that something has gone terriblywrong. Starring Olivia Wilde, Mark Duplass andEvan Peters. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12,Pharaohplex.

MOVIE MOCKERS: INNERSPACEThe interactive screening of the classic ‘87 Mar-tin Short flick includes local comedians AaronRoos, John Howard, Kyle McAfee and MichaelBeers snarking on it live in the theater. Screeningat the Roxy Sat., Feb. 28 at 8 PM.

MR. TURNERTimothy Spall stars as the eccentric but brilliantBritish painter J.M.W. Turner in a tale of hispassionate, controversial lifestyle. Also starringPaul Jesson and Dorothy Atkinson. Rated R.Wilma.

WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWSModern-day vampires deal with the drags of life,like chores and rent, in a comedy from the“Flight of the Concords” dudes. Starring JemaineClement, Taika Waititi and Jonathan Brugh.Screening at the Roxy Fri., Feb. 27-Wed., March4, at 7:15 PM.

NOW PLAYINGAMERICAN SNIPERClint Eastwood directs the based-on-a-true-storytale of legendary Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle.Starring Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller and KyleGallner. Rated R. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex,Showboat.

BIRDMANA typecast actor who used to play a superherotries to recover his career with an artsy new role.(Look up “meta” in the dictionary.) StarringMichael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis and EdwardNorton. Screening at the Roxy Fri. Feb. 27-March5, nightly at 8 PM, plus 4 PM matinee on Satur-day and Sunday. (See Film.)

BLACK OR WHITEKevin Costner stars as a clueless grandfatherbattling for custody of his young granddaughter.Also starring Octavia Spencer and Gillian Jacobs.Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Showboat.

THE DUFFSadly, this movie has nothing to do with HilaryDuff, but rather, is about a high school seniorfinding out she’s been labeled the “DesignatedUgly Fat Friend.” Starring Mae Whitman, BellaThorne and Robbie Amell. Rated PG-13.Carmike 12.

HOT TUB TIME MACHINE 2Goofy dudes have to change the future in orderto save their past that’s really the present. Star-ring Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson and ClarkDuke. Rated R. Carmike 12.

IDABefore a young Polish woman can take hervows as a nun, she discovers a dark family se-cret that could derail her life plans. Winner ofthe Oscar for Best Foreign Film. Starring AgataKulesza, Agata Trzebuchowska and DawidOgrodnik. Rated PG-13. Screening at the RoxySun., March 1 at 5 PM.

JUPITER ASCENDINGA genetically engineered warrior-hunk and pre-destined heroine get together to fight bad guysand change the cosmos. They probably alsomake out at some point. Starring ChanningTatum, Mila Kunis and Eddie Redmayne. RatedPG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICEA slick, modern spy organization recruits asmart-talking kid off the street. Will the protegebe able to save the world from an evil genius intime?!?!? Gosh, I have no idea. Starring ColinFirth, Taron Egerton and Samuel L. Jackson.Rated R. Carmike 12.

THE LUNCHBOX (DABBA)A young housewife befriends an older manthrough notes in Mumbai’s famous lunchboxdelivery system. Starring Irrfan Khan, NimratKaur and Nawazuddin Siddiqui. Rated PG.Screening at the Roxy Wed., March 4, at 7 PM.

MCFARLAND, USAKevin Costner is a cross-country coach deter-mined to lead his team to a championship. Ididn’t realize it was Feel Good Sports Movieseason already. Also starring Maria Bello andMorgan Saylor. Rated PG. Carmike 12,Pharaohplex.

PADDINGTONA London family is surprised to find that invitinga talking bear to their home causes morecomedic trouble than they expected. StarringHugh “Lord Grantham” Bonneville, SallyHawkins and Julie Walters. Rated PG. Carmike12, Pharaohplex.

THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SPONGE OUT OF WATERThe Square One embarks on a quest for astolen recipe that takes him onto dry land. Star-ring Tom Kenny, Antonio Banderas and BillFagerbakke. Rated PG. Carmike 12, Pharaoh-plex, Showboat.

TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT (DEUX JOURS, UNE NUIT)A young Belgian woman learns that her com-pany is about to fire her and distribute hersalary as a raise to its other employees. Shegets the weekend to convince them not to doit. Sounds stressful! Starring Marion Cotillard,Fabrizio Rongione and Catherine Salée. RatedPG-13. Wilma.

WHIPLASHOur homeboy J.K. Simmons stars as a music in-structor who’s merciless to promising young stu-dents. Also starring Miles Teller and MelissaBenoist. Rated R. Wilma.

Capsule reviews by Kate Whittle.

Planning your outing to the cinema? Visitthe arts section of missoulanews.com tofind up-to-date movie times for theatersin the area. You can also contact theaters tospare yourself any grief and/or parking lot pro-fanities. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 12 at541-7469; The Roxy at 728-9380; Wilma at728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 961-FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer inRonan at 883-5603.

Bloody mess. What We Do in the Shadows opens Friday at the Roxy.

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Roasted rootsby Ari LeVaux FLASH IN THE PAN

Root crops are the soul of a winter meal. But atthis stage of the season, after months of playingaround with these earthy, dense vegetables, manycooks are bored and have run out of ways to preparethem. Sometimes when you’re at such an impasse, allit takes is a new little trick to thrust open the creativedoors. For me, learning to make a roasted rootbrunoise was just the ticket. It’s both a finished prod-uct that’s ready to be eaten, and an ingredient forother dishes, such as roasted root risotto.

Brunoise (pronounced “broon-wahh”) is Frenchfor “very small cubes.” It also functions as a verb,meaning “to cut things into very small cubes.” Roastedroot brunoise results in a fragrant mix of confetti-likecolored bits of chewy roasted root.

Munched plain, a mouthful of roasted rootbrunoise tastes a bit like those Terra brand “exotic veg-etable chips” that come in fancy bags, though not ascrispy. Roasted root brunoise can be sprinkled onsalad, added to soup or fried with your breakfast.

Most any tuber is fair game for a roastedbrunoise. Whatever’s at the store, in your root cellar,or even still surviving in the garden deserves consid-eration. It can be a simple mix, like carrot and potato,or you can force the cashier to look up the codes forevery obscure item in the produce section.

While roasting mellows and sweetens some fieryflavors, like that of a turnip, it will intensify others,like rutabaga, which becomes especially pungentwhen roasted. Radishes stay feisty, while shriveling tothe point of nearly disappearing. Carrot, celeriac andparsnip are especially aromatic. Taro and yam arestarchy and sweet. Potatoes become starchy with ahint of bitterness. Beets are intense, earthy and sweet.

Depending on the context, caution is warrantedwith strong-flavored roots like radishes and rutabaga,which can really swing the flavor of a dish. Red beets,meanwhile, can give a crimson hue to everything theytouch—thus, I would stick to the non-staining Chioggia(red and white striped) or golden varieties. But that’sjust me. Part of the fun of roasted root brunoise is ex-perimenting with different roots and combinations.

True brunoise consists of perfect cubes of lessthan 1/8-inch per side. In culinary school, aspiringchefs are judged by their ability to create perfectbrunoise in a timely manner. For our purposes,chopped really small will do, but it helps to at least at-tempt to do the chopping in a brunoise-like manner.

A sharp knife is essential.The three main steps in making brunoise are: 1)

cut your vegetable into thin sheets; 2) cut the sheetsinto matchsticks, or julienne; 3) cut your julienne intobrunoise.

Your vegetable should always rest flat against thecutting board, so begin by cutting it in half and placingthe two halves side by side, flat sides down. Slice the

two halves lengthwise into sheets. Don’t be afraid toslice slowly—you don’t have to be all chopchopchop-

chop like the pros on TV. Your fingertips will thank you.After cutting your two halved roots into sheets,

arrange the sheets on the cutting board in piles, withflat sides down, like stacks of plywood. Julienne intomatchstick-like slivers.

Holding these piles together with one hand, turnthe knife 90 degrees and chop the julienne crosswiseinto brunoise. If this is too confusing, numerous on-line videos can help demonstrate the process.

Because each type of root will cook at a differentpace, it’s a good idea to keep each type of brunoiseseparate. Spread each variety onto a baking sheet orskillet, and bake at 350. Stir frequently, and removeeach brunoise at the first sight of browning.

Combine roasted roots into a colorful medley,sprinkle with salt and start eating. Or use it as an in-gredient in other ventures, such as the aforemen-tioned this rice-free Roasted Root Risotto:

Ingredients:

2 cups roasted root brunoise4 tablespoons butter or olive oil1 medium onion, minced4 cloves garlic, minced½ cup sliced mushrooms4 cups stock½ teaspoon nutmeg1 tablespoon garlic powder1 teaspoon thyme

The brunoise should be completely cooled, prefer-ably overnight. Heat butter or olive oil in a pan onmedium heat, and sauté onion, garlic and mushroomsuntil the onion becomes translucent. Don’t let it brown.

Assemble two cups worth of roasted rootbrunoise. I like a mix of carrot, potato, celeriac,parsnip and Chioggia or golden beet. Add thebrunoise to the pan and mix it with the onions andgarlic. Add two cups of stock and let it simmer uncov-ered until the stock almost evaporates. When thestock is almost gone, but before the pan dries out,add another cup of stock and stir. Season with salt,pepper, garlic powder, nutmeg and thyme.

Stir occasionally until the stock is again almostgone. Add the final cup of stock, and let it cook off,stirring occasionally to keep it from sticking.

This is a rich dish, perhaps best served as a side.Each bite delivers a different balance of the variouscomponents of the brunoise.

Leftovers can be refried with bacon and eggs inthe morning. Meanwhile, whatever brunoise you hap-pen to have left over can be stored in the fridge like acolorful supply of earth-toned pixie dust, ready to bescattered upon whatever is cooking.

photo by Ari LeVaux


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The scene: Missoula’sWinter BrewFest once againbraves the elements thisFriday night, promising toturn Caras Park into a sea ofbands, burn barrels andbeer drinkers. Things gotpretty crowded under thepavilion last year, but ac-cording to a statement fromBrewFest Committee ChairEllen Buchanan, a spaciousnew layout should give rev-elers “more room to movefreely around the beer selection.” Tunes fromZeppo and Miller Creek should help keep thecirculation going in your feet. Just don’t forgetthe koozie; Friday’s forecast calls for snow.

The brews: Better show up thirsty. Thisyear’s BrewFest will feature 41 brews frommore than three dozen breweries throughoutthe region. The list includes a number of localfavorites—Cold Smoke, Scepter Head IPA,Wildwood’s Loquacious Duck—along with asmattering of seasonal offerings like Big Sky’sCamp Robber Coffee Porter and Philipsburg’sBadfinger Imperial Stout. Friday will also markthe first Winter BrewFest appearance by Great

Burn Brewing and LoloPeak Brewing. Looks likethe most far-flung visitorwill be The Traveler BeerCompany out of Burling-ton, Vermont, which willhave its Illusive TravelerGrapefruit Shandy on tap.

The cost: The $12entry fee nets attendees a7-ounce commemorativeglass along with two beertokens. After that, addi-

tional beer tokens go for $1. The MissoulaDowntown Association has also emphasizedthat Mountain Line bus service will be runningfare-free until 8:45 p.m.

The deets: Winter BrewFest runs from 5to 10 p.m. Friday, Feb. 27, in Caras Park. En-trance is on the west side of the pavilion nearthe Carousel.

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Young artists ages 2 and up can get off onthe right foot at Art Start, a morning DIY seriesat the ZACC, where you and your kid will workon an array of engaging projects at your own

pace. Thursdays, 11 AM-1 PM, through Feb. 26.$6/$5 for members; drop-ins welcome.

nightlifeMary Place and Blue Moon heat up the af-ternoon with jazz at the Union Club every Thurs-day from 5:30-8 PM. Free.

The Djebe Community Drum and Danceclass offers interactive instruction in perform-ance traditions from nations including Guinea,Senegal, Mali, Zimbabwe and South Africa. BarnMovement Studio, 2926 S. Third St. Meets on

the second and fourth Thursday of each monthfrom 6-7:30 PM. $5 donation requested.

Yeast meets West(ern) when The Fermentersplay Draught Works, 915 Toole Ave., from 6-8PM. No cover.

Bust out a little geetar, tunesmiths, at theOpen Mic with Cheree at the Eagles Lodge Mis-soula, 2420 South Ave. W. Runs 7:30-10:30PM. Impress ‘em enough and you could getpaid $50 as a showcased performer. Text 406-396-5934 to sign up early.

The UM School of Theatre and Dance ex-plores love and conflict in 19th century Ire-land in Translations. Performances at theMasquer Theatre in the PARTV Center, Feb. 17-21 and Feb. 24-28 at 7:30 PM. $9/$6 for stu-dents. Visit umt.edu/theatredance.

Vermont jamsters Twiddle bring the funkyto-do to the Top Hat, along with Cure for theCommon and Kitchen Dwellers. 8 PM. $12/$10in advance. 18-plus. Tickets at the Top Hat andRockin Rudy’s.

Small town girls, city boys and anyonethat leaves out can share the night on and onand on at the Dead Hipster Dance Party of lore,at the Badlander on Thursdays. No cover, plus$1 wells from 9 PM to midnight.

Shake that moneymaker at the J. Sherriresidency, with a gaggle of groovemeisters, artytypes and “carnal delights” at the VFW, Thurs-days in February, starting at 10 PM. The GoingAway to Florida grand finale features guests NoFancy and Gerygone and Twig. $2 cover, $2 PBRtallies, plus “free pizza (wink wink) and free milk(wink wink).” Oh boy-o.

Don’t try this at home, kids: The AcroYogaWorkshop series with Eleanor Bramwell im-parts such skills as Therapeutic Flying, Root toRise, Turn Your World Upside Down and ThaiMassage, at Inner Harmony Yoga from Feb. 27-Sun., March 1. $38-$133. Visityogainmissoula.com for full deets.

Adam Taub leads a class that will introduceyou hot-steppers to the Dominican Republicdance of Bachata. Open Space in the PARTVCenter. 9-11 AM. Free.

Young artists can check out cardboardsculpture master Chris Gilmour and learn histechniques at the Cardboard Sculpture class atthe ZACC. Fridays, 3:30-5:30 PM through March13. $90/$80 for members. Visitzootownarts.org/youngartists.

Merriam-Frontier Award winners JoleneBrink and JP Kemmick read their winning po-etry and nonfiction at the Mansfield Library’sTheta Rho room, 4:10-5 PM.

nightlifeScotch ales will put hair on your chest atthe ninth annual Winter Brewfest in Caras Park,with selections from Montana breweries and a

February 26–March 5, 2015

The irreverent goofballs of Missoula’sTodd Lankton and the Family Band havebeen on hiatus, but now the boys are back toperform sketch comedy and improv at theCrystal Theater. 8 PM. $8.

Right to bare arms. Flyleaf plays the Wilma Wed., March 4, along with Adelita’s Way, Framing Hanley and Fit for Rivals. 7 PM. $20.

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Now’s your chance to really ham it upwhen Havre’s Cheeseboot plays the RealLounge, along with local country-fied outfitThe Shiveries, general weirdos Shahs andthose sleek Magpies. 9 PM. $4.

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Future’s so bright, they gotta wear shades. New Wave Time Trippers play the Top HatFri., Feb. 27, at 10 PM. $5.

sprinkling of California and Washington beers. 5-10 PM. $12 gets you a taster glass and two tokens,$1 for additional tokens. (See Happiest Hour.)

Polson’s Sandpiper Art Gallery celebratestribal artists in its Native American Invitationalexhibit, including Dion Albert, Sierra Pete, BenPease and Louie Still Smoking. Reception from5-7 PM. Visit sandpiperartgallery.com.

Sip a Guinness and be whisked away to theEmerald Isle with the Irish Music Session, everyFriday at the Union Club from 6-9 PM. No cover.

Family Friendly Friday invites little ones toboogie while parental units kick back at the TopHat, starting at 6 PM, with a rotating lineup of local musicians providing all-ages tunes. No cover.

The nimble-witted Stensrud Improv troupepresents local sketches and off-the-cuff hilarityat the Stensrud Playhouse. Doors at 6:30 PM,show at 7:30. $12/$22 for two, plus discountsfor UM students. Visit stensrudplayhouse.com.

Melissa Bangs presents comedic andpoignant storytelling about severe post-partumdepression in Playing Monopoly with God, AndOther True Stories. Crystal Theater, Fri., Feb. 27-Sat., Feb. 28. Doors at 6 PM, show at 7. Soldout. (See Theater.)

The effervescent jack-of-all-creative-trades Josh Wagner reads from his latest novel,Shapes the Sunlight Takes, at Shakespeare &Co., 103 S. Third St. 7 PM.

The nimble-footed Harlem Globetrotterspresents their ballin’ wizardry with a perform-ance at the Adams Center, 7-9 PM. $22-$85.50;visit griztix.com.

The UM School of Theatre and Dance ex-plores love and conflict in 19th century Ire-land in Translations. Performances at theMasquer Theatre in the PARTV Center, Feb. 17-21 and Feb. 24-28 at 7:30 PM. $9/$6 for stu-dents who are required to attend. Visitumt.edu/theatredance.

See the feminine mystique in action whenBare Bait Dance Company presents Happierwith a Hoover, featuring original choreographyby Joy French and guest performers. Fri., Feb.27–Sat., Feb. 28 at 7:30 PM, plus 2 PM matineeon Feb. 28. $12/$10 in advance at barebait-dance.org.

Cut a rug when the Golden Age Club hostsdancing and live music in an alcohol-free envi-ronment. 727 S. Fifth St. in Hamilton. 6-10 PM.

$3. Call 240-9617 to learn more.

Wartime Blues are teaming up withMendelssohn and The Skurfs to boogie all nightat Free Cycles, starting at 7:30 PM. Free, withsnacks and non-alcoholic beverages available aswell as $2 Kettlehouse keg beer. Donations ap-preciated, ‘cuz benefits go toward Free Cyclesand Mendelssohn’s crowd-funded albumrecording.

Save all your lovin’ for The Soul City Cow-boys, who play rockin’ country tunes to bringthe house down at the Eagles Lodge, 2420South Ave. 8 PM to close.

Comedian Tony Baker, of “Last ComicStanding” and Comedy Central fame, per-forms at the Press Box along with guests MattKettelhake, Rochelle Cote and Zack Jarvis. 8 PM.$15/$12 in advance at standupmt.com, RockinRudy’s and the Press Box.

Gerygone & Twig, Maiah Wynne and some-thing called Partisan Yogurt Bed & Break-fast get together for a shindig at E3Convergence Gallery, 229 W. Main St. 8 PM.Plus, there’s live painting, a Draught Works kegand raffle. Proceeds benefit Opportunity Re-sources. $5 suggested donation.

Win big in Arlee at the weekly karaokecontest, with everything from Asia to Zeppelinin the book to choose to from. Stockman’s,92580 U.S. 93, starting at 8 PM. Best singerwins 50 bux.

Get frisky with other mammals when theFox Den DJs provide house and techno all niteat the Badlander, starting at 9 PM. No cover, plus$4 Stoli drink special.

I was gonna make a dubstep joke, but I’lljust drop it and say that SoCal’s Megalodonwobbles ‘n worbs at Monk’s Bar, along with NewZealand duo Truth and our own Digifreq, Dead-line and Dubsfeld. 9 PM. $15/$10 in advance.18-plus. Visit standupmt.com.

The Dodgy Mountain Men play the BearCave Bar at Lolo Hot Springs Resort, starting at9 PM, with a nice big bonfire outside, too.$5/free with Snow Goers membership.

Listen and dance to Joan Zen’s funky soulmachinations at the Union, starting at 9:30 PM.No cover.

If you missed your chance to shake yourass on the hood of Whitesnake’s car, The NewWave Time Trippers of 1985 party like there’sstill music still on MTV. Top Hat. 10 PM. $5.


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Bali: Music and ImaginationMegan McNamer

The End and The BeginningEmily Walter

French New Wave Cinema (1958 to 1970)Michel Valentin

The History of Music Through theClassical GuitarLuis Millán

An Insider’s Guide to the Montana Museumof Art & Culture: 120 Artworks for 120 YearsBrandon Reintjes

Ray Risho’s Ports of CallRay Risho

Shadowboxing: Reading and Writing PoetryMark Gibbons

Fine Arts

1894: Breaking News in Missoula!Jim Harmon

Ethics vs Faith: A Philisophical Exploration of the Role of Faith and Virtue for the Good LifeDavid K. Clark

The Illiad You (Probably) Never Knew: Why This is a Poem for All of UsLinda W. Gillison

Olá Brazil: Its Soul. Its People.Silvia Lazo

Russia’s “Greatest” Novel:Pushkin’s Eugene OneginOna Renner-Fahey

Terror and War:French Revolution and NapoleonLinda Frey

What Happened Between Malachi andMatthew? The Old Testament Apocrypha, The Dead Sea Scrolls, and Other ‘In-Between’ Books of the BibleThomas R. Lee

Humanities

The Federalist PapersRon Perrin

Mexican Immigration to the U.S. from the Late 19th Century to Present TimeRodolfo Villarreal-Ríos

Terrorism in the Middle East, North Africa,and Central AsiaMehrdad Kia

Current and Political Affairs

Freshwater Ecology of the FlatheadWatershedTom Bansak

Montana CSI: Sex, Drugs, Guns, and Dirt:The Real Crime LabRay Murray et al

The Science and Practice of Happiness and Emotional Well-BeingKevin Dohr

South Africa:The Making of a Rainbow NationKatherine Weist

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let it goIn “Raw Bare Crave,” dance student Arina Hunter

explores the lines between control and upheaval—that common desire to convey certain aspects ofoneself while concealing others. In the beginning ofHunter’s performance, she portrays that fragile inner

self with quick, restrained movements. As her pieceevolves, her movements become more uninhibited,the dancing less restricted, as though she is nolonger in control. Finally, she reintegrates and pullsthese competing parts of herself together to createbalance.

“Raw Bare Crave” is one of 16 original piecesproduced by UM’s School of Theatre and Dance forits annual Dance New Works Spring Showcase. As

usual, it offers two alternating concerts, which feature an array of dancing genres from contemporary ballet to hip-hop. And this year, solochoreography, such as Hunter’s, will be integratedinto each program.

The inspiration behind Hunter’s theme, which ispart of Program II, began when she started to ana-lyze the vulnerability she felt in front of an audience.She says she also wanted to explore a piece that in-volved the interaction of live dance with a projectionscreen. Hunter tells a story that anyone can relateto. The struggle to control all aspects of our lives, therealization that we cannot, the process of dealingwith this truth and, finally, letting go.

—Kellen Beck

WHO: UM School of Theatre and Dance

WHAT: Dance New Works

WHEN: Tue., March 3–Sat., March 7, at 7:30 pm; Sat., March 7, matinee at 2 pmProgram I: Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday at 7:30 pm Program II: Wednesday, Friday at 7:30 pm and Saturday at 2 pm

WHERE: The Open Space in UM’s PAR/TV Center

HOW MUCH: $9

The new Missoula Winter PublicMarket features all manner ofproduce, meats, eggs, honey andtreats, plus coffee and craft vendors.800 S. Third St. W. Now open everySaturday, Jan. 10-April 25. 10 AM-2PM. Visit facebook.com/mslawinter-publicmarket.

Anyone dealing with illness orloss is invited to find creative therapyat the Watercolor Leaves drop-inworkshop, led by Loretta Vizzutti. Liv-ing Art Studio, 725 W. Alder St. Unit17. 10:30 AM-12:30 PM. Free. Call549-5329 for info, or visit livingartof-montana.org/Programs.

The Experimental PrintmakingWorkshop: Hot Glue Relief-Intagliouses a plastic matrix press andteaches techniques for experiencedand newbie printmakers alike. Mis-soula Art Museum, noon-4:30 PM.$35/$31.50 for members. Visit mis-soulaartmuseum.org to learn more.

Buzzy Jackson reads from her lat-est, The Inspirational Atheist: WiseWords on the Wonder and Meaningof Life, billed as a sort of “ChickenSoup for the Soulless.” Fact and Fic-tion, 220 N. Higgins Ave. 1:30 PM.

nightlifeGet Saturday into gear whenDjebe Bara busts out African drum-ming at Draught Works, 6-8 PM. Nocover.

The bluegrassy Workers hop to itat Ten Spoon Vineyard, 4175 Rat-tlesnake Drive, with tasting at 4 PMand tunes from 6-8 PM. No cover.

Cut loose with the Wild CoyoteBand, playing a country-fried danceparty at the American Legion Hall,825 Ronan St. (near Mount and Rus-sell) every third Saturday of themonth from 7-11 PM, except for Feb-ruary and March, where they’ll play onthe fourth Saturdays. $7.

The UM School of Theatre andDance explores love and conflictin 19th century Ireland in Translations.Performances at the Masquer Theatrein the PARTV Center, Feb. 17-21 andFeb. 24-28 at 7:30 PM. $9/$6 for stu-dents who are required to attend. Visitumt.edu/theatredance.

See the feminine mystique in ac-tion when Bare Bait Dance Companypresents Happier with a Hoover, fea-turing original choreography by JoyFrench and guest performers. Fri., Feb.27–Sat., Feb. 28 at 7:30 PM, plus 2PM matinee on Feb. 28. $12/$10 inadvance at barebaitdance.org.

Save all your lovin’ for The SoulCity Cowboys, who play rockin’

country tunes to bring the housedown at the Eagles Lodge, 2420South Ave. 8 PM to close.

Absolutely DJs Kris Moon andMonty Carlo deliver the primo Sat-urday nite party at the Badlander.Doors at 9 PM. Two-fer-one Absolutvodka drinks until midnight. No cover.

NYC’s totally baked rapper CakesDa Killa bumps beats at the Palace,along with local wordsmiths Tahj andTwosday. 9 PM. $12 in advance at EarCandy. 18-plus.

Hip-hopper Crooked I, of super-group Slaughterhouse and ShadyRecords renown, busts into Monk’sBar. Doors at 9 PM. $15. Tickets atRockin Rudy’s. 18-plus.

For some good ol’ country musicjoin the Idle Ranch Hands at theUnion for some Saturday night danc-ing.

Cash for Junkers gets into thewestern swing of things at the TopHat, with show starting at 10 PM. Nocover.

Photographer Beverly Mc-Gowan’s vivid prints of naturalbeauty are on display at the Catalyst Cafe, starting today and on display through April. 111 N. Higgins Ave. Catalyst hours are 7 AM-3 PM.

Have your treats in a box or witha fox when Missoula Public Libraryhosts a family storytime and Dr. Suessparty from 2-4 PM, with snacks, sto-ries and crafting. Free.

nightlifePianist Spencer Myer tickles the ivories and unlocks the “Keys to Your Heart” with the Mis-soula Symphony Orchestra andChorale at the Dennison Theatre. Sat, Feb. 28 at 7:30 PM, and Sun., March 1 at 3 PM. Tickets run $10-$45. Visit missoulasymphony.org.

John Floridis Trio rocks the folkout at Draught Works, 915 Toole Ave.,5-7 PM. No cover.

Sundays are shaken, not stirred,at the Badlander’s Jazz Martini Night,with $5 martinis all evening, live jazzand local DJs keepin’ it classy. Musicstarts at 8 PM. Free.

Mark the Sabbath with someBlack Sabbath or whatever elsetwangs your heartstrings at the Sun-day Funday evening karaoke at theLucky Strike, 1515 Dearborn Ave., fea-turing $1 domestic drafts and wells.Free.

Ages 8 months to 2 years canbring an adult with ‘em to theBaby Sign Language Class at City LifeCommunity Center, which meetsMondays at 9 AM through March 23.$50 per parent and child, which includes a DVD. $5 charge per additional sibling. Call 218-8695 or visit the Simply Signing Facebookpage.

Anyone affected by epilepsy cancome to the Epilepsy Support Groupat Summit Independent Living Center,700 SW Higgins Ave. 2–3:30 PM.Free. Call 721-0707.

nightlifeDancer-types and anyone seek-ing to get into touch with theirbody can check out the AuthenticMovement Group, where a facilitatorwill help you find and follow your ownmovement. The Barn Movement Stu-dio, 2926 S. Third St. Mondays from6-8 PM through May. $30. Call 529-2322 to register.

Pianist Spencer Myer tickles theivories and unlocks the “Keys toYour Heart” with the Missoula Sym-phony Orchestra and Chorale at theDennison Theatre. Sat, Feb. 28 at7:30 PM, and Sun., March 1 at 3PM. Tickets run $10-$45. Visit mis-soulasymphony.org.

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You’ve put the days of JungleJuice behind you, hopefully, butyou can still support the ole’ collegetry at the Moscow Monday benefitfor KBGA College Radio, where pro-ceeds from drinks purchased be-tween noon-8 PM benefit thestation. Plus, live tunes from JoeyRunning Crane start at 6 PM.

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Shake, rattle ‘n roll at the Beginner/Interme-diate Jazz Dance class, led by Jennifer Meyer-Vaughan on Mondays at Downtown DanceCollective, 7:30-8:55 PM. Regular rates apply.

Maintain dignity for best results at SuperTrivia Freakout. Winners get cash prizes orshots after the five rounds of trivia at the Bad-lander, including picture and music rounds. 9PM. Free. To get those neurons sparking,here’s a question: In 1926, author AgathaChristie mysteriously disappeared for howmany days? Find answer in tomorrow’snightlife.

nightlifeThe ongoing, uninstructed Open FigureDrawing invites adults to pop in to the Mis-soula Art Museum for the chance to observeand sketch a live model. 5:30-7:30 PM, $7/$5for members. Some art supplies available. Visitmissoulaartmuseum.org.

Bring an extra pair of socks, ‘cuz In Flamesis gonna rawwwk it off on the Charming Americatour, along with All That Remains and Woven-war. Wilma. Doors at 6:30 PM. $29/$27 in ad-vance. Tickets at Rockin Rudy’s andknittingfactory.com.

Writers of all stripes can meet somewherebesides a bar for once with the Writer’s Groupfacilitated by John Robinson at Bitterroot PublicLibrary. 6:30-8 PM every other Tuesday.

Bigfork-based author Leslie Budewitzreads from her latest tasty mystery, Assaultand Pepper, about a Seattle shop owner whoseemployee is accused of murder most foul. Factand Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. 7 PM. (SeeBooks.)

The Unity Dance and Drum African DanceClass is sure to teach you some moves youdidn’t learn in junior high when it meets Tuesdayfrom 7 to 8:30 PM at the Missoula Senior Cen-ter, 705 S. Higgins Ave. All ages and skill levelswelcome. $10, $35 for four classes. [email protected] or call 549-7933 formore information.

The UM Alumni Association’s CommunityLecture Series, every Tuesday at 7 PM at theUC Theatre, features such radass profs as KenDial, Bret Tobalske, Creagh Breuner, Dick Huttoand Erick Greene, plus special guest EmilyGraslie ‘11, host of The Brain Scoop and InternetSensation. $20/$15 for UMAA dues-playingmembers/$10 students. Find info and fullschedule at grizalum.org/events/cls/default.php.

Country fella Clint Black don’t fool aroundwhen he plays the Dennison Theatre, along withShane Clouse. 7:30 PM. Tickets TBA at MSO Huband all Griz Tix outlets. (Trivia answer: 11 days.Some historians now speculate that she was suf-fering from severe depression at the time.)

Up ‘n coming prancers strut their stuff atthe UM School of Theatre and Dance’sDance New Works, showcasing original chore-ography in ballet, hip hop, lyrical, experimentaland more at the Open Space in the PARTV Cen-ter. Program I on Tue., Thu. and Sat. at 7:30 PM,Program II on Wed., Fri. at 7:30 PM and Sat. at2 PM. $9, with discounts for students.

Would a dude by any other name seem assweet? Find out when Nick Pavelich andSam Williamson star in an unusual two-manadaptation of the classic Shakespearean tragedy,Romeo and Juliet. Crystal Theater, March 3-7, at7:30 PM. $10. (See Theater.)

Get hip 2 the monthly Square Dance at theTop Hat, where steps will be taught as you goand beginners are welcome. 7:30 PM. FirstTuesday of the month. March 3 features tunesfrom the Beet Tops. 21-plus after 9 PM.

The spiffy new Montana Distillery hosts agrand opening all day, with live music and prizegiveaways from 5-7 PM. Find ‘em by the railroadtracks at 631 Woody St.

Ages 7-14 are invited to the orientation forYouth Aikido in the upstairs of the Union Hall.Orientation is 4:15-5:15 PM; classes meet Tues-days and Thursdays at the same time. Call 549-8387 to learn more.

nightlifeExperienced farmers chat about theirmanagement practices for employees and in-terns at this latest installment of Farm School, hosted at Burns Street Bistro from 5:30-8 PM. Bring a dish to share for the potluck; beeris provided. Visit missoulacfac.org/farm-school.html.

Flyleaf, who you may remember from see-ing on Fuse videos at your friend Jenna’shouse in high school (or maybe that’s just me)(hi Jenna!) headlines the Snocore 2015 tour,along with Adelita’s Way, Framing Hanley and Fitfor Rivals. Wilma. 7 PM. $20. Tickets at RockinRudy’s and knittingfactory.com.

Live those “American Idol” fantasies at theWednesday night karaoke with Cheree at EaglesLodge Missoula, 2420 South Ave. W, chance towin $50 big ones if you enter the drawing whenyou sing. 7:30-10:30 PM. No cover; must stickaround for the prize drawing to be eligible to win.



nightlifeMary Place and Blue Moon heat up the af-ternoon with jazz at the Union Club every Thurs-day from 5:30-8 PM. Free.

Bust out the epee for a Foray into Fencingclass on the first Thursday of the month at Mis-soula Fencing Association, 1200 Shakespeare,Ste. A. 6:30-7:30 PM. Ages 9 and up are wel-come to join in; just wear gym clothes and bringa water bottle. Free, but limited to first 16 peo-ple. Visit missoulafencing.net or call 251-4623with questions.



Missoula progressive-rock outfit Fallow cel-ebrates an album release with special guestsdown at the Palace, starting ‘round 9 PM. Nocover.

March is supposed to be in like a lion, out like alamb, right? Submit events at [email protected] at least two weeks in advanceof the event to guarantee publication. Don’t for-get to include the date, time and cost. If youmust, snail mail to Calapatra c/o the Independ-ent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801.You can also submit online. Just find the “submitan event” link under the Spotlight on the rightcorner at missoulanews.com.

Art historian H. Rafael Chacón chatsabout “Predilections and Possibilities: theVirtues of a Teaching Collection,” as part of theongoing exhibit that celebrates the Museumof Art and Culture’s permanent collection.Masquer Theatre. 7 PM.

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See how the magic happens when DolceCanto hosts a open rehearsal, where you candrop in and listen as you please, 7:30-9 PM,and enjoy refreshments and conversation withthe choir afterwards. St. Paul Lutheran Church.Free.

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Wager on a cheery evening when Scottishfeelings-y outfit The Twilight Sad plays Stage112, along with Port St. Willow. Doors at 8 PM.$12/$10 in advance. 18-plus.

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A s I write this, winter is threatening to come back.This really ruins my sunbathing routine, butworks out nicely for those of you who haven’t

yet collected enough beard icicles. And beard icicles—and bragging rights—are to be found in plenty at theSnow Joke Half Marathon.

The marathon is always held on the last Saturdayof February, rain or shine, snow or sleet, below-zerowindchill or balmy 40 degree day. It was founded in1980 by the Cheetah Herders Athletic Club, a groupof running enthusiasts whose routes often favoredlocal watering holes. The club’s mottos have included“Drink before you run” and “Seek levity without oblit-eration,” both of which are fine sentiments.

Snow Joke is now an official USA Track and Fieldevent run by Big Sky Orogenic Racing and Events—and, full disclosure, organized in part by the Indy—

but the fun spirit remains. The route follows Highway83 for the first six miles, then circles around SeeleyLake on a county road, where you’ll need to be pre-pared for some steeper grades. In case you start to flag, the Charlie Cheetah Preserve between milessix and 10 gets a little bit playful with some “cheetahherding.”

Besides the fame and glory, obviously, the winnerof the chip-timed race gets a fur sash and medallion—and then you can seek all the liquid levity you like.

—Kate Whittle

The 36th annual Snow Joke HalfMarathon takes off on Sat., Feb. 28, at 11AM, with a course around Seeley Lake. $35race-day registration/$5 for ages 19 andunder. Cruise over to mtsnowjoke.com.

THURSDAY FEBRUARY 26Is there a pot of gold at the end of the race?Find out at Run For the Luck of It, which starts bright‘n early with a kids’ dash, 7-mile and 5K, starting andending on the 100 block of Pine Street. Costumesand green outfits encouraged. Registration party atValley Physical Therapy on Feb. 26 from 5-7 PM,race day is March 14. Visit runwildmissoula.org tolearn more. $20-$25 to register.

The fine folks of the Selway-Bitterroot FrankChurch Foundation host their ninth annual WinterGathering and Silent Auction, with raffles for guidedriver trips and guest speakers. Missoula Winery,6:30-9:30 PM. No cost to attend.

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 28Shred the gnar like there’s no tomorrow atColdsmoke Freeride, a three-day ski and board compe-tition at Lost Trail Powder Mountain, with divisions formen, women and kids. $75 rider fee. Check out lost-trail.com.

Those Missoulians on Bicycles are back in ac-tion, with a short ‘n sweet trip planned that meetsin the Big Dipper parking lot at 3 PM and cruisesaround to finish at Dairy Queen. Call Wayne formore info at 721-3095.

SUNDAY MARCH 1The MOBI folks wheel into action today with a ridethat meets at the Eastgate Center at noon and headsto Bonner for lunch at the River City Grill. Call Waynefor info at 721-3095 or check out missoulabike.org.

MONDAY MARCH 2The sixth annual Special Olympics Montana

Big Sky Area Winter Games kick off today at Big SkyResort, with ski, board and snowshoeing competi-tions. Check out bigskyresort.com/specialolympics.

TUESDAY MARCH 3As the earth tilts on its axis, the Montana DirtGirls switch gears to host weekly hikes in the Mis-soula area, Tuesday evenings at 6 PM, Novemberthrough March, with the chance to grab dinner af-terward. Foot-grippers and headlamps advisable.Find out locations and info by signing up for the maillist at mtdirtgirls.tripod.com.

UM professor Natalie Dawson presents“Please Carry This Solar Panel, and Other Requestsfor Free Labor,” as part of the UM Wilderness Insti-tute’s spring lecture series. Gallagher Business Build-ing, room 123. 7 PM.

WEDNESDAY MARCH 4Hump day just got friskier with the WednesdayNight Ski Race League, where teams of four (includ-ing at least one woman) race weekly at Snowbowl,Wednesdays from 7-10 PM until March 6. $395 perteam. Contact [email protected] or240-0836 for info.

THURSDAY MARCH 5Wildlife advocate Steve Primm chats about griz-zly and wolf recovery around Yellowstone NationalPark, along with his work founding the People andCarnivores nonprofit. Flathead Valley CommunityCollege, Art and Tech building, room 139. 7 PM.

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This Saturday marks one yearsince the Mount Jumbo avalanchethat crashed into the Rattlesnakeneighborhood. The 50-foot wall ofsnow swept one home off its founda-tion into the yard of another. In theprocess, it injured two people and ledto the death of Michel Colville.

On the anniversary of that ava-lanche, Missoula director KatrinaShull premieres her first film, the 40-minute documentary, AmplifyKindess. The film honors the first re-sponders and volunteers who, onthat bitterly cold day, realized some-thing was wrong, and ran toward thedisaster to help dig out the ava-lanche victims. Many more members of the com-munity would pitch in during the weeks thatfollowed to clean up and sort through the de-stroyed property on Harrison and Holly streets. Justthis January, one of the families displaced by theavalanche moved into a Habitat for Humanityhome, not far from their original property.

Amplify Kindness goes on to explore how sim-

ple acts of kindness can reverberate through a com-munity. And nicely enough, the film was funded bythe community, through a campaign on Indiegogo.

—Kate Whittle

Amplify Kindness premieres at the RoxySat., Feb. 28, at 5 PM. $5-$7. Visit theroxytheater.org.

THURSDAY FEBRUARY 26As part of Black History Month, African Americanstudies prof Tobin Shearer presents “Homing In: TheEffects of WWI on Black Women and Men,” at theMansfield Library main floor. 6-7:30 PM.

You don’t have to be a time lord to check out theMissoula Time Bank, in which members exchangeskills and services instead of money. Orientations atthe Jeannette Rankin Peace Center on the fourthThursdays of the month. 7 PM. RSVP required [email protected]. Check out missoulatime-bank.org.

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 27Grab a pen and paper and get crackin’ at Learningfrom Your Life: Writing for Resilience, which teacheshow to work through difficult events and celebratelife’s joys through writing. Learning Center at Red Wil-low, 825 W. Kent Ave. Meets Fridays from 11 AM-1PM through March 13. $145 for five-week course. Call721-0033 or visit redwillowlearning.org for registrationand info.

The annual Hospice Ball, which raises funds forcrucial end-of-life care services in the Missoula area,presents an evening of dinner, drinks and entertain-ment at the Hilton Garden Inn, 6 PM-midnight. Visithcfmissoula.com.

SUNDAY MARCH 1The Sons of Norway host a Spring ScandinavianPancake Breakfast with all the tasty fixins at 5795Highway 93 South, 9 AM-1:30 PM. $7. Proceeds ben-efit the Montana Norwegian Camp Camperships.

The Missoula Area Secular Society presents theM.A.S.S. Lunch, where atheists, secular humanists,agnostics and other freethinkers meet. Take note thegroup is now meeting on the first and third Sundayof every month for brunch at 10 AM at the Stone ofAccord, 4951 N. Reserve St. Free to attend, but thefood costs you. Visit secularmissoula.org.

MONDAY MARCH 2The Growing Through Pain and Progressive Lossgroup meets at Summit Independent Living Center,700 S. Higgins, Mondays from 1-3 PM through March.16. For more information call Kathy at 728-1630.

Former military members are invited to the Vet-erans For Peace Western Montana Chapter meeting,which will work to inform and advocate about peaceissues. Meets at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center,519 S. Higgins Ave., on the first Monday of everymonth at 4 PM. Visit veteransforpeace.org to learnmore.

MSU professor Barton Scott chats about “Gandhi& the Global Travels of Non-Violence” as part of theSouth and Southeast Asian Studies program. DellBrown Room of Turner Hall. 5 PM.

TUESDAY MARCH 3Katie Patten leads the three-week ExploringGlass workshop, with a creative, therapeutic focusfor people dealing with illness or loss. Living Art ofMontana, 725 W. Alder St #17. Meets on Tuesdaysfrom 1-3 PM through March 17. Free, but registra-tion is required at [email protected] or549-5329.

The Friends and Families Matter support groupinvites anyone who’s coping with an incarceratedloved one to an informal session on Tuesdays from5:15-6:30 PM. 1610 S. Third St. W., Ste. 210. Visitpfrmt.org for more info.

Coal-train traffic through Missoula might in-crease, and folks get together to chat about citizenactivism at the Burns Street Events Center, 1500Burns St. 6-7 PM. Email [email protected] to learn more.

WEDNESDAY MARCH 4Practice empathy with Patrick Marsolek duringCompassionate Communication, a peaceful commu-nication weekly practice group, where you’ll role-playstressful situations and practice responding calmly.Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave.Wednesdays at noon. Free.

THURSDAY MARCH 5Connect with other new or expecting parents atMeet the Doulas, an informational session hosted bythe Missoula Birth and Postpartum network. NursingNook, 734 Kensington. Jan. 8, Feb. 5 and March 5from 5:30-7:30 PM. Call 552-8319 or [email protected].

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boyfriend from years ago lives in herdownstairs "granny unit." My girlfriendrecently revealed that along with finan-cially subsidizing him, she's still doing hislaundry because "it's just easier." He is50 and previously earned a lot of moneyrepairing computers and being a handy-man, but he is not "into" working. Mygirlfriend is a therapist and sees a thera-pist, who has advised a proper separa-tion. Amazingly, my girlfriend wouldrather she and I move out than insist heleave (though the home and loan arehers!). I'm worried that this will be onelong, frustrating ride.

— Dumbfounded

Kids these days grow up so fast. Be-fore you know it, they're 50 and backhome doing bong hits in the basement.

Though you see your girlfriend as thepreyed-upon one here, consider that she'sgetting something out of this, too, like feel-ing needed and conflict avoidance. Beingconflict-avoidant means refusing to experi-ence legitimate adult discomfort—like theouchiepoo of telling a full-grown able-bod-ied man that he needs to go get a job, anapartment, and a roll of quarters to do hisown damn laundry.

We evolved to be a social species andto care about how others see us. How-ever, we can take this too far, as your girl-friend has, probably out of an overvaluingof relationships (over self) and an ensuingdesperate need to be liked. This leads herto shove away her needs, making her theperfect mark for an aging and manipula-tive slacker—to the point where she stopsjust short of cradling her adult baby in herlap and feeding him a bottle of pale ale.

Life involves making trade-offs. On theone hand, you call her the love of yourlife. On the other hand, she comes with aman-sized tumor that she seems unwill-ing to excise from her life and yours.Whatever you decide, avoid telling herwhat to do (which generally provokes de-fensiveness, not change). Instead, youcan tell her where your "nuh-uh, can't do"point is—like if you ultimately can't livewith a woman who is in a relationshipwith you but has one foot (and her walletand a couple of laundry baskets) squarelyin the life of her ex.

It's possible that a real likelihood oflosing you could do for her what having atherapist and being a therapist could not—compel her to act assertively. However,

you do take a risk in drawing the line. Youmay decide to just suck it up to keep her,even if it means keeping him. If so, try tofocus on the positives of having an adulttoddler around—like how he should onlyneed to be taken to the emergency roomfor the occasional cardiac event and notbecause he's put yet another bean orLego up his nose.

BETWEEN THESPREADSHEETSI started dating a female co-worker. I've seen many of-fice romances go bad and

be fodder for gossip, so I act very profes-sional at work so nobody knows. She'shurt that I'm keeping her a "secret."

—Stressed

It's a bit of a disconnect to get the of-fice hello from a guy who, just the nightbefore, was undressing you with his teeth.

But the real problem here isn't conflict-ing ideas on whether to put out an all-of-fice memo: "The softball team will meet at5:30 p.m. behind the building, and oh,yeah, Amber and I are doing it." Differ-ences of opinion are part of every relation-ship. What helps your partner feel okayabout them—even when she goes alongwith what you want—is acting like you're ina relationship, not a dictatorship. Thismeans figuring out policy together insteadof your single-handedly deciding it andthen—surprise!—greeting her like you aren'tquite sure whether she's Amber who justhelped you break your headboard orwhat's-her-face from sales.

Had you made this a discussion in-stead of a decree, she might've told youshe's worried you're ashamed of her—al-lowing you to reassure her (assumingyou're not). Well, there's no time like nowto have that policy discussion—includingworst-case scenarios, like how you twowould handle it if things went south. Itdoes seem prudent to wait to alert yourco-workers until you're reasonably sureyour relationship has legs. However,sooner or later, somebody from the officeis likely to run into the two of you out onthe town. The story of a Saturday nightstrategy session in the parking lot of a ro-mantic French restaurant is unlikely to fly—especially when it appears to have endedwith both of you wearing her lipstick.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Lately your life reminds me of the action film Speed, starringSandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves. In that story, a criminal has rigged a passenger bus to ex-plode if its speed drops below 50 miles per hour. In your story, you seem to be acting as if

you, too, will self-destruct if you stop moving at a frantic pace. I'm here to tell you that nothing bad will hap-pen if you slow down. Just the opposite, in fact. As you clear your schedule of its excessive things-to-do, asyou leisurely explore the wonders of doing nothing in particular, I bet you will experience a soothing floodof healing pleasure.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): One of the most dazzling moves a ballet dancer can do is thefouetté en tournant. The term is French for "whipped turning." As she executes a 360-degreeturn, the dancer spins around on the tip of one foot. Meanwhile, her other foot thrusts outward

and then bends in, bringing her toes to touch the knee of her supporting leg. Can you imagine a dancerdoing this 32 consecutive times? That's what the best do. It takes extensive practice and requires a high de-gree of concentration and discipline. Paradoxically, it expresses breathtaking freedom and exuberance. Youmay not be a prima ballerina, Taurus, but in your own field there must be an equivalent to the fouetté entournant. Now is an excellent time for you to take a vow and make plans to master that skill. What will youneed to do?

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): If you're a martial artist and you want to inject extra energy intoan aggressive move, you might utter a percussive shout that sounds like "eee-yah!" or "hyaah!"or "aiyah!" The Japanese term for this sound is kiai. The sonic boost is most effective if it orig-inates deep in your diaphragm rather than from your throat. Even if you're not a martial artist,

Gemini, I suggest that in the coming weeks you have fun trying out this boisterous style of yelling. It mayhelp you summon the extra power and confidence you'll need to successfully wrestle with all the interestingchallenges ahead of you.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The prolific and popular French novelist Aurore Dupin was betterknown by her pseudonym George Sand. Few 19th-century women matched her rowdy be-havior. She wore men's clothes, smoked cigars, was a staunch feminist, and frequented socialvenues where only men were normally allowed. Yet she was also a doting mother to her two

children, and loved to garden, make jam, and do needlework. Among her numerous lovers were the writersAlfred de Musset, Jules Sandeau, and Prosper Mérimée, as well as composer Frederic Chopin and actressMarie Dorval. Her preferred work schedule was midnight to 6 a.m., and she often slept until 3 p.m. "Whata brave man she was," said Russian author Ivan Turgenev, "and what a good woman." Her astrologicalsign? The same as you and me. She's feisty proof that not all of us Crabs are conventional fuddy-duddies.In the coming weeks, she's our inspirational role model.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): It seems you've slipped into a time warp. Is that bad? I don't think so.Your adventures there may twist and tweak a warped part of your psyche in such a way that it getshealed. At the very least, I bet your visit to the time warp will reverse the effects of an old folly and

correct a problem caused by your past sins. (By the way, when I use the word "sin," I mean "being lax aboutfollowing your dreams.") There's only one potential problem that could come out of all this: Some people inyour life could misinterpret what's happening. To prevent that, communicate crisply every step of the way.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In English and French versions of the word game Scrabble, theletter z is worth ten points. In Italian, it's eight points. But in the Polish variant of Scrabble, youscore just one point by using z. That letter is rarely used in the other three languages, but iscommon in Polish. Keep this general principle in mind as you assess the value of the things

you have to offer. You will be able to make more headway and have greater impact in situations whereyour particular beauty and power and skills are in short supply.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): "Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have tomake them all your yourself." So said Alfred Sheinwold in his book about the card game knownas bridge. I think this is excellent advice for the game of life, as well. And it should be extra per-

tinent for you in the coming weeks, because people in your vicinity will be making gaffes and wrong turnsthat are useful for you to study. In the future, you'll be wise to avoid perpetrating similar messes yourself.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): "Love her but leave her wild," advised a graffiti artist who publishedhis thoughts on a wall next to the mirror in a public restroom I visited. Another guerrilla philosopherhad added a comment below: "That's a nice sentiment, but how can anyone retain wildness in a

society that puts so many demands on us in exchange for money to live?" Since I happened to have a felt-tippen with me, I scrawled a response to the question posed in the second comment: "Be in nature every day.Move your body a lot. Remember and work with your dreams. Be playful. Have good sex. Infuse any littlething you do with a creative twist. Hang out with animals. Eat with your fingers. Sing regularly." And that's alsomy message for you, Scorpio, during this phase when it's so crucial for you to nurture your wildness.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): "Don't worry, even if things get heavy, we'll all float on." Sosings Modest Mouse's vocalist Isaac Brock on the band's song "Float On." I recommend you trythat approach yourself, Sagittarius. Things will no doubt get heavy in the coming days. But ifyou float on, the heaviness will be a good, rich, soulful heaviness. It'll be a purifying heaviness

that purges any glib or shallow influences that are in your vicinity. It'll be a healing heaviness that gives youjust the kind of graceful gravitas you will need.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): "What I look for in a friend is someone who's different fromme," says science fiction novelist Samuel Delany. "The more different the person is, the moreI'll learn from him. The more he'll come up with surprising takes on ideas and things and situ-ations." What about you, Capricorn? What are the qualities in a friend that help you thrive? Now

is a perfect time to take an inventory. I sense that although there are potential new allies wandering in yourvicinity, they will actually become part of your life only if you adjust and update your attitudes about the in-fluences you value most.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): At the turn of the 19th century, Russian laborers constructedthousands of miles of railroad tracks from the western part of the country eastward to Siberia.The hardest part of the job was blasting tunnels through the mountains that were in the way.

I reckon you're at a comparable point in your work, Aquarius. It's time to smash gaping holes through ob-stacles. Don't scrimp or apologize. Clear the way for the future.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The British rock band the Animals released their gritty, growlysong "The House of the Rising Sun" in 1964. It reached the top of the pop music charts in theU.S., Canada, U.K., and Australia, and was a hit with critics. Rolling Stone magazine ultimately

ranked it as the 122nd greatest song of all time. And yet it took the Animals just 15 minutes to record. Theydid it in one take. That's the kind of beginner's luck and spontaneous flow I foresee you having in thecoming weeks, Pisces. What's the best way for you to channel all that soulful mojo?

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MONTANA FOURTH JU-DICIAL DISTRICTCOURT, MISSOULACOUNTY Case No. DP-15-20 Dept. No. 2 NOTICETO CREDITORS In theMatter of the Estate ofROSINA DARIDACROONENBERGHS, De-ceased. NOTICE ISHEREBY GIVEN that theundersigned have been ap-pointed Personal Representa-tives of the above-namedestate. All persons havingclaims against the decedentare required to present theirclaims within four monthsafter the date of the first pub-lication of this notice or saidclaims will be forever barred.Claims must either be mailedto the Personal Representa-tives, Alberta K. Kronen andSteven J. Croonenberghs, re-turn receipt requested, atTipp & Buley, P.C., PO Box3778, Missoula, MT 59806or filed with the Clerk of theabove Court. DATED this4th day of February, 2015 /s/Alberta K. Kronen, PersonalRepresentative /s/ Steven J.Croonenberghs, PersonalRepresentative

MONTANA FOURTH JU-DICIAL DISTRICTCOURT, MISSOULACOUNTY Case No. DP-15-21 Dept. No. 1 NOTICETO CREDITORS In theMatter of the Estate ofELVER ANDREASHEHN, Deceased. NO-TICE IS HEREBY GIVENthat the undersigned hasbeen appointed PersonalRepresentative of the above-named estate. All persons

having claims against thedecedent are required to pres-ent their claims within fourmonths after the date of thefirst publication of this noticeor said claims will be foreverbarred. Claims must either bemailed to the Personal Rep-resentative, Lynette Joy Hill,return receipt requested, atTipp & Buley, P.C., PO Box3778, Missoula, MT 59806or filed with the Clerk of theabove Court. DATED this28th day of January, 2015 /s/Lynette Joy Hill, PersonalRepresentative

MONTANA FOURTH JU-DICIAL DISTRICTCOURT, MISSOULACOUNTY Cause No.: DV-15-125 Dept. No.: 1 Noticeof Hearing on Name ChangeIn the Matter of the NameChange of Galen SontagHenseler, Petitioner. This isnotice that Petitioner hasasked the District Court for achange of name from GalenJoseph Sontag Henseler toGalen Joseph SontagHenseler. The hearing will beon 04/01/2015 at 1:30 p.m.The hearing will be at theCourthouse in MissoulaCounty. Date: 2/19/2015. /s/Shirley E. Faust, Clerk ofDistrict Court By: /s/Michael Evjen, Deputy Clerkof Court

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SON, AND ALL OTHERPERSONS, UNKNOWN,CLAIMING OR WHOMIGHT CLAIM ANYRIGHT, TITLE, ESTATEOR INTEREST IN ORLIEN OR ENCUM-BRANCE UPON THEREAL PROPERTY DE-SCRIBED IN THE COM-PLAINT ADVERSE TOPLAINTIFF’S OWNER-SHIP OR ANY CLOUDUPON PLAINTIFF’STITLE THERETO,WHETHER SUCHCLAIM OR POSSIBLECLAIM BE PRESENT ORCONTINGENT, Defen-dants. THE STATE OFMONTANA TO THEABOVE-NAMED DE-FENDANTS, GREET-INGS: You are herebySUMMONED to answer theComplaint to Quiet Title inthis Action which is filedwith the above-named Court,a copy of which is servedupon you, and to file yourwritten answer with theCourt and serve a copythereof upon Petitioner’s at-torney within twenty-one(21) days after service of theSUMMONS FOR PUBLI-CATION, or such other pe-riod as may be specified bylaw, exclusive of the day ofservice. Your failure to appearor answer will result in judg-ment against you by defaultfor the relief demanded in theComplaint. A filing fee mustaccompany the answer. Thisaction is brought for the pur-pose of quieting title the fol-lowing-described realproperty located in MissoulaCounty, Montana: A tract ofland in Lots 1 and 2 of Block3 of the Townsite of French-town, in the NE1/4SE1/4 ofSection 34, Township 15North, Range 21 West,M.P.M., Missoula County,Montana, more particularlydescribed as follows: A stripof land 30 feet wide on thesoutherly side and all thatland in said Lots 1 and 2lying north of the followingdescribed center line: Begin-ning at a point on the west-erly line of said Lot 2, whichsaid point bears northerlyalong said westerly line a dis-tance of 51.6 feet, more orless, from the southwest cor-ner of said Lot 2; thence fromthe said point of beginningalong a curve to the right of955.0 feet radius, 71.6 feet toa point on the easterly line ofsaid Lot 1, which said pointbears northerly along saideasterly line a distance of 66.7feet, more or less, from thesoutheast corner of said Lot1, and containing in all 0.10acres, more or less. Dated this11th day of February, 2015./s/ Shirley E. Faust, By: /s/Casie Kragh, Deputy Clerk

MONTANA FOURTH JU-DICIAL DISTRICTCOURT, MISSOULACOUNTY Dept. No. 2 Pro-

bate No. DP-14-261 NO-TICE TO CREDITORS INRE THE MATTER OFTHE ESTATE OF:PHILIP WAYNE ZIEG,Deceased. NOTICE ISHEREBY GIVEN that theundersigned has been ap-pointed Personal Representa-tive of the above-namedestate. All persons havingclaims against the decedentare required to present theirclaims within four (4)months after the date of thefirst publication of this noticeor said claims will be foreverbarred. Claims must either bemailed to KatherineKleinkopf, the Personal Rep-resentative, return receipt re-quested in care of Trent N.Baker of the law firm Dat-sopoulos, MacDonald &Lind, P.C., 201 W. Main,Suite 201, Missoula, Mon-tana 59802, or filed with theClerk of the above Court.DATED this 26th day ofJanuary, 2015. /s/ KatherineG. Kleinkopf Personal Repre-sentative 3010 Spurgin RoadMissoula, MT 59804

MONTANA FOURTH JU-DICIAL DISTRICTCOURT, MISSOULACOUNTY Dept. No. 2 Pro-bate No. DP-15-19 NO-TICE OF HEARING OFPETITION FOR FINALACCOUNT AND FORSETTLEMENT ANDDISTRIBUTION OF THETRUST IN THE MAT-TER OF SUPROCKTRUST, NOTICE ISHEREBY GIVEN that Lor-raine Curtis by and throughher counsel of record has filedin the above Court and causea Petition for Final Accountand for Settlement and Dis-tribution of the Trust. Forfurther information, the Peti-tion, as filed, may be exam-ined in the office of the clerkof the above Court. Hearingupon said Petition will beheld in said Court at thecourtroom in the courthouseat Missoula, Montana, on the3rd day of March, 2015, atthe hour of 11:00 o’clocka.m., at which time all inter-ested persons may appear andobject. Dated this 3rd day ofFebruary, 2015. BOONEKARLBERG P.C. By: /s/Julie R. Sirrs P. O. Box 9199Missoula, Montana 59807Attorneys for Lorraine Cur-tis

MONTANA FOURTH JU-DICIAL DISTRICTCOURT, MISSOULACOUNTY Dept. No. 2 Pro-bate No. DP-15-29 NO-TICE TO CREDITORS INTHE MATTER OF THEESTATE OF ANN MARIECARTER, Deceased. NO-TICE IS HEREBY GIVENthat Gary E. Carter has beenappointed Personal Repre-sentative of the above-namedestate. All persons havingclaims against the Deceasedare required to present their

claims within four (4)months after the date of thefirst publication of this No-tice or said claims will be for-ever barred. Claims musteither be mailed to Christian,Samson & Jones, PLLC, At-torneys for the Personal Rep-resentative, return receiptrequested, at 310 WestSpruce, Missoula, Montana59802, or filed with the Clerkof the above Court. We de-clare under penalty of perjuryunder the laws of the State ofMontana the foregoing istrue and correct. Dated this17th day of February, 2015./s/ Gary E. Carter, PersonalRepresentative of the Estateof Ann Marie Carter /s/Kevin S. Jones, Attorney forPersonal Representative

MONTANA FOURTH JU-DICIAL DISTRICTCOURT, MISSOULACOUNTY Dept. No. 3 Pro-bate No. DP-14-259 NO-TICE TO CREDITORS INTHE MATTER OF THEESTATE OF HELEN KO-ZLOWSKI, Deceased. NO-TICE IS HEREBY GIVENthat the undersigned hasbeen appointed PersonalRepresentative of the above-named estate. All personshaving claims against the saiddeceased are required to pres-ent their claims within fourmonths after the date of thefirst publication of this noticeor said claims will be foreverbarred. Claims must either bemailed to Carol Coats, thePersonal Representative, re-turn receipt requested, c/oBoone Karlberg P.C., P. O.Box 9199, Missoula, Mon-tana 59807-9199, or filedwith the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. I declare,under penalty of perjury andunder the laws of the state ofMontana, that the foregoingis true and correct. DATEDthis 5th day of February,2015, at Missoula, Montana./s/ Carol Coats BOONEKARLBERG P.C. By: /s/Julie R. Sirrs, Esq. P. O. Box9199 Missoula, Montana59807 Attorneys for CarolCoats, Personal Representa-tive

MONTANA FOURTH JU-DICIAL DISTRICTCOURT, MISSOULACOUNTY Dept. No. 4Cause No. DP-15-24 NO-TICE TO CREDITORS INTHE MATTER OF THEESTATE OF ANN M.FANDRY, Deceased. NO-TICE IS HEREBY GIVENthat the undersigned hasbeen appointed PersonalRepresentative of the above-named estate. All personshaving claims against the saiddeceased are required to pres-ent their claims within fourmonths after the date of thefirst publication of this noticeor said claims will be foreverbarred. Claims must bemailed to Paul A Halttunen,the Personal Representative,

return receipt requested, c/o J.Tiffin Hall, Attorney at Law,124 Riverside Drive, Suite101, Eureka, Montana 59917and filed with the Clerk ofthe above Court. DATEDthis 11th day of February,2015. /s/ Paul A. Halttunen,Personal Representative

MONTANA FOURTH JU-DICIAL DISTRICTCOURT, MISSOULACOUNTY Dept. No. 4Cause No. DV-15-44 NO-TICE OF PENDINGNAME CHANGE INTHE MATTER OF THEPETITION FORCHANGE OF NAME OF:BONITA GAIL GRIFFINBISHOP, Petitioner. TOALL PERSONS INTER-ESTED HEREIN:PLEASE TAKE NOTICEthat a Petition for NameChange of BONITA GAILGRIFFIN BISHOP to ob-tain an order of this Courtgranting leave to assume thename of GAIL GRIFFINBISHOP, will be presented tothe above-entitled Court, atthe Missoula County Court-house at Missoula, Montana,on Tuesday the 24th day ofMarch, 2015 at 1:30 p.m., oras soon thereafter as counselcan be heard, and that at suchtime, application will bemade for the relief sought inthe said Petition. DATEDthis 26th day of January,2015. WELLS & MCKIT-TRICK, P.C. By: /s/ JAMIEJ. McKITTRICK, Attorneysfor Petitioner

MONTANA FOURTH JU-DICIAL DISTRICTCOURT, MISSOULACOUNTY Probate No. DP-14-252 Dept. No. 4 NO-TICE TO CREDITORS INTHE MATTER OF THEESTATE OF STEVENWILLIAM BEN-ZSCHAWEL, Deceased.NOTICE IS HEREBYGIVEN that the undersignedhas been appointed PersonalRepresentative of the above-named estate. All personshaving claims against the saiddeceased are required to pres-ent their claims within four(4) months after the date ofthe first publication of thisnotice or said claims will beforever barred. Claims musteither be mailed to PATRI-CIA MAE DeFOE, PersonalRepresentative, return receiptrequested, in care of DouglasHarris, Attorney at Law, POBox 7937, Missoula, Mon-tana 59807-7937 or filedwith the Clerk of the above-named Court. DATED this3rd day of February, 2015. /s/Patricia Mae DeFoe, PersonalRepresentative

NOTICE ANDREA FAR-LEY The State of Tennessee,Department of Children’sServices, has filed a Petitionagainst you seeking a findingof dependency and neglect inregards to your child, Chloe

Cantrell. It appears that ordi-nary process of law cannot beserved upon you because yourwhereabouts are unknown.Your are hereby ORDEREDto serve upon Stacye Choate,Attorney for the TennesseeDepartment of ChildrenServices, 600 HearthwoodCourt, Cookeville, Tennessee38506, (931) 646-3012, anAnswer to the Petition filedby the Tennessee Departmentof Children Services, withinthirty (30) days of the last dayof publication of this notice,and pursuant to Role 39(e)(1)of the Tenn. R. Juv. P. youmust also appear in the Juve-nile Court of Dekalb County,Tennessee at Smithville, Ten-nessee on the 8th day ofApril, 2015, at 8:00 A.M. forthe Adjudicatory Hearing onthe Petition by the State ofTennessee, Department ofChildren’s Services. If you failto do so, a default judgmentwill be taken against you pur-suant to Tenn. Code Ann. §36-1-117(n) and Rule 55 ofthe Tenn. R. of Civ. P. for therelief demanded in the Peti-tion. You may review and ob-tain a copy of the Petitionand any other subsequentlyfiled legal documents at theDekalb Court Clerk’s Office,Smithville, Tennessee.

NOTICE OF SALEUNDER DEED OFTRUST Deed of Trust:Dated August 9, 2005Grantor: Rebecca E. Titus(Married) 658 Utah Avenue,Missoula, MT 59802 Origi-nal Trustee: David R.Chisholm 175 N. 27th Street,Suite 1400, Billings, MT59101-2048 Original Benefi-ciary: Mortgage ElectronicRegistration Systems, Inc. asnominee and limited agentfor U.S. Bank N.A. and itssuccessors and assigns P.O.Box 2026, Flint, MI 48501-2026 Current Beneficiary:U.S. Bank National Associa-tion, 4801 Frederica Street,Owensboro, KY 42301 Suc-cessor Trustee: Scott W.Farago, Garlington, Lohn &Robinson, PLLP, P.O. Box7909, Missoula, MT 59807-7909 Date & Place of Recor-dation: Original recordedAugust 16, 2005 under Doc-ument No. 200521182,records of the Clerk &Recorder of MissoulaCounty, Missoula, Montana.The undersigned hereby givesnotice that on the 13th day ofMay, 2015, at the hour of1:00 p.m. at the front steps ofthe Missoula County Court-house, 200 West Broadway,Missoula, Montana, SCOTTW. FARAGO, as SuccessorTrustee under the above-de-scribed instrument, in orderto satisfy the obligation setforth below, has elected toand will sell at public auctionto the highest bidder, forcash, lawful money of theUnited States of America,payable at the time of sale tothe Successor Trustee, the in-



terest of the above-namedTrustee, Successor Trusteeand Grantor, and all of hersuccessors and assigns, with-out warrant or covenant, ex-press of implied, as to title orpossession, in the followingdescribed real property. LOT9 IN BLOCK 2 OF EASTMISSOULA ADDITION,A PLATTED SUBDIVI-SION IN MISSOULACOUNTY, MONTANA,ACCORDING TO THEOFFICIAL RECORDEDPLAT THEREOF, ANDDESCRIBED AS LOT 9OF CERTIFICATE OFSURVEY NO. 5373. The de-faults for which this foreclo-sure is made are the failure ofthe above-named Grantor,and all of her successors andassigns, to pay when due themonthly payments providedfor in the Note in the amountof Seven Hundred Eight and60/100 Dollars ($708.60) forthe months of November 1,2011 through January 2,2015; together with interestwhich continues to accrue atthe rate of 5.5 percent (5.5%)per annum; together with theescrow balance of SevenThousand Three HundredFifteen and 91/100($7,315.91). The sum owingon the obligation secured bythe Deed of Trust is the prin-cipal balance of One Hun-dred Twelve Thousand NineHundred Eighty Nine and05/100 Dollars($112,989.05), plus interestthereon at the rate of 5.5%from and after the months ofOctober 1, 2011 to January 2,2015, in the amount ofTwenty Thousand Two Hun-dred Thirteen and 96/100Dollars ($20,213.96), plusper diem interest thereafter atthe rate as provided in theNote, plus all costs, expenses,attorney’s and trustee’s fees asprovided by law. DATEDthis 15 day of December,2014. /s/ Scott W. Farago,Successor Trustee, Garling-ton, Lohn & Robinson,PLLP, PO Box 7909, Mis-soula, MT 59807-7909STATE OF MONTANA):ssCounty of Missoula) This in-strument was acknowledgedbefore me on the 15th day ofDecember, 2014 by SCOTTW. FARAGO, SuccessorTrustee /s/ Joan D. Edmunds,Notary Public for the State ofMontana Residing at Mis-soula, MT My CommissionExpires September 01, 2016February 19, February 26,March 5, 2015

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’SSALE Reference is herebymade to that certain trust in-denture/deed of trust (“Deedof Trust”) dated 06/09/09,recorded as Instrument No.200914294 Bk 841 Pg 734,mortgage records of MIS-SOULA County, Montana inwhich David M Felker andDaphne J Felker, husbandand wife was Grantor, WellsFargo Bank, N.A. was Bene-ficiary and Alliance Title &

Escrow Corp. was Trustee.First American Title Insur-ance Company has succeededAlliance Title & EscrowCorp. as Successor Trustee.The Deed of Trust encum-bers real property (“Prop-erty”) located inMISSOULA County, Mon-tana, more particularly de-scribed as follows: Lot 2 inBlock 3 of Spring Hills Ad-dition, a Platted Subdivisionin Missoula County, Mon-tana, according to the OfficialRecorded Plat thereof. Bene-ficiary has declared theGrantor in default of theterms of the Deed of Trustand the promissory note(“Note”) secured by the Deedof Trust because of Grantor’sfailure timely to pay allmonthly installments ofprincipal, interest and, if ap-plicable, escrow reserves fortaxes and/or insurance as re-quired by the Note and Deedof Trust. According to theBeneficiary, the obligationevidenced by the Note(“Loan”) is now due for the09/01/14 installment pay-ment and all monthly install-ment payments duethereafter. As of January 9,2015, the amount necessaryto fully satisfy the Loan was$215,906.31. This amountincludes the outstandingprincipal balance of$208,777.03, plus accruedinterest, accrued late charges,accrued escrow installmentsfor insurance and/or taxes (ifany) and advances for theprotection of beneficiary’s se-curity interest (if any). Be-cause of the defaults statedabove, Beneficiary haselected to sell the Property tosatisfy the Loan and has in-structed Successor Trustee tocommence sale proceedings.Successor Trustee will sellthe Property at public auc-tion on the front steps of theMissoula County Court-house, 200 West Broadway,Missoula, MT 59802, City ofMissoula on May 21, 2015 at11:00 AM, Mountain Time.The sale is a public sale andany person, including Bene-ficiary and excepting onlySuccessor Trustee, may bid atthe sale. The bid price mustbe paid immediately uponthe close of bidding at thesale location in cash or cashequivalents (valid money or-ders, certified checks orcashier’s checks). The con-veyance will be made bytrustee’s deed without anyrepresentation or warranty,express or implied, as the saleis made strictly on an as-is,where-is basis. Grantor, suc-cessor in interest to Grantoror any other person havingan interest in the Propertymay, at any time prior to thetrustee’s sale, pay to Benefici-ary the entire amount thendue on the Loan (includingforeclosure costs and ex-penses actually incurred andtrustee’s and attorney’s fees)other than such portion ofthe principal as would not

then be due had no defaultoccurred. Tender of thesesums shall effect a cure of thedefaults stated above (if allnon-monetary defaults arealso cured) and shall result inTrustee’s termination of theforeclosure and cancellationof the foreclosure sale. Thetrustee’s rules of auction maybe accessed at www.north-westtrustee.com and are in-corporated by the reference.You may also access sale sta-tus at www.Northwest-trustee.com orUSA-Foreclosure.com. (TS#7023.112643) 1002.277068-File No.

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’SSALE TO BE SOLD FORCASH AT TRUSTEE’SSALE on April 13, 2015, at11:00 o’clock A.M. at theMain Door of the MissoulaCounty Courthouse locatedat 200 West Broadway inMissoula, MT 59802, thefollowing described realproperty situated in MissoulaCounty, Montana: Tract 3-A3 of Certificate of SurveyNo. 1909, being a portion ofTract 3A of Certificate ofSurvey No. 1743, located inthe Northeast quarter of Sec-tion 3, Township 11 North,Range 20 West, P.M.M.,Missoula County, Montana.TOGETHER WITH a 60foot private roadway ease-ment for ingress and egressas shown on Certificate ofSurvey Nos. 1369, 1743 and1909. Orion A Heath akaOrion Allen Heath, asGrantor(s), conveyed saidreal property to Stewart Titleof Missoula County, Inc, asTrustee, to secure an obliga-tion owed to World AllianceFinancial Corp., as Benefici-ary, by Deed of Trust datedon March 10, 2009 andrecorded on March 16., 2009Book 835 Page 611 as Doc-ument No. 200905777. Thebeneficial interest is currentlyheld by Bank of America,N.A.. First American TitleCompany of Montana, Inc.,is the Successor Trustee pur-suant to a Substitution ofTrustee recorded in the officeof the Clerk and Recorder ofMissoula County, Montana.The beneficiary has declareda default in the terms of saidDeed of Trust by vacating theproperty on March 23, 2012.The total amount due on thisobligation as of October 31,2014 is $280,056.72 princi-pal, interest at the rate of5.830% now totaling$1,360.61 and other fees andexpenses advanced of$13,836.53, plus accruing in-terest at the rate of $51.20per diem, late charges, andother costs and fees that maybe advanced. The Beneficiaryanticipates and may disbursesuch amounts as may be re-quired to preserve and pro-tect the property and for realproperty taxes that may be-come due or delinquent, un-less such amounts of taxes arepaid by the Grantors. If such

amounts are paid by the Ben-eficiary, the amounts or taxeswill be added to the obliga-tions secured by the Deed ofTrust. Other expenses to becharged against the proceedsof this sale include theTrustee’s fees and attorney’sfees, costs and expenses ofthe sale and late charges, ifany. Beneficiary has elected,and has directed the Trusteeto sell the above describedproperty to satisfy the obliga-tion. The sale is a public saleand any person, including thebeneficiary, excepting onlythe Trustee, may bid at thesale. The bid price must bepaid immediately upon theclose of bidding in cash orcash equivalents (validmoney orders, certifiedchecks or cashier’s checks).The conveyance will be madeby Trustee’s Deed withoutany representation or war-ranty, including warranty ofTitle, express or implied, asthe sale is made strictly on anas-is, where-is basis, withoutlimitation, the sale is beingmade subject to all existingconditions, if any, of leadpaint, mold or other environ-mental or health hazards.The sale purchaser shall beentitled to possession of theproperty on the 10th day fol-lowing the sale. The grantor,successor in interest to thegrantor or any other personhaving an interest in theproperty, at any time prior tothe trustee’s sale, may pay tothe beneficiary or the succes-sor in interest to the benefi-ciary the entire amount thendue under the deed of trustand the obligation securedthereby (including costs andexpenses actually incurredand attorney’s fees) otherthan such portion of theprincipal as would not thenbe due had no default oc-curred and thereby cure thedefault. The scheduledTrustee’s Sale may be post-poned by public proclama-tion up to 15 days for anyreason, and in the event of abankruptcy filing, the salemay be postponed by thetrustee for up to 120 days bypublic proclamation at leastevery 30 days. THIS IS ANATTEMPT TO COL-LECT A DEBT. ANY IN-F O R M A T I O NOBTAINED WILL BEUSED FOR THAT PUR-POSE. Dated: December 3,2014 /s/ Dalia Martinez As-sistant Secretary, First Amer-ican Title Company ofMontana, Inc. SuccessorTrustee Title Financial Spe-cialty Services PO Box 339Blackfoot ID 83221 STATEOF Idaho )) ss. County ofBingham) On this 3rd day ofDecember, 2014, before me, anotary public in and for saidCounty and State, personallyappeared Dalia Martinez,known to me to be the Assis-tant Secretary of First Amer-ican Title Company ofMontana, Inc., SuccessorTrustee, known to me to be

the person whose name issubscribed to the foregoinginstrument and acknowl-edged to me that she exe-cuted the same. /s/ Lisa JTornabene Notary PublicBingham County, IdahoCommission expires:11/6/2018 Reverse MortgageV Heath 42083.005

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’SSALE TO BE SOLD FORCASH AT TRUSTEE’SSALE on April 24, 2015, at11:00 o’clock A.M. at theMain Door of the MissoulaCounty Courthouse locatedat 200 West Broadway inMissoula, MT 59802, thefollowing described realproperty situated in MissoulaCounty, Montana: TRACTA OF CERTIFICATE OFSURVEY NO. 3272, LO-CATED IN THENORTHWEST ONE-QUARTER OF SECTION12, TOWNSHIP 12NORTH, RANGE 18WEST, P.M.M., MIS-SOULA COUNTY, MON-TANA Rick D. Lloyd, asGrantor(s), conveyed saidreal property to Title Serv-ices, Inc., as Trustee, to securean obligation owed to Mort-gage Electronic RegistrationSystems, Inc., as Beneficiary,by Deed of Trust dated June30, 2006 and recorded July 6,2006 in Book 778, Page 536under Document No.200616476. The beneficialinterest is currently held byU.S. Bank National Associa-tion, as Trustee, successor ininterest to Bank of America,National Association, asTrustee, successor by mergerto LaSalle Bank NationalAssociation, as Trustee forWashington Mutual Mort-gage Pass-Through Certifi-cates WMALT Series2006-8 Trust. First Ameri-can Title Company of Mon-tana, Inc., is the SuccessorTrustee pursuant to a Substi-tution of Trustee recorded inthe office of the Clerk andRecorder of MissoulaCounty, Montana. The ben-eficiary has declared a defaultin the terms of said Deed ofTrust by failing to make themonthly payments due in theamount of $1,179.32, begin-ning December 1, 2010, andeach month subsequent,which monthly installmentswould have been applied onthe principal and interest dueon said obligation and othercharges against the propertyor loan. The total amountdue on this obligation as ofDecember 08, 2014 is$243,927.52 principal, inter-est at the rate of 5.00% total-ing $50,068.96, late chargesin the amount of $353.82, es-crow advances of $16,408.81,and other fees and expensesadvanced of $5,682.68, plusaccruing interest at the rateof $33.41 per diem, latecharges, and other costs andfees that may be advanced.The Beneficiary anticipatesand may disburse such

amounts as may be requiredto preserve and protect theproperty and for real prop-erty taxes that may becomedue or delinquent, unlesssuch amounts of taxes arepaid by the Grantors. If suchamounts are paid by the Ben-eficiary, the amounts or taxeswill be added to the obliga-tions secured by the Deed ofTrust. Other expenses to becharged against the proceedsof this sale include theTrustee’s fees and attorney’sfees, costs and expenses ofthe sale and late charges, ifany. Beneficiary has elected,and has directed the Trusteeto sell the above describedproperty to satisfy the obliga-tion. The sale is a public saleand any person, including thebeneficiary, excepting onlythe Trustee, may bid at thesale. The bid price must bepaid immediately upon theclose of bidding in cash orcash equivalents (validmoney orders, certifiedchecks or cashier’s checks).The conveyance will be madeby Trustee’s Deed withoutany representation or war-ranty, including warranty ofTitle, express or implied, asthe sale is made strictly on anas-is, where-is basis, withoutlimitation, the sale is beingmade subject to all existingconditions, if any, of leadpaint, mold or other environ-mental or health hazards.The sale purchaser shall beentitled to possession of theproperty on the 10th day fol-lowing the sale. The grantor,successor in interest to thegrantor or any other personhaving an interest in theproperty, at any time prior tothe trustee’s sale, may pay tothe beneficiary or the succes-sor in interest to the benefi-ciary the entire amount thendue under the deed of trustand the obligation securedthereby (including costs andexpenses actually incurredand attorney’s fees) otherthan such portion of theprincipal as would not thenbe due had no default oc-curred and thereby cure thedefault. The scheduledTrustee’s Sale may be post-poned by public proclama-tion up to 15 days for anyreason, and in the event of abankruptcy filing, the salemay be postponed by thetrustee for up to 120 days bypublic proclamation at leastevery 30 days. THIS IS ANATTEMPT TO COL-LECT A DEBT. ANY IN-F O R M A T I O NOBTAINED WILL BEUSED FOR THAT PUR-POSE. Dated: December 16,2014 /s/ Dalia Martinez As-sistant Secretary, First Amer-ican Title Company ofMontana, Inc. SuccessorTrustee Title Financial Spe-cialty Services PO Box 339Blackfoot ID 83221 STATEOF Idaho)) ss. County ofBingham ) On this 16th dayof December, 2014 beforeme, a notary public in and for

said County and State, per-sonally appeared Dalia Mar-tinez, known to me to be theAssistant Secretary of FirstAmerican Title Company ofMontana, Inc., SuccessorTrustee, known to me to bethe person whose name issubscribed to the foregoinginstrument and acknowl-edged to me that she exe-cuted the same. /s/ Lisa JTornabene Notary PublicBingham County, IdahoCommission expires:11/6/2018 Chase Vs. Lloyd41916.681

will auction to the highest bidderabandoned storage units owingdelinquent storage rent for the fol-lowing units: 129, 198, 236, 301,456, 485, 497 & 510. Units cancontain furniture, clothes, chairs,toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sportsequipment, books, beds, & othermisc. household goods. These unitsmay be viewed starting MondayMarch 2, 2015. All auction units willonly be shown each day at 3 P.M.written sealed bids may be submit-ted to storage office at 4101 Hwy 93S., Missoula, MT 59804 prior toThursday March 5, 2015 4:00 P.M.Buyers bid will be for entire contentsof each unit offered in the sale. Onlycash or money orders will be ac-cepted for payment. Units are re-served subject to redemption byowner prior to sale. All Sales final.

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will auction to the highest bidder aban-doned storage units owing delinquentstorage rent for the following units (unitnumber followed by rent owed, latefees and auction fees): 20 ($2599), 27($1609), 41 ($1319), 52 ($959.00), 61(($690), 74 ($1131.00), 80 ($1906), 89($1702), 100 ($1412), 112 ($2104), 113($2570), 117 ($1827), 132 ($2188), 136($596), 143 ($1450). Units contain per-sonal items. Auction to take place atMurphy Street Storage, 2504 MurphyStreet, Missoula, Sunday, 3/22/2015 at2:00 p.m. Cash or money orders only.

will auction to the highest bidderabandoned storage units owingdelinquent storage rent for the fol-lowing unit(s): 95, 148, 190,201,248. Units can contain furni-ture, cloths, chairs, toys, kitchen sup-plies, tools, sports equipment, books,beds, other misc household goods,vehicles & trailers. These units maybe viewed starting3/16/2015 byappt only by calling 541-7919. Writ-ten sealed bids may be submitted tostorage offices at 3505 Clark ForkWay, Missoula, MT 59808 prior to3/19/2015 at 4:00 P.M.Buyer’s bid will be for entire contentsof each unit offered in the sale. Onlycash or money orders will be ac-cepted for payment. Units are re-served subject to redemption byowner prior to sale. All Sales final.

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

BENJAMIN••Meet Benjamin! Lookingfor a smart, quirky cat who will never ceaseto entertain you? Then Benjamin's yourguy! He is a whiz with interactive food toysand will make you smile as he serenadesyou with his lovely voice. Benjamin has beenat the shelter for over a year now (currentlyour longest resident) and it's his turn to fi-nally find his furrever home.

ROO••Roo is a 2-year-old male brindleGerman Shepherd mix. He is young andhas a great deal of energy which wouldmake an active family his perfect home.Roo loves to play fetch and knows how tosit before going through a door. He willneed an owner who is willing to invest thetime to train and exercise to keep him bal-anced.

BUTTERCUP••Buttercup is a 3-year-oldfemale Border Collie mix. She is incrediblysweet and loves to lean next to you andsoak up lots of attention. You will neverfeel lonely with Buttercup in your home.This happy little girl is always looking toplease.

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SOPHIE••Sophie is a 7-10 year-old fe-male Calico/Tabby. She is currently ourlongest-term resident at the shelter, hav-ing been here for 113 days. Sophie hasnot adjusted to shelter life very well andhas come to view her little cage as heronly solace. She has the most patheticmeow that will tug at your heart strings.

RABBIT••Rabbit is an 8-year-old maleblack Domestic Short Hair. He loves to sitin laps and be brushed. Rabbit is terrifiedof other cats and spends most of his daysat the shelter hiding in his kennel or in acorner. This gentle man deserves a homewhere he isn't surrounded by other ani-mals. Only then will he ever come out ofhis shell.

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MONTE••Meet Monte! Monte is a big,goofy guy who is definitely still a puppy de-spite his size. He is very playful and hasexperience living with dogs and cats.Monte is crate-trained and loves his peanutbutter-filled Kong toy. He knows how to sitand would love to attend a Basic Mannerstraining class with his adopter to learnmore. Stop by to meet Monte today!

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SIERRA••Sierra is a beautiful lady whocan be a bit shy at first. She prefers to in-vestigate people during a quiet momentwhen the spotlight isn't on her. She hasproved to be loving and enjoys cheekscratches and ear rubs. Sierra is lookingfor a quiet home to help her gain confi-dence so she can bloom into the star weknow she is!

BIG RED••Big Red is a senior male cat.This older guy is a true lap cat and loves tobe brushed. Big Red originally came to theshelter after being treated for a gun shotwound in his right side. Now he is all healedand looking for a retirement home. Big Redis great with other cats, and wouldn't minda dog sniffing him, but probably wouldn't ap-preciate being pestered one.

RUSTY••Rusty is a 7-year-old maleChow Chow mix. He is truly the nicestChow you will ever meet. Rusty is greatwith dogs of all sizes and walks verynicely on a leash. His activity needs aremoderate, and would do well in a less ac-tive home with older kids. Rusty is reallya striking creature to behold and fre-quently steals the show in the kennel.

TED••Ted is a gentleman who loves totell you about his adventures. He enjoysgetting pets and rubs and will certainlymeow his thanks in return! Originally astray, Ted is looking for his forever homewhere he can have long conversations, getlots of ear scratches and have plenty ofwindows to look out of. Come let Ted meltyour heart today!

SOPHIE••Sophie is an active, playful girlwho loves to play fetch and explore the out-doors. She is a very smart girl and alreadyknows a few commands, but she would loveto attend a Basic Manners training classwith her new adopters to learn even more!If you are looking for an eager companionto share in your Montana adventures, comemeet Sophie today.

MARGOT••Margot is a spunky girl whoreally is the Life of the Party! Margot en-joys going on hikes and playing tug, butfetch is truly the way to this girl's heart.Margot participates in our volunteer PawsAhead training program and her adoptioncomes with a free private lesson with ourCertified Professional Dog Trainer.


RENTALSAPARTMENTS

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1 bedroom, 1 bath, $525.Downtown, coin-op laundry, car-port, off-street parking, W/S/Gpaid. No Pets, No Smoking.GATEWEST 728-7333

1 bedroom, 1 bath, $675, newercomplex, near Broadway & Rus-sell, DW, A/C, coin-op laundry,storage, off-street parking,W/S/G paid. No Pets, NoSmoking. GATEWEST 728-7333

1-2 bedroom, 1 bath, $575-$650, N. Russell, coin-op laun-dry, storage, off-street parking,H/W/S/G paid. No Pets, NoSmoking. GATEWEST 728-7333

1-2 bedroom, 1 bath, $600-$705, quite cul-de-sac, nearGood Food Store, DW, coin-oplaundry, off-street parking,H/W/S/G paid. No Pets, NoSmoking. GATEWEST 728-7333

1024 Stephens #5. 2 bed/1bath, central location, DW, coin-ops, cat? $700. Grizzly PropertyManagement 542-2060

1115 Rollins: 2 Bedroom, SlantStreet, Large, Yard, Hook-ups,Heat paid! $725. Garden CityProperty Management 549-6106 1 year Costco membership& $200 gift card.

1213 Cleveland St. “D”. 1bed/1 bath, HEAT PAID, centrallocation, shared W/D, pet?$600. Grizzly Property Manage-ment 542-2060

1237 Kensington: Newer Studio,Full kitchen & bath, Dishwasher,Laundry, Heat paid! $640. Gar-den City Property Manage-ment 549-6106 1 year Costcomembership & $100 gift card.

1315 E. Broadway #3. 1bed/1.5 bath, near University,coin-ops, carport, pet? $700.Grizzly Property Management542-2060

1315 E. Broadway #6. 2bed/1.5 bath, close to U, coin-ops, pet? $800. Grizzly PropertyManagement 542-2060

1914 S. 14th St. W. “C”. Stu-dio/1 bath, newer, W/D in-cluded, central location. $575.Grizzly Property Management542-2060

1939 S. 3rd St. W.: 1 Bedroom,Stacking washer & dryer, *FREEDIRECTV*, Microwave,$595. Garden City PropertyManagement 549-6106 1 yearCostco membership & $100 giftcard.

2 bedroom, 1 bath, $875-$895,2 Weeks FREE w/6 Month Lease,Brand New 6-Plex, DW, A/C,large closets, patio/balcony,storage, off-street parking,

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2329 Fairview #1. 2 bed/1bath, shared yard, close to shop-ping. $650. Grizzly PropertyManagement 542-2060

2345 S. 3rd St. W.: 2 Bedroom,Hook-ups, Dishwasher, Mi-crowave, Near Reserve, $725.Garden City Property Manage-ment 549-6106 1 year Costcomembership & $200 gift card.

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HOMES FORSALE

10955 Cedar Ridge. Loft bed-room, 1 bath on 20+ acres withguest house & sauna near BlueMountain Recreation Area.

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1511 Van Buren. 3 bed, 1 bathin lower Rattlesnake. Hardwoodfloors, coved ceilings & base-ment. Mt. Jumbo views.$229,900. Anne Jablonski, Por-

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1633 South 4th West. 1920’sera 4 bed, 2 bath with fencedyard, patio and many new up-grades. $299,900. Pat Mc-Cormick, Properties 2000.2 4 0 - 7 6 5 [email protected]

2 Bdr, 2 Bath, Rose Park Homewith commercial space.$265,000. Prudential Montana.For more info call Mindy Palmer@ 239-6696, or visit

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2227 West Kent. 2 bed, 1 bathwith unfinished basement and small fenced yard. Centrallocation. $138,000. RochelleGlasgow, Prudential Missoula7 2 8 - 8 2 7 0 g l a s g o w @montana.com

3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Central Missoulahome. $275,000. PrudentialMontana. For more info callMindy Palmer @ 239-6696, orvisit

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3 Bdr, 2 Bath, East Missoulahome. $225,000. PrudentialMontana. For more info callMindy Palmer @ 239-6696, orvisit

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3010 West Central. 5 acres inTarget Range with 3 bed, 1 bathhome. Borders DNRC land.$325,000. Pat McCormick,Properties 2000. [email protected]

3010 West Central. Five acresbordering DNRC in Target Rangewith 3 bed, 1 bath home.$325,000. Pat McCormick,Properties 2000. [email protected]

4 Bdr, 2 Bath, University Districthome. $439,000. PrudentialMontana. For more info callMindy Palmer @ 239-6696, orvisit...

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4 Plex By The River319/321 1st St. Dream location!3-plex and alley house (2 effi-ciencies and 2 one bed units) be-hind Bernices ‘hood, River viewsand end of the street. Reduced$365,000. KD 240-5227 porti-corealestate.com

Are your housing needs chang-ing? We can help you exploreyour options. Clark Fork Re-alty. 512 E. Broadway. (406)728-2621. www.clarkforkre-alty.com

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Farviews Home 404 West-view. Three bedroom, 2 bathhome in the desirable Farviewsneighborhood for $265,000!Solar panels, views, great home.KD 240-5227. porticore-alestate.com

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River Ridge is a lovely, activecommunity dedicated for seniorsonly (residents must be 55+ toqualify). This apartment complexhas a mix of 1 & 2 bedroomsapartments over 3 floors.Thoughtful floor plans, radiantheat flooring and all utilities paidhelp make this is comfortableand welcoming place to callhome. There is a large commu-nity room with a fireplace, a li-brary, card/puzzle room, and abilliards room. 2 elevators servethe building, there is a laundryroom on each floor and garagesare available for an additionalfee. 1 bedrooms $625, security

deposit $550 and 2 bedrooms$725, security deposit$650. Please contact PropertyManager Colin Woodrow at406-549-4113 [email protected] schedule a tour.”

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The Palace Apartments, locatedat 149 W. Broadway, is nowleasing studio’s, 1 bedroom & 2bedroom units! This is an incomequalifying property, with rentsfrom $405-$707 monthly.H/W/S/G/ all paid, electric istenant responsibility. Parkingmust be acquired thru the Mis-soula Parking Commission. ThePalace boasts a central down-town location, with 2 elevatorsand a secure building. Please callMatty Reed, Property Manager,at 406.549.4113 x130 for de-tails!

MOBILE HOMES

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cluded. $425/month 406-273-6034

DUPLEXES

1717 13th St. “B”. 3 bed/1 bathtriplex, central location, W/Dhookups, shared yard. $1000.Grizzly Property Management542-2060

2318 55th Street #2. 2 bed/1bath, South Hills location.

$600. Grizzly Property Man-agement 542-2060

HOUSES

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MHA Management manages 7 propertiesthroughout Missoula.

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RochelleGlasgowMissoula Properties

For location and more info, viewthese and other properties at:www.rochelleglasgow.com

Priced to sell! 2 bed, 1 bath ranch home in central location. Unfinished basement & smallfenced yard. New roof in 2007.

Newer bedroom windows. Needs some TLC. MLS #20150444

2227 West Kent$138,000


Former MUD Site 633Phillips - $150,000. Excellent op-portunity to own a home at the for-mer MUD demonstration site on theNorthside. Many outbuildings andso many possibilities. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

I’ll save you time and energy. Letme help you Find Your WayHome. I know Missoula andhave lived here 30+ years.Please contact me DavidLoewenwarter, Realtor, PrudentialMT Real Estate 406-241-3221LOEWENWARTER.COM

If you’ve been thinking of sellingyour home now is the time. Thelocal inventory is relatively lowand good houses are sellingquickly. Please contact me DavidLoewenwarter, Realtor, PrudentialMT Real Estate 406-241-3221LOEWENWARTER.COM

Interested in real estate? Success-fully helping buyers and sellers.Please contact me David Loewen-warter, Realtor, Prudential MTReal Estate 406-241-3221LOEWENWARTER.COM

Orange Street Triplex201 S Orange Street Triplex. Re-duced $300,000. Location isawesome, near the river anddowntown and river trails andbike trails and all sorts of con-veniences. Two main floor units,one upper. Some hardwoodfloors and some upgrades andtons of character! KD 240-5227porticorealestate.com

Put my experience and dedica-tion to work for you. JAY GETZ,Prudential Montana Real Es-tate. (406) 214-4016• [email protected]• www.JayGetzMissoula.com

Rattlesnake FarmhouseA friendly home with large gar-den in the middle Rattlesnake.1145 Lolo Street. At corner ofGilbert and Lolo Streets. 3 bed-room, 2 bath, 10,200 sq. ft. lot[0.23 acres] Fruit trees. Access totown and trails. For sale by own-ers of 24 years. $279,000. Mainand Second floors have 1,375Sq. Ft. Unfinished basement 240Sq.Ft. Parking off street. Fencedyard and garden. All SIDs paidincluding city sewer,sidewalk.Natural gas heat. Roof one yearold. Taxes $2304.33 in 2014.Pictures on craigslist. 406-437-1800 or [email protected]

South Hills Ranch Style2615 Arcadia - $250,000. 3bed/1 bath. Open floor plan,gorgeous updates includingkitchen abd bath, backs to openspace, large backyard. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

Sweet & Modern 949 Dis-covery. $225,000. 3 bed/2 bathenergy-efficient home with a trailup Mt. Jumbo right out yourdoor! No maintenance siding;low maintenance yard; superfloor plan and kitchen, and lotsof light. KD 240-5227 portico-realestate.com

We’re not only here to sell realestate, we’re your full servicesenior home specialists. ClarkFork Realty. 512 E. Broad-way. (406) 728-2621. www.clarkforkrealty.com

When considering a moveplease call Missoula native JAYGETZ, Prudential Montana RealEstate. (406) 214-4016 •j a y . g e t z @ p r u m t . c o m• www.JayGetzMissoula.com

WHO CARES? We do, in goodtimes & bad... Auto; SR-22;Renters; Homeowners. JT Zinn In-surance. 406-549-8201. 321SW Higgins. Find us on Face-book.

CONDOS/TOWNHOMES

425 West Kent. 2 bed, 2 bathwith hardwood floors, archeddoorways & built-ins. Patio &single garage. $260,000. Shan-non Hilliard, Prudential Missoula239-8350. [email protected]

4801 Bordeaux. 2 bed, 2 bathwith A/C & 2 car garage.$168,000. Rita Gray, Lam-brosERA Real Estate [email protected]

Burns Street Condo 1400Burns #16 $160,000. Threebedroom upper level unit offersspacious, convenient, and beau-tiful living space. One of the bestthings about Burns Street Com-mons is its gorgeous exterior andgreat community atmosphere.KD 240-5227 or Sarah 370-3995 porticorealestate.com

Clark Fork River Condo1401 Cedar Street #16.$122,500. Charming 2 bedroom, 1.5 bathroom town-house set on the Clark Fork River.What an amazing home! KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

Uptown Flats #303. Top floor unitlooks out to the “M” and includesall the wonderful amenities thatThe Uptown Flats offers.$159,710. Anne Jablonski, Por-tico Real Estate 546.5816. [email protected]

Uptown Flats #306. 1 bed, 1

bath top floor unit with lots oflight. W/D, carport, storage &access to exercise room.$162,000. Anne Jablonski, Por-tico Real Estate 546-5816. [email protected]

Uptown Flats #312. 1 bed, 1bath modern condo on Mis-soula’s Northside. $151,900.Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Es-tate [email protected]

Uptown Flats. Upscale gatedcommunity near downtown. AllSS appliances, carport, storageand access to community roomand exercise room plus more.Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Es-tate 546-5816.a n n i e r e a l t o r @ g m a i l . c o mwww.movemontana.com

Why Rent? Own YourOwn 1400 Burns #10. De-signed with energy efficiency,comfort and affordability inmind. Next to Burns Street Bistroand Missoula Community Co-op.2 bedroom unit for $119,000.KD 240-5227 porticore-alestate.com

MANUFACTUREDHOMES

NEW HOME SPRINGBLOWOUT!! Single Wides, Dou-ble Wides & Modular Homes atClearance Prices!! ModularHomes starting at $79,500 -Tape & Texture Throughout, Oak

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LAND FORSALE

1625 Lot 12A Cote Lane. Level 1acre with fantastic views. MaryLouise Zapp-Knapp, LambrosERA Real Estate [email protected]

Lot 33 Old Mill Loop, St. Regis.1.02 acre with 150’ of ClarkFork River Frontage. Mary LouiseZapp-Knapp, Lambros ERA RealEstate 532-9296. [email protected]

LOWER RATTLESNAKE LANDFOR SALE- NHN RAYMOND-

.62 ACRES. Please contact meDavid Loewenwarter, Realtor,Prudential MT Real Estate 406-241-3221 LOEWEN-WARTER.COM

NHN Arnica. Pattee Canyonacreage with great view of Mis-soula. Mary Louise Zapp-Knapp,Lambros ERA Real Estate. 532-9296 [email protected]

NHN Rock Creek Road. 20 acresbordered on north by Five Val-leys Land Trust. Direct access toClark Fork River. $189,900.Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Mis-soula 239-8350. [email protected]

OUT OF TOWN

1476 Eastside Highway, Corval-lis. 3 bed, 2 bath Victorian onover 7 fenced acres with barn &

outbuildings. $389,900. Shan-non Hilliard, Prudential Missoula239-8350. [email protected]

2 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville home.$180,000. Prudential Montana.

For more info call Mindy Palmer@ 239-6696, or visit

www.mindypalmer.com

4 Bdr, 2 Bath, Nine Mile Valleyhome on 12.3 acres. $350,000.Prudential Montana. For more

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5 Bdr, 3 Bath, Florence areahome on 3.2 acres. $479,000.Prudential Montana. For moreinfo call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit

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COMMERCIALRose Park commercial buildingwith attached rental. $265,000.Prudential Montana. For moreinfo call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindy-palmer.com

MORTGAGE EQUITY LOANS ON NON-OWNER OCCUPIED MON-TANA REAL ESTATE. We alsobuy Notes & Mortgages. CallCreative Finance & Investments@ 406-721-1444 or visitwww.creative-finance.com

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949 Discovery $225,000Tasteful & sweet 3 bed, 2 bath with 2 car garage at base of Mt. Jumbo. Energy efficient!

1511 Van Buren $229,900Lower Rattlesnake 3 bed, 1 bath on double lot with single garage. Coved ceilings,crystal doorknobs & hardwood floors.

Homes With Land406 Aspen View Rd., Polaris Amazing Home and

Area ..................................................................$345,0002348 River Road 2.23 Acres in Town ...................$535,000

Commercial:2309 Grant Commercial Building & Land ..........$155,0009435 Summit 40x60' Shop + Almost 2 Acres ....$375,000

Townhomes/Condos1400 Burns 3 Bedroom Unit On One Level........$160,000

1400 Burns Last 2 Bedroom Unit......................$119,000Uptown Flats #303 Modern Amenities ............$159,710Uptown Flats #306 Third Floor Views! ............$162,000Uptown Flats #312 Efficient 1 Bed ..................$151,900

LandOld Indian Trail 4.77 Acres. South Facing Slope of

Hillside at Base of Grant Creek..........................$90,000Old Indian Trail 15 Acres. Views of Lolo Peak &

Missoula Valley ...............................................$148,000

2311 Briggs $229,900Well-maintained 3 bed, 2 bath with finished basement, 2 bonus rooms & single garage.

Homes2615 Arcadia Many upgrades including kitchen and bath. ...........................................................................$250,000319/321 S 1st St W 4-plex Bernice's neighborhood. River views. .................................................................$365,000404 Westview So much house in a great 'hood! ..........................................................................................$265,000201 S Orange Triplex Great location, great rental......................................................................................$300,0002311 Briggs Well-maintained 3 bed, 2 bath .................................................................................................$229,9001511 Van Buren Rattlesnake charmer!........................................................................................................$229,900949 Discovery Gorgeous, sweet, tasteful 3 bed, 2 bath ...............................................................................$225,00017730 Wild Goose Lane, Frenchtown One level living on golf course, lots of upgrades ..............................$310,000

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5 acres in Target Range bordering DNRC land.Includes 3 bed, 1 bath home and outbuildings.

Perfect for the rural life in town.

3010 West Central • $325,000

A Benefit for Bitterroot EcologicalAwareness Resources

Warren Miller's film "No Turning Back"

featuring Lost Trail Ski Area

Friday, February 27Hamilton City HallBedford Building

More info: bearmt.org

Mendelssohn Crowd Funding Party & Free Cycles Benefit

Friday, February 27, 7:30-10:30pmFree Cycles, 732 S. 1st St W

Free show!Featuring performances by

MendelssohnWartime Blues

The Skurfs

More info: mendelssohnmusic.com

Hellgate Drama PresentsAlice

in WonderlandHellgate Auditorium

February 26, 27, 28 - 7:30pm

African Drum & Dance Classes

with Alseny YansaneSaturday, March 7

Missoula Senior Center705 S. Higgins

Drum: 6-7:30pm Dance: 7:30-9pm

$15 per classTickets & Info: 541-232-5471; westernafricanculturalarts.org

Sponsored by Unity Dance & Drum and West African Cultural Arts Institute

“Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee.”– Cassius Clay, American Hero

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