Dr. James Meserow and Dr. Jayson Lingan do delicate dances to save lives. Meserow, a Maternal Fetal Medicine specialist, and Lingan, a neonatologist at Benefis’ Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, choreograph actions with Benefis’ exceptionally skilled team. When it comes to high-risk moms and babies, everyone knows when and where to move.
A few years back, Brad Cordes worked alongside Jon and Paul Leach in the North Dakota oil fields. Now Cordes is senior estimator for industrial construction at Loenbro, the Leach brothers’ Great Falls-based oilfield services company.
With school colors on his necktie, President Aretz is on the quad, ready for the hands-on challenge of running a bustling Catholic University.
Tony Aretz has always aimed high. After spending much of his military career as a professor at the US Air Force Academy, this retired Lieutenant Colonel set his sights on Catholic higher education on the Rocky Mountain Front. As the new president of the University of Great Falls, he’s working hard—and living the dream.
The Devers, their chocolate lab, and especially their Jack Russell Terrier, ready to hit the Rivers Edge Trail.
“We’ve got blue skies all winter, gorgeous sunrises and sunsets, four brew pubs and an extensive trail system.” It’s hard to get Laura Dever to stop gushing about Great Falls. “We had a blast at Western Art Week. We love the Russell Museum and the First Friday Art Walks…and there’s a women’s hockey team!”
When Chad Dever isn’t busy with his new job as District Two Commander for the Montana Highway Patrol, he and Laura bike and hike with their dogs. The chocolate lab sticks close, but their intrepid Jack Russell Terrier has the soul of an explorer—and a snout full of porcupine quills to prove it.
Whether you’re a local looking for lunch or libation, or a tired traveler in search of supper and a place to hang your hat, Reid and Patrick will greet you at the front door of the Arvon Block.
“It wasn’t until I moved back,” Reid Ellsworth says, “that I realized what makes Great Falls feel like home…People here have the courage to tell the truth—it keeps us genuine.” Reid, whose experience is in the restaurant business, serves as operations manager for the Arvon Block; his husband Patrick Sullivan, a fourth-generation Montana hotelier, is general manager.
Shannon Pippin sits on her porch swing outside her Great Falls home.
