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June 20 - 27, 2014

ThisJune Week’s 17 - 24, 2011 “If it doesn’t have to do with Campbell County, we don’t care!”Highlights

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• Donkey Creek Festival Event Schedule ...........Page 2 • Hometown Effort ..........................Page 6

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Donkey Creek Festival

By Elizabeth Palone You know it’s that time of year again, when the Gillette College Campus is swarmed with festivities. It’s the Donkey Creek Festival, and there are many things on the schedule this year.

2014 Avenues of Art Reception and Exhibit hosted by Mayor’s Art Council

(Free and open to the Pubic) Friday, June 27th - 5:30 to 7 p.m.

- Reception at Gillette College Technical Education Center, featuring live music by Alex Depue Saturday, June 28th - 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. - Sculptures on display Sunday, June 29th - Noon to 5 p.m.

- Sculptures on display

Food Vendors - Schedule

Friday, June 27th - 5 p.m to 8 p.m.

Saturday, June 28th - 10 a.m to 8 p.m.

Sunday, June 29th - Noon to 6 p.m.

Including the following food vendors: Pizza Carrello, Jordan’s On

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Donkey Creek Festival...

Continued from Page 1 the Go, KZ’s Backyard BBQ, Buffalo Berry Yogurt, Big Sky Concessions, Tasty Kettle Corn, 311 Restaurant, Alla Lala Cupcakes & Sweet Things, Three Little Ladies Italian Ice, and Abiding Grace Lutheran Church

Art Vendors - Schedule

Friday, June 27th - 5 p.m to 7 p.m.

Saturday, June 28th - 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Sunday, June 29th - Noon to 5 p.m.

Beer Garden* (Prime Rib) Schedule

Friday, June 27th - 5p.m. to 10 p.m.

Saturday, June 28th - Noon to 9 p.m.

Sunday, June 29th - Noon to 8:30 p.m. *Must be 21 to enter Beer Garden and all alcoholic beverages at the festival must be purchased and consumed in the Beer Garden - no exceptions.

Donkey Creek Open - Disc Golf Tourney

Friday, June 27th - Practice from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Participant check-in from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Saturday, June 28th - Player meeting @ 8:50 a.m.

Tournament - 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Awards @ 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, June 29th - Tournament - 9 a.m. to Noon Awards @ Noon

Donkey Creek Festival 5k Run/Walk - Hosted by Campbell County Parks & Recreation

($7 per runner; $14 per runner and DCF t-shirt) Saturday, June 28th @ 7 a.m.

Preregistration from June 8th through June 27th

Fun on the Go - Schedule

(Free) Saturday, June 28th - 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Sunday, June 29th - Noon to 6 p.m.

Car & Motorcycle Show Schedule

(Free registration - open to the public) Saturday, June 28th - 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Children’s Matinee Movie - Gillette College - Presentation Hall

(Free) Saturday, June 28th - 1 p.m. and 4 p.m.

(Movie to be announced later)

AVA Activities for Children Schedule

(Free) Saturday, June 28th - 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Sunday, June 29th - Noon to 4 p.m.

LIVE MUSIC – SCHEDULE

Friday, June 27th –Main Stage 5:15 p.m. Tessa Fulton 6:45 p.m. Tracy Locken 7:30 p.m. Forte Femme 9:00 p.m. Paula Cole Saturday, June 28th - Main Stage 10 a.m. Phil Stahla 11 a.m. Big Horn Band 12 p.m.

Freddy Rodriguez and the Jazz Connection 2 p.m. Purple Squirrel 4 p.m. Mutts 6 p.m. The Slide Brothers 8 p.m.

The Cherry Poppin’ Daddies Sunday, June 29th - Main Stage 12 p.m. Dan Coletti 1 p.m. Colcannon 2:30 Big Swing Trio 4 p.m. Alex DePue 5:30 p.m. Josh Dorr 7:30 p.m. Jalan Crossland Find the Solution on Page 17

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Campbell County Observer

June 20 - 27, 2014

State Loan and Investment Board Considers Grant Recommendations he Wyoming State Loan and Investment Board (SLIB) will consider 19 Business Ready Community (BRC) recommendations at its June 19 meeting at 8 a.m. in room B-63 of the Herschler Building in Cheyenne, Wyo. At a May 29 meeting in Laramie, Wyo., the Wyoming Business Council’s Board of Directors recommended the SLIB approve 19 BRC grants totaling $13,859,523. The Wyoming Business Council administers the BRC program, which provides financing for publicly owned infrastructure that serves the needs of businesses and promotes economic development and diversity within Wyoming communities.

The Business Council Board of Directors is required by state statute to forward all BRC recommendations to the SLIB for final approval. The SLIB is comprised of the five statewide elected officials: Gov. Matt Mead, Secretary of State Max Maxfield, State Treasurer Mark Gordon, State Auditor Cynthia Cloud, and State Superintendent of Public Instruction Cindy Hill.

The recommendations that will be considered are:

BRC Business Committed Applications • Alpine requests a $2,949,425 Business Committed grant to construct a 20,000 square-foot building and utility extensions for the expansion of Melvin Brewing. (Recommended to the SLIB in full)

BRC Senior Care Applications

•Albany County requests a $1 million Senior Care grant for the construction of an inpatient hospice facility. (Recommended to the SLIB in full)

•Sheridan requests a $500,000 Senior Care grant for the construction of the Sheridan Senior Center Day Break Facility. (Recommended to the SLIB in full)

BRC Community Readiness Applications

•Afton requests a $3 million Community Readiness grant for public infrastructure including an enhanced sewer line along 2nd Avenue; sewer line up-sizing along Lincoln Street from 2nd to 4th avenues; and street surfacing enhancement along 1st Avenue and Highway 89. (The Business Council board recommended $600,000 to the SLIB with an amendment calling on the Afton City Council to explore the possibility of adding a 1.5 percent fee to water and sewer fees to generate recapture funds for future economic development in Afton.)

•Edgerton requests a $243,800 Community Readiness grant to extend water and sewer lines and make some road improvements to prepare a commercial area for development. (Recommended to the SLIB in full) •Lincoln County requests a $1,401,456 Community Readiness grant to install conduit necessary for a fiber line to be looped through Sage Junction.

(Recommended to the SLIB in full) •Rawlins requests a $442,000 Community Readiness grant to construct a new roadway and bring water and sewer to three lots making them ready for development on the east entrance to Rawlins. (Recommended to the SLIB in full) •Torrington requests a $1,887,101 Community Readiness grant to construct a new electric substation, 34.5 kV transmis-

sion line and underground line extension into the Cold Springs Business Park.

(Recommended to the SLIB in full)

(Recommended to the SLIB in full) •Lovell requests a $31,695 Community Enhancement grant for improvements to the Lovell Free Camper Park. (Recommended to the SLIB in full) •Natrona County requests a $500,000 Community Enhancement grant to build a Biathlon Complex on Casper Mountain adjacent to the current Nordic ski trails. (Recommended to the SLIB in full) •Park County requests a $485,391 Community Enhancement grant for building a facility and other improvements to the Park County Fairgrounds. (Recommended to the SLIB in full) •Rock Springs requests a $500,000 Community Enhancement grant for renovations and expansion of the existing Rock Springs Community and Visitor Complex. (Recommended to the SLIB in full)

BRC Community Enhancement Applications

•Albany County requests a $500,000 Community Enhancement grant to renovate the county-owned Nellie Iles School building, which houses the Greater Wyoming Big Brothers Big Sisters Mentoring Center. (Recommended to the SLIB in full) •Casper requests a $500,000 Community Enhancement grant for Phase I of the Platte River Revival.

The project is a restoration project for 13.5 miles of the North Platte River and its banks that traverse Casper. (Recommended to the SLIB in full) •Cowley requests a $500,000 Community Enhancement grant for completion of the Cowley Recreation Complex Project. (Recommended to the SLIB in full) •Evanston requests a $498,655 Community Enhancement grant for the Bear Meadows Enhancement Project. (Recommended to the SLIB in full) •Gillette requests a $500,000 Community Enhancement grant for the convertible street/public plaza project. (Recommended to the SLIB in full) •Greybull requests a $320,000 Community Enhancement grant for improvements to the Herb Asp Community Center, informally known as the Greybull Recreation Center. (Recommended to the SLIB in full) •Kemmerer requests a $500,000 Community Enhancement grant for improvements to the Kemmerer Sports Field Access and Parking Facilities.

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Paula Andrie of Gillette Named to Dean’s List at UNL

Paula Jean Andrie of Gillette was named to the spring semester Dean’s List by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Engineering. Andrie is a junior with a biological systems engineering major.

Qualification for the Dean’s List varies among the eight undergraduate colleges and the Honor Roll for undeclared students. Listed below are the minimum requirements for each entity and the name of its respective dean or director. All qualifying gradepoint averages are based

on a 4-point scale and a minimum of 12 or more graded semester hours.

Students can be on the Dean’s List for more than one college.

College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, 3.75; Dean Steven F. Waller.

College of Architecture, top 10 percent of the students in the college; Interim Dean Kim Wilson.

College of Arts and Sciences, 3.7; Interim Dean Steve Goddard.

College of Business Administration, 3.6; Dean

Donde Plowman.

College of Education and Human Sciences, 3.75; Dean Marjorie Kostelnik.

College of Engineering, 3.5; Dean Tim Wei. College of Journalism and Mass Communications, 3.7; Interim Dean James O’Hanlon.

Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts, 3.7; Dean Charles O’Connor.

Honor Roll for undeclared students, 3.6; Director of Undergraduate Education Nancy Mitchell.

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Campbell County Observer

CCMH Offers Patients Online Access to Personal Health Information ampbell County Memorial Hospital (CCMH) is now offering patients quick and private access, day or night, to their inpatient hospital personal health information with an online gateway called My Health Home.

When patients sign-up for the My Health Home, they are able to: • View and share their personal health record (PHR) related to hospital stays as well as lab and radiology services.

• Have electronic access to a list of medications, allergies, lab test results, patient history and other healthcare information related to an inpatient hospital visit and some outpatient services done at the hospital.

• Manage family members’ health records, once authorized.

My Health Home also allows patients to track their previous appointments online for lab and radiology services. Not all hospital services or Campbell County Clinics will be available.

Registration is quick and easy, and it’s free. When registering at CCMH, patients who are interested in enrolling in My Health Home should provide a personal email address to use for the account. From there, patients can self-enroll online, or stop at Medical Records to create the account.

For self-enrollment, patients should visit www.ccmh.net/myhealth, click on the visit My Health Home button, and enter the following information as it was given at Registration: • First and last name

• Date of Birth • Personal Email address • Medical Record Number Access to the medical record number is available at CCMH Medical Records—patients must sign paperwork in order to receive their medical record number per HIPAA regulations. Medical Records is open Monday-Friday from 8 am-5 pm and can be reached at 307.688.1300 for more information on the medical record number.

Authorization for family members’ health records must be done in person at Medical Records.

CCMH patients interested in enrolling in My Health Home call 307.688.7878 or visit www.ccmh.net/ myhealth.

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Alex Coolidge Graduates from Cornell College Alex Coolidge of Gillette was one of 250 students to graduate from Cornell College on May 11.

Coolidge graduated with a Bachelor of Special Studies in History with a Secondary Education Certification.

One of the 40 “Colleges That Change Lives,” Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, is a national liberal arts college with a distinctive One Course At A Time curriculum. The One Course schedule provides students the chance to dive into their studies, focus more intensely on the disciplines of their choice, and learn authentically with the unique freedom to shed the confines of the traditional classroom to study off-campus, pursue research, or accept an internship--all with-

out missing out on other classes.

Cornell has been recognized by numerous publications for the value its education offers and for academic excellence.

This year it was named one of the 20 “Best Buys” in higher education by the “Fiske Guide to Colleges,” and one of the 100 best values in liberal arts education

by Kiplinger’s. It has also been called a “Great School at a Great Price” by U.S. News and World Report. Ninety-three percent of Cornell graduates earn their degrees in four years, compared to the national average of slightly more than five years. In 2013 Cornell was named one of the 25 colleges with the best professors by the Center for College Affordability and Productivity.

First Presbyterian Church 682-7264 511 Carey Ave Gillette, WY Sun. Sun. 10am Wed 6pm Adult Bible Study & P-K – 7th, 8th – 12th 6:30pm

First Church Of The Nazarene 682-2562 3010 W 4J Rd Gillette, WY Sun. School 9:30am Worship: Sun. 10:45am Wed. Bible Study 6:30

Prairie Wind Unitarian Universalists 686-4812 10am 2nd & 4th Sun at Lakeway Learning Center

Holy Trinity Episcopal Church 682-4296 804 Emerson Gillette, WY 10am Sunday

Roadway Alliance Church 687-7738 811 Hemlock Ave Gillette, WY Sun. Service: 10:15 am Living Rock Church “Life of the Rock” 670-1518 1001 S. Douglas Hwy Bld B Sun. Service 9am & 10:45am

Family Life Church 687-1083 480 State Highway 50 Gillette, WY Sun. 9am

Open Door Church 685-3337 111 E 2nd St Gillette, WY Sun. Worship 10am Wed. Worship 6:30pm www.gillette-church.com

First United Methodist Church 686-7339 2000 W Lakeway Rd Gillette, WY Sun. Contemplative Service 8am Sun. Blended Service 9:15-10:15 Sunday School 10:30

Grace Bible Church 686-1516 4000 Collins E Rd Gillette, WY Sun. School 9:00 Worship 10:00am Evening Service 6:00 PM

Westside Baptist Church 682-3505 604 W 10th St Gillette, WY Sun. Worship 8am Sunday School 9:30 Sun. Worship 10:45 Hispanic Service 6pm

Hope for the Heart Biker Church Meets at Calvary Community Church 631 Commercial Drive Gillette, WY Seventh-day Adventist Church 682-8465 901 Apricot St Gillette, WY Sabbath School: 09:30A Worship Service: 11:00A Vineyard Christian Fellowship 686-2485 585 Westside Dr Gillette, WY 9 am - Men’s Study/Fellowship, 10 am - Vineyard Cafe Opens (Coffees/ Pastries), 10:30 am - Worship and the Word, 6 pm - Various Activities First Baptist Church 682-4816 501 S Gillette Ave Gillette, WY Sun. 10:45am Sunday School for All Ages at 9:30am Mike Morrison Ministries 685-2272 2 W McKenzie Rd, 82716 Gillette, WY Tuesday night Bible Study 7:00 - 9:00 Saturday Night 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Gillette Christian Center 686-6680 6201 Swanson Rd Gillette, WY Sun. 7am Men’s Bible Study 9:30 Coffee Café Sun. Worship 10am 11:15am Christ Our Redeemer Lutheran 686-4080 1010 W Beaver Dr Gillette, WY Service 9am Antelope Valley Baptist Church 682-1602 2801 Antler Rd Gillette, WY First Assembly Of God-family 682-3308 601 Carey Ave Gillette, WY Sun. School 9:30 Sun. Worship 8am, 10:30am 6pm

Central Baptist Church 682-2543 1170 Country Club Rd Gillette, WY Sun 7:00 AM Men’s Bible Study 9:30 Worship Service 10:00am 11:15am

St Matthew’s Catholic Church 682-3319 1000 Butler Spaeth Rd Gillette, WY Sat 5:00pm Sun 9:00am & 11:00am Sun 5:00pm Spanish Mass

New Life Wesleyan Church 682-5642 1000 Comanche Ave Gillette, WY Sun. 9:15 & 10:45

Emanuel Southern Baptist Church 686-4132 1851 Chara Ave Gillette, WY

Church Of Christ 682-2528 1204 T-7 Ln Gillette, WY Sun. Bible Study 9am Sun. Worship 10am & 6pm

High Plain Community Church 685-0044 3101 W Lakeway Rd Gillette, WY Sun. Worship 9am and 11am 7pm. Wed. Worship

Calvary Missionary Baptist Church 682-9779 600 Longmont St Gillette, WY Sun. School 10am Worship 11am 6PM

Trinity Lutheran Church 682-4886 1001 E 9th St Gillette, WY Sun. School 9:15am Sun. 8am and 10:30am

Christian Church 682-3316 100 E Flying Circle Dr Gillette, WY Sun 10:30am St Francis on-the-Prairie 464-0028 357 Willowcreek Dr. Wright, WY 82732 Sun. 10am Wed. 5:30

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Jericho Baptist Church 686-5626 211 S Brooks Ave Gillette, WY 10am Sun. School 11am Sun. Worship 6pm Sun. Worship 7pm Wed. Worship

Jesus Christ of LDS 555 Wright Blvd.

Wright, WY 9am Sun. Worship Jesus Christ of LDS 2903 Aqllen Avel Gillette, WY 9am Sun. Worship 11am Sun. Worship Jesus Christ of LDS 1500 O’Hera Gillette, WY 9am Sun. Worship 11am Sun. Worship Westside Baptist Church 682-3505 604 W 10th St Gillette, WY Sun. Worship 8am & 10:45 Sun. School 9:30 Bible Study 6:00pm Abundant Life United Pentecostal Church 687-0074 1612 E Us Highway 14-16 Gillette, WY 82716 Sun. 10 to 11:30 Wed. 7pm to 8:30 pm Calvary Community Church 682-9553 631 N Commercial Dr Gillette, WY 82716 Sunday School 9:15 10:30 Worship 6:00pm Foundations Class Faith Community Church 682-7333 177 American Rd Gillette, WY 82716 Sunday School 9:45am Service 10:45am Wed Evening Study 7pm Wright Baptist Church 464-0464 225 Ranchero Dr Wright, WY 82732 Sun 9:30am Bible Study 10:45am Worship Service 6:00pm Evening Prayer & Discipleship Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church 682-3319 624 Wright Blvd Wright, WY 82732 Sun 5:30pm

Community

Campbell County Observer

June 20 - 27, 2014

Business Council Ag Division Offers Claim for Wyo Cattle Producers he Wyoming Business Council’s Agribusiness Division is offering Wyoming cattle producers a new verified marketing claim to help them capture more money per pound for their animals at the feedlot.

NutriVac is the newest verified marketing claim under the Wyoming Verified program, a marketing tool created by the Business Council to enhance profitability for producers and allow them to capture added value through premiums offered for certified livestock.

A large part of the NutiVac program is designed to help inform feeder buyers about the calves verified in the program. The verified calves will be listed on the Wyoming Beef

Cattle List website at www.wyobeef. com, as well as be promoted and advertised nationally. The process is conducted by an independent, thirdparty audit for the Wyoming Verified program.

There is no cost for producers to have their calves verified for the NutriVac claim.

John Henn, livestock and meat marketing program manager at the Business Council, said there is an increase in demand by cattle feeders for calves that have received industry approved vaccinations along with a good mineral and vitamin nutrition program.

“The NutriVac claim can provide assurance to feeders that verified calves meet those requirements,”

said Henn. “Cattle feeders want calves that are preconditioned at the ranch to have an adequate immune system to prevent them from getting sick at the feedlot, which can save feeders a significant amount of money.”

Henn said it has been reported that buyers will pay 6 to 11 cents per pound more for preconditioned calves at the various levels.

“Many cow-calf producers in Wyoming are most likely managing their calves according to the guidelines established, but are not able to capture the rewards for the added value of the nutrition and vaccination programs they are using,” said Henn.

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Legends Roll In to Ride for Charity The Sturgis Buffalo Chip®’s signature Legends Ride® is poised to host a record number of riders and raise more charitable funds than ever before onMonday, Aug. 4. The annual event draws in some of the biggest names in television, film, music and motorcycling, along with hundreds of riders from around the globe; and the 2014 roster of celebrity guests is shaping up to be one of the most spectacular to date. The Buffalo Chip organized the Legends Ride in 2008 to bring riders together to raise funds for local charities including Black Hills Special Olympics and the Sturgis Motorcycle Museum & Hall of Fame. In its six consecutive successful years, the ride has raised more than $325,000 for worthy Black Hills charities.

“The Legends Ride is an opportunity to meet the Rally’s biggest celebrities,” said Rod Woodruff, Sturgis Buffalo Chip CEO. “It gives riders the chance to give back to Black Hills charities, ride with the stars through some of the world’s most breathtaking scenery, bid on a magnificent custom bike and enjoy world-class entertainment.”

Riders gather on Deadwood’s Main Street beginning at 11 a.m. on Aug. 4 to check in, meet the celebrities and check out the bikes.

The 2014 Buffalo Chip Student Build Challenge™bike will be auctioned in support of the Legends Ride in front of Deadwood’s Historic Franklin Hotel. The motorcycle is a fully customized 2014 Harley-Davidson®

Street Glide built by Sturgis Brown High School students under the instruction of industry veterans. Students worked side-by-side with the experts and learned state-of-art techniques while creating this beautiful, custom, 155 H.P. bagger.

They entered the bike into the renowned Donnie Smith Bike Show in St. Paul, MN, where it took first place in the High School Build Open Class. It also won first place in the Full Custom Bagger Division at the Black Hills Motorcycle Show.

Celebrities so far confirmed for the 2014 Legends Ride include: • Frank Fritz, star of History Channel’s “American Pickers” • R. Lee Ermey, film star and Golden Globe Award Nominee • Kristy Swanson, actress • Arlen, Cory and Zach Ness of Arlen Ness Enterprises • Lloyd Eisler, Olympic bronze medalist and the 1993 World Champion skater • Joe Sylvester, TORC (The Off Road Championship) Pro Light Racer • Mark Kvamme, TORC (The Off Road Championship) Pro 4 Racer • Honky Tonk Man, professional WWE wrestling icon The ride departs from Deadwood’s Main Street at 2:30 p.m. and leads participants through the most scenic areas of the fabled Black Hills. The ride culminates at the Buffalo Chip with a private catered reception and pre-concert party. A $150 donation is required from all riders, 100 percent of which

benefit the two charities.

Sponsors graciously provide riders general admission to Monday’s concerts

by Zac Brown Band, John Mayall and The 4onthefloor, in addition to a Legends Ride souvenir gift pack and miles of the Rally’s best memories.

The Buffalo Chip’s Legends Ride has been featured on CMT, the National Geographic Channel, the Tonight Show, FX Network, Funny or Die and the Travel Channel as well as countless print, online and newspaper articles.

For more information or to purchase tickets call 605347-9000 or visit LegendsRide.com.

Industry-leading corporations through the United States provide support for the Ride that Rocks! ™ Their support allows for 100% of the riders contributions to be donated directly to the Black Hills Special Olympics and Sturgis Motorcycle Museum & Hall of Fame. Special thanks to presenting sponsors Adventure Power, AMSOIL, Budweiser, Black Hills Harley-Davidson, Deadwood Chamber, Epiphone Guitars, GEICO Motorcycle, Hot Leathers, Kinetik Audio, Pepsi, Russ Brown Motorcycle Attorneys, Silverado Franklin Hotel & Casino and Victory Motorcycles for supporting the 2014 Legends Ride!

The Sturgis Buffalo Chip is host to the Largest Music Festival in Motorcycling™ and The Best Party Anywhere™. The Chip’s nine days of concerts are free with camping. Passes grant

access to music industry’s hottest stars, the Bikini Beach Swim Paradise, 25 bars, mouth-watering food and beverage vendors and thrilling exhibits. The Sturgis Buffalo Chip offers clean, well maintained facilities, private showers, cabins, RVs, paved roads and more. Outrageous events such as unforgivably hot bikini contests and jawdropping daredevil stunts are a few of the many daily spectacles unique to the Chip. The famed creek-fed, 580-acre camping resort is located three miles east of Sturgis, SD. Now in its 33rd year, this event is one of the few remaining familyowned, independent music festivals in the world.

The Sturgis Buffalo Chip’s Legends Ride is dedicated to bringing rally goers together to raise significant funds for local charities including the Black Hills Special Olympics and the Sturgis Motorcycle Museum & Hall of Fame. Having raised over $325,000 for charity since its inception in 2008, the Legends Ride has played host to some of the biggest names in television, film, music and motorcycling, along with riders from all corners of the world.

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Construction Updates The City of Gillette’s Utilities Department announces road closure updates for the 2013 Water Main Replacement Project on Carey Avenue.

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The closure for Carey Avenue from 1st Street to 2nd Street has been extended through Monday, July 7th.

This closure is for the contractor to install new asphalt paving from 1st to 2nd Street.

The closure for Carey Avenue from 5th Street to 6th Street has been extended through Monday, July 7th.

The closure for Carey Avenue from 6th Street to 7th Street has been extended through Monday, July 7th.

The closure for Carey Avenue from 7th to 8th Street has been extended through Monday, July 7th. This closure is for the contractor to install new water main and water services. New asphalt paving will also be put down.

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By Elizabeth Richards ith just a short glance down the torn streets and upturned earth, it is easy to tell that much has been set aside in the name of progress for our little main street.

It’s a sigh of relief to see the rusted old piping of yesteryear torn away, and I doubt many will miss the potholes. The prospect of new trees, pristine sidewalks, and road lines that you can see are pretty nice. Some would say the construction is a good thing, others would not, but there is no denying the impact of it.

The basement at Hands On Pottery was flooded, and much of the stock needs replacing. The earth shook under machinery and fragile store items where in quite a bit of peril, not to mention the predictable lag in customer traffic. All of this combined has led some shops to go to higher lengths to bring in customers.

Shops are now letting customers enter through the backdoors. Large signs declaring they are open for business have been made and a new incentive program has been created.

The main street loyalty card is a new addition to several of the shops. It is a small card that, with any purchase of $10.00 or more, will accumulate signatures from the participating stores. Once full, this card becomes a ticket for a prechosen free item at one of the participating shops.

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The Gillette Avenue Mall, in particular, is trying hard to bring in more people. They have decided to host a sidewalk sale in their own alley behind the shop. Many of the vendors have come together to try and utilize the back space normally used for parking.

On June 21st of this month from 9:00am to 4:00 pm there will be a number of small tables out back, with much of the stores wares including drinks. The mall has become somewhat famous in a small circle for its handmade goods, from homemade candies to local honey - a great sweetener that is known to help allergy sufferers seeking relief from Gillette’s plant life.

There are a number of hand tooled cards unlike anything you would find in a chain store, as well as homemade candy apples which have become something of a favorite. Jewelry decorates the shelves, clothes made in the USA for sale, and a new specialty coffee maker has come to town as well.

The mall is good for gifts and treats, and the stock is always changing as new things come and go. The mall was also hoping to get other stores to participate in this outdoor alley sale. Though the others may or may not open their alleys to you, they are still open and happy to see to you. Even if you can’t make it, it’s good to know that our main street is still alive and well.

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Campbell Co. Fire Dept.

June 13, 2014 - At 1:16 a.m. to Matlack Road for an EMS assist - At 3:19 a.m. to Whatta Road for an EMS assist.

- At 9:35 a.m. to S. Garner Lake Road for a hazardous materials investigation. After completion of the investigation personnel determined the odor was caused by spilt gasoline.

- At 11:40 a.m. to the 5 mile marker on the Cosner road for an EMS assist for seizures.

- At 3:35 p.m. to 102 Cedar Hills for a hit natural gas line, upon arrival crews found a 1” steel natural gas pipeline that was struck by tractor mounted mower.

The pipe was cut and a plug installed to stop the flow. The scene was turned over to MGTC. - At 7:15 p.m. to E. Warlow Dr and Aquatic Center for a two vehicle accident, no injuries with fluid leakage.

- At 7:23 p.m. to Express Dr. for an EMS assist.

- At 7:36 p.m. to Highway 51 near Fairview Rd. for a vehicle fire, upon arrival crews found a crew cab Ford pickup with heavy fire involvement in the engine and passenger compartment. The fire was quickly brought under control. The cause of the fire is believed to mechanical in nature.

Highway 51 was briefly shut down while crews brought the fire under control.

June 14, 2014 - At 5:09 a.m. to Jack Smith Rd. for a one vehicle rollover with no injuries.

- At 8:42 a.m. to the area of Boxelder Road and HWY

59 for a vehicle fire. Upon arrival to the scene CCFD found a Dodge pick-up on the east side of the intersection with fire in the engine and cab areas.

The fire was attacked and brought under control in 5 minutes. No one was injured in the fire and total damage is estimated at $5000. The cause of the fire is believed to be due to mechanical failure.

June 15, 2014 - At 05:40 am to E 9th St between Stanley and Church Ave for a vehicle fire.

Firefighters extinguished the fire. The cause is under investigation.

- At 11:57 to 1205 Green Ave for a possible structure fire. On arrival, Fire personnel found that a resident had burned food in their apartment and the smoke had filled the hallway of the top floor of the apartment building. Firefighters ventilated the building.

- At 7:08 pm to the 1600 block of Cimarron Dr for an automatic fire alarm. Fire units were cancelled en route by the alarm company.

- At 9:48 pm to the 1700 block of Ash Meadows Dr for an automatic fire alarm.

Fire units were cancelled en route by the alarm company.

June 16, 2014 - At 1:50 am to Turkey Track Lane for an EMS assist.

- At 8:17 a.m. to 819 East 12th Street for carbon monoxide inside the building.

Upon arrival to the scene CCFD monitored that atmosphere inside the home

for CO and determined none was present.

- At 2:56 p.m. to the area of Sioux Avenue and Tepee Street for a vehicle fire. CCFD was cancelled en route when it was determined that the fire was actually a controlled burn.

- At 3:45 p.m. to the intersection of O’Hara Drive and O’Shannon Drive for a vehicle fire. Upon arrival to the scene the fire was out.

CCFD investigated the fire and determined that a short in an electrical wire ignited the head liner causing approximately $1000 in damage. No one was hurt in the incident.

June 17, 2014

- At 11:19 am to S Hwy 59 MM 68 for a vehicle fire.

Fire extinguished in the engine compartment of a crane.

- At 12:59 p.m. to Sage Valley Junior High for an automatic fire alarm, the alarm was activated due to pressure washing in a mechanical room.

- At 1:04 pm to Sage Valley Jr. High for an EMS assist; - At 7:15 pm to E. 4th St @ S. Douglas Hwy for leaking fluids from a vehicle following a crash. Motor oil had leaked from one of the vehicles onto a parking lot.

A chemical neutralizer was applied followed by ‘Floor Dry’ absorbent.

- At 9:17 p.m. to the 5000 block of Tarry St. for an EMS assist.

- At 11:17 pm to 185 Praireview Dr for a possible structure fire. Smoke from a chimney was mistaken for a structure fire.

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Study Examines Wyoming Nurses’ Intention to Continue Education

mployers in the health care industry along with national medical and nursing organizations are placing increased emphasis on having nurses earn baccalaureate degrees or higher. What do Wyoming nurses employed in the health care industry view as motivators and barriers to continuing their education?

Past research indicates that nurses with higher levels of education have improved patience safety and delivery of health care services.

A new study from the Research & Planning (R&P) section of the Wyoming Department of Workforce Services (WDWS), “Nurses Returning to School: Motivation and Job Satisfaction as a Buffer between Perceived Employer Discouragement and Time Constraints,” addresses the issue of continuing education among Wyoming nurses.

In conjunction with the University of Wyoming’s Fay W. Whitney School of Nursing, the Wyoming State Board of Nursing (WSBN), and Wyoming Center for Nursing and Health Care Partnerships (WCNHCP), R&P surveyed 2,086 licensed nurses in the summer of 2013.

The main goal of the study was to

investigate the relationship among motivation, barriers, and job satisfaction on intent to return to school.

Some of the key findings in the study include: • Of those nurses included in the study, 45.2% had less than a bachelor’s degree in nursing. A total of 56.7% were working as a staff nurse in the health care industry.

• The direct relationship between the amount of time available for both work and school (time constraints) was fully mediated by motivation.

This result indicates that as time is perceived as a barrier, a nurse with a higher level of motivation is more likely to return to school.

• As the level of perceived employer discouragement increases job satisfaction decreases while the level of personal and professional motivation increases. This result suggests that employers continue to play a direct role in a nurse’s intent to return to school regardless of how motivated or satisfied they are with their jobs.

• Employers play both a direct and indirect role on the decision to return to school. As employer groups and national organizations continue

to advocate for a more educated nursing workforce, a shift in workplace support at each specific local workplace will be necessary.

According to Dr. Mary Burman, Dean and Professor of the University of Wyoming’s Fay W. Whitney School of Nursing, “The Institute of Medicine, in their report on The Future of Nursing, recommends that 80% of nurses have a baccalaureate degree by 2020.

To meet this goal for the State of Wyoming, a variety of strategies will be needed. The [WDWS R&P] study highlights the positive role that employers can play by encouraging and supporting nurses to return to school for their baccalaureate degree.”

In response to the WDWS R&P study, Cynthia LaBonde, Executive Director of the WSBN emphases “the most important outcome of improving the educational attainment of the nursing workforce is ensuring patient safety and enhancing the scope of practice.” The scope of practice includes increased influence in the workplace and interdisciplinary knowledge.

Youngsters from Upton, Wright Take Top Honors at the 7th Annual Youth Hunter Challenge Youngsters from communities from all over Wyoming vied for top honors in the recently completed youth hunter education challenge held May 31-June1 at the Upton Gun Club.

Taking top honors in the Senior (age 15-18) Division was Colton Buckley of Upton. Second place was awarded to Doug Williams, also of Upton while third place honors went to Alex Colson of Torrington. Twenty participants competed in the senior division this year.

In the Junior (14 and under) Division, first place was awarded to Garrett Steele of Wright. Wyatt Fornstrom of Pine Bluffs took second place and Style Thurston of Star Valley Ranch was awarded third place.

Twenty-three youth competed in the junior division.

The championships are officially called the National Rifle Association’s Youth Hunter Education Challenge. It has been hosted by the Upton Gun Club since its inception seven years ago.

As in previous years, hunters were

tested in sporting clays style trap shooting, .22 rifle, muzzleloader and archery marksmanship, wildlife identification, orienteering, and hunter safety judgments.

“The challenge is designed to be fun for all participants,” said Game and Fish hunter education coordinator, Jim Dawson. “Every year we have interest from youth in communities throughout the state. It is great to see the interest and skills these young hunters possess.”

Dawson said the challenge has many volunteers and sponsors.

“There would be no challenge without the Upton Gun Club members and particularly event chairman Rick Rothleutner,” said Dawson. “These are the folks who took the initiative to get it started in 2008 and have kept it going every year since. They put in countless hours in organization and preparation and make improvements for the benefit of the kids every year.”

All youngsters received a prize for their participation and some hunting accessories. The winners also

received jackets embroidered with the event and their name.

The prizes were possible thanks to the contributions of many sponsors including the Upton Gun Club, Weston County Sportsman Club, Inyan Kara Bowhunters, Wyoming Friends of the NRA, , Cliff and Julie Abbott, B-4 Automotive, , Becky and Brady Morris, South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks, , B&B Roustabout, Rocky Mountain Discount Sports, Scheel’s Outdoor Store of Rapid City, Wyoming Weapon Collectors, Casper Skeet,Trap and Sporting Clays Club, Pheasants on Kara Creek, Heather Shideman , Lowham Walsh Engineering, H2E, Wyoming State Shooters Association and Pathfinder Arms.

Young hunters are invited to participate in next year’s challenge. It will again be held at the Upton Gun Club, where the various ranges are nestled into the Black Hill’s sagebrush and ponderosa pine. The June 2015 date will be announced soon.

Teen Risk Behavior Drops in Wyoming Many dangerous adolescent behaviors are on the decline nationwide according to the 2013 results of the National Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS). The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released survey results today that tracked trends for risky behavior that includes smoking, drinking, and fighting among middle and high school students.

The YRBS is the only surveillance system that monitors a wide range of priority health risk behavior among youth.

It is conducted biennially among representative samples of students in grades 9 through 12 in 43 states, including Wyoming. Between 2001 to 2013 the percentage of Wyoming middle school students surveyed who have ever tried cigarette smoking steadily decreased from 40.4% to 22.1%. Those who have ever had a drink of alcohol also decreased from 47% to 34.2%.

Those who have ever been in a physical fight decreased from 56.7% to 49.7%.

Between 1995 to 2013 the percentage of Wyoming high school students surveyed who have ever tried cigarette smoking has

steadily decreased from 73% to 45.8%.

Those who have ever had a drink of alcohol also decreased from 81.1% to 68%.

Those who have ever been in a physical fight decreased from 35.6% to 24.3%.

The 2013 survey marks the first year that students were asked about their texting and driving habits. According to the data, the total percentage of Wyoming students surveyed who texted or emailed while driving one or more times in the past 30 days was 50.7%. Other behaviors measured in the YRBS include: seat belt use, weapon carrying, attempted suicide, drug use, sexual behaviors, dietary behaviors, and physical activity.

YRBS data allows school administrators to view trends, determine the severity of behavior, and identify areas of concern.

These data also provide administrators and community outreach programs vital information used in evaluating and improving programs focused on these risk behaviors. The 2013 YRBS surveys were completed by 3,015 students in 52 Wyoming public high schools and 2,702 students in 51 Wyoming public middle schools.

Cat Neuter Clinic

The City/County animal shelter will be co-hosting a cat neuter clinic with Red Hills Veterinary Clinic on June 28, 2014 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Cats must be 3 months of age or older The cost is $25 to neuter and includes Rabies vaccine.

Contact the animal shelter to schedule an appointment at (307) 686-5249 Monday through Friday between 1 p.m. and 6 p.m.

Initially, this clinic was people who could not afford to neuter their cat, but there are open spaces available and the shelter has opened this up for everyone.

Call today to schedule your appointment - space in the clinic is limited.

For more information call (307) 686-5249.

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Obituaries

Kimberly Ann Bell

Memorial Services for Kimberly Ann Bell were held Friday, June 13, 2014 at Family Life Church in Gillette, with Pastor Bill Morel officiating. Kimberly Ann (Land) Bell, age 32, passed away on Monday, June 9, 2014 at Wyoming Medical Center in Casper of EhlersDanlos syndrome. That morning, heaven became blessed with one more angel.

Kim was born on September 7, 1981 in Kearny, Arizona to Bonnie Broyles and Curtis Land. At the age of one, Kim and her parents moved to Gillette where she resided for the past 31 years. Throughout her youth, Kim participated in rodeo and won several awards. On February 20, 2004, Kim had given herself away in marriage to Ryan Bell. Together, Kim and Ryan had three beautiful children: Rebecca, Valerie, and Ian. Kim’s main job in life was a stay-athome mom, being promoted to Super Mom. In 2013 the family moved to Lovell, Wyoming for a brief time, during which Kim made many good friends.

She was a devoted moth-

er, wife and friend. Kim enjoyed reading, hiking, horses and waterfalls. Other passions of hers were antiquing and home decorating. Kim was a member of the Eagles Auxiliary and a member of Family Life Church since the age of 11. Kim was working on getting her counseling certificate for couples counseling within the church. Kim also taught classes with children’s ministry and vacation bible study. Her faith was a large part of her life.

Kim is survived by her husband, Ryan Bell; children, Rebecca, Valerie, and Ian, step-sonBrayden Bell; parents, Bonnie and Lee Broyles, and Curtis and Stephanie Land; brother, Travis Land; step-brother, Matt Karm; maternal grandmother, Ethel “Smokey” Norton; loyal dog, Rambo; numerous cousins, aunts, uncles, nephews, and nieces.

Kim is preceded in death by grandparents, Kenneth and Sue Land; grandfather, Robert Norton.

Now Kim has the blessed opportunity to help God watch over her family. The family would like to give a special thank you to Family Life Church, Dr. Albert Steplock, Dr. Allen Wicks and their medical teams, the staff of CCMH, and all of the many friends who have been so supportive.

Memorials and Condolences may be sent in Kim’s name to Gillette Memorial Chapel, 210 W. 5th Street, Gillette, WY 82716. Condolences may also be sent via website at www.gillettememorialchapel.com

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May Provider of the Month:

John Mansell, MD

r. Mansell joined the CCMH Medical Staff in 2011 as a Pain Management Specialist and Board Certified Anesthesiologist. He provides care in his private Pain Clinic at Wyoming Interventional Pain Management, at CCMH and Powder River Surgery Center.

He attended medical school at in his home state of Alabama, at the University of South Alabama and completed his residency at Ochsner Medical Foundation in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Dr. Mansell says he has been inspired throughout his life to be a physician. In the third grade he was inspired to be a doctor while reading books about a physician missionary, Tom Dooley.

Later, while studying engineering at MIT, he decided anesthesia would be a natural choice of specialty as he pursued his medical education. He expanded his specialty to Pain Management when a family member struggled with pain due to cancer.

One of the biggest changes Dr. Mansell has seen in his years of practice is that patients are better educated on clinical options due to the availability of the internet.

His philosophy for patient care is “…the human body is smarter than the doctor and we need to listen to it.”

Dr. Mansell has lived an exciting life around the world, serving our country while providing care to our soldiers as a flight surgeon both in the United States and overseas, and as Chief of Aviation Medicine for the Wisconsin Army National Guard. Not one to let the grass grow under his feet, he is involved in various civic organizations, enjoys gardening, watching the Red Sox, and traveling. His wife Dona has family scattered around Wyoming, Colorado, Idaho and the Dakotas, so they are frequently on the road visiting family.

Thank you Dr. Mansell for your service to our community as a physician and for your involvement in our community!

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Chamber Graduates 27th Gillette Area Leadership Institute Class The Campbell County Chamber of Commerce recognized 22 graduates of the Gillette Area Leadership Institute (GALI) with certificates at the Graduation Luncheon at the Clarion Inn & Convention Center. The luncheon was sponsored by Powder River Dental Associates. Guest speakers were Representative Eric Barlow and Mary Silvernell, GALI alumni, of the Campbell County Convention & Visitors Bureau. Silvernell urged the graduates to continue to lead in the community and make a difference. Representative Barlow reminded graduates, “Leaders are willing to do what needs to be done to serve others. Find your place, continue to do your work.”

2013-2014 GALI Graduates are: Jina Anderson, First Interstate Ba nk Roxann Backer, United Way of Campbell County Sandra Bott, CAM-PLEX Michelle Butler, Cloud Peak Energy Benjamin Connolly, Wells Fargo Bank

Makayla Cooper, First National Bank of Gillette Barbara Craig, Town of Wright Denise Fuller, District Court Monica Gladson, L&J Operating, Inc. Lacey Grant, Campbell County Memorial Hospital Bob Hollander, Wellness 4 Life Sherry Johnson, Powder River Dental Associates Rebecca Lehman, Campbell County Public Library Shay Lundvall, BKS Environmental Anamika Mayfield, City of Gillette Ivy McGowan, Campbell County Government Angie Morfeld, Campbell County Abstract Geno Palazzari, City of Gillette Todd Seders, Collins Communications, Inc. Audra Stumbaugh, Powder River Dental Associates Paul Tolman, Campbell County Memorial Hospital Tyler Watts, Security State Bank

GALI is a nine-month program designed to promote a better understanding of the community, build and enhance leadership skills, and develop a strong network of community leaders. The program provides Gillette and Campbell County with informed, dedicated individuals prepared to assume positions within the community and enhance quality of life for all. As the future leaders of Campbell County, GALI graduates frequently serve on boards and committees for organizations throughout the community. The program was instituted in 1986, with the first graduating class in 1987.

Participation in the program requires an application, tuition and review process. Applications are available now through July 15, 2014 at the Chamber office at 314 S. Gillette Avenue. For more information, contact Gail Lofing, IOM, Vice President of Finance, at 682-3673 or gaill@gillettechamber.com.

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Volunteer Translates Her Love for People Into Career development of the Coordinator position has been discussed for some time, as resident satisfaction is a priority. She thinks having a person specifically assigned to the resident experience will enhance what the Social Workers and all our employees are doing.

Caroline will eventually

take over performing admission and discharge callbacks, the resident support group and the caregiver conference.

“She’s a germinator, spreading the seeds of Excellence Every Day throughout our facility,” said Jonni.

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sunshine,” said Caroline. “It makes my day to be able to do something for them.”

It didn’t take Administrator Jonni Belden and Director of Nursing Barb Drapeaux long to see Caroline’s potential and believe she has an important role to play in improving resident satisfaction.

Caroline will soon start daily rounding on residents, with the goal of touching every resident each month.

She visits with residents and families in impromptu settings as well, such as stopping to talk at mealtimes, or when passing the halls.

It was important to Jonni and Barb that the Resident and Family Coordinator understand the challenges of caring for the residents, so Caroline will continue to work monthly as a CNA. “Caring for people is a really hard job,” said Caroline. “Everyone needs a good support system to do their job, and we have it here.”

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He practiced for 2 years near Madison, WI before coming to Gillette to open an amazing clinic treating patients in the Campbell county area.

Matt enjoys treating everyone from infants to older adults and loves to see the transformations patients experience at Health Source Chiropractic Clinic.

In his spare time Matt enjoy many working out, camping, duck hunting, and spending time with family, friends, and his wife Erin.

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Caroline Baker beams as she talks about her new job as Pioneer Manor’s Resident and Family Relations Coordinator. This new position was created to build relationships with residents and families and assist the Pioneer Manor team in incorporating Excellence Every Day into all aspects of the care they provide.

Coordination with the Patient and Guest Relations Services at the Hospital is essential to ensure a consistent organizational approach to Service Excellence. Caroline will work closely with Mary Barks and Katie Percifield in identifying strategies and implementing them at Pioneer Manor.

Caroline began her journey with CCMH as a volunteer about a year ago, helping with Bingo and activities for residents and volunteering in the Gift Shoppe and Medical Records. Soon afterward she took the CNA training class and began work at Pioneer Manor.

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Bold Republic Weekly Woman STUNNED by Taxes She Voted For

By Glenn Woods

ustin, Texas - a beautiful city.

A rather liberal, progressive thinking woman has spent most of her life living there. Her name is Gretchen Gardner. I’m betting she’s a sweet lady.

Let’s give her the benefit of the doubt.

Gretchen lives near the downtown Austin area in a neighborhood of bungalows. Over the years, she and her neighbors (likeminded folks who only want the best for their community) have agreed to every city improvement offered to them.

Austin has ordered statues, built parks, a rail system, and a bus system. It has expanded the libraries and voted more money in for the improvement of the tourist information centers.

All of this was meant to grow and improve the community. Well, the place certainly looks good. I’ll give them that.

But, recently, Gretchen and her neighbors have gone before the city council to complain about their rising tax burden. Sure, they all understood that these improvements were going to cost. But they had no idea how much.

It was not just the cost of building all of these projects. It is the cost of maintaining them that is the real burden.

But the city has PLENTY of money right? I mean, after all, it is Austin, Texas.

How can they go broke?

But the tax burden has become too much, to the point that the very people who happily voted for all of these toys were shocked to see their taxes go up, then up again, then up again, and again.

The tax burden has become too much for people like Gretchen.

But, what now? They are all stuck with these toys that they have to pay for.

This reminds me of something we have all seen, every day, across America, as someone lands a good job then runs out and starts spending every dime. A new home, a new car, another car, a new TV, a boat, an ATV, and so on, and so on. Once again, it is not just the cost of purchasing these items, it is the cost of maintaining them that drives even well off families into bankruptcy.

As I’ve explained many times before, both on the radio and in this column, it’s not just the individual or the family that falls into these sorts of spending traps.

This is why you hear me shouting for cities, counties, and states, even in well-to-do areas, to watch their spending.

Do not count on money that has not been made.

Be careful of the burden that you have placed before yourself under the assumption that the money

will always be there.

Economies ebb and flow like a tide. Some years are good, and then comes the lean times, and back again. So, during the good times one should squirrel away as much as possible in preparation for the lean times, and the lean times will come. Count on it.

Back to Austin, Texas, where we found our dear friend Gretchen and her neighbors attending city council meetings. They are trying to figure out how to lower their property tax assessments.

The city is willing to lower the tax burden, as soon as the people decide what city services they would like to have cut. So now we have a new problem; some don’t want anything cut, and

others disagree on what should be cut.

We will have to wait to find out what the folks of Austin are going to do. In the mean time, we should pay attention to the lesson that they are struggling to learn.

Here is an affluent city with more money than it knows what to do with, and plenty of rich people and corporations to soak for even more money. So, everyone just assumed that they could spend, and spend some more, and everything that they spent money on would naturally result in more city growth.

But they only thing that grew was their own property taxes in order to pay for it all.

Gretchen was heard tell-

ing a local reporter that, if they city can’t lower the tax burden, she is going to have to move from that bungalow cottage that she loves so dearly and out of the city limits.

She’s not the only who considering such a move.

If these folks do move then the city will lose its tax base and they will have no choice but to shut down many of the services and various toys that they currently provide for the people.

I wonder if the city of Austin has learned their lesson.

I wonder if Gretchen has.

I wonder if our own city of Gillette can learn this lesson. Keep your foot away from the spending trap.

During good times, save for the bad.

(Have your own opinion on the issue? Write us a letter to the editor at: 1001 S. Douglas Hwy B-6 Gillette, WY 82716 or email one at: CampbellCountyObserver@gmail.com)

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Governor Joins Hess and UW for Announcement of Second Major Donation

Greg Hill, president and chief operating officer of Hess Corporation, joined Governor Matt Mead and University of Wyoming President Dick McGinity to announce Hess’s second $5 million commitment to UW in the past two years. Hess is now the largest corporate partner in UW’s history.

“Hess Corporation has been generous in its commitment of time, expertise and money. We appreciate its investment in Wyoming’s future. The University of Wyoming has a specific

plan with Hess and the other corporate partners to support the energy industry through innovation and research. Hess builds on great work already underway at UW,” Governor Mead said.

Hess’ monetary commitments to UW - gifts and research - total $10 million. These contributions have allowed UW to leverage an additional $8.7 million in state matching funds.

UW has met its goal of $15 million in contributions to build the High Bay

Research Facility. UW has corporate partnerships with Arch Coal, Baker Hughes, ExxonMobil, Halliburton, Hess, Marathon, Shell, and Ultra Petroleum.

The 2014 Legislature and Governor Mead set aside $10.5 million to match investments in technology and equipment for the High Bay Research Facility. A portion of Hess’s commitment - $2.3 million - will be directed to these projects.

Wyoming Files Application to Establish CO2 Pipeline on Federal Lands

Governor Matt Mead has been working to reduce permitting time and to enhance energy projects with a network of pipeline corridors.

The Governor announced today, a plan to establish pipeline corridors through federal lands is complete.

All of the corridors run parallel to existing pipelines.

The Wyoming Pipeline Authority (WPA) submitted the plan to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management for regulatory approval.

These corridors will reduce permitting timeframes and could expedite enhanced oil recovery in making CO2 available to old oil fields.

The pipeline plan is part of Governor Mead’s Energy Strategy.

“This plan identifies appropriate routes for pipelines. It establishes corridors, reduces delays and avoids a piecemeal approach to pipelines. This benefits everybody - energy producers, agriculture and environmental stewards,” Governor Mead said.

The Bureau of Land Management application seeks to establish 1,150 miles of

pipeline corridors on federal lands in Wyoming. The project called the Wyoming Pipeline Corridor Initiative (WPCI) would cross federal lands in most of Wyoming’s counties and involve nine BLM field offices.

Individual project proponents would construct and operate pipelines using the approved corridors. It is expected that some of the corridors would be available as soon as approvals are issued. Permitting will involve public review and input.

One of the primary purposes of the WPCI is to facilitate enhanced oil recovery (EOR) in Wyoming.

“Oil production in Wyoming has been declining for several decades. This hurts local economies, means fewer jobs and results in less revenue to the state,” Governor Mead said. “Wyoming has large, economically significant oil reserves that are good candidates for enhanced oil recovery using CO2.”

Currently, CO2 is being used in five Wyoming fields to assist in additional

oil recovery. The oil being produced with the help of CO2 is not recoverable using conventional production techniques.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently proposed a rule to reduce CO2 emissions from power plants. Governor Mead said, “A pre-approved pipeline network links depleted oil fields with CO2 sources and increases the viability of enhanced oil recovery.

With this plan Wyoming can assist industry, make

CO2 from power plants an asset, reduce overall CO2 emissions and increase oil recovery.”

The application is part of a multi-year collaboration between the State of Wyoming, BLM and other federal agencies. Wyoming’s plan addresses future, long-term pipeline corridor needs in the state. A map of the corridors addressed in WPA’s application can be found on WPA’s website: www.wyopipeline.com

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Weekly Constitution Study

Every week, the Observer prints one article, paragraph, or section of either the U.S. or State Constitution for your information.

United States Constitution, Article 4 - The States Section 3 - New States

New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new States shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.

The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State.

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Campbell County Observer

June 20 - 27, 2014

What Hillary Clinton Has Done as Secretary of State

By Nicholas DeLaat hat has Mrs. Clinton accomplished as Secretary of State? Not much.

Granted, you can’t blame her for much, as it has been the policies of our overall government since the late 90’s to retract from world affairs, while pushing for the opposite.

She, like President Obama, inherited a mess. When she took over we were fighting in two wars and several supporting skirmishes. China, and its ever-amazingly growing economy, was taking over markets. Russia was starting to change its structure to its old geo-political ways. The global economic crisis was in full swing and the United States Government had been for years spearheading power to the U.N. for world moderation.

You would think that she would have a

lot to do. Yes, the role of the Secretary of State has changed some, even in the last 20 years (since the fall of the USSR), but America’s top diplomat should have had a better success rate in her four-year reign.

So below, after much research, I have written an entire list of her accomplishments as Secretary of State.

1: 2: 3: 4: 5: 6: 7: 8: That’s right, I have found absolutely nothing.

States are Leading the Way on Sage-Grouse Submitted by Governors Matt Mead and Dave Freudenthal Our security across the United States is tied directly to reliable, available and affordable energy. From refrigerators to home furnaces, from morning commutes to the light on the porch at night, energy is there for us throughout the day. We need it. Workplaces – businesses, manufacturing plants, farms and ranches – they need it too.

Wyoming’s coal, oil, natural gas and wind literally and figuratively power our country. In Wyoming, we are proud of our resource wealth and our ability to contribute. Today, a chicken-sized bird – the Greater sage-grouse – looms very large in our collective efforts to put more Americans to work, keep the economy growing, and provide energy security for our nation.

The sage-grouse has been petitioned for listing under the federal Endangered Species Act. The question – should it be listed – has been litigated and discussed across our country for over a decade.

The states have allocated millions of dollars, in Wyoming’s case, more than $32 million since 2005, to bring together teams to develop and implement conservation strategies to protect a single species.

Solution-oriented landowners, energy companies and conservation groups have come together to find ways to secure habitat. As a result, millions of acres of sage-grouse habitat – in Wyoming alone over 15 million acres, roughly the land mass of the entire state of West Virginia – have been protected or reclaimed. At the same time, Americans continue to live, work, and recreate on their lands as is their right.

Specifically, Wyoming’s strategy has been to protect the “core” habitat of the sage-grouse so that we can provide certainty and more flexibility for oil and gas development and other activities on nearby land.

This approach is a serious solution – one the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has acknowledged is based on sound science. Most

importantly, it is a solution that works for our state economy. It provides our industries, ag and private property owners with the access they need to use and develop the land, while recognizing the value and importance of our wildlife and treasured landscapes.

Other species, more than 100 bird species and 70 mammal species, which are helped by healthy sagebrush habitat, have also benefited from this approach.

Former Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar recognized Wyoming’s efforts to protect the Greater sagegrouse and its habitat, as a template for other western states to follow. In 2011 he presented the Wyoming Governor’s Sage Grouse Implementation Team with the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Partners in Conservation Award. Wyoming, Colorado and the Department of the Interior also co-chair the multi-state Sage-Grouse Task Force.

Wyoming has shown that states, when they are willing to lead, can and should have a greater role in decisions on federal lands. We are using this opportunity to work closely with federal land managers, including the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service, to develop resource management plans that reflect Wyoming’s plan to conserve the Greater sage-grouse and avoid the need for a federal listing.

The Bureau of Land Management, to its credit, has listed the bird as a sensitive species on the lands it manages and is evaluating measures that will lead to lasting and flexible conservation of sage-grouse habitat.

Further, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service has invested $145 million, which has leveraged over $70 million in private and public matching contributions in conservation efforts which benefit sage-grouse and other species. The results are significant. Over 700 ranchers have implemented new

grazing systems on over 2 million acres of habitat, 240,000 acres of private lands have been enrolled in conservation easements, weeds and other invasive species have been removed from 200,000 acres of habitat – all promoting balance between industry, ag and conservation. Five hundred fence miles have been marked to reduce sage-grouse collisions with fences.

In the meantime, instead of working on solutions, others have simply engaged lawyers to draft petitions to list sage-grouse under the Endangered Species Act and filed lawsuits. They seem to prefer putting the sage-grouse on a list that ensures that the answer to nearly every request to work and use lands containing sagegrouse habitat is “NO.” They have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars hiring expert witnesses and attorneys – while we have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to actually improve the chances that the species will be conserved.

Ultimately, these groups know that species finding their way onto the endangered species list stay there – even those species like sage-grouse with populations in excess of 500,000 individual birds (40% of which are in Wyoming).

Few federal resources are actually used to recover species from the list and, thus, few are ever removed. Thus, the list of “NO” has a lasting effect on land use and a less than stellar effect on listed species. The larger problem with this “NO,” is that, for sage-grouse, it implicates tens of millions of acres of land, spread across 11 western states – acres rich

with the coal, natural gas, oil, wind and solar resources. Our nation desperately needs these resources-rich acres to inch forward in its fragile economic recovery.

Almost more insidious, though, is the reality that saying “NO” will stifle proactive conservation and signal to states, private industry and others that, no matter what they do or how much money they invest, listing is the only and absolute end. Our friends in Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas, who have worked diligently to preclude listing of the lesser-prairie chicken only to see it listed, can tell such a story.

It is because we cannot and do not want to live with the implications of saying “NO” that Wyoming has been working with sage-grouse for nearly 30 years. We allocated finite resources that could have been used to build schools, educate children and repair roads and highways to protect the sage-grouse. We have constructed mechanisms that are designed to work much better than the blunt end of the Endangered Species Act and its list of ways that the federal government has to say “NO.” This effort includes facilitating the creation of habitat conservation banks on literally millions of acres of sage-grouse habitat in Wyoming.

Some folks in our state would say they hear “NO” too frequently under the state permitting system we have in place, but we have the personnel to sit with developers to design their projects to balance development and protect the sage-grouse. In Wyoming’s case, we have the expertise – hundreds of

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state and local employees who have worked on the same types of permits for what collectively amounts to several thousand years.

The federal agency that would be charged with reviewing those same permits – permits numbering in the tens of thousands across the state – has less than 5 employees to do the same work, most of whom have no experience with the authorizations in question.

Some have spoken about the possibility of simply listing the sage-grouse and then implementing a special rule under the Endangered Species Act, allowing the states to execute its plan (in most cases a plan that exist today) to protect the bird. This is a long way around a horse that is already being ridden, and it invites a “mother may I” sort of arrangement to im-

plement the very solution we have in place. It provokes frustration and fury in states like Wyoming where the major investments and sacrifices have already been made to conserve the sage-grouse.

In Wyoming we have proven we can succeed with innovative solutions that reflect the unique nature of our land ownership, threats to individual species, laws, custom and culture. We continue to work hard for success as the nation’s economic growth – including thousands of jobs dotted across the United States - depends on the efforts of states like ours.

Before us is an opportunity. We need to press the federal government to recognize what states like Wyoming are doing on sagegrouse and let us continue to lead.

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June 20 - 27, 2014

Campbell County Observer

The Federalist 12 The Utility of the Union in Respect to Revenue Hamilton for the New York Packet - Tuesday, November 27, 1787 o the People of the State of New York: THE effects of Union upon the commercial prosperity of the States have been sufficiently delineated. Its tendency to promote the interests of revenue will be the subject of our present inquiry.

The prosperity of commerce is now perceived and acknowledged by all enlightened statesmen to be the most useful as well as the most productive source of national wealth, and has accordingly become a primary object of their political cares. By multipying the means of gratification, by promoting the introduction and circulation of the precious metals, those darling objects of human avarice and enterprise, it serves to vivify and invigorate the channels of industry, and to make them flow with greater activity and copiousness.

The assiduous merchant, the laborious husbandman, the active mechanic, and the industrious manufacturer,--all orders of men, look forward with eager expectation and growing alacrity to this pleasing reward of their toils. The often-agitated question between agriculture and commerce has, from indubitable experience, received a decision which has silenced the rivalship that once subsisted between them, and has proved, to the satisfaction of their friends, that their interests are intimately blended and interwoven. It has been found in various countries that, in proportion as commerce has flourished, land has risen in value. And how could it have happened otherwise? Could that which procures a freer vent for the products of the earth, which furnishes new incitements to the cultivation of land, which is the most powerful instrument in increasing the quantity of money in a state--could that, in fine, which is the faithful handmaid of labor and industry, in every shape, fail to augment that article, which is the prolific parent of far the greatest part of the objects upon which they are exerted? It is astonishing that so simple a truth should ever have had an adversary; and it is one, among a multitude of proofs, how apt a spirit of ill-informed jealousy, or of too great abstraction and refinement, is to lead men astray from the plainest truths of reason and conviction.

The ability of a country to pay taxes must always be proportioned, in a great degree, to the quantity of money in circulation, and to the celerity with which it circulates. Commerce, contributing to both these objects, must of necessity render the payment of taxes easier, and facilitate the requisite supplies to the treasury. The hereditary dominions of the Emperor of Germany contain a great extent of fertile, cultivated, and populous territory, a large proportion of which is situated in mild and luxuriant climates. In some parts of this territory are to be found the best gold and silver mines in Europe. And yet, from the want of the fostering influence of commerce, that monarch can boast but slender revenues. He has several times been compelled to owe obligations to the pecuniary succors of other nations for the preservation of his essential interests, and is unable, upon the strength of his own resources, to sustain a long or continued war.

But it is not in this aspect of the subject alone that Union will be seen to conduce to the purpose of revenue. There are other points of view, in which its influence will appear more immediate and decisive. It is evident from the state of the country, from the habits of the people, from the experience we have had on the point itself, that it is impracticable to raise any very considerable sums by direct taxation. Tax laws have in vain been multiplied; new methods to enforce the collection have in vain been tried; the public expectation has been uniformly disappointed, and the treasuries of the States have remained empty. The popular system of administration inherent in the nature of popular government, coinciding with the real scarcity of money incident to a languid and mutilated state of trade, has hitherto defeated every experiment for extensive collections, and has at length taught the different legislatures the folly of attempting them.

No person acquainted with what happens in other countries will be surprised at this circumstance. In so opulent a nation as that of Britain, where direct taxes from superior wealth must be much more tolerable, and, from the vigor of the

government, much more practicable, than in America, far the greatest part of the national revenue is derived from taxes of the indirect kind, from imposts, and from excises. Duties on imported articles form a large branch of this latter description.

In America, it is evident that we must a long time depend for the means of revenue chiefly on such duties. In most parts of it, excises must be confined within a narrow compass. The genius of the people will ill brook the inquisitive and peremptory spirit of excise laws. The pockets of the farmers, on the other hand, will reluctantly yield but scanty supplies, in the unwelcome shape of impositions on their houses and lands; and personal property is too precarious and invisible a fund to be laid hold of in any other way than by the inperceptible agency of taxes on consumption.

If these remarks have any foundation, that state of things which will best enable us to improve and extend so valuable a resource must be best adapted to our political welfare. And it cannot admit of a serious doubt, that this state of things must rest on the basis of a general Union.

As far as this would be conducive to the interests of commerce, so far it must tend to the extension of the revenue to be drawn from that source. As far as it would contribute to rendering regulations for the collection of the duties more simple and efficacious, so far it must serve to answer the purposes of making the same rate of duties more productive, and of putting it into the power of the government to increase the rate without prejudice to trade.

The relative situation of these States; the number of rivers with which they are intersected, and of bays that wash there shores; the facility of communication in every direction; the affinity of language and manners; the familiar habits of intercourse; --all these are circumstances that would conspire to render an illicit trade between them a matter of little difficulty, and would insure frequent evasions of the commercial regulations of each other.

The separate States or confederacies would be necessitated by mutual jealousy to avoid the temptations to that kind of trade by the lowness of their duties. The temper of our governments, for a long time to come, would not permit those rigorous precautions by which the European nations guard the avenues into their respective countries, as well by land as by water; and which, even there, are found insufficient obstacles to the adventurous stratagems of avarice.

In France, there is an army of patrols (as they are called) constantly employed to secure their fiscal regulations against the inroads of the dealers in contraband trade.

Mr. Neckar computes the number of these patrols at upwards of twenty thousand.

This shows the immense difficulty in preventing that species of traffic, where there is an inland communication, and places in a strong light the disadvantages with which the collection of duties in this country would be encumbered, if by disunion the States should be placed in a situation, with respect to each other, resembling that of France with respect to her neighbors.

The arbitrary and vexatious powers with which the patrols are necessarily armed, would be intolerable in a free country.

If, on the contrary, there be but one government pervading all the States, there will be, as to the principal part of our commerce, but one side to guard--the Atlantic coast. Vessels arriving directly from foreign countries, laden with valuable cargoes, would rarely choose to hazard themselves to the complicated and critical perils which would attend attempts to unlade prior to their coming into port. They would have to dread both the dangers of the coast, and of detection, as well after as before their arrival at the places of their final destination. An ordinary degree of vigilance would be competent to the prevention of any material infractions upon the rights of the revenue. A few armed vessels, judiciously stationed at the entrances of our ports, might at a small expense be made useful sentinels of the laws. And the government having the same interest to provide against violations everywhere, the co-operation of its measures in each State would have a powerful tendency to render them effectual. Here also we should preserve by Union, an advantage which nature holds out to us, and

which would be relinquished by separation. The United States lie at a great distance from Europe, and at a considerable distance from all other places with which they would have extensive connections of foreign trade. The passage from them to us, in a few hours, or in a single night, as between the coasts of France and Britain, and of other neighboring nations, would be impracticable. This is a prodigious security against a direct contraband with foreign countries; but a circuitous contraband to one State, through the medium of another, would be both easy and safe.

The difference between a direct importation from abroad, and an indirect importation through the channel of a neighboring State, in small parcels, according to time and opportunity, with the additional facilities of inland communication, must be palpable to every man of discernment.

It is therefore evident, that one national government would be able, at much less expense, to extend the duties on imports, beyond comparison, further than would be practicable to the States separately, or to any partial confederacies. Hitherto, I believe, it may safely be asserted, that these duties have not upon an average exceeded in any State three per cent. In France they are estimated to be about fifteen per cent., and in Britain they exceed this proportion.[1] There seems to be nothing to hinder their being increased in this country to at least treble their present amount. The single article of ardent spirits, under federal regulation, might be made to furnish a considerable revenue.

Upon a ratio to the importation into this State, the whole quantity imported into the United States may be estimated at four millions of gallons; which, at a shilling per gallon, would produce two hundred thousand pounds. That article would well bear this rate of duty; and if it should tend to diminish the consumption of it, such an effect would be equally favorable to the agriculture, to the economy, to the morals, and to the health of the society. There is, perhaps, nothing so much a subject of national extravagance as these spirits.

What will be the consequence, if we are not able to avail ourselves of the resource in question in its full extent? A nation cannot long exist without revenues. Destitute of this essential support, it must resign its independence, and sink into the degraded condition of a province. This is an extremity to which no government will of choice accede. Revenue, therefore, must be had

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at all events. In this country, if the principal part be not drawn from commerce, it must fall with oppressive weight upon land. It has been already intimated that excises, in their true signification, are too little in unison with the feelings of the people, to admit of great use being made of that mode of taxation; nor, indeed, in the States where almost the sole employment is agriculture, are the objects proper for excise sufficiently numerous to permit very ample collections in that way. Personal estate (as has been before remarked), from the difficulty in tracing it, cannot be subjected to large contributions, by any other means than by taxes on consumption. In populous cities, it may be enough the subject of conjecture, to occasion the oppression of individuals, without much aggregate benefit to the State; but beyond these circles, it must, in a great measure, escape the eye and the hand of the tax-gatherer. As the necessities of the State, nevertheless, must be satisfied in some mode or other, the defect of other resources must throw the principal weight of public burdens on the possessors of land. And as, on the other hand, the wants of the government can never obtain an adequate supply, unless all the sources of revenue are open to its demands, the finances of the community, under such embarrassments, cannot be put into a situation consistent with its respectability or its security. Thus we shall not even have the consolations of a full treasury, to atone for the oppression of that valuable class of the citizens who are employed in the cultivation of the soil. But public and private distress will keep pace with each other in gloomy concert; and unite in deploring the infatuation of those counsels which led to disunion.

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Public Pulse

June 20 - 27, 2014

Campbell County Observer

Conservatives Challenge Mead in 2014 Wyoming Governors’ Race Submitted by Gregory Nickerson - wyofile.com wo conservative Republican candidates in Wyoming are aiming to unseat incumbent Gov. Matt Mead on August 19, when GOP primary voters will cast their ballots for Wyoming’s highest state office.

Mead, a fiscal and social conservative, is facing Superintendent of Public Instruction Cindy Hill (R), and Dr. Taylor Haynes (R), both of whom intend to ramp up Wyoming’s opposition to federal policies. The winner of the Republican primary will face Pete Gosar (D) of Laramie, who ran unsuccessfully in the Democrat primary for governor in 2010.

In this off-year election, the primary candidates for governor represent the divisions within Wyoming’s Republican Party, even as they pursue similar platforms.

All four candidates share an awareness that Wyoming’s coal industry — which contributes billions in revenue for state government and schools — is under the gun. Coal production for electricity generation is losing market share to natural gas, while proposed carbon regulations will likely squeeze the state’s mining industry even further.

“Any candidate who wants to be successful will complain that the federal government is overextending its reach and they [carbon rules] are a detriment to Wyoming’s interests,” said University of Wyoming political scientist Jim King.

“They are all going to have basically the same position on this.”

Aside from coal issues, King said that jobs, the economy, and limited government are all core issues that form the foundational platform of any successful candidate in Wyoming.

Mead has taken care to address all of these issues.

During his tenure Wyoming’s economy has made headway, with increasing revenue, declining poverty rates and an overall increase in jobs to unprecedented levels. At the same time, he’s drafted budgets that keep state government nearly flat, and even modestly decreased the numbers of state employees.

As for Mead’s approach to dealing with the federal government, he has filed numerous suits against the EPA, and joined a suit seeking expanded gun rights. A former U.S. Attorney who defended the federal government in court, he has not shied away from launching legal attacks at his past employer, even if he says lawsuits are not his favorite tactic.

“In terms of where you want to grow proactively, litigation to stop something doesn’t get you there,” Mead said. “You need something more than that.”

King said Mead’s chances of winning the primary and the general election are strong, particularly with the approval rating of 50 percent that he logged in a poll last July. Some 31 percent of respondents disapproved of Mead’s performance, another 18 percent were undecided.

King expects undecided respondents to split along roughly the same lines in the August primary, giving Mead the margin he needs to win.

“I would expect the power of incumbency to enable Gov. Mead to be re-nominated,” King said. “He has none of the vulnerabilities that usually mark an incumbent for defeat.” In King’s view, the only things that could damage Mead’s chances are a major scandal or a policy decision “that runs totally counter to opinion in the state.”

The major controversy during Mead’s tenure relates to Senate File 104.

That measure removed most of the duties of the state superintendent of public instruction, transferring them to an appointed director for the state Department of Education. The legislature passed that bill with a nearly two-thirds vote in the 2013 session, but the Wyoming Supreme Court overturned it in a split vote early in 2014.

Mead explained Senate File 104 as an attempt to revise the structure of the Department of Education for the “maximum benefit” of students and the state.

“Both the legislature and myself, it wasn’t an attempt to cause problems,” he said.

Mead acknowledged the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the law. “We have to accept that,” he said. “When you make a mistake you’ve got to own up to it. The buck stops with me, and then you’ve got to try to improve and move forward.”

Whether or not Senate File 104 is a “major scandal” depends on one’s point of view. King believes that for most people, leadership at the Department of Education doesn’t rise to great importance because it’s not central to their daily lives.

Even for those who have children in public school, questions of who leads the Department of Education in Cheyenne might not be a major concern, he said.

“There are probably a lot of people that know something is going on, but don’t know the issues, and see it as mostly just a bunch of politicians going at each other, and it just turns them off,” King said.

However, Mead’s opponent Cindy Hill — the very superintendent whose duties were axed by Senate File 104 and reinstated by the Supreme Court — thinks otherwise. She frames Senate File 104 as an effort to “take away the people’s vote,” and one in which Wyoming voters take a great interest in. That mindset has traction in some Republican circles, and among Democrats, including gubernatorial candidate and state school board member Pete Gosar.

The notable event at last month’s GOP state convention in Evanston was a vote to censure Mead for signing Senate File 104. The measure came within seven votes of passing.

Counties whose delegates voted nearly unanimously to censure Mead included Big Horn, Park, Uinta, Sublette, Converse, Platte, Goshen, and Washakie. However, Mead avoided censure through roughly 50-50 support he received in counties with large population like Laramie and Natrona, plus support from Sheridan, Johnson, Teton, Albany, Fremont and Sweetwater counties.

To some, the censure vote indicated a popular groundswell of opposition that revealed Mead’s vulnerability.

King is skeptical, saying the delegates who vote at the state convention aren’t necessarily a representative slice of Wyoming’s overall GOP voters.

“If you are interested enough to be active in being part of the county committee, and are going to attend the party convention, you are probably not going to find yourself in the middle of the political spectrum,” King said. “You are there because you have very firm and committed ideological beliefs.”

Out of 277 delegates, 132 voted for censure, which Hill took as a major sign of discontent toward Mead. “I think most people thought that was significant,” she said.

Hill frames Senate File 104 as an effort to upset the balance of power in Wyoming government. “We

have an issue around the separation of powers,” she said. “It is very difficult to see the separation of powers.”

Others see the court’s overturning of Senate File 104 as evidence of each branch of government fulfilling its role. “The fact that a law was tested by a court isn’t necessarily as dramatic as people may think,” said Liz Brimmer, a veteran campaign consultant and GOP staffer. “It actually proves the system of checks and balances of what we all know from early civics lessons.”

According to law and historical precedence, the Legislature does have the authority to assign some of the duties to the superintendent’s office, such as management of the Department of Education, which didn’t exist when the Wyoming Constitution was written in 1889. Other duties, like “general supervision” of the state’s schools, are enshrined in the state constitution.

From a policy standpoint, Hill plans to push back against federal government and the federalizing she says is sweeping through Wyoming.

“It’s time for Wyoming to have a woman governor who respects the people of Wyoming — government does not know best, the people know best,” Hill said.

“We need a governor who will listen to and respect the people of Wyoming.”

If elected, Hill plans to repeal the Common Core education standards, which were adopted by Wyoming as part of a movement initiated by Bill Gates, the National Governor’s Association, and the Council of Chief State School Officers.

The Obama Administration later embraced the Common Core as part of the Race to the Top program.

“I will be moving our state toward no longer federalizing our education, land, water, and air,” Hill said. “I will be decentralizing and not centralizing.”

Hill said she would like to reform Wyoming’s budget process to make it more accessible to the public. There are few people who know what is in Wyoming’s budget, she said. “(The budget) is controlled by a few legislators, highly placed bureaucrats and the governor,” Hill said. “It is controlled by the few. That should never happen. It is the people’s money. The people must remind those in government that every dollar comes by way of the people.”

Hill has held onto her core supporters despite ongoing investigations — which some dismiss as being politically motivated — into alleged financial mismanagement, nepotism, and misappropriation of federal dollars during her tenure as head of the Department of Education.

This summer, the Wyoming House Special Investigative Committee will report on its investigation into Hill’s tenure. It’s unknown to what degree the report will help or hurt Hill’s chances, or where she stands among voters today.

Last July a poll found that 46 percent of respondents disapproved of Hill’s job performance as superintendent, while 23 percent approved and 31 percent were undecided.

Meanwhile, Hill sees herself as a very electable candidate. That confidence is based in part on her performance in the 2010 GOP primary that won her election as superintendent. Not only did she beat incumbent Jim McBride, she won the primary vote in all 23 counties. After that, she defeated former Democratic state senator Mike Massie in the general election.

Hill’s tallied significantly more votes (47,165) in the superintendent’s primary than Mead did when he won the governor’s primary (30,308).

It’s uncertain whether Hill’s ability to get out the vote in the 2010 superintendent race will convert in the governor’s primary in 2014.

King notes that the two offices have different levels of visibility. Hill’s 2010 results can’t necessarily be used to predict outcome in the governor’s race, where candidate name recognition is higher and more people are watching, he said.

Additionally, the dual challenge Mead is facing from Hill and Taylor Haynes could work to Mead’s benefit.

“There is a potential of (Haynes and Hill) splitting the more conservative vote in the primary,” King said.

“That was Mead’s advantage in 2010 when Ron Micheli and Rita Meyer more or less split the more conservative vote.”

In 2010, Taylor Haynes won seven percent of the general election votes for governor while running as an independent. Like Hill and Mead, he also wants to push back against Washington. He aims to banish EPA from Wyoming and turn control of federal lands in the state over to Wyoming.

“There is no federal land in Wyoming,” he said. “It’s a ruse, a hoax, a misunderstanding. Every square inch belongs to the people of the state.”

Hayne’s stance relies on his interpretation of Article I Section 8 Clause 17 of the U.S. Constitution, which he says limits federal land ownership to Washington D.C. and military bases, making all other federal land ownership unconstitutional.

If elected, Haynes says he would pursue legal action to transfer federal land in Wyoming, and reroute mineral royalties that flow to the U.S. government into state coffers. In place of the EPA, he would give the state Department of Environmental Quality full authority over environmental regulations in Wyoming.

“When I take over 100 percent of our mineral wealth, we’ll have a 51 percent increase in mineral income, so it would be a very different look on budgeting, with more resources going back to the cities towns and counties,” Haynes said.

Currently Wyoming receives approximately 49 percent of the federal mineral royalties derived from resources produced on federal lands.

Haynes’ case for transferring federal lands and management decisions to the state is popular concept among some circles here.

The view runs counter to current federal policy, which operates on the premise that the U.S. Constitution upholds federal land ownership and environmental regulation.

Haynes’ constitutional views also underlie his stance on gun rights. “The second amendment is your concealed carry permit, and you don’t need to jump through any hoops to carry a weapon in any way you want,” he said. “If you can afford a fully armed F-16, great,” he said in a recent speech.

Haynes also brings a distinctly Christian voice to the election, saying he is strong on “traditional Judeo-Christian values” when it comes to opposing same-sex marriage and abortion.

“Abortion is murder, and usually it destroys two lives,” he said in a 2010speech. His combination of anti-federal sentiment with religious values places him squarely within the conservative Christian segment of the GOP, which is increasingly influential at the national level.

About 106,000 voters

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turned out for Wyoming’s 2010 primary election.

That’s roughly half of all registered voters in the state, or less than a third of the entire voting age population. Assuming a similar turnout this year, two thirds of Wyoming’s voting-age citizens won’t even bother to go to the polls for the primary.

That means a candidate will need as few as 33,500 votes to win the GOP primary for governor this August 19.

In a state where Republicans outnumber Democrats almost three to one, some say the GOP primary winner has a strong chance at winning the general election.

“I think mid-term Obama administration, the probability in a state like Wyoming of a Democrat winning governor is very small,” Brimmer said.

Whoever wins the GOP primary will face Democrat Pete Gosar in November.

Originally from Pinedale, he currently lives in Laramie where he owns an aviation business and pilots Wyoming’s state plane. Gosar is running on a platform that emphasizes economic diversification.

“If we rely solely on producing our (mineral) exports like we’ve done for the last four decades, then we are going to have a future similar to Flint, Michigan,” Gosar said, referring to the economically depressed factory town in the upper Midwest.

“We have to find a way to adapt our coal industry to the markets as they exist today and not to how we wish they would exist,” Gosar said. “The markets are asking for lower emissions for burning coal. Those are the facts.”

Gosar believes emissionreducing technology can provide a solution for coal, but developing that technology will require an “all hands on deck” type of approach.

“If we don’t have a moon shot on reducing emissions, then we stand to be left out and lose millions and perhaps billions of dollars to our local economy, and that will have drastic effects,” Gosar said.

Matt Mead also is a major supporter of coal, saying he’s committed to preserving the coal industry.

“I am bound and determined to help find solutions for coal,” Mead said. “Having technology lead solutions rather than rules and regulations is really where we should be going. … I will do all I can to influence and try to guide it in the right direction, but to the extent I don’t do that, we will litigate.”

While Wyoming gets significant revenue from other mineral resources like oil and natural gas, Mead is intent on maintaining the coal industry rather than pivoting the economy toward other mineral resources.

“Our first pursuit is we are not going to give up the battle on coal,” Mead said.

“I am steadfast on that. My plan A, B, and C, is to fight for coal.”

At the same time, Mead

is looking to develop Wyoming’s technology sector by expanding broadband access in the state. He hopes having infrastructure for technology will help keep more young people in Wyoming.

Should Mead’s incumbent status and high approval rating propel him to win the primary, he’ll also have the benefit of a sizable campaign war chest. In the 2010 race Mead self-financed his $1.8 million in fundraising dollars to the tune of $1.2 million, something that’s not lost on Hill.

“Matt Mead has tremendous wealth,” she said.

“And of course he bought it last time, and that’s common knowledge.”

Money can certainly raise the name recognition of a candidate, but it’s not a sure thing that the candidate with the most money wins the election. As columnist Bill Sniffin has noted, several other Wyoming candidates who raised more than a million dollars through selffinance did not win.

Having enough money to put up signs and fly around the state to appear at more events can help, King said, but money alone isn’t enough. “Money does play a role, but I always tell my friends you can’t buy an election,” he said.

Mead doesn’t plan selffinancing to the degree that he did last time, a decision he and his wife made together. He plans to rely on donations to run the majority of his campaign. “My wife and I will put some money in, but probably not much,” he said.

Mead also won’t campaign exhaustively or spend a lot of time going door to door because he still is focused on the job at hand.

“I am going to run on my record, and run on the job I’m doing, and I hope that is more than a good substitute for attending every campaign event in the state,” he said.

In the end, Brimmer said concerns over education policy and carbon regulation may not matter to Wyoming voters as much as jobs and the economy.

“I think there will be a question in terms of what a challenger offers for the future of Wyoming’s economy and people,” she said. “If that can’t be answered with a better future than the one they have now, I think that challenger won’t win.”

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Treasury Awards More Than $4.3 Million to Wyoming to Support Small Business Lending he U.S. Treasury Department today announced the transfer of $4,345,555 in State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI) funds to a consortium of 17 Wyoming communities, which use the funds to help businesses access the capital they need to expand, grow, and hire. These communities will use the funds to leverage greater levels of private lending and investments to small businesses. According to the most recent SSBCI quarterly report, participating states accelerated their expenditure, obligation or transfer of SSBCI funds in 2013, more than doubling the amount reaching small businesses or investment funds.

“The State Small Business Credit Initiative is partnering with Wyoming to help existing small businesses grow and to give early-stage companies a running start,” said Cliff Kellogg, the Director of the State Small Business Credit Initiative at the U.S. Treasury Department.

“Today’s award adds to the ongoing public-private partnership among the U.S. Treasury Department, Wyoming’s communities, local lenders, and small businesses. This effort will provide entrepreneurs and small business owners greater access to new sources of capital to help create jobs and promote economic growth in Wyoming.”

Wyoming has participated in the SSBCI program since 2012, and the more than $4.3 million transferred this month is the second disbursement to the collateral support and venture capital programs. Including this disbursement, Wyoming has received more than $8.6 million to help support businesses and the local economy.

Total funds disbursed by Treasury through the SSBCI program reached $1 billion last year. To build on the momentum of the program’s success to date, and capitalize on new working relationships among states and

small business lenders and investors, President Obama proposed an extension of SSBCI in his 2015 Budget with an additional $1.5 billion in funding.

SSBCI was created when President Obama signed into law the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 on September 27, 2010. Through SSBCI, the U.S. Department of the Treasury awarded almost $1.5 billion to fund state programs that support small businesses, including small manufacturers. The program is expected to help spur up to $15 billion in new private sector lending or investment in small companies by leveraging $10 in private capital for every dollar of federal support by the program’s end. Each state designs its own SSBCI programs to respond to local economic conditions. SSBCI currently supports over 60 existing and over 80 new small business support programs across 57 participating states, territories and municipalities.

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Governor Defends Wyoming Governor Matt Mead will continue to be aggressive in protecting Wyoming from a pile up of federal regulations. Governor Mead has taken a strong stand against federal overreach including filing more than 30 lawsuits involving the federal government. Recently, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released two proposed rules that could significantly impact energy production, power generation and agriculture.

“Having a true all of the above energy mix is important to Wyoming and to the people here, and it is important to the whole country. A sound energy policy is about maintaining affordable electricity and keeping the cost of living down in Wyoming and nationally,” Governor Mead said.

A proposed rule for existing power plants published

by the EPA today would mandate a reduction in CO2 emissions. Wyoming produces about 400 million tons of coal per year. It is the largest coal producer in the country, supplying 35 states with coal. Today’s rule follows others, which could limit the construction of new coal-fired power plants or force the early retirement of other plants.

“These rules pile up and it seems like coal is targeted.

We should try to make all energy sources better, but that should be done with more focus on innovations and new technologies.

Wyoming is providing leadership through investments in coal and power generation,” Governor Mead said.

Governor Mead expressed concern today over the EPA’s proposed expansion of the Waters of the United States proposal.

Governor Mead prefers to

work cooperatively for reasonable regulations, but when reason fails he is willing to take legal action.

At today’s news conference Governor Mead addressed Wyoming’s economy. He noted that signs point to a good year for tourism - the state’s second leading industry.

Also, according to a recent report Wyoming had the second highest growth rate in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the nation in 2013.

“We were just rated second in the nation for the growth in our GDP. I am very pleased by that. Wyoming’s unemployment is at 3.7% down almost four percent from 2010. More people are employed in Wyoming now than at any previous point in our history. These numbers show we are on a positive path,” Governor Mead said.

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Fishing Report Submitted by Mike Smith Empire Guesthouse, RV Park, and General Store owdy folks, this is your Keyhole Reservoir fishing report for the week of June 16th, 2014. The report is brought to you by the Empire Guesthouse, RV Park & General Store in Pine Haven. Stop in and check out our fishing, camping, swimming and boating supplies plus much more when visiting the lake.

Not much has changed as far as the fishing is concerned. Walleye fishing is still very good. Some days are better than others, but even the off days are still pretty good. Two fishermen reported on Monday that they caught & released 70 walleye in just over three hours. They caught over 20 fish in the 15-19 inch range and the rest under 15”.

Worm harnesses and slow death rigs baited with crawlers and leeches are taking most of the fish. Fish water anywhere from 5’-15’ deep.

Lots of crappies are being caught, but most are small.

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Small plastic jigs have been working very well on them.

Those targeting catfish are doing well in the creek and river channels. Use chicken livers, cut carp, or dip baits for the best luck. Fish two hooks to a line, with one baited with dip bait, and the other with liver or carp. The strong odor of the dip bait draws them in and they’ll take it or whatever your other hook is baited with.

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The following community members will be participating in this join effort: Campbell County Sheriff's Office Campbell County School District Campbell County Kid Clinic Gillette Abuse Refuge Foundation Y.E.S. House Campbell County Police Department Gillette Elks Lodge S.A.A.C. (Substance Abuse Advisory Council) Quit Tobacco

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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.

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Chinese Type 53 Carbines 7.62X54R. These guns have been fully restored and are excellent shooters. They are a shorter model of the Mossin Naugant making them easy to carry through the brush and trees. Large caliber with plenty of take down power for the largest and most dangerous game.

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This gun comes with a fold down bayonet permanently attached. Adjustable sights on an elevation ramp rear sight makes this package very versatile. permanently attached floor plate magazine holds 5 rounds with one additional one in the chamber. Call Wyoming Mountaineers (307)299-2084 to get yours today.

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J&G General Construction, home improvement company is looking for a temporary construction laborer. Experience preferred but not necessary. Could turn into full time position depending on devotion, responsibility, and skill.

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Must have own tools, reliable transportation, and liability insurance. Please respond with your contact information and skill set. We pay good rates, and we pay weekly.

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Hiring Newspaper Sports Writer. Must be able to attend Campbell County Sports games at all levels and various sports. Can write in a bias/home team manner. Must also be able to take photographs of covered games, get information from coaches, and retrieve stats. Much of the work is performed Home. Pays per article/Part Time position.

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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.

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Homes for Sale 2010 Fairmont 16x80 mobile Home. 3 bed-2 bath. Central Air, 10x10 deck, 500gl propane tank, and all utilities.

Excellent condition. $30,000 OBO. Please call after 5pm.

605-209-7584.

Home For Sale By Owner.

Great Horse Property for sale, in Buffalo Wyoming.

11.5 acres with three bedroom, 3 bath home with 2 car attached garage, afull length covered redwood deck and walk out basement, irrigated pastures, bite corrals, Cleary Barn, and much more.Call 307-684-5844 after 5p.m. for appointment

Heavy Equipment/ Trailers 6x10 trailer. Great shape, fits your biggest Harley. $1,400 obo. 299-4967.

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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Services Homeowners and renters insurance for house, trailer, or apartments. Call Elizabeth Jones Agency 307-682-6520 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 307-660-3091 (b340-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 970-556-5000 Spring Cleaning Special! Any purchase over $200 prior to 5-31-13 Will have the choice of: Free couch cleaning (up tp 8ft. long) or Free 1 year warranty on oil/water based spots. www.pineridgeclean. com 307-660-7856 find us on Facebook 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 307-6808457 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.

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

For Rent 2 Bedroom Duplex, with one car garage, washer/dryer, no pets. $700rent/$700deposit.

307-689-0202 For Rent 5 bedroom, 3 bath manufactured home, on huge lot $1,100 per month, utilities not included! 307299-4662 Office and Retail space for rent Marlins 685-4452 or 685-8100 For Rent Single Bedroom House in Silver Hills 307680-8838. C2-12-4h Room for Rent. Nice Room for Rent for one responsible person. $480.00 per month.

689-9358.

Toys (ATV’s Boats, Etc.) 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!

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. 307-2170745 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 685-8100 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 307-6220825

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

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Camping/Fishing

1939 HA Selmer Trumpet $750 OBO. 687-1087

Camper spot for rent $300 per month in Silver Hills 307680-8838

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 307-6220825 Large Underground Tank. 307-680-8838

Fuel

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.

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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

Business Opportunities Looking for investor in local business. Call for Details.

307-257-2306.

Exciting career available Now! No weekends, holidays, or nights. Unlimited income potential. 20% commission plus gas allowance selling print advertising. Call Anne Peterson (advertising manager) at (307) 299-4662 or email AnnePeterson@ CampbellCountyObserver. com Get your doTerra essential oils at Health Corner 101, 500 O-R Drive Suite 4 or call 307-689-1998

05’ 32 foot fifth wheel, Wildcat, sleeps 10, 1 slide, bunks, self contained, no generator 307-680-6625 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 307299-1382

June 20 - 27, 2014

Weekly Sports Trivia Answer How many times has the current National Horseshoe Pitchers Association world champion, Alan Francis, won the title?

07’ Prowler 5th wheel.

2slides. 32ft with extras. Call 307-672-8766 1994 Southwind by Fleetwood 34 foot Class A Coach Rear Engine Turbo Diesel Cummins, 230 HP, Motor Home in good condition.

180,000 miles on original Cummins Diesel 33H Engine. Three captain’s chairs including driver.

Couch makes into a full bed. Full kitchen, stove with oven, microwave. Dining area. Propane or electric refrigerator/ freezer. Lots of storage. Rear bedroom with queen bed.

Bathroom with shower. Dish portable satellite TV setup and small flatscreen TV goes with it. Trailer receiver hitch.

Lost my husband in December and don’t have any use for it. Would like to sell fast.

Make me an offer. 307 682 4808. sue.wallis52@gmail. com http://wyoming.craigslist.org/rvs/3965643910. html 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 307756-3454. www.empireguesthouse.com

18 times since 1989

Alan Francis is a horseshoes pitcher from Defiance, Ohio. Altogether, he has won the world horseshoe championship 18 times, in 1989, 1993, 1995-1999, 2001, 2003-2010 and 2012-2013. He is also the only player to consistently pitch over 90%, and is regarded by many as the greatest horseshoe pitcher ever. The New York Times wrote that he may be “the most dominant athlete in any sport in the country”.

Weekly Trivia Answer

When was the first US one dollar bill issued, and who was pictured on it?

Child Care Christian Daycare/PreSchool is now open. One-onone Pre-School and crafts.

Group circle time, Spanish, songs, phonics, counting, American Sign Language, and more. Pre-School, 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 full-time and before and after school.

Close to Rozet school and the post office.

Monday through Friday 6:30am to 6pm. Ages 3 and up. Call 307-299-1915 In a Pinch?? Back up Daycare service call 307-6807948

1863; Salmon P. Chase

In 1863, the first one-dollar bill was issued as a Legal Tender Note (United States Note) with a portrait of Salmon P. Chase, the Secretary of the Treasury under President Abraham Lincoln.

George Washington did not make an appearance until 1869.

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Flea Market, Green River WY, July, 18, 19, 20. $75 a Space. Call 307-872-3223

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Where is this picture answer Lasting Legacy Park in Gillette.

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June 20 - 27, 2014

Nathan Phillips Named to Springfield College Dean’s List

pringfield College has named Nathan Phillips of Gillette to the dean’s list for academic excellence for the spring 2014 term.

Phillips is studying Athletic Training.

Criteria for selection to the dean’s list are as follows: The student must have completed a minimum of 12 credit hours of graded coursework for the semester, exclusive of “P” grades; the student must not have any incompletes, missing grades or “CPs” in the designated semester; the student must have a minimum semester grade point average of 3.500 for the semester; and the student must not have been barred from the dean’s list

due to a disciplinary action.

Founded in 1885, Springfield College is known worldwide for the guiding principles of its humanics philosophy--educating students in spirit, mind and body for leadership in service to others. With its foundation of academic excellence and rich athletic heritage, Springfield College prepares students with real-world leadership skills for careers that transform lives and communities. The college offers a range of undergraduate and graduate degree programs in the fields of health sciences, human and social services, sport management and movement studies, education,

business, and the arts and sciences.

It also offers doctoral programs in physical education, physical therapy, and counseling psychology. The college is ranked in the 2014 edition of “Best Colleges” in the top tier of “Best Regional Universities - North Region”

by U.S.News Media Group, and is designated as a premier Leadership Development Center by the YMCA of the USA. More than 5,000 traditional, nontraditional and international students study at its main campus in Springfield, Mass., and at its School of Human Services campuses across the country.

Saturday, June 21, 2014

Sunday, June 22, 2014

AA Morning Spiritual Group 10:15 am -AA Midday Serenity Group 12pm -AA Happy Hour Group 5:30pm -AA Hopefuls Group 8pm -Jake’s Tavern: UMF Meeting

Monday, June 23, 2014

-AA Midday Serenity Group 12pm -AA Out to Lunch Bunch Group 12pm -AA Happy Hour Group 5:30pm -AA Grupo Nuevo Milenio 6:45pm -AA Hopefuls Group 8pm -City of Gillette Planning Commission Meeting 7pm City Hall -C.C. Parks and Rec Board 5pm at Rec Center -C.C. Library Board 4pm at C.C. Library -Town of Wright Council Meeting 7pm at Town Hall -AVA Photography Invitational 12pm -AVA Art World Traveler 1pm -AVA Mosaic Table 6pm

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

-Veterans Breakfast at Senior Center 8am -AA Midday Serenity Group 12pm -AA Happy Hour Group 5:30pm -AA Biginners Group 6:45pm -AA Hopefuls Group 8pm -Sleepy Hollow Home Owners Meeting 7pm Trend Building -City Of Gillette Board of Adjustment Meeting 7pm at City Hall -Children’s Developmental Services Board 7pm 1801 4-J rd.

-C.C. School Board 7pm at Educational Service Center (1008 W. 8th St.) -AVA Photography Invitational 12pm -AVA Art World Traveler 1pm -AVA Mosaic Table 6pm

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

-AA On Awakening Group 6am -AA Midday Serenity Group 12pm -AA Out to Lunch Bunch Group 12pm -AA Happy Hour Group 5:30pm -AA Grupo Nuevo Milenio 6:45pm -AA Hopefuls Group 8pm -Children’s Developmental Services Board 7pm 1801 4-J rd.

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Thursday, June 26, 2014

-AA Midday Serenity group 12pm -AA Happy Hour Group 5:30pm -AA Grupo Nuevo Milenio 6:45pm -AA Hopefuls Group 8pm -AA N.E. Wyoming Recovery Group (585 Westside Dr.) 8pm -AA Strugglers Group 8pm -Parks and Beautification Board 5:30pm in the Community Conference Room on the 2nd Floor of City Hall -C.C. Hospital Board Meeting 5pm at C.C. Memorial Hospital -AVA Photography Invitational 12pm -AVA Art World Traveler 1pm -AVA Mosaic Table 6pm

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Friday, June 27, 2014

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Wyoming Elections, 1912 Style

By Jeff Morrison or all those who yearn for a simpler time when national and state politics was a kinder, gentler exercise in civil discourse among idealistic statesmen, culminating in a well-run election process in which a clear winner emerged victorious…

One hundred years ago our country faced many of the same key political issues that challenge us today. Income tax reform, decreasing the political influence of big-business, political scandals, and controversial proposed changes to the election process were the same hot-button topics in 1912 that they are now. The political parties themselves, however, differed greatly from their 21st century counterparts. Many of the philosophies and positions held by the Democrats and Republicans on a given issue in 1912 would bear little resemblance to those of today’s parties.

The political landscape of Wyoming was also vastly different back then.

Today, Wyoming is thought of as one of the most solid “Red” states in the Union, but one hundred years ago, it was almost evenly split between Republicans and Democrats. But the 1912 Wyoming version of those parties had little to do with conservatism vs. liberalism.

Wyoming was still recovering from the effects of a three-decade feud between the Wyoming Stock Growers Association and anyone else who the organization viewed as a threat to its way of doing things – i.e. small ranchers, sheepherders, farmers, and most newspaper publishers. The overwhelming majority of WSGA members were Republicans, and had heavily shaped and influenced the government of Wyoming long before statehood. Northeast Wyoming had been a thorn in the WSGA’s side since the early 1880s, and the Johnson County Invasion of 1892 turned most fence-sitters into Democrats, if for no other reason than to stand against the Cattle Barons and their cronies in the government.

By 1912, the conflict had shifted from a shooting war to a political duel.

Woodrow Wilson won the two-thirds majority needed to secure the nomination for President of the United States on the 64th ballot cast at the Democrat National Convention. He had been a distinct underdog in his own party, and his prospects against a Republican nominee looked grim. But republican President William Howard Taft had succeeded in alienating several key members of the GOP during his presidency, most notably former President Theodore Roosevelt,

who decided to run against him for the Republican nomination. Roosevelt, and those opposing Taft, felt that he was “too conservative”.

Taft won the nomination in a narrow victory. Roosevelt, unable to accept defeat, split from the Republican Party to form the Progressive Party (more commonly known as the “Bull Moose Party”) and took over half the Republicans with him.

Among those who defected to Roosevelt’s new party was Wyoming Governor Joseph M. Carey. For Wyoming Democrats, the formation of the Bull Moose Party was an absolute God-send.

Although several important state, local, and national offices were up for grabs in Wyoming, the most hotly contested race was between two candidates whose names did not even appear on the 1912 election ballot. State Senator John B. Kendrick, of Sheridan, Wyoming was hoping to unseat incumbent U. S. Senator Francis E. Warren. But it would be the State Legislature, not the people, who would ultimately decide. Direct voting for United States Senate seats did not become the law until the ratification of the 17th Amendment in 1913, and though most states chose to put their candidates on the ballet in the 1912 election, Wyoming did not.

John Kendrick, born in 1857, was a Texas drover who came to Wyoming in the late 1870s and stayed on, working for big cattle outfits until he eventually saved enough money for his own small ranch.

While most big outfits were financially ruined by the winter of 1886/87, Kendrick seized the opportunity to buy out failing operations and added them to his fledgling cattle empire. Eventually he owned several ranches throughout northeast Wyoming, and turned his attention to politics in 1910.

Francis E. Warren was born in 1844, and was a decorated Civil War veteran.

He moved to the Cheyenne area in 1868 and made his fortune in livestock, realestate, and a mercantile. He entered politics in 1873 as a member of the Territorial Senate. He was appointed Governor of the Territory of Wyoming in 1885, and again in 1889. He was elected to be the first Governor of Wyoming in 1890. In the fall of 1890, Warren was elected to the U. S. Senate and served until 1893. He was again elected to the Senate in 1895. He had served Wyoming and the Republican Party long and faithfully, but not without making a few political enemies along the way.

The contest between Kendrick and

Warren was fought in the local newspapers throughout the state. “Fair and Balanced” was not a concept that applied to the early 20th century news media, nor was there any code of “unbiased journalism”. A newspaper was either openly democratic or openly republican, and its affiliation was evident in the reporting.

Newspapers and politicians alike knew that in order for Kendrick to be elected, the voters would have to unseat several republican State Legislators so that the votes tipped in Kendrick’s favor. In essence, the state legislative races had nothing to do with the individual candidates, or what they planned to do for the state. It was about who they would vote for.

Democrat papers called for Warren to “come clean” about accusations of scamming the government payroll that had been first published nationally in Colliers. The magazine reported that Senator Warren had claimed several family members had been working for him in Washington, allowing the Senator to draw their pay, when in fact, said family members had never left Cheyenne. The insinuation that Senator Warren had amassed a vast fortune while making $8,000 per year hinted at felonious misdeeds.

The republican papers jumped to Senator Warren’s defense. They ac-

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cused both Kendrick and former-Republican-turned-Progressive Governor Carey of working in tandem to smear the Senator’s reputation, while launching a smear campaign of their own against Kendrick. But this tactic proved so ineffective that democrat papers confidently reported that Senator Warren was sure to be removed from office.

Nationally, the split between Roosevelt and Taft provided Wilson with a landslide victory. Wilson received 41% of the popular vote to Roosevelt’s 27% and Taft’s 23%. In Wyoming the election was much closer, although the results were not official for several days.

When the votes were tallied in Wyoming, Wilson had eked out a narrow victory over Taft. Closer yet was the race to determine the U. S. Senate seat. Wide-spread victories for Democrat candidates across the state prompted predictions of a Kendrick win.

But when the results were completely tallied, Senator Francis E. Warren held on to his Senate seat.

In spite of his narrow victory and the accusations of scandal, Francis E. Warren continued to serve as U. S. Senator of Wyoming until his death in 1929. In 1916, John B. Kendrick was also elected to the United States Senate, after a brief stint as Governor of Wyoming. He served side by side with Senator Warren and died in office in 1933.

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