Contents REAL ESTATE LISTINGS Havre Hi-Line Realty Koefod Real Estate Flynn Realty Ruff Real Estate LLC Northern Land & Realty Havre Realty Property West FEATURES Alzheimer’s …Love in the Forgetting years Kitchen Cache ...Transforming Mashed Potatoes Art for the Sake of it Havre Music Scene ...Holiday Band & Choir
3 5 14 18 18 20 21 6-13 16-17
(406) 265-6795
PUBLISHER EDITOR
Stacy Mantle smantle@havredailynews.com
COPY EDITOR
Pam Burke
PHOTOGRAPHER
Ryan Berry
DESIGN
Stacy Mantle Jenn Thompson
ADVERTISING SALES
Jenn Thompson
602 2nd Avenue $239,900
305 5th Ave. $35,000 212 Indiana N Chinook $45,500
20-24 26-27
OFFICE
SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES
1609 Maple Drive $215,000
182 Michigan Ave Big Sandy $26,419
406 2nd Street Joplin $30,100
Tim Leeds tleeds@havredailynews.com
Jodene Leeds jleeds@havredailynews.com
For advertising information, contact Havre Daily News 119 Second Street / P.O. Box 431 Havre, MT 59501 406-265-6795 Please be aware that due to the time lapsed between publications some Real Estate listings may have changed. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
724 2nd Street $50,500
434 4th Ave $239,900
Sale Pending! • 120 1st Street W. Rudyard • 1105 3rd Street Havre • 116 2nd Ave SE Harlem
525 18th Street $67,900
631 2nd Street $42,000
SOLD
• 535 Tracy LN Havre • 1429 Wilson Ave • 7 Cypress Drive • 623 16th Street
JANUARY 2019 | LIVING Havre and the Hi-Line MAGAZINE |
3
Jeff Healy 265-6767, Ext 1
RESIDENTIAL
Rachel Burchard 406-945-2046
Richard Jarvis 406-879-6206
HI-LINE
$2000 BUYER BONUS!
824 16th Street ~ $159,000 404 12th Avenue ~ $149,900
2 bedroom + 1 non conforming, 1.5 bath home.
3 bedroom, 2 bath home.
36004 Hwy 2 West ~ Kremlin Awesome property on 5 acres, 5 minutes from $215,000 fishing access. Many updates, 42 x 48 heated shop with concrete floors and radiant heat.
62 Beaver Creek Blvd. $170,000 Very nice, comfortable 3 bedroom 2 bath home with updates! 2 car garage. Great location!
1017 Third Street ~ $110,000 Unique & charming 3 bedroom, 2 bath home.
SOLD! 726 6th Avenue
FARM & RANCH SALE PENDING! Missouri River Breaks Ranch $5,500,000
COMMERCIAL
SOLD! 420 2nd St. NE • Rudyard 2 bedroom, 2 bath home.
Listings Wanted! GREAT SHOP ON THE EDGE OF TOWN LISTED AT $350,000 Great 68 x 80 all steel shop with concrete floors.
10 miles form the Breaks, 4980 +/acres of deeded pasture land along with 7909 +/acres of BLM allotment, and 1,120 +/- acres of State leased ground. Ranch also has a house, Quonset, shop, and other outbuildings.
Love
in the forgetting years STORY BY PAM BURKE • PHOTOS BY RYAN BERRY
“Eighty-three percent of the help provided to older adults in the United States comes from family members, friends or other unpaid caregivers. Nearly half of all caregivers who provide help to older adults do so for someone with Alzheimer’s or anothera dementia.” — Alzheimer’s Association Nancy Herington smiles openly as she welcomes her guest into her home, while her daughter, Julie Groven, stands by the front door making introductions. In a front room splashed with family photos and the occasional bit of antique furniture tucked among the
modern, Nancy, who turned 87 this year, gestures to the couch with a “Come in. Sit, sit, have a seat.” As everyone settles onto their respective cushions, conversation quickly turns to the extraordinary looks and quirks of her chocolate-colored cat, Cocoa.
6 | LIVING Havre and the Hi-Line MAGAZINE | JANUARY 2019
When Nancy can’t remember how long she’s had Cocoa, she gives a light-hearted grunt of disgust and says, “Oh my brain, I can’t remember anything these days,” and looks to Julie for the answer. Two years. “That’s right,” and the conversa-
tion rolls on, then turns into a full tour of the house, which Nancy thinks is surprisingly cozy. She wasn’t sure if she would like the move and downsizing from her large home. It was a scene from any grandparent or parent’s home but, Julie had said in advance, if guests stay long enough the conversations will repeat — though details might shift without explanation. Nancy is one of the estimated 5.7 million Americans living with Alzheimer’s disease in the U.S., and eight months ago had to move from her longtime home in Billings to live next to her daughter in Havre because she could no longer safely live alone. ——
Nancy Herington Early Signs One of the inaccuracies Whitney Thompson, director of Program Services for the Montana Chapter of Alzheimer’s Association, said she hears often is that someone’s dementia has turned into Alzheimer’s, but that can’t be the case. Dementia is an over-arching term describing a set of symptoms that include changes in memory, thinking or reasoning. Alzheimer’s is just one type of dementia. Many medical problems can cause dementia, including vascular dementia, which is caused by a blockage or reduction of blood flow to the brain; dementia with Lewy bodies, which is a build up of a specific protein in the brain; and frontotemporal dementia, which is caused by cell degeneration in the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain.
But the number one cause of dementia, about 60-80 percent of all cases, is Alzheimer’s disease. The percentage range is broad because not all people with dementia have the cause diagnosed — Alzheimer’s can be detected with an MRI, a CT scan or PET scans. Alzheimer’s is a progressive disease, diagnosable by the presence of abnormal brain structures called plaques and tangles. The study of the causes and the workings of the disease are still ongoing. Researchers, though, think the plaques, which are deposits of a protein fragment that build up in spaces between nerves, and tangles, which are twisted fibers of another protein that build up inside cells, damage and kill nerve cells. Professional and family caregivers alike will say that people with dementia don’t all demonstrate the same prob-
lems. Another complication is trying to differentiate between normal forgetfulness of, for example, a name or the day of the week , which can happen to anyone, and early signs of Alzheimer’s or another dementia. Some of the more common signs, said Angela McGillivray, facilitator of the monthly Alzheimer’s Caregiver Support group in Havre and owner of Angel Care LLC, include missing appointments, missing medications, lack of personal hygiene and forgetting details that they normally absolutely know. “In any situation, once you start seeing the changes, get them in to the doctor, get them in to a specialist,” McGillivray said, adding that this might be a lifesaver if, for example, the person has a clogged carotid artery, has not been taking medications or has been taking them incorrectly.
JANUARY 2019 | LIVING Havre and the Hi-Line MAGAZINE |
7
A surprising medical issue that can cause drastic changes in cognitive and physical functions is a urinary tract infection. “Bladder infections, UTIs, are huge. It can take someone who is very sharp, but has minor memory issues, almost to a childlike mind,” McGillivray said, “I have seen it with a UTI affect all things … judgment, mobility. “The leading cause to the UTI is improper personal care,” she said, adding, “It might not be a choice that they’re making. It might just be that they’re forgetting and they think that they’ve taken (a bath). Also, those tasks can be very frustrating for them because there’s a lot for them to remember and they might need guidance.” Oftentimes, people in early stages of dementia who are living independently develop coping mechanisms that mask the early signs of problems from friends and family. Visitors stop by for coffee, sometimes even on a regular basis, and have a very normal friendly visit, McGillivray said. But what the visitors don’t see is that the person maybe has no clean clothes because they can’t remember how to run the washing machine; only have junk food in the cupboard because they couldn’t remember a shopping list and made impulse buys at the grocery store; or said they took their medications, but really, haven’t been able to figure out where to get them for weeks. Another common thing McGillivray said she has noticed is that children might not know why their parents don’t call, or they might not even notice they don’t call because the kids initiate the calls in the first place to check on their parents. “But a lot of them lose the function of dialing a phone number, that’s huge, that’s one thing to watch,” she said. She added that home care providers like Angel Care can be hired to make a home assessment visit, but the caregiver can also do something like have a family member visit from out of town for a few days. That extended stay will better reveal problems, she said. Also, a person’s memory issues related to phone use can be evaluated by asking them if they know who to call in an emergency. “What number would they dial?” McGillivray said. “If they can’t tell you 9-1-1, they’re past that early stage of Alzheimer’s.” They might say a friend or someone familiar but can’t come up with 9-1-1. At this point, she said, they might still be able to live on their own but will need a higher level of care and vigilance. And it’s definitely time to get a life alert, she added, even one that will self-activate if the wearer makes a sudden fall or hasn’t moved for an inordinate amount of time. Julie Groven said that she and her brother, who lives in Colorado, noticed their mother, Nancy, was having problems four or five years ago and they thought they had the problem covered with Julie visiting her mother once a month to help her pay bills and get her medications in order. She and her brother called morning and evening respectively to remind her to take her medications. But when a plumbing problem required that Nancy live with her son until her kitchen was repaired, the stress caused an emotional and medical emergency. When Julie
tried to get her settled in Billings again, she quickly saw that she was incapable of living with the chaos of a house under construction and the noise and disarray it caused. Julie said she quit her job and stayed down there for a year figuring out what to do. Eventually, that meant packing up her mom’s things and moving her into the 480 square foot rental unit the Groven’s owned next to their home in Havre.
8 | LIVING Havre and the Hi-Line MAGAZINE | JANUARY 2019
Stages Mark Kato, a native-Haverite, has lived at Northern Montana Care Center since 2015. With most of his seven kids and much of their families still living in Havre and his wife, Johanna Kato, living only a handful of blocks away from the care center, Mark sees someone in his family every day. Sometimes he looks like he has his own entourage. Mark smiles readily and laughs wide open. Two of Mark’s longtime friends have lived at the care center during his three-year tenure there. The latest one had been a friend since their K-12 days. They were basketball teammates. Last summer one of their high school yearbooks showed up during the Sunday morning coffee and doughnut break in the cafeteria. Friends and family got to see the teammates’ old sports photos, and Mark laughed, delighted, over comments about how young, tough and good looking the pair was. “Did you ever think we’d end up here?” he asked his longtime friend at least a handful of times in a half-hour. Admittedly, Mark asked his friend that most days, Johanna said, with that
same good-spirited tone. Time moves on, though. His friend recently died and the question went with him. Johanna said Mark has never asked about him. The next weekend his friend’s daughters stopped by during the coffee break, and Mark looked at one of the daughters and commented that she looked like a girl his friend dated in high school. “It was funny that that was the one thing he saw,” Johanna said, “but didn’t ever ask (about his friend).” “Maybe it’s fortunate that he doesn’t miss them, really,” she added. Johanna said she noticed changes in Mark as early as 2011, but didn’t think much about them at first, and even when his dementia symptoms worsened, they just figured out how to work around it. When he couldn’t remember how to run the fancy coffee pot, they just bought a simple one with an on-off switch. And when he dismantled some doors, Johanna said she just had someone put the screws back in and got on with life. She said Mark came home one day
and announced on his own that he was giving up driving. He wouldn’t tell her what happened, but she thinks he got lost, Johanna added, even though he once knew every street in town. Eventually, though, their kids intervened. “The kids said to me you can’t do this; we have to put him in” the care center, she said. “I hadn’t really thought it about it myself.” Mark had had some personality changes, Johanna said, adding that she didn’t want to elaborate, other than to say that he has medication for mood swings. “You just have to forgive. You know it’s not the true them, ’cause he was just so unselfish and a good dad, hard worker. So those kind of things you just don’t want to dwell on them.” The decision, she said, was difficult for the whole family. “It was the hardest thing I’ve ever done,” she said, “and it was really hard on the kids.” Johanna said that she’s noticed changes lately, that he’s had to have help adding his scores in Yahtzee, and
Mark Kato JANUARY 2019 | LIVING Havre and the Hi-Line MAGAZINE |
9
their daughter Shari Baltrusch said he doesn’t tell stories anymore. —— Alzheimer’s Association breaks the progression of Alzheimer’s disease into three stages that offer guidelines for what to expect from people over time, other dementias can vary, such as dementia with Lewy bodies, which can cause hallucinations, the organizations guidelines said. Some of the bigger milestones that caregivers need to watch for, McGillivray said, are mismanagement of medications and finances, which are the two most common problems that arise in the middle stage of development.
“Once it becomes a concern for safety because of medication management or security for their financial state … once those two things come into play that’s when the family really needs to step in and start to take action,” she said. Thompson said that at this stage, working through the changes can be difficult. Families have found success by having a family member or someone else the person respects talk to them. A third party can help, too. One of the services that businesses like McGillivray’s offers is housekeeping, partly because it’s needed, but also because the housekeepers are trained to assess the client’s condition
10 | LIVING Havre and the Hi-Line MAGAZINE | JANUARY 2019
and where difficulties are occurring. They can build a rapport, she added, so if the client is struggling with finances, paying money to scammers, or not keeping up on bathing, they are trained in ways to approach these subjects. “We can say, ‘Hey, to have your family take something over is a good thing,’” she said. Often, McGillivray said, when issues like medication management, diet, hygiene, the shopping and chores are taken care of, the person shows improvement and, with the right assistance, can live independently longer.
Services Rural areas, McGillivray said, generally struggle to offer services for their aging residents. Havre and the surrounding area are no different, she added. “We’re in a little bit of a pickle here on the Hi-Line,” she said, but resources are available for people who look for them. An Alzheimer’s Caregiver Support Group started in Havre in August. It meets the fourth Tuesday each month, 5:30-7 p.m., at Havre-Hill County Library. People can call 262-7892 for more information. The longstanding Alzheimer’s Support Group in Chinook meets the first and third Thursdays, 1:30 p.m., at the Grand Villa Retirement Apartments, 315 Pennsylvania. People can call 3574174 for more information. Senior centers in any community, such as North Central Senior Citizens Center in Havre, offer a wide variety of help, she said, from a lunch program to activities. The Havre senior center is a source for wheelchairs, walkers and some scheduled transportation, and staff are trained to help people find resources, understand paperwork and more, she said. For actual living arrangements, caregivers need to consider the level of care their family member or charge needs because they can range from independent living to some form of partial services or full care.
The Eagles Manor and Timber Creek Village are two independent living senior residences with options on meal plans, housekeeping services and, in the case of Timber Creek, care services to help with medication reminders, but not administration of medications or shots. Angel Care and A Plus offer varying levels of home health care services from housekeeping and medication reminders, respite care to give caregivers a break during the week transportation and more. McGillivray said Angel Care is looking at opportunities to start an independent living facility with Angel Care services on site. Facilities like Northern Montana Care Center, Sweet Home in Chinook and Care & Comfort Home offer full care for patients. While most people go to this type of facility as they get to the final stage of Alzheimer’s or another dementia, some patients are temporary residents in care centers in case they need, for example, longer term care or rehabilitation after a surgery. McGillivray said she has a few clients who live in the country who are living at the care center for the winter to avoid dealing with winter woes like ice, snow and possible power outages. Veterans needing some level of home care can ask if the facility or service is a VA provider that can accept any veteran in need of home care. VA
will pay the bill directly. “It’s been a real asset for the community,” she said. While the type of insurance that will cover in-home visits is rare and very specific, Medicaid is available to people with dementia, McGillivray said, and people should ask when they’re inquiring about services if the business is a Medicaid Waiver provider. Julie said she had to help her mom file Medicaid paperwork, and she found as she talked to people about it later that misinformation keeps people from accessing this service. Senior centers, she said, are great resources for this information. But even with good information, getting onto Medicaid can be a difficult choice. “One of the harder parts for me was having to do Medicaid, to have to use Medicaid,” Johanna said. With the cost of care, she added, “my house will probably go to the state, which is fine. I never felt you should hide your assets. I mean, the government is your grandkids and great-grandkids that are going to be paying. The government is not some entity out there, it’s your fellow people paying with their taxes paying for all this care.” McGillivray, though, sees this type of care as a civic duty. “It’s important for any community to be able to take care of its people at every stage of their life,” she said.
Alzheimer’s Association http://www.alz.org 24/7 Helpline: 800-272-3900
JANUARY 2019 | LIVING Havre and the Hi-Line MAGAZINE |
11
Communication Thompson gave a talk in Havre in August on communicating with family members with Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia, and this is part of the wealth of information on the Alzheimer’s Association website. She said in an interview that education on communication and retraining our habits is key. “I highly recommend families slowly educate themselves and seek out those opportunities,” she said. “A lot of how we approach someone with dementia is in our communication, so we want to make sure we’re entering that person’s reality. We want to be sure that we are really breaking things down a little bit more step-by-step, not be overwhelming with what we’re saying, focus on the feelings and not the facts so much.” Johanna said a common problem that she feels “is really important, it took me a long time to learn, is that you don’t say ‘do you want to do something,’ you say ‘we’re going to go’ — like I’ll say ‘well, we’re going to go down to church service and I’m going to go with you.’ And it took me a long time to learn to not ask him to do something.” While there are times to be proactive in the approach, other times the caregiver needs to let the situation be. Julie considers herself lucky that her mom is “amiable and very sweet, very easy to get along with,” but more and more Nancy will get facts wrong. Julie said she had to learn to just go with it. “It’s hard to learn to shut your mouth and not argue with them, not try to point out that something is not what she thinks it is. … You have to realize that to her it is that way, and the way she feels and her perception of something is so much more important than mine is at this point,” she said. Thompson added that the environment is a detail not often thought of as part of communication. “I would say to really look at the environment,” she said. “Is it a calm environment? Try to limit a lot of noise and distractions; one-on-one conversations are more helpful.” Julie said her mom has become emotionally and physically distressed when taken out of her familiar sur-
roundings, including going into what Julie could only describe as a fugue state, or altered reality, for about an hour each of the first few nights they were on vacation in Ireland before her diagnosis. Julie said she just had to
I would say to really look at the environment. Is it a calm environment? Try to limit a lot of noise and distractions; one-on-one conversations are more helpful. Whitney Thompson Alzheimer’s Association MT
“enter her reality” to talk her through the episodes. Part of Nancy’s comfort in her new home is being surrounded by her familiar things, her photos, furniture and quilts.
12 | LIVING Havre and the Hi-Line MAGAZINE | JANUARY 2019
Johanna said she did the same thing for Mark at the care center — setting up his favorite table and placing his bed so he can sleep on the side he has for decades. Still, she said, she feels bad that Mark can’t come home to the house he built and loved. But she worries that he will get upset to be there, or when he has to leave, so she avoids the possibility of this struggle. She said she also avoids saying that she is going home. She says, she’s leaving to do something. “They live in the right now, they live in the minute, they don’t live in the next minute,” Julie said. “They don’t live in the past. The past is literally gone.” One of the key approaches in communication is “remembering the history of the person and wanting to give them that dignity and remembering the story of who they are,” Thompson said. “We have a very robust website. Call the hotline,” Thompson added, and trained staff can answer basic questions; financial and master-level care consultants can help families navigate what to do in more difficult situations and with decision-making issues.
Support for Caregivers Across the board the experts and experienced caregivers stressed the importance of caregivers taking care of themselves and the participants in the caregiver support group expressed the fatigue, frustration and other stressor feelings. ”People are frustrated with changes that are occurring in their family,” McGillivray said, adding that “they’re there because they’re not sure how to handle certain things. There’s lots of emotions going on in a caregiver, there is frustration there’s anger, there’s sadness and trying to learn how to cope when your family first starts to observe the signs of Alzheimer’s” Johanna said guilt drove her to spend five to six hours a day at the care center with Mark at first, but she had a good support group of friends, the church and her family. She said she takes Mondays off to fulfill commitments at St. Jude Thaddeus Church, and she does a meditation or reading every morning. A friend also invited her
to join a widows group, which claimed her as a “different kind of widow.” But Johanna also stresses that when someone sees signs of dementia in a spouse they should learn to do the things that spouse has done, like take care of finances, put gas in the car — which she admits gas station employees do for her still. The time they spent together in the earlier stages of her mother’s Alzheimer’s Julie put to use working with her mom to finish all the quilt projects Nancy had stored in her house. Her mother, she said, did impeccable hand sewing in her day, and managed to finish binding her last quilt in March. Now Nancy can’t comprehend all the steps it takes to sew. Julie said she cherishes that time at her mother’s house in Billings. But she also found a caregiver’s support group to combat that feeling of isolation, and she attends meetings in Havre now. “If nothing else you’ve got somebody to talk to,” Julie said. “I felt at
one point I was embarrassed to go out in public because I would talk and talk and talk because I could have a conversation with somebody, because you can’t talk current events and I could talk about my children, but it wasn’t a conversation.” Julie said she keenly misses being able to talk to her mom like she did before. “The last time I spoke with my mother was probably ... a year-and-ahalf-ago,” Julie said, adding that “the mother I talked to for that hour-and-ahalf I have never talked to again and I probably never will and that’s what’s the hardest, part, losing that.” “There’s a lot of times when I desperately miss my mother, and I really wish that people could know her for the person she was because she is incredible, just incredible, intelligent and talented,” she said. “... But there’s only one way to go, and so we take it one day at a time.
JANUARY 2019 | LIVING Havre and the Hi-Line MAGAZINE |
13
1330 18th Street~$440,000
Beautiful, spacious 4 bedroom, 5 bath modern home. Open living/kitchen/dining area-perfect for entertaining. Underground sprinklers, large fenced back yard and triple garage. Plenty of space for family, guests and toys.
Call Kristi Parrotte @ 390-4912
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!
Call Kristi Parrotte @ 390-4912 or Ken Nelson at 406-439-0595
1245 12th Street~$339,000
1076 Wilson Ave ~ $310,000
Spacious, clean and recently updated 6 bedroom, 3 1/2 bath home with open floor plan, formal dining & sunken living room, master suite w/fireplace. 3 levels offer privacy and room to roam. Fenced back yard, plus shop/garage w/pit.
1637 Rich St W~$290,000
4 bdrm, 3 bath Ranch style home located near Schools and Park. Open floor plan, lots of updates, large backyard, double garage and great views from 2 decks.
Call Janis Flynn Pyrak @390-4900
Call Janis Flynn Pyrak @390-4900
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.
Call Janis Flynn Pyrak @390-4900
220 Do Drop In Rd $100,000 Chinook, MT 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.
Call Ken Nelson @ 406-439-0695
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
Spacious 3 bedroom, 2 bath home in Harlem, MT. Hardwood flooring and rock fireplace. Large private fenced back yard with great deck. 2 stall Detached garage.
Call Janis Flynn Pyrak @390-4900
100 3rd St. SW Harlem, MT $39,000
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.
Call Ken Nelson @ 406-439-0595
Acreage for Sale ~ $15,000
+/- 15 Acres located NW of Havre near Golf Course. Fenced horse pasture, Good access.
Call Ken Nelson @ 406-439-0595
237 New York St. ~ $79,900 Chinook, MT
3 bdrm, 1 1/2 bath home on large corner lot. 2 large garages and close to downtown.
Call Ken Nelson @ 406-439-0595
206 3rd St. Joplin, MT $19,000
SOLD!
Oil City Saloon Shelby, MT ~ $145,000 132-134 W. Dawson
Nicely remodeled Bar with full liquor license and 6 rental units. Busy location at crossroads of I-14 and Hwy 2.
Call Ken Nelson @ 406-439-0595
Acreage For Sale ~ $87,000
+/-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
1401 6th Street ~ $84,000
2 bedroom, 1 bath single level home on large lot. Double stall garage with off street parking.
Call Janis Flynn Pyrak @390-4900
832 13th Street ~ $174,900
Nice, updated 6 bedroom, 2 bath home with great yard, 2 decks and garden area. Oversized single garage, carport and off-street parking.
Call Janis Flynn Pyrak @390-4900
Call Jeanie Cole @ 945-0931
Call Ken Nelson @ 406-439-0595
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 Ken Nelson @ 406-439-0695
Call Ken Nelson @ 406-439-0595
3 bdrm, 1 bath older home on 2 city lots.
295 Stockyard Rd - Chinook, MT $199,000
Updated split level 4 bdrm, 2 1/2 bath home in Chinook, MT. New appliances, all new flooring, all new paint & 2 fireplaces. Large deck, large fenced back yard and single attached garage on corner lot. Move in ready.
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.
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.
310 Central Ave W ~ $155,000 Harlem, MT
212 11th St. W. ~ $223,000 Chinook, MT
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
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.
Call Ken Nelson @ 406-439-0595
Lot For Sale ~ $23,000
1 Acre Lot for Sale on Post Rd. Estates. On unimproved corner lot.
Call Kristi Parrotte @390-4912
Land for Sale
• +/- 640 Acre Farmland located N. Joplin, MT ~ All Farmed • +/- 1280 Acres Farmland located S. Inverness, MT - All CRP • +/- 2390 Acres Farmland located N. Havre, MT - Nearly All Organic • +/- 400 Acres Farmland located S. Gildford, Mt - All CRP Call Ken Nelson @ 406-439-0595 or Larry Martinson @ 406-390-1509
You’re our neighbor, NOT A NUMBER You are unique. So are your real-estate loan needs.
We offer options, products and flexibility you just won’t find with an online lender. With our tools and personal touch, we’ll find the right solution for you, just as we have for 45 years. Stop in or call one of our experienced lenders for a great loan at a great rate. Karene Faber
AVP Consumer Lending NMLS #473305
Jennifer Anderson
Retail Mortgage Loan Officer NMLS #857565
Christy Smith Loan Officer NMLS #813203
Conventional • Construction • In-House RD • FHA • VA • Home Equity Lines of Credit
435 Third Street | Havre, MT | (406) 265-1241
ibyourbank.com Independence Bank NMLS #462921
Member FDIC. Equal Housing Lender
Transforming mashed potatoes STORY & PHOTOS BY PAM BURKE
I think of Thanksgiving and Christmas as the bookends to mashed potato season. It does my Irish-German, potato-picking heart good to overindulge in that starchy goodness for the season, and this recipe provides a way to wean myself away from heaps of spuds on my plate. Potato Pancakes can be created from freshly made, then chilled, mashed potatoes, but I like to use this recipe with leftovers. This way, I get a mashed potato fix the first meal, and then the potatoes are already prepped for cooking the next meal. Some recipes call for making patties so stiff they can be picked up and dipped into flour before frying, but I like pancakes because they tolerate a variance in moisture that works better with the leftover mashed potatoes — which can be creamy sometimes and drier others. The main thing to shoot for is a mixture just stiff enough that it holds its shape when you spoon it onto the pan and doesn’t spread on its own like a traditional pancake batter. Another plus of this recipe is that, for people who are cutting back on starches, mashed sweet potatoes or winter squash can be substituted for the mashed potatoes. They just might take up to 1 cup of flour to make them the right consistency.
Potato Pancakes Ingredients ¼ cup chopped onion ¼ cup chopped green peppers (or hot varieties) 1 clove garlic, minced 1 tablespoon butter 2 cups mashed potatoes, chilled 1 slightly beaten egg 1/2 cup flour, more or less 1/3 cup (2 oz.) cream cheese, room temperature, or ½ cup grated cheese of your choice olive oil for frying
16 | LIVING Havre and the Hi-Line MAGAZINE | JANUARY 2019
Instructions In a 10-inch skillet, sauté onion, peppers and garlic. Mix together egg, cheese and 1/3 cup of flour with a masher or low-speed mixer. Add sautéed ingredients to mixture, but retain drippings in the pan. Stir together and add more flour if mixture is not stiff enough to hold its shape. Heat pancake griddle or skillet on medium-high, add enough oil to coat the pan liberally (re-oil as needed) and spoon mixture onto heated cooking surface, forming 1/2inch to 3/4-inch thick patties of 3-inch to 4-inch diameter. Fry cakes in pan until brown on both sides. Makes 8-10 pancakes.
Tips 1) 2) 3)
Get the pan and oil up to temperature before starting your first cakes. Smaller cakes cook better and faster. They cook better and prettier if you wait until the first side is completely done before you flip the pancakes. None of these points listed here really suit my temperament, so I always make one pancake first that’s too large, mottled and frayed around the edges. This keeps me humble and focused on the priorities for the remaining pancakes.
JANUARY 2019 | LIVING Havre and the Hi-Line MAGAZINE |
17
Wild Horse Range Bear Paw Mtns. ~ $448,000
Experience these 320+- deeded Acres of meadows, trees and springs. The land is fenced & well watered. With loads of wildlife (deer, elk, pheasants).
226 8th St ~ $169,000
This recently update home is over 1,800 sq.ft. & an easy walk to downtown, newer kitchen, 2 remodeled bathrooms, 2 bedrooms mainfloor, 2 nonconforming bedrooms, large TV room & an amazing 3 stall garage.
1200 3rd St ~ $58,000
This house has made a nice home for the sellers dad and is now a rental with a duplex unit in the downstairs area.
CREATIVE LEISURE COMMERCIAL BUILDING
Several business rentals on the main floor with good rental history and plenty of parking. Downstairs is a complete living facility comprised of nothing but the best for a home...there is a down under driveway with lots and lots of inside storage for equipment, trucks & vans...
920 7th Avenue
Large Warehouse in Town, with big parking pad, over 2,800 sq. ft. building that has high side walls and thick concrete floor with two wide n high overhead doors.
737 Illinois ~ Chinook
4 bed, 2 ½ bath home on a lovely corner lot in Chinook, updated kitchen, detached single garage, fenced yard. Extra lot.
1420 Wilson Avenue
Great home has 3 bedrooms and 2 baths with a detached double car garage. Updated kitchen, main floor utility room, beautiful bonus room, fireplace in main living space. Lovely fenced yard has underground sprinklers.
30783 US Hwy 2, Kremlin
1.6 acre lot in Kremlin. 3+ bedrooms, 1 bath home has open concept kitchen/living room, large garage with room for a garden! Easy commute.
3401 13th Street West
5-bed/3-bath home with large bonus room in basement, oversized heated 2 car attached garage and separate shop building on 1 acre. Room for all the toys!
901 Minnesota St. ~ $132,000 This is a remarkable home and a must see to appreciate in Chinook, MT. A great starter home or a comfortable town home that is move in ready.
Hi-Line Motel
Own your own business!!! This well kept jewel has new roof overlayment and siding with 14 units total, living quarters in office area and everyone of the units have had recent updates. This Motel shows a great cash return and the old Radio Shack (an extra large building) could be used for another business. Contact Edward Ruff for more information.
11135 River Rd.
Minutes from town, Country Living at its finest! 5061 sq. feet on 60 acres. 5-bed/4 baths, 3 fireplaces and wet bar. Home has separate living space in walk-out basement. Fencing for horses.
320 10th Street
4 bed/2 bath home, 1488 sq. ft of space only $130,000!
1015 Ohio Street - $199,000
Well kept home with all the roof shingles, kitchen appliances, furnace, central air & overhead garage door replaced in the past few years with top of the line everything.
606 1st West - Arctic Circle
702 5th Avenue - $89,900
This nice family home has a newer kitchen with newer appliances. And with the double car garage you will not have to scrape the ice or sweep the snow off your car anymore. A great starter home or a smart investment for you.
931 5th Avenue - $149,900
Spacious home with open floor plan. Recent updates include new bathroom, nice kitchen, separate dining room, 4 bedrooms on 2 levels, extra parking & large garage.
FOR SALE: SEVERAL ACREAGE LOTS 5 MILES WEST OF HAVRE CONTACT ED RUFF FOR MORE INFORMATION AT (406) 390-1574
Milk River Ranch located between Chinook & Havre. Over 2600 acres, multiple hay and pasture possibilities. Great access from multiple country roads. Property includes homesite and several cattle facilities. Great hunting possibilities!
We have qualified buyers for farm and ranch properties.
18 | LIVING Havre and the Hi-Line MAGAZINE | JANUARY 2019
For Sale or Rent. Seat in dining or drive through. Great restaurant prospects or conversion to other use.
Commercial Lots Commercial lots located in Havre with US HWY 2 & 15th Avenue access. Possible owner financing!
160 ACRES Âą DRY CROPLAND NEAR HOGELAND, MT
Call Jim for more details! 406-799-2253
JANUARY 2019 | LIVING Havre and the Hi-Line MAGAZINE |
19
ART
for our
SAKE
STORY BY PAM BURKE • PHOTOS BY RYAN BERRY
Percent for Art Program
Like most state-owned buildings built or renovated since 1985, when Montana State University-Northern’s new Diesel Technology Center opened in 2018, it did so adorned with original artwork made possible with help from a little-known piece of Montana legislation. Montana Code Annotated 22-2-401 allows for up to 1 percent of the amount appropriated for the building project to be set aside for the purchase and installation of art pieces, Montana Arts Council’s Kristin Han Burgoyne said. The legislation reads in part that in 1983 the 48th Montana Legislature enacted the law “in recognition of its responsibility to create a more humane environment of distinction, enjoyment, and pride for all its citizens and in recognition that public art is a resource that stimulates the vitality and economy of the state’s communities and
provides opportunity for artists to practice their crafts.” The program, called Percent for Art, is operated under the purview of the Montana Arts Council which helps put the call out for artists as well as select and advise the committee that will oversee the art selection process for the project. House Bill 5 lists the sites that are requesting appropriation for construction, Burgoyne said, adding that some years no construction is funded and the Percent for Art program lies dormant. The almost $10 million Diesel Tech Center broke ground May 20, 2016, where the Auto Mechanics Building once stood, and the doors to the 3,200-square-foot structure opened for its grand opening May 23, 2018. Northern is one of the few universities in the country with a four-year program in diesel technology, and offers certificates and associate degrees, as well.
20 | LIVING Havre and the Hi-Line MAGAZINE | JANUARY 2019
Percent for Art in action Areas for art to be showcased were included as a part of the design phase before construction began, said Jay Pyette, an Arts Council member and founder of Montana Actors’ Theatre in Havre, and this is for practical reasons as much as anything else. Artwork requires considerations such as adequate space for traffic and viewing, materials that accommodate the type of art, including wall covering that can securely hold artwork, decent lighting, and base material and substructure that can hold massive sculptures — “otherwise you’re wasting your time,” Pyette said. Early in the process, the Arts Council goes to work helping form a committee that will assist with choosing the artwork. The committee, Pyette said, consists of three voting members: someone from the architectural firm; someone from the university or other state entity for which the building is being constructed, and a local artist who
knows the artwork in the community. The committee’s one non-voting member is an Arts Council member who is living in the area. “It’s not like it’s just random stuff that’s chosen,” Pyette said, adding that “you get a pretty good sampling of people who are looking at the building from a personal relationship.” For the Diesel Tech Center, the committee consisted of a representative from the Helena firm CWG Architects; Rachel Dean, who is chief of staff to Northern Chancellor Greg Kegel, and Havre’s nationally recognized artist Carolyn Anderson, along with Pyette. They also requested assistance when needed from people with specialized knowledge, Pyette said, including Eva Stokes with the university’s physical plant who had “great observations” and looked at practical matters like maintenance. While calls for artists are conducted nationally through artist publications and organizations, Pyette said, it’s
Danny Kraus JANUARY 2019 | LIVING Havre and the Hi-Line MAGAZINE |
21
often artists in Montana, or with those with strong ties to the state and the area the building is being constructed, who get the contracts because they know the area and the community’s culture. “That being said,” Pyette added, “when this building was being constructed we absolutely took into consideration the types of students, and their interests, who would be primarily creating the traffic through that building and that helps determine the types of artwork we look at.” “It’s good that it’s a panel choosing the art and not just one person coming in” to consider all the variables and making the decision, Burgoyne said. This can include be anything from materials that will hold up to the climate to not buying something with a color scheme that matches the university’s rivals. “I think that’s one of the things I really like about the process because it is people from the university and students and facility folks and all that doing the selection of the art,” she added. Artists had to fill out a proposal application with Montana Arts Council and submit photos and descriptions of their work along with the application, Pyette said. As
those submissions came in, the committee members took home copies to review to find art that would suit all the varied considerations for the project, including the budget. “Quite honestly, as far as the Percent for Art projects go, this was one of the lower end ones. This was not a huge amount of money,” Pyette said. With a $9.9 million budget for the Diesel Tech Center, $99,000 could have been earmarked for artwork, but Dean said $32,000 was what the budget called for and this included purchase and installation of the artwork, which included outdoor sculpture. “When you’re talking about exterior artwork, it’s not just finding the piece and purchasing it from the artist, there’s also installation costs. You don’t just throw it on the lawn and walk away it has to be secured, interior work as well,” he said, “… so there’s always those other costs. The art’s in the forefront of things, but they obviously have to be taken into consideration.” Out of the about 40 submissions, Pyette said, works from three artists were purchased.
Artists Of the three Montana artists chosen by the Percent for Art committee, Big Sandy farmer and photographer Craig Edwards has the strongest local ties. A full-time farmer on his family farm, Edwards said that after he graduated from Montana State University’s College of Arts with a degree in film and television production, he returned to farming and worked as a commercial photographer, shooting weddings, portraits and other projects, but it’s the outdoor elements of northcentral Montana that call to him. “I like to photograph things that pertain to the northcentral Montana lifestyle. The prairie landscape, the objects that inhabit it, really are my focus,” he said. “I don’t travel to Glacier or Yellowstone; there are plenty of people doing that.”
He has his gallery in Big Sandy, he said, and travels to shows throughout the state, including Western Art Week in Great Falls. The prospect of having his photography in the Diesel Tech Center appealed to him because the farmer in him often focuses his lens on the beauty of the machinery used or forgotten in agricultural landscape, like the artifacts featured at the center. “I am a farmer, so I thought that farmers should be represented in the project” with its mechanical focus, he said. “I thought it would be fun to add my perspective to the art, to be a part of the program.” Painter Barb Schwarz Karst of Missoula said she has worked with the Montana Arts Council on various projects, including the Percent for Art program, and was
22 | LIVING Havre and the Hi-Line MAGAZINE | JANUARY 2019
Craig Edwards Above: A row of photographs by artist Craig Edwards are on display inside the Diesel Technology Center at Montana State University-Northern, Dec. 7. Below: A painting by Barb Schwarz Karst hangs on the second floor of the Diesel Technology Center at Montana State University-Northern, Dec. 10.
Barb Schwarz Karst JANUARY 2019 | LIVING Havre and the Hi-Line MAGAZINE |
23
looking for another project when she read the call for submissions. “I saw the one in Havre and I thought ‘Oh my god, I have to apply for that because I lived in Havre at one time.’” Karst said she grew up in Billings, attending what was then Easter Montana College, then taught art at Havre High School, at the same time Kegel was teaching there, and met her husband, who was a student at Northern at the time, while in Havre from 1981 to 1986. But beyond her personal connection to Havre, she also felt her Montana Rust Belt series of artwork was a perfect fit for the industrial nature of the Diesel Tech Center. The paintings in this series are closeups of industrial artifacts that provide an altered perspective through a concentration on a detail of a larger object or machine. Working in oil, by layering thin glazes of color, almost like watercoloring, she said, she creates a glassine appearance with color intensity. The series, she said is “based off the lost or dying industries in the state of Montana, so it’s based off the coal industry, the oil industry, logging, mining, like copper mining, coal mining. It’s these industries that helped build the state of Montana, but because they’re natural resource industries they’re limited to a certain point, too, so when I do my artwork I do closeups of industrial pieces that come from these industries, but I paint them with really bright or vivid colors.” This connection to these industrial subjects is “kind of a labor of love,” she said. “I came from a labor family, a union family,” she said, “and I know how hard it is to work, and just be one of the workers but work your way up from the bottom up.” While both Edwards and Karst heard about the call for artists from the Arts Council, Arlee sculptor Danny Kraus said he was encouraged to submit a Percent for Art application by a committee member who saw his work on display in Bozeman. “My abstract work uses lots of materials — steel and stone and stained glass and other metals. They’re pretty, you might say, adaptable for fitting into locations well,” Kraus said, adding that it seemed to be a natural fit for an industrial-focused space. Kraus, who settled in Arlee in 1996 after first discovering the area in 1974, said he grew up in Connecticut, but he knew from an early age that he was destined for life in the western states and what he called “wilder inspirations.” After graduating high school in 1966 he hitchhiked west and started studying sculpture at Utah State University. Kraus said he also did more traveling and took
classes at Montana State University in Bozeman, as well. With five years of higher education under his belt, he was one quarter shy of a degree, he said, when he got antsy and went back to Alaska to work in commercial fishing. This call to travel has taken him all over the world, he added, including Africa working with wildlife and working on a research ship off of China. “I’m hard to hold down,” he said, but it’s these experiences that have shaped the artist he has become. “You don’t know what calls an artist,” he said, but something about these heavy materials allows him to express his creativity. He said he draws inspiration from nature, adding that he will do something like sit and listen to the wind, hearing and feeling the tone of it, and though his materials don’t seem to suit the experience, he can re-create that tone in a sculpture. His metal, stone and stained glass sculpture graces the approach to the Diesel Tech Center, like a statement about what will be found inside. Burgoyne said that one of the beauties of the Percent for Art program is that it helps facilitate a good process for choosing quality art that will be relevant in the long run. “It really makes it a good process and it makes sure that you get art in that community that the community is going to really like, or at least be intrigued by. Nobody’s ever going to like everything, but people will be interested in it or challenged by it … or it sparks a discussion and that’s OK, too.”
24 | LIVING Havre and the Hi-Line MAGAZINE | JANUARY 2019
JANUARY 2019 | LIVING Havre and the Hi-Line MAGAZINE |
25
HAVRE MUSIC SCENE Holiday Band & Choir Concerts STORY & PHOTOS BY RYAN BERRY In the midst of December, with the holiday season in full swing, Havre High School hosted winter concerts on a seemingly nightly basis. The Havre Middle School Band, MSU-Northern Community Choir and Havre High School Choir were all on display at the Havre High School auditorium, performing classics such as “Silent Night” and “Jingle Bells,” as well as lesserknown holiday songs like “Grandma’s Killer Fruitcake.” Under the watchful eye of their instructors and directors, the performers — many of whom were adorned in Christmas getup – flaunted their talents before captivated crowds of friends, family and strangers. Though each concert took its own course and illustrated the holiday spirit in its own unique fashion, each night ended with the same appreciative sentiment; “Thank you for coming, Merry Christmas, and we’ll be back with more music in 2019.”
26 | LIVING Havre and the Hi-Line MAGAZINE | JANUARY 2019
JANUARY 2019 | LIVING Havre and the Hi-Line MAGAZINE |
27
28 | LIVING Havre and the Hi-Line MAGAZINE | JANUARY 2019
JANUARY 2019 | LIVING Havre and the Hi-Line MAGAZINE |
29
Buying, building or refinancing your Montana home? Our experienced Real Estate team can find the solution that best fits your needs. Local knowledge and expertise. Discover the difference.
MONTANA HOME LOAN EXPERTS ASHLEY MOLSTAD HAVRE 265-3815
NMLS ID #729317
Montana’s Brand of Banking stockmanbank.com Member FDIC | Equal Housing Lender
30 | LIVING Havre and the Hi-Line MAGAZINE | JANUARY 2019
Give your home the protection it deserves.
Anthony Cammon FSS LTCP, Agent 115 4th Avenue West Havre, MT 59501 Bus: 406-945-9000 anthonycammon.com
Your home is where you make some of your best memories, and that’s worth protecting. I’m here to help. LET’S TALK TODAY.
State Farm Fire and Casualty Company, State Farm General Insurance Company, Bloomington, IL State Farm Florida Insurance Company, Winter Haven, FL State Farm Lloyds, Richardson, TX 1708136
JANUARY 2019 | LIVING Havre and the Hi-Line MAGAZINE |
31
RAISE YOUR GLASS TO FAST SPEEDS
Tall Boys Tavern runs on Montana-sized Internet
Meet Nate & Liz Carr, owners of Tall Boys Tavern in Hobson, MT. They love the community feeling in their small town. Liz & Nate rely on Triangle Internet to power their business.
Sign up for Advanced WiďŹ & Get $100 Hulu Gift Card!
itstriangle.com 1.800.332.1201