tidbits of eastern wyoming 04/04/13

April 4 - 10, 2013 Tidbits of Glenrock, Douglas and Wheatland

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April 4 - 10, 2013 Issue #462

Glenrock, Douglas and Wheatland

Laugh-A-Bit with TidbitsQ: Why did the farmer stand in his

field every day?

A: He heard that the Nobel Prize is awarded for people who are out standing in their field!

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An interesting study from the University of Pennsylvania shows that eating "comfort food" to help a bad mood actually can worsen the mood that the food was supposed to alleviate. In a paper presented recently at the American Psy-chosomatic Society conference in Miami, researchers revealed that positive moods didn't change one way or the other before or after eating comfort or junk food, but negative moods were made worse.

While the study wasn't about seniors, and they used women participants who were much younger, the way they conduct-ed the study makes me believe it easily could apply to seniors. Instead of having subjects ap-pear at the clinic once a week to report on what they'd eaten and how they felt, they were equipped with handheld computers to input their moods and foods multiple times per day, especially just before and after eating.

In a study last year in the Public Health Nutrition journal, researchers revealed that people who ate junk or comfort food were more likely to be depressed -- by 51 percent. The more junk food, the more depression.

One of the biggest concerns about seniors and junk food (and fast food is included) is that many of us have smaller appetites than before. Maybe it's because food doesn't taste like it did, or maybe a medication we're on has reduced our appetite. Many seniors are at risk for malnutri-tion even if we're never hungry, because the types of food we eat don't support good nutrition. If we turn to junk food, we might not have enough appetite left to eat the foods we should.

And if we eat to help a bad mood, we could be making it worse.

Matilda Charles regrets that she cannot person-ally answer reader questions, but will incorporate them into her column whenever possible. Send email to [email protected].

© 2013 King Features Synd., Inc.

In a Bad Mood? Skip Junk Food

Mondays - 4-H Shooting Sports 3:30PM @ Old Glendo Fire Hall Shooting RangeTuesdays - Wheatland Lions Club 12/Noon @ Wheatland Country Club Wednesdays - Kiwanis 12/Noon @ Wheatland Country ClubSundays - Bingo at the VFW in Guernsey begins at 1PM Saturday, April 6th ... 4-H Building Dancing with the Stars Platte County Style

Saturday, April 27, 2013Nation Take-Back Day from 10AM to 2PM at South Street Pharmacy located at 1456 South Street in Wheatland

Saturday, April 13th……Gentle WARRIOR Conference 9AM-4PM at the Wheatland Fire Training Center What’s Happened In Hartville Hartville has been a mineral treasure trove for nearly 11,000 years. Native Americans came to the area because of its rich stores of jasper, moss agate, onyx, chalcedony and flint for arrowheads. The town of Hartville, WY was named for Major Verling K. Hart, who was an officer at Ft. Laramie. Hart opened the first copper mine in Hartville, which became the first incorporated town in Wyoming in 1884. Italian and Greek immigrants ran the copper mines, and brought their culture, tastes, and families to Hartville and neighboring Sunset. By 1887, the copper mines were nearly depleted, but gold and silver were being mined. At this time,

miners found huge deposits of pure iron. The Hartville and Sunset area became the first open pit mine in the world. It was called the Chicago Mine, or the Glory Hole. The Chicago Mine was 650 feet deep and is still one of the largest open pit mines in history. Iron production in Hartville reached its peak in 1942, with a million tons, before tapering off and officially closing 1984. Hartville gave its name to a geological formation. A Hartville Uplift is one that is rich in ores and semi-precious stones.

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Construction is scheduled to begin on Memo-rial Hospital of Converse County’s new state of the art 22,500 square foot medical office building next month.

The $6.8 million facility includes convenient park-ing, a single registration area, and a children’s play alcove reminiscent of an old western storefront.

The new facility will house Memorial Hospital’s Walk-In Clinic. The Walk-In Clinic allows patients to receive services from a physician assistant without an appointment. The clinic has become exceedingly popular over the past two years, averaging twenty-five patient visits per day. While no appointment is necessary, wait times do vary based upon how many people are waiting.

In conjunction with the new building project, the hospital is actively recruiting an additional physician assistant to help reduce wait times and provide staffing for extended evening and Saturday hours. According to Mick Kasher, Memorial Hospital’s Physician Group Practice Manager, the new Medical Office Building and Walk-In Clinic brings Douglas area healthcare into the 21st century. “We have integrated the best practices from across the country into the design of our new Medical Office Building,” said Kasher. “Patients can be dropped off at the door, enter a common registra-tion area, and be greeted by a centralized receptionist who can access any of the doctor’s schedules,” Kasher continued.

The new Medical Office Building also means easier patient scheduling by phone. “Now patients call their individual doctor and work with that doctor’s recep-tionist. Our new Intelligent Scheduling model will al-low dedicated schedulers and triage nurses to schedule appointments with any doctor,” said Kasher.

Construction of the new Medical Office Building is being managed by Erdman Healthcare Real Estate and is scheduled to open next winter.


Glenrock Happenings

May 25th - Lil Pokes Rodeo in Glenrock

pre-registration May 13th

Aug 2,3,4th - Deer Creek Days

Attractions1. Rock In The Glen2. Deer Creek Station3. Emigrant Crossing4. Mormon Mines5. A.H. Unthank Grave6. Brigham Young Mail Station7. Parker-Ringo Grave8. ADA Magill Grave9. Hayden Pioneer Monument10. Deer Creek Museum11. Paleontological Museum

DEAR PAW'S CORNER: My mom keeps complain-ing that she wants to visit me at my new apartment, but that my dog, "Frankie," sheds too much and causes her allergies to flare up. Frankie is one of those "no-shed" breeds of poodle, so I don't know why she thinks he's the culprit. How can I solve this? I'm not getting rid of Frankie just so she can visit. -- Abigail C., New York

DEAR ABIGAIL: Perhaps there's a happy me-dium the two of you can reach. First, understand that even dogs whose coats don't shed much hair are not

It's My Mother or the Dog

really "allergen-free." Dander, which grows close to the dog's skin, can still be shed and can cause allergies to flare up.

Other environmental issues in the apartment can contribute to your mother's allergies. In winter, dust can build up, and mold spores and pollen can enter even the cleanest apartments through heating air ducts.

Reduce the amount of allergens by dusting and vacuuming frequently. Wash and dry area rugs before your mom's visit. During days with high pollen counts, keep the windows shut and run the air conditioner or heater instead. Be sure to change or clean the unit's filter, if you have access to it, to reduce the amount of allergens coming through the system.

If she still insists that the dog is the culprit, con-sider boarding Frankie for the day or two that your mother is visiting, or having a friend keep him during that time. You shouldn't have to give up your pet just so your mother can drop in occasionally, but you probably can come to a compromise that will en-able her to visit.

Send your questions or comments to [email protected], or write to Paw's Corner, c/o King Features Weekly Service, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475. For more pet care-related advice and information, visit www.pawscorner.com.



• It was pioneering British director of suspense films Alfred Hitchcock who made the following sage observation: "The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder."

• If you're an arachnophobe, you probably don't want to know that a tarantula can live for up to two years without eating a single thing.

• If you're like the average American man with a job, you spend 8 minutes per day cooking. If you're like the average American woman who works, you spend 50 minutes a day preparing meals.

• There are four times more astrologers than astronomers in the United States.

• You may not think it significant that in 1921, Earle Dickson's wife had a tendency to injure herself while working in the kitchen. He kept bandaging her wounds with gauze and adhesive tape, but the bandages always seemed to be slipping off. Finally, in exasperation, he put a small piece of gauze in the center of a piece of adhesive tape, which worked beautifully. None of this would have made any difference to us today, except that Dickson was an employee of Johnson & Johnson. He took some samples of his invention into work, where the owner, James Johnson, loved the idea. The Band-Aid went into production shortly thereafter.

• In the 1979 gubernatorial election in Louisiana, a man named Luther Knox was fed up with the candidates on the ballot. In order to give like-minded Louisianans an option, he ran for the office himself -- after legally changing his name to "None of the Above."

• You might be surprised to learn that rock star Elvis Presley's idol was General Douglas MacArthur.

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Thought for the Day

"The hardest thing in the world to understand is income taxes."

-- Albert Einstein


by Samantha Weaver


Puzzle Answers

• On April 18, 1775, Paul Revere and William Dawes set out on horseback from Boston to warn leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock that British troops were marching on Concord on a mission to confiscate the Massachusetts militia arsenal and capture Adams and Hancock.

• On April 19, 1876, a Wichita, Kan., commission votes not to rehire policeman Wyatt Earp after he beats up a candidate for county sheriff. Earp’s Remington pistol made an effective club: Whenever possible, he preferred to pistol-whip his

opponents rather than shoot them.

• On April 16, 1897, Frederick Winterbotham, one of Britain’s top code breakers, is born. Winterbotham would play a decisive role in the World War II Ultra code-breaking project, enabling British intelligence to intercept top-secret messages (even from Hitler) transmitted to and between German armed forces.

• On April 21, 1930, a fire at an Ohio prison kills 320 inmates, some of whom burn to death when they are not unlocked from their cells. The prison, built to hold 1,500 people, housed 4,300 prisoners at the time of the fire.

• On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson, age 28, becomes the first black player in Major League Baseball when he steps onto Ebbets Field in Brooklyn,

N.Y., to compete for the Dodgers. Baseball had been segregated for more than 50 years.

• On April 17, 1964, the Ford Mustang is officially unveiled by Henry Ford II at the World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows, N.Y. That same day, the new car also debuted in Ford showrooms across America, and almost 22,000 Mustangs were immediately snapped up by buyers. Ford sold more than 400,000 Mustangs in its first year.

• On April 20, 1971, the Pentagon releases figures confirming that “fragging” is on the rise in Vietnam, with hundreds of reported incidents. Fragging was a slang term used to describe U.S. military personnel tossing a fragmentation hand grenade (hence the term “fragging”) to kill or wound or a fellow soldier, usually a superior officer or NCO.


Douglas HappeningsFriday Nights............... New Life Pentecostals,

Discussion on Prophecy Topics. Open to the public

April 14th................... Mardi gras at the MooseApril 14th & 15th..............High Plains Old Time

Country Music FestivalApril 14th...................... “Astride A Pink Horse”

by Robert Greer at The Whistle-Stop

April 14th..............................................................Converse County Coalition against Violence

4th Annual Bowl-AthonApril 16th............Eastern WY College ConcertApril 21st ........Memorial Hospitals Community

Health FairApril 27 - 29th.........Douglas Assembly of God

2012 Spring Conference


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