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Through the years:
Songs help encourage empowerment BY LORIE PALMER IDAHO COUNTY FREE PRESS
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elcome to the fourth edition of Women in Business in Idaho County. It’s something I look forward to each year since its inception. We hope you will find the stories on local women interesting and we also hope you will give these businesses a try. I was recently reading that research has shown there is a direct correlation between girls’ participation in sports and their success in higher education and employment. I love this little statistic because I think sports (team and individual) are so important for all kids for a variety of reasons. However, although I liked swimming and playing basketball as a youth, I never did anything formally. My hobbies were writing and music. Which got me to thinking how much music has influenced my life. (Studies also show kids who take band and/or choir in school perform better academically, as well as later in life.) Many songs I have enjoyed throughout the years are actually strong women empowerment songs that continue to influence me and my friends. The first inspirational song I remember as a child is one we sang a lot at church, “I Am A Promise.” The song is one my friend-since-the-womb, Kim, can barely stand to hear today because we sang it so much. (So, of course, I sent her a bear last year that plays that song when you squeeze it). The words gave me a sense that I could do anything: “I am a promise. I am a possibility, I am a promise, with a capital P. I am a great big bundle of potentiality!” I sang it as a solo as a child and, yes, I made both Avery and Hailey, sing it at church. My childhood saw Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive,” released in 1978 (“At first, I was afraid, I was petrified. Kept thinkin’ I could never live without you by my side ….”), Diana Ross’s “I’m Coming Out” in 1980 (“There’s a new me coming out, And I just had to live, And I wanna give, I’m completely positive, I think this time around I am gonna do
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Throughout the years, music has played an important part in the life of Free Press community editor Lorie Palmer.
it ….”), and when I was in junior high, Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5,” Donna Summer’s “She Works Hard for the Money,” and on into high school with Irene Cara’s “Flashdance” and Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.” My best friend, Torri, and I belted out these songs along with KGMI radio on her front porch in Custer, Wash. Remember Helen Reddy’s “I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar?” (“In numbers too big to ignore, And I know too much to go back an’ pretend ‘cause I’ve heard it all before, And I’ve been down there on the floor, No one’s ever gonna keep me down again.”) I suppose this can be taken as the feminists’ battlecry, but for me it’s always been a simple, “I am important; I won’t be ignored.” It’s a song from the ’60s and I vividly remember it from 1983 when my high school girls’ choir sang it.
y best friend, Torri, and I belted out these songs ... from her porch in Custer, Wash.”
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n my family I was never once led to believe a girl couldn’t do certain things. My parents showed me that every activity I was involved in was worthy of attendance and what I did had importance — in its order of priority after God. In college my roommates Kim and Judy and I sang a lot of songs into wooden spoons and hairbrushes (yes, we were hi-tech) including Aretha Franklin’s “Respect,” The Supreme’s “You Can’t Hurry Love,” and Cher’s “If I Could Turn Back Time.” The year I graduated from college, 1990, was the year I first heard “Hold On” by Wilson Phillips. During some personal challenges during the next few years I thought a lot
about those lyrics: “I know this pain, Why do you lock yourself up in these chains? No one can change your life except for you, Don’t ever let anyone step all over you. Just open your heart and your mind. Is it really fair to feel this way inside? … Hold on for one more day … hold on.” Of course the millennium brought no shortage of girl power songs with some of my favorites being Katy Perry’s “You’re Gonna Hear Me Roar,” Alicia Keys’ “This Girl’s On Fire,” and Martina McBride’s “This One’s For the Girls.” Which leads to my now-favorite inspirational song, Rachel Platten’s 2015 “The Fight Song.” “This is my fight song, Take back my life song, Prove I’m all right song, My power’s turned on, Starting right now I’ll be strong, I’ll play my fight song, And I don’t really care if nobody else believes, ‘Cause I’ve still got a lot of fight left in me.” (This song is dedicated to one of my best friends, my college co-conspirator, Brenda, who has recently found her voice again.) My hope is for all young girls and women to have the support — from family and friends to music and media — to be who they want to be and make a difference in the world. Lorie Palmer has been employed at the Idaho County Free Press for 20-plus years. She and her husband have three daughters. Lorie lettered in music in high school and was chosen for AllNorthwest Choir in 1985-86. In 2013, Grangeville schools music educator Kathy Stefani bestowed on Lorie an honorary membership into the national Tri-M Music Honor Society.
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Seasons Restaurant: Cindy Kuchler
Downtown eatery is family-friendly GRANGEVILLE — At Seasons Restaurant, the decorative bulldog, Champ, stands out as a literal touchstone of Cindy Kuchler’s vision of what makes a good place to have a bite to eat. Champ has been around almost as long as the restaurant, which Kuchler has owned and operated since 2011, and contributes to the family-friendly atmosphere she has aimed to establish for four-plus years. “Kids sit on him, people take pictures with him, they love him,” she said. Seasons, as the name suggests, has a different appearance come fall and winter than it has during summer and spring, with a couple of days of decorating to keep up with the turns. But the overall feel – clean and comfortable – is the product of uncountable hours of work and close attention to details. “We get a lot of compliments on the atmosphere, how clean and nice it is…when I go out to eat somewhere, that’s really important to me,” Kuchler said. “People come in, they don’t know what they enjoyed. People know if they don’t really enjoy something, but if they have a nice experience, they can’t really put their finger on what was good about it. But when everything is just good, it’s things like the silverware and the napkins…it’s in all the details.” Beyond the attention to customers that makes the business economical, the restaurant is family-friendly in a deeper sense. For Kuchler, maintaining the restaurant creates good jobs that, in turn, help maintain the family she has with co-owner Tony Sabatino. “There is a lot of family that work here,” she said. “We focus on it being a family place. That is one of the reasons, it wasn’t just a job for me and Tony, it was a job for the family. All of the family has some sort of job security here. Be-
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Cindy Kuchler poses in front of her Main Street restaurant, Seasons.
cause if you want your kids and grandkids to stay here in Grangeville, you have to create the jobs for them. And they’re good at their jobs! I don’t just have them here because they’re family. My kids grew up here, they love the town and they want to raise their kids here. Anything we can do to help that…and if we get to be around the grandkids, even better.” She grew up in Weippe, but has long made her home in Grangeville. “Weippe is a lot smaller town,” she said. “My mom was a cook at a restaurant and I waited tables from the time I was 14. It was bigger then. They still had the mill in Pierce. We played Grangeville in sports, and competed. It’s
a lot harder to do now, because it’s tiny. It was a great place to live.” Kuchler has four kids. “All of them [the kids] have worked for us in one way or another,” she said. “Our oldest son, Josh, actually runs the auto glass business now, but the other ones work here for me. I have one who’s a cook, two of them are servers, and Josh does everything handyman plus All Star Auto Glass. My two daughters-in-law work for me, everybody works for us one way or another….when needed, all the family helps. They can all do just about anything. I don’t get very many days off. The kids are busy, too, and when you own a restaurant, it owns you.”
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we just decided to open ‘er up. I worked for Ernie’s from the time they were open.” Kuchler said the quality of the food has helped set Seasons apart. Of everything on the menu, the reuben is Kuchler’s personal favorite. “We eat reubens a lot of places. The corned beef we cook here, we use the right kind of bread, the rye bread, real cheese, it’s higher quality,” she said. “That’s what I think about everything on the menu. We use better ingredients. Our profit isn’t as high as it could be, but getting a quality product to the customer is important. All our meats are cooked here, all the fresh ground burger. Tony [Sabatino, co-owner] does all of that, cuts our steaks. Keeping everything fresh, and using real ingredients, real cheese not processed cheese, it’s all higher quality ingredients.” Kuchler aims to compete on price, but also puts a high value on keeping up a good reputation for the restaurant. “Part of what we do is we try to keep our prices lower and accommodate families and things like that, because our future clientele is all those kids,” she said. “You’ve got to keep everybody happy. Keeping the locals happy is No. 1, or you’ll never make it in a small town.”
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The family closed the restaurant for a few days to go on vacation last October – a rarity during the five years the restaurant has been open. For each anniversary, Seasons holds a day of “customer appreciation” specials to celebrate: a cheeseburger, fries and a soda for $5, bite-size steak for $10. At last year’s anniversary, the restaurant moved a couple hundred cheeseburgers, a hundred bite-size steaks, plus salads. “It’s a lot of food through one little restaurant,” Kuchler said. Normally, a cheeseburger and fries runs $8.59 and the bite-size steak goes for $16.99. Seasons is open for breakfast seven days a week (regularly at 7 a.m., 8 a.m. Sundays), and closes at 9 p.m. “In the winter time, we cut our hours back to 8 p.m.,” Kuchler noted. The restaurant has been quite a success. “We’ve increased business every year,” she said. “We’d love to expand at one point, but everything’s got to be just right for that.” Kuchler cited several personal qualities that have proven important. “I’m kind of a people-person, I guess,” she said. “I like the service industry. I don’t necessarily like serving people, but I like doing the best job I can. Serving people, it’s something I have some control over, how things go…. Working for myself is just a bonus. Not answering to someone else, when something goes wrong, it’s my fault, nobody else’s.” Kuchler attributes that, in part, to the lifetime of experience in restaurants. When a former employer met disaster, Kuchler saw an opportunity. “I’ve waited tables my whole life,” Kuchler noted. “I worked for Ernie’s Steakhouse. When it burned down, I thought there was a need for another restaurant in town, another choice, so
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Western Motor Inn: Lara Smith
From circus glory to haunted building, family to business, Smith loves the journey BY LORIE PALMER IDAHO COUNTY FREE PRESS KOOSKIA — When most people say they’re going to join the circus it doesn’t really happen. For Lara Smith it was a dream come true. Smith was born and raised in Columbus, Ohio. She and her three brothers were born to parents who worked full time: her father was an engineer for the state and her mother worked in event planning for Ohio State University. “Because they were busy working, family vacations were very important,” she said. For 23 summers the family went to Callaway Gardens in Pine Mountain, Ga. “We were able to golf, swim, water ski, play tennis and – our favorite part – attend the circus performances.” Florida State University students from the Flying Horse Circus would provide its students as counselors for the summer circus at Callaway Gardens. When Grandma sent money for new bedspreads, one of Lara’s brother’s picked G.I. Joe while she and her other two brothers chose the circus sets. Smith was 5 years old at the time and it was a foreshadowing of what her life would hold. “I always knew I wanted to deal with people at the happiest times of their lives,” she said. When she was 17, having graduated from high school a year early, her parents dropped her off at Clown College in Venice, Florida. “They get 3,000 applicants and 50 get accepted,” she said. “Of my class there were 10 female clowns and I ended up with the job.” While one of Smith’s brothers went into the military, the other two also joined the circus. For seven years, Smith toured with Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus. When she decided to leave the road it wasn’t necessarily because she wanted to. “I love it – all of it,” she said. “But I also knew I eventually wanted to be a wife and mother and if I didn’t leave the road then, I probably never would.” Smith moved to Vegas and worked as an event planner and a clown at some of the major hotel industries there. She also was the “face” of artist Ron Lee’s famous clown sculptures.
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Lara Smith lives at Three Rivers Resort in Lowell and she and her husband own Western Motor Inn in Kooskia. She is seen here in the motel lobby.
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It was during that time that a friend’s birthday party in New York friend called her and said, “I met the (she had actually moved to Lowell to man you’re going to marry.” be with Mike in 1997) and were fly“I said, ‘where’s he from?’ and my ing home on 9-11 (Sept. 11, 2001) friend said, ‘Idaho,’ and laughed,” that he asked her to marry him and Smith recalled. she accepted. Mike Smith of “The whole Lowell, a graduate event put things of Clearwater Valin perspective,” ley High School, she said. She was had also been to 32 and he 33, and clown college and during the next was touring. six years they welHowever, the comed four first time she saw daughters into Lara Smith, co-owner him and met him, their home, all she said she knew. while living at 6 South Main Street She was dating a and working for Kooskia, ID 83539 Guatemalan handThree Rivers Re208-926-0166 balancer with the sort in Lowell, circus at the time which is owned and she broke up by Mike’s parents, with him right away. Mike and Marie Smith. Together with “He had a lot of muscles and did- Mike’s brother, Marty, and his family, n’t speak much English,” she they have run the resort which has laughed. included lodging, a restaurant, store, It wasn’t until the couple had bar and campground. dated, broken up and gotten back toAbout a decade ago, the couple, gether that they had been to a whose oldest daughter is now 13, made the decision to purchase something in Kooskia. “At first we thought about a small house – knowing we would be busy with kids in school and might not always be able to drive that 25 miles from Kooskia back to Lowell, along the river, after school events.” What they ended up purchasing was the only motel in town, The Western Motor Inn on Main Street. The motel has 20 rooms and with it they purchased the former Western Bar and Grill. That building alone boasts more than 12,000 square feet. “We may one day like to put apartments there,” she said, but for now are just working on it a little at a time as they can. What may be the real draw to the building is the chance it could be “haunted.” “We have had people call and say, ‘who is that woman in the winCONTRIBUTED PHOTO Mike and Lara Smith are seen here at one of their circus gigs in China. dow upstairs?’” Smith said.
The building was a former brothel and the rooms inhabited by the women who worked there. “It’s very interesting – we found so many silver dollars in the walls and were told the working women
“My mom worked and had a family, my mother-in-law does it,” she said. “I was so blessed to stay home with my girls for 13 years and now that they are all in school I am excited to start a different journey.
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used to hide them there,” she said. In the meantime, Lara will be working close to her girls – Martha, Ella, Ruth and Maddie — during the day as she just took the Clearwater Valley Elementary School librarian position. Mike, a high school and college track athlete, helped coach track at CV last year and will continue to do that, as well. The couple still clown around as often as possible and in September will travel to China for a clowning gig – she for a week and he for three weeks. “We still love it,” she said. Smith is also a member of the North Central Idaho Travel Council where she represents Region II. “I am so proud of this little area we live in and what it has to offer,” she said. “I am very happy to represent Kooskia and the surrounding areas and Idaho as a whole.” Although she has often found herself in a “man’s world,” Smith said she learned at a young age that women are equal.
And my goal is to raise them as confident leaders. I think we’re doing a pretty good job so far.”
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Artist Har-V created the “Great White Elk” atop Western Motor Inn.
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Women and work in Idaho County:
Females make up close to half of work force •Women make up 46.2 percent of Idaho County’s labor force according to the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. •Women make up 36.8 percent of the 1,104 self-employed people who own businesses or farms. There are 406 self-employed women in Idaho County, according to the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. •There are 104 women who are the principal operators of farms and ranches in Idaho County. They make up 14.2 percent of the 731 principal operators of farms and ranches in the county, according to the 2012 Census of Agriculture. •The median earnings for females in Idaho County was $17,391 in 2013, while the median earnings for males was $31,992, according to the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, •Women make up 25.2 percent of the 658 managers in Idaho County, according to the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. Their median earnings in 2013 were $36,667, while the median earnings for male managers were $42,794.
percent of men in the same age group are high school grads (or GED equivalents). •The average pay of men who held payroll jobs—worked for wages, salaries, tips, and commissions—in Idaho County in the 12 months that ended Sept. 30, 2014 was $3,137 a month, while the average women earned was $1,780 a month in a payroll job. Women’s pay differs from men, because they tend to work fewer hours (on average women work 33.5 hours a week, while men in Idaho County work an average of 42.5 hours per week) and are less likely to be in high-paying industrial jobs such as manufacturing, utilities, and construction and more likely to be in lower-paying industries such as food service, retail and services. •Women make up 79.1 percent (791) of the 1,000 professional and technical workers (health care professionals, computer, engineering, accounting, scientific, financial, legal, education, training, library, arts, design and writing) in Idaho County, according to the Census Bu-
reau’s American Community Survey. •Women, who are between 25 to 64 years, have more schooling than males in the same age group in Idaho County, just as in the United States. While 17.9 percent of women 25 to 64 in Idaho County have bach-
elor’s degrees or higher, about 13.9 percent of men have. Women also are more likely to graduate from high school than men. While 92.7 percent of women 25 to 64 years of age in Idaho County are high school grads (or GED equivalents), 90.7
Information compiled by former Idaho County resident, Kathryn Tacke, Regional Economist, Communications & Research, Idaho Department of Labor, 799-5000 ext. 3984; KATHRYN.TACKE@LABOR.IDAHO.GOV
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Mountain River Outfitters: Brenda Baugh
Rivers make for busy-ness year-round BY DAVID RAUZI, EDITOR IDAHO COUNTY FREE PRESS
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RIGGINS — Great boats and the best equipment: The river guiding business relies on having top-quality gear. But for Brenda Baugh, owner of Mountain River Outfitters (MRO) in Riggins, more important are the employees you hire to represent your business. “Our focus is on our guide staff,” she said. You can have the best and latest equipment, “but if you don’t have the best quality guides to pull it off, you don’t have anything.” On average, MRO’s guides have between five to 10 years of experience, with most returning to work the season year after year. “They’ve been working with us for years,” she said, “and are the best guides on the river.” Brenda and her husband, Jess, have owned the business for 11 years, and they hire about 30 employees during the busy summer season. The business provides from halfday to six-day rafting trips on the Salmon River (Main Salmon, Riggins section and Lower Salmon), Owyhee and Hells Canyon. They do drift boat fishing for steelhead, bass and salmon on the Salmon River, and trips in Hells Canyon and on the Salmon River for steelhead, salmon, bass, trout and sturgeon; and tours in a 28-foot jet boat. “I’m busy year-round,” she said, of
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the rafting season from May to September, and fishing nonstop throughout the year. They also operate Mountain River Outdoor Center, a Main Street retail shop that offers organic espresso, pastries, souvenirs, rafting gear, and also a place to meet up with their clients. This business is a good fit for the couple, especially for Jess, who has been a fishing guide for more than 20 years. Prior to this, Baugh worked in medical billing, a job she felt, “is not as much fun as this is.” “We wanted to live in Riggins and wanted to raise our kids here, so we knew we’d have to figure out a way to make a living here,” she said. The couple built the business in stages that soon snowballed, “to where we are today.” The couple has three children: Renea Holland, 25, who works for Suttler/CBiz in Lewiston; Brant Baugh, 18, a Salmon River High
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“It’s different,” she said, on balancing family and business. “Our busy time is during the kids’ summer vacation, and our kids have definitely grown up working for the family business.” So the couple has tried to
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Outfitters: ‘This is a fun industry’ Continued from Page 6 trip, we want them to feel they were special and got our full attention.” As part of these trips, MRO guides provide information about the region, its history and an appreciation for the natural beauty of North Central Idaho’s rivers and the importance of
keeping them clean. Retail staff are also part of the MRO family in providing a happy atmosphere with attention to detail. Whether the customer is on a return visit or their first river trip, “we want to make that experience special in every minor way.” Customers come to the region for a
vacation, for a release from the demands of their work and daily lives, she said, and the job of MRO and its staff is to make it smooth, happy and safe. “This is a fun industry, and we want our clients to have a fun experience,” Baugh said.
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enthusiastically working with us to create a program that educates, motivates and inspires.” Although focusing on women’s leadership roles, the conference is open to all people. In 1995, former Idaho Governor and Secretary of the Interior Cecil D. Andrus founded the Andrus Center for Public Policy at Boise State University. His goal for the center was to continue to nurture pragmatic, non-partisan discussion of issues he championed throughout his career – education, environmental stewardship and political leadership. The Andrus Center serves as “common ground” for civil, serious discussions about public policy. It is dedicated to independent, non-partisan policy formation on critical issues confronting Idaho, the American West and the United States. Registration for the event is $195 and includes all sessions, meals and two networking events. Registration has been strong and is expected to sell out.
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Klement takes on ICFP publisher job BY LORIE PALMER IDAHO COUNTY FREE PRESS In October, Sarah Klement will become the first female publisher of the Idaho County Free Press in its 130year existence. Sarah is a 2008 Grangeville High School graduate who went on to attend the University of Idaho where she studied journalism. She began working at the Free Press when she was in high school. She began fulltime employment in 2011. She and her husband, Dean, a rancher, live in White Bird where they raise their 6year-old daughter. I recently sat down with Sarah to ask five questions.
Take 1 LP: You are young, just 25. Tell me how that affects your vision for the Free Press. Namely, what do you see for the future of the Idaho County Free Press? In this technology-heavy age, how might this be different than the vision of previous publishers? SK: Well, first of all, I still have a lot to learn and much of it is from previous publishers. I won’t pretend I have all of the answers. I see value in new technology and, probably the main difference, I find it exciting. Change is good, we just need to make sure we are always moving forward.
arena? SK: Print media has most definitely taken a hit. People are getting their information in different ways, but print still has value—our printed product still has value. Community newspapers are still at the forefront of capturing the spirit of an area. Community papers give local readers exactly what they want from home team scores and business open houses to city council and hospital news. Do you want to know who won the blue ribbons at the local fair or see your neighbor’s five generation photo? We’re still your source. We are continuing and developing disseminating our unique information in different mediums, too. We’re not just a weekly newspaper, but so much more.
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LP: You have a young family, a gradeschool aged daughter. How do you balance the needs of maintaining a demanding business while preserving your family? SK: You have to go with the flow (laugh). No, it’s difficult trying to balance the two. It’s not easy and this job isn’t just 8-5. The best thing I have going for me is our lifestyle. A family ranch requires you to work weekends – together. There is always something to do, things to learn and, most importantly, invaluable family time.
Take 2 LP: We hear a lot of talk today about print being obsolete, a thing of the past. What’s your take on that, especially in the community journalism
Take 4 LP: Give me some reasons why local businesses should support their community newspapers.
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Sarah Yama Klement will take over Oct. 1 as the Idaho County Free Press’ first female publisher.
SK: I’ll flip this around and ask, how are our community newspapers supporting our local businesses? It isn’t just about “support,” but how we aid them from a marketing standpoint and, of course, how we disseminate their information to the community. Both of these areas will continue to be nurtured and enhanced as we move forward. The Idaho County Free Press is, itself, a local business. Community papers exist to serve their community. I hope
people remember that these papers provide them with coverage they can’t get anywhere else. Information that is gathered and printed for you.
Take 5 LP: Will a woman’s hand at the helm of the Free Press (and The Shopper) be any different than a man’s? If so, how? SK: I’m sure skills and mindsets vary
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Sisters participate in national podcast Set to air Sept. 3 COTTONWOOD — A Nun’s Life Ministry will visit the Monastery of St Gertrude on a Motherhouse Road Trip, Thursday, Sept. 3. The road trip combines social media and inperson events in innovative ways to engage with people about God, faith, and religious life. A highlight of the road trip is a podcast that is live-streamed (audio and video) over the Internet. Two sisters of the Monastery of St Gertrude, Sister Bernadette Stang and Sister Carlotta Maria Fontes, will join the hosts, Sister Julie Vieira and Sister Maxine Kollasch, to talk about topics such as discernment, prayer and spirituality. There is also a live chat room where on-line listeners interact with each other and the sisters during the podcast. People from across the U.S. and many other countries watch and listen to the podcast and join the chat room using their computers and mobile devices. The podcast airs at 5
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p.m. Eastern Time/2 p.m. Pacific Time at ANUNSLIFE.ORG/LIVE. The A Nun’s Life team uses social media to inform people about the Motherhouse Road Trip and acquaint them with the host congrega-
tion. By posting on Instagram, Vine, Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter and other social media, the team shares stories, photos, and conversation. After the podcast, the team continues to share the experience online
and encourages people to stay in touch with the host congregation. The purpose of the Motherhouse Road Trip series, which is made possible by a grant, is to help connect Catholic sisters and nuns with an
online community that is supportive of vocations and deeply interested in the lives and works of women religious. A Nun’s Life Ministry was founded in 2006 by Sister Julie and Sister Maxine, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary from Monroe, Mich. A Nun’s Life Ministry is a pioneer in combining technology, social media, and vocations outreach in highly interactive and pastoral ways. A Nun’s Life Ministry encourages people to understand their life as a vocation. The mission of A Nun’s Life Ministry is to help people discover and grow in their vocation by engaging questions about God, faith, and religious life. To help in this, A Nun’s Life brings the tradition of religious life—in areas such as discernment, prayer, and spirituality—into conversation with people’s everyday lives. Learn more about A Nun’s Life Ministry at WWW.ANUNSLIFE.ORG and the Monastery of St. Gertrude at WWW.STGERTRUDES.ORG.
Statistics show women gaining ground is most areas The U.S. Census Bureau released statistics on women earlier this year to celebrate Women’s History Month in March. Among those were the following bits of information on women: •161 million: The number of females in the U.S. as of December 2013. The number of males was 156.1 million. •74.8 million: The number of females 16 and older who participated in the civilian labor force in 2012. Women comprised 47.4
percent of the civilian labor force in 2012. •41.6 percent: Percent of employed females 16 and older in 2012 (annual average) who worked in management, professional and related occupations, compared with 34.7 percent of employed males in the same year (annual average). •1.6 million: Number of female veterans in the United States in 2012. •$37,791: The median annual earnings of women 15 or older who worked year-round, full time in 2012. In comparison, the median
zens 18 and older who reported voting in the 2012 presidential election, in comparison to 59.7 percent of their male counterparts. •85.4 million: Estimated number of mothers in the U.S. in 2009. •66 million: Number of married women 18 and older (including those who were separated or had an absent spouse) in 2013. •5.2 million: Number of stay-at-home mothers nationwide in 2013; compared with 214,000 stay-at-home fathers.
annual earnings of men were $49,398. •77¢: The amount that female year-round, full-time workers earned in 2012 for every dollar their male counterparts earned. This ratio was statistically unchanged from 2011. •11.3 million: Number of women college students in fall 2012. Women comprised 56.8 percent of all college students. •31.4: Percent of women 25 and older who had obtained a bachelor’s degree or more as of 2012. •63.7 percent: Percentage of female citi-
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Teenage hobby turns into full-time business COTTONWOOD — After nearly 13 years of using her home as a base for her business, Stephanie Forsmann has moved out. “It’s really nice to be able to set up everything and have a space,” smiled the Cottonwood woman. Stephanie Forsmann Photography is located at 402 King Street in the old Simon Building, located above Purses Galore and More. The newly refurbished area with aged brick façade is the backdrop for Forsmann’s studio. She became interested in photography when she took her best friend’s senior pictures when she was only 16 or 17, she said. “The love of photography just kind of grew from there,” she smiled. An early homeschool graduate, Forsmann went on to attend LewisClark State and North Idaho colleges.
She worked for Western Photo as well as Creative Image Portrait Design in Pullman. She married Prairie High School graduate Casey Forsmann, who is currently employed by Pacific Cabinets in Ferdinand, and the two lived in Coeur d’Alene before moving back to Cottonwood. “I gained a lot of valuable experi-
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ence at my jobs and I travel for workshops,” she said. “I have a creative side so I like to think up things and ways to take photos. We are so blessed here to have so many wonderful outdoors backdrops.” Forsmann specializes in newborn, children and senior photos but also enjoys other aspects of photography such as families, weddings and mothers-to-be. The Forsmanns have two daughters, Kenly and Blakely. She knows what it’s like to balance family and work, she said, but photography, “gives me the flexibility to do what I love and still be a wife and mother.” “I have a lot of photos of the girls, I’ve done a lot of practice photos on them,” Forsmann smiled. She said she enjoys the photo editing process after each shoot and spends “a lot of time,” on this step. “I like to capture personalities and I want people to be happy with the FREE PRESS / LORIE PALMER work,” she said. Stephanie Forsmann opened her photography shop on Cottonwood’s Main Street.
5 errors that can undermine your new business The dream of launching a business runs deep in the American psyche, but more often than not those dreams go bust. Half of new U.S. companies fail in their first five years, according to Gallup. Expand the time frame out to 10 years and the failure rate reaches 70 percent. That’s not surprising, said Randy H. Nelson, an entrepreneur who has built multi-million dollar companies.
The skills it takes to start a business aren’t necessarily the same as those it takes to keep that business afloat. What is surprising, though? In the U.S., more businesses are now being shut down (470,000) than are being started (400,000). The five errors are the following: • Insistence on autonomy. An Inc. magazine study once said that a trait most entrepreneurs share is their desire for
leadership decisions within a managerial team. • Lack of financial leadership. Entrepreneurs by definition take risk when they make the decision to start their own business. In the area of financial leadership, which includes tracking cash levels and trends, financial covenants, metrics and expenses, entrepreneurs who are not financially literate and active will need the direct support of a financial expert to ensure they receive the advice and input needed in their organization. • Reacting unwisely to boredom.
autonomy, which is great starting out, Nelson says. “In the start-up phase, the company is all about you,” he says. “Your fingerprints are on everything, and there is very little you don’t know and aren’t directing.” • Unwillingness to build structure, cultivate expertise or delegate. Many entrepreneurs will need to surround themselves with a strong executive team – or at least a steady right-hand individual – to ensure the company’s success, Nelson says. But too many business owners fail to create the kind of structure that produces good
Starting a business proved exhilarating. The day-to-day operation of it may pale in comparison. A bored entrepreneur can create significant troubles for the business, Nelson says. “Things are going to get upended in a hurry, because many bored entrepreneurs either start new companies or abruptly make changes in their current companies to keep their own level of excitement high,” he says. • Failure to engage in self-examination. Entrepreneurs need to be aware of their own strengths and weaknesses, the same things they gauge in their employees.
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AVON: Barbara Henderson BY LORIE PALMER IDAHO COUNTY FREE PRESS GRANGEVILLE — Ding dong! Avon calling. Barbara Henderson has heard all the jokes. “I’m called the Ding Dong Lady, I’ve been called the Dingbat Lady,” she laughed. This month, the Grangeville
woman will celebrate her 50th year selling Avon. Henderson was born and raised in Pocatello and following high school she worked for the Beneficial Finance Company. She met her husband, Alvin, in Pocatello, when he came to stay with his brother there. They married in 1958 and soon moved to Grangeville. Henderson began selling Avon to
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help make ends meet. Al spent his career at the A&F Grocery Store, Martin’s Foodland and then retired from the U.S. Post Office in Grangeville. “We had two young boys and I wanted something that was flexible,” she said. “When I was first asked how I knew I could sell I didn’t have an answer — I just knew I could.” Back in the day, when Avon representatives had territories, Henderson had about a third of Grangeville. “It was a big area,” she said. Besides earning a wage to help with the family coffers, Henderson also earned a variety of Avon promotional collectible items. She has two China hutches full of these. “They don’t do this anymore — things have changed a lot,” she acknowledged. In years past, Henderson sent and called her orders in. Now, she has to do them on-line. “Technology moved ahead — I have not,” she admitted. She goes to friend Carol Kinzer’s home where Kinzer helps her place the orders on the computer via the Internet. Henderson’s husband, Al, died in 2009. Her sons — Randy and Jim — and their wives and families live in Seattle and Minnesota. Although they are close, living by herself can be lonely, she said. Avon has helped ease that loneliness. “I purchase and put out about 40 catalogs now,” she said. “When I start feeling like I’m not doing anything, I know I need to get out and get my catalogs out and get my orders in.” Henderson has been able to sell Avon not only because she is a people person, but also because she believes in it. “It’s a very good product,” she said. “It would have to be to survive so long.” Throughout the years Henderson said she has made many dear friends who have become like family to her. One friend she treasures is Marie
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AVON Barbara Henderson, sales rep Grangeville 208-983-0766 Bridge, whom she has sold Avon to for the entire 50 years of her career. “I think what has made me successful during the years is the fact I care about my customers,” she said. “And it is evident they care about me.” Those customers have sustained her through two hip operations, a broken arm and the loss of her husband. In all her 50 years of selling Avon, she has never missed an order. In ad-
dition, in all that time, she has only had one bad check. “And she wasn’t from here. I think that’s a pretty good record,” Henderson laughed. She keeps busy with friends and eats at Grangeville Senior Center twice a week. She also sings in the Sts. Peter and Paul Choir where she has been a member for 55 years. Henderson said she has enjoyed overseas travel since the death of Al and goes on trips with retired Avon manager Margaret Rogers of Lewiston. “I work around Avon campaigns,” she said. The friends recently traveled to Italy and will spend Christmas in Paris. “People ask me when I’m going to retire and I really don’t know,” she shook her head. “I’m healthy, I enjoy it, I love my customers – my friends. Why would I give that up?”
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Idaho’s women workers posted significant wage gains in 2013 Full-time working women in dropping the median wage for men Idaho made significant progress in from 41st to 49th nationally. The 2013 in closing the gap with median wage nationwide rose 0.7 Idaho’s working men and the medi- percent for men. an weekly wage for working The combination of rising wages women nationfor women and wide, new estifalling wages for mates from the men closed the U.S. Bureau of gap between the Labor Statistics two. Idaho work— U.S. Bureau of ing women made show. The estimates Labor and Statistics 86.2 percent of the recently released median wage for showed the medimen in 2013 to an weekly wage rank fourth nafor full-time working women rose tionally. That was up from 78.2 per$35, or 5.7 percent, from 2012 to cent and a ranking of 37th in 2012. 2013 to $649. That was the sixth The substantial increase in largest percentage increase among women’s wages also brought the the states. median to 91.9 percent of the naAt the same time, however, the tional median wage for women in report showed the median weekly 2013, up from 88.9 percent in wage for full-time working men in 2012. The national median wage Idaho fell 5.6 percent – $44 – to for women increased 2.2 percent $741 a week. That was the largest from 2012, less than half the inpercentage decline of any state, crease Idaho women experienced.
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About 30 percent of working age women are unemployed The geography of female employment and non-employment tends to be more complicated than the male geography. The towns and counties where the lowest share of men between the ages of 25 and 54 are employed tend to be some of the tougher places in the United States to live, including Appalachia, Northern Michigan, the Deep South and the interior Southwest. Female employment rates are relatively low in some fairly affluent areas, including Utah and other heavily Mormon areas — as well as on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The East 80s and the suburbs of Salt Lake City may be very different places, but both have local cultures with a bent toward stay-at-home parenting, which still is far more likely to be done by mothers. In this way, they are extreme examples of a national trend: a modestly increased interest in full-time parenting in recent years. On the other hand, female employment rates are notably high, especially compared with male rates, in
New England and parts of the upper Midwest, which tend to be fairly well off. Female rates are also comparatively high in a swath of lower-income rural areas across the middle of the country. In all these places, education — the fact that women are now more educated than men — plays a big role in these contrasts. Over all, the share of prime-age women with jobs rose throughout much of the latter decades of the 20th century, driven by the feminist movement. But the generally disappointing economy of the last 15 years — combined with the uptick in stayat-home parenting — has caused the rate to fall since 2000. Currently, about 30 percent of women between the ages of 25 and 54 are not employed, compared with 26 percent in 1999. By contrast, female employment rates have continued rising in most rich countries. The employment for prime-age men in the United States has been falling for most of the past half-century.
The median wage for men was 86.2 percent of the national median for men, down from 91.9 percent in 2012. Since women make up only 38 percent of Idaho’s full-time workforce, the increase in their median wage was just enough to offset the decline in the wage for men so that the median wage for all full-time workers was essentially unchanged from 2012 at $707 a week to rank 40th among the states. The estimates are based on the Current Population Survey conducted by the Census Bureau for the Bureau of Labor Statistics of about 1,000 Idaho households and about 60,000 households nationwide. The U.S. Census Bureau provides a quick look at the Civilian Labor Force by gender, 1970-2012. More women are working now than in previous years.
Database highlights impact of women in Idaho COEUR D’ALENE — The University of Idaho recently an author who helped launch the database. unveiled “Idaho’s Women of Influence,” a new database While working on a book about Louise Shadduck, highlighting the contributions of women to Idaho’s his- “Lioness of Idaho: Louise Shadduck and the Power of tory and contemporary society. Polite,” Bullard discovered dozens of women connected The database is continually to Idaho with major national and internagrowing, and the public is invittional accomplishments. ed to contribute by submitting “Their stories are being lost from names and information about Idaho’s history books. If they are not capwomen who have shaped Idaho’s tured they will be forgotten,” Bullard said. history. To be included in the Bullard partnered with Anne Gaines database, women need to have from the University of Idaho Library to deaccomplished something positive velop the open source database. U of I inoutside their own family and vited other libraries, schools and historical friends. They may be connected groups across the state to contribute artito Idaho by birth, residence or cles. DORICE TAYLOR accomplishment. They can be Already included are: Mary Brooks, who “infamous,” or unpopular, as spent eight years as director of the U.S. long as they are remembered for something construc- Mint; Emma Yearian, Idaho’s Sheep Queen who was tive. elected to state legislature 1930; Jennie Hughes Smith, Through the database and associated peer-reviewed the first African American graduate of U of I; Dorice Tayjournal, “Idaho’s Women of Influence” tells the stories of lor, the woman behind the railroad’s development of incredible women who have made a difference in Idaho, Sun Valley; Pulitzer-prize winner Marilynne Robinson; the nation or around the world. and Gracie Bowers Pfost, who served in the U.S. Con“These women are role models, particularly for gress from 1953-63. young women, so that they can see it is possible to aim To access the database or submit a story, go to IDAhigh and do great things in Idaho,” said Mike Bullard, HOWOMEN.ORG.
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beer, Elliott said she likes to see them all. “My regular coffee customers, families, Forest Service guys, it’s all good,” she said, adding she has watched many of the local kids grow up. Open six days a week and closed Mondays for clean-up and shopping, Elliott said they don’t get much time for vacations. However, she and Dewey did take time to attend the graduations of a grandson and granddaughter this year. Their son is deceased and their daughter lives in Kalama, Wash. They have six grandchildren and two greatgrandchildren. The first Saturday of each February brings a long-lived tradition to the Pub and Grub: The Peanut Party. Started by Nellie Poxleitner in 1972, customers are invited to come to the party starting at 10 a.m. where they can eat peanuts and throw the shells on the floor. After 9 p.m., no one younger than 21 is admitted. For the entire month, the peanut shells stay on the floor, soaking up
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KEUTERVILLE — “I was always the new girl. It never really bothered me – I liked to talk and that’s how I made friends,” smiled Linda Elliott. “I learned to socialize that way.” The owner of the Keuterville Pub Linda Elliott, owner and Grub grew up a logger’s daugh1044 Keuterville Road ter who constantly moved around the Northwest with her family. Keuterville, ID 83538 It was while at Happy Camp, 208-962-3090 Calif., that she met her husband, Dewey. She was 15 and he 17 when they married. dirt and releasing their oils on the “It wasn’t that big of a deal then,” floor. she shrugged. “No one really thought “After the last day of February, no we were too young. It’s just the way one better even think of throwing a it was.” peanut shell on my floor,” Elliott Her husband was also a logger but laughed. FREE PRESS / LORIE PALMER she wanted to settle in when they Keuterville Pub and Grub is located at 1044 Keuterville Road. From birthday parties and prom had their children, a son and a dinners to local Mark Riener playing daughter. They made their home in 2007. customers out to the Pub and Grub. the Pub and Grub piano, Elliott said Dinsmore, Calif. “I love it,” she said. Her husband Locals come in but so do many she has made many friends. When his logging years had come helps cook and they have another other customers. Whether it is for “I bake and give away about 169 to an end, the couple began to look two employees. Elliot enjoys baking Taco Tuesday, Chicken Fried Steak rum cakes at Christmastime,” she for a place to retire. bread and rolls and cooking. Wednesday, cook’s choice meals or to smiled. “My customers are my “It was between Elk City and the Especially popular are “Taco Tues- have a cup of coffee or an ice-cold friends, my family.” Cottonwood area,” Elliott recalled. days” which bring She was bringing people from all along her parents over. and her mother, Elliott has a who had multiple guest book notesclerosis, told her book where people — Linda Elliott sign in and in July she didn’t know that she could live Keuterville Pub and Grub owner, it saw people from in Elk City. on her life at the restaurant, bar England, Germany, The family Montana, New Jerended up in Keutersey and Wisconsin, ville in 1996 and it to name a few. was a need to have “I have 32 of these books starting a little time away from caregiving in 2004 — it’s history,” she said. that brought Elliott to the Pub and Elliott said she has had to build up Grub. the good reputation of her business “I asked if I could wash dishes – and make it a destination for cusjust something to take my mind off of tomers. other things and get a little break “This is not just a place you hapthat way,” she said. It started with pen upon driving by for the most dishwashing and filling salt and pep- part,” she laughed. “You have to want per shakers and worked into serving to come here.” and cooking. Soon, she knew how to Elliott said the whole community do a little bit of everything. is supportive and she appreciates Dog When she found that the business Bark Park and the Monastery of St. FREE PRESS / LORIE PALMER would be closing its doors, she leased Gertude, as well as many people and Keuterville Pub and Grub owner Linda Elliott goes through her most recent guest sign-in book. She has 32 books of sigit in 2005 and then purchased it in businesses in Grangeville, sending natures since 2004, which includes many out-of-country visitors.
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House Call Vet: Kim Wolfrum
BY LORIE PALMER IDAHO COUNTY FREE PRESS
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Dr. Kim Wolfrum is the House Call Vet.
GRANGEVILLE — The calling to be a veterinarian came early for Kim Wolfrum. “My mom told me I started saying I was going to be a vet in kindergarten,” Wolfrum smiled. “I would bring home strays and if they were ill, nurse them back to health.” Veterinarian Kim Wolfrum obtained her DVM in 1999 from Washington State University’s veterinary school and has spent the past 16 years working for various clinics. She started out in a mixed animal clinic in western Washington. “I was just kind of thrown into it,” she recalled. She went on to work in Spokane and then her family moved to Grangeville where she worked for Virgil Frei, Phil Volkman, and filled in for other vets. In May, she decided to go out on her own. “I saw a need for a house call business,” she said. She has started House Call Vet, specializing in home veterinary care, and is up and running. Wolfrum is mainly providing small animal care and does not do emergency work. “I do exams, dental work, vaccinations and deworming,” she said.
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House Call Vet Kim Wolfrum, owner Grangeville 208-553-9283 HouseCallVetdrKim@Gmail.Com This includes horses. Any work she does not feel comfortable doing she will refer to a local veterinarian clinic. She also offers cat spays and neuters and dog neutering (no spaying for dogs). In addition, she can provide dental exams and teeth cleaning as well as extractions. Wolfrum will make house calls with a $20 visit charge for pets and then vaccinations and deworming start at $6 and go up from there. Other costs depend on the procedures. She will see 4-H small animals, rabbits, lizards, snakes, tortoises and turtles, other pocket pets and more. “I didn’t want to do something full time, as I am a mom to four children first,” she said. “But I did see a need for home visits, especially for people who may have several small animals to round up, or elderly people who cannot get out easily.”
Balancing family and a career is oftentimes overwhelming, she said. “We [women] are told ‘you can have it all,’ and I’m here to tell you that is not true,” she said. “My family has been my first priority: raising my kids and being there for them. Now that my youngest is older and in school, I am able to do a little more with my career.” Wolfrum said she has a flexible schedule and her children can also be a help to her when they are available and she has a house call. Fortunately, she has not seen much prejudice in what was once a male-dominated profession. “In fact, sometimes it has worked to my advantage because I don’t pose a threat and people may feel more comfortable with me,” she said. Wolfrum’s main concentration will be Grangeville and the surrounding areas but she will travel to where she is called, as long as the customer understands there is a fee for extra mileage. She will be spending a day a month in Elk City to assist with pets there. House Call Vet will also be offering various discounts throughout the months such as 4-H and senior rates. To reach Dr. Kim Wolfrum call 553-9283 or e-mail HOUSECALL VETDRKIM@GMAIL.COM.
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