Helke Construction LLC

About Helke Construction LLC

Out past the old pilings still standing in Somers Bay — the last visible trace of the lumber mill that once ran this shoreline — the Swan Range catches the day's last light while Flathead Lake goes flat and grey with evening. Helke Construction LLC works the streets nearest that old mill site into the dusk, clearing driveways for the homes that now sit where mill housing and yards used to be. The lake's damp, heavy snow clings to roofs and rails here longer than it clings to pavement, so a driveway plowed at 5 p.m. is often the last visible clean surface on a block gone soft white everywhere else. Getting that pass in before full dark matters on a shoreline with narrow lanes and limited turnaround room, where a stuck vehicle can block a whole street rather than just one driveway. As the Swan Range fades into silhouette and the lake finally goes dark, the evening's routes are finished, streets and driveways cleared before Somers turns in for the night.