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WORLAND – The Worland High School Key Club is holding their fourth annual Bunny Dash Fun Run at 9 a.m. Saturday to benefit the Worland Elks Community Diaper Bank. “We will be having a 5K fun run/walk to benefit the diaper bank this Saturday. The registration fee is a package of diapers or wipes, plus we will be taking monetary donations for the diaper bank as well,” Worland High School Key Club advisor Pam Greek said. Interested participants can register at Warrior Stadium next to the high school before 9 a.m., she added. Prizes will be given...
WORLAND – During the Worland High School speech and debate awards banquet Thursday evening students were honored for their dedication and hard work during 2016-2017 the speech and debate season. Worland High School speech and debate coach Rick Dorn stated the speech and debate season is the longest season of all academic seasons going from November through March. Speech and debate seniors took the opportunity to start the banquet with a few awards of their own for specific students whom they felt deserved special mention for the things that t...
WORLAND – Wednesday afternoon Extension Office Cent$ible Nutrition Educator Cindy Aguilar visited Andrea Cooley's West Side Elementary School third-grade class to teach them about the importance of a balanced diet using the Grazing with Marty Moose program. The main focus of Wednesday's class was the importance of fiber, serving size, reading labels and making sure that the grains that the students eat are whole grains. Using 20 feet of clothesline to give the students a better understanding of...
WORLAND – Banner Health Washakie Medical Center staff members; Star (Estrellita) Vazquez, emergency department technician and Patty Tapia, licensed practical nurse recently completed certification in the Banner Health Spanish language assistance program to be interpreters for the Spanish speaking population of the community. "They both really care about people and want to help people and to be an interpreter, especially in a medical setting; you have to have that heart to be able to do that. S...
WORLAND - In preparation for the Relay For Life event scheduled for July 8, the Big Horn Basin Relay For Life board is holding a kickoff at 6 p.m. Friday in the Fraternal Order of Eagles building at 701 S. Railway Ave., in Worland. “We are going to be welcoming teams and giving them ideas for fundraisers. We will have a mock campsite and luminary ceremony so that the teams can see what to anticipate the night of Relay For Life,” Relay For Life Chair Amy Reid said. “We have incorporated Thermopolis this year so we are truly the Big Horn Basin Re...
THERMOPOLIS – Local and state officials toured an abandoned Thermopolis building to begin the process of determining its fate. Wednesday morning members of the community representing Main Street Thermopolis, the town council, Hot Springs County Commissioners, local media and downtown building owners along with Linda Klinck of Wyoming Main Street and Linda Kiisk of the Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office met at an abandoned historic building at 518 Arapahoe in Thermopolis to tour the b...
TEN SLEEP – The Ten Sleep School Board Monday evening, during a special meeting, listened to the recommendations offered by the task force put together by Ten Sleep School Superintendent Jimmy Phelps to address the negative effect of $282,000 on next year’s budget caused by state and federal cuts along with an increase in health care premiums. “I’ve got to make some kind of recommendation that is the best that I can come to you with. Over the last few weeks I have spent a lot of time thinking about this and everything that I came up with is...
WORLAND – Chip and Bonnie Newton, owners of the Alpine Medical store in Cody, which opened in April 2014, opened a second store in Worland Feb. 13, to meet the orthopedic needs of the community, with a third store to be opened in Powell about a month for now. “It’s called a DME (durable medical equipment) store. We do home oxygen, a lot of bracing, sports bracings and prosthetics. We work mostly with the orthopedic surgeons in the northwest corner of Wyoming,” Chip Newton said. “I think that we are the only locally owned company that does this...
WORLAND – After 40 years of working at the hospital in Worland both internally and externally and 44 years living her dream as an RN (registered nurse) Mary Jo Hake is retiring with Thursday being her last day. "My mom was a nurse. I always wanted to be a nurse since I was a little girl. I had a brother that was very ill when we were young and that just made me all the more want to help people," Hake said. "My plan for retirement is to spend more time with my family, five grandchildren and a...
By Tracie Mitchell Staff Writer TEN SLEEP – The best way to understand about something you learned in a book is to see what you are learning about first hand. Ten Sleep School fourth and fifth graders were given that chance at the end of their study of the life cycle of fish by visiting the Wyoming Game and Fish Ten Sleep Fish Hatchery Tuesday morning and watching the process unfold in front of them. Ten Sleep Fish Hatchery fish culturist Greg Lehr began the field trip by bringing the s...
WORLAND – Due to heavy rain last fall when sugar beet growers were trying to harvest their crops and the frosty conditions of late December, the Wyoming Sugar Company is requesting an economic emergency declaration and $5,675,650 in loans from the Wyoming Business Council board of directors. A special call-in meeting is to be held at 10 a.m. on Thursday, March 30. "The loans would be for the Wyoming Sugar Company growers. With all the rain in the fall, the beets came in muddy. They were p...
WORLAND – Worland High School speech and debate students Dalen Brazelton and Taelor Nielsen qualified for the National speech and debate tournament last weekend during the national qualifying tournament in Casper. Brazelton qualified in dramatic interpretation and Nielsen qualified in congress and foreign extemporaneous. Unfortunately, Nielsen will not be able to represent Wyoming in congress and foreign extemporaneous due to prior obligations. “Taelor is not going to be able to go to nationals because she is also the Distinguished Young Wom...
WORLAND – Since mid-January students at the Worland preschool wake up on Monday, Wednesday and Friday filled with excitement because they are going to spend part of the morning with the Worland High School World of Children class learning the alphabet. "They get mad when it's not their day because we have two groups which alternate. We are here (high school) Monday, Wednesday and Friday, so sometimes they are here twice a week and sometimes only once a week. It's a real bummer to them when it's...
WORLAND – Every year during the months of March and April the Worland High School Student Council raises funds for the Make-A-Wish Foundation to help make a child’s wish come true. “We have raised around $1,500 each year for the last two years,” Worland High School student council advisor Christy Vickers said. The Make-A-Wish Foundation grants the wishes of children with cancer and other terminal conditions. According to the Make-A-Wish Foundation website, “We grant the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions to enrich th...
TEN SLEEP – During the Ten Sleep School Board meeting Monday night Ten Sleep School Superintendent Jimmy Phelps went over the recent bills passed by the Wyoming Legislature that may or may not affect the school, its employees and its students. Wyoming House Bill 194, which allows school boards with the consultation of local law enforcement to allow employees to carry concealed weapons, is one of those bills. Phelps recommended that the board begin discussing House Bill 194, consult with the sheriff and decide if allowing employees to carry c...
TEN SLEEP – During the Ten Sleep School monthly board meeting Monday evening, Ten Sleep Superintendent Jimmy Phelps explained to board members that state and federal cuts, along with an increase in health care premiums could cause a $282,000 negative effect on next year’s budget. To address this issue a task force has been created to help with recommendations on where cuts can and will be done. “I’m hoping that that is the worst case scenario. It’s not just us, its every district in the state. Worland has some very deep cuts to make, Thermopol...
WORLAND – The Worland Rotary Club in conjunction with several other Wyoming Rotary Clubs across the state and the Huehuetenango (pronounced Way Way Tenango) Rotary Club in Guatemala have provided seven poor villages in the mountains above Huehuetenango with 334 latrines which will benefit 2,776 people. “There is so much that we take for granted here. Your kids are complaining because they don’t have the newest iPhone or they don’t have a car when they turn 16, these guys live in houses with no...
WORLAND – On March 1, Banner Health Washakie Medical Center respiratory therapist Matt McPherson was surprised during the annual employee of the year luncheon to learn that he had been voted by his peers to be the 2016 employee of the year. The employee of the year receives a plaque with his picture on the wall of the hospital and a $150 gift certificate. McPherson stated that when he first started at the hospital he saw the plaques and knew that earning employee of the year was a goal that h...
WORLAND – The award winning Christian rock band Sidewalk Prophets will be performing in the Worland Middle School Auditorium at 7 p.m. March 8, thanks to the band's generous offer for fans to submit their cities as possible tour venues, a handful of gentleman who took the initiative to submit Worland and the local businesses that helped sponsor the event. The Worland concert is part of the second leg of the band's "Prodigal Tour." "I follow them on Facebook and they were posting that they w...
WORLAND – For 34 years the Wyoming Wild Sheep Foundation, a non-profit 501(c) (3) status organization, has been working with many different organizations to help increase, preserve and reintroduce wild sheep to historic ranges in Wyoming. "It's exciting that we have an expanding range of wild sheep in Wyoming. We'd like to make sure that future generations get involved in loving the outdoors and wildlife conservation," Wyoming Wild Sheep Foundation secretary Dean Dijenno said. According to the W...
WORLAND – Washakie County Commissioners have appointed Beth Voss as the new Washakie Medical Center and Banner Health Hospital Board member. Voss replaces Anna Venable who resigned late last year because she had taken a full time job with the hospital. Voss is looking forward to her role as hospital board member. "It's going to be a whole new experience, I'm excited about it," Voss said. "I'm excited to see the changes that the hospital is making and how it's going to benefit Washakie County and...
LOVELL – Saturday morning the Wyoming Game and Fish and the Wyoming Wild Sheep Foundation worked together to capture and health check 20 bighorn sheep ewes, three young rams and a ram lamb from the Devil's Canyon herd near Lovell before relocating the animals to the Ferris-Seminoe herd near Rawlins. A second bighorn sheep capture is schedule for today to gather another 14 ewes and two young rams for a total of 40 being relocated. The 40 animals from the Devil's Canyon herd will help increase the...
WORLAND – On Monday, Washakie Medical Center and Banner Health held a sneak preview open house with a tour of the new Emergency Department (ED), which will go live Feb. 28. The new ED has five private rooms with a sixth to be added at a later date, a large nurse's station and a waiting room. "We are excited about the increased privacy and comfort for our patients while they are in the department," RN Senior Manager in the Emergency Department Janet Clark said. "As a rural facility, we have to b...
WORLAND – During WESTI Ag Days Feb, 14-15 at the Worland Community Center Complex U.W. Extension Range Land Resources Educator Mae Smith spoke to participants about two new invasive grasses that have been found in Wyoming; Medusahead and Ventenata grasses. Smith stated that the grasses have not yet been found in the Big Horn Basin but that they have been found in the Sheridan area. The Ventenata grass was found in many different areas and the Medusahead grass had been found in only a couple spots. “I have a feeling that it’s (Ventenata) proba...
WORLAND – Sunday, toward the end of the 10:30 a.m. worship service, the Worland Zion Lutheran Church will be dedicating the new addition to the building at 1,500 Circle Road. After the dedication there will be an open house and reception with tours from noon- 2 p.m. "We will be dedicating the new addition to the Lord's service about 15 minutes before the end of the worship service," Zion Lutheran Church Lead Pastor Ralph Partelow said. The addition took almost a year to build and cost the church...