Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
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Today is Flag Day, which means it is also my brother-in-law’s birthday. Ed, who was in the Navy, used to say that he was so important that the entire nation flew flags in his honor. We always chuckled but do you know what each of the folds in our flag actually means? Here is the answer, thanks to a booklet titled “GOD BLESS AMERICA: PRAYERS & REFLECTIONS FOR OUR COUNTRY” that LaVern Neihart gave me several years ago. It has a copyright date of 1999 and the part I am quoting states “The flag-folding ceremony described by the UNIFORMED SERVICE...
Just a heads-up that on Tuesday, Jan. 26, our Business and Professional Women and the Washakie Hospital Auxiliary will co-host a noon Brown Bag lecture in the Washakie Room at the Community Center. Dr. Sara Radabaugh will talk about acupuncture for pain relief and all other applications of this treatment. According to the Hospital Auxiliary President Mary Minish, this will be a good time to get your questions about acupuncture answered. Back when Dr. Sara’s father was practicing here in Worland, I went to him and acupuncture definitely h...
Several people have asked me to update the list of things that are recycled around here and I am asking you if you know of any more that should be added to the list beside what I've added below. The Worland Senior Center is now collecting clear plastic bottles, sans the lids, and they are recycling at Pete Smet's along with their beverage cans. They use the money earned to help support their community and center-based efforts. The bottle lids can be left at our Washakie County Extension Office....
The Big Horn Basin is in the midst of three fairs, so it is a busy time for 4-H families, open class exhibitors, those of us in Extension, those who attend the events to support family and friends, those who are in the newspaper business and trying to take pictures and write stories about each fair as well as those who attend to catch up on what is new in their friends’ and neighbors’ lives. The people here in Washakie County that have been a blessing to me are Fabric and Fashion judge Margie Jackson, from Thermopolis, and Rita Farmer, a Washak...