Missoula Valley March 2017

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MARCH 2017 PUBLISHER

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with all precious and pleasant riches.

– Proverbs 24:3-4

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y childhood friend Shannon had the entire Barbie set-up: the dream house, the pink Corvette, at least a dozen Barbie dolls.

And she used to play with them. I had Barbies, too, but they sat in my toy box. I remember wishing so hard that I'd want to play "House" with my Barbies as much as she did. Instead, I've collected a few experiences that have helped me narrow down what I'd like in my dream house.

It began at age 9 when I informed my parents that I would be moving out of the twostory house I shared with them (read: they shared with me) and into my life-size doll house (read: the one they gave me for my birthday). I didn’t pack much nor did I consider the matter of plumbing. There wasn’t any.

I was back at home in a few hours, nevertheless yearning for a place to call my own with, I was hoping, plumbing.

It continued when I started looking for my first place in Missoula. I thought it terribly odd that many of the listings for rooms and apartments on Craigslist advertised a gear closet or “tons of space for all your gear.” What gear? Oh, the gear that goes with living in a four-season playground. After more than three years here, I’ve collected my fair share of gear.

My first home, which I hope to purchase this year, will have a gear closet.

Lastly, I read Anthony Bourdain’s book Kitchen Confidential years ago and, while I enjoyed it and went on to watch the TV show that was inspired by it, I really only remember one thing about it. In his typically crass and endearing East Coast manner, he decries knife sets and then pleads with his reader, “Please believe me, here’s all you will ever need in the knife department: ONE good chef ’s knife, as large as is comfortable for your hand.”

His words have stayed with me, and since reading them, I’ve been searching for that one good chef ’s knife that will one day sit in a drawer in my very own kitchen.

But what I’d really like to have in my dream house, above all else, even indoor plumbing, a gear closet, and a good chef ’s knife, are the precious and pleasant riches of love, happiness, joy, and peace.

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March 2017

Departments

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Good Times

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Around Town

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Inspired By

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Page Turners

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Financial Buzz

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Tech Savvy

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Lifestyle Calendar

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Parting Thoughts

14 Less Is More

Builder Steve Loken re-envisions the home.

20 Tiny Home under the Big Sky

Bitterroot couple goes tiny to live big in their retirement.

26 Live. Work. Play.

A new way of living comes to our community.

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WATER

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Good Times

Winter Break

The cold didn't stop the fun. In fact, it invited it! Community members frolicked in the snow and participated in winter games at The Ranch Club's annual Winter Fest, a fundraiser for Cystic Fibrosis and Meals on Wheels.

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Around Town

AROUND TOWN

THE SECOND SHOW BRINGS FOUR Radius Gallery opens its second exhibition of the year on Friday, March 3.

The show, which runs through April 8, features the works of four regional artists: LeAnn Boyd, a fresco painter from Missoula; Crista Ann Ames, a ceramicist from Missoula; Doug Turman, a painter from Helena; and Ric Gendron, a painter from Spokane. The gallery is located downtown at 114 E. Main. For more information about the show and the artists, visit RadiusGallery.com.

ARTISAN SHOW IN THE BITTERROOT 'Tis the season (almost) for craft shows and farmers markets! Let's

OUR GIVING SPIRIT

kick the season off with an Artisan show hosted by C C Salvage and Re-Purpose at St. Mary's Family Center, 315 Charlos St., in

It's no surprise to us, but the Peace Corps recently named Missoula

Stevensville on Friday, March 24 and Saturday, March 25. You'll

the No. 1 metro area for producing volunteers per capita in 2016. Out

find quality hand-crafted or re-crafted items ranging from knives to

of every 100,000 residents, 12.3 people in Missoula volunteer with the

furniture, soap and artisan foods to blacksmithing and metal works.

Peace Corps. Missoula previously made the top spot in 2011. Currently,

You'll of course find everything in between as well! There are 50-60

there are 24 UM alumni volunteers worldwide, for a total of 847 UM

booths available to vendors so if you're interested in selling or dis-

volunteers since the Peace Corps’ founding in 1961. “The University of

playing your craft or product, please call 406.360.9767. Otherwise, see

Montana has a long tradition as a top contributor of volunteers who

you there browsing the goods from our talented community folks.

answer the call to serve the mission of world peace and friendship,”

Check C C Salvage and Re-Purpose's Facebook page for updates!

said David Reese, Peace Corps supervisory public affairs specialist.

“We are grateful and proud of the university’s development of globally

AN EVENING WITH GARRISON KEILLOR

aware individuals with the commitment to make a difference through

Garrison Keillor, the author, storyteller, humorist, and radio personality best

service in host communities around the world as Peace Corps vol-

known as the creator and host of “Prairie Home Companion,” returns to the

unteers.” If you're interested in Peace Corps opportunities, call Terri

Garden City on Tuesday, April 4 at the Dennison Theatre on the UM campus.

Nichols, UM Peace Corps campus representative, at 406.243.2839.

The event, hosted by Dennison Theatre Productions and UM Productions,

STYLE UP YOUR WALLS

will begin at 7:30 p.m., with a book signing to follow at 9 p.m. Tickets are available at all GrizTix locations, including online at UMT.edu/griztix, and

With spring right around the corner maybe it's

at the Adams Center Box Office. Tickets also may be purchased by calling

time for some spring cleaning or redecorating.

406.243.4051 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Keillor last

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SPRINGTIME PLANETARIUM SHOWS Get your tickets for one of the best shows in town—one that showcases what makes up Big Sky Country. The University of Montana’s Department of Physics and Astronomy invites the public to its spring semester planetarium shows in the Payne Family Native American Center Star Gazing Room. The 50-minute shows are offered at 6:30 and 8 p.m. Fridays on the following dates: March 3, 17 and 31; April 14 and 28; and May 12. Each program will

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take attendees on a tour of the current night skies of Missoula, pointing out noteworthy objects, constellations, planets, or upcoming events visible in

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Inspired By

LESS IS

MORE

BUILDER STEVE LOKEN RE-ENVISIONS THE HOME

W

hen he was a boy, Steve Loken spent many weekends taking apart buildings.

He and his father would pack a lunch and drive out with two crowbars to the barns and houses slated to be razed in the path of I-90.

“We built our farm and outbuildings out of materials that were going to be thrown away,” Loken recalled.

What his father taught him has stuck and Loken has spent more than 40 years taking the old and turning it into the new. When he looks at a landfill, he sees a resource repository.

When he gazes at an aging house, he imagines all the embodied energy in its materials.

Loken arrived in Montana by bike in the 1970s.

He pedaled his way across the state to Libby where they were just wrapping up construction of the Libby Dam. To ready for the flooding of the river behind the dam, all the trees had been clear cut and burned below the high water mark on the Kootenai River—for 90 miles.

“I saw the dam sitting there, and I thought, this is the most horrible thing you can do to land,” he remembered. “So I made this commitment to energy conservation. I thought if I could combine building skills with energy conservation, we wouldn’t need dams like that.”

For Loken, this has meant improving the efficiency of the houses that are already built.

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ARTICLE NICHOLAS LITTMAN | PHOTOGRAPHY PAMELA DUNN-PARRISH

“There’s been this big drive to make new net-zero

Loken was thrilled to see the public’s interest in building

energy houses, but 99% of the existing housing stock is

with alternative materials but he also recognized where he

in terrible shape,” Loken explained. He offered an anal-

was still falling short. “I felt more guilty about ReCraft 90

ogy: “Not everyone should go out and buy Priuses if we

being a single-family, suburban home than anyone else.”

can fix up, tune up, and repair the stuff we’ve got.”

One of his long-term visions has been to integrate

Much of the work his construction company—Loken

shelter with transportation, food production, and com-

Builders—has taken on over the last 40 years has been the

munity revitalization. In 2008, his vision began to take

transformation of old, ugly, highly inefficient houses into

form with the Dakota Greens Restoration.

new, attractive, efficient dwellings that support and benefit

For years Dakota Street was industrial, ugly and

the surrounding ecosystem. A transformation could include

blighted. Loken gradually bought properties along it.

adding windows or awnings to improve the solar passivity

When the City decided to expand the Milwaukee Trail

of a home, installing permeable driveways to allow storm

bike path along Dakota, Loken proposed turning half of

water to infiltrate, or simply putting insulation in the attic.

the wide street into a greenway. In 2013, Loken finished

Loken estimated that 50-60% of houses in Missoula do not

the next stage of the project by building two medi-

have insulated attics despite this being one of the cheapest

um-density housing units. The units achieved close to

and easiest ways to improve the efficiency of a home.

zero waste through the use of existing building materials,

When Loken remodels a home, he is acutely aware

recycled steel, and renewable wood-fiber siding.

both of the materials he uses and the waste he gener-

In the third phase of the project, Loken plans to build

ates. A typical construction jobsite wastes a quarter of all

high-efficiency condos with roof top gardens along Dakota.

the materials it buys. Reducing that waste not only limits

It’s all part of Loken’s aim to redirect the current model

the amount put into the landfill, but also reduces the cost

of growth in Missoula from suburban sprawl out into the

and the ecological footprint of the home.

county to the infill of housing within the city. He’d like to see

In 1990, Loken set out to build a single-family home for

much of the land within the county remain in agricultural

his family. His goal was to show that the standard American

production. Derelict houses within the city could also be

suburban home could be built almost entirely from recycled

turned into urban gardens and non-derelict houses could

products. When completed, the ReCraft 90 home in Lincoln

be retrofitted to last another hundred years.

Hills used 20% of the standard 11,000 board feet of lumber (enough to fill 2.5 logging trucks) used to frame a home. The

“I want to see the restoration of cities, so that cities are producers rather than just consumers,” Loken said.

insulation was made of bits of cellulose from newspaper, the

As the cost of building materials and land rises and

bathroom tiles were recycled glass from car windshields,

the amount of virgin resources declines, Loken’s vision

and the carpets were made of plastic milk jugs. The home

of remaking the homes we already have using waste and

caught the attention of builders, architects, and homeowners

recycled products could be the smartest, cleanest, and

around the country and over 12,000 people toured through

most economically sound choice for our future.

it. It became an example of how conventional homes could

“We could be moving toward ephemeralization,”

be built using waste products we already had rather than

Loken said hopefully. “Light, strong, and efficient instead

cutting and mining precious virgin resources.

of heavy, dense, and massive.”

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Page Turners

a i l o n g Ma Story

'FIXER UPPER' COUPLE CHIP AND JOANNA GAINES SHARE THEIR STORY

ARTICLE CHELSEA LYN DRAKE

JUST GO HOME. YOU NEED YOU SOME

home.

Paired with the ever memorable tune these words are sung to is the familiar jingle of a Tuesday night in front of the television. We’ve come to know and love Chip and Joanna Gaines, stars of the hit HGTV show Fixer Upper, for their indisputable chemistry and innate, mesmerizing talent for creating a home—in every sense of the word.

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With the release of their first book The Magnolia Story, we now have the perfect reason to love them even more. From the first crack of its binding, The Magnolia Story is the real cookie-cutter American story of success and love. Boy meets girl, girl likes the quirky charm of boy, boy makes rash decisions, boy buys a deteriorating boathouse to call home, girl still loves the quirky charm of boy. And so they go on taking chances on each other and their small-gone-large business.

Ok, so maybe it’s far from cookie-cutter but their unique partnership in business, and the business itself, is what originally set the Gaines apart when they were first approached about a TV show featuring their lives and their business of helping people find their maybe-not-so-perfect home and recreating it to match their dream space. It’s a story of grand ideas and emerging into entrepreneurship while braving the tides that rolled against them.

It might have been Chip and Joanna’s wish upon these pages to inspire persistence in the name of chasing a dream, even when you’re unsure what that dream looks like in its entirety.

These pages will transport you to Chip and Jo’s very beginnings and wind you through their financial journey, among many larger ones that interweave. You’ll applaud their perseverance when times got tough—really tough—and the way they held onto their faith and each other, looking up and forward and never back unless to marvel at the path that led them home.

You’ll burst into laughter frequently and no longer need to wonder if Chip is as funny in print as he is on screen. The answer is a resounding yes. Chapter by chapter you’ll honeymoon in New York, see the renovations of countless homes turned flips, cringe when you find out what happens when Chip was left alone with their first baby, and tear up over the way in which they came upon their farmhouse. Everything from their engagement to the budding of their family and business is a labor of love, a portrait of home and all the things that make it so.

Most importantly, these pages hold the promise of renewal.

This isn’t some strike it rich story. This is the reminder that the art of doing what’s right isn’t lost, that the American dream isn’t a low-hanging fruit to which we are all entitled a ladder. It is a job well done, a story for everyone.

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Financial Buzz

ARTICLE RBC WEALTH MANAGEMENT AND GARY KIEMELE

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UNDER THE

Bitterroot couple goes tiny to live big in their retirement ARTICLE CHELSEA LYN DRAKE | PHOTOGRAPHY PAMELA DUNN-PARRISH

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ne hundred ninety-six square feet. Four walls, six wheels, one 8- by 26-foot frame. One big adventure.

A lot goes into a livable space—somewhere to sleep, somewhere to stow food,

a place to cook that food, a bathroom, a place to play, and maybe somewhere to do laundry if we’re really living, but in truth, these are the essentials. As Americans, the size of the room in which we keep or do these things varies, often tipping the scale toward larger, grander, or (dare we mention) more toward the overused open floor plan concept. Our designs are vast and accommodating, towering and overwhelming when our homes aren’t at maximum capacity.

Stepping into Kathleen Lankford and Andrew Reilly’s tiny home is a much different portrait. Its first impression is a big one, despite its size. There’s little left to the imagination since nearly every nook is visible from the entrance. It’s their home in all the ways they know it to be. Just tiny.

You wanted to give tiny home living a try. How’d you make it happen?

Kathleen: We got ourselves mentally adjusted to tiny living. “Think tiny,” we kept telling ourselves. Once we adjusted to that, the physical part is a little bit easier. We were hooked on HGTV’s Tiny House Hunters and I remember saying, CONTINUED >

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TINY HOME (CON TI N UED)

“That’s how we should retire. We’ll start living tiny.” And Andrew took it and ran with it.

Andrew: I did, and we found a company that would comply with RV codes according to the Recreation Vehicle Industry Association. That would give us the liberty of parking it in RV parks all over the country and have a better chance of finding places that would allow us to be there.

What did you have to give up or sacrifice along the way?

think about the things that you’ve sold or given away.

What’s been the most convenient thing about tiny home living thus far?

K: Cleaning. Under an hour and with a dust-buster!

What’s been the most inconvenient or frustrating?

K: Like any new house, there’s always going to be things that aren't working properly or don't fit properly.

A: Kathleen says to put things back where they go because it’s a tiny space. If a few things get left out, it’ll start to look messy.

K: We were coming from a 2,100-square-foot home, so it was a lot

K: The uncertainty of things, maybe, not working or malfunctioning

of selling off personal items, selling off furniture, trying to downsize

is always there because it’s so new to us, and this has been somewhat

as much as possible and it actually felt very freeing to know that we

of a major transition for us. For instance, the vibration of the wash-

weren’t tied down by all of these possessions. It was difficult. It’s dif-

er-dryer combo made me feel like the whole place was going to fold

ficult to part with things that you think are important, but after you

up and collapse. And, of course, our location. Temperatures plunging

live without them you realize that you don’t really miss them. The

into the negatives [like it did in December and January] can wreak

important things are things like family and each other, and you don’t

havoc on our water system. The tiny homes still fall into a grey area

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because they’re such a new concept, so we

You have a dog. How’s he been adjusting?

often aren’t sure if we should call a plumber

K: He’s a golden retriever. He had no problem

or someone else who might be familiar with

going up the steps, and we have this narrow

their mini systems, which is hard to find!

hallway leading back to our “great room” and

A: The tiny home has definitely been put

since he can’t turn around in it he’s learned to

to the test with this year’s winter weather,

just back all the way up to the kitchen. He’s just

and it’s holding its heat really well.

always happy to be with us anywhere we go.

What’s been the funniest?

A: (Laughs) She keeps bumping her head going upstairs.

K: Yes! You have to duck a lot more than in a regular house. Also, now that it’s been taken

Do you have any advice for someone looking to downsize?

K: Do your research.

A: Pick one thing you want to keep and throw the rest out!

care of, there was this one…incident. The inci-

K: Find something that adapts to your life-

dent of the frozen waste. There was chiseling

style. Don’t get bogged down with material

involved, hot water, and perseverance. Thank

things because you only need what you're

God for hairdryers and pipes not bursting!

going to use. You don’t need all of the extras.

This was a product of our water issues when

We have two bowls and two plates because

the temperatures dropped into the negatives.

we’re two people. Keep what you need.

A: But that’s water under the bridge now, or down the pipe.

What’s your favorite thing about your new home?

Who would you recommend tiny home living for?

K: Anyone who’s single, maybe someone who doesn’t want permanency. I’d recommend

K: It’s just quaint. It’s tiny and adorable. It

it to people like us—retirees, empty nesters. I

has a nice feel about it. You feel very comfy

wouldn’t raise a family in one, but that’s just me.

and cozy when you’re in here.

A: We got our little tiny dish for the TV that matches our tiny home.

How tiny is too tiny? Do you find this livable space to be actually livable?

Out of all the time you’ve spent in your tiny home, do you have a favorite spot that you like to relax and just enjoy that space?

K: Yes, it’s my cozy spot upstairs in the loft.

I always dreamed of having a spot just for

K: I do. I think a person can adapt to any

myself, and during the day that’s where I like

space that they live in. It’s not difficult; you

to hang out. I painted a little bed for my grand-

just have to be accepting of it.

daughter and filled it with a dozen pillows

A: As long as we have each other, there’s no place like a tiny home.

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PHOTOGRAPHY PAMELA DUNN-PARRISH

A NEW WAY OF LIVING COMES TO OUR COMMUNITY

M

ore than a decade ago, in the heart

River were surrounded by a Superfund site,

planted the seed that has now grown into the Old Sawmill District.

of downtown, stood the remnants of

and those taking advantage of the city’s

a ghost. Today, the long-known “mill site,”

favorite trail system were treated to views

which had been left vacant since the early

of metal fencing and mounds of scrap.

“[Former] Mayor Mike Kadas told Ed in so many words, ‘If you really want a proj-

1990s and been an eyesore for Missoulians,

Its future was about to change.

ect, we have this problem in the center of

is the Old Sawmill District, a community

In the early 2000s, Ed Wetherbee, who

town,’” Leslie said.

within a community comprised of all kinds

had been running a venture capital firm

Around the same time, Leslie introduced Ed

of residences, businesses, and amenities—

in Boulder and would later become an

to Kevin Mytty, owner of Quality Construction

exactly like what you’d find in neighborhoods

Economic Development consultant to the

and other local businesses, who was also

across the world—as well as a 14-acre park

Montana Department of Commerce, was

unofficially looking to do “something.”

open to Old Sawmill District residents and

spending significant time in the Garden

He and Ed became fast friends and then

Missoulians alike. It’s all about “Live. Work.

City on business. He also was courting

business partners. They agreed to clean up

Play.,” the district’s motto.

his now-wife Leslie, a second-generation

and develop the land and were “the ones

The site was not merely a vacant lot. The

Missoulian. Ed wasn’t specifically look-

who took it through the entire process,” she

popular Riverfront Trail and the Clark Fork

ing for a real estate project, but a friend

said, which was no small feat.

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Site map of the Old Sawmill District

Leslie and Ed Wetherbee

Rendering of Cambium Corner

Rendering of UGlobal

Polleys Square

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OLD SAWMILL DISTRICT Development Sales Office 875 Wyoming St., Suite 101 Contact: Leslie Wetherbee 406.880.4537 LeslieW@Windermere.com OldSawmillDistrict.com

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The task of revitalizing this “problem” from Superfund site to super development didn’t move super-fast, though. It required a monumental amount of effort, and the clean-up added significant time with the involvement of the DEQ and EPA. “Every time they did another step everybody had to review it again.

Each step took about six months,” Leslie said, recalling the hurdles they faced. “The actual clean-up didn’t take long. It was figuring out what was there and what needed to happen.”

Nearly everything onsite was recycled or reused. In the end, more than 50,000 cubic yards of wood waste were hauled to Eko Compost and distributed in other city parks and the discarded metal siding is now seen on the roofs of the pavilions in Silver Park.

As the site’s buildings were taken apart, many people bought the individual beams. Those beams now sit in homes all over town as

FIRST IN LINE R

oy and Delia Campfield were the first to reserve a condominium in Polleys

Square and they celebrated alongside the

commemoration of Missoula’s past.

Toward the end of the clean-up, around 2010, Ed and Leslie

Wetherbees at the ribbon-cutting ceremony

decided to take on the vertical development themselves to preserve

when the complex opened last year. The cou-

their vision for the site. They collaborated with the city, their neigh-

ple had lived on the south side of Missoula

bors, and their friends and family on what would be best for and

for many years, but they were looking to

most wanted in the community. A plot of land on the west side of

downsize and for a place with easy access

the property was sold to Homeword to build affordable housing. The

to the activities they enjoy. They found the

land for Silver Park was donated to the city, thus ensuring that no

answer in the Old Sawmill District.

Initially, the Campfields were cautious

house would be built along the river.

In June 2015, Ed and Leslie finally broke ground on the first proj-

about living in a condominium, but they

ect in the Old Sawmill District, Polleys Square, four condominium

quickly changed their minds. “We love it.

buildings and the first buyers moved in a little more than a year

We say that to each other daily,” said Delia.

later. Now, only a handful of units remain on the market. Once

“It’s a community within a community.”

Houston

inside, it is easy to see why.

residents

Trey

and

Annie

The Old Sawmill District, once completed, will consist of a com-

Gillespie are one of the newest owners in

munity for seniors (age 55+) affiliated with UM Extended & Lifelong

Polleys Square. They were looking to spend

Learning; UGlobal, student housing catering to upper-class students;

their retirement years in a progressive com-

residential lots for townhomes, apartment-style residences, and

munity with vibrant cultural and outdoor

attached and cottage-style homes; mixed-use commercial space

offerings. Annie was already familiar with

featuring, among other things, a neighborhood market, private offices,

Missoula as she is an alumna of UM, but

shops, and restaurants including the Dog and Bicycle Bakery Café and

Trey visited in 2015 and fell in love. Then a

a gastropub with 40 beers on tap; and Cambium Place.

fateful conversation with a fellow patron at

Leslie’s eyes especially shone when she spoke of Cambium Place, a

the Mo Club about the Old Sawmill District

community in itself that will consist of about 65 high-end rental units.

led them to Polleys Square and their home

Residents will be free from the burdens of homeownership but can still

search promptly ended.

find the sense of community often lacking in apartment living. Features

“The project reflects Leslie and Ed’s

will include housekeeping, laundry service, and a clubhouse-style

pride in ownership. We’ve had great per-

large-format dining space, among much more.

sonal interaction with them and the team

During the design process, it remained paramount to the Wetherbees

they have assembled,” Trey said. “The

that the Old Sawmill District be a neighborhood, not merely a cluster of

Old Sawmill District was the place we had

buildings. And it seems that they did so.

imagined in our minds and on top of it, it

“This is a new lifestyle for Missoula that people haven’t expe-

was in Missoula.”

rienced but that people are looking for. I hear that a lot,” Leslie said. “It’s getting back to having neighbors, and it’s growing into a wonderful community.”

CONTINUED >

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Parting Thoughts

Nesting THE BLUEPRINT OF LIFE

ARTICLE CHELSEA LYN DRAKE

N

esting, by my definition, is the readying

be built into our garage window and then a

of one’s arrival—perhaps even my own.

house for our first pair of goats. These drawings

My mother, whom I’ve always considered a

seemed to be permanent residents in the most

professional home decorator, nested when

inconvenient places—on the kitchen table,

she was just a child, buying things for a home

kitchen counter, bedroom dresser, and dash-

she didn’t yet have. My brothers and sisters

board of the truck. Even when projects come

nested for their children, collecting clothes,

and go, I still find these beginnings in our mail

painting the little one’s room—making every-

bin at home or tucked into the to-do list folder

thing picture perfect to make up for all the

that obviously isn’t quite up-to-date.

days it would never look like that again.

I guess I never realized the love I have for this

I never nested as a child. I wrote about my

area of our lives, the love we both have for it.

hopes and dreams, so I suppose that’s one in

It’s in the hay we spread for a new animal that

the same. I created and tidied a room in my

hasn’t yet arrived, or in the backbreaking trips

mind where I could go and daydream the life

to and from the feed store with bags of grain

I was in the middle of building.

or salt blocks that I’ll never quite figure out how

My nesting had an official beginning when I

to carry. This love trails through the house and

was under contract with my first home. It con-

falls from our clothes. It readies a fire when

sisted of some pillows, a couch, maybe some

we’re almost on empty. It’s the wagging tail that

paint colors. But the real sticks and twigs were

keeps hitting the wall beside the bed, the dark

added when my fiancé printed out an aerial

tinge under our bright eyes. I’ve never known

view of our property and turned it into a blue

happiness like the nesting we’ve done, but my

print—a shed here, maybe a garden here, a

definition of it has been edited. It should include

someday barn over there.

the word repeat, over and over again.

The first drawing with dimensions was a

The someday barn rises high above our

horse shelter, and the second was where fenc-

heads. Its posts and beams are our own. This

ing would go up. Later, several months after

year it will be the place where we share our

moving in, he came home with a drawing of

first dance—where our guests will eat and play

a chicken coop featuring a Plexiglas skylight.

and be present in love. It’s the blueprint of a life

And then there was the cat door that had to

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Certification requires several years of intense training and education in order to gain the required skills for providing the most comprehensive, ethical and competent care available for patients.

I would recommend Dr. Hardy to anyone. He’s a caring surgeon who will make sure that you feel comfortable and he’ll do whatever it takes to treat your problem. I could travel thousands of miles and would not find anybody who can do it better that he could.

- Sydney, diagnosed with Melanoma Skin Cancer

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NORTHWEST PLASTIC SURGERY ASSOCIATES SPECIALIZES IN ALL ASPECTS OF COSMETIC, PLASTIC AND RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY

One of Montana’s most highly trained, well-respected and ethical practices with a high personal standard of excellence and expertise.

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