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An overall look at forest management is topic of discussion

By Doug Radunich

The third meeting for the Governor’s Task Force on Forests will be held in Saratoga next Tuesday to cover overall forest management.

The three-day meeting, held April 8-10, will feature discussions at the Platte Valley Community Center and a tour of the Saratoga sawmill, Saratoga Forest Management.

The Governor’s Task Force on Forests was an idea generated by State Representative Jerry Paxton, and consists of a variety of stakeholders to develop recommendations on how Wyoming can best improve forest health.

Next week’s meeting at the PVCC is facilitated by the Ruckelshaus Institute, a division of the Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources, which advances the understanding and resolution of complex environmental and natural resource challenges.

“We will be discussing is how we might further engage industry in managing the forest,” Paxton said. “We certainly want to support mills, and we need to look beyond that to see what we can do to continue to remove hazard trees, clear some areas and have a viable industry. We have a pretty diverse group with a lot of different folks who have environmental and wildlife concerns.”

The force held its first official meeting in Cheyenne last December, and followed up with a second meeting in Lander that took place in March. State forester Bill Crapser said the topic for next week’s meeting is an overall look at forest management.

“We have a whole bunch of different issues that we cover with a different topic at each meeting,” Crapser said. “At the last meeting our topic was fire disturbance, and for the meeting after this one Saratoga, it will be economic development and potential. The meeting is scheduled to start at 1 p.m. Tuesday, and Ruckelshaus is doing the facilitation and running the meetings.”

The Governor’s Task Force was an idea generated by Paxton last year, while he was still a Carbon County Commissioner, and brought to the Wyoming State Legislature and Governor’s Office.

Paxton said he wanted to focus on creating diverse populations within forests, and rethink saw mills in relations to forest health. He also said that by not cutting trees to maintain forest growth causes problems, such as large forest fires and beetle kill breakout.

“We’ve been interested in trying to do something here for a long time, and we were concerned about beetle kill,” Paxton said. “When I was a commissioner

Governor’s Task Force on Forests to meet in Saratoga

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Riverside may be most affectedBy Doug Radunich

State and local emergency management officials from across the region planned for potential flooding this spring in central and southeast Wyoming.

State Hydrologist Jim Fahey, with the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Riverton, educated county emergency management coordinators and state homeland security person-nel about the current snowpack conditions across Wyoming. Fahey was on a conference call with the emergency management and Homeland Security officials, including Carbon County Emergency Man-agement Coordinator John Zeiger.

Zeiger invited the Saratoga Sun to listen in on the conference call March 21 at Saratoga Town Hall.

For the Platte Valley area, Fahey said snowpack levels on the Upper North Platte River Basin are generally below the levels they were at three years ago — when there was significant flooding in the

Flood potential moderate to highregion — but still well above the average. However, a map provided by the NOAA, which showed pre-dictions as of last month, indicated that moderate to high potential for spring flooding because of snowmelt is expected along the Encampment River near Encampment and Riverside, the North Platte River at Saratoga and the Little Snake River near Savery and Baggs.

Fahey said snowpack levels in northern Colorado are above 2011 levels, and that early indications suggest flooding is possible. He said the potential for flooding is greater in the town of Riverside than in other places in Carbon County, and mentioned the Encampment River Basin as a key high area.

“Looking at the snowpack, in Wyoming the snow-pack is still trending less than 2011, but it is still above the average or median for the Wyoming area,” Fahey said. “However, the Colorado SNOTELS (Snowpack Telemetries) are showing numbers above

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Photo by Mike Dunn

Pat Bowen, of Wheatland, uses a crutch to help make a long shot at the Wyoming Open Fri-day night. See more Wyoming Open coverage on page 9.

A ‘stick-y’ situation

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William “Randy” Hall, 54, of Wright Wyoming passed away unexpectedly March 26, 2014 at Campbell County Memorial Hospital in Gillette Wyoming.

Randy was born June 1, 1959 in Des Moines, IA, youngest of three boys, to Russell Lee Hall and Helen Frances (Wilcox) Hall.

As a child Randy and his family lived in Huntsville and Moberly MO before mov-ing west to Wyoming. The family lived in Rawlins and Medicine Bow before landing in Saratoga where Randy at-tended Saratoga High School. Falling in love with Saratoga and the mountains Randy remained in the area working for LP Lumber Mill in town, also A&D Dozer and Hyland Enterprises out of Rawlins. He worked in the timber industry as well as ran heavy equipment for several companies in the valley. He also was employed by various ranches surround-ing Saratoga.

During a brief marriage fol-lowing high school Randy was blessed with a daughter. In the summer of 1980 Randy met his true love Katherine Hayes and they were married New Year’s Eve 1981. To this union of over 32 years, 3 amazing boys were born.

In 2006 after his children had grown Randy became restless and found a new career which he loved at Coal Creek Mine near Wright. Randy was passionate about his new career and quickly progressed from equipment operator to a position on the drag line. Being small town oriented Randy and Kathy made their new home on the outskirts of Wright Wyoming.

Randy’s love of the outdoors and the Platte Valley kept him returning yearly to Saratoga

for weeks each fall to pursue his sport of big game bow and rifle hunting. He was an avid hunter, fisherman and out-doorsman loving to camp and go ATV riding with friends, family and his boys. One com-mon phrase heard in camp was ‘let’s go get stuck!’ Randy loved spending time in the moun-tains with his boys and headed ‘to the hills’ every chance he got. Randy’s pursuit of the per-fect numbers kept him driving across the border to Colorado or sending his daughter-in-law to purchase lotto tickets. A new found interest in remote control quad-copter kept him giggling and Kathy ducking.

Randy is survived by his wife Katherine (Hayes) Hall of Wright, WY; daughter Shan-non Lasco of Paso Robles, CA; sons Brian Hall (Elizabeth Miller) of Laramie, WY, Wil-liam “Thomas” Hall (Alice) of Cheyenne, WY and Matthew Hall (Misty) of Cheyenne, WY; brothers Russell Hall of Gillette, WY and Dennis Hall of Rawlins, WY. Randy was

blessed with the premature arrival of his first granddaugh-ter Aubrey Hall, of Cheyenne, who arrived one month ago (and one month early). He fell in love instantly and spent his brief time with her holding and snuggling for hours.

Randy was preceded in death by his parents and grandparents.

A memorial honoring Ran-dy and his passion for hunt-ing has been established to benefit the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. Memorials and condolences may be sent to the family in Wil-liam ‘Randy’s’ name care of Walker Funeral Home, 410 Medical Arts Court, Gillette, WY 82716. Condolences may also be sent via our website at www.walkerfuneralgil-lette.com

A service will be held in Saratoga, WY April 5, 2014 at 11 a.m. in the Saratoga Cemetery Chapel to honor Randy and his memory with Pastor Marvin Temme offi-ciating.

William ‘Randy’ Hall

I also approached the National Resources Committee, and asked them to see if they were interested in sponsoring a task force on forest health. We had an initial meeting in November to figure out the composition of the task force.”

Paxton said the discussion portions of the three-day meet-ing are open to the local public.

“We welcome all people to attend the meetings, and we’ll get a public comment section in

there someplace,” he said. “Ev-eryone is encouraged to attend, and we like to have input from locals, especially in an area like this where there’s such a high interest in what happens in our forest. There will be a tour of the mill for task force members on Wednesday from 3 to 5 p.m.”

Paxton said there may be a following tour, which includes members of the public, on Fri-day.

“We’re looking at trying to

set something up on the 10th for folks who want to go up into the forest and look at what’s going on around here,” he said. “We’re trying to figure out how much interest there, and we might go into the area up by Encampment.”

The three-day meeting begins at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Platte Valley Community Center, and will adjourn at noon Thursday. All members of the public are welcome for the discussions.

Governor’s Task Force, continued from page 1

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The Environmental Protec-tion Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers (Army Corp) jointly released a pro-posed rule to clarify protection under the Clean Water Act.

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State of Wyoming Treasurer Mark Gordon paid a visit to the Platte Valley on March 26 as a part of his statewide campaign for election.

For Gordon, making a stop in Saratoga was not only essential to his campaign, but he person-ally desired to pay a visit to the Platte Valley.

“Saratoga is on the way from everywhere,” Gordon said. “It is a town that I really liked when I was on the Wildlife and Natural Resource Trusts. We did a lot of projects here,” Gordon said.

Gordon’s first term in office was anything but traditional. After the passing of former treasurer Joe Meyer, Governor Matt Mead appointed Gordon to Treasurer; a position, Gordon said, he was happy to accept.

“It was if I could be of help to the state, I should put in,” he said. Gordon became treasurer in 2012.

Gordon said he wanted to run for election to continue the proj-ects he began in his first term.

“There are a lot of projects that we have started that I want to see come to fruition,”

Gordon said. “We are redoing our portfolio,

it started with fixed income and we got that done last year. What we did there resulted in record returns to the state,” Gordon said. “The biggest thing we are trying to do there is pro-tect ourselves from big draw-downs. So if we have another stock market crash, this state is well protected.”

Gordon said he wishes to con-tinue is the relationships with other states. Most notably, this includes continuing to run

a railway, transporting coal, from Wyoming to the Pacific Northwest. The plan has seen some opposition from residents in Washington, Oregon and Montana, however Gordon said he wants to work with legisla-tures from these areas.

“I hoping I meet and bet-ter appreciate Washington’s stance on this, so we can break the log jam, so to speak,” he said.

In small communities, Gor-don believes that effective bank systems are essential to towns like Saratoga.

“I am very interested, and I have spent a lot of time work-ing to make sure that we have good, viable community banks. It’s a tough time for community banks, but the state has funds available, at very low rates, to help banks make money,” Gordon said. “Businesses are going to come and they are go-ing to go, but if you have a good and well-capitalized banking segment, it can help promote [entrepreneurial] businesses.”

Gordon is currently running unopposed. Primary elections will take place Aug. 19.

Gordon announcesbid for state treasurer

CORRECTIONIn the “Hats off to Ag” edition in our March 26 issue, Greg and Gage Bartlett were in-

correctly labeled as Greg and Gage Barkhurst. The Saratoga Sun apologizes for this error.

When we’re wrong at the Saratoga Sun, we will be the first to admit it.


a friend of mine. His name is Lloyd.”

Nick: “Nice to meet you.”Lloyd: “Nice to meet you too,

Nick. You know ... you look kind of like a hipster.”

It was at this point that Nick “unshook” Lloyd’s hand and used his hand to express his feeling about the label along with other fitting verbal commentaries con-cerning Lloyd’s lineage and pos-sible sexual history and/or future.

Some jokes just require a good ear and a little planning.

… and some rotten friends.

FALLING FACEBOOK FIRSTBrittani (an intern at the Sun

a few years ago), had put on her Facebook that she missed every-one in Saratoga with the possible exception of me.

I decided to write her back “So much for YOUR next float trip, Brittani!” and told my co-worker, Ted, about it.

I got on Facebook and replied with the message above. Then I noticed I had misspelled “next”. While I deleted and fixed my en-try, Ted got onto the reply page and put in the following: “Let me guess ... Keith is going to say

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Retro BlogBy Keith McLendon

Ghosts of April Fool’s Day pastI hope that all of you survived

April Fool’s Day. For those of you still cleaning shaving

cream and the like out of var-ious places … you might need a chance to read about some other’s misfortune.

Since I have already done a column about the origins of April Fool’s Day I decided to share some other practical joke vignettes with you. While none of these were actually pulled on April Fool’s Day I still couldn’t think of a more fitting time to present these stories.

NICK THE HIPSTERA new guy around town named

Nick was being introduced around. Eventually someone commented that he appeared to be “kind of a hipster”. He denied the allegation, but the conver-sation continued about how his clothes and attitude fit the profile and so on. I was not an immedi-ate part of the conversation but I caught the periphery. Even though I still have no clue what a “hipster” might be (yes, I am, tragically, uncool), I noted the label for future use.

Later that evening, I grabbed a friend of mine named Lloyd, who had had no part in the earlier hipster conversation, and told him that I was going to introduce him to Nick and “here’s what I want you to say …”. Being my friend means always being up for a joke—so he immediately and heartily agreed. The introduction went something like this:

Me: “Nick, I’d like you to meet

something lame and predictable like, well, so much for YOUR next float trip, Brittani!”

The upshot is that his comment appeared before mine on the reply page.

Ted was difficult to put up with for an interminable length of time.

I did get Ted back though.

A PHONE-Y STORYWhile our sports reporter was

in the bathroom one day I tied his phone cord together and waited.

Sure enough, a coach that he needed to interview called and he answered (picking up the whole phone in the process). I giggled like a little girl while he completed his interview by typing bent over with his head just inches above the phone on the desk.

I have to give him credit for keeping his composure though.

A CARMEX WRECKOne day Ted and I were alone

in the office. We had been trading stories when he decided to pick up our mail. While he was gone, I loaded the earpiece of his phone with Carmex.

When he returned, I walked into the back room, pulled my cell phone from my pocket and called the office.

When he inevitably answered the phone I said, “Is your ear sticky?”

The following “OH, MAN!” was reply enough.

Ted was one of my favorite targets through the years for two reasons: 1. He took jokes well, and B. He was wet enough behind the ears to be really gullible.

WHAT’S THAT CORD?One night I got to looking at

the drop ceiling in our office and figured that if I ran a piece of cord over the acoustic tiles I could suspend stuff over Ted’s desk and release said bombs with a tug of the cord.

That night I ran some orange twine through a small hole I made in a ceiling tile above my desk, over several tiles to Ted’s desk where I suspended several pens. I then taped the pull cord on my end to a wall so it wouldn’t be obvious.

When I got to work the next day the pull cord had un-taped itself from the wall and was hanging straight down from the ceiling to my desk.

I was trying to figure out a way to hide the twine when Ted walked in and asked .”What’s the cord for?”.

My hopes sank as I told him, “None of your business”. I was sure he would follow the cord to the ceiling and bother to look above his desk.

Of course, the question only made it that much sweeter as he sat down at his desk and watched as I pulled on the cord.

These were all fine and good pranks, and there have been many others, but the best one I saved for last ...

VAN-TASTIC!I was walking home for lunch

one day when I noticed a distinc-tive yellow-and-white Chevy van parked at the post office.

I immediately knew the van belonged to a friend of mine by the name of Carrie Craig. I as-sumed (correctly) that Carrie was inside getting her mail and took the opportunity to crawl into her van and lay down on the floor in the back.

Carrie eventually came back out and got into the vehicle.

At this point our stories differ.She says she was looking at her

bills and complaining about them before starting up the van.

I say she kind of sorted through her mail, put it aside then started the van.

In either case, we agree that she did not see me laying in plain sight in the back of the van.

As she started the van and be-fore she put it into gear, I asked, in a conversational tone, “So, where are we going?”

Have you ever seen someone jump out of their seat and nearly through the roof of a van?

I have.

Carrie swore she was going to get me back for that one and even went as far as trying to get that television show “Scare Tactics” to come here for just that purpose.

I hope you had a happy April Fool’s Day and would like to think I have given you something to plot on for next year’s.

Wednesday Morning chance of snow, then a chance of rain. Mostly cloudy. High near 40. West south-west wind 10 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40 percent.Wednesday Night A 40 percent chance of snow. Cloudy. Low around 20. West wind 5 to 10 mph becoming north after midnight.Thursday A 20 percent chance of snow before noon. Mostly cloudy High near 39. North northwest wind around 10 mph.Thursday Night Mostly clear. Low around 20.Friday Mostly sunny. High near 46.Friday Night Partly cloudy. Low around 26.Saturday Chance of showers. Part-ly sunny. High near 45.Saturday Night Mostly cloudy. Low around 27.Sunday A chance of snow. Mostly cloudy. High near 43. Breezy.Sunday Night A slight chance of snow. Mostly cloudy. Low around 28. Blustery.Monday A chance of snow. Mostly sunny. High near 43.


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Editor,Lest you may forget “as

the world churns” inside the Saratoga Town Hall, new peo-ple with fresh blood are moving into town. They bring ideas, questions and professional backgrounds.

They may register to vote; they may run for office and be elected.

Brace yourselves. The next generation is coming.

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Needed change coming

Editor,The million-dollar pipeline to

return water to the river illus-trates the heavy hand of federal government on citizens of our country. The discharge permit of Saratoga for wastewater treatment is in jeopardy if the citizen boards don’t accept the proposals and money to meet EPA’s changed guidelines and standards. This may be lever-age to some folks, but it smells like bureaucratic corruption to me. The discharge water will end up in the same North Platte River, but unbuffered by passage through a considerable distance of soil and vegetation as it is now. The discharge as it is now is cheaper, biologically healthier and sustainable with no degradation to any riparian habitat.

This is typical of EPA con-stantly finding new issues, so the bureaucracy can per-petuate their expansion of government regulations and

influence. A pond built by a Uinta County man, with all the proper State of Wyoming permits, is another example of private citizen under the thumb of EPA. Check out that case and you will further un-derstand how federal bureau-cracy persecutes and intimates innocent people.

Now is the time for the cit-izen/taxpayers of Wyoming immediately demand the EPA back off of stupid projects and oppressive regulation that do nothing but waste dollars and time and contribute absolutely nothing to a clean, healthy en-vironment.

If citizens don’t put down their feet now and change the oppression of ever-growing and changing federal regulations, it will be too late to spare future generations perpetual head-aches.

Sincerely,Scott KerbsSaratoga

Government’s heavy hand

Editor,At the WAM Winter Work-

shop our guest speaker this year was Inspirational Speaker Matt Jones. He has conquered cancer 3 times and went on to run in five marathons. This was his victory in life and encour-aged us to look at our lives as a victory.

He reminded us that there are 86,400 seconds in a day and challenged us to know how we were going to use those seconds. He reminded us that not only is our finger print unique but so are we in our life. Another interesting fact that he shared was that an average four year old smiles about four hundred times a day but by the age of thirty we only smile about fif-teen times a day.

He talked about the Ten-Three-One approach which is, Write down ten ideas, highlight the best three, and pick the one thing that you are going to do.

Remembering that our mind is like a garden, you can’t get out what you don’t put in. We must weed out the negativity and water it daily.

Having humor is part of lead-ership because as he put it the Dr. Domes and Nay Sayers will attempt to build up the negativ-ity wall around you. No matter what we face in life if we can pass thru that negativity wall we will obtain our own personal victory.

We need to commit ourselves to a life time of learning and when we get knocked down try and land on your back so you are always looking up. Don’t ever let someone else’s neg-ative opinions of you become reality.

Believe in the impossible not “I Can’t Do That” because if the goal isn’t big enough it’s not worth going after.

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Jerry Paxton (R), of Encamp-ment, has announced that he will be running for re-election in District 47 in the Wyoming House of Representatives.

Paxton, who is finishing up his freshman term in office, said that he still has unfinished business in the House.

“This is my first term, and there are so many things I would like to follow up on. It’s a real steep learning curve that first couple years until you get through a regular session and a budget session, it’s hard to know what is going on. I just think I can be more effective the second term,” Paxton said.

Paxton said there are still a lot of issues pending in the house that he would like to continue. He said he has been an outspoken advocate against Senate File 104 which removed the Superintendent of Schools as an elected official.

“I’ve continued to resist that process and, hopefully, we can get to a point where we can turn the clock back on that issue. That was one of the first bills I

had to react to coming over from the State Senate. I think that is still pretty high on my list of things that need to get done,” Paxton said.

Paxton added that he will continue promoting natural resources in the Platte Valley and throughout his district.

“We have some natural re-sources things going on right now with timber. And we are going to have our meeting next week with the Governor’s Task Force,” Paxton said. “But we also have some things going on with the BLM [Bureau of Land Management] to try to get some timber sales through the BLM. Working worth the State For-ester’s office … these things are pretty important to our Valley and I would like to ensure that we have a continuing supply of raw materials for our two mills in Saratoga and Encampment.”

Outside of timber, Paxton said he plans to continue ad-vocating for natural gas.

“One of the other things that we took a run at but didn’t make happen is to try to look at is the towns around Wyoming

Paxton announces plans to run for re-electionthat don’t have natural gas, and I think that is an import-ant part of infrastructure in a lot of these small towns,” he said.

Paxton also said that sup-porting agriculture and tour-ism are essential to sustaining growth in the Platte Valley.

One of the more controversial bills this session was House Bill 111, which allows school districts to decide if employees should carry weapons, given that they have a conceal carry permit. Paxton said he voted in favor of the bill.

“School safety, all the way around, is an important issue for me,” Paxton said. “There are two facets to that. We have to keep any intruder out of the building, so we have to secure the buildings to make sure nobody gets in … where it’s fea-sible, using school resource offi-cers for security who are highly trained for these situations but we have so many rural schools in Wyoming, where that is not a viable option.”

Primaries take place in Wy-oming Aug. 19, 2014.

Staff Report

Members of the Encampment Junior High and High School Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) Chapter earned more than 20 medals from the 2014 Wyoming State Competition in Cheyenne.

“We took 27 members and we brought home 23 medals, including nine gold, seven silver and seven bronze,” Encampment FCCLA Advisor Cheryl Munroe said. “I only had four students who did not get a medal.”

The three divisions are sev-enth through ninth grade, junior division; 10th through 12th is senior consumer, and students in 10th through 12th grade classes, who take a career class, are oc-cupational.

“They all did very well and scored high,” Munroe said.

The theme for this year’s state competition was “Together We Make A Wave”.

On Wednesday, the Encamp-ment team members joined other schools in doing a “Service Tsu-nami” all around Cheyenne. The Encampment and Lusk chapters worked at the Salvation Army and helped clean the dining

room, kitchens and warehouse. During the business meeting

on Friday, Encampment High School FCCLA members pro-posed a by-law change on officer selection and it was accepted. The Friday luncheon and awards recognition banquet was fol-lowed by the installation of new district and state officers, with the closing of the convention.

FCCLA members,competitions and awards:

David Flauding and Brett Miller — Applied Math for Culinary Management — Occupational — Bronze

Jennifer Morgan — Cake Decorating — Occupational — Gold

Christian Leroux — Cake

Decorating — Junior — Sil-ver

Gale Jackson and Hunter Hammer — Creed — 2 Star Rating

Becca Treat and Michelle Hooker — Focus on Chil-dren--Occupational — Silver

Noelle Peterson and Paige Powell — Focus on Children — Junior — Bronze

Emily Morgan and Sierra Loftice — Food Innova-tions— Junior--Silver

Alyssa Barkhurst, Karie Russell, McKenzie Powell — Food Innovations — Se-nior — Gold

Guy Erickson — Life Event Planning — Senior — 2 Star Rating

Hailey Barkhurst and Mic-aiah Pantle — Life Event Planning — Junior — Bronze

Matthew Jarrett, Harold Jackson, Brett Ralston — Sports Nutrition — Occupa-tional — Gold

Kasen York — Sports Nu-trition — Junior — 2 Star Rating

Emma Jackson — Textile Arts (Accessory) — Occupa-tional — Silver

Wyatt Cox — Textile Arts (Home Décor) — Junior — Gold

Spencer Knotwell — Textile Arts (Accessory) — Junior — Gold

Taylor Huntley — Baking — Junior — Bronze

Ashlynn Johnson — Illus-trated Talk — Junior — Bronze

Heavy medals, Encampment FCCLA returns from state

Photo by Cheryl Munroe

The Encampment FCCLA team brought home 23 medals from the recent state competition.


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Staff Report

April features National Li-brary Week, and the Carbon County Library System has several events going on all throughout the county.

The Encampment/Riverside book discussion group will meet with Lori Van Pelt to discuss her book “Amelia Earnhart: The Sky’s No Limit.” Members will meet on April 17 from 7 to 9 p.m. Call Dawna Martin at 307-327-5775 to reserve your copy.

The Saratoga branch will be celebrating “Lives Change @ Your Library” in honor of Na-tional Library Week. Between Sunday April 13 and 19, the Carbon County Library System will be giving out a giant blank DIY book. After you finish de-signing your giant tribute to your favorite story, the library system welcomes everyone to bring it back to their library for display.

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Staff Report

The Saratoga Middle/High School Family, Career and Community Leaders of Amer-ica (FCCLA) Chapter brought home six medals from the 2014 Wyoming State Competition in Cheyenne.

The gold medal winner from the event was Harley Klemola, who won a chance to compete at the National Leadership Conference (NLC) in San An-tonio, Texas this July. The bronze winners included Joey Bauer and Nikki Pacheco; Haley Soles; Rodrigo Escobedo and Thatcher Spiering; and John Brennan and Emmanuel Pattishall-Baker.

Bronze winners Max Schnei-der, Spiering, Darian Williams won $4,500 in scholarships.

All bronze winners are wait-ing to hear if Gold and Silver winners in each event turn down their chance to attend the NLC, thus giving them the option to attend.

Last weekend’s state com-petition also featured a pre-sentation advocating against texting and driving, given by

a National FCCLA Officer, and another against harassment, presented by “Friends of Ra-chel”. The Saratoga Chapter donated over $150 to the March of Dimes for the State Officer Project, having filled a basket-ball with coins for their “March Madness” service project.

“SMHS FCCLA members would like to thank every-one who made it possible for them to have the opportunity to attend and compete at the 2014 State Convention,” said SMHS FCCLA Advisor Linda Fisher-Perue. “Work is not over for the year, as members are now working on the plans for a high school dance in May, and selling chocolate lollipops for the month of April Autism Awareness project.”

State CompetitionMedal winners:

Harley Klemola — Occupa-tional Interior Design — Gold

Joey Bauer and Nikki Pa-checo — Senior Consumer in Advocacy — Bronze

Haley Soles — Senior Con-sumer in Teach and Train —

Saratoga FCCLAgrabs six state medals

Photo by Linda Fisher-Perue

Left to right, Harley Klemola, Emmanuel Pattishall-Baker, Darian Williams, Max Schneider, front row, Rodrigo Escobedo, Thatcher Spiering, John Brennan, Haley Soles, Nikki Pacheco and Joey Bauer were state medal winners at the 2014 Wyoming State FCCLA Competition.

BronzeMax Schneider, Thatcher

Spiering and Darian Wil-liams — Occupational Culi-nary Arts —Bronze

Rodrigo Escobedo and Thatcher Spiering — Oc-cupational Sports Nutri-tion, Bronze

John Brennan and Em-manuel Pattishall-Baker — Senior Consumer Service Project Portfolio —Bronze

Other members and their events:

Meredith Lincoln and Ali-cia Zaragoza — Junior Con-sumer in Entrepreneurship

Darian Williams — Occu-pational in Entrepreneurship

Chase Mennear — Junior Consumer in Advocacy

Ben Falk — Senior Con-sumer in Recycle and Redesign (Fifth place)

Riley Sandilands — Se-nior Consumer in Recycle and Redesign

Nick Smith —Occupational in Extemporaneous Speaking

Johny Bauer —Senior Con-sumer in Baking

fering a Smartphone/Tablet Class to learn about security, navigation, email basics and computer applications. This will take place from 1 to 3 p.m. on April 11.

There will be a three-day book sale at the Saratoga Li-brary this month. Their Spring Book sale takes place April 26 through May 2. All book prices are by donation unless other-wise marked. Proceeds benefit Friends of the Library.

Libraries celebrate National Library Week


At the PTO Carnival

Post-PAWS party

The Encampment Honor Roll and Principal’s List for the Third Quarter of 2013-14 was released recently. To earn a spot on the Principal’s List, students must have a 4.0 grade point average (GPA). Students with a GPA of 3.0 to 3.9 earn a place on the Honor Roll.

Principal’s ListDavid Bradly, senior

Emma Jackson, seniorHarold Jackson, junior

Luke Pantle, juniorBrett Ralston, junior

Guy Erickson, sophomoreCassidy Little, sophomoreKaren Russell, sophomoreBailey Miller, freshman

Emily Morgan, freshmanMcKenzie Powell, freshman

Gage Bartlett, eighth Kaylyn Herring, eighth

Noelle Peterson, seventh Paige Powell, seventh Makiya Johnson, sixth

Riley Little, sixth Ember Young, sixth

Honor RollLacey Dale, senior,

Matthew Jarrett, seniorBrett Miller, senior

Jennifer Morgan, seniorTaylor Pedersen, seniorRebecca Treat, seniorKaylyn Wessel, seniorJacob Sturgis, junior

Alyssa Barkhurst, sophomoreJacob Dickinson, sophomoreHunter Hammer, sophomoreKatlynne Hytrek, sophomoreKeeGan Johnson, sophomore

Don Simmons, sophomoreRanda Sorensen, sophomoreKonnar Knotwell, freshman

Tylr Kozelisky, freshmanAshley Turner, freshmanHailey Barkhurst eighth Wyatt Cody Cox, eighth Ashlynn Johnson, eighth Cheyanne Jordan, eighth Spencer Knotwell, eighth

Tyler Nuhn, eighth Karah Micaiah, eighth Dalton Taylor, eighth Morgan Dale, seventh

Taylor Huntley, seventh Takoda Pedersen, seventh

Dayne Anderson, sixthKassidy Brooke Burr, sixth

Jarom Meacham, sixth Katelyn Mae, sixth

Reid Schroeder, sixth

Tiger honor roll

Encampment NHS

By Mike Dunn

If you asked students at the Saratoga Schools what was their favorite part of the Profi-ciency Assessment of Wyoming Students (PAWS) testing was, you might get some mixed re-sponses.

Some students would re-spond with “reading”, others with “math”.

When asked, one Saratoga Elementary School (SES) stu-dent said his favorite part about the PAWS test was “fin-ishing it.”

For most students, their favorite part about PAWS testing came after the test. A reward for a job well done: popcorn and Klondike Bars for the middle school students. Ice cream cones were at the elementary.

As the treats were passed on to the students, the school staff was rewarded by being able to return to their normal routine.

“We tried to schedule it from taking up too much class time,” Dan Marquart, SMHS guidance counselor and PAWS coordinator, said.

For the past four weeks, stu-dents at SES and Saratoga Middle/High School (SMHS) have been hard at work on the PAWS test. PAWS is a state-wide assessment of student achievement in grades three through eight.

Seventh and eighth grade stu-dents were given a 50-minute period at the beginning of every school day to complete the test. Marquart said that most stu-dents were able to finish within the time allotted. Ron Hoopes, guidance councilor at SES and PAWS facilitator, said that his students were given the same 50-minute time to complete the test, however students were allowed more time.

“There was a suggested time, but we let them take as long as they needed,” Hoopes said.

According to Hoopes, the third and fifth grade students have an additional writing portion on top of PAWS -- which is referred to as the student assessment of Wyoming students (SAWS). The SAWS testing will take place later this month.

“Writing was incorporated into the test last year to meet with Common Core standards,” Hoopes said.

Common Core is not fully im-plemented into Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD#2), but Saratoga Elementary Prin-cipal Dave Rangitsch said it would be soon state mandated.

Because schools are not re-quired to stay on a specific timeline, different districts choose to finish the PAWS test-ing at different times. Schools are given a specific window in order to complete the test, and Marquart said that March was best time for their students to complete the test.

“We wanted to take the test closest to the end of the year, so they would have close to a year’s worth of school behind them before they take the test,” Marquart said. “They need a long time to process and grade the test, especially the writing part because that is subjective.”

Another purpose PAWS serves is the to see if district are meeting their individual ad-equate yearly progress (AYP). The AYP for each district is developed using a federally mandated formula and defined to answer three questions about a district: the percentage of students who are required to be proficient or above in math and reading, whether or not 95-per-cent or more students in those grades participated in the tests

and additional academic indica-tors that will be measured, such as graduation rates.

Rangitsch said that AYP standards are constantly rising. For example, even if a school receives the same score as the previous year, they may not reach their AYP.

The test scores are sent na-tion-wide for data purposes, however, the testing is not without its disadvantages. Several school officials said that the largest problem with the PAWS test is that they will not get the results until the summer.

“We get the results in around July,” Rangitsch said. “But by then, we can’t go back as teachers and say ‘here is where we need to improve on for this year.’”

Marquart said that another disadvantage of PAWS testing was that it may not measure academic performance with complete accuracy.

“Some kids just do not do well on tests,” Marquart said. “[PAWS testing] is just one way out of multiple ways to measure student achievement.”

All school officials were pleased with what they saw during the tests and, tradition-ally, Saratoga schools tend to do well on the PAWS test.

“We always perform decent here. There will always be a bell-curve with the scores,” Marquart said. “The kids put in a solid effort.”

Rangitsch said that the sup-port the students received from parents and staff during PAWS testing was outstanding.

“The parents helped us out a lot. They provided snacks for the kids, made sure their kids got plenty of rest … we really appreciate the support,” Ran-gitsch said.

On Panther’s PAWSSaratoga schools finish up proficiency assessment testing

Photo by Mike Dunn

Jed Killion seems excited to receive an ice cream cone as a reward for finishing the Proficiency Assessment of Wyoming Students (PAWS) test.

Photo by Doug Radunich

Encampment K-12 School ’ s National Honor Society (NHS) students include, back, left to right, Luke Pantle, Guy Erickson, Matt Jarrett, David Flauding, middle, Cassidy Little, Brett Ralston, Kaylyn Wessel, Brett Miller, Jenny Morgan, front, Karie Russell, Harold Jackson, Becca Treat and advisor Rick Martin. The students held a ceremony March 19 to induct new members, Erickson, Little, Pantle and Russell.

Photo by Mike Dunn

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NOTICE OF CHANGE OF MEETING DATE AND TIME

Carbon County School District #2 Recreation Board will hold its April meeting on Monday,

April 7, 2014 at the Central Office in Saratoga. The business meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. followed by grant presentations at 7:00 p.m.

The Governing Body of the Town of Saratoga will be conducting a budget workshop

Thursday April 3, 2014 at 5 p.m.in the Council Chambers of

the Saratoga Town Hall for the purpose of discussing the FY 2014/2015 fiscal year budget.

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By Mike Dunn

Over the span of three days, 190 competitors in five divi-sions squared off on 18 tables for the chance to be crowned champion at the Wyoming Open Pool Tournament.

Shooters hailed from local areas like Rawlins, Laramie and Denver, to areas as far away as Florida, Hawaii, Mex-ico City and London.

In the Master’s division, Rodney “the Rocket” Morris of Honolulu, Hawaii won the 10-ball and “Saratoga” on Friday and Saturday respectively. Even as one of the top players in the United States, Morris still loves to come to the Wyo-ming Open Pool tournament.

“Seven years ago, Eddie (Glode) called a buddy of mine who was running the UPA (United States Pool Players Association), and he was look-ing for two pros to come to start the first event. So he called us and my friend called me, and when I came here (Glode) and I just hit it off. E.J.(Glode) and I have been good friends ever since,” Morris said.

Morris is the only pro player that has been at the Wyoming Open every year since its founding and has won at this tournament twice before.

Morris said that the tourna-ment has grown considerably over the years.

“Every year I come back, it

gets a little bit tougher. There are a lot more pros coming in,” Morris said. “But basically, this tournament is just a great time.”

On Sunday, 21-year old Dan-ny Olson from Brookings, S.D., came out on top as the 8-ball Master’s champion.

This was Olson’s first year at the Wyoming Open tour-nament.

“This was probably my big-gest win,” Olson said. “I’ve played in master’s divisions in nationals, but it didn’t have pros … I’ve been going up against (pros) for a while and I beat them sometimes, but this was a big win.”

Growing open racks up international players

Photos by Mike Dunn

Ranked first in the nation, Shane van Boening, right, lines up his shot during the eight-ball tournament Sunday.

Danny Olson prepares to sink a shot during Master’s division finals for eight-ball. The 21-year-old Olson won the event on Sunday.

Rodney “Rocket” Morris took home two trophies in the master’s division.

This was Rocket’s seventh appearance at

the Saratoga event.


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Matt Jarrett, right, prepares to initiate David Flauding as Encampment’s 2014 Prom King.

Photos by Rick Martin

Hopping in the air, Hunter Hammer helps liven up the crowd even more during the dance

portion of the prom.

Pouncing on

The Opera House wasshaking as Encampmentheld its high school Prom

there Saturday night.


April 15th is coming quicker than the Easter Bunny, so make your appointment today!

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Join us for a special celebration of praise Palm Sunday 100th Anniversary of the Assemblies of God Completion of PVCC Kitchen Remodel35th Anniversary of PVCC being a General Council Affiliated Church

Friday, April 11, 20146pm Evening Reception at Platte Valley Christian Center

Saturday, April 12, 20146pm Kitchen Dedication Banquet at Platte Valley Christian Center. Cost: By Donation.

Speaker: Rev. Alan Shaberg, District Superintendent of the Wyoming Assemblies of God. Music by: Orie Vaye Williams and the Platte Valley Christian Center Worship Team. A short blessing over the church.

Sunday, April 13, 2014 - Palm Sunday10am Coffee Time: Rev. Larry Savage will share about the history of the church at Platte Valley

Christian Center Fellowship Hall.11am Morning Worship Service with Rev. Dr. Joe Castleberry, President of Northwest Univer-

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Students cool down with a slow dance.

Kaylyn Wessel and David Flaudingwere the Encampment Prom Queen

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Good Profits from a Little Patch of Irrigated Land

Wednesday, April 2, 20146 a.m., Cycling Class, Saratoga Fitness cycling room8 a.m.-9 p.m., Weight Room Open, Saratoga Fitness9 a.m., Yoga Session, Saratoga Library9 a.m., Low Impact Fitness, Saratoga Fitness multipurpose room9:30 a.m., Prayer Shawl Knitters, Presbyterian Fellowship Hall11 a.m.-7 p.m., Saratoga Branch Library11:15 a.m., Story Time, Saratoga Branch LibraryNoon, Chamber of Commerce meeting, PVCC1:30 p.m., Overeaters Anonymous, PV Lutheran Church, 326-59172-6 p.m., Children’s activities at The Hub, 106 W. Bridge4:30 p.m., Cycling Class, Saratoga Fitness cycling room5:30-7:30 p.m. Family History Center at LDS Church, 950 Hugus5:45-6:45 p.m., Yoga Session, Saratoga Library6 p.m., SHS Booster Club meeting, SHS multipurpose room6-8 p.m., 4-H Shoot Sports, Saratoga Fitness multipurpose room7 p.m., Order of Eastern Star, Masonic Hall7 p.m., Saratoga Volunteer Fire Dept. Business Meeting, Firehouse7 p.m., Upper Platte River Solid Waste Disposal District, Saratoga Town Hall 7 p.m., Theta Rho Club, Odd Fellows Hall7-9 p.m., Men’s Open Gym, Saratoga Fitness gym7:30 p.m., Alcoholics Anonymous, Saratoga Senior Center

Thursday, April 3, 20148 a.m., Cycling Class, Saratoga Fitness cycling room8 a.m.-9 p.m., Weight Room Open, Saratoga Fitness9:15 a.m., Tai Chi, Saratoga Fitness gym11 a.m.-7 p.m., Saratoga Branch Library2-6 p.m., Children’s activities at The Hub, 106 W. Bridge6 p.m., Zumba, Saratoga Fitness gym7 p.m., Beginning Yoga, Saratoga Fitness gym7 p.m., Trout Unlimited meeting, Saratoga Resort & Spa7 p.m., Knitting Group, Saratoga Library7 p.m., ALANON, Building next to St. Barnabas Church7:30-10 p.m., Co-ed Volleyball, Saratoga Fitness gym

Friday, April 4, 20146 a.m., Cycling Class, Saratoga Fitness cycling room8 a.m.-4 p.m., Weight Room, Saratoga Fitness11 a.m.-3 p.m., Saratoga Branch Library11 a.m., SHS Track at Wheatland InviteNoon-6 p.m.,, Children’s activities at The Hub, 106 W. Bridge5:45-6:45 p.m., Yoga Session, Saratoga Library7:30 p.m., Alcoholics Anonymous, Saratoga Senior Center

Saturday, April 5, 20149-Noon, Weight Room Open, Saratoga Fitness9-Noon, Open Gym, Saratoga Fitness Gym

Sunday, April 6, 20148-11 a.m., Odd Fellows Pancake Breakfast, Odd Fellows Hall9 a.m., Narcotics Anonymous, Saratoga Senior Center 5-8 p.m., Weight Room Open, Saratoga Fitness5-8 p.m., Dodge Ball, Saratoga Fitness Gym

Monday, April 7, 20146 a.m., Cycling Class, Saratoga Fitness cycling room8 a.m.-9 p.m., Weight Room Open, Saratoga Fitness9 a.m., Yoga Session, Saratoga Library9:15 a.m., Low Impact Fitness, Saratoga Fitness multipurpose room11 a.m.-7 p.m., Saratoga Branch Library2-6 p.m., Children’s activities at The Hub, 106 W. Bridge4:30 p.m., Cycling, Saratoga Fitness cycling room5:45-6:45 p.m., Yoga Session, Saratoga Library6 p.m., AA Meeting, Saratoga Senior Center7 p.m., Odd Fellows, Odd Fellows Hall7-9 p.m., Men’s Open Gym, Saratoga Fitness gym

Tuesday, April 8, 20148 a.m., Cycling Class, Saratoga Fitness Cycling Room8 a.m.-8 p.m., Weight room open, Saratoga Fitness9:15 a.m., Tai Chi, Saratoga Fitness gym11 a.m.-7 p.m., Saratoga Branch Library2-6 p.m., Children’s activities at The Hub, 106 W. Bridge4-8 p.m., Utah Jazz, Saratoga Fitness gym5:30 p.m., Saratoga Planning Commission, Town Hall6:30 p.m., PTO, SES Lunchroom6 p.m., Zumba, Saratoga Fitness multipurpose room7 p.m., Cycling Class, Saratoga Fitness cycling room7 p.m., Sons of American Legion, Post Home7 p.m., Saratoga Cemetery District, Town HallFor information on ALANON, call 326-8405 or 326-8723

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Wednesday, April 2, 20141-6 p.m., Encampment Library2 p.m., Dirt Diggers, Encampment Library4 p.m., Story Time, Encampment/Riverside Branch Library4:30 p.m., Beading Group, Enc./Riv. Branch Library7 p.m., Planning Commission, Encampment Town Hall

Thursday, April 3, 201411 a.m.-4 p.m., Encampment Library7:30 p.m., Alcoholics Anonymous, Encampment Library

Friday, April 4, 201411 a.m., EHS Track at Wheatland Invite

Saturday, April 5, 20147:30 p.m., Alcoholics Anonymous, Encampment Library

Monday, April 7, 201411 a.m.-4 p.m., Encampment Library1 p.m., Knitting group, Enc/Riv. Branch Library3:30 p.m., Encampment Cub Scouts, Encampment School Cafeteria

Tuesday, April 8, 201411 a.m.-4 p.m., Encampment Library

Reprint of this story from the April 4, 1902 issue of The Grand Encampment Herald brought to you courtesy of Grandma’s Cabin, Encamp-ment, Wyoming. Preserving History - Serving the Com-munity.

Good Profits from a Little Patch of Irrigated Land

J. J. Wombaker came into this country with his family four years ago last September, and settled on placer ground at the junction of the north and south forks of the Encamp-ment River. There were but three log cabins on the Grand Encampment townsite at that time, and two of these were

occupied by men only, there being but one family here.

The trip into the country was made with a two-horse overland prairie schooner. Mr. Wombaker took up a good piece of land and with irrigation has made it bloom and blossom with abundance, realizing each year a snug sum of money for

his labor. He is known far and wide

as the “vegetable man,” and during the season makes trips to Saratoga, Walcott, Rawlins, Battle and Rudefeha, besides supplying the people of En-campment with vegetables as choice and palatable as those raised under circumstances ap-

parently much more favorable.During last season Mr. Wom-

baker raised from six acres of ground 35,000 pounds of vege-tables, which brought him the handsome price of $1,700. Mr. Wombaker’s experience with land under irrigation should appeal as an object lesson to the many thousands of farmers in the East who are laboring away year after year on a big farm and realizing only enough to make “both ends meet.” The West is full of opportunities such as Mr. Wombaker has un-dertaken, not only in the line of vegetable cultivation but in every line of agriculture and its ally, stock raising.

The stories of the mineral wealth of the hills in this vicin-ity furnished the inspiration which brought Mr. Wombaker here, and while he has devoted the greater portion of his time to gardening, he has not failed to secure some choice mining claims on which he is doing the assessment work each year. His experience is the same as that of all the pioneers of the camp; the longer he is here the better the camp looks to him and with each succeeding year his confidence in the district increases.

Minor Notes:A movement is being talked

of among the local merchants to close the stores at six or seven o’clock in the evening and to do away with Sunday trade altogether. This plan is commendable from every standpoint, and should be ad-opted at once. The merchant owes himself a few hours at least each week to lie at home with his family, and the clerk needs the rest as well.

Trade will not be dimin-ished by the adoption of this plan of closing, and if all the merchants concur the scheme may be carried out to the satisfaction of all parties con-cerned. Mr. T. K. Smith, of the Mercantile Company, is much in favor of this plan, and it is understood that an expression from the other merchants will be solicited at once.

The rebuilding of the bridge across the Encampment River below Riverside should be con-sidered at once by the county commissioners. The bridge was built in 1897 and constant traffic has brought it to a very dilapidated condition. It is not a substantial structure today, is twisted out of shape, and



Deseret Health & Rehab

By Tom Mansfield

Saratoga Senior Center

By Sue Howe

There were eight here for Bridge Monday. High winners were Glee Johnson and Gertrude Herold.

Second high went to Sheila Johnson and Bob Johnson. We have hired Kathy Hennek as the new bus driver. She has lived here for many years and I am sure she will be a great asset to our group.

All of us here at the center want to wish Jane Fluty the very best on her retirement. She plans to do some camping when they get back from their vaca-tion in May. So we hope everything works out for them. She said if we need a substitute and she is in town, she will be happy to fill in for us.

We want to send our sin-cere sympathy to the fam-

ily of Randy Hall. Randy passed away this week in Wright, Wyo. Their family moved there several years ago. He will be missed by all that knew him.

We want to send our get well wishes to Marilyn Starr. She went to Salt Lake City for a checkup and got some discouraging news. She will be staying there to get treatment. We are all wishing her well. She has a very positive outlook so we are sure she will do just fine.

Center hires driverAt Deseret Health and Rehab,

residents enjoyed many activi-ties throughout the week. The Activity Department offers a wide variety of activities each week to meet the residents’ interests, as well as the phys-ical, mental and psychological well-being of each resident.

Games throughout the week provided fun and laughter. On Sunday afternoon, three res-idents played Dominoes with Pat Rust winning. On Tuesday morning, four residents played Yahtzee with Frank Jereb win-ning. On Wednesday afternoon, 11 residents played Bingo, and on Friday afternoon, 12 res-idents played Bingo. Frank Jereb and Charlotte Gibbons won Four Corners. Nadine Ca-leb won Blackouts. Our Bingo helpers were Lila Worden, Joy Hamilton, Betty Dean, and Gloria Rakness, with Gloria Rakness calling on Wednesday. On Thursday afternoon, five residents played Dominoes with Dora Martin winning. On Satur-

day afternoon, residents played Blackjack.

Evenings throughout the week, residents watched the Turner Classic Movie channel.

On Sunday morning, eight residents watched the VCR movie, “The Rare Breed”. On Tuesday afternoon, five resi-dents watched the VCR movie, “The Last of the Mohicans”. On Saturday morning, residents watched the VCR movie, “The Awful Truth”.

For Lunch Out four residents ate at the Saratoga Senior Cen-ter, on Monday and Friday.

On Sunday afternoon, Pastor Arlen Hughes of the Abundant Life Fellowship led our church service. On Tuesday morning,

he offered Bible Study to five residents.

On Wednesday morning, Lyn-da Healey, Pat Steumke, Geor-gia Schroer, Ann Kerschen, Alex Meadows, and Merlynn Hoopes gave Hair Care to eight residents and Nail Care to eight residents.

On Thursday morning, Janet Kennaday helped decorate three bulletin boards for April.

On Thursday afternoon, Ruth Monroe, our Administrator’s wife, played and sang religious hymns on the keyboard for 13 residents. On Friday morning, she returned to give an encore performance to residents, playing her dulcimer.

On Saturday afternoon, res-idents enjoyed ice cream sand-wiches.

We wish to thank the Rebekah Lodge for the kind financial dona-tion to Bingo.

The Activity program relies on volunteers to enhance residents’ lives. If interested, please call 326-8212 and ask for the Activity Director, Tom Mansfield.

April is here and we are looking forward to spring, as brief as it may be. Wishing the following a wonderful April birthday- Woody Wood-ward, Jerry Crank, Ruth Banzhof, Roy Wells, Lori Cronberg, Deryl Novak, Mar-vin Cronberg, Dot Severns, Barb Woodward, Dick Blake, Ellen Burgess, Jim Krouch, Patty Herring.

Sue will be here on at 11:30 a.m. April 3 to take blood pressures.

Breakfast at noon will be April 12. The menu is blueber-ry French toast bake, bacon, fresh fruit/juice, chilled milk. Our evening meal will be at 6 p.m., April 18 and we will be

serving Chicken Cordon Bleu casserole, green beans, wild rice, cheesy onion roll, fresh strawberry cake and chilled milk, so come and join us for dinner.

Entertainment and theme will be announced in next week’s article. We will be hosting Carbon County Com-missioners meeting on April 15 at 2 p.m.

Sagebrush Senior Center

By Ronda Krouch

April is upon usFrom March 24, 2014 to

March 30, 2014, the Saratoga Police Department responded to 127 calls including the following classifications:

Agency assistance (2); alarm (1); ambulance (2); assault (1); bar check (13); business checks (39); citizen assist (5); civil assist (1); curfew violation (1); dog at large (2); barking dog complaint (1); dog impounded (1); lost dog (4); dog tag (8); fingerprints (3); fire drill (1); harassment (1); hot pool check (14); larceny (1); lockout (1); parking problem (1); traffic ac-cident with damage (1); house

watch (1); school zones (7); suspicious person circumstance (3); threatening (1); traffic complaint (1); traffic stop (4); unsecured premises (1); utility problem (3); VIN serial number inspection (1).

A total of 47 homes are cur-rently on our House Watch pro-gram and two people are on the Home Alone program.

Warnings, citationsand arrests:

March 24Dick Thompson, of Saratoga,

was issued a Citation for dog at large.

March 25Robert Hartley, of Saratoga,

was given a wanting for Dog at Large.

A male juvenile, of Saratoga, was given a citation for Assault.

March 28Beatrice Soto, of Saratoga,

was given a warning for Keeping single Lane.

Bradley Bivens, of Wray, Colo., was given a warning for a defective taillight.

March 29Kyle Druce, of Rock Springs,

Wyo. was given a citation for a hot pool violation.

Carbon County Senior Centers

Wednesday- Oven chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, peas, wheat bread, peaches, chilled milk

Thursday- Hamburger steak and onions, steamed potatoes, coleslaw, wheat bread, purple plums, sherbet, chilled milk

Friday- Baked fish, wild rice blend, stewed tomatoes, wheat bread, pear crisp, chilled milk

Monday - Baked ham, sweet potato, cauliflower, wheat roll, melon cup, lemon bar, chilled milk

Tuesday- Hearty chili,

tossed salad, cornbread, cin-namon apple slices, chilled milk

Carbon County School District No. 2

Saratoga SchoolsWednesday- Rib-B-Q with

bun and BBQ sauce, potato wedges, fruit and vegetable bar, peaches, milk

Thursday- Chicken nug-gets, BBQ sauce, broccoli, fruit and vegetable bar, ap-plesauce, cinnamon roll, milk

Monday - Pizza, green beans, fruit and vegetable bar, pineapple, milk

Tuesday- Pancakes and

syrup, sausage patty, tater tots, fruit and vegetable bar, grapes, milk

Encampment SchoolsWednesday- Turkey deli

sandwich, lettuce and tomato, Sun Chips, kiwi, 1 percent low-fat milk

Thursday- Chicken ten-ders, pears, blueberry muffin squares, 1 percent low-fat milk

Monday- Hamburger on a bun, french fries, green beans, apples, pickles

Tuesday- Chicken noodle soup, crackers, mixed vege-tables, grapes, peanut butter bars

without doubt will go out with the spring waters of the river after the thaw in the hills. The county commissioners should build a new and sub-stantial bridge at once, and avoid the damage to traffic which will result in case the structure floats downstream some May or June morning. Now is the time to build, while the water is low.

B.M. Martin moved his stock of goods into his new

store on Freeman Avenue the first of the week. The location is a very desirable one, and will no doubt have much to do toward increasing the busi-ness of this firm. Mr. Martin has very fine line of cloth-ing, boots and shoes, ladies and gents’ furnishings, hats and caps, etc., and the stock presents a tidy and inviting appearance. He has been in Encampment six months and enjoys liberal patronage.

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The 12th Annual Grand En-campment Cowboy Gathering will be held July 18-20 in En-campment features activities ranging from a stick horse rodeo and Dutch oven cookoff to cow-boy music and poetry.

“The Encampment School is undergoing maintenance this summer, which means we have moved the Saturday Show to the Grand Encampment Opera House,” said Steve Moulton, President of the Cowboy Outfit. “It is a good location, but does not have as much seating, so we urge people to pay their mem-berships and get their tickets early as we expect this show to sell out.”

This year the Cowboy Outfit urges people to pay for their memberships early in order to be certain to have a seat for the Saturday night show that will feature Cimarron, N.M. singer/songwriter R. W. Hampton, Trinity Seely, from Muddy Gap, Wyo., and South Dakota cowboy poet Robert Dennis, along with Chuck Larsen, of Saratoga, the show’s emcee.

This year events begin with an Open Mic Music and Poetry in Grand View Park on Friday, July 18, followed by the camp-fire program. Both of these events involve a variety of po-

ets and musicians, and anyone wanting to participate is invited to attend and take part. Host for the evening will be Daron Little.

A Dutch oven cookoff is slated for Saturday, July 19. Regis-tration begins at 7 a.m., with judging at 11 a.m. Contestants in adult and youth divisions will compete in three categories: main dish, bread, and dessert. All ages are welcome to partic-ipate. There is no entry fee and cash prizes will be awarded to the winning entries in each of the categories. Cooking will be held at Grand View Park in Encampment.

The Cowboy Outfit will hold the annual Stick Horse Rodeo for kids of all ages beginning Saturday, July 22 at 11 a.m., at Grand View Park in En-campment. Cowboy music and poetry will be presented on the stage in the park beginning at noon, with performances by the featured entertainers, plus a number of other poets and musicians.

Western Writers of America will assist the Cowboy Gather-ing by selling books and music CDs at the Grand View Park starting at 11 a.m., and the Encampment-Riverside Lions Club will serve lunch at the park beginning at 11:30 a.m. A free afternoon music and poetry

show gets underway at noon at the Park, with the evening concert to start at 7 p.m. at the Grand Encampment Opera House.

Following evening events ,another informal music and poetry jam session will be held by the campfire in Grand View Park.

On Sunday, July 20, events include a cowboy breakfast to be served at Grand View Park, followed by cowboy church to be conducted by Ken and Becky Kreusel beginning at 10 a.m. R. W. Hampton also will take part in cowboy church and after church will present a program.

The Grand Encampment Cowboy Gathering is organized by ranchers, musicians, poets and writers living in the area as a way to help preserve and promote ranching and cowboy culture and lifestyle. It is spon-sored by the Grand Encamp-ment Cowboy Gathering Outfit with assistance from the Town of Encampment, Town of River-side, and many businesses and individuals in the Platte Valley. Funding is also received from the Wyoming Arts Council, WE-STAF, National Endowment for the Arts, Carbon County Visitor’s Council, and Carbon County School District No. 2 Recreation Board.

Grand Encampment Cowboy Gathering announces venue change

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Phillip Sanchez and Adrian Trujillo, both of Rawlins, remove rivets from the bridge at Flying Diamond Ranch. The bridge was compromised by an overweight vehicle and has been closed for two months. The men, who work for Simon Contractors, started working on the bridge last Wednesday.


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OR S.C. NUMBER DATE Sec. Twp. Range ACREAGE MINUTECondict & Sons Cattle Co., Inc.; Permit No. U.W. 195996 Chad #1 June 3, 2011 32 17N 82W 0 ac. 20 gpm Misc.SBOLC; U.S.D.I, BLMUSDA, Forest Service Permit No. U.W. 179804 Hog Park Picnic Area Dec. 12, 2006 6 12N 84W 0 ac. 5 gpm Misc.USDA, Forest Service Permit No. U.W. 197339 Brush Creek Work January 4, 2012 20 16N 81W 0 ac. 5 gpm Misc.

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LAST WEEK’S ANSWERS

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CROSSWORD

THEME: (*Themed Clue)THE TWENTIES

ACROSS 1. Hidden, also “lost” in

French 6. ___ and flow 9. Beehive basket13. “Private Parts” author14. ___ v. Wade15. The Great Muppet16. _____ peak17. ___-Wan Kenobi18. Bedazzle, e.g.19. *“The Jazz Singer” and

such21. Honeymoon, e.g.23. Finale24. RPMs25. Electric guitar hookup28. *Art ____30. Kindle editions35. Figure of worship

37. Margaret behind sexual revolution

39. *Flashy ocean ride in “The Great Gatsby”

40. *This “biscuit” was re-named a “sandwich” cookie in 1921

41. Supplemented43. Salty drop44. Chronic disease in ho-

meopathy46. Pitcher with handle and

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1920s61. *“Return to Normalcy”

President65. Architectural projection66. “Wow!”68. Cowboy sport69. Female gossip70. Feeling of anger71. Corpulent72. *“The Foresyte ____”73. Down in the dumps74. Adam and Mae

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10. Be aware of a fact11. Poet Pound12. Child’s dream gift?15. *Fitzgerald’s famous

character20. Swelling22. Adam’s partner24. *Route 66, e.g.25. Mushroom cloud maker26. Journalist Shriver27. Song of joy29. Relinquish or abandon31. The Hippocratic ____32. *Lindbergh’s first solo

crossing of Atlantic ____33. Popular pant style for

men34. Seatbelt36. *Like Hemingway’s gen-

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PROPOSED DISCHARGE OF DREDGED OR FILL MATERIAL

TO WETLANDS ALONG THE NORTH PLATTE RIVER

The Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (WDEQ) has received a request from ERO Resources Corporation on behalf of The Overland Trail Cattle Company, LLC for State certification of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nationwide Permit #25, for discharge of dredged or fill material into wetlands ad-jacent to the North Platte River near Saratoga, Wyoming. The purpose of the project is to install piers as supports for an obser-vation deck at Riverbend Lodge. This segment of the North Platte River and adjacent wetlands are designated Class 1. Point source discharges to Class 1 waters are prohibited except for storm water and construction related discharges. This certification will require meeting the provisions in Chapter 1, Section 7(b) of the WDEQ Water Quality Rules and Regulations, which allows

these discharges under certain circumstances. Proposed activ-ities include drilling six 24-inch diameter holes approximately 40 inches deep in a wetland ad-jacent to the North Platte River. Approximately 0.4 cubic yards (CY) of concrete would be used for the pier supports. The maximum area of disturbance would be 600 square-feet.Requests for information about the proposed water quality certi-fication should be directed to Eric Hargett by email ([email protected]) or phone (307-777-6701). Comments must be ad-dressed to Eric Hargett, Wyoming DEQ/WQD, Herschler Building, 122 W. 25th Street, Cheyenne, WY, 82002, and be postmarked on or before 5:00 p.m. on April 15, 2014 to be considered. Phone or email comments will not be accepted.

Legal#6326Published in the Saratoga SunApril 2, 2014

By Doug Radunich

Saratoga High School’s track team showed early potential at last week’s Natrona Invite, the team’s first meet of the 2014 track season.

Most notably, the team of Hunter Mason, Tate Stinson,

Seth Harrison and Kyle Bartlett ran the 400-meter relay in 46.86 seconds, which qualified them for the state track and field champi-onships. Cameron Collamer also scored fifth-place in the 800-me-ter run, with a time of 2 minutes 5.91 seconds.

Coach Rex Hohnholt said im-provement was what he looked for most during the first meet of the season, which took place March 28 at Casper’s Natrona County High School.

“What you’re looking for most, especially for these young kids

getting their first taste of compe-tition, is improvement,” he said. “We’ve got that standard now, and I was excited and pleased with the overall performances. We have about 40 kids out, and 23 competed. It was also a huge meet.”

The team’s next competition is the Wheatland Invite, beginning at 11 a.m. Friday at Wheatland High School. Hohnholt said he is eager to see what this new season may bring.

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2011 levels, and way above the median. The one basin that is really high, as it does compare to 2011, is the Encampment River Basin.”

Fahey said deep flows for flooding in Saratoga are in-fluenced by the big tributaries of the North Platte, the En-campment River and Brush Creek, than they are by snow melt from northern Colorado. He said at this time it looks like Saratoga may avoid the two months of high water it experienced three years ago.

“I don’t expect as this time, we’re kinda early in the game as we know, I don’t expect flooding for such a long period as 2011,” he said. “I also don’t expect directed flows like 2011. High flows will stay up because of the flow coming in to Colorado, but I don’t see it as high as 2011.”

In the Little Snake River Valley, Fahey said Baggs and Savery are in much of the same position as Riverside. He said SNOTEL sites on drain-ages feeding the Little Snake River basin are above normal, but mostly below 2011 levels.

Fahey added that after tour-ing the Baggs area recently, the Little Snake River Valley

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appears to have taken good measures to weather any high water issue this year.

“Looking at what’s going on in Baggs and then upstream, first of all, the NRCS has done a lot of restoration and recla-mation efforts on the channel near Baggs,” Fahey said. “The channel may hold more water than we’ve seen since 2008, 2010 and 2011. Usually, the flood flow is 6,000 cubic feet per second, but it may hold 2,000 more than that.”

Rebecca Mazur, forecaster with the NOAA in Cheyenne, told the group on the confer-ence call it is anyone’s predic-tion what the weather will be like a month or two from now.

“Frankly at this stage, I’m not really sure what could happen in the next couple of months,” she said. “Looks like we are under El Nino watch, but that typically would mean more warmer conditions for our area. At this stage, I’m not 100-percent sure if it could go either way, there’s just not a strong signal. I’m a little un-certain to what could happen, but no trends can really be assessed to whether we are go-ing to see rapid snowmelt from above average temperatures.”

Map courtesy of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

The Wyoming spring snowmelt flood potential outlook indicates possible moderate to high flooding in the Riverside, Saratoga and Little Snake River areas.

“Last weekend’s meet was our first test of competition,” he said. “We’ve definitely got room for improvement, and I’m looking forward to seeing these kids challenge themselves.”

Results are listed below:

Girls’ Results Kelsie Samson: 1600 meter

run, 6:19.01, 800 meter run, 2:54.94

Kylie Theesfeld: 100 meter dash, 16.17, 200 meter dash, 33.99

Peyten Fisher: Shot Put, 18’11”, Discus, 44’3”

Sarah Burton: Shot Put, 22’1”, Discus, 53’6”

Katie Loose: 1600 meter run, 6:32.93, 800 meter run, 2:59.81

Boys’ ResultsBradley Bifano: 200 meter

dash, 28.85, 400 meter dash, 1:01.44

Zane Michelson: Shot Put, 24’8”, Discus, 58’7”

Jacob Scholz: Shot Put, 21’10”, Discus, 43’6”

Hazer Hinkle: Shot Put, 34’10.5”, Discus, 78’10”

Cristian Soles: Shot Put, 22’11”, Discus, 69’11”, 400 meter dash, 1:05.56

Andrew Oiler: Pole Vault, 11’0”, 200 meter dash, 26.7, 300 meter hurdles, 49.09

Morgan Rempel: 100 meter dash, 13.64, 200 meter dash,

28.62, 300 meter hurdles, 54.43

Ryan Malone: 100 meter dash, 12.83

Tate Stinson: Pole Vault, 8’0”, 100 meter dash, 12.47, 200 meter dash, 26.35

Marshal Hill: Pole Vault, 8’6”, 100 meter dash, 12.87, 200 meter dash, 26.54

Matthew Lincoln: 200 meter dash, 27.33, 400 meter dash, 1:02.6, Discus, 67’0”

Cameron Lehr: 100 meter dash, 13.2, 200 meter dash, 28.11

Hunter Mason: 100 meter dash, 12.14, 200 meter dash, 25.58, Long Jump, 17’1”

Alex Ziegler: 100 meter dash, 12.27, 200 meter dash, 24.79

Aaron Kerbs: 1600 meter run, 5:40.27

Kyle Bartlett: 200 meter dash, 25.08

Seth Harrison: 100 meter dash, 12.12, 200 meter dash, 25.65

Cameron Collamer: 800 me-ter run, Fifth Place, 2:05.91

400 meter relay, 46.86, (Hunt-er Mason, Tate Stinson, Seth Harrison and Kyle Bartlett). This group qualified for the state track and field championships.

1600 meter relay, 3:55.17, (Cameron Collamer, Alex Ziegler, Kyle Bartlett, and Andrew Oiler)

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