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WOODS BAY — Someone with a well-worded dream and a willingness to risk $150 will be the next owner of a popular restaurant near Flathead Lake this summer.

That’s the hope of the current owners of the Woods Bay Grill.

Back in 2004, sisters Terry Browning and Margaret Davis-Stiger took a leap of faith to purchase the grill on the east side of Flathead Lake.

Neither knew anything about operating a restaurant or running a business back then.

Over the course of the next 13 years, the sisters and Browning’s daughter, Leslie, worked long hours to expand the business to create a hometown café that now draws both locals and tourists year around.

“We want to find someone to carry this on as a restaurant,” Leslie Browning said. “We don’t want them to change it too much. The local community loves this restaurant. Our hope is that it will continue.”

From their own experience, the women knew that purchasing a restaurant and then trying to make payments from the profits they earned was difficult.

“We went for years without a paycheck because we had to pay for the place,” said Davis-Stiger. “We struggled a lot in the beginning.”