Frank Bouten’s first job at Gus J. Bouten Construction Company was emptying wastepaper baskets in the main office. He was six years old. The first college graduate to join the company, Frank was already well on his way to a distinguished military career when he received a phone call in 1960. His father, Gus, had […]
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“Everybody on a construction site has a purpose—including the guy that cleans the outhouses. Thank him once in a while.” I used to write sports stories for my high school newspaper, the Panther Prowls. My brother Bill was the business manager for the paper, and even then I was working for him, selling ads. I
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“If you take pride in everything you do, you’ll never have a problem in your life.” I’m from Ojai, California. Remember The Six Million Dollar Man? That’s where he grew up in the show. Small town; oranges and avocados for miles. The walk to school went right through those orchards, so we ate our breakfast along
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“You can take different roads or different paths, but sometimes your life just goes the direction it’s supposed to go. It just…happens.” I was born in Missoula, but grew up in St. Maries, a little close-knit logging community. My dad and my grandpa both worked for the railroad there. And my mom owned the beauty
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When Bouten first set out to achieve a Best Places to Work Inland Northwest designation in 2023, we never imagined we’d win the first year we entered—let alone receive that distinction three years in a row. Yet here we are. And when you consider that we’re one of only thirty-seven in our region this year,
“I love sports. Any sport. Except golf. I don’t consider that even a sport.” I started my career right out of high school. Just a farm girl from a little town called Fruitland. After graduation I moved to Spokane and completed a six-month secretarial training program. I was recruited out of secretarial school by the
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“I don’t give a damn about any other job. I only care about the one I’m on.” I started at Bouten in 1983. I was twenty-three years old. My grandmother’s neighbor, he was a union laborer, and he was on the hospital project in Chewelah. I’d done odd jobs for him when I was a
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“If you look at your work and you say, ‘I wonder if that’s good enough,’ it’s not.” My first job was at Dick’s when I was still in high school. No kidding. Dick’s Hamburgers. I was a prep cook. Only worked there for about six months, but then I couldn’t get out of the restaurant field
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