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The Washakie Hospital Foundation had a near record turnout for the 11th annual Badlands Poker Run to raise money for its cancer fund. Organizer Keith Van Brunt said there were 51 motorcyclists, 10 vehicles and several 2-up cycles who rode and drove to play poker, socialize and raise funds for are cancer patients. Foundation Board member Wally Wallace has participated in the Badlands Poker Run for all 11 years, the past eight as a board member. He said the board has been able to provide more...
How many dogs does it take to catch a one little mouse? The answer? More than three apparently. People who have read this column over the years know we used to have a dog, Sarah, who we dubbed the rat killer. She could sniff them out, catch and kill them. She passed the Rainbow Bridge a few years ago and we have not had a dog with those skills since. Apparently, Shadow has developed the skill to find the mice but not to catch them. I got home Monday night and let the dogs outside. I followed so I could take them for a walk and set the water in...
The 19th annual Pepsi Wyoming State BBQ and Bluegrass Festival brought in 27 barbecue teams to compete in the Kansas City Barbecue Society sanctioned contest with Colorado Bulldawg BBQ, Levi and Jessica Stoakes, winning top honors. Colorado Bulldawg BBQ won the event with 706.24 points, ahead of Piggin' Whiskey in second at 701.66 points and American Heroes (2022 and 2021 champions) with 700.53 points. Levi Stoakes said this is his first year cooking as the Colorado Bulldawg BBQ team from Windso...
A comment made to a board member turned into a lengthy discussion during last Thursday’s Hot Springs County School District No. 1 Board meeting. Board member Bethany Webber had a district patron express concern about turnover within the district and board member asked to have the issue on the agenda for “discussion and transparency.” Superintendent Dustin Hunt said the district is not out of line with other businesses in the area. He also added that transfers within the district are not considered turnovers. It was noted that the figures the p...
Worland Mayor Jim Gill notified the city council and others present that former Worland Mayor LaVertha Gotier passed away on Aug. 8. “She was quite a gal,” he said noting she was one of several people instrumental in getting the initial one-cent sales tax passed and did a lot of things for the city. “She is gone but not forgotten,” Gill said. Gotier served as Worland mayor from 2001 through 2004. She later ran for county commissioner in 2006 on the Democratic ticket. According to a Northern Wyoming Daily News article regarding her commiss...
For the 19th year there will be barbecue and bluegrass in abundance at the Washakie County Fairgrounds in Worland as the Pepsi Wyoming State BBQ Championship & Bluegrass Festival gets underway Friday night. This year's music features three top bluegrass groups from around the country. The annual encore performance is Special Consensus, who returns from last year. Special Consensus "is a bluegrass band that has achieved a contemporary sound in their four decades of performing, making their music...
Did you see the news over the weekend? Did you pay attention to the attack on the First Amendment? It did not come from politicians or the government but rather from law enforcement. According to a story from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and more than 30 news media organizations are condemning last week’s police raid of Kansas’s Marion County Record during which law enforcement officers seized the newspaper’s electronic newsgathering equipment and reporting materials. The Rep...
The Washakie County Sheriff’s Office is planning on one final large-scale search for Breanna Mitchell, 28 of Worland. Mitchell went missing when her Ford Expedition got stuck off of the Nowater Road in the early morning hours of Saturday, July 22. Sheriff Austin Brookwell announced Tuesday that prior to the large scale search, “a private company, Find-911 out of Cody will assist Washakie County with searching out [in the Nowater badlands] before the final search. This company has K-9s, a drone and really advanced software to process the ima...
You are right. It seems that summer just started last week but here we are with school classes starting on Aug. 16 for both Worland and Ten Sleep and some neighboring communities. It is hard to believe that summer is basically over, although as I write this we still have two major summer celebrations left — this weekend’s Nowoodstock in Ten Sleep and next weekend’s Wyoming State BBQ Championship and Bluegrass Festival. Worland kindergarteners get a head start on the school year before everyone else, as Washakie County School District No. 1 has...
If you passed by Washakie Museum & Cultural Center Tuesday morning, Aug. 1, you would have seen a dozen or so people filling in cracks in the front sidewalk with red sand as the Red Sand Project made a stop as part of its 10-day, 1,500-mile trip to bring awareness to the crisis of the Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Relatives (MMIW/R) and human trafficking. Per its website, "Red Sand Project is a participatory artwork created by Molly Gochman that uses sidewalk interventions and...
What began as a search for a missing 28-year-old Worland woman turned into what was believed to be a recovery mission as Washakie County Search and Rescue spent three days draining a pond in hopes of finding Breanna Mitchell. Washakie County Sheriff Austin Brookwell said on Friday they brought in a cadaver dog from Park County Search and Rescue and the dog indicated on a spot near a pond where a bloodhound earlier in the week had also indicated Mitchell's presence. Due to the extreme heat, the...
Many kudos this week go to Washakie County. One LARGE KUDO goes to the Washakie County Sheriff’s Office and Washakie County Search and Rescue who have worked tirelessly in the search for Breanna Mitchell. Mitchell, 28, of Worland, went missing 12 days ago (as of this writing Tuesday, Aug. 1). She had texted and called friends she was stuck on a side road off of the Nowater Road. Search and Rescue members, as many as 15 at a time, have been out searching since she was reported missing and now they are currently working on draining a pond, where...
The Central Administration Office will be named after longtime custodian Joe Arnold following a unanimous vote by the Hot Springs County School District No. 1 Board of Trustees last Tuesday, July 18. During the meeting, Superintendent Dustin Hunt asked for an exemption to the board policy that requires someone to have been gone from the district for five years before being able to have a facility named after them. “In January he will have 60 years in the Wyoming Retirement System with no plans to retire,” Hunt said. He said Arnold dem...
Washakie County Sheriff's Office is seeking the public's help in locating a missing Worland woman. Sheriff Austin Brookwell said the Sheriff's Office was informed on Saturday at 8:59 p.m. that Breanna Mitchell, 28, was missing. Searches have been conducted by Search and Rescue, family members, friends and volunteers on Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Resources used include horses, Civil Air Patrol, private aircraft, Guardian Flight and a bloodhound from a volunteer from Fremont County....
In Ecclesiastes chapter 3 it says “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens,” including a time to speak. The time is apparently now to speak about child sex trafficking, which is a global problem and billion-dollar industry. There is no longer a time to be silent and for Alejandro Monteverde, who wrote and directed the film, “Sound of Freedom,” the time to speak out on the topic is now. According to a Department of Homeland Security report, “Countering Human Trafficking: Year In Review (October...
This year's fair royalty has already had a busy summer, despite the fact that the Washakie County Fair just got underway last Saturday. In its second year under the direction of Beth Stiver, this year's royalty is Junior Princess Lacee Greet of Ten Sleep, Princess Dahlia Lara of Worland and Queen Faith Pfeifer of Worland. Greet is the junior princess for the second year in a row. She said she enjoyed it last year and it was a lot of fun. She mostly enjoyed the riding at different events and carr...
The Worland City Council approved a new bar and grill license for Hurricane Lanes doing business as Bean and Burger. The dispensing area will be where the old café used to be, according to Clerk/Treasurer Tracy Glanz. She said the city still has a bar and grill license available but does not have any retail licenses available. Under the bar and grill license, sales must be 60% food and the bar must close when the grill closes. The council also approved on second reading, Ordinance 870 to rezone 1019 Coburn from commercial/business to medium hig...
This Saturday kicks off Washakie County Fair Week with the theme, “Remembering the past, Embracing our present, engineering our future. The fair is an opportunity for everyone to come socialize, enjoy some good food and have a little family fun. The five-member fair board has worked hard over the past year to put together an entertaining schedule. A few things didn’t come to fruition for various reasons including stock dog trials and tractor pull but there is still plenty to do and see. The week of five concerts, four of them free, begins Mon...
Just when you think you have a handle on all the way scammers will reach out to try and separate you from your money they up their game. Recently, there are reports of scammers using local business names. Rocky Mountain Power has reported scammers are calling and contacting customers seeking immediate payment to avoid disconnection. RMP will not ask you to make payments with a pre-paid credit card but most of all they do not contact their customers in that way. RMP suggests rather than giving your account number to the caller, ask them to give...
Sometimes when thinking what to write in this space, readers provide the inspiration as is the case this week regarding customer service. A recent columnist for the Northern Wyoming News discussed the importance of customer service and an astute reader brought by an old Wyoming Business Tips column from the University of Wyoming. This got me thinking that perhaps more needs to be said regarding customer service. The University of Wyoming Business Tips column provided some good tips for businesses in helping them and their employees offer great...
The 22nd annual Culturefest kicks off at 9 a.m. in the back lawn of the Worland Community Center Complex this Saturday. The annual festival originally started downtown and was moved in 2010 to the Community Center when the community center took over the organization of the event. WCCC events organizer Sheryl Ley said the event is a family-friendly community event hosted by the Community Center. She said it is not a fundraiser for the center. They have sponsors who help fund the event including...
The other day when I was putting out our flag at the Northern Wyoming News, a gust of wind knocked the flag out of my hand. I know etiquette says that the flag should not touch the ground, but it was not intentional. I gently picked it up and put the flag in the stand attached to our exterior wall. I mentioned to one of the employees that it hit the ground and how I thought flag etiquette meant it should be properly disposed of, but considering how many people treat the flag in the name of patriotism, I was not going to do that. (I was wrong,...
It’s funny how certain things at certain times can bring memories flooding back. The other night after I got dishes done I went and sat down on the couch and my husband had on a baseball game. It was the Los Angeles Dodgers. Every time I see a Dodgers game I think of my dad. He was a huge Dodgers fan, but this game memories came flooding back for me. Perhaps because his birthday was just over a week ago and he has been on my mind a lot. Growing up I never played baseball, never really watched baseball until my senior year in high school. OK t...
“Famous Friends” is a popular country song from Chris Young and Kane Brown, written by Young, along with Cary Barlowe and Corey Crowder. In the song they talk about their famous friends, not in the country music business but back home, including football stars, teachers, firefighters and more. We have many famous people in our backyard, many of whom we have highlighted here in the Northern Wyoming News. There are many state champions, all-state and all-conference athletes from Worland and Ten Sleep high schools and other schools around the Big...
It is spring training for carnival companies and that has proven to be a benefit to the Worland community. Dreamland Carnival Company of Laurel, Montana, traditionally does shows in Montana, going clear up north in the border state. This year, owner Riley Cooke wanted to “straighten out his line of travel” so his preseason schedule began last week in Cody, will be in Worland starting Thursday (set up has begun), and then they head to familiar territory in Riverton before beginning their full summer season. “It’s like spring training in basebal...