Affordable Care Act impacts school districts

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Affordable Care
Act impacts
school districts
Part-time
employees will
work during
school breaks
MICHAEL MARESH
Rocket-Miner Staff Writer
ROCK SPRINGS — More
than 250 part-time Sweetwater
County School District No. 1
employees will have their hours
cut to 29 hours a week for the
upcoming school year to comply with Affordable Care Act
rules that take effect Jan. 1, 2015.
Under the Affordable Care
Act, employees working at least
30 hours are eligible for their
company’s insurance plan.
Sweetwater No. 1 officials,
knowing the district could not
afford to provide insurance to
this number of employees, met
May 15-16 to discuss options on
how these workers could make
up the reduced wages.
Superintendent Mathew Neal
came up with a plan where the
affected employees would not
be impacted financially in the
long term.
The cost to add all impacted
part-time employees to the district’s health insurance plan
would have cost $2.7 million a
year, which is not possible, Neal
said.
To prevent claims of favoritism, the district established
a baseline to ensure all of the
impacted employees would be
treated the same, according to
the law.
When the district is closed for
the winter break, spring break
and the summer, impacted parttime employees could work 29
hours a week during these
breaks to recoup their loss
wages. Neal said businesses, including Home Depot and WalMart, do not have the same luxuries as school districts because
there is no down time for other
companies.
“We are the only employer
who can add a month,” he said.
“They only work 36 weeks a
year, so we are expanding it to
39 weeks.”
Commencement
ROCK SPRINGS: Above, Sage Elementary School
kindergarten classes celebrated their graduation
Friday afternoon before a packed gymnasium of
friends and family members. Principal Tina Searle
shared tales about what students want to be
when they grow up and why.
At left, kindergarten students, from left, Alexander Reed, Alexander Croft, Atziri Guzman and
Hailey Johnson hold flags during the Pledge of allegiance at commencement exercises for Sage Elementary School. The children then sang “You’re A
Grand Old Flag” by George M. Cohan.
Below, Cadence Rhea, right, shows off her letter
during a song about the alphabet.
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Affordable health care act costs
county $49K for two employees
MATT NABER
Rocket-Miner Staff Reporter
SWEETWATER COUNTY —
The Affordable Health Care Act
cost
Sweetwater
County
$49,580 to increase two parttime employees to full time and
provide health insurance. In addition, there are more expenses
to come, Sweetwater County
Human Resources Director Garry McLean said.
One of the positions was at
the Sweetwater County Clerk’s
Office and required an incremental increase of $26,146. The
other position was custodial
with an incremental increase of
$23,434. Each includes the cost
of offering health insurance and
the extra five hours per week
each will work as full-time employees.
“We don’t have a lot of parttime positions, very few in fact,”
McLean said.
According to the Affordable
Health Care Act, part-time employees working more than 30
hours have to be offered insurance. Otherwise the employer
can be fined $2,000 per uninsured employee each year.
In this case, the department
heads asked to increase those
positions to full time on top of
offering health insurance.
“If it wasn’t for the act, we
wouldn’t get those requests,”
Sweetwater County commissioner Reid West said. “As long
as we have to pay their insurance, we might as well get 40
hours a week, then it becomes a
fairness issue too.”
The clerk’s position was originally 35 hours and provided help
when the office is short staffed.
The department originally had
three people, but one was let go,
Sweetwater County Clerk Dale
Davis said.
The only way to avoid having
to offer health insurance would
be to drop an employee’s time
down to 29 hours.
“If we take it down to 29
hours, it wouldn’t be cost effective for her to come to work,”
Davis said. “I feel if I put her
down to 29 hours I would probably lose her.”
West asked if it would be more
cost effective to offer overtime to
the two fulltime employees, but
the part-time employee covers
for when one is out on lunch,
Davis said. The clerk’s employee
had been with the department
for several years.
“The cost is substantial. I
don’t think this is a good direction to go,” Sweetwater County
commissioner John Kolb said. “I
just don’t want to grow government.”
West also asked if it would be
possible to keep the employee at
part time, but just offer insurance. This would require a
change in policy, McLean said.
“I guess another way to look
at it, the additional insurance
they were showing for each was
$1,500 per month,” West said.
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ELECTION 2014
JoAnn Dayton to run Incumbent treasurer
for House District 17 to seek re-election
ROCK SPRINGS — JoAnn
Dayton has filled to run for the
Wyoming House of Representatives District 17.
“I am running to provide the
citizens of HD17 responsible
leadership with dignity,”
Dayton said. “The way
the current Legislature
has approached its
wealth management is
mystifying.”
She said having retired after 20 years in
the trona industry, she
understands the volatile
nature of the minerals JOANN
industry that Wyoming DAYTON
depends upon. She said
it is a good idea to be prepared
for economic shortfalls or rainy
days, which the legislature is
constitutionally mandated to do,
but she does not understand
why lawmakers want to put additional money in the account at
the expense of our residents. For
example, she said there has not
been a cost-of-living adjustment
for public servants, including
teachers, over the past four
years.
“We are placing an extraordinary amount of money in untouchable accounts while pressing issues such as our crumbling
infrastructure go unheeded,”
Dayton said.
“What is perplexing is when
given an excellent opportunity
to save through the optional ex-
pansion of Medicaid, why would
the Legislature fail to do so?
Medicaid expansion would not
only have saved the state millions of dollars, it would have
provided insurance coverage to
over 17,000 Wyoming
citizens who currently
have no coverage,” she
said.
Dayton said the current standardized testing process does not adequately measure student progress. It places
unnecessary stress on
students and faculty
and significantly reduces classroom instruction time, she said.
“Wyoming needs to make
workplaces safer. One workplace fatality rate is horrific.
There were 35 workplace fatalities during 2012 with about half
of these fatalities occurring in
the oil, gas and construction industries. The tragic death of a
Sweetwater County resident in
2013 brings this issue startlingly close to home. I support legislation for additional safety inspectors and steeper fines for violations,” Dayton said.
JoAnn Dayton was married to
Mike Dayton for 29 years before
his death in February 2014. She
is proud of his 38-year law enforcement career. She has two
adult children and three granddaughters.
SWEETWATER COUNTY water County, Slaughter is a
— Sweetwater County Treasur- past president of the Wyoming
er Robb Slaughter announced Association of County Treahe will seek re-election in 2014. surers and has served as a
“It has been a pleasure serv- member of the Wyoming Tax
ing the residents of Sweetwa- Administration
Team,
ter County for the last 20 Wyoming Intergovernmental
years. This is an excitMineral Policy Advisoing time in our county,
ry Committee and nuand I would like to
merous
committees
continue as an integral
and task forces dedipart of it,” Slaughter
cated to renovating
said.
Wyoming tax codes
He said he can conand motor vehicle regtinue to manage the ofistration and service
fice in a professional
procedures.
manner and provide
“My experience, my
the level of service res- ROBB
loyal staff and the netidents deserve and SLAUGHTER
work that I have creathave come to expect.
ed make me the best
“Over the last several years candidate for this office. I have
my goal as treasurer has been been fortunate to develop exto streamline the functions of cellent relationships with the
the office to make it easier for other elected officials in Sweetour residents. We have done water County along with many
that by providing access for state officials and legislators.
taxpayers to make payments The financial professionals
from their homes via the Inter- that I work with are also excelnet and for them to use easier lent and provide the best admethods of payment such as vice possible for managing the
credit cards that have previ- county’s finances. The interacously been unavailable for use tion of the treasurer and their
with local governments. As staff with the other county and
technology changes, I pledge state offices is critical to our
that we will continue to do the continued success. If I am rebest we can to remain on the elected, I will do my best to encutting edge and pass those sure that Sweetwater County
advantages on to our resi- residents receive the most prodents,” Slaughter said.
fessional service possible,”
A lifelong resident of Sweet- Slaughter said.
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TUESDAY
• The Green River Airport
Task Force will meet at 4 p.m.
at Western Wyoming Community College, Room 204, 1
College Way, Green River.
• The Green River Arts
Council will meet at 6 p.m. at
Green River City Hall, 50 E.
Second N.
• The Sweetwater County
Fair Board will meet at 7 p.m.
at the Sweetwater County
Events Complex, 3320 Yellowstone Road, Rock Springs.
• The Local Emergency
Planning Committee will
meet at 9 a.m. at 731 C St.
Building A Suite 131, Rock
Springs.
Outdoor Recreation Board
will meet at 7 p.m. at Rock
Springs City Hall, 212 D St.
THURSDAY
Board of Health will meet at
7:15 a.m. at the Sweetwater
County Nursing Office, 731 C
St., Rock Springs.
• The Joint Powers Water
Board will meet at 3 p.m. at
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No. 3 Telephone Canyon
Road, Green River.
School District No. 2 Board of
Trustees will meet for a special meeting at 5 p.m. at the
Central Administration Building, 320 Monroe Ave.
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ROCK SPRINGS: Scooter, a 4-year-old Chiweenie who was found as a stray, is the Green River Animal Control Pet of the Week. Staff said he
is super sweet, would make a great family pet and responds well with other dogs. He is not neutered and will need all of his immunizations at the time of adoption. If you would like to see Scooter, visit Green River Animal Control, 80 E. Teton. Niko, a 7-year-old male whippet cross, is the Red Desert Humane Society’s Pet of the Week. Niko is neutered, up to date on his shots, good with other dogs and probably good with older children, staff said. Niko is available for adoption at the Red Desert Humane Society, 310 Yellowstone Road, Rock Springs.
Dude, a 10-week-old male domestic shorthair, is Rock Springs Animal Control’s Pet of the Week. Staff said Dude is ready to begin his vaccinations, plays a bit rough and may not be good with small children or dogs. If you would like to see Dude, visit Rock Springs Animal Control, 848 W. Center.
Anonymous complaint leads to permit
approval for horse corrals after 40 years
MATT NABER
ROCK SPRINGS — An
anonymous complaint led to
Modern Corrals seeking and
obtaining a conditional use
permit to continue operations
as it has done since the mid1970s.
The entire ordeal was driven
by the anonymous complaint,
Sweetwater County Planner III
Steve Horton said.
“Someone wants to build a
subdivision and thinks it is an
eyesore,” said John Dolce, who
has used the corrals for 30
years. “I’ve been in corrals 10
times worse. Getting rid of
them would be a bad deal, people come for manure and peo-
ple bring their kids to see the
horses.”
The 10-acre property is at
Stable Drive and the South
Side Belt Route in Rock
Springs.
It’s
owned
by
Anadarko and leased by Clyde
Owen, who operates 24 rental
corrals.
The only written comment
came from Alfonso Chavez on
ROCK SPRINGS MUNICIPAL COURT
ROCK SPRINGS — Fines, forfeitures, court costs and bonds in
the Rock Springs Municipal
Court of Judge George Scott Nelson from May 6-13 include:
Casey T. Walker, 1318 Veterans Park Drive, Rock Springs,
regulation of parking, dismissed
by prosecution.
Derrick I. Bird, 3275 Roosevelt
Way Apt D, Rock Springs, hit
and run, property or vehicle unattended, $410, 10-day jail sentence, 10 days suspended.
Antonio
K.
Lee,
240
Bramwell, Green River, shoplifting, first offense, $210.
Candice F. Estep, 1015 Walnut
No. 7, Rock Springs, two animals
at large charges, first offense,
$80.
Britt J. Soblesk, 3402
Amherst, Houston, Texas, posted speed limits (1-40 mph over),
$80.
Tiffeny McKeever, 1420
Thompson No.2, Rock Springs,
driving roadway laned for traffic
with accident, $150.
Shawnna Dubry, 413 Elias
Ave. No.1, Rock Springs, approaching or entering intersections with accident, $150.
Daniel A. Terrazaz-Olmedo,
posted speed limits (1-40 mph
over), $60.
Cheyenne Knoll, 1325 Ninth
St, Rock Springs, curfew, first offense, dismissed by prosecution.
Jennie I. Jones, 1321 Lowell
Ave, Rock Springs, animals at
large, first offense, $80.
Anthony Wayne Truffelli,
2623 Seattle Slew, Rock Springs,
stop signs and yield signs without accident, $90
Michael Brian Quick, 1230
Palisades Way, Rock Springs,
limitations on backing with accident, $160.
Nicholas Leveque, 840 Cen-
ter St. No. 1, Rock Springs, unlawful possession of tobacco,
first offense, $110.
James Boykin, 222 Gateway
No. 8 Rock Springs, resisting arrest or interfering with lawful arrest, dismissed; drunk in public,
third offense, 14-day jail term,
one day credited, $10 court
costs.
Juan M. Prieto, 3258 W. 4140
S. West Valley, Utah, driving
roadway laned for traffic, $150.
Derrick I. Bird, 3275 Roosevelt
Way Apt. D, Rock Springs, speed
too fast for condition with accident, dismissed by prosecution.
Amanda L. Oswood, 1514 Albany Circle, Rock Springs, stop
signs and yield signs without accident, 10-day jail term, 10 days
credited.
Nancy Gilmour-Mccarthy,
Rock Springs, speeding in
school zones (1-30 mph over),
$390.
Michael A. Boyland, 5020
Springs Drive No. 52, Rock
Springs, unlawful possession of
alcohol, 25-day jail term.
Aurelio
Villegas-Godina,
1680 Blair Ave. No. 56, Rock
Springs, posted speed limits (140 mph over), $60.
James D.Musgrove, 933 Truman, Rock Springs, limitations
on backing with accident, $150.
Gregory T. Nelson, 515 A St.,
Rock Springs, stop signs and
yield signs without accident,
$90.
Sandra L. Bider, 223 Blair St.,
Rock Springs, stop signs and
yield signs without accident,
$90.
Blake E. Watts, 539 Fairview
Lane No.9, Rock Springs, posted speed limits (1-40 mph over),
$90.
Kayla Archuleta, 815 Connecticut, Rock Springs, parking
in yellow zone, $20.
Derick Von Schriltz, 166
Foothill Blvd., Rock Springs
drunk in public, first offense.
$110.
Robert N. Cross, 97729 Elliot,
Kods Bay, Ore., posted speed
limits (1-40 mph over),$80.
Laura Garrett, 1186 Palisades
Court, Rock Springs, stop signs
and yield signs, without accidents, $80.
Andrew T. Kalenak, 321 Polk
St., Rock Springs, alcoholic beverages to minors, $310.
Joseph Herman, 2310 Maryland, Green River, regulation of
parking, dismissed by prosecution.
Kimberly Samm, 2224 Reagan No. 308, Rock Springs, posted speed limits (1-40 mph over),
$90.
Jasmine M. Soller, 101 College Court No. A, Rock Springs,
posted speed limits (1-40 mph
over), $80.
Emily H. Lever, 162 Bellview
Drive, Rock Springs, alcoholic
beverages to minors, $310.
Ranch View Drive, stating that
he “fully” supports the corrals
and has no concerns.
Sweetwater County commissioners unanimously approved
a two-year permit with conditions: a limit of 56 animals on
the property, a dust control
plan, and facility upgrades
must be aesthetically pleasing
and in earth tone colors.
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WHO FILED TO RUN?
U.S. SENATOR
Democrat
William Bryk
Al Hamburg
Republican
Mike Enzi
U.S. REPRESENTATIVE
Republican
Cynthia Lummis
Jason Adam Senteney
GOVERNOR
Republican
Taylor H. Haynes
SECRETARY OF STATE
Republican
Ed Buchanan
Pete Illoway
Ed Murray
Clark Stith
STATE AUDITOR
Republican
Cynthia I. Cloud
STATE TREASURER
Republican
Mark Gordon
SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC
INSTRUCTION
Democrat
Mike Ceballos
Republican
Jillian Balow
Bill Winney
STATE SENATOR 11
Republican
Larry Hicks
STATE SENATOR 13
Democrat
John M. Hastert
STATE REPRESENTATIVE 15
Republican
Donald Burkhart
Democrat
JoAnn Dayton
Democrat
Michele Irwin
Republican
Fred A. Baldwin
Lyle L. Williams
Republican
Allen Jaggi
Democrat
Pete Roitz
Democrat
Stan Blake
Republican
Jerry Paxton
Democrat
Joe Barbuto
Republican
Mark Baker
Democrat
John L. Freeman
Republican
Bill Hooley
SWEETWATER COUNTY COMMISSIONER
Democrat
Gary Bailiff
Henry “Hank” Castillon
Reid O. West
Republican
John K. Kolb
SWEETWATER COUNTY
CORONER
Democrat
Dale S. Majhanovich
Republican
J.R. Alexander
SWEETWATER COUNTY
ATTORNEY
Democrat
Bob Reese
Republican
Daniel Erramouspe
Robert Hiatt Jr.
SWEETWATER COUNTY SHERIFF
Democrat
Mike Lowell
Delbert F. Gray
Republican
John Jay Henning
Richard “Rich” Haskell
SWEETWATER COUNTY CLERK
Democrat
Dale Davis
SWEETWATER COUNTY
TREASURER
Democrat
Robb Slaughter
SWEETWATER COUNTY
ASSESSOR
Democrat
Pat Drinkle
SWEETWATER COUNTY CLERK
OF DISTRICT COURT
Republican
Donnalee Bobak
ROCK SPRINGS
CITY COUNCIL
WARD 1
Billy Shalata
WARD 2
Tim Savage
WARD 3
David B. Halter
WARD 4
Rose M. Moseby
RJ Pieper
MAYOR
Carl R. Demshar
GREEN RIVER
CITY COUNCIL
WARD 1
Lyneen Murphy
Allan Wilson
WARD 2
Ted York
WARD 3
Gary Killpack
Edward C. Paisley
MAYOR
Art Kline
Mark Peterson
Pete Rust
GRANGER TOWN COUNCIL
Sherry Brantley
Carolyn Nelson
June Nichols
MAYOR
Sandy Allen
Gary B. Brantley
Andrea Root
Anselmo “Hippy” Valerio Jr.
DEMOCRAT PRECINCT
COMMITTEEWMEN
Karl R. Barney
DEMOCRAT PRECINCT
COMMITTEEWOMEN
Vickie Eastin
Janis Knadjian
Vicki Roth
REPUBLICAN PRECINCT
COMMITTEEWOMEN
Elvira Kolb
REPUBLICAN PRECINCT
COMMITTEEMEN
John K. Kolb
Artist teaches Gillette students
T.S. JARMUSZ
Gillette News Record
GILLETTE (AP) — Ballerinas, belly dancers and bears.
Those were among the ideas
scribbled out by first-graders
with a flurry of crayons at Rozet
Elementary School recently.
Gillette native and resident
artist Patrick McGirr was conducting the organized chaos.
McGirr was at Rozet to help
kids create a mural on the gymnasium wall. It was part of his
weeklong visit to Campbell
County schools.
As soon as he broke out his
air brush and started painting
their hands, they all ran up and
clamored around him.
“I love art, and I love the
doors and opportunities it has
opened for me. I truly feel it’s
my life’s work to teach and
spread art to the next generation of creative minds,” he said.
McGirr’s art is primarily done
with an air brush.
It’s an eclectic mix of everything from portraits to political
satire.
The man behind the art is as
interesting as the work itself.
Landfill fees proposed
to increase by 23 percent
Rates likely to
increase by
$4.65 a month
MICHAEL MARESH
GREEN RIVER — Rates for
solid waste or trash service in
Green River will likely increase by
$4.65 a month, or 23 percent,
while the city hopes to receive a
$3.5 million grant from the State
Land Investment Board.
The city will not know which
way the SLIB Board is leaning
until June 19, though Green River’s budget is due June 17.
The SLIB Board cannot fund
the Green River this year because
the Wyoming Legislature decided only the top 21 projects would
be funded. The closure of Green
River’s Landfill and the building
of a transfer station came in as
the 23rd priority statewide.
The two projects would cost $5
million, and the city’s share would
be $1.5 million if the grant is approved.
Sanitation Supervisor Brenda
Roosa told the Green River City
Council that two of the top 21 priorities had pulled out.
In the fall the SLIB Board will
come up with their priority list for
the 2015 legislative session, and
the city is hopeful it will be on it.
Under proposal two, in which
state funds will be needed, the
residential waste rate would increase from $19.85 a month to
$24.50. Commercial rates would
increase from $11.78 a month to
$17.
Landfill tipping fees would go
from $38.74 to $78 every time a
contractor uses Green River’s
landfill.
Proposal one, which does not
need state funds, would have
raised residential fees to $27 a
month, a 36 percent increase.
Commercial fees would have increased to $20, and tipping fees
would have been $90.
City Administrator Marty
Black said while SLIB would like
to fund Green River for these two
projects, it legally cannot due to
the priority list.
“Unfortunately, we find ourselves in a legal fiction,” Black
said. “Until the Legislature
amends that list, we cannot get
that money.”
Councilman Adam Coppolo
initially favored proposal one.
“If we are going to upset the
people, we are going to upset the
people,” he said, adding if the city
what with proposal two and the
state funds did not materialize,
the rate increases for residential
next year could exceed 40 percent.
Councilman Tom McCullough
favored proposal two because the
cost would be less to the public.
“It’s the cheapest possible way
for consumers,” he said. “I still
feel a $7 increase is huge.”
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SCHOOL
Doing this means the part-time
employees will make the same
amount, he said.
“The law is very restrictive.
This is one way. It’s the only way I
can do it. I cannot give more than
29 hours a week,” he said.
The affected employees can
start working one to two weeks
earlier than normal or work into
the summer. However, Neal conceded there are 12 to 15 part-time
custodians who work 12 months a
year, so they will end up making
less because there is no free time
for them to make up the reduced
hours.
“At the end of the school year,
we will have 250 employees continuing to work,” Neal said. “The
reality is part-time workers everywhere falls under this.”
What is important is for these
employees to have work to do,
since it makes little sense to pay
them for just being at a site.
Reducing hours for paraprofessional or employees who provide
additional training for teachers
will also be difficult, Neal said,
adding the district will have to figure out ways to accomplish this.
Neal stressed that Sweetwater
County School District No. 1’s
greatest asset continues to be its
employees, and it will pursue options to minimize the impact of
the Affordable Care Act on the
district’s educational mission.
“Sweetwater County School
District No. 1 recognizes its employees are at the heart of improving the district’s student
achievement,” according to a
‘Sweetwater County
School District No. 1
recognizes its
employees are at the
heart of improving
the district’s student
achievement.’
Sweetwater County
School District No. 1
Superintendent Mathew Neal
district press release.
SWEETWATER COUNTY
SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 2
Sweetwater County School District No. 2 is taking a different approach than Sweetwater No. 1,
and it does not plan on reducing
hours for part-time employees.
District Business Manager Pete
Brandjord said he thinks the district will adopt a wait-and-see approach on what the impacts will
be. If the district were to reduce
hours of part-time employees,
new employees would have to be
hired to do the work that remained, he said.
To provide the necessary work
and provide the same service, the
hours for the part-time employees
would need to stay the same,
Brandjord said.
Brandjord, like Neal, stressed
employees are the most important part of the district’s success.
COUNTY
All of the commissioners except Kolb voted in favor of increasing the clerk’s position to
fulltime.
The custodial position included
35 hours per week. This position
was unanimously approved for
full-time hours because the new
health and human services building is 19,000 square-feet compared to the old facility’s 11,000
square-feet.
McCullough reiterated he
would support the second proposal.
“Proposal two will be tough. I
understand that,” he said of the
$4.50 a month increase.
Mayor Hank Castillon also initially favored the first proposal.
He said if the city is going to keep
returning SLIB funds when they
decide not to do projects, Green
River would probably not receive
a favorable response when asking
for more money.
Councilman Gary Killpack said
the Council did not give back the
$1 million for the renovation of
the Union Pacific Depot Building
and instead planned to ask if the
project could be delayed.
“We asked for a delay, so that
will not hurt us,” Killpack said.
He said he thought the landfill
tipping fee increases were huge.
Killpack also asked what would
happen if the city did nothing and
kept the fees the same.
Roosa said the division would
be bankrupt within two years and
would have no money for the
landfill closure.
Coppolo said he wanted contractors using the city’s landfill to
pay higher dollar amounts, so
residential and local merchants
would not have to pay as much.
The Council agreed to have
Black put the proposal two numbers into the budget.
After the meeting, Castillon
told Roosa he hopes the city receives the $3.5 million grant.
3A
LCCC
to change
remedial
English
AERIN CURTIS
Wyoming Tribune Eagle
CHEYENNE — The remedial English program at Laramie
County Community College is
set to be shorter and more realistic.
Members of the college’s
Board of Trustees heard an update on the revision process
during their pre-meeting dinner on Wednesday.
“Nationally, we know that
around 60 percent of students
must take at least one developmental level course, but only 25
percent of those end up earning
a degree within 8 years of enrolling,” interim dean of arts
and humanities Nicole Bryant
said. “So when we’re looking at
success levels and persistence
levels, that’s quite concerning
to us.” The work is being funded through the college’s innovation funds and has a budget of
$20,000, according to program
information.
The changes are part of work
that has been in progress for
several years, English instructor Laura Grow said.
“In the last four to five years,
we’ve made a number of
changes to try to accelerate
pathways for students,” she
said.
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BIRTHDAY GIRL: Dempsey
Emma Cross celebrates her
2nd birthday May 24, 2014.
She is the daughter of Gavin
and Trista Cross of Rock
Springs. Her grandparents are
Ted and Gwen Tyler, Kayle
Cross and Darleen and Mark
Arnoldi, all of Rock Springs.
Her great-grandparents are
Paul and Floy Bochmann, Tex
Tyler and Sharon Plemel, all of
Rock Springs, and Vaughn
Cross of Pinedale. Her greatgreat-grandparent is Emma
Bochmann of Westminster,
Colo. She has one brother,
Brenin Cross, 4.
ENRIQUE LOPETEGUI
Associated Press
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — In
December 2013, she inspired
millions with her TED Talk.
Now Lizzie Velasquez, once
called “the world’s ugliest
woman,” hopes to reach an
even-wider audience through
an anti-bullying documentary
about her story.
“I know what it is to be bullied and what is to be bullied
online, and I want to be the
protector of those who think it
won’t get better,” said Velasquez, 25, who has a rare disease that makes it impossible
for her to gain weight. She has
never weighed more than 64
pounds and is blind in one eye.
“The idea is that they see
the documentary and realize
that, yes, it is possible to overcome everything,” she told The
Associated Press during an interview in a coffee shop in
Austin, Texas.
She’s raising money for the
film, tentatively titled “The
Lizzie Project,” through a Kickstarter campaign that has already collected more than
$123,000 in donations. The
campaign, whose trailer can be
seen at TheLizzieProject.com,
ends May 31. The goal is to
raise $180,000.
Velasquez was born in
Austin in 1989 with a syndrome so rare only two other
people in the world are known
to have it.
She became a celebrity on
Dec. 5, 2013, when her TED
Talk (short speeches designed
to share and spread ideas from
a number of disciplines) in
Austin (part of the worldwide
event TEDxWomen) became a
hit. In her speech, Velasquez
explained that her life changed
at age 17, when she saw herself
on a YouTube video titled,
“The world’s ugliest woman.”
The video’s comments section
featured comments such as,
“Do the world a favor and put
a gun to your head.”
“Instead of just taking shelter of my tears, I chose to be
happy and realize this syndrome is not a problem but a
blessing that allows me to improve myself and inspire other
people,” said Velasquez.
In the years since she saw
the video and comments, Velasquez graduated from college, wrote three self-help
books (the third, “Choosing
Happiness,” will be published
in August) and gained tens of
thousands of followers on
Facebook,
Twitter
and
YouTube. She’s been interviewed by Katie Couric and
ABC’s “The View,” where she
met Barbara Walters and
Whoopi Goldberg.
Velasquez
credits
her
strength to her parents, who
have always loved her the
same way they love her siblings, Marina and Chris, neither of whom suffer from the
syndrome.
“They’re the best parents in
the entire world,” said Velasquez. “From the moment I
was born they showered me
with love. And they didn’t just
raise me. They raised my
brother and sister in the exact
same way. So that love, multiplied times three, is what definitely brought me to where I
am today.”
Velasquez was born four
weeks premature. Doctors
used a photo to show her to
her mother for the first time. “I
started crying inconsolably,
but I asked them to bring her
to me nevertheless,” said Rita
Velasquez. “I wanted to see
her, hold her and love her.”
Her father said Lizzie realized she was different on her
first day of kindergarten, when
other kids didn’t want to play
with her.
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Lifestyles Brief
Bees created
unwanted buzz
at Kentucky store
Connie Wilcox-Timar/Rocket-Miner
From left, Julie and Curtis Songster traveled from Florida to spend Curtis’ 80th birthday in Rock Springs,
his birthplace.
DANVILLE, Ky. (AP) — After setting things abuzz by trapping customers in a store, a hive
of honeybees has been safely
removed from downtown
Danville in central Kentucky.
Fire Chief Woody Ball told
The Advocate-Messenger that
emergency crews were called
Monday because customers
were afraid to leave the store.
First responders quickly realized they would need help, so
they called Gary and Joyce Taylor, who live in nearby Perryville
and have experience in bee removal, Ball said.
Songster travels
to RS for birthday
CONNIE WILCOX-TIMAR
Rocket-Miner Lifestyles Reporter
ROCK SPRINGS — Curtis Lee
Songster recently celebrated his
80th birthday. He and his wife,
Julie, wanted to do something
special to celebrate the milestone,
so they decided to take a trip to
Curtis’ birthplace — Rock
Springs.
“This was a birthday gift to myself,” Curtis Songster said.
The plans for the trip expanded, and the couple decided to
make a loop tour across the country, visiting family and friends
along the way; however they
wanted to ensure that they were
in Rock Springs on May 18 for his
birthday. Curtis Songster was
born May 18, 1934.
“I was born in; I think they
called it the old Miner’s Hospital.
The couple was in Rock
Springs from May 17-19. After
leaving Monday afternoon, the
they were headed to Jackson for
the evening. They planned to
make their way to New York to
visit with some of Julie Songster’s
family. In all, the Songsters would
travel about 4,500 miles.
The Songsters live in St. Petersburg, Fla., and Curtis had not
been in Rock Springs since he
was in the fourth grade.
BACK IN TOWN
“This is the first time I have
been back since I left in 1942. I
used to live on Cedar Street.
“I was able to locate the first
house I lived in on Cedar, but the
one I was living in when I left is
gone,” he said.
“This feels like stepping back
in time; the downtown area. The
interstate looks like it could be
anyplace, but when you get into
the downtown area, well, it just
feels like stepping back in time,”
Julie Songster said.
“A lot has changed, but I still
recognized a lot of the different
places. It has really spread out,”
Curtis Songster said.
Some of the places Curtis
Songster could remember as a
child were Burton’s, Rialto Theater and the Stock Growers.
“I remember seeing “Snow
White,” “Dumbo” and “Pinocchio” in Technicolor. Technicolor
was really something at that
time,” Curtis Songster said.
He said his father owned a
truck mining company when they
lived in Rock Springs.
“While we were visiting the
museum, I was talking with Bob
Nelson the director, and I was
telling him some of the people I
went to school with, and I mentioned Chick Magagna. Bob said
‘Chick?’ Just a minute.
“The next thing I knew he had
Chick on the phone, and I was
able to talk with him for a couple
of minutes,” he said. “I am happy
we made this trip.”
Enzi accepts applications
to fill fall 2014 page position
WASHINGTON, D.C. — United
States Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., is
encouraging Wyoming juniors in
high school to apply to be a Senate page for the fall session in
Washington, D.C.
There are a total of 30 page positions in the U.S. Senate each session and Enzi is fortunate to have
the opportunity to sponsor a
young adult from Wyoming to
serve in one of these positions.
The deadline for fall applications
is June 4.
“The page program allows students to have a front-row seat during debates in the U.S. Senate,”
Enzi said. “The program will provide experiences that participants
will carry with them forever.”
Page duties consist primarily of
delivering correspondence and
legislative material at the Capitol.
Other duties include preparing the
Senate chamber for sessions and
carrying bills and amendments to
the appropriate people on the Senate floor.
Pages attend classes at the Senate Page School from 6:15-9:45
a.m. and then work until 4 p.m. or
until the Senate adjourns for the
day. The Senate Page School provides a rigorous academic course
of studies and the necessary requisites for a junior year course of
study.
Fall page eligibility is limited to
juniors in high school who will be
16 or 17 years old on or before the
date of appointment. Applicants
must have a minimum grade point
average of 3.0.
Pages live in Webster Hall near
the Capitol and receive a stipend
to cover the cost of the residence.
Breakfast and dinner are provided
each day.
The fall session runs from Sept.
8 to Jan. 16. The application and
additional information can be
found by going to www.enzi.senate.gov. For details, to Dianne
Kirkbride in Enzi’s Cheyenne office at 307-772-2477.
National Honor Society
donates eyeglasses
ROCK SPRINGS: The National Honor Society Chapter at Rock
Springs High School recently donated eyeglasses that were collected throughout the school year to the White Mountain Lions
Club. Lions Club International will distribute the glasses to people in need throughout the world. Those present include Lions
Club member Darlene Eidt, NHS president Kirsi Anselmi-Stith, Lions Club members Russ Anderson and Paul Legerski, NHS member Elijah Rembacz and Lions Club member Ron Taylor.
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Local talent does well in 2014
Wyo. Young Authors competition
Skate Night tradition
keeps on rollin’ along
BOB VINES
GREEN RIVER — Students
in Sweetwater County earned
recognition for their fiction,
nonfiction and poetry in the
2014 Young Authors state com-
petition.
The writing contest is sponsored by the International
Reading Association,
“They’re an organization
which
promotes
reading
among young people,” said
Karen Price, Lincoln Middle
School instructional facilitator
and Sweetwater County School
District No. 2 Young Author
coordinator. “They provide
books for children in hospitals.
They read stories to children in
hospitals.”
YOUNG AUTHOR WINNERS
ROCK SPRINGS
First Grade, fiction honorable mention:
“Erica’s Bite” by Mackenzie Ribordy,
Westridge Elementary School
Third Grade, fiction honorable mention:
“The Day My Horse Followed Me to
School” by Sage Romero, Westridge Elementary School
Fourth Grade, fiction honorable mention:
“Adjusting to My New Home” by
Kennedy Shassetz, Westridge Elementary School
Fifth Grade, nonfiction honorable mention: “Fire on Kimberly” by Adam Larson,
Eastside Elementary School
Seventh Grade, fiction honorable mention: “Surrounded by Darkness” by Antonina Klatka, Rock Springs Junior High
School
GREEN RIVER
First Grade, poetry first place: “Winter
Spring Summer Fall, Flowers Like Them
All!” by Lily Harris, Harrison Elementary
School
Second Grade, poetry honorable mention: “My Favorite Holidays” by Annelore
Wright, Washington Elementary School
Fourth Grade, nonfiction honorable mention: “Wolf Pack vs. Utah” by Cole Murray, Harrison Elementary School
Sixth Grade, fiction honorable mention:
“Saving Him” by Heather Gibson, Monroe Intermediate School
Ninth Grade, nonfiction first place:
“Complexities” by Leslie Patterson,
Green River High School
11th Grade, nonfiction honorable mention: “Escalators and Stanantitis” by
Kirsti Patterson, Green River High School
12th Grade, nonfiction first place: “The
Inevitable is Inevitable” by Cody Michael
Baker, Green River High School
FARSON-EDEN
Sixth Grade, poetry first place: “Wonderful Wyoming” by Amanda Weaver, Farson-Eden Middle School
11th Grade, poetry honorable mention:
“Under the Shell of Insanity” by Emily
Winward, Farson-Eden School
OTHER WINNERS
KINDERGARTEN
POETRY
First Place: “Cat Poems” by Kayla Grant,
Boxelder Rural School, Glenrock
Honorable Mentions: “Skiree, Fun,
Skiree” by Nicholas Mitchell, Burns Elementary School, Burns; and “Flying
Through Poetry” by Wyatt Horner, Crest
Hill Elementary School, Casper
NONFICTION
First Place: “My Broken Arm” by Rutley
Hansen, Albin Elementary School, Albin
Honorable Mentions: “Bailey, Bailey” by
Kayla Grant, Boxelder Rural School,
Glenrock; and “My Brother Got Stung by
a Bee” by Kaitlyn Blumenthal, New Castle Elementary School, New Castle
NONFICTION
First Place: “Beaver Learns a Lesson” by
Tyler Decker, Livingston Elementary
School, Cody
Honorable Mentions: “Ed the Secret
Spy” by Oliver Soulek, Verda James Elementary School, Casper; and “Too Many
Cupcakes” by Tayven Kolata, Pronghorn
Elementary School, Gillette
FIRST GRADE
POETRY
Honorable Mentions: “My Ranch Poems” by Daylene Jump, Saratoga Elementary School, Saratoga; and “My
Christmas Poems” by Kaiya Hurless, Fort
Casper Academy, Casper
NONFICTION
First Place: “The Baseball Slide” by Randall Nielson, Livingston Elementary
School, Cody
Honorable Mentions: “Aspen Forest Adventure” by Cora Grant, Boxelder Rural
School, Glenrock; and “My Poor Baby
Goat” by Keira Woffinden, West Side,
Worland
FICTION
First Place: “Science Meets Martial Arts”
by Aidan Kim-Miller, Jackson Elementary
School, Jackson
Honorable Mention: “The Party Animal
Club” by Izzie Knowlton, Grant Elementary School, Glenrock
Honorable Mention: “Wing-It” by Avery
Oberth, South Side Elementary School,
Worland
School, Encampment; and “Bloom” by
Marley Andrews, Glenrock High School,
Glenrock
SECOND GRADE
POETRY
First Place: “Wonderful Nature” by Molly
Hays, Sunset Elementary School, Cody
Honorable Mention: Winter Poems by
Tierra Tachick, Paintbrush Elementary
School, Gillette
FICTION
First Place: “The Sacrifice” by Hyla
Chatham, John Colter Elementary, Jackson
Honorable Mentions: “Going Under” by
Allyson Sawyer, Clark Elementary
School, Evanston; and “Hurricane” by
Maggie (May) McStay, Dubois Elementary School, Dubois
NONFICTION
Honorable Mentions: “Not Again” by
Michael Palmer, home school, Casper;
and “The Works of God” by Vincent Edwards, Colter High School, Worland
NONFICTION
First Place: “The ‘What If’ Worries” by
Hayden Bosshardt, Livingston Elementary School, Cody
Honorable Mentions: “Rodeo Rocks!” by
Hudson Nicol, Verda James Elementary
School, Casper; and “Skunks” by Keane
Hultman, Jackson Elementary School,
Jackson
SIXTH GRADE
POETRY
Honorable Mentions: “Poems of Passions” by Hannah M. Linford, Evanston
Middle School, Evanston; and “Mythological Creatures” by Lauren A. Blackwelder, Cy Middle School, Casper
FICTION
First Place: “Oreo’s Escapes” by Peyton
Phillips, Grant Elementary School, Glenrock
Honorable Mentions: “Patches’ New
School” by Gavin Spierling, Livingston Elementary School, Cody; and “Beau’s
Break” by Beckett Alexander Maher, Wilson Elementary School, Wilson
THIRD GRADE
POETRY
First Place: “Calliope Notes” by Emmalee Nordland, Homeschool, Powell
Honorable Mentions: “5 Cats” by Flynn
Ellis, Journeys School, Jackson; and
“Lovable Animals” by Emily Sawyer,
Clark Elementary School, Evanston
NONFICTION
First Place: “Cookie the Goat and Baby
Crumb” by Cori Mae Gordon, Eastside Elementary School, Cody
Honorable Mentions: “The Plunge on
Jackson Lake” by Lucy Sullivan, Wilson
Elementary School, Wilson; and “The
Day I Was Attacked” by Arianna Flaten,
Conestoga Elementary School, Gillette
FICTION
First Place: “Something Smells Fishy” by
Owen Fink, Livingston Elementary
School, Cody
Honorable Mention: “Small Isn’t Always
Good” by Alita Schultz, Alta Elementary
School, Alta
FOURTH GRADE
POETRY
First Place: “Where I Come From” by Lillian Maskell, Campbell County Virtual
School, Gillette
Honorable Mentions: “Think” by C.J. Dominick, Livingston Elementary School,
Cody; and “The Top 5 Coolest Dogs Ever”
by Kolter Wyman, West Side Elementary
School, Worland
NONFICTION
First Place: “Imprints in the Mind” by Lillian Maskell, Campbell County Virtual
School, Gillette
Honorable Mention: “The Best Game
Ever” by Logan Hilde, Homeschool,
Casper
FICTION
First Place: “Rocky and the Bee!” by Jacie Chatham, Colter Elementary School,
Jackson
Honorable Mentions: “Hunting Trip” by
John Kyle Miller, West Side Elementary
School, Worland; and “No. 1 Prospect”
by Jackson Kirkbride, Albin Elementary
School, Albin
FIFTH GRADE
POETRY
First Place: “She is the River and Other
Poems” by Mary Grace Beastrom, Wilson Elementary School, Wilson
Honorable Mentions: “Life’s Adventures” by Aidan Slider, Dubois Elementary School, Dubois; and “The Wonders
of Poetry” by Anja Sheesley, South Side
Elementary School, Worland
NONFICTION
First Place: “Humiliating Tales That Will
Make You Laugh” by Ainsley Noonan,
Livingston Elementary School, Cody
NONFICTION
FIRST PLACE: “Korean War” by Shayla
Wrenn, Rozet Elementary School, Rozet
Honorable Mentions: “Wonderbots” by
Samuel Palmer, home school, Casper;
and “Presidential Facts that Didn’t
Change History” by Brooke (Amery
Stutzer) Ferrell, Glenrock Intermediate
Middle School, Glenrock
FICTION
First Place: “The Veil of Pride” by Katherine Powell, home school, Casper
Honorable Mention: “Can’t Stay Awake”
by Julia Birch Klomparens, Jackson Middle School, Jackson
SEVENTH GRADE
POETRY
First Place: “Aria” by Sawyer Lucas-Griffin, Jackson Middle School, Jackson
Honorable Mentions: “The Way I Am” by
Paige Powell, Encampment K-12 Schools,
Encampment; and “Being True To You”
by Kaylee Shook, Burns Junior/Senior
High School, Burns
NONFICTION
First Place: “Play Ball!” by Daniel
Roberts, home school, Casper
Honorable Mentions: “Finding the Milk”
by Takoda Pedersen, Encampment K-12
School, Encampment; and
“The Existing Unicorns” by Taylor Wooley, WJSH, Wright
FICTION
First Place: “Fairyland” by Sawyer Lucas-Griffin, Jackson Middle School, Jackson
Honorable Mention: “Tinted Gold” by
Morgan Johnston, Evanston Middle
School, Evanston
EIGHTH GRADE
POETRY
First Place: “Recovery Poems” by Shaye
Walker, Newcastle Middle School, Newcastle
Honorable Mentions: “Fly” by Nicolette
Krumberger, Twin Spruce Jr. High,
Gillette; and
“Singing Poems: by Spencer Knotwell,
Encampment K-12 School, Encampment
NONFICTION
First Place: “Cut the Cheese” by Rhett
Pimentel, Powell Middle School, Powell
Honorable Mentions: “Epic Adventure”
by Grace Anderson, Wyoming Virtual
Academy, Bar Nunn; and
“Keeping the Forked End Down” by Mary
(Elizabeth) Cotton, Glenrock Middle
School, Glenrock
FICTION
First Place: “Tella” by Paris Caines, Worland Middle School, Worland; and “The
Ring” by Ashtyn Harmsen, CY Middle
School, Casper
Honorable Mentions: “Nuts and Bolts”
by Rhett Pimentel, Powell Middle School,
Powell; and “Diary of a Scarred Girl” by
Kaylyn Herring, Encampment K-12
School, Encampment
NINTH GRADE
POETRY
First Place: “Our Blindside” by Taelor
Nielson, Worland High School, Worland
Honorable Mentions: “My Life Sonnets”
by Bailey Miller, Encampment K-12
FICTION
First Place: “A Factual Fairy Tail” by Mabel Ginest, home school, Cody; and “The
Clock Fairies” by Harriet Norcross, Kelly
Walsh High School, Casper
Honorable Mentions: “Raven at the
Rocks” by Elizabeth Chambers, Jackson
High School, Jackson; and “Fourth Generation” by Buck Butterfield, Worland
High School, Worland
TENTH GRADE
POETRY
First Place: “What Matters Most” by
Hunter Hout, Star Lane, Casper
Honorable Mentions: “When the Wind
Blows” by Alyssa Barkhurst, Encampement K-12 School, Encampment; and
“Symphony of the Forgotten” by Eric J.
Evans, Colter High School, Worland
NONFICTION
First Place: “Peeled Paint and Cracked
Eyes” by Angelique Shetley, Campbell
County High School, Gillette
Honorable Mentions: “Ham Radio: An
Unusual Hobby” by Tenn-Ray Barr,
Homeschool, Worland; and “The Greatest Victory” by Cassidy Little, Encampment K-12 School, Encampment
FICTION
First Place: “The Heart of the Fog” by
Guy Erickson, Encampment K-12 School,
Encampment
Honorable Mentions: ““Heafty McDeafty
McClutz McMute” by Jonathan Finch,
Glenrock High School, Glenrock; and “I
Love a Gypsy Life” by William Day, Colter
High School, Worland
ELEVENTH GRADE
POETRY
First Place: “The Lamentations of the
Broken-Hearted” by William Scott,
Campbell County High School, Gillette
Honorable Mention: “Who Is She, Really?” by Kylie Campbell, Midwest School,
Midwest
NONFICTION
First Place: “Greasy Side Up” by Holbie
Oakley, Burns Jr./Sr. High School, Burns
Honorable Mention: “Flower Child” by
Hadley Jeffries, Worland High School,
Worland
FICTION
First Place: “The Boy in the Lamp” by
Krey Ramsey, Wyoming Connections
Academy, Cody
Honorable Mentions: “First of Many
Fleets: A Short Story” by Charles
Mitchell, Journeys School, Jackson; and
“Just Reward” by Brian Study, Campbell
County High School, Gillette
TWELFTH GRADE
POETRY
First Place: “Fear Into Light: A Collection
of Poems” by Marena Salerno Collins,
Journey School, Jackson
Honorable Mentions: “Last Words by
Morgan Downs,” Glenrock High School,
Glenrock; and “To Those Who Could Not
Hear the Music; by Blake London, Campbell County High School, Gillette
NONFICTION
Honorable Mentions: “Taking the Next
Step” by Cameron (John) Collamer,
Saratoga Middle School, Saratoga; and
“Blowin’ in the Wind” by Elias Vlastos,
Star Lane, Casper
FICTION
First Place: “Frozen” by Carmen K. Baker, Midwest School, Midwest
Honorable Mentions: “Rat King” by
Madison Beaver, Homeschool, Gillette;
and “The Course of Perpetual Anguish”
by Kelsea (Marie) Moore, Horizon Junior/Senior High, Evanston
Animator-turned-playwright brings thinking theater to Wyoming
LARAMIE — Amy Hollon drew someone
else’s ideas for 10 years, a cog-in-the-wheel.
She came back to Laramie to find her voice
and take control of her creative process.
“I think what this town needs is theater that
makes you think,” Hollon said.
Originally from Laramie, Hollon left for Los
Angeles after high school. She worked for a
small animation company for about 10 years.
When Disney abandoned its two-dimensional animation, Hollon felt like she needed a
change and came back to her hometown.
Hollon earned a degree in playwriting and
theater from the University of Wyoming,
where she studied under William Missouri
Downs, one of the top playwrights in the
country. She started working at the Gryphon
Theatre about four years ago.
Hollon started out with prop design on
Relative Theatrics’ production of “Red,” a
show that led to her being more involved. She
now helps write and direct productions at the
Gryphon. In March, it was “Freak Show.” In
October, it will be “The Woman in Black.”
She was also accepted into the Brush
Creek Ranch Residency program to finish
writing a play about famous architect Frank
Lloyd Wright. Hollon will be there for two
weeks — to keep her day job, she said — but
many of the other selected artists will be
there all summer. If she completes the play, it
might be produced on stage in Wisconsin,
where Wright lived. Most of the other participants are graduate students or assistant professors looking to improve their curriculum
vitae.
5A
Northern Wyoming Daily News
GREYBULL — Nobody is really certain when skate night began at the Asp Community Center in Greybull. The theories
range decades.
Greybull Recreation District
Director Heather Howe said,
“I’m pretty sure my parents skated here, it’s been years and years
and years.”
Roller rink supervisor Trista
Williams said it might be even
longer based on the memories of
relatives.
They agree a clearer answer
could be achieved by conducting
a carbon test on the rental
skates. Both Williams and Howe
admit many of them predate
their own birth by many years, or
even generations.
The Greybull tradition survived even if the heydays of the
roller rink have since waned
everywhere else. For as long as
anybody involved can remember, the Asp Community Center
gymnasium floor has been
turned into a makeshift rink
complete with disco balls, limbo
sticks and the distinctive smell
of the aerosol disinfectant the
high school-aged employees
spray into the ancient rental
skates.
A small office at the entrance
of the center holds the rental
skates and snacks. Midway
through the early session the
gymnasium lights are dimmed,
Lady Gaga replaces the typical
‘80s soundtrack and the strobe
lights that are hanging above the
rental office are turned on, a collected screech emits from the
young skaters and glow sticks
magically appear.
According to Williams, there
was a period of time when the
center didn’t offer skating, but
reinstated it prior to her returning to Greybull seven years ago.
Attendance has been steady
for several years and Howe doesn’t see that changing anytime
soon. She said they have 10-30
kids attending the early all-ages
session that runs Friday and Saturday from 6:30-8 p.m. and another 20-40 during the teen session from 8:30-10 p.m.
“They come here until they get
their driver’s license, then we
don’t see them anymore,” she
said and laughed. “Those are really good numbers for Greybull.”
Williams, a Greybull native
who attended skate night as a
kid, has been overseeing the program for the last seven years.
She said that although she feels
a connection with skate night’s
tradition, she took the job because it was a nice fit for her.
During a recent Friday night ses-
sion, she tried to pin down the
tradition’s history while juggling
snack orders, skate returns and
coaxing the kids out the door so
they could get ready for the next
session.
“I don’t know how long. I have
relatives that are in their 70s and
say they came when they were
kids.”
WRECK ON WHEELS
Dagny Revilla and Lisa
Thompson are not the typical
skate night attendees. They are
decked out in pads and helmets.
They even have custom socks
with their aliases printed on
them. When they talk, they have
to remember to remove their
mouthpieces so they can be understood.
They are members of the
Heart Mountain Wreck on
Wheels Roller Derby Team that
consists of skaters from across
the Big Horn Basin. Every Friday they make the trip from
Cody to fit in a little practice
amid the usual skate night crowd
of preteens and watchful parents.
Revilla, 32, and Thompson, 37,
are coworkers at Cody Labs
where Revilla is a safety officer.
In the course of her job duties a
few months ago, she was lecturing a contractor for a safety violation when he told her she
would do great at roller derby.
Later, Thompson overheard Revilla talking about her new hobby and her interest was piqued.
The only problem was that Revilla and Thompson didn’t know
how to skate. They strapped on
the wheels for the first time in
March. But after several weeks of
commitment things seem to be
going pretty well for the rookies.
Revilla claims the speedy
Thompson is a natural on skates
while she serves as muscle. Now,
“Dr. Daggers” and “Thompson
Turvy,” along with their Wreck
on Wheels teammates, won’t
pass up an opportunity to prepare for the inaugural Wyo Cup
tournament scheduled for the
end of June in Laramie.
Finding places to practice has
been difficult for the team because most Big Horn Basin communities have long since boarded up their roller rinks.
“We have no place to skate,”
said Revilla. “We skate outside
on tennis courts and parking
lots. I think we’ve been kicked
out of more places than we can
skate at.”
But as long as the Wreck on
Wheels don’t mind dodging kids
cutting corners or Taylor Swift
booming from the sound system, they will have practice
space at the Asp Community
Center on Friday and Saturday
nights for the foreseeable future.
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State
champions
Rock Springs strikes big in
Casper with five state titles
ROBERT MORGAN
Rocket-Miner Sports Reporter
CASPER — The Wyoming
High School Association track
and field state championships
are far from over, but Rock
Springs has already made it one
of the best performances this
decade.
The Tigers have won five state
championships so far and still
have plenty of finals to complete
Saturday.
GIRLS
Miranda Grubbs/Wyoming Tribune Eagle
Rock Springs High School senior Mesa Weidle competes in the 800meter run during the state track and field meet at Kelly Walsh High
School. She had a golden Friday when she ran her way to the 800-meter state championship.
Rock Springs captured three
state titles on the girls’ side. Senior Mesa Weidle is the state
champion in the 800 meters after running a time of 2:16.73, well
ahead of second-place Ella DeWolf of Laramie High School at
2:20.42.
Maliya Crouch, who won state
last year, added more gold to her
collection. The junior won the
state championship in shot put
with a heave of 44 feet, 9.25
inches, 3 feet better than Elizabeth Maller of Campbell County
High School at 41-1.75.
Not to be outdone, the Rock
Springs 4x100 relay team is the
new state champs. The golden
girls of Emily Ice, Bobbie Parker,
Cassie Johnson and Hannah
Carter finished with a time of
49.27 seconds, a blink ahead of
Cheyenne Central High School
at 49.43.
BOYS
The boys have won two state
titles and could have several
more by the end of Saturday.
Ricky Faure was back at it again
as he won the state title in the
800 by breaking his own state
record for the third time after he
was clocked at 1:48.14, 4 seconds
ahead of second place Josh Hartford of Green River High School
at 1:52.45.
The RSHS boys’ 4x800 relay
team captured the first of the five
state championships Friday. The
foursome of Preston Portillo,
Krey Ramsey, Elijah Rembacz
and Faure won it all with a time
of 7:57.14, 3 seconds better than
Cheyenne East at 8:00.78.
RSHS girls’ state run ends
ROBERT MORGAN
Nicole Malicoat/Rocket Miner
Rock Springs High School senior Edgar Arana uses fancy footwork
to keep control of the ball against Cheyenne East High School. The
Tigers scored three first-half goals on their way to a 3-1 victory.
Tigers dominate
Thunderbirds
to advance
to consolation
championship
ANDREW GALLINGER
ROCK SPRINGS — If the surprise season was going to be extended one more day, the Rock
Springs High School girls’ soccer
team needed to find a way to
beat Kelly Walsh High School for
the first time this season Friday.
The Tigers were unable to realize that hope as they surrendered
a pair of early goals. While they
locked the Trojans down defensively, it was too late in a 2-0 loss
at the 4A state tournament.
Rock Springs had lost both
regular-season meetings to Kelly
Walsh by a combined 7-1. One of
the games went into overtime,
and the third meeting was just as
close, but the Tigers could not
solve the KWHS defensive challenge.
The loss ended the Tigers’ surprise run to the state tourney
with a 5-11-1 overall record.
KWHS improved to 8-4 and will
take on Natrona County in the
consolation championship Saturday.
The Trojans put Rock Springs
in defensive mode from the
opening whistle. They tallied the
first three shots of the game and
did not let up until there was a
score.
Kelly Walsh got a break four
minutes into the game on a corner kick. From the middle of the
box, junior Ali Green headed a
shot into the upper-left corner of
the net to make it 1-0.
Most of the first half was
played in Rock Springs’ territory.
Robert Morgan Photos/Rocket Miner
Rock Springs High School forward Maggie Justinak, No. 36, locks up in arms with a Kelly Walsh High School
player as they battle for the ball.
Rock Springs High School junior
Kelci Howe, No. 12, consoles senior teammate Lauryn McCrann
seconds after completing her final high school game. McCrann
finished her season by leading
the Tigers to the state tournament for the first time in five
years.
Siarra Freuler, Jordan Goldman,
Kirsi Anselmi-Sith and DiAnna
Moreno were forced to break up
numerous passes to keep KWHS
out of the box.
The Tigers managed to get the
ball closer to the Trojan net with
23 minutes left in the half. Lauryn McCrann and Maggie Justinak teamed up to put pressure
on the back line, but Kelly Walsh
cleared the ball and went back
into attacking mode. It paid off
when senior Tina Brown fired a
rolling shot across the box and
just inside the left post to make it
2-0 with 17:59 left in the half.
The Trojans continued to ambush the net. RSHS goalie Zoe
Baldwin made three-straight diving saves from close range to
keep things from getting any
worse.
Rock Springs managed its second shot of the half with three
minutes in the half. McCrann
blasted two more shots, both of
which were stopped by leaping
saves from goalie Shae Moore to
keep it 2-0 at the break.
The Tigers opened the second
half with some offensive pressure. They booted their second
corner kick of the game in the
first 40 seconds, but the KWHS
defense was there to smother the
ball.
Kelly Walsh had fewer offensive chances in the second have
as RSHS shuffled players to keep
the defense fresh. Brenda
Chavez, Marisol Castillo, Alyssa
Graham, Katie Noomen and
Steffany Stephenson provided
help off the bench to help shut
out KWHS in the second half.
The Tigers’ play in the midfield led to more pressure on the
offensive end of the field. Aly
Sweet, Madisyn Cantrell, Howe
and McCrann forced the Trojan
defense to work most of the second half.
ROCK SPRINGS — The
Rock Springs High School boys’
soccer team rebounded Friday
in the state playoffs with a 3-1
consolation bracket victory over
Cheyenne East High School.
With the win, the Tigers made
up for a 2-1 loss to Laramie in
the opening game of the state
tournament and will advance to
Saturday’s consolation championship.
Friday’s contest began with
hard and fast play from both
teams. Chance Hixon of the
Thunderbirds fired the first shot
on goal 4:05 into the game, but
his shot sailed over the crossbar.
About three minutes later,
RSHS senior Alan Wendlandt
put up his own shot on the goal,
which also cleared the crossbar.
Brock Lancaster attempted another shot on goal, which sailed
wide right.
Rock Springs’ hard work in
putting the ball in scoring position paid off when Miguel Avalos softly kicked the ball into the
net after Thunderbird goalie
Brenden Hunt lost the handle
on the ball.
With 22:45 to play in the first
period, the Tigers increased
their lead to two when Edgar
Arana scored after a powerful
shot from the corner.
RSHS tried to add to the
score on penalty kicks from
Wendlandt and Edwin Muniz,
but they were both unsuccessful. RSHS scored its final point
of the game with 17:40 left in
the half. Sergio Lemus navigated the ball past Cheyenne defenders and fired from just outside the goalie box to put the orange and black on top, 3-0.
Over the next nine minutes,
CEHS attempted to catch up,
but a shot from Cody Lucas
barely squeaked outside of the
left goalpost. With 6:52 left to
play before halftime, a shot
from Kellyn Goodrich hit the
post and bounced back into the
field of play.
The Thunderbirds came within inches of putting their first
point up before halftime, but
RSHS goalie Court Carroll
made himself go vertical to tip
Alex Corbin’s penalty shot.
CEHS came out of the break
and settled into a steady offensive and defensive rhythm.
About 11 minutes into the half,
Chase Erickson tapped in the
team’s first and only point to
avoid a shutout.
In the final 29 minutes of the
game, the Tigers defense played
very tough and didn’t allow any
Cheyenne scoring attempts.
Rock Springs tried to exploit
some weaknesses in the Thunderbird defense. The home
team put up five goal attempts
— three from Wendlandt and
one each from Muniz and Willy
Quezada — but did not score.
RSHS head coach Sean
Grube said he was very pleased
with his team’s effort Friday.
“I think some of the seniors
stepped up with their leadership, and they said that we need
to be playing on the final day of
the tournament on our home
field,” Grube said.
Grube said watching CEHS
play Thursday was a big key in
getting the win.
“We watched East play yesterday and saw that they like to
spread things out, so we tried to
counter that with our offensive
attack,” Grube said. “The boys
put on a lot of offensive pressure that allowed them to find
the net and it worked out for
us.”
The coach said he wasn’t concerned that RSHS failed to
score in the second half.
“We just wanted to play in a
defensive mode in the second
half,” Grube said. “We wanted to
hold East off, and we slipped
one possession that East was
able to get one goal, but then we
refocused and held on until the
end.”
With the loss, Cheyenne’s
season came to an end. Rock
Springs advances to the consolation championship and will
face Kelly Walsh High School at
11 a.m. Saturday at RSHS.
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4A State Championship
Soccer Tournament
Maggie Justinak, No. 36, goes airborne to keep the
ball in play for Rock Springs High School.
Green River High School sophomore Jared Thornburg, No. 30, and Laramie High School senior Noah
Snider, No. 10, gets physical while running down a
free ball.
Robert Morgan Photos/Rocket Miner
Green River High School midfielder Cody Lucas, No. 2, attacks the net while the Laramie
High School goalie makes a sliding save.
Wolves denied trip
to championship
ROBERT MORGAN
Green River High School boys’
soccer team was not only representing its program in the state
semifinals on Friday, but the
entire 4A West region. GRHS
was the only team out of eight
from the West to win a firstround game.
The Wolves had a chance to
make a bigger impression when
they took on Laramie High
School for a chance to get to
the championship game, but
they were unable to get the offensive magic needed to pull off
the upset as the Plainsmen
made sure it was an all-East final on Saturday with a 2-0 decision.
The game took more than
three hours to complete when
an electrical storm caused a
one-hour delay with 11 minutes
to play. Green River trailed 2-0
before the interruption and was
unable to get a surprise finish
on the wet turf.
The loss dropped the Wolves
to 14-5 for the season. They will
take on Cheyenne Central High
School at 11 a.m. Saturday in
the third-place game.
Laramie, which defeated
Rock Springs 2-1 a day earlier,
improved to 15-1-2. LHS will
face Campbell County in the
championship game at 3:30
p.m.
It only took Green River 45
seconds to record the first shot
of the game. Taten Knight
blasted a shot from 22 yards
away that was snuffed out by
the goalie.
The quick strike was not a
sign of things to come. Laramie
put the ball at the other end of
the field and tallied the next
three shots.
Green River High School goalie Alexander Marchal, left, punches out a corner kick
against Laramie High School with a little help from teammate Tanner Trumble, No. 11.
Green River High School defender Hope Hunt, No. 21, sacrifices her body to block a shot
by Natrona County High School forward Jessica Charron, No. 1.
Rock Springs High School freshman Jack Stout, No.
43, and Cheyenne East High School junior Alex
Corbin, No. 2, fight for a header.
Laramie kept on attacking
with a barrage of shots. The
group took two corner kicks
and one free kick from 42 yards
away, but GRHS goalie Alexander Marchal made three diving
saves over the defense to knock
the ball out of harm’s way.
The Plainsmen refused to go
away. The persistence paid off
when senior Gage Selting
crushed a shot by the diving
Marchal to make it 1-0 with
27:58 left in the half.
Green River switched ends of
the field and attempted to get
the equalizer. The Wolves
thought they had it when Tanner Trumble was taken down
inside the box, but the official
waved off the foul.
Laramie reclaimed control of
the game for the final eight
minutes. The group chalked up
the final four shots, which included a breakaway save by
Marchal to keep it 1-0 at halftime.
Marchal was put back in defensive mode to start the second half. He tallied two more
saves in the first three minutes.
The Green River defensive
line was tested but refused to
break. Several Wolves including
Mikah Johnson, Austin Ragsdale and Kamden Carroll made
big plays to deny any breakaway shots the rest of the game.
Laramie got an unusual goal
to seal the deal. The Plainsmen
scored on a flip-in throw in
from 40 yards out on the sideline that sailed over every player and into the net to make it 20 with 31:42 left to play.
The Plainsmen had two more
shots hit the posts before
weather caused a lengthy delay.
When play resumed, there
was 11:39 left on the clock. Both
teams were kept out of the goal
until time expired.
Fillies rally to
beat GRHS girls
ROBERT MORGAN
Kelly Walsh High School freshman Chelsea Thornburgh, No. 2, does a karate-type kick to win the ball
while Rock Springs High School defender Jordan
Goldman, No. 23, tries to break up the shot.
7A
Green River High School girls’
soccer team had less than 24
hours to regroup defensively at
the state tournament. The
Wolves were stingier on defense
Friday in an elimination game
against Natrona County High
School, but they had a lategame letdown that erased the
lead and eventually led to a 4-2
loss.
Green River led for most of
the game before the Fillies made
the move to beat GRHS for the
first time this year. They scored
three times in a five-minute span
late in the game to rally for the
decision.
After winning 18-consecutive
games, Green River ended the
season on a three-game skid to
finish at 18-3. After losing the regional championship, the team
allowed seven goals Thursday
against Laramie High School.
NCHS improved to 9-10 and
will face Kelly Walsh High
School for the consolation
championship.
The Wolves played much differently in the first half of Friday’s game. Sophomore Lyndsey Burnett had three breakaways in the first six minutes
that were off the mark but
forced NCHS to stay on defense.
The next 10 minutes of the
game was limited to the midfield. GRHS’ Andrea Flores,
McKenzie Lucas and Payton
Bartlett led the way in keeping
the Fillies away from the net.
The control worked long
enough for Green River to strike
first. Burnett broke free down
the sideline and dished the ball
to freshman Taylor Stoeger,
who beat three defenders and
fired a left-footed rocket from
less than 20 yards for the score
and a 1-0 lead.
Natrona County tried to turn
around things by getting physical. The plan worked long
enough to pepper the goal with
three shots, all of which were rejected by goalie Dakota Neumann.
The back-and-forth battle
continued with Green River re-
turning the pressure. Stoeger
fired her third shot of the game
from 35 yards out. It hit the right
post and skipped out of play.
Natrona County did not
record a shot in the final 17 minutes of the half. The defense,
which included a huge performance from Kelsey Moffitt and
Macady Richardson, did not allow one through ball in the first
half.
That was a big change from
the previous game when
Laramie scored three times inside the box in the first half.
The Wolves were on the attack for the final minutes and
forced NCHS to come up with
big stops. The Fillies met the
challenge and only trailed 1-0 at
the break.
Natrona County came out firing in the second half. After being held without a corner kick in
the first half, the Fillies got one
in the first five minutes of the final half. It was costly as Chloe
Sale knocked the ball in the net
to make it 1-1.
The teams traded shots for
the next 15 minutes. The silence
ended when GRHS sophomore
McKenzie Lucas ran by two defenders and fired a shot to the
lower-right corner of the net to
make it 2-1 with 23:30 left in the
game.
That was just enough time for
Natrona County to spoil things.
The Fillies evened the score with
13:18 on the clock when the ball
took a rainbow bounce from 40
yards away and over Neumann
to make it 2-2.
Green River was under attack
the rest of the half. NCHS
scored two minutes later when
Lulu Rochelle took a crossing
pass and headed the ball into the
net to make to give the Fillies
their first lead at 3-2 with 11:33
on the clock.
Natrona County was not finished. The group tacked on an
insurance goal on a cross-andtap shot by Sale to make it 4-2
with 8:37 left in the Wolves’ season.
Green River had its chances
late, but the team’s two corner
kicks were denied. Lucas, Burnett and Stoeger had shots that
were wide or just over the crossbar before time expired.
If you know of someone who has continued athletics after high school and would like to
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Tom Watson
has share of
Senior PGA lead
BENTON
HARBOR,
Mich. (AP) — Tom Watson
shot a 3-under 68 on Friday
for a share of the lead in the
Senior PGA Championship
with fellow Hall of Famers
Bernhard Langer and Colin
Montgomerie and three other players.
The 64-year-old Watson
had five birdies and a double
bogey — on the par-4 12th —
to reach 4-under 138 after two
rounds at Harbor Shores.
Langer also had a 68, and
Montgomerie shot 69 to join
Watson, Bart Bryant, Steen
Tinning and Kiyoshi Murota
atop the leaderboard. Bryant
shot 67, Tinning 66, and
Murota 65.
George expected
to play, Oden may
play for Heat
MIAMI (AP) — Indiana’s
Paul George has been cleared
to play in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference finals against
the Miami Heat on Saturday
night.
George was concussed in
Game 2 on Tuesday night.
The Pacers announced Friday that he is expected to
play in Game 3.
So now the lineup question
for Game 3 revolves around
Heat center Greg Oden. He
hasn’t appeared in a playoff
game in more than five years.
But the Heat say Oden has
had a strong week of workouts and may be ready to play
on Saturday.
The series is tied 1-1.
PGA Tour rookie
Garnett leads
at Colonial
FORT WORTH, Texas
(AP) — PGA Tour rookie
Brice Garnett opened with an
eagle Friday on way to a 4under 66 and the secondround lead at Colonial.
At 7-under 133, Garnett
had a one-stroke lead over
Robert Streb and Chris
Stroud, who made five putts
from more than 20 feet in a
64. Streb shot 68.
Adam Scott, playing as No.
1 in the world for the first
time, shot a 68 to get to 1 under. He has made the cut his
last 34 PGA Tour events, the
longest active streak.
Matt Kuchar, ranked No. 4
in the world, had a chance to
move to the top with a victory. But he missed the cut by a
stroke, shooting 72-70.
First-round leader Dustin
Johnson had a 70 drop into a
tie for fourth at 5 under.
Broncos’ Ward
charged in strip
club incident
DENVER (AP) — Broncos
safety T.J. Ward has been
charged with misdemeanor
assault and disturbing the
peace for allegedly throwing
a glass mug at a female bartender at a Denver strip club
earlier this month.
Ward, 27, appeared in court
Friday to face the charges
stemming from the incident
at 2:40 a.m. on May 10 at
PT’s All Nude club.
According to court documents, Ward was seen on
video surveillance picking up
the mug from the bar and
throwing it at the bartender
after being told he couldn’t
bring a drink into the club.
A court date was set for
June 23.
Police had issued an arrest
warrant for Ward on Thursday. Ward’s attorney, Abe
Hutt, told The Denver Post
that Ward didn’t know he was
wanted until he saw a television news report Thursday
night. Hutt said the warrant
was dismissed Friday.
Ward’s agent, Josh Arnold,
issued a statement to The Associated Press on Friday that
said: “The situation that presented itself within the media
yesterday involving T.J. has
been misconstrued. He was
never arrested, there will be
no booking and the warrant
that was erroneously issued
has been canceled. At this
point, he has been issued a
simple ticket/citation.”
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UW track sends
14 to nationals
WyoSports staff
LARAMIE — The University of
Wyoming men’s and women’s
track and field teams received 14
bids Thursday to the NCAA West
Preliminary Track and Field
Meet May 29-31 in Fayetteville,
Ark.
The total tied the program’s
highest mark ever, set in 2012.
Eight Cowboys and six Cowgirls will compete in the meet. To
reach the preliminary, an athlete
must be ranked in the region’s
top 48 of his or her event. The
top 12 finishers in each event at
the West Preliminary advance to
the NCAA Track and Field
Championships June 11-14 in Eugene, Ore.
The top overall qualifier is
Cowboys senior thrower Mason
Finley. Finley is ranked second in
the West with a top throw of 210
feet, 6 inches this season. Senior
Garrett Zans is next for the Cowboys, ranking 10th in the steeplechase with a top time of 8:50.45.
Zans competed in the West Preliminary in the steeplechase in
both 2011 and 2012.
Other Cowboys to compete in
the preliminary are Paul Thomas
in the discus (13th, 190-11); Harry
Fisher in the 800-meter run
(22nd, 1:49.51); Scott Carter in
the triple jump (26th, 50-6.75);
Jordan Charles in the 110-meter
hurdles (31st, 14.11); Tyler Anderson in the hammer (42nd, 198);
and Amos Bowen in the 5,000-
meter run (44th, 14:07.2).
Sheridan native Taylor Gardner represents the Cowgirls’ top
seed at No. 13 in the 400-meter
hurdles with a top time of 58.14.
Gardner also ran in the event last
year.
Also for the UW women, Kereston Thomas is seeded 28th in
the 100-meter dash (11.57) and
35th in the 200-meter dash
(23.85). Jenna Mann is 31st in the
100 hurdles (13.58) and 47th in
the long jump (19-6.25); Audra
DeStefano is 32nd in the steeplechase (10:24.04); and Shreese
Daniels is 39th in the hammer
(190-6).
Mann, Thomas, Gardner and
Katy Hall are also qualified in the
4x100-meter relay (22nd, 45.32).
AP source: Sterling surrendering
Los Angeles Clippers control
TAMI ABDOLLAH
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Donald Sterling is turning his ownership stake in the Los Angeles Clippers over to his estranged wife,
and she is in talks with the NBA to
sell the team, a person with knowledge of the negotiations told The
Associated Press on Friday.
The individual, who wasn’t authorized to speak publicly about
the deal, said the couple reached
the agreement after weeks of discussion.
“Donald Sterling is out, and
there will be new owners,” the individual told the AP.
Neither Shelly Sterling nor her
attorney had any comment Friday. They have been in talks with
NBA lawyers for the last couple
weeks.
“She wants to be able to say,
‘I’m selling the team, not the NBA
is selling the team,’ and have
meaningful control over that
transaction,” the individual told
the AP.
Donald Sterling was banned for
life and fined $2.5 million by NBA
Commissioner Adam Silver after
the release of a recording last
month in which Sterling made
racist remarks involving blacks,
which comprise the majority of
players in the league.
Sterling told female friend V.
Stiviano not to bring blacks to
Clippers games during a recorded
conversation. Sterling specifically mentioned Magic Johnson, and
then criticized the NBA Hall of
Famer again as a poor role model
during a TV interview.
Earlier this week, the NBA
charged Sterling with damaging
the league and its teams with his
comments, and said he has engaged in other conduct that has
impaired its relationship with fans
and merchandising partners.
Sterling has until next Tuesday
to respond to the charge. He has
the right to appear at a New York
DONALD STERLING
hearing on June 3 in front of the
other owners and make a presentation before the league’s board of
governors votes on terminating
his ownership. He is entitled to a
lawyer at the hearing, but strict
courtroom rules of evidence
would not apply.
It will take three-quarters of the
owners to terminate Sterling’s
ownership, and the league says
also that of Shelly Sterling.
“She has no plans to sue the
NBA,” the individual told the AP.
“She’s trying to make nice.”
Minnesota Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor, the board chairman, will preside over the June 3
hearing. If three-fourths of the
other 29 owners vote to sustain
the charge, Sterling will be forced
to sell the team he has owned
since 1981. Silver has said he is
confident he has the 23 votes that
are necessary.
If Sterling does not respond to
the charge within five business
days, or does not appear at the
hearing, it would be deemed an
admission of the “total validity of
the charges as presented,” according to the NBA constitution.
Donald Sterling’s attorney had
asked for a three-month delay,
which the league rejected. His attorney had no comment Friday.
Article 14a of the NBA’s constitution, which deals with the consequences of termination of ownership, allows the interest of a terminated owner to be placed under
the management and control of
the commissioner.
He would then have the power
to exercise all of the rights that belonged to that owner, including
the right to transfer all or any portion of that interest at such prices
and terms that the commissioner
deems “reasonable and appropriate.”
Ultimately, any sale of the team
would have to be approved by the
league’s owners.
Outdoor motocross season kicks off this weekend
JOHN MARSHALL
AP Sports Writer
Chad Reed sat at home for a
month, trying to shake his funk.
He had a superb start to the Supercross season, putting himself in
position for another championship while proving to himself
that he still had it as he climbed
into his 30s.
It came to abrupt end in San
Diego, where a crash knocked
Reed out for the season and back
on his heels.
“It just really bummed me out,”
Reed said. “A lot of things were
gelling and I thought good things
were coming, so to get injured and
fall short of the goal to contend for
a championship, really kind of
sucked a lot of energy out of me.”
Once Reed got over it, he turned
the setback into a positive.
Despite the wreck, the 32-yearold knew he could still keep up
with the sport’s young guns, that
he just needed to heal up and get
ready for the outdoor season.
Now it’s here and he, along with
several other riders coming off injuries, is geared up for what should
be a wide-open season that starts
Saturday at Glen Helen Raceway
in San Bernardino, California.
“This could be the most com-
petitive season we’ve seen in a
long time,” said Davey Coombs,
vice president of the Lucas Oil
Motocross
Championships.
“There are any number of riders
who could win the championship.”
One who won’t be there is defending champion Ryan Villopoto.
He’s been the dominant rider indoors and out, winning four Supercross titles and two outdoor
championships. Villopoto became
the first rider to win four straight
Supercross titles earlier this year,
but was hobbled late in the season
and decided to have surgery on his
left knee, knocking him out of the
outdoor season.
Villopoto’s misfortune has
opened the door for other riders to
claim the title.
The favorites will likely be the
past champions in the field. Ryan
Dungey has two outdoor titles,
Reed won in 2009 and James
Stewart was the 2008 champion.
They know what it takes to get
through the hot grind of racing
outdoors in the summer, so don’t
be surprised if one of those three
takes home another title.
But it’s not just going to be
handed to them because they’re
the vets. The series is filled with
up-and-comers who have shown
they have the speed, at least on
short runs, to keep up with the experienced riders, including Ken
Roczen, Justin Barcia, Eli Tomac
and Trey Canard.
Like Reed, Canard is trying to
come back from an injury, as are
Tomac and Davi Millsaps, so there
should be some added intrigue as
riders try to bounce back and compete for a championship.
“It’s a part of the sport, unfortunately,” Coombs said. “There are
quite a few riders who are trying to
come back from injuries this year.”
Reed is one of them — again.
He had been one of motocross’
most consistent riders, setting a
Supercross record with 116
straight races. Over the past few
years, he’s had a string of injuries,
including a torn left ACL during
the 2012 Supercross season that
ended his outdoor season before it
started.
Reed’s latest injury came during
the sixth race of the Supercross
season in San Diego.
Running fourth, he charged up
the last lap in an attempt to overtake Roczen for a spot on the podium. While racing across a whoops
section — smaller jumps bunched
closely together — Roczen closed
off Reed’s passing line and the
Aussie misjudged one of the
bumps and wrecked.
SPORTS WRAP
Major League Baseball
AMERICAN LEAGUE
East Division
W
Toronto
27
Baltimore
24
New York
24
Tampa Bay
21
Boston
20
L
22
22
23
28
27
Pct
.551
.522
.511
.429
.426
GB
—
1 1/2
2
6
6
NATIONAL LEAGUE
East Division
W
Atlanta
27
Miami
25
Washington
24
New York
21
Philadelphia
20
W
28
23
25
23
23
L
16
21
25
23
26
Pct
.636
.523
.500
.500
.469
GB
—
5
6
6
7 1/2
Central Division
W
Milwaukee
29
St. Louis
26
Cincinnati
22
Pittsburgh
21
Chicago
17
W
30
26
23
23
17
L
18
20
23
25
31
Pct
.625
.565
.500
.479
.354
GB
—
3
6
7
13
Central Division
Detroit
Minnesota
Chicago
Kansas City
Cleveland
West Division
Oakland
Los Angeles
Seattle
Texas
Houston
L
20
24
24
25
25
Pct
.574
.510
.500
.457
.444
GB
—
3
3 1/2
5 1/2
6
L
20
22
24
26
28
Pct
.592
.542
.478
.447
.378
GB
—
2 1/2
5 1/2
7
10
L
18
22
23
27
31
Pct
.617
.542
.531
.438
.367
GB
—
3 1/2
4
8 1/2
12
West Division
SCORES
Thursday’s Games
Texas 9, Detroit 2
Toronto 7, Boston 2
Tampa Bay 5, Oakland 2, 11 innings
Cleveland 8, Baltimore 7, 13 innings
Chicago White Sox 3, N.Y. Yankees 2
Seattle 3, Houston 1
Friday’s Games
Baltimore 8, Cleveland 4
Toronto 3, Oakland 2
Detroit 7, Texas 2
Tampa Bay 1, Boston 0
Chicago White Sox 6, N.Y. Yankees 5
San Francisco
Colorado
Los Angeles
San Diego
Arizona
W
29
26
26
21
18
SCORES
Thursday’s Games
Miami 4, Philadelphia 3
Colorado 2, San Francisco 2, tie, 6
innings, susp., rain
Pittsburgh 3, Washington 1
N.Y. Mets 5, L.A. Dodgers 3
Atlanta 5, Milwaukee 4
St. Louis 4, Arizona 2
Chicago Cubs 5, San Diego 1
Friday’s Games
L.A. Dodgers 2, Philadelphia 0
Pittsburgh 4, Washington 3
Milwaukee 9, Miami 5
Cincinnati 5, St. Louis 3
Arizona at New York, ppd., rain
Atlanta 3, Colorado 2
MLB Briefs
Laird delivers in
8th, Braves top
Rockies 3-2
Frazier’s 3-run HR
leads Reds over
Cardinals 5-3
ATLANTA (AP) — Gerald
Laird drove in two runs with
two hits, including a tiebreaking single in the eighth, and
the Atlanta Braves beat Colorado 3-2 on Friday night after
the Rockies lost third baseman
Nolan Arenado to a broken finger.
Arenado left the game in the
second inning after fracturing
his left middle finger on a
head-first slide into second
base.
Michael Cuddyer hit a home
run for Colorado.
Ramiro Pena, who replaced
third baseman Chris Johnson
in the third inning, led off the
eighth with a double to the
centerfield wall off Adam Ottavino (0-1). After Andrelton
Simmons and Dan Uggla
struck out, Laird lined the single to left field and advanced to
second when Corey Dickerson’s throw bounced past
catcher Jordan Pacheco.
David Carpenter (4-0)
pitched a scoreless eighth and
Craig Kimbrel struck out the
side in the ninth for his 13th
save.
The Rockies did not immediately say if Arenado will be
placed on the disabled list.
CINCINNATI (AP) — Todd
Frazier hit a three-run homer
off Shelby Miller, who had won
his last six decisions, and
Devin Mesoraco added a solo
shot as the Cincinnati Reds
beat the St. Louis Cardinals 53 on Friday night and tightened the top of the NL Central.
The Reds moved within
three games of the secondplace Cardinals, who have won
seven of their last nine games
while staying right behind the
division-leading Brewers.
Cincinnati is 3-4 against St.
Louis this season and trying to
end a longstanding trend this
weekend. The Reds have lost
nine of their last 10 series
against the Cardinals.
Miller (6-3) lost his first two
starts before winning six
straight decisions, the best
such streak of his career. He allowed five runs in five innings,
including Frazier’s ninth
homer in the third inning.
Homer Bailey (4-3) escaped
numerous threats during his
six innings. Aroldis Chapman
gave up a hit in the ninth while
getting his fourth save in five
chances, with his fastball topping out at 102 mph.
Diamondbacks-Mets Dunn homers in
postponed by
9th, White Sox
rain in 4th inning
beat Yankees 6-5
NEW YORK (AP) — Aaron
Hill was ready to wait all night
to get this game in.
Hill had a two-run homer
wiped out by a rain storm that
postponed the Arizona Diamondbacks and New York
Mets in the fourth inning on
Friday night after a delay of 2
hours, 11 minutes.
“To get a win ... yeah,” Hill
said. “We need a few of those.”
The game will be made up
as part of a single-admission
doubleheader on Sunday. The
first game will start at 1:10 p.m.
Manager Kirk Gibson said the
Diamondbacks, who are in last
place in the NL West at 18-31,
will likely call up a pitcher for
the makeup start Sunday.
CHICAGO (AP) — Adam
Dunn hit a two-run homer off
David Robertson in the ninth
inning, and the Chicago White
Sox beat the New York Yankees 6-5 on Friday night.
Alexei Ramirez also went
deep, and Chicago came away
with the win after wiping out
an early three-run deficit and
then rallying again.
They were trailing 5-4 going
into the ninth when Dayan Viciedo led off with a single.
Dunn then won it when he
drove an 0-2 pitch out to rightcenter for his eighth homer. It
was the 10th time he has ended a game by homering, and
the first for him since July 4,
2013, against Baltimore.
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REGIONAL BRIEFS
Wyo. lawmakers
plan China trip
to talk coal
Environment group
sues over Uinta
Basin drilling
CASPER (AP) — Four
Wyoming legislators will travel to China next month for discussions about clean-coal technology.
The 10-day trip is set to start
June 7 and will take the lawmakers and others to three
Chinese
coal-producing
provinces.
The Wyoming delegation
will consist of Republican
House Speaker Tom Lubnau,
of Gillette, state Republican
Rep. Tim Stubson, of Casper,
state Democratic Rep. Mary
Throne, of Cheyenne, and Democratic Rep. John Freeman,
of Rock Springs.
The legislators’ travel expenses will be paid for by the
Jackson Hole Center for Global Affairs. It is a bipartisan public policy institute that has
sought to foster AmericanChinese cooperation on cleancoal technologies.
Center President David
Wendt tells the Casper StarTribune that the purpose of
the trip is to share lessons
about the challenges of carbon
emissions.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) —
An environmental group hoping to halt a Uinta Basin
drilling project is suing federal officials in U.S. District
Court.
WildEarth Guardians filed
the suit earlier this month. It
relates to a 400-well project
proposed by Berry Petroleum.
WildEarth says the operation will trample sage grouse
habitats in the Ashley National Forest and worsen air quality in eastern Utah.
The suit targets the federal
Bureau of Land Management,
the National Forest Service
and Utah-based officials at
both agencies.
The agencies declined to
comment while the suit is
pending.
Calls to Berry’s Houstonbased parent company LINN
Energy were not immediately
returned to The Associated
Press. The Salt Lake Tribune
reports the Forest Service has
already authorized part of the
operation, where the company
has approval to set up 155
wells.
Mead appoints
new 6th Circuit
Court judge
Utah Boy Scout
membership up
since gays allowed
CHEYENNE (AP) — Gov.
Matt Mead has appointed
Laramie attorney Matt Castano as the new Circuit Court
judge for the 6th Judicial District in Crook and Weston
counties.
Castano has been in private
practice most recently but has
served as a Circuit Court magistrate, an alternate municipal
court judge and a judge for the
Albany County Adult Court
Supervised Treatment Program.
He received his law degree
from the University of
Wyoming.
Membership in the Boy Scouts
of America has increased in
Utah since its ranks were
opened to gay youths a year
ago, the state’s three Boy
Scouts councils said.
The councils all reported
membership hikes since the
organization’s national council
approved the new policy.
Dave McCammon of the
Great Salt Lake Council told
the Deseret News in a story
Thursday that the past year
has been relatively free of controversy over the new membership policy.
Utah’s jump in membership
bucks a national trend. The
state is home to the Mormon
church, which has close ties to
the Boy Scouts and is the organization’s largest sponsor.
The bond between the Boy
Scouts and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
was born in the early 1900s
from mutual values and principles.
Mormon missionary
dies in Honduras
A 27-year-old Mormon missionary is dead after a fatal car
accident in Honduras.
The Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints says Jesus
Martinez Campos of Usulutan,
El Salvador died on Thursday.
Church officials say Martinez was in the car at the time
of the accident with fellow missionary, George B. Lewis, of
Francis, Utah. Lewis was injured but expected to survive.
Martinez was eight months
into a 2-year mission in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
The fatal accident marks the
third missionary death of the
year.
Last year, 12 missionaries
died in what was an abnormally deadly year for proselyting
members of the faith. There
are usually only a few deaths
each year.
The church has more missionaries than ever before with
about 85,000 men and women
serving around the world.
Charge stands
against past
museum boss
RIVERTON (AP) — A judge
dropped the case against a former Pioneer Museum employee who had been charged with
helping his boss steal $29,000
of material from the Lander institution. The case against his
former boss has been sent on
to District Court.
Authorities say surveillance
video from cameras showed
Joseph Spriggs and then-museum director Carol Thiesse
removing interpretative signs
and pictures from walls and
pedestals in the museum.
Authorities say Thiesse
moved the material into her
personal vehicle and now faces
charges of larceny and destruction of intellectual property. According to the Riverton
Ranger, Spriggs’s lawyer Bill
Miller says there was no proof
his client took the property.
Thiesse’s
lawyer,
Tim
Kingston, argued the property
had no value and that Thiesse
did not convert it to her own
use.
Oil and gas
initiative OK to
collect signatures
DENVER (AP) — One of the
most contentious of 11 oil and
gas local control ballot initiatives seeking to get on the November ballot in Colorado has
received judicial approval to
begin gathering petition signatures.
Initiative 75 would give local
governments the power to limit or eliminate the rights of
companies to prevent them
from interfering with local government control.
Backers and opponents say
the measure would have
sweeping implications over
many industries.
Other initiatives seeking to
get on the ballot would tighten
state regulations on energy development or give more control to local governments.
The Denver Post reports the
Colorado Supreme Court on
Thursday gave the go-ahead
for petitions to circulate on Initiative 75, denying a challenge
from business advocates that
the measure’s wording was
confusing and misleading.
Police: Provo man
stabs neighbor
with screwdriver
PROVO, Utah (AP) — Police
say they have arrested a Provo
man accused of stabbing his
neighbor with a screwdriver.
Arrest documents show the
30-year-old Jerad Gourdin began fighting with a neighbor in
the street after the man accused him of stealing a dog.
Police say the two men exchanged several blows before
he wielded the screwdriver.
Two bystanders reportedly
witnessed the scuffle.
REGIONAL
9A
Volunteers help dig
up dinosaurs in Utah
BRETT PRETTYMAN
The Salt Lake Tribune
SAN JUAN COUNTY, Utah
(AP) — Jeanette Bonnell likes to
play in the dirt. The 62-year-old
retired human resources specialist is also pretty handy with a
dentist’s drill.
Those two qualities, combined
with fine attention to detail and a
little detective work, make her the
perfect volunteer for the Natural
History Museum of Utah’s paleontology department.
“I worked for 30 years behind a
desk and when I retired, I said no
more,” Bonnell said while whisking away layers of dirt deposited
in an ancient pond 300 million
years ago in a remote location
just outside what is now Canyonlands National Park. “The experience of finding your first fossil is
indescribable.”
Paleontologists come from
around the world to a Utah landscape rich with bones of ancient
creatures, but not everybody doing the digging, cleaning the fossils and even making the discoveries has a fancy title in front of
their name.
“We have amazing volunteers.
They discover fossils, they excavate fossils and back in the lab
they prep them out,” said Carrie
Levitt, paleontology collections
manager at the Utah museum.
“We would not be able to do the
work we do as paleontologists
without the volunteers.”
As a kid, Erin Finney loved visiting the museum in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. He was
particularly fascinated with the
dinosaurs. So it is no surprise
Finney ended up being the one
who kids visiting the Natural History Museum of Utah now dream
of becoming when they grow up.
“What kid doesn’t love fossils?” said Finney, a seasoned volunteer in both the prep lab and on
field trips with the museum’s paleontology department.
Last year while scouting possible dig sites in San Juan County, Finney found an important
discovery on a steep slope: several fish fossils. With so many
fossils in the same area the team
refocused its efforts like crime
The rich fossil resources in Utah draw many volunteers to join the experts in digging up the past. Last year
while scouting possible dig sites in San Juan County, volunteers found fossil that eventually led to the
discovery of a phytosaur — a crocodile-like creature.
scene detectives.
Their efforts paid off when
what appears to be the snout of a
phytosaur — a crocodile-like creature — was discovered sticking
out of the cliff.
On the same trip Finney stumbled upon half of a limb bone of
a hadrosaur, a duckbill dinosaur.
He then spent hours looking for,
and eventually finding, the other
half of the bone.
“I didn’t know exactly what it
was at the time, but I knew it was
good,” he said.
The Beehive State provides a
plethora of fossils and is well
known among paleontologists.
“Utah is the best place in North
America to find fossils of almost
any age,” Randy Irmis, paleontology curator at the Natural History Museum of Utah.
Sometimes finding dinosaurs
only requires paying a little bit of
New goal: Contain Quagga
mussels at Lake Powell
PROVO, Utah (AP) — For 14
years, officials at Glen Canyon
National Recreation Area focused on keeping Quagga mussels out of Lake Powell.
It was an undertaking, as National Park Service rangers
tried to police about 2 million
annual visitors and an estimated 400,000 boat launches at
eight developed boat access
points, and at least a half-dozen
other access points along
2,000 miles of shoreline, said
Todd Brindle, recreation area
superintendent.
Last year, rangers learned
they lost the battle against the
invasive species in the vast
lake.
“We did all we could,”
Brindle said.
This week, Brindle announced at a meeting of local,
state and federal representatives from various agencies at
the U.S. Department of Interior’s Bureau of Reclamation office in Provo that the National
attention while exploring Utah.
But taking them home is against
the law. People who discover fossils on public lands should report
their findings to the BLM or a
museum, said ReBecca HuntFoster, a Utah Canyon Country
District paleontologist for the Bureau of Land Management.
The Natural History Museum
of Utah collects fossils from public lands, but don’t own them.
“They hold them for everyone;
they belong to us as Americans,”
she said.
Discoveries don’t only happen
in tucked away locations. Fossils
found in the field are collected —
in many cases, wrapped in a plaster cast still surrounded by dirt
and rock called matrix — and
sent to the museum.
In the prep lab, volunteers and
museum staffers wear lab coats
and use dental tools such as drills
Utah officials expect
normal wildfire season
BRADY MCCOMBS
Associated Press
Quagga mussels are an invasive
species that can quickly infest
lakes and reservoirs.
Park Service is shifting its efforts from prevention to containment.
The emphasis now will be on
educating boaters and screening boats not as they enter the
lake, as was done before, but as
they exit.
“There’s no way to remove
mussels from Lake Powell; no
way to reverse that,” he said at
a meeting Monday. “We’re going to face the lake and try to
focus on boats coming out of
the lake.”
and picks to clean off the fossilized bones.
Bonnell started as a gallery interpreter at the Natural History
Museum of Utah, earned her way
into the lab.
“We slowly take the layers of
matrix down and you start seeing
little bits of bone,” Bonnell said.
“It’s an awakening process. All of
a sudden you have this fossil.
There is some sort of connection
you can’t describe, but it is there.”
Finney, who has spent the last
nine months working on the
same ichthyosaur skull, admits
the lab work can be tedious, but
he also likens it to art.
“I look at it like subtractive
sculpture,” he said. “They say
rock will dictate the sculpture. In
the case of fossil prep it is quite
literally what the bone will look
like when you take the matrix off
of it.”
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A
healthy dose of late spring showers helped improve drought conditions in Utah and has generated optimism among state officials
that the wildfire season will be
manageable.
Several large fires are still likely, but Utah is at less risk than
many Western states including
California, said Bureau of Land
Management meteorologist Shelby Law this week at a news conference.
Law says Utah’s drought
peaked in 2012 and has been improving since.
After a lackluster winter for
snowpack and a dry early spring,
the state received much-needed
rain in April and May, Law said.
“It came just at the right time
to allow some of our vegetation to
take up the moisture and really
green up,” Law said.
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WORD ON THE STREET
‘What does Memorial
Day mean to you?’
‘People are just
happy to have
a day off.’
Edward Ford,
Rock Springs veteran
‘One word:
Family.’
Jimmy Renfro,
Green River
‘It’s about honoring
the soldiers who
kept us free and
sacrificed so much.’
‘I think it’s a wonderful day to remember
our loved ones, our
fallen soldiers.’
Brent Goble,
Rock Springs
Pearl Martinez,
Rock Springs
Train Day brought out
the Chief’s supporters
A baker’s dozen of us from central Col- happily waved signs saying “Save the
orado boarded the Amtrak Southwest Chief” at each stop and won thumbs-up in
Chief on May 10. We were celebrating Na- return. A friend who attended Train Day at
tional Train Day, so called because back in the (mostly) refurbished and reopened
1869, a Golden Spike was pounded into a Union Station in Denver called to say that
railroad tie, finally linking East and West a big crowd had gathered there to send off
Coasts by railroad. Lots of Amerithe California Zephyr. We also
cans still like to link up by train; on
learned that trips on the Empire
Train Day, railroad fans from
Builder through Montana, North
Kansas and Colorado came to ride
Dakota and Washington have been
the famous — and endangered —
selling out almost every day.
Chief that links Chicago with Los
Train gossip moves fast up and
Angeles.
down the line, and at Flagstaff,
The Chief is endangered beAriz., surprised tour group memcause the U.S. House of Represenbers got out of their sleepers to
tatives continues to threaten Amfind themselves greeted by a
trak’s funding, calling it “a subbunch of “Save the Chief” demonsidy.” Maybe that’s because Amstrators.
trak’s funding is a stand-alone line
Cellphones were buzzing and we
item while airlines, ships and autoalso heard that the lovely old remobiles enjoy support that is
stored Union Station in Los Angeburied deep in the budget. The fact
les had quite a contingent on hand.
is that railroad passengers pay a
The Chief has been running begreater percentage of their ticket FORREST
tween L.A. and Chicago every day
price than do users of any other WHITMAN
since 1938, and enthusiastic riders
mode of travel — 86.5 percent.
want to keep it on track.
The Chief also finds itself enAmong the supporters who
dangered because of the BNSF railroad, greeted us were the mayors of the towns
which rents its tracks to the Chief. The of La Junta, Lamar and Trinidad in southrailroad, once called the Burlington North- ern Colorado, as well as the mayor of Las
ern Santa Fe, says it intends to drop pas- Vegas, New Mexico.
senger train maintenance on the line
The Chief is these towns’ only form of
through Kansas, Colorado and New Mex- public transit, and they make good use of
ico in two years, unless its Amtrak funding it. Several folks were there to advocate for
is increased.
a Chief stop in Pueblo, Colo., and Santa
What we learned on Train Day was that Fe, N.M., and some reminded us that
there’s huge public support in the West for tourism flows there on the Chief via the
passenger trains, especially for the South- Lamy station.
west Chief. During the short leg from
The biggest crowd was at Raton, N.M.,
Trinidad, Colo., to Las Vegas, N.M., we where over a hundred people on the plat-
Writers
on the
Range
‘It’s something
that is in honor of
the veterans. I am
a veteran of the
Korean War.’
‘It’s a time for being
with your family, remembering your veterans and being thankful
for what you’ve got.’
Henry Brown,
Rock Springs veteran
Kevin Bosworth,
Rock Springs
form waved “Save the Chief” placards.
They’d invited a Western band, gave out
Popsicles, and got half the train outside to
join them on the platform. A couple of the
costumes there were notable, including a
train-riding Santa Claus, and a gun-totin’
“train mama.” When we pulled into Raton
on our way back to Trinidad that afternoon, they still were there; some a bit wobbly, but still cheering.
The mayors reminded us that a $15 million “Tiger grant” has been applied for
from the U.S. Department of Transportation. It would upgrade some 60 miles of
track to keep up 80 mph passenger train
standards.
So far, $250,000 in matching funds has
been raised by 10 small communities
along the line, and in Trinidad, a town of
10,000, the construction of a passenger
station is going forward. Other good signs
abound. Colorado has just passed a bill
setting up a commission to work with
Kansas and New Mexico to find a way to
help save the Chief, and both the state of
Kansas and BNSF have pledged support
toward the grant.
The popular Chief is nearly full most
days, yet passengers don’t seem to mind
the waiting list for the dining car, and the
bar/observation car does a good business.
Trains seem to inspire diehard loyalty in
those who use them, and once again National Train Day brought out their faithful,
enthusiastic fans. The rolling party on the
Chief wasn’t bad either. All aboard!
Forrest Whitman is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a
column syndication service of High Country News (hcn.org).
He lives in a retired caboose in central Colorado.
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A guide
to Egypt’s
election
CAIRO (AP) — Egyptians
vote Monday and Tuesday in
elections to choose a new
president after the military’s
ouster last summer of the
country’s first democratically elected leader, Islamist
Mohammed Morsi.
Considered all but certain
to win is the man who removed Morsi — retired military chief Field Marshal Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, who for
the past 10 months has been
the most powerful figure in
Egypt. The only other candidate in the race is leftist
politician Hamdeen Sabahi,
who finished third in the
2012 presidential election.
The vote brings a new
phase in Egypt’s upheaval
since the 2011 toppling of
longtime autocrat Hosni
Mubarak in a popular uprising.
Since Morsi’s ouster, his
Muslim Brotherhood and
other Islamists have held
protests against what they
call a coup against democracy. They have been met by a
ferocious police crackdown
that has killed hundreds and
imprisoned thousands. In retaliation, Islamic militants
have waged a campaign of
suicide attacks, bombings
and shootings against police
and the military.
At the same time, an economy crippled since 2011 has
worsened. Tourism has withered. Poverty has grown.
Government
debt
has
mounted. Cities face daily
blackouts as the state struggles to buy fuel for power stations.
Here are a few questions
and answers about the election.
Q: Why is el-Sissi so favored to win?
A: The 59-year-old el-Sissi
has been the object of adulation since ousting Morsi on
July 3 following massive
protests by millions against
the Islamist president. A significant sector of Egyptians
is eager for stability and embittered at the Islamists.
Also, the public has been
awash for months in el-Sissimania fueled by the media.
TV stations and newspapers
herald him as the nation’s
savior and the only man capable of solving its problems.
They have also fanned promilitary and pro-police jingoism, intimidating critics.
In contrast, Sabahi has received little media attention.
Q: So the election is a foregone conclusion?
A: By percentage of votes,
it could be a landslide.
Attention will be on
turnout. If it’s high, el-Sissi
can claim the nation is behind him and tell the world
that his ouster of Morsi reflected the will of Egyptians.
Low turnout would show
the narrowness of his support in a country that has
risen up against two presidents since 2011.
If Sabahi manages to
thwart a landslide with a respectable showing, it would
be a further blow, showing
active opposition to el-Sissi
despite the media hype.
One benchmark: Turnout
in the 2012 election that
Morsi won was just under 52
percent. Morsi garnered 13.2
million votes, just under 52
percent of the total.
Q: Will the vote be rigged?
A: Mubarak-style outright
rigging is nearly impossible
now. But irregularities can be
expected, like campaigning
outside polling centers or intimidation of Sabahi supporters.
Q: What is at stake?
A: Egyptians are desperately looking to restore security and revive the economy.
Failure to show tangible results could trigger a new
wave of unrest that some fear
could be even more violent.
Also, an el-Sissi presidency
faces the question of whether
Egypt can achieve the
democracy sought by the
2011 “revolution.” Morsi’s
backers says the ouster of an
elected president crushed
those hopes. El-Sissi’s supporters say he saved democracy from Islamists. His secular critics fear he will enshrine autocracy once more.
WORLD
11A
Ukraine’s presidential
vote: a step out of crisis
JIM HEINTZ
Associated Press
PUTIN PROMISES TO RESPECT UKRAINE’S ELECTION
MOSCOW (AP) — Ukrainians vote Sunday in an early presidential election that
could be a crucial step toward resolving the
country’s crisis, but separatists in the east
are threatening to block the vote. The election — which comes six months after the
outbreak of protests that led to the president’s ouster and a deepening chasm between pro-Europe and pro-Russia Ukrainians — aims to unify the fiercely divided
country or at least discourage further polarization.
A look at the vote:
WHY THE EARLY ELECTION?
After months of protests against his rule
and scores of protesters killed by snipers,
President Viktor Yanukovych signed an
agreement with opposition leaders on Feb.
21 calling for early presidential elections by
December. But he fled later in the day, eventually resurfacing in Russia, and parliament
decided to hold the presidential election
May 25.
Since Yanukovych’s ouster, Russia has
portrayed the interim government, including acting President Oleksandr Turchynov,
as a junta, and annexed Crimea in March.
Moscow’s animosity toward the authorities in Kiev has fed the tensions in eastern
Ukraine, where two regions have recently
declared independence. If Ukraine is able to
elect a president in a democratic and transparent process, that will counter Russia’s argument that the government is illegitimate.
WHO’S ON THE BALLOT
Twenty-one candidates are running and
about 35 million people are eligible to vote.
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) —
President Vladimir Putin pledged Friday
that Russia will respect the results of
Ukraine’s presidential election, a strong
indication the Kremlin wants to cool
down the crisis. But new violence and
rebel vows to block the balloting made
prospects for peace appear distant.
New clashes were reported between
pro-Russia separatists and government
forces in eastern Ukraine as Kiev continued an offensive to try to halt the uprising.
Associated Press reporters saw two
dead Ukrainian soldiers near the village
of Karlivka, and another body near a
rebel checkpoint, both in the Donetsk
region. A rebel leader said 16 more people died Friday in fighting there — 10
soldiers, four rebels and two civilians —
but there was no immediate way to verify his statement.
In Kiev, the Defense Ministry said 20
Polls show billionaire candy-maker Petro
Poroshenko with a commanding lead but
falling short of the absolute majority needed to win in the first round. His nearest
challenger is Yulia Tymoshenko, the divisive former prime minister, but her support
is only 6 percent. If no one wins in the first
round, a runoff will be held June 15 — polls
indicate Poroshenko would win that contest.
Poroshenko is getting support for his
pragmatism and an apparent willingness to
compromise — unusual qualities in a polit-
WORLD BRIEFS
UN: Iran cuts
uranium closest
to nuke-arms grade
VIENNA (AP) — Iran has
neutralized most of its stockpile
of higher-enriched uranium that
could be turned quickly into the
core of a nuclear weapon, the
U.N. nuclear agency said Friday,
leaving the country with only
about a fifth of what it would
need for such a purpose.
The International Atomic Energy Agency said in a confidential report that Iran now has less
than 40 kilograms (90 pounds)
of the material. The report, obtained by The Associated Press,
said Tehran also was meeting
all other obligations under the
agreement,
reached
four
months ago as a prelude to a
comprehensive deal now being
negotiated.
Iran denies any interest in
having atomic arms. But it is
ending some nuclear activities
and limiting others under a
first-step plan implemented in
January that gives it some sanctions relief in return for the concessions. As part of the deal,
Iran agreed to dilute or convert
all of its stock of uranium enriched to 20 percent. At that
level, uranium is only a technical step away from use as the
core of a nuclear warhead.
Iran had produced almost
enough 20-percent material for
such a weapon until it stopped
in January and started transforming what it had.
Syrian TV: 39
killed in campaign
tent shelling
BEIRUT (AP) — In the first
attack to target a campaign
event, a mortar shell slammed
into a tent packed with supporters of President Bashar Assad,
killing 39 people and wounding
205 others, Syrian state TV said
Friday. The shelling underscored deep fears in government strongholds that rebels
will escalate attacks in an attempt to disrupt the balloting.
Assad is widely expected to
win a third, seven-year mandate
in the vote scheduled for June 3,
but the West and opposition activists have criticized it as a
farce since it is taking place despite a raging civil war.
The 49-year-old president
himself has not made a public
appearance in more than a
month and was not at the gathering struck by the mortar shell
late Thursday in the southern
insurgents were killed in an attack on a
convoy of government troops Thursday
by about 500 rebels, the largest insurgent assault yet reported. The clash
could not be independently confirmed
and it was unclear why such a large attack in a populated region would have
gone unreported for more than a day.
The ministry also said one soldier was
killed Friday near the same area.
On Thursday, 16 troops were killed
near the separatist stronghold of Donetsk in the deadliest raid yet on Ukrainian
troops.
Ukraine’s caretaker president urged
all voters to take part in Sunday’s crucial
ballot to “cement the foundation of our
nation.” Yet it was uncertain whether
any voting could take place in the east,
where rebels who declared the Donetsk
and Luhansk regions independent have
vowed to block what they call an election for the leader of a foreign country.
ical landscape dominated by vehemently inflexible figures. He supports Ukraine developing closer ties with the 28-nation European Union but also says he recognizes the
importance of pursuing good relations with
Russia.
THREATS AGAINST VOTING IN THE EAST
Much of eastern Ukraine is gripped by
unrest. Pro-Russia insurgents are clashing
with Ukrainian forces there and have declared independence for the Donetsk and
Luhansk regions — an area that encom-
passes 6.6 million people. Rebel leaders say
they will do all they can to prevent the vote
from taking place.
Government officials admit that voting
won’t be possible in some eastern areas;
even if polling stations are functioning, residents intimidated by threats and gunmen
may not risk voting.
The validity of an election that is nominally national but can’t be conducted in
some parts of the country is a delicate issue.
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe is sending a large observer
mission and its report should have significant influence, but the mission does not
make outright assessments of an election’s
validity.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said
Friday that Russia would recognize the results of the vote and work with Ukraine’s
new leader, but voiced hope that a government offensive against separatists in the
east would end.
THE LONG ROAD AHEAD
Whoever wins faces daunting challenges,
from resolving Ukraine’s dire financial
straits to unifying its divided electorate and
pushing new laws through a fractious parliament.
Six months of heated crisis have galvanized extremist sentiments in both camps
— those who regard Russia as their protector and the nationalists who despise Russia’s influence. Deadly attacks and ambushes this week against Ukrainian soldiers have
shown that the eastern separatists are prepared for significant violence. Pro-Europe
protesters, meanwhile, are still camped out
in Kiev’s main square and the nationalist
Svoboda party has a substantial presence in
parliament.
Thai coup makers hold ex-PM, disperse protests
city of Daraa. But campaigning
has begun in earnest, with supporters waving his pictures and
Syrian flags during daily
demonstrations in the capital,
Damascus, the coastal city of
Latakia and other governmentheld areas.
US, EU urge
political solution
in Libya’s standoff
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — The
U.S. Embassy and European
missions in Tripoli on Friday
expressed concern over the escalating violence in Libya,
where a renegade general’s offensive against Islamists threatens to further split the North
African nation. The statement
came as thousands of residents
took to the streets in the Libyan
capital and in the restive eastern
city of Benghazi in support of
renegade Gen. Khalifa Hifter,
waiving Libyan flags and chanting his name.
Many carried banners reading, “No to terrorism” and “We
want a nation with dignity, not
a state of militias.” Similar
protests took place in the cities
of Ajdabiya and Gharghour.
Security was beefed up
around the protests, but no violence was reported.
Euroskeptics
make big gains in
UK local elections
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s
anti-European Union party
made big gains in local elections
Friday, taking votes from both
the governing Conservatives
and the opposition Labour Party and rattling rivals’ nerves a
year ahead of Britain’s national
election.
It’s a strong performance for
the U.K. Independence Party,
which advocates pulling Britain
out of the 28-nation EU and
stopping the unfettered right of
EU citizens to enter Britain.
With most results declared
Friday from voting for more
than 4,000 seats in 161 local authorities, UKIP had won about
150 seats, well over its predicted
total of 80. Labour won the
largest share of seats, more than
1,700, gaining more than 250
and doing strongly in London
as Britain’s cosmopolitan capital defied the UKIP surge. The
gains, however, were less than
many Labour supporters had
hoped for and not enough to
make the party confident of
winning next year’s election.
BANGKOK (AP) — Ousted
members of Thailand’s former
government surrendered to the
new military junta Friday, as soldiers forcefully dispersed hundreds of anti-coup activists who
defied a ban on large-scale gatherings to protest the army’s
seizure of power.
Troops detained at least two
activists during the protest in
downtown Bangkok, which descended into scuffles but ended
without injury and marked one
of the first open challenges to
the military since Thursday’s
coup.
The junta, though, remained
firmly in charge, summoning
more than 100 top political figures — the entire ousted government, their associates and a
handful of their opponents. It
also banned those on its wanted
list from leaving the country.
Among the officials who
showed up at an army compound in Bangkok were former
Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, sacked earlier this
month for nepotism by the Constitutional Court, and her temporary replacement Niwattumrong Boonsongpaisan, according to Yingluck’s aide Wim
Rungwattanachinda.
After about 30 minutes,
Yingluck left the facility and was
taken to another army location by
soldiers, said Wim, who added
that it appeared she would not be
immediately released.
It was unclear what the military’s intentions were beyond
the summons, which it said had
been issued “to keep peace and
order and solve the country’s
problems.”
By nightfall, dozens of the
VIPs who turned themselves in
were still being held, although at
least eight ex-Cabinet ministers
had been released.
Education Minister Chaturon
Chaisang, an outspoken critic of
the military’s intervention in
politics, remained in hiding.
Chaturon said in a Facebook
post that the coup would only
worsen the country’s political
atmosphere. He vowed not to
turn himself in, but said he
would not resist arrest.
Most of the country was calm,
and there was little military
presence on Bangkok’s streets.
Although life had largely returned to normal during the day,
an overnight curfew from 10
p.m. to 5 a.m. was still in effect.
Restrictions on TV broadcasts and on posting inflammatory comments on social media
remained in effect, and many
Thais were reluctant to comment publicly on the coup.
There were no reports of any
major unrest, including in the
former government’s political
strongholds in the north. In the
northeast city of Chiang Mai,
about 100 anti-coup demonstrators took to the streets, but no
violence was reported and the
protesters dispersed on their
own.
The army staged the coup
Thursday just after a militaryhosted meeting of political rivals to resolve the country’s political deadlock.
After two hours and no resolution, armed soldiers detained
the participants, including four
Cabinet ministers, and army
chief Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha
appeared on national television
to announce the takeover. Hours
later, the junta suspended the
constitution and banned gatherings of more than five people.
Prayuth defended the coup as
necessary to restore stability
amid increasing spasms of violence that together with controversial court rulings had rendered the government powerless.
He briefed foreign diplomats
Friday about the coup and said
the lifespan of the ruling military council would depend on
how soon the current political
conflict can be eased, Foreign
Ministry Permanent Secretary
Sihasak Phuangketkeow said.
He said Prayuth told them a
reform council would be established along with an interim
government, and that they
would lead to an eventual election.
Fears remain, however, that
the coup will only result in more
violence and deepen the nation’s crisis.
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ERIK SCHELZIG
Glenn Fawcett/Department of Defense
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel extends his hand as he welcomes
one of more than 1,000 graduating midshipmen to the stage during the Friday commencement ceremony at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md.
Hagel: Officers must
help eliminate assault
BRIAN WITTE
Associated Press
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) —
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel
said Friday that new officers will
be counted on to lead the fight
against sexual assault, remain
ethical under tough circumstances and help people in the
military facing mental health issues.
Hagel told the graduating
class of the U.S. Naval Academy
that students have seen how
sexual assault can destroy trust
and confidence at the core of
the military. He told them to use
their experience to make sure
everyone is treated respectfully.
In the past year, the academy
has seen the prosecution of
three academy football players
accused of sexually assaulting a
classmate. Charges against two
were dropped. A third man was
acquitted. Their woman classmate at the center of the case
graduated Friday.
“You’ve seen what these
crimes do to the survivors, their
families, institutions and communities,” Hagel said. “You
know how they tear people and
units apart, how they destroy
the bonds of confidence and
trust that lie at the very core, the
center, the heart of our military.
Take this knowledge and do
whatever you can to make sure
everyone, everyone, is treated
with the dignity and respect
they deserve.”
Hagel also told graduates
they will face tremendous pressures in their new leadership
roles to succeed at any cost.
That, he said, sometimes clouds
judgment of what’s right from
wrong. In February, the Navy
said it was investigating cheating allegations against about
one-fifth of its trainers at a
school for naval nuclear power
reactor operators at a nuclear
propulsion
school
at
Charleston, S.C.
“We see all too often that
small actions can reverberate in
large ways, whether it’s sharing
answers on a test, looking the
other way when someone denigrates another human being or
taking advantage of the trappings in your office,” Hagel said.
He told the newly commissioned officers to remember
that their actions will define
them in the eyes of everyone
around them.
“As a leader you are a role
model — maybe your biggest responsibility of all — and you
have the power to inspire and
encourage others to do the right
thing,” Hagel said.
Hagel also told graduates
they will lead people struggling
with mental health issues as the
nation concludes 13 years of
war. He noted the deaths of
three fellow students at the
Naval Academy in recent years
as an example of the kind of loss
sailors and Marines are experiencing after losing friends to
combat, accidents or suicide.
“What we need to remember
— what our entire country
needs to remember — is that
these brave individuals don’t
need to be avoided or stigmatized. They need to be embraced,” Hagel said. “They need
to be helped. They need leaders
with compassion and humility,
leaders they know and trust will
go the extra mile for them.”
A total of 1,068 students
graduated, including 849 men
and 219 women. There were
784 commissioned as Navy ensigns and 265 commissioned as
2nd lieutenants in the Marine
Corps. Seven students graduated who weren’t commissioned,
and there were 12 graduates
from other countries.
House, Senate bills to OK
spuds in moms’ food plan
MARY CLARE JALONICK
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
ubiquitous white potato has
scored another victory on Capitol Hill.
House and Senate panels this
week endorsed the inclusion of
fresh white potatoes in the federal Women, Infants and Children
nutrition program. The Agriculture Department doesn’t allow
them in the program for low-income pregnant and nursing
mothers because they say people
already eat enough of them. Other fresh fruits and vegetables are
allowed. The potato industry has
aggressively lobbied for inclusion in WIC, saying it’s not as
much about sales as the perception that potatoes aren’t as nutritious as other vegetables. Lawmakers from roughly 40 potatogrowing states have been trying
for several years to include the
potato in the program.
The potato’s advocates argue
that it provides potassium, di-
etary fiber and folate, a water-soluble B vitamin, that can be helpful for pregnant women. They
say it is also economical, which
could help low-income mothers
stretch their dollars.
The Senate Appropriations
Committee on Thursday adopted
an amendment by Sen. Susan
Collins, R-Maine, to an agriculture spending bill that would include white potatoes in WIC.
That followed House subcommittee approval of its version of the
bill earlier this week, also allowing
potatoes into the program.
“It makes no sense that you
can buy iceberg lettuce with a
voucher,” and not potatoes,
Collins said, arguing that iceberg
lettuce has very few nutrients.
It is the most recent in a series
of victories for the potato industry. In 2011, Congress voted to
thwart the Agriculture Department’s recommendation that
only two servings a week of potatoes and other starchy vegetables be served in federally subsidized school lunches.
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EXECUTION METHODS IN THE US
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) —
Tennessee is “ready as needed” to
use the electric chair if it can’t get
the drugs used for lethal injections, the state’s top prisons official said Friday.
A corrections spokeswoman
added later in the day while the
state doesn’t have a supply of the
drugs, authorities are confident
they could acquire some. The
chemicals have become scarcer
following a European-led boycott
of drug sales for executions.
Gov. Bill Haslam signed a bill
into law Thursday that allows the
state to electrocute current and future death row inmates if it can’t
obtain the drugs. It’s the first such
law in the country.
“The Legislature felt very
strongly we needed to have some
sort of backup, in case the drugs
for the lethal injection weren’t
available,” Haslam told reporters
after a Memorial Day ceremony
near the state Capitol.
Correction Commissioner Derrick Schofield said he is comfortable with the state’s procedures for
ensuring the electric chair would
work. This particular chair has
been used just once, seven years
ago.
“We are ready as needed,”
Schofield said. “We believe the
procedures we have in place to run
tests on the equipment will make
it work.
“It will work,” he said. “We’re
comfortable.”
Tennessee lawmakers overwhelmingly passed the electric
chair legislation in April, with the
Senate voting 23-3 and the House
68-13 in favor of the bill.
Tennessee is the first state to
enact a law to reintroduce the electric chair without giving prisoners
an option, said Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death
Penalty Information Center, a
Washington-based nonprofit organization that opposes executions and tracks the issue.
“There are states that allow inmates to choose, but it is a very
different matter for a state to impose a method like electrocution,”
he said. “No other state has gone
so far.”
Dieter said he expects legal
challenges to arise if the state decides to go through with an electrocution, both on the grounds of
whether the state could prove that
lethal injection drugs were not obtainable and on the grounds of
constitutional protections against
cruel and unusual punishment.
The decision comes as lethal injection is receiving more scrutiny
as an execution method, especially after last month’s botched execution in Oklahoma.
In that case, convicted killer
Clayton Lockett, 38, began
writhing, clenching his teeth and
straining to lift his head off the pillow after he had supposedly been
rendered unconscious by the first
of three drugs in the state’s new
lethal injection combination. The
execution was halted, and Lockett
died of an apparent heart attack 10
minutes later, authorities said.
They later blamed a collapsed
vein, not the drugs themselves.
But concerns about lethal injection also have risen at a time when
Tennessee and many states — including Oklahoma, Missouri and
Texas — obtain execution drugs in
secret from unidentified compounding pharmacies. Death
penalty opponents say the secrecy raises the risk of something going wrong.
Haslam’s signing of the electric
chair bill Thursday also came on
the same day that the U.S.
Supreme Court issued a rare lastminute stay of an execution for
death row inmate Russell Bucklew
in St. Louis. The justices directed
a lower court to take another look
at the case.
The Supreme Court did not
specify its reasons, leaving open
the question of whether the ruling
shows a growing weariness of
lethal injection in general or trepidation specifically about Bucklew’s medical condition, which affects his veins.
Previous Tennessee law gave
inmates who committed crimes
before 1999 the choice of whether
they wanted to die by electric chair
or lethal injection. The last inmate
to be electrocuted was Daryl
Holton, a Gulf War veteran who
killed his three sons and a stepdaughter with a high-powered rifle in a Shelbyville garage in 1997.
He requested the electric chair in
2007.
A provision to apply the change
to prisoners already sentenced to
BRETT BARROUQUERE
Associated Press
Tennessee this week became the first state to enact a law allowing officials to electrocute inmates, regardless of their wishes, in certain circumstances. Six other states allow inmates to opt
for the electric chair, while a seventh would move to electrocution if lethal injection were ever banned.
Here is a look at laws regarding the electric chair and other execution methods in the U.S.:
ELECTRIC CHAIR
Seven states allow or would allow electrocution as a secondary
option if lethal injection is unavailable or if inmate chooses it:
Alabama: Injection is used unless an inmate requests death by
electrocution. Gov. Robert Bentley said on May 5 that he is
against switching back to the electric chair whenever the state
resumes putting inmates to death.
Arkansas: Injection is used for inmates whose offense occurred
on or after July 4, 1983; those who committed the offense before
that date may select injection or electrocution.
Florida: Inmates may choose between injection and electrocution. Florida Department of Corrections Secretary Michael
Crews said there has been no discussion about changing Florida
execution procedures and that the state has a stockpile of drugs
that will take care of its needs for about two years.
Kentucky: Injection is used for all inmates convicted after
March 31, 1998. Inmates convicted before that time may choose
injection or electrocution. If the inmate declines to choose, injection is the method. Kentucky is under a judge’s order not to take
any steps to carry out an execution.
Oklahoma: Uses electrocution if lethal injection is ever held to
be unconstitutional.
South Carolina: Inmates choose between injection and electrocution.
Tennessee: Injection is used for those whose capital offense
occurred after Dec. 31, 1998; those who committed the offense
before that date may select electrocution by written waiver. Electrocution now is also authorized if lethal injection drugs are not
available.
Virginia: Allows prisoners to choose between injection and
electrocution. A proposal to allow the Virginia Department of
Corrections to use the electric chair as a backup if drugs weren’t
available passed the Virginia House but died in the Senate during this year’s legislative session. Republican Sen. Charles W.
“Bill” Carrico, who sponsored the bill, said he thinks Tennessee’s
decision and a high-profile botched injection in Oklahoma recently bolster the chances of his bill passing next year.
INJECTION
Thirty-five states, the federal government and the U.S. military
use injection as the primary method of carrying out an execution.
Three of them — New Mexico, Connecticut, and Maryland —
abolished the death penalty but their laws were not retroactive,
leaving inmates on death row in each state.
GAS CHAMBER
Arizona, Missouri and Wyoming allow the state to put inmates
to death in the gas chamber if lethal injection drugs are not available.
HANGING
Delaware, New Hampshire and Washington allow the state to
hang inmates if lethal injection drugs are not available.
FIRING SQUAD
Oklahoma: Law on the books would allow the state to use a firing squad only if lethal injection and electrocution are found unconstitutional.
Utah: No longer offers the firing squad as an option to inmates,
but would allow it only for inmates who chose this method prior to its elimination.
Barrouquere reported from Louisville, Ky. Associated Press
writers Brendan Farrington in Tallahassee, Fla., Jay Reeves in
Birmingham, Ala., and Alan Suderman in Richmond, Va., contributed to this report.
‘There are states
that allow inmates
to choose, but it is
a very different
matter for a state to
impose a method
like electrocution.
No other state has
gone so far.’
Richard Dieter, executive
director of the Death Penalty
Information Center
death has also raised a debate
among legal experts.
Nashville criminal defense attorney David Raybin, who helped
draft Tennessee’s death penalty
law nearly 40 years ago, has said
lawmakers may change the
method of execution but they cannot make that change retroactive.
To do so would be unconstitutional, he said.
Tennessee has 74 prisoners on
death row. Sidney Porterfield, who
at 71 was the oldest inmate on
Tennessee’s death row, died of
natural causes this week. Nine
others have died of natural causes since 2000, while one committed suicide. Six inmates have been
executed during that time frame,
the most recent in 2010.
Billy Ray Irick, who was convicted of murdering a 7-year-old
Knoxville girl he was babysitting
in 1985, is the next death row inmate scheduled to be executed, on
Oct. 7.
Thirty-two states have the
death penalty, and all of them rely
at least in part on lethal injection.
Fewer than a dozen regularly carry out executions, among them Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia,
Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, Virginia and Texas, which
leads the country. The federal government also uses lethal injection
but rarely carries out executions.
The Supreme Court has never
declared a method of execution
unconstitutional on the grounds
that it is cruel and unusual. It upheld the firing squad in 1879, the
electric chair in 1890 and lethal injection in 2008.
The court made it clear over the
years that the Eighth Amendment
prohibits inflicting pain merely to
torture or punish an inmate, drawing a distinction between a
method like electrocution and old
European practices such as drawing and quartering. The Constitution prohibits “unnecessary and
wanton infliction of pain,” the
court said in 1976.
Nonetheless, U.S. states and the
federal government have updated
execution methods several times
in efforts to find more humane
ways to put condemned criminals
to death.
First used by New York State in
1890, the electric chair was employed throughout the 20th century to execute hundreds and is still
an option in eight states. Since
1976, 158 inmates have been executed by electrocution. It was considered humane when it was first
introduced but has resulted in
many horrific executions over the
years.
In 2000, Florida switched from
the electric chair to injection after
bungled electrocutions raised concerns that the state’s death penalty would be declared unconstitutional.
NATIONAL
BRIEFS
9/11 memorial
hosts Fleet
Week ceremony
NEW YORK (AP) — Seventeen service members
from the U.S. Navy, Marine
Corps and Coast Guard
participated in a re-enlistment and promotion ceremony Friday at the National September 11 Memorial
Museum in Manhattan.
Rear Admiral Scott A.
Stearney, commander of
Carrier Strike Group Four,
presided over the ceremony
in front of one of the reflecting pools where the twin
towers once stood.
Navy Lt. Christopher
Mikell’s 2-year-old daughter
Addyson attached her dad’s
new lieutenant bars to his
dress white uniform. Mikell
said his promotion ceremony at the memorial was
moving. Coast Guard Petty
Officer 2nd Class Alejandro
Diaz said he was happy to
re-enlist.
States opting
out of federal
prison rape law
BOISE, Idaho (AP) —
Several states are refusing
to comply with a federal law
designed to reduce sexual
assaults in prison, with governors
criticizing
the
decade-old law as counterproductive and too expensive to implement.
The governors of Idaho,
Texas, Indiana, Utah and
Arizona have informed U.S.
Attorney General Eric
Holder that they won’t try
to meet the standards required under the Prison
Rape Elimination Act. Governors were required to certify by May 15 that their
states either met the standards designed to curb
widespread sexual abuse
behind bars, or to promise
that they were actively
working toward that goal.
Police probe
cartel-style
graffiti threats
EL PASO, Texas (AP) —
El Paso police were investigating two mysterious messages painted onto billboards in the border city
that included mannequins
dressed in suits hanging
from nooses.
The El Paso Times reported that motorists alerted police to the graffiti early Thursday morning. Both
billboard companies said
the painted messages were
vandalism and not paid advertisements. They have
been removed.
One message read “silver
or lead” in Spanish, a threat
heard in Mexico signifying
pay up or get shot.
Surprise delivery
— baby raccoons
— at NY agency
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.
(AP) — Someone left five
well-fed baby raccoons on
the doorstep of the Westchester County Health Department Friday morning,
and the department said
that person should call immediately to be assessed for
the possibility of rabies.
The month-old raccoons
were delivered to the department’s office in Mount
Kisco in a cage with bottles
of milk, blankets and toys,
the department said.
“They appear to have
been well cared for and nurtured, which means that
there was direct contact between these raccoons and
the person or people who
were caring for them,” said
Dr. Sherlita Amler, the
county health commissioner. “That’s why it’s important that we talk to the individual or individuals who
left them to determine if
they may have been potentially exposed to rabies.”
Raccoons are among the
most common carriers of
rabies, a disease that is fatal
if not quickly treated.
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Improving confidence?
The Conference Board reveals on
Tuesday its latest index gauging
consumers’ confidence.
The previous April reading
slipped from March over concerns
about hiring and business
conditions, even though many
people foresaw a strengthening
economy in the months ahead.
Despite the decline, consumer
sentiment in March and April was
at its strongest levels since
January 2008, when the Great
Recession was just beginning.
Consumer confidence
Monthly index reading
est.
83
2014
80
75
70
D
J
F
M
A
M
Source: FactSet
Income watch
Eye on GDP
One reason
consumers have
been spending
more this year is
they have been
earning a bit more.
Personal
incomes increased
0.5 percent in
March, the most since August. That gain followed an
increase of 0.4 percent in both January and February.
Economists expect income growth slowed slightly in
April, however. The government reports its latest
personal income data on Friday.
Recent data suggest the U.S.
Quarterly percent change
economy slowed sharply in the first
three months of the year as the
’14
’12
’13 4.1
country dealt with unusually harsh
winter weather.
2.8%
The Commerce Department’s initial
2.6
2.5
estimate in April had the economy
growing at a barely discernible 0.1
percent annual rate in the January1.1
March period. The second estimate is
due out Thursday. Economists predict
0.1
-0.1
the government will report that the
Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1
economy shrank by 0.1 percent as the
frigid weather took its toll.
Source: FactSet
GDP
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Commodities
The price of
crude oil rose
for the eighth
time in the last
10 days and
reached its highest level in nearly five weeks.
The price of natural gas rose for
the first time in
three days.
FUELS
Crude Oil (bbl)
Ethanol (gal)
Heating Oil (gal)
Natural Gas (mm btu)
Unleaded Gas (gal)
CLOSE
104.35
2.33
2.95
4.41
3.02
PVS.
103.74
2.32
2.95
4.36
3.01
%CHG
+0.59
-0.13
+0.14
+1.06
+0.59
%YTD
+6.0
+21.7
-4.0
+4.1
+8.5
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Silver (oz)
Platinum (oz)
Copper (lb)
Palladium (oz)
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1291.60
19.39
1472.80
3.18
831.30
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1294.90
19.49
1493.10
3.15
836.30
%CHG
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+7.5
+0.3
+7.4
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CLOSE
PVS.
%CHG
%YTD
Cattle (lb)
Coffee (lb)
Corn (bu)
Cotton (lb)
Lumber (1,000 bd ft)
Orange Juice (lb)
Soybeans (bu)
Wheat (bu)
1.36
1.82
4.78
0.86
317.30
1.58
15.16
6.53
1.38
1.81
4.77
0.88
314.90
1.59
15.19
6.59
-0.94
+0.30
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-0.22
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-1.02
+1.3
+64.3
+13.3
+2.0
-11.9
+16.1
+15.5
+7.8
1,920
S&P 500
16,760
Dow Jones industrials
1,880
Close: 1,900.53
Change: 8.04 (0.4%)
16,540
Close: 16,606.27
Change: 63.19 (0.4%)
1,840
16,320
10 DAYS
1,950
1,900
16,400
1,850
16,000
1,800
15,600
1,750
1,700
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Stocks
Recap
Vol. (in mil.)
Pvs. Volume
Advanced
Declined
New Highs
New Lows
J
NYSE NASD
2,365 1,504
2,680 1,766
2101 1927
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Visa and MasterCard
renew push for chip cards
NEW YORK (AP) — Visa and MasterCard
are renewing a push to speed the adoption of
microchips into U.S. credit and debit cards
in the wake of recent high-profile data
breaches, including this week’s revelation
that hackers stole consumer data from
eBay’s computer systems.
Card processing companies argue that a
move away from the black magnetic strips
on the backs of credit cards would eliminate
a substantial amount of U.S. credit card
fraud. They say it’s time to offer U.S. consumers the greater protections microchips
provide by joining Canada, Mexico and most
of Western Europe in using cards with the
more advanced technology.
The chip technology hasn’t been adopted
in the U.S. because of costs and disputes over
how the network would operate. Retailers
have long balked at paying for new cash registers and back office systems to handle the
new cards. There have been clashes between
retailers, card issuers and processors over
which processing networks will get access to
the new system and whether to stick with a
signature-based system or move to one that
requires a personal identification number instead. These technical decisions impact how
much retailers and customers have to pay —
and how much credit card issuers make —
each time a card is used.
US new-home sales
rose 6.4 percent in April
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sales of U.S. new
homes recovered in April after slumping in
the previous two months. But Americans are
still buying new homes at a slower pace than
they did a year ago.
The Commerce Department said Friday
that sales of new homes rose 6.4 percent last
month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of
433,000. That compares with an upwardly
revised annual pace of 407,000 in March,
when purchases fell 6.9 percent. Buying had
dropped 4.4 percent in February, in part because of winter snowstorms.
Demand for newly built homes remains
one of the missing pieces of the nearly 5-yearold recovery from the Great Recession. A
lack of affordability has limited buying
around the country. Sales of new homes are
running at roughly half the rate of a healthy
real estate market.
Warmer weather has yet to heat up the
housing market after a harsh winter slowed
sales in January and February. Higher prices
and mortgage rates over the past year have
sidelined many would-be buyers.
Judge orders NCAA suit
to go to trial next month
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge on
Friday denied the NCAA’s request to delay
the trial on the antitrust suit by former
UCLA basketball player Ed O’Bannon and
others. The trial will begin June 9 in Oakland,
California, and has the potential to reshape
the way major college sports operate.
It will center on claims that the NCAA
conspired to restrain competition in Division
I sports and in the group licensing of broadcasts and videogames.
Judge Claudia Wilken also set another trial for next March on claims by other athletes
that the NCAA and the videogame maker
Electronic Arts misappropriated athletes’
names and likenesses for NCAA-branded
videogames. That case previously had been
combined with the O’Bannon case.
Twenty former college athletes, including
basketball greats Bill Russell and Oscar
Robertson, are plaintiffs. The suit seeks an
injunction that could allow athletes to band
together and sell their services to colleges, either in the form of pay or extra benefits the
NCAA doesn’t currently allow.
FDA approves new
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and
Drug Administration on Friday approved a
new antibiotic from Durata Therapeutics Inc.
to treat adults with common skin infections
often acquired in U.S. hospitals.
Regulators approved the intravenous drug
Dalvance to treat bacterial skin infections
caused by common bacteria like Staphylococcus aureus, including antibiotic-resistant
strains of those germs.
Antibiotics like penicillin and streptomycin
first became widely available in the 1940s,
and today dozens are still used to kill or suppress the bacteria behind illnesses ranging
from strep throat to the plague.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Call it the
Great Slog.
Stocks are bumbling along this
year after a gangbuster 2013.
The upward grind is underscored by the Standard & Poor’s
500 index, which closed above
1,900 for the first time on Friday
and is up 2.8 percent for the year.
That gain compares with a 16
percent increase over the same
period last year.
Other major indexes haven’t
fared any better. The Dow Jones
industrial average and the Nasdaq composite are barely in positive territory for 2014.
The stock market’s five-year
bull run is pausing. Economic
growth has fallen short of expectations, barely expanding in the
first quarter after a strong finish
to 2013. Investors are being more
cautious while they wait for compelling evidence that growth will
continue.
Karyn Cavanaugh, senior market strategist at Voya Investment
Management, believes that there
will be a “spring snapback,” in the
economy. Company earnings, already at record levels, will keep
climbing and support stock
prices. “There are a lot of good
things going on in the market,”
she said.
The S&P 500 rose 8.04 points,
or 0.4 percent, to close at
1,900.53. The index first rose
above 1,900 during trading on
May 13, but fell back to close below that level.
The Dow climbed 63.19 points,
or 0.4 percent, to end at 1,606.27.
The Nasdaq rose 31.47 points, or
0.8 percent, to 4,185.81.
Investors bid up homebuilder
stocks following news that sales
of new U.S. homes increased last
month. Lennar rose $1.55, or 4
percent, to $40.54. D.R. Horton
rose 92 cents, or 4.1 percent, to
$23.57.
The Commerce Department
reported that sales of U.S. new
homes rose 6.4 percent in April
after slumping in the previous
two months.
“While it wasn’t a stellar number, it was not weak and it helps
assuage fears,” that the housing
recovery is weakening, said Quincy Krosby, a market strategist
with Prudential Financial. “It really did help set the tone of the
market.”
Court tosses out federal
rule to reduce energy use
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court on Friday overturned an electricity regulation in
which utilities pay energy users in
the wholesale market to reduce
consumption.
The court ruled 2-1 that the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission directive encroaches on
states’ authority to regulate the
retail power market, a position
taken by utilities, which also oppose the regulation on grounds
that it is too generous to major
energy users.
In an approach known as demand response, electricity users
are paid to reduce their consumption in response to rising prices.
The appeals court says de-
mand response is part of the retail market because it involves retail customers, their decision
whether to purchase at retail and
the levels of retail electricity consumption.
The court rejected FERC’s argument that the agency’s actions
are consistent with congressional policy to remove barriers in the
wholesale energy markets.
“If anything, the policy statement supports the opposite conclusion, that Congress intended
demand response resources to be
regulated by states, as part of the
retail market,” said the opinion by
appeals Judge Janice Rogers
Brown. Judge Laurence Silberman joined in the opinion.
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Tornado touches
down near
Casper on Friday
CASPER (AP) — A tornado
touched down in a remote area
near Casper on Friday.
There were no immediate
reports of injuries or damage.
The National Weather Service says the tornado was reported at 1:38 p.m.
Natrona County Emergency
Management Administration
Coordinator Stew Anderson
tells the Casper Star-Tribune
that he saw the tornado in an
area of Casper Mountain believed to be largely inaccessible to the public.
The National Weather Service suspects the tornado
touched down briefly the first
time and for about two minutes the second time it contacted the ground.
Crews opening
Wyoming mountain
passes to traffic
CHEYENNE (AP) — Crews
plan to have all but one mountain pass in Wyoming open for
the Memorial Day Weekend.
Several high mountain passes in the state are closed for
the winter because of snow
and then plowed open in the
spring.
The Beartooth Highway in
Park County in northwest
Wyoming opened Friday
morning. The highway is near
the northeast entrance to Yellowstone National Park.
In south-central Wyoming,
the Wyoming Department of
Transportation expects to
open Wyoming 130 in the
Snowy Range at dawn Saturday. However, Wyoming 70
over Battle Pass in the nearby
Sierra Madre Mountains is
still closed. It is undetermined
when that pass will be opened.
WYDOT cautions travelers
to watch for patches of ice before the morning sun dries the
road surface and be mindful of
quickly changing weather.
Immigrant
smuggling charges
in fatal Utah crash
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federal public lands program
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“budget situation is tight,” Jewell
told The Associated Press, saying
internships and youth programs
are the hardest hit at such times.
Jewell noted that when she was
in the private sector, she tried to
make clear to lawmakers that corporate support should not be a replacement for government funding. She said she hoped business
leaders would continue to make
that point.
“The term supplanting is
something we worry about,” said
Jewell, who led outdoor retailer
Recreational Equipment Inc., or
REI, before being appointed interior secretary last year. Private efforts “should be the margin of excellence, not the margin of survival.”
Jewell spoke at the Rocky
Mountain Arsenal National
Wildlife Refuge, once home to
military chemical weapons and
agricultural pesticides manufacturing. After a Superfund
cleanup, the 15,000-acre refuge
was opened in 2010, offering city
dwellers access to a natural grassland. Some of the more than 600
young people employed under
the public lands project this year
will be working at the refuge near
Denver.
Some 1,500 volunteers also will
be involved in projects that, in addition to Colorado, are planned in
Alaska, Arizona, California,
Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky,
Michigan, Montana, Nevada,
New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota,
Utah, Vermont, Washington and
Wyoming.
On Thursday, Jewell helped
members of Groundwork Denver
plant cottonwood trees at the arsenal wildlife refuge. Groundwork
Denver is one of several groups
across the country that had projects funded under the program
announced Thursday. It will work
with 18 young people from lowincome, urban families at the
refuge.
Dele Johnson, a 23-year-old
from Arvada, said work with
Groundwork over the past two
years has taken him to Yellowstone, Rocky Mountain National
Park and urban gardens.
“This kind of work has prepared me to advocate for natural
places,” said Johnson, who just
completed a public relations degree at Metropolitan State University of Denver. He said he
wanted a career in which he could
encourage other minorities to explore and protect the outdoors.
“Having the chance to do some
meaningful work in conservation
was an eye-opening opportunity
for me,” Johnson said.
A driver has been charged
with illegally smuggling immigrants through Utah for work
in Chicago after four men died
in a highway van crash near
the Colorado line. Investigators say the 36-year-old Elvis J.
Quintanilla-Vasquez picked up
the seven men in California.
Utah Highway Patrol officers on Friday identified three
victims as 19-year-old Freddie
Sanchez-Garcia, 32-year-old
Rueben Alberto PerezManriquez and 30-year-old Efrain
Morales Carteno. They are
withholding the fourth person’s name until his family is
notified. Two of three injured
men are in federal immigration officials’ custody; the status of the other is unknown.
COMMERCE CITY, Colo.
(AP) — Hundreds of young people will be clearing weeds and
planting trees from Hawaii to Vermont under a federal program
that depends largely on private
funding, the U.S. interior secretary said Thursday.
The government is putting in
$1.9 million of the $6.7 million for
the project announced by Interior Secretary Sally Jewell. Most of
the rest is coming from Wells Fargo & Co., according to Greg Knadle of the National Fish and
Wildlife Foundation, a nonprofit
created by Congress in 1984 to
support wildlands. The group
managed the donations for the
young workers’ project.
The crucial role played by the
private sector underlines that the
Denver symphony’s
marijuana
fundraisers open
Fed government acknowledges gaps in oil well inspections
DENVER (AP) — The Colorado Symphony Orchestra’s
bring-your-own-cannabis
fundraising concerts kick off
Friday.
Plans had hit a snag when
the Denver city attorney questioned whether concert-goers
would consume marijuana in
public, which is banned even
though sale and possession of
the drug are legal under a state
law that went into effect at the
start of the year.
The city attorney withdrew
his objections after the symphony took steps to ensure the
events are strictly private.
Three invitation-only concerts
are being held at a private
gallery across town from the
symphony’s usual home, a
city-owned concert hall.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
federal agency tasked with managing oil and gas development on
Wednesday acknowledged it
needed to do more to improve
oversight of drilling, pointing to a
lack of funding as reasons it failed
to inspect oil and gas wells it considers potentially high risks for
water contamination.
Jeff Krauss, a spokesman with
the Interior Department’s Bureau
of Land Management, noted that
his agency has worked hard to
keep up with the nation’s energy
boom, which has included the increased use of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a drilling technique that environmentalists fear
could spread chemicals to water
supplies.
He said BLM is counting on
Congress to approve a budget request that would allow it to use
$10 million raised from fees
charged to oil and gas companies
to pay for the high-priority inspections.
“The safe and environmentally
sound operation of oil and gas activities on the nation’s public
lands is a high priority,” Krauss
told The Associated Press. “While
federal onshore oil production is
the highest it has been in a
decade and has risen for the
fourth year in a row, the BLM
continues to improve oversight of
energy development on public
lands.”
An investigation by the Government Accountability Office,
Congress’ auditing arm, found
that BLM had failed to conduct
inspections on more than 2,100
of the 3,702 wells that it had specified as “high priority” and drilled
from 2009 through 2012; the
agency also had yet to indicate
whether another 1,784 wells were
high priority or not. BLM considers a well “high priority” based on
a greater need to protect against
possible water contamination and
other environmental safety issues.
The audit also said the BLM
did not coordinate effectively
with state regulators in New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma and
Utah. GAO said it did not break
down by state the list of high-priority oil and gas wells that BLM
had yet to inspect.
A separate review earlier this
year by the AP of Pennsylvania
and other states also found hundreds of complaints have been
made about well-water contamination from oil or gas drilling,
with pollution confirmed in a
number of them.
Regulators contend that overall, water and air pollution problems are rare, but environmental
groups and some scientists say
there hasn’t been enough research on those issues. The in-
dustry and many federal and
state officials say the practice is
safe when done properly, and
many rules on air pollution and
disclosure of the chemicals used
in fracking are being strengthened.
This week, Sen. Edward
Markey, D-Mass., a member of
the Senate Environment and
Public Works Committee, asked
Interior Secretary Sally Jewell to
explain what the department has
done and will do to increase well
inspections.
“Our drilling regulators need to
know that with increased drilling
comes increased responsibility to
protect our water, air, land and
climate,” Markey wrote in a letter
to Jewell.
He asked her to respond by
June 9.
The Interior Department said
Wednesday it had received the
letter and was reviewing it.
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Jaron Shereda said he came up with his
original design on his own. He said he is
extremely excited for summer and has
big plans ahead. The 11-year-old plans to
have a friend visit from Idaho and will
travel to Michigan to visit his aunt and
uncles.
Six-year-old Dominic Schultz painted a
picture of a park during competition in
the sidewalk contest.
CeNedra Hooley, 11, sketches a girl who is enjoying her summer vacation. Many children joined 11-year-old Hooley for the event on a warm Thursday
morning. Children ages 3 to 12 won awards for the most artistic, creative and original entry in each division. Every participant received a certificate and
ribbon.
Sidewalk artists show
colorful imaginations
Above, Olivia Sheets paints a purple kitty and butterfly prior to adding a rainbow. Sheets said
she decided to participate in the contest because she learned how to draw this year in art.
The 8-year-old said she discovered she really likes to draw and paint.
Below, Michael Tingle works with pastel chalk and creates a figure from a “Minecraft” video
game. The 8-year-old Green River residents participated in the Chalk It Up contest sponsored
by Green River.
Haylie Gavin, 10, said she likes to draw fish, so she decided to draw a fish for the Chalk It Up
contest. She said the only kind of fish she draws is “regular” fish, not fancy fish. Gavin said she
has been drawing for several years and enjoys it very much.
Above, Autumn Sax, 5, draws a house
with trees and a sun. She placed a
bright rainbow around the home.
Below, Teresa Flores, 6, paints a rose
with red petals. She said she planned
to add yellow to the picture. She used
water and chalk to make paint on the
sidewalk in the Chalk It Up contest on
Thursday.
At right, Valarie Flores, 5, paints blue
skies around her trees and flowers.
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Above, Shayla and Brianna Strauss show that sisters perform the best when together.
Shayla Strauss played guitar while her little sister, Brianna Strauss, sang “Fireflies.”
Below, Dave Asselmeier pitches a dodgeball during the fourth-graders versus teachers
tournament at Truman Elementary School in Green River.
Above, Hayden Roberts smiles
as he narrows in on a target
during the end-of-school-year
dodgeball tournament.
At left, Darsen Meeks prepares
to throw during the fourthgraders versus teachers dodgeball tournament in Green River.
Truman tears into
end of the year festivities
Olivia Sheets prepares to spin during
her dance performance to “Let It Be.”
Carson Smith tries to dive out of the way of incoming dodgeballs without losing his grip on the one in his hand during the student and teacher tournament.
Macie Santhuff shows her dance
moves to the song “Witch Doctor”
during the Truman Elementary School
talent show in Green River.
At right, Friends Alison Corgin, left, and
Julie Bowin sing
their hearts out to
“Let It Go” during
the Truman Elementary School talent
show.
At left, Ashlyn Santhuff dances out to
“1,000 Years” during
the Truman Elementary School talent
show in Green River.
Kindergartners at Truman Elementary School in Green River sing and act out how quickly
their year went by during the talent show.
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DEAR ABBY
WONDERWORD By
David Ouellet
MOMMA by Mell Lazarus
By Abigail Van Buren
DEAR ABBY: I’m 16 and entering my junior year of high school.
My boyfriend, “Jonah,” and I have
been dating for almost a year and
we would like to become sexually active, but I’m scared condoms
won’t cut it. I have tried talking to
my mom about it, but she doesn’t
think I should go on birth control.
Abby, I’m just trying to keep
the risk of getting pregnant as
low as possible. I’m not sure my
mom understands that. What
should I do? I know for sure my
mother will find out if I go to my
doctor and talk privately about
this with her. Please help me because I’m just trying to protect
myself. — PRACTICAL TEEN
IN NEW YORK
DEAR PRACTICAL TEEN: You
appear to be a levelheaded young
woman who is trying to make
mature decisions. Discussing sex
with parents can be difficult —
not only for you, but also for
them.
If you are willing to talk about
this with your mother again, try
using a magazine, a TV show or
my column as a jumping-off point
to start the conversation. Sometimes it may take more than one
talk to feel comfortable disclosing
your personal feelings and intentions.
You should be able to get confidential health services from
your doctor or another health
care provider. Depending upon
where you live, however, parental
permission may be needed. You
will have to check to find out.
In terms of birth control methods, hormonal birth control is effective when used correctly. But
using hormonal birth control and
a condom TOGETHER offers the
best protection from both pregnancy and sexually transmitted
diseases.
DEAR ABBY: Do you think it’s
bad that my two girls don’t see
their father? I don’t keep them
from him. He’s welcome to see
them, but he is now remarried
and has never asked for them. He
left our household 10 years ago.
To be honest, the girls don’t
even talk about him anymore. Is
it OK to let them go on with their
lives with the family members
who are in it? — NEW MEXICO
MOMMY
GARFIELD by Jim Davis
DOG EAT DOUG by Ryan Anderson
BECKER BRIDGE A Sacrilegious Play
AGNES by Morrie Turner
ZACK HILL by J. Deering and J. Macintosh
DEAR NEW MEXICO MOMMY: It’s sad that your daughters
have no relationship with their father. However, because he has
shown no interest in having one
with them, you have no option
but to let them go on with their
lives.
The question that comes to
mind is, has he been supporting
the girls financially? If the answer
is no, you should have gotten a
lawyer involved 10 years ago.
JANRIC CLASSIC SUDOKU
BLONDIE by Dean Young and Dennis Lebrun
HOROSCOPE
By Holiday
SATURDAY, MAY 24, 2014
ARIES (March 21-April 19) There are
some circumstances that cannot be
changed. It’s better to quickly agree
with them than to put up a fight. You’ll
show grace under pressure when you
cooperate with the inescapable.
ONE BIG HAPPY... by Rick Detorie
CROSSWORD By
Thomas Joseph
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Your upbeat
attitude will make you an asset to a
group. When you’re not sure what to
say, you’ll throw in a compliment for
good measure. This is one of the reasons why you have so many friends.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21) Just as a performer has a stage personality that’s
different from how he or she acts
around the house, you have a social persona for a particular crowd, and it will
be in top form.
CANCER (June 22-July 22) The one who
takes full responsibility for a problem
has the power to fix it. That’s why you
don’t mind assuming more than your
fair share. You’re ready to handle things,
and no one will stop you.
FLO AND FRIENDS by John Gibel and Jenny
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) You’ll bond with
friends because you let them be themselves around you. You’ll share your
mood through music, food and the kinds
of conversations that only you can have.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Resisting a
thing creates a relationship with it.
That’s why it’s senseless to resist the
thing you don’t want in your life — it
only gives it energy and creates more of
that thing in your world.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) A commitment
to continuous learning takes the pressure off of you. You won’t have to get it
all right, ace a test or do anything perfectly in one moment. All you’ll have to
do in any moment is learn.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21) You’ll have to
be a bit of a snoop to get the whole story. A vague answer is a cover-up. Dig
deeper, but do so indirectly, and you’ll
learn all you need to know.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Your input will be needed. Assume you will be
asked to speak, and be ready with what
you’re going to say. If you go so far as to
practice in front of a mirror, you’ll really
hit a homerun.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) You know
who you really want to be, but there is
some fear about making the necessary
changes. Figure out how to gracefully
avoid a bad influence, and this will help
matters tremendously.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Instead of
worrying about the big picture, work on
it for a while, handle some of the minor
issues, and then leave it alone. The major issue will take care of itself.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) A new friend
is interesting, but just remember that
while you may walk together awhile,
you have your own path, and it’s different from the one your friend is on.
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and memories that will last a lifetime.
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1992 three bed, two bath, with
swamp cooler, fenced yard.
$850/month, $850/ de-posit,
lot rent included. FREE water,
garbage, sewer. One year
lease, no pets. 555-5555,
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AVON - CALL Sherry at
362-3534, to buy products
or sign up to sell.
BUYING JUNK Cars, Trucks,
Machinery. 389-9225.
INTERIOR AND exterior
painting/texturing. Locally
owned, excellent references. Pablo and Picasso
Painting. 362-4589, 371-2002
KEN BAKER Construction.
Sale: Simonton Windows,
awnings, patio covers,
decks, gutters, vinyl siding,
307-875-5154.
MONTE VISTA Construction
specializes in residential
and commerical roof replacements. Call (307)
382-0767 for a free estimate.
LAWN CARE services available, for all summer. Reasonable rates, 389-8135.
KINDEL PAINTING - Serving
Sweetwater County over 30
years. Free estimates. Call
362-7679 or 350-9369.
GET YOUR swamp cooler
serviced
for
summer.
Wade’s Refrigeration also
services all brands of central air, $75 per hour. Call
354-7788.
VOGEL HOME & Garden.
Basic handyman services.
Home and garden repair
and maintenance. Let’s get
your home cleaned up and
looking good. Offering a
senior discount. Licensed
and insured. 307-448-7025.
LAWN AERATION. Reasonable cost, most average
yards, $25. Call for appointment, 307-252-0070.
C&W CONSTRUCTION, roofing, (307) 389-9118.
SWEETWATER LAWN CARE.
Call now to schedule aeration, power raking, regular
mow and trim, irrigation
and landscaping. (307)
221-0155 or (307) 221-3012.
A&I CONCRETE, licensed
and insured. Retaining
walls, stamp color, concrete specialist. Big or
small, Israel Alonso, (307)
438-3199.
CONCRETE
Driveways, sidewalks, patios and demolition. For a
free estimate call Jeff, (307)
371-8777. Licensed and insured.
ROOFING SPECIALISTS - We
do roofs right, also seamless gutters. Free estimates, 922-3208.
Z CONCRETE, LLC. Licensed
and insured. Flatwork,
basement floors, driveways, patios, garage slabs,
sidewalks, steps. New construction,
excavations,
foundations. Call (307)
212-2674, leave message at
(307) 362-5530.
OPENINGS, ACCEPTING all
ages. Great hours, fun activities. DFS accepted. Mini
Miracles
Daycare
Preschool, 307-382-2718.
CLEANING BY Lisa Ann.
Residential, light cleaning.
Free estimates. Call (307)
258-5753, (307) 922-0200.
TRINITY LUTHERAN Little
Lambs Preschool now enrolling for 2014 - 2015. Call
(307) 362-9655.
M&D REMODELING. Interior
and exterior remodeling.
Drywall, floors, painting
and texturing. Free estimates. (307) 371-1722, Jose,
(307) 349-9657, Martin.
WILD WEST WEED CONTROL provides the following services: dandelion
control, lawn nutrients for
a beautiful green lawn.
Weed control guaranteed
for the entire summer. Call
371-4662 or 362-9049.
GET PAID to socialize. Joe’s
Liquor & Bar is looking for a
part time/full time Bartender and Clerk. Must be
available all days and
shifts. If you are friendly,
honest, upbeat, customer
oriented, and like a fastpaced environment, this
may be the job for you. No
experience needed, we will
train the right person. Apply in person at 516 Elk
Street, Rock Springs, WY.
Please no phone calls.
EXPERIENCED
ROOFER
wanted, (307) 389-9118.
BRE’S CLEANING Service.
307-448-7731.
IMMACULATE
CLEANING
LLC. Residential, commercial - regular cleaning, spring
cleaning,
window
cleaning, wall washing.
Free
estimates.
Call
307-371-3640.
EXPERIENCED RESIDENTIAL
Commercial Painter, (307)
371-2002.
WESTERN RELIEF Services
is looking for full and part
time CDL Drivers and Route
Service Technicians for the
Rock Springs and outlying
areas. Applicants must
have a clean driving record
and be able to pass a preemployment drug test and
national
background
check. Pay depends on experience. Pick up application packet at 90 Reliance
Rd., Rock Springs. For more
information
call
(307)
382-8999.
JAN FRADY PAINTING
Licensed and Insured. Call
371-9623 for estimates.
ACCURATE
IRRIGATION.
Lawn, landscape, installation, maintenance, residential and commercial, (307)
389-9792.
EXPERIENCED
SERVERS
needed, must be able to
work 35 hours - 40 hours
per week, flexible shift,
serve alcohol and be reliable. Apply in person at
Renegade Cafe, 1610 Elk
Street, no phone calls
please.
HANDYMAN/CONTRACTOR.
Spring Cleanup. Dry wall,
interior/exterior, plastering, texturing, painting, tile
repair, plumbing, total bath
remodel. 20 years experience, licensed and insured.
Call Randy, 307-871-3633.
CALL IVORY Construction
for all your roofing needs.
Metal, shingles and TPO
membrane roofing. Also
soffit, facia and seamless
gutters. Licensed and insured. Workmanship guaranteed. (307) 871-9647.
CARPET CLEANING. Summer special: $30 a room,
two-room minimum. Upholstery cleaning, spot removal, deodorizing. (307)
321-5008.
JUSTICE TRUCKING, Inc.
Now hiring Drivers, Mechanic. Competitive wages
plus benefits. CDL plus
clean MVR. Pre employment drug screen. Please
apply at: 280 Foothill Blvd.,
Rock Springs, WY. (307)
362-7985.
MEDICAL OFFICE: Part-time
front office position. Flexible hours. Bring resume to
The Eye Institute, 2631
Foothill Blvd., Suite A.
BOOTH RENTAL available
for Cosmetologist, $60
weekly. Call 362-2306.
PART-TIME
EMPLOYEE.
Self-starter to photo cars.
Make up to $25/ hour. Send
resume to careers@pre
miersolutionz.com
ALTA CONSTRUCTION Inc.
is looking for experienced
Carpenters, Metal Building
Erectors and Concrete Finishers. Wage depends on
experience. Health and
benefits offered. Pick up an
application at 17 Smithfork
Way, Lyman, WY or call,
307-786-4834.
FULL TIME CDL Driver/Shophand. Must have Class A
with tanker endorsement.
Must have preemployment
drug screen. Job description - driving chemicals to
local mines, mixing of
chemicals, minor maintenance to vehicles, cleanup
of plant. Must be able to lift
80 pounds repetatively.
Hourly pay based on experience. Medical, dental
available after 90 days. If
interested, please call Jade
at 307-382-5884 and leave
message, or fax resume to
307-382-5889.
LOOKING FOR an experienced Groomer, 389-7723.
SPA ATTENDANT, full-time
or part-time. Professional,
dependable, customer oriented with computer skills.
Evenings and Saturdays required. Bring resume to 617
Broadway. No phone calls
please.
SERVERS,
MUST
work
weekends, apply at 10 Purple Sage Rd., Rock Springs
or call 870-7275, Chris.
EXPERIENCED - CDL Drivers, HYDROVAC experience
preferable, wages range
from $20 - $29. Badger Daylighting, (307) 371-3799.
CARPENTER AND Carpenter
Helper wanted. Must have
experience and own transportation. Top pay for the
right people. 307-448-0979
or office, 307-382-2919.
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NOWCAP CURRENTLY has
part-time and on-call positions available for positive,
compassionate individuals
to work with people with
developmental disabilities
and acquired brain injuries.
This is a great way to have
a job that makes a difference in the lives of others,
have a flexible schedule
and to get your foot in the
door for potential full time
employment.
Apply
at
NOWCAP Services, 416
West Blair Avenue, Rock
Springs. More information
at:www.nowcapservices.o
rg/team. Equal Opportunity
Employer,
Substance
Abuse Testing Required.
ASSISTANT HEAD Housekeeper and Housekeepers
needed. Must be able to
work weekends. Apply in
person at Econo Lodge,
1635 Elk St., Rock Springs.
382-4217.
CLINICAL
LIAISON/BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT. Landmark Hospital is looking
for someone with a strong
base of clinical knowledge
to educate families and referral sources regarding
care.
RN or RRT credentials required.
Marketing experience preferred.
Full time position.
Great benefits.
Send resume and application
to
slchumanresources@lan
dmarkhospitals.com Fax
(801) 268-5475.
INDIVIDUAL WITH gardening experience to clean two
flower beds, (307) 382-2827.
LARGE EXTENDED stay
rooms in Green River. No
smoking, no pets. Call (307)
870-4361.
TWO BEDROOM, one bath.
No smoking, no pets. Call
362-7141.
TOWNHOUSES, TWO bedroom, 1.5 bath, garage. NO
PETS. Good references. For
appointments, call (307)
875-2848, Green River.
SPACIOUS THREE bedroom,
one bath apartment, available in Farson, WY. $650
per month with one year
lease, please call 382-7482
for more information.
GREEN RIVER - Great Downtown Area - *Newly remodeled, fresh paint, and new
carpet. Studio and one bedroom apartments* starting
at $500 per month. Call
Southwest Real Estate,
307-382-9180 or visit
southwestrealestate.com.
Equal Housing.
GREEN RIVER two bed, 1.5
bath
apartment,
$650,
382-9180,
SWRE,
Equal
Housing.
TWO AND three bedroom
apartments, $750 - $900,
382-9180,
SWRE,
Equal
Housing.
GREEN RIVER, two bedroom, 1.5 bath, 875-5036.
TWO BEDROOM, 1.5 bath,
Rock Springs. Washer/dryer. No pets, no smoking.
362-7935 or 389-0535.
TWO BEDROOM, one bath,
laundry facilities, carports.
All utilities paid except
electric. No smoking, no
pets. 362-7597, 362-7302.
TWO AND three bedroom
furnished, all utilities paid.
No pets! No lease. (307)
362-3211, (307) 705-1336.
AVAILABLE NOW, newer
furnished or unfurnished
two bedroom, two bath
apartments in Pinedale. All
utilities included. We welcome short and long term
rentals. Pets negotiable.
Please call 307-367-8811.
NEWLY REMODELED, one
bedroom. All utilities paid.
$675 per month, no pets, no
smoking, 389-9567.
ROCK SPRINGS. Brand new,
two bed, one bath. (307)
362-0213.
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TWO BEDROOM, one bath,
RV parking, $850 per
month, will reduce for long
term lease. No smoking, no
pets,
background
and
credit
check,
(307)
362-1431, (307) 389-5398.
THREE
BEDROOM,
one
bath, very clean. (307)
389-6614.
TWO BEDROOM apartments near Bunning Park.
All utilities included, except electricity, six month
lease, no pets. Please call
389-1309.
GREEN RIVER - two bed,
one bath, no smoking no
pets. $625/month, $500 deposit. 875-5928, 875-3976.
TWO BEDROOM in Green
River. $650 deposit, $650
rent plus utilities. No pets.
389-0078, 870-6112.
STUDIO APARTMENT. Call
382-9225.
TWO BEDROOMS, starting
at $595, located in Green
River, all with onsite storage unit. No pets. Ask
about our move-in specials. 875-4296.
ONE BEDROOM apartment,
call 389-0307.
SHARP, CLEAN two bedroom. Yard, garage, pets
okay. $1100, 307-677-0848.
Ask for three bed also.
TWO BEDROOM, 1.5 bath,
garage,
fenced
yard.
371-6299, leave message.
ROCK SPRINGS. Two bed,
one bath, 307-362-0213.
ONE BEDROOM house on I
St. in Rock Springs, $750
plus utilities. Available
June 1. (808) 264-7329.
ONE BEDROOM RV’s for
rent. Short term, long term,
$500/month. 307-382-7482.
DOUBLEWIDE
CAPABLE,
$260 per month, Garcia’s
Mobile Home Park, (307)
382-6635.
COZY ONE bedroom apartment, (307) 362-1840.
THREE BED, two bath, garden level. Off-street parking. $950 rent, $950 deposit,
one year lease, we pay
water, sewer, gas, (307)
389-8135.
COMPLETELY FURNISHED,
washer/dryer, utilities included. Two bedroom, one
bath. No smoking, no pets,
(in Green River). (307)
870-4361.
VERY SMALL apartment,
$200 per month plus utilities, no smoking, no pets.
382-3479.
NEWLY REMODELED two
bedroom, two bath. $825
per month plus electric and
gas, $600 deposit. No smokers, no pets, 389-7191.
THREE BEDROOM, no pets,
no smoking, $850 a month
(first, last, deposit) required. Discount for paying
on time. Call 389-4127 for
application.
817 CONNECTICUT, three
bedroom, two bath house
with two-car garage. All
utilities included. $1400 per
month. Turnkey Properties,
307-871-2772.
$1,175 PER month three
bed, 1.5 bath, private
fenced-in yard. Newer carpet and paint. Pet friendly.
Call Sarah, 402-730-9661.
1369 SUBLETTE, four bedroom, two bath, fenced
yard, some pets accepted,
no smoking, $1700 plus utilities, Turnkey Properties,
871-2772.
$1,395 PER month.
bed, two bath, lots of
age, private yard
deck. Pet friendly.
Sarah, 402-730-9661.
Four
storwith
Call
REMODELED 14x70 three
bedroom, one bath, $850
per month. 307-354-7644.
FOUR-PERSON sleep travel
trailer for the National Finals Rodeo in July. Need air
conditioning. 863-832-0332.
649 N. Front St. Top Floor
and bottom floor, with endless possibilities. 8000 total
sq. ft., 4000 up, 4000 down.
Available separately or together. Plenty of parking
available. (307) 354-8688.
5000 SQ. FT. shop, yard, 14
ft. overhead doors, truck
parking. 362-7985.
FOR LEASE, 30 ft. x 60 ft.
shop with adjacent office
space. 14 ft. tall overhead
doors. Call 307-382-6645 for
additional information.
FOR RENT/LEASE/SALE approximately 2200 sq. ft.
prime commercial office
space, warehouse in rear,
12 ft. overhead door, located in Postal Square. Call
Sam, 801-860-4944.
DOWNTOWN Rock Springs.
Three brand new office/retail spaces. Starting at
$650/month. Flexible lease
terms. (307) 362-0213.
PIONEER RENTALS. Green
River townhouses. Wellkept. $800 - $1,100. No pets.
871-1351, 362-5469.
WELL-MAINTAINED, VERY
clean, newly remodeled,
landscaped yards. Two and
three bed townhouses in
Green River. One year
lease. New windows. NO
PETS. 871-1351, 871-1344.
www.landlrentals.weebly.c
om
GREEN RIVER, townhome,
available now, two bed, 1.5
bath, unfinished basement,
no pets. 870-7276.
LOCATED AT 3810 Tyler St.,
Rock Springs. Two bedroom, 1.5 bath, 1200 sq. ft.
townhouse. Excellent condition,
great
location,
one-car attached garage.
$1150 rent, $1150 deposit,
one year lease. Pets accepted with reasonable pet
deposit. For information
call 389-8135.
U.S. MADE LIBERTY SAFES.
Most sizes in stock, free local delivery. 362-8356, (307)
389-2629.
BRAND NEW, three bedroom, two bath home,
available now, Farson, WY.
Please call 307-382-7482 for
more information.
TWO, TWO bedroom one
bath mobile homes, $600
per month, (307) 252-7776.
(307) 448-7042.
601 PARK, four bedroom,
three bath, no smoking, no
pets, $1600 plus utilities,
Turnkey Properties, (307)
871-2772.
5000
WATT
generator.
Nearly
new,
equalizer
hitch, will fit two in. receiver. If interested, call
875-3204.
THREE BED, one and two
bath mobile homes for
rent, starting at $725 a
month. Background and
credit
check
required.
Please call 382-7482.
STORAGE AND shop units.
(307) 875-2848.
FOR LEASE - 12,000 sq. ft.
industrial building, I-80 visibility. Call Century 21
Rocky Mountain, 362-9990.
EL TAPATIO Tortilleria,
2724 Commercial Way,
Rock Springs, an opportunity to own a fully diversified Mexican store. For
general information, call
(307) 371-9161 or (307)
389-0419.
RETIREMENT SALE. 2000
GMC 3500 van with BaneClene System 7 carpet
cleaning machine. All wellmaintained. (307) 922-4644.
ORGANIC
VEGETABLE
plants for sale. Many varieties. 871-2130 or 871-4711.
206 MIDWAY St., Rock
Springs, Saturday, 8 a.m.
NO early birds.
410 FAIRVIEW Lane, north
of Rock Springs. Friday and
Saturday, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Miscellaneous items and
wedding dress.
524 FREMONT Circle, Rock
Springs. Saturday, 8 a.m. 12 p.m. Boys’ clothes (0 - 24
months and 2T - 4T), adult
clothes, kid’s toys, car
seats, bike, TV, shoes,
many other household
items.
688 ANTELOPE Dr., #48,
Rock Springs. Saturday, 8
a.m. - 12 p.m. Kids’ clothes
and toys, barbecue grill,
aero-tailgate for Dodge
truck, men’s clothes.
713 RAMPART Drive, Rock
Springs. Saturday and Sunday, 8 a.m. - 12 p.m.
809 HICKORY St., Rock
Springs, Saturday, 8 a.m. - 1
p.m. Beautiful new floral
arrangements and miscellaneous items.
817 RAMPART Dr., Rock
Springs, Saturday, 8 a.m. noon. Lots of items, lots of
girl’s clothes.
1220 9TH St., Rock Springs,
Saturday only, 7 a.m. - ?
GARAGE/BAKE SALE.
WHIRLPOOL
PORCELAIN
top oven, $300; oak dining
table with leaf and seven
chairs, $300; bookcase,
72x36, seven shelves, $125;
honey oak four-drawer
chest of drawers, $90; complete double bed set, four
pieces, $225. (307) 875-4602
or (307) 871-4462.
TWO STORAGE shed barn
doors. Brand new 3 ft. x 6
ft., 33 1/8 x 68 1/8, $100;
B&W trailer hitch, ball up
or ball down for a Ford
truck, $250/best. 382-2827.
PINBALL MACHINE, Gold
Rush. $1250. 389-7825.
BUYING ANTLERS, elk, deer
moose. (307) 389-1608,
leave message.
VISIT www.HCRhomes.com
For Photos/Details.
Rock Springs.
$38,000
BUTCHER PIGS for sale. 300
pounds - 400 pounds. Troy
Maddox, 307-760-8403.
AQHA REGISTERED mare.
15 years old, broke to ride.
Very well-bred. $600, (307)
922-3949.
-1700 Swanson
Drive, Lot 213
$134,900 - 3551 B Cleveland
$177,500 - 107 Ranchview
$187,500 - 425 Bridger Ave.
$192,000 - 2 Ramshead Cir.
$220,000 - 226 Dickson St.
$342,000 - 363 Turret Drive
$369,000 - 654 Raid Circle
$376,000 204 Corso Assisi
Farson
$235,000 20 Work Horse Ln.
1301
11TH
St.,
Rock
Springs, Saturday, 9 a.m. 12 p.m.
1700 SWANSON Dr., #31,
Rock Springs, Saturday,
8:30 a.m. - ? We have new
and used clothes, shoes
and accessories, new bed
ensembles, baby girl stuff,
crib and much, much more.
Cash only, thank you.
1903 CORAL St., Rock
Springs (near corner of Agate and Edgar). Saturday 8
a.m. - 12 p.m., Sunday 9
a.m. - 3 p.m. AR Mags, AR
15 pistol lower, oak table
and chairs, GE electric
dryer. “Cool” 1950’s stove,
Wii stuff, quality women’s
clothing, household and
miscellaneous, newer sewing machine.
2031 CARSON Street, Rock
Springs. Moving Sale! Saturday, May 24, 8 a.m. - 1
p.m. Household items,
tools, furniture. Cash only.
2151 YELLOWSTONE Rd.,
Rock Springs. Saturday,
Sunday, Monday 8 a.m. - 5
p.m. Mr. Storage across
from the cemetery. Tons of
stuff, like new couch and
love seat, bar stools, black
office chair, dresser, wood
chairs and more. (307)
760-7453.
3317 BRICKYARD, Rock
Springs. Friday, 5:30 p.m. to
8:30 p.m. Saturday, 7 a.m.
to 3 p.m. Lots for sale.
KIMBER .45 Auto Ultra Covert II, new; two Colt .25
auto, new with consecutive
serial
numbers;
Bond
Arms, new, .357, extra barrel set in .22 LR; two Colt
Pocketlite with lasers, new,
.380 ACP; Ruger #3, excellent, .223. All firearms in
Rock Springs. 406-431-2323.
REMINGTON 700 7mm Magnum, shells, scope, case,
$500; Farms Brescia (Italian) 12 gauge semi-auto,
$250. (307) 875-4602 or (307)
871-4462.
BLAINE’S APPLIANCE, 1313
9th Street, Rock Springs,
WY. We buy and sell used
appliances. 307-212-2432.
WHITE LEATHER sectional,
$1600. Call 382-0928.
LG 4 cu. ft. steam frontload
washer, white. LG 7.3 cu. ft.
steam electric dryer, white.
Five year Home Master
Protect Agreement for
both, $2400. Andy, (612)
817-0579.
GE BUILT-IN self-cleaning
oven/microwave unit, 4X3
white vinyl clad window,
four oak bar stools, Kohler
double-bowl kitchen sink,
gas fireplace insert with
blower and all piping.
382-3430.
Please call Mary Manatos,
Broker/Owner,
350-8844;
Mandy Camphouse, Agent,
371-5997; Shauna Mullins,
Agent,
922-4353; Marty
Martin, Agent, 350-6856.
High Country Realty, (307)
382-2652.
Thank You! Supporter of
“Crime Stoppers”
www.sweetwatertips.com
307-362-8477
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REGIONAL
FOR SALE: Cabin at Commissary Ranch, outside of
Kemmerer, on 1.76 acres.
Lots of aspen and pine
trees cover this lot. The
cabin needs a lot of work.
Two bedroom, one bath,
living room and kitchen.
Well drilled and septic system put in, but not hooked
to cabin yet. Includes propane
refrigerator,
gas
range, wood stove, some
furniture, and 500 gallon
propane tank filled with
propane, $50,000. For questions and directions to the
cabin, call 307-382-2244,
307-389-0222, 307-389-1751.
FOR SALE by owner, three
bed, one bath, remodeled,
in Green River, (307)
389-6660.
44 ACRES in the beautiful
Aspen Mountain Basin with
all utilities available, including good water well,
$448,000. Call 350-8170.
70x80 LOT. $35,000 or best.
402-750-3695.
TOO BEAUTIFUL to last!
Smith’s Fork River runs the
entire length of these 72
acres located south of
Mountain View, WY. Call
307-780-8600 for details.
Owner financing available.
ALMOST NEW shop with offices, 2200 sq. ft., 14 ft.
door. Lots of parking, Broker owned, 362-9990.
LOCATED ON Uinta Drive,
Green River shop, office,
and parts. Rent all or part.
(Broker Owned). Call Century 21 Rocky Mountain,
362-9990.
1974 NASH 12x50, two bedroom, one bath, NEW siding, NEW metal skirting,
NEW 8x10 deck, $15,500. Located at Horizon Park, LLC,
#59. 382-5833.
SMALL MOBILE home for
sale, $4500. 307-362-5581.
THREE BED, two bath mobile home. $25,000 or best
offer. 307-389-9118.
24x52 DOUBLEWIDE mobile
home. Three bedroom, two
bath, shed, wood burning
stove,
swamp
cooler,
washer and dryer, $28,000.
1700 Swanson Drive, #83,
362-3536 or (307) 922-1479.
1969 EL Camino,
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2007 NISSAN Altima S,
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2008 CHEVY Cobalt LS
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road car, $16,400, 922-1877
or
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40 FT. van trailer, air ride
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storage unit. 382-6645.
1979 K5 Cheyenne 4x4
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done. 307-371-6135.
1995 FORD F-250. Runs
great. $5900 or best. (402)
750-3695.
2000
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2011 FORD F150 SVT Raptor,
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212-9086.
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2004 FORD Escape XLT,
160,000 miles, $6000, (307)
212-2432.
2005 HYUNDAI Tucson,
AWD, newer tires, battery,
automatic
transmission
and brakes. Leather, gray
and black, 82,200 miles,
very good condition (see in
Green River across from
Maverik), $7500. Call (307)
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1998 25 ft. 5th wheel
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LARAMIE — By 2020,
there will be almost
700,000 square feet of new
science facilities, six new
science and engineering
faculty members and 55 science and engineering Ph.D.
and post-doctoral students
at the University of
Wyoming — all for $17.2
million.
Gov. Matt Mead appointed a College of Engineering
Tier-1 Initiative task force
two years ago. Since then,
the idea morphed into
pushing UW as an institution into the prestigious
bracket. The first initiative
is the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
The
implementation
plan was completed in April
and shared with the UW
Board of Trustees at its
May meeting. Khaled
Gasem, College of Engineering interim dean, said
UW has not yet presented
the final copy to Mead.
“This is a major initiative
and is highly significant to
Wyoming. It’s a different
way of operating than in the
past,” Gasem said. “The intrinsic value of education
has been happening for a
long period of time. What
we’re doing now is engaging in economics and enhancing the quality of life
with our intellectual capital.”
The task force identified
four goals in the implementation plan: excellence in
undergraduate education;
world class research and
graduate education; productive economic development through partnerships;
and K-14 science, technology, engineering and math,
or STEM, education.
Evaluating the program’s
success will include: retention rate; the time it takes a
student to complete a degree; employment placement rate; employer feedback; the number of scholars; and the number of national awards.
The report states wanting to be recognized nationally in four niche areas:
unconventional reservoirs;
computational science; ad-
vanced energy technologies; and energy conversion
and diversity.
Phase 1 of the task force’s
plan is scheduled for completion in 2016, with six
new faculty members, four
research scientists and 90
undergraduate engineering
scholarships.
Phase 3 — the final phase
— is scheduled for completion in 2020, with an increase in undergraduate enrollment from 1,400 to
1,800; double the number
of Ph.D. graduates to 30;
and an increase in the number of industrial partnerships and outreach activities.
Details about Phase 2
were unavailable to the
Boomerang as of press
time.
The Legislature appropriated $8 million, and UW
is expected to raise the remaining $9.2 million. The
School of Energy Resources is contributing
about $4 million, and private donations are expected to make up the difference. Gasem said industry
partnerships will also be
key.
Halliburton and Hess
Corporation already have a
presence on campus, but
Baker Hughes could soon
be added to the list, he said.
Increasing industry partnerships mean students
can work in state-of-the-art
labs and work in the field
with professionals.
In return, companies will
be able to solve problems
faster and cheaper by working with UW students,
Gasem said.
“The essential story of
what we’re doing is to accelerate our contributions
and be more helpful to the
state,” Gasem said. “We can
act as catalysts to grow economic development. The
source of funding is burden
sharing, but it’s for the
common good. I’m comforted we will have the resource base.”
Gasem said bringing
companies here will help diversify Wyoming’s economy. UW is trying to improve its computational
programs, which will bring
more jobs.
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LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the Sweetwater County District Board of Health will conduct
their regular May meeting on
Wednesday, May 28, 2014 at 7:15
a.m. at the Sweetwater County
Nursing office, 731 C Street, Rock
Springs, WY. Please use the entrancr on the west side of the
building.
May 24, 25, 28_______________
)
) Civil Action No. 14-308-J
)
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that Anysia Ivee Davis, minor child by and
through Joe Jorgensen her natural father have filed a petition with the
District Court within and for Sweetwater County, Wyoming, praying that
her name be changed to Anysia Ivee Jorgensen.
Anyone having objections to such change must file the same with the
Clerk of said Court on or before July 15, 2014.
Donna L. Bobak
Clerk of District Court
May 24, 31, June 7, 14______________________________________
Program enlists
public help in
surveying amphibian
populations
EVE NEWMAN
Laramie Boomerang
LARAMIE — You can be
forgiven if your favorite animal isn’t a frog or a toad.
In our neck of the woods,
they’re usually small and
elusive, and that’s when the
weather’s nice. They spend
most of the winter underwater, underground or
frozen and waiting for
springtime to thaw them
out.
“They’re really cryptic,”
said Wendy Estes-Zumpf, a
zoologist
with
the
Wyoming Natural Diversity
Database.
Amphibians spend the
first part of their lives in the
water, often as tadpoles.
They later undergo a metamorphosis and spend
much of their adult lives on
land. They’re notoriously
difficult to survey because
many conditions have to be
right for a person to even
spot one.
As a result, it’s difficult
for scientists to keep tabs
on the condition of
Wyoming’s amphibians,
which include five species
of frogs, six toad species
and the Western tiger salamander.
“We don’t know how
populations are doing
throughout the state,”
Estes-Zumpf said.
Scientists do know, however, that amphibian populations are in decline
around the world. In the
Rocky Mountain region, a
new program is designed to
enlist the help of laypeople
in tracking amphibian populations so scientists will
have more information
about their status.
The Rocky Mountain
ON 7-29-10 Joe Uriarte purchased the following property for 2009 delinquent taxes: 908 7th Street, Rock Springs, WY 82901, Clark ADDN
Block 05 Lot 04 W 25’, Sec. 26 T19N R105W. The property was taxed
in the name of Kathy J. Goffinet. There are no special assessements. The
time of redemption will expire on or after the third publication of notice
of intent to apply for a tax deed. The time for redemption will expire
upon acceptance of said application for tax deed by the County Treasurer. This notice is sent pursuant to Wyoming Statute 39-13-108.
May 17, 24, 31_____________________________________________
Notice is hereby given that the Western Wyoming Community College
has accepted as complete, according to specifications, the work performed under that certain contract between WWCC and ADP Lemco,
Inc. of West Jordan, UT for work performed on the Retractable Baskets
Project and the contractor is entitled to final settlement. Therefore, the
College will cause said contractor to be paid the full amount due under
said contract on July 3, 2014. All claims regarding work or materials furnished to the contractor must be filed with Western Wyoming Community College prior to July 3, 2014 or the same shall be waived. The date
of the first publication is May 24, 2014.
By: Wm. Marty Kelsey, VP for Administrative Services
Western Wyoming Community College
May 24, 31, June 7_________________________________________
CASTLE ROCK Special Hospital District, Green River, WY is soliciting bids for the following surplus property:
1. 1999 Chevy XL 3500 with 118,000 plus miles, configured for ambu
lance use
2. 2004 Ford F-350 Super Duty with 114,000 plus miles, configured for
ambulance use
3. 2003 Ford F-350 Super Duty with 147,000 plus miles, configured for
ambulance use
4. 1990 Chevy, available for sale for “parts only”, configured for ambu
lance use
5. 1994 Chevy Supreme with 123,000 plus miles, configured as a min
i-bus with seating capacity of 18 plus 2 wheelchair spaces.
Sale of Castle Rock Special Hospital District (“the District”) surplus
property is, as is and where is, with all faults and without warranty. The
District makes no warranty, guarantee or representation of any kind, expressed or implied, as to the merchantability or fitness for any purpose of
the property offered for sale. The Purchaser is not entitled to any payment for loss of profit or any other money damages, special, direct, indirect, or consequential Loading and transportation of all purchased items
is strictly the Purchaser’s responsibility. Purchaser shall be responsible
for removal of identifying labels of Castle Rock Special Hospital District.
Please submit sealed bids to Castle Rock Special Hospital District, 1400
Uinta Drive, Green River, WY 82935 ATTN: Bailie Dockter, Chief Executive Officer by 4 p.m., Friday, May 30, 2014.
Bids will be opened and available for inspection on Monday, June 2,
2014 at 10:00 at the Executive Offices, 1400 Uinta Drive, Green River,
WY 82935.
May 24___________________________________________________
GET INVOLVED
For more information about the Rocky
Mountain Amphibian
Project or to adopt a
catchment, go to
www.toadtrackers.org.
Volunteers can attend
one of two local training sessions or watch a
training video online.
Amphibian Project was
launched last month and
operates in the Medicine
Bow-Routt
National
Forests and the BridgerTeton National Forest. The
project invites people to
adopt catchments and
monitor them at least once
a summer for amphibian
activity.
A catchment is a set of
ponds or streams that
could make good amphibian habitat.
“We will collect data to
look at population trends in
amphibian
species
in
Wyoming so that land managers and agency biologists
can prioritize their conservation efforts based on scientific evidence,” said Brenna Marsicek, project coordinator for the University of
Wyoming Berry Biodiversity Conservation Center, in
a news release.
Volunteers will receive a
kit with survey equipment
that includes an identification guide, dip net, thermometer, pH strips, and
swabs and vials for testing
for chytrid, a disease-causing fungus that can infect
and kill amphibians.
Volunteers, working in
pairs or groups, will also receive training in a standardized survey method in
which they sweep meadows
and shorelines in a zig-zag
pattern and then pause to
take the water and air temperature.
“It’s not too difficult, but
you do need to follow direc-
Colo. shutting
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IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE THIRD JUDICIAL
DISTRICT WITHIN AND FOR SWEETWATER COUNTY,
WYOMING
In the Matter of the Change of Name
of Ansia Ivee Davis.
_____________________________
Plan for UW to
be Tier-1 finalized
FOUNTAIN, Colo. (AP)
— Colorado’s role as a
morgue for 60 million of
the nation’s 100 million
scrap tires is over: State
lawmakers are shutting
down tire landfills. A staterun $5.8 million subsidy
program for tire recyclers
also will end — by 2018 —
under a bill that Gov. John
Hickenlooper said he
would sign into law.
Sprawling heaps of
scrap tires — like the ones
south of Colorado Springs
and northeast of Denver at
Hudson — are seen as environmental and health
hazards. In addition to the
fear of a large fire, the sites
can act as havens for rats,
rattlesnakes and virusspreading mosquitoes. As
well, support for the recycling subsidies soured
among lawmakers after a
questionable operator collected $578,246 in state
funds and later was investigated by the Securities
and Exchange Commission.
But as trucks hauling
tires from tire dealers arrive each day at the landfills, site managers and a
fire chief warn closure may
create worse trouble.
Illegal tire dumping near
Colorado Springs has increased by 10 percent to 15
percent over the past two
years, said Hanover Fire
Department chief Carl
Tatum, who has had trucks
tied up for days fighting
tire-fueled wildfires that
spew toxic fumes and oil.
“Now, I can see, we’re
going to have even more
tires being dumped illegally,” Tatum said.
Shutting tire landfills to
try to spur recycling “doesn’t mean that’s going to
happen,” said Twylia
Sekavec, owner of Resources
Management
Company, who runs a tire
landfill at Julesburg that
stores tires from neighboring states. “Where are all
these tires going to go?”
Colorado lawmakers’
crackdown reflects impatience amid a slow transition toward tire recycling.
Converting tires to fuel,
sports-field cover and construction material may render scrap tires more valuable. A company called
CH2E plans to melt the
tires stockpiled at Hudson,
producing diesel and a
type of steel.
The potential is huge for
trash-to-treasure innovators because consumers
generate 306 million scrap
tires a year in the United
States (5 million in Colorado) and 1.5 billion
worldwide, according to
the Washington D.C.-based
Rubber Manufacturers Association.
The tire landfills in Colorado have given tire dealers low-cost options for
disposal, which led to the
nation’s largest stockpiles.
Tire haulers from other
states took advantage.
Colorado Department of
Public Health and Environment officials and a
task force have been brainstorming after a debacle in
which the state subsidized
tire recycler Magnum d’Or,
the target of a federal securities fraud investigation
ordered in 2012 to disgorge
$7.7 million in profits.
“We’ve had lax laws and
regulations for a long time
and have ended up being a
dumping ground. Ten
years ago it started getting
worse,” said Rep. Max
Tyler, D-Lakewood, a driver of the legislative crackdown. “We’ve had no control over waste tire
haulers.”
tions really well,” EstesZumpf said.
Catchments to be surveyed were chosen at random from a group of areas
across the national forest
that had potential amphibian habitat. They’re mostly
within a few kilometers of a
road or near a trail for easier access.
However,
observers
might have to navigate to
the correct spot, hike
through difficult terrain and
wade through swampy areas.
Estes-Zumpf said outdoor enthusiasts are the
target group. So far, the response has been good.
“I think people will have
a lot of fun doing this. It
makes you feel like a kid
again,” she said.
In the Pole Mountain
area, observers could spot
the northern leopard frog
or boreal chorus frog. In the
Snowy Range and Sierra
Madres, wood frogs and
chorus frogs could be present. Boreal chorus frogs,
which are about an inch
long, are the most common
amphibian in the state.
The Rocky Mountain
Amphibian Project grew
out of collaboration between the Wyoming Natural Diversity Database and
Wyoming Game and Fish
Department, both of which
work to gather information
about Wyoming wildlife,
Estes-Zumpf said. The
database, which operates as
a research unit of UW,
tracks rare and sensitive
plants, animals and ecosystems in the state.
The amphibian project
has a number of partners
across the region, from the
U.S. Forest Service and UW
Biodiversity Institute to
Boy Scouts of America.
”It’s a huge collaborative
effort that’s been going on
for several years to get it to
this point,” Estes-Zumpf
said.
Rock River
resident gets
her first bear
with bow
MARK HEINZ
Laramie Boomerang
LARAMIE — When
Rock River resident
Christie Kirlin started
pursuing big game about
seven years ago, she was
drawn to the challenge of
archery hunting.
Her husband, Aaron, is
a long-time hunter. He introduced her to stalking
elk, deer and other game
with her compound bow.
Some of those hunts paid
off with steaks in the
freezer, and she decided
it was time to join her
husband in his passion
for bear hunting.
The couple has a registered bear-bait station in
the Snowy Range. Either
with her husband or on
solo hunts, Christie Kirlin tried through multiple
seasons unsuccessfully to
bag a bear. Everything finally came together earlier this month, when she
hiked to the hunt area
alone and climbed into a
tree stand.
“I wasn’t there very
long before I heard
crunching in the snow,
and saw (the bear’s) feet,”
she said. “I don’t know if
it was my scent, or the
noise the birds were making, but something was
making him nervous.”
Archery hunting is often a matter of keeping
still and waiting, so
Christie Kirlin did just
that. Finally, the bear offered a clean shot at a
comfortable range, and
she let her arrow fly.
After seeing what
looked like a solid hit, she
called her husband. After
he arrived, they tracked
the bear, and found it
about 150 yards from
where Christie Kirlin had
made her shot.
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Checkered butterflies were once
found at more than 70 sites in
Puget Sound, Ore., and British
Columbia, but are now reduced
to 14 sites, including an artillery
range at Joint Base Lewis-McChord.
Artillery fire,
butterflies
coexist on
Army range
PHUONG LE
Associated Press
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. (AP) _ An undeveloped stretch of native prairie
in south Puget Sound offers one
of the few habitats in the world
where a 2-inch colorful checkered
butterfly thrives. It also happens
to be the main artillery impact
range for Joint Base Lewis-McChord.
The Army’s Stryker combat
brigade and other troops regularly practice military maneuvers
and live-fire training on acres of
scenic, open grassland where a
small population of Taylor’s
checkerspot butterfly feed on
nectar of native blooms, mate
and lay eggs.
The butterfly’s listing as a federal endangered species last fall
“has the potential to cause major
restrictions on training,” said Jeffrey Foster, an ecologist at the
military installation.
That has the Army working to
boost the numbers of butterflies,
once found at more than 70 sites
in Puget Sound, Ore., and British
Columbia but are now reduced to
14 sites. The effort mirrors others
by the Army at installations
around the country.
From Maryland to Louisiana to
Colorado, the Army has been
conserving buffer areas around
bases to limit urban development, while also preserving and
restoring habitat for rare species
such as the red-cockaded woodpecker and the golden-cheeked
warbler.
So far, the program has preserved over 200,000 acres of
land.
At JBLM, 44 miles south of
Seattle, the program is helping
not only the Taylor’s checkerspot
butterfly but also the streaked
horned lark and Mazama pocket
gopher.
Last October, the U.S. Fish &
Wildlife Service concluded the
Taylor’s checkerspot was in danger of becoming extinct and designated nearly 2,000 acres in
Clallam County, Puget Sound
and Oregon’s Willamette Valley as
critical habitat for the creature.
The agency said it considered
“military training under present
conditions a threat to the shortterm and long-term conservation
of the Taylor’s checkerspot.” The
eight-wheeled, armored Stryker
vehicle and soldier foot traffic can
crush larvae and damage plants
the butterflies rely on.
The Army has been working
with the state, the Center for Natural Lands Management and others to preserve and restore habitat, both on and off the military
installation, so that the butterflies
could be re-introduced.
The military and its partners
have committed about $35 million and protected about several
thousand acres of land in and
around JBLM for multiple
species.
It will likely take years to increase the butterfly’s numbers,
but those working on the effort
are already seeing some success.
Taylor’s checkerspot butterflies
are establishing at two of three
sites at JBLM and on two other
sites near Olympia where they
have been re-introduced.
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a
second-term Cabinet reshuffle,
President Barack Obama
tapped San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro on Friday to be the
nation’s next housing secretary,
giving a prominent national
platform to one of the Democratic Party’s most celebrated
up-and-comers.
Joined by Castro and Vice
President Joe Biden, Obama
also announced he was nominating current Housing and Urban Development Secretary
Shaun Donovan to run the
White House budget office —
an opening Obama created
when he asked his former
budget chief to take over the
Health and Human Services
Department last month.
The 39-year-old Castro was
propelled into the national
spotlight two years ago when
Obama chose him to deliver
the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention
— a political baptism by fire not
unlike the president’s own rise
to prominence when Obama
keynoted the 2004 convention.
Friday’s announcement gives
another major boost to Castro’s
profile, just as Democrats are
eyeing him as a potential vice
presidential candidate in 2016.
$2.5B in Sandy aid
headed to New
York, New Jersey
NEW YORK (AP) — A plan
is in place for disbursing nearly
$2.5 billion in additional federal aid to New Jersey, New York
City and New York state for Superstorm Sandy recovery, a
government official said Friday.
The third round of funding
under the community development block grant program will
bring the total amount headed
to the city and two state governments to nearly $13 billion.
The funding is a major piece
of the $50 billion Congress approved last year to pay for recovery of the October 2012
storm, which was blamed for at
least 182 deaths in the United
States and an estimated $65
billion in damage. The aid is
particularly noteworthy because it’s the piece of federal
aid the state governments and
New York City get to distribute
as they see fit.
Much of the money is being
used to pay for home repairs
not covered by other government programs or insurance.
The plans from the city and
state governments are subject
to approval from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Feds report
increase in
whales hit by ships
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal agency says a cruise ship
heading for New York struck
and killed a whale and dragged
it into the Hudson River, one of
three recent whale strikes by
ships along the eastern
seaboard.
The National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration
says the rate of strikes is higher than usual for this time of
year. It says the whales may be
following food sources closer to
shore. The agency issued a reminder to mariners of measures in place to protect whales.
A NOAA spokeswoman says
the usual rate of whale strikes
by ships is about one every few
weeks, compared with three in
the past few weeks.
The whales involved were
two sei (say) whales and a fin
whale. No recent strikes of endangered North Atlantic right
whales have been reported.
E. coli detected in
Portland, Oregon,
water supply
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A
citywide boil notice was issued
for Portland after E. coli was
detected in the water supply.
The Portland Water Bureau
said Friday that residents
should boil all tap water used
for drinking, food preparation,
tooth brushing and ice for at
least one minute. Ice or any
beverages prepared with un-
boiled tap water on or after
Tuesday should be dumped.
The notice, which also covers
several suburban cities, affects
about 670,000 people. It will
remain in effect until tests show
the water system is clean. That
could be Saturday.
“We’re painfully aware that
we’re going into a holiday
weekend and that this is an inconvenience for people,” City
Commissioner Nick Fish said.
“We regret that, but we’re also
guided by good science and
regulations.”
The boil notice produced the
expected public response: The
city website crashed from
heavy traffic, and bottled water
flew from supermarket shelves.
China lifts ban of US
West Coast shellfish
SEATTLE (AP) — China has
lifted a five month-long ban on
live shellfish from U.S. West
Coast waters, officials said Friday.
The Chinese government announced the ban’s end in a letter on Friday, officials said. The
ban had particularly affected
the Washington and Alaska
shellfish industry.
China imposed a ban in December on the import of clams,
oysters, mussels and scallops
harvested from Washington,
Oregon, Alaska and Northern
California. China detected high
levels of inorganic arsenic in geoducks from Puget Sound. It
also found paralytic shellfish
poisoning in geoducks harvested in Alaska. High levels of inorganic arsenic and paralytic
shellfish poisoning have not
been found in other areas of the
larger region.
U.S. officials had traveled to
China in March to discuss lifting the ban, including highlighting new methods for sampling, surveillance and monitoring of inorganic arsenic.
Ethiopian guard
sentenced for
immigration crimes
DENVER (AP) — A man accused of being a brutal Ethiopian prison guard during government-sponsored violence in the
1970s was sentenced Friday to
22 years in prison for immigration violations.
U.S. District Judge John
Kane said the maximum sentence for Kefelgn Alemu Worku
(kah-FEH’-lun ah-LEE’-moo
WER’-koo) was necessary to
prevent the U.S. from being
known as a safe haven for violators of civil rights.
At Worku’s trial, witnesses
testified that he participated in
beatings and torture at Higher
15, a detention center established during the political violence in Ethiopia known as the
Red Terror. Human Rights organizations, including Amnesty
International, have said thousands of people were killed.
Worku was convicted of assuming another man’s identity
and lying on U.S. immigration
forms. He has denied committing acts of political persecution.
Coast Guard:
Hull of missing
British yacht found
BOSTON (AP) — A U.S.
Navy warship has located the
overturned hull of a British
yacht that went missing last
week 1,000 miles off the Massachusetts coast, but officials
said Friday night’s deadline to
end the search remains in effect.
Coast Guard Petty Officer
Robert Simpson said a helicopter from the warship spotted
the hull Friday and a small boat
crew confirmed it bore the
name of the 40-foot Cheeki
Rafiki. The hull had previously
been spotted by a commercial
vessel last Saturday.
A Navy swimmer found the
boat’s cabin was completely
flooded and its windows shattered. Simpson said the swimmer also knocked on the hull
and reached below the waterline with no results.
Simpson said the search for
the ship’s four crew members
continues, but that the 10 p.m.
EST deadline for suspending
the search remained in effect.
U.S. Army Klinton Smith/Department of Defense
Soldiers of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, known as “The Old Guard,” place flags in front of headstones
Thursday during Flags In, an annual event before Memorial Day, at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
Old Guard places
flags at Arlington
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — At
Arlington National Cemetery,
honoring 150 years of sacrifice
can take just about three hours.
That’s usually how much time
the soldiers of the 3rd U.S. Infantry, known as the Old Guard,
need to place hundreds of thousands of American flags at the
gravestones and niches of service
members interred at the cemetery overlooking the nation’s capital from Virginia.
Across the Potomac River, in
Northwest Washington, members
of the Old Guard also place flags
at the graves of those buried at
the U.S. Soldiers’ and Airmen’s
Home National Cemetery.
“Our son participated in this
today!” a parent commented on
the Old Guard’s Facebook page.
“So proud!”
There are more than 260,000
gravestones and about 7,300
niches for cremated remains at
Arlington, established in 1864,
and more than 14,000 veterans
are interred at the Soldiers’ and
Airmen’s Cemetery, established
in 1861.
The annual “Flags In” project
takes place just before the Memorial Day weekend. It has been a
part of the mission of the Old
Guard since it was designated the
Army’s ceremonial unit in 1948,
the cemetery’s website says.
On Thursday, members of the
Old Guard placed their flags under sunny skies and warm spring
temperatures.
After Memorial Day, the soldiers sweep across the sea of
graves once more to remove
every flag before the cemeteries
open again to visitors.
“I will be there this weekend to
see my father,” a veteran’s daughter said in a Facebook post.
“Thank you, Old Guard!”
Obama win on Guantanamo prison may be short-lived
DONNA CASSATA
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama scored a
rare win in his 5-year-old campaign to close the federal prison
at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as a
Senate panel approved giving
him the authority to transfer terror suspects to the United States
if Congress signs off on a comprehensive plan to shutter the facility.
It’s not a done deal, however, as
top Senate Republicans vowed on
Friday to do all they can to keep
the Guantanamo facility open
and leave the 154 detainees incar-
cerated.
The Senate Armed Services
Committee wrapped up a defense
bill Thursday that would authorize the transfer of terror suspects
to U.S. soil “for detention, trial
and incarceration, subject to
stringent security measures and
legal protections, once the president has submitted a plan to
Congress for closing Guantanamo and Congress has had an
opportunity to vote to disapprove
that plan under expedited procedures.”
The bill also authorizes the
temporary transfer of detainees
to a U.S. medical facility operated
by the Defense Department “to
prevent death or significant imminent harm.”
Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich.,
chairman of the Armed Services
Committee, hailed the defense
bill provision as a significant
change in the long standoff between the Obama administration
and bipartisan congressional opponents over the post-Sept. 11
prison for terror suspects.
Levin said the bill has “created
a path to close Guantanamo.”
The effort still faces resistance
from Republicans and Democrats
in Congress who have repeatedly and successfully fought White
House efforts to move detainees
to U.S. soil.
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Not Pictured:
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Christian Boyd, Aaron Brewer, Brian Brinkerhoff, Stacy Brittenham, Alexis Broadbent, Machenzie Cain, Katrina Candelaria, Shyanne Cantrell, Marisol Castillo, Asher Catterall,
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Jordan Householder, Cassidy Johnson, Tori Johnson, Dakota Jones, William Kannegieter, Mitchell Karlen, Ryker Kiedrowski, Brittany Kimsey, Brock Lancaster, Thorn Lucas,
Benjamin Martin, Mason Martin, Nicholas Martinez, Michael McGarr, Humberto Mendoza, Randi Miller, Dayan Misiura, Edwin Muniz, Desirae Myers, Summer Newman, Juan
Nieto, Robert Nieto, Emily Obrocto, Stormy Olson, Courtney Owens, Sydney Pankowski, Myrla Parra Gonzalez, Connor Pearrow, Juan Perez, Kyle Perry, Alexis Peterson, Haley
Powell, Stephen Regulski, Elijah Rembacz, Daniel Robert, Kyle Rodgers, Laura Rodriguez Silva, Diana Sanchez, Curtis Satterwhite, McKayla Schantle, Mariah Seaman, Larissa
Smith, Reginald Smith, Jessalyn Sosa, Dylan Souther, John Spires-Richter, Lexus Sweets, Jose Tapia Gonzalez, Michelle Taylor, Alexandria Thompson, Susan Thompson, Tyler
Thompson, Fancisco Vejar, Dalton Vonrembow, Devin Watkins, Francisco Wendlandt, Kristopher White, Zackery White, SaVanna Williams
Congratulations To The Independence Class of 2014
Taylor Ellison
Anna Garcia
Savannah Jackson
Not Pictured:
Dane Bottemiller, Zack Bowlings,
Grayson Chidester, Lacy Harrington,
Nevin Sheehan, Evelyn Vargas,
Tyler Wilson
Trevor Woodall
Alexis King
Jason Lux
Jamie Richards
Stevie Storm
Moses Urrutia
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Andrew Amrine
Michelle Cukale
Skyler Dover
Shelby Greene
Stephanie Griffin
Marcos Orozco
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Salenia Boan
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Jovie Cheney
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Levi Harmon
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Jordan Neuenschwander
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Ryan Sadlier
Ethan Salsbury
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and Curtis Tirrell
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Rabecca Bossa
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Donald James
Jaden Kelly
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Justin McAlinden
Austin Gibson
Patrick Gomez
Bailey Holloway
Shaylee Huebbe
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Dominique Davenport
Rock Springs High
Jamon Boyd
Homeschooled
Lance Nooman
Homeschooled
Connor Pearrow
Homeschooled
Chris Beutel
Vestal, New York
Jackson Fennewald
Evanstan, WY
Tori Johnson
Riverton, WY
Shae Brenton
Mountain View High
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Homeschooled
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Mountain View High
Hunter Meeks
Mountain View High
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Landen Bradshaw
Nancy Campbell
Kristopher Coon
Erin Corun
Brandi Covolo
Traison Dunlap
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Jacob Harward
Kayla Hensen
Jake Hicks
Ashleigh Humphrey
Marina Jackson
Jessica Kunzler
Sarah Levine
Madison Moretti
Taylor Orton
Ashley Ott
Saylem Phillips
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Laurel Powers
Alyssa Rasmussen
Anna Robbins
Matthew Rutherford
Brandon Smith
Christopher Sorensen
Joshua Taylor
Travis Toomer
Cole Twitchell
Thomas Walker
Rachel Webb
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Bluemel, Eileen Bowers, Emily Bowers, Kaylee Clark, Talon Cook, Sabrina Glazner,
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