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Bozeman announces beautification awards

By AMANDA RICKER Chronicle Staff Writer

Artist Beth Livingston got an idea to transform her plain green-grass lawn into a zero-scaped garden that she wouldn’t have to water and where she could display her sculptures.


 Livingston had planned to build the garden this past summer with her mother’s help. When her mother died last spring, her 13-year-old daughter, Lila, volunteered to pick up the slack.

This summer, Lila and her friends helped lay much of the Chief Joseph stone that now covers a roughly 20-by-20 foot patch of the family’s property on West Villard Street. The stone is dotted with native grasses and solar-powered walkway lights.

“We did it in my mom’s honor,” Livingston said Tuesday afternoon. “We just wanted to have a little bit of an environmentally friendly, yet beautiful, sort of native-plant garden.”

The finished landscaping product, which also had some help from Jason Darrow, the Livingston’s neighbor and owner of Higher Ground Landscaping, recently earned a Bozeman Beautification Award for Fabulous Family Landscaping. The city gives out the awards each year to residences and businesses that are improved above and beyond city standards.

“What we loved about (the Livingston’s garden) so much is that it was really a family project,” said Allyson Bristor, associate planner for the city and staff liaison to the nine-member Bozeman Beautification Advisory Board that chooses the recipients of the awards.

“It was just really well done,” Bristor said.

The city has given out the awards for about a decade. The board accepts nominations from the community or board members can make their own nominations.

This year’s other award winners are:

* Young People’s Beautification - Boys & Girls Club for the outdoor playground. Kids at the club helped design it.

* Main Street to Mountains Trail Connection n Bozeman Public Library for the Milwaukee Rail Trail.

* Residential Flower Garden n Sarah Anderson’s residence at 3509 Ravalli St.

* Urban Infill and Remodel n Residences at 522 N. Willson Ave., and 16 E. Peach St., owned by Blake Maxwell.

* Incredible Corner Landscaping n Bill Kleindl’s residence at 401 S. Eighth Ave.

* Entryway Corridor Enhancement n Snowload Building on West Main Street.

* Outstanding Outdoor Patio n Fresco Café on North Seventh Avenue.

* Exceptional Signage n Midwest Welding & Machine on North Seventh Avenue.

* Remarkable Reuse n La Parilla on West Babcock Street., which moved its building from its former location nearby.

* Urban Outdoor Space - Intrinsik Architecture on North Tracy Avenue.

* Industrial Remodel n Wallace Bottling Co. at 802, 810 and 820 N. Wallace Ave.

* Industrial Revitalization n Northside Planned Unit Development at North Rouse and Oak Street.

Amanda Ricker can be reached at aricker@dailychronicle.com or 582-2628.

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piney wrote on Dec 3, 2008 7:42 AM:

" Pretty sure these awards were annouced two months ago. Not very timely reporting. "

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edaras wrote on Dec 3, 2008 11:17 AM:

" Pretty sure it's called xeriscaping, and not zero-scaping. Oy. "

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