2022
JUNE
NEWSLETTER
Thank you, CATALYST Level Members! Thank you, CATALYST Level Members!
Photo Brad Christensen
POINTS TO PONDER
From the Executive Director
W
hat began 20 years ago as a modest gathering of brewers in Lander’s Jaycee Park has become one of the premier independent craft brew festivals in the Rocky Mountain West. Lander Brewfest, “The Best Little Brewfest in the West” is little no longer. More Brewers Than Ever Before! In 2022, for the first time ever, Lander Brewfest will welcome 30 brewers from Wyoming, (of course!) Colorado, Utah, Montana, and South Dakota. Among them include five winners from the 2022 World Beer Cup, the most prestigious beer competition in the world. In addition to brewers of beer, this year we will feature for the first time a brewer of hard cider and (again) a brewer of CBDinfused hemp seltzer. We aim to provide quality and quantity! Delicious Food from Wyoming Food Trucks! Last year, we made a point of seeking out excellent vendors who would serve up food worthy of excellent beer; the feedback was that we hit the bullseye. This year, we’re featuring local favorite Bunk’s BBQ from Riverton, Mima’s Texas Style Brisket Tacos from Saratoga, and Cody’s Fresh Prince of Steaks. The Lander Kiwanis will be serving up traditional burgers and hot dogs.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Eric Andrews President Fagnant, Lewis & Brinda P.C.
Ann Espinosa Vice President Home Source Realty, Inter Mountain Builders
Chris VonHoltum Treasurer Central Bank & Trust
Jon Tonkowich, Past President Wyoming Catholic College
BOARD OF DIRECTORS Dave Fehringer
Two of Wyoming’s Top Bands! We’re delighted to welcome two of Wyoming’s top bands to Lander Brewfest in 2022. On Friday, Bob Lefevre & the Already Gone from Laramie will be playing their electrified alt-country, and Saturday will feature the exploratory jam and intricate acoustic arrangements of Hoback’s Aaron Davis & The Mystery Machine.
Fremont Engineering
James Whiting Whiting Law PC
Alyssa Lozier Edward Jones
Brewers’ Golf Tournament is Back! The ever popular Brews Golf Tournament will be back in 2022 on Saturday morning. This 9-hole scramble is your chance to have more a personal, specialized, casual, crowd-free experience with the brewers and their craft. Get your foursome signed up for a great time! A HUGE Thank You to Our Sponsors! Without the enthusiastic and generous support of our sponsors, none of the above would be possible. We thank first and foremost our loyal Presenting Sponsor Fremont Toyota. Many thanks also to Platinum Sponsor Wind River Hotel and Casino; Gold Sponsors Holiday Inn Express & Suites and County 10; and Silver Sponsor Shoshone Rose Casino & Hotel. Thanks, too, to our Bronze Sponsors listed on page 3.
Owen Sweeney Executive Director Lander Chamber of Commerce
Tom Davis Fremont Therapy Group
Jennifer Hamilton SageWest Healthcare
PROFESSIONAL STAFF Owen Sweeney Executive Director
Carol King Associate Director
Carlos Solis Membership Services
Jacob Johnson Events Coordinator
Thursday, May 19 Thanks to all the hosts this season! Have a great summer. See you in September.
Business After Hours is an excellent opportunity to showcase your business, make new connections with fellow businesses, and develop new relationships with potential customers. Everyone is invited to attend!
COMMUNITY EVENTS
Business After Hours!
BREWFEST 2022
Friday June 10 5-9 pm Saturday June 11 2-7 pm Lander City Park Great Music, Great Food, Great Fun, and -- oh yes -Great Beer!
20th Annual Lander Brewfest! Special Thanks to Our Sponsors:
EVERY TUESDAY Carnegie Book Nook at the Lander Library 1-5 pm EVERY WEDNESDAY Rotary Club noon, Oxbow Restaurant
1 Kids Corner: What About Owls? Dubois Museum, 10 am
11 Trails Through Fremont County Riverton Museum, 9-2
1 Fremont County Postal History Riverton Museum, 6-7:30 pm
15 Kids Corner: What’s Your Bug? Dubois Museum, 10 am
2 Lander Community Sip ‘n Shop 10-5, Red White Reception Lander Community Buffalo Center, 5:30-7:30 pm 3 First Friday Fremont County Jackson Hole People’s Market, Museums 9-5 Center for the Arts lawn 3 Sinks Canyon Speakers EVERY THURSDAY Series Sawmill Campground, Parkinson’s Support Group, 7pm Lander Senior Center 2-3 pm 4 Kids Free Fishing Day Luckey Kiwanis Club, noon, Mamaw’s Pond, 9am-12:30pm Kitchen @ Inn at Lander (formerly Summit) 4 Final of the Season: MET Opera Lander Library, 10:55 am THIRD THURSDAY Foot Care Clinic, 8-noon, 8 Kids Corner: Create Your Lander Senior Center Own Fossil Dubois Museum, 10 am Dubois Farmers Market, 202 E. Ramshorn St., Dubois 8 Kiwanis After Hours Mamaw’s Kitchen Bar, 5:30pm EVERY FRIDAY Carnegie Book Nook at the 9 Native American Indian Lander Library noon-4 pm Dances Museum of the American West, 7 pm EVERY SATURDAY Lander Valley Farmers Market Lander City Park, 9-11:30am Improv Acoustic Music Jams Lander Art Center 10 am-noon Fremont County Master Gardeners’ Farmers Market Riverton City Hall, 9-11 am SOUTH PASS CITY Carissa Mine & Mill tours Every Thursday-Sunday English Tunnel hike & tour Every Saturday & Sunday
10-11 Lander Brewfest! Fri., June 10, 5-9 pm Sat., June 11, 2-7 pm Lander City Park
15 Native American Indian Dances Museum of the American West, 7 pm
16 The Snow Chi Minh Trail Pioneer Museum, 7-8:30pm 17 Sinks Canyon Speakers Series Sawmill Campground 7pm 18 Lander Area Petroglyphs Trek Pioneer Museum, 10am 18 Lander Reverse Sprint Triathlon register online: landertriathlon.org 22 Kids Corner: Junior Trailblazing Dubois Museum, 10 am 23 Lander Presents Summer Concert Lander City Park 5pm 24-26 62nd Annual Eastern Shoshone Indian Days Powow Fort Washakie Powow Grounds 25 Wyoming Climate Summit Lander Community Center, 9 am-5:30 pm 25 Mapping Adventures Riverton Museum, 2-4 pm
10 Exhibition Art Opening Paint, Water, Wax: 3 Voices, Lander Art Center 6-8 pm
29 Kids Corner: Butter Time Dubois Museum, 10 am
11 Fremont Area Road Tour biking experience 8-noon
29 Native American Indian Dances Museum of the American West, 7 pm
CALENDAR
June Events
NEW MEMBERS
Stanley Steemer has been in business for 75 years and is the industry leader in home cleaning services. We strive for customer satisfaction, with our unparalleled cleaning services, attention to detail and our propriety cleaning equipment and process. Stanley Steemer offers much more than just carpet cleaning; we offer 28 different services out of each truck including hardwood, tile and grout and upholstery services. Our cleaning methods offer the deepest level of clean possible for the floors throughout your home, but we’re also committed to using a process that is safer for your home and your family. That’s why our cleaning solution for carpet and upholstery is EPA Safer Choice certified. No residue or traces of harmful chemicals are left behind, only clean, inviting carpet and upholstery. The same goes for all of our services. We strive to clean using gentle, neutral cleaning agents that are tough on dirt but harmless to the environment as well as to the people and pets that spend time in your home and business. Stanley Steemer gets your home cleaner and healthier! My name is Zach Hildner, and I am the proud owner of Wyoming’s first and only Stanley Steemer franchise. I was born and raised right here in Fremont County and have a deep passion for supporting and contributing to my community. Some of you might know me from my time in the hospitality industry, and for those who don’t, I have devoted much of my professional career to that industry. Now I am taking my skills and starting a new chapter in my life, to start focusing on contributing back to the community. In my eyes Stanley Steemer will help do that, by offering their cleaning services to the great state of Wyoming to help make it a safer, cleaner and healthier environment.
Apple City Studios, Laura Koch As I settle into the next chapter of my life I’ve begun searching for ways to support my community. After 45 years as a Theatrical Technician I retired to Lander with dreams of the enjoying the mountains and the great outdoors. Apple City Studios gives me a platform as an artist & a creative person to explore the wonders of Lander’s unique location. Joining the Chamber of Commerce gives me an opportunity to learn more about the businesses & charitable communities while supporting my new town. Here’s to my next 30 years!
I am a Wyoming native, born in Riverton and raised on a small cattle ranch on the Wind River Indian Reservation. I moved to California in 2007, in search of better weather and a new adventure, where I completed 650 hours of massage school training at Santa Barbara Body Therapy Institute. I subsequently obtained a massage license and successfuly built and maintained a full time massage therapy practice since. I was inspired to become a massage therapist due to learning how to manage chronic muscle tension as a result of having scoliosis. Prior to learning about massage, I spent years suffering from severe muscle tension. Conventional medicine could only offer medication and I did not want to rely on medication my entire life to alleviate my pain. I sought alternatives such as massage. Massage was so helpful in alleviating my chronic pain that it inspired me to learn more and eventually become a massage therapist myself. I feel my own suffering has given me a more profound empathy for my clients and a deeper understanding of pain and how it relates to the body and more importantly how to most effectively relieve that pain. I pride myself on providing a pampering spa experience while effectively treating chronic pain related to muscle tension, leaving my clients relaxed, renewed, Continued on next page
Academy of the Winds, Jenny Schucker, 780 Von Bieker, Lander Bloedorn Lumber Co., Blake Herbst, manager, 116 Washakie St., Lander Bunks BBQ, James & Brigett Bunker, 201 E Washington Ave, Riverton Central Wyoming College Foundation, Beth Monteiro, 2660 Peck Ave., Riverton Community Health Centers of Central WY, 115 Wyoming St., Lander Earth Works Landscaping LLC, Hallie LeBeau, PO Box 1613, Lander Fremont Motor Company, 1731 W. Main St., Lander Fremont Movers, Dwaine Kimmel, PO Box 1417, Riverton
Guschewsky, Alice, 636 Fremont St., Lander Home Source Realty Inc., George Piplica, Broker/Owner, 1632 Main St., Lander Lander Children’s Museum, Colleen Conilogue, Executive Director, 465 Lincoln, Lander Lander Medical Clinic, 745 Buena Vista Dr., Lander LOR Foundation, Ami Vincent, Lander Community Officer, 388 Main St., Ste B, Lander Mamaw’s Kitchen, Rebecca Milleson, 260 Grandview Dr., Lander Stanbury & Strike PC, Jeff Stanbury, Kate Strike, 295 Garfield, Lander Tegeler & Associates, Tim Robeson, Agent/Branch Manager, 194 N. 7th St., Lander
Trihydro, Kathy Brown, 388 Main Street, Suite C, Lander Western Wyoming Medical, 535 E. Main St., Lander Wind River Power Sports, Greg Scott, manager, 192 Main St., Lander Wyoming Windows & Cabinets, Chris & Karlene Moore, 3011 Hwy 287 N, Lander WELCOME NEW MEMBERS Fresh Prince of Steaks, Marc & Erica Delquadro, 3008 Belknap Ct., Cody Massage Angel, Meggan Letchworth, 1255 Main St., Lander Rutz, Kelly, 699 Fox Springs Drive, Riverton Stanley Steemer, Zach Hildner, 1060 Black Blvd., Lander
RENEWING MEMBERS
Thank You, Renewing Members!
Massage Angel, continued from previous page and rejuvenated. I also pride myself on my ability to provide a dynamic and fluid massage style. I use organic and high quality massage products in order to protect and insure the client’s good health and well being as well as my own. I always have and continue to conduct a stringent disinfection process between each massage client to protect the health of myself and my clients. I enjoy affecting positive change in the world and massage is the vehicle I use. I joke that the way to world peace starts with massage. A sense of well being starts in the body. When we feel well physically we can more easily glide through this world with a sense of peace spreading kindness and compassion wherever we may go.
Fresh Prince of Steaks is a food truck out of Cody, with a fresh, fun, funky vibe. Owner and operator Marc Delquadro was born and raised in South Philadelphia, and loves not only meeting the people of Wyoming, but is always stoked to meet and connect with folks from Back East who have come to live the good life Out West. We travel the state serving hot, delicious, authentic Philly cheesesteaks, as well as French fries, fried ravioli, and cheesesteak eggrolls. We serve our cheesesteaks on Amoroso rolls (straight from Philly!), with fried onions, and Cheez Whiz. Our sandwiches are made to order, so exceptions can be made, but if you’re craving an authentic Philly cheesesteak, stop by and grab a classic “Whiz wit” (if you know, you know!). Check us out on Facebook and Instagram for the schedule and menu!