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Monday, Feb.

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Tuesday, Feb.

•Provisions of Grace Food Pantry, 5-7 p.m., 4 South Fork Road. •Karaoke, 7 p.m., VFW Hall. •Live music, 9 p.m., Silver Dollar. •Stothart First Friday Readings Back to Events, noon, Hinckley Library.

RED LODGE:

•Live Music, 7 p.m., Elks Lodge.

Saturday, Feb.

CODY:

•Cody Newcomers meeting, 11 a.m., Sunset House. •Public Skate, noon-2 p.m., Riley Arena. •Big Horn Basin Scottish Society Robert Burns Dinner, 5:30 p.m., Holiday Inn. •Live Music, 7 p.m., Irma Hotel. •Live Music, 9 p.m., Silver Dollar.

POWELL:

•Brass Festival, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Nelson Performing Arts Auditorium.

RED LODGE:

Sunday, Feb.

•Morning Coffee and Donuts, 8-10 a.m., VFW Hall. •Normal Aging: What is It, 9:30 a.m., Park County Public Library Grizzly Room.

CODY:

•Provisions of Grace Food Pantry, after 11 a.m. service, 4 South Fork Road. •Adult Drop-in, 7-9 p.m., Riley Arena.

POWELL:

CODY:

RED LODGE:

•Introduction to Clowning with Jeanne Thomas, 3:30-5 p.m., Carbon County Depot Gallery. •Community Pint Night, 5-7 p.m., Sam’s Tap Room. •Free Community Dinner, 5:30-7 p.m., Common Ground. •Jam Night, 8 p.m., Snow Creek Saloon.

Spaghetti Feed Benefit, 11 a.m., West Park Hospital Canyon Rim Cafe. •Open Figure Skating, 3:30-5 p.m., Riley Arena.

POWELL:

•AARP Foundation Finances 50+, 7 p.m., Fagerberg Building Room 65.

RED LODGE:

•Knitting Bee, 6-8 p.m., Honey’s Cafe.

•Threads of the Heart, 1-4 p.m., Powell Soroptmist. Tickets are $20 in advance or $25 at the door.

Thursday, Feb.

RED LODGE:

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•Acoustic Jam, 2-4 p.m., Honey’s Cafe. •Sunday Funday, 4-7 p.m., Snow Creek Saloon.

•17th Annual Cody Ice Climbing Festival, South Fork. •Provisions of Grace Food Pantry, 5-7 p.m., 4 South Fork Road. •Karaoke, 7 p.m., VFW Hall. •Rude Diary, 6-8 p.m., Silver Dollar. •Quake Hockey, 7:30 p.m., Riley Arena. •Live Music, 9 p.m., Silver Dollar.

POWELL:

•Intercultural Tuesday Lunch, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., NWC dining hall.

•Wine Tasting at Eastgate Liquor, 4:30 p.m. •Quake Hockey, 7:30 p.m., Riley Arena.

RED LODGE:

•Acting FUN-damentals with Jeanne Thomas, 3:30-5 p.m., Carbon County Depot Gallery.

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Saturday, Feb.

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•Public Skate, 1-3 p.m., Riley Arena. •MANNAHOUSE food distribution and worship, 1:453 p.m.,2343 Mountain View Drive. •Stick and Puck, 3:30-5 p.m., Riley Arena.

Wednesday, Feb.

•Ski Like a Girl, 1 p.m., Red Lodge Mountain. •Pretty Faces – The story of a Skier Girl, 4 p.m., Roman Theater.

RED LODGE:

•Live Music, 7 p.m., Elks Lodge.

•17th annual Cody Ice Climbing Festival, South Fork. • 7th annual Ice Fishing Derby, 8 a.m.-3 p.m., upper Sunshine Reservoir in Meeteetse. •Public skate, 1:30-3:30 p.m., Riley Arena. •Valentine’s Day Party, 5 p.m., Irma Hotel. •Live Music, 9 p.m., Silver Dollar.

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•Showalter Festival, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Northwest College.

RED LODGE:

•Ski Like a Girl, 1 p.m., Red Lodge Mountain.

Sunday, Feb.

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•17th annual Cody Ice Climbing Festival, South Fork. •Provisions of Grace Food Pantry, after 11 a.m. service, 4 South Fork Road. •Adult Drop-in, 7-9 p.m., Riley Arena.

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•Sunday Funday, 4-7 p.m., Snow Creek Saloon. •Acoustic Jam, 2-4 p.m., Honey’s Cafe.

Monday, Feb. CODY:

•Morning Coffee and Donuts, 8-10 a.m., VFW Hall. •Learn to Skate, 4-5 p.m., Riley Arena.

Tuesday, Feb.

CODY:

•Public Skate, 1-3 p.m., Riley Arena. •MANNAHOUSE food distribution and worship, 1:453 p.m.,2343 Mountain View Drive. •Stick and Puck, 3:30-5 p.m., Riley Arena.

POWELL:

•Intercultural Tuesday Lunch, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., NWC dining hall.

RED LODGE:

•Meet the Mayor, 8-10 a.m., Red Lodge Books & Tea. •Introduction to Clowning with Jeanne Thomas, 3:30-5 p.m., Carbon County Depot Gallery. •Community Pint Night, 5-7 p.m., Sam’s Tap Room. •Free Community Dinner, 5:30-7 p.m., Common Ground. •Jam Night, 8 p.m., Snow Creek Saloon.

Wednesday, Feb.

CODY:

•Open Figure Skating, 3:30-5 p.m., Riley Arena.

POWELL:

•AARP Foundation Finances 50+, 7 p.m., Fagerberg Building Room 65.

RED LODGE:

•Friends of the Library Book Sale, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Carnegie Library.

Thursday, Feb.

CODY:

•Winter Senior Olympics.

POWELL:

•Rocky Mountain Wildflowers, 7 p.m., Fagerberg Building Room 70.

RED LODGE:

•Meet the Mayor, 9-10:30 a.m., Honey’s Cafe. •Acting FUN-damentals with Jeanne Thomas, 3:30-5 p.m., Carbon County Depot Gallery.

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Clowning around in Red Lodge Thomas demonstrates clown basics during upcoming classes By BUZZY HASSRICK Special to Pulse Although entertaining audiences with humor requires education and timing, the basic prerequisite for becoming a clown is simple, according to Jeanne “Pippi” Thomas. “If you love people and like to laugh, that’s probably it,” she explained.

There’s a magical connection to human beings. Jeanne Thomas Pippi the clown

Trained as a performer and director, Thomas is offering workshops in clowning and acting this month in Red Lodge. She has taught theater and acting in Wyoming, Montana, New York City, Florida, Oregon and California. “Every student I’ve trained has gone on to be clowns the rest of their lives,” she said. After more than two decades in San Francisco as the head of what she called a “booming business,” Thomas moved to Red Lodge about 10 years ago. Two years ago, she assembled a troupe to present “Antigone” in Red Lodge. Greek tragedies, like that, as well as the classics – plays by Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Eugene O’Neil – were her focus at the beginning of her career, until a chance encounter led

her into humor. In San Francisco, Thomas was asked to direct a show of students of a mime troupe. She described the mimes as independent types who perform outside traditional theater. “It was like bedlam,” with all their big toys, she recalled. “They all knew better than anyone what they were doing. Now I do all of those things.” It was during her work with the mimes that Thomas met Bob Taxin, a clown and instructor from Ringling Barnum and Bailey Clown School. He told her, ‘“You’d be a great clown,’” she recalled. “And it took over my life.” Taxin trained her in the basic skills and classic gags of clowning and also introduced her to another Ringling clown, Peggy Ford. Taxin and Ford became her mentors in the arenas of clowning, circus arts and entertainment. The three of them performed together for years.

Moving east from West

While still living in San Francisco, Thomas would spend her summers performing at county fairs and found she especially enjoyed the interaction with children. Some of the jobs took her to Wyoming and Montana, with drives through Yellowstone Park and Red Lodge. “San Francisco and California is a different world,” she said. “I’d gotten my fill of the city, and I loved the kids out here.” Because they were wellbehaved and responsible, Thomas figured their parents would be too. That proved true. Another appeal was the landscape along with the lifestyle. “I fell in love with the land,” Thomas said. “I loved the vastness and how they lived in their communities.” The changing times of year appealed to

offers comfort. “There’s a magical connection to human beings,” as the children share stories with her, Thomas added. “I just treasure that so much.”

Becoming a clown

Jeanne Thomas also is teaching an acting workshop.

February workshops Jeanne Thomas is offering two clown classes this month in Red Lodge: •Introduction to Clowning, four sessions, 3:30-5 p.m. Tuesdays. •Acting Fundamentals, four sessions, 3:30-5 p.m. Thursdays. To register, call the Carbon County Arts Guild, (406) 446-1370. For more information about Thomas, visit pippitheclown.com.

her, too. “I love all the seasons and found I actually like the snow and cold.” In 2001 she bought a house in Red Lodge, moving there permanently a year or two later. As Pippi, she’s continuing her clown career and has bookings through 2019. Performing at county fairs offers happy and sad moments, Thomas said. The 4-H children, proud of the animals they’ve raised, celebrate their achievements and show her their ribbons. But their smiles often droop when they have to sell their stock. It’s not unlike a Greek tragedy, she noted, and Pippi

“I’ve been drawn to theater all my life,” said Thomas, who directed fairy tales as a child. “In theater, you can do everything.” Theater incorporates the visual and performing arts, music and dance, costumes and makeup, she explained. Thomas also is a sculptor and painter, on canvas and flesh. “When you put on your makeup, you’re revealing your soul,” she said. Although applying the makeup takes only about an hour, she begins preparing four hours before the show. The preparation involves meditation, warming up her voice and working out. She also must, in advance, reset magic tricks, blow up balloons and attend to the gag props. “It’s a hermetic life,” Thomas said, which entails waking up, eating well, applying makeup, performing, removing makeup, putting on pajamas, eating well and sleeping. Clowns, like actors, are magical, she added, and both live outside the realms of normal society. They have considerable freedom and play numerous roles. “Once you see me as a clown, you’ll never believe I do Greek tragedy,” Thomas says. At celebrations, the role of clowns is to animate the mood and involve the crowd, so participants abandon their spectator poses and become engaged, she said. “Clowns are prized for their foolishness and wrongheadedness,” Thomas adds. “There’s so much fun in that.”

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Jeanne Thomas trained with Bob Taxin, a clown and instructor from Ringling Barnum and Bailey Clown School in San Francisco. She moved to Red Lodge about 10 years ago and continues her clown career as Pippi.

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Red Lodge hosts all women’s ski movie ‘Pretty Faces’ Big mountain skier Lynsey Dyer’s “Pretty Faces” movie will play in Red Lodge on Saturday, Feb. 7. Hosted by the Red Lodge Area Community Foundation (RLACF), the women’s ski movie will play at 4 p.m. in the Red Lodge Roman Theater. Pretty Faces is a crowdsourced, crowd-funded, allwomen’s ski movie, and is a “visionary project” by Dyer. “We are on a mission to make skiing and the outdoors look so fun that no girl will ever want to stay inside,” Dyer says. “Through this project and my nonprofit SheJumps, we want young girls to see positive, strong, and courageous women pursuing their passions and finding success. We want to show females everywhere that ‘if she can do it, so can I.’” Dyer spoke in the past on the same themes at a Sleeping Giant Ski Area event in Cody. Red Lodge community members and RLACF will boost Dyer’s vision by donating all proceeds to the Girls in Motion Enrichment Project, a fund providing scholarships that encourage young girls to begin athletic activities early in life. Theater entry is free, but a recommended donation of $5 will be collected at the door. “We are incredibly fortunate to have such a wealth of diverse, active females in Red Lodge making great role models for our children – moms, volunteers, business owners and neighbors,” said Kerri Wolfson, a mother and owner of Honey’s Cafe. “Still, we are not so far removed from the passage of Title IX and the powerful influences of society. “We want our children to know all opportunities are worth exploring, and ‘Pretty Faces’ reinforces that. I want the girls and boys to see it, to get excited, and to get out there and do it.” Sponsors include Red Lodge Mountain, RLACF, Sylvan Peak, Anna Priest, Red Rover Bicycle Collective and many door prize sponsors. In addition to the film an intermission with door

prize opportunities and onstage activities will add to the energy packed evening. Visit unicornpicnic.com to learn more about Dyer and other featured female athletes, including Rachael Burks, Elyse Saugstad, Ingrid Backstrom, Wendy Fisher, Angel Collinson, Nadia Samer and Olympian Devin Logan, who also has spoken in Cody.

About SheJumps

Founded in 2007 by Lynsey Dyer, Vanessa Pierce and Claire Smallwood, SheJumps is a nonprofit dedicated to increasing the participation of females in outdoor activities. SheJumps hosts organized and grassroots programming across the U.S. and in the western provinces of Canada. Now seven years old, SheJumps boasts a following of more than 9,000 people. To learn more about SheJumps programming and partners, or to get involved, check out shejumps.org.

Big mountain skier Lynsey Dyer filmed the all-women ski movie “Pretty Faces.” She lives in Jackson. (WyoFile photo)

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Civil rights films play at Cody library As we creep from the dark of winter toward spring, people can come to the library every other Saturday at 2 p.m. to enjoy the inspiration of award-winning films that cover American history from before the Civil War to the Freedom Rides of the 1960s. Each of the four films identifies courageous Americans who dared to look clearly at the injustice of the racial divide as it played out in politics, economics, marriage and civil rights. A facilitated discussion will follow each movie. “Let’s bring March in like a lion by remembering courageous Americans and thinking together about these moving documentaries,” said Mary Keller, a lecturer in the University of Wyoming’s religious studies department. “Surely we can think as powerfully as the winds that blow.” The Cody library is one of three Wyoming institutions awarded “Created Equal: America’s Civil Rights Struggle,” a set of four films provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The documentaries include “The Abolitionists,” “Slavery by

Another Name,” “The Loving Story” and “Freedom Riders.” Created Equal is intended to serve as a catalyst for discussion. “While our collections provide for study of the American civil rights movement, there is little public discourse regarding its impact and legacy in Wyoming,” said Frances Clymer, director of the Park County Library System. In keeping with the library’s mission to “inspire, enrich and empower” through thought-provoking and diverse programming, scholars have been invited to facilitate public discourse following each film. Screenings will be in Grizzly Hall at 2 p.m. on the following four Saturdays:

•Feb.7 – “The Abolitionists”

This movie chronicles a small group of moral reformers who in the 1830s launched one of the most ambitious social movements imaginable: the immediate emancipation of millions of African Americans held in bondage, at a time when slavery was one of the most powerful economic and political forces in the U.S. Historian Paul Fees, Ph.D., a former curator of the Buffalo Bill Museum, will be the

moderator for this discussion.

•Feb. 21 – “Slavery by Another Name”

Though slavery ended in the South after the Civil War, new forms of forced labor kept thousands of African Americans in bondage until the onset of World War II. This movie is based on the 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winning book of the same title by Douglas Blackmon. Keller will lead the “Slavery by Another Name” conversation.

•March 7 – “The Loving Story”

This is the account of Richard and Mildred Loving, who were arrested in 1958 for violating Virginia’s ban on interracial marriage. Their struggle culminated in a landmark Supreme Court decision, Loving v. Virginia (1967) which overturned antimiscegenation laws in the U.S. Tracey Patton, Ph.D., a professor of African American and Diaspora Studies at the University of Wyoming, will lead “The Loving Story” dialogue. Patton is the author of “Gender, Whiteness, and Power in Rodeo: Breaking Away from the Ties of Sexism and Racism.”

• March 21 – “The Freedom Riders”

The Freedom Rides of 1961 were a pivotal moment in the long civil rights struggle that redefined America. Based on Raymond Arsenault’s recent book, this documentary offers an inside look at the brave band of activists who challenged segregation in the South. The Rev. Warren Murphy, a supporter and contemporary of the Freedom Riders, will be the moderator. As a member of the Southern Student Organizing Committee, Murphy was active in a 1966 voter registration campaign in Virginia. He’s an Episcopal clergyman and author of “On Sacred Ground: A Religious and Spiritual History of Wyoming.” “Freedom riders and other human rights advocates shed a spotlight on the segregationist systems throughout America,” Murphy said. “Their efforts, sometimes at the price of their own lives, helped dismantle those systems.” Created Equal is part of the Bridging Cultures initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities, produced in partnership with the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. For more information visit createdequal.neh.gov.

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In the stars Feb. 8-14 ARIES (March 21-April 19). There are days when making yourself happy is no small feat. You’re doing fine. Keep reinforcing that. Be happy and good flows from and to you. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). The Internet is stalking you, putting up ads for the items you recently viewed, trying to tempt you further to hit that “buy” key. Someone in your life will do the same thing this week. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You don’t have to do what makes other people comfortable all the time, and you know that. This may lead you to make a ruckus. CANCER (June 22-July 22). Instead of wishing and dreaming, this is a good time to put your mind to planning and preparing. That way, when the moment is upon you, you will feel confident and ready. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). This week you have to get your emotional equivalent of an electric guitar out and strum something fierce. Otherwise, the week will roll out with little to remember it by. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Small steps to get organized lead to big leaps in time management. When you have more time, you will be able to get to an activity that makes your heart soar. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You’re a natural diplomat, and you’ll turn the social swirl around you into an opportunity to honor the needs of others and make some money for yourself, too! SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Selfawareness is part of this week’s lesson. You’ll tune in to the image you present to the world and tweak it to make it the way you’d like it to be. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You accept that nothing can stay the same, and yet this week’s changes may seem confusing to you. Your optimism will help – so don’t lose that. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Fight self-effacing tendencies, and let others praise you -- a little ego is terrific for your personal and financial affairs. You can take your reputation to the bank. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). In this week’s situation, you are the receiver of signals. The important thing is to relax and let life unfold before you. Your reaction will make the difference. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Your spirit is much bigger than the various roles you have to stuff it into this week. Rely on your superior instinct, as it won’t steer you wrong, even though it may steer you in seemingly random directions. If you were born this week the floodgates will open to confessions of love, artistic breakthroughs and financial windfalls.

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Feb. 15-21 ARIES (March 21-April 19). Some of the extra stuff you have that you don’t need is taking up real estate that you’re paying for. To feel rich, get into those storage units, closets and garages, and rid yourself of baggage. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). That’s why piles stack up of mail you don’t know what to do with and other printed materials of significance. You’ll get in there and deal with it on Tuesday. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). For most of the week, your goals will organize your life, if only because the pursuit of them will take up so much of it that you won’t have time for superfluous ventures. CANCER (June 22-July 22). It all gets easier when you can compartmentalize. On a material level, this is about having a place for everything. On an emotional level, it’s about organizing memories in a way that points you toward a good life. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). All humans have the same basic needs but different ways of trying to get them met. Use this as your guiding principle, and you’ll be more patient, loving and compassionate. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You think you know what you can do, and then you find out, on a perfectly normal day, that you can do so much more. At the end of the week, you’ll feel like a different person from who you were at the beginning. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). There is no such thing as confidence without work. The confidence that comes before you’ve done the work is borrowed, if not fake. Just know the difference. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Don’t you give your intense focus to the things and people you love the most? You certainly will this week. And the others may notice and want a little more. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You like someone, and someone likes you. This new state of affairs makes you see yourself differently. It bathes all you do in a gorgeous light. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You are wise. You are effective. Believe it, and you’ll eliminate confusion and act decisively this week. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You are so averse to conflict that you may lose on purpose just to get it over with. All in all, you see opportunity in what others might consider to be stressful situations. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). For a worker bee like you, there’s nothing worse than feeling obligated to have some fun. This should help you avoid pointless work and keep you on track with a long-held desire. If you were born this week this year is not about finding the truth; it’s about finding “a” truth and realizing that others have their own and that’s fine, too.

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Apparently I forgot to start the day with a smile. I recently heard this is a good technique to implement – an easy way to start the day in a good way. Put a smile on your face right out of the morning gate and you are sure to feel happier all day. Today, I forgot. They even say it takes more muscles to frown than it does to smile, right? So, why not begin the day with a smile? There are many little tricks we can use to fool ourselves into feeling better. We begin by brainwashing ourselves. For example, if at the end of your day you want to guarantee you accomplish at least one thing then an easy way to do so is to immediately make

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Good way to start your day – smile your bed in the morning. Then, when you peel the covers back to climb in and fall into blissful sleep, you will note the seeds of your efforts and remember the one thing you definitely got done that day and end on a positive note, with a smile But I’m not sure there’s anything we can do about the full moon. That’s one cycle we can’t mess with too much. The moon waxes, it wanes. And with it comes tides of emotion. Back in the day when I worked in the greatest little store Cody ever knew – (you may be fortunate enough to remember it – Scary Mary’s?) – we used to marvel at the “retail therapists” who came out in droves during a full moon. Even in the dead of winter, as long as the moon was near full, we could have an amazing day of shoppers and sales. We never conducted legitimate research. (Shocking, I know. We were quite the scientists working there.) But many

The best way to keep a smile on your face during the long Wyoming winters is to play outside. times we noticed this trend and that was proof enough for us. Retail therapy aside, we make ourselves happy. But man, oh man, sometimes in the dark, cold days of February it can briefly slip out of reach. We are solely responsible for our own, individual happiness. Much as we might like to attribute the lack thereof to someone else – we know we can’t. It’s a moot point. I’ve always contended the best way to keep a smile on your face during the long Wyoming winters is to play outside. If you’re one of those people who sits around inside all day flipping TV channels, it’s going to

be a long, hard haul. And for the most part I think I’m spot on with that analysis. (Once again proving my scientific deductions are not hooey-balooey.) Fresh air, exercise and adventure all contribute to the smile on my winter face, not to mention my healthy body. Circulating fresh air through our lungs when we spend so much time cooped up and shut up indoors recirculating other people’s old air is definitely key to healthy, happy living. So go for a walk, take deep breaths, smile and always make your bed. At least then you will have accomplished that.

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