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“We have been working with the NCAA since these issues came to light and continue to work with the national office staff. We have always and will always expect members of our athletics department to abide by the rules of the NCAA,” Burman says. “Those expectations will not be compromised.”

With the addition of another full-time compliance staff member in the Athletics Department, rules education from the Compliance Office has increased during the past year, including increasing training about NCAA rules to coaches and studentathletes, and regular reminders about compliance issues.

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“We discovered potential issues concerning members of our coaching staff providing impermissible benefits to our volleyball student-athletes in September (2012). We immediately notified the NCAA and conducted our own inquiry,” Burman says. “After what we feel was a thorough investigation by the university legal staff and outside counsel, we have communicated our findings to the NCAA.” According to the report, the potential impermissible benefits included used household items and furnishings, and assistance in securing an apartment. In addition, the report found that the student manager for the volleyball program allegedly participated as a practice player during

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The Bridger Teton National Forest is currently analyzing possible alternatives for the proposed development that includes South Beaver, North Horse, and Cottonwood creeks in a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS). The information from the collared moose will provide timely information for the U.S. Forest Service as they prepare to update the Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement regarding the 44-7 leasing zone. A decision is expected by the end of summer 2013.

“Interestingly, information from the first two year’s data is showing that some of the radio-collared moose are very localized, spending the entire year in almost the exact same location,” said Wyoming Game and Fish South Jackson Wildlife Biologist, Gary Fralick. “This would suggest that we need to have a closer look at habitat conditions in these areas. Moreover, looking at the relationship between habitat conditions, the animals’ body condition and pregnancy rates will be especially enlightening.”

Pregnancy rates for the captured females have been notably low for the past two years. Blood tests from captures showed a 69% pregnancy rate in 2012, and this winter only 48 out of 65 individuals (74%) were pregnant. Pregnancy rates for the nearby Jackson moose herd were commonly around 90% from 2005 to 2009. Low pregnancy rates are directly tied to poor body condition, which can be a function of disease, harsh winters, and/or low-quality habitat stemming from drought and over-browsing.

However, the research has shown that after the collared females have given birth, the survival rate of calves has been high (>80%) relative to other populations that are limited by predation.

“The low pregnancy rate does cause some concern,” said Fralick. “But,

our overall calf ratios for the Sublette moose herd have remained somewhat stable over the last five years.”

This past winter’s counts showed an overall calf ratio of 39 calves: 100 cows, which nearly matches the average of 41 calves: 100 cows over the past five years.

Many of Wyoming’s moose populations have suffered marked declines over the past several decades,particularly in the western part of the state. After experiencing a sharp decline that started during the mid-1990s, the Sublette herd has stabilized over the past few years, though numbers remain below the herd population objective set

by Wyoming Game and Fish Department. The Sublette moose herd is the largest in the western U.S., currently estimated at approximately 5,000 animals, spanning an area from Hoback Junction, south to LaBarge, and from Pinedale west to Afton.

While the potential for energy development in the Hoback Basin has subsided, it remains to be seen if the 44-7 leasing zone will be developed.

Although moose are relatively abundant in this area, very little is known about their demography or habitat use. The moose project’s data will provide information on the interacting influences of nutritional condition, disease, and predation, which are critical but poorly understood components of demography.

“The purpose of this research is to simply characterize how moose are using this particular landscape for such things as calving, migration, winter range, etc.,” said Kauffman. “We already know from over a decade of research on Wyoming ungulates, that habitat disturbance and loss from practices such as gas development, negatively impacts local populations.

We’re not so much looking at the question of ‘if’, but rather ‘how’ potential development is likely to impact moose. If development occurs, we hope this information can allow it to be done in a way that minimizes impacts to moose, and other wildlife.”

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UW Professor Co-Writes Paper on Discovery of Possible Planet Formed Around Distant Star A University of Wyoming professor cowrote a paper that purports a planet may be nestled in a gap in the disk around the star known as TW Hydrae, which is located 176 light years away.

Hannah Jang-Condell, a UW assistant professor of physics and astronomy, is a co-author of the paper, titled “The 0.52.22um Scattered Light Spectrum of the Disk Around TW Hydrae: Detection of a Partially Filled Disk Gap at 80 AU.” The paper was published in The Astrophysical Journal today. The research publication is devoted to recent developments, discoveries and theories in astronomy and astrophysics.

According to the paper, the origin of the gap -- which is about 1.9 billion miles wide -- is unclear, but it could arise from a transition in the nature of the disk’s dust composition or could be the presence of a planetary companion.

“The finding of interest here is that we discovered a gap in the disk around the star known as TW Hydrae, and our calculations indicate that the gap may be harboring a planet of 6 to 28 times the mass of the Earth,” says Jang-Condell.

“That’s a small planet. It’s not a ‘gas giant.’ Jupiter is 300 times the mass of the Earth. If it (gap) is a planet, it’s more like the size of Neptune.”

Because the possible planet is located so far (approximately 7.5 billion miles) from TW Hydrae and its heat source, the planet is probably cold and similar to Neptune’s temperature, she says. TW Hydrae is 80 AU, meaning it is located 80 times as far from the sun as Earth.

Discovering the suspected planet in this orbit -- far away from a small parent star -challenges current planet formation theories, according to a press release about the research paper from the Carnegie Institution for Science. The conventional theory is that planets form over tens of millions of years from the slow, persistent accretion of dust, gas and rocks. This process occurs most easily close to the central star, where orbital time scales are short, the release says.

The disk lacks large dust grains in its outer regions, according to a similar press release from the Space Telescope Science Institute at Johns Hopkins University.

“Typically, you need pebbles before you can form a planet,” John Debes, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute and lead author of the study, is quoted as saying in both releases. “So, if there is a planet there, and there is not even millimeter-sized dust -- roughly the size of a grain of sand -- farther out, the observation is inconsistent with traditional planet formation models.”

According to the STSI release, an alternative planet-formation theory suggests that a portion of the disk becomes gravitationally unstable and collapses on itself.

In this scenario, a planet could form more quickly, in just a few thousand years.

“If we can actually confirm that there’s a planet there, we can connect its characteristics to measurements of the gap properties,” Debes says. “That might add to planet formation theories as to how you can actually form a planet very far out. There’s definitely a gap structure. We think it’s probably a planet given the fact that the gap is sharp and circular.”

In addition to Debes and Jang-Condell, other co-authors of the paper include: Alycia Weinberger, staff scientist, Depart-

ment of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington in Washington, D.C.; Aki Roberge, research astrophysicist, Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics Lab, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.; and Glenn Schneider, astronomer and project instrument scientist, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona.

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Jang-Condell’s computational astrophysics research focuses on the theoretical study of the origins of planet formation in our solar system and those around other stars. Specifically, her research investigates how planets form as a byproduct of the creation of stars.

While she says most of her research work, to this point, has been theoretical, this is the second paper in which JangCondell was able to use her computer models to apply to observations. The research group used images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and compared them to models of gaps opened by planets to come to its conclusion.

“My part of the project was to run a bunch of models of gaps in disks, and compare them to possible sizes of planets,” she says. “The width of the gap discovered is consistent with what we expect a planet to do.”

TW Hydrae is between 5 million and 10 million years old, which is considered young for a star, Jang-Condell says. “This star is one of the closest stars -- with a proto-planetary disk -- to us,” says JangCondell, a former Carnegie Fellow. “It still has a gaseous disk around it, which means it’s in the stage of giant planet formation. It’s of the right age to be forming planets.”

Jang-Condell says she ran close to 200 models based on known properties of the disk around TW Hydrae, essentially trying out different planets that could create a gap in a star disk similar to that which was revealed by the Hubble images.

“I could create synthetic images of my (gap) models and compare these synthetic images with the Hubble Telescope images,” she explains. “I looked at several different images at seven different wavelengths from the Hubble Telescope.”

In addition to the potential discovery of a planet, Jang-Condell says the modeling research has added significance: TW Hydrae is considered a red dwarf star, or low-mass star (about 60 percent of the sun’s mass). To date, most disks imaged around young stars by researchers have been imaged around stars more massive than TW Hydrae.

“The Hydrae is about the smallest star where this (disk imaging) has been done,” Jang-Condell says.

The research group was cautious in its findings, providing other possible explanations for the gap in the star’s disk. According to the Carnegie release, Debes says that, even under a disk instability scenario, in which planets can collapse quickly from the disk, it’s not clear whether such a low-mass planet could form.

Jang-Condell proffered another possible scenario. “Since it’s (gap) very circular, it could just be some kind of warp in the disk, a discontinuity in the shape of the disk at this point,” Jang-Condell says.

“Maybe the composition of that disk is changing at that radius.” But she adds, “We hope it’s a planet.”

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Snowy Range Summer Theatre to Present Homegrown Tribute to Wyoming Community Journalism

he University of Wyoming Snowy Range Summer Theatre will close its 60th season with “Waiting for A Chinook (A New Play about Old Newspapers),” a fictional memoir written by Gregory Hinton and directed by UW Professor Leigh Selting.

It shows Tuesday, July 9-Saturday, July 13, at 7:30 p.m. in the Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts (formerly Fine Arts Building) Studio Theatre. Tickets, $10 for the public, and $7 for students, senior citizens and children over 5, are available at the Wyoming Union or Performing Arts box offices, online atwww. uwyo.edu/finearts, or by calling (307) 766-6666.

In the wake of the drastic declines suffered by metro daily newspapers in 2008, “Waiting for A Chinook” follows Vince, a disillusioned city reporter, who returns to his boyhood Western town to search for place and meaning in the writings of his late father, Cliff, a Wyoming country editor.

“Sometimes, I can hear these old newspapers talking,” he is told by Ramona, a dedicated and spirited county archivist who quickly becomes both sparring partner and guide.

“The daily reporter just might be the 21st century version of Willie Loman (from Arthur Miller’s ‘Death of a Salesman’),” Hinton says. “So many newspapers have stopped their presses, with thousands of newspaper jobs lost and never to return.”

Selting says he was drawn to the project several years ago after working with Hinton on another production.

“When Greg mentioned he had a play in mind that had a backdrop in community newspaper journalism, and that it was set in Wyoming, I was immediately interested in collaborating in any way possible,” Selting says. “With an undergraduate background in journalism myself, I’ve re-

ally enjoyed the journey we’ve taken with this piece, watching it take shape, become more dynamic, and work-shopping the play in three states with 12 different actors over the past year and a half.”

An acclaimed writer, filmmaker and independent curator, Hinton grew up in Cody, the son of G.C. “Kip” Hinton, prize-winning photojournalist and editor of the Cody Enterprise (19561962), which was originally founded by William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody. Selting is a professor and chair of the UW Department of Theatre and Dance, and also serves as the artistic director of the Snowy Range Summer Theatre Festival.

Guest actors include Martha Slater and Jake Staley, both Wyoming natives and UW Theatre and Dance alumni; and Colorado-born Tom Watkins. The play also has benefited from the patronage of former U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson, his wife, Anne; and Pete and Lynne Simpson.

The playbill image of Chinook, courtesy of the Buffalo Bill Center of the West where Hinton was a resident fellow, is adapted directly from the famous 1903 version of Charles M. Russell’s “Waiting for A Chinook” (a warm Western wind) depicting a starving steer, standing in a blizzard with five wolves closing in.

In Montana’s hard winter of 1886-87, the Chinooks never arrived, and thousands of cattle, fending for themselves on the open range, perished from starvation.

“We are pleased that one of our most beloved Russell Western paintings, ‘Waiting for A Chinook,’ has inspired a contemporary work of art in another medium and a new century,” says Bruce Eldredge, executive director and CEO of the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, “and that the underlying scholarship for Greg’s play -- his dad’s original newspapers-began in the center’s McCracken Research Library.”

“It was irresistible not to compare the Russell watercolor -- essentially a political cartoon -- to the decline in print journalism,” says Hinton, who first used it in a lecture about his dad’s legacy on the 50th anniversary of the Whitney Gallery of Western Art. While metro daily papers are still struggling, in his early research, Hinton soon learned that community weeklies are holding their own.

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Hicks says communities without hometown papers are communities without souls.

“Citizens recognize they have no substitute for an effective watchdog of local government than their hometown paper,” Hicks says. “At this level, the ‘fourth estate’ is alive and well, and bless those who toil on by spending hours at meetings of city councils, school boards or county commissions, and then use their skills to present the information in an organized manner the citizens can grasp in minutes of reading.”

“Waiting for A Chinook” is informed by “Wot a Week!,” Kip Hinton’s weekly Enterprise column, and “Community Journalism, A Way of Life,” the noted book about weekly newspapers by the late Bruce M. Kennedy of Greybull, whose family has owned the Enterprise since 1971.

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“I spoke with Governor Hickenlooper this morning and let him know that our thoughts and prayers are with the people of Colorado and if there is any way Wyoming can help we are ready to help,” Governor Mead said. “I thank the members of the Wyoming National Guard who are headed to fight the fires in Colorado.”

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mission. “Seeing the destruction and loss of lives caused by these fires, I am honored to work with our National Guard to be of assistance to our neighbors in Colorado,” said Maxfield.

The Wyoming National Guard is deploying a team of four to operate and support the Black Hawk helicopter. Major General Luke Reiner, Wyoming’s adjutant general said, “Helping our neighbors to the south is the right thing to do. I know our Wyoming Army National Guard UH-60 personnel will excel at their firefighting mission and bring much needed assistance to the Colorado forces already working hard to save lives and contain the fires.”

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uring his 35-year career at the University of Wyoming, retiring President Tom Buchanan has accumulated a large and wide-ranging personal collection of books.

As Buchanan cleans out his office in Old Main before his last day on the job June 28, a good number of volumes in his library have found a new home.

Buchanan is donating several hundred of his books to the Meeteetse Branch Library of the Park County Library System.

The books will help replenish the library’s collection after a sprinkler system malfunction damaged more than 5,000 books in February.

“I’m happy to send these along so that others can enjoy them,” says Buchanan who, as president, has been known to regularly give books to colleagues and encourage them to read the volumes. “Reading is such an important part of a well-rounded life, and a library is at the heart of any community.”

The Meeteetse Library lost about 20 percent of its collection when a malfunctioning heating unit set off

the sprinklers for about 10 minutes Feb. 24, librarian Valerie Doyle says. Since then, the library in the town of 332 people has received hundreds of donated items without having to dip into its insurance money to renew the collection.

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by Buchanan are classic works of fiction and nonfiction, including history, philosophy, social commentary and biographies of contemporary international leaders.

“I haven’t seen the books yet, but I assume anything from his collection will be a great addition to our collection,” Doyle says. “To me, it’s really neat that he thought of us.”

Before becoming president in 2005, Buchanan’s UW career included serving as a faculty member and head of the Department of Geography, associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and provost and vice president for academic affairs.

Among his major initiatives as president has been improving facilities, resources and the collections of UW’s library system.

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What is a Critical Spirit and How Do You Overcome One?

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By Pastor Duke What is a Critical Spirit?

A critical spirit or fault finding attitude can be a work of the flesh. It is only natural to notice the faults and flaws of others, but what we do with what we see will make all the difference in the world. It doesn’t take a whole lot of discernment to notice the flaws and weaknesses of others. God gives us the ability to see things in people that need to be fixed so we can help people grow in the Lord and see positive improvements in their life. . We need to be careful not to use this ability to discern areas that need work in people’s lives to develop into a critical spirit. When we start looking at the negative attributes of a person rather than the positive we are heading into a serious sin in our own lives. The sin of faultfinding and being critical can tear up churches, marriages, and friendships. It turns molehills into mountains. It makes us become the type of people that Jesus was speaking about when He compared people with this problem to those that are trying to take a speck out of their brother’s eye when they have a log in their own. People who have a critical spirit are usually very negative about life and cannot see the blessings that God has given all around them. They are focused on the negative rather than the positive.

This reminds me of the story of two farmers that went out duck hunting. One man was a positive person who always saw the good in life and one that was a classic example of a person with a critical spirit. Both men went out duck hunting one day and the positive person had a new hunting dog. The man couldn’t wait to show his critical friend his new dog. This dog was a very special dog and the man just knew that his negative friend would have to say something positive about this dog. Well they got to the duck pond that they always went hunting at and just like clockwork a flock of ducks flew over.

Both men were able to shoot a duck and so they called the hunting dog to retrieve the ducks. Lickety split, the dog raced out on the water, and grabbed both ducks running on top of the water both ways.

Well the positive farmer said to his critical friend, “What do you think about that?” to which his faultfinding friends answered, “Can’t swim can he?”

at the same time. When we are a prayerful person then we continue to keep our heart open to the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit produces in us the fruit of the Spirit.

(Gal. 5:22) • Carnality. Now that word comes off strong but what it really means is that a person is living for themselves rather than surrendered to living for Jesus. People who are living for themselves are always at odds with people who are living for Jesus. The flesh has always warred with the Spirit. (Romans 8:7) • Familiarity. This is what happens when a person either believes or has been taught that people called to ministry or other positions with the church are somehow above failure or struggles.

When this is believed and then they get to know the human side of the leader, they become “familiar” with them and find out that they put their pants on the same as everyone else. This disappointment leads to becoming critical because they expected something else.

• Pride and Judgmentalism. This happens a lot in churches and in the hearts of people that have a performance mentality. It is another side of legalism. If people think that they are performing up to standard, then those that don’t seem to be meeting their standard are looked down upon. This especially has happened in times past with Pentecostals and Charismatics who got spiritually prideful over the receiving gifts of grace called spiritual gifts. Discerning right and wrong and being judgmental is two different things.

You can discern right and wrong without passing judgement (sentence) upon a person. You can not think more highly of yourself than you aught without having a low self esteem. Thinking you are superior will cause you to be critical.

• Ingratitude. When a person forgets or can’t see the blessings of God in their life then they become critical. They have lost the joy of living and the joy of their salvation. The Bible teaches us that when we pray, we are to also be thankful. (Phil 4:6) It also teaches us to give thanks in everything. (1 Thess. 5:18) When we are thankful for everything and grateful to God for all the blessings He has given us, then that means we are also grateful for the people that are put in our lives. How can you be grateful to God for those people and critical of them at the same time?

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Normally people who have a critical spirit (faultfinding and finger pointing) are operating out of the flesh, that is their baser human nature. However there are times when this can be attributed to demonic influence in a person’s life. It does not mean that they are demon possessed, but it means that they are being motivated and influenced by a demonic force. This is evidenced by the many times that strife is associated with demonic activity in the scriptures.

When people allow this influence in their life, they can become very judgmental and critical with everyone and everything.

They become unbending and harsh. Take a look at the Pharisee’s and how they treated everything that Jesus did. They were actively seeking things to point out to try to prove that Jesus and His disciples were wrong. People who are being satanically influenced quickly become grumblers and complainers. Take a look at what the book of Jude says in verses 16-19.

16 These are grumblers, complainers, walking according to their own lusts; and they mouth great swelling words, flattering people to gain advantage. 17 But you, beloved, remember the words which were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ: 18 how they told you that there would be mockers in the last time who would walk according to their own ungodly lusts. 19 These are sensual persons, who cause divisions, not having the Spirit.

So as you can see, having a critical spirit is not something that any Christian should aspire to have.

Some of the reasons people get a critical spirit.

• Prayerlessness. We we stay in an attitude of prayer then our focus remains on Jesus and not on others. You cannot be a person of continual prayer and be critical

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How to overcome a faultfinding and critical spirit.

1. If you know you are guilty of this sin then repent. The first thing you need to do is agree with God about what He thinks of this. You have been agreeing with yourself way too much and you need to agree with God about this. God calls it sin. So call it sin and ask God to forgive you and turn away from following this path anymore.

2. If you believe you have been demonically influenced then start engaging in spiritual warfare. The Bible teaches that it is through prayer and fasting that demonic power is overcome. (Matt. 17:21) Start spending more time in prayer. Spend some time fasting. Get your Christian friends and leaders to agree with you in prayer that this demonic stronghold will be defeated in you.

3. Remind yourself of the grace that God has shown you. Instead of focusing on the lack in the lives of others, remind yourself of the lack that is in your own life and how God has graciously dealt with you rather than finding fault with you.

4. Walk in the Spirit. Instead of focusing on the lives of others, make your focus to stay filled with the Holy Spirit throughout your day. The fruits of the Spirit and birthed by the Holy Spirit in you. Keep your focus on staying filled with His Spirit and you won’t have time to look for the faults of others.

I hope you have found this teaching both inspirational and instructional and that you did not find any faultfinding or criticism directed towards you from me.

We all go through different struggles in our spiritual walks and this is no different from any other struggle. I am confident that God will bring freedom, joy, and grace to each and every one of you.

Blessings to you!

Pastor Duke

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The Wyoming Public Service Commission (Commission) hereby gives notice that CenturyTel of Wyoming, Inc. d/b/a CenturyLink (CenturyLink), has filed for authority to enter into an Amendment No. 1 to its Interconnection and Reciprocal Compensation Agreement with Cellco Partnership d/b/a/ Verizon Wireless and requests Commission approval pursuant to the provisions of 47 U.S.C. § 252(e)(1) of the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996.

Under 47 U.S.C. § 252(e)(2)(A)(i) and (ii), the Commission may reject a negotiated agreement, or any part of such agreement, if it finds: (a) that the agreement, or any portion of it, discriminates against a telecommunications carrier not a party to the agreement, or (b) that the implementation of such an agreement, or portion of the agreement, is not consistent with the public interest, convenience and necessity.

The amendment is on file with the Commission at its offices in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and may be inspected by any interested person during regular business hours.

If you wish to provide the Commission with a statement or other comment regarding this filing, please do so in writing on or before July 15, 2013. Thereafter, the Commission will further review the amendment and any statements filed with respect thereto, and will decide its acceptability under the above criteria.

If you need additional information in this matter, please contact the Commission at (307) 777-7427, or write to the Commission at 2515 Warren Avenue, Suite 300, Cheyenne, Wyoming 82002. Communications impaired persons may also contact the Commission by accessing Wyoming Relay, by dialing 711. Please mention Docket Numbers 70003-152-TK-13 and/or 62015-13-RK-13 when you call or write.

Dated: June 14, 2013.

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The Wyoming Public Service Commission (Commission) hereby gives notice that United Telephone Company of the West d/b/a CenturyLink has filed for authority to enter into an Amendment to its Commercial Mobile Radio Services Interconnection Agreement with Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless, and requests Commission approval pursuant to the provisions of 47 U.S.C. § 252(e)(1) of the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996.

Under 47 U.S.C. § 252(e)(2)(A)(i) and (ii), the Commission may reject a negotiated agreement, or any part of such agreement, if it finds (a) that the agreement, or any portion of it, discriminates against a telecommunications carrier not a party to the agreement, or (b) that the implementation of such an agreement, or portion of the agreement, is not consistent with the public interest, convenience and necessity.

The amendment is on file with the Commission at its offices in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and may be inspected by any interested person during regular business hours.

If you wish to provide the Commission with a statement or other comment regarding this filing, please do so in writing on or before July 15, 2013. Thereafter, the Commission will further review the amendment and any statements filed with respect thereto, and will decide its acceptability under the above criteria.

If you need additional information in this matter, please contact the Commission at (307) 777-7427, or write to them at 2515 Warren Avenue, Suite 300, Cheyenne, Wyoming 82002. Communications impaired persons may also contact the Commission by accessing Wyoming Relay at 711. Please mention Docket No. 70009434-TK-13 and/or Docket No. 62015-14-RK-13 when you call or write.

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Two UW Professors Share in Award for Outstanding Rotorcraft Research

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wo University of Wyoming faculty members are part of the HELIOS software development team that won the 2013 Schroers Award for Outstanding Rotorcraft Research from the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the American Helicopter Society (AHS).

Dimitri Mavriplis, a UW professor of mechanical engineering; and Jay Sitaraman, a UW assistant professor of mechanical engineering, were part of the 11-member team that was honored for its multiyear effort to bring multiscale and multidisciplinary physics to the entire rotorcraft technical community, including industry, government and academia. The award will be presented at a chapter awards banquet June 13 (today) in Mountain View, Calif.

The software consists of three primary modules, two of for which Mavriplis and Sitaraman are responsible.

“I am the author of the solver that resolves the aerodynamics close to the rotorcraft, i.e. on the fuselage and rotor,” Mavriplis says. “The other

solver resolves the wake and other aspects of the flow further away from the body. The two solvers communicate with each other in regions of overlaps.”

Sitaraman is responsible for the component that links these two solvers together. “This award recognizes our contributions toward improving the state-of-the-art helicopter simulations,” Sitaraman says. “HELIOS is arguably the most capable rotorcraft simulation software available anywhere in the world.”

The HELIOS software development project is part of the CREATE-AV Project funded by the Department of Defense’s (DOD) High Performance Computing Modernization Program.

“HELIOS has enabled rotorcraft simulations that are an order of magnitude more accurate and efficient than previously possible, and will be the basis for rotorcraft simulations for the next decade within the Department of Defense,” Mavriplis says.

The winning group includes two others with UW connections. Mark

Potsdam was a UW visiting senior researcher during 2008-09; and Nick Burgess is a former UW doctoral student who previously worked under Mavriplis.

Award recipients are selected annually by a special advisory board chaired by the past chapter president.

Nominations are submitted by members of the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter AHS. The award is named in honor of the late Laurel “Shorty” Schroers, who served as the flight test director for the Army/NASA XV-15 development program. Schroers was a longtime member of the Tilt Rotor Research Aircraft Project Office at Ames Research Center, which is located in Silicon Valley.

The AHS International is the world’s oldest and largest technical society dedicated to enhancing the understanding of vertical flight technology.

The society, founded in 1943, advances the theory and practices of vertical flight aircraft science.

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- At 5:25 PM to 719 Express Drive for a dumpster fire. Firefighters arrived to find a burnt tee shirt next to the dumpster. The shirt appears to have been started on fire purposely by an unknown person(s).

- At 6:51 PM to 5308 Brom Street for a camper fire. Upon the Fire Department’s arrival the Homeowner, Mr. Jack Adsit was battling the fire with a garden hose and firefighters finished extinguishing the camper fire. The fire caused a preliminary fire damage estimate of $5,000. to the 1977 Cadet Coachman 5th Wheel Camper. The origin of the fire is the back side of the propane gas refrigerator.

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University of Wyoming Spring Semester President’s Honor Roll

he University of Wyoming lists the following students from Wyoming on the 2013 spring semester President’s Honor Roll.

The President’s Honor Roll consists of regularly enrolled undergraduates who earned a 4.0 (“A”) grade point average for the semester. To be eligible, students must have been enrolled for a minimum of 12 credit hours taken for letter grades.

Northeast Wyoming students, listed by hometown, are: Beulah: Raena Coraleigh Bush Big Horn: Michael Joseph Klepperich Buffalo: Kelsey A. Hostetler, Kasidy K. Litzel, Russell Albert Merrill, Brian A. Schueler, and Tanner A. Spade Gillette: Kaylyn Brook Bahnson, Brooke Ann Benson, Robert L. Capron, Nicole Lee Clikeman, Matthew Patrick Doherty, Cody Allan Friedlan,

Jackson Douglas Fry, Amber Marie Gangestad, Ashley Rachelle Golden, Jacoby Daniel Johnson, Talayna Ann Leonard, Gretta Shea Macdonald, Nicole Jean Mehlberg, Jennifer Alysse Morkemo, Mitchell Rand Nedved, Brodie Rice, Jaime Rose Scherer, Emily Suzanne Schroeder, Laura C. Schuman, Lauren Ruth Seamans, and Hayley R. Wasserburger Moorcroft: Aubry A. Gray Newcastle: Andrea Jimylynne Chord, Shelby N. Hughes, Clara Dawn Minder, Trey M. Sylte, Bailey Holly Terry, Mitch D. Weigel, and Amber D. Wright Osage: Brittany Jean Hamilton Ranchester: Lucas Daniel Carr Rozet: Ashley Glyn Clark Sheridan: Jeremiah Adsit, Catherine M. Belton, Alexis Brown, Keri A. Bulkley, Lexie J. Day, Cheston Lee Feaster, Brandon M. Forister,

Taylor J. Gardner, Elizabeth Gilbert, Camille Aurelie Hawkins, Kaitlin Mary Inchauspe, Shelby Lin Jelly, Stewart Owen Jenkins, Pamela J. Jensik, Christian Lawrence Kilpatrick, Brandon Meade Kinsey, Phillip H. Klebba, Claire J. Korpela, Emma N. Laurent, Presley N. Legerski, Alexandria G. Loftus, Brittany Ann Luka, Stephanie L. Mecca, Katelynn M. Mentock, Kourtney E. Puckett, Calli C. Robinson, Tyler M. Rogers, William G. Saffel, Kara Ann Springer, Tyler Walton, and Dayana Zhappassova Story: Emily K. Van Hoosier Sundance: Dugan R. Hughes, Kylie E. Hughes, Allison Marie Kerkvliet, and Haley A. Wadley Upton: Mikala D. Crain Wright: Nathan Scott Huseth and Shannon M. Thomas.

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he Campbell County Sheriff’s office with theassistance of the Wyoming Highway Patrol took a thirty-year-old Gillette man into custody after a half hour high-speed chase yesterday on the south edge of Gillette. Campbell County Sheriff Bill Pownall said speeds reached in excess of one hundred miles per hour, until the chase came to an end yesterday afternoon in the Sleepy Hollow Subdivision.

“He got down to one of the intersections at Sleepy Hollow Blvd, failed to negotiate the turn there, went through a fence and spun around and dis-

abled the vehicle.”---Pownall Pownall said at that point three passengers in the vehicle stayed where they were at but the suspect fled on foot. Law enforcement quickly set up a perimeter.

“We were told he was in the backyard of an address out there in Sleepy Hollow, he was approached there at that address and he immediately fled again, and was finally captured out at the park area near Union Chapel Road.”---Pownall Pownall said the thirty-year-old suspect was arrested on multiple charges including reckless driving, eluding

and failure to report a crash. Sheriff Pownall also added that at the time of the incident the suspect was out of jail on bond while awaiting trial on a charge of being a felon with a firearm, after being a suspect in an aggravated burglary charge.

“And that little incident yesterday, that just proved that he has no care in the world for anybody, or for their life and safety, so he needs to be remanded in custody”---Pownall This case also shows that firearm laws do not stop felons from getting and using firearms.

Certificate in Laramie, Wyoming. He worked in oil fields throughout Wyoming and Montana. He married Mary Jo DeSomber-Barnes on August 12, 2006; the couple making Gillette their home had two sheltie dogs Krissy and Sadie. Krissy being the apple of Gerry’s eye. He was employed at Wyoming machinery and later become a heavy equipment operator for Cloud Peak Energy working at Cordero Rojo mine. He took pride in his knowledge of operating equipment.

Gerry had a passion for motorcycles and enjoyed his travels on his bike.

He also loved anything outdoors and enjoyed camping.

Gerry is survived by his wife Mary

Jo Cookston of Gillette, Wy; his brother Andrew Cookston of Denver, CO; his sister Rosalea Smith of Denver, Co; one niece, five nephews and his beloved dogs, Krissy and Sadie.

He is preceded in death by his parents; and one sister, Marjorie in 2009.

A memorial has been established in Gerry’s name to benefit Friends of Gillette Animal Shelter. Memorials and condolences may be sent in Gerry’s name in care of Walker Funeral Home, 410 Medical Arts Court, Gillette, WY 82716. Condolences may also be sent via our website: www. walkerfuneralhome.com

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Crime Stoppers needs your help in solving several vandalisms that have recently occurred to vehicles, churches and residences. Between June 05 and June 06 unknown suspect(s) painted vulgar graffiti on the doors and outside walls of the Antelope Valley Church. Between June 13 and June 14 several incidents of graffiti occurred to four vehicles, two residences and two churches within the city limits of Gillette. The unknown suspects painted vulgar graffiti using red, green, black, grey and yellow spray paint.

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Obituaries GERALD COOKSTON

Graveside service for Gerald “Gerry” Cookston Jr. was at 11:00a.m.

Wednesday, June 19, 2013 at Mount Pisgah Cemetery in Gillette, Wyoming with Erik Bergquist officiating.

Gerald Dean Cookston, age 56, of Gillette, Wyoming, died June 16, 2013 near Wright, WY due to injuries received in vehicle accident.

Gerry was born to Gerald and Marjorie (Moore) Cookston in Newcastle, Wyoming on April 12, 1957. As a young man the family moved to Michigan, but Gerry later returned to Wyoming to be near his father.

Gerry attended school in Wyoming and received his Diesel Technology

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Where would I be without you? Who? My workout partner! My workout partner is the reason I get in to the gym. My workout partner is responsible for the quality of my workouts. For the most part a partner in general is a key element for success. By definition the word partnership means cooperation between people who work together, i.e. married people, employer and employee, the government and the people, businesses and their customers and people who commit to working out together.

If you think about it more people like to do things together than not. People who do things alone are often labeled because of the rarity; lone wolf, odd duck, loner, recluse. It is much more common for people gather together to eat, shop, travel and exercise. The more the merrier, another common expression to describe our need for each other. In almost every activity, other people heighten our experiences and improve our overall enjoyment (for the most part).

Contrary to what some of you may think, I need motivation when it comes to exercise. The people I work out with are crucial to that happening. Looking back over the years I can recall numerous people who have served as my workout partner and the one steady

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Many apps for smart phones and computers that serve as virtual partners can be somewhat motivational and help you be accountable. And you can never underestimate the camaraderie of participating in group exercise classes - a whole group of people with similar goals to encourage you and hold you accountable! (And who need the same from you).

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June 21 - 28, 2013

Campbell County Observer

The Automobile

By Mike Borda

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hen we think today about the history of the automobile, many of us will recall the same things: Henry Ford and the assembly line; General Motors; Jeep. However, the history of cars in the United States is more than just these terms and names, but a rich array of innovations and experimentations that have led us to become the world’s leader in the automotive industry. he history of the automobile can actually be traced back as far as the 17th center in Europe, where inventors tried to use steam to create self-propelled vehicles. However, America did not become part of this tradition until well into the 19th century (although the first U.S. patent for an automobile was issued in 1789).

In 1893, America saw its first automobile company when Frank and Charles Duryea started the Duryea Motor Wagon Company out of Springfield, Massachusetts.

It was their gas engine that brought them

fame, in one race averaging an outstanding (for the time) 7 miles per hour. Though they did not endure as a company, the brothers did leave a mark on the industry as both continued working for other manufacturing companies.

As many know though, this early era of the American car industry was led not but he Duryea brothers, but by another man, Ransom Olds. His company (later known as Oldsmobile) was founded in 1897 and grew quickly. It became the first company to mass produce cars, and he laid the foundation for the modern automobile with the invention of the curved dashboard.

Beginning in the early part of the 20th century, Ford and his moving assembly line took over the affordable automobile. However, there were still many other contributors to automotive innovation during this era. In 1912, Charles Kettering, who had risen to prominence designing electric cash registers for National Cash

Register, designed an electric starting system for the Cadillac Company. Three years later, Cadillac would also introduce the first modern V8 engine, ushering in a more powerful engine.

There were many more new inventions and improvements in this era, including the Packard ring and pinion set in 1913, windshield wipers in 1916, and hydraulic brakes in 1920 from Duesenberg. It was great ideas like these that allowed American cars to flourish, and American industry to grow.

For so long, the automobile has been a symbol of American strength. So the cars go, so we go. It is important to remember that while we should remember the names of Ford, General Motors and Chrysler, we must also remember the smaller companies who urged along innovation with their hard work and fresh ideas. It was these companies and individuals as well who contributed to the industry as we know it today.

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The Criminal Adventures of George W. Pike

By Jeff Morrison

If asked, “Who was the most notorious criminal in Wyoming history?” most people reply with one of the usual suspects: Butch Cassidy, The Sundance Kid, Big Nose George, or even Persimmons Bill. Certainly no one would claim it was George W. Pike. And yet, according to long-time Platte valley lawman Malcolm Campbell, Pike enjoyed a 15 year career as a horse-thief, “… during which time there were few terms of court that he was not down for at least two counts.” Campbell also claimed, “George Pike was never convicted of a crime in his life.”

George Pike was born in Iowa somewhere around 1863. He arrived in Wyoming in 1884 and settled in the Douglas area. According to Campbell, he came by train with his aging father and proceeded to open a restaurant. Other accounts, however, claim that he drifted into Wyoming the same way most other cowboys did – trailing behind a herd of Texas cattle. Regardless of whether he started as a cowboy or restauranteur, it didn’t take long for Pike to transition into his life-long pursuits of gambling and stealing anything that wasn’t securely nailed down.

As a gambler, Pike was an avid but only mildly successful participant. He probably lost as much money in poker as he made stealing horses. Campbell claimed that he knew of one incident in which Pike travelled 175 miles to play in a poker game only to lose every dime he had. He was a much better thief.

Pike’s first known escapade occurred shortly after his arrival. At this time there were still a few shacks to be found in Antelope, the tent-town that was moved half a mile to the railroad tracks and renamed Douglas.

Will Reid lived in one of the halfboard-half-tent buildings, as did his neighbor, George Pike. One evening, after lighting a fire in his cook-stove and starting supper, Reid discovered that he was out of potatoes and decided go get some while his supper was cooking.

When he entered the grocery, Reid saw his neighbor, George Pike just getting ready to leave with his own groceries. “Hello there Charlie,” Reid said to

the storekeeper, loud enough for Pike to hear, “I hope you have everything nailed down around here because George Pike will steal everything that isn’t tight.” Everyone, including Pike, laughed at his witty joke, and Pike departed while Reid bought his potatoes. Ten minutes later, Reid left the store with his potatoes and returned to his shack to eat his supper.

But when he entered, he discovered his stove, supper, fire and all had vanished. His pans, still warm from the food that was cooking inside them, had been thoughtfully piled on his table.

It probably took Reid all of ten seconds to figure out that the most likely suspect was his neighbor, George Pike. Reid stormed over to Pike’s shack and confronted the thief. Pike greeted him warmly at his door, but Reid, being in no mood for polite conversation, pushed past him and entered the shack.

There, Reid saw his own supper, now in Pike’s stew pans, cooking on Reid’s own stove.

When Reid angrily demanded the return of the stove, Pike is said to have answered, “Why Will, of course you could have this stove if it were yours. But can you describe your stove?

Did it have four legs? This one only has three.” Sure enough, there were a pile of bricks holding up one corner of the stove where it was missing one leg.

“And did your stove have all four lids?” Pike continued, “This one is missing one.” And, of course, it was. Reid was forced to return hungry to his own shack, now minus a stove.

Shortly after this incident, Pike married and moved north to start a ranch on Bear Creek, which he proceeded to stock with other people’s animals. For the next decade and a half, if it had four legs and was missing, you could probably find it on Pike’s ranch. It was no secret that Pike was a horse thief. And yet there were two things that kept Pike from being strung up to the nearest tree; his engaging personality that kept most people from being angry with him for very long, and Fred Harvey.

Harvey was the best lawyer in the Platte valley according to some, and Pike kept him on retainer. Whenever a claim was

made against Pike, regardless of how many eye witnesses there might have been, Harvey could always produce an unshakable alibi. A stolen saddle was found on Pike’s horse one day. Harvey’s winning defense was, someone must have stolen the saddle and put it on George’s horse to get even for some imagined past wrong.

Pike was acquitted On another occasion, Pike was caught in the act of stealing a horse. At his trial, a Mexican sheepherder came forward to claim that on the date in question, Pike was eating lunch with him, a hundred miles north of where the crime allegedly took place. Pike later confided to a friend that he had, indeed, eaten lunch with the Mexican a year before, but convinced him that he was confused about the date. Again, Pike was acquitted.

Pike’s criminal exploits were not just confined to stealing livestock. One night after being cheated by a card shark at poker, Pike calmly left, dressed up like a hobo with a hat pulled down low and returned. He held the professional gambler at gunpoint and relieved him of $500. An hour or so later he returned as George Pike and consoled the victim who apparently never caught on that he had been robbed by Pike.

In yet another infamous caper, Pike, again in disguise, held up a local saloon. After receiving a sack of money, Pike ran out the front door and tossed the sack up on to the awning of the saloon, out of sight of any wouldbe onlookers. He then removed the disguise he was wearing and walked off as if he were just another person strolling about

town. He returned later that night and retrieved the cash from the awning.

After fifteen years, Pike must have thought of himself as untouchable, and made the fateful decision to dispense with lawyer Harvey’s services. Shortly after, Will Reid decided to get revenge for his long lost stove by stealing a number of Pike’s horses. Reid was not nearly as good a thief as Pike was, and Pike had him arrested. Reid’s flimsy alibi was an obviously forged bill of sale. Pike had two eye-witnesses to the theft. It was an open and shut case.

But on the day of trial, rising to the defense of Will Reid, was none other than Fred Harvey.

During his summation, Harvey told the jury, “… Now, Gentlemen, George Pike is a horse thief. I know this because I defended him for fifteen years. He told me one time that if he ever had a horse in his pasture that he had come by honestly he would shoot the horse so that he would not contaminate the rest.”

The jury delivered a verdict of not guilty from the stand. Apparently, the only deliberation that went on between the jurors was howls of laughter. Pike’s pride had been forever wounded. He sent a letter to law enforcement officials that read, “I’ve quit.

Look for someone else from now on.” He then sold his ranch and moved to town to gamble.

George Pike died in 1906.

According to a Douglas newspaper, Bill Barlow’s Budget, he died in a hospital of a liver disease he had been battling for some time. That story is most likely true. The local legend of George Pike’s death, however,

is much more entertaining.

It is said that during a highstakes poker game, in which newly elected sheriff Charles Messenger was a participant, George Pike finally won big, and promptly died of a heartattack. It being impolite to leave a game after “getting ahead”, Pike’s fellow players reasoned that if George could speak for himself he would want the game to continue. So they propped Pike’s corpse back up in his seat and continued to deal him in. A bystander was recruited to “help” Pike with his cards. The winning streak continued, according to the tale, and he won enough for a first class funeral and the impressive tombstone that marks his grave to this day.

Actually, George Pike was originally buried north of town.

Two years later, in 1908, his friends pitched in to buy Pike a monument and have his body moved to the new cemetery east of Douglas. Among the donors was Fred Harvey, who may or may not have authored the epitaph that is inscribed: “Underneath this stone in eternal rest Sleeps the wildest one of the wayward west He was a gambler and sport and cowboy too And he led the pace in an outlaw crew He was sure on the trigger and staid to the end But he was never known to quit on a friend In the relations of death all men are alike But in life there was only one George W. Pike”

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Public Pulse

Campbell County Observer

June 21 - 28, 2013

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By Glenn Woods Sometimes I feel like I have to begin these articles by saying - I’m not kidding REALLY! HEADLINE: - “IRS TO HIRE ‘DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION SPECIALIST WITH $123,758 SALARY.” I’m not kidding - REALLY! The IRS has posted an ad to hire a new “Diversity and Inclusion Specialist” and is offering a generous, $123,758 annual salary, plus benefits for the position.

Pardon me, but, where the heck do you even find someone with qualifications like that? Wait - oh right - from today’s useless liberal universities, that‘s where. Imagine that. Whoever gets this job can go tell his parents - “SEE? And you thought that $100,000 class in ‘Inclusion and Diversity’ was a waste of money.”

OK, you are going to just LOVE this next part - and I’m NOT KIDDING! According to the job description, this “diversity” officer will “serve as a change agent, to provide strategies, solutions, training, tools, resources, and thought leadership on diversity, and foster inclusion.”

The position will also “build internal awareness”

would help people to determine if whether they are eligible for Medicaid coverage in the State of Wyoming. The claim is that the system will greatly reduce the time it takes someone to learn if they qualify for Medicaid.

That might sound like a great idea but, once again, Wyoming is making it easier for people who do not need to get on the dole to get on the dole. I’m all for helping people in need. But we are making it too easy for people to mooch off the system. Freeloaders show up when the system is easy to take advantage of.

in the IRS. Whatever the hell that means.

This officer will be tasked with hearing and resolving complaints from employees and to “effect minor disciplinary measures, such as warnings and reprimands.” The new position will also assist in creating employee training programs. (More wasted time in training classes) “At the IRS, you will use your skills in accounting, business, finance, law enforcement, information technology, advocacy and more to help make America stronger,” the listing reads.

Let me say for the record: Wyoming does not need to hire anyone for a position like this. Believe it or not, I actually worry that the state might just post such an ad.

The city of Gillette has a “Sustainability Coordinator.” This is a position that is just as useless. Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure that the gentleman who holds that position at city hall is a nice guy. But there is no reason for his position to exist in the first place. The city could eliminate his job and save the money, and no one would notice.

Right now, Wyoming State health officials are developing a website which

Wyoming was built by hardworking individuals. We will go the way of every “Blue State” in the nation if we copy their methods.

No one will deny that there are people out there who need help. By all means, help them. But in doing so we must remember that there are those who will take advantage of the system. Any chance for a free ride and they will take it. Why are we building a website that will only server to help freeloaders take advantage of the Wyoming Medicaid system?

You have heard of too big to fail. We have since learned that too big to fail is doomed to fail. So let’s not forget that Wyoming is too small, population wise, to even engage in these massive government programs that the too big to fail states have failed at.

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how many positions at City Hall could be eliminated?

I’m simply talking about useless positions held by people with degrees in Diversity and Underwater Basket Weaving.

About a month ago, the City of Gillette sent out a press release saying that they will be sending someone out to count the trees in Gillette. --- REALLY? Oh, come on. That is something that we would expect from some California town - not Gillette, Wyoming.

So how many useless jobs do you think can be eliminated from down at the state capital, in Cheyenne?

Here’s an idea from an unlikely source: After Steven Spielberg had finished his last Star Wars movie, he noticed that he had a bit of a problem. The movie was four hours long. He could not imagine that anyone would want to sit through

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all of that. But there was nothing in the movie that he wanted to cut. He liked it all.

What he decided to do was interesting. He went looking for any scene in the movie that would not be missed if it were cut out. No one would notice any gaps in the story. That meant that the cut scene was not important to the plot. Using this method he was able to shorten the move by an hour.

I’d like to propose the same idea to those in Wyoming Government at all levels. In the interest of saving taxpayer money, and efficiency, look at every position in government and ask yourself, ‘if we close this office, would anyone really notice? Would things actually work more efficiently?’

--- If the answer is yes then cut the position.

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Letters to the Editor Why We Fight For Freedom

Dear Editor, Thank God we have people like Sen. Rand Paul and many organizations that fight for our precious freedoms.

I am an 80-year-old grandmother who lived through World War II and the communist occupation of half of Europe. The first order of the occupiers was to turn in all of our guns. Then came the confiscation of private lands and creation of collective farms. All phone calls were monitored and microphones placed every place, even in the benches at public parks. Letters to foreign countries had to be mailed unsealed.

When these reached the final addressee, half of the content was blacked out with a marker. Neighbors were urged to spy on neighbors, and family members on family members. Every child from first grade on had a diary, where the teachers would write anything damaging said against the government. If you were lucky enough to have a clean diary, then maybe you were able to go to college.

I pray to God that this wonderful, free country is not heading in that direction.

CARMEN M. TAHT

The Arrogance of the Administration

Dear Editor, Multiple ongoing, rapidly spreading and major power intrusions by the Obama administration and weak diligence by congressional oversight and investigative committees have left Americans abused and exposed to an out-of-control, and corrupt executive branch.

The oversight committees have failed to exhibit political strength, penetrative effectiveness and the investigative skills to bring arrogant and power-abusing Obama officials to make revelations about their misconduct, mismanagement and unaccountability for the activities in their organizations. In the final analysis, they all confess to a lack of knowledge of or accountability for their own responsibilities.

This increasingly erodes public trust in government, creating a sense of futility among the governed. This condition cannot stand without dire consequences for our republic.

The picture unfolding is one of contempt and arrogance by executive branch officials and of an out-of-touch president who exercises little management oversight and control over his own organization. He spends most of his time shielding himself from scrutiny. The president and his chief officials, the attorney general in particular, are more intent on erecting protective barriers to conceal their abuses than resolving

issues.

In a democracy based on constitutional guarantees to rights of liberty and justice, these behaviors and misconduct cannot be tolerated. In the end, the American people must be roused into action and must require their elected representatives to be accountable. Alternatively, they must remove them. Otherwise, we will all sacrifice these rights, and the government will assume them instead.

BOB JACK

Former Vice President Cheney Proving To Be Another Silent Enemy Of Freedom

Dear Editor, Former Vice President Dick Cheney was on “Fox News Sunday” on June 16, and one of the topics was the National Security Agency surveillance program. Mr. Cheney related how and why the program was originally implemented after Sept. 11, 2001, and I have no problem that. The problem I have with Mr. Cheney and others cheerleading the current NSA surveillance program is that they do not have current information to back up their claims. As for Mr. Cheney, he has been out of office for more than four years and admitted he has no current knowledge about the program.

A new administration has made changes to the program, and naturally, they are all classified for obvious reasons, so how can anyone really know outside of NSA what is going on today?

Mr. Cheney also stated he has no access to the surveillance program, but has total confidence in those who are running it. I am guessing they are Republican appointees and good men, but if that is the only reasoning for Mr. Cheney’s statement, it isn’t good enough. Wasn’t the head of the Internal Revenue Service who testified before Congress a Republican appointee?

He didn’t take the Fifth to make himself look guilty, but instead took Sgt. Schultz’s “I know nothing” approach so he wouldn’t incriminate himself.

Call me cynical, but looking at all of the current scandals and what we know about them, I don’t think I want to put my faith in a politician, past or present, who states, it’s all OK because I know the people who are running it.

RON WOOTTERS

The recent White House scandals including the Benghazi cover up, IRS targeting of conservatives, the Department of Justice seizing AP journalists’ phone call records and issuing a warrant that named a Fox News reporter as a co-conspirator are quite serious, but it is the Obama policies supported by his administration and Democrats that are reshaping our country in a very negative way, and these need to be addressed.

President Obama has pursued “divide and conquer” and “blame others for your mistakes” to push his partisan agenda.

“Obamacare” is destroying the basic foundation of health care by taking away medical decisions from physicians, limiting patient access for care and restricting patient services. Obamacare was supposed to improve health care with lower costs and have everyone insured, but the exact opposite has occurred. The president has been unable to address urgent problems in a timely way, and for his delays many of our military personnel, civilian contractors and citizens of Iraq and Afghanistan have

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been killed or injured. After 93,000 deaths, mostly by the brutal Assad regime in Syria, Mr. Obama will offer some small arms to the opposition forces — another too-littletoo-late action with no specific goal or plan.

Individual freedoms of choice, including religious ones, are being eroded in a deliberate, systematic manner. Mr. Obama has still not put in the effort to work with Republicans to improve the economy and create jobs, and there is a further increase of those living in poverty, on food stamps and requiring long-term unemployment benefits. It is clear Mr. Obama never meant his campaign pledges for transparency and bipartisanship, and he continues to reverse his previous positions for votes. It is sad to say that the entire Obama administration places ideology and partisanship before the welfare of our country. These are the issues the public needs to be aware of. For their benefit and for the good of our country, the 2014 and 2016 elections will offer the opportunity to correct these problems.

MARVIN L. HOOVIS, M.D.

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Public Pulse

June 21 - 28, 2013

Campbell County Observer

Wyoming DOT Director Says Gas Tax Supports Pavement Preservation Program T

he first increase in Wyoming’s fuel taxes in 15 years will take effect this year, allowing the Wyoming State Department of Transportation to fully adopt the pavement preservation philosophy it began in 2011.

In a new Two-Minute State DOT Update video, WYDOT Director John Cox, tells Transportation TV the 10-cents-per-gallon increase is expected to raise an additional $47.5 million a year to improve and preserve the state’s highways. WYDOT manages 6,859 miles of roadway throughout the state.

“We could just see the overall highway conditions slipping out from under us, and what this will allow us to do is to transition for real into a pavement

preservation philosophy that we started a couple of years ago,” Cox said The increase which takes effect July 1 -- was the result of recognition that under current funding the condition of the state’s transportation infrastructure was deteriorating.

Cox said it was his department’s job to help educate lawmakers and the general public about the critical needs. In 2012, the department estimated that an additional $109 million was needed annually to keep its highways in a good state of repair. After WYDOT presented the facts, it was up to the state legislature to decide where the funding would come from.

“It took nine-legislative sessions of communicating with the Legislature about the magnitude of the need for

that action to be taken,” Cox said.

“During that time, there were several significant general-fund appropriations for highway construction. This legislation gets us a little less than halfway there, but we’re glad to have it.”

To watch this and other Two-Minute State DOT Update videos go to: WWW.TransportationTV.org The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) is the “Voice of Transportation” representing State Departments of Transportation in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.

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Weekly Constitution Study

Governor Asks EPA to Take More Time With Costly Rule Change Proposal G

overnor Matt Mead is asking the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) not to rush public comments on its proposed Regional Haze Plan.

On June 10th the EPA announced it was revising its proposal regarding regional haze. The federal action would include denying part of Wyoming’s plan to improve viewsheds and replacing it with a federal plan. Initial estimates are that the EPA’s proposal would significantly increase costs for Wyoming utilities - a cost that would be passed on to consumers.

The EPA is proposing to hold a public hearing on June 24th and close the public comment period in 60 days.

“A rushed hearing is like no hearing at all because the State and others will not have a meaningful opportunity

Fields Stay in Budget

to participate with such short notice,” Governor Mead wrote to the EPA. The Governor asks that the EPA hold two public hearings in Wyoming instead of one and give the public an extra 60 days to prepare for the first hearing.

He also proposes extending the public comment period to 60 days after the final public hearing.

Governor Mead expressed concern that the EPA has had conversations with individuals and groups about the costs of emissions controls for many months. “Wyoming, the State most affected by those conversations, has not been contacted and has only weeks to review a radically new proposal that could conceivably result in significant utility rate increases, possible layoffs or even plant closures.”

At last night’s Gillette City Council meeting there was a public hearing for the Gillette City budget for the new fiscal year. A majority of the discussion centered around a softball/baseball field complex for the Field Of Dreams site.

Groups of individuals in favor the project as well as those concerned about the cost of the project took to the microphone. Both groups reinerated several points made over months of previous debate.

After nearly an hour of discussion on the budget City Councilman Robin Kuntz proposed an amendment to remove funding for the softball baseball field complex. That proposed amendment was seconded by City Councilman, Kevin McGrath, But failed to pass by a vote of four to three, with only city Councilman Force Rothleutner supporting Kuntz and Mcgrath. Gillette Mayor Tom Murphy provided reminders during and after the public hearing that capital projects in the budget still have to be voted on individually as they come up.

“That’s correct this is just a budget, whether or not projects come within budget come bid time remains to be seen and each and everyone of them has to have council majority approval,” Murphy said.

When the vote on the budget itself was called for, Kuntz gave a long pause before saying, “I don’t like it, but yes”.

McGrath was the only member of the council who provided a “no” vote to the fiscal year 2013/2014

The EPA’s proposal would require new and different emissions controls for a number of Wyoming facilities.

This would cost hundreds of millions of dollars above the costs associated with the plan put forward by Wyoming, which is both federally compliant and sensible. Wyoming’s plan accomplishes the goal to improve viewsheds and does so by the compliance date.

“We need to be good stewards of the environment, and at the same time we need to balance economic impacts against negligible visibility improvement. EPA’s latest proposal, which will profoundly affect Wyoming and surrounding states, needs to be fully reviewed, aired and commented upon – not hurried,” Governor Mead wrote.

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1. Advertise to Reach New Customers. Your market changes constantly. New families in the area mean new customers to reach. People earn more money, which means changes in lifestyles and buying habits. The shopper who wouldn’t consider your business a few years ago may be a prime customer now. Remember...20% of families will move this year, 5 million people will be married and 4 million babies will be born*.

6. Advertise to Generate Trac. Continuous trac to your business is the rst step toward sales increases and expanding your customer base. The more people who contact your business, the more possibilities you have to make the sale and sell additional merchandise or services. For every 100 items that shoppers plan to buy, they make 30 unanticipated “in the store” purchases, an NRMA survey shows.

2. Advertise continuously. Consumers don’t have the loyalty they once did. You must advertise to keep pace with your competition. The National Retail Merchants Association states: “Mobility and non-loyalty are rampant.

Businesses must promote to get former customers to return and to seek new ones.

7. Advertise to Make More Sales. Advertising works!

Businesses that succeed are usually strong, steady advertisers. Look around. You’ll nd the most aggressive and consistent advertisers in your market are the most successful.

3. Advertise to Remain With Shoppers Through the Buying Process. Many people postpone buying decisions. They often go from store to store comparing prices, quality and service. Advertising must reach them steadily through the entire decision-making process. Your name must be fresh in their minds when they ultimately decide to buy.

4. Advertise Because Your Competition is Advertising. There are only so many consumers in the market who are ready to buy at any one time. You’ll need to advertise to keep regular customers and to counterbalance the advertising of your competition. You must advertise to keep your share of customers or you will lose them to the more aggressive competitors.

5. Advertise Because it Pays O Over a Long Period.

Advertising gives you a long-term advantage over competitors who cut back or cancel advertising. A ve-year survey of more than 3,000 companies found...Advertisers who maintain or expand advertising over a ve-year period see their sales increase an average of 100%.

Companies, which cut advertising, averaged sales decreases of 45%.

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8. Advertise Because There is Always Business to Generate. Your doors are open. Sta are on the payroll.

Even the slowest days produce sales. As long as you’re in business, you’ve got overhead to meet and new people to reach. Advertising can generate customers now... and in the future.

9. Advertise to Keep a Healthy Positive Image. In a competitive market, rumors and bad news travel fast.

Advertising corrects misleading gossip, punctures “overstated” bad news. Advertising that is vigorous and positive can bring shoppers into the marketplace, regardless of the economy.

10. Advertise to Maintain Employee Morale. When advertising and promotion are suddenly cut or canceled, your staff may become alarmed and demoralized. They may start false rumors in an honest belief that your business is in trouble. Positive advertising boosts morale. It gives your staff strong additional support.

Public Pulse

Consitutional Information on Two Elks Denied to Wyoming Media Source

By Rone Tempest Published with the expressed written consent of Wyofile.com

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iting ongoing concurrent investigations by the Inspector General and the Department of Justice, the federal Department of Energy has denied a WyoFile public records appeal for details about the suspension of the $9.9 million Two Elk stimulus project in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin.

WyoFile had requested information related to Two Elk developer North American Power Group, Greenwood Village, Colorado; North American president Michael J. Ruffatto and Wyoming-based North American Power vice president Brad Enzi.

The original request, filed under the federal Freedom of Information Act, was denied on April 23 by R. Paul Detwiler, chief counsel for the DOE National Energy Technology Laboratory that supervises the Two Elk carbon sequestration research grant.

Following protocol, WyoFile appealed to DOE headquarters to reverse the decision. “We feel everything we requested is public record since it involves public monies that fall under the transparency requirements of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009,” said WyoFile editor in chief Dustin Bleizeffer.

But in a four-page letter dated May 23, director of the DOE Office of Hear-

ings and Appeals Poli A. Marmolejos rejected the WyoFile appeal. His decision, he said, was based in part on new information received by his office “that cannot be disclosed as it may compromise the pending investigation.”

“Our review of that information,” Marmolejos wrote, “further supports our conclusion that release of the requested information could reasonably be expected to cause some foreseeable harm to the pending enforcement proceeding.”

Marmolejos cited a May 15 email from Detwiler stating that the National Energy Technology Laboratory had been repeatedly instructed by the U.S. Attorney in Pittsburgh and by the DOE Inspector General to “not release any documents regarding the cooperative agreements with North American Power Group or DOE’s suspension of those agreements.”

The January 2012 suspension of the $9 million Two Elk stimulus grant to study the feasibility of storing CO2 in geological formations in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin, followed a September 11, 2011, WyoFile story about exceptionally high salaries paid from stimulus funds to Ruffatto, a wealthy Colorado socialite with homes in Denver and Newport Beach, Ca., and Enzi, the son of Wyoming’s senior U.S. Sen.

Mike Enzi. Sen. Enzi is an outspoken opponent of the federal stimulus program that was launched by the Obama administration in an effort to create new jobs and revive the moribund economy.

In April of this year, WyoFile reported that the DOE had suspended the Two Elk project after officials discovered that North American had not drilled a deep exploratory well that was supposed to be the centerpiece of the research study. WyoFile also reported that Stanford University and Montana State University, both originally affiliated with the Two Elk research effort, have since stopped participation and that Paul Skirtich, an assistant U.S. attorney in Pittsburgh who specializes in fraud cases, is heading the Department of Justice case related to Two Elk. WyoFile’s coverage of North American Power Group and its activities in Wyoming, including the saga of a longplanned, never-built $1 billion Two Elk power plant south of Gillette dates to the news site’s initial edition in 2008.

Stories in this continuing series can be found under Special Reports on the WyoFile site.

- See more at: http://wyofile.com/ rtempest/public-records-appeal-twoelk/#sthash.OH1DlBsk.dpuf

It’s Donating Time Again take our community that we live and work in very personal. So we decided to do everything we can to keep the money local,” said Observer owner Nicholas De Laat. “And, community college attendees do not get the financial help from scholarships at the same level as the kids going to Universities.”

Observer owner Candice De Laat stated that “The money is donated by community, given to a young adult from our community, and spent on further education in our community… for our community. This is what we are all about, from the owners to the workers of our company.”

The Campbell County Observer has donated over $68,000.00 in mon-

ey, advertising, and product to help local charities so far in 2012. “And this in only our second year in business!” said Mrs. De Laat. “The more we grow, the more we give.” She does not, however, want to discount the most important part of giving to these local charities. “Our customers and subscribers are the glue that holds everything together. If you want to thank someone for all the giving, thank them. They deserve it most!”

To donate to the Campbell County Observer’s Readers Choice Scholarship go to their website at www.

CampbellCountyObserver.net or call (307) 670-8980.

The National Defense Authorization Act riday, the House passed the annual National Defense Authorization Act, funding the Department of Defense for FY2014. These funds ensure that America’s armed forces are well equipped and prepared to fight any threat to our nation.

It’s no secret the Administration is no fan of nuclear weapons. Lately they’ve become more vocal about their lack of support for our country’s Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs), many of which are dotted across the Wyoming landscape.

It’s never easy to consider a time when a weapon of this nature would be used. But

the reality is we’re living in a world that is facing countries with unstable leaders.

Countries like China, Russia and Pakistan are in the process of modernizing or expanding their nuclear arsenal. These are insurance policies that stand in defense of our country.

To make sure the ICBMs and the nation are protected I amended the NDAA to ensure that the 450 silos remain in a warm status or fully functional. We are not in a position to reduce our country’s ICBM capabilities. If you have further questions or concerns about NDAA or ICBMs please don’t hesitate to contact my offices.

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“It’s too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, for all of life is risk exercise.

That’s the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.”

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Why Is It? (a/k/a The Advertising Poem) A man wakes up after sleeping under an advertised blanket, on an advertised mattress, pulls off advertised pajamas, bathes in an advertised shower, shaves with an advertised razor, brushes his teeth with advertised toothpaste, washes with advertised soap, puts on advertised clothes, drinks a cup of advertised coffee, drives to work in an advertised car, and then, refuses to advertise, iot Publ believing it doesn’t pay. atr Later when business is poor, he advertises it for sale.

Why is it?

Old Military Equipment

· Medals Gear · Field · Swords · Ammunition · Bayonets · Rifles · Pistols · Ordinance · Parts · Uniforms · Medals US · German · Japanese · British Italian · WW1 · WW2

ANY MILITARY FROM ANY ERA

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The Campbell County Observer is now taking donations for our Readers Choice Scholarship. The Observer is hoping to raise $1,000.00 this year for a scholarship that will be given to a student from Wright (Panthers) or Gillette (Camels).

Students will be presenting the Observer with an essay, which the readers will vote on their favorite and the most deserving.

The only conditions are that the student must graduate from either Wright High School or Gillette High School and will be attending Gillette College in the fall. The scholarship will be put in their account at Gillette College by the Campbell County Observer.

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Governor Visits Coal Export Facilities and Hears From All Sides

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overnor Matt Mead has completed the first leg of his trip to develop new and expanded market opportunities for Wyoming.

Governor Mead began the trade mission in British Columbia and is now in Alberta. Several business leaders are also on this visit to Wyoming’s leading foreign trade partner.

In British Columbia, Governor Mead visited the Westshore terminal that exports U.S. and Canadian coal to Asian markets, primarily South Korea.

The Governor was pleased to see the operation first-hand. “The Westshore terminal has a 40-year track of record of using the latest technologies to store and load coal onto barges in a responsible fashion,” Governor Mead said. “This terminal is at capacity and is looking at ways to make more efficient use of its existing site.”

Governor Mead met with officials from Port Metro Vancouver, which operates and regulates one of the largest and most diversified ports in North America. The Governor spoke with these port officials about the process for expanding exports and the need to be commodity-neutral in matters of trade. “Whether it is Powder River

Basin coal for electricity, Canadian coal for metallurgy, or any number of agricultural products, manufactured goods, or commodities, we must remember that the U.S. and Canada are trade partners in a global economy. Access to all markets helps our economies and improves the standard of living across the world.”

The Governor met with citizens concerned about local land use issues related to expanded exports. “I explained that it is not appropriate for me to weigh in on local planning matters. However, I reiterated the need for railroads and coal companies to address concerns of citizens by providing data, and to the extent there is no information or baseline data, then industry should be prepared to collect it. Empirical data is necessary for sound decision making and problem solving. We need to look for ways not to create roadblocks - but to find solutions to problems, and data is helpful,” Governor Mead said.

“This visit has been beneficial for me to see the complexities of exports and to learn about the opportunities and challenges that exist. Ports are a very important part of the economy

in British Columbia and for the entire continent. For Wyoming, these ports allow us to compete globally in selling coal and other commodities to many markets,” Governor Mead said.

“I hope we can expand trade in the coming years to Canada and to other trading partners. I see the possibility of growth with South Korea, Japan, Europe, China and India.”

During the visit to Vancouver Governor Mead also visited a company that builds LNG engines. “LNG powered semi-trucks, trains and other heavy equipment could do a lot for Wyoming’s economy. This is another one of the sectors where we could see growth and put to further use our abundant natural gas,” Governor Mead said.

Governor Mead and the trade delegation will be in Alberta, Canada until June 19th. That portion of the trip will focus on the oil sands in northern Alberta and include stops at the largest hydrocarbon processing center in Canada, meetings with Canadian companies that operate in Wyoming, and visits to various facilities in the oil sands.

BOAT FOR SALE. 18ft 120 port jet outboard bass tracker for sale. Call 307-680-5947 2008 Harley Dyna Super Glide, custom 19k miles blue $9,680 Marlins 685-4452 or 685-8100 16ft Sea Nymph Fishing Boat, 50 hp outboard Merc, trolling motor, just serviced at wyoming marine $2,500 O.B. O 307-299-4662 or307622-0825 2013 Custom Harley Hardtail Bobber all new $9,500. Marlins 685-4452 or 685-8100 International Tractor 300 Utility For Sale. $2000 Artic Cat 4X4 2001For Sale. $2000 Call Bill 307 - 660 – 8563 94 Mazda MX3 for sale. $1500 obo. 307-670-2037 1988 Honda Gl1500 for free if interested contact me at ( james.bernard10@live.com) 2010 Polaris 550 eps with less than 100 miles, books for $8,000. make and offer.

Call Steve Terry at 307-2992992 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: 307-670-2037 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!

Custom Harley Soft tail. Being built, need to sell now.

Almost finished. Chopper, built in Sturgis, SD. Asking $5,500 and will help you build it. HAVE ALL PARTS! Call 257-2306 Boat for Sale with trailer.

Needs work. Call 670-8980 for info.

Campers & Motor Homes 1997 32ft. Class A Motor Home. Sleeps 6, Only 31,000 Miles. Asking $17,000. Call (307) 660-7520.

32 ft. Wildcat by Forestriver, sleeps 10, 1 slide,4 bunks 307-680-6625 Large Private RV/Camper Lot for rent. Big yard, trees.

All utilities available. $400 per month, $400 deposit. 1 year lease. Call (307) 6601007.

5th wheel camper for sale.

Call Skip (307) 680-0073

Guns for Sale

Guns for Sale

Before you buy, make a call to get a quote. We can order any gun you are looking at and just may be able to save you a ton of money. Call for a free quote. $15.00 FFL Transfer Fee on all internet purchases. Call Wyoming Mountaineers 299-2084 and mention this ad.

A friend of mine called the other day and tells me he has 2 friends that are looking for some AR-15’s do I have any?

I told him yes I do, They are M4 style scope ready models and priced at $695.00.

Great, he says, They will be right over. They never showed up so a few days later I asked him if his friends were still interested. He told me nope, they bought them online for $1500.00. So, here they come with UPS, I still made my $15.00 for the transfer but while they were there they looked at the rifles I had in stock and discovered they were the same models they ordered with the same features and they could have bought 2 from me for the same price they paid for one they ordered. Don’t let this happen to you, Any gun, Any models, Any features can be ordered or built for a lower cost. Call for a free quote.

Call Wyoming Mountaineers (307)299-2084 to get yours today.

Gunsmithing Special of the week. Electrolysis Barrel Cleaning. Increase the accuracy of your firearm, get ready for hunting season or a summer of shooting fun.

Most cleanings complete overnight and your gun is ready the next day. Call Wyoming Mountaineers 2992084 and mention this ad.

With the current controversy of gun control you can expect changes. One of these changes will be permanently attached low capacity magazines. Make your current guns compliant to this regulation. Call for quotes on all your gunsmithing needs.

Call Wyoming Mountaineers (307)299-2084 to get yours today.

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.

Ammo is still available and still very reasonably priced.

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.

1903 Springfield. 30o6 Cal. U.S. Military. $700 obo. Call (307) 682-7864 Wyoming Mountaineers now offers easy payment plans on any in stock firearm. Your debit card is your line of credit. Purchase any firearm that is in stock making 4 payments weekly, biweekly, or monthly. Processing fee and payment plan fee apply. Call Wyoming Mountaineers for more details. Call Wyoming Mountaineers 299-2084 and mention this ad.

Get a piece of history. Mosin Nagant Russian M91/30 Surplus Rifle. Very good to Excellent condition 7.62X54 Caliber. These are a very accurate rifle shooting 4” groups at 1000 yards. Open sights are adjustable to yardage with a push of a button.

Great gun for hunting deer or elk very cheap ammo available for target practice.

Comes with military issue sling, sling pouches, bayonet, and cleaning tools. Call Wyoming Mountaineers 2992084 and mention this ad.

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

Personals Interested in founding a Sherlock Holmes Society in Gillette? Contact gillettesherlockians@gmail. com for info.

Storage Unit Sale Storage unit Sale - 507 North Commercial Drive #436, Saturday 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., -- Multi- Family Moving Sale

Toy Parts & Accessories Stock pipes for Sportster.

500mi. Stock pices for Dyna Wide Glide. 1500mi. Email baxtersmom62@gmail.com for info.

20% Commission plus gas allowance Monthly Individual & Team bonuses Fun Work Enviroment Set Your own hours

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Be a part of the best up-and-coming business in the area!

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Four 16 inch rims, five hole, with caps.$90 307 - 670 1887 Harley Accessories for sale.

Call 307-670-8980. Ask for Tammy.

Miscellaneous 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 Bring your catch by the Empire Guesthouse for photographs which may be published in this newspaper with our fishing reports. Along with that, the Guesthouse staff will be awarding monthly prizes for those that let us photograph them and their catch. It doesn’t have to be a trophy to enter and there will be special prizes for those 12 and under. Carp shooters are also welcome to enter.

Check with the Guesthouse for more details.

ACE will reduce your appetite and give you energy. The natural way to lose weight. www.facebook.com/AcePill 660-2974

Cinnamon Rolls for pickup or delivery.

Call Sandi 307-670-2724

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Home Appliances/ Furnshings Booth Table. L-shaped. With Chairs. Seats 6. $500.00 Call 299-4967 Whirlpool Large Capacity front load washer and dryer with bottom drawer excellent condition asking $700 for pair 307-680-7948 3 Propane Refrigerators 307-680-8838. D4-12-4h Three antique pressedbacked oak chairs. Excellent condition. $85 each. 6820042

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Help Wanted “It’s just the right time.... for Avon”. By becoming an AVON representative, you help make your clients look and feel beautiful by selling them great products, while giving you the extra income to have a financially stable lifestyle. For information about this great direct selling opportunity call Sandi at 307-670-2724,an Independent Sales Representative for the World’s No#1 Beauty Company. Call today or email Sandi at wyavonlady@ yahoo.com Looking for CDL to work in North Dakota full time. Call 307-670-3629.

PERSONAL ASSISTANCE NEEDED: We are looking for an Office Assistant. Duties include greeting clients, answering phones, and routing mail, data entry and retrieve,scheduling and calender maintenance,Ideal candidates will have proven customer service skills in an administrative setting and experience with Microsoft Office applications email resumes to akeelahanderson001@gmail.com IF INTERESTED Powder River Roofing, a growing company in N.E. Wyoming, is hiring full time roofers. Call 307-696-7465 for an interview.

Personal Assistant needed to organize and help. Basic computer skills needed, must be good with organization. I am ready to pay $600.00 per week. Interested person should contact: deans995@ gmail.com Bl-32-2V Full Time Flooring Installers wanted. Must have experience. Bring resumes in to Carpet Express Direct on Hwy. 59 next to the Prime Rib Restaurant.

Exciting new career. Unlimited income potential. Think you can sell? Call 307-2994662. We offer commission, fuel allowance, and much more. Sell in the Bighorn, Casper, Powder River, and Black Hills Area.

Are you a friendly outgoing individual? Do you connect with people casually? Are you looking for supplemental income? Do you need to be in charge of your own hours?

We are looking for an independent contractor for commissioned based ad sales.

For more information call Sandra at 307-689-0028 or email at campbellcountytidbits@yahoo.com State Wide Sales people.

Print Advertising Sales for new State-wide newspaper.

Call 307-299-4662

Apartments for Rent

Services

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

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

3bs/2bth. Must qualify for low income housing. $740.00/ mo. Call 307-685-8066 Foothills View Apartments Hot Move In Special! Cool, Clean, Quiet Apartments.

A/C, 2 Bdrm. $695 1Bdrm. $595. Showing anytime Call 307-686-6488 C3-28-2v Apartments for rent. Foothills View Apartments. Clean and Quiet. One and Two bedroom units starting at $595.00. Call for showing andmove in special 307-6866488 (c3-42-3v) 2 bedroom apartment $675 per month, $675 security, $675 last months rent. Above Gillette Cheese House no pets, no smoking laundry \ facilities available 685-6449 Criminal Background check and renters insurance required.

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

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

Merchandise 1939 HA Selmer Trumpet $750 OBO. 687-1087 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

Child Care

Refrigerator (white) Great condition $100 307-2995918

Child Care in Sleepy Hollow.

Room for 2 children. $20 per day per child. Call 307-2572306.

Blue Dual Reclining Sofa.

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

In a Pinch?? Back up Daycare service call 307-6807948

Homes for Sale Home for sale by owner in Western Way. Asking $239,000 for the 1,800 sq. ft. 3 bedroom 2 bath home with an unfinished basement and a two car garage. Fully fenced, large landscaped yard with a sprinkler system.

Home is within walking distance to the new recreation center and the new elementary school that is being built. Please contact me at 307-670-1209 if you are interested.

For Sale. 3br Townhouse.

1.5 bath. 307-680-1449 (c139-tfnh) Tri-level house for sale 4 bed 2 bath $209,000 (307) 6701925.

40+ Acres 2 miles south of Wright 1999 Atlantic Oak Modular. $250,000 OBO Call 307 - 680 – 2374 3 bedroom 11/2 bath C1-39-tfnh

Townhouse 680-1449

FSBO 2,688 SF home on corner lot with fenced back yard. 4 bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms, upgraded kitchen, finished walkout basement, oversized garage. $259,000.

307-680-9180.

Produce for Sale Fresh local “Free Range” eggs. All natural, no animal by-products. No antibiotics. $3/Doz. 257-9049’

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

Homeowners and renters insurance for house, trailer, or apartments. Call Elizabeth Jones Agency 307-682-6520 RV Winterization starting at $99.95 at YOUR house. Call Randy at 307-660-3091 (b340-tfnh) 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 Powder River Roofing is N.E. Wyoming’s top quality roofing, with the highest safety standards in the area. Call for your FREE estimate today for metal/wood/shingle removal, install, and repair.

(307)-696-7465. Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered!

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 Powder River Mechanics.

We have the cheapest labor rates, but the best quality repairs in town. We offer full services on Foreign and domestic vehicles, ATV’s, Snowmobiles, motorcycles, jet ski’s, boats, and more.

Let us put you on a Preventative maintenance schedule so your vehicles run miles past your warranty. Call for an appointment. 307-6967713.

Avenue Mall - Over 30 vendors, come check us out! 217 Gillette Ave. Mon-Fri. 9AM to 7 PM, Sat. 9AM- 5 PM, Sun. 10 AM - 4 PM 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

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

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Autos, Trucks and Vans

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June 21 - 28, 2013

Campbell County Observer

Community Leaders Continue to Discuss Airline Subsidy At the June 18th Campbell County Commissioner’s Meeting, the commissioners took a break from the scheduled agenda to allow Gillette resident Dave Allison time to speak.

Allison, who commonly makes appearances at Gillette City Council meetings to convey his opinions to city leaders, requested time to encourage county leaders to press city officials to invest funds in the Air Enhancement Agreement with the State of Wyoming, Aeronautics Division, and Sky West Airlines, to provide commercial air service between Gillette and Salt

Lake City, with a connection through Rock Springs.

After to meeting, Commissioner’s Chairman Dan Coolidge provided his thoughts on Allison’s comments: Campbell County has participated in the Air Service Enhancement Agreement since fiscal year 2008/2009, and according to Coolidge, has contributed over $1.4 million dollars to the agreement during the past five years.

Coolidge says in the next fiscal year, the cost of the agreement is projected to be over $2.4 million and the amount of state funding

will be reduced. The county is looking at an obligation of approximately $800,000 to $1,000,000 in one fiscal year and on May 23rd, 2013, requested city leaders to budget a $250,000 contribution in Fiscal Year 2013/14. Coolidge adds that the commissioners feel the investment from the City of Gillette is necessary for continued commercial air service for Northeast Wyoming.

Campbell County Administrator Robert Palmer said in an e-mail that the county invested $474, 593 in matching funds this fiscal year for the agreement

compared to $296,557 last fiscal year. During a public hearing on the Gillette City Budget June 17th, Allison was one of two individuals to inquire at the hearing about the absence of any city funds arranged for the air service subsidy. The issue was brought up again

by Allison at Tuesday’s Campbell County Commission Meeting.

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Submitted by the NRA-ILA iwork instead looked like a gun, and escorted him to the principal’s office for prompt disciplinary action.

In a recent follow-up story, the Daily Caller reported on more bad news for the young victim of over-zealous school administrators.

According to the article, this week, a lawyer for the family received a letter from school administrators who officially denied an appeal to have the suspension expunged from the secondgrader’s permanent record, thus ensuring an equally permanent blot on the child’s record. How unreasonable and unnecessary can you get?

The story’s unhappy ending serves as yet another reminder of the pitfalls encountered when “zero-

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When “Zero-Tolerance” Makes “Zero-Sense” e’ve been reporting very regularly on ridiculous cases involving over-zealous school officials misinterpreting and wrongly enforcing “zero-tolerance” rules.

In March, we reported on an outrageous case of a seven-year-old Baltimore, Md. student who, according to a March 2, Daily Caller article, was suspended for two days for the nefarious act of shaping a breakfast pastry into what his teacher thought looked like a gun.

Yes, a breakfast pastry.

According to the young student, he was eating the strawberry pastry during snack time and was biting off pieces in an attempt to shape it into a mountain.

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As we now note on a seemingly weekly basis, all of us agree that we want our children to be safe at school, and that reasonable safety measures should be followed. But this continued unreasonable, zero-common-sense enforcement of “zero tolerance” policies not only encroaches on our freedom, but places an extreme and unfair burden on innocent children and their families.

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