Living Magazine - April 2019

Havre High Girls Basketball State Champions ~ PHOTOS

Carolyn Anderson

UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL

HANG IT

Beginner’s tips for drywalling

Contents REAL ESTATE LISTINGS Flynn Realty Northern Land & Realty Havre Hi-Line Realty Ruff Real Estate LLC Koefod Real Estate FEATURES Kitchen Cache ...Boxcars Western Burger Carolyn Anderson ...Up Close and Personal Hang It ...Biginner’s Tips for Drywalling Havre High School ...Girls Basketball State Champs

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1330 18th Street~$440,000

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520 2nd Ave ~ $435,000

Beautiful Brick 5 bdrm, 3 bath Home in the Historic District on 2nd Avenue. Original hardwood flooring, updated kitchen, fireplaces, well kept yard & double car garage. This home is ready to make it your own. Call today for your personal showing!

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Call Janis Flynn Pyrak @390-4900

Updated 4 bedroom, 2 bath Ranch style home located across the street from a city park. 2 bedrooms up & 2 down. This home is move in ready & in a great neighborhood with a private cul-de-sac & has many updates both inside & out. Private fenced back yard w/underground sprinklers & attached garage.

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1245 12th Street~$339,000

Spacious 3+bedroom, 2 bath home with new roof, siding & windows.Open floor plan with large living room, formal dining, kitchen with breakfast area off of large deck, fireplace, family room & unfinished basement. Gorgeous private fenced back yard and 840 sq ft garage-room for vehicles and toys.

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100 3rd St. SW Harlem, MT $34,000

1010 Cactus Drive~ $275,000

10 Knob Road ~ $159,900

Nice family home with 3 bedrooms and 2 full baths. New paint and carpet. A good rental property or possible duplex.

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295 Stockyard Rd - Chinook, MT $299,000 108' x 40' Shop with Boiler floor heat and gas forced air as back up, city water / sewer. Three 14 x 16 commercial drive through doors, 28 x 32 office space, rest room and overhead storage on 1 Acre lot.

Unique, private 3 bedroom, 4 bath home with incredible views! Fireplace, Sauna, main floor laundry and bonus room with 1 bedroom & bath on 2nd level. Double attached heated garage plus carport & underground sprinklers-all on over 1 ½ Acres in town.

Call Janis Flynn Pyrak @390-4900

Small 2 bedroom, 1 bath single level home in Harlem, MT located on corner lot.

Includes large 1 stall garage w/wood stove, extra outbuilding and lawn shed. Home to be sold in "As Is" condition.

220 Do Drop In Rd $100,000 Chinook, MT

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Acreage For Sale ~ $87,000

295 Stockyard Rd - Chinook, MT $199,000 40' x 80' Split Shop:East side- storage/ West side, wash bay. Radiant heat, two 14 x 16 overhead doors on each end of shop and four 10 x 16 sliding doors off storage area.

Call Janis Flynn Pyrak @ 390-4900 or Ken Nelson @ 406-439-0595

Shop For Sale ~ $85,000

Good location- 2 Bay Shop with Hwy 2 Frontage. Oil change pit, office, rest room & new siding to cover bldg.

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Flooring Sale & Installation.

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Located in a Small Town with plenty of expansion opportunity. Excellent Family Business with a Great Clientele.

Sale Price will included Inventory & Support Equipment.

Call Ken Nelson @ 406-439-0595 or Larry Martinson @ 406-390-1509 for more information and price.

Holland Apartments - 407 4th Ave.

14-Plex. Spacious Apts. - Good cash flow.

Close to downtown. 8 1 Bedroom. 6 Studio.

Call Ken Nelson @ 406-439-0595

Call Ken Nelson @ 406-439-0595

Nice 3 bedroom, 1 ½ bath home in Harlem, MT. New flooring and paint throughout most of the home, 2 fireplaces, amazing sunroom, oversized single garage and large yard.

+/-20 Acres located North of Havre, surveyed and partially fenced. Gorgeous views of the Bears Paw Mountains. This is Bare Land with no utilities in place.

Call Kristi Parrotte @ 390-4912

Call Jeanie Cole @ 945-0931

3 bdrm, 1 bath home with new siding and windows near Zurich, MT. Located on approx 5 irrigated Acres.

Corrals, outbuildings and garden area.

Country living-great for horses and dogs.

305 2nd Ave. SE ~ Harlem, MT $142,000

9 Cypress Drive ~ $285,000

Beautiful updated 6 bdrm, 3 bath home with master bed/bath on main & 3 non-conforming bdrms in daylight basement. Sliding door off master & dining area onto privacy deck. Wood fireplace & wood stove in bsmt. Large laundry area, 2 furnaces, CA & steam shower in bsmt.

Large living room windows with great views, landscaped yard w/underground sprinklers, fenced back yard & attached garage.

227 2nd Ave. NE ~ Rudyard, MT $65,000

Nice, well kept, single level home in Rudyard, MT. 2 bedroom, 1 bath, large yard w/fire-pit, new steel roof and single detached garage.

Includes wood stove in shop and house.

Call Ken Nelson @ 406-439-0595

Spencer's Hi-Way Bar 15940 US Hwy 2 Hingham, MT $450,000

Great Family Business on the Hi-Line!

This business has it all. From a great restaurant and bar, to a car/truck wash, RV Park w/shower house, cabin and a very comfortable home with 2 apartments included in the basement.

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Land for Sale

Oil City Saloon Shelby, MT 132-134 W. Dawson ~ $145,000

Nicely remodeled Bar with full liquor license and 6 rental units. Busy location at crossroads of I-14 and Hwy 2.

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1 Acre Lot for Sale on Post Rd. Estates.On unimproved corner lot.

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STORY BY PAM BURKE • PHOTOS BY RYAN BERRY

Chef Anthony Windyboy, co-owner Boxcars Restaurant and Bar Anthony Windyboy moves around the kitchen at Boxcars Restaurant and Bar with a fluid efficiency that speaks of choreography. The speed at which he brings the multiple elements of the restaurant’s Western Burger together belies Windyboy’s laid-back stillness while talking about the business in the dining room moments before.

To be honest, the burger isn’t for a waiting customer with a limited lunch hour. It’s for the photographer who is shadowing Windyboy through all his motions. This speed, though, the rhythm and the pace, they are a chef’s second nature and as much a part of the recipe as the ingredients. The sequence of steps started with a handful of onion slices and ends with a perfectly plated burger and fries as the final footfall.

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Between them, Anthony and Ashley Windyboy, owners of Boxcars, had a combined 23 years in the food service industry before buying Boxcars in April 2018. Ashley, who runs the bar at Boxcars, had waitressed for about 10 years and Anthony had run a restaurant kitchen for 13, but they both knew that they wanted to own their own restaurant one day.

“This opportunity presented itself, and we just jumped on it,” he said.

The building had housed both a bar and restaurant from the beginning, several years ago. The restaurant, though, hadn’t been in operation for a few years, Windyboy said, so they had to clean it up and get everything working, and they added a second broaster for their chicken.

They also had to come up with a menu, but that was part of the fun, Windyboy said.

They started with a limited daily lunch menu and have added to it over the past year.

“There was only, I wanna say, seven or eight items when I first started because I wanted to get comfortable and see what I could do,” Windyboy said. “I wanted to make it fast because I know people only have an hour for lunch.”

Though their daily menu still is fairly simple with an assortment of burgers, sandwiches, salads, chicken and a kids’ menu along with a handful of appetizers, Windyboy gets creative with his weekly specials and daily soups. Past special menu items have included stuffed bell peppers, pulled-pork Cubano, grilled salmon salad, chili with cornbread, chicken and wild rice soup and tomato-basil soup.

“I don’t make anything fancy,” he said. “It’s just real good.”

The Western Burger, part of Boxcars’ regular menu (recipe, page 8) is one of three menu items that started as specials but were continually requested so became an everyday thing.

“It was very, very popular, so I put it on the menu, and people don’t get sick of it — they order it all the time,” he said.

It isn’t just the menu that’s special about the Windyboys’ approach to

their restaurant and bar.

They served holiday dinners on Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day, and they use their internet savvy to keep customers updated about specials, on Intagram and Facebook.

They also were awarded a Montana Department of Commerce grant for business improvement — one of ten grants awarded in north-central Montana to Native American businesses.

Originally, Windyboy said, they were going to use the grant for remodeling, but they got the OK to

change the project so will be buying a fryer for the bar area. The restaurant portion of the business serves food from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Beyond those hours, he said, customers at the bar, which is open until 2 a.m. are left wanting for food choices beyond pizza.

Bartenders will be able to serve most of the appetizers from their menu, Windyboy said, once he finds a fryer, gets it installed and trains the staff on how to use it.

Right now, that is the only expansion in food services they have planned, he added. With two cooks to help staff the kitchen and extra bartenders, he said, they can be open seven days a week and still be home by 5 p.m. to spend time with their 2-year-old daughter.

“I don’t want to miss her whole childhood,” he said.

With the one-year anniversary of business ownership fast approaching, Windyboy said, they have transitioned to business ownership pretty smoothly — even the restaurant’s signature model train is running.

“It has its ups and downs and good days and bad days but, all together, you think about it and it’s our own place, so it’s good. We like it,” he said. “It’s tiring but … it’s fun.”

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Western Burger Anthony Windyboy said the Western Burger started out as a lunch special at Boxcars, but so many people requested it be served again that it was quickly added to their regular menu.

This hamburger is simple to make and assemble, and you can experiment with flavors with different barbecue sauces and bacons, as well as different bread crumbs for the onion pedals.

Windyboy said that he uses a cooking press, those flat-faced cast iron weights with a handle, to hold the burgers flat so they don’t curl up or shrink in at the edges and swell in the center. To keep that from happening at home, he said, before putting the burger on the pan or grill, flatten it well and put a big thumb print divot in the center. Once the burger is about half-cooked go ahead and press on it firmly with your spatula a few times.

The onions are roughly sliced by starting the cut at about the center of the onion and slicing at an angle to the outside layer then turning the onion a quarter turn each slice around the onion. You also can cut a thick slice, halve it, then halve again the longer outer rings.

In the restaurant, where time is money, Windyboy gets the onion pedals and fries cooking then starts frying the burger and bacon before assembling the rest of the plate, including toasting the bun. The onion pedals and bacon, though, can be cooked ahead and kept warm.

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Breaded Onion Pedals Roughly sliced onions,

with rings separated Flour, in a bowl Beaten eggs, in a bowl Bread crumbs, in a bowl Vegetable oil

Amounts: Cut the equivalent of one hearty onion slice per burger, with enough of the flour, egg and bread crumbs to coat the onions and enough oil to deep-fry onions Heat oil in pan or fryer. In batches that will allow onions to cook without sticking together, roll onions in flour, coating them; dip them in egg; coat them with bread crumbs; and cook in hot oil until golden brown.

Western Burger Breaded onion pedals Bacon, two slices per patty Ground beef, shaped into

hamburger patties Pepper jack cheese, sliced Barbecue sauce Hamburger bun Lettuce, recommended Tomato, sliced, recommended Dill pickles, sliced, recommended Amounts: Enough of each ingredient for the number of burgers to be made.

Deep fry the breaded onion pedals and fry bacon. Cook hamburger patties, frying or barbecuing. Toast buns if desired. When the meat is almost done cooking, stack a handful of onion pedals on top of each burger and top with cheese; cover to speed cheese melting.

Layer bottom half of bun with 2 slices of bacon and loaded hamburger patty, serve with barbecue sauce and remaining ingredients, or garnishes of choice.

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11135 River Rd.

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Commercial Lots Commercial lots located in Havre with US HWY 2 & 15th Avenue access. Possible owner financing!

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Carolyn Anderson

UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL

STORY BY PAM BURKE • PHOTOS BY RYAN BERRY Driving across the stark north-central Montana prairie on an early-January afternoon is, perhaps, the best preparation for walking into Carolyn Anderson’s art studio that looks over the tail waters from Fresno Dam. Something about the low winter sunlight scuttling into the infinite, muted tones of tan grass stalks — accented by white patches of snow and dark slashes of leafless trees and shrubs — that readies the eye to take in Anderson’s oil paintings.

Anderson, a nationally recognized

artist who describes her painting style as impressionism-expressionism, is predominantly self-taught as well as self-made in the business of art.

She said she showed aptitude for drawing as a child growing up in the Chicago area, but didn’t work at it seriously until she was an adult. She didn’t consciously choose to pursue her artistic style, she said, she just kept doing what appealed to her.

“I don’t like tight realism,” she said, adding, “If you have super-

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tight realism, those are your parameters, straightforward and everything is laid out in front of you. But if you want to change something then you need to find a different way to do it.”

Which she did in her signature blend of impressionism and expressionism.

“It’s more expressive,” she said. “I like a painting that I can look at, that I can’t figure out … things are kind of just a little bit of a mystery.”

Anderson said she attended Illi-

Art “isms” 101 Impressionism is an artistic style that does not try to create strictly realistic portrayals of the subject. Instead, impressionist paintings have a sketch-like quality that displays brush strokes and brings the subject to life by emphasizing areas of light and shadow rather than by forming shapes and objects. Artists often use muted tones for their color palette, but frequently have a relatively bright or warm color that stands out for emphasis.

Artists to research: Claude Monet Mary Cassatt Pierre-Auguste Renoir Paul Cezanne Edgar Degas

Expressionism is an artistic style that, in contrast to appearing objectively real, is intended to depict an emotion or feeling. In its purest sense, use of intense colour, agitated brush strokes and disjointed space — e.g. “The Scream” — but in a broader definition it describes art that is highly subjective, personal, spontaneous self-expressive. While Impressionism tries to reproduce the impression suggested by the surrounding world, but expressionto strongly impose the artist’s own feelings to the world through the artwork.

Artists to research: Edvard Munch Paul Klee Vincent VanGogh Joan Mitchell Wassily Kandinsky

Realism, as an artistic movement, was revolutionary because it wasn’t just about creating artwork that looked realistic, it was about showing people, things, places, events as they actually are or would be in real life, warts, sweat, dirt and all. It was also about art showing everyday people going about their mundane tasks in life. Additionally, it also refers to a style of rendering that tries to make the artwork look realistic, including to the extreme of hyperrealistic art that is as detailed as a fine photograph.

Artists to research: Gustave Courbet Winslow Homer Johannes Vermeer Anna Halldin Maule Philipp Weber Work in progress at Anderson’s studio

nois State University for a time before signing up with VISTA, Volunteers in Service to America, which brought her to Montana.

It was at about this early point in the details of her life that she flashed a slightly pained smile at having to rehash old news for yet another in the long list of articles for which she has been interviewed.

She recommended just getting her biographical information off the internet because, as Anderson said later — in the casual tone of voice one re-

serves for saying “I think that feature is explained in the auto maintenance manual” — she has been interviewed by every major art magazine in the U.S. more than once.

As a VISTA worker, she spent a year and a half at Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation in the late 1960s, working with different programs. She returned to Illinois for a time, but during a visit with friends in Havre, she accepted a job at Grigg’s Printing, where she worked for about 15 years, cutting back to part-time for a while before

quitting to work on her art full time.

This transition to full-time artist came after she made some solid contacts with gallery owners and other artists at the 1980 C.M. Russell Art Show in Great Falls. At the time she was working in pastels, but by the mid-1980s she had taught herself to work in oil paint.

Anderson said she also had to teach herself the business of being an artist, though she added she still doesn’t know how tell people to succeed at it.

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“Don’t ask me about the business end of it, seriously,” she said, laughing. “It’s been a long haul and you just do what you have to do.”

She credited Great Falls artist Steve Seltzer, among others, with helping her in the early years with advice, including taking her aside and telling her she needed to raise prices on her artwork.

Another artist, Ned Mueller, first convinced Anderson to teach an art workshop with Puget Sound Art League, an art school he was operating in Washington state. She said she’s been conducting workshops regularly across the U.S. for 30 years now.

Workshop attendees are advanced artists and often professionals, she said, and the list of workshops includes the Fechin School, Scottsdale

Artists’ School, the Frye Museum and Walt Disney Imagineering.

She said her work with the artists at Walt Disney Imagineering in California was intellectually and creatively exciting.

Her artist bio for Wilcox Gallery in Jackson, Wyoming, said she was contracted to research and write about visual language while she was working with Disney.

“The problem is we really underestimate how language affects how we see information,” Anderson said.

Her continued research into the art and science connection informs her lectures and workshop instruction as well as her blog, at carolynandersonartist.blogspot.com. Anderson writes on about any subject that interests her, from challenging concepts about

how we see what is around us to practical pointers on how to improve art skills.

Her Nov. 5, 2016 post examines how an article on a new, more accurate way to create flat versions of world maps becomes a lesson in “visual truth.”

She posted Oct. 14, 2014, about a study which concluded that doorways are an “event boundary” for the brain, explaining why we forget things when we walk out of a room. Anderson, then, connects the event boundary idea to the problem with using lines in drawings.

She wrote in the entry that too many hard edges in a painting create visual barriers for viewers, making it harder for them to see the painting as a cohesive piece.

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Lesson time If artists don’t draw the outline of their subject onto the canvas, how do they start a painting?

“Loosely. Yeah, loosely,” Anderson said, chuckling as she stood by her easel at the center of her studio, a spacious, uncluttered room at the center of her home where natural light floods in from two directions.

“When I first read an article on (event boundaries),” she said, “I immediately made the connection to painting because a lot of people, when they’re painting even, they start out with outlines.

“Once you’ve started out with a solid outline — not just a ‘you are here’ map, but a solid outline — now you’ve created walls all over your painting and you won’t see beyond them to make connections that you might otherwise make if you didn’t have solid lines,” she said.

At this point, Anderson replaced her work-in-progress, which had been sitting at her easel, with a blank canvas. She took out a photo of one of her previous works, grabbed a brush and started the lesson in earnest.

“Instead of outlines, because outlines suggest things, right — that’s the big thing about lines is delineating a thing,” she said while loading the brush with thinned-out paint.

“So here you’ve got a pattern; the basic thing is going to be light and dark pattern. You need marks to start, so you can kind of figure out where you’re at,” Anderson said, as the subject

on the canvas took shape through almost scrubbed-in brush strokes. “Now I can get a suggestion of where information is, obviously, but it’s more about getting just enough information so you know where you are on the canvas.

“You know what your spaces are. You see, it’s the value pattern,” she added, gesturing to the pattern of light and shadow she had painted. “You have to get enough of it in so you can see where you’re going. It’s the value pattern that starts setting up the painting. You leave open all types of possibilities instead of just locking yourself in on an outline.”

The problem with defining forms with lines, she added, is the artist describes solid shapes, when in actuality the exact light, shadow or a color might blend between two areas, but that fact, along with that artistic opportunity, literally go unseen because the eye and brain see a hard separation between them.

“You have to describe it in a different way, so instead of getting caught up on (forms).

Especially when you’re starting, I tell people ‘You know, at some point you need to look at it and say, OK, does that really look like a nose?’

But ultimately it’s the light and the shadow pattern that starts defining the form.

“That’s the big thing, if you can get people away from outlines now they can see transitions. But with outlines you don’t see the transitions.

“Fun, huh?” she said, as she wiped her brush clean.

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Personal transitions After decades of pursuing her passion in a field where few people make a living, let alone excel, Anderson has reached a point where she can be choosy.

She said she has started slowing down on workshops, only conducting up to six a year, and even then none in winter because of the unpredictability of the weather, and none in summer because that would interfere with walleye fishing, which she has done avidly for many years.

She has cut out almost all the art shows, as well, she said. This is after earning awards that include C.M. Russell Artists’ Choice, several NWR Award of Excellence, two C. M. Russell Best of Show Awards and the Master Award of Excellence for American Impressionist Society.

She said she doesn’t do shows because she got tired of deadlines: “You can’t do your best work on a deadline.”

Mornings are her time to work, she said, and among the studies rendered on canvases leaning against her studio walls are portraits, landscapes and, notably, birds, one of her passions.

Her yard is a cultivated habitat of trees, shrubs and grasses with feeders and birdbaths to entice them.

“Every once in a while I go on a bird kick,” she said about her art subjects, even though one gallery owner, she added, protested by saying “But you aren’t known for your birds.”

“It’s about the branding,” Anderson said, because galleries and customers find each other easier when they know what subject matter and style of art to expect from an artist.

Her bird paintings still make their way to the galleries — the subtext here not that she fights being labeled as a painter of “X-type” paintings, but that she sees the label then carries on without letting it alter her vision.

The future in the business of art is online, she said, but she refuses to get on Facebook and Instagram.

Her website, Carolynanderson.com, and blog are the limit to her participation online, she said, but her and her galleries’ websites have done quite well to attract online interest.

Art students have contacted her

about art in general, and her workshops have gained students from around the world, she said.

A friend with a business that connects artist clients to master artists for an hour of one-on-one time on the phone, asked her to be one of his featured artists. She said she agreed, but the hangup is that he wants a resume and she hasn’t tracked all of her shows or accomplishments over the years.

She pointed to a walk-in closet full of show catalogs, awards and magazines with articles in which she’s featured and shrugged. But, she added,

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she is interested in pursuing the new opportunity.

Like her art, her interests and her life, the transitions in this new teaching method are not contained within lines.

“There’s one quote from the book ‘No More Secondhand Art,’” she said.

“It’s the one thing I’ve tried to kind of direct my whole career towards: ‘If what I paint does not surprise me, how can I expect it to be a revelation to anyone else.’ So part of it is, you’ve got to decide what the endgame is. Is there an engame? Are you ... making a picture or painting the parameters?”

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HANG IT

Beginner’s tips for drywalling STORY BY PAM BURKE • PHOTOS BY RYAN BERRY

Dave Heydon, who has 40 years experience as a professional painter and reluctant drywall worker, took time from his remodeling project in the basement of Holland & Bonine Funeral Home to give some general pointers on drywall installation, taping, mudding and texturing to help people get started on a drywall project.

The construction industry has plenty of advanced tools and machines to make the process easier, Heydon said, but it’s possible to get the job done with some standard construction tools and a few basic drywall tools: a measuring tape, straightedge, square, level, utility knife, drill with a screw bit, small selection of taping knives and trowels, hawk or other flat surface to hold mud as you’re working with it and some sanding paper with a block.

The General Order of Installation When drywalling an entire room, Heydon said, start with the ceiling, before the walls, which will brace the edges of the ceiling drywall. The first round of drywall on the walls is the bottom row with the sheets laid lengthwise.

Each row of drywall is placed so the vertical, or short edge, seams are staggered, like rows of bricks, he said.

The distance the seams are staggered doesn’t have to be as precise as bricks, he added, and anywhere from 2 to 4 feet is acceptable.

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It’s more important, he said, that you not end up with a short piece at the end of a row. If, for example, you have a 17-foot-long wall, you don’t want to place two full 8-foot sheets of drywall down and have a 1-foot section left at the end.

You fix this by trimming the lengths differently, depending on the spread of your studs in the framed wall, he said. For example, with studs on 2-foot centers, you could cut the sheets to 4-foot, 8-foot and 5-foot lengths, putting the 5-footer butted up against the corner so the odd-length one can be screwed into the corner studs.

Drywall is fitted so the ends of the sheets meet at the center of a stud, then each sheet can be screwed securely into a stud for support, he said.

The studs should be perfectly vertical and have regular spacing, generally 16 or 24 inches at center, Heydon

said. Use a square or plumb-bob to check the framing and a tape to measure the framing so you can plan the placement of the drywall sheets before they are hung.

The planning also includes measurements for openings that might be needed for such things as electrical boxes, lights and plumbing.

Cuts are measured out and drawn onto the paper backing of the drywall.

Drywall on walls is hung level, starting about a halfinch off the floor. This gap keeps any shifting, buckling and moisture wicking in the floor or minor flooding from affecting the drywall. Baseboard trim sits on top of the flooring and covers this gap.

Place half-inch blocking on the floor to set the drywall sheets on. If your floor is uneven, the bottom row of drywall starts a half-inch above the highest point.

Attaching Drywall Drywall can be nailed into wooden studs, but most often it’s screwed in with a drywall screw every 12 to 16 inches.

He said the screws need to be driven straight in until they just dent below the face of the drywall, without the screw head tearing the paper covering. The dimple created by the countersunk screw head is filled in with drywall mud.

That’s how it works when everything goes right, Heydon said, but even the professionals don’t drive every screw perfectly.

If the screw is driven at an angle, one side of the head will stick out farther and the other side will dig into the paper more, which could cause a problem once the screw is driven in far enough so it’s below the surface of

the paper.

Before mudding the room, he said, lightly drag a taping knife, a tool that looks a bit like a spatula and comes in a variety of widths, over the drywall. If the knife-edge scrapes on a screw head, use a screwdriver to drive the screw in just far enough to get it out of the way.

If you tear the paper up, Heydon recommended taking that screw out, using a utility knife to clean up the edges of the hole, and re-drilling a screw a few inches from that hole.

The torn paper creates a weak spot, he said, where the screw doesn’t bind well and, over time, it could back out of the hole and become visible through the paint — or crack through it altogether.

Drywall screws are shown driven into the paper covering on the drywall. The screw heads are level with the surface because the screws were driven straight, and they are countersunk enough to be beneath the surface of the paper, but not so far that the paper gets torn.

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Mesh mudding tape is shown covering a drywall seam and screws. Because the seam is a butt joint of two raw edges of drywall, rather than the smooth, paper-wrapped and tapered edges on the long side of the drywall sheet, a slight V-groove was cut into the drywall at the seam to clean up any paper that was torn or frayed at the edges.

Mesh mudding tape is shown after the first coat of drywall mud has been applied. Two more coats of mud will be applied after this dries. The second coat will fill in most of the remaining uneven texture from the mesh, seam and screw heads, and the third coat will be a finish-fill and taper the mud smoothly from the seam out about 10 inches to the surface of the drywall.

Taping and Mudding Some contractors fill in the screws first, Heydon said, but he starts with the tape and fills in any screw holes that are left after that.

Butt joints, where raw edges of drywall come together, and holes in the paper need to be trimmed so the finish won’t be marred by ragged edges of paper, he said. He does the trimming with a utility knife at an angle, cutting a shallow V into the drywall.

Tape comes in two varieties, he said, paper and mesh.

Heydon recommends using paper in the corners and mesh on the butt joints where the short ends of the drywall meet. He uses mesh on the long seams, too, but said he’s had some issues on outside walls. Cold and heat fluxuations that radiate through the exterior wall cause different expansion and contraction stresses, and the mesh is more likely to crack.

“Mother nature wins in all that stuff,” he said.

If the joint between the two sheets of drywall is pretty tight, though, the mesh is more likely to work like the literature says it should, he said.

The mesh lightly sticks to the drywall, he said, so you can put all that up before starting the mudding. The paper, though, has to be stuck to the drywall with wet mud.

You can buy a taping machine that has a reservoir for mud and a tape dispenser, he said, and you roll this along the seam, refilling each material as needed.

This tool works great in large rooms, he added, but they are difficult to work with in tight places, so if you’re doing a wall, single room, hallway or closet, the taping machine won’t necessarily be a time saver.

“Plus, you don’t just pick them up and make them work,” he said. It takes practice.

The process for using paper is to put down a layer of mud, stick the paper to the mud, then push it into the mud by scraping the taping knife down the length of tape.

The trick is, he said, that you can only do this in about four-foot stretches because moisture in the mud sticks the paper to the drywall, but mud starts drying quickly the moment it is applied to the wall.

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Mud comes in two varieties: a heavier, harder-drying mud and a lighter, softer mud. As an industry standard, the heavier mud comes in green buckets and the softer in blue buckets.

Heavier mud is used in the first layer of taping to get a good bond to the drywall, he said, then lighter mud is used in the next two layers because it’s easier to knock down the high spots and finish-sand where necessary.

After the first layer dries, Heydon said, he knocks down the bumps in the mud by scraping them with the taping knife. Don’t, however, sand at this point, he said, because the dust will cause problems getting the next layers of mud to bond.

A 6-inch taping knife can be used for filling the screw dents and for the first round of taping. The next two layers of mud on the tape are about tapering the mud into the drywall surface, as well, so an 8- to 12-inch taping knife will work best.

Along the seams that have the taping groove, that groove needs to be filled in level and the edges of the mud smoothed to the paper, he said.

Where you have a butt joint, though, that seam creates a small hump which will need to be tapered back to the surface of the drywall over about 10 to 12 inches on either side. He said he uses a 10-inch taping knife to feather the mud and then does a final light pass down the middle of the seam.

“Any butt joint should just feather right across if you’re doing it right, and your hand will tell you that,” he said, by running it over the seam once it has dried.

Dave Heydon uses a taping knife to apply the second coat of mud to a seam. He added a lip to the hawk he uses to hold his drywall mud.

Heydon said most taping knives have a slight bend to the front edge, so he holds each knife with the bend away from the drywall surface. He said he can sand down a hump of mud, but the only way to fix a dip is to keep adding more mud.

A Little About Drywall • Drywall is a panel made of gypsum plaster pressed between two thick sheets of paper. It’s also called sheetrock, plasterboard, wallboard, gypsum board and gyprock. Though even professionals sometimes call drywall “sheetrock,” technically, Sheetrock is a trademarked name brand of drywall, like Kleenex is a brand of facial tissue.

• Drywall, which comes in thicknesses of 1/4 to 3/4 inches, has largely replaced the old lath and plaster for covering interior walls and ceilings. The standard sizes for drywall are 4-by-8 feet or 4-by-12 feet, though some specialty drywall comes in other sizes.

• Specialized drywall includes features such as fire, moisture, water and mold resistance; sound conduction or dampening; and sag resistance.

Some is made from recycled agricultural materials; another type is lead-lined for use in rooms with radiological equipment; and a type of Sheetrock is made stronger to resist abuse. Cement board has a high water resistant, but some new products on the market are waterproof.

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Various drywalling tools, including a trowel and two taking knives at the front.

Texturing Even though texture is added, in part, to hide unevenness in the drywall surface, that doesn’t mean you can leave a bunch of surface bumps and divots. The drywall, at the end of mudding and taping, should be pretty smooth to the touch, with divots filled and bumps sanded down.

At this point, the surface should be wiped down with a large, damp sponge, Heydon said, that you continually rinse as you go. This will clear away dust and lay down any paper that has gotten fuzzy from the sanding and scraping.

The final texturing, Heydon said, is done with the green mud so that it’s hard enough to hold up to a little wear and tear.

Texture can be blown on with a mudding gun that uses continuous compressed air — creating anything from a fine sand-like texture to very dense orange-peel effects. It can be blown on and then lightly flattened with a trowel. It can be dabbed, smeared or swirled on with a heavy-duty brush, a trowel or even the hawk, he said, and the dabbed points left, or knocked down with a trowel when they’re wet.

This is a time to experiment, he added.

Heydon had four recommendations with the texturing process:

One, if you are blowing on mud for orange peel texturing, he recommended you prime the surface first. The texture will dry at different rates between the surfaces with mud from the taping and the drywall paper, and even with a strong orange-peel surface, you might still be able to see the mudding and taping pattern on the wall.

Two, everyone has a slightly different technique so if you are doing it yourself, be aware that two people working on the same wall will likely create two different looks. And, he added, if you are having someone do the texturing for you, go look at examples of the finished product their technique creates before committing to a contract.

Three, when you are texturing a room, try to mix all the mud at once to ensure you get the same moisture content, he said.

Four, overlap the edges of each pass you make because, whether texturing is done with the blower or hand tools, overlapping kelps to keep lines from forming in your pattern, he said. If you are using the blower, he said, keep the spray nozzle an even distance from the wall, working in 5- to 6-foot swatches from top to bottom.

Texture made with a skip-trowel technique. Skip-trowel can hide some imperfections.

Orange peel texture blown on with a mud sprayer. This texture can show taped seams and screw patches if not done correctly.

Dave Heydon demonstrates using a taping knife rather than a trowel for the skip-trowel texturing.

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HAVRE HIGH GIRLS BASKETBALL

State Champions 2019

STORY by chris peterson Photos by Colin Thompson and carol gabrielson

With a 42-36 win over Hardin March 9, 2019, at the Four Seasons Arena in Great Falls, the Havre High girls basketball team captured the Class A state championship for the second straight season, making them the first-ever Blue Pony basketball team to win back-to-back championships.

Havre defeated Hardin after a hardfought battle in what was the fourth postseason matchup between the two teams over the past two seasons. The Blue Ponies also beat the Bulldogs in the 2018 state championship game.

“I just can’t believe it,” Havre junior Kyndall Keller said afterward. “I love basketball and it’s a crazy sport and this, this is just the best feeling ever.”

“It was crazy out there,” Havre senior Lauren Kato said. “Obviously, we had a lot of people cheering against us, but there were a lot of supporters for us there, too, and that was unreal.”

“Our kids are wonderful,” head coach Dustin Kraske said. “I am so happy for them. This year’s team was very good and it complimented last year’s team. This is just a product of all their hard work and their parents supporting us as coaches and the players allowing us to coach them.”

The Ponies had seven players named to the Central A All-Conference Team.

Kyndall Keller, Kadia Miller and Sadie Filius all earned First-Team All-Conference honors. Kylie Walker, Katie Wirtzberger and Jessa Chvilicek earned Second-Team All-Conference, and Loy Waid earned Honorable Mention All-Conference.

Head coach Dustin Kraske won the Central A Coach of the Year award after another undefeated regular season.

The Blue Ponies girls basketball team under Kraske’s coaching have now won three state championships and, in the last two seasons, have an incredible 46-1 record.

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