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Through Mayville State University in Mayville, North Dakota and the group People Inspire People, my dream to study abroad became a reality. My journey started when I was applying for nursing school. The nursing school at Mayville State University is fairly new, but offers many opportunities for their students. This was the first year a group of nursing students from Mayville would be traveling to Belize for two weeks for a medical mission. Myself, eight fellow students, and a faculty advisor traveled to Punta Gorda, Belize from May 14 to May...
WORLAND - Kathy Bush of Ten Sleep has been leading programs within the Washakie County 4-H program for 26 years. Bush has been involved with 4-H activities since she was young. "4-H wasn't like it is today when I was a child. What we were involved in was clubs. Our Upper Nowood Club was like the Jolly Neighbors and it was a family thing. All of the people in the club brought their canning, sewing, and different grains and each club decorated their space and put their stuff out," Bush said. She...
WORLAND - The Washakie County Fair flower show welcomed Denise Fink of Cody, a certified flower judge, to judge the flower and design entries this year. This is the first year Washakie County has ever had a certified flower judge, according to flower show supervisor Jane O' Connor. According to the American Institute of Floral Designers, certified flower judges train proficient evaluators and judges, provide opportunities for personal educational enhancement, raise the level of professional...
WORLAND - West Side Elementary kindergarten teacher Carla Bryant has provided kids with hands-on interactive learning experiences with the Osmo program in a two day summer camp. According to playosmo.com, "Osmo is an award-winning game system that will change the way your child interacts with the iPad by opening it up to hands-on play." Bryant said they currently have six games. "There is drawing, Newton's Law's, numbers and words, coding and tangrams," she said. Tangrams are where students "arr...
THERMOPOLIS — Hannah Andreen of Thermopolis was one of 56 young chefs to join First Lady Michelle Obama at the White House for the fifth annual Kids’ “State Dinner” on July 14. 1,200 entries were submitted to this year’s Healthy Lunchtime Challenge. Each U.S. state, five territories, and the District of Columbia attended the dinner. First Lady Michelle Obama once again teamed up with PBS flagship station WGBH Boston, the U.S. Department of Education, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to host the fifth annual Healthy Lunchtime Challenge...
WORLAND — John Adlesich has taken over as the new CEO of South Big Horn County Hospital. He officially started on June 16. Adlesich said he grew up in the health care field. “My mom was a nurse. I started working in medical clinics when I was 16. I enjoy helping people. In health care administration I’m able to help the people who actually care for the patients and I enjoy doing that,” he said. Adlesich attended undergraduate and graduate school at Oregon State University, where he received a Bachelor of Science in political science with a mino...
WORLAND - Nearly 60 bicyclists from Cycle America rode into Worland Wednesday. The group started in Seattle and will be travelling to Boston, according to Cycle America owner Greg Walsh. "Cycle America is an organization that's been organizing bike trips across the United States since 1988. In around 2000 we started including Worland as far as one of the overnights," Walsh said. According to Walsh, there are approximately 58 to 60 cyclists. The trip is about 42,000 to 43,000 miles. "It's in...
WORLAND - Bob and Teresa Harrington have turned names such as Elsa, Dory and Captain America into more than just Disney cartoons and superheroes, they have made them shaved ice flavors. Bob and Teresa bought Worland's lone shaved ice business in 2014 before the summer started. "This is our third summer," Teresa Harrington said. "It was actually kind of a funny story, we went to Sally Molina's at Sally's Classic Pizza and had ice cream there one day and she said she was thinking about selling...
WORLAND — “We don’t create businesses, we help people create businesses,” LeAnn Baker Chenoweth Washakie Development Association executive director said. According to Chenoweth, WDA is a private non,profit corporation that started in 1990. Chenoweth said the WDA works with business retention, expansion and attraction in a variety of ways. “We might be working with a startup entrepreneur to build their first time business plan before they go to a lender, or we might be working with an existing company that is just looking to expand or add jobs,...
WORLAND - Worland's first Boy Scouts Day Camp took place Saturday, June 25 at the Washakie County Fairgrounds. The event ran from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. According to Cloud Peak District Commissioner Tim Barrus, 35 boys from around the area, ages 7 to 10, registered for the camp. "The camp's theme was 'Cub Scout Investigators.' The boys participated in activities such as BB guns, archery, wrist rockets, a water activity and fingerprinting," Barrus said. "We had older scouts helping out and 4-H...
WORLAND - Worland Middle School elective teacher Kim Wyman is giving her summer school students hands-on out-of-classroom experiences. "We are working and learning together this summer at WMS. I teach an elective where we turn many opportunities into enrichment with technology, hands-on projects, and tapping into our prior background knowledge while learning new things," Wyman said. Wyman invited 4-H Extension 4-H / Youth Program Associate Amber Armajo and summer intern Kellynne Doyle to her cla...
WORLAND — On Sunday, June 5, the Worland community is invited to celebrate the 29th annual National Cancer Survivors Day. The celebration will begin at the Worland Middle School Auditorium with musicians from around Wyoming at 1 p.m., doors will open at 12:30. Featured sounds will be Pan Buffalo, 15 steel drum players from Buffalo; Sugar Beats; local musician/performer Dan Garnett; area musicians Shaun Nicklas, John Brooks, Cal Gandy, and Rick Phipps as the Silvertip String Band; and Grace Chapel Community Church worship leader Rhea White closi...
WORLAND — Longtime teller for ANB Bank, Mary Hoffman, is retiring after 62 years. Hoffman started into banking when she was a senior in high school. “Second semester of my senior year I worked half days and I’ve been here ever since,” she said. “I was just was working and didn’t see any point in quitting and I didn’t have anything else to do,” Hoffman added. Hoffman has been with the bank through two name changes and seen how banking has changed over the years. Hoffman said, “We used to come into work in the morning and hand post on a posting...
WORLAND - Bruce Blanchard is retiring from teaching after 19 years. He has taught 10 years in Worland, one year in the Pine Bluffs area, two years in Oklahoma, three years in Louisiana, and three years in Missouri. "I haven't ever taught the same thing. I've been in Worland for 10 years and every year I taught something different, mostly in English and Social Studies," Blanchard said. Blanchard attended Northwest College Assemblies of God in Kirkland, Wash. and received his first bachelor's in B...
WORLAND - Marilyn Lane of Worland was appointed as the State of Wyoming Elks president on May 21 at the state convention in Worland. Being the state president entails travelling to Montana and Colorado for their state meetings as well as attending the Grand Lodge session in Houston. Lane will also be travelling to all 16 lodges throughout Wyoming. Lane said her biggest job is to promote Elkdom and help with the projects that the Elks Lodge has. The Elks projects include; drug awareness, hoop...
A Sheridan man sustained injuries after a single-car rollover north of Manderson Saturday evening. According to Trooper BJ Kidgell, 50-year-old Michael Hart was travelling north from Sheridan in a 1999 Acura Legend four-door sedan at 6:49 p.m. on US 20. Hart drifted to the right around mile marker 185 and corrected in some soft dirt turning the vehicle sideways. He hit an approach and rolled the vehicle twice and during that time was ejected from the vehicle. Hart was cited for lane use and charged with driving under the influence. Kidgell...
WORLAND - East Side Elementary Principal Linda Anderson will be retiring at the end of the 2015/2016 school year. Anderson attended college for two years at Casper College and then went on to the University of Wyoming where she majored in education and educational administration. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in education and educational administration and a Master of Arts in education and educational administration. "I decided to go into education because I love learning and I love children,"...
WORLAND - Joe Bishop will be retiring after the 2015/2016 school year after being a principal for 25 years in Worland. Bishop attended college at the University of Nebraska - Kearney majoring in education. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in education and a Master of Science in education. "I decided to go into education because I really enjoyed teaching children things that they didn't know or understand or think they could do." Bishop said. Before becoming a principal, Bishop taught...
WORLAND - Monday night the Worland High School thespians ended their school year with the annual awards banquet. Coach Rick Dorn presented the drama students with special awards they received throughout the plays they participated in and from the state drama competition. Awards included participation as well as funny awards. Main awards given out at the banquet included: Hardest-Working - Emrie Jolley All-Around Acting Excellence - Mackenzie Cottrell/Dalen Brazelton MVP - Sariah Durrant Best...
It has been my privilege and honor to serve as an intern for the summer at the Northern Wyoming Daily News. There are some people I would like to thank. Thank you to the office staff for welcoming me with open arms into their office, the editorial staff for putting up with me, I know I was hard to work with at times, Karla Pomeroy for being an awesome editor and never giving up on me and I would also like to thank Patrick Murphy for the amazing opportunity he has presented me with working with...
The rabbit show was Thursday at the Washakie County Fairgrounds....
WORLAND - The 30th annual flower show at the Washakie County Fair was in full swing Wednesday afternoon as more than 100 flowers were being judged. Flower show supervisor Jane O'Connor said the flower show started in 1985 and she has been the supervisor for 10 years. O'Connor said that all flowers that are entered into the competition must be home grown. The sections of competition available are annuals, perennials, herbs, roses, limbs and house plants. According to O'Connor, there are 68...
Cheryl Reichelt is celebrating 10 years as the Washakie Museum and Cultural Center director. According to Reichelt, she came from Great Falls, Montana, where she was a finance manager for the Russell Museum. She said, "My sister, Reba, and I took our first sisters' trip together in January 2005. I jokingly told her to help me find a job in Worland and I would move here. Her daughters had graduated and moved on and my son would graduate that spring." Within about 2 weeks, Dan Scheuerman...
WORLAND - Since July 6, 20 children have been practicing for the play Seussical Jr. at the Washakie Museum. These children are a part of the Summer Performing Arts Camp which runs through July 25. The overarching plot of the show mirrors that of "Horton Hears a Who", centering on Horton the Elephant's endeavors to protect the people of Who-ville, who live on a tiny speck of dust. It also features characters and scenarios from many other Seuss books including musical numbers based on the...
WORLAND - The Worland High School Drama Club was one of 25 schools nationwide to receive an invitation to the National Thespian Festival in Lincoln, Neb., June 22 – 29. Seven students attended the festival - Taran Pennington, Jodie Dorn, Emily Myers Morgan Pennington, Sariah Durrant, Josh Miller and Burk DeBolt. To attend the festival, the group had to raise $7,500. They raised these funds by holding a 50/50 raffle and a soup night at one of their plays performances. The group of Dorn, Myers, M...