Rudy and Lela launched into the art scene nearly 50 years ago and achieved widespread acclaim. Now their children try to carry on the family tradition.
By:
Erika Fredrickson
The house Lela and Rudy Autio lived in for nearly 50 years looks like a museum of Montana’s most revered artists. The living room alone feels like a tribute to masters—and friends—well known in the region. Paintings by Peter Voulkos and Freeman Butts hang on the walls. Two sculptures by Ken Little—one of a deer’s head, the other a bull’s head, both made out of leather straps and shoes—are fastened to another wall.
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Since fall 2007, the city of Missoula and the Office of Planning and Grants have conducted 11 Plat, Annexation and Zoning Committee (PAZ) meetings, 21 Planning Board meetings, three town hall meetings, 37 listening sessions, three community forum sessions, 17 neighborhood council presentations and nine advisory group meetings to develop Title 20, the city’s new zoning ordinance. All told, Roger Millar, director of the Office of Planning and Grants, estimates that the city has spent 6,000 hours on the ordinance thus far.
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More than 5,000 miles from his office in Whitefish, Will Hammerquist of the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) delivers good news: The United Nations will send a mission to Canada to assess the threats mining projects pose to the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park.
“The case that we made was pretty straightforward,” says Hammerquist over the phone from Spain.
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A University of Montana-affiliated research program has moved twice in the last year in an attempt to consolidate space in the Curry Health Center. Now UM is asking it to pack up once again, this time elbowing the program off campus entirely.
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Maureen O’Malley and Trudy Mizner waited in front of a covered garbage can most of Saturday morning. They were hoping for drugs, and they scored—big time.
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Pat Gilboy remembers towing daredevil Evel Knievel once or twice back in the day. And, in a memory he says is common among older Butte tow truck operators, Gilboy remembers having to chase Knievel later for payment.
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Greg Nowak’s not sure what proved more exhausting—the 38-hour, 1,800-mile roundtrip Greyhound bus ride to Cheyenne, Wyo., or the chess tournament he won while he was there.
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