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“Powder River Country’s Hometown Newspaper” Volume 5 • Issue 18

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April 29, 2015

This Week’s Highlights • State Won’t Protect Sage Grouse .............................. Page 2 • Petition for Cannabis Vote .......................... Page 3 • A Killing on the Little Missouri .......................... Page 6 • Bold Republic: Eulogizing Common Sense ..... Page 8 • Cole Sports Report ............. Page 11

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Animal Shelter to Host Rabies Vaccination Clinic he City of Gillette Animal Shelter is hosting a Rabies Vaccination Clinic. The Clinic will be held Saturday, May 2nd at the City/County Animal Shelter at 950 W. Warlow Dr. The cost will be $7.00.

What: Rabies Clinic

When: May 2, 2015 from 10:00 A.M. to 2:00 P.M. Where: City/County Animal Shelter, 950 W. Warlow Drive COST: $7:00 - Cash only - Pay at time of clinic - no prepay

- Dogs and Cats only - Must be 3 months of age to receive rabies vaccine - Rabies vaccine is the only vaccine available - Please have dogs on leash or in a carrier

- Please have cats in carriers If you have questions, call the shelter during shelter hours at 686-5249.

Animal Shelter Hours Monday - Friday 1 P.M. - 6 P.M. Saturday 11 A.M. - 3 P.M.

Evans to Speak at Gillette College Graduation Diane Carlson Evans, a former captain in the Army Nurse Corps who served in the Vietnam War and founded the Vietnam Women’s Memorial Foundation, will provide Gillette College’s commencement address on May 15.

Gillette College’s 25th annual Commencement Ceremony, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 7 p.m. inside the Cam-Plex Spirit Hall.

Evans was the first woman in American

history to lead a campaign to place a national monument in Washington, D.C., that recognized the contributions of the 265,000 women who served during the Vietnam War, according to her biography.

The noted bronze monument, portraying three women and a wounded soldier, was dedicated in November 1993, at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in the nation’s capital.

Evans has been a guest lecturer to

more than 200 colleges, universities and high schools through the U.S. She has been awarded three honorary doctorate degrees from Carroll College (Mont.), Haverford College (Penn.) and Scared Heart University (Conn.) and is an active member in the veterans community.

Among her many achievements, Evans has earned the Advocate of the Year Award by the National Association of State Directors of Veterans Affairs; the

Governor’s Excellence award from the State of Minnesota; and the Outstanding Civic Achievement Award by the United Service Organizations in Washington, D.C. Evans lives in Helena, Mont. Her husband, a veteran of the U.S. Army Medical Corps, is a surgeon at the VA Medical Center in Ft. Harrison, Mont.

Wyoming Office of State Lands and Investments Earns $949,035.16 From Oil and Gas Auction The Wyoming Office of State Lands and Investments (OSLI) earned $949,035.16 for the State’s trust beneficiaries during its March oil and gas lease auction held in Cheyenne, Wyoming on March 12, 2015.

Total acreage leased was 51,676.99 acres. Of the 189 parcels offered for

lease, 151 received successful bids.

OSLI is responsible for administering approximately 3.5 million surface acres and approximately 4.1 million subsurface acres, largely entrusted to the State of Wyoming by the Federal Government for the benefit

of 25 separate beneficiaries, the largest of which is the common school (K-12) system. Beneficiaries that benefited from this auction include; Common School, Farm Loan, University of Wyoming, Fish Hatchery, Veteran’s Home, Educational Institutions, Penal Reform and the Agricul-

tural College.

For a complete list of parcels and results from the March auction, and past auctions, please visit our website at lands. wyo.gov The next State of Wyoming oil and gas lease auction will be held in Cheyenne, Wyoming on July 8, 2015.

Cheyenne Attorney Censured by Wyoming Supreme Court The Wyoming Supreme Court has issued an order of public censure of Cheyenne attorney Dion J. Custis.

"Crushing The Competition"

In a criminal appeal, Custis filed a brief that misrepresented the testimony of an important witness.

The Supreme Court sanctioned Custis when the allegations were brought to light.

Following a disciplinary hear-

ing, the court ordered a public censure.

Marijuana Infused Edibles Pose Problem

Judges and attorneys are concerned about how to prosecute possession of edible marijuana products in Wyoming. Under current law, the entire edible, like a cookie or a lollipop is weighed and those in possession of more than three ounces of any marijuana-infused product can be charged with a felony

The Legislature’s Joint Judiciary Committee is tackling the issue over several meetings after hearing concerns during the last legislative session. Senator Leland Christensen chairs that committee and says the Wyoming Controlled Substances Act is too vague on edibles.

“In this case, when we’re start-

ing to talk about what may be in a baked good, are we sure we want to charge for butter and flour and things like that? By today’s definition we would, so those are all issues that are going to get fleshed out as the conversation goes forward.”

The problem is that it is difficult to determine exactly how much

marijuana is in any given edible product without very expensive equipment. Christensen says the committee could have new legislation for next year’s session.

The committee will next meet in Gillette in August.

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Adviser: State Won’t Protect Greater Sage Grouse in Gas Field Submitted by Angus M. Thuermer Jr. - wyofile.com yoming will let the federal government, not a state conservation plan for greater sage grouse, govern how a proposed gas field is developed in critical winter range, a state adviser said last week.

Sage Grouse Implementation Team member Brian Rutledge told a grouse mapping committee the state would let the U.S. Bureau of Land Management determine how Jonah Energy will be able to develop the proposed Normally Pressured Lance gas field in Sublette County. The mapping committee was preparing to vote whether to recommend state corearea protections under Gov. Matt Mead’s executive order be extended to cover 1,500 to 2,000 wintering grouse.

“I have also been told very clearly the [BLM’s Environmental Impact Statement] will be the determining factor on this,” Rutledge said to the mapping group last week. “We expect serious protections in core winter range habitat.” He was referring to an environmental review the BLM is undertaking that analyzes Jonah Energy’s proposal to drill 3,500 wells across 141,000 acres in western Wyoming.

Despite Rutledge’s statement, the mapping panel voted 6-4 to extend Mead’s core-area protections across the gas field, protections that would cut proposed drilling density by three-quarters. The core-area zoning that the mapping panel recommended would limit drilling to only one well pad per 640 acres while Jonah has proposed four times that density. It’s uncertain whether the larger Sage Grouse Implementation Team will accept the mapping panel’s recommendation in its final report to the governor.

As the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service contemplates protecting the greater sage grouse under the Endangered Species Act by October, western states have an opportunity to stave off a full listing by proving their own strategies ensure the bird’s protection.

Wyoming’s core-area strategy, which is said to be the best state plan put forward to date, may be scrutinized based on whether it is adaptable to new scientific information. Protection of the recently documented winter concentration area at NPL could be a test.

The comments by Rutledge, a conservation representative on the governor’s 23-member SGIT and the vice president of Audubon’s Rocky Mountain Regional Office, caused others to question the reason for the statewide panel’s work. Local working groups, biologists and others have spent five years gathering data to support revisions to the governor’s order.

“If the decision has al-

ready been made, I don’t know why we’re talking about it,” SGIT member Brian Jensen said. The state wildlife biologist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resource Conservation Service, Jensen serves on the mapping subcommittee as well as the full SGIT board. sage grouse that winter in the proposed NPL gas field are almost surrounded by other energy development. An interactive map at the Wyoming Geological Survey website describes the existing (green) and planned developments (red outlines).

(Wyoming Geological Survey).

Rutledge and Jensen exchanged their comments at a mapping workshop the evening before members presented their split-vote recommendation to the full SGIT. SGIT will consider the map extension May 6 in Douglas. Gov. Matt Mead is expected to adopt or reject any proposed revisions by Aug. 18.

Although warned of the futility of recommending core-area protections, six members of the mapping committee did so nevertheless, according to the vote tally by Wyoming Game and Fish greater sage grouse coordinator Tom Christiansen. They supported an expanded core-area after Holly Copeland, an ecologist with The Nature Conservancy and a member of the mapping team, said the governor’s executive order protections called for changes based on new information.

State grouse planners skirted the conflict between the planned NPL development and the sage grouse winter concentration areas five years ago, she said. At the time, biologists were told to gather more information in anticipation of this year’s corearea revisions, which they then did.

Compelling new information “We have compelling new information — 1,500 to 2,000 grouse,” Copeland told the mapmakers. “I would feel remiss representing the bird and the ecology saying there shouldn’t be a line on the map representing that important habitat.”

Others may choose to ignore the biology, she said.

But, “it’s the charge of this group to put those on the map,” Copeland said.

“This is one [area] with compelling information.”

Rutledge and Jensen joined Copeland, Christiansen and agriculture representative David Pellatz of Douglas in recommending the entire SGIT expand core-area protection across much of the proposed NPL field in its own pending recommendations to the governor.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Wyoming field supervisor, Mark Sattelberg, also sided with them.

His agency is considering

restrictions on activities and development across 165 million acres of sagebrush country in 11 western states.

Wyoming’s plan and actions are important to Sattelberg’s federal agency because Wyoming holds an estimated 38.8 percent of the world’s greater sage grouse population.

The population of the North American bird numbers somewhere between 200,000 and 500,000, according to USFWS figures.

“For us, it’s still up in the air,” Sattelberg told fellow SGIT members when the entire committee met Wednesday. He told the mapping committee earlier of a new study of wintering grouse that showed “they are very sensitive to disturbance. Hopefully when BLM looks at their EIS they’ll also look at that,” he said.

As Jonah Energy continues to seek BLM approval for its 3,500 wells, a process that could take another year and a half, the company will not drill test wells in winter concentration areas, a representative said.

“We’re committed to suspend any interim development in NPL acreage,” Paul Ulrich, Jonah Energy’s director of government affairs and regulations and a SGIT member told the group. He later specified that the commitment involved winter concentration areas that only cover a portion of the proposed NPL field.

“We’re making that commitment today until we get through the EIS process,” he said. Ulrich will put the commitment in writing and release it once Gov. Mead receives it, he said.

“The concept that there was a lot of conflict over this is a little overblown,” Ulrich said. “All of us want to make sure that winter concentration area is protected.”

If the BLM’s environmental impact statement was not underway “I think we’d all say we support that [core area expansion],” SGIT member Pellatz said.

“Yes it’s significant,” he said of the winter concentration areas. “We’re very much informing that EIS process and we anticipate that will be satisfactory.”

One mapping panel member said it would be unfair to change ground rules once Jonah Energy had started down the road to plan for development.

Under the core-area strategy, SGIT member Lyndon Bucher said, development is encouraged outside mapped core-area zones, such as NPL. were documented using winter habitats in or near the NPL. Of these grouse, 74 percent were captured late summering habitats located within designated core areas (The Wildlife Society).

“Somebody starts down the road all in good faith,” said Bucher, a SGIT member and the permitting and

reclamation representative of the bentonite firm AMCOL International. “I can’t in good conscience say now we’re going to change the rules of the game in the middle of the game,” he told the mapping group.

“That’s something the full SGIT needs to come to grips with. How do we accommodate these longterm projects and bring in adaptive management — new information.”

SGIT will soon officially determine whether the BLM environmental impact statement is the proper method to protect a bird that the federal government says is warranted for listing under the Endangered Species Act. The NPL environmental review will only react to Jonah Energy’s development plan and analyze it according to a range of alternatives. It is not expected to address drilling on greater sage grouse winter concentration areas that extend beyond NPL boundaries.

BLM to govern NPL development?

BLM deputy state director Buddy Green, a member of the mapping subcommittee, voted against state core-area expansion. “The school of thought out there is to essentially let the EIS process work,” he told the full SGIT Wednesday. “When this winter-concentration issue surfaced, people felt very strongly about it at the time.”

SGIT leader Bob Budd appointed a subcommittee to come up with ideas how to address the problem, Green said. “They did that, they provided that recommendation,” Green said.

“That process has happened, the EIS is bubbling.

What comes out will have the protection people are looking for in this area.”

The winter concentration report documented winter use of the NPL by grouse from protected core areas in Sublette County and said grouse avoid developed energy fields and human activity.

“We know they’re not in Jonah any more with that level of development,” Game and Fish’s Christiansen said of wintering grouse and the alreadydeveloped gas field neighboring NPL. “With this density of wells,” he said of NPL, “I’m sure they’re going to move.”

Where they would go if pushed off NPL is uncertain. Conservationists point to energy development surrounding NPL and the winter concentration areas and wonder where grouse might go.

Maps show the winter concentration areas make up perhaps less than a fifth of the proposed NPL field. Yet their ability to survive may depend greatly on that wintering habitat — which is key to the success of surrounding sage grouse core areas.

BLM spokeswoman Kristen Lenhardt said Fri-

day Jonah Energy has not yet applied to drill any test wells.

“Jonah Energy does not intend to pursue interim drilling in the Winter Concentration Areas but does wish to in areas outside of the WCAs,” she said in an email. “BLM does not know details as to what Jonah exactly plans, only that they are looking at ‘a few multi-well pads’ outside of the WCAs for interim drilling. The original NPL proposed action included drilling in the WCAs.” This year’s SGIT review of core areas — an exercise undertaken only twice a decade — shouldn’t even involve winter concentration areas, SGIT chairman Budd, told his team Wednesday.

“This exercise is primarily to look at core areas,” the director of the Wyoming Wildlife and Natural Resource Trust Fund Board said. The core area map was based on known breeding leks and rearing habitat. “Winter is a different animal,” Budd said.

“We do know we have a winter concentration in western Wyoming,” he said. “We recognize that in the Executive Order and will continue to recognize that. The issue is that this

area is somehow going to be drilled or somehow impacted in the future. It is not.”

Others were less confident of an outright drilling ban. Rutledge, for example, has said that BLM might issue rules that limit operations during certain seasons — like winter, a prohibition industry has so far resisted. More often such seasonal stipulations have been aimed at breeding leks, brooding and rearing habitat.

But the wintering habits of greater sage grouse have not been deeply studied.

Copeland, who doesn’t sit on the SGIT board itself, said core-area protections for greater sage grouse are meaningless if they don’t protect entire “life-cycle environments” of the bird.

“We have a case where that isn’t captured in the boundaries on the map,” Copeland told the SGIT, urging members to extend boundaries on the corearea map. “Why not codify it,” Copeland said about the winter concentration areas.

Instead, “I think we can add an area of concern,” Budd said. “This is one anomaly in 11 states [where] we have signifi-

cant number of birds that are not [wintering] in proximity to core,” he said.

Looking for protections Fish and Wildlife’s Sattelberg said Mead’s revised executive order will likely define winter concentration areas. “It will need additional protections,” he said of the winter habitat. “Those protections just haven’t been set yet.

That’s what the EIS process will hopefully do.”

Biologists say the winter concentration areas are different from other seasonal grouse habitat in that they attract sage grouse from a wide region — essentially all of northern Sublette County — to several spots. As such, winter concentration areas might be more valuable — acre per acre — than breeding leks, brooding and rearing habitat around which the governor’s core-area protection zone was drawn.

Rutledge underscored that difference to the mapping group, saying it struggled with adding or subtracting single leks with as few as 18 strutting males from the core area. Yet in the winter concentration area there are thousands of birds.

“If we had 1,000 birds

anywhere else.…” he said, suggesting they would receive core-area protections. “This is an explosive issue and very important to a couple of thousand birds.”

Although SGIT and working group members have repeatedly referred to Jonah Energy’s valid existing rights, nobody, including the BLM, has said whether core-area protections would diminish them.

“There seems to be some confusion [about] what it means to have valid existing rights,” Erik Molvar, a conservationists with WildEarth Guardians said to the mapping group.

“One site on a leasehold — that’s what your lease right gives you.”

Jonah Energy’s NPL leases were consolidated into four federal units — a system to coordinate development — as early as 1996. Some leases in the NPL area — at least 1,880 acres — were sold as late as 2009, BLM said last week. Creation of a unit “does not grant any additional rights to the [lessee] other than what was already granted as part of the lease terms,” BLM’s Lenhardt said in an email Monday.

Construction Updates The City of Gillette Engineering Division and Utilities Department announce the following road closures for the alley between Jack Plane Lane and LA Lane from Hogeye Drive to Flying Circle Drive, Maple Avenue, the alley between Brooks Avenue and Miller Avenue from 6th Street to 7th Street, the alley between Highway 59 and Miller Avenue between from 5th Street to 7th Street, the Overland Trail and Monte Vista Lane intersection, Stanley Avenue and Green Avenue.

Jack Plane Alley The alley between Jack Plane Lane and LA Lane from Hogeye Drive to Flying Circle Drive will be closed from Monday, April 6th throughFriday, May 29th. This closure is for the removal and replacement of the alley surface as a part of the 2015 Alley Pavement Management Schedule. This project is funded by the Optional 1% Sales Tax.

Maple Avenue Maple Avenue will be closed between East Redwood Street and Walnut Street. It will be closed from Monday, March 16th through Friday, May 29th.

This closure is to replace the culvert and repairs associated with installing the culvert.

Alley between Brooks Avenue and Miller Avenue from 6th to 7th Street The alley between Brooks Avenue and Miller Avenue from 6th Street to 7th Street, including the intersection at 6th Street, will be closed to through traffic.

The closure is anticipated to run from Monday, April 20th through Sunday, May 3rd. This closure is for installation of a new sanitary sewer main as part of the 2014 Sanitary Sewer Main Replacement. This project is funded by the Optional 1% Sales Tax. Intersection of Monte Vista and Overland Trail The intersection of Monte Vista and Overland Trail will be closed from Monday,

April 20th through Sunday, May 3rd. This closure is for installation of a new sanitary sewer main as part of the 2014 Sanitary Sewer Main Replacement. This project is funded by the Optional 1% Sales Tax. Stanley Avenue from 7th Street to 9th Street including the intersection of Stanley Avenue and 9th Street Stanley Avenue from 7th Street to 9th Street including the intersection of Stanley Avenue and 9th Street will be closed from Monday, April 27th through Friday, June 5th. This closure is for installation of a new water main and sanitary sewer, as well as removal and replacement of asphalt pavement, as part of the 2014 Water Main Replacement Project. This project is funded by the Optional 1% Sales Tax. Alley between Highway 59 and Miller Avenue from 5th Street to 7th Street The alley between Highway 59 and Miller Avenue

from 5th Street to 7th Street from Tuesday, April 28th through Tuesday, May 12th. 5th Street and 6th Street will be closed between Highway 59 and Miller Avenue during this project, one at a time, as the project progresses. This closure is for installation of a new sanitary sewer main as part of the 2014 Sanitary Sewer Main Replacement.

This project is funded by the Optional 1% Sales Tax. Green Avenue from 5th Street to 7th Street Green Avenue from 5th Street to 7th Street will be closed from Tuesday, April 28th through Tuesday, May 12th. The intersections of 5th Street and 6th Street at Green Avenue will closed, one at a time, as the project progresses. The intersection of 7th Street and Green Avenue will remain open. This closure is for installation of a new sanitary sewer main as part of the 2014 Sanitary Sewer Main Replacement. This project is funded by the Optional 1% Sales Tax.

Game and Fish Commission Sets Hunting Season and Quotas After dozens of meetings with the public to seek feedback on big game hunting and after substantial public testimony and discussion the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission debated and approved 2015 seasons and quotas for Wyoming’s big game species, wild bison, upland game birds, small game and wild turkeys. The Commission met in Casper.

There are six big game species in Wyoming. The seasons for many big game will start in September for some parts of the state, for other areas big game seasons will not start until October or November.

Changes to seasons and quotas for 2015 are based on the latest data collected this past winter and spring. Those data show increasing population trends in some areas of the state.

“We have the good fortune of being able to continue to provide excellent opportunities for Wyoming and non-resident hunters. These seasons and quotas are responsive to conditions on the ground and to public input,” said Scott Smith, Deputy Chief of the Wyoming Game and Fish Department’s Wildlife Division.

The public is still pleased with elk hunting in the Cowboy State. Elk populations statewide are above objective and hunter satisfaction is high according to surveys. Licenses for elk are down slightly this year, primarily in those elk herds that are at desired population objectives.

Mule deer numbers are below objective at this time in Wyoming and the hunting season for deer remains conservative. Pronghorn numbers are also below objective statewide,

and in central Wyoming the Commission reduced antelope hunting licenses slightly.

“Pronghorn, deer and elk are our most populous big game species in Wyoming. Again this year, we are offering tens of thousands of licenses for those three species. We thank the public for all of thoughtful input on our proposals,”Smith said.

The Commission also voted to approve a slight increase in hunting licenses for mountain goats and cow bison. The Commission also approved slight decreases for moose and bighorn sheep in several areas of the state.

Seasons and quotas for game birds, wild turkeys and small game will be similar to what they were in 2014.

Bob Rohan is a cartoonist in Houston, Texas and has been drawing “Buffalo Gals” since 1995.

He was awarded “Best Cowboy Cartoonist” in 2009 by The Academy of Western Artists Will Rogers Awards out of Gene Autry, Oklahoma.

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Advocates Petition for Medical Marijuana Vote

yoming marijuana advocates filed a petition to put an initiative to legalize medical marijuana on the 2016 ballot.

The Wyoming chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws filed the paperwork with the secretary of state’s office on Monday.

The group will have to collect more

than 25,000 signatures by February 8th to get the initiative on the ballot. To become law, the initiative would have to be approved by a majority of Wyoming voters.

A University of Wyoming poll last year found that 72% of Wyomingites support medical marijuana in the state. Jim King is a professor of Political Science at U.W.

and conducted the poll. He says while support for medical marijuana may look overwhelming in Wyoming, that doesn’t directly translate into votes.

“And because ballot proposals, whether it’s a constitutional amendment or an initiative proposal appears at the end of the ballot there are a lot of people who go in, they’ll vote for president,

they’ll vote for U.S. representative, U.S. senator, but they won’t continue down all the way to the end of the ballot to get to the initiative proposal.”

King also says while medical marijuana support is strong, Wyomingites remain firmly against legalizing recreational marijuana use.

Largest Western Wolf Pack Calls Wyoming Home According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the largest wolf pack known to exist in the west, is found in Wyoming.

Their report indicates that the

Lava Mountain Pack contains 24 wolves, nine more than any other pack in Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Washington, or Oregon.

The Lava Mountain Pack roams the region of hill country just northeast of Jackson.

The pack had two litters of pups in 2014. Biologists suggest

that the pack won’t remain supersized much longer, as large wolf packs tend to break up into smaller packs.

In early April, the Idaho

Department of Fish and Game issued a report indicating at least 770 wolves in Idaho, with 26 breeding pairs.

Systemic Problems at University of Wyoming A University of Wyoming Faculty Senate Survey says the school has pressing systemic problems with leadership and hiring practices.

Edward Janak is the chair of the UW faculty Senate. He says more faculty

need to step up to voice concerns and faculty input into university decisions need to be taken more seriously by administrators.

He also says the upcoming presidential search is a key concern.

“Now that President McGinity has made it very clear and the Board of Trustees have made it clear, yes we are going to be engaging in this search. There’s going to be a lot of faculty with a lot of questions about that. So I think making that process

as open as possible and well communicated as possible is absolutely essential.”

Janak says adding a faculty senate member to serve on the Board of Trustees would help address many of the issues.

Distance Education Task Force Will Meet in Casper

The Distance Education Task Force will meet April 16-17, 2015 in Casper, Wyoming. The public meetings will take place from 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 16 and from 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. on Friday, April 17. Please note that the location has changed from an earlier press release. The correct meeting location is now room 217 of Strausner Hall at Casper College.

A tentative agenda is available

here: http://edu.wyoming.gov/ downloads/ distance-ed/2015/ DETF-agenda-04162015.pdf The task force is to make official recommendations to the legislature on programmatic requirements for the delivery of quality distance education, guidance to ensure compliance, and how to provide transparency in administering distance education. A completed report is due in October 2015.

Superintendent of Public In-

struction Jillian Balow is chair of the task force and appointed its fourteen members: • Brent Bacon, WDE Chief Academic Officer • Sen. Stephan Pappas of Cheyenne • Rep. John Freeman of Green River • Mike O’Donnell, Special Assistant to the Wyoming Attorney General • Aaron Carr, Niobrara School District #1 Superintendent

• Shon Hocker, Bighorn County School District #2 Superintendent • RJ Kost, Curriculum Coordinator in Park County School District #1 • Brian Farmer, Wyoming School Boards Association Executive Director • London Jenks, Tech. Coordinator, Hot Springs County School Dist. #1 • Scott Mecca, teacher in Albany County School District #1

• Julia Cook, parent in Park County School District #6 • Denise Miller, Instructional Facilitator, Natrona County School Dist. #1 • David Picard, lobbyist for Wyoming Connections Academy • Nicole Tiley, Wyoming Virtual Academy Head of School Contact Brent Bacon with questions at (307)777-2058 or brent.bacon@wyo.gov.

Obama Signals Support for Changes to Military Pay and Benefits Submitted by Andrew Tilghman - Military Times The push to reform military pay and benefits picked up steam Last Monday when the White House signaled support for the slate of controversial proposals that call for changing the military retirement and health care systems.

But President Obama stopped short of endorsing the 15 specific recommendations that the Military Compensation and Retirement

Modernization Commission sent to Capitol Hill in January.

The recommendations would shrink the size of military pensions by 20 percent and create new investment accounts for all troops. They also call for ending Tricare in its current form and instead offering military families insurance policies similar to those available to civilians.

“I believe the recommendations are an important step forward in protecting the long-term viability of the all-volunteer force, improving quality-of-life for service members and their families, and ensuring the fiscal sustainability of the military compensation and retirement systems,” Obama wrote in a letter to the compensation commission.

Mountain Goat Research Continues For the third straight year, local Game and Fish personnel teamed up with the department’s Veterinary Services personnel and researchers from Montana State University to capture and collar mountain goats in the Snake River Canyon near Alpine.

The research was initiated in 2013 with the capture of four goats, eight in 2014 and two more this year. The goal is to learn more about the health of the herd, their seasonal movements and survival. The local effort is also part of a larger research project called

the Greater Yellowstone Mountain Ungulate Project being led by Montana State University in conjunction with wildlife managers of Wyoming, Idaho and Montana.

Mountain goats were first introduced in the Snake River Range by the Idaho Fish & Game Department over a three year period from 1969-1971. Since that time, the goats have slowly, but steadily, expanded their range into Wyoming. An aerial survey completed in 1996 noted 24 goats in Wyoming.

The latest survey completed in August of

2014 recorded 165. The goats have not only increased in number, but also their distribution, with animals now being sighted in the Wyoming, Salt River and Teton mountain ranges.

In order to provide a recreational opportunity, and help curb the growth, the WGFD implemented a hunting season for the Palisades herd in 1999, offering four licenses.

The number of licenses was increased to eight in 2005 and it is proposed to increase that number to 12 for the fall of 2015.

Wyoming Beef Council Cuts Its Budget The Wyoming Beef Council—the industry advocacy group for ranchers—says it has cut its budget and will rethink its marketing efforts.

Wyoming cattle numbers have been decreasing since 2001 because of drought, aging beef producers, shrinking grazing lands, and other factors. The Council’s smaller budget means that an administrative assistant position will be cut, and the council will only have one employee.

That one employee, executive director Ann

Wittmann, says the council makes a dollar from every head of cattle sold in Wyoming.

She says she’s optimistic that with a relief from the drought and better beef prices, ranchers are rebuilding their herds.

“We’re hoping that as those heifer calves come of age, that the lack of movement, or changing of ownership, means that those ranchers are holding onto those, and they’re going to breed them, they’ll have more calves, and our base cow herd will increase in size,”

she says.

Wittmann says the council is refocusing its marketing efforts. Instead of targeting Baby Boomers, it will now look to reach millennial moms because they make family buying decisions. She says people in Wyoming may not see as many ads this time.

“Your mass population of millennials aren’t in Wyoming,” she says. “So we’re focusing on those areas and on people who really are not familiar with beef production.”

Commander’s Corner

Campbell County American Legion Post 42 The Post Officers would like to thank everyone who helped make our Mid-Winter Jamboree a success.

MidWinter is not only a fun event but it is our annual Post fundraising activity.

Thanks to everyone who helped including SAL, Auxiliary Unit 42, and Carol & Chuck Wood. Post 42 held a Birthday Dinner on 14 March to

celebrate the American Legion’s 96th Birthday. A special Thank-You to Auxiliary Unit 42 for cooking and serving a great birthday meal topped off by a Birthday Cake.

MEMORIAL DAY: Annually the post has a full day of activities on Memorial Day. Activities start by putting out the flags at 7am then continues with a ceremony at Mt Pisgah Cemetery

at 11am.

SPECIAL NOTE: Annually the post elects a full slate of officers for the upcoming year. At the Post meeting on 14 May we receive nominations for post officers for the upcoming year. After all nominations we will proceed with a vote to elect our 2015-2016 officers. Please plan on attending this important May Meeting.

Sage Grouse Implementation Team Seeks Public Comments

The Wyoming Sage Grouse Implementation Team is seeking public comments about possible recommendations for updating the Sage-Grouse Executive Order and the sage grouse core area map..

Public comments are due May 20th.

Comments should be sent to mary. flanderka@wyo.gov or Mary Flan-

derka, WGFD, 5400 Bishop Blvd, Cheyenne, WY 82006.

Governor Matt Mead tasked the Sage Grouse Implementation Team with determining if any modifications are necessary for the Wyoming strategy outlined in the Governor’s Executive Orders.

The Mapping Subcommittee

will meet May 5 in Douglas from 6:00-9:00 pm at the Douglas Inn and Convention Center. The SageGrouse Implementation’s Team’s next meeting is on May 6 in Douglas from 8:30 am to 3:30 pm at the Douglas Inn and Convention Center.

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Wednesday, April 29, 2015 • Page 4

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Campbell Co. Fire Dept.

April 21, 2015 - At 3:11 p.m. to Primrose Avenue for an EMS assist.

- At 6:34 p.m. to Enterprise Avenue for the report of an automatic fire alarm activation.

Earlier this week, the SkillsUSA Wyoming State Conference was held in Casper. Gillette took 28 competitors in 24 different competitions and came out with a total of 18 medalists, including nine gold medalists who have the opportunity to attend the National Conference in Louisville, Kentucky from June 22nd-28th.

Pictured (left to right): Dustyna S, Nadine M, Chevelle D, Isabelle

S, Jonathan W, Jody B, Nate H, Mikayla P, Colton H, Logan B, Emma H, Connor V, Rhyley D, Tim H, Charlie C, Paxton S, Mac S, Tony B, Conner L, Corban V, Austin B, Blake A, Randal S, Chris G, Brandon C Not Pictured: Teric E, Tom P, Kristi H, Colton H, Erika P, Clayton S, John S, Chancy T, Matthew W.

April 22, 2015 - At 2:49 a.m. to Swanson Road for an EMS assist.

- At 11:34 AM to 603 Carey for a hazmat investigation. It was discovered that a fuel line had come off of the bottom of a snow blower that was sitting in the entryway of the building. The snow blower and rug was moved outside and the building was ventilated.

- At 3:01 p.m. to Sunflower Ln for an EMS assist.

- At 2:09 p.m. to Laramie St. for a motor vehicle accident with fluid leakage.

- At 6:02 p.m. to 3101 Alberta for an automatic fire alarm, it was determined to be a false alarm.

- At 7:46 p.m. to 315 E. Boxelder Rd. for an automatic fire alarm, it was determined that a small child pulled the pull station to activate the alarm.

- At 9:14 PM to 900 W 8th Street for an automatic fire alarm, it was determined to be a false alarm.

April 23, 2015 - At 5:12 a.m. to West Hills Loop for an EMS assist.

April 25, 2015 - At 10:09 a.m. to 402 Stocktrail Avenue for an automatic fire alarm.

Upon arrival it was determined a child had activated a pull station and there was no fire.

- At 6:07 a.m. to HWY 50 mm 49 for a single vehicle rollover.

- At 6:09 p.m. to railroad tie fire HWY 51 east of Rozet. CCFD extinguished the smoldering fire.

- At 6:57 p.m. to American Road for a single vehicle rollover.

CCFD stabilized the vehicle and transferred patient care of the driver to CCH EMS personnel.

- At 7:56 p.m. to Stanley Avenue for an EMS assist.

- At 8:10 p.m. to1506 E HWY 14-16 for an EMS assist.

April 26, 2015 -At 5:54 a.m. to Saddlestring Circle for an EMS assist.

- At 5:27 p.m. to Redwood Street for an EMS assist.

- At 9:22 p.m. to Raymond Street for an EMS assist.

Local Teacher to Attend Mickelson ExxonMobil Teachers Academy ammy Bourne, a local fifth grade teacher at Lakeview has been selected to attend the 2015 Mickelson ExxonMobil Teachers Academy at Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, N.J. Tammy Bourne is one of 155 highly-qualified third through fifth grade teachers from around the country selected to attend the intensive week long, all-expense-paid, professional development curriculum. The program equips them with innovative ways to teach science and math and to inspire their students in these subjects.

A panel of educators from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) and the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) selected Tammy

Bourne to attend the Academy.

The panel based their decision on her qualifications, dedication to inspiring students at an early age and her overall commitment to enhancing the teaching profession.

During the Academy, which is scheduled for July 27-31, teachers discover new ways to excite students using experiments that demonstrate various math and science concepts including force, gravity and probability. Working in partnership with the National Science Teachers Association and Math Solutions, the Academy curriculum was developed around the three principles most common to national educational benchmarks for the third- through fifth-grade age range: Newton’s

laws of motion, action and reaction, and motion and forces.

ExxonMobil partnered with PGA Golfer Phil Mickelson, and his wife Amy to create the Mickelson ExxonMobil Teachers Academy in 2005. The curriculum for the Academy is developed in conjunction with the National Science Teachers Association and Math Solutions who also provide experienced faculty for the intensive training. The Academy is designed to engage students in math and science at an early age engage to retain their interest in these subjects through college and into their careers.

“Amy and I understand firsthand the influence teachers have on students,” Phil Mickelson said.

“We are excited to see not only

the initial inspiration that comes from the Academy week, but also the additional activity from classrooms when teachers apply what they’ve learned to help their students understand, engage and truly be inspired about STEM subjects.”

This year, more than 500 teachers will attend one of the three Academies scheduled in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Texas.

To date, more than 4,500 teachers have attended the Academy, impacting more than 300,000 students from across the country with the lessons and skills they learned.

To nominate local teachers for the 2016 Academy, please visit www.sendmyteacher.com.

Arbor Day Foundation Works With USDA on Climate Smart Agriculture & Forestry Today, with partners including the Arbor Day Foundation, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced a comprehensive and detailed approach to support land owners in their response to climate change. The approach spans a range of technologies and practices to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, increase carbon storage, and generate clean renewable energy.

President Obama has made clear that no challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change. The effects of climate change can no longer be denied or ignored – last year was the planet’s warmest year recorded, and 14 of the 15 hottest years on record have happened this century. All over the country, Americans, including farmers and ranchers, are already facing devastating impacts – from severe floods to extreme heat and drought to increased challenges due to wildfires, disease and pests. That’s why the Administration has taken historic action to cut the carbon pollution that drives climate change and protect American communities from the impacts.

And throughout this week, the Administration has announced new steps to address the threat of climate change and protect the people and places climate change puts at risk.

In connection with today’s announcement, the Arbor Day Foundation is announcing early actions and commitments in support of USDA’s approach: The Arbor Day Founda-

tion plans to work with 20 different utility partners in 18 states and the District of Columbia in 2015 to place 40,000 trees into the hands of tree planters through the Energy-Saving Trees program.

The 2015 Arbor Day Foundation Energy-Saving Trees utility partners are Atlantic City Electric, Baltimore Gas and Electric, Black Hills Energy, Black Hills Power, CenterPoint Energy, Colorado Spring Utilities, ComEd, Cheyenne Fuel Light and Power, Delmarva Power, Greenlight Energy, Idaho Power, Nebraska City Utilities, Omaha Public Power District, Oncor, PG&E, Pepco, Peco, Sacramento Municipal Utility District, Unitil, and Wiregrass Electric Cooperative.

As of 2014, nearly 80,000 trees have been distributed nationwide through the Energy-Saving Trees program, engaging nearly 50,000 homeowners, and yielding a projected cumulative environmental impact of 171,397 MwH saved, 156,367 metric tons of carbon sequestered, 2,206,991 Therms saved, and $1.8 million leveraged by participating electric utility partners.

With spring planting underway across most of the nation, the Arbor Day Foundation celebrates our 2015 partner utilities engaged in strategic treebased energy conservation through the EnergySaving Trees program.

Innovative utility companies across the country are working with the Arbor Day Foundation to help reduce energy use through stra-

tegic tree planting. These conservation minded utility companies are providing a tree or reduced-cost trees to their customers who plant trees to save energy.

Energy-Saving Trees is an innovative, strategic tree planting initiative that engages partners in the urban forestry community to support the planting of trees in locations specifically chosen to reduce carbon emissions from energy plants by reducing energy consumption in homes and businesses. The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that properly placed trees can reduce energy costs by up to 20 percent. The program spurs long-term electric utility investment in large-scale tree planting nationwide.

Energy-Saving Trees was launched four years ago to help conserve energy, reduce peak demand and lower utility bills through strategic tree planting.

Energy-Saving Trees helps people through our utility partners to strategically plant trees. Central to the program is an interactive online tool that was created by the Foundation and the Davey Institute, a division of the Davey Tree Expert Co., and uses peer-reviewed scientific research from the U.S. Forest Service’s i-Tree Software to calculate estimated energy savings benefits over time. Other benefits of planting trees include clean air, clean water, and wildlife habitat. People use the online tool to personally plot their yard as seen from satellite imagery in order to select the right tree -- provided by their utility provider -- and the right place for planting that will yield the greatest energy and cost savings. The Energy-Saving Trees program works with members and partners to help people save energy through planting trees.

“We are very excited

to partner with the USDA and conservation and customer focused utilities to work together in helping residents save energy,” said Dan Lambe, Arbor Day Foundation president.

“Our utility partners are the key to accomplishing our residential energy savings goals through the use of strategically planted trees.”

The newly planted trees mature to help provide summer shade, thereby reducing cooling costs, and help provide winter wind breaks and protection, thereby reducing heating costs. The trees also provide natural beauty and habitat for local birds and wildlife.

About the Arbor Day Foundation: The Arbor Day Foundation is a million member nonprofit conservation and education organization with the mission to inspire people to plant, nurture and celebrate trees. More information is available at arborday.org.

ALL LOCAL STOCK/COMMODITY REPORTS AS OF MONDAY 12:00pm

Local Stocks: • U.S. Energy Corp. (NASDAQ:USEG) • Crazy Woman Creek Bancorp Inc. (OTCQB:CRZY) • Victory Acquisition Corp. (VRY) • Double Eagle Petroleum Co. (NASDAQ:DBLE) • MDU Resources Group Inc. (NYSE:MDU) • Glacier Bancorp (NASDAQ:GBCI) • Black Hills Corp. (NYSE:BKH) • Gastar Exploration, Ltd. (NYSEMKT:GST) • Questar Corp. (NYSE:STR) • Armco Metal Holdings Inc. (AMCO) • U.S. Energy Corp. (USEG) • Uranerz Energy Corp. (URZ) • Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. (NYSE: ANR) • Arch Coal Inc. (ACI) • Cloud Peak Energy Inc. (NYSE: CLD) • Peabody Energy Corporation (NYSE: BTU)

$1.22 $11.50 $0.030 $2.86 $22.36 $26.15 $50.04 $3.42 $23.90 $1.12 $1.22 $1.27 $0.83 $1.03 $6.11 $4.49

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Commodities

ENERGY FUTURES Symbol Price OIL 57.23 BRENT 65.11 NAT GAS 2.471 RBOB GAS 2.0085 METAL FUTURES GOLD 1201.30 SILVER 16.365 COPPER 2.765 PLATINUM 1141.00 AGRICULTURE FUTURES WHEAT 474.00 SOYBEAN 975.50 CORN 362.25 SUGAR 13.27 COFFEE 135.30 COTTON 67.60 ROUGH RICE 9.935 COCOA 2896.00 LIVESTOCK FUTURES LV CATTLE 150.05 LEAN HOGS 79.95 FD CATTLE 211.925 INDEX FUTURES DOW FUT 18045.00 S&P FUT 2113.00 NAS FUT 4536.75 S&P MID MINI 1527.90 INTEREST RATE FUTURES US 30YR FUT 162.2812 US 10YR FUT 129.2656 US 2Y FUT 109.7109 Euro$ 3M 99.7125 CURRENCY FUTURES USD IDX FUT 96.89 EUR/USD FUT 1.0896 USD/JPY FUT 8397.00 GBP/USD FUT 1.5221

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Gillette College Energy City Voices to Perform Saturday

he Gillette College Energy City Voices will present “Sonnets & Chocolates,” on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. inside the college’s Tech Center.

The event will include wine and

dessert and proceeds will support the student show choir. Performances will include the Energy City Voices, Matt Hard, Out of the Basement, Nothing But Treble and more.

Sponsors include Rocky Mountain

Obituaries

Chocolate Factory, Brother’s Coffee and Ice Cream Café.

For ticket pricing and information, contact Energy City Voices director Dennis Gilbar at dgilbar@sheridan. edu or (307) 686-0254, ext. 1108.

Stop and Drop May 9th

Electronic Recycle, Bulk Paper Shred, Medication Disposal and Recycling, Child Safety Seat Check, Bicycle Rodeo Gillette residents will have the opportunity to get rid of old electronics, unwanted medications, paper documents, get your child’s safety seat checked and have the kids participate in a bicycle rodeo.

Bring consumer electronics. computer and peripherals, TV and AV components for safe recycling and disposal. Computer hard drives will be destroyed.

Bulk paper shred: bring household document for safe, secure shedding on site.

Unwanted medications: old or new prescriptions, pet meds, over

the counter drugs will be collected for disposal. Especially narcotics ( medications for pain, sleep aids and anxiety).

We will accept SEALED, IN DATE prescriptions or over the counter medications, unused medical supplies (ostomy & wound care supplies etc.) in UNOPENED and SEALED packaging SEALED and IN DATE creams, ointments, inhalers, patches, injectables for the Wyoming Pharmaceutical Donation Program.

Child Safety Seat Check: Your child’s car seat will be checked for

correct installation, positioning and proper usage. Safety seats will be available for a donation.

Bicycle Rodeo: A short riding course to navigate and demonstrate safe practices. Helmets are available.

Participating in this event are: City of Gillette Sustainability, Gillette Police Department, Campbell County Prevention Management Organization, WYO Safe Kids, Wyoming Department of Health, Public Health, Campbell County Sheriff’s Office, Powder River Shredders, Pro-Tech Computing.

Wyoming Unemployment Rate Rises to 4.1% in March 2015 The Research & Planning section of the Wyoming Department of Workforce Services reported that the state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose from 4.0% in February to 4.1% in March (not a statistically significant change).

Wyoming’s unemployment rate was slightly lower than its March 2014 level of 4.2% and significantly lower than the current U.S. unemployment rate of 5.5%. Seasonally adjusted employment of Wyoming residents increased very slightly, rising by an estimated 439 individuals (0.1%) from February to March.

From February to March, most county unemployment rates increased. A contributing factor to the rising unemployment rates was job losses in the oil & gas sector as evidenced by claims for unemployment insurance. The largest unemploy-

ment rate increases were seen in Big Horn (up from 5.0% to 5.7%), Natrona (up from 4.4% to 5.0%), Converse (up from 3.6% to 4.0%), and Uinta (up from 5.3% to 5.7%) counties. Unemployment rates fell in Niobrara (down from 3.3% to 3.0%), Platte (down from 4.7% to 4.5%), Sheridan (down from 5.2% to 5.1%), Lincoln (down from 6.3% to 6.2%), and Crook (down from 4.5% to 4.4%) counties.

From March 2014 to March 2015, unemployment rates rose in 12 counties and fell in 10 counties. Big Horn County’s unemployment rate was unchanged from a year earlier at 5.7%. The largest increases occurred in in Converse (up from 3.3% to 4.0%), Sublette (up from 5.2% to 5.9%), Sweetwater (up from 4.4% to 5.1%), and Weston (up from 3.5% to 4.1%) counties. The larg-

est decreases were seen in Teton (down from 4.6% to 3.9%), Niobrara (down from 3.7% to 3.0%), Sheridan (down from 5.6% to 5.1%), and Goshen (down from 4.1% to 3.6%) counties.

Fremont and Lincoln counties reported the highest unemployment rates in March (both 6.2%). They were followed by Johnson (6.1%) and Sublette (5.9%) counties. The lowest unemployment rates were found in Niobrara (3.0%), Albany (3.5%), and Goshen (3.6%) counties.

Total nonfarm employment (measured by place of work) rose from 284,400 in March 2014 to 287,300 in March 2015, a gain of 2,900 jobs (1.0%).

Research & Planning has scheduled the April employment news release for May 26, 2015.

Delfido Urrutia A Memorial Service for Delfido L. Urrutia was held on Tuesday April 28 at Walker Funeral Home.

Delfido Urrutia, age 52, of Gillette passed away on April 21, 2015 at his home.

Delfie loved being outdoors and working in the oilfield. In 2003 a car accident left him in a wheelchair. Despite this he achieved his Associate’s Degree in 2013. With the accident though he was able to spend more time with his family and became very close with his daughters. He loved being a father and grandfather more than anything. Delfie was also an advocate for the disabled and a board member for SILC of Wyoming.

Delfie will be missed very much, he was loved by so many.

Delfie was born July 20th, 1962 in Albequerque New Mexico; son of Nora and Ines Urrutia (Royba).

Delfie met LaVonn Leonard and had a daughter Ramona Urrutia in 1988.

In 1993 Delfie met Cathy Chafin and had two children: Brooke and Mya Urrutia. In December 2015 Delfie and Cathy would have been together for 22 years. Delfie was blessed with two grandchildren, August (Brooke) and Paisley (Ramona). He was a loving father, grandfather, brother and uncle.

Delfie is survived by his sisters, Lisa Andrews and Rosa Urrutia; brother Rey Urrutia; significant other Cathy Chafin; daughters, Ramona (Jason) Urrutia,

Brooke (Dillon) Urrutia, Mya Urrutia; and grandchildren, August (Brooke) Mendoza, and Paisley (Ramona) Senn.

Delfie was preceded in death by his mother Nora Hammons and Brother Frankie Urrutia.

Memorials and condolences may be sent in Delfie’s name in care of Walker Funeral Home, 410 Medical Arts Court, Gillette, Wyoming 82716 or condolences via the internet at www.walkerfuneralgillettt.com.

Henry “Ed” Farmer Graveside Services for Henry “Ed” Farmer were held Tuesday, April 28 at Mount Pisgah Cemetery in Gillette. Ed Farmer, 75, of Gillette, passed away on April 21, 2015 after a short illness and complications with a Staph infection.

Ed was born to T.D. and Lora Mae Farmer on July 19, 1939 in Corsicana, Texas. He was one of the 11 children, seven sisters and three brothers. He worked road construction starting at a young age, then moved to Gillette and worked construction.

He married Emma Lou Vigil on August 30, 1963.

He owned and operated Ed’s Trouble Shooting and Diesel Repair for several years. He then took a job with Cordero Rojo Mine where he retired in 2002.

He has five daughters and one son, numerous grandchildren, greatgrandchildren, nieces and nephews. He loved spending time with his family. His grandchildren and greatgrandchildren were the

light of his life. He also enjoyed going to the car races and talking about cars.

He is preceded in death by his father, mother, wife, one sister, and two brothers.

Memorials and condolences may be sent in care of Gillette Memorial Chapel 210 West 5th Street, Gillette, WY 82716 or via website: www.gillettememorialchapel.com

Ruth Glover A Memorial service for Ruth Glover will be held 2:00 p.m., Wednesday, April 29, 2015 at Gillette Memorial Chapel, Pastor Bill Morel officiating.

Ruth Joan Glover, longtime resident of Gillette has been granted her angel wings, Wednesday, April 22, 2015 after losing her battle with cancer; she was 82 years young.

Born June 9, 1932 in Williston, North Dakota, she and her two sisters, Ethel Claire and Dorothy Ann were proudly raised by her parents, Viola and Willard Sveen.

Ruth graduated from Williston High School in 1950; during her tenure she excelled on the swim team, dive team, lead as a majorette, participated in tumbling and played on the softball team.

In 1950 she married Thomas Joseph Lynch and had four children (David, Jona, Beth, and Sharon), and later divorced.

Ruth met the love of her life in July 1970. December 31, 1970 Ruth and Dewey A. Glover Jr exchanged wedding vows in Gillette at

The First Baptist Church.

They spent an incredible 44 years together as best friends.

It’s been said that Ruth met Dewey as he was walking home from the grocery store with a single loaf of bread in his arms. Dewey started his dream business in January of 1973 and Ruth was by his side for it assisting with secretarial duties and balancing the books. Working together they were successful and made a great team.

She enjoyed many hobbies including knitting, crocheting, stained glass, ceramics, quilting, cross stitching, boating, motor homing, and loved playing the slots. Ruth loved music and was an excellent pianist and organist. She and Dewey were snow birds for many years, spending winters in places like Texas, Arizona, and Las Vegas.

Ruth Joan Glover is survived by her devoted husband, Dewey A. Glover Jr; her sister, Ethel Claire Cox; and her four loving children, Dave Lynch, Jona Schuh, Beth(Wayne) Marker and Sharon (Jim) O’Brien; step-son, Mike (Marina) Glover; step-daughter, Debbie (Willy) Katoc. She was very close with her grandchildren: Joseph O’Brien, Justin Schuh, David Harms, Jeffery O’Brien, Andrea Schuh, Thomas, Matthew and Mark Lynch; step-grandchildren, Lisa Daniels and Sherri Lehrman. Ruth’s great grandchildren will be told great stories of her love; Patrick Lynch, Mays and Maddux O’Brien. Ruth is survived by many other friends and family that loved her unconditionally.

She is preceded in death by her parents, and sister, Dorothy.

In lieu of flowers donations can be sent in care of Gillette Memorial Chapel 210 West 5th Street, Gillette, WY 82716 condolences may also be sent via website: www.gillettememorialchapel.com

What’s Going On? Community SENIOR CENTER

• 27 9:00-4:00 Medicare** 9:30-Walking, Yoga 1:00 Cribbage Tourney 1:00 Line Dancing • 28 8-9-Vet’s Breakfast 10:00-Oil Painting 10:00-Exercise Class 12:30 Pinochle Group 1:00-Massage (by appt) • 29 9:00 Ceramics 9:30 Walking, Yoga 10:30 Chair Yoga 1:00 Computer Class** 1:00 Cards • 30 10:00 Exercise 10:00 Oil Painting 1:00 Computer Class** 1:00 Bingo with Elvera 1:00 Foot Massage** 2:00 Tin Lizzie Bus

JAKES TAVERN

• 5/1/2015 st judes benefit with rebel raised • 5/2/2015 st judes benefit with rebel raised • 5/3/2015 WBA meeting UMF meeting

AMERICAN LEGION

• 5/3/2015 SAL meeting

AVA ARTS

• Homeschool Art When Wed, April 29, 2:30pm – 4:00pm • Pottery Planet When Wed, April 29, 4pm – 5pm • Creative Canvas When Thu, April 30, 4pm – 5pm • Little Tikes When Fri, May 1, 10am – 11am • Uncorked Featuing Rachel Wilde When Fri, May 1, 7pm – 9pm • Julae Peterson Book Signing When Saturday, May 2, 2015 • Bob Ross Painting class When

Sat, May 2, 2pm – 5pm

CAMPLEX

• Paintbrush 5th & 6th Grade Program April 27, 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM @ CAM-PLEX Heritage Center Theater • Youth Ag Expo April 28, 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM @ CAM-PLEX East Pavilion • John Paul II Spring Program April 28, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM @ CAM-PLEX Heritage Center Theater • Governor’s Luncheon April 29, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM @ CAM-PLEX Energy Hall Campbell County Chamber of Commerce • Northeast Wyoming BOCES Talent Show April 30, 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM @ CAM-PLEX Heritage Center Theater • Springfest for John Paul II School May 1 - May 2 @ CAMPLEX Equality Hall • Wyoming Artists Association May 1 - May 3 @ CAMPLEX Energy Hall • Powder Basin Motocross Paid Practice May 2, All Day @ Powder Basin Motocross Track • Powder Basin Motocross Race May 3, All Day @ Powder Basin Motocross Track • Powder River Symphony May 3, 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM @ CAM-PLEX Heritage Center Theater

WRIGHT BRANCH LIBRARY

• WBL Book Discussion April 28, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM @ Wright Branch Library • WBL Repurposing Craft Class April 28, 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM @ 305 Wright Blvd • WBL Storytime April 29, 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM @ Wright Branch Library

CAMPBELL COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY

• Library Board Meeting April 27, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM @ Public Library • Gillette Adult Hobby Gaming Group April 28, 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM @ Public Library Pioneer Room 1 • CCPL Storytime April 28, 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM @ Public Library Children’s Department • CCPL Toddler Time April 29, 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM @ Public Library Children’s Department • CCPL Storytime April 29, 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM @ Public Library Children’s Department • CCPL Toddler Time April 30, 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM @ Public Library Children’s Department • CCPL Super WHY! Storytime April 30, 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM @ Public Library Children’s Department • CCPL Super WHY! Families & Jammies April 30, 6:30 PM - 7:00 PM @ Public Library Children’s Department • CCPL Teen Dungeons & Dragons Club April 27, 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM @ Public Library Computer Lab • CCPL Teen Card Club April 28, 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM @ Public Library Computer Lab • CCPL Teen Minecraft/ Robotics Club April 29, 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM @ Public Library Computer Lab • CCPL Teen Anime Club April 30, 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM @ Public Library Computer Lab • CCPL WiiPlay Saturday May 2, 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM @ Public Library Children’s Department • CCPL Tween Saturday May 2, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM @ 2101 S. 4-J Road • CCPL Teen Dungeons & Dragons Club May 2, 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM @ Public Library Com-

puter Lab • CCPL Teen Open-Play Gaming May 2, 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM @ Public Library Teen Room

PAINT YOUR CANVAS

APRIL • Mondays Mosaic Mondays 1:00-3:00 Kids Mosaics 4:00-5:00 Mosaic Mondays 6:30-8:30 Crochet Class 6:30-8:30 Open Studio in Studio A 10:00-4:00 • Tuesdays Fused Glass Classes 1:00-3:00 Kids Fused Glass 4:00-5:00 Fused Glass Class 6:308:30 Tole Painting Class 6:00-9:00 Open Studio in Studio A 10:00-4:00

• Wednesdays Open Studio 1:00-3:00 Painting Class 1:00-3:00 After School Painting 4:00-5:00 Open Studio in Studio B 10:00-4:00 • Thursdays Painting Class 1:00-3:00 Teen Art 4-5:30 Kids Open Studio And Kids Crafts All at 4:00-5:00 Open Studio in Studio A 10:00-2:00 MAY • May 1 2-4:00 pm “Birds” Painting • May 1 6:30-8:30 pm “Bear” Painting • May 2 2:00-4:00 pm “Poppies” Painting • May 2 6:30-8:30 pm “Anchor” Painting and “Peacock” Painting available to paint

Government WRIGHT

• Council Meeting Monday, April 27, 2015 at 7:00 PM

GILLETTE

• FY 2015-2016 Budget Meetings April 27, 8:30 AM - 4:45 PM @ Chambers • FY 2015-2016 Budget Meetings April 28, 8:30 AM - 4:45 PM @ Chambers • County and Town Semi-Annual Dinner Meeting April 28, 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM @ Commissioners Chambers • FY 2015-2016 Budget Meetings April 29, 8:30 AM - 4:45 PM @ Chambers • Morning Workshop April 30, 7:00 AM - 8:30 PM @ Chambers • FY 2015-2016 Budget Meetings April 30, 8:30 AM - 4:45 PM @ Chambers • Local Emergency Planning Committee Meeting April 28, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM @ 412 S. Gillette Ave. • Museum CLOSING at 3:45 April 27, 3:45 PM @ Campbell County Rockpile Museum • City Council Work Session Date: 4/28/2015 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM • Planning Commission Meeting Date: 4/28/2015 7:00 PM Location: Council Chambers • Rabies Vaccination Clinic Dogs and Cats Only Date: 5/2/2015 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM

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Green Roof and Roof Gardening

By Sandra Aberle et’s define what a green roof is.

Simply it is a roof that has been layered with vegetation or vegetables, herbs or flowers. Green roofs can have as little as 2-8 inches of growing medium on them and they can support, vegetables, bulbs, and flowers. Thicker roofs with 10 inches or more of soil medium can also support trees and shrubs.

The idea of green roofs started in Scandinavian countries where they used turf and sod for roofs. They were inexpensive or free to make, they could be repaired locally and lasted. Throughout Europe green roofs have evolved to cover roofs of tall buildings, carports, homes and even over bus stops.

We are going to discuss small scale green roofs that we can add to our yards.

These can be added to sheds and other structures that are already standing or added to new structures. Green roofs can be as small as tops of bird feeders, topping greenhouses or covering the whole roof of a shed or home.

I am making a green roof over my new rabbit hutch. The cooling aspect of the green roof should help my rabbits throughout the summer. Plus I will be growing a combination of succulents for beauty and greens to supplement feeding my rabbits and salads for us.

Green roofs are built up in layers: the roof, depending on the structure you might have a thermal layer, then a waterproof layer, drainage layer, filter mat, soil

medium and plants.

On my green roof I will layer it in this manner. I will start with a plywood roof with 2x4 rafters, spaced every 12 inches.

For a waterproof layer I will be using a pond liner. My drainage layer will be a layer of soft foam to hold the excess water with pea gravel around the edges.

I will then top the green roof with a soil medium that I will make with organic matter, sand, perlite, vermiculite, and garden soil. This will be 4-6 inches deep. The upright sides to hold everything in place will be wood studs. I will also divide the roof into sections. The slope of my roof can be at a higher grade than 10-15 degrees because of the compartments. The slope cannot too steep or the soil medium will shift when watered or with rain.

Thymes, chives, oregano, rosemary and lavender are wonderful roof garden herbs. In New York roof top gardens grow everything from squash, tomatoes, peppers to kale. My vegetables will be lettuce, micro greens, and radishes.

Green roofs are so diverse and there are many books, videos and articles about green roofs that have been designed throughout the world. This summer consider a green roof with plants and vegetables. I will be taking photos throughout the summer and will keep you posted.

Talk with you next week and good gardening.

The Dinner Bell

By Holly Galloway

After a trip to Colorado Springs and getting to drive home in a snow storm from Cheyenne to Wheatland, my thoughts turned to warm, nutritious food.

Our second oldest daughter, Leah, has always loved to cook. She has found some delicious recipes over the years. I thought I would share one with you!

Sour Cream with Pork Chops

4 or more Pork Chops 1 ½ C. Sliced Onions, separated 1 C. Beef Broth or Bullion 1 T. Chopped Parsley ½ tsp. Salt ½ tsp. Black pepper 1 tsp. Yellow Mustard 1 tsp. Paprika 1 16 oz. tub of Sour Cream Coat a large skillet with cooking spray.

Place this on the stove top and heat.

Place the pork chops into the skillet and cook each chop about 4-5 minutes on each side until they are cooked thoroughly.

Place the onion rings on top of the chops.

In a small bowl combine the broth, parsley, salt, pepper, mustard and paprika.

Pour this over the chops and bring it to a boil.

Reduce the heat to medium and simmer for 30 minutes stirring occasionally.

Then stir in the sour cream.

Do not boil. Just heat the gravy with the sour cream.

This is wonderful served with mashed potatoes.

The following is a way to make peanut butter cups at home. Just a word of warning, this is sweet!

No Bake Candy Bar

1 C. Peanut Butter 2 C Powdered Sugar ½ C Coconut Oil 1 ¼ C Milk Chocolate Chips 2 C. Quick Oats In a medium size sauce pan melt peanut butter, sugar and oil.

Remove from the heat and add the quick oats and stir well.

Pour this into a 9x13 inch glass pan.

Put the chocolate chips into a small pan and heat until they are melted.

Spread this on top of the peanut butter mixture.

Cover and place into the refrigerator overnight.

Enjoy.

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n the rural areas of early 20th Century America, neighbors could either form close friendships, or become bitter, feuding enemies.

Disputes among neighbors often became deadly.

In most cases of “murder by neighbor” the Sheriff or Constable had no trouble catching the guilty party.

However, as one highly publicized murder case that happened in Crook County in 1920 illustrates, convictions weren’t always easy to come by.

Frank Hickey and Laben Woods ranched in northern Crook County, along the Little Missouri River, northwest of Hulett; an area that remains one of the most isolated areas of Northeast Wyoming today. Both men had extended family living in the surrounding region, and had been brothers-in-law at one time, when Laben Woods had married the sister of Hickey’s wife, Helen.

No one really knows what caused the feud between Hickey and Woods.

Some have speculated that it had something to do with Woods’ young bride dying shortly after the wedding. But that had occurred long before Frank Hickey moved onto the Little Missouri near Laben Woods’ homestead. Most of the conflicts between neighboring farmers were rooted in disputed property claims. But there was no evidence at the time of any such dispute between Hickey and Woods. Motive or not, when Laben Woods went missing sometime after March 22, 1920, Frank Hickey became the number one (and only) suspect in his disappearance.

Woods had been visiting his sister, Carrie Grellinger, at her home in Weston County. He left her house for his ranch on the morning of March 20, and was last seen in the vicinity of Hickey’s ranch on March 22. Since Woods was a bachelor living a long way from town, his disappearance went unnoticed until sometime in April. It was only natural that people would ask Frank Hickey if he knew where Laben Woods was.

Every inquiry seemed to get a different response.

To one person, Hickey said Woods had gone to Powderville, Montana on business. Another was told Woods was in Belle Fourche. And still another was told Woods had gone

to New Mexico. Even more conflicting answers were given to the question as to why Laben Woods’ horse was in Frank Hickey’s pasture. Finally, in May, a saddle that was weighted down with a rock tied to the seat was found submerged in the Little Missouri River, just upstream from the Hickey place.

Frank Hickey’s brother, Fred, wrote to Woods’ sister Carrie, informing her of the find.

Mrs. Grellinger decided to push for a more formal inquiry and asked the sheriff to accompany her to the Hickey ranch to search for her brother’s body and to get some answers. After an extensive search, Woods’ badly decomposed body was found on the riverbank close to Hickey’s house.

Frank Hickey was called over to the body from a nearby field where he had been working during the search. His only comment was, “Thirty years ago nothing would have been thought of this killing. But now there’s no telling what they will do.”

The body was identified by some missing teeth and the clothes Woods had been wearing when he left his sister’s home.

It appeared that the victim had been shot in the back.

Sheriff Hurt surmised that the body had been in the river for most of the spring, and he suspected it had recently been moved to the spot where it had been found, rather than washing ashore on its own.

Although at a loss as to why Hickey would deliberately implicate himself by moving the body where it was sure to be found on his own property, Sheriff Hurt decided to search Hickey’s house. Inside, he found Woods’ overboots and some other clothing belonging to the victim.

That was enough for the sheriff to take Hickey into custody.

As damning as the evidence seemed to be, the sheriff and the county attorney both knew it wasn’t a slam-dunk case. No one saw the killing. No one saw Hickey move the body or hide the saddle in the river. It was possible that the clothing found in Hickey’s house was loaned to him by the victim sometime previous to the murder. And Hickey adamantly denied having any knowledge of anything related to the murder of Laben Woods, including that

a murder had even taken place (he never acknowledged the body that was found on the riverbank was that of Laben Woods, regardless of the positive identification made by the victim’s sister). The sheriff reluctantly released Hickey due to lack of evidence.

But no sooner had the sheriff set Hickey free, then a huge break came his way. Helen Hickey, Frank’s wife, signed an affidavit that stated she and one of the couple’s three children had been witnesses to the murder.

According to her statement, after Frank Hickey had shot Laben Woods in the back, after which he loaded the dead man’s revolver, fired one shot, and threw the revolver in the river. He then dragged the body into the river, and later sank the saddle into the river as well. The statement was enough to re-arrest Hickey for first degree murder.

It was decided that the trial would take place in Newcastle, rather than in Crook County, and the judge would be J. H. Burgess of Sheridan. Hickey gathered his defense team, which included his sister, who was a practicing attorney in California, Thomas Nicholas of Sundance, and a somewhat controversial lawyer from Deadwood, S. D., Henry Frawley, who would be leading the defense team.

The trial began in mid-November, 1920.

The prosecution was dealt its first blow early on. Wyoming law prohibited spouses from giving testimony against each other. This meant the one solid testimony that would pin the crime definitively on Hickey was worthless. Helen Hickey had begun divorce proceed-

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ings immediately after he husband was arrested.

Although the prosecution was banking on the divorce being finalized before the trial started, the proceedings were actually delayed until February.

Frawley floated two alternatives to the mound of circumstantial evidence against Hickey. One was that Woods’ murder was actually a scheme by his own family to cash in on a veteran’s life insurance policy Woods had received for serving in World War I, and pinning the murder on to Frank Hickey by moving the body to the vicinity of the Hickey ranch. The second theory was that the body in question wasn’t that of Laben Woods at all and that Woods was still at large somewhere.

This drew a barrage of outrage from the prosecution. The murder trail quickly devolved into a war of insults and accusations between the lawyers.

Judge Burgess had finally had enough, and admonished the lawyers by telling them, “Neither this court nor the jury cares anything about you lawyers.” The victim’s sister, Carrie Grellinger, added to the mayhem by publicly threatening to kill Hickey and claim it was in selfdefense should Hickey be acquitted.

A multitude of character witnesses were brought forward to testify on Hickey’s behalf, despite reports of Hickey having a few run-ins with the law back in Colorado. As it turned out, Laben Woods and his brothers weren’t exactly strangers to doing jail-time themselves

(two of his brothers were on parole after serving sentences for manslaughter), so not much could be made for or against Hickey in that regard.

When Hickey took the stand in his own defense, he decided to plead ignorance. He didn’t know how the saddle ended up in the river. He didn’t know where the body came from. He didn’t recognize the body as being that of Laben Woods. He had never before seen the purported murder weapon (which was Hickey’s own rifle, taken in evidence)…

As the jury retired to deliberate, the general feeling was that Hickey would actually get off. This was confirmed six hours later when the jury came back and declared Hickey “not guilty.”

Frank Hickey was a free man, but he was also alone. His estranged wife fled the country with their three children shortly after the verdict was read. It would take another month for Hickey to find his children at an orphanage in Omaha, Nebraska, where Helen Hickey left them before disappearing forever.

Mrs. Grellinger never made good on her threat against Hickey. Officially the murder was never solved, although most people would say otherwise. But, lest one think that Lawyer Frawley’s hypothesis of a Woods family conspiracy was a complete red herring – Two months after the trial, Laben Woods’ father and brothers laid claim to Laben’s property and worldly goods, including his insurance.

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Common Sense: An Autopsy

By Glenn Woods

Glenn Woods is a newspaper columnist and Radio Talk Show Host.

You can find him back on the air LIVE on 103.1 FM or 1450 AM. Can’t listen right away or not in the signal range?

Go to BoldRepublic.com to watch the show live or listen after!

listener messaged into my radio show yesterday and asked, “If I were to give a eulogy to common sense, what would I say?”. That is an interesting question. Who hasn’t mumbled something about the death of common sense, but none of us have ever thought to say a few words in its memory.

But at first, I thought of what killed common sense. An autopsy. We should look at that. Let’s start on the world stage with an easy example: It seemed that most of the world thought signing a peace treaty with Hitler would stop him from building up his military and keep him from invading any other countries. We all remember how that turned out.

So why then do we continue to sign treaties with men like him when the result has always been the same?

America signed several negotiated treaties with North Korea preventing them from building atomic bombs.

North Korea now has the bomb. So why would anyone think that the same sort of treaty will work with Iran?

Let’s turn to debt, as our next example: After the currency crash of the Wiemar Republic and the currency crash of Zimbabwe why do we still have nations following the same path? And it’s not just Greece, or other European nations, but our own national debt here in America.

We should have learned by now that by borrowing so much we can’t pay back even the interest. And then we go about printing “fake” money, (as if it that has any real worth!). This ultimately will lead to a crash. But we are doing it anyway.

And how many gun-free zone

signs have ever stopped a mad man with gun? Yet we post the signs anyway.

The death of common sense was a slow death. It died due to our unwillingness to learn from the past.

We can be forgiven for making the mistake in the first place. But we become fools if we continue to repeat the mistake once the consequences are understood.

And what I am writing about here is the cause of the death. What I have not done is give my listener what he had asked for. He wanted a Eulogy for Common Sense. When we give a eulogy we talk about all of the wonderful things a person did during their lives. To eulogize common sense I would have to talk about how great common sense was for us while it was still alive.

That will be next week’s column.

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“Sources Worth Reading”

By Trinity Lewis - Lewis Media Consulting

You probably aren’t one of them, since you read the columns in your local paper, but I hear regularly that people “Just don’t have time for the news.”

Or that the news is “All lies anyway”. Thus I thought today I’d share with you 3 great resources for news I use almost daily.

I’d like to tell you that I was once a Fox News addict and I still enjoy a little bit of their programming a little bit of the time.

However, if you watch the news first thing in the morning, they’ll share the same story all the rest of the day beating the proverbial dead horse. I love tuning in to Rush Limbaugh and even some of Glenn Beck’s stuff but

both of them have negative connotations following them around so I won’t suggest those whom others have most assuredly already suggested to you.

Here’s my top three list of places to go for the news and cultural issues. Each of them can be streamed for free through your home computer so that you can listen to them in the evenings while cooking supper or in the morning on your treadmill.

1. Today’s Issues with Tim Wildmon Straight from his website: Today’s Issues deals with hard hitting moral, social and political topics.

The program is hosted by Tim Wildmon, President of the American Family As-

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Find the program online at http://afr.net/afr-talk/ todays-issues/ 2. Breakpoint As described by the late Chuck Colson, “In an increasingly hostile, secular culture, Christians are faced with issues and choices we’ve never had to deal with before.

BreakPoint is here to help believers of every denominational background develop a robust Christian worldview—seeing, understanding, and engaging the world from a biblical perspective.”

Find blogs, podcasts and just about everything else on our culture at www.breakpoint.org 3. Washington Watch

with Tony Perkins Again, his website summarizes, “Tony Perkins is President of the Washington, D.C.-based Family Research Council. He is a former member of the Louisiana legislature where he served for eight years, and he is recognized as a legislative pioneer for authoring measures like the nation’s first Covenant Marriage law.”

All of his programming and insight can be found at www.frc.org Of course reading your local paper and listening to local radio are both important. When it comes to looking at the world and everything in it, these three sources are sure to be of use!

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Opinion Letters to the Editor Thank You to Vietnam Vets

Editor, On June 4-7 in Casper we will have the chance to say “thank you” to the over 16,000 Vietnam era veterans in Wyoming. The Wyoming Veterans Commission is teaming with other veterans organizations to organize the Wyoming Vietnam Veterans Welcome Home Reunion. Many of those who served in the Vietnam War did not receive a proper reception when they came home. This event gives us a time to right that wrong.

The organizers of this event need sponsor help for food, refreshments and souvenirs for the veterans and their families. You can help sponsor this important event by going to http://wvvr.wyo.gov/home/sponsors or by calling the Veterans Commission at 307-7778152. Veterans, please register at http://wvvr. wyo.gov/register or call 307-777-8152 for an information packet. The reunion will include a welcome home ceremony, luncheons, receptions, a parade, a memorial service and a welcome home BBQ featuring famed war correspondent Joe Galloway.

Whether as a business, a non-profit or an individual, please consider doing what you can to say “thank you” to our Vietnam veterans. I look forward to seeing you there.

Matt Mead, Governor

Sustainability

Editor, Sustainability, the “buzzword” of the day.

Enter the Global Round Table on Sustainable Beef production (GRSB.) It consists of the four multinational meat packers which pack 90% of all US meats, McDonalds the largest buyer of Canadian beef, and a gaggle of hangers-on that stand to profit if this monopsony-like scam is successful. The pretext of GRSB is safer more environmentally-friendly beef production through electronic tracking of animals from birth to plate.

The multinationals want to have factory-type cattle production in the USA, and the World.

They do this now in the pork and poultry industries. This system will destroy competition from the organic, all-natural, and grass-fed production systems.

The notion of electronic tracking of animals from birth to plate is nonsense. It’s simply a trap for the consumer and independent producer, which will eventually lead to single-source cattle for production and beef products. Unfortunately, ranchers who have already signed up are discovering this too late.

Wyoming producers stopped the National Animal Identification System in the past by refusing to participate. We can stop this attempt by not accepting the electronic identification system or the USDA labeled ear tags.

Agriculture, including beef production has been around eleven to twelve thousand years.

That’s sustainable! We don’t see outbreaks of diseases threatening the health of animals or humans at the farm and ranch level in this country.

Ironically, the safety problems we’ve witnessed with beef production have all surfaced in the large meatpacking plants with two notable exceptions. The first is Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (Mad Cow Disease). This is a producer-feeder problem still prevalent in Canada, the latest case confirmed February 2015. The other is Tuberculosis in Mexican cattle. For this reason alone, “country of origin labeling” is the consumer’s best friend in the supermarket.

Call, email, write the Governor, the Wyoming Livestock Board, and the Wyoming department of Agriculture. Demand that Wyoming not participate in this scam.

Taking action will help protect your access to a safe, reliable, reasonably priced food source.

Taylor H. Haynes M.D.

Grasshopper

Editor, On an old episode of “Kung-Fu”, Kwai Chang Caine, played by David Carradine, nick-named “Grasshopper” by his elderly mentor & Shaolin Monk “Master Po” is given a scroll he requires delivered to a distant Chinese venue. He is entrusted by Master Po to deliver this priceless scroll from their home, the Shaolin Temple. During young Grasshopper’s arduous journey, he is set upon by a thief, & is soon relieved of said scroll. Young Kwai Chang hurries back to report the grievous loss of the artifact. Meanwhile, back at the “Temple”, the Shaolin Monks have already caught the thief, & prepare to behead the now seemingly repentant scoundrel with an exquisitely curved ornamental sword. No, I don’t know how they caught the thief so quickly, but their intent to behead sounds hauntingly familiar, doesn’t it? Anyhow, Grasshopper stops the execution by lying, stating this was not the perpetrator, allowing the formerly doomed man to be freed.

Later, amid the “eerie tinkling” of chimes & melodic tones of an unseen flute, Master Po & Grasshopper are enjoying a brief respite in the temple. Master Po, also blind, who was not born yesterday, (& looked it), did not believe young Kwai Chang”s earlier rendition; & said as much. “But Master, I saved his life with this lie” the young Shaolin candidate argued with a promise never to lie again.

“Yes, you saved his life, and lied only once, but you will always be a liar!” said the eyeless old Master. The scene fades accompanied by more chimes & flute intonations that blend with the incense perfumed air. Elated by the lesson I learned in that episode, I tried to celebrate with a “Shaolin-type” high kick in the living room, but misjudging distance was my undoing, as I maneuvered my big toe into the corner of the coffee table. Yes, I lost my toenail, & some dignity, but was rewarded with

“ceaseless throbbing” in stated toe for days, along with a valuable lesson in humbleness I somehow failed to learn from the show.

Finally my point on folks including Grasshopper who shouldn’t ever misrepresent the truth; Doctors & Health Care Providers, Clergy, Law Enforcement, Lawyers, Investment Brokers, Bankers, Insurance Providers, Contractors of all types, Family, the list is almost endless. But why is it so unrealistic to expect Politicians to be truthful? Have we morphed into a society that “expects” them to lie, & we almost gleefully tolerate it? We would be horrified if our doctors lied to us, or our family’s trusted lawyer or banker! But our elected government officials, some who represent hundreds of thousands & even millions of us, lying has become commonplace, & seemingly never punished! There should be a Constitutional amendment to remove any elected or appointed official for proven gross lying. But what if they apologize humbly?

Allow me to remind all of us “Grasshoppers” once again of Master Po’s admonition; “if you lie only once, you will still always be a liar!”

Chimes please.

Mike Polka

consequences are forthcoming in the form of social, political, economic and national-security disasters.

There is but one cure for these cancers, and that is to significantly reduce and limit the size, scope and power of government over our lives by electing a president and vice president capable of taking on the extremely difficult job of real leadership.

Indeed, “It’s time for a change” is no longer a hackneyed phrase in these critical times of social, political, economic and moral decay brought on by the counter-cultural revolution of the 1960s. We must recover our social compatibility, political integrity, economic growth and military and foreign policy strength with true leadership that simply gets things done.

At this point in the 2016 presidential-election run-up, those leaders appear to be Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida Republican, and Carly Fiorina. So, my fellow Americans, let’s wake up and get it done for our survival and the survival of our nation — and recover the land of the free and home of the brave.

DANIEL B. JEFFS

Who is Hillary, Really?

Some Things to Think About in Our State Government

Editor, There were two articles on the Internet today (that were among the many about Hillary Clinton from different sources and writers) that both said essentially the same thing, only in far different words. They both implied that Clinton is an inauthentic political person (virtually a creation of her numerous political advisers and public relations spinners). One writer said she has been made over, made over, made over! Or, in other words, she is somewhat of a chameleon!

So what are we to take as what is the true Hillary Clinton? Perhaps we should judge that by how she interacts with the everyday (ordinary) people that she comes in contact with on a daily basis…AKA as “the help.”

According to what has been written she is not above upbraiding them in rude, crude, profane and violent language when they displease her. Does she differentiate between males and females when she does this or is it war against both sexes? Much has been written about how she treats her Secret Service agents, some of whom must be female … are they treated with equal disdain? Is she their champion?

What happened to women during the first Clinton co-reign? Did their position and economic scale improve? She had eight years to help get it done and yet, NOW almost disappeared from the scene. And the reputation of men took a big hit, i.e. “all men do it.” Sorry, I didn’t believe it then and I don’t now.

She admitted the other day that she is “somewhat of a hoarder” and I believe that she is more than that when it comes to money…when is enough enough when it comes to this genetic relative of King Midas?

ARDYS PARRISH, Newcastle

Don’t Elect Based on Labels

Editor, State Sen. Wayne Johnson, R-Cheyenne, wants legislators’ pay to keep up with inflation, but it is more important for the working poor to keep up with inflation.

The hospital CEO and president of the university each earn $400,000. The governor earns $105,000, and only a person with substantial personal assets can afford to run for governor. The governor should be paid $400,000 per year.

Bills filed in the Legislature are referred to a committee. The committee chairman and his cohorts decide which bills will come to the floor for a vote.

The committee chairmen portray the legislative process as an efficient machine while tabling bills that threaten the status quo. Officials like to crow they are a citizen legislature all the while catering to special interests.

State Sen. Charles Scott, R-Casper, is obsessed with European socialism. Mr. Scott is a hypocrite for getting $59,000 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

There once was a neighborhood grocery store on Pioneer Avenue that the state bought for office space. Had government followed through, there would now be a Pioneer office space for state workers.

Office space is now to be added to the Herschler Building while remodeling the Capitol Building. Two simpler, cheaper stand-alone projects have morphed into one complex project.

First: $250 million and two years to complete; then, $279 million and three years to complete; now, $300 million and counting.

There is nothing a contractor likes better than an open contract. There are general contractors and civil engineers in Wyoming capable of doing this work. There is no need to use a Kansas City contractor.

My favorite Cheney is Mary, who told sister Liz she is on the wrong side of history. Unlike the Blues Brothers, state Sen. Harlan Edmonds, R-Cheyenne, is not on a mission from God. Let no one be intimidated by this self-righteous man who is on a witch hunt in the Republican Party for men and women of good will.

From Larry Bierma

Editor, For a period of many decades, the political class and the mainstream press has pushed onto the public the theory of identity politics, the belief that a person’s race, ethnicity, gender, creed, sexual orientation and ideology qualifies him or her to be an effective leader, politician or political candidate. This theory, with some exceptions, has proved at times not to comport with reality. Examples are legion, even in the present time. However, entities continue to push this theory to the detriment of what is real.

“It is well enough that people of the When choosing a leader, a politination do not understand our banking cian or a candidate, what matters and monetary system, for if they did, most should be the individual’s I believe there would be a revolution conduct, ethics and morals, his or her temperament, personal and before tomorrow morning.” business associations, principles, - Henry Ford positions and policies, capacity for open-mindedness and the like.

What does not matter is identity politics.

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Government The Federalist 56 The Same Subjected Continued (The Total Number of the House of Representatives) Hamilton or Madison from the New York Packet - Tuesday, February 19, 1788 o the People of the State of New York: THE SECOND charge against the House of Representatives is, that it will be too small to possess a due knowledge of the interests of its constituents. As this objection evidently proceeds from a comparison of the proposed number of representatives with the great extent of the United States, the number of their inhabitants, and the diversity of their interests, without taking into view at the same time the circumstances which will distinguish the Congress from other legislative bodies, the best answer that can be given to it will be a brief explanation of these peculiarities. It is a sound and important principle that the representative ought to be acquainted with the interests and circumstances of his constituents. But this principle can extend no further than to those circumstances and interests to which the authority and care of the representative relate. An ignorance of a variety of minute and particular objects, which do not lie within the compass of legislation, is consistent with every attribute necessary to a due performance of the legislative trust. In determining the extent of information required in the exercise of a particular authority, recourse then must be had to the objects within the purview of that authority. What are to be the objects of federal legislation? Those which are of most importance, and which seem most to require local knowledge, are commerce, taxation, and the militia. A proper regulation of commerce requires much information, as has been elsewhere remarked; but as far as this information relates to the laws and local situation of each individual State, a very few representatives would be very sufficient vehicles of it to the federal councils.

Taxation will consist, in a great measure, of duties which will be involved in the regulation of commerce. So far the preceding remark is applicable to this object. As far as it may consist of internal collections, a more diffusive knowledge of the circumstances of the State may be necessary. But will not this also be possessed in sufficient degree by a very few intelligent men, diffusively elected within the State? Divide the largest State into ten or twelve districts, and it will be found that there will be no peculiar local interests in either, which will not be within the knowledge of the representative of the district. Besides this source of information, the laws of the State,

framed by representatives from every part of it, will be almost of themselves a sufficient guide. In every State there have been made, and must continue to be made, regulations on this subject which will, in many cases, leave little more to be done by the federal legislature, than to review the different laws, and reduce them in one general act. A skillful individual in his closet with all the local codes before him, might compile a law on some subjects of taxation for the whole union, without any aid from oral information, and it may be expected that whenever internal taxes may be necessary, and particularly in cases requiring uniformity throughout the States, the more simple objects will be preferred.

To be fully sensible of the facility which will be given to this branch of federal legislation by the assistance of the State codes, we need only suppose for a moment that this or any other State were divided into a number of parts, each having and exercising within itself a power of local legislation.

Is it not evident that a degree of local information and preparatory labor would be found in the several volumes of their proceedings, which would very much shorten the labors of the general legislature, and render a much smaller number of members sufficient for it? The federal councils will derive great advantage from another circumstance. The representatives of each State will not only bring with them a considerable knowledge of its laws, and a local knowledge of their respective districts, but will probably in all cases have been members, and may even at the very time be members, of the State legislature, where all the local information and interests of the State are assembled, and from whence they may easily be conveyed by a very few hands into the legislature of the United States. The observations made on the subject of taxation apply with greater force to the case of the militia. For however different the rules of discipline may be in different States, they are the same throughout each particular State; and depend on circumstances which can differ but little in different parts of the same State. The attentive reader will discern that the reasoning here used, to prove the sufficiency of a moderate number of representatives, does not in any respect contradict what was urged on another occasion with regard to the extensive information which the representatives

ought to possess, and the time that might be necessary for acquiring it. This information, so far as it may relate to local objects, is rendered necessary and difficult, not by a difference of laws and local circumstances within a single State, but of those among different States. Taking each State by itself, its laws are the same, and its interests but little diversified. A few men, therefore, will possess all the knowledge requisite for a proper representation of them. Were the interests and affairs of each individual State perfectly simple and uniform, a knowledge of them in one part would involve a knowledge of them in every other, and the whole State might be competently represented by a single member taken from any part of it. On a comparison of the different States together, we find a great dissimilarity in their laws, and in many other circumstances connected with the objects of federal legislation, with all of which the federal representatives ought to have some acquaintance.

Whilst a few representatives, therefore, from each State, may bring with them a due knowledge of their own State, every representative will have much information to acquire concerning all the other States.

The changes of time, as was formerly remarked, on the comparative situation of the different States, will have an assimilating effect. The effect of time on the internal affairs of the States, taken singly, will be just the contrary. At present some of the States are little more than a society of husbandmen. Few of them have made much progress in those branches of industry which give a variety and complexity to the affairs of a nation. These, however, will in all of them be the fruits of a more advanced population, and will require, on the part of each State, a fuller representation. The foresight of the convention has accordingly taken care that the progress of population may be accompanied with a proper increase of the representative branch of the government.

The experience of Great Britain, which presents to mankind so many political lessons, both of the monitory and exemplary kind, and which has been frequently consulted in the course of these inquiries, corroborates the result of the reflections which we have just made. The number of inhabitants in the two kingdoms of England and Scotland cannot be stated at less than eight millions. The representatives of these

eight millions in the House of Commons amount to five hundred and fifty-eight. Of this number, one ninth are elected by three hundred and sixty-four persons, and one half, by five thousand seven hundred and twenty-three persons. [1] It cannot be supposed that the half thus elected, and who do not even reside among the people at large, can add any thing either to the security of the people against the government, or to the knowledge of their circumstances and interests in the legislative councils. On the contrary, it is notorious, that they are more frequently the representatives and instruments of the executive magistrate, than the guardians and advocates of the popular rights. They might therefore, with great propriety, be considered as something more than a mere deduction from the real representatives of the nation. We will, however, consider them in this light alone, and will not extend the deduction to a considerable number of others, who do not reside among their constitutents, are very faintly connected with them, and have very little particular knowledge of their affairs. With all these concessions, two hundred and seventynine persons only will be the depository of the safety, interest, and happiness of eight millions that is to say, there will be one representative only to maintain the rights and explain the situation of twenty-eight thousand six hundred and seventy constitutents, in an assembly exposed to the whole force of executive influence, and extending its authority to every object of legislation within a nation whose affairs are in the highest degree diversified and complicated. Yet it is very certain, not only that a valuable portion of freedom has been preserved under all these circumstances, but that the defects in the British code are chargeable, in a very small proportion, on the ignorance of the legislature concerning the circumstances of the people. Allowing to this case the weight which is due to it, and comparing it with that of the House of Representatives as above explained it seems to give the fullest assurance, that a representative for every thirty thousand inhabitants will render the latter both a safe and competent guardian of the interests which will be confided to it.

Enzi’s Statement on Vote Against Lynch Confirmation U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, RWyo., issued the following statement after voting against the confirmation of Loretta E. Lynch to be the next U.S. attorney gen-

eral.

“During Loretta Lynch’s Senate confirmation hearing she gave complete, unequivocal support to President Obama

and his policies, but that is not the oath of office,” said Enzi. “I look for nominees who will support and defend the Constitution.

I believe she would continue us-

ing the Department of Justice to aid the president in his unlawful circumvention of immigration laws and his attacks on the Second Amendment. That is more

and below is a “press release” for the announcement. Any assistance or help you can provide to notify the public of these upcoming office hours is

appreciated.

I apologize for the late notice.

It is hard to believe the end of the month is here already and I believe I am a week off in

sending you this notice. Will do better next time.

Please feel free to call if you have questions. Or you may contact our Press Sec-

retary, Max D’Onofrio, at Max_D’Onofrio@enzi.senate. gov or (202) 224-3424.

Governor Appoints Kevin Payne as Division 4 Water Superintendent

Governor Matt Mead has appointed Kevin Payne as the new Division 4 Water Superintendent. Payne served as Assistant Superintendent of Water Division 4 and replaces Jade Henderson who retired February 18, 2015.

Payne has nearly 16 years of service with the State Engineer’s Office.

“The Division Superintendent plays a vital role in water management. Kevin has served as the interim Superintendent since February – I believe Kevin will do a good job,” Governor Mead said.

The Division 4 Superintendent is based in

Cokeville, WY and oversees water administration in the Snake River, the Bear River, the Green River and all tributaries within those drainages.

The Superintendent supervises water commissioners’ administration and regulation of waters and is a member of the constitutionally created State Board of Control, which is responsible for adjudication of Wyoming water rights.

State Engineer Patrick Tyrrell congratulated Payne on his appointment. “Kevin’s service to the agency

Alcohol Awareness 2015 April 2015 is alcohol awareness month.

On April 21, the Campbell County Board of Commissioners signed Resolution 1855, proclaiming April 2015 as Alcohol Awareness Month, calling upon the community to support efforts

that increase community awareness, understanding and increase support for individuals and families coping with alcoholism.

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and our constituents has been outstanding and I look forward to working with him in his important new role,” Tyrrell stated. “He is well qualified and I welcome his contributions to Water Division 4.” Tyrrell asks that constituents in Water Division 4 who have water-related questions for this office contact Mr. Payne.

You may continue to contact the Cokeville office at 307-279-3441.

Joke of the week

A mother took her little boy to church.

While in church the little boy said, “Mommy, I have to pee.”

The mother said to the little boy, “It’s not appropriate to say the word ‘pee’ in church. So, from now on whenever you have to ‘pee’ just tell me that you have to ‘whisper’.”

The following Sunday, the little boy went to church with his father and during the service said to his father, “Daddy, I have to whisper.“ The father looked at him and said, “Okay, just whisper in my ear.”

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than enough to disqualify her in my eyes and I voted against her confirmation.”

The Senate confirmed Lynch’s nomination 56-43

Representatives for the Congressional Delegation to Hold Office Hours in Gillette

On Wednesday, April 29, 2015, the Field Representatives for the Congressional delegation will hold office hours in Wright and Gillette. Attached

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PUBLIC NOTICE

201 W Lakeway Rd, Ste 1002 Gillette, WY 82718 Bus: 307-686-5002 800-734-5004 Fax: 307686-2452 laustin@farmersagent.com

The Wyoming Public Service Commission (Commission) has given SourceGas Distribution LLC (SGD or the Company) authority to pass on to its Pass-On Rate [Regulated Rate] customers in the Torrington Division a retail gas rate decrease of $0.0348 per therm, effective on and after March 1, 2015. This approval is subject to notice, protest, investigation, opportunity for hearing, change, refund and such other orders as the Commission may deem appropriate.

The proposed pass-on rate decrease is attributable to: [i] a projected decrease of $0.0666 per decatherm in the wholesale cost of gas, [ii] an increase of $0.0312 per therm in the CBA surcharge, and [iii] an increase of $0.0006 per therm in the Working Gas Storage Adjustment.

The average Small General Service customer using approximately 70 therms per month may expect a monthly gas bill decrease of approximately $2.44, or about 5.28%, before taxes. Actual bills will vary with usage.

Commission Rule §§ 249 and 250 allow a utility to pass on to its customers known or prospective wholesale commodity cost increases or decreases on a dollar-for-dollar basis and subject to public notice, opportunity for hearing and refund.

SGD’s application is on file at the Commission’s offices in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and at the Company’s Wyoming business offices, and may be inspected by any interested person during regular business hours.

Anyone desiring to file an intervention petition, request for a public hearing, statement, public comment or protest in this matter must file in writing with the Commission on or before May 20, 2015. The petition shall set forth the grounds for the proposed intervention or request for hearing and the position and interest of the petitioner in this proceeding.

If you want to intervene in this matter or request a public hearing that you will attend, or want to make a statement, a protest or a public comment, and you require reasonable accommodation for a disability, please contact the Commission at (307) 777-7427, or write to the Commission at 2515 Warren Avenue, Suite 300, Cheyenne, Wyoming 82002, to make arrangements. Communications impaired persons may also contact the Commission by accessing Wyoming Relay at 711.

Please mention Docket No. 30022-242-GP-15 in your communications.

Dated: April 20, 2015.

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Sophomore Signing Ceremony hitney George & Kallee Wilson have decided to sign letters of intent

to play basketball at the College of Great Falls in Montana next season. A signing ceremony is

planned for 1:30 pm in the GC Main Commons area on Thursday, April 23. Please take a mo-

ment to congratulate them if you have the opportunity.

Woman Accused of Stealing Youth Baseball League Funds in Court Police arrested 41-year-old Sherry Fuller Wednesday, April 8. She was accused of stealing thousands of dollars from a youth baseball organization in Gillette.

Lt. Chuck Deaton says the organization’s president noticed $6,600 missing from the league’s account. Fuller was acting vice president of the Gillette Babe Ruth League at the

time of her arrest.

Investigators say that Fuller told them the withdrawal was a mistake on the bank’s part.

Fuller was due in court April 15.

Keyhole Fishing Report

HOWDY FOLKS, this is your Keyhole Reservoir fishing report for the week of April 20th. This report is brought to you from the Empire Guesthouse in Pine Haven. Stop in and see us for all your bait & tackle needs when visiting Keyhole, including statewide minnows and much more.

The changing weather patterns this past week seem to affect the fishing. One day we get good reports, the next not so good. But

all in all, it’s been a very good spring. With the lake opening up three weeks earlier than is typical, spawning of walleye and crappie should come earlier also.

I would think the walleye are spawning now and crappie will in the next 2-3 weeks.

Best fishing for walleye has been with jig & minnow or a minnow on a Lindy rig, fished on the bottom.

Best for northern pike has been

large smelt fished on the bottom or under a bobber. Go to our Facebook page to see a picture of some good northerns taken last week.

Game & Fish AIS boat inspections will begin in the next week or two. They will be inspecting at Keyhole 7 days a week this summer. With Lake Angostura in South Dakota testing positive for mussels and being close to Keyhole, they are stepping up

inspections at Keyhole.

Every boater needs to do their part in preventing the spread of invasive species, and be sure your boat is drained and dry before moving between waters.

Inspections in Pine Haven will be in the Empire Guesthouse parking lot and ALL watercraft MUST STOP when check stations are operating.

That’s it for now, hope to see you at the lake.

Fishing Expected to be Very Good in 2015

Even though snowpack has been below average in most drainages this year, fishing is expected to be very good as the favorable precipitation of the past few years continues to have a positive effect on Wyoming fisheries.

With the lower snowpack, the runoff should be over sooner this year which means streams and rivers will be in good fishable condition weeks earlier than the last few years.

The good water levels of the recent past are carrying over and boat ramps are generally accessible.

Here is a rundown of what anglers and boaters can expect in Wyoming waters in 2015: In the Jackson area, fishing should be good in popular rivers such as the Snake, Hoback, and Greys. Due to a smaller snowpack this year the runoff is not anticipated to take as long as last year and depending on runoff rate, rivers should be fishable by early summer. As is customary, the higher elevation lakes will be very good later in the summer.

This spring Pinedale area anglers have been fishing and floating the Green and New Fork Rivers and these waters will continue to be productive until the runoff increases river flows. But, as with other western Wyoming waters the low snowpack will shorten the runoff period. Fishing is anticipated to be good throughout the summer. Ice is off Fremont, Boulder, and Halfmoon lakes and now is a good time to fish for rainbows and lake trout.

Meadow Lake and CCC pond are also ice free.

The Bighorn River near Thermopolis continues to be excellent with many large trout available for anglers. The extended period of runoff in 2014 may have affected the growth and condition of trout in Buffalo Bill Reservoir, so expect the fish to be a bit on the thin side for the beginning of 2015. Many of the rainbows, cutthroats, and cutbows from Buffalo Bill Reservoir washed into the Shoshone River through Cody in 2014 and anglers have been catching many of these large trout through this past winter. Upper and Lower Sunshine reservoirs remained near full through 2014, and those waters are expected to be producing some great angling oppor-

tunities in 2015. Fishing on Big Horn Lake will be open by early May and fishing is expected to be good especially for channel catfish.

Sauger fishing on the lake typically is at its best in the fall months.

Fishing in the Sheridan area is anticipated to be very good this summer.

The Bighorn Mountains have numerous high lakes with excellent fishing and are expected to be accessible by early summer.

One of the most popular streams in the Bighorns is the North Tongue River where anglers can find cutthroats up to 20 inches as well as rainbow, brown and brook trout. For anglers up for a hike into the canyon, the Outlaw Cave section of The Middle Fork of the Powder River west of Kaycee is another excellent stream producing rainbows and browns up to 20 inches. The Bighorn Mountains also has numerous high lakes with excellent fishing and are expected to be accessible by early summer. The popular lower reservoirs in the region are full and fishing is good especially in the spring. Keyhole Reservoir will provide good to excellent walleye and northern pike fishing. There is a large population of northern pike that are just under the 30-inch minimum size limit required to harvest a northern. Crappie anglers at Keyhole should also find angling pretty good in 2015. Anglers at Lake DeSmet will find many rainbow trout in the 18-inch size range. The lake also has cutthroats and trophy brown trout and some large walleyes.

Healy Reservoir is another water where anglers can find a variety of fish. Best known for its abundant yellow perch population, the lake also has tiger musky and largemouth bass.

In the Green River region, anglers are currently experiencing good fishing opportunities in the major waters, and the good fishing is expected to continue. On Flaming Gorge, fishing for rainbow trout and small lake trout from both shore and boat has been productive. As water temperatures warm into the mid-50s, kokanee fishing should start picking up. Anglers at Fontenelle Reservoir have been treated to some fast action on rainbow and brown trout from shore this spring. As with Flaming

Gorge, boat action picks up as water temperatures warm in June. Kokanee fishing should pick up this year in Fontenelle, but the schools of fish can be spotty. Anglers who catch a kokanee are advised to circle back through the same area as this tactic will oftentimes produce additional bites. Other waters expected to be good include Viva Naughton and Kemmerer City reservoirs north of Kemmerer on the Hams Fork River.

Both have produced good angling opportunities for rainbow trout the past few years and are expected to be equally good this year.

Viva Naughton was also stocked with tiger trout last year and fisheries managers are watching to see the growth rates the next few years Fishing at the Jim Bridger Pond right next to the power plant has been producing nice fish for anglers this spring and should continue into the summer. Many fish are between 15 and 20 inches with some fish over 20 inches. Jim Bridger pond has rainbow and cutthroat trout as well as smallmouth bass. Tiger trout were first stocked in the pond last year and should be 10-12 inches long by June. They will grow fast and could reach impressive sizes in a few years. The Green River below Fontenelle Reservoir supports good populations of rainbow trout and brown trout and the Game and Fish also stocks Snake River and Bonneville cutthroat trout in the river. The fishing in the Green River has been good the last couple years as a result of favorable water levels in the river and the Game and Fish stocking of 8-inch rainbow trout the last few years. Anglers are cautioned to review the fishing regulations and to make certain they are in compliance on the section of river they are fishing.

In the Laramie region, water levels in reservoirs are good and ramps are accessible thanks to a good carryover of water from previous wet years.

Based on recent sampling by Laramie fisheries managers, fishing on the Laramie Plains lakes is expected to be the best it has been in a number of years.

As example, rainbows sampled in Twin Buttes, averaged nearly 17.5 inches and more than 80 percent were over 16-inches long. In Alsop, it was even

better with rainbows averaging more than 22 inches with many five to six pound fish. Fish were also large in Gelatt Lake, averaging nearly 19 inches for the rainbows and more than 17 inches for cutthroats.

Twenty percent of the fish sampled in Gelatt were over 20 inches. Meeboer Lake, which has been a victim of winter kill in many years, produced numerous fish this year with rainbows in the 16-18 inch category including one 22 inch fish that weighed in at 6.5 pounds. Spring surveys in Leazenby, showed good numbers of brook and rainbow trout. Wheatland Reservoir #3 has good populations of larger brown, rainbow and cutthroat trout with many fish over 20 inches. Fishing for walleye and smallmouth bass in Grayrocks reservoir is also expected to be very good. Anglers are reminded that the 15-inch minimum size limit on bass has been removed from Grayrocks and anglers can now keep three bass, but no more than one can exceed 12 inches. High lakes in the Snowy Range should again offer good fishing with brook, rainbow, cutthroat and splake available. The popular upper North Platte River should also be productive this year and depending on the rate of runoff, should be in fishable condition by mid June.

In central Wyoming, walleye numbers are increasing in Boysen Reservoir and should lead to good fishing for 18-19 inch walleye this year. The reservoir also has a large number of 16-18 inch sauger and anglers are advised to know the difference between the species as there are separate limits for each. Rainbow trout numbers are good in Boysen and fishing this year is expected to be good. Walleye numbers in nearby Ocean Like are below average, but there are a number of fish in the 16-18 inch range. High lakes in the Wind River Mountains have a variety of species including rainbow, cutthroat, brook and golden trout and fishing is generally excellent. The below average snowpack will make the area accessible earlier this year and most streams are expected to be fishable by mid to late June.

The Casper region should have good fishing throughout the summer.

According to fisheries managers Seminoe, Pathfinder and Alcova reservoirs offer good walleye opportunities from eaters to trophies, but because walleye populations are up, the trout fisheries are not as hot as they have been in the past few years.

In terms of trout fishing, the best bet is Pathfinder, Seminoe and Alcova in that order based on size of trout and catch rate. After experiencing winterkill last year, Goldeneye Reservoir has been restocked, but water levels are low this year and without spring moisture and increased water levels, things might get rough. Those venturing to Glendo Reservoir will find good numbers of walleyes over 15 inches however there is a shortage of smaller fish which could affect the fishing next year. On the Miracle Mile section of the North Platte River, anglers should expect to see good numbers of medium to large fish with good fishing throughout the fishing season. The popular Gray Reef to Glenrock section of the North Platte is in good condition for trout and excellent fishing has already been reported this year with continued superb fishing throughout the fishing season expected.

Large numbers of big trout are available through this stretch of the river.

Anglers are reminded to check fishing regulations for the water they plan to fish. In addition, a Wyoming Fishing Guide can be found online at http://wgfd. wyo.gov.

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Summer Job - Age 14 and up. Newspaper Subscription Sales. Pays $5.00 for every 6-month subscription sold and $10.00 for every year subscription sold. Perfect for summer money. Extra bonuses for 100 subscriptions sold (Pizza Party at Godfathers with friends/ family) and more. Email the Campbell County Observer at CampbellCountyObserver@gmail.com Mac Tools, a division of Stanley Black & Decker Has an opening in Gillette for:Distributor/Route Sales Management -Full TrainingLearn more about taking the first step toward Becoming Your Own Boss with a Mac Tools Franchise! -No experience necessary -No Cold Calls -Initial inventory included -Routes with existing customers available in your local area -Well established brand with a long history -Hear about our top-notch training -Explore available financing options -Find out about our “no obligation” Discovery Day. Contact: Mac Tools, ab.hackim@ sbdinc.com, Cell: 541-3014496

Scams THESE ARE KNOWN SCAMS GOING THROUGH NEWSPAPERS AT THE MOMENT. PLEASE DO NOT RESPOND TO THESE ADS IN ANY NEWSPAPER. HONDA 1988 GL1500 MOTORBIKE FOR FREE IF INTERESTED CONTACT:(petermaris@ live.com) if interested AD TEXT : Free 2007 Suzuki Hayabusa GSX1300RZZ GSX-R Sport Bike , It is in excellent condition with no dents or dings, 100% mechanically okay .If interested please contact me for pictures,I bought the Motorcycle for my grandson as his birthday gift last year august and am giving it out to a good home contact me at johnstark227@yahoo.com Help Wanted- Office/Clerical; PT Clerical Person needed from 11:00AM To 3:00PM, Monday-Friday, $900.00 weekly.Computer skills are a must. Need to be detail oriented, possess good customer service skills, some cash & items handling skills,Must be able to do Lil errand. Apply @ nicoledevlin Linkahead,Email: nicoledevlin150@gmail. com

Let me clean for you - Holidays are around the corner and there is no time to clean for company. Let me give you a free estimate. Reasonable rates for residential or commercial. Call Cindy, 307-257-7948 Mobilehome handyman is the business for all your home maintenance and repairs we do skirting decks windows doors freeze ups re-levels and much more 30 years experience call Rick.@(307)281-1457 Two energetic women are looking for homes to clean.

Reasonable rates. If interested call (307) 299-4660 or (307) 257-4816 RV Winterization starting at $99.95 at YOUR house.

Call Randy at 307-6603091 (b3-40-tfnh) Tree Trimming and removal.

Certified Arborist! No job too big or small. Experienced, licensed, bonded and insured. Veteran owned and operated for 13 years. Top Notch Tree Service 970556-5000 Want To Get in Shape?Like to have Fun? Learn The Graceful moves of American Oriental Belly Dancing!

The 3rd Sunday of every month. Call Leanna Tabatt 307-680-8457 Looking to buy a new computer? Why waste the money? “Your Computer Store” has refurbished towers and laptops rebuilt right here in our store. Plenty of memory, disc space, and advice.

Come by and see our inventory at “Your Computer Store,” where YOU come first! 802 E. Third St next to Ice Cream Land “Did you see this? Than it worked. Go to www.campbellcountyobserver.net to list your ad today!”

Computers have become like cars, and they need repaired. Want the best quality repair work in N.E. Wyoming? Bring your computer to “Your Computer Store.”

Quality work at a quality price. “Your Computer Store,” where YOU COME FIRST 802 E. Third street next to Ice Cream Land.

Apartments for Rent 1-5 bedroom units available for rent. Please contact Real Estate Systems of Gillette Inc at 307-682-0964 for all the updated details.

2 Bedroom apartment $650 per month, $650 security, $650 last months. Above Gillette Cheese House. No pets, no smoking, laundry facilities available 685-6449 Criminal background check and renters insurance Required Immaculate 1-2 bedroom apartments, fresh paint, and new flooring. (no pets). Call for move-in special starting at $595 307-686-6488 Apartment for Rent in WindRidge Appts.

Water/ Trash/Washer/Dryer.

Air and Heat. 3bs/2bth. Must qualify for low income housing. $740.00/mo. Call 307685-8066 Foothills View Apartments Hot Move In Special! Cool, Clean, Quiet Apartments.

A/C, 2 Bdrm. $695 1Bdrm. $595. Showing anytime Call 307-686-6488 C3-28-2v Apartments for rent. Foothills View Apartments.

Clean and Quiet. One and Two bedroom units starting at $595.00. Call for showing andmove in special 307686-6488 (c3-42-3v) 2 bedroom apartment $675 per month, $675 security, $675 last months rent.

Above Gillette Cheese House no pets, no smoking laundry \facilities available 685-6449 Criminal Background check and renters insurance required.

Spacious & new, 1, 2, &3 bdrm affordable apartments available now! Call 6858066. Washer and dryer in every unit. Private sunny patio or balcony. Special move-in rate, 1 bdrm: $694, 2 bdrm: $777, 3 bdrm: $888.

Move in now and deduct $ 200 off first month while special lasts. Call Konnie or Celeste at Highland Properties 685-8066.

Camping/ Fishing 05’ 32 foot fifth wheel, Wildcat, sleeps 10, 1 slide, bunks, self contained, no generator 307-680-6625

Auto insurance preferred and SR-22’s. Call Elizabeth Jones Agency 307-6826520 Motorcycle and ATV insurance. Call Elizabeth Jones Agency 307-682-6520

Looking for a bumper pull camper that someone wants off of their property. I will remove it for free in the Campbell/Crook County areas. Would prefer a tandem axel longer than 10 ft. Call 307-299-1382

Pets

07’ Prowler 5th wheel.

2slides. 32ft with extras.

Call 307-672-8766

2 AKC Registered male and female English Bulldogs free to a new good home, They have current shorts and play along with children and other animals. contact (billingsjeff151@yahoo. com) for more information.

Minnows, crawlers, leeches, fishing tackle, boating and camping supplies. Fully furnished cabin rentals, 50 Amp Full Hookup RV sites 5 minutes from Keyhole Reservoir in Pine Haven.

Empire Guesthouse & RV Park 307-756-3454. www. empireguesthouse.com

Toys (ATV’s Boats, Etc.)

Autos, Trucks and Vans

1981 Harley Davidson FXBSturgis, 1st dual-belt drive to commemorate Hill-Climb @ Sturgis, Jack-Pine Gypsies rally started in ‘41, 50th anniversary model. 12K on straight-up original paint, new Moetzler’s driven-by beefed Shovel, 102hp at wheel. Perfect in every aspect, serious inquiries only, loan is $15K and value of over 25K. Ben 680.7464, 3-other older bikes and this has to go to the right person!

‘76 Electra-Glide would consider trade on Pan or Knuck if ya know of anyone, ‘81 sent it to LA-S&S, 11.5to1 and dual-plugged to run regular-gas, had burn-out time at Hog-Jam! Ben 680.7464.

2011 Polaris 500 - Green with Camo Hood, Has Winch. Recently added Top, Window, doors, gun rack, Windshield Wipers. Very good condition. 362 hours. $6,000. 307-217-0745 International Tractor 300 Utility For Sale. $2000 Artic Cat 4X4 2001For Sale. $2000 Call Bill 307 - 660 – 8563.

12’ Aluminum boat & trailer 1968 Model. $700.00 Firm.

303-775-0875 Chopper - Custom built frame, s&s engine, carb, etc. 80ci. Evolution engine.

Wide glide front end. Low. Torn apart down to frame.

Have all parts, could be built in two days with under $200.00. Asking $5,500 or best offer. Price:$5,500obo.

Contact: 307-670-2733 2013 Custom Harley Hardtail Bobber all new $9,500.

Marlins 685-4452 or 6858100 2010 Polaris 550 eps with less than 100 miles, books for $8,000. make and offer.

Call Steve Terry at 307-2992992 16ft Sea Nymph Fishing Boat, 50 hp outboard Merc, trolling motor, just serviced at wyoming marine $2,000 O.B. O 307-299-4662 or 307-622-0825

Miscellaneous Have you heard the Buzz lately?

Bring your catch by the Empire Guesthouse for photographs which may be published in this newspaper with our fishing reports.

Along with that, the Guesthouse staff will be awarding monthly prizes for those that let us photograph them and their catch. It doesn’t have to be a trophy to enter and there will be special prizes for those 12 and under.

Carp shooters are also welcome to enter. Check with the Guesthouse for more details.

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Wanted to Buy Military Items From WW2 and Vietnam, 307-778-6493 I Buy Militaria. Swords, uniforms, bayonets, medals, guns/parts, field gear. 6827864 Wanted: Old Batteries. Call 307-670-1675. D4-30-8P WILL PAY CASH FOR CAMPERS. Call Scott (307) 680-0854.

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$6,000 OBO, 2003 F150 4x4 Extended Cab, Runs & Drives Great!,113,200 Miles, Roll-up Tongue Cover, New Battery/Starter, Extra winter tires w/rims, Compass & Outside temp gauge, Many new parts, 231-420-3495

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2008 Dodge Charger AWD Hemi, loaded Black $18,000 books for $22,500 Marlins 685-4452 or 685-8100.

2006 Dodge Mega Cab 4x4 Laramie 102,000 miles $16,000 307-689-7290 2002 Oldsmobile Aurora.

Black.

Leather interior.

Good condition. 87,400mi.

Power everything. Front wheel drive. New tires. Call Charlene 307-660-7316.

1993 Chrysler LHS for sale or trade. Needs tie-rod and alignment.

Runs good. $1,500.00 OBO. Email KevlarGrease@gmail.com 1994 Plymouth Voyager for sale or trade. Runs/ looks great. 188,000 miles. $2,000.00 OBO. Email KevlarGrease@gmail.com 2004 Yukon Denali XL,6.0 Motor, Loaded $14,000 OBO 660-9351 2008 Hyundai Sonata LMTD, 40,000 mi. $13,500, Call 307-660-2532.

97’ Chevy Long Box Extended Cab. ¾ Ton, selling for Parts. $1,000 OBO. 307-680-7431 1982 Chevy Ventura Van. 350 Engine, 400 Turbo newly rebuilt transmission. Interior in GREAT shape, has a working electric wet bar and built in cooler in back. Carb. needs re-jetted, other than that there are no problems.

Must see. Asking $3,500 or best offer. Price:$3,500obo.

Contact: 307-670-8980

Child Care Nanny Needed applicants with an excellent child Care experience.Part time Mon -Fri 8:30-3pm no weekends.

Car provided for work & personal use Pay starts at 350$. Send your cover letter via email sawana.liz210@ gmail.com or Text me at 412-397-8291 Christian Daycare/PreSchool is now open. Oneon-one Pre-School and crafts. Group circle time, Spanish, songs, phonics, counting, American Sign Language, and more. PreSchool, Kindergarten and older school children welcome. An all Christian environment. Reasonable rates.

685-6610. (4.10x4) Need a Babysitter? Call Brittany 257-3345 available Monday thru Friday 6am to 6 pm. $25 per day one child, two children same family $35 per day!

Licensed daycare now open. Spots available fulltime and before and after school.

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Solutions from this week

Merchandise 1939 HA Selmer Trumpet $750 OBO. 687-1087 40 pus Reminisce Magazines. Call; 307-689-5753 Percussion plus drum set.

New $550, asking $250.

Call: 605-360-2385.

36” Craftsman Tow Behind Universal Tiller, 6.5 HP Briggs & Stratton Engine, New 2010 used 3 times $900 OBO, 686-6299 4- 17” Aluminum rims fits 6 bolt, Chevy or GMC $150; 4- 16” Aluminum Rims 5 bolt, fits Chevy or GMC $100; 2-18” Firestone tires 80% tread left $150. Call 307-622-0825 Large Underground Fuel Tank. 307-680-8838 Large and Small Band Saws call for info. 307-680-8838 18v Dewalt tools - sawzall, hammer drill, one battery and one charger. $150 obo. call (307)299-1382 Exterior door with window, interior light fixtures, and computer supplies. E-mail Corsair115@yahoo.com “As the economy worsens, don’t rely on government...rely on us to sell or trade. $0.25 per word per week. Stop in or go to www.CampbellCountyObserver.net.

Blue Dual Reclining Sofa.

Good shape $100 Call 6802982. Can text photo if you like.

Spyder Semi-auto paint ball gun. cal..68 Special Edition.

Only used twice! New $300 For you $175 plus two canisters. Call 680-1302 If you are interested in purchasing Nutrient Rich Ranch Raised Beef grown locally, call 307-340-1108.

Great Jerky http://www. rberlinger.jerkydirect.com/ For sale: whirlpool refrigerator, brand new patio propane heater, still in box Cabela’s shower tent, large dining room dark blue/red rooster rug, 10” wet tile saw, treadmill. Call 682-6353.

Kojac series One, two and three dvd $65.00 $98 value 307 - 670 - 1887 Two place aluminum snowmobile trailer. $1,600. 307689-0202’

Firewood Dry Split Firewood $175.00 a cord. Call Pat 605-6416334

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Heavy Equipment/ Trailers 1981 Circle J 4-horse Horse Trailer. New floor, paint and wiring. $2500 OBO Call 307 - 680 – 2374 1981 Circle J 4-horse Horse Trailer. New floor, paint and wiring done in shop class 2 years ago. No rust only used once since redone. $2500 or OBO Call 307 680 – 2374

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Homes for Sale 2010 Fairmont 16x80 mobile Home. 3 bed-2 bath.

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What famous rebel leader almost became America’s first King?

Trevor Brazile, 10 titles and counting Trevor Brazile of Decatur, Texas joined the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association in 1996.

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Former Gillette College Coach Kittell Named Head Coach at University of Mary

oe Kittell, who has experienced nothing but success across all levels of collegiate basketball, was introduced today as the eighth University of Mary men’s basketball coach. In 13 years coaching in NCAA Division I, NAIA, NJCAA and high school programs, the Garrison, N.D., native has yet to experience a losing season.

The head coach at Lake Region State College the past two years, Kittell previously was an assistant at NCAA Division I North Dakota State University and Colorado State University, among other schools.

Along the way Kittell has worked with several current NCAA Division I head coaches, including University of Nebraska Head Coach and Mary alumnus Tim Miles, North Dakota State University Head Coach David Richman and University of South Dakota Head Coach Craig Smith.

“Joe Kittell’s success at all levels of basketball really caught our eye,” said Marauders Athletic Director Roger Thomas.

“A great fit for the mission of the University and our athletic department, Joe is a North Dakota guy and well-known throughout the state and the region. We look forward to the winning attitude and direction

he will bring to our basketball program.”

“I am humbled and honored to be named the head men’s basketball coach at the University of Mary,” said Kittell. “The University of Mary is a great school and the vision of Monsignor Shea, Greg Vetter and Roger Thomas align with mine.

I can’t wait to get started.”

In two seasons as head coach at Lake Region State in Devils Lake, N.D., Kittell directed the Royals to a record of 42-20.

His winning percentage of .677 is second all-time at LRSC. The Royals finished 23-8 in 2014-15 and cracked the 20-win mark for the first time in over five years. The squad was 19-12 in his first season as head coach in 2013-14.

He coached two all-conference and all-region performers and 13 academic all-region selections.

Kittell joined Lake Region after spending three seasons (2010-13) as an assistant coach at Gillette College in Gillette, Wyo. During this three seasons Gillette finished a combined 58-33.

In 2009-10 Kittell was the video coordinator at NCAA Division I Colorado State University alongside Miles and Smith. The Rams finished 17-17 overall, placed fifth place in the

Mountain West Conference and earned a berth to the College Basketball Invitational Tournament.

Kittell worked as an assistant boys basketball coach at Breckenridge (Minn.) High School in 2008-09 and was director and coach for Every Child’s Important (ECI) Youth Services, a nonprofit organization that runs summer traveling basketball teams in North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota. He went on to become the owner, director and coach for ECI

Basketball from 2010 to the fall of 2012. During his time with ECI Basketball the program produced over a hundred national and regional college athletes, including 10 NCAA Division I basketball players and many Northern Sun student-athletes.

In a stint as an assistant coach at North Dakota State College of Science in 2007-08, the team finished 25-6 and won the Mon-Dak Conference tournament.

As an assistant at Mayville State University in

2006-07, Kittell worked with Smith, the MSU head coach. The Comets went 27-9, won the Dakota Athletic Conference regular season and conference tournament championships and made the NAIA Division II National Championship game.

Kittell’s college coaching career started as a student at North Dakota State under the tutelage of Miles. In four seasons while pursuing his bachelor’s degree, the Bison recorded four straight winning seasons and made

the transition from NCAA Division II to NCAA Division I in 2004.

In addition to coaching, Kittell has also lectured and served as a sports information director.

A 2002 graduate of Garrison (N.D.) High School, Kittell earned a bachelor’s degree in Physical Education K-12 in 2006 and master’s degree in Health, Nutrition, and Exercise Science in 2008, both at North Dakota State University.

“Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?”

- Jim Bouton

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