NOTICE
PUBLIC HEARING
Wednesday, June 26th, 2013
6:30 p.m.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Town of Stevensville Planning and Zoning Board will hold a public hearing on June 26th, 2013 at 6:30 PM at the Town Council Chambers at 206 Buck Street, Stevensville, Montana, 59870 for the purpose of obtaining public comments regarding:
• A Petition For Conditional Use Permit for 116 Valley View for the assembly of value added food grade and topical use products and for office space.
Comments may be given orally at the hearing or submitted in writing mailed to P.O. Box 30, Stevensville MT 59870 before 5:00 pm June 26, 2013. Questions, comments or more information may be obtained by contacting Town Hall at 406-777-5271.
Attest: Stacy Bartlett, Town Clerk
BS 6-12, 6-19-13.

PUBLIC HEARING
PRELIMINARY BUDGET HEARING FOR RAVALLI COUNTY
The Board of Ravalli County Commissioners will hold a public hearing beginning July 1, 2013, at 9:00 a.m. on the Preliminary County Operating Budget. The Commissioners have completed the Preliminary Annual Operating Budget for Fiscal Year 2014 and the budget is on file and open for inspection in the Ravalli County Commissioners Office located at 215 S. 4th Street, Suite A (third floor), Hamilton, MT.  59840.   Budgets can be taken out of the order listed below, and may be continued into the next date and or/time session if necessary.
Road & Bridge/SRS
Public Safety
911 Dispatch
Commissioners
Justice Court #1
Justice Court #2
Treasurer
Clerk & Recorder
Superintendent of Schools
Finance
County Attorney
Variable Costs – General Fund
Office of Emergency Management
Public Health Nurse
Environmental Health
Information Technology
Human Resources
Central Supply
Contributions to Communities
Operating Transfers – General
Facilities
Weed
Fair
Airport
Clerk of Court
Juvenile Detention
Comprehensive Insurance
Hwy 93 Amenities
Library
Cemetery
Planning
GIS
Mental Health
Economic Development
Extension
Old Courthouse Maintenance
Any taxpayer or resident may appear at the hearing and be heard for or against any part of the proposed preliminary budget.  The Final Budget will be approved and adopted by Resolution on August 22, 2013 at 10:30 a.m.  If you have any questions, please contact the Commissioners Office at 375-6500, email at   commissioners@rc.mt.gov or at the above address.
Glenda Wiles
Commissioners Administrative Assistant
BS 6-12, 6-19, 6-26-13.

FLORENCE COUNTY WATER AND SEWER DISTRICT
PO BOX 602
FLORENCE, MONTANA  59833
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
The Board of Directors of the Florence County Water and Sewer District has adopted a Resolution to proceed with closure and dissolution of the District. The Board of Directors has adopted an asset dispersal plan and will present that plan at the public hearing.  A mail ballot will be held following the public hearing to vote on dissolving the District.
The public hearing will be held at 7:00 pm at the Fire Hall in Florence on Tuesday, June 25.  If additional information is needed or if you have questions, please contact Matt Brainard, President Board of Directors, at his place of business: 818 Woody Street, Missoula, MT  59802. Telephone:  406-549-3249.
BS 6-12, 6-19-13.

NOTICE OF SALE OF DELINQUENT TAX LIEN FOR THE YEAR 2012
(Pursuant to 15-17-122, MCA)
Office of the County Treasurer, Ravalli County, Hamilton, Montana
Notice is hereby given that all delinquent 2012 taxes are a lien on the property upon which the taxes are assessed. The lien will be sold to the county at public auction on the 15th day of July 2013 at 10 A.M. on the front steps of the Ravalli County Admininstration Building in the City of Hamilton, Montana unless prior to the said time said delinquent taxes together with all interest and penalties and costs due there on are paid.
A record of those delinquent taxes will be on file in the Tax Office of the County Treasurer and is subject to public inspection and examination.
Given under my hand and seal the 19th day of June 2013.
Marie Keeton
Treasurer, Ravalli County
BS 6-19, 6-26, 7-3-13.

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Trustee Sale Number: 13-00255-5 Loan Number: 0144553948 APN: 741609  TO BE SOLD for cash at Trustee’s Sale on September 16, 2013 at the hour of 10:00 AM, recognized local time, At the front entrance of the County Courthouse, 205 Bedford, Hamilton, MT. the following described real property in Ravalli County, Montana, to-wit: LOT 27 OF ARROW HILL SUBDIVISION SITUATED IN RAVALLI COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. More commonly known as: 501 ARROW HILL DRIVE, HAMILTON, MT   JOHN J. HUMBLE AND BETH L HUMBLE, AS JOINT TENANTS, as the original grantor(s), conveyed said real property to STEWART TITLE, as the original trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS INC., AS NOMINEE FOR FIRST INDEPENDENT MORTGAGE COMPANY , as the original beneficiary, by a Trust Indenture dated as of June 3, 2005, and recorded on June 10, 2005 under Document No. 554864, in the Official Records of the Office of the Record of Ravalli County, Montana (“Deed of Trust”). The current beneficiary is: U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee, successor in interest to Wachovia Bank, National Association, as Trustee for Wells Fargo Asset Securities Corporation, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2005-AR15 (the “Beneficiary”). FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY was named as Successor Trustee (the “Trustee”) by virtue of a Substitution of Trustee dated April 15, 2013 and recorded in the records of Ravalli County, Montana. There has been a default in the performance of said Deed of Trust: Failure to pay when due the following amounts which are now in arrears as of May 13, 2013: Balance due on monthly payments from September 1, 2012 and which payments total: $21,913.29: Net Other Fees:$15.00 Advances: $15.00 Suspense: ($982.40) There is presently due on the obligation the principal sum of $489,992.14 plus accrued interest thereon at the rate of 2.87500% per annum from August 1, 2012, plus late charges. Interest and late charges continue to accrue. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds include the trustee’s or attorney’s fees and costs and expenses of sale. The beneficiary has elected to sell the property to satisfy the obligation and has directed the trustee to commence such sale proceedings. The beneficiary declares that the grantor is in default as described above and has directed the Trustee to commence proceedings to sell the property described above at public sale in accordance with the terms and provisions of this notice.  The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid in cash. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the aforesaid property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default theretofore existing. SALE INFORMATION CAN BE OBTAINED ON LINE AT www.lpsasap.com AUTOMATED SALES INFORMATION PLEASE CALL 714.730.2727  DATED: May 13, 2013 FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY, Trustee, By: Megan Curtis, Authorized Signature A-4387570 06/19/2013, 06/26/2013, 07/03/2013

Request for Proposals
Paving Project
The Board of Ravalli County Commissioners is soliciting Request for Proposals for paving services on approximately 1.75 miles of Store Lane, a county road,  located North and East of Stevensville, Montana.
Proposals will be received by the Ravalli County Clerk & Recorder, 215 S. 4th Street, Suite C, (Second Floor) Hamilton, Montana  59840 until Wednesday, July 24, 2013 by 4:30 p.m.  Proposals will then be opened by the Ravalli County Commissioners on July 25, 2013, at 9:30 a.m. in the Commissioners Conference Room (Third Floor) at 215 S. 4th Street, Hamilton, Montana.
For a copy of the Full Request for Proposal and Specifications for Store Lane Paving Project contact the Ravalli County Road & Bridge Department at 244 Fairgrounds Road, Hamilton, MT. during regular business hours or by calling 406-363-2733.
For questions concerning the Request for Proposal Process, contact Glenda Wiles at the Ravalli County Commissioners Office – 406-375-6500.
Glenda Wiles
Commissioners Administrative Assistant
BS 6-19, 6-26-13.

William J. Nelson, Esq.
Nelson Law Office PLLC
217 North 3rd Street Suite J
Hamilton, MT 59840
Telephone: (406) 363-3181
Fax: (406) 552-0153
Attorney for Petitioner
MONTANA TWENTY-FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, RAVALLI COUNTY
IN THE MATTER OF:
BITTER-ROOT IRRIGATION DISTRICT
Robert R. Brewer, Petitioner
Cause No. DV-98-3457
Dept. No.2
NOTICE OF HEARING
Pursuant to Mont. Code Anno. § 85-7-1809, the public is advised of a hearing that will be conducted on the Petition for Inclusion within the Bitter Root Irrigation District Three Mile Irrigation Measure Gravity Systems District filed by the Petitioner Robert R. Brewer, for inclusion of their following described lands within the Three Mile Irrigation Measure Gravity Systems District of the Bitter Root Irrigation District.
The Hearing is set for the 18th day of July, 2013 at 1 :30 p.m., Courtroom #2, Ravalli County Courthouse.
Lands to be included:
A tract of land in and being a portion of the NE1/4NW1/4, NW1/4NE1I4 Section 34, Township 10 North, Range 19 West, P.M.M., Ravalli County, Montana, and being more particularly described as Parcel A, Certificate of Survey No. 4266.
WITNESS my hand this 6th day of June, 2013.
Paige Trautwein, Clerk of District Court
By Mary Sawyer
BS 6-19, 6-26-13.

PUBLIC NOTICE
The North Valley Public Library Board of Trustees will hold a public budget hearing on Thursday, June 27 at 3:30 pm in the library’s Community Room. The hearing will be to discuss the library’s FY14 budget. NVPL is located at 208 Main Street, Stevensville.
BS 6-19, 6-26-13.

MONTANA TWENTY-FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, RAVALLI COUNTY
IN RE THE ESTATE OF VERLA R. WISE, Deceased.
Case No.: DP-13-36
Department No. 1
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate.  All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred.
Claims must either be mailed to Geoffrey E. Wise, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Nelson Law Office, 217 North Third Street, Suite J, Hamilton, MT 59840, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court.
DATED this 12th day of June, 2013.
/s/ William J. Nelson, Attorney for P.R. Geoffrey E. Wise
BS 6-19, 6-26, 7-3-13.

MONTANA TWENTY-FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, RAVALLI COUNTY
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF BETTY H. LONG, Deceased.    
Case No.: DP-13-38
Department No. 2
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate.  All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred.
Claims must either be mailed to Scott G. Long, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at the Law Offices of Lawrence D. Johnson, Attorney at Law, P.O. Box 500, Hamilton, MT 59840, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court.
DATED this 13th day of June, 2013.
/s/ Scott G. Long, Personal Representative
BS 6-19, 6-26, 7-3-13.