NATIVES and newcomerS Every time I go to my parents’ (house on Baldy) and take a walk after a snowfall, I fall in love with winter again. Everything is just peaceful and the whole world is covered with a blanket ... it’s beautiful. If you take the time to slow down and take a walk in it, then you get that feeling of peace from walking in fresh snow. What would make you leave Sandpoint?
My husband and I are planning on getting our master’s degrees eventually, so we would leave to get a master’s degree or if the job market changed. What do you wish Sandpoint had that it doesn’t have now?
Hailey Woodruff Olson
Born in Sandpoint in 1990 to Kim and Gina Woodruff, Hailey Woodruff Olson grew up sailing, skiing and camping. Last year, she graduated from the University of Idaho with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, married her college sweetheart, Nicholai Olson, and landed her first professional job at Suarez Engineering. Her husband was hired as a mechanical engineer at Tamarack Aerospace. She says they were pretty lucky to find engineering jobs here. For their first summer together in Sandpoint, she and her husband, an Alaska native, participated in the Long Bridge Swim and attended the Festival at Sandpoint. What are some of the things you like about living in Sandpoint?
What would you change if you could?
I didn’t really appreciate Sandpoint as much until I went to Moscow. Here it’s so much easier to be outside and active, get on a trail or go to the beach swimming, or go ski. There’s something to look forward to in every season. My family sails a lot so we do that in summer. In the fall, that’s my favorite; there’s the changing of the colors.
Before I went off to college, I would have said less tourists, but now I understand about economics. What I would change would be a combination of two towns. At Sandpoint you have the mountains and lake. In Moscow you have the vibe that you get with more young adults and a college town. What’s your solution to getting through the long winters here?
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A food coop like Moscow. I know it’s not something big or life changing, but that was my favorite thing in Moscow. It’s more than just selling the local and organic produce; it’s where you can get lunch and meet friends and get coffee. It’s where I could walk to on Saturdays and get my favorite loaf of bread. Any advice for people who want to move to Sandpoint?
You need to invest in the community and really make it your own. Find the thing that you love about it. You move here and find what you love about it and you contribute to it and make it better. Don’t come in here and try to glam it up or make it more commercial. Come here and take our town for face value and ask yourself what you really love about it, and volunteer, attend events and go to local businesses. If you find something you’re passionate about, you’ll want to help it grow and make it better.
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