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COMMERCIAL LISTINGS Commercial Lots Commercial lots located in Havre with US HW 2 and 15th Avenue access. Possible owner financing! 1135 11th St. Large family home has 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, laundry on main floor. 2 non-conforming bedrooms/1 bath on lower level and media room on 2nd floor. Updated flooring and countertops. Motivated seller offers home warranty! Loads of storage and parking! Lone Tree Cattle Company Working ranch, 10,500+ acres deeded acres. Several homes, working corrals and outbuildings. Good water development, phenomenal hunting! 3401 13th Street West 5-bed/3-bath home, oversized 2 car attached garage and separate shop building on 1 acre.
606 1st West ~ Arctic Circle For Sale or Rent. Seat in dining or drive through. Great restaurant prospects or conversion to other use.
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.
1185 Oak Dr. 3 bed/2 bath home, 2 car garage, ready to move into with large rooms, underground sprinklers, close to high school. 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.
1019 Grant Ave. 3 bed/2 bath, updated throughout, large lot, great location, off-street parking. 1186 17th St. 4-bed/2bath, newer siding, roof and appliances, new deck with great views of the Bears Paw!
424 Illinois St. Chinook 2 bed/1 bath home with full basement and nice sized lot.
Commercial Property in Sunburst
531 17th St. Apartment complex and carwash. (4) 2-bedroom and (2)1-bedroom apartments, 2 carwash bays. Good opportunity for investor!
6,300 sq.ft shop with office; insulated & completely finished on .321 acres with city utilities. 4 large overhead doors, all with electric openers. Equipment invcluded: (1) 2-post autolift, air compressor, piped throughout shop, restroom with shower, washer/dryer hookups!
4 Lila Drive ~ $199,000 4 bedroom/2 bathrooms, full basement, 1-car garage in quiet cul-de-sac. Commercial Building Good rental history with 2 offices. Call Cindy to schedule showing!
120 2nd St. NE, Rudyard 2 bed/1 bath home, bonus room, laundry & storage in basement, heated 2-car garage. "Looking to be your own boss? Call on our Business Listings today!"
LAND LISTINGS We have qualified buyers for farm and ranch properties.
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.
705 5th Ave. 10-plex apartment building, centrally located with a strong rental history.
Siesta Motel
23-unit motel, Hwy 2 frontage, good off-street parking. Long-term successful business.
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Though beading is considered a traditional Native American craft, this practical art form remains contemporary as successive generations of beaders add influences from their own time. “Younger generations are go-
ing to put their own ideas out, just
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like the generation before us did, exactly like the generation before them and before them and so on, and we always evolve,” John Murie, beader and art instructor at Stone Child College, said. “We’re always evolving into something more, depending on the materials that we have to use … just like anything evolves.” Though he works full-time at Stone Child, including teaching two
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beading classes each year, Murie spends his free time making and beading moccasins. Murie started beading when he was a young man on Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation, dancing competitively at powwows around the country. He said he was too impatient to wait for someone else to make what he wanted, so he learned how to bead from his grandmother, aunties and mother.
“I’ve been doing it quite a while now, so that I kind of know what the beads are going to do.” he said. “That’s really what an experienced beader will know is what exactly the beads are going to let you do and what your limitations are as far as what you want to do with each stitch. If I’m going to use a lazy stitch, then I’m going to be doing some different designs and patterns than if I’m using the flat stitch.” For the lazy stitch, beaders sew up to eight in a string in one stitch, run the needle back to the start and stitch the next row of beads, he said. This is the stitch Murie used to bead the moccasins pictured on page 6. The flat stitch starts out similarly, though more beads can be strung on the thread, then, using a second needle and thread and working from the back side, every second or third bead is tacked down. The flat stitch looks tidy and makes nice curved shapes, he said. Murie, who mostly works on custom orders, said he uses a tracing of the customer’s feet to start the moccasin pattern, which he cuts from a traditional smoked braintanned hide, and then he stitches the beads directly onto the moccasins. He added that he uses this traditional leather specifically because it’s easy to get a needle through, as well as comfortable and durable. But some beaders, such as Elonda Longfox of Havre, will use more modern materials for a beading surface.
Longfox, who for two years has taught a oneweek beading class for Native American Heritage week at Montana State University-Northern, said she draws her designs onto a graph paper and sews that onto a heavy material, such as a heavy felt or canvas backed with heavy brown paper. After she has stitched the beads onto the material following the pattern, she pulls any visible pieces of graph paper off. This is similar to the paper-piecing technique used in quilt making. The resulting beaded work is lined with a finish backing and/or sewn onto an item, whether it’s a hair clip, moccasins, barrettes, earrings, a dress or more. Longfox, who first
learned beading from her grandmother who raised her on Rocky Boy, said she’s always pushing herself to learn more and expand her repertoire of stitches and materials. “First she started me stringing the beads, then she taught me how to lazy stitch,” she said. “If you didn’t do it right, she’d rip it apart and tell you to do it all over again,” she said, with a laugh. “That’s why I get along with the grumpy grandmas.” She said she uses some traditional beadwork materials like porcupine quills and dentalium, which is a white, tusk-shaped mollusk shell, 1/2” to 3” long that can be cut down and shaped. But, she said, she likes the bling of crystals,
rhinestones, glass beads and bright colors, including home-dying porcupine quills with Rit fabric dye. “The girls love the neon colors,” she said. “Oh my god, the young girls love the bright colors.” Longfox joked about being an “urban Indian,” who prefers to leave tasks such as harvesting porcupine quills and tanning hides to others so she can concentrate on “all the pretty work.” She keeps everything she finds of her grandmothers’ work, makes sure that her daughter is learning to bead and shares techniques with fellow beaders. She said she aspires to one day have the skill create a masterpiece like those of her aunt and other teacher Orvilla Longfox, who makes museum-quality, traditionally made regalia. Elonda Longfox said she recently started learning to make moccasins and sew the zigzag stitch, which uses flattened porcupine quills. The quills are dampened with a wet washcloth, she said, and once they are soft, scraped flat with a fingernail. “It takes a long time,” she said. Once the quills are flattened they are sewn in a zigzag pattern. The first stitch with needle and thread, she said, tacks down the end of the quill. At each point where the quill turns back, the thread, sewn from the back of the fabric, tacks down the quill to the fabric, she said. Longfox showed a project with two zigzag
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designs, one successful and the other she said would have to be torn out, according to her grandmother’s standards. That drive for improvement is something that also motivates Cheryl Morales, a Gros Ventre from Fort Belknap Indian Reservation. Morales first learned to bead as a little girl from a friend’s mother, Juanita Tucker, whom everyone called Grandma Tucker. Tucker made beaded goods for sale and she taught the neighborhood kids to bead, letting them sell anything they made, Morales said. “Just knowing we could make it with her and her knowledge of teaching — ’cause she knew how to make the high-top moccasins, she knew how to make a lot of the traditional items like elk-tooth baskets, bark baskets, shawls,” she said, “... just learning that from her was like the highlight of my time being over at her house.” When she had children of her own, Morales said, they wanted to dance at powwows, but since she had four girls she decided doing her own beading would be the only way to afford it all. The problem was, she said, she looked around
and realized they were losing the grandmas who knew the traditional stitches and patterns, so she started researching to help expand on what she had learned as a kid. “It was a learning experience,” she said, but eventually she got good enough that others bought her work. Before Europeans brought glass beads to trade with tribes, Morales said, Native Americans used what they found, including quills, dentalium shells, deer hooves, special elk teeth called ivories, and cowry shells. The Gros Ventre traded with coastal tribes for the shells, Morales said. Flashy beads and florescent colors have been popular on the powwow circuits for quite a while, but Morales said some Native Americans are starting to look for the antique glass beads the Europeans originally traded, making something old new again. Morales, who is the USDA Extension 4-H coordinator at Aaniiih Nakoda College, said she often looks at old traditional designs and reworks them to popular contemporary looks, “blingy, eye-catching designs,” with sparkling beads and rhinestones.
Unlike the easily recognizable southwestern designs or the bold, geometric patterns of the Crow tribe, the Gros Ventre designs tended toward organic subject matter, such as flowers, feathers, plants, horses and mountains with a petroglyphtype style. The modern twist, aside from the vibrant colors and sparkly additions, is to create a gradation of color more sophisticated than the basic traditional designs, Morales said. This is largely made possible by the vast types and colors of beads available to modern beaders. She said she primarily uses the flat stitch and some lazy stitch and tacking with her designs, but she also knows the peyote stitch which is more difficult. Used mostly on round or cylindrical items, the
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peyote stitch requires the beader to think about two rows at a times, Morales said. The peyote stitch creates a structure similar to how the bricks of a wall are offset by half a bricklength each row. To add to the complication, the thread is woven through beads in both rows to keep them tied together. “I can do peyote stitch, but I’m not like them,” she said about those who have perfected the stitch. “… You’ve got to calculate and you’ve got to know (how to keep track of the pattern).” Morales said that even after 30 years of experience and sales she doesn’t consider herself an expert. “We’ve got some very creative people out there,” she said. “Their work is amazing – beautiful, just beautiful.”
Where to find BEADWORK Beautiful beadwork from the area is on display and for sale locally, along with beading supplies. The Louis and Antoinette Hagener Museum of the Northern Montana Plains Indian at MSUNorthern has a significant collection of beaded items, including various regalia and horse tack. One display features the regalia and medals of Gilbert Horn Sr., the last Assiniboine chief, whose Native name is Hunga Shunk Ta Obi Kni translates to “Bring Home the Prisoner Horse.” Horn was a Code Talker with Merrill’s Maraud-
ers during World War II and was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. Stone Child College on Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation and Aaniiih Nakoda College along with Blaine County Museum in Chinook and the H. Earl Clack Memorial Museum in Havre have further displays of Native American beadwork and artifacts. Stores like Big Sky Images and Collectibles in the Holiday Village Mall and most of the pawn shops have beadwork for sale, much of it local. Big Sky and R-New Trading Post, along with Ben Franklin,
sell beads, threads, waxes, needles and other materials. Sundogs at 48 Second Ave. in Havre sells commercial quality beadwork from local beaders, along with their other merchandise. The beadwork comes in all styles from traditional to modern on everything from jewelry to hat bands and stethoscopes. “There are really no limits to what is being created,” Sundogs owner Margaret Standing Bear said about contemporary beadwork. “Some of my vendors have the mindset, ‘if it sits still long enough, it will get beaded.’”
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1104 6th St. - $195,000
Very clean and well kept 5 bedroom 2 bath home. Large 2 stall garage also offers additional shop space behind and storage on the side.
40 Ridge Road. - $279,000
Great 4 bedroom 2 1/2 bath home sitting on .5 acres. Huge fenced yard with a deck wrapping around half the house. New siding, roof & gutters. Main level laundry.
413 3rd Ave. - $149,000
This historic home is a must see! Beautiful 5 bedroom, 2 bath, very tall ceilings, with beautiful original wood work.
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1105 8th St. - $475,000
Amazing 5 bedroom, 3.5 bath home with 40x56 shop! Custom built home with large master suite including bath and closet. Open floor plan, central vac, theater room , pool table, bar, wine closet, and office. Home and shop is all customer wired for network and tv. Shop has floor heat with rv patio, indoor bathroom, utility sink, and custom storage closets. There is absolutely no shop like this in town!
1335 12th Ave. - $365,000
415 3rd Ave. Havre - $89,000
This 2 bed, 1 bath home is located in the downtown area, has beautiful wood trim throughout the house, and a small rental house in the back.
112 8th St. - $162,500
This beautiful 4 bed, 2 bath home is ready for you to make it your forever home! There are two large bonus rooms, as well as a nice deck/patio. This home is a must see!
Large spacious home with one 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.
1033 5th Ave. - $190,000
This beautiful historic home has had several updates including new roof, windows, and electrical. The entire exterior was just painted in August.
12 Lila Dr. - $269,000
1648 10th St. W - $280,000
717 3rd St. - $139,000
Perfectly maintained home near school and grocery store. This home has been meticulously cared for by the current owner for over 40 yrs! Updates include new roof, gutters, gas line to garage, and insulation of garage. Interior of the home has 2 bedrooms and 1 bath on the main floor with an adequate kitchen and nice sized dining area. Basemen is very clean and dry with one non conforming bedroom, laundry, utilities, and half bath.
This 5 bed, 3 bath home is a must see. Open concept living area, kitchen and dining room. New Windows and roof. Situated on private 1/3 acre lot. Enclosed Hot tub area, and private backyard deck!
510 2nd Ave. - Gildford $45,000
1001 16th St. - $162,500
1107 7th Ave. - $199,000
4 bedroom, 2 bathroom home with additional non conforming room/office. Updated bathrooms and downstairs bedroom.
901 2nd Ave. - $170,000
3+ bedroom home near the college with private fenced back yard. Breezeway between the house and garage offers great additional seating area or storage
Beautifully updated 4 bedroom house that is move in ready. Quiet neighborhood with a great view of the Bears Paw Mountains right out the back door.
This 5 bedroom, 2 bath home is in great location across from a park and near the high school. This property has a nice oversized carport with a storage shed and private fenced backyard.
220 1st St. W, Kremlin - $65,000
552 5th St. N - $89,900
928 2nd St. - $115,000
3 bed, 1 bath home on spacious lot. Double car garage with heater.
This commercial building/lot is a must see, great office building, with lots of history and curb appeal. Has bathroom, built in/walk in vault original to the building and functional.
2 bed, 1 bath home with detached single car garage. Fenced, private yard. New flooring and roof. Awesome income property with low fixed expenses.
Home ready for renovation to be finished. main level demolition and reconstruction has been done and new windows and doors on the main level. New roof, Updated electrical, wood for hardwood floors comes with the property, just needs to be installed. Great fixer upper situated on half an acre, very private yard. Nice sized shop. This canvas home is ready for your finishing touches.
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Bad Lands Car Wash 413 2nd Street ~ $149,900
Downtown car wash, building & car wash on 2 downtown city lots. This is a nice little cash cow.
45 Saddle Butte Drive ~ $249,000
5230 Bullhook Road ~ $245,000 Hard to Find Ranchett
This 11 acre ranchett offers a 3 bedroom, 2 bath home, with large garage/shop, barn, corrals, and fenced acreage with Bullhook Creek. There is also a site for RV or Trailer hookup.
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.
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1918 1st St. ~ $475,000
This lovely 21+- Acre Ranchett has a huge riding arena with a spacious 8 stalled finished barn, hay barn, large shop with work area. Complete with 3 bedroom, 2 bath home recently updated.
929 2nd Street ~ $99,000
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Newly remodeled 3 bedroom home with alley access to large garage. This one won’t last.
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1210 14th St. W ~ $188,000
This beautiful split level home boasts 5 bedrooms and 2 baths in a nice quite area. New roof & gutters, new flooring and paint. With a walk out basement, gas fireplace, underground sprinklers and a gorgeous paver block driveway.
A very well maintained South Shulund ADD home, has a little different layout then the other Shulund homes & great fenced backyard with nice shade tress. With a new electrical panel Inside & out. All new carpet recently installed on the main floor!
619 1st St. - Box Cars Casino ~ $395,000
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.
1+- Acre Lot m/l 531 5th Avenue N ~ Asking Price $25,000 ~
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536 New York Street ~ $108,000
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.
1305 Ikea Dr. ~ $149,000
This well kept home is a great bargain on a large corner lot bordering Slauten Center & NMSU.
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726 6th Ave. Completely remodeled historic home with all of the character of an older home but all new on the inside! Single garage in the front of the home and a 3 stall fully finished and insulated garage in the back. Fully fenced in back yard with a patio and a deck. Underground sprinklers throughout the yard.
1265 12th Ave. Craftsmans home in glo ed subdivision. 4 bedroom 2 bath with cozy living room and downstairs family room. Attached double garage and huge outdoor patio for entertaining.
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STORY BY PAM BURKE
While the local housing market and economy are not likely to provide much opportunity to make a killing flipping a home, done right, this type of project should provide a comfortable profit. Havre’s economy, said Jim Anderson of Northern Land and Realty Co., doesn’t have extreme economic highs like some areas of the state, such as the Flathead Valley or the Bozeman area, but the plus side of that is that we don’t have extreme lows either, so real estate investors have less chance of losing money on this type of project. The key, really, Anderson said, is to find a house with enough significant cosmetic issues that the seller has the price low, but not so many issues that the house becomes the proverbial money pit.
Another key for a quick flip is to stay in a price range that has a high number of buyers. The average home in Havre costs around $137,000, Anderson said, so if you try to flip a much higher priced home, for maybe $230,000 or $250,000, you will significantly lean down the number of prospective buyers available. If, on the other hand, you flip a more modest home, that sells at $180,000 or $200,000, odds are you can still make decent money, provide some necessary housing and move on to the next project, he added. Local couple Kathy and Tony Vigliotti purchased a home in September 2016 with the intention of fixing it up and reselling it. The house sold in August this year. Part of their motivation behind the purchase was sentimental, Kathy Vigliotti said — her aunt had lived in the house until a few years earlier — but they went into the project with the intention that this would be a money-making prospect.
Vigliotti said they could have turned the house around quicker, but they didn’t want to rush the remodel, and they wound up making a decent profit anyway. If you are borrowing money but aren’t going to be living in the house, Anderson recommended you aim for a six-month turnaround or the payments will start cutting into your profits. However, he added, it’s more important that the remodel be finished before listing the house.
Tips on flipping a house 1. Develop a business or marketing plan. The project will be a considerable investment of time, labor and materials, Anderson said, so people should go into it with a clear idea of what they expect to invest and what they need to get out of it. Part of that business plan will be to determine if the house will be a second house that is a work project, or if the house will become your primary place of residence. 2. Before you buy anything,
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even if you have experience building or flipping, get a team of experts in place. Talk to your local lender if you need to borrow money; an insurer; a contractor; an electrician; a plumber; and a heating/air conditioning expert. • Whether or not you can get money from your bank will likely make or break the project so it’s best to know that right away. Interest rates on borrowed money will affect total expenses, and the type of loan you get may affect other factors, such as when you sell or construction criteria for the finished home. • Insurance on the house will be different depending on whether you live in the home or are working on it, Anderson said. Will it cover either situation? Will it cover a home with old knob and tube wiring or the T-lock style shingle? Answers to these questions will determine initial investment costs. • Having an experienced contractor on board is important from the point you start looking at prospects to flip, Anderson said. A contractor can help evaluate the structural integrity of the house, starting with the foundation. If it’s too bad or questionable the contractor might recommend consulting an engineer or other specialists. Though they may be covered with plaster, walls and ceilings should be examined for soundness, damage, straightness. Are there problems with the roof like sagging or evidence of longterm leaks causing damage? • Have the electrician look at the quality of wiring. Is it the old style knob and tube wiring? Does the house have a service panel with a disconnect on the outside, Anderson said, and is the amperage adequate for modern technological needs? • A check of the plumbing should include not only the condition of the plumbing in the house but also the sewer lines, which can be examined with a camera for little expense, Anderson said. • Check the age and the con-
Bathroom
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After Before/After photos courtesy of Tony and Kathy Vigliotti of Havre
The Vigliottis documented their progress remodeling a house they flipped in about 11 months. They hired contractors for major work that included completely refurbishing the bathroom and kitchen, but they did as much work themselves as they could to save on labor costs.
dition of the furnace. An older furnace or a faulty one will add a significant cost to the remodel, he added. Ask yourself what you would have to do to add value to the home, he said.
3. Location doesn’t necessarily mean what you think it does. Location doesn’t just mean a “good neighborhood,” sometimes it simply means that the house stands out in a positive way on that block. If it’s a row of small homes on small
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lots but the house you’re looking at has a little bigger lawn or is a little bigger house, that will have appeal to buyers, Anderson said. Vigliotti said that one of the deciding factors to buying the home they flipped was that the house had a huge yard and a garage. Once they listed it, she added, it sold quickly. Distance to schools, usually a big selling factor, doesn’t mean that much in Havre now that local grade schools switched to putting all the kids in each grade together in one school, Anderson said. On the other hand, houses within walking distance of Montana State UniversityNorthern sell well, as do south-end homes and those on tree-lined streets, he said. Another location to consider is something within walking distance of downtown, especially if the house is suitable or could be made suitable for the elderly. The demographics of Havre is aging, Anderson said. Also, Anderson recommended not just driving through a neighborhood to see if homes are kept up or not, but rather, get out and talk to people who live there. “It’s easy to change the general trend of a neighborhood by a couple people coming in and having different sets of desire to maintain,” he said. But it’s also not going to pay off to try to buck those neighborhood-specific trends too much. “You can over-improve for a neighborhood, so
House
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After you just need to make sure that when you invest — put your time, labor and materials into it — that you’re going to be able to sell if for what you originally thought,” Anderson said. “That’s not necessarily talking bad about a neighborhood, but you can have more house than the rest of them and that brings your value down.” 4. Do not forget the tax aspect. One more person Anderson and Vigliotti recommended to have on your team is a tax consultant, and you
should talk to that person before buying a house to flip. Curt Barnekoff, CPA and partner at Wipfli, said two years can make a difference in how you deal with the taxes. If you buy the house only to remodel and flip, or if you buy it to live in while remodeling, and you sell the house in less than two years after purchase, you then owe state and federal income taxes as well as Social Security or self-employment taxes, Barnekoff said. In that scenario, house
flipping has turned into a business whether you intended it or not. The good news, though, is that taxes are only paid on the profits. “What people need to do, and what they need to be really careful to do when they’re in the business of flipping, is they definitely want to try to capture every dollar of cost that they’ve got invested into the deal,” he said. “You don’t want to pay taxes on more than you have to.” That means you save n continued on page 23
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7270 10th St W~$339,000
1323 36th Ave. W ~ $345,000
Gorgeous, updated 3+ bedroom trilevel country home on 1 acre. Large open kitchen with granite counter tops/living area with custom built-ins, 2 fireplaces, wet bar and great deck. Fenced backyard, double garage and awesome views.
Large 3 bedroom, 2 1/2 bath single level home on +/- 1 Acre West of Havre. Gas fireplace, large deck for entertaining, attached double garage plus a 32' x 66' shop.
Call Janis Flynn Pyrak @ 390-4900
Call Janis Flynn Pyrak @ 390-4900
1402 8th Ave. ~ $169,000
6907 43rd St. W. ~ $279,000
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
Large 5 bdrm, 2 bath home on nearly 1 acre located West of Havre. Open kitchen, fenced back yard, attached double garage with garage with large parking pad and detached double garage.
Call Janis Flynn Pyrak @ 390-4900
9 Cypress Drive ~ $269,000
South end, 6 bedroom, 3 bath home with master suite, on main floor with 3 nonconforming bedrooms in daylight basement with large family room with fireplace and steam shower. Great view & landscaping, fenced backyard & double garage.
4 bedroom, 3 bath home with fenced backyard, underground sprinklers & attached single garage.
Call Gary Toldness @ 390-3155
Call Janis Flynn Pyrak @ 265-7845
3155 9th St. E. ~ $399,000
60' x 90' Shop on 2 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 @ 390-4900
1104 Cleveland Ave. ~ $154,000
605 13th St. W.~ $198,000
Large 5 bdrm, 3 bath split level home near the hospital, HP school and MSU. Rock fireplace, enclosed sun room, private fenced backyard, double attached garage & RV Parking.
Call Janis Flynn Pyrak @ 390-4900
Shop For Sale ~ $89,000
67 Beaver Creek Blvd. ~ $169,000
Cute 2+2 bedroom home with 1 1/2 bathsLarge yard, oversize double detached garage with lots of room to park toys end vehicles. Home has nature wood floors with carpets on main floor.
Updated 4 bedroom, 2 bath older style home. Fencedbackyard, healed double garage, 2 1/2 lots that sit on a corner with abundance of parking. Possible mother-inlaw apartment in basement. Move in ready!
Call Janis Flynn Pyrak @ 390-4900
Call Janis Flynn Pyrak @ 390-4900
2 Bay Shop. HWY 2 Frontage. East end of Havre.
Call Ken Nelson @ 406-439-0595 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
1176 17th Street ~ $164,900
Call Janis Flynn Pyrak @ 390-4900
Cute 3 bedroom, 1 1/2 home in Inverness, MT. Hardwood floors, gas fireplace and 2 car garage.
38 6th St. ~ $139,000
Joplin Bar ~ $210,000
Call Janis Flynn Pyrak @ 390-4900
Call Janis Flynn Pyrak @ 390-4900
Call Ken Nelson @ 406-439-0595 or
Land for Sale
1016 19th St. ~ $169,000
Call Janis Flynn Pyrak @ 390-4900
Call Ken Nelson @ 439-0595
+/- 640 Acre Farmland N. Joplin, MT ~ All Farmed +/- 640 Acre Farmland S. Inverness, MT ~ All CRP
Call Derek Fraser 262-4603
4 bedroom, 2 bath home-South End location near High School & Heritage Addition. Large, private fenced back yard, single tuck under garage, and walk out patio.
Nicely remodeled Bar with full liquor license and 6 rental units. Busy location at crossroads of I-14 and Hwy 2.
Acreage For Sale
1419 3rd St. ~ $129,000
Nice 2 bedroom, 1 1/4 bath home with 2 stall shop and lots of storage space. Inlcudes all appliances and is move in ready.
Call Janis Flynn Pyrak @ 390-4900
323 Main St. Chester ~ $149,900
2 bedroom, 2 bath home located close to the school. Attached single garage.
618 6th Street ~ $149,000
Charming 3 bdrm, 1 ½ bath home-newly painted main floor w/hardwood flooring. Backyard patio area w/lots of perennials & raspberries. New sewer, roof & siding. Includes A/C. Single detached garage. Walking distance to downtown & parks.
Oil City Saloon 132-134 W. Dawson Shelby, MT ~ $145,000
Call Ken Nelson @ 406-439-0595
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.
Casino-Food-Lounge! Nice small town business in the Hi-Line farming town of Joplin, MT. Located halfway between Havre and Shelby. Includes full Liquor License & large dining area for restaurant use.
Call Ken Nelson @ 406-439-0595
515 1st Ave. W~Inverness, MT~ $64,000
Nice 4 bedroom, 2 bath home-South End location. Hardwood flooring, fireplace, deck off back yard, fenced back yard, single tuck under garage and great view.
106 Acres. Flood frigated. Hay land for sale. Located near Chinook, MT
Call Ken Nelson @ 406-439-0595
13.26 +/- Acres near Saddle Butte. Gas, electric & telephone lines in road right of way adjacent to acreage. Water available. Great Views! Owner may consider sale of smaller portion.
Call Paul Kuka 265-7845
Building Lots For Sale
2 (+/-.36 Acre) City Lots for Sale in Glo Ed Area. City Water/Sewer to curb & electrical run into back of each lot. May be combined or sold separately. Lot #2~$37,000 • Lot #7~$39,000 Call Janis Flynn Pyrak @ 406-390-4900
@ 406-390-1509 have buyers for farmland in the Hi-Line Area! 18Larry | Martinson LIVING Havre and the Hi-Line MAGAZINE | NOVEMBERWe 2017
STORY BY CHRIS PETERSON
There is no shortage of great high school football stadiums in the state of Montana, but as just about anyone from Havre will tell you, there is no place, quite like Blue Pony Stadium. The stadium, which was opened back on Sept. 20, 1929, has been hosting high school and college
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football games for 88 years now. During that time, it has undergone some changes, such as renovations to the grandstands back in 2004, but for almost a century, it has proven to be one of the most unique venues in Montana. “There are a lot of really great stadiums out there,” HHS athletic director Dennis Murphy said, “but I think that our stadium is just unique. It has the two grandstands, but it also has four tiers of parking, so you can drive in and watch the game.
It makes for a great atmosphere, but it’s also really nice because it allows some elderly people a chance to watch the game when there is inclement weather, and just having the option to sit in the stands and watch the game or sit in your car is pretty unique. There are some other stadiums that have a little bit of that but not quite like ours does.” Certainly, the ability to drive in and watch a football game is one of the most interesting aspects of Blue Pony Stadium. For years, families
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have driven their cars into the stadium, not only to watch football but also to tailgate and bond with other members of the community. “I remember for years going up there and having chili with my dad,” former Havre High football standout Jeremy May said. “We used to have that spot for years right on the 50yard line.” While May watched a lot of games with his father, Bob May, growing up, he also played at Blue Pony Stadium in the early ’90s. He was an offensive guard and a linebacker, who was a three-year starter, for the Ponies. He also earned All-
State honors for his contributions on the field and was selected to play in the Shrine Game in 1994. May was a member of some really good Havre football teams, but he said his best memory as a player, came in 1991 when the Ponies played host to Colstrip in the Class A state playoffs at Blue Pony Stadium. “My favorite memory of playing on that field was back in 1991,” May said. “We played Colstrip in the first round of the playoffs, and I remember there wasn’t an empty seat. In fact, there were people sitting on the side of the hills watching. It was packed. It was also the loudest
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I have ever heard it.” Over the years, Blue Pony Stadium has seen a lot of significant football games, but none were more important than the 2004 state championship game between HHS and Billings Central. At the time, Havre, which has a total of six state titles to its credit, hadn’t won a state championship since 1970, despite making it to the championship game in 1971, 1994, 1997 and 2002. But that day against the Rams, the Ponies broke the streak, knocking off Billings Central on a bitter cold day, 34-21. “I have seen a lot of great plays
Jeremy May, former Blue Pony
and a lot of great players in that stadium,” Murphy said, “but one play I will always remember is the roughing the punter we had against Billings Central in the championship game and the long touchdown play we had after that. That kind of opened the floodgates for us.” With the score tied 21-21 in the 2004 championship game, Havre faced a fourth down, deep in its own territory, facing the prospect of giving Billings Central the football, in good field position, with just a few minutes left on the clock. However, the Rams roughed the Havre punter, so instead of getting the ball at the
Havre 35-yard line, the Ponies got it back, determined to take advantage of the new life the penalty had given them. And on the very next play, quarterback Gary Wagner connected with future NFL star Marc Mariani on an 84-yard touchdown pass that gave Havre a 28-21 lead with just over four minutes to play. “After we got the roughing the kicker call in the end zone,” Mariani said of the play years later. “(Coach Troy Purcell) comes out to our huddle and he doesn’t even call a play, he just says ‘throw a fade to Mariani.’ And Wags chucked it up
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there to me and it all worked out. It’s one of those moments that will always be special to me because they don’t come along too often. It’s when somebody gives you a chance to make a play in the biggest game of your life and it works out. That’s a moment I’ll remember for the rest of my life.” Later an interception by Tyler Wheeler and a touchdown run by Wagner sealed the win for the Ponies, along with their first state championship in football in 34 years. “I remember counting 284 cars in the stadium that day,” Murphy said. “And the stands were packed. There
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might have been even more cars parked in behind some of them, but I remember counting 284. So that just shows how many people were there that day.” Another historic game was back in 2002, when football was televised live from Blue Pony Stadium for the first time as the Ponies hosted Laurel. Havre went on to win that game 42-26, before losing the state championship game to the Locomotives, at Blue Pony Stadium, 21-19, later on that season. “That was another pretty special
anybody. “There were some other cool places to play. Anaconda kind of had it down in a valley and that was pretty cool,” May said. “But there is nothing like Blue Pony Stadium. When you are running down the field or making a big play and you hear all the cars, honking their horns, it gets pretty loud and it gets you pretty pumped up. There is just something pretty special about playing a game in that stadium. I don’t think there is any other place that really compares to it.”
It’s when somebody gives you a chance to make a play in the biggest game of your life and it works out. That’s a moment I’ll remember for the rest of my life. Marc Mariani Former Blue Pony
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night,” Murphy said. “And the broadcasters did a great job with it. It’s too bad they don’t do that anymore like they used to because that was pretty neat to see. But we beat a good Laurel team that night and unfortunately, were unable to beat them later in the year in the championship game.” There is no question that, when it comes to being unique, Blue Pony Stadium has a lot of others beat and May, who has seen his fair share of games from the stands and the field, would know that better than
n continued from page 17 and track every receipt from beginning to end, including vehicle expenses and uses. For light pickups and cars he recommends tracking mileage, which is at 53.5 cents per mile right now. Or you could track actual expenses, which Barnekoff said might be more feasible for a large truck. For the Vigliottis this means they will get reimbursed mileage for the 20 trips they made to the dump, along with trips to get supplies. On the other hand, they do not get to claim the 308 hours of labor they put in doing some of the work themselves. People can cut down on other taxes owed as well. Barnekoff said he has counseled people who flip homes on a regular basis to set up a business to help filter some of the Social Security tax burden. Another approach to dealing with taxes, Barnekoff said, is to live in the house as your primary residence while you work on it. If you own the house and it is your residence for two out of five years before the sale, then it is considered a sale of a personal residence which is nontaxable up to $500,000 profit for a married couple and $250,000 for a single person, he said. “The angle is — if you can stand to live in construction dust for two or three years — the angle is to live in the darn thing while you’re finishing it up and then you can do that basically every two years or over two years,” he said.
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The Infinity Bake Shoppe An infinite possibility of treats When Dottie Wilson was thinking she wanted a change in her life and someone suggested she turn her by-commission cookie business into a full-blown bakery, she imagined a small shop that could provide a modest living for herself and part-time work for her daughter and one other employee. She opened The Infinity Bake Shoppe March 28 in the main level of The 305 Building with a virtually unadvertised opening day and sold out by midmorning. “First day we opened — and we didn’t advertise or anything — we just put the sandwich board out that we were open and by about 9:30 we were, like, out of everything and going, ‘Oh no!’” she said, adding gestures of panic. “So we realized we were in trouble right away, so we’ve just kept expanding.” Now the bakery keeps Dottie and her daughter Maggie Wilson, who bakes most of the breads, busy full time along with employing one nearly full-time person and another part-time person coming on board before the holidays. The bakery also houses her other daughter Keeley Wilson’s homemade pet treat business, Ladybug Bites. Keeley has Williams Syndrome, a developmental disorder that affects many parts of the body, and it was
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her caseworker who first made what quickly grew to feel like a fateful suggestion to start a bakery, Dottie said — “it was a total fluke.” “I was really knowing I needed to make a change and I just wasn’t sure even what change. With Keeley I’m so limited — and not that I’m complaining — but with Keeley I’m so limited on what I can do. She has to be with somebody 24/7,” she said. “Can’t go work at Walmart, can’t go — you know, I can’t just have a job, so that’s why the daycare all those years” as well as her 7 ½ years working at Grateful Bread where owners Rick and Sheila Neuwerth “understood those needs,”she added. Dottie said her first response to opening her own bakery was “No,” but after she left the caseworker’s office, she drove down the street and saw the “for rent” sign in a window of The 305. She said she had probably driven past the sign many times, but that day it caught her eye so she made some calls. The space was not ready to rent yet, but she called the landlords and visited — already in love with the idea and the space which came with a wood-framed, antique, cookie display counter that seemed like a perfect fit. The rent was too expensive, she said, but the building owners helped
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facilitate a space-sharing agreement with Teresa Getten Photography. Dottie said the landlords finished out the space to her decoration ideas, and she just had to pay to get the special wiring for her commercial convection oven. She already knew the ins and outs of private business from her years of owning a daycare, so she had, in the end, a pretty quick three-month turnaround from her initial planning stage to opening the doors. Vocation Rehabilitation helped Keeley set up her dog treat business, which also pays part of the rent. More importantly, Dottie said, it gives Keeley, who has helped organize an annual Williams Syndrome awareness walk and has spoken in front of the Montana Legislature, something to do and a sense of accomplishment. “It really kind of fell into place,” she said. “It was one of those meantto-be kind of things.” Dottie grew up baking with her mother and grandmother and has used those skills all her life, for more than just her own family. She baked for kids in the 23 years she ran her daycare. During holiday season, she sold baked goods at weekend craft sales in the Atrium Mall with Rick Neuwerth, who sold breads before opening the restaurant. They usually sold out of baked goods before
noon each weekend. She said she based her sales projections and whole business plan for the bake shop on the 7 ½ years of commision sales at the restaurant which included cookies sold in-house and by special order. “We didn’t know what to expect,” she said, and they thought they had jumped in with a full inventory and full selection of cookies, scones and muffins, so she didn’t expect to be playing catchup by midmorning. “We have been very ecstatic. We just walk around with big grins on our faces,” she said. “The first week we opened I probably worked 20 hours a day, and I’d go home and take a bath and I would go ‘Oh, what did we do?’” Dottie said everything changed after that first week. She revised her business plan, reworked her workers’ compensation policy to up the number of expected employee hours by 2 ½ times her early estimate and shelved for later some of her early expansion plans like adding a juicer, delivery and approaching hotels to supply them with baked goods.
Local businesses have come to her for contracts on supplying a variety of desserts and breads, including Second Street Barista, Uncle Joe’s Steakhouse and Restaurant, Bear Paw Meats, Northern Brew at Montana State University-Northern and LodeStar Realty, which buys them for their open house events. They also supply baked goods for larger events like wedding receptions and parties, she said, even
experimenting with recipes to get the taste for the customer — something that they do with baked goods sold in the bakery as well. “It’s really, really cool to have people come in and say ‘Have you heard of this cookie?’ ‘Could you make this cookie?’ … and we find a recipe or we play with it,” she said. “We did a bunch of bread sticks for a wedding with 600 bread sticks, and we tried two or three different recipes until
we found the ones she wanted.” Another special request for a wedding gave them their most recent regular offering, the maple bacon doughnut, which does have bacon on top and, like all their other doughnuts, is baked. Every day Dottie and Maggie bake a wide selection of scones, cookies, cinnamon rolls, doughnuts and more. While they will try to have the blueberry scone year round, Dottie said, it will depend on the availability and quality of fresh blueberries. And with fall here, she added, they have cut back on their other fruity treats to add savory flavors, including bacon cheddar chive scones, pumpkin doughnuts and cookies, and brown butter pistachio doughnuts and will have rice crispy treats for Halloween. The molasses crinkles they had intended to serve as a fall and winter specialty, she said, but they are so popular that they have become a daily item. The holiday season will be their next hurdle, Dottie said. They have a pretty efficient system going so they’re going to try it with just their one oven, she added. Their new employee will be helping on Saturdays so Dottie and Maggie will be able to concentrate on baking to meet the anticipated increase in holiday requests. “I just really, really want to emphasize how much we appreciate Havre embracing us,” Dottie said. “And we are so thankful and appreciative of the support we’ve gotten.”
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A soft molasses crinkle for all seasons
The Infinity Bake Shoppe 309 Third Ave., Suite B, Havre Mon. - Fri.: 8 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Sat.: 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. Dottie Wilson, owner of The Infinity Bake Shoppe, and her daughter Maggie Wilson, who works at the bakery, said their molasses crinkle recipe is based on a classic Betty Crocker recipe that they have modified. The changes included adding more flour and substituting butter for shortening, Dottie said. “We don’t use shortening in any recipes, only butter,” she said. They also don’t mess around when adding sugar either, preferring to roll each cookie dough ball in sugar rather than just dipping them. The recipe multiplies well, Dottie said, and cookies can be made as small morsels or large handful-sized like they bake. In fact, the original recipe says one batch makes 48 cookies, but they said they triple the recipe and make about 72 cookies from it. The cookie dough, which needs to be refrigerated for at least two hours, can be mixed the night before and baked in the morning — a nice feature for the bakery because they can get the cookies baking while they start preparing other goodies. Both Dottie and Maggie warned that the cookies have to be pulled from the oven looking slightly undercooked — just so the edges look done and can be lifted. They harden more as they cool, so if they look done coming out of the oven, they will be dry and hard by the time they cool. Molasses Crinkle Cookies ¾ cup butter 1 cup packed brown sugar ¼ cup mild- or full-flavor molasses 1 egg 2 ½ cups All purpose flour 2 teaspoons baking soda 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1 teaspoon ground ginger ½ teaspoon ground clove ¼ teaspoon salt Granulated sugar Mix butter, brown sugar, molasses and egg thoroughly in large bowl. Stir in remaining ingredients except granulated sugar. Cover and refrigerate at least 2 hours. Heat oven to 375 degrees F. Grease cookie sheet. Shape dough into 2-inch balls. Roll in granulated sugar. Place balls 3 inches apart on cookie sheet. Sprinkle each with 2 or 3 drops of water. Bake 10 to 12 minutes or just until set but not hard. Remove from cookie sheet to wire rack.
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