[Theme: Boots] Page Templates Not Fitting What I Need

Hi. I somehow got volunteered to overhaul my organization’s website and I am completely new to WordPress (and web page building in general!) so please forgive me for my ignorance. The Page templates in the Boots Theme don’t quite work for what we need. Our site is not a blog but rather a regular website to disseminate info so we don’t need comment/reply functionality or the “you may use these HTML tags and attributes” section that are built into most of the page templates for this theme. The Front Portfolio Template removes those items but it also removes the side bar, which I really need to make it mobile-user friendly. I know the code for this template can be tweaked to add a sidebar but being completely new to this kind of stuff I have no idea how or where to do this. I have not published the page I’ve built so I have not included a link to our website. I can provide screen shots if needed. Is there anyone that can help me out with this? Please and thank you!!!

Justin