We asked and you answered. We just about doubled votes for the second annual Great Falls Greats contest and here are your top three in most categories. Congrats to the 2021 winners. Head out and about June 24-26 to celebrate them with the first Downtown Block Party and Downtown Night Market on June 24 and the farmers market on June
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The last year has gone by slowly, and quickly, all at the same time in some strange time warp. But here we are again in June for our second annual Great Falls Greats contest. Last year was our first go at such a contest and we had a blast celebrating the things we love about our town and seeing the
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What makes a community? What makes it tick, what excites its residents, what brings them out for fun or civic engagement? What makes them upset, what inspires them to work toward improvement? Every town has things to celebrate and things to improve. All towns have their own character, a unique vibe or community fabric that defines them in some way.
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Sandra Thares runs Big Sky Development Enterprises Inc. doing business as the O’Haire Inn, Sip n’ Dip Lounge, and Clark and Lewie’s Pub and Grill. The Great Falls native moved to Spokane in the 5th grade and completed junior high, high school and college in Billings. Thares moved back to Great Falls in 1992. “I swore I’d never run the family
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Lyndsay Gutierrez of Nourish grew up in Great Falls, joined the military and left for 15 years, then came back to have a daughter and be with family to raise her. Gutierrez taught cooking classes and worked with farms and programs for years, so cooking classes and programs here was a natural, she said. “The food truck is a thing we’ve
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Tamara Podry, 34, owner of Anchor Fitness is from southern California and came to Great Falls for the affordability and “more wholesome lifestyle.” She stayed for that reason and the “opportunity to grow our business, less competition, more room for growth. Also the open space and freedom that Montana has to offer.” Podry said she opened the business here when a
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Seth Swingley, 42, and Casey Kingsland, 42 of Mighty Mo Brew Pub/Mighty Mo Brewing Company Both are from Great Falls. “Great Falls has always been a great place to raise a family and we were excited to see what Great Falls could grow into to keep the younger generations from moving away,” Swingley said. They chose to open in Great Falls
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If you made it to the end of the 2020 Great Falls Great voting form, you saw the Wild Card category. We asked what you thought was the best thing about Great Falls. Great Falls Greats 2020 Winners The question garnered a wide variety of responses but the overwhelming majority said “the people,” “community,” “friendly people” or some variation thereof.
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Andrew Guschausky, 34, Cassiopeia Books opened 5.5 years ago. He was born and raised here. His parents are from Missoula and they moved to Great Falls before he was born because his mother was hired by Hamilton Misfeldt and Co. He stayed because, “although you tend to be less than enchanted with the town you grew up in, I began to
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Drew Hicks, 32, Central Avenue Meats Hicks was born and raised in Geraldine and went to college in Missoula. Then he moved to Denver; Brooklyn, N.Y.; and Colorado Springs until 2017. “I moved home both to take care of my dad, who still lives in Geraldine, but also because I saw an opportunity to start a business in the community I’ve
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