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WORLAND — South Side students in Julie Newell’s third-grade class celebrated Red Nose Day Thursday, May 25. Newell said she is using Red Nose Day to teach the students lessons on poverty and knowing the difference between wants and needs. She said it also brings awareness of less fortunate children around the world. This is the first year Newell’s class observed National Red Nose Day, thanks in part to her parents, Dee Anne and Charles Vandiver. Every year they visit her class bringing some treat to the students and this year it was red noses...
CHEYENNE – Isiac Hines, a ninth-grade student at Colter Jr./Sr. High School in Worland, took third place in Wyoming Level 3 (grades 9-12) competition in the 2016-17 Letters About Literature contest. The Wyoming State Library conducted state-level judging through its Wyoming Center for the Book program. Letters About Literature, a project of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, is a reading and writing contest for students in grades 4-12. Students are asked to read a book, poem, or speech and write to the author (living or d...
CHEYENNE — A Wyoming veterans service officer from the Wyoming Veterans Commission will conduct community outreach services in Wyoming cities throughout June. Brad Cline is available to meet with veterans and their families to discuss state and federal veterans’ benefits, Department of Veterans Affairs claims, or VA healthcare. Cline can also help veterans and their families apply for benefits, file claims or request healthcare. His office is staffed in Cody, at 1026 Blackburn Ave., Suite 1, and he will also be available at the following locati...
WORLAND — The 2017 Wyoming State Young Authors results were released last week with three Worland students earning top honors. First-place honors for Worland went to Kaitlyn Bostrom, non-fiction, 10th grade, “Giving Up”; Gavin Schneider, poetry, seventh grade, “Advice from A …”; and Sullie-Ann Keuntjes, poetry, 10th grade, “A Garden for Bree.” Earning honorable mention from Worland were: Fiction: Tanner Stott, eighth grade, “The Examination Zone”; Sariah Durrant, 12th grade, “The Little Well.” Non-fiction: Kale Kienlen, first grade, “You’re No...
WORLAND – Recently, the staff at Washakie Medical Center celebrated National Hospital Week and National Nurses Week May 6-12. This gave WMC the opportunity to say thank you to its 114 hospital employees. It was a week of special recognition activities for the hard work and dedication our health care team demonstrates every day. On May 9, Washakie Medical Center presented annual awards to the following staff members at Washakie Medical Center. Les Snyder, registered nurse (RN), was named Nurse of the Year. Snyder provides great patient care, col...
WORLAND – The CatchAFire team is holding a free barbecue at the Circle J Ranch east of Ten Sleep Saturday from 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. for anyone who wishes to attend. Co-coordinator Frank Ley stated that everyone one is welcome, single and married, with and without children, young or old, regardless of denomination to enjoy a day of fellowship, encouragement and God’s love. “I’d like to call it the family day at Circle J, just because we are actually able to bring family. A lot of people are worried about, well I don’t have family. Even in church t...
WORLAND — Worland High School band instructor Willie Wright recently announced his 2016-2017 awards. Senior Dane Bennett, who was an All-Northwest Band selection and a first alternate All-National Band selection was honored as the most outstanding musician. He also was honored with the John Phillip Sousa Band Award®. According to theinstrumentalist.com, “The Sousa Award is the pinnacle of achievement in a high school band. Introduced in 1955 to honor the top student in the high school band, the John Philip Sousa Band Award® recognizes super...
TEN SLEEP – The Harlem Ambassadors, a professional basketball team that tours around the country nine months out of the year, visited the Ten Sleep School Monday afternoon to promote staying in school, never giving up, anti-bullying and always giving your best. The team used comedy, student and teacher participation and amazing basketball feats to slam dunk the message home to students. Harlem Ambassador coach and female member Brittany Dorsey explained to the students how she earned her spot on...
By Christine Weber Guest Writer The Washakie County Homemakers has nominated Bonnie Hefenieder as the group’s 2017 Unsung Hero. Bonnie has been a member of the Homemakers since the early 1970s; and currently as a member-at-large, serves as the Washakie County Homemaker’s Council’s secretary. Bonnie was born in Hamilton, Montana, and at the age of 5 moved to Worland with her parents and siblings. She received her education through the Worland school system. It was during her senior year in high school she would meet her future husband. “We d...
CHEYENNE - Eleven Wyoming students from across the state were recognized for their artwork in Cheyenne on April 21 by Governor Mead. The celebration acknowledged their achievement in art and excellence in interpreting agriculture and natural resource concepts. Each year Wyoming Agriculture in the Classroom (WAIC) encourages second- through fifth-grade students to submit a hand-drawn bookmark for the program. This year WAIC received over 3,000 entries, a record number, from students across...
WORLAND - The Worland High School Drama Department will present the Broadway musical "Big Fish" this Thursday and Friday. Under the direction of Rick Dorn, "Big Fish" has a 25-plus member cast and crew with Dominic Damiano as the lead, Edward Bloom. Dalen Brazelton plays his son and Sariah Durrant is the wife. Dorn said the play is about a father and son trying to reconnect after the father has spent his whole life telling his son tall tales about himself. Older now, the son, more pragmatic, is trying to find out more about his father and is ne...
WORLAND - Born Again store has been "born again" at a new location just down the street from where it was for eight years. Born Again is a retail store operated by the Born Again Board as an outreach for St. Alban's Episcopal Church. It started in 1950 and has had several locations including homes and garages. "It's been all over town," Wildman said. But the last eight years, the store has been a main street staple at 734 Big Horn. "It was a major move to be downtown as a retail store," Wildman...
WASHINGTON — The Postal Service will soon release a first-of-its-kind stamp that changes when you touch it. The Total Solar Eclipse Forever stamp, which commemorates the Aug. 21 eclipse, transforms into an image of the moon from the heat of a finger. Tens of millions of people in the United States hope to view this rare event, which has not been seen on the U.S. mainland since 1979. The eclipse will travel a narrow path across the entire country for the first time since 1918. The path will run west to east from Oregon to South Carolina and w...
TEN SLEEP — Ten Sleep Pioneers fended very well at the Wyoming High School State Art Symposium April 21-22 at the Casper Events Center again this year, according to art instructor Dusty Stephenson. Stephenson said, “I’m so proud of these students. They all have worked hard this year and were awarded very well for their efforts. It is always hard to tell how we are going to do at the symposium. I was concerned about our strength in creative works, until we got everything rounded up.” Stephenson said this year there were more than 4,200 entries...
CASPER – A junior at Burlington High School shared how her parents are her heroes, taking home the top prize in the American Dream Essay Contest. Kaeli Hernandez received a total of $5,300 for her essay titled "My Haphazard but Hopeful Heroes and a Courageous Life." Her essay explained that her parent's flaws and mistakes have forced her to live each day with courage, but despite their weaknesses, they are her heroes. It was chosen as the winning entry out of more than 900 essays submitted in t...
WORLAND –The Worland sign language club, with students from third to 12th grade, will be offering audience members an enchanted evening, singing and signing classic Disney songs, at 7 p.m. Thursday evening in the Worland High School Little Theater. They are going to be doing 5 songs. It will be a short program because of spring and all the spring sports activities, Worland Middle School teacher of the deaf and hard of hearing Mallorey Melton said. This is a sign language program to make sign language more common in the Worland area. Anybody c...
WORLAND — A Wyoming veterans service officer from the Wyoming Veterans Commission will conduct community outreach services in Wyoming cities throughout May. Brad Cline is available to meet with veterans and their families to discuss state and federal veterans’ benefits, Department of Veterans Affairs claims, or VA healthcare. Cline can also help veterans and their families apply for benefits, file claims or request healthcare. His office is staffed in Cody, at 1026 Blackburn Ave., Suite 1, and he will also be available at the following loc...
POWELL — The Northwest College Music Department presents “Spring Jazz Night” Tuesday, April 25, with a 7 p.m. performance in the Nelson Performing Arts Center Auditorium. The concert features a variety of jazz standards as well as contemporary jazz tunes from ensembles led by NWC’s Brennan Baglio and Craig Olson. Groups performing on stage include the Studio Singers, Jazz Band I, Jazz Band II and Vocal Jazz II. “The Studio Singers have been working really hard on a great variety of tunes,” Baglio said. “Inspired by hearing some incredible gr...
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...
CHEYENNE — The Ten Sleep FFA came home from the State FFA Convention last week with a state championship marketing plan team and another state officer. Advisor Jarred Bower announced that the marketing plan team of Madison Anderson, Allison Hampton, Corey Rice and Matt Fenton won the state championship at the convention in Cheyenne April 3-5. The Ten Sleep Marketing Plan Team will be representing Wyoming this fall in Indianapolis, Indiana at the National FFA Convention. Anderson also was elected as the 2017-2018 Wyoming FFA Association vice p...
CHEYENNE — Gonorrhea and other sexually transmitted diseases are a growing burden in Wyoming and across the nation, particularly among younger individuals, according to the Wyoming Department of Health (WDH). In Wyoming, the rate of gonorrhea infections has increased six fold from 2012 to 2016. “This kind of growth is not something to unique to our state,” said Courtney Smith, Communicable Disease Surveillance Program manager with WDH. “Nearly 20 million new sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) occur in the United States every year and the num...
POWELL — The Northwest College Concert Band and Concert Choir will blend their talents in a 7 p.m. performance Monday, April 10, in the Nelson Performing Arts Center Auditorium. The groups, directed by NWC’s Craig Olson and Brennan Baglio, will perform a variety of classic and contemporary choral works, as well as a variety of instrumental musical settings. “The Concert Band will be joined by college faculty as well as local high school teachers and senior high school students, for what promises to be a fun evening of musical adventure and shar...
MEETEETSE — The Meeteetse Branch Library will sponsor a free presentation by Mary and Richard Maturi Monday at noon at the Meeteetse Senior Center at 1105 Park Ave. Maturis’ “Cultural Gems: an eclectic look at Unique United States libraries” explores a collection of cultural gem libraries from coast-to-coast. The Maturis will use visual aids to illustrate the rich diversity of Americas libraries while exploring the humanities focus on a broad panorama of library architecture, unique building re-purposing and the various ways communi...