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residential Listings & land for sale 38 Ridge Road $195,000 Beautiful updated 3 bedroom, 2 bath home with double heated garage and theatre. Home is wired with control for smart technology. Located close to multiple parks and hospital. Call Mike Winchell at 406-390-7670 or 265-6766 to view.
1016 19th Street $205,000 Great Find! Super clean 4/2 home on large lot on quiet street. Large fenced yard with storage and mature foliage. Interior is move in ready with single car garage and bonus living room and walkout patio. Located just very close to walking path, schools, parks, and tennis courts.
61 Beaver Creek Boulevard $184,900 Beautifully updated 4 bedroom, 2 bath home with double garage. This home is almost completely renovated in a very stable neighborhood seconds away from a large park. Pictures speak for themselves! Call Mike Winchell at 406-390-7670 or 265-6766.
1335 12th Avenue $375,000 Large spacious home with 1 neighbor and open space on 2 sides. Exterior of the home is all new siding, roof, gutters and some windows. Interior of the home is in perfect move-in condition. Kitchen, dining and main level living room take in one of the best views in town.
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A life outside
THE LINES STORY BY PAM BURKE
Nowhere on the road to becoming an architect, or while working in Bozeman, Seattle and even Budapest, Hungary, for a short stint, did Becki Miller imagine she would one day describe herself as the only architect in Gildford, Montana — population 185, give or take a few souls. “Yeah, for sure,” Miller said, chuckling. A lot. “Yeah, who would’ve known, right? I certainly didn’t plan to end up here, but it’s a good place to raise a family, and there’s obviously work, and I’m challenged by it because it is different and diverse.”
Miller grew up in Glendive, got her Masters of Architecture at Montana State University in Bozeman and interned for three years before passing her exams to become a licensed architect. After she married Justin Miller, a farmer and rancher in Gildford, she tried to continue working with a firm in Bozeman, she said, but it wasn’t working so she started her own company, 3 Point Architects, in 2008. Though the need for an architect in Gildford is limited, she said she doesn’t think the location is a hindrance. “It works good actually. It’s amazing,” Miller said. “The power of technology — if I initially meet with the clients and look at the site or the building they’re looking to work on, then a lot of my correspondence is just
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via email.” Miller has worked on a wide variety of projects from residential to commercial to historical, and it is largely this diversity of projects that challenges her. “I think one of the things that is a factor of that is that I provide a service that is not readily available in this geographic location as far as people having access to an architect in this area,” she said. “… I feel fortunate that I can at
least provide that type of service here where there isn’t anybody else here to do that.” But she isn’t limited to just the local area for work. Miller’s current projects include a church in Turner and a historical cab near Seeley Lake, as well as contracting to another firm to provide oversight for work on a courthouse in Great Falls. While her business is primarily centered on her own projects, partnering with other firms allows access to additional projects. An out-of-area architectural firm is the primary on the Great Falls project, she said, so she was contracted to provide local oversight. However, as a “one woman show,” she said, she also contracts with other firms to gain extra manpower for her own projects. An architect’s role in a project is specific to the client’s needs in each project, she said. “But it’s basically taking their ideas or their vision and making a reality out of it.” she added. “It’s also coordinating any consultants and/or contractors to basically make that vision a reality.”
Photos by Colin Thompson Above: Becki Miller Above Left: Miller stands on the porch of the Double Guard Calvary Stable at Fort Assinniboine south of Havre. The Havre/Hill County Historic Preservation Commission and Fort Assinniboine Preservation Association received grant funds to repair/replace the porch and roof on this stable.
Photo by Alice Miller Below: A private residence, designed by Becki Miller and constructed in 2015, sits on the prairie near Havre. This one-of-kind home has post and beam construction with a wide range of reclaimed materials and natural stone. Rustic, but elegant, Miller said, the home includes a grain elevator lookout and an interior cribbed wall hiding a secret room.
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Historical Preservation
One of Miller’s passions is working with historical preservation of structures and sites. She said her involvement in historical preservation was probably sparked by her parents’ interest in history. She also worked with the National Park Service on a project at Grant-Kohrs Ranch in Deer Lodge while she was in college, and right after college she worked with a firm that oversaw renovations at the state capitol in Helena. In about 2008 a friend recommended she join the Havre/Hill County Historic Preservation Commission, she said, and she has served as the preservation officer since 2011. “We have a great group of people who have contributed to our success,” she said. A considerable amount of work the commission has completed helped preserve Fort Assinniboine south of Havre. But the volunteer group works to raise money for prioritized projects, including doing grant writing and, Miller said, they also work with local groups and individuals who come to them about grant applications and working with the state Historic Preservation Office. The group is working to put up historicphotograph murals, like those in Cut Bank, Miller said, and they are working to rewrite the fort’s National Register of Historic Places nomination that was submitted in the 1980s. The original nomination was accepted, but not as a highpriority site because, she said, it didn’t include a cohesive description of the fort’s national significance. Member Candi Zion is working on the rewrite, Miller said, and this is getting a read-through from the state preservation office. They hope to have it submitted by next year, and if it’s accepted could help considerably with promoting the fort and increasing fundraising avenues. Miller said that the question most asked of the commission members is “why.” Why save the structures and the grounds? Why spend the money on the remnants left of the fort. The practical part of the answer is to help promote tourism, which is a big draw to the area already and development of historic sites can catch some of the Glacier National Park traffic, she said. Visitors want to know how and why people have thrived in the area despite adversity, like the climate and remoteness. People also want to gain a sense of the local culture that is particular to the area. “We try to work on some projects that would promote that heritage tourism idea,” she added.
Havre/Hill County Havre/Hill County Historic Preservation Commission works to preserve local history. The Havre/Hill County Historic Preservation Commission has had some major successes in preservation and having structures listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and the group continues its work to achieve its mission “to preserve and protect our prehistoric and historic resources by promoting partnerships and by creating awareness of our heritage and its value.” Some of the commission’s successes have included getting the chapel at Camp Kiwanis in Beaver Creek Park listed on the National Register and spearheading work to restore that chapel; getting Havre’s historic Masonic Temple Building, now restored as the 305 Building, listed by the Montana Preservation Alliance most endangered list; continueing work to preserve and restore Fort Assinniboine south of Havre along with working with the Fort Assinniboine Preservation Association; and erecting a plaque to show the site of the first building used on the Montana State UniversityNorthern, then Northern Montana College, campus. The commission also completed interactive maps available on its website of the Havre Residential Historic District and of the downtown. Each year, the commission presents awards to local preservationists and has held educational events like traveling “shadow boxes” that moved through Havre in 2015. The boxes had window frames for
the face to show items and documents exhibited inside. The commission sells pewter ornaments depicting historic local buildings each Christmas to help fund its efforts — six so far. The ornaments include one that depicts the former U.S. Post office and federal courthouse, which has since been renamed Havre Historic Post Office and restored by Drs. Marc Whitacre and Erica Farmer, who also restored The 305 Building. The ornament honoring the Hill County Courthouse was released in 2012 for the 100th anniversary of the creation of the county. Other ornaments include the historic St. Mark’s Episcopal Church; Donaldson Hall, the first fully new building erected at Montana State University-Northern; Fort Assinniboine and the Northern Agricultural Research Center in 2015, celebrating the research center’s 100th anniversary of its creation at the decommissioned fort; and last year, the Kiwanis Chapel. One of the commission’s most obvious successes was the chapel at Camp Kiwanis in Beaver Creek Park. The Preservation Commission worked with the Hill County Park Board in 2008-09 to get the Kiwanis Chapel on the National Register. Once listed, a stimulus grant was obtained in 2010. The rehabilitation of the chapel, which was completed in 2011, included log replacement and staining, new chinking, reconstruction of the front porch, a new roof, historically appropriate lighting, and the addition of a handicap ramp. A sign was
Historic Preservation Commission provided by the Montana Historical Society, which provides a brief historical description, and is now on display at the building. The park also made other contributions to the building, including landscaping, a paved sidewalk and a concrete vault toilet. The building had a long history of use in the area — including many weddings performed in the chapel — before it fell into disrepair. The commission also has long worked to maintain and repair the remaining buildings at Fort Assinniboine. The fort was once one of the largest forts in the United States, with more than 100 buildings — 14 still are standing — a 700,000-acre military reserve and the capacity to house more than 1,000 soldiers, with an average of 600 troops stationed there during its career. The fort was authorized in 1878, with construction starting in 1879, near the end of the Indian Wars. It followed the defeat of Gen. George Armstrong Custer at the Battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876 and the Battle of the Bear Paws in 1877 when Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce surrendered to the U.S. Cavalry following a fiveday battle. The fort housed several famous individuals or groups, including Lt. John “Black Jack” Pershing, who would go on as a general to command the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I. By 1911, the concerns in the region had diminished. Montana lawmakers and local residents had fought to keep a military presence at the fort, but after its heated water tower burned down for the third time, Fort Assinniboine was decommissioned. The state Legislature authorized creating a college on the fort grounds, but never authorized money for the college. Instead, Montana State University, then the Montana State College of Agriculture and Me-
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chanical Arts, created the Northern Agricultural Research Center there in 1915. The research center still uses the grounds, although a new building to house the offices and some laboratories was recently built. The fort did contribute to the local college, when bricks from some of its buildings were used to erect Pershing Hall, named after the general, at Northern. Another project the commission has worked on related to Northern was creating a plaque to commemorate East Hall, the first building used by the college. The college used rooms in Havre High School — then on the 700 Block of Third Avenue — and the Presbyterian Church for classes when it opened in 1929, and needing more space, rebuilt the old city of Havre Park Pumping Station for classrooms and administration headquarters, with the groundskeeper living in an apartment in the basement. They renamed the structure East
Hall — it was on the east side of the campus. As the college grew and added new buildings, and structural problems developed in East Hall, the building was abandoned except for storage, and it was demolished in 1979. Its location now is a picnic area. but the Historic Preservation Commission pushed to install the plaque, which is next to a large stone that was part of the building. The commission also works to continue improving its website, online at http://www.havrehillpreservation.org, and to provide resources, information and assistance to people in the county for preservation work. It also continues to survey areas and buildings and explores nominations to the Register of Historic Places, with some applications still in the process, put up signs and work on signage projects; and educate and assist property with and about signage.
Photo by Becki Miller Kiwanis Chapel, built in the 1930s in Beaver Creek Park, displays restorations made by Havre/Hill County Historic Preservation Commission. This unique logconstructed building had fallen into disrepair, but the commission worked to get it listed on the National Register of Historic Places and obtained a grant to offset the cost of the repairs. The chapel is rented out for small weddings and events.
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Family Adventuring
This interest in exploring local culture is a bit of theme that runs through Miller’s life, with the latest exploration being in Nepal around Christmastime. While Miller and her husband have always liked to travel and do so frequently, she said, every two years they take a more in-depth adventure to another country, and their kids, Rye, 9, and Piper, 7, have come with them from when they were babies. “Our philosophy is to rent a car and travel the back roads and kind of see how people really live and interact with them and try not to do all the touristy things,” she said, “because I think you,
maybe, don’t really get a sense of the people and the lay of the land if you do those (common tourist) things entirely.” In Nepal the family went on a seven-day trek into the Himalayan Mountains, she said. They carried everything in backpacks, she said, though they hired a porter to carry their kids’ packs. On the seven-day loop they stayed in tea houses which are like a bed and breakfast, but with a “basic room with a mattress and a light bulb and no heat except in the common room” where they met and talked with other travelers. They also spent some days in Chitwan National Park, a nature preserve in the subtropic lowlands of southern Nepal near
the border with India and traveled to some the smaller towns in the area. “I don’t like to describe it as a vacation because it’s not always a vacation. It’s mostly an adventure,” she said. “It’s not like we’re sitting and putting our feet up.” Though traveling with children can add complications, and the Millers limit their travels to areas where the children won’t be put in danger, having the children along has proven to be a positive thing because, she said, people gravitate toward kids. “For the most part we’ve found that people are pretty family friendly, and the kids, they’re actually a great way to kind of break (the ice),” she added. The Millers have
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also traveled through Nicaragua and Mexico and backpacked through parts of Europe, she said, and while they have places they would like to see – definitely Africa once the kids get a little older – the two biggest deciding factors on where they will travel next are, first, somewhere the kids won’t be in danger and, two, where they can get the best deal on airline tickets. Planning takes about six months, she said. Traveling this way gives them a good sense of the people, the culture and the country’s infrastructure, she said. “It’s not always glamorous,” she said, “but it definitely makes us realize how fortunate we are.” Which brings Miller’s story full circle back to Gildford, Montana.
Photos by Haily Donoven The Millers’ home, built in 2008, displays a contemporary style with reuse of reclaimed and historical architectural pieces.
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COMMERCIAL LISTINGS Lot for Sale on Hwy 2 West
28 Beaver Creek Blvd. 4 bed, 13/4 bath home with double car garage, walk out basement, south end location!
Lone Tree Cattle Company Working ranch, 10,500+ acres deeded acres. Several homes, working corrals and outbuildings. Good water development, phenomenal hunting!
Commercial Building 6-plex apartments with 2 stall car
wash. Good rental history and income. Northern Land Call Cindy to schedule showing! Call Cindy to schedule showing!
705 5th Ave. 10-plex apartment building, centrally located with a strong rental history.
710 Summit Ave 3 bedroom, 2 bath home on one level of living. Single car attached garage, fenced backyard, great location.
Budget Inn ~ Havre Multi-unit motel complex with daily, weekly & monthly rentals plus several commercial rental spaces, owner/manager accomodations & laundry facility. Located on busy US Highway 2, a great business opportunity that offers low vacancy history.
720 9th Street
4-bedroom, 2 ½ bath home is spacious! Great open kitchen, main floor utilities and large fenced yard make this a dream home!
Commercial Building
Good rental history with 2 offices.
417 S. Main, Harlem
1176 17th St. 4-bed/2 bath home with single car garage, nice south end location, fenced yard.
Possible owner financing!
1135 11th St.
Super roomy, 3-bedroom, 2-bath home, all on 1 level. Main floor laundry, updated beautiful maple flooring & new counter tops. Nice media room, extra living space, 2 non-conforming bedrooms and bathroom in lower level. Lots of parking!
Call Cindy to schedule showing!
3-bedrooms, 1-bath. 2-car attached garage. Nice lot.
Commercial Lots Commercial lots located in Havre with US HW 2 and 15th Avenue access.
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 walkout basement. Fencing for horses.
Local Lawn Care & Snow Removal Business With growing customer base. Turnkey with tools, equipment and vehicles. Call Jim for details!
Old Bakery Building Prime commercial building formerly used for Eddy’s Bakery, approximately 8,570 sq ft of multi-purpose retail/commercial space, multiple overhead access doors for numerous uses, excellent on-site and off-street parking, lease available.
LAND LISTINGS 1200 Indiana Street, Chinook 2 bedroom plus 2 non-conforming. 1 bathroom, landscaped corner lot. Detached 2 car garage, 2 storage sheds. Good off-street parking, lots of updates!
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1560 12th Street ~ $409,000
This beautiful home has amazing views and sits on a large corner lot in a great location! This multi-level home offers 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 baths, 2 family rooms, gas fireplace, wet bar, walk out basement, attached double garage with 10 ft doors, fenced yard and underground sprinklers! New roof and siding. Well maintained!
1323 36th Avenue West ~ $370,000
APPRAISAL DONE FEB 2017 PRICE REDUCED TO BELOW APPRAISAL. Sellers wanting to downsize! Many memories made in this gorgeous home on 1 Acre with has 3 bedrooms on one level 2 family rooms with custom entertainment units, large open kitchen with granite counter tops and custom rock built in oven/range area. Hard wood flooring, pellet stove, and updates throughout. Sits on one acre with Fenced backyard.
1315 Ford Avenue ~ $229,500
This beautiful multi-level home offers 4 bedrooms and 3 baths, 2 family rooms, a bonus room in the basement, gas fireplace and wood burning stove. Oversized single garage. Great location!
1110 Bullhook Drive SE ~ $599,000
6430 Third Street West ~ $255,000
FREE GAS. Appraised price. 6 bed/5 bath home,open floor plan,double sided fireplace,large kitchen and dining room/great room. Master suite with attached Hot tub room, game room/loft, full basement, 48X32 attached heated garage, 46X66 steel storage building w/loft. Beautifully landscaped home w/irrigation well. Included is a private gas well! Home warranty included. Realtor owned.
Located west of Havre on 1.03 acres! This home offers 4 bedrooms, 3 full baths, office/den off of the master bedroom, 2 family rooms, pellet stove, private well, garden area, fruit trees and large double garage. Over 2100 sq ft of living all on one level! Open and spacious! Lots of natural light!
1123 McKinley Avenue $299,000
The 1937 Home no longer exists! It was absorbed into the additions and upgrades. New Wiring, New Plumbing in 1998. This is a fantastic family home with master suite, formal dining, large family room and storage. Just finished upstairs is ready with 2 more loft bedrooms and an entire half floor of storage. Plus 1/1 rental unit or Mother in law home. Well landscaped and private.
1228 Lincoln Avenue ~ $209,900
Attractive house & property in nice area. New roof & gutters. New carpet throughout basement. Two large bonus rooms with closets in basement. Fenced in back yard. Underground sprinklers. Room to park RV, boat or other toys in back.
Lot 23, 20th St. - $43,000
47 Saddle Butte Dr. ~ $229,000 Spacious, updated 3 bedroom, 2 bath home with 2 non-conforming bedrooms in the basement. Brick fireplace, wood stove and main floor utility. New kitchen with nice appliances, new bathrooms, new floor coverings, new roof, windows/ skylights, deck, all new paint and double detached garage. Great View!
23 Pike St. ~ $219,000
Many beautiful updates in this 3 bdrm. 2 bath home on a corner lot. Natural stone fireplace, enclosed sun porch with A/C, beautiful fenced backyard & double garage.
Call Janis Flynn Pyrak @ 265-7845
Call Janis Flynn Pyrak @ 265-7845
76 19th Street ~ $549,000
Beautiful, 5 bedroom, 3 1/2 bath home located by Hospital Park and College. Great kitchen and dining area with large bedrooms, closets and baths. Home gym, pellet stove, patio and deck off the kitchen. Daylight basement, fenced yard and 3 stall garage.
Call Janis Flynn Pyrak @ 406-265-7845
1069 Lincoln Ave. ~ $279,000
Beautiful 4 bdrm., 2 bath split level home in Highland Park. Many updates, awesome kitchen & wood burning stove in basement. Double garage shed, underground sprinklers, garden area & 82' paved driveway.
Call Janis Flynn Pyrak @ 406-265-7845
9 Cypress Drive ~ $275,000
South end, 6 bedroom, 3 bath home with master suite, on main floor with 3 non-conforming bedrooms in daylight basement with large family room with fireplace and steam shower. Great view & landscaping, fenced backyard & double garage.
Call Janis Flynn Pyrak @ 265-7845
4333 Old Post Road ~ $265,000
Updated 4 bdrm, 3 bath home on 1.68 Acres. Main floor utility, 2 garages-4 stalls, wood working area & lots of parking. All landscaped, roundabout driveway, hot tub off back of garage and great views!
Call Janis Flynn Pyrak @ 265-9400
820 1st Avenue ~ $199,000
Charming 5 bdrm, 2 bath home on 5 levels. Fireplace, hardwood floors & deck with a view. Private fenced back yard, rock gardens & double garage with access from Summit Ave & 1st Ave.
Call Janis Flynn Pyrak @ 406-265-7845
605 13th St. W.~ $220,000
Large 5 bdrm, 3 bath split level home near the hospital, HP school, MSU & Optimist Park. Rock fireplace, enclosed sun room, private fenced backyard & double attached garage.
3 bdrm, 1 3/4 bath home with great yard, deck off back, extra parking and playhouse/garden shed. Includes a single attached garage, plus 3 stall detached garage/shop.
Call Janis Flynn Pyrak @ 406-265-7845
Large 3 bedroom, 1 bath home in Chinook. Open living, 2 fireplaces and wet bar in basement. Fenced yard, deck and double attached garage.
Call Ken Nelson @ 406-439-0595
Call Janis Flynn Pyrak @ 406-265-7845
1261 Washington Ave ~ $199,000 Updated 3 bdrm, 2 bath home with all new appliances, nice kitchen/dining/living areas, large bedrooms, huge family room in bsmt & pellet stove. Fenced yard, storage shed & 2 stall garage.
114 5th St E ~ Chinook, MT 4 Plex ~ $132,900
Four (1) bedroom, 1 bath units close to the downtown area and the High School. Some updating and some new appliances. Good income potential.
Call Paul Kuka @ 406-265-7845
Call Janis Flynn Pyrak @ 406-265-7845
38 6th St. ~ $175,000
505 5th Street N. ~ $145,000
927 New York St~Chinook, MT $225,000
Very clean 7 bdrm, 3 bath home near Boys & Girls Club. Open kitchen/living/ dining areas. Deck in front & large patio in rear. Includes additional kitchen, living room, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath in basement that could be used as a rental. Fenced yard, single garage and lots of storage.
Call Jeanie Cole @ 945-0931
417 2nd St. NW - Chinook ~ $120,000
Approx. 2000 sq. ft. building space that sits on nearly 1 acre that includes one large shop & two smaller bays, in floor heat, office area, bathroom & nice loft for sleeping area.
Call Ken Nelson @ 406-439-0595 or Jeanie Cole @ 945-0931
Blaine County Acreage
+/- 160 acres located in North East Blaine County in Hogeland Area.
Call Ken Nelson @ 406-439-0595
3155 9th St. E. ~ $435,000
1158 McKinley Ave ~ $220,000
Nice 5 bed, 3 bath home in Highland Park. 3 bed-2 full baths up & 2 bed-1 full bath down. New flooring throughout, large deck in back and double detached garage.
Call Ken Nelson @ 406-439-0595
1510 4th St. ~ $84,000
2 bdrm, 1 bath home with large fenced yard and street parking. Great starter home or rental.
Call Janis Flynn Pyrak @ 406-265-7845
718 2nd Street~ $79,900
Cute 1 bdrm, 1 bath single level home. Nice backyard, off street parking & close to downtown.
Call Janis Flynn Pyrak @ 265-9400
1013 3rd St. ~ $64,900
3 bdrm, 1 bath home. Plus 1 bdrm, 1 bath home located at 1015 3rd Street. Perfect Income Property.
Call Ken Nelson @ 406-439-0595
60' x 90' Shop on 3 Acres! 5400 sq. ft. Shop. Includes air compressor, oil heater, radiant heat system & 2 post hoist. Very Motivated Seller. Will consider Contract for Deed with acceptable down payment.
Call Janis Flynn Pyrak @ 406-265-7845
Bullhook Bottoms Casino ~ $650,000 A large Commercial property that includes a Casino & Liquor License on 1st Street/ Hwy 2 frontage in Havre, MT.
Call Ken Nelson at 406-439-0595 or Larry Martinson @ 390-1509
111 3rd St. W, Chester ~ $14,000
60'x140' lot conveniently located near the business district on highway 2, and city park. Includes gas, electrc and sewer.
Call Derek Fraser @ 262-4603
Joplin Bar ~ $210,000
Casino-Food-Lounge! Nice small town business in the Hi-Line faming town of Joplin, MT. Located halfway between Havre and Shelby. Includes full Liquor License & large dining area for restaurant use.
Call Ken Nelson at 406-439-0595 or Larry Martinson @ 390-1509
45 Saddle Butte Drive
338 Sagebrush Drive ~ $139,500
536 New York Street ~ $115,000
Great curb appeal and big fenced back yard. This home has 2 bedrooms on the main floor and 2 nonconforming down, with large rec-room down and lots of storage. Seller is highly motivated, all offers will be considered.
This pretty home has been meticulously maintained with newer kitchen, bathroom and main floor all in neutral colors. There is a kitchen nook as well as a formal dining room, the oversized garage is attached and heated with a little doggie door and fenced area for Fido.
821 Second Avenue ~ $100,000
Bad Lands Car Wash 413 2nd Street ~ $149,900
This duplex has been owned by the same landlord for over 20 years, this is the first time on the market since then. Contact Edward Ruff for your showings or for more information on this great income property.
Downtown car wash, building & car wash on 2 downtown city lots. This is a nice little cash cow.
619 1st St. - Box Cars Casino ~ $395,000
CREATIVE LEISURE COMMERCIAL BUILDING PRICED AT $650,000
Great return on your investment with this well established Bar and Restaurant business here in Havre, MT. This turn key operation is located on two of the busiest roads in Havre, with a food contract established, gaming, all beverage liquor license and real estate included.
The views of South Havre & the Mtns. from this beautiful home are incredible. This home has been meticulously maintained, with 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms on the main. The downstairs entertaining is fabulous with the walk out access to the finished court yard area. An attached heated double garage with mature yard and lanscaping. Contact Edward for your showings.
205 9th Street ~ $86,000
This attractive home has it all for a great 2nd home in town or a good starter home. Big corner lot, 2 bedrooms up, fireplace/woodstove and garage. Stylish kitchen with all appliances + washer and dryer.
853 6th Street ~ $160,000
This great home is move in ready, with 3 bedrooms on the mainfloor, brand new bathroom, hard wood floors, new paint inside, with non-conforming bedrooms, rec room & bath downstairs, new shingled roof, new windows & doors and a new furnace & AC unit.
647 Rd. 860 NW PSB Sandy Creek, West Havre - $850,000 210 Bowes Road ~ $130,000
.72+-AC West Havre - $18,000 Realtor Owned HWY 2 West, 1st Street West Access.
2nd St. W. 1.1 AC +- – $18,500
This established Ranchett is less than a mile from Chinook city limits, with two and a half acres m/l for your horses, 2 nice sized shops, 2 bedroom, 1 bath home has new shingled roof and most of the windows are new.
STORY & PHOTO BY PAM BURKE Don’t let the name Wilted Lettuce Salad put you off, this simple salad recipe has about everything going for it — and what’s not to love about a healthy green salad bathed in bacon-y goodness. One of the family favorites out
of my late mother-in-law, Wilma Anderson’s, recipe book, this salad ties together fresh greens and crispfried bacon with a simple dressing that I am straight-up calling a bacon vinaigrette. And as if I couldn’t love it
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enough already, the salad also accommodates a variety of substitutions and additions to use what you have on hand in the refrigerator or to specifically tweak the flavor for different meals.
Wilted Lettuce Salad
Pam Burke
This is the recipe for the basic family-favorite side dish. SALAD
8-10 cups shredded green leaf lettuce 6 slices bacon, cut into pieces, fried* 2 green onions, sliced
Vinaigrette
5 tablespoons apple cider vinegar 1 tablespoon sugar 1 teaspoon salt ½ teaspoon black pepper grease from bacon (or about 3 tablespoons bacon grease) Fry bacon until crisp. While bacon is cooking, prepare lettuce and put it in a large bowl. Chop onions and set them aside. In a separate, heat-friendly bowl, combine vinegar, sugar, salt and pepper. When bacon pieces are cooked to desired doneness, remove from pan and place on salad. Retain grease. Pour hot grease into vinaigrette mixture, stir until sugar dissolves. Pour this warm vinaigrette onto salad and stir together. Serve right away, garnished with chopped green onions. To prepare ahead of time, put vinaigrette mixture and cooked bacon in a microwave-safe bowl or a pan. When ready to serve, heat vinaigrette mix and bacon pieces until grease is melted, but just cool enough to touch, then stir into salad. Garnish with green onions. *I have a hard time justifying only cooking six slices of bacon. I generally cook a whole package, pull out six slices, chop them for the salad and measure out about 3 tablespoons of grease to mix into the vinaigrette. The bacon isn’t quite as pretty as when it’s fried pre-cut, but the consolation prize is a bunch of precooked bacon for breakfast the next morning. If you want to mix things up a little bit, try one of the following additions or substitutions. My recommendation, though, is to not overdo the salad. Try one topping or substitution at a time. Additions as toppings: slivered almonds dried cranberries sliced strawberries grated Parmesan cheese feta cheese queso fresco Substitutions: Different greens, or a mix, including arugula, spinach and kale Different flavor cures of bacon Other vinegars including rice or wine vinegar, though I much prefer apple cider vinegar. But that’s just me. You do you. MAY 2017 | LIVING Havre and the Hi-Line MAGAZINE |
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A spectrum STORY BY PAM BURKE
PHOTOs BY FLOYD BRANDT
“He was hitting all the development milestones that you would expect, and then one day when we weren’t paying attention it just went away, and we assumed that he was just a quiet guy. Well, no, it was autism taking affect.” — Jeremy Malley When Jeremy Malley told the story of his son, Henry, 7, he began by saying that he and his wife, Lee Ann, started parenting a little later in life. Both were almost 34 years old when Henry was born. Life kept happening and Henry grew. Then one day when he was almost 3 years old Henry ended up in the emergency room after cutting his head in a fall at a hotel in Great Falls. The cut ended up being the least of the Malley family’s concerns from that day. During the visit, Jeremy told the ER nurse Henry
didn’t talk, and her response was, he said, disbelief followed by a recommendation to get him evaluated and into services. She gave the Malleys a list of child development milestones, and this list, Jeremy said, drove home the fact that Henry was no longer communicating as he had been when he was 14 months old. The Malleys arranged to have Henry evaluated as soon as possible, and within 20 minutes of the start of that examination his diagnosis was, yes, he has autism, also called autism spectrum disorder. This is a group of complex disorders of brain development, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says, with social and communication problems, as well as repetitive behaviors. Despite their maturity as parents and their experience working with adults with developmental disabilities, Jeremy said, he and Lee Ann had missed recognizing the early signs of developmental problems their son
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had already displayed. The Malleys’ surprise in finding out that their son wasn’t just quirky, but rather in need of intense, preferably immediate, intervention is not uncommon, neither are the stories of the families who sought help at the first sign of a hiccup in the path to reaching milestones. A few short weeks after that ER visit, Henry had been diagnosed by a team of experts, was assigned a caseworker and was enrolled in Head Start because he also turned 3. He also had an individualized education plan, or IED, to help him coordinate his education, therapy and socialization needs between therapy sessions, school and home. But this scene is not a wrap on the making of a perfect ending to a Hollywood story because Henry’s life, the Malley families’ life, is a work in progress like that of every child or adult on the autism spectrum and their families. Progress is measured in different increments, with celebration of their own successes and happiness. “These kids aren’t stupid,” Jeremy said. “They’re just smart in different ways. It’s just a matter of reaching out and trying to find what it is that draws them in because you have to draw them in and get past all the other noise for them, to get down to what they actually want to learn.” The Malleys knew about autism, but Henry didn’t display the characteristics they expected. He had started speaking before he became nonverbal, but even nonverbal he got his point across about his needs, Jeremy said, adding that he was surprised at some of the diagnostic tests Henry was asked to perform, such as simply walking and jumping. Henry walked using primarily his tip-toes and when he jumped always landed with one foot ahead of the other, he said. Malleys would have expected a sensitivity to sound or sensations, he added, but Henry seeks them out, even noises that other people find unbearably obnoxious, and finds comfort in similar tactile sensations, such as rhythmically tapping a clothes hangar on his arm. This repetitive action is called self-stimulatory behavior, or commonly stimming. Affecting 1 in 68 children — 1 in 45 if tallying boys only — the CDC describes autism spectrum in broad strokes as “characterized as varying degrees of difficulty with social interaction, verbal and nonverbal communication and repetitive behaviors.” Difficulties in social interaction can be caused by not understanding boundaries, such as taking food off other people’s plates, Jeremy said. This is not so bad for a 5-year-old but is inappropriate for a teen or adult, or even right now fine with family who knows him and is used to the behavior but has a potential for big problems if he steals food in the cafeteria at school, Jeremy said,
Family Support We Are Autism We Are Autism is a family-organized support group. “We have parents, grandparents, caregivers that can come and discuss what works, what doesn’t, how things are going for their kids,” said member Jean Winchell, who has a grandson on the autism spectrum. Open to all families with kids with autism spectrum disorder, the group has had families with kids from 2 years old to late teens. We Are Autism is planning to hold two family-oriented activities a month, Winchell said. We Are Autism partners with Quality Life Concepts to hold the annual Autism Awareness Fun Run, Walk and Stroller Roll to raise awareness of autism spectrum disorder and raise money for activities specifically tailored for children with autism and other developmental disabilities. This year’s event ran April 22, just after print deadline, so no figures were available for the number of participants or the amount raised. But the 2016 event brought in $5,000, said Winchell, coorganizer of the event. The funds went toward a two-day per week summer camp, swimming lessons, painting class, movies and gym activities. “We’re pretty creative, and we can really stretch a dollar,” said Jessie Fuzesy, autism specialist for QLC and event co-organizer. Winchell can be reached at 945-4892, Fuzesy at 265-2620, ext. 3.
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Havre Daily News File Photos 2016 Autism Awareness Run/Walk
Bullhook Community Health Center Jay Getten provides behavioral health counseling at Bullhook Community Health Center for children and adults on the autism spectrum. He said he works with kids and families on behavioral interventions and finding causes of behaviors. He added that he thinks one the important aspects of his counseling practice is working with family to help them find ways to deal with the stresses that come with a family member on the autism spectrum. “Children on the spectrum can go on to accomplish great things,” he said, “but sometimes it’s kind of a difficult thing for parents to come to terms with because there are challenges kids on the spectrum face growing up, even if they are higher functioning on the spectrum.”
Quality Life Concepts QLC is a home-based service which provides caseworkers who go into homes to help families of children with developmental disabilities, including autism, work within natural routines of life at home to help children meet developmental goals, Fuzesy said. Sometimes the caseworker will go to a therapy session with the family to better understand the therapy to be implemented, she added. “Parents are the best teachers of their children, and a 30-minute therapy session once a week or once a month, there’s not much that’s going to happen during that therapy session. The change is going to happen at home,” Fuzesy said. The Havre QLC is a branch of QLC in Great Falls and covers a region from Dodson to Chester. This is an entitlement program for infants and toddlers under 3 years old, so they are automatically accepted, and for children 3 and older, QLC has both home- and community-based programs to help families, Fuzesy said, adding that the program currently has a waiting list based on a priority score for eligible children over 3 years old. Last year, with $5,000 raised in an autism awareness fun run/walk, QLC was able to coordinate a number of activities — swimming, summer camp, movies at the theater, painting class and gym activities — for children on the autism spectrum as well as children with other developmental disabilities. Fuzesy said some activities require extensive preparation time to work out the logistics to accommodate the wide variety of needs. The summer camp, held at the District 4 HRDC Building for kids two days a week when school is out, is one of those activities. “A lot of times kids that have more intense needs, they get really acclimated to school and transitions and schedules, and when summer shows up it’s really difficult for them not having that structure, so we try to provide something,” Fuzesy said. They started meeting in April to plan the logistics of making the activities work, Fuzesy said, such as when they know an activity will make a loud child excited, staff can plan ahead to have a sound sensitive child in another area of the facility. “Like anything, those first couple weeks can be a little rough, but the main point is that the kids are having fun and that they’re learning something new,” Fuzesy said. The swimming program, which QLC is working to expand, is specifically important to children on the autism spectrum, Fuzesy said, because drowning is the number one cause of death for these children. One of the few characteristics that appears across the autism spectrum is that they are generally drawn to water, she said, but the children don’t understand the safety issues. Last year QLC worked with city Director of Parks and Recreation Chris Inman and the lifeguards at the Havre Community Pool to develop a swimming program for children with autism, Fuzesy said. QLC staff met with the pool staff to share resources and discuss autism-specific issues to ensure safety and a productive educational experience. Parents who think they might be noticing developmental delays in their child and are in need of guidance can call Jessie Fuzesy or Tina Thomas at QLC, 265-2620.
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adding that Henry doesn’t see the difference between at home and in public. That means, though Henry’s family, including his two younger siblings and his grandparents, don’t mind if he takes food from their plates, they have to think about the future and what his actions would mean in different stages of his life, his dad said. Even graduating from only eating chicken nuggets at every meal to loving the spicy burn of chicken hot wings has to be weighed as a possible indicator of future actions, Jeremy said. “Does that mean he will be seeking out extremes as a teen?” he asked. Functioning adults with autism might still have to work to deal with issues that might not bother others, said Jay Getten, behavioral health counselor at Bullhook Community
Health Center, who works with kids and families on behavioral interventions, such as picture schedules and figuring out causes of behaviors. Adults on the spectrum continue to work on social skills such as understanding visual cues, including facial expressions and body language, and subtle innuendos or reading between the lines, he said. This can include irony or sarcasm or some jokes. And sometimes people on the spectrum take things very literally, Getten added. Changes also can be hard, Getten said, and routines can be crucial. Henry rides the bus to school in the morning and goes to his grandparents Swede and Linda Malley’s house with his sister Abigail, 5, and brother Samuel, 3, after school gets out. Even getting a ride to school from his mom or dad will likely start his day wrong, Jeremy said.
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Oftentimes, parents are seeing that children are not meeting developmental milestones, Getten said, in language or physical development, walking or fine motor movement. The children are rigid about or upset with changes, or they have attractions to patterns, such as lining things up and getting upset if that’s disrupted, they have sensory issues such as to textures, or they self-stimulate with flapping or rocking. “Everybody with autism is different. That’s part of the problem,” said Jean Winchell with We Are Autism, a support group in Havre for families with children on the autism spectrum. This is illustrated by a saying in the autism community: “If you’ve met one person with autism, you’ve met one person with autism.” The biggest key in helping the children is early intervention, ex-
It is really, really, really remarkable how well QLC, Head Start and the school system work together.
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Jeremy Malley Henry’s Dad
perts agree. Quality Life Concepts is available to all children from birth to 3 years old with any type of developmental disability, said Jessie Fuzesy, autism specialist with QLC. Head Start also has resources for children on the autism spectrum, who most often show signs of the disorder by age 3, and this is where Henry got many of his first therapies. “Henry was enrolled within about two weeks from the time that we had the diagnosis and realized what was going on,” Jeremy said. “... He had an IEP in place, and he began receiving some of the therapy he needed. He was receiving more of the interaction with children that he needed. He was receiving, through Head Start, speech therapy and also working on occupational and physical therapy.” Before enrolling in Head Start, Henry and the Malleys had been accepted into the Quality Life Concepts program because Henry was still younger 3 years old at the time. His QLC caseworker, Fuzesy, has stayed with him through the years, Jeremy said. “It is really, really, really remarkable how well QLC, Head Start and the school system work together,” Jeremy said. “When you enter those meetings, you really don’t know who — unless you know them — who’s working for who. They’re all working together, pulling in the same direction, to take care of the kids. It’s really remarkable, and I’ve read horror stories on the internet about people who have had awful experiences. That is not the case in Havre, Montana.” “Havre public schools has very good resources for the kids,” said Winchell, who has a grandson on the autism spectrum. “They have people that work with them with special education. They’ve got their reading program for any kid that may be identified as needing help with reading. I know that they have paraprofessionals sometimes assigned one-on-one with the child
so they really, I think, provide great services for the kids.” Fuzesy said that even with all the growth she sees in the children from work with therapists, family and programs through QLC, school is a key part of the success. “School is definitely extremely helpful for families with kids with autism,” she added. “We see extreme growth when they start school.” The children are, as much as possible, integrated into the regular classrooms, then pulled out for special services they might need such as speech therapy and reading. This focus on getting children with autism in the classroom is a lot different from 20 to 30 years ago when he was in school, Jeremy said, and this, he thinks, is a good thing — to help people learn to be more accepting and to help the children with autism grow socially. “These kids want to have those same childhood experiences. They just can’t always express it and then need to be pushed into it,” Jeremy said, adding that he sees the need to include children like his son in everyday life despite complications. “He’s not always going to like everything, but he needs to
experience things to find out what he does like.” Providing services for children on the autism spectrum can be costly to communities and state and federal budgets — Henry usually has a paraprofessional with him at school to help him with lessons, take him to different classrooms and help keep him from being disruptive in class — but there is the potential for pay off, Jeremy said. “In the long run, it’s going to be a huge cost savings if you’re not having to support my 30-year-old kid,” he said. Still, for rural areas such as seen around north-central Montana and other parts of the state, the numbers don’t add up for providing some specialists and services like cities can offer, said Getten, and that can be frustrating for families and those working with them. When Getten moved back to Havre from Salt Lake City he taught special education in Chinook schools and, like in Havre, had access to quality speech therapists, but that was the limit, he said. “I would’ve given anything to have an occupational therapist, literally anything. Occupational therapy is such a crucial service for children on the spectrum,” he said.
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While some rural families do have access to QLC services, many families rely on their own work and resources to help their children with autism, Winchell said. “A lot of people in rural areas — and we’re all kind of rural, but certainly there are people and places that are more rural — have more challenges because, frankly, a real small school district isn’t going to have access to the kinds of numbers of paraprofessionals or speech therapists and special ed and psychologists available to that one school where a large school does have access to that,” she said. But, she added, she has seen families find success, with determination to learn and access to resources, even the internet. Some of the biggest changes in treatment in recent years is technology, said Getten, who counsels many families with children and adults with autism. Smart phones, tablets and iPods provide visual language assistance tools for autistic children, who most often struggle to communicate. “In the past we’d use pictures as a supplement and there’s programs like Picture Exchange Communication System and that was a really effective (visual aid) tool working with children who have language delays, either expressive or recep-
tive,” Getten said. “And with all this smart tech it’s pretty amazing how (children) are able to get their needs met because the pictures are built within the tablet, or the device, or the phone, or what not. They have an impressive Rolodex of pictures they can choose from.” Smart phones can also be set up with visual timers that help those with autism know what activity comes next with a visual cue triggered with the timer. These visuals are “absolutely crucial” for most people on the autism spectrum, Getten said, even for high-functioning adults who can get frustrated trying to express more complex thoughts. Jeremy said he and Lee Ann research autism all the time. “You want to blow a couple weeks of time, look at autism treatment on the internet,” he said. But, he added, it’s crucial to remain circumspect about the research. “I can’t imagine what it would be like to be an 18-year-old having a child with autism, let alone a skeptical 41-year-old that’s willing to call BS on most anything.” Jeremy said one of his litmus tests when considering treatments for Henry is that it has to be something he would do or take himself. And said he has. He called the family’s life with
Henry an interesting journey — learning about autism, learning about Henry and learning what Henry has to teach people in his life. “You have that little heart-toheart with God, too, and I’d be lying if I didn’t say I did — where it’s like ‘why didn’t you do this to me, and not my kid’ because we all want all our kids to be that allAmerican kid,” he said. At Henry’s school orientation last fall, Jeremy said, one of his classmates came up and said “hi” and gave him a hug. “For a kid that doesn’t talk, he makes friends real well,” Jeremy said, also admitting that he got a little choked up over the interaction between the two boys. “There has to be a shift in your mind set of what’s going to be success for your child. Instead of throwing the winning touchdown maybe he manages to go and sit through a football game and that’s going to be my success, that’s going to be our success, what we work towards,” he said. “So it changes what you consider success to be, and you have to change because if you keep those expectations you end up with a lot of resentment.”
Autism Resources • What to do after receiving an autism spectrum disorder diagnosis https://www.autismspeaks.org/family-services/tool-kits/100-day-kit • Development milestones and signs of autism, including Milestones in Action, a free library of photos and videos of children showing developmental milestones. https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/actearly • The Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers a two-stage parent-report screening tool to assess risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder https://m-chat.org • General information and resources https://www.autismspeaks.org
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