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Herrera status conference held in District Court SHERIDAN — Judge John Fenn

took arguments under advise-ment during a status conference for Herrera v. Wyoming in 4th Judicial District Court Friday.

The case stems from an incident

in January 2014 when Clayvin Herrera, a Crow tribal member, allegedly killed elk on public land out of season in Sheridan County. Three Wyoming judicial rulings found Herrera guilty.

In May, however, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a 5-4 deci-sion affirming Herrera’s right to

hunt on the land based on an 1868 treaty between the United States and representatives of the Crow Tribe.

The treaty ratified an agreement in which the Crow ceded control of lands in present-day Montana and Wyoming to the United States in exchange for the right “to hunt

on the unoccupied lands of the United States so long as game may be found thereon.”

The high court’s decision vacated a ruling by Wyoming’s 4th Judicial District Court that declared the treaty expired when Wyoming became a state in 1890 and remanded the case back to

the lower court for further pro-ceedings. Though the Supreme Court ruled the 1868 treaty grants Herrera certain hunting rights, it also left open the possibility that the state could prosecute him for taking the elk.

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COMM-UNITYNEIGHBORS HELP FARM AFTER HAY FIRE

ASHLEIGH SNOOZY | THE SHERIDAN PRESS

A hay fire caused a hauler to lose his entire load plus the trailer north of Sheridan on Interstate 90 Friday, Aug. 2, 2019.

SHERIDAN — Jeff Young wouldn’t let a hay fire damper his community-first mentality.

On Aug. 2, Young’s cous-in was driving 300 bales of hay to Young’s Farm when the trailer and hay started to burn. Law enforcement officers on site suspected a passing car tossed a ciga-rette butt out the window, setting the hay ablaze, Young said.

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COMPASSIONATE CARE MAKES CANCER DOCTOR INVALUABLE

DFS RESPONDSGovernment agency

chimes in on NSI conversations

SHERIDAN — Wyoming Department of Family Services Director Korin Schmidt responded promptly to a letter of concern sent by Sheridan County commissioners to the government agency about accumulating incidents deriving from Normative Services, Inc.

DFS licensing authority has been recent-ly working with NSI in addressing sim-ilar concerns as commissioners and the Sheridan community.

DFS administers the license for NSI as an approved court-ordered youth treatment facility in the state. NSI is a private business under its parent company, Sequel Youth and Family Services, and does not receive gov-ernment funding outside of funds associated with students placed in NSI’s programming who are under the guardianship of DFS. DFS still controls licensing for NSI and other agencies like it.

Other agencies in the state listed under the same category — residential treat-ment centers — on DFS’ website include the Cathedral Home in Laramie, Central Wyoming Counseling Center in Casper, Cornerstone in Cheyenne, Red Top Meadows in Wilson, Trinity Teen Solutions in Powell and the YES House in Gillette.

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The Department of Family Services sent a letter Thursday, Aug. 8, 2019, in response to the letter sent by Sheridan County commissioners last week identifying their concerns about recent NSI incidents.

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SHERIDAN — Practicing oncology comes with sobering responsibilities, and very few people are well-equipped to han-dle the challenges.

Maybe her affinity for Bob Ross, whose soothing voice has captivated many, combined with her love of nature, can

help explain why Dr. Megan Ratterman is wonderful at her job. But more like-ly, there’s something ingrained in her, something that drives her to serve others quietly and effectively, making her spe-cial.

Ratterman joined the Welch Cancer Center in September 2017 as a medical oncologist after completing a fellowship at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital

in Park Ridge, Illinois, with a specialty in hematology/oncology.

“Dr. Ratterman has made such a posi-tive impact with our patients and their families in a very short time,” said Ada Kirven, director of donor relations for Sheridan Memorial Hospital.

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Volunteers stand in front of a donated load of hay on Young’s Farm Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019.

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FIRE : Young grateful for impression unloading experience left on his childrenFROM 1

Young also lost his 40-foot trailer to the fire.

The Combat Veterans Motorcycle Association Chapter 36-1 out of Casper subsequently raised $1,100 to replace the hay Young lost. The surprise fundrais-er kept Young from getting behind on winter schedules.

On Aug. 7, a dozen people unloaded 10 tons of hay at Young’s Farm from sun-down until about 10 p.m. During the evening, Young and one of the volunteers raced each other to see who could throw bales the fast-est. Young said it’s import-ant for CVMA and his own farm to work cooperatively, to give back to each other and the community.

“[It shows people] they’re not just badass bikers,” he said. “There’s a cause, there’s a reason behind what they do.”

Young is a veteran himself and said he appreciates the work CVMA does to give back to veterans who may need assistance.

“They help us and we help them,” he said. “It’s a very good relationship all around.”

Young’s Farm is a veteran and family-owned hog farm in Parkman, according to its Facebook page. They raise close to 200 hogs per year, Young said. For Young, the most important part of his

farm is opening the grounds to veterans who need a safe place to recover.

“When I got home, I was lost,” he said. “This farm is my way of giving back to the vets.”

Rachel Webb, State

Auxiliary Representative of the Wyoming CVMA, said Young always gives back to his community, including donating pigs to Feeding Veterans and Toys for Tots.

“This time we decided to give back to him,” she said.

Young lets veterans stay at his house if they need it or simply come by and play with the animals.

“It’s amazing what a lit-tle piglet will do for your mind,” he said.

The farm is open for

animal therapy and to Sheridan College for agri-culture classes.

Young said he didn’t know that money was being raised to cover the cost of the lost hay and trailer until he was told to get ready to unload.

He still doesn’t know who paid the tow bill, but he said he’d like to thank them and give something back.

Hand and neck injuries he sustained in the military kept Young from pursu-ing his goals for years. He started Young’s Farm on disability checks from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. By VA standards, he’s not allowed to work, he said.

Young said with the help of his family, community and the Semper Fi Fund, he was able to transform the farm into a successful hog operation.

He is grateful for the impression the unloading experience left on his chil-dren — showing people working hard together.

The Semper Fi Fund is a nonprofit that provides financial assistance and support to injured combat veterans and their families, according to its website.

Young said they helped him purchase a tractor and provided start-up funds, medical guidance and busi-ness support, which acceler-ated his five-year goals to be accomplished in two and a half years.

Young and Nicky Schlauch will be celebrat-ing their wedding on Oct. 19. Webb said the CVMA wanted to ensure they could celebrate without worrying about replacing the hay.

McConnell wants to consider gun background checks in fallWASHINGTON (AP) —

Shifting the gun violence debate, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he now wants to con-sider background checks and other bills, setting up a potentially pivotal moment

when lawmakers return in the fall.

The Republican leader won’t be calling senators back to work early, as some are demanding. But he told a Kentucky radio station that President

Donald Trump called him Thursday morning and they talked about several ideas. The president, he said, is “anxious to get an outcome, and so am I.”

Stakes are high for all sides, but particularly

for Trump and his party. Republicans have long opposed expanding back-ground checks — a bill passed by the Democratic-led House is stalled in the Senate — but they face enormous pressure to do something after mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, that left 31 people dead.

McConnell, who is fac-ing protests outside his Louisville home, can shift attention back to Democrats by showing a willingness to engage ahead of the 2020 election.

“What we can’t do is fail to pass something,” McConnell said. “What I want to see here is an out-come.”

McConnell said he and Trump discussed various ideas on the call, including background checks and the

so-called “red flag” laws that allow authorities to seize firearms from some-one deemed a threat to themselves or others.

“Background checks and red flags will probably lead the discussion,” McConnell told Louisville’s WHAS-AM. He noted “there’s a lot of support” publicly for background checks. “Those are two items that for sure will be front and center as we see what we can come together on and pass.”

Trump has been interest-ed in federal background checks before — and tweet-ed Monday about them — only to drop the issue later, a turnaround similar to his reversal on gun proposals after the 2018 high school shooting at Parkland, Florida.

The powerful National Rifle Association and its

allies on Capitol Hill have long wielded influence, but the gun lobby’s grip on Democrats started slip-ping some time ago, and it’s unclear how much sway the NRA and other gun groups still hold over Republicans in the Trump era.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said Trump assured them in phone calls Thursday he will review the House-passed bill that expands federal background checks for fire-arm sales.

In a joint statement, they said Trump called them individually after Pelosi sent a letter asking the president to order the Senate back to Washington immediately to consider gun violence measures.

COURTESY PHOTO | RACHEL WEBB

Jeff Young and his son help unload donated hay on their farm Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019.

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STATUS : Fenn did not yet issue decisionFROM 1

Justice Sonia Sotomayor — who wrote the majority opinion for the Supreme Court — noted that the deci-sion declared the Bighorn National Forest is not cat-egorically occupied, which does not mean that all of the areas of the forest are unoc-cupied.

Wyoming can still argue that the land Herrera hunt-ed on “was used in such a way that it is ‘occupied’ within the meeting of the 1868 Treaty,” Sotomayor wrote.

The decision also gives Wyoming the opportunity to argue that regulating Crow hunting rights is necessary to the state’s conservation efforts.

Fenn suggested the case would have to be remanded to circuit court should the state decide to pursue either of the issues. There is not currently a sufficient record of evidence related to either of those issues, he said, and that record would have to be established in circuit court.

Both Herrera’s Attorney Kyle Gray and Sheridan County Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Christopher LaRosa — representing the state — agreed that

the facts related to the two arguments Supreme Court identified would have to be established in circuit court.

LaRosa, however, pro-posed Fenn keep the case in district court based on a separate issue.

He contended Fenn could rule on whether issue pre-clusion — a legal doctrine that prevents an issue from being re-litigated once it has been decided in a previous case — applied to Herrera’s case.

LaRosa pointed to the 1995 10th Circuit Court Case Crow Tribe v. Repsis — which concluded “the Tribe’s right to hunt which was reserved in the treaty was repealed by Wyoming’s admission to the Union” — as the instance where the issue had already been litigated.

If that argument were to hold, Herrera would be precluded from mounting a defense based on the 1868 treaty. And if that defense was precluded, LaRosa said the state would save the “massive” judicial resourc-es it would expend should the case be remanded to cir-cuit court.

Gray said the Supreme Court’s decision was clearly sending two issues back for the court to consider.

Further, she said the find-ings in the Repsis decision no longer applied based on a later decision.

Fenn did not issue a decision and said he would inform attorneys whether he would ask for addition-al briefing on the case or remand it to circuit court.

Trump warns Mexico over anti-drug effortsWASHINGTON (AP) —

President Donald Trump is warning he may take action against Mexico if it doesn’t do more against drug traf-ficking.

Mexico is among the 22 major drug transit and drug producing countries identi-fied in a presidential memo-randum released Thursday night by the White House and Trump wrote in the doc-ument that the administra-tion of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador needs to intensify efforts to eradicate opium poppies, interdict illicit drugs and prosecute and seize assets of traffickers.

If he fails to formally cer-tify that Mexico is doing enough over the next 12 months, the U.S. could with-hold financial assistance and block international development bank loans.

Trump made such a rul-ing in the cases of Bolivia and Venezuela, saying they failed to uphold their anti-drug commitments over the past year.

“Without further progress over the coming year, I will consider determining that Mexico has failed demon-strably to uphold its inter-national drug control com-mitments,” he wrote.

Mexico’s Foreign Relations Department responded Friday that the drug trade feeds on regional problems like demand, con-sumption, money launder-ing and weapons trafficking

that can’t be controlled by one country alone and require a regional approach.

“Drug trafficking and the violence associated with it are fed by high levels of consumption,” the depart-ment said in a statement that contained a veiled reference to the United States, the leading market for illicit drugs. “Drug use reduction goals are not always met by countries in the region.”

The department defended Mexico’s efforts, saying the country “has made efforts to combat the production and trafficking of drugs in its territory, often with a very high cost in human and financial terms,” add-ing that U.S. pledges to help combat arms trafficking that feeds drug violence were appreciated.

Christopher Wilson, deputy director at Wilson Center’s Mexico Institute, said the new warning is “something that has to be taken seriously, but still it is truly unlikely that it would actually occur.”

Wilson added the U.S. financial assistance does not amount to much given the size of the Mexican economy and is not as important as the bilateral cooperation on law enforce-ment issues.

“It is unclear if that is truly at risk, but that would be very negative to interest of both United States and Mexico,” he said.

Mexico had received almost no criticism from Trump after both govern-ments agreed in June to rapid expansion of a new U.S. policy to make asylum seekers wait in Mexico while their cases wind through clogged U.S. courts.

That agreement came after Trump had threat-ened to impose tariffs, even though its neighbor had already negotiated an updated trade deal with the United States and Canada.

But Mexico has been in Trump’s mind for a long time. During the electoral campaign, he insisted he would make Mexico pay for the construction of a border wall.

On the other hand, Trump complimented the efforts of the Colombian president Iván Duque in rolling back record-high coca cultivation and cocaine production and said “this progress needs to continue and expand.”

Trump reiterated his administration will work toward a joint goal to reduce coca cultivation and cocaine production by half by the end of 2023.

Trump had publicly chas-tised Duque over the drug issue in earlier years. But the White House reported in June that that coca culti-vation and cocaine produc-tion in Colombia dropped slightly in 2018 for the first time in six years, though they remained at historical-ly high levels.

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Scott Presler’s #BaltimoreCleanup further proof of ‘Can-Do’ attitude

My column last week was written in response to what has become the typical claim of the political class during election season:

Increasing numbers of Americans are helpless victims whose problems can only be solved by government.

Using homelessness as an example, I compared the expensive failures of government in cities like Los Angeles and Austin, Texas, with the success of Community First Village, a privately funded initiative in Austin. Starting small and focusing on the needs of a few, Community First has grown in

just three years to the point where it is preparing to house and help 500 peo-ple — nearly 40% of Austin’s chronically homeless popula-tion.

This week saw another example of the “can-do” atti-tude of private citi-zens. Scott Presler, a young conserva-tive activist from northern Virginia,

used his substantial social media following (he has over 300,000 follow-ers on Twitter) to organize a one-day trash cleanup in Baltimore — a city whose problems have recaptured the nation’s attention since President Trump tweeted about it being “rat and rodent infested” two weeks ago.

I spoke with Presler two days after the cleanup, which was, by any defi-nition, a success. Presler stated that he was motivated to call for citizen action when he noticed that “politi-cians, pundits and prognosticators” criticized the president, but “no one was offering to put on gloves and go help.”

Using the hashtags #BaltimoreCleanup and #AmericansHelpingAmericans, Presler offered people the opportu-nity to volunteer or donate through his website, ScottPresler.org. One hundred and seventy people from Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey and Ohio signed up, but Presler estimates that perhaps 100 more showed up on Aug. 5 to help in the west Baltimore neighborhood at the intersection of North Fulton and Westwood Avenues.

Working in two-hour shifts, volun-teers — including local residents — cleared out 12 tons of trash in 12 hours.

Presler and his team of volunteers remind me of the Cajun Navy — doz-ens of Americans from Louisiana who took their boats to Houston for rescue operations when state and fed-eral government agencies were over-whelmed after Hurricane Harvey’s deluge. Unofficial branches of the Cajun Navy have popped up all over the country.

One would think that such efforts would be uniformly praised. But an NPR article raised questions about the Cajun Navy after the fact, asking whether the members were “heroes or hindrances” to government relief efforts. It sounds a little like sour grapes — private citizens make the government look bad. But partici-pants in those volunteer efforts said that government responses to crises are, as the article said, “broken, or, at best, inadequate.” And even the most effective government cannot do every-thing.

Presler’s critics strike the same cynical tone. The Baltimore Sun wrote a snarky editorial in which it questioned Presler’s motives and griped that his efforts reinforce “the tired image ... (t)hat the poor people in this dilapidated city can’t take care of their own neighborhoods and all the public officials around them have failed as well.”

Perhaps the author(s) should talk to Presler or the residents themselves. According to Presler, residents of the neighborhood where he and his crew cleaned said that the city of Baltimore actually owns many of the abandoned buildings where the trash piles up but that city trash haulers come by only about once a year. Locals made clear that they love their city, but many are elderly, and while they can and do keep their own properties tidy, they cannot handle the volume of illegal dumping that takes place at empty buildings and lots nearby.

Is that not a failure of govern-ment? Presler’s own experience with Baltimore city government was no better. Despite multiple inquiries and efforts, he was unable to get permits to have dumpsters at the cleanup site. The permit applications weren’t

denied, Presler explained; nothing was done at all. Private donations paid for the dumpsters that were brought to the site (lack of a permit notwithstanding), filled and car-ried away one at a time, as well as the portable toilets, food and water needed for the volunteers. (Presler says he finally heard from the city of Baltimore two days after the cleanup; his permit request was denied.)

Presler is an unabashed conserva-tive, but he is adamant that this effort is apolitical. “It’s an act of love,” he said. “Just Americans helping Americans.” Residents of the neigh-borhood who are the beneficiaries of the help certainly seem to get it. And local business owners offered to help with this cleanup, and future cleanups. “The response warmed my heart,” Presler says.

Positive responses aren’t limited to Baltimore. Presler told me that he has been overwhelmed by the reac-tion. “We’ve already gotten inquiries from Atlanta, Houston, Detroit and Los Angeles,” he said. No doubt more will inquire. But that is precisely what should happen — one small act inspires dozens more.

Presler’s main message is philo-sophical, not political. He is unfail-ingly optimistic — a sentiment that is refreshing in a political climate fraught with rancor and vitriolic accusations. He points to the helpful and grateful attitudes of the clean-up participants and west Baltimore residents alike as proof of what Americans are truly capable of. “Don’t look at the color of our skin; look at our actions,” he said. “One person can make a difference. One tweet from me started a movement that’s taking the country by storm.”

Presler’s enthusiasm is matched only by his sense of humor. He closed saying, “I’m just trying to make America clean again.”

Even a small number of upbeat, committed activists like Scott Presler can transform America. And no, we don’t need the politicians in order to do it.

LAURA HOLLIS is a nationally syndicated conservative columnist whose experience in the law and politics spans more than 25 years. She is a frequent public speaker and, in addition to articles in respected legal publications, has been a freelance political writer since 1993.

The joy of composting

Compost may be the most romantic form of recy-cling.

Sure, your aluminum can of LaCroix can be crushed, melted and remolded into another

aluminum can of LaCroix. But your banana peel can feed thousands of critters, from worms and insects to bacteria and fungi, that slowly turn it into a nutritious soil amendment that will make your garden happier and healthier.

I admit that compost was off my radar for years, until my husband started working for the NYC Compost Project in 2013. After hopping on the com-

post train, we were amazed at the change in our chores. Instead of constantly taking out the trash in our tiny walk-up apartment, we collected a colorful bowl of food scraps in our freezer and dropped it off every Saturday morning at the neighborhood farmers’ mar-ket. We often rewarded our-selves with fresh blueberries and a sense of righteousness (which would later assuage our guilt over any forgotten moldy blueberries).

Our weekly compost drop-off tradition ended a year ago, when we moved back to Sheridan. Our city does not currently have a program for composting food scraps. In contrast to New York residents, many of us Sheridanites have the yard space for our own compost piles.

It may not seem like there is a special need for diverting food waste from landfills. However, many residents and most restaurants don’t have space or time to tend a compost pile. As a result, tons of food waste end up in our city landfill.

Why does this matter? As I’ve discussed in my previous two columns, landfills are problemat-ic. Each “cell” has a lifespan of about a decade, during which it sucks up millions of taxpayer dol-lars and sends toxins into the soil, water and air. Every inch of space counts.

In a natural environment, a banana peel decom-poses fairly quickly. In a landfill, decomposition is significantly slowed due to lack of oxygen. Anaerobic decomposition is incredibly dirty: The process emits a lot of methane, which is around 25 times as potent as carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas.

Luckily, the city of Sheridan is dedicated to con-serving the landfill with its recycling and compost programs.

“Anything that we can keep from going to our landfill is beneficial to the whole community,” emphasized Charles Martineau, the city’s solid waste manager. “Preserving the life of the landfill is paramount for us.”

Currently, the sanitation department composts “any green waste — essentially, anything that grows,” Martineau told me. Residents drop off yard waste, such as leaves, weeds and clippings, in large green containers set up around Sheridan.

To make its compost, the city has pioneered an Ag-Bag system, a process that carefully regulates everything from temperature to oxygen to mois-ture. Samples from each batch are sent to a spe-cialty lab in the Midwest to test for pathogens or dangerous metals. The result is “top-notch,” said Sheridan Utilities Director Dan Roberts. “It’s Class A, the best you can get as far as quality goes.”

The city’s compost is recycled to its parks and trees, community gardens and schools. It is also available for purchase at the affordable price of $32.14 per ton.

And now, Sheridan is ready to take its compost game to the next level.

This fall or winter, the city will introduce a pilot organics collection program focusing on commer-cial food waste. The program is still in early plan-ning stages; so far, the team has identified about 25 target businesses, primarily grocery stores and restaurants.

This has the potential to make a huge impact on the amount of food waste that goes into our landfill. And who knows? Maybe the program will expand and invite residents to participate. Maybe my husband and I will resurrect our weekly com-post drop-off tradition.

In the meantime, we tend our own pile. However, we are no longer allowing the righteousness of compost to assuage our guilt over forgotten moldy blueberries. Compost, like recycling, is a great tool for reducing waste that goes to landfill — but waste is still waste.

Next week, in my last column of this series, I will explore the intimidating zero waste world. Wish me luck.

AUTHOR’S NOTE: Have you tried to go #zerowaste? I want to hear from you! Please email caitlin.addlesperger@thesheridanpress.com.

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Trump boasted about making Air Force One cheaper. He didn’t.

In December 2016, then-Presi-dent-elect Trump sent word that, when it came to government spending, there was a new sheriff

in town.“Boeing is building a brand new

747 Air Force One for future presi-dents, but costs are out of control, more than $4 billion,” he tweeted. “Cancel order!”

With great fanfare, Trump opened talks with Boeing and as recently as June declared that he had forced Boeing to knock $1.6 billion off the price. He boasted about his negotiating triumph over and over.

Welp. The Pentagon just put out its first formal acquisition report on the presidential planes, and the new cost is .?.?. $5.2 billion, Air Force Magazine reports. That’s $4.7 billion for the jets themselves and $500 million for associated costs such as hangar construction. In response to my inquiry, an Air Force spokeswoman broke down the costs differently — $3.9 billion for Boeing and the rest for associ-ated costs — and came up with a

slightly higher figure for the new Air Force One: $5.3 billion.

Heckuva job!Actually, it’s even worse.

Though Trump in 2016 had claimed costs were $4 billion for the two-jet order, the Government Accountability Office had estimat-ed the cost that year at only $3.2 billion. Apples-to-apples compar-isons are tricky, largely because Trump tends to make up numbers, but by any measure, the price tag is up — bigly — from when Trump first complained about it.

The tale of Air Force One is a study of Trump’s presidency in miniature. He makes fantastical claims and forecasts that are implausible at the time but that can’t be proved wrong empirical-ly because sufficient time hasn’t passed. As the Trump presidency wears on, however, time exposes more claims as fraudulent.

He claimed the economy would grow consistently at 4% and occa-sionally as high as 8%; after an initial boost because of tax cuts, it has settled back down to 2.1%.

His treasury secretary said in April that the United States and China were close to a trade deal. The two are now fighting a trade and cur-rency war.

He proclaimed North Korea no longer a nuclear threat and said its main mis-

sile-launching site “is going to be destroyed very soon”; North Korea has resumed weapons testing.

He claimed he would turn around the coal and steel indus-tries and deliver cheaper and better health care and Middle East peace progress; all deteriorated.

Trump gets a pass on much of the above, because of strong mar-kets and continued job growth. But time appears to be catching up with this happy situation: Markets have wobbled recently, and the long expansion shows signs of fra-

gility.On the Air Force One contract,

Trump complained in November 2015 to radio host and Washington Post columnist Hugh Hewitt: “They’re giving out a new, as you know, Air Force One, and that’s a $3 billion, with a ‘b’, $3 billion plane ... I guarantee you I could save hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars.”

By February 2017, he had a new set of numbers: “They were close to signing a $4.2 billion deal to have a new Air Force One. Can you believe this? I said no way,” he said. “I said I refuse to fly in a $4.2 billion airplane. I refuse. So I got Boeing, and it is actually — a lot of people don’t know — the Air Force One project is actually two planes ... but we’ve got that price down over $1 billion.”

In August 2018, he claimed even greater savings.

“I had a price of $5.6 billion,” he said. “So we worked very long and very hard, and we have the same exact product for $1.6 billion less.”

Just over a year ago, the

Pentagon said it awarded Boeing a $3.9 billion contract to build the two 747-8 presidential jets. That’s $100 million less than Trump orig-inally claimed the Obama admin-istration was set to pay — itself a dubious figure — but there was no sign of the $1.6 billion savings he boasted about. (The White House at this point claimed the original estimate, which Trump himself put at $4 billion, had always been over $5 billion.)

Now we’re at $5.3 billion for the jets and associated costs — and counting.

As the industry publication Defense One put it: “Air Force offi-cials have always privately con-ceded that the program was going to cost more than the $3.9 billion figure touted by the White House last year. ... Now the projected costs are out in the open.”

Time has a way of doing that.

DANA MILBANK is a political reporter for The Washington Post and has authored two books on national political campaigns and the national political parties.

Stoicism admirable, but just not me

DISCLAIMER: I realize this is a “Community Perspectives” column and what follows is more

of a Person’s Perspective col-umn. Please adjust your expec-tations accordingly.

When you attempt to describe a person, adjectives usually come easily. Take me for example. (I’m sure my family often wishes you would.) I have been described as enthusiastic, loud, happy and loud. Shy and withdrawn

will seldom be words used to illustrate me, nor will quiet. However, the quality I am least likely to ever per-sonify is stoicism. No, that’s not strong enough. I

will never be described as stoic. You know why? Let me spend this column telling you.

To quote Daffy Duck in one of my favorite Looney Tunes cartoons, “I don’t like pain. It hurts me.” That pretty much is me in a soundbite. If I experience any pain of nearly any sort, many people in my immediate world are going to know about it. I am not afraid to complain, vehemently and repeatedly. I have never been credited with having a stiff upper lip.

When I was in high school, the two middle fingers on my left hand were slammed in a car door. I was with a couple friends and when I looked down at my hand with the blood and the fingernails hanging off, I immediately started screaming. It hurt like nobody’s business and I was nauseous looking down at my hand. If anyone attempted to come toward me with a washcloth or similar, I just screamed louder. My dad arrived to take me to the emergency room and told me to get a grip or there would be trouble. A grip was tem-porarily found until they had to put a shot into each of my fingers to deaden them and the screaming recommenced. I think the shots hurt even more than the slamming.

Then there was pregnancy. When I went to the first pre-natal appointment, I told my obstetrician that if he wanted

to give me the epidural now, at the first trimester, to pre-pare me for labor and deliv-ery, that was fine with me. He demurred. Every single appointment thereafter, I reit-erated my position on pain medications and made sure it was highlighted and in bold in my chart.

I will save you the details of the labor and delivery of Will. Suffice it to say, it hurt. A lot. A lot a lot. As it did with Nick. They were worth it. Most days. However, I have a strong aversion to volun-tary pain. I’ve only allowed it three times — pierced ears and two children. That’s it. No tattoos nor additional piercings will ever be per-formed on this body. Fine for others, I just can’t do it.

My brother broke his big toe clean off at the knuckle playing sand volleyball on Saturday. Just typing that makes me want to hurl. I saw the photo of the toe before they bandaged it and I nearly projectile vomited. In case you were wondering, they reattached his digit; he has a cast and not enough pain meds. But the time between the toe breaking and surgery is the crucial part of this story.

If you are around when something happens to me involving my own blood gush-ing, bones bent or broken, or similar horrors, put me to sleep. Not like a veterinarian! I need to be anesthetized, not euthanized. I am unable to handle any of the above hap-pening to my body and keep it together. You will hear me screaming not just in neigh-boring states but definitely the Midwest and possibly as far as the East Coast. No one wants that. Put me under immediately upon the terrible thing happening, fix it, load me up on pain meds and wake me up. Everyone involved will thank you for this mercy.

Stoicism is an admirable trait. My husband, mom and many bronc riders are true stoics. Yay for them. I am a wuss, pure and simple. The great news is that my luck has been holding for nigh on 51 years. I have not broken, and barely grazed, any part of my body to date. I think it’s because the universe knows what a complete baby I am doesn’t want to deal with it. Fine by me.

AMY ALBRECHT is executive director of Center for a Vital Community.

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AT A GLANCEStepping up to the plate

Iam a diehard Colorado Rockies fan. No matter what challeng-es these athletes confront, their enthusiasm, energy and

uplifting attitudes denote char-acteristics that confirm they are professionals who demonstrate purposeful capabilities to step up to the plate.

They are family. When individ-ual players contend with mental issues and their game is not up-to-par, other players, coaches and/or administrators step up to the plate, helping to boost the entire team. The caring nature that team members and their families display toward those less fortunate is admirable. These examples of stepping up to the plate provide an approach to our life challenges that denote one simple, yet forceful sugges-tion: never give up.

We humans experience bewil-dering situations throughout our lives. Recent unexpected and rather strange circumstances have brought considerable chal-lenges for me. Trying to com-prehend, and, ultimately, decide how to deal with my particular set of challenges gave me pause. Multiple levels of emotions stirred within my being as I struggled to process and review the unfolding of events that led up to an unexpected result. This affected me profoundly. During personal daily medita-

tive “me-time,” I repeated to myself over and over: “What is it I need, right here, right now?” We can choose to allow our toughest challenges to become intriguing tasks to work with, rather

than continuing to consider them to be disturbing, heart-rending turns of events. Thus, we can re-establish overall bal-ance and serenity in our lives. Never give up!

Many of the affirmations I share with clients and students to initiate a sense of healing include taking moments each day just to slow down, to do a little less, to acknowledge and, thereby, accept those things that cannot be changed. Certainly, we can all stop, take a moment, observe physical and emotional feelings, and proceed with our day. The “S.T.O.P. Principle,” as this practice is referred to, is a perfect momentary solution. This 10-second stress-reduction practice works wonders when dealing with anxious moments; such vulnerable times call for tenderness, self-compassion and a special softness to calm both the body and the mind.

“All my experiences are part of the richness and fullness of my life.” (L.L. Hay) Whether deal-ing as baseball pros do with the daily excitement and disappoint-ments of following their passion, or with the struggles in our lives that often arise, it is critical to realize this powerful statement by Louise L. Hay really “hits the nail on the head.” All expe-riences can create a fuller and richer life, if we allow ourselves to let that happen. With a little extra tender loving self-care, we can develop a greater under-standing of our toughest, most challenging experiences through acceptance. Subsequently, where self-compassion is incorporat-ed into daily life, stepping up to the plate becomes one of the most gratifying ways to help one diminish the pain of tough chal-lenges. To begin is the victory, so please start today: begin step-ping up to the plate and embrace a more rewarding, satisfying, fulfilling life.

TERESA (TEDDY) E. ARAAS, PhD, C-IAYT, CHES, E-RYT500, RPYT, a certified Yoga Therapist, owns local businesses Balanced Living Health & Wellbeing Consultants, LLC and Santosha Yoga. She teaches doctoral courses in health promotion and wellness and holds an adjunct research fellowship at Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions, Provo, Utah. Email her at: theyogaqueen@gmail.com.

Today’s highlight in history:On August 10, 1993, Ruth

Bader Ginsburg was sworn in as the second female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

On this date:In 1861, Confederate forc-

es routed Union troops in the Battle of Wilson’s Creek in Missouri, the first major engagement of the Civil War west of the Mississippi River.

In 1921, Franklin D. Roosevelt was stricken with polio at his summer home on the Canadian island of Campobello.

In 1944, during World War II, American forces overcame remaining Japanese resis-tance on Guam.

In 1945, a day after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Imperial Japan conveyed its willingness to surren-der provided the status of Emperor Hirohito remained unchanged. (The Allies responded the next day, say-ing they would determine the Emperor’s future status.)

In 1969, Leno and Rosemary LaBianca were murdered in their Los Angeles home by members of Charles Manson’s cult, one day after actress Sharon Tate and four other people were slain.

In 1975, television person-ality David Frost announced he had purchased the exclu-sive rights to interview for-mer President Richard Nixon.

In 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed a measure providing $20,000 payments to still-living Japanese-Americans who were interned by their government during World War II.

In 1991, nine Buddhists were found slain at their tem-ple outside Phoenix, Arizona.

In 1995, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were charged with 11 counts in the Oklahoma City bombing (McVeigh was convicted of murder and executed; Nichols was convicted of conspiracy and involuntary manslaugh-ter and sentenced to life in prison). Norma McCorvey, “Jane Roe” of the 1973 Supreme Court decision legal-izing abortion, announced she had joined the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue.

In 2004, a boat carrying Dominican migrants seeking a better life in Puerto Rico drifted back to almost the same spot where the voyage began nearly two weeks earli-er; at least 55 of the 86 people on board had died.

Ten years ago: A double truck bombing tore through the village of a small Shiite ethnic minority near Mosul, Iraq, killing at least 28 peo-ple. Country duo Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn posted a message on their Web site announcing they had agreed to “call it a day” after 20 years of making music together.

Five years ago: Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Mal-aki resisted calls for his resignation and accused the country’s new president, Fouad Massoum, of violating the constitution (al-Maliki stepped down three days later). Rory McIlroy won his second straight major championship and fourth of his young career, rallying on the back nine in the PGA Championship in Louisville, Kentucky.

One year ago: Richard Russell, a 29-year-old airline ground agent, stole a com-mercial plane from Sea-Tac International Airport near Seattle; he flew for 75 min-utes, performing dangerous stunts while being chased by military jets before crashing into a remote island in Puget Sound, killing himself.

Thought for Today: “A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, American author (1809-1894).

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Main Street reconfiguration test

starts Saturday

SHERIDAN — The city of Sheridan will be conducting a temporary test of a lane reconfigu-ration on Main Street beginning Aug. 11 for one month.

The Wyoming Department of Transportation is scheduled to resurface the downtown section of Main Street in 2023. The city saw this sched-uled resurfacing project as an opportunity to investigate the idea of enhancing placemaking opportunities to increase foot traffic to the retail businesses.

In 2018, the Downtown Sheridan Streetscape Action Plan was created as a result of a multi-day workshop held earlier that year. The results of this study, which included focus groups and feedback from downtown retailers, indicated that reducing the now current four-lane configuration to three-lanes would offer a more inviting and accessible downtown.

Beginning Saturday, the city of Sheridan will close Main Street at 9 p.m. to begin installing the striping for the new lane configuration. The test configuration will reduce the now four-lane with parallel parking to two single travel lanes with a center turn lane, wider parallel parking and a buffer zone between the driving lane and parking. The study area will begin at Burkitt

Street/Coffeen Avenue and end at First Street.Existing striping will be covered and tempo-

rary striping will be installed. The striping will include turn arrows, and left, right and center lane boundaries. This process is expected to be completed by late Sunday afternoon. Main Street will then be opened and the test period will begin.

The speed limit will remain at 20 MPH and the no left turn signal will be shut off during this test period.

WYDOT and the city will both be gathering quantitative traffic data throughout the study area. In addition to data collecting on Main Street, the city will also be gathering traffic data on Brooks Street, Gould Street and the surrounding area. Both WYDOT and the city encourage local residents to drive Main Street and experience the test.

Once driven, the community is encouraged to answer a short survey accessed at www.sher-idanmainstreet.com. In addition, downtown merchants will have a survey form at their businesses and will be gathering anecdotal data from their customers during this period.

The test period runs through Sept. 8.Data will be gathered and reviewed once the

test period is over. A public meeting to discuss the results has been scheduled for Sep. 17 from 5-7 p.m. at the Sheridan Memorial Hospital Downtown Community Conference Room at 61 South Gould St.

FROM STAFF REPORTS

UPCOMING EVENTS |

TODAY IN HISTORY |

Saturday• all day, Bike MS: Wyoming’s

Bighorn Country Classic, Sheridan area, for more infor-mation visit bikemswyoming.org or call Molly Palmer at 307-433-9559

• 6 a.m. to 1 p.m., Bot Sots Heli Fly, Flying Cowboys R/C Club, 90 Keystone Road, pot-luck with meat provided, land-ing fee includes breakfast, dry camping allowed and restroom facilities available

• 7:30 a.m. to noon, 25th anniversary celebration for Habitat for Humanity of the Eastern Bighorns, Habitat for Humanity, 1720 Poplar Trail, 7:30 a.m. breakfast, 8-9:45 a.m. program and awards, 10 a.m. to noon build with limited spots, RSVP to 307-672-3848

• 8:30 a.m. to noon, summer grass volley co-ed one-day tour-nament hosted by Sheridan Recreation District, Thorne-Rider Park Redle Field, sign up online at sheridanrecreation.com/adult-volleyball or in per-son at 1579 Thorne-Rider Park by Aug. 7

• 9 a.m. to noon, Tongue River Cave restoration project, Tongue River Canyon trail-head, Dayton, lunch will be provided for those who RSVP, call Heidi Davidson for more information or to RSVP at 307-672-2751

• 9-11 a.m., “The Master Builder” VBS, First Assembly of God Church, 1045 Lewis St., free but register at sheridan-firstassembly.com

• 1-4 p.m. Saturday, Sheridan County Rodeo, Sheridan County Fairgrounds, 1753

Victoria St., call Cashlee Cates with questions at 307-620-1370

• 2-4 p.m., choose your own wood sign painting class, The Paint Post, 117 N. Main St., $35-$40

• 2-10 p.m., 10th annual Absaroka State Takover car show hosted by the MoonShiners Car Club, Trails End Motel, 2125 N. Main St., pre-1965 hot rod or custom car show from 2-5 p.m. and a drive-in movie from 7-10 p.m.

• 4:30-7 p.m., Kendell Marvel and Friends concert with The Dugan Irby Band, Shot in the Foot, Rick Geisler and The Band of Outlaws, The Brinton Museum, 239 Brinton Road, $40, for more information call Tod Windsor at 307-672-3173

• 5-8 p.m., April June live music, Big Horn Y, 7088 Coffeen Ave.

• 6-9 p.m., build your own pina colada, The Tasting Library, 700 N. Main St.

• 6 p.m., benefit for Tracy French, Kalif Shrine, 145 W. Loucks St., prices vary

• 6:30 p.m., “Twelfth Night” production by Sheridan Shakespeare Company, Whitney Commons amphithe-ater, free

• 6:30-8:30 p.m., boho burst painting class, The Paint Post, 117 N. Main St., $30 adults, $25 12 and younger

• 9-11 p.m., Deadbirds last show in Sheridan live music, Beaver Creek Saloon, 112 N. Main St.

Sunday• 9 a.m. to noon, Tongue

River Cave restoration project,

Tongue River Canyon trail-head, Dayton, lunch will be provided for those who RSVP, call Heidi Davidson for more information or to RSVP at 307-672-2751

• 10:15 a.m., “The Master Builder” VBS, First Assembly of God Church, 1045 Lewis St., free but register at sheridan-firstassembly.com

• noon, “Twelfth Night” production by Sheridan Shakespeare Company, Whitney Commons amphithe-ater, free

• 1-6 p.m., Big Horn Polo Club: C&K Equipment/Sheridan Physical Therapy, Shane Winkler Day/Sheridan Elks Benefit Pig Sticking, Big Horn Equestrian Center, 352 Bird Farm Road, free admis-sion,

• 3-5 p.m., “Cowboy Ethics — A Life Well Lived,” art-ist’s reception, The Brinton Museum, 239 Brinton Road, Big Horn

• 3-5 p.m., laugh out loud comedy with Gary Busby, Luminous Brewhouse, 504 Broadway St.

Monday• 5-8 p.m., vacation bible

school, Immanuel Lutheran Church, 1300 W. Fifth St., sup-per included starting at 5 p.m.

• 6-7:30 p.m., Kids Jam: We Jam, You’re Jelly for ages 10 and older, WYO Performing Arts and Education Center, 42 N. Main St., free

• 6-8 p.m., all-still wheel throwing beginner class, Red Bison Studio, 227 N. Main St., $40

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Impressive paceMichael Barron maintained an impressive pace during the Back-to-School 5K, finishing second overall Thursday, Aug. 8, 2019.

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PEOPLEVolunteers needed for trail work daysSHERIDAN — The Black

Mountain Nordic Club has trail work days planned for Aug, 18 on the Cutler Trail and Sept. 14 on the Sibley Trail from 9 a.m. to around 3 p.m. on both days.

Wet weather has prevented previ-

ous work on the trails. Volunteers are needed to help

clear downed timber and other hazards on the Cutler and Sibley trails.

The USFS will provide tools and hardhats, but participants are asked to dress for variable weather con-ditions and wear sturdy shoes and

gloves. Each volunteer should also bring their own lunch.

For more information or to RSVP as a volunteer, email backmountain-noridc@gmail.com.

Volunteers signing up in advance will receive a free muffin or scone from Innominate Coffeehouse and Bakery in Ranchester.

FROM STAFF REPORTS

Sunday, 8/11, is National 811 DaySHERIDAN — With Aug.

11 almost here, Montana-Dakota Utilities hopes this date on the calendar, 8/11, will serve as a natural reminder for residents to call 811 prior to any digging project to have underground utility lines marked. Every few minutes an under-ground utility line is dam-aged nationwide because someone decided to dig without first calling 811.

When calling 811, home-owners and contractors are connected to the local one call center, which notifies the appropriate utility com-panies of their intent to dig. Professional locators are then sent to the requested digging site to mark the approximate locations of underground lines with flags, spray paint or both. This is a free service.

Striking a single line can cause injury, repair costs, fines and inconvenient out-ages. Every digging project, no matter how large or small, warrants a call to 811.

Installing a mailbox, build-ing a deck, planting a tree and laying a patio are all examples of digging projects that need a call to 811 before starting. Calling before dig-ging is the law.

“On Aug. 11 and through-out the year, we remind homeowners and profession-al contractors alike to call 811 before digging to elimi-nate the risk of striking an underground utility line,” said Pat Darras, vice pres-ident of engineering and operations services at MDU. “It really is the only way to know which utilities are buried in your area.”

The depth of utility lines can vary for a number of reasons, such as erosion, previous digging projects and uneven surfaces. Utility lines need to be properly marked because even when digging only a few inches, or digging in a location that’s previously been marked, the risk of striking an under-ground utility line still exists. Visit www.call811.com for more information about safe digging practices.

FROM STAFF REPORTS

Fitzpatrick, Ellis to wedSHERIDAN — Megan

Aileen Fitzpatrick and Cameron Craig Ellis will wed November 23 at Holy Name Catholic Church in Sheridan.

Fitzpatrick is the daugh-ter of Dr. Thomas and Debbie Fitzpatrick of Burns, Oregon. She is a 2012 grad-uate of Burns High School and attended St. John’s University in New York City before earning her B.A. in History and Pre-Medical Science from the University of Wyoming in 2019. She currently works as a CNA at Sheridan Manor.

Ellis is the son of Craig and Renel Ellis of Sheridan. He is a 2013 graduate of Sheridan High School and graduated from the University of Wyoming in 2017 with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. In 2019 he earned his M.B.A. in Energy Management from the University of Wyoming. He is currently employed at Kennon Products as a mechanical engineer.

FROM STAFF REPORTS

Megan Aileen Fitzpatrick and Cameron Craig Ellis will wed November 23 at Holy Name Catholic Church in Sheridan.

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For Zack and Shia, a buddy movie becomes a real friendship

NEW YORK (AP) — Six years ago a pair of hopeful filmmakers told an actor with Down syndrome they would make him a movie star. This weekend, the film they made together, “The Peanut Butter Falcon” opens in theaters. The film stars Zack Gottsagen as a young man with Down syndrome who breaks out of his assist-ed living home and embarks on a “Huck Finn”-like adventure across the North Carolina outer banks. Along the way, he joins up with a destitute crab fisherman played by Shia LaBeouf. It’s a buddy comedy that

has turned real. Gottsagen and LaBeouf became close friends in the movie’s making. LaBeouf, who was arrested for public drunken-ness during the movie’s mak-ing, credits Gottsagen with helping turn his life around.

Casey Affleck explores parenting in the apocalypse

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Casey Affleck had been working on a script about a parent and child for years. He’d written scenes about a bedtime story and an argument about taking a trip into town and things seemed to be going well. As the father of two boys, Affleck had defaulted to writing the child as a son. But then, deep into the pro-cess, his boys came back with a request: They didn’t want it to be about them.

“They were pretty ada-mant that they did not want it to be a father-son story,” Affleck said. “I had already put in a lot of work and I was like, don’t do it...”

But, despite the heart-burn of having to rework the story again, he caved and made the child a girl, and it ultimately helped the story. He’d been looking for stakes in this parenting saga and now a genre con-struct was possible.

What if a disease had wiped out all of the women, except this man’s daugh-ter?

“This was about some-one who was very nervous about protecting their kid. I wanted to make the stakes of that as big as possible so it wasn’t just like, I’m pro-tecting them from having a bad fourth grade expe-rience,” Affleck said. “It’s

like I’m protecting them from an entire world who wants to kidnap them.”

The result is the slow-burn dramatic thriller “Light of My Life” which is now playing in theaters and available on demand. Affleck directed, wrote and stars in the film, which pre-miered earlier this year at the Berlin Film Festival. It knowingly echoes modern classics like “Children of Men.”

He and casting director Avy Kaufman went on an epic search to find the right girl to play his daughter, Rag, and discovered a lit-tle-known Canadian actress named Anna Pniowsky who fit the bill perfectly.

“I was still a little girl. I think I was 11 when I sent my tape in,” Pniowsky, now 13, said. “I wasn’t expecting anything to hap-pen. I didn’t get a lot of roles back then.”

Since then, her profile has risen with roles in the Hulu show “Pen15” as one of the popular girls and “The Hot Zone.” And she fell easily into her role as a pre-teen who still acts out and defies her fathers’ rules even in this bleak and dangerous reality.

Critics have hailed her performance, much of which is spent in “dis-guise” as a young boy, as a breakout.

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DFS : Onsite evaluationsFROM 1

DFS Support Services Senior Administrator Roxanne O’Connor and Licensing Program Manager Nicky Anderson said the chief focus in the licensing process for facilities like NSI is child safety. During the licensing process, licen-sors ensure agencies are maintaining compliance with policies set forth by the Wyoming Legislature.

Wyoming Statute states certification must be established by a certifica-tion board. An applicant must be of good moral character, as should its employees and any other person having direct contact with a child under the care, custody or control of the appli-cant, according to Statute 14-4-104 establishing standards of certification. The statute goes on to list that applicants must have practical experience, education and training; uncrowded, safe, sanitary and well-repaired facili-ties; and wholesome food prepared in a clean and healthy environment.

O’Connor and Anderson said at any facility like NSI, each employee completes a background check and state fire and health and sanitation departments must approve the facility for compliance before it is relicensed.

DFS is required to complete two onsite eval-uations of each facility before relicensing can be administered. One is scheduled between the facility and DFS and the other is at DFS’ discre-tion. In administering a license, after its first year of demonstrating compli-ance, licensing lasts two years. Anderson said DFS licensors still complete the required two compli-ance checks annually, but most facilities receive more than the required number of checks.

“Every program will get its two visits, and that’s very consistent,” Anderson said. “But because of the nature of what they do and there’s only two of them and they travel the state, it’s very likely and probable that programs are going to get more than the two visits.

“If I have a licensor going down to Casper to do an unannounced visit at a program because its one of their two for the year, they may just drop by the other programs because they’re in that community for the day and they’re just going to stop in and check in on them.”

In the letter to Sheridan’s commission-ers, Schmidt wrote that DFS licensing authority made multiple visits to NSI within the past eight months to investigate allegations of rule viola-tions, ensure rule compli-ance and continue to pro-vide technical assistance.

“Some of these visits involved discussion regarding the runaway situation you referenced in your letter,” Schmidt wrote.

Runaways do not con-stitute rule violations but DFS staff reviewed those circumstances to see if rule violations were asso-ciated with the incidents. The technical assistance included a recommenda-tion to limit the census at NSI to a manageable number, with which Schmidt said the pro-gram was complying.

DFS licensors had a second conversation with NSI administration in June to ensure continued attention to the number and types of incidents occurring on campus.

“During the meeting, DFS made a request to the former NSI director to be added to the agenda for the annual NSI board meeting to ensure that the concerns expressed and recommended pro-vided by DFS were esca-lated to a level where action could be taken,” Schmidt wrote.

The board meeting is scheduled for Sept. 19 at 8:30 a.m. and DFS will be at the table for the con-versation. Schmidt told commissioners in the letter she would follow up with commissioners for any further action plans after that meeting.

A DFS licensor and Sheridan County DFS District Manager Jeff Bell attended the town hall meeting organized by community members at the Sheridan County Fairgrounds Exhibit Hall Friday, along with NSI and Sequel representa-tion.

“DFS has been very involved and active in the concerns that were brought forward in the incidents that have been occurring at NSI,” O’Connor said. “We have a really great working relationship with NSI and we hope to see that continue. We are look-ing forward and have been collaborating with NSI. We look forward to collaborating with the county commissioners, with the sheriff’s office to be a partner in helping to come up with a solution on some of these con-cerns and some of these incidents.”

RATTERMAN : Did much of her medical training in Chicago areaFROM 1

“Being involved with the original vision for the Welch Cancer Center, and understanding the impor-tance of having cancer care close to home for our rural community, it’s just really great to know Dr. Ratterman is here, that she chose to practice in Sheridan and become part of our health care commu-nity.”

Ratterman was raised in Evanston from a very young age until she was in sixth grade, when she moved to Salt Lake City and then ulti-mately to Illinois.

“To me, Wyoming always felt like home. We were always outside hiking and camping, skiing, fishing, water skiing and those kinds of things,” Ratterman said. “In my head, Wyoming was always where I was from and home to me. I missed the mountains, being outside and nature.”

Ratterman did much of her medical training in the Chicago area, and while the city is definitely a fun place to be, there is no nature there.

“I spent an hour and a half of my day in traffic, and it is a very different lifestyle. I missed the outdoors and being involved in all those activities,” Ratterman said.

She also knew she loved people, and that love drew her to medicine.

“That is really what drew me to medicine, and oncol-ogy in particular. It is such a scary diagnosis, and being able to help guide someone through that, to support them in that really vul-nerable time, is incredibly special,” Ratterman said. “I knew I wanted a career

where you get to know the patients and their families, and oncology is one of the specialties where your patients are your patients lifelong. The bond that you develop caring for them is incredible.”

Ratterman said she and her patients create a strong foundation of trust and friendship in the beginning. She believes in treating the whole person, and that includes caring for the patient and their family. While helping a patient reach remission is wonder-ful, more often than not, that is not achieved.

“We can’t often cure the cancer, but we can provide pain relief or even just emo-tional support through their diagnosis and treatment,” Ratterman said. “The big-gest reward, I think, is offer-

ing people time, whether that is extended life to make it to a wedding or a gradu-ation. Time is so valuable, so we can’t always cure the disease, but being able to give someone extra time is so rewarding.”

Ratterman said she was drawn back to Wyoming because of a lack of medical care in rural areas, especial-ly in oncology care.

“That was extremely important to me, to be able to come back and give some-thing back. If you receive a cancer diagnosis and then have to travel hours for treatment, that’s even worse. To be able to offer care right here in Sheridan, so people can receive their chemo or radiation at home, is fantastic,” she said. “Wyoming as a whole needs so much more of that.”

In the final years of her fellowship, Ratterman began job searching, specif-ically targeting the western United States including Wyoming, Montana and Colorado.

“There was a job opening in Sheridan, and I applied. I had never been to Sheridan before. I flew out here and just fell in love. It is so beau-tiful here, and I really felt a strong sense of community and support during my interview,” Ratterman said. “I actually canceled all my other interviews after I was interviewed here because I thought this was the place for me.”

Amy Ligocki, medical staff manager at the hospi-tal, was involved in recruit-ment of the new oncologist to Sheridan in 2017.

“We were lucky enough to get her here for a visit, and we knew as soon as we met her that she was the right fit,” Ligocki said. “We grabbed her and didn’t want to let her go. Since then, our whole oncology program has just really improved.”

Ratterman said she has been supported as a female physician in Sheridan by both the administration and the community. In fact, she added, there are a lot of strong women in roles at the hospital. Even in her med-ical training, she had great female role models.

“What is really cool now is that in medical school, probably 50% or more stu-dents are women,” she said. “I think that is a positive reflection of the way the nation is moving. Women are in a lot more leadership roles, and we are moving closer and closer to equali-ty.”

Ratterman embodies the vision of compassionate, quality care which the Welch Cancer Center pro-vides, Kirven said, and also jumps in to help raise awareness for screening and early diagnosis of cancer.

“Having to navigate a cancer diagnosis is tough. It’s awesome to have Dr. Ratterman at our commu-nity hospital — we are very fortunate,” Kirven said.

It was Mike McCafferty, Sheridan Memorial Hospital CEO, who pointed out her love of Bob Ross.

“Dr. Megan Ratterman is a person who embodies patient-centered care,” he said. “She demonstrates this through kindness with our patients and leadership of the patient’s care team. She is very thoughtful, gracious and professional.

“She is a person that aligns extremely well with the culture and values of the Sheridan community and we are so fortunate that she and her fiancé Ryan have chosen to make Sheridan their home.”

Ligocki noted the many challenges of medical oncol-ogy.

“She has a really hard job, but she is the perfect person to be your teammate as you go through these things,” she said. “We have family members who have gone to her, and I have been very impressed with her.”

Ratterman is a humble leader, Ligocki continued. She never wants recogni-tion for anything she does, and that is simply her per-sonality.

“That’s how she lives her life — she’s one of those people that you just want to be like, that you want to be around,” Ligocki said.

Ratterman said it may sound cliche, but in her job, you just never give up — and then, characteristically, she gives credit back to others.

“You are going to face all sorts of challenges in your medical training and you just can’t give up. It is a hard, long, long road, but you can always lean on your friends and family,” she said.

MATTHEW GASTON | THE SHERIDAN PRESS

Dr. Megan Ratterman, an oncologist at the Welch Cancer Center pictured here Friday, Aug. 9, 2019, is this month’s Wyoming Woman of the Year.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 2019 www.thesheridanpress.com THE SHERIDAN PRESS A9

ALMANACOBITUARIES |

Verne Arthur RobinsonMarch 23, 1924 - July 25, 2019

Verne Arthur Robinson was born March 23, 1924 in Long Beach CA, the second of three children. He graduated from South Pasadena High School in 1942, then enrolled in Pomona College for 5 semesters before he was invited to join the Navy’s V12 program for Officer Training.

Verne began his active duty in the Navy in 1945. He was to be a part of the planned amphibious assault on Japan. However, the dropping of the atomic bombs put an end to the need for that group, and he was honorably discharged in 1946.

After his discharge, Verne was admit-ted to the Pacific School of Religion at UC Berkeley. In the spring of 1947, he

attended a college retreat where he teased a young lady by putting an oak leaf in her hair, where it remained until he pointed it out to her the following day. To this day his fam-ily remains amazed that she later agreed to marry him.

Verne and Mary Beth wed in December 1948, and the following year he began his career as a part-time assistant minister in Hayward, California. Their first child, Bruce, was born shortly before Verne accepted a position as a full-time minister in Buffalo, Wyoming in 1952.

The family spent four years in Buffalo, during which Nancy was born. In 1956, Verne accepted a call to start a new church in Orem, Utah. The church start was success-ful, and the family welcomed Anne into their lives while there.

In 1960 the family moved to Roseburg, Oregon to start another church. Shortly after the move, Jane was born into the family. This church start effort was not successful, and Verne resigned in 1962. This was a difficult year for the family, as the death of Nancy coincided with the loss of Mary Beth’s pregnancy in the third trimester.

In 1964, things began looking up. Verne obtained a part time position as Chaplain at the VA Hospital in Roseburg, and Lisa was born. When the opportunity arose to trans-fer to a full-time position at the VA Hospital in Sheridan, Wyoming, the family packed up and readily returned to the area they had loved.

Verne retired from the VA in December 1984 but remained active as an interim minister to churches in the Rocky Mountain Conference of the United Church of Christ. At the same time, he invested in rental houses and apartments to provide affordable housing to lower income folks.

Throughout his life, Verne was an active tennis player, winning many tournaments in both singles and doubles. He was also a part of several bowling leagues and an active outdoorsman, enjoying camping, backpacking, fishing and hiking with his family.

Verne and Mary Beth moved from Wyoming to Talent, Oregon in the spring of 2002, where they lived until Mary Beth passed away in 2005. At that time Verne moved here to Oak Harbor, where he died quietly at home on July 25, 2019 at the age of 95.

Verne is most proud of the halfway house he helped establish for patients discharged from the alcoholic reha-bilitation unit of the VA in Sheridan, and its 80 percent success rate. He also helped establish a soup kitchen in the basement of the First Congregational Church in Sheridan. Known as Lunch Together, it remains active, with more than a dozen churches and organizations taking turns pro-viding meals and servers.

The Robinson family suggests memorials in Verne’s name to First Congregational Church 100 West Works Street, Sheridan, WY 82801 and/or to Tina Bracken, Financial & Administrative Director, Association of Camps Farthest Out, Inc 3690 Merwin 10 Mile Road, Cincinnati, OH 45245-3048.

A celebration of Verne’s life will be held at the First United Methodist Church of Oak Harbor on Wednesday, August 14 at 2 pm with a reception to follow.

Verne will be placed next to his beloved, Mary, in Gethsemane Court of the Santa Rosa Memorial Park in California at a later date.

Arrangements entrusted to Wallin Funeral Home, Oak Harbor, WA. Please visit Verne’s page in our Book of Memories online at www.wallinfuneralhome.com to leave condolences and share memories.

David A. YalowizerOctober 16, 1951 – August 7, 2019

David A. Yalowizer, 67, of Sheridan, passed away on Wednesday, August 7, 2019. He was born on October 16, 1951 to parents Henry and Shirley (Barber) Yalowizer and was raised at Decker, MT. He attended Squirrel Creek School until the 6th grade when the family moved to Hanna, WY, then to Pequot Lakes, MN where he finished

high school. He moved back to Sheridan, WY with his family in 1969. In 1971 he enlisted and served in the US Army. In 1973 he married Terry White and they had a son, Joe. He later married his school sweetheart, Vicki Gardner from Minnesota.

Dave worked at Sheridan Meat Company for years and then at Safeway as a meat cutter. He also worked as a heavy equipment operator for Kiewit and at Sheridan Sawmill for a short time. He then opened his own meat processing business in Ranchester and after marrying Vicki moved the business to Decker Road.

Dave was an avid hunter and fisherman. He spent several years hunting from a tent in the mountains and later adapted to a camper. He loved fishing and fished up to his last days even when his health had declined. He could not wait for spring to get in his boat.

Dave had a little dog named Missy whom he loved dear-ly. When you went to his house you would always find Missy in his lap (probably eating a snack).

Dave loved to have company and throughout the years you could always be assured of his supplying good food and beer. Dave had a unique sense of humor and sharp wit and loved teasing.

Dave was preceded in death by his wife Vicki and his parents. He is survived by his son Joe Yalowizer; adopt-ed daughter Karo Hamilton; step children Jess (Mandy), Tina and Jake Sams; brothers, Mike (Bonnie), and Matt (Sue) Yalowizer of Ranchester, sister Dorothy Hulett of Sandy, Utah, his in-laws from Minnesota - Claude Schmidt, Spark, Gail, Steve (Brenda), Scott and Terry (Stan); and numerous nieces and nephews.

Dave was loved by all and will be greatly missed.A Celebration of Life will be held at 2:00 pm on

Saturday, September 14, 2019 at Bear Lodge.In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the

American Heart Association, 710 2nd Ave., Suite 900, Seattle, WA 98104.

Online condolences may be written at www.kanefuner-al.com.

Kane Funeral Home has been entrusted with local arrangements.

Joseph Thomas LaForgeJoseph Thomas LaForge, Horserider,

of Sheridan, died Aug, 2018. At his request, his property and belongings will be donated for educational purpos-es for all people and for all nations.

Donations have been made to: Big Horn County Museum, Hardin, MT; Little Big Horn College Library, Crow Agency, MT; Friends of Chief Plenty Coups, Pryor, MT; Baapuaa Summer Camp, Pryor, MT.

“Itcha Gosha”Respectfully, The Joe LaForge Family

Verne Arthur Robinson

David A. Yalowizer

Joseph Thomas LaForge

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Tongue River Fire Protection DistrictRegular meeting

Tongue River Fire Hall249 Historic U.S. Highway 14

7 p.m. Wednesday• Routine business• Adjourn

Sheridan County School District 2Board of Trustees meetingCentral Office board room

6 p.m. Monday• Call to order• Pledge of Allegiance• Recognition: 2020 Niche.com

ratings• Approval of agenda• Welcome — audience comments• Consent agenda itemsA. Approval of board meeting min-

utes July 17, 2019B. Approval of bills for payment• Old business: Capital construction

update (information)• New businessA. 2018-19 budget amendment

(action)B. Professional development calen-

dar (information)C. Summer school update (infor-

mation)• Reports and communicationA. Board of Trusteesi. Board reportsii. Committee reportsiii. OtherB. PTO/parents/students/organi-

zationsC. Site administration and staff• District reports: superintendent• Executive sessionA. Personnel mattersB. To consider or receive any infor-

mation classified as confidential by lawC. To consider real estate• Adjournment

City of SheridanPlanning Commission meeting

Sheridan City Hall7 p.m. Monday

• Call to order and roll call of mem-bers

• Approval of agenda as presented• Review, correction and approval of

minutes of the July 22, 2019 meeting

• Old business• New business• Consideration of PL-19-19, TJS

Subdivision. A request to subdivide 0.23 acres, from one lot into two lots, zoned R-3 Residence District. Located at 1115 N. Custer St.

• Comments from commissioners and staff

• Adjourn

City of SheridanCouncil study session

Sheridan City Hall5:30 p.m. Monday

• Consideration of proposal to rename North Park to Malcom Wallop Park

• Sheridan transit plan• Consideration of 2019 capital

improvement program draft• Consideration of bid award to

Sterling Computers Corporation for procurement of FY20 computer replacements

• Liquor licensesA. Transfer of location for retail

license #19, Wyoming Resorts, LLC DBA Best Western Sheridan Center

B. Transfer of ownership for retail license #13, Rainbow Bar

C. Consideration of Resolution #40-19 approving a special malt beverage permit fee

D. New application for a special malt beverage permit - Sheridan Hawks Junior Hockey Club, LLC

E. Transfer of location of retail license #3, D&B Liquors DBA Sheridan Liquors

• Planning items for considerationA. Consideration of Resolution #38-

19, Bryant Minor Subdivision easement vacation

B. Consideration of Resolution #39-19, TJS Minor Subdivision

• Consideration of contracting award for the addition of new pickleball courts within the city of Sheridan and MOU for payment

• Consideration of Resolution #37-19 approving the city of Sheridan invest-ment policy

• Consideration of the award of the Army Corps of Engineers 1135 resto-ration project survey

AGENDAS |

El Nino fades so expect busier hurricane seasonWASHINGTON (AP) — Government meteorolo-

gists say this year’s hurricane season may be busier than initially expected now that summer’s weak El Nino has faded away. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center said Thursday the Atlantic season looks more active than normal as peak hurricane season begins. Forecasters now expect 10 to 17 named storms, with five to nine hurricanes and two to four major ones.

5-Day Forecast for SheridanTODAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAYSUNDAY MONDAY

A t-storm in spots in the p.m.

Sunshine and patchy clouds

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24 hours through 3 p.m. Friday ...................... TraceMonth to date ................................................. 0.03"Normal month to date .................................... 0.23"Year to date ...................................................12.49"Normal year to date ....................................... 9.56"

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0-2 Low; 3-5 Moderate; 6-7 High; 8-10 Very High; 11+ Extreme

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Billings 83/61/pc 82/58/t 83/57/sCasper 90/55/s 88/51/t 84/47/sCheyenne 82/60/t 77/57/t 83/52/pcCody 79/54/pc 81/52/pc 77/52/sEvanston 80/52/s 77/46/s 75/46/sGillette 87/62/s 84/56/pc 78/52/sGreen River 84/56/s 83/49/s 81/50/sJackson 80/42/pc 73/37/s 71/37/s

Laramie 80/53/pc 75/48/t 78/44/sNewcastle 85/62/pc 80/60/t 77/52/sRawlins 85/55/pc 83/48/t 80/46/sRiverton 88/58/s 88/53/s 82/52/sRock Springs 83/53/s 82/47/s 79/47/sScottsbluff 88/63/pc 83/59/t 87/56/sSundance 80/58/s 79/56/t 71/49/sYellowstone 72/39/pc 67/35/s 63/34/s

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Buffalo

Basin Gillette

Kaycee

Wright

Worland

Parkman

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Cody

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OUTDOORS

Trespassing reported at old

Acme Power Plant

SHERIDAN — During the week of July 29, trespassers were observed at the site of the former Acme Power Plant, which is currently owned by the Sheridan County Conservation District. The Sheridan County Sheriff’s Office issued citations to two indi-viduals at the site Aug. 2. Identities for indi-viduals on other days have not been deter-mined. The Sheridan County Conservation District is working closely with the Sheriff’s Office to investigate the trespassing and will continue to monitor the site. SCSO is asking the community to report any suspi-cious activity in a timely manner by calling dispatch at 307-672-2413.

Trespassers have caused significant, addi-tional property damage, District Manager of the Sheridan County Conservation District Carrie Rogaczewski said.

“Site conditions are hazardous and it is frustrating to have to deal with these addi-tional issues,” Rogaczewski said. “Going into this project, we understood that it would take a long time to clean up the site. We are trying to tackle things piece by piece, but because of the condition, there are certain federal and state processes that must be followed.”

The site itself is extremely dangerous. The building, which trespassers entered by breaking through doors and windows, is full of asbestos and other serious physical and health hazards. Asbestos fibers from the site can be picked up on clothes and inhaled by anyone the trespasser visits after leav-ing the site. Several health complications, including lung cancer, can be caused by inhaling asbestos fibers, even with a single exposure. Many of the symptoms won’t develop until several years later.

Anyone accessing the site can track con-taminants to surrounding areas. Opening (or breaking down) doorways and windows in the building allow the asbestos fibers to be blown outside. In short, trespassers are not only putting themselves and others at risk, they are creating more pathways for asbestos and other contaminants to leave the site.

In addition to the safety and environmen-tal risks associated with the trespassing, it is also a matter of respect.

“This is private property and folks that are trespassing are breaking the law and we will work to prosecute them. It is that sim-ple,” Rogaczewski said.

For more information and updates on the Acme Power Plant Reclamation effort, please visit the project website www.acme-projectwyoming.org or contact the Sheridan County Conservation District.

FROM STAFF REPORTS

Ease your mind by leaving paved roads far behindLife’s mysteries unravel when my

tires hit that gravel and I leave the paved road far behind.

Ifind myself coming back to that line in the William Elliott Whitmore song “Gravel Road” when I’m out and about. You may

not be familiar with the singer, but because you’re reading this column, you’re likely familiar with the senti-ment of which the Poet Laureate of Rural America’s Soul sings.

After all, the opportunity to unravel life’s mysteries while walking through an aspen grove, wading a moun-tain stream, rid-ing down a two track, climbing a canyon wall or staring at the stars from what feels like a million miles from anywhere

is precisely why so many of us call Wyoming home.

And you can’t really do any of those things without leaving the paved road far behind.

Every breath I breathe is one step closer to me easing my worried mind.

The best part about being off the paved roads is the peace of mind that getting to spend time in nature brings. For me, that’s incessantly exploring the forest in search of a good fishing spot. They’re not too tough to find; though the occasional Close Encounter of the Moose Kind while doing so does little in the moment to ease my mind.

But it doesn’t all have to be fish-ing. (Yep, I’m surprised to write that, too.)

Monday evening, I was unrav-eling life’s mysteries one heavier breath after another while my mind worried I’d wind up hind over handlebars as I made my maiden mountain bike ride at Red Grade Trails with the Bomber Mountain Cycling Club. It was a club social, so I thought I’d be social and try something new.

After all, this Fatman from the Flatlands is only accustomed to riding along the pancake-flat blacktops of northwest Iowa. I hadn’t had the opportunity to pedal my way around a mountain.

New opportunities come with new learning curves. To a sea-soned cyclist, my choice of Chacos for footwear had to have appeared to be an act of hubris or naiveté. Naiveté it was, as I soon learned why everyone else was wearing

proper closed-toe shoes as I wob-bled and braked my way along a portion of the Prairie Loop. It was clear I had left the paved road far behind. But, hey, that’s part of the learning curve.

While I certainly wasn’t going to get through the full learning curve in one night, I did manage to glide through a few curves on my way back to the parking lot. Importantly, I had an opportunity to experience a new way to enjoy

the beauty of the Bighorns, and I heard from club members how much they’ve enjoyed having new opportunities to let their tires hit the gravel — places like Red Grad Trails and, a little more than month ago, Hidden Hoot Trail. Across-the-board, Hidden Hoot was deemed a, well…hoot by the Bomber Mountain crew, who kept saying how much they enjoy having a place that lets you feel like you’re a million miles from anywhere just a short pedal from home.

Still, that’s just one of many ways to leave the paved road far behind. On the near horizon, you’ll be able to do just that as Sheridan Community Land Trust hosts Trailfest 2019 at Red Grade Trails Saturday, Aug. 24. In fact, Trailfest will feature adult and children bike rides, runs and walks where you can earn raffle tickets for prizes, yoga on the trail, nature hikes, scavenger hunts, face painting, music, brats and burgers and much more. Best yet, the celebration starts at 9:30 a.m. and will be over by 1 p.m., which leaves everyone plenty of time to enjoy the rest of the day. More information, including reg-istration, can be found at https://sheridanclt.org/trailfest/.

Join us as we unravel life’s mysteries as our tires — be they wheels or feet — hit that gravel, leave the paved road far behind, and ease our worried minds.

CHRIS VRBA is director of marketing and development for Sheridan Community Land Trust.

Smokey celebrates birthday in SheridanSHERIDAN — In 1950, a

young bear took refuge in a tree and was badly burned before firefighters rescued him, according to the U.S. Forest Service website. Inspired by the young bear’s bravery and tough spirit, the firefighters named him Smokey. Six years earlier, Smokey Bear became the USFS’ official face for prevent-ing wildfires.

Smokey made an appear-ance Friday at the Bighorn

National Forest Tongue Ranger District office to cele-brate his 75th birthday with lemonade and cake.

By 1947, the slogan, “Only YOU Can Prevent Forest Fires!” was popping up in campsites, classrooms and public forest areas across the nation.

As the longest-running public service advertising campaign in U.S. history, gen-erations of outdoor-lovers are familiar with Smokey’s yellow hat and big smile.

Sara Evans Kirol, public affairs officer for the Bighorn

National Forest, encourages the community to be aware of increasing fire danger due to the recent hot, windy and dry weather.

“Please remember to never leave a fire unattended, even if it’s only for a short time,” she said in an email.

The Lick Creek fire, which has been burning in the BNF since July 30, is about 70% contained, she said.

“Personnel are still monitor-ing the inaccessible hot spot in the canyon,” Evans Kirol said.

In addition, he Cubb Creek Cabin fire is 100% contained

and controlled.This fire season has been

later and slower than normal years, BNF fire management officer Jon Warder said in an email.

Warder cautioned that fire season lasts until the end of September, but it is unlikely that there will be fire restric-tions this summer.

On Twitter, #SmokeyBear75 shows how communities around the country celebrated 75 years of wildfire preven-tion, from videos of Smokey visiting schools to birthday parties with candle-less cakes.

BY ALLAYANA DARROW

ALLAYANA.DARROW@THESHERIDANPRESS.COM

ALLAYANA DARROW | THE SHERIDAN PRESS

Erica Bainter and her son Daren, 5, pose with Smokey Bear at the Bighorn National Forest Tongue Ranger District office in Sheridan on Friday, Aug. 9, 2019.

COURTESY PHOTO | SCLT

Calie LeDuc rides a trail, taking advantage off the off-road adventures Sheridan County offers.

CHRIS VRBA|

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SPORTS

Officials contribute to polo actionSHERIDAN — Carlos Galindo

has been coming to Flying H Polo Club for the past seven years but not to compete in the tournaments. Instead, Galindo officiates most of the polo matches.

Galindo said he was a profession-al polo player and reached a five-goal handicap at the height of his career. As his body started to age, Galindo was not ready to step away from the game completely.

“As you get older, it is like a second life to polo,” Galindo said. “You are not able to play top quali-ty polo, but you are able to umpire the top games. For me it is great; I can still make a living doing some-thing I love.”

Umpiring polo has many of the same responsibilities as other sports — maintaining the safety of the game, controlling the pace of the game and dealing with players.

BY JOEL MOLINE

JOEL.MOLINE@THESHERIDANPRESS.COM

Carlos Galindo, right, prepares to bowl in the ball to resume the match after a goal at the Flying H Polo Club Thursday, Aug. 8, 2019.

JOEL MOLINE | THE SHERIDAN PRESS

Carlos Galindo officiates a polo match at Flying H Polo Club Thursday, Aug. 8, 2019.

Part of the game

Intuition leads Arizona transfer Azizi

Hearn to Wyoming

LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — Azizi Hearn is big on intuition.

So when Hearn visited Wyoming this spring, he made sure to pay atten-tion to the vibe he got from head coach Craig Bohl and his potential position coach, John Richardson, as much as what he heard from both of them Hearn, who played last season at Arizona, had a few other options once he entered the NCAA’s transfer portal in May, but he liked what he heard, saw and felt once he finished his visit to Wyoming’s campus later that month.

“I just liked the ener-gy really,” Hearn said. “It felt everything that was being said, the way everybody was acting, it was good and it felt gen-uine. It wasn’t just good. It felt authentic.”

Hearn is the latest addition to Wyoming’s roster after quietly making the move to Laramie from Tucson this summer. The sopho-more cornerback didn’t publicize his decision to transfer on social media, and though the trans-fer portal allows other schools to make contact with the players in it, Wyoming was unaware of Hearn’s decision until Hearn reached out to the Cowboys’ coaching staff — one he was already famil-iar with having been recruited by Wyoming two years ago coming out of Oceanside High (California).

“Coach Rich, (assis-tant) coach (A.J.) Cooper and (running backs coach) Gordie (Haug), I reached out to them and we got the ball rolling,” Hearn told the Casper Star-Tribune. “It worked out for everybody.”

Richardson, who’s entering his sixth season as Wyoming’s cornerbacks coach, said he was somewhat surprised when Hearn contacted him about the possibility of transfer-ring to Wyoming given that Hearn had played in all 12 games for Arizona last season and started the last three. But Hearn said grades forced him to walk on for the Wildcats in 2017 — a financial burden he couldn’t afford to carry anymore.

“Scholarships were open (at Wyoming), so I had to make a move and do what was best

for me,” Hearn said. “I couldn’t keep doing it financially. I had film and things of that sort, so it wasn’t a problem for me. I had a 3.0 (GPA) last semester, so it was all good.”

Now receiving finan-cial aid, Hearn has three years of eligibility left. And thanks to the NCAA’s recently modi-fied transfer rules, that clock will start immedi-ately. Since unrecruited walk-ons aren’t required to sit out a year at their new school, Hearn will be eligible this season.

He’s a big addition to a cornerback position that may very well be the deepest and most expe-rienced in the Mountain West.

“Any time you can get a 6-foot-2 guy that can run and cover, it’s like Christmas,” Richardson said.

Hearn is joining a rotation that includes veterans Antonio Hull and Tyler Hall and redshirt freshman C.J. Coldon, who started the first three games for the Cowboys last season before an injury sidelined him for good. The trio has 50 career starts among them, but at 6-1, Coldon is the only one that comes close to matching Hearn’s size and length on the out-side.

Pushing 6-2 and 195 pounds, Hearn “can touch a guy two yards away,” Richardson said. Hearn’s reach is so long that sometimes he can get too reliant on using his hands to slow down receivers, part of his technique that he admit-ted needs some fine-tun-ing, but Hearn’s com-bination of range and physicality is unique among the group.

“It’s different,” said receiver Austin Conway, who’s lined up against Hearn during fall camp. “He’s one of the more physical cor-ners I’ve seen.”

Said Richardson, “He brings another added dimension to the group. He’s a different type of corner than we’ve had.”

Hearn could even slide inside to nickel depend-ing on how things go there with sophomore Keyon Blankenbaker, who’s in line for his first season as the full-time starter at the position. With the numbers Wyoming has at corner, Hearn could find him-self there anyway in cer-tain packages.

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AP Source: Kaepernick ready to compete to playPHILADELPHIA (AP) — Colin

Kaepernick is eager to prove he’s good enough to play in the NFL.

A person close to Kaepernick told The Associated Press on Friday: “Colin has always been prepared to compete at the high-est level and is in the best shape of his life.” The person spoke anonymously because of the con-fidential nature of discussions with teams.

The 31-year-old Kaepernick hasn’t played since 2016 with the San Francisco 49ers. He helped start a wave of protests about social and racial injustice that season by kneeling during the national anthem at games.

He drew strong criticism from President Donald Trump.

But Trump on Friday told reporters when asked if Kaepernick should play in the NFL: “Only if he’s good enough. I know the owners, I know Bob Kraft. They will do anything they can to win games.”

Kaepernick released a video earlier this week saying: “5 a.m. 5 days a week. For 3 years. Still Ready.”

The Philadelphia Eagles lost backup Nate Sudfeld to a bro-ken left wrist suffered Thursday night, raising speculation the team would be in the market for an experienced quarterback.

Sudfeld was scheduled for sur-gery, but coach Doug Pederson said it’s not a season-ending inju-ry and the team was content with No. 3 quarterback Cody Kessler and rookie Clayton Thorson.

However, Eagles starting quarterback Carson Wentz has sustained season-ending injuries each of the past two seasons. Nick Foles led Philadelphia to four playoff wins in two years and was 2018 Super Bowl MVP, but signed an $88 million, four-year deal with Jacksonville in free agency.

Sudfeld has thrown 25 passes in the NFL. Kessler is 2-10 as a starter in three seasons with Cleveland and Jacksonville.

Kaepernick led the 49ers to consecutive NFC championship games in 2012-2013 and was 4-2 in the playoffs. He threw for 302 yards and one touchdown and ran for 62 yards and one score in a 34-31 loss to Baltimore in the 2013 Super Bowl. The Ravens considered signing Kaepernick in the summer of 2017 when start-ing quarterback Joe Flacco was dealing with a back injury that would keep him out for the entire preseason.

Owner Steve Bisciotti said he consulted with fans and the team ultimately passed.

Kaepernick met with Seattle a couple of years ago, but Seahawks

coach Pete Carroll said he should be a starter in the league and the team only wanted a backup for Russell Wilson.

Former 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh said he has told teams who’ve asked him about Kaepernick that he’s a “great competitor” and he’ll “have a great career and be a great quar-terback, win championships.”

The protests slowed down last season as the NFL made contri-butions to organizations chosen by players and promised more attention to social justice issues. Two players close to Kaepernick, Carolina’s Eric Reid and Miami’s Kenny Stills, continue to kneel.

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Spieth gets into the mix at postseason when he needs it most

JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — Right when it looked as though everything would go wrong for Jordan Spieth, he had some fortune on his side during a trying season.

His solid round Friday in The Northern Trust was headed for a potentially bad ending when he sent his tee shot well to the right on the 464-yard ninth hole. Buried in deep fescue, he was allowed a drop because his feet were on the cart path. The next shot came out hot, but it hit a knoll to deaden the speed and took a big hop to the right to 18 feet for a final birdie and a 7-under 64.

Spieth, not even assured of advancing out of the first stage of the FedEx Cup playoffs, had a one-shot lead over Abraham Ancer among early starters in the second round. Troy Merritt, who led after an opening 62, played in the afternoon. There’s still two rounds left, and Spieth still has memories of last week in North Carolina when he went from contention to missing the 54-hole cut in one round. Still, the finish of this round was a sign that he can still get a good break or two.

“It’s funny,” he said. “When things are going well, you do end up getting all the bounces, too. It’s just amazing how it works. When you’re playing well, you’re confident, you’re positive the whole time that it goes your way. And when

you’re not, they just don’t. There’s something to it.”

One hole earlier, he escaped a few bad breaks with a 10-foot par save.

“Do I look at it as a mas-sive turning point? No,” Spieth said. “I think I look at it from a daily perspec-tive of, ‘Yeah, I got a nice break there after one that didn’t go my way.’ Playing those two holes with 1 under where I was at was stealing a stroke or two.”

He could use all the help.Spieth is at No. 69 in the

FedEx Cup, one year after he failed to reach the Tour Championship for the first time. Going into the PGA Tour’s postseason, he need-ed to play well to at least be sure he was among the top 70 to reach the BMW Championship at Medinah next week.

Tiger Woods might not make it to Medinah, though it has nothing to do with his position in the FedEx Cup. He withdrew from the second round with what he described as a mild strain of the oblique, which Woods said led to pain and stiffness during his opening round of 75. He said he sought treatment Friday morning and was not able to keep going. He was hopeful of playing next week at the Chicago-area course where he twice won the PGA Championship in younger, healthier times.

Ancer is at No. 67, so his bogey-free round of 65 was helpful. Ancer birdied all of the par 5s at Liberty National, which remained soft from more overnight

rain.“It was definitely very

different from yesterday,” Ancer said of an opening round that featured a hole-out from 104 yards for eagle, a 60-foot chip-in and two bogeys. “Today was very steady — some good ball-striking and the ball started to fall in on the back nine.”

Spieth was at 11-under 131, the same score he had through two rounds at the Wyndham Championship last week when everything went wrong in a 77 that took him from a chance to win to a Sunday with no tee time.

“The important thing for me is not to get ahead of myself,” Spieth said. “Historically, I’m a very consistent player. I’ve lost a bit of that. I still have the firepower but that consis-tency is what I’m trying to get back, and there’s certainly going to be times where I’m out of position over the weekend. It’s about limiting mistakes. One bogey over 36 holes is somewhat unrealistic week to week. But if I can hold it close to that for the next 36, again, that firepower is still there. And it would certain-ly shoot my confidence up.”

Andrew Putnam also had a 64 and was at 9-under 133, along with Justin Rose (68). Justin Thomas (68) was in the group of players who were at 7-under 135.

The season might have ended early for Sergio Garcia, who had another 73 and was projected to fall out of the top 70.

BY DOUG FERGUSON AP GOLF WRITER

McLaren to return to full-time IndyCar racing in 2020

McLaren will return to full-time IndyCar compe-tition next season for the first time since 1979 in a partnership with exist-ing team Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports.

The new venture will be renamed Arrow McLaren Racing SP and rely on SPM’s current infrastruc-ture. McLaren will be responsible for technical expertise, commercial experience and marketing. It will be a two-car team but switch next season to Chevrolet.

“IndyCar has been part of McLaren since our early years of racing, and the series today provides not only a commercial platform to continue to grow our brand in North America, but competition with some of the best teams in international motorsport,” said Zak Brown, CEO of McLaren Racing. “We come to IndyCar in full respect of the sport, our competitors, the fans and the task ahead.

“At our core, we at McLaren are racers and where there’s competition that puts us to the test, we will race.”

The team currently fields cars for James Hinchcliffe and Marcus Ericsson, and Hinchcliffe is a longtime Honda ambassador and star of ads for the automaker in North America. Brown said Ericsson is under a one-year contract that will be reviewed, but Brown answered “yes” when asked by The Associated Press specifically if Hinchcliffe is expected to drive for the team next year.

“Hinch is under contract and we think he’s an excel-lent racing driver who has won lots of races and he does have big ties to Honda,” Brown said. “From our point of view, we are very happy to continue to have Hinch and that’s kind of the state of play.”

Hinchcliffe later indicated on social media that he will be a Chevrolet driver next season and stay with the new team.

“My love for motorsports started on those weekends watching F1 races with

my dad and McLaren was a huge part of that,” the Canadian posted. “To be able to drive for that name is a dream come true. ...

“It is rather unfortunate what this means for our relationship with Honda. They are another compa-ny that has done so much for me and when the time is right, a discussion to what that means for my partnership with them and HondaCanada will need to occur. But that is secondary right now to this exciting news.”

Hinchcliffe drove for Chevrolet in 2012 and 2013 when he was part of the Andretti Autosport lineup.

Schmidt has been a Honda team since 2010 and all seven of Schmidt’s IndyCar victories were powered by the automak-er. Schmidt also won two Indianapolis 500 poles with Honda power. But McLaren had an ugly split in Formula One with Honda and the engine maker is not willing to work with the team at this point.

Honda Performance Development said in a state-ment Friday “although we regret that this (Schmidt) partnership will be coming to an end ... HPD has the utmost confidence in the strength and commitment of its remaining partner teams.”

Arrow Electronics will remain the team’s title partner and team co-found-ers Sam Schmidt and Ric Peterson will continue in their current leadership roles.

“I’m extremely proud of the team that Ric and I have built and that a leg-endary brand like McLaren Racing has decided to part-ner with us,” Schmidt said. “Arrow is a tremendous partner which has been integral to our growth as a team since 2015 and to the creation of this new partnership. The combined technical resources and commercial opportunities both McLaren and Arrow bring to the table provide a winning combination.”

Gil de Ferran, the sport-ing director for McLaren Racing, will lead the IndyCar effort for McLaren independently from the

Formula One effort.“IndyCar is a natural fit

for McLaren, given our leg-acy and determination to succeed at the top levels of international motorsport,” said de Ferran, a former Indy 500 winner. “Our ambition, over time, is to consistently compete for wins and championships.

“We acknowledge the challenge ahead of us but McLaren is committed to this partnership and to supporting the team as a whole.”

McLaren is coming off a spectacular embarrassment in which it failed to qualify for the Indianapolis 500 in May with celebrated two-time Formula One cham-pion Fernando Alonso. McLaren partnered with Andretti Autosport in 2017 on an Indy 500 effort for Alonso but took the next season off. Its return to Indy last year was as a stand-alone team, but McLaren was ill-prepared and Alonso missed the race.

Alonso is not interested in a full-time IndyCar ride in 2020, but Brown has indicated the new team will field a third car for the Indianapolis 500. Alonso would likely have an option to drive that entry.

“Fernando is always interested in what McLaren is doing,” Brown said. “His desire to win the Indy 500 hasn’t changed. Our desire to do it with him has not changed. He wants to be a little selective in what he’s doing. Fernando is his own man sometimes, and you need to let him make his own decisions.”

Brown said Alonso will meet with McLaren at the Italian Grand Prix next month and the Indy 500 will be on the agenda.

Brown also said he will honor the SPM promise to Robert Wickens to have a car for him should he return to IndyCar rac-ing. Wickens suffered a spinal injury last August in a crash at Pocono in Pennsylvania, and Schmidt, a paraplegic, said he’d have a seat for Wickens if he is medi-cally cleared to drive. Brown said that remains unchanged.

BY JENNA FRYER AP AUTO RACING WRITER

Cycling: Colombia’s Pajon wins BMX gold at Pan Am Games

LIMA, Peru (AP) — A tat-too of the Olympic rings on the right wrist of two-time BMX gold medalist Mariana Pajon is now a badge of honor. A second tattoo on her left arm reading “Beyond gold” reminds her to strive for more.

The Colombian raised her bike triumphantly and held the yellow, blue and red national flag aloft again Friday when she won the BMX racing gold at the Pan American Games.

The victory continued to cement her legacy in a sport that traces its roots to southern California,

but that Pajon has con-quered since she won at the London Olympics in 2012 and again in Rio four years later.

Pajon also had a dominant performance in Lima, win-ning all three of her semi-final runs. She finished the nearly quarter-mile course filled with bumps and sharp turns in 36.323 seconds, beating Brazil’s Paola Reis, who won silver. Stefany Hernandez of Venezuela took bronze.

“I’ve faced a lot of tough moments this year, so just to be able to be here is wild,” the 27-year-old Pajon

said after the race.Pajon came to Lima still

recovering from a torn lig-ament and other injuries from a crash in the World Cup in the Netherlands last year, when she was carried off the course in a stretcher.

“Even though I fell at the World Cup, I left with good feelings at that World Cup,” Pajon said. “I arrived to Lima feeling strong, even with micro-fractures in both arms, stitches in my elbows, sprains in the ankle and waist. I didn’t know if I was going to race here. But the heart is stronger and pro-pels you to come here.”

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POLO : Main foul to look for in polo is players crossing line of ball or breaking right of wayFROM B1

The rules of polo are set up with safety in mind. The safety of the horse takes top priority when officiating polo. Galindo said the main foul to look for in polo is players crossing the line of the ball or breaking the right of way. Both rules are established to prevent colli-sions on the field.

Line of the ball is estab-lished after a player hits the ball. Galindo said the line is from point A, where the ball was hit, to point B, where the ball stops. The player that hit the ball will start on the left side of the line, putting the ball on the right side of the horse and player. Players hold mallets in their right hand, no exceptions.

When this line is estab-lished, Galindo said umpires will watch to make sure players do not cross the line perpendicular when players are approaching the ball. If they do, a foul is called and a penalty shot is awarded. To judge if a player breaks the line, one umpire will move into posi-tion behind the play, seeing if anyone crosses the line, and the second umpire will stay level with the ball to watch distance between the player heading down the line and the ball.

As long as the distance is large enough, a defend-er can intercept the ball without fear of breaking the line and drawing a foul. With polo field dimensions being 300 yards long and 160 yards wide, umpires are not always in close proximity to one another. To be able to break this communica-tion barrier, Galindo said umpires will use radios to communicate.

If the two umpires ever disagree on a call, a third official — called the third

man — that watches from the sideline will be used to settle the disagreement. Galindo said the third man’s decision is the final decision.

Umpires will also commu-nicate if they want to have a no call. Just like in soccer, Galindo said umpires may let a foul if the offensive player does not lose the advantage on the play. This allows the pace of play to remain consistent, prevent-ing unnecessary stoppage. Most players prefer to score from the field instead of tak-ing a penalty shot, Galindo said.

Being a former profession-al player, Galindo under-stands a game that is played on animals that can cover large distances quickly. With many fouls relying on the judgment of the umpire,

it is important that umpires know and understand the game as a player.

“I think polo is a little different than any other sport,” Galindo said. “A big part of umpiring is being able to play polo and being able to judge distance with horses.”

Being a former profession-al player helps with offici-ating, Galindo said. Other officials at the Flying H also participate as players in the tournaments during the summer.

With polo being a fast-paced game, players will use a new horse each chukker, sometimes changing horses in the middle of the game. Galindo said umpires will use multiple horses in a polo match to keep up with the action. Galindo will use two horses at the Flying

H during the six chukker matches, one in each half. When he officiates the high goal polo matches in Florida, he will use three horses in a match, subbing

every other chukker. Fresh horses allow umpires to keep up with the action and be in the correct position to make the right calls.

Being an umpire is not

always fun. Like any sport, players will not agree with every call an umpire makes. Galindo said umpires learn how to handle upset players. It is a balance of treating the players with respect and maintaining control of a game when tempers flare.

Galindo said polo has started working with other sports, like basketball, foot-ball and soccer, to learn how they manage athletes on the field. These sports are ahead of polo with the organization of officials and referees. Galindo said these sports have done a great job creating consistency of rules across all levels and nations and has been a focus for polo and its umpires for the past 20 years.

By modeling clinics and training after the other sports, the officiating of polo has greatly improved over the last 20 years, Galindo said. Rules have become consistent across all levels and internationally. Galindo said a player could play in the U.S., England and Argentina within the same year and creating uniform rules allows players to have the same experience no mat-ter where they play.

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Carlos Galindo, right, calls for the resuming of a polo match after the ball was hit over the end line at the Flying H Polo Club Thursday, Aug. 8, 2019.

AZIZI : Will play wherever they want himFROM B1

For now, he’s working exclusively at corner, though Hearn doesn’t have a preference with the team he had a good feeling about from the start.

“I’ll play any position they want me to play. Even if they want me to kick the ball,” Hearn said. “Whatever I can do to help this team win. You can go anywhere and play, but are you going to be happy? Are

you going to be comfort-able? Or are you going to wake up every day and be like, ‘Aw, man, I’ve got to go up here and do this.’ But it wasn’t that feeling here, and I feel like it’s never going to be that feeling here.”

Chiefs eager to see rookies in first preseason game

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (AP) — New Kansas City Chiefs defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo acknowledged after a spirited practice this week that he generally is reluctant to start rookies until they’ve earned their stripes.

“I’m still old-fashioned that way,” Spagnuolo said.

Might be time to enter the modern age.

As part of a vast offsea-son overhaul of the Kansas City defense, the Chiefs released longtime safety Eric Berry and several other backups. Then, they used a second-round draft pick on Juan Thornhill, hopeful that the big-play ability he showed at Virginia would translate quickly to the NFL. So far it has.

Of all the youngsters to make an impression in train-ing camp, the ball-hawking centerfielder in the No. 22 jersey stands out. He has made a habit of breaking up passes while covering speedsters Tyreek Hill and Sammy Watkins, and more than once he has baited Patrick Mahomes into an interception.

“We got to see him play corner and safety in col-lege. He did a little of each,”

Chiefs coach Andy Reid said. “The one consistency was that he made plays at both spots. He’s doing that out here. Early on, he was getting his hands on the ball but he wasn’t getting the picks. Now he’s making the picks.”

That bodes well for Spagnuolo’s revamped defense.

One of the biggest prob-lems last season was the back end, where Berry was sidelined nearly the entire season by injuries and his fill-ins weren’t particularly good. The Chiefs addressed the issue by giving a big con-tract to Tyrann Mathieu and then selecting Thornhill in the draft.

Suddenly, one of their biggest weaknesses has become one of their biggest strengths.

“I’ve been playing a bunch of safety spots right now,” Thornhill said, “but like I said, I will step in and play any position that they need me to play — like, if I need to play nickel, safety, corner, it really doesn’t matter. I’ll just step in and do what I have to do to help the team.”

Thornhill was listed sec-ond behind veteran Daniel Sorensen on the initial depth chart released for Saturday night’s preseason opener against Cincinnati. But what

shows up on paper is far dif-ferent from what has shown up on the practice field: Thornhill has been running with the No. 1 defense just as much, and there are times that all three safeties have been on the field at once.

He clearly has the most upside. The trick now is finding his ceiling as quickly as possible.

“When we first got out there a bunch of our guys were playing a little slow because guys didn’t really know what was going on. I mean everything was pretty much new to everybody,” Thornhill said. “But now since we had OTAs and minicamp, guys are picking up things a lot faster and picking up the defense and we are making a lot more plays, so that is definitely helping us.”

Thornhill isn’t the only rookie the Chiefs are eager to see against the Bengals.

Wide receiver Mecole Hardman, their other sec-ond-round pick, and defen-sive tackle Khalen Saunders, their third-round selection, are among seven rookies that showed up on the initial two-deep. And that doesn’t include running back Darwin Thompson, who could supplant Carlos Hyde and Darrel Williams for the No. 2 job.

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The power of the gut biome to influence your health is as astounding as the 1969 Apollo 11 mission. This teem-ing world of an estimated 100 trillion microbes that occupies your inner space went unexplored for mil-lennia. But now, scientists have begun to probe just how much it affects your every-day well-being and how you can help keep it in shape -- or restore it if it is damaged. Many small bacteria for your gut; one huge breakthrough in understanding health and wellness.

When all the various types of bacteria in your biome are in balance (there are both potential troublemakers and good guys), they protect your health by interacting with the lining of your intestines and your immune system to protect you from disease-car-rying pathogens, produce essential nutrients (they synthesize vitamin K), digest cellulose, promote gut nerve function and help regulate glucose.

But their smooth function-ing can be disrupted by anti-biotics, medications, illness, a chronic stress response, aging, poor nutrition and lifestyle choices (excess drinking, poor sleep habits, recreational drug use, lack of physical activity). That can cause certain gut bacteria to produce inflammation that increases your risk of heart disease, stroke, memory loss, cancer and even mental illnesses like depression. It also can increase your risk for allergies, inflammatory bowel disease, obesity, insu-lin resistance, diabetes, fatty liver disease and symptoms of social dysfunction in chil-

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est research reveals that a well-balanced biome can help promote good health and recovery in amazing ways -- and it reveals the health risks associated with a biome in distress.

1. There may be a link between an unhealthy gut biome and infection following knee replacement surgery, according to a lab study pub-lished in the journal Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research. Only 1% of folks getting a knee or hip replace-ment develop a post-surgical infection. So why do they succumb to this rare compli-cation? It seems those with a compromised immune sys-tem because of an off-balance biome are most vulnerable.

2. Parkinson’s disease may happen when the gut biome cannot protect the body from a triggering infection. Other forms of neurological dam-age, such as multiple sclero-sis, may also be caused by a viral infection that invades through the gut.

3. An unbalanced gut microbiome may contribute to anxiety and other mental disorders through something called the “gut-brain axis.” In one metastudy published in BMJ, researchers found that anxiety was eased around half the time by taking pro-biotics, and even more fre-quently by making overall upgrades to nutritional hab-its that encourage a healthy gut biome.

4. An overgrowth of vari-ous gut bacteria is associated with high blood pressure. The imbalance causes neu-ro-inflammation and affects the sympathetic nervous

system, which impacts blood pressure, according to stud-ies published in Frontiers in Physiology and Microbiome.

So, how can you protect and promote a healthier gut biome?

1. Take antibiotics only when necessary. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that 33% of prescriptions are unneeded. Never take them if they were not prescribed by your doc-tor.

2. Adopt a gut-loving diet: fermented and cultured foods like low- or nonfat yogurt, kefir, miso, kimchi, sauer-kraut and natto; high-fiber prebiotic foods like 100% whole grains, asparagus, garlic, Jerusalem artichokes, onions, bananas and other fruit, as well as flax and chia seeds. Avoid high-fat diets and red meat.

3. Ask your doc about tak-ing a probiotic. If you have small intestine bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), you need one kind; for large intestine imbalance you want others.

4. Ditch artificial sweeten-ers, which one study found may alter gut bacteria in ways that promote metabolic diseases.

5. Adopt stress manage-ment techniques such as meditation, yoga and deep breathing, and aim for seven to eight hours of restful sleep nightly.

6. Get plenty of physical activity and exercise -- 10,000 steps or the equivalent daily; two strength-building ses-sions weekly for 30 minutes; and at least 150 minutes of moderate aerobics weekly. It improves the balance of gut bacteria and fights obesity.

DEAR ABBY: I’m a mother of two girls, ages 3 and 5. Their father and I are together, but I’m not in love with him anymore. I have felt this way for two years now.

I’m not excited to see him come home. When I take our children out, I hope he doesn’t want to come. When he touches me affectionately, I want to pull away. I have talked to him about it, but he doesn’t feel the same way. He wants to do everything he can to fix it. I’d love that too, but I no longer feel any connection to him.

He’s not a bad guy. He gives me plenty of attention and is good with the kids. I feel like an idiot. What kind of person even thinks about breaking her family up when they’ve got someone so great? How much time should I give this before I call it quits? How much couples counseling should we pay for before we can say we tried, but it didn’t work? Should I stay for the kids even though I’m not happy with him? -- JUMBLED IN OHIO

DEAR JUMBLED: I would love to know what happened two years ago that caused you to begin withdrawing from your partner. You ask what kind of person thinks the way you do? The answer may be a woman who is bored, confused, disillusioned or has stopped putting in the effort that’s required to maintain a satisfactory relationship. Or, you may not have been in love with him in the first place.

If you’re sincere about it, try counseling, first to determine where your relationship went off track, and second to find a way to save it. Your daughters are little. They don’t need their lives disrupted. Be sure the person you and your spouse choose is licensed. Give it a year. By then both of you will know whether it was worth the money.

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2305 Coffeen Ave. orcall 674-6677.

Truck/SUV

2015 LINCOLN MKCFully loaded, excellentcondition, approx. 36Kmiles, single owner.$24,500. 752-5337

Recreation

Campers/R.V.

15 FT. Layton traveltrailer for sale $1500Contact host at NorthTongue Campground#4 contact Brian or Leni

928-713-5875

Real Estate for Sale

Rentals Furnished Apartment

1 BDRM Apts. Utli pdexcept elec. $575 -$695 + deposit. No

smk/pets 307-674-5838

WEEKLY RATES from$250 America's BestValue Inn 672-9757

Unfurnished

Apartments

SKYVIEW ESTATES -newly refurbished 2bedroom, 1 bath, newflooring, fixtures, a.c.unit. garage withopener. lease plusdeposit. backgroundcheck. $900. NO

SMOKING NO PETS672-7643

Unfurnished House

1 BD, 1 BA, W/D, Shed.$700 per mo. + utilities,deposit + 6 mo lease.No Pets/ Smoking 672-

3507

3BR/3 BA, garage, inBig Horn. No pets.$1300/mo. 751-7718

3 BD HOUSE w/CARPORT & DECK.NO PETS $1000call 751-7474

4BD / 2BA home forrent in the country.$1,250 per month +

utilities. NO PETS. CallBuffalo Realty (307)684-9531 or Cristy(307) 620-0037

Commercial Space

EXECUTIVECOMMERCIAL officespace for rent. 3,128sq. ft. located at 201N. Connor St. inWhitney Plaza

business area. Ampleparking, pedestrianaccess and close todowntown. Will

consider partial spacerental. Call Janet at307-674-7303 formore information.

For Lease

SEVERALPROFESSIONAL officebuildings for lease.Parking, fiberoptics,good locations &various sizes.Call 673-5555

Miscellaneous for Sale

Household

FOR SALE Ohaus grayloading scale $50 OBO,glass front TV stand

L26 3/4" x W19" x H17"$35, misc horse tack

674-6659

Hardware & Tools

10" DEWALT radial saw$250, lots of extras, 6"long bed Delta joiner$325, log dowel cutters

$135, 763-1542

Miscellaneous

FREE! 60" SamsungTV. Works great! Call(307) 673-0742

SHELTER LOGIC10x24x8 DOME STYLEPORTA GARAGE. Graywith heavy duty cover.Never used. Still Boxed.

$500. 672-9862or 763-2186

Services Offered

Storage

CIELO STORAGE752-3904

CALL BAY HORSESTORAGE

1021 4th Ave. East307-620-2790

ELDORADOSTORAGE Helpingyou conquer space.

3856 Coffeen 672-7297

Miscellaneous

Family Tree &Historical ResearchLeeney's Family Trees13 yrs experiencePkgs starting at $49307-752-8573 orleeneyweeney@hotmail.com

Pets

Dogs

AKC REGISTEREDStandard Poodle

Puppies-Black, Cream,Red, & Apricot Males &Females $900 askabout breading rights.Ready To Go. 307-856-3175 or www.orchardhillpoodles.com

PUREBRED GOLDENRetriever Puppies. HadShots. $500. Leave

Message 605-457-2424

Lost

LOST 2 year old fe-male Chihuahua/

Terrier mix named "MsDemeanor"

Wearing collar &harness. Lost near

1954 Val Vista MondayEvening. PLEASE

CALL (361) 441-3203

Wanted

Wanted to Buy

WANTED FREON R12.We pay CA$H.R12 R500 R11.

Convenient. Certifiedprofessionals.

www.refrigerantfinders.com/ad 312-291-9169

Employment

GREAT CLIPSIS HIRING! Seekingstylists for GREATCLIPS in Sheridan.We offer: great team-work & paid training,hourly wage plusbonuses & sign onbonus!!!, terrificbenefits including

health insurance. Callor text Nancy at406-670-1507

TACO JOHN'S/GOOD TIMES

is looking for severalpeople to work allshifts starting at

$10.50/hr. Clean cut &a pleasing personality.exp. perf. Benefits

included

Professional/Office

Busy medical officeseeking PART-TIMEfront office assistant.10-20 hrs/wk. Positionto start immediately.Please bring resume to

330 W Dow St.

Miscellaneous

NOW HIRING:Rahimi’s Taxidermylocated in Ranchester,WY has a full/part timeposition that needs tobe filled. For more in-formation Call (307)

655-9447

Hotels/Motels

NOW HIRINGhousekeeping.Pick up app.

Candlewood Suites1709 Sugarland Dr.

Restaurant/Bar

WE WANT You!The Rib & Chop

House is looking forServers & Line Cooks!

InterviewsGuaranteed!

Apply in person at847 N Main or onlineat FRGjobs.com

Dogs Hotels/Motels

Have openpositions?Place an ad!

672-2431

CLASSIFIEDSB6 THE SHERIDAN PRESS www.thesheridanpress.com SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 2019

Omarr’s Daily Astrological Forecast Jeraldine Saunders

August 11:ARIES (March 21-April

19): Conversations with friends might be inspiring or spur your imagination. In the upcoming week you might be empowered by a loved one’s ideas or insights to make your mark in your career or job.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): This is not be the right time to start an extreme diet, as your self-discipline could be really tested in the week to come. Better results would come with gradual long-term changes in nutri-tional habits.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You excel at finding practi-cal solutions for financial problems because your mental prowess is enhanced at this time. In the week to come you may be more con-cerned with business than with love.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Stay abreast of news and trends. Show you can be an excellent business-person by being on top of the latest data. In the week ahead show good taste and spend your money for things you need or want.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Start the week off with a bang rather than a whim-per. Approach your work or a project with a fearless and fierce attitude and you will make headway. Friends will support your efforts.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Keep conversations fresh and relevant by having plenty of inspiring stories on hand. As the week un-folds, your wits will grow sharper and it will be easier to put your best ideas into action.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You may be content to gaze into one another’s eyes for the moment. It is wonder-ful just to hold hands, but handholding could possibly lead to something more intense as the week pro-gresses.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Expand your horizons

and be prepared to let go of what no longer serves you well. In the week to come use the opportunities and insights that arise to rid yourself of outworn ideas, attitudes and habits.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Share inspiring stories that will brighten conversations and uplift spirits. In the upcoming week it can be profitable to join forces with others to mastermind a wealth of new ideas.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In the week ahead don’t be pressured into making a decision before you have the clarity to be sure it is the right one. Romantic meetings may occur, but it may take time to break an impasse first.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You can be completely absorbed in your home and family this week yet still be a go-getter when your career is involved. Share something pleasing but sen-sible with loved ones.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Make your workplace a happy hub of industry; use your ability to be sympa-thetic and compassionate to win friends and strengthen alliances. Adventures of the amorous kind might make the upcoming week memo-rable.

August 12: ARIES (March 21-April

19): You should be able to get imaginative ideas across without resorting to any kind of extreme tactic. You might fit in nicely with a group where you can show off your friendliness and use a creative approach.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You are quick on the uptake, so you don’t need a retake. A new initiative may require more time to get off the ground than you are anticipating, so don’t be in too much of a rush to pull the trigger.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): If you hope to amplify your success rate in the busi-ness world, remember that knowledge is power. You can make headway by gath-ering relevant information about pertinent subjects and using that awareness to your advantage.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Avoid making crucial financial decisions even if you feel the pressure to act immediately. Your ambi-tions might outweigh your better judgment, or outside

circumstances could shift. Gather more info to help you decide.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You may not have the time you’d like to just relax and chitchat this week. Group meetings, conference calls or friendly chatter could take too much time away from important tasks. De-vote your attention to tangi-ble goals.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Walk, swim, run, take a yoga class, hike or bike. Get out there, loosen up, enjoy the summer and get into your best shape. It is possi-ble that a certain someone is willing to help you with the warmup.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Making someone feel cared about builds alliances and deepens friendships. Tune into people’s real selves. Keep things happy and light by steering conversations toward pleasant subjects that everyone enjoys.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You’ve got the intellect to investigate and bring out the facts about even the most creative ideas or financial fantasies. Be sure you understand everything before moving forward. Your love life could easily heat up and start to sizzle.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Dream big but don’t get lost in the clouds. If you are surrounded by good fortune, you might dream of even better things. Keep your goals attainable and your feet planted firmly on the ground.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): There may be pressure to pioneer a new project right away. It would be considerably more bene-ficial to take extra time to gather additional data and resources before you launch your plan.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You could prevent a debate from turning into a dispute by simply agreeing to disagree. It isn’t neces-sary to yield your position or change your mind to get along with someone else; just offer each other mutual respect.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You have the imagina-tion and someone else has the practical resources to make an idea into some-thing worthwhile. A project may be completed more easily if you team up with someone who’s got the re-sources you need.

1506 SPAULDINGSat & Sun HuskyGenerator, Simer

Shallow well jet pump,5x8 light duty trailer,camping gear, water-fowl decoys, blind, yard& hand tools, powersaws, chainsaw

856 COFFEEN Unit 10.(behind Papa Johns) Fri

& Sat, 9-3. Toys,clothes, bikes, shopvac, household, golf,art, kitchen, new/un-opened items, more.Pics at estatesales.org

MOVING SALE1351 N. Heights Ave.Fri 9-4, Sat 7-12.Horse tack, huntingdecoys, canning jars,baseball cards, books,

toys & more1502 BIG Horn Ave. Sat8a-? Changing table,stroller, women's & kid'sclothing, car seat, misc

RELAY FOR LIFEGarage Sale at 154Swan, Sat 8a-2p

GET READY forcollege! Garage saleSaturday 7:30 to 12.1360 Avon Street inalley behind house.Quality items:

bookcases, storagedrawers, folding loungechairs, books, clothes,bedding, some kitchen

and bath.

COYOTE'S CleanoutSale Thursday-Sunday7am-6pm located infenced-in dirt lot onIndustrial Dr. Turn

between Teds Towingand Cielo Storage -

there will be a sign. Lotsof gear (camping, pack,fishing, reloading), tires,Honda inverter EU3000is generator,Sheridan wall tent,couple horse trailors,assort. tools, guns,

tractor, and lots of misc

2481 WEEPING WillowCt. Sat. 8a-5p

Women's, girls, boysclothing, leatherwomen's jacket w/

fridge & denim jacketsw/ bling, bling purses,leather purses,Women'sHD leather jacket,Macrame cord 10bundles, Home

Interior Items, 2 Oakbar stools, PamperedChef, Keuric, kitchenitems, Wild Plum Jelly

Garage Sales

CLASSIFIEDS SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 2019 www.thesheridanpress.com THE SHERIDAN PRESS B7

Your Right To Know and be informed of government

legal proceedings is embodied in public notices. This newspaper urges every

citizen to read and study these notices. We strongly

advise those seeking further information to exercise their right of

access to public recordsand public meetings.

IN THE DISTRICT COURT,FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT

COUNTY OF SHERIDAN, STATE OF WYOMINGIN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OFPATRICK THAIN HAGAN, Deceased.Probate No. 2019-75NOTICE OF ANCILLARY ADMINISTRATION

OF PROBATE PROCEEDINGS OFNONRESIDENT DECEDENT

TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN SAIDESTATE:You are hereby notified that on the 9th day of

July, 2019, a Petition for Administration of Pro-bate Proceedings of Nonresident Decedent wasfiled in the above-mentioned District Court by Lyn-sey Hagan. The petition requests that the probateproceedings that were initially conducted in theState of Montana, be admitted in this State andthat the decedent's assets in this State be admin-istered according to those proceedings. Anyoneobjecting to having such proceedings admitted forthat purpose must file written objections with theClerk of the District Court and serve a copy on thePetitioner's attorney, who is identified below, on orbefore the twentieth day following the first publica-tion of this notice. If no objections are filed, theCourt may issue an order, without further hear-ings, admitting such proceedings to probate in thisstate and distributing the assets of the decedent toLynsey Hagan.DATED this 18 day of July, 2019.

/s/ John G. Fenn, District JudgeTimothy S. TarverAttorney at LawP. O. Box 6284200 West LoucksSheridan, Wyoming 82801Publish Dates: August 3, 10 and 17, 2019

Public Notices

Hints from Heloise Heloise

Dear Readers: A great safety measure to protect your pets in case of a fire? A sticker on the window telling first responders how many and what types of PETS you have in-side.

These stickers are readily available -- at pet stores, through the ASPCA (www.ASPCA.org) for a small donation or at online retailers.

Keep the stickers up to date. Firefighters want to save as many lives as possible, and these stickers give them a benchmark from which to start.

Emergencies like fires and floods are high-pressure situations. The harsh reality is, domestic animals can run and hide in an emergency, but these stickers can help pets get rescued. -- Heloise

PET PALDear Readers: Meet Ceaser. Maria adopted

Ceaser in July of 2018, and he is now 4 years old. A shorthair domestic, he loves to pose for pictures!

To see Ceaser and our other Pet Pals, visit www.Heloise.com and click on “Pet of the Week.”

Do you have a funny and furry friend? Email a picture and description to Heloise@Heloise.com. -- Heloise

DOG IN DANGERDear Heloise: Remind your readers to keep

their dogs secure when driving with them in their car. I saw a guy driving with his two dogs hanging out the window. You’d never let your kids do that, so why let your dog when you say your pet is part of the family? -- Bobbie P., Santa Ana, Calif.

WATER WOMANDear Heloise: I water the trees, shrubs,

rosebushes, etc. I don’t waste water on the lawn. I concentrate on salvaging as many

large trees as possible during our Texas summers.

My watering schedule includes watering after the sun goes down. I would be inter-ested in a product to assist the plants and trees in surviving extreme heat. -- Elizabeth in Texas

PICKLE SANDWICH?Dear Heloise: I ran out of bread, so I

formed a sort of “sandwich” by putting a seasoned pickle between two slices of ham with mustard. A toothpick held it in place. It is low-calorie and high-protein. It also can make a decent hors d’oeuvre. -- Ken F., Bren-ham, Texas

CORE VALUESDear Heloise: I save the cardboard cores

from toilet tissue rolls, coil the cords of small appliances and push them into the cardboard cores. No more messy, tangled cords. I read your column in the Pasadena (California) Star-News. -- Judy P., via email

WELL, THAT STINKSDear Heloise: Why do companies highly

scent their products? One particular air freshener used to have barely any smell at all, and I really liked that. Now its products are all so highly scented that I can’t use them.

Also, dryer sheets are so strong that they linger in the clothes forever. Can’t they make something that is less strong and doesn’t linger? -- Virginia L., via email

SAVVY SHOPPERDear Heloise: I keep a dry-erase board on

my fridge, and I write down items as I need them. Before I leave the house, I take a pic-ture of the board with my phone, and I sel-dom forget anything. -- Priscilla J., via email

Makes negotiating the supermarket easier, especially on a Saturday! -- Heloise

Bridge Phillip Alder

Woody Hayes, who is in the College Foot-ball Hall of Fame as a coach, said, “The five big mistakes in football are the fumble, the interception, the penalty, the badly called play, the blocked punt -- and most of these originate with the quarterback. Find a mis-take-proof quarterback, and you have this game won.”

If you find a mistake-proof declarer, you have bridge won.

In today’s deal, we have a blocked suit. Can declarer punt to circumnavigate the problem? West leads his fourth-highest heart against three no-trump. What should South do?

South might have upgraded and opened two no-trump, not that that would have altered the final contract -- North would have raised to three no-trump. Yes, five dia-monds makes, but with no singleton or void and insufficient points to consider a slam, it is better to go for the nine-trick game.

South seems to have nine top tricks: one spade, one heart, six diamonds and one club. However, now that the heart ace has been removed from the dummy, declarer has no immediate dummy entry left and cannot enjoy six diamond tricks. Instead, he must go for these nine winners: one spade, one heart, three diamonds and four clubs. But that might require three winning club finesses. To take those finesses, South needs to stay in the dummy while taking the first two finesses. In this situation, he

should lead the lowest card that can win the first finesse. So, declarer must call for the club nine. He continues with the club queen, takes a third club finesse and runs for home.

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