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Clearmont drops ambulance license, continues providing medical services
CLEARMONT — One small change in opera-tions for Clearmont’s emergency medical ser-vices means business as usual for the four emer-gency responders in that area of the county.
Until December 2017, the South East Sheridan County Emergency Response held an ambulance service license so it could transport patients from Clearmont to Sheridan if necessary. In the 2017 service year, Rocky Mountain Ambulance transported all patients needing follow-up hospi-
tal care after being served by the EMTs and first responders out of Clearmont.
Before the change, EMTs had to report each call through a computer system. The system was rarely used and served little to no purpose, as RMA filled out reports to send to the state anyway. Because Clearmont rarely hauled patients to the hospital before and transported no patients in 2017, the South East Sheridan County Emergency Response board decided to not renew the license.
“We didn’t renew our ambulance license, but instead of carrying the ambulance license itself, we’re still the same emergency response,” SESCER board chair Misty Thomas said.
BY ASHLEIGH FOX
SEE MEDICAL, PAGE 3
Local woman visits Washington
lawmakers
SHERIDAN — Danielle Harnish never actively participated in politics.
As a mother of three and a former culinary arts teacher at Sheridan High School, she had a full schedule.
BY MICHAEL ILLIANO
Sen. Burns will not seek another term
SHERIDAN — Wyoming state Sen. Bruce Burns, R-Sheridan, announced Wednesday he will not seek another term. Burns has served as a legislator for the state for 24 years.
“It was the privilege of my life to serve,” Burns said. “It’s time for new blood.”
Burns made the announce-ment at the Sheridan County Chamber of Commerce month-ly luncheon, at which legis-lators provided an update on the legislative session. Burns doesn’t know of anyone in par-
ticular who will run for his seat, which is part of the reason for his early announce-ment.
FROM STAFF REPORTS
Burns
COURTESY PHOTO | DANIELLE HARNISH
Danielle Harnish, left, and Breanna Nelson of Cheyenne, right, meet with Wyoming Senator John Barrasso at his office in Washington, D.C.
SEE HARNISH, PAGE 8
SEE BURNS, PAGE 3
NEW BRINTON EXHIBIT SHOWCASES RARE PHOTOS OF TREATY OF FORT LARAMIE
BIG HORN — Think of Wyoming in the 1860s. You may envision a scene from an old movie or television show.
Those shows likely draw inspiration from early photographs, courtesy of people like Alexander Gardner.
The Brinton Museum opens an exhibit Thursday focusing on Gardner’s work photo-graphing the Treaty of Fort Laramie 150 years ago in what is now southeastern Wyoming. The treaty was the first of its kind between the U.S. government and Native Americans.
The exhibit lasts longer than most at The Brinton. It runs from March 15 to May 28 and will have a rare second showing in the fall from Sep. 2 to Nov. 9 to make sure as many people as possible view it and so all the local schools have a chance to visit.
The 27 original Gardner photographs are part of a collection of more than 2,000 pho-tographs of the American West gifted by the will of Forrest E. Mars Jr. to The Brinton Museum’s Endowment Fund.
BY RYAN PATTERSON
JUSTIN SHEELY | THE SHERIDAN PRESS
Executive director Kenneth Schuster goes through a stack of prints from the Treaty of Fort Laramie by 19th century American photographer Alexander Gardner shown in a storage area at The Brinton Museum Wednesday, March 7, 2018.
Executive director Kenneth Schuster shows a print from the Treaty of Fort Laramie by 19th century American photographer Alexander Gardner shown in a storage area at The Brinton Museum Wednesday, March 7, 2018. SEE EXHIBIT, PAGE 8
LADY PANTHERSREADY TO BUILD OFF MISSED OPPORTUNITIES
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Clearmont EMT Mike Buss, left, and driver Matt Gorzalka stand by the Clearmont Fire Department’s ambulance in Clearmont Wednesday, March 14, 2018.
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FROM WYOMING NEWS EXCHANGE NEWSPAPERS
Hundreds of students across Wyoming took part Wednesday in the National School Walkout day to protest violence at schools, speak out for increased safety protection in schools and memorialize 17 students killed in a Florida school shooting in February.
Below are reports on the walkouts from various com-munities around Wyoming.
CheyenneStudents need to feel safe
in school.And when hundreds
of local teens took part Wednesday in the National School Walkout, many of them said they participated for exactly that need.
Ava Olson, a freshman at Cheyenne’s East High, attended the demonstration there wearing an orange shirt, on which she’d writ-ten “Me next.”
She told the Wyoming Tribune Eagle: “My shirt says ‘Me next’ because, at this point, anybody in America could get shot in school, and I don’t feel safe, so I want to project it across in a message.”
East High senior Avalon Skinner, an organizer of the protest at East, said orange signifies gun reform.
Across town, South High junior Hannah Brown also admitted to feeling unsafe at school.
Her classmate, sophomore Eric Vigil, used a table as a dais to speak to the stu-dents.
“It seems that it’s not a guarantee to be safe in our own schools,” he said. “With
our current circumstances, it could be us or any other school within Cheyenne, Wyoming, or any other school within the country.”
Many other students attended to memorialize the 17 individuals who lost their lives in the Feb. 14 massa-cre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland, Florida.
Marissa West, a junior at South, said, “The whole entire protest that we’re having today is just a begin-ning. This is an issue in America, and these are the 17 victims that were lost in the Florida shooting, and it was devastating.”
Some students attend-ed the demonstrations to address their desire to cre-ate new gun laws or better enforce existing ones.
East High senior Kayla Culley said, “We need to show this state, specifically, that there should be sen-sible gun control, not only nationally, but statewide. And I feel like America has updated, so I feel like our Second Amendment should be updated.”
Students chose widely dif-ferent ways to demonstrate at the four high schools.
At Triumph High, stu-dents walked to the out-door basketball court and observed 17 minutes of silence before returning to class.
Students at Central High also carried out a quiet demonstration.
At South High, students demonstrated outside behind the school. Along with Vigil’s speech, stu-dents read out the names of those who died in Florida last month and observed a 17-second moment of silence.
The protest across town at East High took quite a dif-ferent approach. Though the students did honor the lives lost in Parkland, they chose not to follow the district’s guidelines for the protest.
Student organizers at East High created a memorial in the school’s common area for the 17 students and edu-cators killed in Parkland. They placed 17 empty desks in a circle, each with an orange carnation resting on
top. Senior Hayden Higgins designed the memorial.
Rather than staying inside as the district requested, the students marched out the front doors and lined the sidewalk along Pershing Boulevard to demonstrate.
The students chanted, “Enough is enough!” and “Choose people over guns!”
Gillette About a week ago,
Campbell County High School students Alaina Pauli and Bryanna Eby didn’t even know each other.
On Wednesday morning, they were huddled togeth-er with eight other girls demanding change and walking out of class to sup-port and honor the 17 people killed in the Feb. 14 shoot-ing at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
“We’re here to make an impact and to show that our voice matters,” Pauli told the Gillette News Record.
“We’re also here for all of those kids who went to school one morning like
everything was normal and couldn’t come home,” Eby said.
Pauli and Eby met through a mass group text that was started by fellow CCHS students about the national walkout taking place across the country. It started at 10 a.m. and lasted for 17 minutes, one minute for each person killed that day in Parkland.
More than 85 students at CCHS took part in the walk-out.
Moriah Engdahl held a sign that read #MarchForOurLives, and said she was inspired by the large number of survivors from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High who have pressured local lawmakers to pass stricter gun laws.
“The kids in Florida, they’re making a differ-ence,” Engdahl said. “We are the future of this coun-try and people are finally paying attention. These kinds of things are never going to stop until we say it has to stop.”
“It’s becoming an epidem-ic in communities all over the country,” Eby said. “We don’t want it to happen in our community.”
At Thunder Basin High School, more than 50 stu-dents walked out, but Adam Engel was one of the only solemn faces in the crowd. He stood alone on top of the school steps, hands clasped, head down.
He said he wasn’t there to protest guns — he believes mass shootings are a mental health issue — but to show Parkland that he stands with them.
“I’m here to show soli-darity for the 17 victims of Florida,” he said. “It’s just terrible. It really makes you sick to your stomach.”
Engel, a junior, was frus-trated by many of his fellow students, who used the 17 minutes as a time to social-ize.
“Many of them are here just to skip school,” Engel said as those around him talked, laughed and even sang. “It honestly makes me sad, really.”
Morgan Merchen, a CCHS Camels football player, said he wanted to honor Aaron Feis, the Parkland football coach who reportedly died shielding a number of stu-dents from gunfire.
Rock SpringsDozens of students and
members of law enforce-ment attended a walkout Wednesday at Rock Springs High School.
Event organizer and stu-dent Riley Skorcz told the Rocket-Miner she expected about 20 people to attend.
“I think it shows that
it’s not just me who sees the problem,” she said. “It shows we are all ready to stand up for our rights and that we are ready to change.”
Students, staff and law enforcement stood outside the front of the building for 17 minutes in honor of the 17 victims, but while other protests focused on gun control, the event at RSHS concentrated on promoting school safety.
Ninth-grade student Cassandra Morley was among those who partic-ipated. Morley, who has friends who attend Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and were inside the building when the shooting took place, said the walkout was important to her.
“I could have lost them,” she said. “It could have hap-pened here.”
Morley said she partici-pated because she wants to make sure “everyone is safe here.”
Others like Morley signed a pledge to promise to say something if they see some-thing, keep classrooms safe and be a friend to those who need help.
“Be a friend who needs help, don’t judge them,” Skorcz said.
Sweetwater County Sheriff Mike Lowell, who served on the Governor’s Task Force on School Safety and Security, said he would happy to help bring the issue to the forefront.
“I think it’s really import-ant,” he said.
Not all students participat-ed in the walkout.
Junior Courtney Smith said she did not think the walkout will accomplish much.
“I saw one poster,” she said. “It’s not going to do anything I thought.”
CodyThey walked out the front
doors one or two at a time.In all, around 85 Cody
High School students par-ticipated in a nationwide 17-minute school walkout to remember the 17 students and staff who died one month ago in a school shoot-ing at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.
Most stood silently on the cool morning for the entire period, while the silence was broken up by the occa-sional short speech from some of the assembled stu-dents, the Cody Enterprise reported.
Signs they held told the story, from “Enough is Enough,” to “17 lives are worth more than 17 min-utes.” Some students held signs with the faces of the students and staff who died in Florida. Senior Lucille Sax held a poster with the name and face of 14-year-old Parkland victim Martin Duque Anguiano.
“We all know why we’re here – 17 lives lost,” she said to break the silence, also noting the number of lives lost to shootings prior to Parkland. “In a few months I get to go to college – these kids don’t. That should never be anything anybody should be OK with.”
Senior Bailey Ennist spoke on the victims not being able to contribute to their communities.
“We’ve lost innovators, inventors,” he said. “That should impact everybody.”
At the end of the 17 min-utes the students converged from their semi-circle for a big group hug. Then they started trickling back into class.
CHS principal Jeremiah Johnston said afterward 17 minutes wasn’t going to make or break a school day, hence the willingness of the school to let the event take place without ramifications.
“We want to accommodate kids who want to participate and we don’t want to make it a big deal for either side,” he said. “We’re happy to let them be a part of it if that’s what they choose to do.”
Hundreds take part in school walkout in Wyoming
COURTESY PHOTO | KELLY WENZEL/GILLETTE NEWS RECORD
Moriah Engdahl holds up a sign reading “#MarchForOurLives” as she and fellow Campbell County High School students walk to the Campbell County Courthouse Wednesday, March 14, 2018.
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Four trained EMTs cur-rently live in the wide-spread Clearmont area and respond to calls initially with jump bags, followed by Clearmont’s one ambu-lance. Two of the EMTs live in town and drive the ambulance to the scene, where first responders take vitals before the ambulance arrives.
The group of first respond-ers works on a volunteer basis. The Clearmont Fire Department contributes to part of the emergency services organization and allows the nonprofit to house the ambulance at the fire station. Grants from the state, private donations and a fundraising event once a year help suppprt the nonprofit organization. Last year, SESCER held a pan-cake breakfast in the fire hall during Clearmont Days and kept all profits from the event.
Rocky Mountain Ambulance fills oxygen bot-tles when Clearmont’s are depleted and often donates supplies. The money raised for the organization goes
into purchasing updated supplies and gas and annual license plates fees for the rig.
RMA co-owner Troy Goodwin said Clearmont dropping its ambulance license won’t impact the level of services provided. Instead of SESCER respond-ers completing their own reports, they will relay their part of the report to RMA, and RMA will complete the entire report for the state.
“A lot of this is going to stay the same as far as responses and other people helping out,” Goodwin said.
Thomas would like to see more trained medical pro-fessionals throughout the Clearmont, Leiter, Ucross and Wyarno areas and added getting to patients faster not only relieves panic but calms the sit-uation and helps RMA responders.
“Every little bit helps,” Thomas said. “That’s what we want to do out here. Help people; help our neigh-bors.”
Volunteers will continue doing just that, with the change helping with effi-ciencies in the process.
JUSTIN SHEELY | THE SHERIDAN PRESS
Clearmont EMT Mike Buss opens the back door of an ambulance Wednesday, March 14, 2018.
MEDICAL : Everything helps
BURNS : Local legislators spoke fondly of BurnsFROM 1
Burns served as a House represen-tative for Wyoming from 1995 to 2002 and switched to the Senate in 2003. He will finish out his representation for Senate District 21 this week.
Burns said he has been weighing the decision for the past few years.
“The election’s coming up and it was a question of whether or not I wanted to spend another four years or not,” Burns said. “I decided not.”
In the 24 years of service, Burns served on the House Travel, Recreation, Wildlife and Cultural Resources Committee from 1995-2000 and in the Senate from 2003 to 2014. Other committee delegations includ-ed Judiciary; Natural Resource Funding; Minerals, Business and Economic Development, select com-mittees, task forces and groups for
the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Burns wanted to spend more time on different aspects of his life.
“I’ve got a bucket list of a lot of stuff that I want to do but I can’t because of the Legislature,” he said.
He added that his tenure has had its ups and downs.
“There were a number of bills I was involved in and accomplish-ments that I’m proud of, but there were also a number of things I couldn’t stop that I feel bad about,” Burns said.
Local legislators spoke fondly of Burns.
Rep. Mark Kinner, R-Sheridan, has known Burns for about 30 years. Burns told Kinner last week that he was considering not running again. When Kinner was elected to the House in 2015, Burns was one of the
first people to which he turned.Kinner said Burns was instrumen-
tal in helping him adapt to the steep legislative learning curve.
“I’m really appreciative of the service that Bruce has given to the state,” Kinner said. “That’s a big chunk of his life that he’s dedicated to helping the people of Wyoming.”
Sen. Dave Kinskey, R-Sheridan, agreed.
“Bruce Burns has rendered decades of great service to the citizens of this county and we all owe him a deep debt of gratitude,” Kinskey said. “I wish that he would stay, as he has been remarkably effective in representing us in the Legislature. He is at the pinnacle of his career in chairing the appro-priations committee. He’s certainly going out on a high note. He will be sorely missed.”
TIBBY MCDOWELL | THE SHERIDAN PRESS
Turkey timeA wild turkey feeds on a resident’s lawn in Sheridan Wednesday, March 14, 2018.
BY JEFF VICTORLARAMIE BOOMERANG
VIA WYOMING NEWS EXCHANGE
LARAMIE — Gap years between high school and higher education allow future college students to serve in the military, take part in religious or human-itarian missions or simply work for a while and save up for tuition.
Since the first Hathaway Scholarship was awarded in 2006, young people have been allowed to take up to two gap years and retain their eligibility for the tiered, performance-based scholarships. Now, they can take four, thanks to a bill sponsored by Rep. Bill Henderson, R-Cheyenne, and signed into law Monday by Gov. Matt Mead.
“It’s a plain fact of life that being able to have a couple of extra years to work and save up money just makes a lot of sense,” Henderson said. “I think we should do everything we can to help our young people get the education they need.”
Wyoming’s Hathaway Scholarship program pro-vides assistance to gradu-ates of state high schools attending state colleges, discounting already low in-state tuition for up to eight semesters.
During the 2016-2017 academic year, 2,385 stu-dents initiated a Hathaway Scholarship for the first time at the University of Wyoming and the state’s seven community colleges, according to the Wyoming Department of Education. More than half of these recipients received either the Performance or Honors Hathaways, which afford $1,260 and $1,680 a semester, respectively.
Henderson said having more time to decide a course of study will help UW stu-dents get more out of the award.
“I think it’s great news for our young people who want a little extra time — a tad bit more time — to consider what they want to study and also take the opportunity to work some more, to save up, so they have additional funds to put aside to cover living expenses,” he said.
Henderson added the change from two to four years could increase the number of students who “stay the course” and com-plete their degrees — espe-cially if they use their given gap years wisely by saving money but also potentially earning certifications or other credentials that could be helpful later in their post-college life.
UW never took a formal position on the bill, but Chris Boswell — the uni-versity’s vice president for governmental and commu-nity affairs — said UW was supportive of expanding the application period.
“It lets more people take advantage of the Hathaway,” he said. “Maybe it lets people get their lives in order but maybe look around a bit after high school and then decide to come to either the univer-sity or community colleges. I think it’s a welcome change.”
The two-year grace period benefited mainly student veterans and those taking part in religious missions, but it was and remains open to all.
The four-year window extends this benefit to any-one taking time off for any reason.
“This makes it even more straight forward for folks that are leaving high school and might need a little bit of time before they decide to come to the university or go to community colleges,” Boswell said.
The bill altered only a
handful of words in the orig-inal legislation — changing “two years” to “four years” wherever it was mentioned — and received no amend-ments as it moved through both chambers of the Wyoming Legislature.
A split but affirmative vote in the House, followed by a more uniform vote in the Senate, sent the legis-lation to the governor this week, who signed the bill into law alongside 40 other bills.
“Gov. Mead respected the debate on the bill and the margins by which it passed
each chamber and signed it into law yesterday,” said Chris Mickey, a spokesper-son for the governor.
In addition to allowing Wyoming students to get more out of their Hathaway Scholarships, Henderson said students who wait for college until they know what they want to study might be more likely to fin-ish their degrees here.
“Perhaps that will also increase the likelihood that they will get a job here in Wyoming and put their roots down, stay here and have a good life,” he said.
Hathaway scholarship change now allows 4 gap years
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Baseball memories,
plans
While opening day for the MLB is still two weeks away, my excitement for the season has reached a
frenzy of sorts. I cannot get enough news on the upcoming season.
Some big things have happened for my team — the Chicago Cubs.
In February, the Cubs signed Yu Darvish, a pitcher that could really add something to the bull-pen options this season. Great news!
Then, this month, Jake Arrieta announced that he signed a free-agent deal with the Phillies. Bummer.
Beyond the sad news that such a great athlete will be leaving my favorite team, I have to admire
the letter Arrieta penned to Chicago Cubs fans.
The note is classy, heartfelt and reminds me why the Cubs are so fun to watch and the best team for which to cheer.
The spirit of the team tops others I’ve
seen. It’s all about culture, right?It’s harder to cheer for a team
that isn’t full of such great peo-ple.
When I head to Denver next month to watch the Cubs take on the Rockies (sorry, Colorado fans), I’ll soak it all in. Then, in September when I travel to Chicago and watch the team take on the Brewers, I’ll cap off the summer the best way possible.
If you’re a baseball fan, buckle up. It’s going to be a fun sum-mer.
•••••
In case you missed it, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman penned a column that published Tuesday online regarding trade problems with China.
Friedman, who recently spoke at the Whitney Center for the Arts at Sheridan College, hit a number of points in the column titled “Some things are true even if Trump believes them.”
Among the points, though, was advice on what a president should do to remain competi-tive. Among his advice, he said, “...we need to be much more serious about using every tool we have — tax incentives, Pell grants, community colleges — to create the conditions for every American to be constantly upgrading skills and for every company to keep training its workers. That will matter wheth-er the challenge is China or robots.”
The argument is consistent with a point Friedman made while he was in Sheridan. The gap in the future won’t be cen-tered around income or technol-ogy; the success gap will appear between those who have the motivation to be lifelong learn-ers and those who do not.
Community colleges serve those individuals who want to continue improving skills or gaining new ones at various stages in their lives. We’re lucky in Sheridan to have such a resource. Use it.
KRISTEN CZABAN|
Future budget plans must build our savings, not deplete them
This year marked my fourth legislative session, and each session Wyoming leg-islators debated a budget bill. For the last three sessions, I have voted “aye”
on the budget.I didn’t particularly like the prior three
budgets, as I felt they spent too much and reduced spending too little. Yet any legisla-
tion is a compromise, and one way or another, we must have a budget.
This time I voted “no” on the budget. It passed with a two-thirds majority in the Senate. One-third of us dissented.
As we entered this bud-get session, we learned from the Legislative Service Office that the state was facing a budget gap between proposed spending and revenue of $902 million in a $5 billion
budget. That is huge deficit of just under 20 percent.
I anticipated we’d whittle away at that deficit by reducing spending, and while a bit of that occurred, it was not enough.
What happened?The Senate insisted that spending be
reduced and that the rate of increase in K-12
education spending must be slowed. That was, for the Senate, a precondition of tap-ping savings to balance the budget.
The House, on the other hand, was equal-ly firm that the budget could be balanced with unspent money from prior budgets, the windfall of stock market capital gains, savings and “diversions” of money from other accounts.
Please note it was a House divided. A minority of legislators wished for a policy more akin to that of the Senate.
The House and Senate came to an impasse. Finally, a compromise was reached to do it the House’s way one year and the Senate’s another.
The budget gap was closed — this time. But the one-time savings from the prior budget are now gone. The savings are rapid-ly being depleted. The stock market may or may not be as strong two years from now as it is today.
What are the “diversions” the House used?
There are earnings dedicated to keeping our permanent funds whole against infla-tion. The House “diverted” those earrings to current spending. That may work for a while.
But what about future generations?This plan robs Wyoming’s future by
eroding funds that are supposed to be per-
manent, that are a part of the legacy we’ve inherited and are supposed to pass on.
By the reckoning of some, myself includ-ed, we left Cheyenne with a structural defi-cit of $1.05 billion — up from $902 million when we started. By the budget math of oth-ers, the deficit was $730 million. The latter is still a large problem, by any measure.
A structural deficit means that the hole has been filled, for now, with one-time money and by taking from the future. In future years, when the one-time money is gone, the day of reckoning will be at hand.
The proverbial can has been kicked down the road once again.
Absent a dramatic turnaround in the energy markets, future budget sessions will be even more difficult than if consistent, gradual reductions were made in spending. Waiting only makes it worse.
The light at the end of the budgeting tun-nel, so to speak, may be that we legislators agreed to a compromise that will allow for better planning in the future. Let’s hope that plan includes building our savings instead of depleting them.
DAVE KINSKEY represents Wyoming Senate District 22, which consists of Johnson County and eastern Sheridan County. A businessperson and former mayor of Sheridan, Kinskey can be reached at [email protected] or (307) 751-6428.
DAVE KINSKEY|
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PEOPLE
Business After Hours
set for March 21
SHERIDAN — The next round of Business After Hours will take place March 21 from 5-7 p.m. at First Federal Bank and Trust.
The networking and social event is free and open to the public. It will include snacks, beverages and door prizes.
First Federal Bank and Trust is located at 671 Illinois St.
FROM STAFF REPORTS
Hawley presentation to focus on feathered dinosaursSHERIDAN — Sheridan
County Fulmer Public Library will host a pro-gram about dinosaurs March 21 at 6 p.m. in the Inner Circle.
Russell Hawley, educator and illustrator at the Tate Geological Museum in
Casper, will lead the pro-gram.
Ever since the late 19th century, it has been sus-pected that the ancestry of birds lay within the Dinosauria. But the evo-lution of this idea suffered setbacks, false starts and dead-ends on its way to the near universal acceptance
in the scientific community that it enjoys today.
Hawley’s presentation will look at the various fossil finds that helped piece together the story of bird origins, as well as clues from molecular biology and embryology that have shed light on bird origins and relation-
ships. Finally, Hawley will describe how the ver-tebrate family tree was re-designed by the new technique of cladistics and show that, according to the rules of modern taxonomy, birds are actually feathered dinosaurs.
The library is located at 335 W. Alger St.
FROM STAFF REPORTS
‘Cowboy Tales’ presentation planned
in Clearmont
CLEARMONT — The Clearmont Branch Library will host the program “Cowboy Tales on the Eaton Trail in Yellowstone” by author Don DeJarnett March 20 at 4 p.m.
Howard Eaton began taking visitors on 15- and 20-day trips through Yellowstone Park in the 1880s with as many as 100 people on horseback, including all the food, tents and other requirements for “…taking a leisurely riding tour through the park, roughing it in comfort.”
DeJarnett also spent some time as an Eaton cow-boy and his program will “travel” through today’s Yellowstone, following as closely as possible Eaton’s trail, and “camping” in the same spots where Eaton and his guests spent their nights.
DeJarnett will share a wonderful collection of sto-ries about Eaton’s adventures, along with tales of the early days in the park, historic characters and their exploits.
DeJarnett was born and raised in Big Horn.He worked for Eatons’ Ranch and attended Sheridan
College. After college, he worked for The Sheridan Press, the Cody Enterprise and The Billings Gazette.
The call of the cowboy became so strong that he began making saddles, opened his own saddle shop and stayed on the edge of the cowboy life for 35 years.
The Clearmont Branch Library is located at 1254 Front St.
FROM STAFF REPORTS
‘The Flames of Paris’ to show at WYO
SHERIDAN — The WYO Performing Arts and Education Center will offer the Bolshoi Ballet in Cinema’s production of “The Flames of Paris” March 20 at 6 p.m.
The ballet tells the story of Jeanne and her brother who, in the era of the French Revolution, leave Marseille for Paris. While fighting for freedom, they both encoun-ter love along the way.
The cost to attend the show is $21 for adults and seniors and $11 for students. Tickets are available through the WYO box office, online at wyotheater.com or by phone at (307) 672-9084.
The WYO is located at 42 N. Main St.
FROM STAFF REPORTS
Wacky Bingo planned for Heritage Towers
SHERIDAN — Wacky Bingo will take place March 21 at Heritage Towers in the dining room of the senior living center.
Doors will open at 5 p.m. and bingo will begin at 6:15 p.m. There is no charge to participate.
A supper will be served from 5:30-6 p.m. It will include soup and grilled cheese sandwiches.
The cost for dinner is a $5 suggested contribution for reg-istered seniors and an $8 fee for others.
Organizers have asked that those planning to attend RSVP if possible by calling (307) 672-2240.
Heritage Towers is located at 428 N. Jefferson St.
FROM STAFF REPORTS
Next Coffee With a Cop Saturday
SHERIDAN — The next round of Coffee With a Cop will take place Saturday from 8-10 a.m. at the Common Cents store located at 3601 N. Main St.
The event aims to break down barriers between police officers and the citi-zens they serve.
The gathering will provide attendees with the opportu-nity to ask questions, voice concerns and get to know the officers in your neigh-borhood.
For additional informa-tion, email [email protected] or call (307) 672-2413.
FROM STAFF REPORTS
TIBBY MCDOWELL | THE SHERIDAN PRESS
TakeoffA wild turkey takes off from it’s perch toward Big Goose Creek Wednesday, March 14, 2018.
A6 THE SHERIDAN PRESS www.thesheridanpress.com THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 2018
AT A GLANCE10 things to know
1. WHO IS COOPERATING IN MUELLER PROBEGeorge Nader, a Lebanese-American businessman and convicted pedophile, met with Jared Kushner and Steve Bannon at Trump Tower in December 2016, AP learns.
2. TOYS R US DOWNFALL WIDESPREADThe iconic retailer is headed toward shuttering its U.S. operations, jeop-ardizing the jobs of some 30,000 employees and forcing toy makers and landlords to scramble for alternatives.
3. PRISON DEATH HIGHLIGHTS CELLMATE CHALLENGESOfficials say the decision to pair a drunken driver with a triple murderer was based on a complex number system states use to classify inmates as minimum-, medium- or maximum-security risks, AP finds.
4. TODAY’S GUN-CONTROL DEBATE ECHOES OF 1934The sounds of the first national gun-control debate can be heard in the current campaign to ban assault-style rifles. And, as it was in 1934, the NRA is seeking to drive the dis-cussion.
5. WAR MILESTONE A STARK REMINDERFor Syrians marking seven years of war this week, their country has never looked as helpless, fragmented and aban-doned by the world at large.
6. NORTH KOREAN FOREIGN MINISTER VISITS SWEDENThe surprise move can be seen as a first step toward a meeting in the Scandinavian country between Trump and Kim Jong Un.
7. DYLANN ROOF’S SISTER ACCUSED OF BRINGING WEAPONS TO SCHOOLDeputies say Morgan Roof, sister of the Charleston church shoot-er, has been arrested for bringing drugs, pepper spray and a knife to her South Carolina high school.
8. A MASSACRE THAT SHAMED US MILITARYFifty years ago, the American soldiers of Charlie Company killed 504 unarmed civilians within hours. My Lai was notorious in U.S. military history, though it wasn’t an aberration in the war in Vietnam.
9. ‘THERE’S NOTHING LIKE THIS IN JERSEY’San Francisco licenses eight marijuana smoking lounges where pot enthu-siast can buy and con-sume in the same shop.
10. RUMOR MILL PUTS COACHES, TEAMS IN AWKWARD SPOTThe NCAA Tournament leads to a different kind of March Madness away from the court for success-ful coaches, like Rhode Island’s Danny Hurley, in smaller leagues.
FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Today’s Highlight in History:
On March 15, 1493,Italian explorer Christopher Columbus arrived back in the Spanish harbor of Palos de la Frontera, two months after concluding his first voyage to the Western Hemisphere.
On this date:In 44 B.C., Roman dictator
Julius Caesar was assassinat-ed by a group of nobles that included Brutus and Cassius.
In 1767, the seventh pres-ident of the United States, Andrew Jackson, was born in the Waxhaw settlement along the North Carolina-South Carolina border.
In 1820, Maine became the 23rd state.
In 1917, Czar Nicholas II abdicated in favor of his brother, Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich, who declined the crown, marking the end of imperial rule in Russia.
In 1922, Sultan Fuad I pro-claimed himself the first king of modern Egypt.
In 1937, America’s first hospital blood bank was opened at Cook County Hospital in Illinois.
In 1944, during World War II, Allied bombers again raided German-held Monte Cassino.
In 1956, the Lerner and Loewe musical play “My Fair Lady,” based on Bernard Shaw’s “Pygmalion,” opened on Broadway.
In 1964, actress Elizabeth Taylor married actor Richard Burton in Montreal; it was her fifth marriage, his second. (They divorced in 1974, remarried in 1975, then divorced again in 1976.)
In 1977, the U.S. House of Representatives began a 90-day closed-circuit test to determine the feasibility of showing its sessions on tele-vision. The situation comedy “Three’s Company,” starring John Ritter, Joyce DeWitt and Suzanne Somers, pre-miered on ABC-TV.
In 1985, the first internet domain name, symbolics.com, was registered by the Symbolics Computer Corp. of Massachusetts.
In 1998, CBS’ “60 Minutes” aired an interview with for-mer White House employee Kathleen Willey, who said President Bill Clinton had made unwelcome sexual advances toward her in the Oval Office in 1993, a charge denied by the president. Dr. Benjamin Spock, whose child care guidance spanned half a century, died in San Diego at 94.
Ten years ago: A construc-tion crane, 19 stories tall and attached to an apartment tower under construction on Manhattan’s East Side, broke away and toppled like a tree onto buildings as far as a block away, killing seven people. China’s legislature re-appointed Hu Jintao (hoo jin-tow) as president, giving him a second five-year term.
Five years ago: The Pentagon announced it would spend $1 billion to add 14 interceptors to an Alaska-based missile defense system, responding to what it called faster-than-anticipated North Korean progress on nuclear weapons and missiles.
One year ago: President Donald Trump, speaking in Ypsilanti, Michigan, announced that his admin-istration would re-examine federal requirements gov-erning the fuel efficiency of cars and trucks, moving forcefully against Obama-era environmental regulations that Trump said were stifling economic growth; Trump then flew to Nashville to lay a wreath at the tomb of President Andrew Jackson.
Thought for Today:“Life’s meaning has always eluded me and I guess it always will. But I love it just the same.” — E.B. White, American author and humor-ist (1899-1985).
FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOCAL BRIEFS |
Winter concert, dance
series continuesSHERIDAN — The Sheridan Inn will host a
series of winter concerts and dances each weekend through March.
The next event will begin at 7 p.m. Friday. There is a $5 per person cover charge at the door. Each evening will include giveaways for items including a free night’s stay at the inn, T-shirts, free drink tickets and tickets to the next show.
The following is the schedule for the series:• March 16 — Dave Munsick• March 23 — Band of OutlawsThe inn will also offer special room packages for
the night of each show.The Sheridan Inn is located at 856 Broadway St.
AgriPark hosting team roping schoolSHERIDAN — The Sheridan College AgriPark
will host the Bobby Harris team roping school
Saturday and Sunday.The event is limited to eight headers and eight
heelers. Participants must sign a liability waiver and those 18 or younger need to be accompanied by an adult. For additional information, contact Zane Garstad at [email protected] or (307) 751-0121.
The cost to participate is $475 per person.The Sheridan College AgriPark is located at 1
Chris LeDoux Way.
Tidbit Saturday to
explore transmitting
SHERIDAN — Participants in Tidbit Saturday will have the chance to explore transmitting with the Cloud Peak Radio and Electronics Group this week. From 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, the program will feature hands-on activities for children.
The program is free, but organizer ask those planning to attend to reserve a spot by calling (307) 675-1150.
The event will take place at the Sheridan County Museum, located at 850 Sibley Circle.
FROM STAFF REPORTS
FRIDAY’S EVENTS |
INTERNATIONAL OBITUARIES |
TODAY IN HISTORY |
• 7 p.m., winter dance/concert series, Sheridan Inn, 856 Broadway St., $5 per person• 7 p.m., live music from Prairie Wildfire, The Tasting Library, 700 N. Main St.
World-renowned
fisherman, Lefty Kreh,
dies at 93 in Maryland
COCKEYSVILLE, Md. (AP) — From the waters of Maryland to those of the Amazon, famed fish-erman Bernard Victor “Lefty” Kreh reeled in 126 species of fish and new generations of fishing enthusiasts.
The Baltimore Sun reports Kreh died in his sleep of conges-tive heart failure Wednesday afternoon. He was 93.
A member of three fishing halls of fame, Kreh cast his line on every populated continent, fishing alongside presidents, Ernest Hemingway, Fidel Castro and greats of other sports.
In addition to authoring 32 books and columns for The Miami Herald and The Baltimore Sun, he designed a fly celebrated on a U.S. Postal Service stamp.
A Maryland fishing trail bears his name, as does a strain of anthrax. While working at Fort Detrick, he was the sole survivor of accidental exposure to the virus.
Lebanese author,
feminist Emily
Nasrallah diesBEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese
author and feminist Emily Nasrallah has died following a struggle with cancer. She was 87.
Her daughter Maha Nasrallah says she passed away in Beirut on Tuesday night.
Her writing touched on wom-en’s determination, migration and the terror of Lebanon’s 1975-1990 Civil War. She was the author of several novels and chil-dren’s books, and was awarded regional and international prizes for her work.
She began her career as a jour-nalist and published her first book, “Birds of September,” in 1962, to critical acclaim.
Prime Minister Saad Hariri tweeted: “Lebanon and the Arab world lost an icon of literature and Lebanese creativity, and a women’s rights activist.”
She is survived by her four children.
TIBBY MCDOWELL | THE SHERIDAN PRESS
Taking a strollWarmer temperatures brought people to the new path at Kendrick Park Wednesday, March 14, 2018. The path, which used to be a driving loop, is now available for non-vehicular use.
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OBITUARY |
Pauline Loucille JordanJuly 31, 1931 - March 4, 2018
Pauline Loucille Jordan, 86, formerly of Cheyenne, passed away, Sunday, March 4, 2018.
She was born on July 31, 1931 in Rock Springs, Wyoming.
Mrs. Jordan retired from the State of Wyoming. She took great pride in caring for family and enjoyed being a grandma.
She was an active member of the Community of Christ, and enjoyed crafts.
She is survived by her hus-band Joe Jordan of Sheridan; a daughter, Lynn (Bob) Peterson of Sheridan; a niece, Sherri Ann Schroeder of South Carolina; two grandchildren: Paige (Mike) Peterson Sconzo of Texas and Brekke (Ryan) Munks of Saratoga; and two great grand-
daughters, Milana Sconzo and Samara Munks.
Mrs. Jordan was preceded in death by a son, Roy Dale Jordan; and her parents, Roy and Hope Williams.
Memorial services will be Saturday, March 17th at 10:00 a.m., at the First Congregational Church.
Friends who wish may visit her webpage at wrcfuneral.com.
Pauline Loucille Jordan
DEATH NOTICE |Nancy Lou Weaver
Nancy Lou Weaver, 68, of Ranchester, died Wednesday, March 14, 2018, at Sheridan Memorial Hospital.
Online condolences may be written at www.kanefuneral.com.
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SHERIDAN FIRE-RESCUE
Wednesday• Activated fire alarm,
300 block College Meadows Drive, 9:32 a.m.
• Animal rescue, 2500 block West Loucks Street, 11:20 a.m.
• Rocky Mountain Ambulance, 50 block West 13th Street, 5:14 p.m.
GOOSE VALLEY FIRE DEPARTMENT
Wednesday• No calls reported.
ROCKY MOUNTAIN AMBULANCE
Tuesday• Trauma, Pioneer Road,
1:26 a.m.• Trauma, Parkview
Boulevard, 2:18 a.m.• Trauma, West 11th
Street, 5:13 a.m.• Medical, Sugarland
Drive, 9:52 a.m.• Medical, Warren Avenue,
10:12 a.m.• Medical, Eby Street, 10:52
a.m.• Medical, Sugarland
Drive, 9:52 a.m.• Medical, Broadway
Street, 12:43 p.m.• Medical, Jefferson Street,
12:54 p.m.• Medical, Mountain
Shadows Boulevard, 6:46 p.m.
• Medical, Emerson Street, 7:37 p.m.
• Medical, Sibley Circle, 11:26 p.m.
Wednesday• Medical, North Sheridan
Avenue, 12:05 a.m.• Medical, Sugarland
Drive, 2:06 a.m.• Medical, Coffeen Avenue,
9:11 a.m.• Medical, Huntington
Street, 11 a.m.• Medical, West Fifth
Street, 1:29 p.m.• Medical, West Brundage
Lane, 5 p.m.• Medical, West 13th
Street, 5:14 p.m.• Medical, Broadway
Street, 6:16 p.m.• Medical, I-90, mile mark-
er 37, 6:25 p.m.• Trauma, Broadway
Street, 8:02 p.m.
SHERIDAN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
Wednesday• Dismissals — Beth A.
Rathjen, Sheridan; Ashton Fern Rathjen, Sheridan.
SHERIDAN POLICE DEPARTMENT
Information in the police reports is taken from the SPD website.
Wednesday• Minor in possession,
North Gould Street, 3:08 a.m.
• Trespass progress, Huntington Street, 10:42 a.m.
• Lost property, 12th Street, 10:58 a.m.
• Abandoned vehicle, Smith Street, 12:30 p.m.
• Public intoxication, Long Drive, 2:24 p.m.
• Suspicious person, Sumner Street, 3:44 p.m.
• Family dispute, Holly Ponds Drive, 3:53 p.m.
• DUS, Coffeen Avenue, 4:38 p.m.
• Welfare check, Lewis Street, 4:38 p.m.
• Citizen assist, Sheridan Avenue, 5:06 p.m.
• Damaged property, Michael Drive 7:58 p.m.
• Suspicious vehicle, North Main Street, 8:35 p.m.
• DUI, citizen report, Loucks Street, 9:03 p.m.
• Barking dog, East Heald Street, 9:03 p.m.
• Bar check, North Main Street, 10:55 p.m.
• Bar check, North Main Street, 10:56 p.m.
• Bar check, North Main Street, 11:03 p.m.
• Suspicious circumstance,
North Main Street, 11:08 p.m.
Thursday• Suspicious vehicle,
Burkitt Street, 12:48 a.m.• Prowler, Emerson Street,
1:47 p.m.• Medical, North Main
Street, 2:55 a.m.
SHERIDAN COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE
Wednesday• Animal welfare, West
Loucks Street, 11:11 a.m.• Animal welfare, U.S.
Highway 14, milepost 18.5, Clearmont, 12:12 p.m.
• Theft cold, Painted Hills Lane, 2:43 p.m.
• Motorist assist, North Sheridan Avenue and B Street, 5:52 p.m.
• Welfare check, Coffeen Avenue, 7:41 p.m.
• Suspicious vehicle, Red Grade Road, 9:33 p.m.
ARRESTSNames of individuals
arrested for domestic vio-lence or sexual assault will not be released until the individuals have appeared in court.
Wednesday• John Richard Ingram, 34,
Sheridan, unauthorized use of auto, fail to report acci-dent with unattended vehi-cle, DUS, misdemeanor theft less than $1,000, trespassing, circuit court, arrested by SPD
• Martin Eugene Coquillette, 58, Sheridan, disorderly conduct public intoxication, municipal court, arrested by SPD
• Haley Hill, 20, Sheridan,
possession with intent to deliver controlled sub-stance, circuit court, arrest-ed by SPD
• William Corben Liffick Jr., 59, Bulverde, Texas, pos-session of marijuana, circuit court, arrested by WHP
JAILTodayDaily inmate count: 66Female inmate count: 21Inmates at treatment facil-
ities (not counted in daily inmate count): 2
Inmates housed at other facilities (not counted in daily inmate count): 1
Number of book-ins for the previous day: 3
Number of releases for the previous day: 1
REPORTS |
TIBBY MCDOWELL | THE SHERIDAN PRESS
Duck walkA mallard duck and a hen rest at the edge of the ice on Big Goose Creek Wednesday, March 14, 2018.
5-Day Forecast for SheridanTONIGHT SUNDAY MONDAYFRIDAY SATURDAY
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HARNISH : PCPSA scheduled for consideration; plans to continue fighting for itFROM 1
But in researching the products she was buying for her family, she realized that assessing the safety of prod-ucts, particularly personal
care products, wasn’t as easy as she initially thought.
“As I was looking at my children’s products, there is an ingredient I came across called fragrance,” Harnish said. “Basically it’s consid-
ered a trade secret in the care industry and they can house over 300 chemicals under that word and they don’t have to tell you what those chemicals are. When I learned that, I researched what they include under fra-grance and learned it could be formaldehyde or lots of other known carcinogens or terrible ingredients.”
About two months ago, Harnish got involved with BeautyCounter, a company dedicated to promoting the use of and selling “safe” care products with transparent ingredients. Harnish is a con-sultant with the company — one of about 30,000 between the United States and Canada — who focuses on raising awareness and making direct sales at the community level.
Harnish said when she joined BeautyCounter, she liked the company’s mis-sion but was not sure what kind of social impact it had. Earlier this month, howev-er, she had the opportunity to travel to Washington,
D.C, with a group of 100 BeautyCounter consultants to meet with members of Congress and advocate for the Personal Care Product Safety Act, which would strengthen the Food and Drug Administration’s abil-ity to regulate ingredients in personal care products. Harnish said the trip helped her realize the power of her voice.
“The biggest thing I learned was, legislators really do want to hear what constituents have to say and [constituents’] input does make an impact,” Harnish said.
BeautyCounter sent two consultants from every state in the country to meet with federal lawmakers and explain the importance of the PCPSA to them. Harnish said she met with congres-sional staffers from eight states, including Wyoming.
Most senators, she said, were unavailable to meet with the BeautyCounter consultants and the group
made their pitch to sena-tors’ staff. But Harnish said she did have the opportu-nity to meet directly with U.S. Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyoming.
“I thought he was recep-tive to it,” Harnish said. “He seemed interested in know-ing what me and the other [Wyoming] representative had to say. I will be interest-ed to see how he votes.”
Harnish said that Barrasso, as well as several other lawmakers, expressed concern that the PCPSA pro-posed new regulations that could hamper the industry. But Harnish insisted the act would update safety stan-dards to bring the U.S. up to date with other countries.
“This is a human-health safety issue. In my opin-ion, the regulation is not a big deal. As far as com-panies are concerned, the European Union bans 1,400 ingredients from their mar-ket,” Harnish said. “Canada bans 600 and the United States bans or partially bans
30… For me, that’s why it’s such a huge issue, because people don’t realize this and we are way behind other countries and need to catch up.”
Even with the reserva-tions senators expressed about the law, Harnish said she was convinced making her feelings known was the best way to push the law forward. She recalled speaking with a staffer for a Connecticut senator who told her that if he hears from constituents about an issue weekly, he will bring it to his boss and suggest making it a priority.
Harnish said the PCPSA is scheduled for consideration and she plans to continue fighting for it. However, she also said she will be on the lookout for other political issues she can support.
“If something comes up in government that I feel strongly about, I will pursue it,” Harnish said.
She’s learned the effect her voice can have.
FROM 1
“You just don’t see these,” curator of exhibitions and education Barbara McNab said of Gardner’s images. “They’re exceedingly rare.”
Museum director and chief curator Ken Schuster said some of Gardner’s pho-tographs are worth six fig-ures. They are not all of the treaty, as some are photos of the area surrounding Fort Laramie.
There are also portraits of members of the different Native American tribes present at the treaty sign-ing, an Indian burial and the vast Wyoming land-scape.
In choosing how to display the photographs, McNab and Schuster lay the photos out and try to make the dif-ferent pieces tell a story.
Gardner was born in Scotland and, in addition to taking western photos, he was a Civil War photogra-pher. Gardner is probably most well-known for por-traits he took of Abraham Lincoln. The federal gov-ernment commissioned Gardner to travel with officials in the Indian Peace Commission and document the Treaty of Fort Laramie for posterity. Gardner kept his captions simple, saying things like, “Near Deer Creek.”
The photography process varied a bit back then. Today, anyone can snap a picture in a second by tap-ping a smartphone. In the 1860s, the setup and taking of a single photo took two or three hours.
Photography also showed people the largely unex-plored West and that parts of it needed to be protected. Photographers William Henry Jackson and Thomas Moran captured images of Yellowstone National Park
in the 1870s and convinced government officials the land was worth preserving.
After the first Treaty of Fort Laramie failed to stop conflict in 1851, another treaty took place 17 years later. It was agreed to by the U.S. government and the Lakota, Arapaho and Yanktonai Dakota. It gave the Lakota ownership of the Black Hills and addition-al land in South Dakota, Montana and Wyoming. The treaty also ended Red Cloud’s War, which lasted about two years and pitted the U.S. government against the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne and Northern Arapaho tribes.
The treaty was first signed April 28. Notable signa-tories included William Tecumseh Sherman, then a lieutenant general in the
U.S. Army, and Sitting Bull of the Oglala Lakota.
In addition to the exhibit, the museum will also host an educational symposium April 14 about the exhib-it. The symposium will discuss Gardner’s oeuvre, background on some of Gardner’s photo subjects and events leading to the signing of the Treaty of Fort Laramie.
Four guest scholars will participate in the sympo-sium, including Andrew Smith, who sold the Gardner originals to Mars. Keith F. Davis, a Sheridan native who is the curator of a photography museum in Kansas City, will attend as well.
A century and a half after the treaty of Fort Laramie, the new exhibit offers a glimpse into the past.
Executive director Kenneth Schuster holds a print from the Treaty of Fort Laramie by 19th century American photogra-pher Alexander Gardner shown in a storage area at The Brinton Museum Wednesday, March 7, 2018.
JUSTIN SHEELY | THE SHERIDAN PRESS
A portrait of Iron Nation of the Brulé Lakota people from the Treaty of Fort Laramie by 19th cen-tury American photographer Alexander Gardner shown in a storage area at The Brinton Museum Wednesday, March 7, 2018.
EXHIBIT: Portraits of Native Americans
BY SETH KLAMANN
CASPER STAR TRIBUNE
VIA WYOMING NEWS EXCHANGE
CASPER — Police arrested a Natrona County student after a stolen hand-gun and threats touched off lockouts at schools throughout the Casper area Wednesday morning.
Three students were taken into custo-dy and interviewed as part of the inves-tigation, police said. The Casper Police Department determined that only one student made the threat.
The suspect was also implicated in the theft of a handgun Tuesday night, Detective John Hatcher said. The suspect had previously made general threats against the school district, and when police learned of the gun theft, they informed district officials, who ini-tiated a lockout.
All three students interviewed by police “were implicated with (Tuesday) night’s stolen gun incident,” a depart-ment press release said.
Hatcher declined to say how old the arrested student was. The threats made in the past were not directed at any par-ticular school or person, he said, and were not associated with Wednesday’s national walkout that advocated gun control and solidarity with the victims of last month’s Florida high school shooting. The lockout was lifted shortly after 9:30 a.m. according to a Casper Police Department press release.
Hatcher previously said that the stu-dents were not arrested on a school cam-pus.
District spokeswoman Tanya Southerland said Wednesday afternoon that school doors had been unlocked and students, staff and parents were being allowed to enter district buildings. Initially, all outdoor activities were canceled across the district. But offi-cials later lifted the ban and after-school activities were scheduled to proceed as originally planned.
The cancellation included any walk-outs related to national demonstrations in the wake of the Feb. 14 Florida shoot-
ing. Southerland said she hadn’t heard of any additional demonstrations in the district. Kelly Walsh High held an indoor moment of silence, she said, as was previously planned.
“With safety in mind all activities that were planned for today’s ‘National Walkout’ have been canceled,” the police department said in a press release Wednesday morning.
Natrona County High students walked out last week, but Southerland said the school has no actions planned for Wednesday.
Casper Police Sgt. Joey Wilhem said that no students were in danger.
The lockout was announced just as school started across the district. At Manor Heights Elementary, additional staff were seen helping students get inside the school.
In a lockout, the doors to buildings are locked, and students and staff are direct-ed inside. Activities continue as normal inside the buildings. Lockouts are differ-ent from a lockdown, in which there is an imminent threat to a school.
The Natrona County threat is at least the third to schools made here in recent weeks. Last month, the district placed Journey Elementary on a lockout after an apparent prank call claiming a shoot-er was at the vacant Grant Elementary campus. Later in February, Poison Spider was placed on a lockout after an “unspecified threat” was made.
A threat was also made to Jackson Hole Middle School in Teton County, according to a district statement. District administrators there received the threat late Tuesday and delayed the start of the school until nearly 11 a.m.
The district said in its release that the Teton County bomb squad and a “K-9 bomb dog” swept the school and found no devices. The Jackson Police, Teton County Sheriff’s Office and Lander Police Department were also involved.
Students across the country walked out of class today as a demonstration against gun violence and solidarity with the victims of a Feb. 14 shooting at a Florida high school, which left 17 dead.
Student arrested after threats and gun theft that led to lockout
at Natrona County schools
ACLU sues government over detention of asylum seekers
WASHINGTON (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union is suing the Trump administration, claiming it is violating immigration laws and its own policies by detaining immigrants who have a solid case for seeking asylum in the United States.
The ACLU said it filed a lawsuit Thursday in U.S. District Court in Washington claiming that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency is detaining many asylum seek-ers for months while they await hear-ings before an immigration judge.
Immigrants seeking asylum must initially pass a “credible fear” screen-ing to determine if they face a threat of persecution in their home countries. Those that fail that standard are deport-
ed immediately. Previously, those that passed were usually given “humanitar-ian parole” while awaiting an immigra-tion hearing, provided that they were not considered flight risks or dangers to the public.
The lawsuit claims that under Trump, the number of asylum-seekers granted such parole has dropped to nearly zero in five key ICE field offices: Detroit, El Paso, Texas, Los Angeles, Newark, New Jersey, and Philadelphia. The ACLU said in a statement that in 2013, nine of 10 asylum seekers from these field offic-es were released while awaiting immi-gration hearings.
ICE officials did not immediately respond to emails seeking comment about the lawsuit.
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Arvada-Clearmont’s Ashlynn Fennema, center, tries to rebound against Hulett at Arvada-Clearmont High School Friday, Feb. 16, 2018.
Lady Panthers look forward to next seasonCLEARMONT — The 1A-2A
state basketball tournaments came and went a couple weekends ago. Buzzer beaters blessed the high-light reel, cheers echoed through-out the Casper Events Center and nets were no match for sharp scis-sors and tall ladders.
The tournament seemingly had it all, except for one team that
expected to log its second consec-utive trip to the state’s grandest stage — one team that set a goal of returning to the state tournament, a year after failing to log a win, in search of a victory to show further growth in the program.
The Arvada-Clearmont girls bas-ketball team endured a quick and painful end to its season. The Lady Panthers lost back-to-back games — for the first time all season — as the top seed at the regional
tournament and drove home more promptly than they envisioned.
“With success brings different challenges, just like failures bring a lot of challenges,” AC head coach Sarah Walker said. “We learned how to overcome those, but I’m not sure they really understood some of the new challenges we were facing in being a favorite team and being a No. 1 seed.”
BY BUD DENEGA
Coach Hammer, SC hoopersawarded Region IX honors
SHERIDAN — The Region IX awards, voted on by coaches, were released Tuesday afternoon, and four Sheridan College play-ers and a coach received recogni-tion.
Channel Banks made first-team All-Region after leading Sheridan College with 17.7 points per game. He tallied at least 25 points on five separate occasions this sea-son.
The Region IX North Coach of the Year honor went to SC head
men’s basketball coach Matt Hammer after he guided the Generals to a 28-win season and a regular-season title.
Camron Reece and AJ Bramah both found their way onto third team All-Region after averaging 14.5 and 14 points per contest, respectively.
On the women’s side — where there’s only one team comprised of 15 players — Sheridan’s Raelynn Keefer received the fifth-most votes after pacing the Lady Generals this season at 13.2 points per game.
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Channel Banks, left, scoops a layup past Western Wyoming’s Nathan Fromm at the Bruce Hoffman Golden Dome Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2018. Banks earned All-Region IX first team honors Tuesday.
WELCOMEDCHALLENGES
Promises turn into paydays
for NFL free agents
All those promises worth millions upon millions to free agents turned into pay-days Wednesday when the NFL’s business year began.
Of course, teams needed to clear salary cap space or rejigger their ledgers to make it work, and they’ll still be doing so for months.
While the likes of Drew Brees, Malcolm Butler and Andrew Norwell cashed in bigtime, having reached agreements in the past two days before everything became official, some value entered the marketplace.
Arizona released safety Tyrann Mathieu when it couldn’t rework his deal. On Tuesday, the Cardinals let running back Adrian Peterson go.
Baltimore cut receiver Jeremy Maclin. Detroit said goodbye to tight end Eric Ebron. Pittsburgh tore up a secondary that often was torn up by opposing quar-terbacks, releasing Mike Mitchell, Robert Golden and William Gay.
But Carolina had more success with a veteran, completing a one-year deal with defensive end Julius Peppers.
The 38-year-old Peppers, who contemplated retire-ment after 17 pro seasons, remains with the Panthers for $5 million, with $2.5 mil-lion guaranteed, a person familiar with the situation said. The person spoke to The Associated Press on Wednesday on condition of anonymity because the team does not release financial terms of contracts.
“I am fired up to have him back,” Panthers coach Ron Rivera said. “It was amazing to have him as part of what we are trying to build and I think he can help us get to the next level.”
Cleveland, meanwhile, did nothing more than lis-ten to one of its greatest players, tackle Joe Thomas, announce his retirement. The Browns save his $10.3 million salary for 2018 and a $3 million bonus but lose their a 10-time Pro Bowler.
“This was an extreme-ly difficult decision, but the right one for me and my family,” Thomas said. “Playing in the NFL has taken a toll on my body and I can no longer physically compete at the level I need to.”
CARDINALS
Mathieu was due for $18.75 million of his contract to be guaranteed when the league year officially begins. By cutting him, Arizona will save close to $5 million in cap space.
Mathieu became a star in the Arizona secondary after being selected in the third round of the 2013 draft following a troubled college career at LSU. He was an All-Pro in 2015, when he had five interceptions and 17 passes defensed.
But he also has been plagued by injuries and only last season did Mathieu appear in all 16 games.
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Baltimore frees up an estimated $5 million in sal-ary cap space by releasing Maclin, who signed on as a free agent in June.
BY BARRY WILNER
AP PRO FOOTBALL WRITER
Texas So. routs NCCU
for first tourney win
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Damontrae Jefferson did a lot of everything Wednesday night, hitting layups and 3-pointers, grabbing rebounds, playing defense and making his teammates look good. The slippery-quick 5-foot-7 guard also helped Texas Southern make history.
Playing all but the last minute or so of the game, the sophomore dynamo scored 25 points, pulled down eight rebounds, flexed and crowed as Texas Southern got its first ever NCAA Tournament win, a 64-46 rout of North Carolina Central in a First Four game at University of Dayton Arena. No. 16 seed Texas Southern (16-19) also became the first team with a losing record to win a tournament game. The Tigers started the season 0-13 against a big-boy schedule — the worst start for a tournament team in NCAA history — and didn’t win a game until Jan. 1. Now they’re moving on to face No. 1 seed Xavier on Friday.
“It was for the university,” Jefferson said. “We actually made history today for the university, and we kind of knew that coming into this game.”
Donte Clark had 18 points and Trayvon Reed added 10 points and eight boards for Texas Southern, a historically black college in Houston. The Tigers slipped into the First Four by getting hot and winning the Southwest Athletic College Tournament, only to be paired with Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Tournament winner N.C. Central, another histori-cally black school that was making its second straight appearance in Dayton for a play-in game.
Both the conferences get an automatic bid every year but rarely have to play each other.
N.C. Central (19-16) was led by Raasean Davis with 19 points, part of a starting five that included a pair of true freshmen guards and a walk-on.
Texas Southern led by 10 at the half on Jefferson’s 17 points. The sophomore, who along with Miami’s Chris Lykes is the shortest player in the tournament, tied the score at 10 with a jumper, then fed an alley-oop pass to Reed for a monster dunk and followed with a layup to cap an 8-0 run. The Tigers wouldn’t relinquish the lead.
BY MITCH STACY
AP SPORTS WRITER
SEE 16 SEED, PAGE B6SEE CHALLENGES, PAGE B6
SEE PAY DAY, PAGE B6
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BABY BLUES® by Jerry Scott and Rick Kirkman
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DEAR ABBY Pauline Phillips and Jeanne Phillips
Dodging hidden dangers in household cleansers with homemade alternatives
In the late 1950s and 1960s June Cleaver and Donna Reed ruled over fantasy homes in which there was virtually no dirt. That relent-lessly home-sweet-home fantasy shifted in the 1980s with “Roseanne,” and more recently “Mom” and “Modern
Family.” But still, you rarely see anyone on TV scrubbing floors, scouring tubs or seri-ously de-greasing a stovetop (unless it’s for laughs).
Nonetheless, chances are you’ve got plenty of high-powered cleaning sup-plies under your sink. The average American household spends around $160 a year on bleach-based and antibacte-rial products, aerosol sprays and powdered cleaners filled with noxious fumes and toxic chemicals that linger in your air longer than you can imag-ine.
How harmful are they? A new 20-year study published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine found that frequent housecleaners -- whether they do it for a living or for themselves -- experience
lung damage equivalent to a 20-year, pack-a-day cigarettehabit! Fortunately, alterna-tives do exist.
1. Vinegar: eradicatesscum, grease, grime. Spray on shower tiles; let sit for 30 minutes; rinse. Wash lino-leum with vinegar-water mix-ture; windows, too!
2. Salt: a natural abrasive.Use Kosher salt and the juice of half a lemon on cutting boards to clean deeply.
3. Baking soda: a provenvirus-killer, it deodorizes and cuts through grime. Mix 1/2 cup baking soda with 1/4 cup vinegar to clean toilets and drains.
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SON THROWS A TANTRUM AFTER WEDDING GIFT IS CUT IN HALF
DEAR ABBY: I was work-ing out of town in a position that paid a good salary. When my adult son proposed to his girlfriend, I told him I would try and give him $10,000 for the wedding. Well, things changed. I had to return
home for good, and my salary was cut. When I told my son I wouldn’t be able to give him $10,000, but could give him only $5,000 instead, he became very upset and said, “You promised that amount and we were counting on that money!”
I feel a gift is a gift, and they should be happy with whatever I can manage. After talking it over with several friends, they all agreed that he is behaving inappropri-ately. I am single and trying to retire in 10 years. Please help. -- SALARY CUT IN PENNSYLVANIA
DEAR SALARY CUT: Your son’s reaction was immature. He should understand that sometimes circumstances can change. If you haven’t already explained why you
need to cut back on the sum you planned to give him, do it now. How he reacts to your explanation will tell you whether you want to give him even $5,000.
DEAR ABBY: I recent-ly took a job working for someone I knew. He was a neighbor and attended my church for several years, but we were never more than acquaintances.
After I began working there, I saw things going on with other girls in the office that were very inappropri-ate. Then I stumbled across a sexual online chat he was having with one of them. As I scrolled through the feed, it became apparent they’re hav-ing an affair. It made me so uncomfortable I quit working there.
We still live in the same community. He has a beautiful, kind and very pregnant wife. Should I tell her? Should I tell anyone, or stay quiet and let him get away with it? It makes me sick, and I don’t know what to do at this point. -- UNCOMFORTABLE IN THE WEST
DEAR UNCOMFORTABLE: Allow me to suggest that what you do is remain silent, at least for now. The kind and very pregnant wife does not need to be told that her husband is cheating with an employee at this juncture. After the baby is born, per-haps she should be told -- if she doesn’t know already -- but NOT NOW.
DEAR ABBY: Please help! How do I politely tell my partner -- without hurting his feelings -- that I don’t like his cooking and I should be the one doing the cooking because I’m more “seasoned” in the kitchen than he is? I am usually the “chef” and he is the “second-in-com-mand,” which in the past has worked. -- SEASONED IN CALIFORNIA
DEAR SEASONED: Here’s how: Skip the part about not liking his cooking, which could be hurtful. Ease into it by telling him you consid-er cooking together to be a bonding experience. Then say how much you enjoy taking the lead when the two of you do it, how meaningful it is when he helps you, and how much you’d appreciate it if he would continue to let you be the chef.
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
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THE FINESSE ODDS ARE THEORETICAL
Samuel Goldwyn said, “I’ll take 50 percent efficiency to get 100 percent loyalty.”
A finesse supposedly has a 50 percent chance of success. As you know, though, in these
columns, finesses win much less often than that; one succeeds only when declarer needs it.
In this deal, how should South play in four spades after West leads the club two, and East puts up his king?
Over North’s game-invitational limit raise, South wondered about making a slam-try, but remembered that balanced hands need more high-card power than usual to bid that high. (Losing Trick Count users will have noted that the North hand is theoretically worth a game-forcing raise because you deduct one loser for a 10-card or better fit. But, again, balanced hands suggest caution.)
When the dummy appeared, South noted the mirror distribution, which was bad news because he couldn’t get any discards or ruffs. Declarer had four potential losers: two hearts, one diamond and one club. So, did he need the heart finesse to work?
South won the first trick with his club ace, drew trumps and played three rounds of diamonds.
East took the sixth trick with his diamond queen and shifted to the heart jack (the best defense). But declarer won with his ace
-- finessing would have been fatal. Then he exited with the club jack.
West took that trick but was endplayed. If he played a heart, South’s queen would have become a winner. Or, if West exited with a diamond or a club, declarer would have ruffed in one hand and sluffed a heart from the other. Either way, he lost only one heart, one diamond and one club.
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BIRTHDAY GUY: Actor Alan Tudyk was born in El Paso, Texas today in 1971. This birthday guy earned a 2017 Emmy nomination for his performance on the web series “Con Man.” He played Mr. Priest on TV’s “Dirk Gently’s Ho-listic Detective Agency” and Van Wayne on the short-lived “Pow-erless,” though he may be best known as Noah Werner on the sit-com “Suburgatory.” His film work includes “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” “Trumbo,” and “Frozen.”
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Your heart strings may be plucked with a great deal of love. You could be feeling your oats where love and affection are concerned. You have a competitive spirit and the edge in business matters.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You can be an ace when it comes to ac-tive accomplishment. This could
be a good time to meet new friends and business contacts that will prove honorable and trustworthy.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In-sist on getting your fair share. Someone might camouflage their agenda under a veneer of social niceties. Don’t be bashful about insisting on receiving mutual ben-efits in a transaction.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Ignore the little things to focus on the big things. Don’t take crit-icism to heart or feel compelled to retaliate. Whatever your goal, you have the support of friends to achieve it.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Develop detachment. There may be times when you might be too possessive or too intense about your feelings, especially if someone doesn’t live up to your high-minded expecta-tions.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Make a bull’s eye in your social circles by showing you are true blue. Increased energy levels give you the chance to excel. You possess a knack for getting things accom-plished.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Prove your trustworthiness and loyalty whether you are on the job or in your home. There could be ample opportunities to schmooze on the social scene, but ambitions may call as well.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): A friend may show signs of a build-ing attraction to you. Even the competition will respect you be-cause you strive to deal equitably with everyone involved in a trans-action or project.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Develop skills. The problems pre-sented for you to solve can create
an opportunity for enrichment. Every small challenge helps you develop and improve your weak areas.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Use your mental powers like a bulldozer. Once you have made up your mind nothing can block your path. Don’t let past experiences stop you from doing things you want to do.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Fantasies can fan the flames of your desire. Your partner could be in the mood for amorous activ-ities. Love may make the world go around if you travel in the right circles.
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DISTRICT COURT OFTHE STATE OF WYOMING
FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT,SHERIDAN COUNTY
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE )OF LINDA G. DEPAOLI, Deceased. )
Probate No. PR-2018-26NOTICE OF PROBATE
TO: ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN SAID ES-TATE.
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that on the20th day of February 2018, the Last Will and Test-ament of the decedent was admitted to probate bythe above-named Court, and that Laura Smithwas appointed the Personal Representative there-of. Any action to set aside the Last Will and Testa-ment shall be filed with the Court within threemonths from the date of the first publication of thisNotice or thereafter be forever barred.Notice is further given that all persons in-
debted to the decedent or to the decedent’s es-tate are requested to make immediate payment tothe undersigned at Yonkee & Toner, LLP, 319West Dow, P.O. Box 6288, Sheridan, Wyoming82801.Creditors having claims against the decedent
or the estate are required to file them in duplicatewith the necessary vouchers, in the office of theClerk of said Court, on or before three monthsfrom the date of the first publication of this Notice,and if such claims are not so filed, unless other-wise allowed or paid, they will be forever barred.
DATED this 1st day of March 2018.By: /s/ Laura Smith,Personal Representative of theEstate of Linda G. Depaoli
Christopher M. Sherwood, WSB No. 7-5161Yonkee & Toner, LLP, AttysPub: March 8, 15 and 22, 2018
SHERIDAN COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 11127 Dayton Street
Ranchester, WY 82839INVITATION TO BID
SCSD1 – TONGUE RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOLREMODEL PROJECTS
Notice is hereby given that Sheridan CountySchool District No. 1, 1127 Dayton Street,Ranchester, WY, will receive sealed bids for thisproject up to the date and time as stated below:
BID OPENINGMARCH 27, 2018 @ 10:00 AMSCSD #1 CONFERENCE ROOM
1127 DAYTON STREET,RANCHESTER, WY 82839
MANDATORY PRE-BID MEETINGAttendance is Mandatory for All Prime Bidders
MARCH 16, 2018 @ 10:00 AMMEETING LOCATION:
TONGUE RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOL1127 DAYTON STREETRANCHESTER, WY 82839
Drawings, Specifications, and Bid Forms are avail-able after March 7, 2018 at: Wyoming School Fa-cilities Division (http://sfd.wyo.gov/projects-2/project-bid-information).The QuestCDN Project Number is 5602322.Wyoming resident contractor preference will begiven, according to Wyoming State Statute.The Sheridan County School District No. 1 re-serves the right to accept or reject any or all bidsand to waive any irregularities or informalities inbiddings.
Martin KobzaSCSD #1 Superintendent
Publish dates: March 7, 15, 2018.
DRAFT CITY OF SHERIDAN, WYOMINGMINUTES OF SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETINGCOUNCIL CHAMBERS 6:00 P.M. March 5th,2018 1. Mayor Roger Miller called the meeting toorder at 6:00P.M. 2. The Pledge of Allegiance tothe Flag was led by Mayor Roger Miller. 3. Coun-cil Attendance: Mayor Roger Miller, Council Pres-ident Kelly Gooch, Vice President Rich Bridger,Councilor Erin Hanke, Councilor Alex Lee, andThayer Shafer with Councilor Hanke absent. Oth-ers in Attendance: IAFF President Andy Fried,IAFF member Chad Brutlag, Interim City AttorneyBrendon Kerns, City Administrator Mark Collins,City Clerk Cecilia Good, Human Resources Dir-ector Heather Doke, and Fire and Emergency Ser-vices Director Terry Lenhart. 4. Human Re-sources Director Heather Doke discussed the re-quest from the City of Sheridan for negotiations tobe postponed until the Pay Study, led by Condrey& Associates, Inc., is completed. Andy Friedstated that they would be amenable to extendingthe term of the negotiations. The City of Sheridanwill issue a formal letter requesting to postponenegotiations until April 16th, 2018. Discussionbegan about what the Condrey study would entailand the two proposals IAFF Local #276 presen-ted to Council at the February 20th, 2018 meeting.5. Councilor Lee made a motion to adjourn themeeting, Councilor Shafer seconded the motion.The meeting adjourned at 6:52P.M.Publish date: March 10, 2018.
PUBLIC NOTICEREQUEST FOR PROPOSAL FORPROFESSIONAL SERVICES
The City of Sheridan, Wyoming is seeking Re-quest for Proposals (RFP) for a consultant toprovide services to review existing Fire and EMSservices for The City of Sheridan, SheridanCounty, and Community Partners. The specificnature and scope of this project is outlined in theRequest for Proposals (RFP) available for down-load at the City of Sheridan website at:https://sheridanwy.net/ , under “Business”/“Bidsand Proposals”. The City will be accepting onee lec t r on i c copy o f P roposa l s sen t [email protected] until Friday March 23rd,2018 at 5pm________________________________Fire and Emergency Services Director,City of SheridanPublish: March 1st, March 8th, and March 15th,2018.
Notice of Application forTransfer of Liquor License
Notice is hereby given that on the 1st of March,2018, No. 10 LLC dba Big Horn Y West filed anapplication for transfer of Retail Liquor License#11 from 342 Whitney Lane in the office of theClerk of the City of Sheridan for the followingplace: 901 Long Drive and protests, if any therebe, against the issuance of the Transfer of RetailLiquor License #11, will be heard at the hour of7:00 P.M., on the 19th of March, in the City HallCouncil Chambers, 3rd Floor, 55 Grinnell Plaza,Sheridan, WY 82801.Dated this 2nd, of March, 2018___________________Cecilia Good, City ClerkPub Dates: March 8th and March 15th, 2018.
INVITATION TO BIDAIRPORT IMPROVEMENTS
SHERIDAN COUNTY AIRPORTSHERIDAN, WY
Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be re-ceived and publicly opened at 2:00 p.m., localtime on April 4, 2018 by the SHERIDAN COUNTYAIRPORT at the Airport Manager’s Office, 908West Brundage Lane, Sheridan, WY 82801, forthe construction of “Airport Improvements” to in-clude the following:
REHAB EDGE LIGHTINGAll bids shall be submitted in accordance with andon the forms included in the Project Manual. Thebidder’s name and address shall appear in thelower left hand corner of the envelope. Bids shallbe submitted in a sealed envelope addressed to:
Sheridan County AirportAttn: Airport Manager908 West Brundage LaneSheridan, Wyoming 82801
Bid Bond. All bids must be accompanied by lawfulmonies of the United States or a Cashier's Check,a Certified Check, Bid Bond, Bank Money Orderor Bank Draft, drawn and issued by a NationalBanking Association located in the State ofWyoming, or by any Banking Corporation incor-porated under the Laws of the State of Wyoming,in an amount equal to not less than ten (10) per-cent of the total bid, payable to the order of theSheridan County Airport as liquidated damages inthe event said successful bidder shall fail or re-fuse to execute the contract in accordance withthe terms of his bid.Performance and Payment Bond. After a contractis awarded, the successful bidder will be requiredto furnish a separate Performance and PaymentBond, each in the amount of one hundred percent(100%) of the contract.The Contract Documents consisting of half sizeDrawings and Project Manual may be viewed byeither electronic documents on-line, or a hardcopy at the office of Morrison-Maierle, Inc., 1470Sugarland Drive, Suite 1, Sheridan, WY 82801,but may only be obtained by electronic docu-ments online. Electronic Transfer - Complete elec-tronic Project Plans, Project Manual, and “Bid Pro-posal Packet” are available at the Morrison-Maierle, Inc. website “www.m-m.net”, by clickingon the “Projects Bidding” tab, then “click here” andselecting this project from the project list. Docu-ments can only be viewed on the Morrison-Maierle, Inc. website, and cannot be downloadedor printed without purchasing. To purchase anddownload the project documents in pdf format andbe placed on the planholder’s list, click “Down-load Project PDF” and sign on to QuestCDN.comand join for a free membership. Plan documentsand “Bid Proposal Packet” can be downloaded fora fee of $20.00. Please contact QuestCDN at 952-233-1632 or email “[email protected]” for as-sistance in the free membership registration,downloading, and working with this digital projectinformation.The Owner reserves the right to reject any or allbids and to waive irregularities.The Bidder must supply all the information re-quired by the bid documents and specifications.Funding for This Contract is Federally Assisted.Contractors at every tier must comply with applic-able federal requirements including but not limitedto: the Buy American Preference, Foreign TradeRestriction, Davis Bacon, Affirmative Action, Gov-ernmentwide Debarment and Suspension, Gov-ernmentwide Requirements for Drug-free Work-place, as contained in the bid documents.Title VI Solicitation Notice. The Sheridan CountyAirport, in accordance with the provisions of TitleVI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (78 Stat. 252, 42U.S.C. §§ 2000d to 2000d-4) and the Regulations,hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmativelyensure that any contract entered into pursuant tothis advertisement, disadvantaged business enter-prises will be afforded full and fair opportunity to
submit bids in response to this invitation and willnot be discriminated against on the grounds ofrace, color, or national origin in consideration foran award.Davis Bacon. The Contractor will be required tocomply with the wage and labor requirements andto pay minimum wages in accordance with theschedule of wage rates established by the UnitedStates Department of Labor as referenced in theContract.Non-Segregated Facilities. The Bidder is requiredto submit a Certification of Nonsegregated Facilit-ies (included in the Proposal form).Equal Employment Opportunity and AffirmativeAction Requirement. The proposed contract is un-der subject to 41 CFR § 60-1.4 and Executive Or-der 11246 of September 24, 1965, and to theEqual Employment Opportunity (EEO) and Feder-al Labor Provisions. A Contractor having 50 ormore employees and his subcontractors having 50or more employees and who may be awarded asubcontract of $50,000 or more will be required tomaintain an affirmative action program, the stand-ards for which are contained in the specifications.To be eligible for award each bidder must complywith the affirmative action requirements which arecontained in these specifications.DBE Requirement. The Sheridan County Airporthas established an overall DBE goal for the year.Under this contract, the Airport Board is adoptinga race-neutral means of facilitating DBE participa-tion. The bidder shall not discriminate on the basisof race, color, national origin, or sex in the per-formance of this contract. The bidder shall carryout all applicable requirements of 49 CFR Part 26in the award and administration of DOT assistedcontractsAs required by 49 CFR Part 26, the SheridanCounty Airport is required to create a bidders list,consisting of information about all DBE and non-DBE firms that bid or quote on DOT-assisted con-tracts. The purpose of this requirement is to allowuse of the bidder list approach to calculating fu-ture overall DBE goals. As per the requirements ofthe Proposal section, all Prime Bidders submittingbids on this project must submit, with his or herbid, a list including the name, address, andDBE/non-DBE status of all subcontractors andsuppliers that bid or quote for work under this con-tract. Failure to provide this information, as out-lined in the Proposal section, will make the biddernon-responsive and not eligible for award of thecontract.Funding and Award. This contract will be fundedin part by grants from the Federal Aviation Admin-istration, (FAA) and Wyoming Department ofTransportation—Aeronautics Division (WYDOT).Therefore, award of the Contract by the Sponsorwill be made subject to concurrence of the FAAand WYDOT. Bidders may not withdraw Propos-als for a period of ninety (90) days after the bidopening date.A mandatory pre-bid meeting is hereby estab-lished at 10:00 a.m., March 27, 2018, at theSheridan County Airport Manager’s Office, Sherid-an, Wyoming. A tour of the work site at the Sherid-an County Airport will be conducted following thepre-bid meeting. All attendees must sign the at-tendance sheet prior to the commencement of thepre-bid meeting. Sheridan County Airport will re-ject bids from any prime bidder who has notsigned the attendance sheet prior to the com-mencement of the pre-bid meeting. Prime biddersin attendance at the Mandatory Pre-Bid meetingare required to represent the prime contractingcompany from which they are employed. Subcon-tractors are not required to be in attendance.
Signed: John StopkaAirport ManagerSheridan County Airport
SHERIDAN PRESS & CASPER STAR TRIBUNE:First Publication: March 15, 2018Second Publication: March 22, 2018Third Publication: March 29, 2018
NOTICE TO MEMBERS OF BIG HORN COUNTYELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, INCThe 79th Annual Meeting of
BIG HORN COUNTYELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, INC.
will be held Tuesday - March 20th, 2018at the BIG HORN COUNTY FAIR GROUNDS
in Hardin, MontanaRegistration will begin at 5:00 p.m.and a meal will be served at 6:00 p.m.
The annual business meetingwill begin at 7:00 p.m.The meeting will include
voting for three (3) trustees.Publish dates: March 8, 15, 2018.
TO: ALL KNOWN CLAIMENTS OF AND IN-TEREST IN BelAir Camper 1999;VIN 45E200K22Y011908.You are hereby notified that under WY Statute 31-13-109, a lien has arisen on said vehicle in favorof Linda Kernstok in the amount of $7,200.00. No-tices have been mailed by certified mail to all per-sons known to claim an interest in said vehicle.The proposed sale is to be held at 239 ThompsonCreek Rd., Clearmont, WY 82835 on March 20,2018, at 9 A.M.Publish dates: March 8 & 15, 2018.
B6 THE SHERIDAN PRESS www.thesheridanpress.com THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 2018
CHALLENGES: Players eager to get betterFROM B1
AC fell in the waning seconds against No. 4-seeded Guernsey-Sunrise 37-35 in the opening round and followed that with a 39-32 loss to H.E.M.
The Lady Panthers had just finished putting a bow on an unbeaten conference season and raising their first conference title banner in a decade. The euphoria from a celebratory regular season lent itself to a sports hangover that AC couldn’t avoid.
“I think we came off a little bit of a high — going 6-0 in conference and winning our first conference championship in 10 years — and that played a factor,” Walker said. “We had this big adrenaline high and then a little bit of a crash those next few days in practice trying to get ourselves ready to compete again.”
Whether it was the dreaded sports hang-over or perhaps just some late-February basketball quirkiness, the Lady Panthers were left disappointed, wondering what had transpired. A team that had improved tremendously from a 12-13 team in 2017 to a 16-win team in 2018 was going home earlier than planned.
But amid the cloud of disappointment, Walker implored her players to pick their collective head up for a little self recogni-tion. The season didn’t end how the Lady Panthers wanted, but that didn’t make it forgetful or insignificant.
“We were a team that found success this year and a team that ended up with some failures at the end of a season,” Walker said. “But it certainly is not the definition of who we are as a program.
“That’s what I tried to reiterate to them. These 48 hours of our season — 64 minutes of our basketball season — doesn’t define who we are or what our program is about.”
Walker hammered that fact home as firm-ly as she could to a disgruntled group, and as a result, that disappointment quickly turned to motivation. The Lady Panthers flipped the page and have already discov-ered the hunger to improve. AC wants to hang another banner next season and decrease the probability of another poor showing at the regional tournament.
That all starts with offseason prepara-tion. Many players have already asked Walker when they can come in, before or after school, to get extra shots up and work on their craft. Many have already queried Walker about summer camps and other things they can do in a effort to hone their skills.
The disappointment has dissolved and in its wake a motivation has blossomed. The Lady Panthers return all five starters next season and only lose one player to gradua-tion.
AC will squarely have a target on its back as the defending conference champions, but the Lady Panthers wouldn’t have it any
other way.“I used the analogy, ‘You can’t climb
Mount Everest if you’ve never hiked before,’” Walker said. “This is our first mountain, our conference championship and a winning record, beating a couple of opponents that are big rivalry games in
Kaycee and Hulett. Those are little moun-tains that we have to conquer before we can start looking at Mount Everest, which in my mind is a regional and state champi-onship.”
AC’s road to Mount Everest has already begun.
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Arvada-Clearmont’s Krista Malli, right, shoots against Hulett at Arvada-Clearmont High School Friday, Feb. 16, 2018.
16 SEED: Texas Southern takes on top seed Xavier
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BRICK CITYThe Eagles hurt themselves with terrible shooting,
especially in the second half. They shot just 30.4 per-cent for the game — including 0 for 14 from 3-point range.
“We didn’t give our best shot,” N.C. Central coach Levelle Moton said. “We knew our freshmen would have to play like seniors and our walk-on would have to play like a scholarship junior. We fell short tonight. We were outplayed, outcoached, out-toughed. And they’ve been here before.”
BIG PICTUREN.C. Central: Eagles got back to the First Four again
despite losing all of last year’s starters. But they couldn’t keep up with Jefferson and his mates in what was considered to be this year’s national champion-ship of historically black college basketball.
Texas Southern: Tigers started the season horren-dously with one of the toughest non-conference sched-ules in the country but went 12-5 in the conference, winning the last seven.
Tempered by November and December opponents that included Gonzaga, Ohio State and Kansas, they were ready for Wednesday.
“You can’t train your brain to stay focused unless you go through some tough times,” coach Mike Davis said. “And that’s why I designed my schedule the way I designed it, for us to get better and for us to be tough as a team. So if you noticed, nobody on this team cele-brated. Nobody jumped up and down, high-fiving. We did the same thing in our conference tournament.”
UP NEXT:Texas Southern plays Xavier in Nashville,
Tennessee, Friday.
PAY DAY: Bills replace Taylor with Bengals’ McCarronFROM B1
But Maclin missed two games with a shoulder injury, two more with knee issues, and finished with only 40 catches for 440 yards and three touch-downs. The 84 receptions he had over the past two seasons (2016 with Kansas City) are three fewer than he had with the Chiefs in 2015.
Then the Ravens agreed to deals with receivers John Brown and Ryan Grant.
Brown, 27, spent four years in Arizona and is a speedy deep threat, something Baltimore desperately needs. He can also return kicks.
Grant, also 27, was with Washington for four seasons.
49ERS
San Francisco agreed to a four-year contract with running back Jerick McKinnon and a five-year deal with center-guard Weston Richburg. McKinnon replaces departing starter Carlos Hyde and Richburg could start anywhere in the interior line.
“We see Weston as one of the top young interior offensive linemen in the NFL,” GM John Lynch said. “His athleticism, intelligence and attitude are a perfect fit for our scheme. Jerick has proven to be an extremely versa-tile football player whose speed, elu-siveness and tackle-breaking ability make him a very difficult matchup for defenses. We can’t wait to get them on the field with their teammates and coaches later this spring.”
GIANTS
New York agreed with offensive tackle Nate Solder, late of the Patriots, to become its starter on the left side. Solder, 29, will get a four-year contract worth about $62 million.
The Giants can move 2015 first-
round draft pick Ereck Flowers to the right side as they rebuild a line that has struggled for years.
TITANS
Tennessee kept right guard Josh Kline and defensive end David King with new contracts after making a splash in free agency by getting Butler for $60 million over five years ($30 million guaranteed) and also taking running back Dion Lewis away from New England.
BILLS
The Bills restocked their quarter-back position by agreeing to a two-year contract with AJ McCarron.
The 27-year-old spent the past four seasons backing up Andy Dalton in Cincinnati after being selected by the Bengals in the fifth round of the 2014 draft.
McCarron’s signing came five days after Buffalo traded three-year start-er Tyrod Taylor to Cleveland. The trade left 2017 fifth-round pick Nathan Peterman as the only quarterback on Buffalo’s roster.
Buffalo also added defensive end Trent Murphy from Washington and got a needed pass rusher, albeit a play-er coming off a major injury.
Murphy had 15 sacks in 47 games, including nine in 2016, then sat out last season after tearing two ligaments in his left knee in a preseason game.
The Bills finished tied for 30th in the NFL with just 27 sacks last season.
The Bills added defensive backfield depth by agreeing with safety Rafael Bush on a two-year contract, and got linebacker Julian Stanford on a two-year contract.
FALCONS
The Falcons addressed a need by signing offensive guard Brandon Fusco, who started 16 games for San
Francisco last season, to a three-year deal. Fusco, who began his career with the Vikings, could immediately start at right guard.
DOLPHINS
Five-time Pro Bowl defensive tack-le Ndamukong Suh officially was released, when the trades to acquire defensive end Robert Quinn and send Jarvis Landry to the Cleveland Browns were formalized.
Miami also released tight end Julius Thomas, which had been expected, but decided to keep right tackle Ja’Wuan James, which guarantees him $9.34 million in 2018.
CHARGERS
Tight end Virgil Green got a three-year contract and safety Adrian Phillips re-signed with a one-year deal.
Green spent the past seven sea-sons with the Broncos, starting all 16 games last season and winning a Super Bowl ring in February 2016. His addition adds intrigue to whether the Chargers will bring back 37-year-old tight end Antonio Gates, who hopes to extend his record-setting career for at least another season.
JETS
New York signed linebacker Avery Williamson to a three-year contract worth $22.5 million. Williamson spent his first four NFL seasons with Tennessee and led the Titans in tack-les in two of those years.
The Jets also tendered wide receiver Quincy Enunwa at the second-round level, worth $2.9 million. Enunwa was emerging as a threat before missing last season with a bulging disk in his neck that required surgery. He had a breakout season in 2016, catching 58 passes for 857 yards and four touch-downs.
Schwarber strikes deal
MESA, Ariz. (AP) — Kyle Schwarber has a $604,500 salary in the major leagues as part of the one-year contract the Chicago Cubs announced last weekend.
The outfielder’s salary would drop to $271,150 while in the minor leagues as part of the split contract. It represents a slight raise from last year, when his contract was for $565,500 in the majors and $261,000 in the minors.
Schwarber is on track to be eligible for salary arbi-tration next winter.
He missed most of the 2016 season after tearing his left anterior cruciate ligament during an outfield colli-sion with teammate Dexter Fowler.
Schwarber returned for the World Series and helped the Cubs win their first title since 1908.