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Goal: Christi Barr's goal is to provide affordable accounting, business consulting and tax preparation services to the Condon and Seeley Lake areas. History: Barr's grandmother was a school district clerk in the 1930s, 40s and 50s. She said being a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) was something her father always wanted to do but never had the chance. She jokes about accounting being an inherited interest because she too enjoys working with numbers. She said she also gets satisfaction from helpi...
SEELEY LAKE - On Oct. 20, 13 Seeley Lake Elementary (SLE) students from grades five through eight tied on plastic aprons, slipped their hands into disposable food preparation gloves and transformed themselves into the SLE Culinary Club. The club is one of the afterschool offerings made possible by the 21st Century Community Learning Center grant. In keeping with the community focus of the grant, participating students were welcome to invite one adult family member to attend the two-week, Tuesday...
SEELEY LAKE – The large, empty building fronting the Bison and Bear Mall is no longer empty. An estimated 100 people filled the building Saturday Oct. 3 to help launch SLE Outside, the new student-run outdoor equipment co-operative. Though the store does not officially open for business until Nov. 14, some merchandise – skis, bikes, backpacks, clothing from Patagonia and other companies – was already on display and available at 20 percent off to launch-party patrons. Chris Stout, Seeley Lake Ele...
SEELEY LAKE – Most people agree that education needs to be relevant, rather than simply rote learning. Often that gets interpreted as instead of handing students a page filled with numbers to multiply, the teacher poses a word problem. The word problem may go something like this: Jill Salesperson, who works at a theoretical outdoor sports store, must help a theoretical customer with X amount of money decide what theoretical items he can afford to purchase for a theoretical backpacking trip. S...
SEELEY LAKE – Twenty-five years ago Pat Boyd saw a classified ad that Bud's Dairy Hut in Seeley Lake was for sale. She asked her daughters Laurel Daniels and Kim Boyd, "Do you guys want to own an ice cream place?" They said, '"Sure." The three women formed a corporation and bought the business which was housed in a converted garage in the middle of Seeley Lake. One of the first things the family did was choose a new name. After rejecting a number of possibilities, they finally asked t...
