Tim Graff is ready for his turn on Council

Here are some things you should know about Tim Graff, who in January will join Boulder’s City Council.

He is, first of all, persistent. He decided as a teenager in Helena that he wanted to fly helicopters, and applied to every military service branch. None would accept him without a college degree – except, finally, the Army National Guard, which supported his first two years at Montana State and then, two years later, invited him to flight school.

He believes in hard work. Graff says he has worked two jobs for most of his life, starting when he delivered both the Helena Independent Record and the Great Falls Tribune newspapers as a kid. He spent 38 years in the Guard while working full-time — the last 30 of those as a pilot for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.