Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
WORLAND — Several requests for events this weekend were approved by the Worland City Council, including closing a block of Seventh Street for the Wyoming Thunder Run.
Bruce Briggs from the Rendezvous Lounge came to the council at the Worland Community Center Tuesday night to request having Seventh Street closed from Big Horn to Coburn in order for the lounge to serve about 150 motorcyclists participating in the annual Wyoming Thunder Run.
Bruce Johnson of the Big Horn Basin chapter of the Vietnam Vets Legacy Vets Motorcycle Clubs (VVLVMC) and Briggs explained that the Wyoming Thunder Run is an annual event of the VVLVMC and (the Legacy Vets Motorcycle Club veterans for any wars after Vietnam) where they ride across Wyoming to a veterans memorial.
This year they will start Friday in Cheyenne and go to Casper. From Casper they will travel to Worland for lunch on Saturday and then dinner in Powell.
Johnson said the club actually began in Worland over 30 years ago, is a charitable organization and members in the VVLVMC have an average age of 70.
The council approved the closure from 12:30 to 3 p.m. Saturday.
Also approved was allowing campers to park at Newell Sargent Park for the softball tournament July 10-11. The tournament is a fundraiser for the Babe Ruth Blue Jays.
The council also approved allowing the Blue Jays mothers, at the request of Kara Anderson, to sell liquor during the tournament. The council required them to provide armbands for those purchasing alcohol.
OTHER BUSINESS
In other business at Tuesday’s council meeting:
•Engineering representative Mike Donnell said the city received one legal bid and the only bid that arrived on time for the Evert Addition Block 13 water main project.
The bid for $161,761 was awarded to Viper Underground.
•Donnie Bjorhus of Sagebrush Sports provided his monthly report on Green Hills Golf Course to the council. He said they had issues with a new motor for one of the pumps but it was repaired under warranty and the irrigation system appears to be working with the two pumps.
They had 1,267 rounds of golf played in June and are up about 1,100 rounds total over last year at this time.
This weekend on Sunday, Green Hills will host the first of three Big Horn Basin Interclub Cup matches with Olive Glenn County Club in Cody and Powell Golf Club. Each course creates a team of 16 golfers and the team with the most points at the end wins the cup.
On July 25-26, Green Hills will host the Big Horn Basin Shootout with Thermopolis.
•Chief of Police Gabe Elliott reported that the Worland-Ten Sleep Chamber of Commerce has submitted the permit for the fair parade that will be at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 1.
He also requested permission, and received permission to have Obie Sue blocked off near Sanders Park from 3 to 9 p.m. for the annual Worland Fire Department picnic on July 21.
•Airport Manager Lynn Murdoch reported that construction on the taxilane widening project would begin July 20.
•Donnell reported that Wilson Construction is replacing the water line along Culbertson and that the project is going well.
•Public Works Superintendent Brian Burky reported that over the past two weeks they have had an “unexpected arrival” of large amounts of grease at the sewer lagoon and they are working on tracing the grease to the source.
•The council gave annual approval of the law enforcement center rental agreement with Washakie County for $44,415.
The next regular council meeting will be July 21 at 7 p.m. at the Worland Community Center Complex.