Blaine County Beacon: Combining a Love for Food and Art

After Shanna Holmes graduated in 1998 from Chinook High School, she pursued religious studies by attending Rocky Mountain Ministry Center in Choteau, Montana, and participated in a ministry-based internship program for two years from 2001-2003. Aside from a few volunteer positions with youth groups, however, she didn't pursue any ministry positions beyond that.

Instead, Holmes traveled to Oregon, where she worked as a vault teller at a bank. Here, in 2003 she met Tim Wiegman, who was the finance director for a local non-profit. "He would bring in deposits, and that's basically how we met," Hol...