The best man I know
By Ben Olson Reader Staff The world is shining a little dimmer this week. Ted Bowers, one of the greatest human beings I’ve ever had the pleasure to know, has passed away from a...
Category: Ted Bowers
Choosing your contractor
By Ted Bowers Reader Columnist For the first 10 years of my career as a builder in Sandpoint, my contract with customers consisted of a verbal agreement and a handshake. We relied on each...
Notes of a Builder:
By Ted Bowers Reader Columnist In my last article I wrote about safety and what we can do to prevent accidents and injuries. My wife pointed out after reading it that I had left...
So you wanna build something?
By Ted Bowers Reader Columnist Editor’s note: In Ted’s last column, he discussed the importance of making a plan before you build. In this Part II, he talks about scale drawings of your project...
So you wanna build something?
By Ted Bowers Reader Builder Columnist So you have a building project you want to undertake. Where do you start? What comes next? Presumably you know what you want, but not quite sure of...
Let’s be Frank about the Earl-Y days: Part 3
By Ted Bowers Reader Columnist In this final article about the “Early” days, I thought I would talk about some of our more memorable jobs with Boles Construction. The Oddfellows remodel: we got the...
Let’s be Frank about the Earl-y days: Part 2
By Ted Bowers Reader Columnist In the mid 1970’s Sandpoint still had much of its small town flavor. The tourist industry was still in its infancy and the economy was largely timber based. The...
