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Jackson Hole

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October 17, 2012

Inspiring others Meet Jackson Hole Fire/EMS Fire Marshal Kathy Clay, page 3.

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Female firefighters support one another

Candidates provide more choices

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With a quarter of volunteers for Jackson Hole Fire/EMS now women, they say it’s a supportive environment for new recruits. Also read about Kathy Clay, valley fire marshal and the first female in that post statewide. Melissa Turley, Barbara Allen and Claire Fuller all are running for the Teton County Board of Commissioners. With two slots open and one other challenger, incumbent Paul Perry, a woman is guaranteed a seat on the all-male agency. Ninety percent of those who gave birth at St. John’s Medical Center in 2012 breast-fed during their hospital stay, compared with 77 percent nationwide. Jackson Hole Family Planning, Teton County Public Health and Turning Point offer health-related programs to aid low-income women.

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12 Entrepreneur encourages others

After working for nonprofits for 20 years, Susan Eriksen-Meier struck out on her own three years ago, hoping to pay her success forward to others.

14 Women consider people, not just bottom line

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16 Ladies lead most human service groups

Of Teton County’s 10 core human services organizations, eight have women at the helm.

18 Resale therapy

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21 Days of yore were tough

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23 Guest shot: Schlinger deserves legacy

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24 Ladies lead in education

Women are top administrators for Teton County School District, Central Wyoming College’s Jackson Campus and the University of Wyoming’s outreach program.

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26 Voice-over diva

Stage fright and naysayers kept Rose Caiazzo from pursuing her dream of performing in her early 20s. Maturity and a mentor helped her build a career.

29 Outdoor career yields riches

Exum climbing guide and Snow King ski patroller Anneka Door considers herself rich in adventure, even if her seasonal jobs mean a less-than-stable living situation.

30 Civility, compassion, love

After tempers flared during a 2011 visit from abortion protesters, a group called Jackson Hole United joined forces to meet the protestors this spring with grace.

32 Wage gap narrows, but costs confound

Jackson Hole has the smallest wage gap in Wyoming, but women, especially single mothers, are squeezed by the highest cost of living in the state.

35 Looking Back on women

A look into newspaper archives show that valley women have been breaking records and barriers for decades.

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The women of Jackson Hole Fire/EMS at the Teton Interagency Helibase.

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look out for one another A quarter of Jackson Hole Fire/EMS volunteers are female. By Kevin Huelsmann

anet Palermo likes having a locker in the corner of the fire station. When she volunteered at Jackson Hole Fire/ EMS’ downtown station, she was worried about the front door opening onto Pearl Avenue. “They open the door when they get a call,” she said. “I was worried about being naked, standing

there in the street.” Even at the Hoback station, where she’s now based, her locker is tucked back away from the main door. As a female firefighter, it’s the little things you think about, Palermo said. Earrings, bracelets, jewelry, all have to come off before a firefighter dons her gear. On some calls, she’ll be driving to the fire station trying to get out of her work clothes — she works as an accountant for a construction company — so she can dive into her gear as fast as possible when she gets to the station.

“There have been times when I haven’t worn socks in my boots because I’ll have worn high heels or flip-flops to work,” she said. Palermo has been volunteering with Jackson Hole Fire/EMS — it was just the fire department when she joined — for about 16 years. She’s one of a growing number of women who volunteer for the department. In past years, the fire department predominantly was staffed by men, but over the past several decades that has changed. Women now serve in all facets of the department, from volunteers to See WOMEN FIREFIGHTERS on 5

Fire marshal likes to inspire girls

Former snowmobile guide began career as volunteer firefighter in Hoback. By Kevin Huelsmann

athy Clay is the son her father always wanted. Growing up on her family’s farm in Ottawa, Ill. — about 85 miles southwest of Chicago — Clay drove tractors and worked in the fields. As a 12-year-old girl, she was a regular competitor in the town’s Friday night trap shoot. Everyone would gather around at an intersection just outside of town, and the clay pigeons would be launched into big, bright lights, she remembered. “My dad always wanted a son,” she said. As a self-described tomboy, she understood men. That’s the world in which she grew up and the one she continued to navigate as she got older. When she moved to Wyoming, she

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Jackson Hole Fire Marshal Kathy Clay walks around the scene of a house fire in the Cottonwood Creek subdivision last December.

landed a spot as one of the first female snowmobile guides in the area. She didn’t think much of it. The same went for her promotion to Jackson Hole Fire/

EMS fire marshal in November 2011. “Growing up in my dad’s world made it easier for me to understand men,” Clay said.

It wasn’t until she got up in front of a room full of women that she realized she really didn’t know how to talk to them. She was asked to participate as a mentor in the Womentum program and found herself having to learn to get over that fear. “I hadn’t had the opportunity to sit down and talk to a room full of gals,” she said. When she was promoted to fire marshal, Clay didn’t immediately realize that she was the first female to hold that position in Wyoming. Someone mentioned it to her. It piqued her interest — she called around to some fire stations around the state to check on it — but she didn’t dwell on it. She’s more concerned about whether she’s doing a good job. The potential to influence younger girls is, however, appealing. “Someone told me that other girls will see you, and they might not even think about it, but they’ll say, ‘If she can, then I can,’” Clay said. Clay started volunteering with the See FIRE MARSHAL on 4

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Fire prevention and firefighting appeals to Clay for myriad reasons, Continued from 3 she said. It’s challenging and it allows fire department in 2002. At the time, people to help others. “I will never get bored,” Clay said. she was guiding snowmobile tours on Togwotee Pass in the winter, work- “There’s always so much to do. It’s a ing as a cook for a hunting camp and fabulous challenge for a Gemini.” On a more personal level, the job running a small sewing business in offers her a chance to help people at the summer. She heard a speech by President their most vulnerable moments. “You see people in their worst George W. Bush shortly after 9/11 in which he asked citizens to think moments,” she said. “You recognize about how they could volunteer. The how short life is in this occupation. It speech struck a chord with Clay, who makes you relish every minute.” Clay’s path to fire marshal has folstarted evaluating what she was lowed a twisting trajectory. Besides doing to pitch in. “I donate blood, but that’s not real- working as a bartender and snowmobile guide, she’s ly that much,” studied plant she remembers pathology. thinking at the When Clay first time. “I probably left her family’s need to be doing farm in Illinois, more.” she enrolled in Her husband, the University of who she met Arizona. Before while working graduating, she as a snowmobile set off with her guide, already future first husvolunteered with Willard the fire depart– Kathy Clay band, to start ment. Clay said Jackson Hole Fire/EMS Fire Marshal Clay, a photography she was inspired company. by his commit“I got my Mrs. instead of anything ment to the department and decision else,” she said. to volunteer. The couple worked on projects She started training and joined up with the crew at Station 3 in across the country. At first, Clay Hoback. The station was a very worked on the marketing while her macho environment, but her beau, husband made photographs. They were commissioned to do a Mike Trumbower — they’re married but kept separate names so as not book about Jackson, which brought to create confusion when they’re out them to the area for more than a fighting fires — was there to protect month. They ended up working on two books about the region, “Grand Teton: her, Clay said. When she made it through her ini- Citidels of Stone” and “Yellowstone: tial two years of training, she filled in Land of Fire and Ice.” The couple eventually split up, which for the fire inspector when she was on maternity leave. Two years later, she left Clay with a wide-open future. “My gut instinct was to travel somewas hired by the department as a fullwhere beautiful, somewhere I loved time fire inspector. “They were giving me the building and just make it work,” she said. She landed in Jackson and hasn’t blocks to step into that job,” she said, left since. referring to fire marshal.

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hen it comes to breast-feeding, Teton County moms are top of the line. Ninety percent of women who gave birth at St. John’s Medical Center during the 2012 fiscal year exclusively breast-fed during their stay at the hospital. Nationwide, only 77 percent of mothers report having ever breast-fed, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Lactation experts and mothers in the area who breast-feed attribute the phenomenon to the overall health awareness of Jackson Hole residents. “I think that Teton County is a very health-conscious community in general,” said Shawn Adams, a postpartum doula and lactation educator. “With that comes a lot of parents who are really doing their homework and who are hearing the message about all the benefits of breast-feeding.” Mothers agree. “People here are very health-oriented,” Sam Kitchen, a mother of two, said of why many women choose to breast-feed. Kitchen, 41, a marathon runner, breast-fed her children when she was a new mom 10 years ago. She has even nursed both kids at the same time. “I remember one particular race where my daughter was really fussy and Cheerios weren’t doing the job,” she said. The race was a half marathon through country roads in Ashton, Idaho. She was jogging and pushing her 1-year-old daughter in a stroller. “I had to stop halfway through the race and nurse my daughter on the side of the road,” Kitchen said. None of the other participants seemed to care, she said. She also said she never experienced any bad vibes when breast-feeding her babies in public in Jackson Hole. “I never felt any social stigma,” said Kitchen, who lives in Victor, Idaho, but works in Jackson. “Women in Jackson Hole tend to want to do things more natural, and they know the benefits.” Indeed, the health advantages

Janet Wood is a lactation consultant at St. John's Medical Center. “I hopefully empower [women] with more confidence in their ability to breast-feed,” she said.

of breast-feeding are undeniable for infants. Mother’s milk has been proven to reduce the odds of sudden infant death syndrome, childhood obesity, diabetes, infection and some childhood cancers. In Wyoming, 80 percent of mothers report having ever breast-fed. Wyoming has a law, as 28 others do, that exempts breast-feeding from public indecency laws. Mothers are permitted to nurse anywhere they would otherwise be allowed. Across the country, more and more people are acknowledging that nothing nourishes a child better than mother’s milk. But that doesn’t mean breast-feeding is painless. “There’s a misconception that because it’s a natural process, it will be easy,” said Janet Wood, lactation consultant at St. John’s. It’s Wood’s job to help women prepare for and walk through the trials and joys of breast-feeding. “A woman usually has a fantasy of how her labor and delivery will go,” she said. “And she also has a fantasy about what her breast-feeding experience will be like.” While breast pumping can be cumbersome, especially for mothers who return to work shortly after giving birth, it can also be difficult to teach a child how to suck. “The latch is the most troublesome

part of it,” said Adams, who in addition to being a doula and lactation educator owns the Sweet Pea infant care center. “If they don’t latch on properly, it creates friction.” That can be painful and can deter some mothers from exclusively breast-feeding. But infants do come with natural tendencies that help. Wood said babies are born with suck, gag and creep reflexes, all of which help them find their mother’s breast and begin feeding immediately after birth. Within two hours is best, she said. This helps the mother begin lactating and nourishes the child before he or she enters a sleep cycle. It’s also important for the child to learn to open its mouth wide, an action Wood demonstrates to new mothers using a stuffed breast. The wider the child’s mouth opens, the less painful it is for the mother and the more milk the baby is able to suck. St. John’s recommends 21 days of exclusive breast-feeding. After one year, Wood said, a mother can decide on a time that is “mutually agreeable” to wean the child. “The whole physiology of breastfeeding is what is removed is replaced,” Wood said. Other difficulties can arise for women who have had breast surgery, be it augmentation or reduction, or for

Health care professionals and mothers say the best way to interact with someone breast-feeding in public is to not interact at all. While a supportive comment from a complete stranger may seem like a good idea, it’s better not to say anything. “One time someone came by and started petting my baby’s head while the baby was nursing,” said Sam Kitchen, a mother of two who lives in Victor, Idaho. The gesture was not appreciated, she said. Another common gripe is that mothers are sometimes expected to breast-feed in a restroom, rather than in public. “Would you eat in a bathroom? No!” said Janet Wood, a certified lactation consultant and registered nurse at St. John’s Medical Center. • Here are a few more tips from lactation consultants, mothers and husbands: • No stopping and no staring. • If you must converse with a stranger breast-feeding in public, maintain eye contact. • Breasts are utilitarian, not just sexual. • Mothers say they can foster acceptance by being discreet: • A light blanket goes a long way to cover up. • There are clothes with flaps that make access to the breast quick and easy. • Find a quiet corner, but don’t feel like you should go into a bathroom or another unsanitary place to be a out of sight. • Remember that it will take time for some people to get comfortable with breastfeeding in public. those who have had breast cancer. One patient Wood is working with had a portion of her breast removed and is now nursing her newborn. She did not want to give her name but said Wood has been helpful. Rather than take pills to increase lactation, as she had done after a previous pregnancy in a different state, this woman has worked with Wood to increase milk production naturally. In Virginia, where she nursed her first two children, breast-feeding in public was frowned upon, she said. She has found Jackson Hole to be much more accepting. “It’s a breast-feeding-friendly town,” she said “I’m so comfortable here.”

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hen it comes to Jackson Hole women’s fashion, comfort and versatility are key. Drastic changes in temperature as well as social plans necessitate being ready for any sartorial situation. Layering is an important part of that, said Sheri Bickner, co-owner of Flat Creek Crossing, inside Beaver Creek Hat and Leather Company. Temperatures fluctuate 50 degrees some days. “You have to be ready to have any type of weather,” Bickner said. Women may start out taking their kids to school in something comfortable and warm and then segue into attire suitable for work and evening events. Sunglasses are a key accessory. “All of us probably own four pair that we probably invested in,” Bickner said. They also come in handy for early morning duties, like getting kids to school. “You’re not putting your makeup on at 7 o’clock in the morning, so you’ve got to wear shades,” Bickner said, laughing. Her uniform consists of skirts and cowboy boots — she owns seven pairs. “Skirts and boots are easy for girls to get away with in Jackson,” she said. They are appropriate for both a day job and an evening event like cocktails or a nice dinner, Bickner said. For fall, high-low skirts — shorter in the front and longer in the back — are a popular statement, she said. “It’s a new style,” she said. “It’s not like a maxi skirt that came back or bell-bottoms that came back.” Whatever the trend, Jackson women can get

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hen Susan Eriksen-Meier remembers her father, she remembers discussing business with him. Coming up on the first anniversary of his death, she’s glad of the memories. Eriksen-Meier owns and operates Susan Eriksen-Meier Consulting, a Jackson firm focusing on small business and nonprofit clients. She puts together assessments, provides advice on a wide range of topics including finance and management and helps find funding for a clientele largely based in Teton County. She struck out on her own in 2009 after more than 20 years working in the nonprofit world, and, according to her projections, by December she’ll be doing better financially than she did working for someone else. “So many people kept asking me when I would start my own company,” she said. “And I had some just excellent mentors, including my

dad, that really made a huge difference for me.” These days, she said, she hopes to pay her success forward to others — especially women — who are looking to do the same thing she did. One of the more obvious ways she does that is by serving as a board member for Womentum, a Jackson Hole organization that works to empower women. Through Womentoring, women can sign on to give one another the mentoring that Eriksen-Meier said she found so crucial in achieving her own goals. “My personal mentors have been male, but then growing up with my dad and the men who were part of his business, I grew up surrounded by men,” she said. “I think for a lot of women it’s a lot more comfortable talking to other women, and in Jackson there are so many strong women and they’re way more accessible than in other places.” Along with working to connect women in solid mentoring relationships, Eriksen-Meier said she’s turning her consulting skills toward making the process of mentoring more efficient and goal-oriented. She hopes the shift will help both mentor and mentee get more out of See ENTREPRENEUR on 13

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alk about bad timing. After 14 years with a bankaffiliated Raymond James office, Judy Singleton founded her own firm, J Singleton Financial, in 2008, just as the U.S. entered the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. But her job isn’t just crunching numbers and making stock trades. People skills are critical, and that was never truer than during the Great Recession. “We opened our doors on July 1, 2008, and the world fell apart,” said Singleton, a Raymond James Financial Services Inc. investment executive “Not only did we survive, but we thrived, because we were here every day to hold hands and console people.” In those dark days, Singleton tried to put the crisis in historical perspective for clients, laying out the facts on how markets cycle up and down. She stressed that if they could “gut it out” and continue adding to retirement accounts when stock values had plunged, it would be like buying merchandise on sale. “Every cycle comes to an end, no matter how difficult it is,” she told those

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worried folks. It’s hard to quantify the role gender might play in Singleton’s success as an investment executive, but she believes being a woman with a solid track record in a “career job” in a small town means something to other women. Her personal situation does, too, she said. “I’m divorced,” she said. “I support myself.” Male or female, people “feel comfortable calling me if they feel they’re not in an advantageous position,” she said. Working with Singleton are registered sales assistants Robin Evans, Marina Vandenbroeke and Karen Keckley. Singleton didn’t plan for an all-female office, but it’s generally women who apply. Though the administrative aspects might not sound appealing to men, registered sales assistant is a great job, she said. “It’s year-round, and it’s interesting in that the industry is always changing,” Singleton said. “You’re always learning something. … and there’s a lot of people contact. They deal with clients on a daily basis.” The friendly, customer-centered vibe at J Singleton Financial puts people at ease, and being a group of four women is a plus there, too. “Everybody gets a hug and a kiss when they walk in,” she said. “The all-female thing does add a nurturing See SINGLETON on 15

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aspect to it.” Beyond office atmosphere, the nittygritty of financial planning isn’t exactly the same for women as it is for men. Men may be from Mars and women from Venus, but that’s only part of it. “Women are not just from different planets,” Singleton said, “they occupy different places on the [economic] spectrum.” As one example, she said, there’s an earnings gap: Women on average make 75 percent as much as their male counterparts. That difference leads to a retirement gap, because women’s pension incomes tend to be less than men’s, and they not only rely more on Social Security in retirement but get lower benefits. On the expense side, men and women differ as well, Singleton said. Caregiving for elderly or disabled relatives tends to fall on women’s shoulders, as does responsibility for raising children after divorce. And these days, many adult sons and daughters live with their parents. It’s not all bad news, though. Women account for some 47 percent of investors, and are good at making their money grow. Men’s greater propensity to take risks in investing can be an advantage — if they make the right calls. “Women are more patient and more apt to stick to a plan, because they’re not as confident as men,” Singleton said. “That little fear factor actually makes them stick to their plan more often and not be so affected by shortterm performance.” Of course, it’s hard to stick to a plan that doesn’t exist. At J. Singleton Financial, planning starts with conversation. “We are very interested in our clients’ stories,” Singleton said. “People talk to us about every aspect of their life Singleton says women need to chart their own financial destiny and enlist the help of an expert. “We need for women to be proactive, to

Speak up for a raise Requesting a pay increase from your boss might feel uncomfortable, but it beats saying nothing. “Rarely do people get raises if they don’t ask for them,” said Sheila Sandubrae Davis, a therapist in Jackson. New research, she said, shows that women ask for raises about as often as men do but don’t get as much of an increase as the guys. For an effective pay conversation, Davis recommends a “sandwich” approach: Present your case with a soft opening and closing statement, with the “meat” in between. Example: Start with, “I enjoy working for this company and am committed to my job.” Add the meat: “I am asking for an X percent raise because …” Then top it with another slice of soft. “I am thanking you in advance for giving my request your consideration.” Lisa Delaney, an executive with Sotheby’s International Realty, recommends writing down your accomplishments and how they’ve benefited your employer. “You need to illustrate how you have made the company money, improved efficiency, etc.,” she said. “Use specific examples and their positive effect. Don’t be afraid to have notes to refer to.” It’s importrant to speak in a well-thoughtout manner, look and act professional and thank your boss if she has already shown her confidence in you.l Timing matters, too: “One tip is to approach your boss after working hours when he or she is still around in the evening,” she said. “Bosses are usually in a better mood than during the day, and you aren’t interrupting their normal schedule.” And, like Davis, Delaney suggests mentioning that you like what you’re doing. “If you enjoy your job,” she said, “tell your boss!” take charge of their financial health the way we take charge of our physical health,” Singleton said. “We go to doctor to ask for advice on physical health. We also need to go to an advisor to put together a plan.”

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nonprofit workforce but occupy only 18 percent of the top leadership spots. So the most common profile for an American nonprofit is a largely female workforce led by a male director. Deidre Ashley, executive director of the Jackson Hole Community Counseling Center, said the valley has bucked the trend for her entire 12-year tenure on the Human Services Council. “It’s always been that way, really,” she said. “It’s just amazing to me that you have all these women doing all this important work.” Ashley joins Climb Wyoming’s Teton Area head, Sue Mason, Community See HUMAN SERVICES on 17

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Entry Services’ Keverin Burns, the Community Resource Center’s Smokey Rhea, the Latino Resource Center’s Sonia Capece, the Senior Center of Jackson Hole’s Becky Zaist and the Community Safety Network’s Sharel Love to make up the female council membership. Teton Literacy Center’s director, Valley Peters, recently stepped down, and Clare Payne Symmons is serving in the interim. Also on the council are the Curran-Seeley Foundation’s Ed Wigg and Teton Youth and Family Services’ Bruce Burkland. Council members have known one another and worked together in human services for years. While the gender makeup of the organizations may be unusual, more than one member said it doesn’t make a big difference in the way they do their work. “Jackson’s just such a great community, and we’re really close-knit, especially in the human services field,” Burns said. “We recognize people as people, not as much by race or gender.” Also, she said, with the long tradition of female leadership in Jackson Hole human services, most residents — from clients to elected officials — take a woman director as a matter of course. But when those women head out of Jackson Hole, they realize that’s something they shouldn’t take for granted. As an executive director and as an advocate for domestic violence and sexual assault victims, Love goes to Cheyenne on a fairly regular basis. While being a woman hardly registers in her consciousness back home, she said, it can be another story when she is facing members of the 87 percent male Wyoming Legislature. “Here in Jackson, I just don’t think about gender,” Love said. “There’s just so much to do. I think about it when I go to Cheyenne because it’s just so overwhelmingly male, and there I do find myself dealing with it in a way that doesn’t come up when I’m work-

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ing in this community.” When making presentations in Cheyenne, Love said, the Community Safety Network tends to bring male board members forward to cut down on any listeners’ tendency to dismiss victim safety as a “women’s issue.” “Like it or not, people tend to forget we do serve the whole community,” Love said. “And when some male legislators think of something as a women’s issue, they don’t always take it as seriously.” Ashley said she, too, is more conscious of her gender as a potential handicap when her work takes her outside Jackson. “According to the stereotype, women are supposed to be more caring and compassionate,” she said, “and so people, especially men, tend to consider you as doing ‘women’s work,’ and you can feel like they don’t think it’s very important.” That’s a shame, since every woman interviewed said not having to worry about gender meant both the council and her individual organization probably function more smoothly. “We don’t think about ourselves, we think about our clients,” Love said. “Our work is so important that of course we want to do it the best way we can and have people contribute and do what they’re good at. Gender doesn’t enter into that, and it shouldn’t.”

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“The quality in this valley is huge, because there are so many secondhome owners,” she said. “When they sell, we get the whole house, which is a lot of furniture that a designer has brought in from places like Texas and California.” Home Again’s 4,600-square-foot showroom is constantly changing. “It’s amazing how fast things go in and out,” Gute said. “The thing with consignment that is so cool is that the store only works if the community shares in the consignment process, because [locals] are bringing you merchandise and making purchases.” Gute sees consignment shopping as a way of life. “Once you accept you can wear used and buy used, you can’t pay retail prices any more,” she said. Gute likes to shop at Beautiful, Thrifty, Rich and Queenie & Co., two resale clothiers in Jackson. She recently mined a BCBG party dress from Beautiful, Thrifty, Rich. Along with designer dresses, Beautiful, Thrifty, Rich sells cowboy boots — a lot of them, says Caryn Cook, proprietress of the clothing shop. “In the month of July, we moved over 300 used cowboy boots,” she said. “It’s definitely a big part of our business.” Cook’s mother, Tammy Cook, opened Just for Kids a year ago October. “I’m everybody’s grandma now,” See RESALE on 19

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she said. She consigns maternity clothes, which she says have been a big hit in Jackson, along with children’s clothes, shoes, winter outerwear, toys, children’s furniture and bedding. Those searching for the perfect item, but who don’t know exactly what they want until they see it, are drawn to the garage sale-style storefront of Gottahavit, located on North Glenwood. Marilyn

JACKSON HOLE WOMAN, Jackson Hole News&Guide, Wednesday, October 17, 2012 - 19 About 45 percent of Teton County’s poorest female residents are uninsured, according to 2010 data released this summer by the U.S. Census Bureau. The rate pertains to women within 138 percent of the federal poverty line. While this population is at risk, Dr. Brent Blue said many Teton County women with insurance have high deductibles and often can’t afford contraception. “Because we’re an affluent county, people assume that access is taken care of when it’s not,” he said. That’s where Blue’s new nonprofit may make a difference. In June, he founded Jackson Hole Family Planning with the goal of helping women pay for cancer screening and contraceptive care, such as Pap smears, INTRODUCING OUR NEW the insertion of intrauterine devices and initial pregnancy ultrasounds. Public Health has a similar proL I N E F RO M C A K E gram in the works. The Community Foundation of Jackson Hole awarded maternity sleepware, robes it a $3,500 grant to help reduce uninand bras from 32B-42F” tended pregnancies in the county. The department has the go-ahead from the state to begin doling out the • Certified fitter and supplier money to needy women, but Garland for breast prothesis said a few more details must be • Complimentary bra fittings worked out before the program begins. The Patient Protection and • Everyday basic bras to fashion Affordable Care Act could improve forward styles health care for women even more. • Sizes 32-38 A-G & 40-42 B-F “Under the Affordable Care Act, the access is much improved,” Blue said. “Some of this routine care will ELLA’S ROOM, THE PLACE be taken care of.” FOR LINGERIE AND MORE... The law, upheld in June by the sleep and lounge wear U.S. Supreme Court, eliminates coshapewear • robes payments for preventive care. 50% off swimwear That means many insured women massage oils • adult toys with high deductibles can get mammograms and other procedures that previously may have seemed too expensive. Blue said the problem often is that people may not understand the law and how it pertains to them. 50 King Street • Off the Town Square • (307) 733-7114 • www.ellasroomjh.com St. John’s Medical Center is the only health care provider in the area 244362 that does mammograms. The procedure costs about $250. “Early screening is the best detection,” Director of Radiology Michelle ® Kren said. She recommends that women over the age of 40 get screened each year, and said health care reform could help encourage more women to have the procedure done. Michele Dorsey Kristin Painter Hartman’s offerings include furniTina Roberts ture, knickknacks, home accents, Pam Woodson antiques and cowboy hats. Up the street from Gottahavit and just around the corner from the Teton Barbershop is the longest-running consignment shop in Jackson, The Country Woman. A discount rack on the boardwalk lures shoppers into the store that offers Prada 1325 South Highway 89 and Armani. Owner Marji North Eagle Village, Suite 109 at Smith’s opened The Country Woman more www.PilatesPlaceJH.com than 16 years ago. She calls her (307) 732.2292 business recession-proof and a ser-

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Betty Benson is shown here in the spring of 1940, right around the time she got married. The 89-year-old searched around her house for a photograph with her husband and six children before giving up. “We couldn’t afford a camera,” she said. “We didn’t have any money.”

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Decades ago, valley life was tough for everyone. By Mike Koshmrl

y today’s standards, the Jackson Hole woman of yesteryear lived a hardscrabble life. “There was very little class distinction in the early days in Jackson, and everyone was just trying to get by,” said Jean Hansen, the museum manager for the Jackson Hole Historical Society and Museum. Step into the shoes of a woman with children during the 1930s, ’40s or ’50s, and a day might entail hauling water, crafting a dinner out of elk and putting in a shift at your part-time job — all while tending to the young ones. There were ranch women and women who grew up in town, and outdoor activities, by necessity, were a part of life for both groups. “The majority of the women, they worked hard at home, but a lot of them got out hunting and fishing,” Hansen said. Women’s social lives were tied to churches, the dance floor and the ski hill. There was one well-known women’s social club — the Pure Food Club of Jackson Hole — in which women drank, discussed food and nutrition and played card games, Hansen said. Below are profiles of Betty Benson, Minnie Irwin and Kay Benson. Each arrived in Jackson Hole before major changes came to the valley. All three were working mothers for good chunks of their lives. All found themselves, at some point, having to scrape by. Betty Benson Longtime Jackson Hole resident Betty Benson first crested Teton Pass 78 years ago as a seventh-grader.

Minnie Irwin, now 70, clutches a camera. “All of the babies in my family had their picture taken in this chair,” she said.

Kay Benson, with her brother Larry Willard, is shown here as a gradeschooler shortly after arriving in Jackson in 1944.

She was terrified. “I came in the middle of the night in a blizzard,” Benson, 89, said from her dining room table. “My uncle brought us over in a 1934 Chevrolet. It was the old Teton Pass Road, which was just gravel, and there was switchbacks. I was scared to death.” The daughter of a single waitress, Benson grew up on Kelly Avenue. It was a rustic home by today’s standards. “When I first got married, it was the first time I ever had plumbing in my house,” Benson said. Benson eventually had six children with Tom, her high school sweetheart and late husband of 62 years. She held jobs throughout her life, working as a clerk, housekeeping, baby-sitting and ironing on the side of being a busy mother. Although Tom

worked as a mortician, he made just $90 a month. At one point, to make ends meet, the couple bought a hardware store on the square, Benson said. “We both worked day and night for several years before we sold it,” she said. “In those days, you had to do everything just to make a living.” The family of eight kept involved in the community through the Mormon church and went square dancing at the Cowboy Bar for fun. “This is what we did, mostly,” Benson said, gesturing toward about 40 framed arrowhead displays hanging on her living room wall. Another 300 arrowheads, many of which were gathered in the hills outside of Big Piney and Pinedale, sat in boxes in storage. “Life was kind of dull, but to me it was interesting,” she said.

Minnie Irwin Minnie Irwin is walking proof that if you grow up as a cowgirl in the countryside outside of Jackson, the love of the lifestyle sticks with you. “I don’t think I could get on a horse today,” she said with a laugh, “but I’m a cowgirl at heart.” Irwin, 70, was born and raised on a ranch off Sagebrush Drive past where Teton Shadows sits today. Her family’s history in the valley dates back even further. “As far as settlers in Jackson, my grandmother was the first white girl raised in the valley,” she said. Irwin glows when talking about growing up in the ’40s and ’50s, which made for an idyllic though often tough existence. “Any water that we had had to be packed in,” she said. “We didn’t have any running hot water — or cold water. ... It was in the early ’50s that Lower Valley finally put electric in.” When school was in session, Irwin lived in Jackson with relatives on weeknights. “During the week, I would come to town on Sunday night riding the saddle horse,” she said. “I’d spend all week until Friday night. Then Daddy would come pick me up.” After finishing high school, Irwin hit the road, not returning to Jackson until 1977. At that time, she was struggling to pay the bills. “I came home with two babies making $225 a month, and my mother had to pay the rent,” Irwin said. “It was pretty grim.” She found a good job the next year as an accounting technician at the Bridger-Teton National Forest that she stuck with for 17 years. Irwin still works part-time as a cleaning lady. See HARDSHIP on 28

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Librarian’s impact felt through generations The following was written to honor supervisor, team leader and president longtime children’s librarian Debbie of the Wyoming Library Association. It Schlinger, who retired in August — Ed. took incredible organization, leadership iteracy is one skill we all take for and poise to do all she did. Debbie’s diplomacy was always singranted. As adults, it is the lifeline to our success and how we cere and professional. In this way, I am fit into our world. As children, it is a so privileged to have been one of those window into future opportunities, but young women mentored by her. She set it starts as a spark, a curiosity that the example that it is good to do what you love and say what you feel. This is propels us into a land far away. For many of us, this spark started my professional reality check every day. I work in a library system in New in our kids with visits to Teton County Library, where children’s librarian York’s Lower Hudson River Valley. Debbie Schlinger made future readers Each day, I bring something from my experience from working giggle and shout during her with Debbie, particularly unforgettable and someher belief in collaborating times rambunctious story with schools. She undertimes. Elementary students Sheri Levasseur stood that the job of creanxiously waited to see ating lifelong learners what kind of crazy costume she would show up in to promote the extended beyond the public library. Most of all, Debbie inspired all of us year’s summer reading program at her who worked under her to not lose sight renowned school visits. To kids, Debbie’s unpredictable sil- of the books. I have never known anyliness was refreshing in a world of dos one who simply loves books as much and don’ts. Many parents share with as she. No matter how busy her schedtheir little ones their fond memories of ule, she always made time to read and how they also went to Debbie’s story somehow always knew just what to recommend to those little learners. times when they were children. Debbie Schlinger is one of the Teton Many of us who had the privilege to work under Debbie were inspired County legacies that will be rememby her to get our Master of Library bered by many. The library won’t feel Science degrees. The Jackson Hole the same without her. I know Jackson High School and Colter Elementary Hole will somehow figure out how to media specialists and the Wilson, Alta, continue to tap into her greatness. When you see Debbie, thank her Kelly and Moran school librarians all began their library careers working for 23 years of service. If it were up to under Debbie at the county library. me, the beautiful new children’s wing Her enthusiasm for reading, books would be named after her. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– and programming was contagious. Debbie was an incredible mentor Sheri Levasseur, of Tappan, N.Y., and role model not only as a children’s worked at Teton County Library from librarian, but also as a department 1998 to 2005.

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Pam Shea, Teton County School District No. 1 superintendent Although Pam Shea didn’t initially focus on education as a career path, it eventually became her passion. Shea primarily studied biology and environmental science at University of California, Santa Cruz, and minored in education. After graduating, she began teaching public school students about research projects conducted at the university. That’s where her interest in teaching developed, she said. From the classroom to the boardroom, Shea has done it all in her more than 30 years in education. She has been a substitute teacher, a classroom teacher, a principal and now a superintendent. “For the most part I have always

enjoyed solving problems and that certainly is an impact of being an administrator,” Shea said. She came to Jackson after college and began substitute teaching in 1979. In 1981, she started teaching at the old intermediate school and then was awarded a Danforth scholarship from the University of Wyoming to study in its educational leadership program. She was principal at Jackson Hole Middle School and at Wilson, Alta, Kelly and Moran elementary schools before becoming superintendent in 2004. As superintendent, Shea is focused on continuous improvement for the district through the use of scientific research. Learning styles are evolving with technology, she said. “There’s a distinct difference in the way our youth learn today than when I started back in 1979,” Shea said. “It provides challenges to an organization ... to best change in meeting the needs of our youth.” As an administrator, she hopes to be a role model not only for girls but all students. “Most of us grew up with female teachers and male principals and superintendents,” she said. She encourages students to know “that there may not be as many barriers as they think there may be.” Also, matching passion with a career path is rewarding. That “leads to a really fulfilling life,” she said. “That is what I want for our 2,400 students.” Susan Thulin, director of Central Wyoming College, Jackson Campus For Susan Thulin, being in education has everything to do with people. “It’s not just the students,” Thulin See ADMINISTRATORS on 25

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said. “It’s the people I work with, community members, government representatives, the school district, talking about different ways we can collaborate.” Thulin began her career in education through art, she said. A painter and fine artist with a background in history and a master’s in business administration, she ran the Art Association of Jackson Hole when she first came to Jackson in the late 1980s. “They had actually stopped doing educational programs for a while, and that was the first thing I started to address,” she said. “Opening the doors to people through education broadens their opportunities, broadens their minds.” After managing the association for several years, she taught art classes for the nonprofit organization and at Central Wyoming College before leading the college’s Jackson office. In the office, she works with students and prospective students, helping them to identify their interests and how they can integrate education with family and job responsibilities, Thulin said. Wyoming has one university and seven community colleges, with outreach centers in counties throughout the state. The Jackson campus has 15 adjunct professors who teach a semester, three full-time professors and classes that are offered through the Internet. The college also offers dual enrollment courses to high school seniors. “Last year, we worked with 265 students that were getting college credit at the same time as being a high school student,” she said. “Then, on the other end, we work with a lot of students preparing to transfer to University of Wyoming.” There are also programs to help students do better in the work world. “The idea of helping people pursue what their passions are and have the abilities and capabilities to do it is so very important,” Thulin said. She gets to do that frequently. Students come into her office to let her know she is helping them achieve their dreams. Like the nursing student who didn’t have the support from his family or the single mom getting an associate’s degree while working multiple jobs. “Those things mean a lot,” Thulin said. “That’s a good day for me.” Syd Elliot, University of Wyoming Outreach School Schooling is in Syd Elliott’s blood. “From the time I was little, I wanted to be a teacher,” she said.

JACKSON HOLE WOMAN, Jackson Hole News&Guide, Wednesday, October 17, 2012 - 25 She comes from a long line of instructors and has created her own family of educators. Her husband is a retired OPEN school administrator, and one of their HOUSE sons teaches at Colter Elementary. 10/21 “We still have conversations about where general education is going,” | she said. At University of Wyoming Outreach School in Jackson, she helps people get higher education. Students can transfer from Central Wyoming College to complete their four-year degrees through the university outreach office, she said. The office “allows people the ability to be here and to move forward.” Elliott went to University of California, Santa Cruz, and University of California, Los Angeles, for her degrees. She taught in Jackson pub• Dynamic Cycling, Indo-Row® and ShockWave classes available 7 days a week lic schools and held other educational with great music, a friendly vibe, all taught by Schwinn Performance and positions before she joining University Indo-Row® certified instructors of Wyoming Outreach 15 years ago. For her, the profession is “feel-good.” “It makes you feel so good inside • Schwinn MPower Consoles and Indo-Row® Water Rowers provide motivation when you can help somebody who with consoles using speed, distance, calories and more doesn’t know what direction to turn, doesn’t know what the options • Celebrated as a cross-training regime by cyclists, skiers, runners, climbers, or opportunities are,” she said. yogis, swimmers or any fitness enthusiast, Indo-Row® provides the perfect “Education gives everybody the abilbalance for your sport ity to live to their full potential if possible. ... It’s important everyone has an opportunity whether they choose to use it or not.” Education helps all people follow their dreams — especially women. Schedule and Reservations available at: revolutionindoorcyling.com Elliott’s “generation helped change the perception of what women are Movie Works Plaza | 870 South Highway 89, Suite A | 307.413.0441 | julie@revolutionindoorcyclin. 244259 capable of doing,” she said. “Today it has nothing to do with the gender you have. People now look at your qualifications and judge you on who you are and your background and not necessarily what you are.” She sees all types of students in Jackson pursuing different levels of education. “I had one woman who was 53, and she just wanted her degree,” Elliott said. “It was that simple. So we found the best path for her, that worked for her, and she graduated.” That made her feel good, she said. “It’s helping somebody else achieve goals, not just mine,” Elliott said. She wants people to realize there are educational opportunities in Teton County. “They shouldn’t feel like they are community-bound and can’t move forward,” she said. “There are opportunities for people to explore and use their minds to learn and investigate and continue the importance of education no matter what area,” she said.

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in the hamburger stand during most of my time in high school.” Free time was redeeming, however, as Benson spent almost all of it during winter at Snow King. “I grew up on the ski hill,” she said. “We skied every day. When the chairlift went in, I thought we died and went to heaven.” In 1950, Benson peeled off for college then got married to Ted, an Army man. The growing family, which eventually reached six, spent 25 years “roaming around the world.” “We followed him every step of the way,” Benson said, “except they wouldn’t let me go to Vietnam and Korea.” Even with the itinerant lifestyle, the Bensons always had a strong tie to Jackson Hole. “This was always home,” she said. “We’d come here for a month each year on his leave and fished, enjoyed the country and visited our families. “I feel privileged to have lived here early on, when it was a quiet little ranch town in winter,” Benson said. just three days a week, her dedication has not wavered. From the original tiny space, the market moved to the space just south of the new Maverik. A few years ago, the market was able to move to the back of Movieworks Plaza next to Twigs. Off the highway and adjacent to a beautiful gardening and nursery business, it’s a good match. Her large flock of shoppers is appreciative. They jump at the opportunity to have fresh regional produce anytime it’s available. The market is open Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and she works a booth at the Town Square Farmers Market on Saturday mornings. Bergien still works with some of the farmers on that list she bought, like Patterson and the Neilson farm in Brigham City, Utah, who all became like family. There are about 40 farmers as suppliers on the list. Bergien’s truck and trailer log 500 miles a week. Most weeks, a truck from arriving from Oregon and Washington meets at a rendezvous point in Utah. Farmers from Idaho Falls, Riverton, Rigby and Ririe, Idaho, bring fresh produce to Jackson now. Bergien’s philosophy stands fast. “It’s important to be decent to people,” she said. “At the end of the day, I love what I do. I work outside. I love my customers. It’s the giving part of it that’s important to me. I still deliver to a few chefs. At the Snake River Grill, there’s Sloane’s Berry Pie. I bring people food.” Her leftovers are donated to the Senior Center of Jackson Hole, Red Top Meadows and, when appropriate, the Jackson Hole Cupboard. Bergien is on the board of the Jackson Hole Farmers Market on the Town Square and the Wyoming Farmers’ Market Association of Wyoming. She has taken a Market Managers’ Certification Class for safe practices and conflict resolution. She takes pride that Wyoming now has 48 farmers markets and looks for ways to grow the possibilities of local agriculture.

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hen Operation Save America came to Jackson in 2011 and waved giant signs featuring photos of mutilated fetuses, people got angry, counter-protested and used that universal hand signal for “buzz off.” One man even drove his car over a curb to hit an ugly sign. This spring’s response to the hate group couldn’t have been more different. Valley residents on both sides of the abortion issue banded together to avoid knee-jerk and negative reactions. They held posterboard arrows directing people to detour around the nasty signs. Some even handed out bottled water and baked goods to the visiting protestors. Credit for the remarkable change of heart goes to a group called Jackson Hole United. Organized less than a month before OSA was set to arrive, Jackson Hole United gathered more than 2,000 members on Facebook in its first week. Core members created a simple slogan — “Civility, Compassion, Love” — and printed thousands of blue signs. Volunteers

taped the signs inside their cars and on their bicycles. They posted them on their lawns and in the windows of their businesses. Organizers ordered 500 blue T-shirts with the slogan on them and sold most of them. All of that was accomplished in a short time, mostly by women, with little arguing. Jackson Hole United’s founder, St. John’s Episcopal Church Assistant Priest Mary Erickson, said she was motivated to form the group after a visit with a friend who said that combating hate with hate was a recipe for disaster. After the Jackson Town Council approved OSA’s request to put an 80-by-10-foot billboard on Town Square, chatter on Facebook became increasingly angry, Erickson said. “We needed to figure out what to do with the anger and not run them over in our cars,” Erickson said. “People wanted a different way to respond.” Although many members of Jackson Hole United are opposed to abortion, all members of the group disagreed with OSA’s gruesome signs, Erickson said, and the Jackson Hole group felt it needed to give residents and visitors the option to avoid seeing them. Most people were worried about the effects the images could have on children, Erickson said, especially since OSA planned to See UNITED on 31

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demonstrate near schools. “The mama bear in all of us came out to protect the children,” Erickson said. Jackson Hole United member Kelly Egan, who says she is very conservative, was impressed by the diversity of the group and the lack of bickering among its members. “This group had no ego,” Egan said. “The goal was the goal. No one was jockeying for credit or leadership. Sometimes women are not kind to one another. This could not have been more the opposite.”

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Erickson agreed. “I had never been in a group where there was so little conflict,” Erickson said. “There was no one-upmanship, no competition. We made decisions together. We were really just focused on getting things done in a very short period of time. I’ve never been in a group where that happened so easily.” A core group of about a dozen leaders formed during the first week or two of Jackson Hole United’s creation. Dozens more members attended every meeting and answered requests for help. Erickson was floored by the number of people who offered their skills and showed up on street corners to help.

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omen in Teton County are more likely than those in other parts of the state to earn the same as men, but a gender wage disparity remains even here. Moreover, Teton County’s cost of living is the highest in Wyomng. It is 32 percent higher than the statewide average, according the Wyoming Cost of Living Index for the second quarter of 2012, released in early October by the Economic Analysis Division. That makes it challenging for working women in Jackson Hole, particularly single mothers, to be self-sufficient. As the 50th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act approaches, the data show that “Wyoming is doing something incredibly right and incredibly wrong when it comes to equal pay,” said Patricia McMahon of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Wyoming has the best reputation for equal pay for women with a bachelor’s degree or higher but is the worst in the nation for women without a higher education. Working women in the “Equality State” ages 16 and older at all education levels earn 65 cents for every dollar earned by men. But when the median earnings of college-educated females 25 and older with full-time, year-round employment are looked at, Wyoming women earn 88 cents

on the dollar, well above the national average of 77 cents for every dollar earned by men. As of the 2010 census, Teton County females numbered 10,103 out of the total population of 21,294. In Teton County, women earn 78 cents for every dollar earned by men, the best in Wyoming, according to the Wyoming Women’s Foundation’s “The Economic Status of Wyoming’s Working Women,” published in 2011. The report shows Teton County women’s median earnings are $28,797, while men’s are $36,904. For both genders, the report said, the median wages in Teton County are among the best in the state. In Teton County, the primary wageearning industries are food service, accommodations and tourism, which contributes to the smaller difference between men’s and women’s pay. In other parts of the state, typically male-dominated industries that offer higher pay and more hours, such as construction, natural gas and mining, widen the gender wage gap, said Tony Glover, workforce information supervisor for the Wyoming Department of Workforce Services. “Interestingly, when the economy contracts, as it did it 2009,” he said, “the gender wage gap narrowed as males lost the higher-paying jobs in mineral resources.” However, Teton County’s servicedominated industry poses a challenge to women for earning their fair share, as service staff often is made up of tipped employees: waiters, housekeepers, caterers, bartenders — anyone who customarily and See WAGE GAP on 33

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regularly receives more than $30 a month in tips, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. Wyoming’s minimum wage for tipped employees is only $2.13 an hour with a “tip offset” of $5.15 an hour. Tipped employees “earn very little and are expected to gain their minimum wage equivalent through tips, and there is not a guarantee,” said RC Johnson, state president of the American Association of University Women, Wyoming Branch. The association works to address policies and practices that underlie unequal pay. According to the Wyoming Women’s Foundation report, ways to address the wage gap include “increasing minimum wage and tipped offsets for wait staff as well as increasing wages and opportunities in health care, education and leisure, where almost half of all Wyoming’s working women are employed.” Though Teton County women earn the best median wages in the state, the higher cost drives many to work more than one job. Median earnings in the county are not sufficient to meet the basic family needs of a single mother’s household. The Self-Sufficiency Standard and Personal Calculator available through Wyoming Workforce Services (WyomingWorkforce.org) shows that a household of one adult with an infant and a preschooler needs to earn $63,127.29 annually in Teton County just to meet basic needs, including housing, child care, food, transportation and health care. In Fremont County, the same household requires $25,716.39. the same as a single Teton County adult with no children. The calculator makes it apparent that single women with children are at a disadvantage in Jackson Hole because it’s more expensive to live here. Climb Wyoming, which has an office in Jackson, is a nonprofit that

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Newcomb immediately recognized in her the characteristics of a mountain guide. “We ran into her and a partner,” he said, “and it was very clear she wasn’t just tagging along. She was sharing equally in the decision-making and leading. It was clear she was really keen to mountaineer and eager to learn.” Door expressed an interest in guiding, so the next summer Newcomb hired her as an intern for Exum. “I admired her persistence in getting a college degree,” he said. “We value guides who have a range of interests.” Door soon joined the Exum ranks as a full-time guide. “There are not nearly as many female guides,” Door said, “but we are treated pretty equal. Exum is a really big family. They really have become my family.” In 2010, Door was living on Guides Hill, a group of cabins near Lupine Meadows reserved for mountain guides. One afternoon in July, having been turned back from a climbing trip on her day off by dark clouds, Door was sitting in her cabin sipping tea when she heard the sound of the rescue helicopter landing outside. Learning that a large group of climbers was stuck in a lightning storm at the top of the Grand Teton, Door volunteered to help the Jenny Lake rangers with the rescue. She changed into a flight suit, hopped into the A-Star and headed to the Lower Saddle to help. Flying into the ominous clouds was “a little scary,” she said. “I’ve definitely had my own risky situations in the mountains, but nothing like that.” After helping to load a pair of injured climbers into the helicopter, Door and fellow Exum guides Brenton Reagan and Dan Corn raced up the mountain from the Lower Saddle to help more climbers down.

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At the Briggs slab, they encountered a group of seven. “They were relatively mobile but definitely shocked from having seen their buddy get struck by lightning and fall into Valhalla Canyon,” Door said. She and her fellow guides helped the climbers down to the Exum hut on the lower saddle. A second storm moved in, preventing the group from being evacuated for another hour, so the guides helped give medical attention to the injured climbers. Last March, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar commended Door, Reagan and Corn for their brave volunteerism. The Citizens Award for Bravery is bestowed on “private citizens for heroic acts or unusual bravery in the face of danger.” Of course this isn’t surprising for a person who said she loves being a ski patroller at Snow King because she gets to throw bombs and help people out. “Generally one of the best jobs I’ve ever had,” she said. Door thinks being a woman could be an advantage for finding these jobs, because fewer women are competing for them. “Jackson Hole is a perfect playground and a perfect place,” she said. The only drawback Door sees is the instability of seasonal work. She has moved an average of four times a year since moving to Jackson, and at times she has lived in her car and “some real dives.” She might return to school one day, perhaps for her nursing degree. “It can be a little tough to find stability or security in this lifestyle,” she said, “but wealth is measured in time, not money.” Door spoke shortly before departing for a whitewater dory excursion through the Grand Canyon. It was her sixth river trip of the year, and each was at least a week long. By her own standard, Door is a rich woman.

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National Business Women’s Week, Oct. 15-21, was proclaimed by mayor Dean K. Bark. ... Dallas Dunlap, 16, daughter of John and Sue Dunlap, was chosen to compete with the U.S. Alpine Ski Team. ... Jackson-Wilson High School elected senior Karen Budge homecoming queen. Jane Feuz, Kerry Lamb and Julie Cheney served as attendants. ... Karen Budge also took third in women’s slalom, third in women’s combined and ninth in giant slalom for the U.S. Ski Team in the Winter Olympics in France. ... Officers were elected for the newly organized Soroptimist Club. Winona Flower was selected as president, Clarene Meadows, vice president, Emmalyn Payne, second vice president, Marguerite Anderson, secretary, and Jean Stewart, treasurer. ... Mountaineer Paul Petzoldt chose Mrs. Robert Hellyer of Lander to be part of his 12-person party to scale the Grand Teton in midwinter.

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Four people answered the Jackson Hole News’ weekly question: “Why do you think the Equal Rights Amendment failed to be ratified by Congress?” Sheila Langlois said: “If you were a man would you give any of it away? I’m in the art business; I’m not going to give any of my art away.” Carol H. Gonnella, an attorney, said: “Because many people confused the real meaning of the amendment with issues it wasn’t addressing, such as sexual preference or the draft. Its single concept concerning discrimination between a woman and a man was lost.” Holly Danner, a newscaster, said: “It failed because of a lot of stilted, old-fashioned ideas on the part of legislators — keep ’em barefoot and pregnant, that stuff. The general public supported it, and that indicates that a lot of legislators were not representing their constituents.” The only man to answer,

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