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house fire on Kingfisher Avenue

SHERIDAN — Several first responders put out a structure fire on the 500 block of Kingfisher Avenue Sunday morning.

At approximately 10:11 a.m. Sunday, Sheridan Fire-Rescue Department, Goose Valley Volunteer Fire Department, Sheridan Police Department and Rocky Mountain Ambulance arrived at the home, where a fire burned on the rear exterior.

Neighbors were attempting to extinguish the fire with snow. Firefighters quickly extinguished the fire with a hose line. The home’s smoke detectors did eventually acti-vate but it likely took a considerable amount of time for smoke from the exterior of the home to reach the interior detectors, fire-fighters said.

SFR reported no injuries, and the cause of the fire remains under investigation.

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BOTTOMS UP BASH

Above: Organizers, from left, Renea Parker, Mary Kay Liggett, Dana Townsend (Dana’s Hope co-founder and cancer survivor), Stacy Roxman, Connie Goodwin, Amy LeDoux (Dana’s Hope co-founder) and Joanne Garnett gather prior to the Dana’s Hope fifth annual Bottoms Up Bash at the Elks Lodge Friday, April 6, 2018.Left: Susan Nelson, left, talks to her brother Dave Nelson about quilts that were part of a silent auc-tion at the bash.Below right: Jackie Warnke, center, and Rich Macht, are greeted at the entrance.Bottom left: Tables are decorated for attendees. Dana’s Hope Wyoming is a nonprofit organization created for colon cancer awareness.Below left: Multiple items auctioned at the event, including this custom stained glass wall hanging.

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Raising money for colon cancer

awareness

Conservation district works

through project funding

SHERIDAN — The lingering winter weather has deterred the Sheridan County Conservation District from jump-starting certain projects, but the wet spring hasn’t stopped progress in a few areas.

The Tongue River Canyon water diver-sion project will include the construction of instream structures and the manipulation of parts of the bank on the upper Tongue River in northern Sheridan County to help restore stream flow and function.

Users of Tongue River Canyon can expect to see a more permanent structure con-structed in place of the current push-up diversion.

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College students organize Startup Weekend event

SHERIDAN — How does Wyoming diversi-fy its economy? The question plagues politi-cians and presents myriad challenges. Gov. Matt Mead started his ENDOW initiative to bring additional revenue to the state in industries other than mining, which could take decades to work, if it works at all.

Sheridan College is attempting to contrib-ute to economic diversification in a small way by hosting its second annual Techstars Startup Weekend event on campus this weekend.

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Sheridan College and Gillette College students in a management and organi-zation class are in charge of putting the weekend together. Different groups of students oversee areas like marketing, fundraising and outreach.

Startup Weekend is a non-profit organization head-quartered in Seattle that was founded in July 2007. It has hosted about 3,000 events in 150 countries.

Sheridan College hosted its first Startup Weekend last spring, and Gillette College hosted one in November 2017. Sheridan College business instructor Jill McGraw said each col-lege hosting one per year is the plan going forward.

On the first day of the event, competitors have 60 seconds to propose an idea, and the crowd votes on whether it likes the idea.

Coaches and mentors then work with people who had the most likable ideas and improve the pitch for a final presentation to a panel of local judges Sunday.

The panel selects a win-ner, which receives free LLC paperwork filing. If the idea seems good enough, he or she may receive funding from the Sheridan Economic and Educational Development Authority as well. Last year’s ideas included a chiropractor chair, different apps and a knee brace. The winner was Sheridan UpCycle, with the idea of turning discarded junk into sellable products.

Sheridan College direc-tor of business education Doug Cherry said the event is similar to a capstone course, in which students are in charge of the project from start to finish. It gives them management and orga-nization experience while working with and for other

students. Cherry also said a few venture capitalists have attended previous contests.

Sheridan College soph-omore Sheree Rule is the event project leader, a posi-tion she took on because she plans to study manage-ment at the University of Wyoming in the fall and fig-ured this would be a great opportunity for practical experience.

Organizing the event has gone about as she expected.

“It started out slow, but then we started getting more people buying in, and you have people who want to participate and volunteer and do things more than others,” Rule said. “But when you have a class like that, you kind of expect that mixture of participation.”

Students agreed that many aspects have been challenging because most of the class is more introvert-ed and are less comfortable going around campus and

the community to discuss the event. Being a separate class on two campuses added to the challenge, but students use group text and email, so it wasn’t too much of a struggle.

After the event, most students give a presenta-tion explaining what they contributed to the project. The class also talks after the event about what went well and what went wrong.

“Although they’re all working as a team, they are graded on this project indi-vidually based on the suc-cess of the event as a whole and their individual contri-bution,” McGraw said.

The only similar event in the state is the John P. Ellbogen Entrepreneurship Competition at the University of Wyoming April 26-27, which has a $30,000 prize. The Sheridan College contest begins Friday and runs through Sunday.

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Sheridan College business instructor Jill McGraw, left, and stu-dent Sheree Rule work on planning for the Techstars Startup Weekend Monday, April 9, 2018. The event runs April 13-15.

BY MARK DAVIS

POWELL TRIBUNE

VIA WYOMING NEWS EXCHANGE

POWELL — While attend-ing a meeting in Cody last week, Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Dan Wenk carried a copy of a joint resolution recently passed by the Wyoming Legislature, which calls for a conservation fee to be assessed on visitors to Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks.

“I’ve read it a few times,” Wenk said. “I just don’t know what it means yet. I have no idea what they’re hoping to achieve.”

State lawmakers have said the measure seeks to start a conversation with the Department of Interior; since states can’t legally col-lect fees in a national park, a conversation is the best they can hope for as far as legislation is concerned.

Wenk — who says he fully understands that the cost of managing wildlife is going up — is willing to talk.

“I’d love to have a conver-sation with [legislators] so I can help inform my bosses about the state’s position and the rationale behind it,” Wenk said.

He was in Cody for the spring Yellowstone Grizzly Coordinating Committee meeting, where represen-tatives from Yellowstone’s neighbors in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho described rising costs due to conflicts with two of Yellowstone’s most popular carnivores; grizzlies and wolves.

Wyoming spends millions on migration corridor hab-itat, disease control and to mitigate conflicts with the species and others causing damage, including reloca-tions, removals and damage payments.

Wyoming spent almost $900,000 in 2017 on conflict damage payments to ranch-

ers, farmers and homeown-ers alone.

The feeling among many in the state is they can no longer lean on solely hunt-ers and anglers — consump-tive users — to keep paying rising costs of managing wildlife and that a consis-tent stream of revenue is needed.

Through licenses, stamps, permits, fees and support, hunters and anglers fund about 93 percent of the Wyoming Game and Fish Department’s budget of $81.6 million. Officials are looking to non-consumptive users to pay their fair share.

The conservation fee at the gates of the nation’s pre-mier national parks is just one of several ideas they have to shore up the budget.

Wenk has many questions. “Are they going to put the

[proposed fees] to non-con-sumptive uses? They’re looking for non-consump-tive user money, but where would the money be direct-ed to if they ever negotiate this?

Would it be to support grizzly bear hunts?” he asked. “I don’t know if this is money that would go to the Department of Transportation, Game and Fish — the resolution doesn’t specify. If it’s col-lecting money from non-con-sumptive users, I would certainly hope it would be spent on non-consumptive uses.”

Rep. Albert Sommers, R-Pinedale, sponsored what eventually became House Enrolled Joint Resolution 2. It was a bi-partisan effort co-sponsored by local Rep. Jamie Flitner, R-Greybull, and Sen. Hank Coe, R-Cody, and aimed at finding a rev-enue stream to assist in the cost of wildlife management.

Wyoming, Idaho and Montana are financially responsible for managing their wildlife, protecting wildlife migration corri-

dors and wildlife habitats and mitigating impacts of diseases by wildlife that migrate to and from Yellowstone and Grand Teton.

The states are also finan-cially responsible for improving human safety, reducing wildlife-vehicle collisions and resolving conflicts with big game ani-mals and large carnivores that migrate to and from the national parks.

They’ve traditionally addressed these responsibil-ities and managed wildlife through consumptive uses of wildlife.

Sommers thinks the time is right.

He hopes Secretary of Interior Ryan Zinke, as a Montana native, will be understanding of the costs associated with managing wildlife attracting millions of visitors to the region.

“This is a way to pay for some of those costs,” Sommers said.

Sommers hasn’t identified policies or procedures, say-ing negotiations would be “above my pay grade,” but he would like to see a man-datory fee as high as $4 per visitor.

“Say if 4 million visitors paid $4 each, that’s $16 mil-lion — a substantial reve-nue stream,” Sommers said.

Wenk doesn’t think charging more to get into Yellowstone is a good idea.

While Wenk has heard rumors of the Department of the Interior backing off a 150-percent peak months fee increase proposed by Zinke last year, he hasn’t been informed if that’s true.

More than 100,000 public comments about the fees, most against the dramatic increases, poured into the federal government during the public comment period. Opponents worry increased fees would reduce visitation and damage the economies of the gateway communities.

Yellowstone superintendent wary of ‘conservation fee’

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Checking the photoSophomore students Reagan Mullany, left, and Emma Schroder check a photo on a smartphone during prom at Tongue River High School Saturday, April 7, 2018.

University of Wyoming unveils campus safety appLARAMIE (AP) — The University of

Wyoming recently launched a smartphone app aimed at keeping students safe on campus.

The Rave Guardian app allows students to set a safety timer, indicating where they are going and how long it should take to get there.

If the student fails to arrive on time,

the app will automatically notify the UW Police Department or friends and family designated by the student as guardians.

The Laramie Boomerang reports that the app also gives students the option to broadcast their real-time location on cam-pus to guardians and allows students to load the app with their personal and medi-cal information.

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The sun rises over the Tongue River Canyon near Dayton April 15, 2017. The Sheridan County Conservation District will start a diversion project on the river this summer.

FUNDING : Work to begin this yearFROM 1

The new structure will better allow fish passage above and below, and it will reduce sediment contribution to the stream.

The cost of the project totals $102,263, but Carrie Rogaczewski, the district manager for the Sheridan County Conservation District, said because of additional funding, it has been 95 per-cent covered. The Wyoming Game and Fish Department, Wyoming Wildlife Natural Resource Trust and the The Nature Conservancy in Wyoming helped contribute to the project cost through grants.

The district initially anticipated start-ing the project last fall, but engineering delayed the process. Now, designs are ready for implementation.

“We have the contractors’ estimate and all of the other stuff put together, so now we just need to wait for the weath-er,” Rogaczewski said.

Some grants the district intends to apply to the diversion project are set to expire by June of this year. Rogaczewski said the expiring funds will be spent in purchasing and transporting materials to the site.

“Because of the weather, we’re pretty sure the project’s not going to be wholly completed, but if we can get the mate-rials to the site, we can use the grant funds that expire for those expenses and then get it done in whatever time the water levels become suitable to do that,” Rogaczewski said.

Another project, the Lower Clear Creek (Leiter Ditch) rehabilita-tion began in 2016 and is now starting to see progress.

The Wyoming Water Development Commission and Select Water Committee signed off on the project in Cheyenne in June 2017, and the district board of trustees signed the agreement

for the committee in its April meeting.The project had been approved by

the committee in 2016, but commission director Harry LaBonde said the project was delayed to provide the conservation district time to establish security for the loan portion of the agreement.

The cost for the Leiter Ditch reha-bilitation project totals around $102,000, with 33 percent covered by the Water Development Commission Fund. Because of a combination of past irrigation practices, layout of the ditch and soil composition, the area affected suffered excessive seepage. The project will help with seepage and excessive wetness in one particular area of Clear Creek.

Andrew Cassiday, district conser-vationist for the Wyoming Natural Resources Conservation Service’s Sheridan field office, said it was unfor-tunate that 319 grant funds could not be applied to either project. The 1987 amendments to the Clean Water Act established the Section 319 Nonpoint Source Management Program. Through the program funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, states, territories and tribes receive grant money that helps fund projects related to restoring and protecting sur-face and ground waters. Project funds must go toward projects specifically aligning with nonpoint source manage-ment programs — pollution resulting from land runoff, precipitation, atmo-spheric deposition, drainage, seepage or hydrologic modification.

The SCCD’s projects did not align with the EPA’s guidelines for fund usage. However, other monetary streams flowed into the projects to allow the con-servation district to complete them in the upcoming year.

The conservation district anticipates work to begin on both projects this year, with completion dates yet to be set.

BY JOEL FUNK

WYOMING TRIBUNE EAGLE

VIA WYOMING NEWS EXCHANGE

CHEYENNE — Wyoming U.S. Sen. John Barrasso said Monday he will withhold judgment of Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt’s multiple alleged ethical violations until investiga-tions are complete. The U.S. Office of Government Ethics Acting Director and General Counsel David Apol sent a letter to the EPA on Friday outlining various concerns regarding Pruitt’s ethical conduct while in office. Areas of concern include allegations that Pruitt used government money for excessive travel expenses, misused his travel privileg-es to go home on the govern-ment’s dime and accepted gifts from a lobbyist’s wife in exchange for favorable policies.

Pruitt’s travels brought him to Wyoming on March 29 when he visited coal country with Barrasso and Wyoming’s other U.S. Sen. Mike Enzi, a Republican. They toured Arch Coal’s Black Thunder coal mine in Campbell County, one of the world’s largest coal deposits.

“It’s important to be in Wyoming coal country to see firsthand how they protect and steward the abundant natural resources with which they’ve been blessed,” Pruitt said, accord-ing to a news release from Barrasso’s office. “Sen. Barrasso is a strong partner in EPA’s efforts to roll back the misguided policies of the past and provide regu-latory clarity and certainty to the energy producers of Wyoming.”

Barrasso, chairman of the Senate Committee on Environmental and Public Works, echoed his praise from March of Pruitt’s administrative work at the federal agency in a state-ment released Monday.

“With the support of the

president, he has been instrumental in returning the agency to its original mission,” Barrasso said. “American workers are ben-efiting from his reversal of punishing regulations.”

In the same statement, Barrasso acknowledged there were questions about Pruitt’s conduct in office. Those questions, he said, should be answered. But any judgment of Pruitt’s alleged ethical violations from Barrasso will wait, he said.

“Certain questions have been raised about internal operations of the agency and the administrator’s actions,” Barrasso said. “The White House has indicated it has taken on a formal review of these ques-tions. I will wait for the out-come of that process.”

The letter about Pruitt’s ethical conduct outlined concerns in three areas:

For several months in 2017, Pruitt was part of a rental agreement with a lobbyist whose husband’s clients were seeking action by the EPA. It appears the rental rate was likely below market value and, accord-ing to the letter, Pruitt did not seek ethics advice prior

to entering into the agree-ment. This, Apol wrote, “could raise questions about (Pruitt’s) impartiality,” as executive branch employees are prohibited from accept-ing gifts from certain par-ties interested in courting their favor.

Questions about Pruitt’s travel expenses, security expenses, salaries for some employees and the use of his subordinates’ time were also raised.

Reports of Pruitt making frequent official trips to his home state of Oklahoma at government expense raised concerns for the ethics office.

There are also reports Pruitt might have used sub-ordinates to help him find housing, which Apol said could be construed as a mis-use of his position.

Barrasso withholds judgment on Pruitt

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Hands on Three-year-old Bode Ohmstede uses his hands to fill a planter with potting soil during the fairy gar-dening workshop at Landon’s Greenhouse and Nursery Saturday, April 7, 2018.

Council to consider Highland Park rezone SHERIDAN — Sheridan

City Council considered a proposal to rezone the old Highland Park School build-ing on Avon Street to allow for the construction of housing units on the prop-erty during a study session Monday. The proposal would enable the property owner to move forward with a plan to reuse the old school building to house 14 two-bedroom units. Currently, the prop-erty is zoned as R-1 residen-tial, which primarily allows for the construction of sin-gle-family units. The propos-al would rezone the property to R-3 residential, which would allow for multi-family residential use.

Should the rezone be approved, the property owner is expected to seek a subdivision plat to allow for further development on the land on either side of the old school building. During its March 26 meeting, the city planning commission voted 5-2 to recommend the rezone. Community develop-ment director Brian Craig noted that 17 local residents spoke at that meeting and 14 of them were opposed to the rezone, mostly due to con-cerns about increased traffic and noise.

Council will hold a public hearing ahead of voting on the rezone on first reading during its April 16 meeting.

Other Business:• Zack Houck with the

Sheridan Tree Board

addressed council about the need for a city arborist. Houck said the total value of trees in the city amounted to millions of dollars and hiring a city arborist could protect that investment. He also noted that if trees die and begin to drop limbs, the city could be responsible for damage they cause.

• Craig presented a pro-posed ordinance that would lay out requirements for mobile vendors — food trucks, primarily — to operate in the city. The ordinance describes restric-tions for mobile vending operations and proposes permit fees. A single mobile vendor would be allowed to purchase a permit for $250 annually, or $50 for a week; vendors that combine to form a food court could purchase a permit for $500

annually or $50 for a week. Mayor Roger Miller said he thought the proposed fees were too low. Council will hold a public hearing and consider the ordinance on first reading during its April 16 meeting.

• City clerk Cecilia Goode presented council with a proposed policy to handle public records requests. Goode explained that the city does not currently have a policy for handling public records requests, which has created issues in processing larger requests. She added that many of the more bur-densome requests come from out-of-state entities. The proposed policy would allow the city to have a standardized fee structure and time frame for the pro-cessing of public records requests.

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SUICIDE Why language

matters

When I was a child, a 12-year-old boy in my grammar school took his life. When I was in high school, the girl who sat next to me in English class

died by suicide.I barely knew them, but I remember

the ripple effects their deaths had in the school communities: the crying, the fear, the avoidance of the subject, the whis-pered theories and questions: “Why? Why? Why?”

Today, I am a mental health professional, so I regularly encounter people who feel suicidal. I also frequently counsel people who have lost loved ones to suicide or at least know someone who has attempted suicide. This is a tragic reality.

National data shows Wyoming consis-tently has one of the highest rates of sui-cide in the country, and Sheridan County has had more than its share of suicides in the past few years. We also know that sur-

vivors of suicide loss are at higher risk for becom-ing suicidal themselves.

Suicide is hard to talk about. For one thing, people who are suicid-al usually suffer from depression and/or the effects of traumatic events. Depression and post-traumatic stress are treatable, like many other illnesses, but the signs can be hard to iden-tify. Other times people feel ashamed, believing

that somehow they are weak or crazy and don’t want to seek help as a result. They are influenced by cultural norms, which unfortunately reinforce this idea that peo-ple who are suicidal are defective.

Being a survivor of suicide loss is one of the loneliest places to be. The Press recently published an article about this subject and a courageous person in our community, Jenica Brink, came forward to tell her story. Death by suicide is typically sudden, violent and unexpected. Survivors sometimes have to deal with the scene and the aftermath. Survivors are keenly aware of how uncomfortable others feel about the subject. People don’t know what to say, so they avoid the survivors.

Suicide leaves in its wake a cacophony of mixed emotions and confusion, often accompanied by guilt: “Why didn’t I see? Why didn’t I know?” All of that stress, plus missing a loved one gone too soon, can lead to severe depression in the survivors. That is why survivors may become suicidal, too.

The language we use can either help or hurt the stigma surrounding suicide. Historically we used the word “commit” when talking about suicide. But now we recognize that the word “commit” is actu-ally part of the problem. Think about what it implies: You commit a crime, you com-mit a sin. Crimes and sins are associated with shame and judgment. Those attitudes make it hard for suicidal individuals to seek help and impede survivors of suicide loss from talking about their grief.

So what do we say instead? Suicide is a cause of death, so just like we would say someone died from cancer or died in a car accident, we can say “died by suicide.”

In addition, we can turn the word into a verb and simply say the person “suicided” or “ended her life.” You can gently correct others when you hear them say “commit-ted suicide.”

In terms of what we can do for survivors, treat the loss like any other loss. Offer con-dolences, offer to listen, offer to meet for a cup of coffee. Be a friend. You do not have to have any expertise. Acknowledge there are no easy answers. Be OK with silences. Connect as one human to another. In that way, you help reduce the stigma around suicide, and you may even save a life.

DAWN SOPRON, LCSW is a psychotherapist with Clay Pot Counseling, Inc. in Sheridan. She facilitates the free and confidential Survivors of Suicide Loss Support Group on the second and fourth Thursdays of each month from 5:30-6:30 p.m. Please call or email to connect with the group, (307) 752-7016 or claypotcounseling@yahoo.com. If you are in crisis, please call the national Lifeline: 800-273-8255.

How should America respond to Syria’s use of chemical weapons?

On April 22, 1915, chlorine gas, waft-ed by favorable breezes, drifted from German lines toward enemy positions held by French troops near Ypres, Belgium. This was the first significant use of chemical weapons in a war in which 100,000 tons of chemical agents would be used by both sides to kill almost 30,000 soldiers and injure 500,000. The injured would include a German corporal whose voice, bearing traces of a gas attack, car-ried him, 15 years later, to Germany’s pin-nacle. The man who was U.S. president when Adolf Hitler committed suicide 30 Aprils after Germany’s 1915 gas attack

had been Capt. Harry Truman in 1918 when his artillery unit fired shells containing some of the chemical agents that the Allies had developed in response to what Germany did in 1915.

Such weapons, and especially mustard gas, which blistered skin and lungs, seemed so sinister that the 1925 Geneva Protocol banned their use in war, but not

their development. This resulted in mutu-al deterrence during the next world war, during which poison gas was used only for genocide. Might this fact have moti-vated Israel’s alleged attack on a Syrian air base a day and a half after the Syrian regime was again suspected of using a nerve agent against a rebel position in a Damascus suburb?

Since 1997, a chemical weapons con-vention joined by 192 nations, including Syria, has banned the production and use of such weapons, which illustrates the

limits of arms-control agreements — they control those who least need to be con-trolled. Denmark is impeccably compli-ant; Syria is not. Did anyone other than U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry believe his 2014 claim that “we got 100 percent” of Syria’s chemical weapons removed from that country following the 2013 attack — including the same Damascus suburb — in which a nerve agent killed, according to the U.S. government, 426 children and 1,003 others.

U.S. ability to influence events in Syria has been vanishingly small since Barack Obama ignored the “red line” he drew in 2012 regarding Syrian chemical weapons. The “enormous consequences” Obama threatened turned out to be ... Kerry’s chi-merical accomplishment.

One year ago this month, Syria’s regime used sarin, which prompted U.S. cruise missile attacks that did not deter last Saturday’s use of chemical weapons. If at this late date the only, or primary, U.S. objective in Syria — and it is not a con-temptible one — is to economize violence and minimize atrocities, the ghastly but optimal outcome is a swift final victory by Bashar Assad’s regime. A negotiated end to this civil war has long been a fantasy: Negotiations did not end the American, Russian, Spanish or Chinese civil wars in 1865, 1920, 1939 and 1949, respectively.

Almost seven years have passed since Obama, a practitioner of ineffectual right-mindedness, announced in August 2011 that “the time has come for President Assad to step aside.” Assad remains unconvinced of that and will rule the rub-ble.

This question, however, remains: What, if anything, should the United States do in response to the gratuitous use — it will not alter, or perhaps even hasten,

the civil war’s outcome — of these odious and indiscriminate weapons in an urban setting? Firing cruise missiles into Syria might be cathartic, but catharsis is not a serious foreign policy objective. Neither is pretending that there was forethought behind the current U.S. president’s prom-ise of a “big price” that Syria must brace itself to pay.

Whatever this price is to be, there is no reason for it to occur without congressio-nal authorization, for a change.

Americans probably sense rising dis-order around the world, and waning U.S. ability to influence events. From Russia’s dismemberment of Ukraine, Europe’s geographically largest nation, to China’s attempt to impose its will in the South China Sea, the most strategically import-ant portion of the world’s seas that for seven decades have been kept open and orderly by the U.S. Navy.

From the semi-genocide against the Rohingya in Myanmar to the slow-mo-tion closing of open societies in Poland and Hungary. And from the suburbs of Damascus to Bill Wykes, 63, an Illinois soybean farmer who, speaking with a Financial Times reporter, said: “I look out across my bean field, and I know that every third row goes to China.” Maybe not.

America has embarked on an auda-cious, not-thought-through experiment. The nation is shrugging off its post-1945 leadership on behalf of democratic plural-ism that makes nations lawful and tran-quil, and is upending the world trading system it created. Saying goodbye to all that is saying hello to we know not what.

GEORGE WILL writes on politics, law and social character. Will began writing for The Washington Post in 1974. He is a contributor for Fox News, a Pulitzer Prize recipient for commentary, and is the author of 12 books.

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4. Brooks duo shares gifts through volunteering

5. Robison excited for next step at Navy

6. Koltiska brings FBI training to Sheridan

7. Ukulele, new perspective help Jones overcome injury

8. Sheridan starts utilizing hydro-power technology

9. Johnson named FAB Woman of the Year

10. First-year educators have big learning curve

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show3. Kudlow slams Zuckerberg’s

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million in 2006 settlement, prosecu-tors say

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6. Woman wins $6.5M in revenge porn case

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payment from Ukrainian billionaire10. Search warrant reveals

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11. Opinion: Scott Pruitt is the face of America’s big problem

12. Roger Stone said in July 2016 Russians were ‘most likely’ behind WikiLeaks emails and doing it to help Trump

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SC Collegiate Chorale to performSHERIDAN — The Sheridan College Collegiate

Chorale will perform at the Whitney Center for the Arts Saturday at 7 p.m.

The spring concert is free and open to the pub-lic.

Directed by Brenda Hodnett, the Sheridan College Collegiate Chorale is a group of members of the community and Sheridan College students.

The Whitney Center for the Arts at Sheridan College is located at 1 Whitney Way.

FROM STAFF REPORTS

SHS announces the third-quarter honor rollSHERIDAN — Sheridan

High School officials recent-ly released the names of students named to the school’s Blue Honor Roll for the third quarter. Students on the list were enrolled in at least five classes and earned a 3.0 to 3.99 GPA with no grades lower than a C.

FRESHMENNicholas Aasby, Cian

Ahern, Izak Aksamit, William Albrecht, Zachary Allen, Alice Anderson, Aidan Appleby, Margaret Arndt, Wyatt Barnett, Oliver Bartel, Alexandria Baxter, Aniston Beard, Kavan Bede, Alyson Begoon, Noah Bell, Kadence Bickel, Gabriel Bland, Christina Brown, Samantha Burgess, Caleb Bybee, Chlesea Chapa, Brittney Charlson, Nicolas Clemens, Jaidyn Covolo, Casey Craft, Madisyn Danforth, Karissa Dickson, Samantha Dillon, Emma Doyle, Larqin Duca, Elijah Dugal, Riley Eccles, Drake Fisgus, Christian Fisher, Elias Frederick, Francisco Gallegos, Hunter Goodwin, Karley Goss, Tyler Hegy, Trent Heide, Jaylin Hollen, Shannon Holzerland, Matthew Hooge, Jarett Hoy, Jacqi Jenkauski, Jaydi Jenkauski, Blaine Johnson, Caleb Johnston, Jasper Jones, Steven Kahm, Selina Kamran-Kohnjani, Delaney Katschke, Luke Keller, Hannah Ketner, Luke Knudson, Zachary Koltiska, Jase Kysar, Ella Laird, Taylor Larsen, Aubrey Lawson, Katelyn Lee, Preston Leiker, Addison Lucas, Jada Manning, Sarah Manor, Ryan Marchant, Alyssa Mauck, Taylin Maxwell, Cade McBroom, Harmony McDougall, Kyle Meinecke, Bailee Mentock, Annie Mitzel, Justine Moore-Bradley, Kincade Naus,

Landon Negron, Marisa Nicholls, Daley Nissen, Benjamin Novotny, Reese Osborne, Paige Padilla, Hayden Palmer, Savannah Phillips, Thomas Phillips, Duncan Pilling, Avaree Post, Kaylee Preston, Sienna Preszler, Callie Rafferty, Jens Redinger, Jentry Reid, William Relaford, Kahlil Rios, Taylor Roberts, Carson Rosenlund, Laison Rosenlund, Karley Ross, Payton Rott, Cameron Sanburn, Alina Schoenfelder, Serina Schoenfelder, Isai Sears, Lucas Slyngstad, Thomas Sorenson, Mary Spomer, Cameron Springsteen, Damon Swaney, Holly Swaney, Matthew Taylor, Pyper Tiffany, Frederick Tyson-Ryan, Chance Ulin, Justin Vela, Gaige Vielhauer, Joshua Vrieswyk, Katie Vrieswyk, Trevan Weimer, Victoria Westergaard, Alexandra Wilesmith, Branton Williams, Alyie Williamson, Aaron Wilson

SOPHOMORESKimberly Allen, Elizabeth

Anderson, McKenna Arndt, Joel Bailey, Jacob Boint, Brock Bomar, Maya Bork, Brooklyn Bowie, Timothy Brown, Ryan Bybee, Sophia Calkins, Amaya Cook, Camdyn Cook, Garrett Coon, Jason Coonis, Ashten Covault, Nora Craft, Reese Crowell, Isabelle Cruz, Seth Deutscher, Adreanna Diaz, Lane Drake, Dawson Eppe, Jack Erramouspe, Ethan Fleming, James Fort, Gabriel Frederick, Nicholas Gale, Isabelle Gaona, Alexander Garber, DayAnna Godwin, Rayne Goins, Stephanie Gonda, Janelle Granger, Amber Grutzmacher, Lucas Grutzmacher, Lindsey Hall, Weston Heeren, Wade Jacobs, William Johannesmeyer, Truman Jones, Gage Kirschner, Ethan Kutz, Chloe

Laumann, Teegan Leno, Jackson Levanen, Carly Linn, Noah Luhman, Kathleen Magera, Aspen Malkuch, Briannon Marcus, Estephania Martinez, Logan Mendenhall, Tarrin Migrants, Alexis Morgareidge, Mollie Morris, Haydon Mullinax, Kaitlynn Oakes, Samantha Phillips, Harry Redinger, Rikki Redman, Josiah Richards, Ethan Rickett, Zoe Robison, Elizabeth Romanjenko, Anna Romero, Kierra Ross, Tasha Rozman, Samuel Salyards, Abigail Sanders, Joel Sayer, Nakita Schoenfelder, Jasmine Schultz, Ryan Sessions, Wyatt Shaw, Kahley Sipe, Keaton Spielman, Lyric Steitler, Clara Syring, Eric Taylor, Ryan Tormanen, Riley Ware, Jamie Will, Kaiden Williams, Sidney Wilson, Kaleb Yager

JUNIORSJoshuea Ahrens,

Bailey Aksamit, Zainab Al-Dhalimi, Evan Albea, Beknazar Alikulov, Faith Atwell, Wesley Bakken, Taylor Baldacci, Megan Beld, Kain Bennage, Nolan Billings, Mya Bitanga, Madelynne Blackwell, Elliot Boley, Tristan Bower, Elizabeth Braley, Jonathan Briggs, Cameron Brown, Madelaine Brown, Kelly Buchanan, Emma Burton, William Card, Piper Carroll, John Chase, Brenden Clem, Kasey Croley, Timothy Curtis, Hailey Dillon, Ashly Doyle, Ammon Duncan, Joshua Eaton, Jackson

Eccles, Josie Fettig, Jade Gerstner, Kayana Gilbert, Madyson Godwin, Andi Graves, Dalton Gregory, Taylor Greig, Isaac Grimes, DiMaggio Hamilton, Patrick Hamilton, Dane Hansen, James Haugen, Nathan Hecker, Kinsey Hegy, Stacianne Helferich, Carlos Hernandez, Nathen Hill, Cassidy Hope, Leeanne Humphreys, Sherman Husted, Morgan Irvine, Abigail James, Logan Jensen, Betty Jerney, Ciara Johnson, Mikayla Johnson, Nichole Johnson, Zachary Johnson, Elias Johnston, Hannah Jost, Emily King, Cassie Kysar, Emery Laird, Serena Laird, Tamaelle Lawson, Taylor Lee, Matthew Legler, Trenton Lewallen, Eli Linden, Logen Livingston, Nicole Mack, Breeanna Maney, Mackenzie Martin, AdMarie McGuire, Kellen Mentock, Alexander Miller, Jeffery Mills, Madelyn Morgan, Jadyn Mullikin, Vanessa Norlin, Leif Norskog, Emma Oetken, Sydnee Ordahl, Seth Orlandi, Brock Padgett, Alex Palmer, Tristyn Palmero-Reeves, Dariene Raymond, Paige Redinger, Alec Riegert, Walkara Robinson, Morgan Rogers, Matthew Roma, Addie Rosenlund, Regan Rosenlund, Tiffanie Rosenlund, Ayden Roush, Mary Shippy, Kylie Sorenson, Jacob St. Pierre, Cody Stults, Olivia Sweeny, Rachel Thomas, Tyler Trentacosti, Maci Turk,

Giovanna Vaira, Adrianne Weltner, Ethan Willey, Bailee Wilson, Nicole Wilson

SENIORSKaylee Abernatha, Noel

Aguirre-Quevedo, Daniel Alsup, Hunter Andersen, Sidnee Anderson, Allison Arndt, Kathryn Arneson, Steen Avery, Blayne Baker, Kathryn Bammel, Wrylee Barnett, Bradley Bauder, Sachet Bean, Samuel Begoon, Skye Bensel, Samuel Boyles, Quinton Brooks, Christopher Brown, Amanda Buckler, Vada Burns, Sara Buskirk, Blaine Buszkiewic, Zhoe’ Calkins, Brannon Chambers, Nina Charlson, Abagail Chavez, Jimmy Chen, Kirby Coe-Kirkham, Marissa Coon, Vincent Cossel, Trevon Covolo, Andrea Crabb, William Craft, Johnathan DeLeon, Noah DeGrange, Nicole Dillon, Michael Donaldson, Austin Dooley, Lennon Dregoiw, Dawson Duncan, Noah Erickson, Sebastian Field, Brandon Fitzpatrick, Ashlee Flannery, Kelsey Fleming, Lauren Forni, Meccade Garneau, Bridger Gransbery, Molly Green, Tanner Greig, Stephanie Handley, Casen Hart, Noah Hodges, Jeremiah Huson, Kailee Ingalls, Joseph

Iverson, Chloe Ives, Julian Johnston, Catriona Jones, Zoie Jones, Will Jorgenson, Kristen Jowett, Caleb Keller, Emily Kilpatrick, Kaitlin King, Samantha Kinnison, Trace Koetting, Sage Koltiska, Hunter Kukal, Thaddeus Lipke, Kailey Loomis, Emma Manor, Grace Mather, Blaine Miranda, Alexis Moore, Makayla Morris, David Morrow, Maxwel Myers, Taylor Myers, Kailie Nivens, Kody Palmer, Oscar Patten, Skyleur Peterson, Ashley Phillips, Allison Puuri, Chance Quarterman, Riley Rafferty, Kassandra Ralston, Emily Ramsay, Claire Reed, Isaiah Rice, Woodrow Richards, Nathan Roma, Hailey Rosalez, Abraham Ross, Aeriana Roth, Teal Scheuber, Jamie Schlegel, Camren Schneider, Valentina Schoene, Marti Selig, Aaron Sessions, Merijah Shipp, Elizabeth Standish, Bren Steel, Brandt Steiner, Melissa Strobbe, Quinton Suska, Gunnar Swanson, Bryce Taylor, William Timberlake, Katie Tomlinson, Noah Trautman, Blake Vigil, Sahatsawat Wannachotphawet, Angela Ward, Robert Welborn, Frederick Williams, Holly Williams, Anna Zowada

FROM STAFF REPORTS

The Brinton to host symposium

on Treaty of Fort Laramie

BIG HORN — The Brinton Museum will host an educational symposium Saturday to accompany the exhibition marking the 150th anniversary of the Treaty of Fort Laramie.

The symposium will feature four guest scholars knowledgeable in the fields of U.S. history, photography and American Indian studies. Topics will include an overview of the work of Alexander Gardner, the biographies and stories about the people in Gardner’s photographs and the historical events leading up to the 1868 peace treaty.

The symposium, which will take place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., will include lunch and refreshments. The cost is $55 per person or $45 for members of The Brinton Museum. The event is limited to 50 attendees. For more information, see thebrintonmuseum.org.

The Brinton is located at 239 Brinton Road in Big Horn.

FROM STAFF REPORTS

WWA seeks participants for Youth Ambassadors for WildernessSHERIDAN — The Wyoming Wilderness

Association is launching its fifth year of a wilderness leadership program, Young Ambassadors for Wilderness.

The Young Ambassadors for Wilderness is a five-month statewide program geared toward youth who share common interests in keeping Wyoming wild and those who are interested in becoming the next genera-

tion of wilderness leaders.The program is open for admission and in

search of youth who love the outdoors and are eager to learn more about Wyoming’s wild lands and how to preserve them for future generations.

The Young Ambassadors for Wilderness program presents unique opportunities for these young people to shadow profession-als in the field, learn about the wilderness in their own backyards and complete an

independent course project to share with their community. The participants attend monthly lessons delivered by field experts and focus on a specific wilderness themes such as wilderness policy, backcountry travel, Leave No Trace principles and envi-ronmental careers. To apply, students must be between 12-18 years old, live in Wyoming (or have substantial ties to Wyoming) and have a passion for wild places. The appli-cation process includes filling out an appli-

cation form, writing a two-page statement (or producing a three-minute video or art piece) explaining why the student wants to be a wilderness leader and submitting one letter of recommendation from a teacher or community member. Applications will be accepted until May 14.

For more information on Young Ambassadors for Wilderness and how to apply, see www.wildwyo.org, email heidi@wildwyo.org or call (307) 672-2751.

FROM STAFF REPORTS

Hockey tourney Friday

SHERIDAN — The Bomber Mountain Invitational Hockey Tournament will begin Friday and run through the weekend at Whitney Rink at the M&M’s Center.

The tournament will includes games and events all weekend, including a breakfast at the Pony Grill and Bar and a raffle to support local youth hockey and the Jaycees chapter. All hockey games are free and open to the public.

Whitney Rink at the M&M’s Center is located at 475 E. Brundage St.

FROM STAFF REPORTS

Filling

her

planterEight-year-old Kaysyn Ramirez fills her planter with potting soil during the fairy gardening work-shop at Landon’s Greenhouse and Nursery Saturday, April 7, 2018.

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AT A GLANCE10 things to know

1. TRUMP: MUELLER PROBE ‘AN ATTACK ON OUR COUNTRY’Trump lashes out against the special counsel’s Russia investigation following an FBI raid on personal attorney Michael Cohen’s office.

2. WHAT SYRIAN TROOPS ARE FEARINGAssad’s forces and their allies are said to be on alert and taking pre-cautionary measures at military bases and posts amid fears of a military attack by the U.S.

3. ‘IT WAS MY MISTAKE, AND I’M SORRY’After privately assur-ing senators that his company will do better, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will undergo a two-day congressional hearing.

4. WHO IS HEADED TO THE BORDERTexas, Arizona and New Mexico commit 1,600 National Guard members to the border, giving Trump the troops he requested to fight what he’s called a crisis of migrant crossings and crime.

5. CHINA’S PRESIDENT OFFERS US POSSIBLE TRADE CONCESSIONSXi Jinping promises to cut China’s auto tariffs and improve intellectual property protection in a possible compromise with Washington.

6. CHINA FILES TRADE COMPLAINT AGAINST US OVER TARIFFSBeijing petitions the World Trade Organization, challeng-ing Trump’s tariff hike on imported steel and aluminum.

7. EX-RUSSIA SPY’S DAUGHTER RELEASED FROM HOSPITALA British health official says that Yulia Skripal, who was targeted along with her 66-year-old father in a nerve agent attack in England, has been discharged.

8. INACTION SEEN AT CONSUMER WATCHDOG AGENCYEnforcement actions, once a crucial tool of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to pro-vide relief to American consumers, have come to a halt since Trump took office, AP learns.

9. NEW WAY OF DEFINING ALZHEIMER’S AIMS TO FIND DISEASE SOONERScientists are proposing a new way to define it — basing it on biologi-cal signs, such as brain changes, rather than memory loss and other symptoms of dementia that are used now.

10. LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM WILL HAVE TO GO HIS OWN WAYThe singer-guitarist is out of Fleetwood Mac and he’ll be jointly replaced by Neil Finn of Crowded House and Mike Campbell of Tom Petty’s Heartbreakers.

Today’s Highlight in History:

On April 10, 1968, “In the Heat of the Night” won best picture of 1967 at the 40th Academy Awards; one of its stars, Rod Steiger, was named best actor while Katharine Hepburn was honored as best actress for “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.”

On this date:In 1790, President George

Washington signed the first United States Patent Act.

In 1866, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was incor-porated.

In 1912, the British liner RMS Titanic set sail from Southampton, England, on its ill-fated maiden voyage.

In 1925, the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel “The Great Gatsby” was first published by Scribner’s of New York.

In 1932, German President Paul Von Hindenburg was re-elected in a runoff, with Adolf Hitler coming in sec-ond.

In 1947, Brooklyn Dodgers President Branch Rickey pur-chased the contract of Jackie Robinson from the Montreal Royals.

In 1953, the 3-D horror movie “House of Wax,” pro-duced by Warner Bros. and starring Vincent Price, pre-miered in New York.

In 1971, a table tennis team from the United States arrived in China at the invita-tion of the communist govern-ment for a goodwill visit that came to be known as “ping-pong diplomacy.”

In 1978, Arkady Shevchenko, a high-ranking Soviet citizen employed by the United Nations, sought political asylum in the United States.

In 1981, imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands was declared the winner of a by-election to the British Parliament.

In 1998, the Northern Ireland peace talks conclud-ed as negotiators reached a landmark settlement to end 30 years of bitter rivalries and bloody attacks.

Ten years ago: The U.S. Board on Geographic Names officially renamed Squaw Peak in Phoenix Piestewa (py-ES’-tuh-wah) Peak, in honor of Army Spc. Lori Piestewa, who was killed in Iraq in 2003 and posthumous-ly promoted from the rank of Private First Class.

Five years ago: President Barack Obama proposed a $3.8 trillion budget that would raise taxes on smokers and wealthy Americans and trim Social Security benefits for millions. The financial-ly beleaguered U.S. Postal Service backpedaled on its plan to end Saturday mail delivery. Robert Edwards, 87, a Nobel Prize winner from Britain whose pioneering in vitro fertilization research led to the first test tube baby, died near Cambridge, England.

One year ago: Justice Neil Gorsuch took his place as the newest addition on the bench of the Supreme Court, restoring a narrow conserva-tive majority. Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley (R) resigned rather than face impeach-ment and pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor campaign violations that arose during an investigation of his alleged affair with a top aide. The New York Daily News and ProPublica won the Pulitzer Prize for public service for uncovering how police abused eviction rules to oust hun-dreds of people, mostly poor minorities, from their homes; Colson Whitehead’s novel “The Underground Railroad” won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

Thought for Today: “What is more unwise than to mistake uncertainty for cer-tainty, falsehood for truth?” — Cicero, Roman orator, statesman and philosopher (106-43 B.C.)

LOCAL BRIEFS |

See woodcarvers in action at

Expressions Art GallerySHERIDAN — Expressions Art Gallery &

Framing, LLC is launching an “Interacting with Art” series with a meet and greet with a local woodcarving group.

The public and artists alike are welcome to stop in the gallery Thursday and April 26 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. to watch and interact with the woodcarv-ers.

For more information about this event, contact Wanda Kerns at (307) 673-2878 or email artistic7ex-pressions@gmail.com. Expressions Art Gallery & Framing is located at 645 Broadway St.

SC Theater Program to

perform ‘Steel Magnolias’

SHERIDAN — The Sheridan College Theater Program will present performances of “Steel Magnolias” April 12-15.

The play tells the story of Shelby, whose engage-ment is the talk of the town. But the joy and excite-ment of her wedding quickly turn to concern as she faces a risky pregnancy and myriad health complications.

The play will show in the Mars Theater at the WYO Performing Arts and Education Center.

Tickets cost $15 for adults, $10 for seniors and military and $5 for students. Tickets are available

through the WYO box office, online at wyotheater.com or at (307) 672-9084. The shows for April 12-14 will begin at 7 p.m.; The April 15 show will start at 2 p.m.

The WYO Performing Arts and Education Center is located at 42 N. Main St.

Comment period open

for Red Grade Trails

SHERIDAN — The Bighorn National Forest, in collaboration with the Buffalo Bureau Land Management Field Office, is seeking comments on the proposed Red Grade Trail System.

Sheridan County is requesting a special use per-mit to construct approximately 17 miles of natural surface single-track, non-motorized trails and develop approximately 1.3 acres for trailhead/park-ing areas. The proposal includes approximately 15 miles of trail on the Bighorn National Forest and about 2 miles of trail on BLM lands. The spe-cial use permit would authorize construction and maintenance of the trails and parking areas for Sheridan County in partnership with the Sheridan Community Land Trust.

Information is available on the Bighorn National Forest website at http://www.fs.usda.gov/projects/bighorn/landmanagement/projects.

Please submit your comments to comments-big-horn@fs.fed.us with “Red Grade Trails, Attn: Sara Evans Kirol” in the subject line by May 1.

For more information, contact Evans Kirol at (307) 674-2600.

FROM STAFF REPORTS

TUESDAY’S EVENTS |

NATIONAL OBITUARY |

TODAY IN HISTORY |

• 10:30 a.m., Casual Conversations in History, The Hub on Smith, 211 Smith St.• 11:30 a.m., Sheridan County Chamber of Commerce luncheon, Best Western Sheridan Center, $17 per

person• noon to 4 p.m., public job fair, Sheridan College Whitney Academic Center atrium, 1 Whitney Way• 7 p.m., brewery bingo, Black Tooth Brewing Company, 312 Broadway St.

Susan Anspach, who

starred in ‘Five Easy

Pieces,’ dead at 75

NEW YORK (AP) — Susan Anspach, a screen and stage actress best known for playing non-conformists in “Five Easy Pieces,” ‘‘Blume in Love” and other films, has died at age 75.

Anspach died April 2 at her home in Los Angeles. Her son Caleb Goddard said the cause was heart failure.

A New York City native, Anspach had an extensive stage career before breaking into mov-ies in the early 1970s. It was a golden age of independent film-making in Hollywood, a time well suited for an actress who special-ized in playing women as strong or stronger than their male coun-terparts. She was the piano play-er who became Nicholson’s lover,

then broke off with him in “Five Easy Pieces.” She co-starred with George Segal in Paul Mazursky’s comedy “Blume in Love,” play-ing the estranged wife of a divorce lawyer. Her other roles included Woody Allen’s ex-wife in “Play It Again, Sam” and a businessman’s wife who breaks free in the Swedish production “Montenegro.”

Goddard said Monday that Anspach was especially proud of “Blume in Love,” ‘‘Montenegro” and, again as an estranged wife, in the 1979 release “Running.” Off-screen, she was married for much of the 1970s to “Lost in Space” actor Mark Goddard and dated the Band’s Robbie Robertson. She was married in the 1980s to musician Sherwood Ball. Anspach learned early to take care of herself, telling People magazine in 1978 that her childhood was one of “too

many sad memories.” Alleging physical abuse, she left home as a teenager and worked as a cabaret singer before receiving a schol-arship from Catholic University, where she studied acting. In New York, she worked with future stars such as Dustin Hoffman and Robert Duvall, and appeared in several stage productions. She starred in the original off-Broad-way production of “Hair” and in a production of “A View From the Bridge” that also featured Duvall and Jon Voight.

Her recent credits included the 2002 television film “Dancing at the Harvest Moon” and the 2009 drama “Wild About Harry.” She was also a political activist, who marched with United Farm Workers head Cesar Chavez, pro-tested the racist apartheid sys-tem of South Africa and advocat-ed for human rights in Central America.

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TIBBY MCDOWELL | THE SHERIDAN PRESS

Bottoms Up!The Midlife Chryslers from Billings performs during the fifth annual Bottoms Up Bash at the Elks Lodge Friday, April 6, 2018.

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ALMANAC

OBITUARY |Gaines C.

Puckett, Jr.October 31, 1933 -

March 23, 2018Gaines C. Puckett, Jr.,

84, of Sheridan, passed away Friday, March 23, 2018 at the V.A. Medical Center of Sheridan. He was born October 31, 1933 in Atlanta, Georgia

to Gaines C. Sr. and Sallie Bell (Kelly) Puckett.

Gaines moved to Sheridan in February of 1982. He worked as a trucker for many

years. He also worked as a custodian at the Sheridan VA, Sheridan public schools and Sheridan College. He loved building trikes and making trips to the Big Horn Mountains. He married Fay E. Larson on September 4, 2004.

He was preceded in death by his parents, one sister and one grandson. Gaines is survived by his wife, Fay; sons/step sons; daughters/step daughters; 11 grandchildren and 7 great grandchildren.

At his request, no services will be held. Online condolences may be written at www.championfh.com. Arrangements are under the direction of Champion Funeral Home.

Gaines C. Puckett, Jr.

SERVICE NOTICE |

Fred “Dale” ConnollyFred “Dale” Connolly, 87, of Sheridan, died

Sunday, April 8, 2018, at his residence.Online condolences may be written

at www.kanefuneral.com.Kane Funeral Home has been entrusted

with arrangements.

Lucille H. Phelps

Lucille H. Phelps, 97, of Casper, died Sunday, April 8, 2018, at Sheridan Manor. Services are pending. Online condolences may be written at www.championfh.com. Arrangements are under the direction of Champion Funeral Home.

DEATH NOTICES |Emilie M. Wright

Emilie M. Wright, 78, of Story, died Sunday, April 8, 2018, at Westview Health Care Center.

Online condolences may be written at www.kanefuneral.com.

Kane Funeral Home has been entrusted with arrangements.

Dr. R. Tracy RhodesDr. Tracy Rhodes, 82, of Buffalo, died

Thursday, April 5, 2018, at Amie Holt Care Center.

Funeral services will be held at Harness Funeral Home at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, April 10, 2018, with interment at Willow Grove Cemetery following. Visitation will be held at Harness Funeral Home Monday, April 9, 2018, from 1-9 p.m.

Dr. Rev. Bob Miller will officiate. Donations in Rhodes’ memory may be made to Amie Holt Care Center in care of Harness Funeral Home, 351 N. Adams, Buffalo.

To view the full obituary or leave online condolences see www.harnessfuneralhome.com.

SHERIDAN FIRE-RESCUE

Monday• Rocky Mountain

Ambulance assist, 400 block Falcon Ridge Court, 1:17 a.m.

• Carbon monoxide inves-tigation, 1100 block East College Avenue, 1:50 a.m.

• Natural gas leak, Kooi Street and North Main Street, 2:47 p.m.

• Odor investigation, 300 block West Loucks Street, 5:21 p.m.

GOOSE VALLEY FIRE DEPARTMENT

Monday• No calls reported.

ROCKY MOUNTAIN AMBULANCE

Monday• Medical, West Loucks

Street, 12:33 a.m.• Medical, Falcon Ridge

Court, 1:14 a.m.• Medical, West Fifth

Street, 3:23 a.m.• Trauma, Smith Street,

5:15 a.m.• Medical, Sheridan

Avenue, 7:30 a.m.• Medical, West Fifth

Street, 11:12 a.m.• Trauma, Burton Street,

1:17 p.m.• Medical, Big Horn

Avenue, 2:46 p.m.• Medical, Sioux Street,

4:03 p.m.• Medical, Bridge Street,

Dayton, 4:49 p.m.• Trauma, Dunnuck Street,

10:52 p.m.

SHERIDAN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL

Friday• Admissions — Baby girl

Sheets, BuffaloSaturday• Admissions — Axton

Evans, Sheridan; Breckette Evans, Sheridan; Caitlin

Freese, Sheridan

SHERIDAN POLICE DEPARTMENT

Information in the police reports is taken from the SPD website.

Monday• Malicious destruction,

North Main Street, 8:51 a.m.• Stolen vehicle cold, Big

Horn Avenue, 10:01 a.m.• Abandoned vehicle, West

10th Street, 11:19 a.m.• Threats cold, Leopard

Street, 12:16 p.m.• Dog at large, Second

Street, 12:37 p.m.• VIN inspection, West

12th Street, 12:55 p.m.• Dog at large, Sparrow

Hawk Road, 2:03 p.m.

• Abandoned vehicle, Yonkee Avenue, 2:41 p.m.

• Medical, Big Horn Avenue, 2:45 p.m.

• Civil dispute, Emerson Street, 2:59 p.m.

• Welfare check, Smith Street, 3:42 p.m.

• Littering, North Sheridan Avenue, 4:08 p.m.

• Barking dog, East Burkitt Street, 4:15 p.m.

• Animal welfare, North Sheridan Avenue, 4:16 p.m.

• Motorist assist, South Main Street, 4:50 p.m.

• Hit and run, West Brundage Street, 5:40 p.m.

• Citizen assist, Demple Street, 8:26 p.m.

• Removal of subject, South Sheridan Avenue, 8:35

• Barking dog, West Fifth Street, 9:03 p.m.

• Noise complaint, Broadway Street, 11 p.m.

Tuesday• Noise complaint, East

Works Street, 12:19 a.m.• Suspicious circumstance,

Coffeen Avenue, 1:15 a.m.

SHERIDAN COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE

Monday• DUI, citizen report,

Coffeen Avenue, 9:28 a.m.• Motorist assist, Highway

87, mile marker 35, 1:17 p.m.• Child abuse, Dana

Avenue, 1:23 p.m.• Warrant service, Fish

Hatchery Road, Story, 1:41 p.m.

• Welfare check, Mydland Road, 4:11 p.m.

• Traffic complaint, between Sheridan and Ranchester, 4:13 p.m.

• Civil dispute, Weare Street, Ranchester, 5:04 p.m.

• Welfare check, Crown Drive, 8:37 p.m.

ARRESTSNames of individuals

arrested for domestic vio-lence or sexual assault will not be released until the individuals have appeared in court.

Monday• James John Lunbeck, 49,

Banner, contempt of court/bench warrant, circuit court, arrested by SCSO

• Nathaniel Cooper Van Buskirk, 17, Sheridan, possession of a controlled substance in plant form less than 3 ounces, possession of a controlled substance in powder or crystalline form less than 3 ounces, battery, aggravated assault/battery, destruction of property, cir-cuit court, arrested by SCSO

JAILTodayDaily inmate count: 59Female inmate count: 12Inmates at treatment facil-

ities (not counted in daily inmate count): 2

Inmates housed at other facilities (not counted in daily inmate count): 0

Number of book-ins for the previous day: 2

Number of releases for the previous day: 3

REPORTS |

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Miniature gardenMiniature gardens are on display throughout the store during the fairy gardening workshop at Landon’s Greenhouse and Nursery Saturday, April 7, 2018.

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Cloudy Partly sunny Mostly cloudy, a shower or two

Much colder with snow, 1-3"

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Laramie 61/38/s 62/21/s 31/18/snNewcastle 61/38/pc 54/28/c 32/20/snRawlins 61/40/c 60/25/sh 34/18/snRiverton 65/38/pc 58/29/sh 41/22/snRock Springs 61/40/c 51/24/sh 38/22/sfScottsbluff 77/40/s 69/34/c 40/18/sfSundance 54/33/pc 52/21/c 25/15/snYellowstone 40/25/pc 35/14/sn 31/9/sf

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BUSINESS

Landon’s workshops

continue this

weekendSHERIDAN — Landon’s

Greenhouse and Nursery will continue its free work-shops this weekend.

At 1 p.m. Saturday, a workshop will focus on vegetable growing for begin-ners. Following that work-shop, at 3 p.m., a session will focus on tomatoes.

Sunday at 1 p.m., the second part of an herbs workshop will take place, followed by a 3 p.m. contain-er vegetable class.

For more information, see landonsgreenhouse.com/

workshops.Landon’s Greenhouse and

Nursery is located at 505 College Meadows Drive.

Grant writing

workshops offered

SHERIDAN — Nonprofits, churches and schools constantly battle a grow-ing demand for services with shrinking funds. Foundation grant writing offers a potential solution.

Funding for Good will bring its one-day Grant Writing & Research Workshop to Sheridan May 16 to help clear up the con-

fusion and offer insight on this complex fundraising path.

“Grant funding is highly competitive,” said Amanda Pearce, owner of Funding for Good.

“There is an art to how successful grants are writ-ten and the most successful organizations understand that.”

This workshop will cover the basics of grant writing, the seven elements of almost every proposal and how to customize proposals for better success. Participants will also learn the pro-cess for successful grant research and how to better

develop and manage donor relationships.

“When you know the pit-falls to avoid, you will save time and cut down on frus-tration as you work to locate donors whose priorities match your needs,” Pearce said.

Real stories from the non-profit world will serve as case studies for the group, and participants will also be able to review successfully funded proposals.

The workshop will take place May 14 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Sheridan College. Early-bird rates of $147 per person for the workshop end April 15.

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With costs low, mobile food business growing in Sheridan

SHERIDAN — Joon Kim moved to Wyoming from South Korea in 1979 with hopes of a better life. He worked as a butcher and at grocery stores in Sheridan for several decades to help send his children to college.

That was until Kim opened the Wicked Smoke food trailer. One of his sons chose the name of the business, which specializes in Korean-style entrées. Kim rents a location on Broadway Street and chose the spot because of the breweries and businesses nearby.

Sheridan has seen an influx of food trucks, trail-ers and other mobile food businesses in recent years. Wicked Smoke set up shop less than two years ago and was followed shortly by WYO Thai Food and Dozer’s BBQ. Kona Ice, Burger

Wagon, Theresa’s Kitchen and Taqueria El Rodeo are similar operations, offering fresh food served to custom-ers waiting outside.

Sheridan is far from the only town to see an increase in mobile vendors. According to IBISWorld, a market research firm, from 2011 to 2016, food truck industry revenue grew by about 8 percent annually, and the number continues to rise. The total market value could reach $1 bil-lion by 2020, according to Statista.

Dozer’s BBQ owner Eddie Dolzadelli is a retired police officer from California. His trailer is usually by Wyoming Downs on Coffeen Avenue during the day and in front of Luminous Brewhouse at night. He opened it because he loves cooking and the costs of a food trailer are low, which is why he thinks more will open in the future.

Costs are relatively low, but food truck operators are also at the mercy of Mother Nature. When the sun shines, customers stop often. When it is cold, snow-ing or raining, business plummets. Many owners, Dolzadelli included, are open less often in the winter months.

Kim thinks more food trucks will open over time due to the low startup costs and potential to make immediate profit, though he doesn’t have any plans to expand his business. Kim said he just wants to make a decent living and enjoy him-self when he isn’t working.

Kim hadn’t worked in food service before but worked with meat and Korean cui-sine his entire adult life.

Kim is Wicked Smoke’s sole employee, which means a lot of long days. He starts cooking around 7 a.m. to have everything ready when the trailer opens at 11. He serves people during lunch, closes for a few hours in the afternoon when he usually makes sauces and sides, then reopens for dinner until 7 p.m.

Wicked Smoke is open Monday through Friday year-round and Saturdays

for lunch when the weather warms up. Summer is the busiest time of the year and lunch is the busiest time of day, with people from the surrounding businesses stopping by for a fresh bite.

Kim makes it a point to serve everyone, even if they don’t have cash. He learned this attitude from his parents, who always had friends and family stopping by their house because of the welcoming, nourishing environment.

“When I have customers come here or people visit, I won’t let them go hungry,” Kim said. “When you eat, put out another spoon and fork and share your food.”

It appears the local gov-ernment won’t place many barriers for more mobile food vendors, either. Sheridan community devel-opment director Brian Craig said food trucks are an eco-nomic positive overall, and he led a work session last week in which he presented tentative mobile food regu-lations and received input from local food vendors and organizers.

The proposed regulations only apply on public land and include: food trucks can operate from 6 a.m. to 2 a.m. but not in public residential areas; food trucks cannot operate within a 200-foot radius of a primary school,

unless granted special per-mission by the school; they also cannot set up shop within a 200-foot radius of a business that sells similar products, i.e. a pizza truck cannot park in front of Powder River Pizza.

Sheridan City Council will hear the proposals on first reading during its April 16 meeting and make a decision May 21 on third reading.

The proposals aren’t expected to drastically alter how food vendors operate in Sheridan, presenting more opportunity for people like Kim and Dolzadelli to try their hand in the growing business.

BY RYAN PATTERSON

RYAN.PATTERSON@THESHERIDANPRESS.COM

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Dozer’s BBQ and Catering owner Eddie Dolzadelli and employee Aristin Elder, 12, often set up outside Luminous Brewhouse Saturday, April 7, 2018.

The Dozer’s BBQ food truck operates outside Luminous Brewhouse Saturday, April 7, 2018.

A TRUCK TO MAKE A BUCK

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SPORTS

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Sutton’s Tavern played host to the Southern Division championship between Short Bus All-Stars and Fun N Games Sunday, April 8, 2018.

LOCAL BILLIARDS LEAGUE HOLDS TOURNAMENTSHERIDAN — The Southern

Division of the Sheridan VNEA sanctioned 8-ball league played its tournament this weekend at var-ious locations around Sheridan. Thirty-six teams started play Saturday, and the semifinals took place at Sutton’s Tavern Sunday with the BHME Short Bus All-Stars claiming the championship.

The Short Bus All-Stars toppled Sutton’s Fun N Games in a dou-ble-elimination championship round to win a $900 prize. Pool Sharks and Rails Sticks in the Mud represented the other two teams in the final four Sunday.

Every week during the regular season teams pay $5, which gets put into a pot, and 100 percent of the money is given back to the players. Fun N Games won $640 for its runner-up placing, and smaller increments of money were given to teams based on where they placed.

Nick George, the owner of Wyoming Amusement, has run

this tournament for the past nine years, and this weekend

marked the biggest one yet with 36 four-man teams participat-

ing. Numbers have grown partly due to the fact that six years ago George elected to split the town’s billiards league into an ‘A’ brack-et (Northern Division) and a ‘B’ bracket (Southern Division).

“The really nice thing about it is everybody has their moment in the sun — the time where they get to be champions,” George said. “Whenever it was all one division, it really seemed to be one team or two teams were really the only ones that had that opportunity every year. And with this, it kind of spreads it around and makes it more competitive.

“… Everybody gets their 15 minutes of fame when it comes to pool.”

The Southern Division is designed for players of any skill level to compete for champi-onships based on a handicap system. The individuals acquire their handicaps as they progress through the season, which started in September.

BY BUD DENEGABUD.DENEGA@THESHERIDANPRESS.COM

Matt Braunscheidel and his team, Fun N Games, lost in the championship of the Southern Division tournament Sutton’s Tavern Sunday, April 7, 2018.

Predators, Golden Knights reflect change of NHL West’s guardThe Predators have the Presidents’

Trophy, and the NHL-expansion Golden Knights carry the buzz entering the Western Conference playoffs, which have the potential of resembling nothing from the past.

So step aside Chicago, which missed the playoffs for the first time in nine years, and say bye to the Blues, whose six-year playoff run is over.

The changing of the West’s guard begins at the top, where Nashville clinched its first Central Division title by running away with the league’s best record. And then

there’s Vegas, which broke every measure-able NHL expansion record for success by going 51-24-7 to win the Pacific Division.

Add in the talent-laden Winnipeg Jets, making their franchise’s third playoff appearance, and youth-filled Colorado Avalanche, who clinched their second berth in eight years, and it results in three of four first-time postseason matchups: Nashville versus Colorado, Vegas versus Los Angeles and Winnipeg facing Minnesota.

The fourth matchup has Anaheim facing San Jose for only the second time after the Ducks eliminated the Sharks in six games during a 2009 first-round series.

Of the eight teams, only three have won the Stanley Cup (Colorado, Anaheim and

Los Angeles), while two have never won a playoff game (Vegas and Winnipeg, former-ly Atlanta).

The weight of expectations falls mostly on the Predators , who won’t be underesti-mated a year after the eighth-seeded team’s surge to the Final ended in a six-game loss to Pittsburgh. It was a run Nashville began against Chicago in becoming the first team to sweep a No. 1 seed in the opening round since the current playoff format was set in 1994.

“I think our guys are well aware of what went on last year,” Predators coach Peter Laviolette said. “For me, this group is look-ing down the tunnel at something, and all that other stuff is noise.”

That’s not to say Laviolette didn’t play the “everyone’s picking Chicago” card as motivation a year ago.

“I might have used it,” he said with a wink.

The Avalanche know their history, with forward Gabriel Landeskog listing how several No. 8 seeds have made deep playoff runs, including the 2012 Cup champion Kings.

“Anything can happen in the playoffs. That’s kind of the mindset we’ve had,” Landeskog said of the Avalanche , who enjoyed a 47-point turnaround after finish-ing last a year ago.

BY JOHN WAWROW AP HOCKEY WRITER

Lawsuit accuses 3 ex-MSU basketball players of rapeEAST LANSING, Mich.

(AP) — A woman who attends Michigan State University filed a federal lawsuit against the school Monday alleging three for-mer men’s basketball play-ers sexually assaulted her at an off-campus apartment in 2015 and she was discour-aged from reporting what happened.

The woman and players are not named in the suit, which was filed in U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids. It seeks compensato-ry and punitive damages.

Michigan State has been

rocked for months by a sexual assault scandal involving a former sports doctor that now includes his ex-boss. Three ex-football players also were charged last year with sexual assault.

Monday’s lawsuit says the female student was 18 on April 12, 2015, when she met the players at an East Lansing bar. She was later taken to an off-campus apartment where she was told a party was going on, according to the lawsuit.

Generals log victory in

Fort CollinsSHERIDAN — The

Sheridan College rodeo team traveled to Fort Collins, Colorado, for the 68th annu-al CSU Skyline Stampede — the oldest college rodeo in the Central Rocky Mountain Region — this past weekend.

The men’s team had a strong showing, earning a total of 705 points, besting the next closest team by 325 points to move back into first place in the region, ahead of Laramie County Community College.

Cody Henderson had an outstanding weekend in tie-down roping. He split first and second in the long round with a time of 9.8 sec-onds. He placed third with a time of 10.1 seconds, which gave him the average win on the weekend.

Cole Reiner also had a great weekend, winning the bareback riding title. He won the first round with a 75-point ride, placed second and third during the second round to win the average with a total of 150 points on two head.

Chance Ames had a long weekend in bareback riding. He split second and third in the first round with a 74-point ride. In the sec-ond round, Ames got three re-rides, so he got on four head of bucking horses in a matter of 90 minutes. But it paid off as he placed fourth in the second round and sec-ond in the average.

Lane Schuelke had anoth-er good weekend in saddle bronc riding. He scored 78 points in the long round, which placed him second. In the short round, he scored 74 points and placed fourth and his two scores placed him runner-up in the aver-age.

FROM STAFF REPORTS

SEE BILLIARDS, PAGE B8 SEE RODEO, PAGE B8

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SEE MSU, PAGE B8

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Giants open OTAs with Odell Beckham Jr. in the building

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — The New York Giants have opened their first organized team activities under new coach Pat Shurmur with star receiver Odell Beckham Jr. in the building.

Speaking on a conference call Monday, Shurmur said he hadn’t yet talked to Beckham, whose name has been prominent in trade speculation in recent months.

The coach didn’t know how many of the voluntary activities Beckham planned to attend or the condition of his left ankle. The ankle was broken in the fifth game of a 3-13

season that led to the firing of coach Ben McAdoo and general manager Jerry Reese.

Shurmur said he previously spoke with Beckham about a video that surfaced online showing the 25-year-old who wants to be the NFL’s highest paid player on a bed holding what appeared to be a hand-rolled cigarette. A woman next to him had unidentified white powder on a nearby table.

Shurmur didn’t reveal what he said to Beckham. He also is not worried whether the player will be affected by the recent hype.

“I really believe that Odell is a profes-sional and he wants to be great,” said Shurmur, who expects to know more about

Beckham’s ankle by the end of the week. “He understands the importance of the offseason and he’s a competitive guy and, again, we had already started communicat-ing before all that information kind of got out there and was talked about a great deal. He’s a professional and I’m glad he’s here today.”

When healthy, Beckham is a game-break-er. The three-time Pro Bowler has played in 47 games in his first four seasons, catching 313 passes for 4,424 yards and 38 touchdowns. He has averaged 94.1 yards. However, he can be a distraction when his emotions get the best of him on the field and when he does foolish things off the

field, like taking a trip to Florida in the week leading up to a playoff game after the 2016 regular season.

While Beckham’s situation dominated the 15-minute conference call, Shurmur made clear that the OTAs would be used to lay the groundwork for 2018.

“For the most part, we’re trying to get things started, take advantage of the extra time we have and we want to grow away from basically what happened a year ago, the 3-13 season,” Shurmur said. “We want to grow away from that and try to grow into a team that’s competing to win a division, compete in the playoffs, and then hopefully hold up that fifth Lombardi trophy.”

BY TOM CANAVAN AP SPORTS WRITER

DRS. OZ & ROIZEN Dr. Mehmet Oz and Dr. Michael Roizen

DEAR ABBY Pauline Phillips and Jeanne Phillips

In a memorable scene from “The Big Bang Theory,” nerdy scientist Sheldon gets uncharacteristically drunk and wakes up in the morning to discover that he called Stephen Hawking repeatedly. The episode ends with a shot of Hawking’s office door as

a series of voicemails plays behind it. “Hawkman! It’s your old buddy!” And then: “It’s me again. I gave up string theory. You should give up black holes, and we should totally solve crimes together.” And a few mes-sages later: “Are you mad at me?”

Well, Sheldon isn’t the only one making a costly mistake while inebriated. A survey by Finder.com estimates that Americans are paying the price for decisions made while under the influence -- more than $30 billion to be precise -- spent on what the researchers call “drunk pur-chases.”

The survey also reveals that almost 50 percent of Americans who drink regu-larly (that’s 68 million adults)

admit to making purchases while drunk. The most com-mon expenditure is for food, followed by shoes (?!) and clothes.

If you have a problem with alcohol (either as a binger or a steady drinker), seek help from a 12-step program or individual therapy, and get support from friends and family. To help prevent drunk spending ...

If you come home tipsy, stay off your computer. Retailers are offering more sales after 9 p.m. to corner the drunk market. Yes, you’ll be targeted. And remove presaved passwords or credit cards from shopping/food-de-livery accounts. You don’t want to wake up “the morn-ing after” and discover a Big Bang to your bank account!

DEAR ABBY: When I was 70, I started taking drama classes twice a week (I still do). My wife was against it and insisted that because none of our friends or rela-tives were doing it, neither should I. As a result, I sug-gested we live apart. I bought a small apartment and live alone. We see each other regularly, go to the cinema, the theater, visiting friends, vacation, etc.

Every now and then she raises the topic again, saying she feels “betrayed, offended, abandoned” and suggests we stop seeing each other for two to three days “so she can recover from the pain I inflict on her.”

I don’t think I am doing anything wrong here. I’m not cheating on her, and she knows that and doesn’t accuse me explicitly. I think she is jealous and distrustful because the women taking the classes are beautiful and not because of anything I have done. What do you think? -- FRUSTRATED IN BULGARIA

DEAR FRUSTRATED: What I think is, not having heard your wife’s side of it from her, your insight may be correct. However, before accepting the guilt trip she is laying on you, remember that since you moved out she hasn’t invited you to move back in.

DEAR ABBY: My older brother and I are eight years apart. I am in my mid-20s, and he is in his early 30s. Our personalities and outlook on life are completely opposite. We have different fathers but grew up in the same house-hold, so naturally, we went to the same outings together until he was a teenager and we took different paths.

Looking at him now, I see he is an angry and burdened person compared to his early teenage years, even his 20s. He has always had two seri-ous interests, science and poetry. Although he loved them while he attended school, he no longer has the same fire in his belly. In fact, there’s no pep in his step about anything, just frustra-

tion. How can I lift his spirits without pressuring him? -- LIGHTING THE FIRE

DEAR LIGHTING: Could it be your brother’s behavior is simply that of a man who has reached his 30s, has matured and is more of a realist than he was in his early teens? Consider telling him you have noticed his personality has changed from when he was younger -- that he seems angry, burdened and frustrat-ed. Then LISTEN. He may or may not be depressed. If, after hearing him out, you are still concerned, suggest he do something about what’s bothering him by talking with a counselor, preferably one who is licensed.

DEAR ABBY: I just found out my married son had an affair, and the woman may be pregnant. If she is, do we

acknowledge the baby as our grandchild? And what’s the right thing to do if my son and his wife stay together? -- COMPLICATED IN THE NORTH

DEAR COMPLICATED: If a paternity test proves the baby is your son’s, he will have a legal obligation to support the child until he or she is no longer a minor. If your son and his wife remain together -- and many couples do -- his wife may prefer he have as little to do with the mother and child as possible. However, if you would like to be part of your grandchild’s life, it is your privilege to do so.

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.

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Hints from Heloise Heloise

The value of the VIN --- Dear Readers: In the mar-

ket for a USED VEHICLE? It’s smart to do your home-work. Learn everything you can about the make and model of the car you’re interested in, of course, but there’s something else you should check when you find a car you like: the VIN.

“VIN” is “vehicle identi-fication number,” 17 char-acters that can give you a wealth of information, like whether the car has been to-taled in an accident or natu-ral disaster (like a flood), or if it’s been reported stolen.

Unscrupulous people can refurbish cars that have been totaled and resell them. This is illegal, because it is not safe. And stolen vehicles, of course, cannot be resold.

The National Insurance Crime Bureau offers a free VIN check service at www.NICB.org. You also can call 800-TEL-NICB (800-835-6422).

This is one way to protect yourself and be a responsi-ble consumer. -- Heloise

LETTER OF LAUGHTER Dear Heloise: Regarding

the hint in February about where to hold the steering wheel when driving, the 10 o’clock and 2 o’clock hand position versus the 9 o’clock and 3 o’clock one is very confusing to current young student drivers. They have spent their entire lives look-ing at digital clocks! -- Diane E., Springfield, Ill.

HIGH SCHOOL HICCUP HELPER

Dear Heloise: I use what I consider the best and easiest method for stopping hiccups. I got this from a teacher when I was a sophomore in high school in 1950, and it has been successful for me ever since.

I try to focus on some-thing while taking deep, slow breaths. Usually three or fewer breaths and the hic-cups have disappeared! -- Lee D., Watertown, Wis.

SLIM SHOES Dear Heloise: I enjoy your

column. I’ve not been able to find house slippers because I wear a 9 Slim, or AAA, and no one makes these any-more, just Narrow, Medium or Wide.

I also need to have the left heel built up, which com-plicates my problem! I hope

you or a reader might know of a resource. -- Marilyn B., San Angelo, Texas

Marilyn, so sorry for your struggle. Contact a shoe-re-pair business. They should provide you with guidance, and they may know of spe-cialty retailers who will guarantee you a good fit for your house slippers. Read-ers, any other hints for Mar-ilyn? -- Heloise

NEW ROLE FOR CAPS Dear Heloise: I save

every cap on hair spray cans because I have so many uses for them. My biggest use is on my dressing table to hold upside-down lotions, in the shower for shampoo bottles, and on the dresser for any kind of small bottle, like an eyeliner bottle. This makes it easier to clean by just sliding the caps from one side to the other. I use one in the kitchen miscellaneous drawer to hold paper clips and keep the drawer tidy. -- Carmelina M., via email

Great repurposing hint! -- Heloise

Send a money-saving or timesaving hint to Heloise, P.O. Box 795000, San Anto-nio, TX 78279-5000, or you can fax it to 1-210-HELOISE or email it to Heloise(at)Heloise.com. I can’t answer your letter personally but will use the best hints re-ceived in my column.

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Omarr’s Daily Astrological Forecast Jeraldine Saunders

BIRTHDAY GUY: Actor Bill Irwin was born in Santa Monica, Calif., on this date in 1950. This birthday guy has won a Tony award for his performance in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” on Broadway. He played Dr. Lind-strom on “Law & Order: SVU” and Mr. Noodle on “Sesame Street,” as well as appearing on episodes of “Legion,” “Sleepy Hollow,” and “Blue Bloods.” His film work includes “Interstellar,” “Higher Ground,” and “Rachel Getting Married.”

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Don’t rest on your laurels. You won’t continue to enjoy the bene-fits of respect unless you continue to earn them. Be a model of indus-try and act as an inspiration for friends and family.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Ex-pect largesse from others. You can call in favors or ask for them. This

is a good day to wiggle your way back into someone’s good graces or show off your tolerance and generosity.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): If you remain frank and aboveboard con-flicts and disputes will evaporate. This could be a good time to clear the air; ask for forgiveness or gen-erously accept a sincere apology.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Ig-noring a problem doesn’t make it go away. Find an opportunity to discuss concerns and ideals ami-cably. A few sincere apologies can overcome misunderstandings and erase a headache.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Find a new direction. Opportunities will become available if you avoid fearful hesitation. Embrace a new path that will provide the greatest rewards and improve conditions within your home.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The

early bird gets the worm. Make an early start and tackle your daily chores with enthusiasm. You’ll ac-complish whatever you set out to do through careful planning and attention to detail.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): There is no reason to ignore the elephant in the room. Remain aboveboard and open, rather than hiding wor-ries. You will find that praise and compliments are more useful than criticism.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Pon-der the future. Take time to reflect on your most important issues in love or business. Your judgment may be better than usual, so this may be the right time to make crucial decisions.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Choose a new path and stick to it. You can see the consequences of your actions more clearly than usual. You might, however, be

pressured to handle funds care-fully.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): To forgive is divine. The perfec-tionist in you can easily find fault with those who are nearest and dearest. Be understanding with loved ones and overlook their shortcomings rather than criti-cize.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You are at the top of your game and likely to succeed in all you at-tempt to achieve. Focus on being tolerant, charitable, and open-handed with loved ones; they will respond in kind.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Talk it out. If an issue has disturbed you, express your feelings to those who will listen rather than keep-ing it bottled up inside. This is a good time to clear up unnecessary misunderstandings.

IF APRIL 11 IS YOUR BIRTH-

DAY: It is possible that, because you are respected, and others think highly of you, that you will receive recognition or rewards during the next two to three weeks. Don’t look a gift horse on the mouth because this will be your best time to make a huge improvement in some area of your life. Your business acumen is at a peak in late May and early June, making this a good time to evaluate your financial affairs or to make major purchases. June could be a great time for a roman-tic getaway or vacation while you are in the mood for inspiration. In September your judgment is at a higher level, so you could seek a promotion, successfully put a business plan into motion or make a commitment to a loved one.

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Bridge Phillip Alder

HAND EVALUATION CAN VARY GREATLY

Winston Churchill said, “True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous and conflicting infor-mation.”

At the bridge table, rarely is hand evalu-ation based on hazardous and conflicting information -- but it can be uncertain. Look at the South hand in today’s diagram. How would you plan the auction?

This deal occurred at Bridge Base Online, with 14 tables in play. At 10 of them, South opened one diamond and rebid two dia-monds after partner responded one heart. Yes, these contracts should have been made (though sometimes were not), but that seems too cautious to me.

I am not fond of one-no-trump openings with a six-card minor (and never with a six-card major), because that extra length is likely to make the hand worth more tricks than normal. I felt this South hand was worth nearer 18 points than 16. However, I just checked the Kaplan-Rubens system and got 15.6. I was not downgrading the ma-jor-suit holdings the way that method does.

I opened one diamond, and after partner responded one heart, I jumped to two no-trump. Understandably, partner raised to game.

West led the spade seven. East took that trick and shifted to a heart. I won with the queen, crossed to the heart king and

played three rounds of diamonds. West shifted back to spades, and if East had won and continued the suit, I would have lost three spades and two diamonds. However, East switched to a club. When the finesse worked, I conceded another diamond and claimed.

I had overvalued my hand, but got lucky -- that’s bridge quite often.

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PUBLIC NOTICEThe Wyoming Public Service Commission

(Commission) approved the Application ofMontana-Dakota Utilities Co. (MDU or the Com-pany) to pass on a wholesale gas cost decreaseof $0.530 per dekatherm (Dth) to its Firm Residen-tial, Firm General Service, Small Interruptible andLarge Interruptible customers, and a decrease of$1.771 per Dth to its Optional Seasonal custom-ers, through its Commodity Balancing Account(CBA), effective on and after April 1, 2018. Theproposed pass-on decreases are attributable to adecrease in overall commodity price of approxim-ately $0.517 and a decrease in pipeline charges ofapproximately $0.013. The Commission’s approv-al is subject to notice, protest, intervention, refund,change, further investigation, opportunity for hear-ing and further order of the Commission.

The average MDU residential customer usingapproximately 6.7 Dth in April 2018 may expect amonthly gas bill decrease of approximately $3.56or 7.8%, before taxes. Actual bills will vary withusage.

The proposed retail rate decreases result in aprojected dollar-for-dollar decrease in MDU’s April2018 total revenues of approximately $102,820,using projected sales volumes. The decreasedoes not change the Company’s authorized rateof return.Commission Rule Chapter 3, Section 26 al-

lows a utility to pass on to its customers known orprojected commodity cost increases or decreaseson a dollar-for-dollar basis, subject to public no-tice, opportunity for hearing and refund.

MDU’s Application is on file at the Commis-sion’s offices, located at 2515 Warren Avenue,Suite 300, Cheyenne, Wyoming. The Applicationis available for inspection by any interested per-son during regular business hours or online at: ht-tp://psc.state.wy.us/.Anyone desiring to file a statement, interven-

tion petition, protest or request for a public hear-ing in this matter must file in writing with the Com-mission on or before May 4, 2018. A proposed in-tervention or request for hearing must set forth thegrounds under which they are made and the posi-tion and interest of the petitioner in this proceed-ing. Please mention Docket No. 30013-334-GP-18 (Record No. 14955) in your communications.

If you wish to intervene in this matter or re-quest a public hearing that you will attend, or wantto make a statement, a protest or a public com-ment, and you require reasonable accommoda-tion for a disability, please contact the Commis-sion at (307) 777-7427, or write to the Commis-sion at 2515 Warren Avenue, Suite 300, Chey-enne, Wyoming 82002, to make arrangements.Communications-impaired persons may also con-tact the Commission by accessing Wyoming Re-lay at 711.Dated: April 4, 2018.Publish dates: April 10, 17, 2018.

IN THE MATTER OF THENORMA L. GOODMAN

QUALIFIED TERMINABLE INTEREST TRUST,ESTABLISHED ON FEBRUARY 28, 2010,UNDER THE ROBERT GOODMAN TRUST,

DATED JUNE 6, 2001NOTICE OF INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE TRUSTASSETS AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS

TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN SAIDTRUST:YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that on the

15th day of March, 2018, Norma L. Goodman(“decedent”), the lifetime beneficiary of the above-named trust, died in Sheridan County, Wyoming.Cindy L. Pilch and Ruth A. Grevesen are the Co-Successor Trustees of the Norma L. GoodmanQualified Terminable Interest Trust, establishedon February 28, 2010, under the Robert Good-man Trust, dated June 6, 2001 (“trust”). Notice isfurther given that the Co-Successor Trustees ofthe trust intend to distribute the trust property aspermitted under the terms of the trust. All personsindebted to the trust are requested to make imme-diate payment to the undersigned at Yonkee &Toner, LLP, 319 West Dow Street, P.O. Box 6288,Sheridan, Wyoming 82801. Creditors havingclaims against the trust are required to file a claimagainst the assets of the trust at the office of Yon-kee & Toner, LLP, at the above-stated address, orshall commence a judicial proceeding to contestthe validity of the trust within the earlier of: (a) two(2) years after the decedent’s death; (b) one hun-dred twenty (120) days after the first date of pub-lication of this notice; or (c) one hundred twenty(120) days after a known creditor has been mailednotice by certified mail, return receipt requested,which informs such creditor of the trust’s exist-ence, of the Co-Successor Trustees’ names andaddresses, that the creditor shall make all claimsin writing to the Co-Successor Trustees within onehundred twenty (120) days of the date of mailingof the notice, and that the time allowed for com-mencing a proceeding to contest the validity of thetrust or of the proposed distribution by the Co-Successor Trustees is one hundred twenty (120)days from the date of mailing of the notice. A cred-itor failing to file a claim or a creditor, or any inter-ested party, failing to commence a judicial pro-ceeding to contest the validity of the trust withinthe times provided in this notice, are forever pro-hibited from making any claim against the assetsof the trust or from commencing any judicial pro-ceeding against the assets of the trust.DATED this 26th day of March, 2018.

By: /s/ Cindy L. PilchCo-Successor TrusteeBy: /s/ Ruth A. GrevesenCo-Successor Trustee

John F. AraasYonkee & Toner, LLP, Attys.Pub.: April 3 and 10, 2018.

IN THE MATTER OF THENORMA L. GOODMAN TRUST,

DATED JUNE 6, 2001,AS AMENDED AND RESTATED

NOTICE OF INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE TRUSTASSETS AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS

TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN SAIDTRUST:YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that on the

15th day of March, 2018, Norma L. Goodman,a/k/a Norma Louise Goodman, died in SheridanCounty, Wyoming. At the date of her death,Norma L. Goodman, a/k/a Norma Louise Good-man, was the Settlor (“Settlor”) of the Norma L.Goodman Revocable Trust, dated June 6, 2001,as amended and restated (“trust”). Notice is fur-ther given that Cindy L. Pilch, the Trustee of thetrust, intends to distribute the trust property aspermitted under the terms of the trust. All personsindebted to the Settlor or to the Settlor’s estate ortrust are requested to make immediate payment tothe undersigned at Yonkee & Toner, LLP, 319West Dow Street, P.O. Box 6288, Sheridan,Wyoming 82801. Creditors having claims againstthe Settlor or the Settlor’s estate or trust, are re-quired to file a claim against the assets of the trustat the office of Yonkee & Toner, LLP, at theabove-stated address, or shall commence a judi-cial proceeding to contest the validity of the trustwithin the earlier of: (a) two (2) years after theSettlor’s death; (b) one hundred twenty (120) daysafter the first date of publication of this notice; or(c) one hundred twenty (120) days after a knowncreditor has been mailed notice by certified mail,return receipt requested, which informs such cred-itor of the trust’s existence, of the Trustee’s nameand address, that the creditor shall make allclaims in writing to the Trustee within one hun-dred twenty (120) days of the date of mailing ofthe notice, and that the time allowed for commen-cing a proceeding to contest the validity of a trustor of the proposed distribution by the Trustee isone hundred twenty (120) days from the date ofmailing of the notice. A creditor failing to file aclaim or a creditor, or any interested party, failingto commence a judicial proceeding to contest thevalidity of the trust within the times provided in thisnotice, are forever prohibited from making anyclaim against the assets of the Settlor’s trust orfrom commencing any judicial proceeding againstthe Settlor’s assets or the assets of the trust.DATED this 26th day of March, 2018.

By: /s/ Cindy L. PilchCo-Successor Trustee

John F. AraasYonkee & Toner, LLP, Attys.Pub.: April 3 and 10, 2018.

REQUEST FOR BIDSFROM QUALIFIED DBE ENTERPRISES

HOT IRON, INC.Requests bids from qualified Disadvantaged Busi-ness Enterprises (DBE), Minority Business Enter-prises (MBE) and Woman Business Enterprises(WBE) as well as all other subcontractors andsuppliers for various items of construction and/or

Supplies for the following projects:City of Sheridan 4 Million Gallon Tank

Outfall Improvements ProjectPlease submit bids no later thanApril 18th, 2018 BY 5:00 PM

Bid documents can be purchased through QuestCDN’s website: https://www.questcdn.comPlease fax or email bids Attn: Todd Kroger

Phone: 307-682-8702; Fax: 307-682-0007; email:bids@hotironinc.com

Hot Iron, Inc.P.O. Box 1067

Gillette, WY 82717Publish dates: April 7 & 14, 2018.

Notice of PublicationYou are hereby notified that a Petition has

been filed on behalf of Dennis Jax Osuna in theDistrict Court in and for Sheridan County, Wyom-ing, Civil Action No. 03CV2018-70, the object andprayer of which is to change the name of theabove-named person from Dennis Jax Osuna toLevi Jax Kaupp.Any objection must be filed in the District

Court, 224 S. Main, Suite B-11, Sheridan, Wyom-ing 82801 in writing, on or before May 11, 2018, orthe prayer of the Petitioner be granted.Dated this 15 day of March, 2017.By Julie Hutton, Deputy Clerk

Publish dates: March 27, April 3, 10 & 17, 2018.

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BILLIARDS: Northern Division hosting tournament this weekend around SheridanFROM B1

Each and every week the number of balls a player makes — each ball counting as one point with the 8-ball counting for three — over his or her four games is averaged to calculate a handicap. That averaging system occurs every week of the regular season. This allows the casual player to compete against a more experienced and precise player.

Each team consists of four people, and at the beginning of the season those teams select a home bar where they will play a match every other week. On the off weeks, those teams go on the road and battle other teams at their home bars.

A match is composed of all four players playing one another in four separate games and the total number of balls scored by all four players get added together to see

which team wins. Handicaps get factored in prior to the start of the match.

The Northern Division tournament will take place this upcoming weekend as many of Sheridan’s best pool players will, once again, play at multiple locations around town.

George — who saw a fair share of the Southern Division participants playing with an edge — expects a heightened level of play come this weekend.

“It will be a lot more competitive,” George said.

The Rainbow Bar will play host to the Northern Division championship April 15.

Max McClain, playing for Short Bus All-Stars, fires a shot in the championship of the Southern Division tournament at Sutton’s Tavern Sunday, April 8, 2018.

BUD DENEGA | THE SHERIDAN PRESS

WEST: Avalanche take on PredatorsFROM B1

“This is a big accomplishment to make after such a tough season. We’re not done.”

PREDATORS vs AVALANCHENashville finished seventh in the

league with 261 goals without any play-er scoring 30. The Predators’ balanced attack is fueled by a group of speedy, playmaking defensemen who combined for a league-best 206 points (56 goals, 150 assists). Pekka Rinne went 42-13-4 to fin-ish third in victories, and his 2.31 goals-against average was third among goalies playing 40 or more games.

Though Nashville has won 10 straight against Colorado, beware of the Presidents’ Trophy curse. Of the 31 teams to finish first since 1986 when the trophy was established, only eight have won the Cup, the last being Chicago in 2013.

Nathan MacKinnon entered the MVP discussion by leading Colorado with 97 points, including a league-leading 12 game-winning goals. Colorado tied with Arizona with the youngest roster at 25.8 years old.

GOLDEN KNIGHTS vs KINGSA Golden Knights team put together

with other teams’ discards spent the season using a “why not us?” mantra in setting expansion-team records for most wins (51), home wins (29), road wins (22) and longest point streak (10-0-2). Vegas features six 20-goal-scorers, including trade-deadline addition Tomas Tatar.

The Golden Knights closed the season 6-3-2, with the regulation losses coming against non-playoff teams: Arizona, Edmonton and Calgary. Marc Andre-Fleury went 29-13-4, but allowed six goals on 18 shots in a season-ending 7-1 loss at Calgary.

The defensive-minded Kings allowed a league-low 202 goals and had the league’s best penalty-killing unit. Jonathan Quick’s 2.40 goals-against average was

sixth among goalies appearing in 40 games.

JETS vs WILDThe Jets closed their most successful

season in both victories and points on a 20-5-1 run, including winning the final nine home games. Winnipeg is still searching for its first playoff victory after being swept in two previous appearances: by Anaheim in 2015, and by the Rangers in 2007, when Jets were based in Atlanta.

Paul Stastny’s trade-deadline addition provided the NHL’s second-best offense with six 50-plus point producers. Third-year goalie Connor Hellebuyck went 44-11-9, and broke the single-season record for victories by U.S.-born goalies set by Tom Barrasso.

The Wild limp into their sixth straight playoff appearance with defensemen Ryan Suter (broken right ankle) and Jared Spurgeon (torn right hamstring) sidelined, though Spurgeon is expected back from a 17-game absence in this series.

DUCKS vs SHARKSThe Ducks earned home-ice advan-

tage with a 3-0 season-ending win over Arizona, coupled with the Sharks’ season-ending 6-3 loss to Minnesota. Anaheim went 25-10-4 since the bye break, and is 14-1-2 at home since Jan. 23. Goalie John Gibson went 21-7-3 in his final 31 decisions, but missed the final week and is listed day to day with an upper body injury.

The Sharks went 19-13-3 over their final 35 games since Joe Thornton was side-lined with a knee injury.

PREDICTIONNashville over Anaheim in five games.

Nashville’s too deep and talented to avoid a letdown, while the Ducks have the experience to get through the injury-de-pleted Pacific and untested Vegas. Too bad the Predators and Jets face a poten-tial second-round matchup more befitting of a West final.

RODEO: Cunningham 8th in goat tyingFROM B1

K’s Thomson rode two good bulls and placed fourth in the long round with a score of 76 points. In the short round, he rode a nice spinner for 77 points, placing second in the round and second in the aver-age.

Garrett Uptain broke through in saddle bronc riding, finishing sixth in the long round with a score of 72 points. He got on a hard-to-ride bronc in the short round, fin-ishing fifth with another 72-point ride, and he took sixth in the average.

The women’s team had three members make it back to the short round.

Taylor Bothwell roped a fast calf in the breakaway roping to place third in the long round with a time of 3.0 seconds. She broke out in the short round and missed her calf.

Lakken Bice made the short round in the barrel racing with a long-round time of 15.19 seconds to place fifth. In the short round she tipped a barrel.

Cricket Cunningham made the short round in goat tying with a long round time of 8.0 seconds, finishing 10th in the round. She tied a goat in the short round and beat her long round time with a 7.6 second run to finish eighth in the average.

Sheridan College heads to Casper College April 20.

MSU: Strampel oversaw Nassar’s clinicFROM B1

“Upon arrival, there was no party as few people were present,” the suit said.

The woman said she was feeling “discom-bobulated” and tried to “send a phone text, but she could not control her thumbs to formulate a text.”

At some point, the players took turns rap-ing her in a bedroom, according to the law-suit, which added that she had “no inten-tion of having any physical contact with any of the people present at the party.”

“Plaintiff does not remember anything else until she woke up on the couch a few hours later,” the suit said.

She caught a taxi back to her dorm room and contacted university Counseling Center staff about a week later.

After the woman told counseling center staff that basketball players were involved, she said the staff made it clear that if she reported it to police “she faced an uphill battle that would create anxiety and unwanted media attention,” according to the lawsuit.

“Plaintiff was so discouraged by the representations made by the MSUCC Counseling staff she became frightened to the point that she decided she could not report the rape(s) to law enforcement,” it continued.

She also did not seek assistance from the school’s Sexual Assault Program until 10 months later.

The lawsuit accuses Michigan State of failing to comply with Title IX require-ments by not providing the woman with equal protection under the law and says the school “created an unwritten, official policy that created a culture in which male MSU athletes felt entitled and emboldened to commit sexual assaults without conse-quence.”

The woman’s attorney, Karen Truszkowski, told The Associated Press on Monday that she is reserving comment to give MSU “an opportunity to get up to speed and go over it.”

“They do have it and they have reviewed it,” she said of the lawsuit.

A Michigan State spokeswoman declined comment Monday when contacted by the AP.

Last week, three ex-football players plead-ed guilty to reduced charges in the 2017 sexual assault of a woman in an apartment bathroom.

Disgraced sports doctor Larry Nassar is spending the rest of his life in prison for sexually assaulting girls and women who came to him for treatment.

Former College of Osteopathic Medicine dean William Strampel was charged last month with failing to protect patients from Nassar, along with sexually harassing female students and pressuring them for nude selfies.

Strampel oversaw the clinic where Nassar worked.

Richards helps pitch Padres over Rockies

DENVER (AP) — Pitcher Clayton Richard’s no-doubt, three-run homer that reached the second deck at Coors Field helped the San Diego Padres withstand Carlos Gonzalez’s disputed home run for the Colorado Rockies.

Richard connected for his third career homer as part of a five-run fourth inning in San Diego’s 7-6 win over the Colorado Rockies on Monday night.

He drove the first pitch he saw from Jon Gray (1-2) above the Rockies bullpen in right-center. Carlos Asuaje followed Richard with a home run, the second time this season the Padres have gone deep in succes-sive at-bats.

“Clayton really got us going (offensively),” Padres manager Andy Green said. “That’s not actually what you expect to happen. That ball was absolutely crushed.”

Richard, who last hom-

ered Aug. 27 at Miami, said his towering home run was pretty much a stroke of good fortune.

“I got lucky. Let’s be real,” he said.

Richard (1-1) allowed four runs in five innings. Brad Hand struck out the side in the ninth for his third save.

Ian Desmond, Chris Iannetta and Gonzalez homered for the Rockies. Gonzalez’s two-run drive came in the sixth off Jordan Lyles, pulled the Rockies within 7-6 and led to the ejection of Padres manager Andy Green.

Left fielder Cory Spangenberg made a leap-ing attempt at the wall and actually had the ball in his glove for an instant, even as a fan tried simultaneously to make a barehanded catch. The fan appeared to make some contact with the glove and may have even gotten a hand in the mitt before backing his hands away as Spangenberg dropped back to the ground.

Spangenberg’s dangling glove hit the top of the wall

and the ball bounced out, dropping into the stands. The homer was upheld on replay review, and Green was ejected after vehement-ly arguing over what he saw as fan interference.

“I’ve had calls overturned on us plenty of times when a fan’s finger or hands were over the railing and they touched the player’s glove or the ball and both of those things happened,” Green said.

Spangenberg, with his back to the wall, played the ball well and timed his jump perfectly. He was dumb-founded when he came back down to the ground and realized the ball wasn’t in his glove.

Gray opened impressively, striking out the side in the first, but then quickly got into trouble.

He gave up four singles around a double play, including Manuel Margot’s RBI hit in the second, and was tagged for five runs in the fourth.

Gray allowed seven runs and 10 hits in five innings.

BY DENNIS GEORGATOS

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS