Tribfallhomeimprovement by Powell Tribune

Supplement to the Powell Tribune ■ Thursday, October 19, 2017

A barn-style residence, with shop space on the main floor and a studio apartment on top, was built with insulated concrete forms (ICFs) and then covered with an antiqued metal and wood covering. The barn residence is functional, secure and comfortable as well as looking great. Tribune photos by Mark Davis

WITHSTANDING THE WIND

BUILDING TECHNIQUE GIVES A SECURE FEELING

stand up to the wind. The father/son team has been building with ICF systems since hen Mike Specht de- 1999, completing more than a cided to build in the dozen projects in the Clark area Clark area he learned and several other homes and a quick lesson about the wind businesses throughout the Big Horn Basin and when his pole barn southern Montana. was toppled. While Specht “The shop blew ‘We’re building has a few finishing away down to the to last for touches left, he’s concrete slab,” already sold on Specht said. generations. the quality of the Wind is known There’s a lot of build. to be hurricane “It gives you a pride knowing force as it pours safe and secure over and through you’ve done feeling,” Specht the Beartooth something right.’ said. mountain range, The use of ICF reaching speeds of Brian Lovell construction is 120 mph — enough Builder popular in Florida, to crumple steel, tornado alley reruin roads and test gions and especially in Canada, every joint in area homes. Looking for a secure con- where extreme weather rules struction concept and peace of residents’ lifestyles, Specht mind, Specht spent three years said. A secure feeling is priceless, talking to several builders. Then he met with Charlie and Brian but many have the misconcepLovell, local builders from tion of concrete construction Clark, and learned what several as being fine for business, but in the area already knew. If you lacking in the comfort expected want strong and efficient, insuSee Builders, Page 2 lated concrete forms (ICF) can BY MARK DAVIS Tribune Staff Writer

The great room in a ICF constructed home includes a large insulated garage door, that when opened, allows the outside world to be included in the living experience.

A studio apartment above the workshop in a ICF built barn-style residence offers plenty of space and luxurious living as well as a deck overlooking the Clark’s Fork of the Yellowstone River (at left).

Habitat building new home SEE PAGE 5

A new house closer to family SEE PAGE 9

Rebuilding after a hurricane SEE PAGE 13

PAGE 2 • POWELL TRIBUNE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2017

FALL HOME IMPROVEMENT

REMINDER!

POWELL VALLEY RECYCLING CAN ONLY ACCEPT PLASTICS #1 & 2

METAL RECYCLING: We’ll take extra steel siding, copper tubing ... even your old lawn mower!

We’re a non-profit organization

Every donation helps the cause!

Donate your excess metals to Powell Valley Recycling when cleaning up the garage or storage unit.

POWELL VALLEY RECYCLING CENTER 946 Road 10 - Powell • 307-754-9773

HOURS: Monday, Wednesday and Friday 10am-5pm

For all your title insurance and real estate closing needs The Lichtendahl home, built with ICF construction and tucked in the foothills of the Beartooth Mountain range near Clark, fits in well with the environment. ‘We want to be a part of nature, not apart,’ Ken Lichtendahl said. Tribune photos by Mark Davis

Builders: Insulated concrete forms ‘go together like Legos’ or plants. Another customer with the environment, but is wanted the traditional look of quick to point the efficiency of a barn, but the strength and ef- the home. in a home. That misconception “It’s a passive solar system,” ficiency of concrete. Unless you is dispelled the minute you see look closely, you don’t know it Lichtendahl said. “And it’s rethe variety of styles that can be verse in the cold.” was built with ICF. easily achieved with ICF conLovell Construction, LLC., The wide concrete walls, struction. has used several ICF products with more than 5 inches of inover the years, but for the last sulation, keep the heat and cool eight years they have only used in when needed, depending on Fox Blocks. The high insulation the season. And once you step values (R22), ease of use and in the house, the construction the variety of building styles makes for a quiet setting unavailable sold them on the less you open the doors and product. windows. “They go together like “ICF construction is a little Legos,” said Brian Lovell, part- more expensive to build, but the ner in the business. efficiency and strength more The outer insulation, for both than make up for the upfront inside and out, is connected by costs through the years,” Lovell framing perfect for the use of said. rebar to strengthen the conDriving through the bacrete. The prodsin, Lovell gets uct goes together a great sense of quickly and has satisfaction seebuilt-in studs, ‘The forms are so ing what he and perfect for attach- versatile, you can his father have ing a wide variety built. While they of interior and have any kind of do many types of surfaces. corners you want, construction jobs, Carpet Wood exterior “I’d love to nothing pleases as low as as low as build a tower even round.’ him more than $ 99 some day. The Brian Lovell seeing his ICF forms are so verprojects. Builder sq. ft. sq. ft. satile, you can “We’re buildhave any kind of ing to last for gencorners you want, even round,” erations. There’s a lot of pride Lovell said. knowing you’ve done something Many customers choose a right,” he said. stucco finish, the least expen“It’s the only way to build Laminate sive, low maintenance option. anymore,” Charlie Lovell said. Building a family business as low as The look was perfect for Ken and Kathy Lichtendahl, who doesn’t work for everyone, but $ 99 were the area’s first to use ICF the Lovell’s make it look easy. sq. ft. materials for their home in the Brian Lovell, co-owner of Lovell Construction, LLC., shows off “Working with my son is a an insulated concrete form made by Fox Blocks at the Lovell hills near Hail Stone Basin. Ken gift from God,” the patriarch of Construction warehouse in Clark. loves the way the home fits in the family said.

on cash & carry items

Coupon good for flooring items only. Limit one coupon per customer. Cannot be combined with any other coupon, discount or promotion. See store for details. Coupon valid from 10/01/13 - 10/31/13.

46834

15%

s g n Savient Fall

Carpet as low as

Wood as low as

79¢ Carpet Carpet sq. ft. as lowasaslow as

3sq. ft.Woo Wood as lowasaslow Hurry In! $

79¢ 79¢ Carpet Carpet

99$ 3 3 WoodWoo

as lowasaslow as

Laminate $ 99$ 9 3 3sq.as as low ft. sq

sq. ft.

Tile 798 99¢

Reclining Sofa low $as with Drop Downas Table...

as lowasaslow

79¢79¢ sq. ft.

Prices Valid 10/01/13 - 10/31/13 sq. ft.

sq. ft. sq. ft.

*On approved credit, see store for details. DURABLEND® upholstery products feature a seating area made up of a combination of Polyurethane and/or PVC, Polycotton, and at least 17% Leather Shavings with a skillfully matched combination of Polycotton and Polyurethane and/or PVC everywhere else. Although every precaution is taken, errors in prices and/or specifications may occur in print. We reserve the right to correct any such errors. May not be used with any other promotion. Some special items may not be on display but are available via our special order program. See store for details. ©2013 Banner Marketing. All rights reserved.

sq. ft.

www.haskellfurniture.net

99¢

Scan this code with your smartphone to visit our website at

Vinyl as low as

465 Nevada Ave. Lovell, WY 82431

Save an additional

HASKELL FURNITURE & FLOORING

Although it looks like traditional construction, the Specht home near Clark is built with insulated concrete forms by Lovell Construction, complete with a large, field stone fireplace.

Please call 307-587-2261 or 307-754-2261 In Powell: 143 South Bent Street, Suite D In Cody: 1002 13th Street

Banner retail

prsrt std u.s. postage

79¢

paid

Specht wanted the warmth of wood, both inside and out. The application was easy and the only way to know the house is ICF construction are the wide window sills — which are perfect for knickknacks, pictures

Continued from Page 1

$ 99

Lamina Laminate sq. ft. as lowasaslow

1sq.Lamina 1 Laminate ft. sq as lowasaslow LookLVT Inside for more savings! $ Vinyl 99$ 9

Matching Reclining Loveseat with Console...

$ 99$

74888

Also availableSQ. Matching FT. Swivel Rocker Recliner...

Luxury Vinyl Tile

44888

1 as 1 as low

12 $Months 99¢ 149 No Interest * Financing OAC Vinyl Vin

STARTING AT

sq. ft.

SQ. FT.

sq. ft.

12 MONTHS

On as lowasas low approved credit 99¢ 99 NO INTEREST FINANCING Vinyl Vin sq. ft. sq as lowasas low Save an “Better than Billings pricing on cash & everyday!”

15%

additional Lovell 548-2269

99¢99

Worland 347-6548 carry items We're O nline! w w w.haskellfurniture.net • FREE deliver y available Cody 527-5990

Coupon good for flooring items only. Limit one coupon per customer. Cannot be combined with any sq. ft. other coupon, discount or promotion. See store for details. Coupon valid from 10/01/13 - 10/31/13.

15% 15% 15% 15%

SaveSave an an additional additional

on cash & on cash carrycarry itemsite

Coupon good Coupon for flooring items only. Limit oneonly. coupon customer. Cannot be combined any good for flooring items Limitper one coupon per customer. Cannotwith be combined with other coupon,other discount or promotion. See store for details. Coupon valid from 10/01/13 - 10/31/13. coupon, discount or promotion. See store for details. Coupon valid from 10/01/13 - 10/31

SaveSave an an additional additional

on cash & on cash carrycarry itemsite

Coupon good for flooring items only. Limit oneonly. coupon customer. Cannot be combined any Coupon good for flooring items Limitperone coupon per customer. Cannotwith be combined with other coupon, other discount or promotion. Seepromotion. store for details. Coupon valid from 10/01/13 - 10/31/13. coupon, discount or See store for details. Coupon valid from 10/01/13 - 10/31

– INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH –

Insulating Concrete Forms

(ICF)

FOUNDATIONS, BASEMENTS, OR WHOLE HOUSE CONSTRUCTION WITH 18 YEARS EXPERIENCE

LOVELL CONSTRUCTION LLC … BRIAN LOVELL … 307-202-3298 … FACEBOOK.COM/LOVELLCONSTRUCTION

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2017 POWELL TRIBUNE • PAGE 3

FALL HOME IMPROVEMENT

Permits show roofs continue to be the most popular project Building in Powell has stayed steady over the past year. A dozen new homes were built in the city between July 2016 and June 2017. That’s just slightly lower than a year ago, when 14 new homes were built. The valuation of new homes in Powell totaled nearly $1.9 million, which is almost identical to what it was in 2014-15, which also saw 12 new homes. With two fewer homes built in Powell during 2016-17, the valuation of the new construction was down by about 20 percent from 2015-16. The City of Powell issued 306 building permits in 2016-17, with the valuation at nearly $6.3 million. Building projects ranged

NEW CONSTRUCTION REMODELING REPAIRS

BUILDING PERMITS

from fences to siding to garages. Roofs continue to be the most popular project in Powell; last year, the City of Powell issued permits for 80 new roofs, up from 72 the previous year. More city residents decided

to build new patios at their homes last year. The city issued a dozen permits for patios and covers in 2016-17 — compared to just five the previous year. Pools and spas remain unpopular in Powell, as no per-

FISCAL YEAR 2014-2015

# Permits

New residential Single family homes Duplex 3 and 4 family apartment buildings 5 or more family apartment buildings New non-residential Churches and religious buildings Industrial buildings Office, bank, professional buildings Schools and educational buildings Commercial buildings (retail/sale) Other buildings Residential additions and alterations Residential garages Roofs Fences Siding Non-residential additions and alterations Commercial and industrial buildings Office and professional buildings Other Permits, inspections and collections Electrical Plumbing/Mechanical Water/Sewer Taps Signs Misc. Permits Annual totals Includes all projects requiring a building permit, not just the projects listed here.

Want to make MONEY with

digital media?

VISIT OUR WEBSITE TO LEARN HOW! WWW.DOTGAINDIGITAL.COM

307-899-7334

$ Valuation

mits have been issued for pools in recent years. While there were fewer plumbing/mechanical permits issued last year, the value of those projects actually increased by about $153,000.

FISCAL YEAR 2015-2016

# Permits

$ Valuation

FISCAL YEAR 2016-2017 # Permits

$ Valuation

12 0 0 0

$1,852,500 $0 $0 $0

14 3 0 0

$2,330,000 $370,000 $0 $0

12 0 0 0

$1,850,450 $0 $0 $0

0 1 3 0 1 2

$0 $999,995 $2,400,000 $0 $245,000 $2,808,000

0 4 1 0 0 2

$0 $1,202,500 $350,000 $0 $0 $29,980

0 0 2 0 0 0

$0 $0 $257,500 $0 $0 $0

$155,693 $566,430 $59,477 $92,079

5 80 31 22

$58,600 $504,298 $122,748 $190,252

9 84 32 16

$83,655 $631,336 $104,352 $127,356

11 72 23 13

23 $1,238,859 20 $1,356,626 3 $7,710

0 $0 0 $0 40 $1,625,584

0 0 37

$0 $0 $2,069,310

21 5 20 8 7

26 61 19 13 0

19 26 13 13 7

$266,286 $458,941 $48,050 $10,980 $8,000

306

$6,265,475

$28,160 $17,175 $68,950 $34,172 $0

316 $12,414,742 Total Fees $105,652

$155,323 $305,816 $47,300 $67,783 $0

338 $7,700,316 Total Fees $148,532

Total Fees $116,200

We’ve Got It All!

307-202-1280

MINI EXCAVATORS SKID STEERS ASSORTED TRAILERS DUMP TRUCK JLG TELEHANDLER

ASK ABOUT OUR END-OF-SEASON

EQUIPMENT PURCHASING OPTIONS!

Lots

for sale Build your dream home!

College Park Subdivision 10th St $2,000 discount if under contract by the 1st of the year Lots are $49,500 $47,500! Lots available: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 All services Can bring in your own builder

Winchester subdivision

• Construction • Home Repair • Paint & Stain • Remodeling • Lawn & Garden • Rental Center

Quality Paints & Stains Available in 5 gallon buckets

Powell ~ 115 East Park Street 307-754-5136 or 800-371-5136

South of town on Road 8 Last lot of phase 1 Lot #7 • $59,500 All services & last lot with Northwest Rural Water tap!

40 acres north of town Off HWY 295 Great views of Heart Mountain Excellent farm ground, in beets currently <1mi from downtown Building sites on property $145,000

tjr properties 509 GATEWAY DRIVE • POWELL, WY 82435 • 307-254-7004

307.254.0365

PAGE 4 • POWELL TRIBUNE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2017

FALL HOME IMPROVEMENT

Current mortgage rates

HOUSE $910 $656 $2,468 $1,020

MOBILE HOME $737 $478 $1,058 $711

Long-term mortgage rates on the rise again WASHINGTON (AP) — Long-term mortgage rates rose for a second straight week as the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate increased to 3.91 percent on Oct. 12. That’s up from 3.85 percent the previous week. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac says the 15-year home loan, frequently used by homeowners who refinanced their mortgages, also jumped, rising to 3.21 percent, from 3.15 percent. Mortgage rates have picked up a bit in the past month. The average 30-year rate fell to 3.78 percent in early September, its lowest level this year. Rates on home loans typically track the yield on 10-year Treasury notes, which have increased in recent weeks. Federal Reserve policymakers indicated in a meeting last

Local rental rates rising, data says BY CJ BAKER Tribune Editor

he cost of renting an apartment or home in Park County appears to be on the rise. This past spring and summer, an average two- or threebedroom home in Powell and Cody rented out for roughly $910 a month while the average two-bedroom apartment went for $630. Those rates are up by about 6 percent from the same period last year, according to the data compiled by the State of Wyoming’s Economic Analysis Division. Mobile homes, meanwhile, held steady or may have became just a touch more affordable. The division’s survey of rates in Powell and Cody found that the cost of renting a two- or three-bedroom dipped by 1.4 percent to an average of

$737 per month (down by $9). Park County is the priciest place to rent in the Big Horn Basin, being more expensive than neighboring Big Horn, Hot Springs and Washakie counties. Stacked up against the state as a whole, however, Park County is relatively cheap: The average Wyoming apartment rents for $712 (13 percent more than here) and the average house fetches $1,020 a month (12 percent more). Teton County continues to be in a world of its own when it comes to housing. The average rental rates in Jackson — $1,842 a month for an average apartment and $2,468 for an average house — more than double the second-most expensive counties in the state. The average rental rates for the second quarter of this year are calculated as part of

the Economic Analysis Division’s biannual Wyoming Cost of Living Index. Data is taken from six categories — apparel, food, medical, recreation and personal care, transportation and housing — and then used to calculate annual inflation. According to the Economic Analysis Division’s findings, the overall cost of living in Park County ranks eighth-most expensive among Wyoming’s 23 counties, being most comparable to Sheridan, Campbell, Sweetwater and Carbon counties. Park County sits in a tie for ninth for the cost of housing, according to the state’s figures. It’s possible that Powell’s

rental market could get a bit of a shakeup in the near future: The nonprofit Wyoming Housing Network (WHN) hopes to build a government-subsidized apartment building just northeast of Seventh Street’s intersection with Absaroka Street. WHN is currently seeking tax credits from the Wyoming Community Development Authority for a $2.7 million, 12unit facility. At a community meeting in September, WHN officials said they’ve heard there’s a need for more housing in Powell. Multiple local landlords, however, questioned that, saying there are numerous vacant rentals in town.

What can Titan Truss do for you?

307-587-2187

A LITTLE COURTESY GOES A LONG WAY BETWEEN NEIGHBORS

City of Powell reminds residents to be mindful where you dump trash, branches

Give us a call or email us for a quote! titantruss@bloedornlumber.com Big Horn Ave.

Supplying and Supporting

CODY

the community for 15 years and counting!

Roof Trusses • Floor Trusses • Timber Trusses

• Residential • Commercial • Pole Barns • Garages • New Construction • Additions

Titan Truss 2828 Chopper Ln. Cody, WY

Located one mile south of the Yellowstone Regional Airport

Meeteetse Hwy.

it until recently. But I think it’s a mandatory court appearance.” Hubbard went on to say hough Powell residents are for the most part the intention is not to take conscientious about how anyone’s money; rather it’s to they dispose of their trash, bring people into compliance at times the City of Powell with the city codes. “It’s just to get them to be a receives complaints about illegal dumping. It’s an easy good neighbor,” he said. To illustrate his point, Hubfix, according to City of Powell Building Official Ben Hub- bard provided photos of a bard, and one that illustrates a recent complaint call, where little courtesy goes a long way. grass and other debris had The city requests if you have been dumped in an alley near items that are too large for the a dumpster. The owner of the trash containers, simply leave property said the dumping them in the alley in the vicin- had been going on for years. “The grass, and other ity of the container, and the stuff, it can items will be go in there,” collected sepaHubbard said, rately. Curbside ‘As the leaves start pointing to the customers need falling, it’s just a dumpster. “This to arrange a pick-up time little bit of common guy has lived there for five in advance, ac- courtesy. Don’t fill years, and he cording to the has no idea City of Powell your dumpsters who’s dumping website. so full that there’s this stuff there. “The big thing no room for the It becomes one with trash is you can’t put con- household garbage.’ of those ‘I don’t know what’s struction waste Darrell Rood going on, but in the municiSanitation superintendent please help,’ pal dumpsters,” kind of things.” Hubbard said. As a courtesy, people should “As for everyday waste, Code 8.08.020 addresses that, basi- use their own dumpsters, cally the person in charge has plain and simple, according to to maintain the premises in a Hubbard. “Don’t take it across town,” clean and orderly condition. If they don’t, people call me and Hubbard said. “A lot of the I have to go take pictures and dumping you see, I’d be willthen put the pictures in a writing to bet, are people driving through town and thinking ten notice.” Code 8.08.020 states that ‘Hey, we’ll just pull in the al“It shall be the duty of any ley and dump our stuff.’ They owner, agent, tenant, pur- may not know there’s twice a chaser, contractor, lessee, week pickup. There’s no reaor other person in charge of son to steal service.” Sanitation/Public Health any premises within the city, including place of business, Superintendent Darrell Rood dwelling house, apartment, said his department will run tenement, construction site, into this type of issue this time or other establishment, at of year, as the leaves begin to all times to maintain the fall and accumulate. “As the leaves start falling, premises in a clean and orderly condition, permitting it’s just a little bit of common no deposit or accumulation courtesy,” Rood said. “Don’t of materials other than those fill your dumpsters so full that necessary or ordinarily at- there’s no room for the housetendant upon construction or hold garbage.” For tree branches, the Saniupon the use for which such premises are legally intended. tation and Parks Department Any such accumulation is de- uses a chipper to mulch limbs. clared to constitute a nuisance A scheduled pickup time is and nonconforming use of the needed for this service as well. “With tree branches, anypremises.” Anyone not in compliance thing five inches and smaller with the code is issued a writ- can be left in the alley,” ten notice along with photo- Hubbard said. “The city will graphs illustrating the issue, provide a chipper, and won’t and requesting the matter spend more than about a half be brought into compliance an hour at any one location.” Rood said if you have within five days of receiving branches to be disposed of, the written notice. “If they don’t, the remedy put them in the alley with the is a visit from the boys in blue big ends pointing one way. “As we have time, we run with the badges,” Hubbard said. “I don’t really know how the alleys and chip them up,” that process is going to work Rood said. “Be a good neighout — we’ve never had to do bor.”

BY DON COGGER Tribune Sports/News Editor

month that they are likely to raise short-term rates for the third time this year in December, a move that can also lift longer-term rates. To calculate average mortgage rates, Freddie Mac surveys lenders across the country between Monday and Wednesday each week. The average doesn’t include extra fees, known as points, which most borrowers must pay to get the lowest rates. One point equals 1 percent of the loan amount. The average fee for a 30year mortgage was unchanged from last week at 0.5 point. The fee on 15-year loans also remained at 0.5 point. Rates on adjustable fiveyear loans slipped to 3.16 percent from 3.18 percent last week. The fee was unchanged at 0.4 point.

o Beac n Hi l

PARK COUNTY BIG HORN COUNTY TETON COUNTY STATE AVERAGE

APARTMENT $630 $520 $1,842 $712

Average 30-year fixed mortgage rate:---------- 3.91 percent Average 15-year fixed mortgage rate:---------- 3.21 percent

Greybull Hwy.

Ready to buy or build your dream home? Visit with a First Bank of Wyoming Real Estate Lender for a FREE home loan consultation. Brandon Douglas NMLS # 218914

Jana Stafford NMLS # 623908

Mortgage Refinancing & other loan options are available now to help borrowers pay for: tHome Improvement Projects tDebt Consolidation tLarge Purchases & More!

Joe Bower NMLS # 602609

Division of Glacier Bank

We Promise

To help our neighbors be financially stronger tomorrow than they are today.

www.firstbankofwyoming.com | (307) 754-2201

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2017 POWELL TRIBUNE • PAGE 5

FALL HOME IMPROVEMENT

By the Numbers

1976

Year that Habitat for Humanity International was founded

1996

Year that Mountain Spirit Habitat for Humanity started in Park County

Number of homes in Park County that Mountain Spirit Habitat for Humanity has built in the past 20 years

1,400

Number of communities across the U.S. where Habitat exists

Number of countries where Habitat for Humanity has worked

9.8 million Number of people who have received safe, decent and affordable shelter through Habitat

Aria Schoonover (far left) grabs a shovel while standing next to her mom, Kira Schoonover, at a groundbreaking celebration on New Hope Drive in Cody on Sept. 29. Construction is now underway on a new home for Kira and Aria Schoonover. Also pictured are Noreen and Dan Schoonover (center), and Jaime Schmeiser, executive director of Mountain Spirit Habitat for Humanity of Park County (far right).

‘It takes a village’ HABITAT MOVING FORWARD WITH NEW HOUSE, RENOVATION PROJECT BY TESSA BAKER Tribune Features Editor

fter going through some difficult years, Mountain Spirit Habitat for Humanity is once again focused on its purpose: to provide decent and affordable housing in the community. “We’re going back to our model of building one house per year, but we’d like to be building two or three houses,” said Jaime Schmeiser, executive director of the local nonprofit. Schmeiser took the reins of Mountain Spirit Habitat for Humanity in January, and has helped the organization move forward. “We’re moving full steam ahead,” Schmeiser said. Habitat broke ground on a new house in Cody last month. The home will belong to Kira Schoonover, a single mom from

it,” she said. Habitat’s homeownership process is designed to empower families, Schmeiser said. Cody. “It’s not a hand out — it’s a Schoonover first applied for hand up,” Schmeiser said. “And a Habitat home two years ago, I know we sound like broken reand she said it feels almost uncords when we real to see the plans say that, but for her three-beda lot of people room home coming ‘Instead of just have the mistogether. conception that watching from “It’s a little hard it’s a give-away to believe,” she the sidelines, it’s program, and it said, adding, “Hav- getting in and isn’t.” ing it actually come In addition putting your own true is great.” to helping with She and her sweat into it.’ their home, fam5-year-old daughilies also must Kira Schoonover ter, Aria, are lookHabitat homeowner have the ability ing forward to to pay a no-inmoving into the finterest mortgage, ished home in several months. Schmeiser said. Aria is especially excited to Habitat is also moving forhave a yard, Schoonover said. ward with a home renovation As part of the Habitat model, project in Powell as part of Schoonover will be part of the its Neighborhood Revitalization construction process. Initiative. “Instead of just watching from the sidelines, it’s getting in See Habitat, Page 6 and putting your own sweat into

With us, your power is in

GOOD HANDS

Proudly serving

the f OF THE BIG HOR amilies N BASIN

492 E. SOUTH ST. • POWELL • 307-754-5248

Home Improvement? Stop by Big Horn Glass for all your shower door needs!

We provide custom shower enclosures, as well as mirrors, replacement windows, windshield repair, etc.

1930 Sheridan Ave., Cody 587-6269

Customized for your home Our specialty work includes: Kitchen Countertops Kira Schoonover (center) looks at plans for her new home with Jaime Schmeiser and Noreen Schoonover (far right). Tribune photos by Tessa Baker

Fall in love with your home again!

All Work Guaranteed!

Vanity Tops w/ Integral Sinks Table Tops Vessel Sinks

WE HAVE A GREAT VARIETY OF OPTIONS FOR YOU TO CHOOSE FROM!

Hearthstones

Quality Covering for Any Exterior - New Construction Remodeling & Crack Repair Any Color Available Foundation Repair - Interior Plastering - Fireplaces

We also do flatwork, sidewalks, patios & driveways in exposed aggregate, stamped, textured, colored or traditional broomed finishes.

PROVIDING QUALITY WORKMANSHIP THROUGHOUT THE BIG HORN BASIN!

Tim Brando, president

Certified in E.I.F.S.

307-754-1050 • PO BOX 144 • POWELL, WYOMING 82435

Visit our website: www.stuccospecialtiesinc.com

If you need a new building, building addition or an update to your current facility, we have what it takes to realize your goals. We’re ready to help you turn your plans into finished construction that builds your home, farm or business.

Duncan Bonine, General Contractor 307-254-0533 • dbw@tctwest.net Find us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/dbwconstruction

PAGE 6 • POWELL TRIBUNE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2017

FALL HOME IMPROVEMENT

Assistance with energy bills available for low-income families APPLICATIONS BEING ACCEPTED NOW

Mountain Spirit Habitat for Humanity Executive Director Jaime Schmeiser (left) and Dave Daniels, president of the Habitat board, spoke at the groundbreaking in Cody last month.

Habitat: Work to begin soon on Neighborhood Revitalization project Continued from Page 5

house up,” Schmeiser said. Habitat also hopes to build a “Our mission is not just to new house in Powell; Schmeiser build houses, but to help people said the organization is curthat already own their own rently looking for land. The last houses,” Schmeiser said. time a Habitat home was built The project in Powell is here was in 2011. slated to begin this month, and Since Mountain Spirit Habitat includes new siding and other for Humanity started 20 years improvements. ago, the nonprofit has built 20 Schmeiser said new homes in the Neighborhood Park County. Revitalization “Even though ‘Our mission is program follows we haven’t built the Habitat mod- not just to build in a few years, el, where families houses, but to we’re still on must partner in track” for one the work and pay help people that house a year, Scha no-interest loan. meiser said. already own their In recent years, “We hope to own houses.’ the international build more than Jaime Schmeiser that, but we have Habitat for HuExecutive director to walk before we manity organization has cleared run,” she said. the way for affiliates to work As the new projects take in partnership with the U.S. shape, Schmeiser said she’s Department of Agriculture and thankful for all of the support Wyoming Community Develop- Habitat has received in Powell ment Authority (WCDA). Those and Cody. partnerships allow Habitat to “I am just so excited to be build more homes and help part of this community, and to more local families, Schmeiser be moving forward,” Schmeiser said. said. “We really appreciate all Habitat plans to open up the the support we’ve been given by Neighborhood Revitalization everybody ... it takes a village.” program to more homeowners Volunteers make Habitat in the area and hold informa- projects possible. tional meetings after the first “There’s always something renovation project is competed. you can do,” Schmeiser said, Following the downturn in whether it’s lifting a hammer, Wyoming’s economy, she said providing a meal for volunteers the Neighborhood Revitaliza- or babysitting the homeowner’s tion program is a way to help children while they work on residents who are struggling to their home. maintain their homes. During the groundbreaking “When people are working for Schoonover’s new home two or three jobs to make ends earlier this month, folks from meet, it’s hard to keep your around the area gathered to

celebrate with Schoonover and show their support. “It’s like a good old-fashioned barn raising in a way,” Schmeiser said. “We are a homesteader community.” There are plenty of volunteer opportunities for individuals, families, student groups and churches to get involved. Businesses and organizations can also help build or renovate a home as part of a teamwork exercise, she said. If you would like to volunteer on a Habitat project, contact Schmeiser at 254-7005 or email edirector@mshfh.org. Mountain Spirit Habitat for Humanity has two stores in Powell that help fund its projects — the ReStore on Gateway Drive west of Powell and Habi-

tat’s Shop on Bent in downtown Powell. All of the money raised in Habitat’s stores goes toward its overhead costs for employees and other administrative costs, which are hard to find grants for. Beyond that, proceeds go toward Habitat’s house building and renovation work. “The stores making more money enable us to build more houses,” Schmeiser said. Schmeiser worked for Mountain Spirit Habitat for Humanity years ago, and then led the Powell Valley Chamber of Commerce as its executive director for several years. She said she has enjoyed her return to Habitat. “I’m home again,” Schmeiser said.

The Wyoming Department of Family Services doesn’t want low-income families to find themselves without heat during the coldest time of the year. “Do not wait for weather to become unbearably cold, or for those heating bills to pile up,” the department said in a news release. Low Income Energy Assistance (LIEAP), is designed to help low-income families and people on fixed incomes pay their heating bills during the winter months. LIEAP applications for the 2017-18 season were available beginning Oct. 1, and will be accepted until Feb. 28. Households may obtain an electronic application at: https://www.wyolieap.com/ Application/. Residents also can request an application by calling 1-800-246-4221 or email lieapinfo@thealignteam.org. LIEAP helps Wyoming residents pay home heating bills from November through May. The program is open to homeowners and renters. It helps cover the costs of electricity, natural gas, propane, wood, diesel heating oil, coal and pellets when these are used for heating a home. In order to qualify for LIEAP assistance, you must be a resident of the state of Wyoming and must need fi-

nancial assistance for home energy costs. In order to qualify, you must also have an annual household income (before taxes) that is below 60 percent of the state median income. Income guidelines are available at: https://www.benefits.gov/benefits/benefit-details/1565. A U.S. Health and Human Services federally-funded program, LIEAP is administered through the Wyoming Department of Family Services. LIEAP approval may also result in approval to receive weatherization assistance. The Weatherization Assistance Program, a U.S. Department of Energy federally funded program administered through the Wyoming Department of Family Services, operates to improve the energy efficiency of eligible homes, reduce energy costs, and improve the comfort, health and safety of eligible families. Both programs give priority to senior citizens, disabled citizens, families with young children and households with high energy burdens. If you have questions, call 1-800-246-4221. Applicants should send completed applications and supporting documents to: P.O. Box 827, Cheyenne, WY 82003; fax them to 307-778-3943; or email them to lieapinfo@thealignteam.org.

Buy, Sell, Invest

Complete lease/rental service

The Hedderman Team 145 N. Bent, Powell With over 50 years of combined experience, we can help make your real estate dreams come true. Fees negotiable.

Call today for friendly, reliable service!

Larry Hedderman 754-5500 and Gloria Hedderman 272-1232

Clarks Fork

SERVING THE ENTIRE BIG HORN BASIN

Handyman

Rusty RustyBallard Ballard Rusty Ballard P.O. Box 2682, Cody, WY 82414 P.O. Box 2682, Cody, 82414 P.O. Box 2682, Cody,WY WY 82414 (307)587-6873 587-6873 (307) (307) 587-6873 ballard@wavecom.net rustylballard@gmail.com ballard@wavecom.net

WYOMING MASTER ELECTRICIAN

LLC

CARPENTRY • PAINTING • HAULING YARD & BUILDING CLEAN UP

SAFETY INSPECTIONS

Interior & Exterior • Roll • Spray • Wallpaper • Drywall

ELECTRICAL: NEW CONSTRUCTION, REWIRE, RESIDENTIAL, FARM & RANCH

Free Estimates • Faux Finishes Interior & Exterior • Roll • •Spray • Wallpaper • Drywall • Faux Finishes • Free Estimates

307-899-7978

Just Arrived!

Skandia Window Made in Fashions the USA “Better than Billings pricing everyday!” Lovell 548-2269

Sold Sold

SOLD!

Cody 527-5990

Worland 347-6548

Sold SOLD!

SOLD!

Broker participation welcome! Call for more information.

Lots now available!

Directions: West on 7th Street to either Oakwood or Cedarwood Drive, head south to Phase IV

Kira Schoonover and her daughter, Aria, are pictured during the groundbreaking celebration for their new home in Cody. Tribune photos by Tessa Baker

Call 307-254-1505 or 307-254-0215

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2017 POWELL TRIBUNE • PAGE 7

FALL HOME IMPROVEMENT

Dirk & Seth Cozzens

307-754-3327 307-250-7123 307-202-1253

• Sewer Lines • Gas Lines • Small Leaks • Pumps • Water Heaters

• Fixture Installation • Furnace and Air Conditioning • Sewer Camera

BIG OR SMALL WE ARE HAPPY TO DO IT ALL!

5 3 Ye a r s o f S e r v i c e

Powell Electric Ready to serve your electrical needs!

A beautifully decorated Christmas tree and other holiday accents were displayed in Lisa and Curt Harshman’s home last year during the Tour of Homes. Country Christmas organizers are looking for volunteers to show their homes on the 2017 tour. Tribune file photo by Tessa Baker

Tour of Homes planning underway LOCAL HOUSES SOUGHT FOR ANNUAL CHRISTMASTIME TOUR BY TESSA BAKER Tribune Features Editor

t may not seem possible, but Country Christmas is right around the corner. With the annual holiday celebration just six weeks away, local homes are being sought for the Tour of Homes. Organizers hope to have six to eight homes for the holiday tour, said Jaime Schmeiser, executive director for Mountain Spirit Habitat for Humanity. Habitat is helping plan Tour of Homes, which coincides with Country Christmas Dec. 1-3.

“Our theme this year is, ‘There’s no place like home for Christmas,’” Schmeiser said. For the first time, the Tour of Homes will feature a special twilight tour. On the evening of Saturday, Dec. 2, folks can get a sneak peek of a few homes before the regular tour on Sunday, Dec. 3. The Cody Trolley will be in Powell to take the twilight tour-goers from house to house. Seating is limited, so the special tour will be available firstcome, first-served, Schmeiser said. The tour will include hors d’oeuvres.

As in the past, the Tour of Homes organizers welcome a variety of homes — newer houses, older homes and apartments. “We already have one [house] for sure, and the rest, we’re all working on,” Schmeiser said. Houses that were on the tour many years ago would be welcomed back, she said. She said she appreciates local homeowners who make the holiday tour possible each year. “We really appreciate people opening their houses,” she said. “It’s a lot of work.” If you would like to volunteer to have your home included on this year’s tour, call Schmeiser at 254-7005 or email edirector@mshfh.org.

» » » » » »

New C onstruction Remodels Ro om Additions Business Commercial Business Additions

412 South Fair Street • Powell • 307-754-5203

Extend your entertainment space to the great outdoors. Natural gas is the right choice. 1-800-638-3278 montana-dakota.com In the Community to Serve®

Do it in style with a fire pit, patio heater, fireplace or a grill fueled by reliable, convenient natural gas. Don’t worry about your propane tank running empty and avoid messy charcoal with a natural gas grill. And there’s no reason to end the fun when the sun goes down. You can warm up your outdoor space quickly and easily with a natural gas patio heater or fireplace.

• clean • abundant • affordable • efficient • reliable • safe • domestic • environmentally friendly •

FALL HOME IMPROVEMENT

PAGE 8 • POWELL TRIBUNE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2017

Linked to mice, hantavirus remains a health threat When mice get into closed locations and leave droppings behind, hantavirus infection remains a potentially deadly health threat, according to the Wyoming Department of Health. “Hantavirus can be dangerous for people and is sometimes fatal in the cases we see,” said Katie Bryan, surveillance epidemiologist with the Department of Health. “If people are going into places that have been closed for a while, especially if planning a cleanup, we want them to be aware of the threat and be careful.” Fourteen human hantavirus cases, including seven that resulted in death, have been reported in Wyoming since 1999. Infected rodents can infest garages, campers, cabins and barns and shed hantavirus through urine, droppings and saliva. People can become seriously ill if they breathe in airborne particles created when

contaminated, dried materials are disturbed. Infection is also possible when the virus touches broken skin or mucous membranes, if it is swallowed or after bites. If a building has been closed and unoccupied for a long time, doors and windows should be opened for ventilation at least 30 minutes before cleanup

Courtesy photos

work begins. When working in places that are especially dirty, dusty or infested with mice, extra protective clothing or equipment should be worn such as coveralls, shoe covers and special face masks known as respirators.

Home Equity Loans New Construction Loans Mortgage Loans Bridge Loans

RECOMMENDED CLEANUP GUIDELINES: • During cleaning, wear rubber, latex, vinyl or nitrile gloves.

Coming Soon to Big Horn Federal

• Spray rodent urine and droppings with a disinfectant or bleach solution until thoroughly soaked. Combining 1 1/2 cups of household bleach with 1 gallon of water is a good choice. • Do not vacuum or sweep urine, droppings, nesting materials or contaminated surfaces until they have been disinfected. • Use a paper towel (while wearing gloves) to pick up urine and droppings. • After the droppings and urine have been removed, disinfect items that might have been contaminated.

A real time, self-service, online cash management system for business. User friendly Flexible menu and layout Real time balances

Larry Larsen Market President Commercial Loans Ag Loans

NMLS# 906355

Jenniffer Hankins Loan Officer Mortgage Loans

Certified LOCAL Across the Big Horn Basin

NMLS# 745908

bighornfederal.com • 105 East 2nd Street • (307) 754-9501 • Powell, WY 82435

QuietComfort® Deluxe Series

Our highest efficiency, top-of-the-line gas furnace series delivers superior home comfort.

• Energy-saving modulating and two-stage operation options for more even temperature control and quiet operation. • Combine compatible gas furnaces with the Observer® communicating wall control and communicating indoor unit for the ultimate in home comfort.

QuietComfort® Deluxe 98 Gas Furnace • Up to 98% AFIE • Lifetime Heat Exchanger Limited Warranty • 10-Year No Hassle ReplacementTM Limited Warranty • Communicating Capability • Modulating

409 South Mountain View • Powell • 754-0904

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2017 POWELL TRIBUNE • PAGE 9

FALL HOME IMPROVEMENT

Taking orders

754-4711

for Fall and Winter Sandi Fetzer and Lorie Henke 997 road 8 • Powell • 754-4711 Sandi Fetzer & Carol Hill

ERIC MENNING - OWNER & OPERATOR ICC CERTIFIED - LICENSED & INSURED 307.202.1611 - FIND US ON

WHAT ARE THE BEST STRATEGIES FOR DIGITAL MARKETING?

Tomorrow is moving day for Joyce Lynn. Her new house in the Greenfield Addition is across the street from her son Mark Lynn and his wife Linda.

New home brings family even closer BY ILENE OLSON Tribune Staff Writer

Street, to find out if he knew of any that myself, one for sewing, and one for a guest would be vacant in coming months. Then room,” Joyce said. At Mark’s suggestion, she added a fourth Bennion’s wife, Lynn, suggested that Joyce bedroom, which she calls could have a home built a bonus room, in the attic on the lot across the street from Mark and Linda. ‘I talked to Mark about area of the high-roofed house. “I talked to Mark about Mark also helped with it and he said, ‘Sure, go it and he said, “Sure, the planning, she said. “He ahead. You would be closer go ahead. You would said, ‘It will sell better if to us,’” Joyce said. be closer to us.”’ you do this or this.’ I said, “We were glad she could Joyce Lynn ‘Mark, you’re going to be be this close,” Mark told the one doing the selling the Tribune. “It will be a after I die, so if you think it will sell better, real benefit to help her.” “We were excited from the get-go,” added we’ll do it.’” He also helped coordinate with Bennion Linda. Joyce said she worked with Bennion for during the construction process, she said. Mark, who worked as a carpenter for quite a while to come up with a house plan that would fit on the lot, which is oddly shaped. See Lynn house, Page 10 “I wanted three bedrooms — one for

POWE

RED

ears ago, Joyce Lynn and her husband, Bill, decided that if either of them ever became disabled, they would go to a nursing home rather than live with one of their children. That wasn’t because they didn’t get along with their children; it was because that was more than they ever wanted to ask of their children and their spouses. “We didn’t want to interfere with their marriages,” Joyce, 87, said from her Powell home earlier this month. “Having an in-law living with you is hard on a marriage.” Joyce, recently widowed and still living independently, said she remains committed to that decision, despite her love for her son Mark and his wife, Linda, who also live in Powell. But that’s not to say she doesn’t want her family nearby. The Lynn family is close-knit, and Mark visits his mother regularly to see how she’s doing and to take care of anything she needs help with. Beginning tomorrow (Friday), he’ll be able to do that by walking across the street. Tomorrow is moving day for Joyce, who decided early this year to have a new home built in a vacant lot across from Mark and Linda’s home in the Greenfield Addition. She may not want to live in the same house, but she does want to be close to her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. The move also places her back in the boundaries for the ward (congregation) she formerly attended with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. “I’ve missed being with grandchildren and great-grandchildren” since the growing ward was divided and they began attending different congregations, she said. As she began contemplating a move, “I had in mind maybe to get a duplex if I could find one I liked,” she said. Joyce talked to contractor Dan Bennion, who built some duplexes on Mountain View

VISIT OUR WEBSITE TO FIND OUT!

RIN

WWW.DOTGAINDIGITAL.COM

T, INC .

Want secure winter storage for your RV? Call Tye Whitlock to secure space today. Inside and outside storage spots available.

Inside Bays - $90 per month Outside Storage - $30 per month 376 N. Ingalls Street » Powell, WY » (406) 781-4746 » twhitlock33@gmail.com

WHEN IT MATTERS ... GO BAZOOKA! Planning to build?

BAZOOKA

Give us a call and see how we can help you.

1126 U.S. Hwy 14A

West Lovell, Wyoming 307-271-2105 or 307-548-2037

LUMBER

Shopping for a mortgage?

David Blevins, Agent State Farm Agent 249 N. Clark Street Powell, WY 82435 Bus: 307-754-9541

We have a great selection. As life changes, so do your needs. Let State Farm Bank® help with a mortgage that fits your life and your budget. Let us help you make the right move. Bank with a Good Neighbor®. CALL ME TODAY FOR MORE INFORMATION.

NMLS #139716, NMLS MLO #1287280 MLO License #3399

Top right, the kitchen is one of Joyce Lynn’s favorite rooms in her new home. Above, Joyce points to a security system that includes a cameras that allow her to see who is at the front or back door. Bottom right, Joyce stands in the bonus room, which was complete except for missing the carpet on Oct. 15. Tribune photos by Ilene Olson

Some products and services not available in all areas. 1001306.1

POWERFUL SERVICE!

POWERFUL RESULTS!

Commercial • Industrial • Residential New Construction and Remodels

SEE the difference...

15% off Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning! Make it up to her with our 15% OFF Varney’s professional machines have hotter water and more extraction carpet upholstery cleaning! power than rental& units. For a deep clean you can see, call the professionals!

SPRING SPECIAL FORGET MOTHER’S DAY?

Holiday Season Special!

SERVING WYOMING AND SOUTHERN MONTANA

Powell • 307-754-4436

www.yellowstoneelectricinc.com

BREATHE the difference

SPRING SPECIAL FORGET MOTHER’S DAY?

ZANE BENNETT, CORY BENNETT AND JENNIFER LEJEUNE

921 Road 8

State Farm Bank, F.S.B., Bloomington, IL

Mention this ad and save 15% on carpet or duct cleaning

CARPET - UPHOLSTERY - AIR DUCT CLEANING

Exp. 12/31/2017 Not valid with other offers or coupons CARPET - UPHOLSTERY - AIR DUCT CLEANING

WORLAND• Cody: 307.527.9998 • Worland: 307.347.6161 CODY Powell: 307.754.9999 Toll Free: CODY POWELL 307.347.6161 307.527.9998 Toll Free:307.527.9998 CODY 1.800.660.6181 307.754.9999 2008 Robertson Ave. TollToll Free 800.660.6181 Free: 1.800.660.6181 • www.varneycleancare.com 211 E. Coulter Ave. Toll Free 800.660.6181 www.varneycleancare.com 1.800.660.6181 307.527.9998 307.754.9999 POWELL

POWELL

307.754.9999 211 E. Coulter Ave.

211 E. Coulter Ave.

Toll Free 800.660.6181

POWELL

CODY

WORLAND

307.754.9999 211 E. Coulter Ave.

307.527.9998 Toll Free 800.660.6181

307.347.6161 2008 Robertson Ave.

www.varneycleancare.com

PAGE 10 • POWELL TRIBUNE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2017

FALL HOME IMPROVEMENT

Six ways to bring warmth to your home this autumn

The right colors and accents can bring warmth into your home this fall and winter, even when it’s cold outside. Photo courtesy StatePoint Media

With the shorter days and cooler nights of fall, it’s easy to go into hibernation mode. But first prepare your home for the upcoming winter season with warm accents that will make time spent indoors cozier. Grab your pumpkin spice latte and start adding little touches like these to your home: • Incorporate metallic decor: While you’re breaking out the pumpkins, cornstalks and cornucopias, take a different approach this season and incorporate copper or brass accents. These metallic items will elevate decor, and the orange and yellow tones will complement the changing leaves outside. Try picking out a unique candelabra or vase or small decorative pieces to style the room. • Layer, layer, layer: Bare floors can make your home feel chilly. Warm up a space by layering area rugs on hardwood floors or to an already carpeted area. Not only will this add color and texture to a room, the extra cushioning will ensure feet avoid the cold, so you can keep your slippers tucked away. • Makeover the fireplace: Fireplace season is here, so think about new ways to make it the focal point of the room. Try painting it with a subtle whitewash for a look that will instantly revive brick and brighten the space. Before you get started, prep the fireplace by scrubbing brick with

a wire brush to remove any residue. Then, tape off any areas you don’t want painted with a quality panter’s tape to prevent paint bleed and achieve professional-looking results. • Update the guest bedroom: With the holidays on the horizon, there’s no better time to give your guest bedroom a cozy update. Paint the room a soft color that sets a relaxing tone. Don’t forget to incorporate little touches, like books or a plant on the nightstand to make guests feel more at home. • Update window coverings: Heavy drapes keep out drafts and make a room feel luxurious. Switch out summer sheers for curtains with a heavier weight, or layer drapes for an elegant look. • Don’t under-estimate the power of white paint: Vibrant doesn’t always have to mean using bold colors. Make a space feel new again by repainting wood trim to a crisp white. It may seem like a tedious task, but with a little effort, you can completely transform a room. Start by filling in any imperfections, sanding and cleaning the surfaces to be painted. Then, you’l want to tape off the wall next to the trim so your handiwork looks like that of a professional. — Information from StatePoint Media

We offer horizontal trenchless

directional drilling!

• Water Lines • Sewer/Septic Systems • Ditch Cleaning • Basements, Foundations & Footers • Roads & Driveways • General Excavation & Site Work • Irrigation Pipelines • Culverts & Cattle Guards • Sand & Gravel • Fine Grading

Joyce Lynn (center) stands on the stairway behind her son Mark (right) and his wife, Linda. Mark and Linda say they are excited about Joyce’s upcoming move across the street from them. Tribune photo by Ilene Olson

Lynn house: Favorite parts are kitchen, bonus room Continued from Page 9

her new sewing room. It faces south, and a large window lets several years, said he loves con- in abundant light. The walls are struction work. lined with shelves where she “I gave her some advice,” he can put her fabric and other said, adding that he was happy sewing supplies. to help and glad to be involved In addition, her new house in the planning and coordination has a security system that alprocess. lows her to see who is at the door Joyce said her favorite parts before she goes to answer it, she of the house are the kitchen and said. the bonus room. Mark said his mother has “The kitchen is very com- good neighbors, besides himself pact and easy to reach ev- and Linda, who will watch out erything from for her and a central area,” make sure she said, and ‘That’s what families she’s safe. the bonus room, Mark and with its upstairs are for, to help each Linda also bathroom, will other, and this is say they’re provide a nice going to make it even excited about place for family Joyce’s move members to stay easier to do that.’ as well. while visiting. “It’s going Mark Lynn “I will put bedto be real nice ding up there, to have her and they can change the bed across the street,” Mark said. themselves when they leave,” “Plus it will be real nice for her she said. to feel like she can ask for help. Joyce, who likes to sew — she ... She thinks it’s a burden — it and her sister Joann Bentz have isn’t, but she feels that way.” sewn more than 1,000 quilts for Being across the street will children and donated them to make it much easier for his charities — also is pleased about mother to say, “Hey, can you

come over and help me with this?” he said. Linda said having Joyce nearby will allow their children and grandchildren to walk across the street while they’re visiting to see their grandmother or great-grandmother. Joyce also can walk across the street to see visitors or join family activities at Mark and Linda’s as well. It also will be nice for Linda and the little girls she watches during the day to walk over to Joyce’s house when the girls need something to do, Linda said. In addition, Joyce’s move puts her across the street from Linda’s mother, Ruth Goller, who lives in an upstairs apartment at Mark and Linda’s house. “Our mothers have always been friends,” Mark said. Mark said he and Linda both place a high importance on helping their mothers. “That’s what families are for, to help each other,” he said, “and this is going to make it even easier to do that.” “Now, with both dads gone, it just makes it easier,” Linda agreed.

Call us today at 307-272-4444

Looking For Country Living

Just Minutes From Powell?

Home recently completed for the Anderson family - at the intersection of Road 12 & Lane 9½

wattsmart is registered in U.S. Patent and Trademark Ofﬁ ce.

Look no further than the Madero Ranchos Estates Subdivision! I've got acreage for sale and will “build to suit.”

PROUDLY SERVING THE POWELL AREA FOR MORE THAN

20 YEARS

307-272-4647

Improve your home improvements. If you’re tackling a home improvement project this fall, keep energy efficiency in mind. Save money when you upgrade to LED bulbs and add insulation to your home. Learn more at wattsmart.com.

YANCY WELCH CONSTRUCTION

New Homes • Remodels • Shops • Cabinets • Countertops • Decks

YOUR DREAM HOME AWAITS

CALL TODAY!

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2017 POWELL TRIBUNE • PAGE 11

FALL HOME IMPROVEMENT

PREVENTING

HOME FIRES Many home fires are preventable. The following are simple steps to prevent a tragedy: Cooking

space heaters

• Stay in the kitchen when you are frying, grilling or broiling food. If you leave the kitchen for even a short period of time, turn off the stove. • Keep children away from cooking areas by enforcing a “kid-free zone” of 3 feet around the stove. • Position barbecue grills at least 10 feet away from siding and deck railings, and out from under eaves and overhanging branches.

Electrical safety • Frayed wires can cause fires. Replace all worn, old or damaged appliance cords immediately and do not run cords under rugs or furniture. • If an appliance has a three-prong plug, use it only in a three-slot outlet. Never force it to fit into a two-slot outlet or extension cord. • Immediately shut off light switches that are hot to the touch and lights that flicker, then professionally replace them.

Smoking • Smoke outside and completely stub out butts in an ashtray or a can filled with sand. • Soak cigarette butts and ashes in water before throwing them away. Never toss hot cigarette butts or ashes in the trash can. • Never smoke in a home where oxygen is used, even if it is turned off. Oxygen can be explosive and makes fire burn hotter and faster. • Be alert — don’t smoke in bed! If you are sleepy, have been drinking, or have taken medicine that makes you drowsy, put your cigarette out first.

• Keep combustible objects at least 3 feet away from portable heating devices. • Buy only heaters evaluated by a nationally recognized laboratory, such as Underwriters Laboratories (UL). • Check to make sure the portable heater has a thermostat control mechanism, and will switch off automatically if the heater falls over. • Only use crystal clear K-1 kerosene in kerosene heaters. Never overfill it. Use the heater in a well-ventilated room.

Fireplaces & stoves • Inspect and clean wood stove pipes and chimneys annually and check about once a month for damage or obstructions. • Use a fireplace screen heavy enough to stop rolling logs and big enough to cover the entire opening of the fireplace to catch flying sparks. • Make sure the fire is completely out before leaving the house or going to bed.

More prevention tips • Take the mystery out of fire by teaching children that fire is a tool, not a toy. • Store matches and lighters out of children’s reach and sight, preferably in a locked cabinet. • Never leave children unattended near operating stoves or burning candles, even for a short time. • Never use stove range or oven to heat your home. • Keep combustible and flammable liquids away from heat sources. • Portable generators should never be used indoors and should only be refueled outdoors or in well ventilated areas.

The electrical fire started near the hot tub on the back porch; flames quickly engulfed the Schweigert family’s home in Billings, Montana. Photos courtesy Doug and Karen Schweigert

An unexpected end to a family outing

local firemen take the time to been tucked away in our beds. ne of my earliest memotalk with kids about fire safety — It’s hard to think about my parries is from October 1987, it’s possible those lessons could ents struggling to get four young on an evening when my be the matter between life and family went shopping for Hallow- kids out of a house that was burndeath. ing down. een costumes. Thankfully, we only I don’t remember Just before our house burned, lost belongings that what costume I wore firemen had visited my brother’s day and not one of our that year. What I do class for Fire Prevention Week. loved ones. remember is the drive A melted plastic fireman’s hat I am often rehome from the store. that my brother received was minded of our home As my famamong the charred items that fire around this time ily turned down the remained in his bedroom after of year. Not only does street, we followed the fire. October mark the anfire trucks and amIt’s also important for adults to niversary of when my bulances. Making the review prevention and safety lesfamily’s home burned, sons, too. Though not every fire last turn, we realized they were going to our can be prevented, there are ways TESSA BAKER but it’s also when National Fire Prevention home. to keep your house safe. If you Such is Life Week is observed. Even though I was haven’t considered fire safety in Each October, Powell firemen just a young child at the time, I your home or an escape plan for talk with local schoolchildren can still remember the flashing your family, now’s the time. about fire prevention, safety and lights and the feeling of fear as As my family learned 30 years we realized our home was on fire. what to do if their home catches ago, a house fire can happen to on fire. I’m always thankful that I remember my mom crying, anyone, at anytime. and a neighbor coming to the car, telling my three older siblings and me that everything was going to be OK. As a child, I didn’t understand the severity of the situation. Our home was destroyed, along with most of our possessions. We lost precious sentimental belongings, including family photos and heirlooms. Looking back as an adult, I now appreciate the greatest blessing of that day: We weren’t at home when the fire started. If it had been two or three hours later, my This is the room Tessa (Schweigert) Baker shared with her sister in three siblings and I would have Billings when their family’s home was severely damaged in a fire.

Source: Ready.gov, the official website of the Department of Homeland Security, Tribune graphic by Gary Staebler

Pet fire safety

Home fires are the most com- if you must evacuate, the most mon disaster that the American important thing you can do to Red Cross responds to — and also protect your pets is to evacuate the most preventable. According them, too. But remember: never to the United States Fire Admin- delay escape or endanger youristration, an estimated 500,000 self or family to rescue a family pet. pets are affected In addition to annually by fires. keeping your pets The American An estimated safe from fire, it’s Red Cross offers also important to the following tips 500,000 pets be aware of ways to protect your that pets can acpets in a fire: are affected cidentally ignite • Include pets in your famannually by fires. a fire in your home. Nearly ily plan. This 1,000 home fires includes having — U.S. Fire Administration are accidentally their own disaster started by pets supplies kit as well as arranging in advance for each year, according to the Naa safe place for them to stay if tional Fire Protection Association. you need to leave your home. The American Kennel Club • When you practice your escape plan, practice taking your and ADT Security Services have pets with you. Train them to joined forces to provide the following tips: come to you when you call. • Extinguish open flames: • In the event of a disaster,

Commercial Residential Industrial

INCLUDE ANIMALS IN YOUR SAFETY PLAN Pets are generally curious and will investigate cooking appliances, candles or even a fire in your fireplace. Ensure your pet is not left unattended around an open flame and make sure to thoroughly extinguish any open flame before leaving your home. • Protect stove knobs: Remove stove knobs or protect them with covers before leaving the house — a stove or cook top is the No. 1 piece of equipment involved in your pet starting a fire. • Invest in flameless candles: Rather than an open flame, these candles contain a light bulb and take the danger out of your pet knocking over a candle. Cats are notorious for starting fires when their tails turn over lit candles. • Secure young pets: Keep them confined away from potential fire-starting hazards when you are away from home, such as in crates or behind baby gates in secure areas.

Powerful Service,

Practical People. Licensed and Insured

sheridanincwy@gmail.com

Home of Brad and Tracey Haskell

BUILDING HOMES Building Neighborhoods Located at

203 West

10th Street

Powell

Call for more information!

Two lots available on Monroe St.

Lovell, Wyoming • 307-548-2450 PO Box 325

Originally $62,500, but are now discounted to $59,500! 21,500 sq ft, zoned RL, all services.

FALL HOME IMPROVEMENT

PAGE 12 • POWELL TRIBUNE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2017

Sales, Service & Installation | Residential & Commercial | Free Estimates

Beautiful Garage Doors are Only the Beginning. Cody Overhead Door is the area’s premium supplier and installer of Clopay Pro-Series Doors. Clopay is America’s Number One Garage Door company — more colors, more styles, more window options than any other brand. Choose the best-built doors in America.

Call Cody Overhead Door, your garage door experts.

340 West Yellowstone Avenue • Cody www.codyoverheaddoor.com

Flames fully engulf a room during a fire demonstration on Saturday as Powell firemen Jim Dodds (left) and Kacey Spomer prepare to extinguish the flames. The damage was much more severe in this room, which didn’t have a sprinkler system in place. Tribune photo by Tessa Baker

DEMONSTRATIONS SHOW HOW QUICKLY FIRES SPREAD was some damage, but not as significant; the structure and furniture were smoky, but salvageable. With so many synthetic materials in homes today, fires burn hotter and quicker, said Mike Hawes, a firefighter with the Powell Volunteer Fire Department who led the demonstrations. The National Fire Protection Association warns that, starting from the time a smoke alarm sounds, you may have less than two minutes to get out of a burning house before the situation turns deadly. Firemen also simulated a grease fire on a stove. They showed what happens when water is dumped on a grease fire: “An instantaneous ball of

Fire safety lessons came to life last weekend as dozens of children and adults witnessed real-life blazes at the Powell Fire Hall. Powell firemen set two small rooms on fire as part of fire demonstrations on Saturday afternoon. The first room was fully engulfed in flames from floor to ceiling within 1 minute and 56 seconds. In the second room, a sprinkler system was triggered about 10 to 15 seconds after the fire started. As spectators watched, flames destroyed the first room within minutes, leaving charred walls and smoldering furniture. In the room with the sprinkler system, there

flame,” Hawes said. Typically, you can simply cover the pan if a grease fire starts — assuming the flames aren’t too high. Keep a fire extinguisher or baking soda nearby to douse a grease fire. Never try to carry a pan with grease that’s on fire, since if you spill it, you’re spreading the flames, Hawes said. Fires need heat, fuel and oxygen to burn. If you take out one of the three, the fire dies, Hawes said. The fire demonstrations were part of the Powell fire department’s annual open house, which coincided with Fire Prevention Week.

Home Improvement? Park a new vehicle out front!

Thank you. We greatly appreciate the opportunity to earn your business.

1-800-788-4669 • (307) 754-5743

1105 West Coulter Avenue, Powell • www.garvinmotors.com

From start to finish ...

— Tessa Baker

Lone Pheasant Subdivision

New Construction & Remodels, Countertops, Cabinets & Flooring

subdivision...

Utilities provided to lot line include drinking water, natural gas, electric, and irrigation water. Please call 307-272-5603 or visit www.5nndevelopment.com for more info.

24 HOUR

TRASH SERVICE

EMERGENCY SEPTIC SERVICE

LLC S 587-6616

anitation

170.23'

SW Cor Lot 2 New Life Sub.

88.00' 5.00'

N89°51'50"W-506.46' (N89°51'43"W-506.45')

88.00'

VERIFY SCALE These plans may be reduced. Line below measures 1 inch on original drawings.

SURVEY DATA SHEET

SCALE Horz 1" =H. Scale Vert 1" =V. Scale Dwn by: SHL Chk by: SHL Date: April 1, 2016 Revised: -

76.00'

Lot 15 7616 SF±

30.00'

741 North Day Street Powell, WY 82435 P (307) 754-5830

N89°51'50"W-100.18'

136.15'

Lot 14 9341 SF±

GRANITE ENGINEERING & SURVEYING LLC

90.40'

23.18'

g S Filin ATE ond EST Sec FIELD -8799 144 EN 003 age GRE Doc 2 et G, P in b t Ca Pla

Any use, reuse, or adaptation of this drawing by anyone other than the Engineer for an unintended purpose, or by anyone without written authorization, will be at their own risk and full legal responsibility.

Lot 16 8343 SF±

83.30'

N89°51'50"W-100.13'

S00°06'09"W-429.82' (S00°06'25"W-429.91')

Lot 17 9050 SF±

88.00'

76.00'

Lot 12 12485 SF±

Lot 13 9341 SF±

Shoopman 2 Subdivision

PROJECT NO.

100.23'

SE Cor Lot 2 New Life Sub.

591-E-16 SHEET NO.

C-2

FILE PATH: F:\1 PROJECTS\591-E-14 Shoopman Subdivision\DWG\shoop2\dwg\Construction 032916.dwg

67.02'

90.20' 25.21'

65.19' N00°08'10"E-429.72'

83.30'

Maple Court

8.72' 5.00' 10.00'

SHOOPMAN 2 SUBDIVISION LOT 63-B, LOT 63 (NW4NW4, OS 15), T55N, R99W, 6TH PM PARK COUNTY, WYOMING

89.92'

89.82' 69.06' 47.77' 29.32' 60.00'

73.83'

N00°08'10"E-77.09'

S00°08'10"W-77.09'

152.68'

S00°08'10"W-106.15'

33.3

4' 53.2 47.94'

68.9

S00°08'10"W-106.15'

59.3

36.66'

N89°51'50"W-100.08' 52.14' 1' 57.9

33.3

6' 67.3 60.64'

N89°51'50"W-256.40' 1' 103.72' 2.4 - 56 "W '45 .91' °19 68 S64 S89°51'50"E-256.40' 88.00'

S00°08'10"W-106.15'

.09

120

4° 5

127.71'

N00°08'10"E-164.75'

87.49' S00°08'10"W-137.09' 49.60'

56.28'

3'1 8 73 "W .6 -14 1' 9

15.40'

Lot 4 7501 SF±

99.10' N89°51'50"W-196.40' 5.00'

Lot 11 10049 SF±

Lot 5 7539 SF±

219.71'

74.20' S00°08'10"W-263.51'

Cederwood Drive

N89°51'50"W-97.30'

Lot 18 9025 SF± Buried Drain Easement

Basis of Bearing N00°05'55"E-451.48' (N00°05'32"E-451.51')

87.49'

N89°51'50"W-89.94'

W. Line Lot 2 New Life Sub.

Lot 3 7506 SF±

N89°51'50"W-99.10'

10.00'

N89°51'50"W-100.03'

60.00'

N ISIO DIV SUB 170 161 LIFE2012-5 Page NEW Doc et K, bin t Ca Pla LOT

LOT

Lot 19 8987 SF±

60.00'

N89°51'50"W-105.02'

Lot 6 7542 SF±

5.00'

NE Cor Lot 2 New Life Sub.

99.98'

43.16'

S00°08'10"W-85.62'

53.60' 154.64'

Lot 9 7522 SF±

5.00'

Lot 2 7501 SF±

S00°08'10"W-429.69'

8°

3 1'2

8.4

-7

Lot 10 7871 SF±

30.00'

N89°51'50"W-112.21' 0'

9.6

N89°51'50"W-89.99'

28.04'

LL C

872 E. NORTH ST., POWELL — 31 PEARSON AVE., CODYS — 1121 HWY. 14A W, LOVELL

-8

74.60'

Keele

-209.38'

Keele

Call Us Today!

'56

S89°55'11"E-159.98' (S89°56'57"E-160.00') 30.00'

Lot 1 7513 SF±

69.44'

i t a t i o n,

Lot 7 10206 SF±

S05°48'13"E

We Haul It All

7°

119.00'

587-6616

Big or Small ...

YOU CAN DEPEND ON!

Keele

DEMOLITION DISPOSAL

105.17'

Lot 8 10785 SF±

S ATE EST 5 IELD -832 e 73 ENF 001 Pag GRE Doc 2 et G, bin t Ca la P

S00°13'13"W-21.84' (S00°05'55"E-21.75')

S89°52'07"E-346.56' (S89°52'44"E-346.56')

122.39'

PORTABLE TOILETS

NW Cor Lot 2 New Life Sub POB (5.17 AC±)

65.34'

QUALITY SERVICE

SEPTIC SERVICE

N ISIO BDIV S SU INE 706 70 G P 04-3 age 1 ERINoc 20 t G, P P IS D ine b WH t Ca Pla

now under development!

Homes starting at

$225,000

174 WEST NORTH STREET • POWELL, WYOMING • 307-754-7090

FALL HOME IMPROVEMENT

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2017 POWELL TRIBUNE • PAGE 13

The front of Dave and Cindy Blevins’ house in Rockport, Texas, after Hurricane Harvey. Photos courtesy Dave Blevins

Rebuilding

LOCAL MAN WORKING TO SAVE TEXAS HOUSE AFTER HURRICANE HARVEY

AFTER HURRICANE Seeing that devastation, Blevins said he was distressed and saddened for the people who experienced such destrucespite all the news coverage tion. “Tragedies like this result in so about Hurricane Harvey’s destruction in southern Texas, many uprooted lives — homes de“you can’t get a feel for it until you stroyed, jobs lost and businesses closed smell it or look down the street and — that it takes many years to recover,” he said. see it.” But the Blevins’ house was built Dave Blevins came to that realization as he drove into Rockport, Texas, after Hurricane Katrina, so it was connearly two weeks after the hurricane structed to meet the new, hurricaneslammed into the small coastal town resistant building code established after that hurricane disaster, which hit with 130 mph winds. “Rockport is where the hurricane Louisiana and Mississippi in 2005. “The houses that were built to code [made landfall], even though you after Katrina were bolted tohear a lot about Houston,” gether,” and they have therBlevins said. “It came right mal window panes, he said. to the front door.” As a result, the house Blevins and his wife, Cinremained intact and on its dy, own a house in Rockport. foundation, and the exterior Blevins took Powell contracwas undamaged by Hurtor Dan Anderson with him ricane Harvey. Unlike some Sept. 7 to assess the damage areas where the storm surge from the Aug. 25 hurricane swelled to 9 feet, there was and begin work to save the minimal storm surge around house. the Blevins’ house, which As they drove through is on an island. The ocean Rockport and the surroundDAVE BLEVINS around the island is only ing areas, they saw houses that were cut in half, and interior doors 15 feet deep for 3 miles, limiting the to rooms, closets and pantries were amount of water that can build up in a storm surge, he said. torn off. Even so, the interior of the house “Everything in the pantry or rooms was still there, in some cases,” but had considerable water damage. One much of their contents were molding window was broken, but more damage or rotting in the moist heat, he said. came from wind-driven rain that found Many homes were blown or washed off its way through seals around the doors and other windows. their foundations. “Water at 130 mph will find any The oak tree is the hallmark of the Rockport community. “They’re very, access into a house,” Blevins said. very sturdy old trees, but many of them “That’s what caused our damage. Even were uprooted and blown over into though they were caulked, the caulking houses. It was quite devastating to the gave way.” For the first two days of their work, town,” he said. In their area, “probably one-third of Blevins and Anderson had no electrici[the houses] were torn off their foun- ty, and only intermittent water service. Their first task was to remove all dations, or in some cases, are literally gone,” Blevins said. “Hurricanes are the wet wallboard from the interior of so large, it’s hard to get your mind See Blevins, Page 15 wrapped around it.”

BY ILENE OLSON Tribune Staff Writer

The devastation left behind by Hurricane Harvey is very apparent in this photo taken from a street corner in Rockport, Texas. ‘Palm trees are hard to blow over,’ Dave Blevins said. ‘Stand them up again, pour water on them, and they’re good to go.’

‘Tragedies like this result in so many uprooted lives — homes destroyed, jobs lost and businesses closed — that it takes many years to recover.’

Above, hurricane bracing in the walls of the Blevins home can be seen after the wallboard was removed. The extra bracing is required by a new building code established after Hurricane Katrina, which hit Louisiana and Mississippi in 2005. Left, a tape measure shows a 1/8inch bow in the glass of a door after Hurricane Harvey.

Dave Blevins

Large format

SCANNING, PRINTING & BINDING

Get your equipment serviced for winter storage! We offer rentals for all your home improvement needs.

Special Pricing on our closeout mowers! Call today!

of construction documents, building plans & project manuals.

Flush your worries away! Specializing in any and all residential plumbing repairs! Sewer line repairs and replacements Clogged drains • Fixture repairs Water and gas re-pipes Sewer Camera and Sewer Jetting

FREE local delivery! Can ship anywhere.

FREE ESTIMATES!

TARGET

A Quality Job at a Fair Price! Over 17 years of experience!

24-HOUR EMERGENCY CALL OUT SERVICE

Printing

Construction documents for the Big Horn Basin & beyond.

307-272-5073 ~ www.target-printing.com

PLUMBING LLC • 307.272.9123 ,

POWELL, WYOMING • BONDED/INSURED

PAGE 14 • POWELL TRIBUNE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2017

Family-owned plumbing business relocates to Powell

FALL HOME IMPROVEMENT

Providing

From the Beartooths to the Big Horns

Real Estate Home Inspections

Combustion Testing including Carbon Monoxide, Friendly Place. Infrared ScansSerious & Blower Door Covering trust th d . . . Big Horn, i s b r a nPark, Testing Washakie, and Hot Springs counties.

Service.

He cautions people against A plumber with over 17 years of experience recently relocated using flushable wipes; even if the label says “flush,” the wipes to Powell. Jesse Blankenship and his shouldn’t be put down the toilet. Over the years, he has seen wife, Jamie, own The Real Deal Plumbing. They decided to a lot of problems, including pipes that were move from TucOwner/Inspector so clogged with son, Arizona, to years’ worth of Wyoming to be ‘We’re happy to Your home owned company’s serving your wipes that the closer to family. ronhwillis@hotmail.com title insurance and real estate needs! be in Powell and whole piping had Jamie Blankento be redone, Jaship is from Ther- closer to family.’ Inspector mie said. mopolis. The Real Deal They chose Jamie Blankenship Plumbing is a Powell because The Real Deal Plumbing Insurance family-owned of the qualAgency ity schools, she said. Their two business, and Jamie is the manteenage kids, Dylan and Jaz, ager. Dylan will be 18 in a couLLC started at Powell High School ple months, and he accompanies his dad on some plumbing jobs. last month. “Jesse has taken him out on The family loves living in jobs since he was like 5,” Jamie Powell, Jamie said. 1014 Rumsey in Cody 1040 N. 6th in Greybull “Everybody’s so nice,” she said. 307.587.4926 307.765.9999 Their daughter Jaz also helps said. “The atmosphere is great. with paperwork at the business. It’s very friendly.” The family is looking forward Jesse is a full service plumber who specializes in all residential to getting settled in the complumbing repairs. That includes munity. “We’re happy to be in Powell clogged drains, water and gas a variety closer to offers family,” Jamie of in home windows. You can choose from materials and styles designed to comre-pipes, fixture repairs and and Milgard sewer line repairs and replace- said. plement nearly every home's architecture and style. All Milgard windows are custom made to order to For more information, call ments. Jesse also does sewer exact specifications at no extra charge or extended lead-time. THE BIGGEST SELECTION OF jetting, has a sewer camera and The Real Deal Plumbing at 307MILWAUKEE TOOLS IN TOWN! also provides a 24-hour emer- 272-9123. — Tessa Baker gency call-out service.

Ron Willis,

307-202-0359

Jason Brost,

Park & Big Horn

307-250-5275

Wyoming Home Inspection Network

County Title

For All the Choices You Want … ® …And Milgard's Unbeatable Quality. One Stop Shopping For www.wyohomeinspection.com

Tracy and Quin LaFollette, owners

10 Willow Road • Cody, WY 82414

Home Improvements!

Whatever your architectural style, you’ll have peace-of-mind assurance with Milgard’s Lifetime warranty and quality features like standard SunCoat ® low-e glass, PureView™ window screens or Milgard’s exclusive SmartTouch™ locks.

BUILDING

HOME IMPROVING, BUY RIGHT, BUILD RIGHT, START WITH THE PROS!! Friendly Place. Serious Service. Visa, MasterCard, Discover & American Express are same as cash at our stores.

1075 West Coulter Ave • Powell • 307.754.8180 • www.bloedornlumber.com U ni q u e D e s i g n s • P r o f e s s i o n a l Pl a n n i ng

The Powell Tribune provides its audience with SIX C’s unique to media.

The Powell Tribune reaches its local and area market with SIX UNIQUE VALUES not always shared by social media.

COMMUNITY • COOPERATION • CONTINUITY CREDIBILITY • CONSENSUS • COMMITMENT

Depending on where you live, contaminants could be in your tap water, but a water filtration system or filtered pitcher can help ensure water is safe to drink. Courtesy photo

A HEALTHIER HOME What impact does your home have on your health? From controlling the types of materials used within your home to keeping an eye on indoor air quality, these tips can help you create a healthier, more earth-friendly indoor environment. Although it may not be practical to implement all of these ideas at once, little by little, you can make small changes that add up to a big difference. • Replace air filters: Old, dirty air filters can circulate dust, pollen and other particles throughout your home. They can also cause your heater and air conditioner to run less efficiently, which can result in higher energy consumption. Rather than pushing potentially harmful dust particles into your house and causing systems to work overtime, inspect your air filter often and change it regularly. If you have pets inside your home, change filters more often. Homeowners also may consider installing an air purifier. • Deal with dust: Even if you don’t struggle with allergies or asthma, over time, dust particles can be unhealthy for you and your family. Vacuum frequently and use a wet mop on floors without carpet to limit the formation of dust bunnies throughout your home. Clean and replace your vacuum’s filter frequently to ensure you’re trapping maximum dust. Also regularly wash towels, linens and other textiles, including window treatments. • Ditch plastic food containers: Some plastics are not as high quality as many Ameri-

cans may think. Containers can contain toxic materials, making them potentially harmful — especially when used for storing food. Instead, opt for glass, silicone, cloth or stainless steel storage containers, which pose fewer toxicity risks and are friendlier for the environment. Plus, many non-plastic containers can be placed directly in the oven or microwave to safely reheat food. • Use a water filter: Depending on where you live, different contaminants could reside in your tap water. Rather than risk consuming contaminants or drinking bottled water — which can generate significant waste — consider attaching a water filtration device to your faucet or using a filtered pitcher. Some refrigerators also have a filtered water option. • Clean green: Cleaning products can be made with ingredients that are harmful to the environment, as well as your family’s health. Make sure you know what is in your household cleaners before using them and, whenever possible, look for cleaners that have been certified as green. • Install eco-friendly insulation: Certain materials in your home, such as insulation, can be replaced with sustainable options that also improve indoor air quality. Consider replacing existing insulation with sheep’s wool insulation. All-natural, safe-to-handle wool insulation manages moisture while improving indoor air quality. — Family Features

COOPERATION.

The Powell Tribune provides families with information about everything that brings them together: high school sports, city government updates, local entertainment opportunities, weather, births, marriages and deaths.

Purple Out Game

COMMUNITY.

SMALL CHANGES CAN MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE

The Powell Tribune encourages

The most important, of course, is the creation of a sense of

It often takes leadership in the bringing together of various interests to accomplish good for the community. It also recognizes the efforts of others working for the good of the community and encourages support and involvement. The printed newspaper can bring people together while TO HONOR CALVIN SANDERS many independent digital sites promote dissension.

Lady Panther

Volleyball

Silent Auction starting at 4pm with the freshman match & ending at 6:30pm

Call 754-1000 to order your shirt or hat today!

The Powell Tribune provides

CONTINUITY.

It is the first recorder of local history and the source most often turned to for details regarding earlier historical events and activities and even family history. No other source can be so easily researched or duplicated. The Powell Tribune has been here since 1909 chronicling the permanent recordthe inconveniences of this community. of

The Powell Tribune is respected for its

CREDIBILITY.

It stakes its reputation and financial future on researching the facts and providing every side of an issue. When questions arise the Proceeds from the sale of t-shirts, hats favored statement is, & the auction will go towards Calvin’s fight against pancreatic cancer. “It’s true, I read it in the At Powell High School newspaper”. That is in FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 strong contrast to “It must be true, I read it on the internet”. That last comment usually results in a condescending laugh from those in the crowd.

PAGE 4 • POWELL TRIBUNE THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Remembering postcards and telegrams

That credibility leads to the Tribune’s ability to create

CONSENSUS.

When it comes to making community decisions it is the newspaper that best gathers the opinions around both sides of the question. Broadcast reports the news in bits and pieces but seldom provides all the extenuating details. Social media sites provide many adverse and condescending opinions, often self-fulfilling, that lead to greater dissension and controversy.

IN OUR OPINION

Kneeling for anthem misses the point It began last season as a single act of defiance: San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaerpernick choosing to kneel during the national anthem before a game, a silent protest against the treatment of African-Americans in this country. At the time, many questioned whether a football game was the proper venue for a political statement, especially during a threeminute piece of music long thought to be nothing more than a means to honor our country, what it stands for and the men and women who have and continue to serve to protect it. Fast-forward to last Sunday, and what began as a single player’s protest a season ago has culminated into a national debate, as players (and a few owners) from around the league chose to kneel during the national anthem prior to the day’s games. Reaction, of course, was immediate, as pundits on both sides of the issue took to social media, print and the airwaves to express either support or disdain for the players’ actions. At the center of it all, our president, who rarely has a thought he doesn’t tweet, called for the National Football League to make a stand and fire players, ingratiating himself into an argument his office shouldn’t have time for. That seems to have created a situation where some athletes are choosing to kneel to raise awareness for civil liberties, some to clap back at President Trump and others to stand by their teammates. Either way, we’d ask that they leave the flag and the national anthem out of it. We have far too many friends and family members who have served this country and its flag with honor and distinction. Despite the president’s inflammatory rhetoric, neither the flag nor the anthem are representations of the current administration. Since Kaepernick began this narrative, the argument has been made repeatedly that his right to protest is exactly why our armed forces fight in the first place. That is correct, and most who served will agree. But just because you have the right to do something doesn’t make it a good idea. Many recent events should have taught us that. And choosing the anthem and the flag as your platform of protest does nothing but disparage each icon’s historical significance. As stated before, depending on the version, the national anthem plays for approximately three minutes. Reciting the Pledge of Allegiance? Fifteen seconds. It seems like such a small amount of time devoted to remembering why we have our freedoms to begin with. For that reason, we will continue to recite the Pledge of Allegiance before school board and city council meetings. We will stand and remove our hats during the playing of the national anthem at local sporting events. And we will proudly display the flag, not because we feel we have to, but because we choose to. We are making a statement. What will yours be?

t’s hard to believe that I never talked on a telephone until I was 12 years old. It’s not that they weren’t invented yet, it was due to the fact that there wasn’t a phone installed in our house. There may have been one sometime in the past, but during the Depression not many people could afford to pay for a phone. Our neighbors, the Scotts, had one but they lived 2 miles south of us. The Kruegars, who lived a mile north, also had a phone. If there was an emergency or a baby about to be born, someone could drive to one of the neighbors to make a call. Rarely did anyone call us from another place. Long distance calls were very expensive and it was quite a bother to have to drive a mile or two to contact someone. The first time I talked on the telephone was when I was in middle school. The girls who worked in the school office would occasionally receive a call for a student who would be called out of class to come to the phone. My aunt who had recently moved to Powell had an important message for me to give my mother. I was called out of class to go to the office to receive the call. With some trepidation I picked up the phone and put it to my ear. When no one spoke to me the office girl said, “You have to say hello.” I had no way of knowing how it all worked and had a lot to learn. If someone had an important message to relay to a person

destination the next day. He was without a phone, a telegram was an acceptable method of commu- pretty disgusted with me and never asked me out again. As nication and it could be received it turned out, it was his brother within a reasonable amount of who had the bad reputation that time. Sometimes a telegram my dad was concerned about! would announce the birth of a When I was a high school baby the day it was born instead senior, my brother Wayne and of having to wait for a letter in I liked to occasionally go to the mail. Lovell to the Saturday night When my Uncle Herman dances, so during returned home from Christmas vacation his 2 1/2 year mission we got dressed up to to the Tongan Islands, go. About the time the man at the telewe were to leave, graph office in Powell two fellows I’d dated drove out to the farm previously — who to deliver a telegram were home from advising my grandthe University of parents that he would Wyoming — drove be on the train from up to our house. They Billings to Deaver the each wondered if I’d next day. They were RUBY LYNN like to go to the dance there to meet him! HOPKIN at Lovell. I was in a When we kids Guest columnist quandary as to which became teenagers it date to accept. When wasn’t easy to arrange Morris mentioned that he had a date with someone. When I written a week earlier that he started dating at age 16, my dad might be up during the vacation, was pretty strict about whom I I decided to go to the dance with dated and where we were going him. Needless to say, Jack never before I could accept. One day, asked me out again. If we’d have when I was in town, I accepted a date with a boy whose family was had a phone, I could have avoided the embarrassment! known by my dad. When I told When I was at BYU, things dad about it, he said I couldn’t weren’t any better. Not many of go because he had heard some us could afford to have a land bad things about him. So I relucline. You had to see your friends tantly sent a postcard canceling in person to get a message the date. A couple of days later, across. Sometimes your landlord my date arrived at our house could receive a call for you and expecting me to be ready to go to transfer a message, but it had to the movies. He hadn’t received be pretty important! Who would the card which usually got to its

have ever dreamed that in later years everyone would have a phone in their pocket. After Burchell and I were married and moved to the farm in 1951, there were only three or four phones in Penrose and none of them were ours. It was about 10 years later that the telephone company started expanding their phone service and changed from a telephone switchboard situation to a dial tone. Even then, there were EIGHT parties on our line! It was almost impossible to call in! When calling out, you had to be a little rude sometimes and interrupt someone else’s conversation if you felt that your call was more important. It finally got down to a two-party line and finally to a private line which was a real improvement! I wonder if those who grew up with telephone service really appreciate what a convenience it is. I still feel overwhelmed with the progress that has been made over the years and how easy communication is these days. I truly appreciate a phone call once in a while to check in with friends, family and grandkids! (Ruby Hopkin grew up in Mantua. She and her late husband, Burchell, raised their family in Penrose, where Burchell farmed. She published a book, “Pieces of Pie: A Collection of Reminiscences,” earlier this year.)

Powell Tribune editorials are signed by the writer. They express the view of the Powell Tribune Editorial Board, which includes Publisher Dave Bonner, General Manager Toby Bonner, Editor CJ Baker, Features Editor Tessa Baker and Sports/News Editor Don Cogger.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Marine addresses the NFL’s ‘kneelers’ Dear Editor: First, thank you for exercising your right. It tells me my life-work as a Marine was not in vain. To show the world that you are not beholden to anything, much less to a piece of fabric blowing in the wind which is held in the highest esteem by others. Did you know that, since 1775, more than 4 million U.S. servicemen (and women) have given their lives for “that rag”? One of the duties I had to perform was to tell mama she now had one less child. (By the way, that is extremely more difficult than keeping your quarterback from getting sacked!) During the conduct of a military funeral we carefully, and respectfully, remove and appropriately fold the American flag. It was my task to present this flag to the next of kin — a real inadequate substitute for their loved one. Frequently this flag is placed in a triangular box, with glass on one side, and carefully put in a place of honor within the home. Now, when I see you kneel during the playing of my national anthem, I see your knee

resting in the blood of my fallen comrades. It is not a pleasing image. I truly wish you would not get angry with others, many others, who are also exercising their hard-won rights — people who publicly cast aspersions on your parentage, or words to that effect. They quite likely have a small triangular box on their mantel that contains the flag that covered their child’s coffin. Your actions should in no way affect the performance of your team. (I’m willing to bet that one, or more, of your teammates have lived in a home where a triangular box was reverently displayed.) Am I going to be quite as willing to throw my body in front of 300 pounds moving at 60 mph to protect the scorner of my dead brother? Perhaps. A million people, at least, watched no pro football last weekend. That number is just getting started and will grow exponentially. As the income goes, so goes the salaries and so goes the sport! God bless the kneelers. P.S. I ain’t God! Robert M. Neff Retired Gunnery Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps Powell

WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU Letters to the editor are encouraged. We offer the forum, and we want to see it used. All letters must be signed, and include the author’s home address and phone number. Addresses and phone numbers will not be published, but will be used to verify authorship. The Tribune will not publish anonymous letters, letters signed with pseudonyms, or letters with “name withheld by request.” The Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters. The Tribune will not publish letters that single out commercial businesses or individuals for praise, thanks or criticism, unless the information is related to an issue of public interest. We offer a forum for expressions of thanks through paid advertising.

cj@powelltribune.com • Powell Tribune • 128 S. Bent, Powell, WY

If I had my life to live over ...

his is a serious topic: If you had your life to live over, how would you live it? It seemed appropriate that I started to write this column on the longest day of the year — June 20. It has taken me a few months to finish it. This is my attempt to define a perfect life and how important it is to aspire to live that perfect life. I write this as a new greatgrandfather, as of three months ago, when little Hailey Renee Marie Barnett came into the world. I am writing this for her, plus our 13 grandchildren and all those other descendants who are not here yet. My most important conclusion is that the greatest wealth a man can acquire in his lifetime is a healthy and loving family. Nothing else comes close. So just how “deep” should I make this essay? Well, here goes: In recent years I have been hanging out with some folks who contend your most important goals in life should be finding truth, goodness and beauty. Looking back on a career in journalism, it is easy to agree about the importance of truth. Rarely is truth relative. When all the facts are in, truth will usually rise to the top. When I was younger, I loved the concept that all things were

raphers. I love their outlook when relative, which means just about it comes to Wyoming. A great everything was determined by many of them love a foggy day the situation. After years of dealor a hard rain or a heavy snow ing with life, you realize that because of the opportunities it relativism is overrated. There gives them to photograph our are absolute truths in this world beautiful landscape in a new way. and you need to find them out Now, I try very hard and then live your life to not complain about accordingly. There is the weather. This is right versus wrong. difficult as I get older. There is good versus If I had my life to bad. Character and live over, I would not ethics are real and have squandered so both will help you find much money and time the truth. on toys. A big boat In my life, I did not comes to mind. Sure, have to look too far to we had a lot of fun find real goodness. My with it, but what an wife Nancy of 51 years BILL SNIFFIN expense and what a is the best person I have ever known. How Guest columnist time suck. For a long time I on earth I ever found believed that whoever died with her is a big mystery to me. She is the most toys wins. What a joke! the best thing that ever happened And it really is a joke. I think a to me and let’s hope all you folks better saying would be, “He who out there reading this will be as dies with the most friends wins.” fortunate when it comes to relaI should have gotten in better tionships. physical shape. This would have Nancy is a Jefferson Award allowed me to better explore recipient for all the good she has this wonderful country we live done in raising money to fight in. Sure, I have been all over cancer and helping the needy Wyoming from the Medicine with the Christmas food basket Wheel to Medicine Bow and from program. Pinedale to Pine Bluffs and from When it comes to beauty, I say Evanston to Evansville, but there just open your eyes. We live in are places that are unreachable a beautiful place populated by because of not being in good beautiful people. enough physical condition. In recent years, I have worked One old-timer once wrote that, with 54 Wyoming-based photog-

POWELL TRIBUNE (USPS 440-860) • ISSN: 0740-1078 128 S. Bent • Phone: 307-754-2221 • Fax: 754-4873 E-mail: toby@powelltribune.com Dave Bonner, Publisher In memoriam, Diane Bonner (1939-2001) This independently owned newspaper published by: Print, Inc., dba Powell Tribune President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shelby Wetzel Vice President/General Manager . . . . . . . Toby Bonner Secretary/Treasurer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Brad Bonner

Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CJ Baker Features Editor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Tessa Baker Sports/News Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Don Cogger Staff Writers . . . . Ilene Olson, Breanne Thiel, Mark Davis Columnists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Don Amend, Doug Blough Advertising Consultant . . . Chris Hassler, Jessica Herweyer Pressman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jamie Smith Pressman Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gilbert Wozney Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . Steve Johnston, Carla Wensky, Gary Staebler Office Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joan Roberts Proofreader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sandy Thiel Circulation & Billing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . June Burling Receptionist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jacque Doerr

if she could live her life over, she would have eaten more ice cream and less beans. I think I did eat my quota of ice cream and probably should have been eating more beans. If I could live my life over, I would not have been so competitive. I was a holy terror to my business competitors and, as a result, they were hard on me. And I was even way too competitive with family and friends. Bless your business competitors because they make you better. But it took me way too long to learn that I could get much more done through cooperation rather than through intense competition. I liken my life to a baseball game and we get to play nine innings. If so, I am hoping this is the middle of the seventh and it is time for a stretch. Maybe time to sing the song Sweet Caroline. Sure hope it is not the bottom of the ninth. If I had my life to live over, I would find more joy in everything that I did. And I would strive to provide joy to others as a main goal of my life. (Check out additional columns from Bill Sniffin at www.billsniffin.com. Sniffin, of Lander, has published six books, with his coffee table book series selling 30,000 copies. You can find them at www.wyomingwonders.com.)

Published Semi-Weekly on Tuesday and Thursday at Powell, WY. Periodicals Postage Paid at Powell, WY SUBSCRIPTION RATES: 6 month subscription . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $30 12 month subscription . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $50 Subscriptions include access to Tribune e-edition Postmaster, Send Address Changes to: The Powell Tribune, P.O. Box 70, Powell, WY 82435 E-Mail: toby@powelltribune.com Website: www.powelltribune.com WYOMING PRESS ASSOCIATION MEMBER 2017

2016 Award-winning Newspaper

Finally, The Powell Tribune has

COMMITMENT.

From the beat reporter to editors, the Tribune employees know their role and purpose. They report the good and the bad, the entertaining and the devastating, the simple stories and the in-depth interviews, game scores, what is happening in the schools, on main street and with local industry.

The Powell Tribune management and employees care first of all about the community they live in and the future of the people who live here. That commitment alone is the main reason this publication will never disappear from the market that supports it in return.

MEMBER: National Newspaper Association

307-754-2221 • 128 S outh Bent Street • Powell, W yoming • w w w.powelltribune.com

BEETS, TOPS & LIVESTOCK THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2017 POWELL TRIBUNE • PAGE 15

FALL HOME IMPROVEMENT

We’re Going

We Sort, Salvage & Recycle directly from your waste stream

• Metal • Clean Wood • Concrete • Tires • Methane Gas • Reusable Items

Ask about our paperless billing

587-9651

Broken and missing roof tiles are among the visible damage to the Blevins’ house in Rockport, Texas, on the left and their neighbors’ home to the right. Photos courtesy Dave Blevins

Blevins: ‘Water at 130 mph will find any access ...’ Continued from Page 13 the house. “We took up most of the sheetrock, and the [wood] flooring is being taken up as we speak,” he said last week. “We really slowed up the process of mold and wetness, anyway.” If the wet materials aren’t removed, “then you really have problems,” Blevins said. As they took off the walboard, Blevins and Anderson could see the fortified construction inside the walls. Bolted metal elbows with large bolts secure the corners of the walls, and the floors are bolted to the foundation. Wooden 1x4s are fastened horizontally and diagonally onto the outside of the exterior wall studs, providing greater support for the walls. And furnaces are put in the attic. “Dan pointed out the improvements,” Blevins said. The house must dry for a couple of months before repairs

can begin. Concrete tile roofing on the house was replaced earlier this month, for which Blevins said he is grateful. He’s since heard there is no roof tile left in the area. While Blevins is working to preserve and eventually restore the house, their neighbors and people throughout southern Texas are doing the same. He said 60 percent of Rockport residents stayed in their homes during the hurricane, either because they had no place to go, or because they were unable to afford a long drive or extended stays in a hotel. But they had one thing in their favor: CJ Wax, mayor of Rockport, is a retired major general in the U.S. Air Force. “As far as a small town being prepared, this is probably the most prepared small town in the country,” Blevins said. “There were no deaths attrib-

uted directly to the hurricane,” though one man died of a heart attack. It will take an estimated four years for Rockport to rebuild. Statistics show that 40 percent of small businesses lost in a hurricane do not reopen, and about 20 percent that struggle to remain open close after a year, he said. Even so, “The communities are so resilient. ... People do this individually for themselves” without waiting for help, if they’re able. That’s a good thing, he added, because the devastation was so broad that help is hard to come by, he added. People in the area are determined not to let circumstances stop them, he said, as illustrated by the local high school football team, which played its opening game just one week after Hurricane Harvey hit. “That was a good sign, I think,” Blevins said.

— BARRY & TAWNYA HERDT — COMMERCIAL - RESIDENTIAL - INDUSTRIAL

QUALITY GUARANTEED! 24-HOUR CALL-OUT SERVICE · LICENSED IN WY & MT

488 WEST NORTH ST - POWELL - 754-8480

Our Business is Rockin! WE’VE GOT YOU COVERED!

CRUSHED ROAD BASE - PIT RUN - 3-1/2” CRUSHED JAW RUN 1” CLEAN ROCK - PEA GRAVEL - LANDSCAPE ROCK - TOPSOIL - AMENDED TOPSOIL - COMPOST 5/8” TO 2” AND 2” TO 3” ROUND SCREENED ROCK 5/8” TO 1” ROCK - 1” TO 2” ROCK - 2” TO 3” ROCK - 3” TO 6” ROCK

Debris piles up in yards as soggy and broken materials are removed from damaged homes.

DONATE AND VOLUNTEER WISELY When disaster strikes, people come together to help. To make the most of your contributions, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) provides these tips for donating and volunteering responsibly: • If you need help in determining who to give to, the National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster website www. nvoad.org has a list of major non-profits active in disaster work. A financial contribution to a recognized disaster relief organization is the most effective donation to make. When the people support voluntary organizations with financial contributions, it helps ensure a steady flow of important services to the people in need after a disaster. • Before collecting donations, connect with organizations working in the affected area to identify what is needed, how much is needed, and when it is needed. Identify transportation to move the items to where they are needed. • Used clothing is never needed in a disaster area. Donate used clothing locally to an organization that has a year round mission with used clothing — or sell used clothing at a yard sale and donate the money raised to a responding organization. • Volunteer with a non-profit organization and be trained to find meaningful volunteer opportunities following a disaster. See National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster www. nvoad.org for more information and to sign up for volunteer opportunities.

LOCALLY OWNED AND OPERATED 1069 ROAD 9 O: 754-3449 SPOMERCONST@TCTWEST.NET C: 272-5198

THE RIGHT TOOLS FOR YOUR HOME IMPROVEMENT PROJECT!

We’ve got the tools ...

to do the job right!

596 GATEWAY DRIVE • POWELL POWELL, WY

307-754-7909

FIND US BETWEEN FREMONT & GARVIN MOTORS

www.gail-construction.com

Four generations of ...

Custom Projects! Call us today for a consultation!

3 2 4 3 B I G H O R N A V E N U E • C O D Y, W Y O M I N G • 3 0 7 - 5 8 7 - 3 4 4 5

PAGE 16 • POWELL TRIBUNE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2017

FALL HOME IMPROVEMENT

An October garden checklist

ctober can be a beautiful bridge month between fall and winter. Our days are noticeably shorter, bright and much cooler. October is a busy time in the garden — it is time to prepare for the harsh cold and snow of winter but also a time to enjoy every moment you can spend outdoors. Here are a few ideas of tasks that should be done before winter sets in: • Drain, clean and store or cover freestanding fountains and water pots. • Birdbaths are also to be emptied if they are stone or ceramic and lay them over to keep future moisture from accumulating. If you keep water in them they should have a heat source to keep them from freezing. • Prepare for snow. As I write this we had our first accumulating snow last night and are in for a heavy frost tonight. If you have not had this event yet, it is coming. These early snows are usually very heavy and wet and can damage trees and plants. Most trees in the storms today had many of their leaves yet. Keep a broom handy to sweep the snow away and lighten the load on the branches. • Winterize your watering system. Drain your irrigation system and insulate the backBefore winter sets in, autumn tasks include raking leaves from lawn areas. You can use leaves for mulch or compost, unless they are diseased. It’s also important to winterize your flow preventer. Remove hoses watering system. Courtesy photos from faucets and drain them. Store hoses in a handy location pletely and not use it as mulch to look at when you are gazing veggies in the garden yet, now for winter watering. out the window in the winter is a good time to harvest them. or compost. • Remove leaves from the longing for spring. I also leave They will keep a long time in • Amend the soil. If you are lawn areas. If left some hearty metal wind spinthe crisper of your refrigeraplanning to install a on the lawn they ners out that are visible from new veggie or flower tor. will compact under my kitchen window. They are • Clean off the deck. We garden next spring, the snow, smotherattractive with snow on them always store small tables, now is a great time ing the lawn and and fun to watch when the rugs, shades and garden décor to prepare the soil. contributing to wind is blowing. from the deck in the garage The soil is pretty problems like snow • Last but not least, enjoy until spring. I leave large perdry at this time and mold. Leaves make puttering. Pull weeds and manent planters with the dirt is easily worked great mulch, or you spent annuals, and harvest the inside them, just cutting back rather in the spring can shred them with last of the herbs. Soak up the when soils are damp. the foliage. This keeps it from the lawnmower blowing around the deck in the sun on those last few warm When spring comes and add them to days and enjoy the fall colors. winter wind. you are ready to SUZANNE the compost pile. If Soon it will all be gone for the • Leave your ornamental plant. LARSEN some of your foliage year. grasses uncut and seed heads • If you have carHow Does Your is diseased you need (Suzanne Larsen of Cody is on flowers and shrubs for the rots, beets, onions to remove it coma Master Gardener.) birds. This creates something or other cool-season Garden Grow?

HOURS: Monday-Saturday (7:30am-6pm) • Sunday (10:00am-4:30pm)

886859607405

STORES

Carhartt Men’s Vest The Carhartt Quick Duck Jefferson Vest has a lightweight feel and heavyweight capabilities. It comes with Carhartt’s water-repellent Rain Defender finish, a mock-neck collar with zip-through.

15-Amp 14-inch Abrasive

www.lintonsbigr.com Saw 89 99 Cutoff Proudly supporting Wyoming Each post we sell comes

ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE

4HP motor provides overload protection. Quick-lock vise allows for fast clamping on different size materials.

CMC Steel • USA Made

STEEL

POSTS

• Low closing costs • Interest may be tax deductible

• Use it for anything you want or need

with 5 Free Clips!

WITH A HOME EQUITY LOAN FROM PINNACLE BANK • Borrow up to 80% of your home’s value

Big R Price

5-1/2 foot • .125 weight

Single Lot-$3.59/ea 200 Lot-----$3.49/ea 600 Lot-----$3.39/ea

MS271

Farm Boss Chainsaw LORA JEFFS

VP REAL ESTATE 31 years of Real Estate Lending Experience

Pre-separation air filtration system that’s so effective, your air filter can last up to five times longer (now that’s high performance).

KODI COLEMAN

20-Inch Bar & Chain

REAL ESTATE LENDER 15 years of Loan Processing Experience

POWELL 175 North Evarts Street, 307.754.7955 • wypinnbank.com

T H E

W AY

B A N K I N G

S H O U L D

Big R Sale Price

399

15795

20-Volt MAX Lithium-Ion Cordless Brushless

Drill

D28710

2 Tools • 2 Batteries • Charger

Sale Price

19995

Driver DCK277C2

Cold Weather Pigskin Leather Multi-Purpose with Thermal Insulation

Kinco Work

Gloves Low Big R Price

1699

B E

STORES 17_PW11_PWL_ONE_YEAR_CELEBRATION_LENDER_AD2.indd 1

Sale Price

3/10/17 3:49 PM

455 South Absaroka, Powell, Wyoming • 307-754-9521

Cody to Powell Toll Free 587-2668 • Toll Free 1-800-698-2145 • www.lintonsbigr.com