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February 29, 2016
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CHEYENNE (AP) — Top
Wyoming lawmakers say
they expect the Legislature
to wrap up its budget session this week. Yet, they say
the session will still leave
major unanswered questions facing the state,
including how to pay for
future school construction
in the face of evaporating
coal revenues and how to
address structural problems
at the crumbling
state penitentiary in Rawlins.
Legislative
leaders say they
expect both
houses to
approve a budget
Mead
bill and send it
to Gov. Matt
Mead early this week. Doing
so will afford him the
required few days to review
it and still allow the
Legislature time to consider
whether to override any possible veto and adjourn by
Friday.
The $3.3-billion general
appropriations bill calls for
1.5-percent reductions for
most state agencies over the
two-year budget cycle starting next July. The Wyoming
Department of Health
would not be subject to the
cuts.
House Appropriations
Committee Chairman Rep.
Steve Harshman, R-Casper,
said a conference committee
agreed on Friday to call for
cutting funding to the state’s
K-12 school program by 1.2
percent. He said the committee also agreed not to pursue cuts in school transportation funding, as the
House had voted earlier.
Harshman said the budget
bill would result in spending roughly $220 million out
of the state’s $1.8-billion
“rainy day” fund over the
coming two years. That figure includes $80 million for
school capital construction,
$105 million for local government spending and $36
million to account for other
spending.
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Training arms officers with tools to help mentally ill
BY ZACH SPADT
ZACH@THESHERIDANPRESS.COM
SHERIDAN — Area law enforcement members recently trained to help people suffering
from mental illnesses.
Crisis intervention training will help save
lives and better prepare law enforcement
members to work with people suffering from
mental illness, said Wendy Bruso, Sheridan
County Prevention Management Organization
of Wyoming Community prevention professional.
Nineteen dispatchers and officers from the
Sheridan Police Department, Sheriff County
Sheriff ’s Office and Wyoming Highway Patrol
completed the training.
SPD officer Katie Balthazar helped facilitate
the training and said it greatly helps law
enforcement deal with people who are strug-
gling through a mental health crisis.
“Safety is the first and foremost priority for
law enforcement,” Balthazar said. “People
don’t realize that suicide and self harming are
not crimes.”
Bruso said one out of every four people suffers from a mental illness, which could
include mood and thought disorders.
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‘Leg’-Mart’
growing on
Wyoming
lawmakers,
public
Love in Stitches
Group hosts blanket-making
event for kids in need
BY PHOEBE TOLLEFSON
PHOEBE@THESHERIDANPRESS.COM
SHERIDAN— Quilters and do-gooders gathered at a local
church on Saturday to make blankets for the Sheridan
County Sheriff ’s Office to give children during crisis situations.
“There’s always a need,” said Penny Covalt, president of
COURTESY PHOTOS |
Love In Stitches. “You know, we don’t have to look too far
Top: Gabbie Moore, center, and other volunteers help
to be able to find someone in need.”
Love In Stitches is a local nonprofit that makes quilts for piece together a blanket to be given to the Sheridan
County Sheriff’s Office.
children in the Sheridan area.
Above: Wendy Griffith and Riley Griffith work on a
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blanket together.
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CHEYENNE (AP) — With
its mirrored windows and
minimalist design, the
Jonah Business Center
looks like it should house a
telecommunications company or perhaps a medical
office.
For the time being, it’s the
State Capitol, Wyoming’s
version of the People’s
House.
Business of utmost importance occurs inside — the
creation of laws for citizens
to live by, the adoption of a
state budget.
But “State of Wyoming
Legislature” is listed fourth
on the Jonah Business
Center’s parking lot sign —
below Allstate, Cigna and
the Social Security
Administration.
For at least the next three
legislative sessions, the
Jonah Center will house the
Legislature, as the 125-yearold Wyoming State Capitol
and adjacent Herschler
Building undergo a $300 million restoration.
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With a rotunda made of
Tiffany-styled glass and
staircases lined with handcarved spindles, the Capitol
is steeped in history, architectural embellishments and
formality.
Jonah, with carpeted
floors and metal doors,
prizes function over style.
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2016
Wildlife secrets revealed with advanced tracking devices
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Solar-powered trackers on wings have
recorded California condors soaring to 15,000 feet, while locators
attached to humpback whales
have revealed 1,000-foot dives to
underwater mountains. And GPS
collars on Yellowstone grizzly
bears are giving new insights into
one of the most studied large carnivore populations in the world.
Technological advances in
recent years have allowed what
could be the most inquisitive
Earth dweller of them all,
humans, to invent ever more
ingenious tracking devices to find
out what their fellow inhabitants
are up to.
“It’s a large field that’s developing very fast,” said Alex Zerbini,
a research biologist with the
National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration’s
National Marine Mammal
Laboratory in Seattle. “There are
many types of tags being developed for many species of marine
animals.”
Scientists say the trove of information thanks to ever smaller,
tougher and more powerful tracking devices is leading to discoveries that could be used to make bet-
ter wildlife and habitat management decisions.
The devices are also revealing
the secret lives of hard-to-study
animals.
For example, Zerbini said, scientists recently discovered humpback whales diving to underwater
mountains on a regular basis, and
also making the dives during
migrations.
In Yellowstone National Park
and the surrounding area, more
sophisticated tracking devices on
grizzly bears are providing information, notably on their ability to
find food, that could be a factor in
whether Endangered Species Act
protections are lifted.
Scientists say whitebark pine, a
key grizzly bear food source, has
been diminishing due to insect
infestation, possibly due to global
warming. A recent study aimed at
finding out if grizzlies are finding
a replacement food source used
more advanced GPS collars that
could tell if a grizzly spending a
long time in a specific area was
guarding a dead carcass or napping.
“We were actually able to determine differences in the patterns
between those types of activities,”
said Frank van Manen, leader of
the Interagency Grizzly Bear
Study Team.
‘It’s always like that in
science. The more you know,
the more questions you have.
Which is good. Then you can
develop the technology
specifically to address your new
questions.’
Alex Zerbini
Research biologist,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s
National Marine Mammal Laboratory
The results, he said, suggest
grizzlies are relying more on carcasses and less on whitebark pine
in the fall when the tree produces
edible, high calorie seeds just as
the bears are trying to pack on
weight before hibernation.
New information is also revealing the nuances of how wildlife
interact with the environment.
California condors soar high and
land to feed on dead animals. But
why do they climb to nearly 3
miles above the Earth?
Tracking data shows that once
the condors attain a high altitude,
they take a long downhill glide,
sloping in a specific direction
toward a dead animal they’ve
already fed on or to an area they
have found dead animals in the
past. One condor made a 70-mile
flight, traveling 210 miles in a single day.
Joseph Brandt, a wildlife biologist with the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service at the Hopper
Mountain National Wildlife
Refuge in California, said wing
flapping is inefficient for the
birds that can weigh 25 pounds
and have wingspans of 10 feet.
Instead, they use rising currents
of heated air called thermals to
gain altitude.
Tracking the birds suggests that
flying conditions might be the primary factor dictating where condors live.
“Maybe they’re finding food
where the flying conditions are
best,” Brandt said.
He said the new tracking infor-
mation, along with meteorological data, is being used to create
maps of areas with weather conditions suitable for condors as
part of Fish and Wildlife’s plan to
continue recovery efforts of the
federally protected bird.
“We really see how the birds are
using the topography,” Brandt
said. “We compare wind conditions to see how the bird is reacting in that kind of 3-D world.”
Similar analysis involves how
the behavior of Steller sea lions
off Alaska is linked to ocean
cycles. Many species of birds
around the world are also being
tracked, including long-billed
curlews, and sage grouse in
Idaho.
The findings have led to more
questions. For example, after
learning that humpbacks dive to
underwater mountains, scientists
wanted to know why, Zerbini said.
Are they feeding? Are they socializing?
“It’s always like that in science,” he said. “The more you
know, the more questions you
have. Which is good. Then you
can develop the technology specifically to address your new questions.”
JENAE NEESON | THE SHERIDAN PRESS
Arts, crafts at the museum
Ava Hill participates in an activity at the Sheridan County Museum’s “Behind the Scenes Saturday” event
that took place over the weekend.
Vets of '05 Senate truce
don't see accord over court pick
WASHINGTON (AP) — With ideological
control of the Supreme Court at stake and
senators trading insults, lawmakers who
helped the Senate avert a meltdown over
judges a decade ago say today's political climate is too toxic for a bipartisan pact to
replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia.
President Barack Obama has not
announced a pick, yet nearly all the
Senate's majority Republicans seem dug in,
at least for now, against even meeting with
his nominee this election year, let alone
confirming one. Democrats are adamant
about trying to topple the blockade led by
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell,
R-Ky., or trying to make the GOP suffer in
November's voting, and the rhetoric
reflects the issue's intensity.
“Senate Republicans are giving a middle
finger to the American people, and they're
giving a middle finger to this president,”
said Sen. Christopher Murphy, D-Conn.
Here's a look at the atmosphere on
Capitol Hill as the Senate begins Week II of
its battle over filling a vacancy that would
tip the court's 4-4 balance. But first, a look
back at:
THE GANG OF 14
In 2005, Senate Democrats were in the
minority and blocking final votes on a
batch of President George W. Bush's judicial nominees.
SEE ACCORD, PAGE 4
Casper man
sentenced on
federal sex
charge
CASPER (AP) — A 22-year-old Casper
man accused of driving to California to
pick up a teenage runaway has been sentenced to five months in prison on a federal sex charge.
The Casper Star-Tribune reports that
Luke Horneck was sentenced last week
after pleading guilty to traveling with the
intent to engage in illegal sexual conduct.
The case began in September when
Casper police responded to a call from a
California man who told them a 15-yearold girl had run away and she might be
with Horneck in the Casper area. Police
later found Horneck and the girl at a
hotel.
Court documents say Horneck told
authorities he knew the girl was a runaway and that he wanted to remove her
from a "bad family situation."
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LAST WEEK: Some questions still unanswered
Speaker Kermit Brown, RLaramie. “Whatever else we get
Wyoming's budget process
done is just gravy. But we're
this year is more complicated
here for the budget session.”
than usual. In addition to the
Wyoming in recent years has
general appropriations bill, the spent billions from federal
Legislature is moving separate
bonus payments from coal leasbills for other aspects of state
es to fund school construction.
spending including capital con- However, state revenue analysts
struction, local government
say that money is drying up in
funding and appropriation of
the face of lower demand for
federal Abandoned Mine Lands coal.
funds.
Brown said he doesn't know
The decision by legislative
where the state will find longleaders to run the several sepa- term funding for school conrate spending bills followed
struction. “I guess we need to
complaints last year that the
continue building schools, but
2015 supplemental budget bill
doggone it, everybody's feeling
included funding for several
the pinch, and I don't think the
projects that weren't ordinary
schools get a bye on that,” he
expenses for the state as the
said.
state Constitution required.
In addition to uncertainty
Wednesday is the last day for
about school funding, both
final votes on bills in the House Brown and Senate President
and the Senate and Thursday is Phil Nicholas, R-Laramie, said
the last day for concurrence on they're concerned about the
conference committee reports.
future of the state penitentiary.
“We've got to get the reconciliRobert Lampert, director of
ation done on the budget, that's the Wyoming Department of
my primary focus,” said House Corrections, told lawmakers
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this month that fixing structural problems at the penitentiary
will cost $85 million.
Consultants say improper construction techniques resulted
in heaving floors and cracking
walls at the 15-year-old prison.
The state had to abandon an
earlier prison nearby because
of similar problems.
The pending general appropriations bill includes over $7
million for emergency work to
shore up an electrical utility
room and a gymnasium roof.
“The one that probably worries me more than anything is
that prison, that's a real wild
card out there,” Brown said.
Nicholas is pushing a bill to
create a legislative task force to
monitor the situation at the
penitentiary. “We've now had
two chances at building the
prison at Rawlins,” he said.
“They've both failed, and it certainly is nonsensical to take a
third try at it without knowing
that we're going to have 100 percent success.”
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Sheridan Memorial Hospital Administrator Rob Forister works to console Sheridan theater student
Dawson Hutzenbieler, who acts as an emergency room patient, Friday. The role-playing training was
the culmination of a week-long crisis intervention training in which local law enforcement participated last week.
TOOLS: Ongoing training also planned
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“We need to get them the
help they need,” Bruso said.
She added that the training helps law enforcement
officers put themselves in
someone else’s shoes.
The program also included a collaborative effort
between emergency room
nurses, mental health professionals and dispatchers.
In the 1,500 hours trainees
spend at the Wyoming Law
Enforcement Academy in
Douglas, only four are spent
focusing on people who are
going through a mental
health crisis.
“It’s what you learn on the
street, to be honest. (This
training) lets you see how
the pros will say things,”
Balthazar said.
Former Sheridan Mayor
Jim Wilson role-played a
man with dementia during
the training. Wilson was
dismayed that police
trainees spend little time on
mental health issues, but
added he is pleased that’s
changing.
“We used to just throw
them in jail,” Wilson said of
people suffering from men-
tal illnesses.
Bruso said law enforcement members who went
through the training said it
would shape 90 percent of
how they perform their
jobs.
It will also help people
stay out of jail and prevent
incidents from escalating to
violence.
Sheridan City Councilor
Alex Lee presented the program’s graduates with their
pins, which commemorate
the training. Speaking at
the ceremony, Lee said the
added training will make
Sheridan a better place to
live.
SPD Officer Howie
Fitzpatrick also helped facilitate the program. He
echoed sentiment that it
will aid law enforcement in
helping people dealing with
a crisis.
“We’re more than just
someone with a badge and a
gun,” Fitzpatrick said.
Before the graduation ceremony, military veterans
who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder
addressed the class and
fielded questions from law
enforcement.
U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class
Jeremiah Gorsuch told
attendees that police dealing with veterans suffering
from PTSD would benefit
from mentioning that
they’re veterans, if that’s
the case.
“It’s a brotherhood,”
Gorsuch said.
Approaching from the
front and acting in a calm
manner also helps de-escalate incidents involving
someone with PTSD. Most
importantly, avoid any surprises, Gorsuch said.
With local law enforcement now equipped to better deal with — and, more
importantly, help — people
suffering from a mental
health crisis, Bruso said she
is pleased.
But more can still be done,
she said, and added that she
hopes area law enforcement
will be able to participate in
the class twice a year, once
in the spring and in the fall.
This week, Bruso added,
law enforcement will be
shadowing emergency room
nurses. When she found that
out, Bruso was ecstatic.
“It made my week,” she
said.
Gun bill dies in Wyoming Senate
CHEYENNE (AP) — A bill that would
have allowed residents to carry concealed
firearms to state or local government meetings had died without getting a vote in the
state Senate.
House Bill 86, which passed the House
earlier on a 50-10 vote, failed to meet a legislative deadline requiring bills to be voted
out of committee by the end of the day
Friday.
The Wyoming Tribune Eagle reports that
the proposal was the only bill introduced
this legislative session that sought to
expand when and where residents can
carry guns.
It would have repealed the state's prohibition preventing gun owners from carrying
concealed firearms into government meetings, such as city council meetings or legislative hearings.
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ACCORD: Stakes are far higher in 2016
already a hot-button dispute
that could affect this fall's
Though none of the openpresidential and congresings were on the Supreme
sional elections.
Court, Majority Leader Bill
“The atmosphere is too
Frist, R-Tenn., was threaten- poisonous on all sides,” Sen.
ing to unilaterally change
John McCain, R-Ariz., one of
Senate rules so Democrats
three remaining Gang of 14
couldn't filibuster Bush's
members, said last week.
selections with procedural
“There was more of an envidelays. With Democratic
ronment of working togethleaders not backing down,
er.”
the standoff threatened to
Gone are Gang of 14 stalend all traces of cooperation warts like the late Robert
between the two parties and Byrd, D-W.Va., and John
derail virtually all legislaWarner, R-Va., defenders of
tion.
the chamber's tradition of
Moderate, rank-and-file
comity. Also gone are senasenators, seven from each
tors who had electoral motiparty, formed an informal
vation to compromise,
“Gang of 14.” The group had including Democrats from
enough votes to force a midGOP states such as Mary
dle ground — no rule
Landrieu of Louisiana and
changes by Republicans, and Mark Pryor of Arkansas,
no unreasonable filibusters
plus Republican Lincoln
by Democrats.
Chafee of Democratic Rhode
Island. Chafee eventually
CAN THAT HAPPEN IN 2016? became a Democrat.
“That attitude has been
Hard to see it.
replaced, in many ways on
This year the stakes are far both sides, by sort of the
higher, with the highest
House's attitude of, 'What
court's philosophical leancan we do to get one more
ings in play and the issue
marble than those guys,’”
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said Sen. Lindsey Graham,
R-S.C., referencing the typically combative tactics of
that chamber. Graham and
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine,
are the only other members
of the group remaining in
the Senate.
This time, McCain and
Graham are backing the
GOP to thwart any Obama
pick. Collins favors holding
committee hearings on a
nominee.
Former Sen. Ben Nelson,
D-Neb., who was part of the
Gang of 14, cites
Republicans' “anti-President
Obama mood” and distrust
between the two sides but
said both parties cause problems.
“When one has the halo,
the other has the pitchfork,”
Nelson said.
Pryor doesn't rule out a
breakthrough but said, “We
thought it was a fairly toxic
political climate then, but
it's worse today, and there
aren't as many moderates.”
THE DEBATE, NOT ALWAYS
POLITE
One reflection of this
struggle's magnitude is the
willingness of Senate lions
to verbally assault each
other in deeply personal
ways.
Last Wednesday, Senate
Minority Leader Harry Reid,
D-Nev., targeted Senate
Judiciary Committee
Chairman Charles Grassley,
R-Iowa, after Grassley and
the panel's 10 other
Republicans signed a letter
saying they would hold no
hearings on a nominee until
the next president makes a
selection.
On the Senate floor, Reid,
76, accused the 82-year-old
Grassley of “ineptness” and
suggested he'd be remembered as “the least productive Judiciary chairman in
history.”
Grassley took to the Senate
floor to describe "the tremendous damage" Reid inflicted
in 2013 when Democrats
muscled through Senate rule
changes making it easier to
confirm lower-court judges.
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Waiting for the WYO Rodeo
Fans wait in line Friday morning for tickets to the Sheridan WYO Rodeo to go on sale.
Casper woman pleads
not guilty to attempted murder
CASPER (AP) — A Casper woman
accused of shooting her husband in
the chest has pleaded not guilty to
attempted murder.
The Casper Star-Tribune reports
that Dana Miller also entered not
guilty pleas Friday to aggravated
assault and possession of a deadly
weapon in connection with the Jan. 3
incident.
Miller had called 911 to report that
she shot her husband, Dustin Edward
Baer, inside their Casper apartment.
Baer suffered a collapsed lung and a
severed artery in his neck.
Miller has said she shot her husband
accidentally after Baer became drunk
and started calling her insulting
names.
Baer allegedly told police he had
retrieved the gun and had given it to
Miller when she asked for it.
NEW LITTLE FACES • NOVEMBER 2015
EMERSYN JOYCE LUCAS
Born: 11-2-15 6 lbs., 13 oz.
MAZIK ALEXANDER TAMEZ
Born: 11-2-15 9 lbs., 1 oz.
TAIT MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ
Born: 11-5-15 7 lbs., 3 oz.
CARLOS JOSE LEPE-SCHMIT
Born: 11-9-15 6 lbs., 5 oz.
DALTON JAXSON VAN NORTRICK
Born: 11-9-15 8 lbs, 6 oz.
LILLI-JO RUTH SELF
Born: 11-10-15 7 lbs., 12 oz.
MIRABELLA ALIA SANCHEZ
Born: 11-12-15 6 lbs., 2 oz.
SALAR AHMED KHAN
Born: 11-12-15 4 lbs., 14 oz.
OSIRIS DOMINIC FIFE
Born: 11-13-15 6 lbs., 12 oz.
BRAYDEN CHRISTOPHER KOUDELKA
Born: 11-13-15 6 lbs., 10 oz.
NORA CATHERINE KERNS
Born: 11-15-15 7 lbs., 4 oz.
NATALYNN SHEILA ROMERO
Born: 11-16-15 7 lbs., 1 oz.
IAN BLAIR REICHERT
Born: 11-18-15 8 lbs., 8 oz.
MADELYN JOANN WALTERS
Born: 11-18-15 6 lbs., 14 oz.
ROWAN ALLAN SMITH
Born: 11-19-15 8 lbs., 6 oz.
SAIGE NOEL MYERS
Born: 11-19-15 7 lbs., 6 oz.
ABRAHAM ALAN DEROCHER
Born: 11-23-15 6 lbs., 14 oz.
JAYDEN DANIEL LEE
Born: 11-25-15 6 lbs., 11 oz.
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BRODY LAWRENCE BUSKIRK
Born: 11-25-15 9 lbs., 2 oz.
LUCCA CHRISTOPHER GIUSEPPE STOPANI
Born: 11-26-15 6 lbs., 8 oz.
ROWAN T’AIR SAYER
Born: 11-28-15 7 lbs., 11 oz.
PEOPLE
UW students
to present
results of
international
fieldwork
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Library to host screening of ‘The Messenger’ on Saturday
FROM STAFF REPORTS
SHERIDAN — Sheridan County Fulmer
Public Library, in cooperation with the
Bighorn Chapter of the Audubon Society, will
host a free public screening of the new documentary “The Messenger” on Saturday at 1
p.m. in the Inner Circle.
Su Rynard’s wide-ranging and contemplative
documentary “The Messenger” explores our
deep-seated connection to birds and warns
that the uncertain fate of songbirds might
mirror our own. Moving from the northern
reaches of the Boreal Forest to the base of
Mount Ararat in Turkey to the urban streets
of New York, “The Messenger” brings us faceto-face with a remarkable variety of humanmade perils that have devastated thrushes,
warblers, orioles, tanagers, grosbeaks and
many other airborne music-makers. These
include hunting, light pollution, high-rise collisions, pipelines, pesticides and loss of migratory habitats.
“The Messenger” is the artful story about
the mass depletion of songbirds on multiple
continents, and about those who are working
to turn the tide. According to international
expert Dr. Bridget Stutchbury, who is featured
in the documentary, we may have lost almost
half the songbirds that filled the skies 50
years ago. The Messenger won Best
Conservation Program at the 2015 Jackson
Hole Film Festival.
Following the film, Jackie Canterbury of the
Bighorn Chapter of the Audubon Society,
Sarah Mentock of Science Kids, Colin Betzler
of the Sheridan Community Land Trust and
Rick Pallister of the Nature Conservancy will
generate ideas and actions that can be taken
locally to develop a more “bird-friendly” community. Refreshments will be provided.
The Sheridan County Fulmer Public Library
is located at 335 W. Alger St.
FROM STAFF REPORTS
SHERIDAN — Three
University of Wyoming students will visit Sheridan to
present results of their
international fieldwork.
The students will make
presentations at the
Sheridan County Fulmer
Public Library Thursday at
6 p.m.
The presentations are free
and open to the public.
The students will discuss
their independent research
conducted abroad as part of
the “What in the World?”
program. The program
highlights the varied fieldwork that UW students complete for their degrees.
The presentations will
include:
• Lindsey Ehinger, of
Jackson, “Kyrgyzstan’s
Community-Based
Tourism.” She is a master’s
candidate in international
studies in the Global and
Area Studies Program.
• BJ Bender, of Lake
Forest, California,
“Managing Resources from
Wyoming to Patagonia.” He
is a senior majoring in
rangeland ecology and
watershed management,
and environment and natural resources.
• Guy Litt, of Lancaster,
Ohio, “Panama Canal
Watershed Management.”
He is a Ph.D. candidate in
hydrology in the
Department of Civil and
Architectural Engineering.
The program is sponsored
by UW’s Center for Global
Studies, UW’s Global and
Area Studies Program, the
Wyoming Humanities
Council, the UW Foundation
and Laramie County
Library, with additional support from the Ruth R.
Ellbogen Foundation.
For more information,
contact Center for Global
Studies Director Jean
Garrison at 766-6119 or
emailgarrison@uwyo.edu.
The Sheridan County
Fulmer Public Library is
located at 335 W. Alger St.
Paint
projects
at the
museum
Juliann and Mary
Amends participate
in a children’s activity Saturday at the
Sheridan County
Museum as part of
the “Behind the
Scenes Saturday”
event.
JENAE NEESON |
THE SHERIDAN PRESS
Thrivent Financial gifts $50,000 to Habitat for Humanity program
FROM STAFF REPORTS
SHERIDAN — Thrivent Financial recently
announced a gift to Habitat for Humanity of
the Eastern Bighorns of $50,000 to support the
Thrivent Builds with Habitat for Humanity
program.
The program is an ongoing multi-year,
multi-million dollar partnership between
Habitat for Humanity International and
Thrivent Financial, which helps create safe,
decent, affordable housing across the globe.
Locally, the program will fund the construc-
tion of one home in Sheridan to be completed
in 2016.
“It is inspiring to work alongside Habitat
families, Thrivent members and others to
build and repair homes,” said Shelley Born a
financial representative with Thrivent
Financial. “Sharing our time and talents helps
us live generously and strengthen our community.”
Thrivent Financial is committing $12 million nationally to the 2016 partnership, which
will be used to serve families and mobilize volunteers through three programs: Thrivent
College to host FFA Border Wars on Tuesday
FROM STAFF REPORTS
SHERIDAN — Sheridan College will host the FFA Border
Wars competition and awards ceremony Tuesday.
The event brings in high school FFA members from
Montana, South Dakota and Wyoming for a day of competition on projects and knowledge related to agriculture
sales, environment, natural resources and horse judging.
The awards ceremony will take place from 2-2:30 p.m. at
the Thorne-Rider Campus Center.
For additional information, contact Keith Klement at
674-6446, ext. 3515.
Sheridan College is located at 3059 Coffeen Ave.
Academy Awards take on issues beyond #OscarsSoWhite
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hollywood's diversity crisis has
loomed large over awards season and the big question
going into the 88th annual Academy Awards was whether
it would dominate the ceremony, too. It did, of course, but
it wasn't alone.
The evening turned out to be a platform not just for
racial representation in the movies, led by host Chris
Rock's incisive insight and parody, but a wide array of
causes, from global warming and bank reform to sexual
abuse in church and on campus. It was a subtle plea from
the film community that the movies and artists honored at
Sunday night's ceremony did have purpose and meaning —
even in this second year of #OscarsSoWhite.
The “Spotlight” team, which won the first and last prize
of the night — best original screenplay and best picture —
and nothing else, celebrated the Pulitzer Prize-winning
work of The Boston Globe journalists who exposed sex
abuses in the Roman Catholic Church and the conversation the film has renewed around the world.
Leonardo DiCaprio, the forgone best-actor winner for
“The Revenant,” used the platform to talk about his life's
passion outside of acting — climate change, which got a
“thank you” from the official White House Instagram
account.
Adam McKay and Charlies Randolph, who won for best
adapted screenplay for “The Big Short,” spoke about the
need for finance reform.
And Pakistani director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, whose
“A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness” spoke to
the impact of her film.
Builds Homes, Thrivent Builds Repairs and
Thrivent Builds Worldwide.
Since the national partnership’s inception in
2005, Thrivent Financial and its members have
committed $226 million and 4.7 million volunteer hours around the world.
“We are extremely grateful to Thrivent
Financial and its members for their continued
support of Habitat for Humanity,” said
Christine Christopherson of Habitat for
Humanity of the Eastern Bighorns. “Because
of this generosity, a Sheridan family will have
a safe, affordable place to call home.”
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TODAY IN HISTORY |
10 things to
know today
FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Your daily look at latebreaking news, upcoming
events and the stories that
will be talked about today:
1. WHITE SUPREMACIST
FEUD ERUPTS AS GOP
FIGHTS TRUMP
The new focus comes as
the billionaire businessman's rivals acknowledge
that time is running out to
prevent him from becoming
the Republican Party's presumptive nominee.
2. WHOSE CAREER HAS
PLENTY FOR FANS AND
FOES TO LOVE, HATE
Donald Trump's business
record gives Super Tuesday
voters inclined to praise or
condemn his boardroom
bona fides a way to support
either view.
3. ACADEMY AWARDS TAKE
ON ISSUES BEYOND
#OSCARSSOWHITE
The ceremony turns out to
be a platform not just for
racial representation, led by
host Chris Rock's insight
and parody, but a wide
array of causes, from global
warming to sexual abuse.
4. NORTH KOREA PUTS
TEARFUL DETAINED
AMERICAN BEFORE
CAMERAS
Otto Warmbier, who is a
University of Virginia student, says he tried to steal a
political banner as a “trophy” for a church back
home.
5. WHY WOUNDED
PERUVIAN DRUG COP IS
STRUGGLING
What gnaws at Sgt.
Johnny Vega most is a sense
of futility: With him out of
commission, the traffickers
have won.
6. WHY HAWAII IS
WORRIED ABOUT ZIKA
Its anti-pesticide sentiment, tropical conditions
and understaffing in the
Department of Health
might undermine efforts to
prevent the spread of the
virus linked to birth defects.
7. FOR IRANIAN
RESTAURANTS IN SAUDI,
IT'S BUSINESS AS USUAL
Iranian eateries in Riyadh
are outselling calls for a
boycott, serving as a
reminder of the deep historic links between the two
countries.
8. VETS OF '05 SENATE
TRUCE DON'T SEE ACCORD
OVER COURT PICK
They say that today's political climate is too toxic for a
bipartisan pact that would
lead to a replacement for
the late Justice Antonin
Scalia.
9. NAVY SEAL TO RECEIVE
MEDAL OF HONOR
Obama is set to award the
nation's highest military
honor to Edward Byers who
helped rescue an American
hostage in December 2012.
10. COSBY'S LAWYERS
SEEKING TO DISMISS
MODEL'S DEFAMATION
CASE
Janice Dickinson sued the
comedian in May over his
denial of her claims that he
drugged and raped her in
Lake Tahoe in 1982.
JENAE NEESON | THE SHERIDAN PRESS
Leading the team
Dr. Eric Richards, director of Band and Jazz Studies at Sheridan College, leads the musicians at the Mars Theater inside the
WYO Theater Tuesday night. The evening, “Jazz on Mars,” featured four ensembles of jazz musicians — Sheridan High School’s
jazz band, a quartet, a trio of Sheridan College faculty and a sextet of SC faculty and students.
LOCAL BRIEFS |
FROM STAFF REPORTS
Republican Women to gather
Tuesday
SHERIDAN — The Republican Women of
Sheridan County and guests will gather on “Super
Tuesday,” March 1, at 11:45 a.m. for lunch at the
Best Western Sheridan Center.
Alan Weakly, vice president of the Sheridan
County Republican Party, will present “Elections
— Selections! Making sense of the process.”
Melinda Brennan, scholarship chair, will also
report on the scholarship available to a registered
Republican woman 18 years of age or older.
Joy Miller, current holder of the “red boot,” a
new tradition of the club, will share some of her
life experience and give another member “the
boot” for the next meeting.
Reservations for the event should be made by
emailing or calling Anita Schamber, club president at anitaschamber@gmail.com or 763-4631.
The Best Western Sheridan Center is located at
612 N. Main St.
‘Jentel Presents’ set for Tuesday
SHERIDAN — The Jentel Artist Residency
Program will host the next “Jentel Presents”
Tuesday from 5:30-7 p.m. at the Sagebrush
Community Art Center.
The program is free and open to all members of
the community. Light refreshments will be available.
This month’s presenters include acrylic painter
Anthony Pinata, of Alameda, California; social
practice artist Renee Piechocki, of Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania; touring rock/metal musician, published poet/novelist, actor and screenwriter VK
Lynne, of North Hollywood, California; multimedia artist Madelin Coit, of Santa Fe, New Mexico;
novelist Caroline Walker, of Rock Island, Illinois;
and oil painter Justin Lee Hoekstra, of Baltimore,
Maryland.
“Jentel Presents” is a community outreach program that features visual presentations and readings by the visual artists and writers at the residency.
For more information, see www.jentelarts.org or
call Jentel at 737-2311.
The Sagebrush Community Art Center is located
at 201 E. Fifth St.
VA to host veterans art exhibit
SHERIDAN — The Sheridan Veterans Affairs
Medical Center’s annual Creative Arts
Competition Exhibit will be on display Wednesday
from noon to 6 p.m. in the VAMC’s auditorium.
Throughout the country each year, veteran
patients compete in the creative arts competition
at the local VA medical centers. Any veteran registered with the hospital is eligible to submit work
— art, creative writing, drama, dance, music or
other forms.
The Wednesday event is open to the public to
enjoy the artistic talents of local veterans.
For additional information, contact Jackie Van
Mark at 675-3959.
The Sheridan VAMC is located at 1898 Fort Road.
Senior Center to host presentation
on flavoring your food
SHERIDAN — Registered dietitian Georgia
Boley will present “Savor the flavor of eating
right,” for the next edition of the Sheridan Senior
Center’s “When I’m 64 or more...” life planning lecture series.
On Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. at the center, Boley will
discuss tips for flavoring your food with alternatives to salt.
The presentation is free and open to all ages.
For additional information, contact Lois Bell at
672-2240.
The Sheridan Senior Center is located at 211
Smith St.
TUESDAY EVENTS |
• 11:45 a.m., Republican Women of Sheridan County meeting, Best Western Sheridan Center, 612 N.
Main St.
• 2 p.m., Counseling in overcoming painful emotions program, Frackelton’s, 55 N. Main St.
• 5:30 p.m., Jentel Presents, Sagebrush Community Art Center, 201 E. Fifth St.
• 5:30 p.m., “Savor the flavor of eating right” presentation, Sheridan Senior Center, 211 Smith St.
TIPPED OVER |
Tony Burton, cornerman-trainer in 6
'Rocky' films, has died
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tony Burton, a veteran
character actor best known for brief but memorable turns as a tough, no-nonsense trainer and
cornerman in Sylvester Stallone's first six
“Rocky” films, has died at age 78.
Burton died of pneumonia Thursday at a
Southern California hospital, his wife, Aurelain
“Rae” Burton, said Friday.
Failing health had prevented him from appearing in “Creed,” the seventh “Rocky” movie and the
one for which Stallone is nominated for a best supporting actor Oscar at Sunday's Academy Awards.
“People would always ask him, 'What's Sylvester
Stallone like,’” his wife recalled with a chuckle.
“He'd just say, 'Sylvester's a nice guy.' That's all he'd
ever say.”
Burton, a former boxer himself, had a long
career as a character actor.
He appeared in “The Shining” and “Stir Crazy”
and was one of the ballplayers in the 1976 film
“The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor
Kings.”
He was a regular in the television series
“Frank's Place” and appeared in “Chicago Hope,”
“The Rockford Files” and “Sanford and Son.”
His last major film was 2006's “Rocky Balboa,” in
which he prepares the nearly 60-year-old Rocky
Balboa character played by Stallone for an exhibition against the current champion, telling Balboa
to “bring some hurtin' bombs.”
In the first two Rocky films, his character, Tony
“Duke” Evers, was trainer and manager to Rocky's
world-champion opponent, Apollo Creed, played by
Carl Weathers.
In “Rocky II,” Burton tries to talk the champion,
who barely won that first fight, out of giving
Balboa a rematch.
“He's all wrong for us, baby,” his character says.
“I saw you beat that man like I never saw no man
get beat before and the man kept coming after you.
... Let it go.”
Born and raised in Flint, Michigan, Burton was
a top Golden Gloves boxer in his youth and had a
brief professional boxing career.
In addition to his wife of 36 years, he is survived
by his son, Jomo and daughters Juanita and
Christal. Another son, Martin, preceded him in
death.
Funeral services are pending.
Today's Highlight in
History:
On Feb. 29, 1916, singer,
actress and TV personality
Dinah Shore was born Frances
Rose Shore in Winchester,
Tennessee. (Shore, who
claimed March 1, 1917 as her
birthdate, died in 1994 just
days before she would have
turned 78.)
On this date:
In 1504, Christopher
Columbus, stranded in
Jamaica during his fourth voyage to the West, used a correctly predicted lunar eclipse to
frighten hostile natives into
providing food for his crew.
In 1796, President George
Washington proclaimed Jay's
Treaty, which settled some outstanding differences with
Britain, in effect.
In 1892, the United States
and Britain agreed to submit
to arbitration their dispute
over seal-hunting rights in the
Bering Sea. (A commission
later ruled in favor of Britain.)
In 1904, President Theodore
Roosevelt appointed a sevenmember commission to facilitate completion of the Panama
Canal.
In 1936, President Franklin
D. Roosevelt signed a second
Neutrality Act as he appealed
to American businesses not to
increase exports to belligerents.
In 1956, President Dwight D.
Eisenhower announced he
would seek a second term of
office. Serial killer Aileen
Wuornos was born in
Rochester, Michigan (she was
executed by the state of
Florida in 2002).
In 1960, the first Playboy
Club, featuring waitresses clad
in “bunny” outfits, opened in
Chicago.
In 1968, President Lyndon
B. Johnson's National
Advisory Commission on Civil
Disorders (also known as the
Kerner Commission) warned
that racism was causing
America to move “toward two
societies, one black, one white
— separate and unequal.” The
discovery of a “pulsar,” a star
which emits regular radio
waves, was announced by Dr.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell in
Cambridge, England.
In 1980, former Israeli foreign minister Yigal Allon, who
had played an important role
in the Jewish state's fight for
independence, died at age 61.
In 1984, Canadian Prime
Minister Pierre Elliott
Trudeau announced he was
stepping down after more than
15 combined years in power.
In 1996, Daniel Green was
convicted in Lumberton,
North Carolina, of murdering
James R. Jordan, the father of
basketball star Michael
Jordan, during a 1993 roadside
holdup. (Green and an accomplice, Larry Martin Demery,
were sentenced to life in
prison.)
Twelve years ago (2004):
Facing rebellion, Haitian
President Jean-Bertrand
Aristide resigned and left for
exile in the Central African
Republic. (Aristide returned to
Haiti in March 2011.)
Eight years ago (2008):
Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama accused
rival Hillary Rodham Clinton
of trying to “play on people's
fears to scare up votes” with a
TV ad showing sleeping children and asking who would be
more qualified to answer a
national security emergency
call at 3 a.m.
Four years ago (2012):
Violent weather packing tornadoes continued to ravage the
Midwest and South, resulting
in some 15 deaths. Davy Jones,
66, the heartthrob singer who
helped propel the made-for-TV
rock band The Monkees to the
top of the pop charts, died in
Stuart, Florida.
Thought for Today:
“Trouble is a part of your life
— if you don't share it, you
don't give the person who loves
you a chance to love you
enough.” — Dinah Shore (19161994).
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ALMANAC
REPORTS |
ROCKY MOUNTAIN
AMBULANCE
Friday-Sunday
• No reports available at
press time.
SHERIDAN
MEMORIAL
HOSPITAL
Friday- Sunday
• No admissions or dismissals reported.
SHERIDAN
POLICE
DEPARTMENT
Information in the
police reports is taken
from the SPD website.
Friday
• Domestic, East Heald
Street, 12:11 a.m.
• Illegal parking, Alger
Avenue, 3:23 a.m.
• Barking dog, Ridgeway
Avenue, 3:37 a.m.
• Illegal parking, West
Alger Avenue, 4:32 a.m.
• Hit and run, South
Thurmond Street, 6:50
a.m.
• Theft (cold), West 15th
Street, 8:14 a.m.
• Malicious mischief,
West 14th Street, 8:36 a.m.
• Animal dead, East
Brundage Lane, 9:21 a.m.
• Littering, Coffeen
Avenue, 9:49 a.m.
• Shoplifting, Coffeen
Avenue, 10:27 a.m.
• Dog bite, West Works
Street, 11:04 a.m.
• Juvenile out of control, North Main Street,
11:24 a.m.
• DUI (citizen report),
North Main Street, 12:19
p.m.
• Vehicle identification
number inspection, West
12th Street, 12:51 p.m.
• VIN inspection, West
• Damaged property,
Demple Street, 1:26 p.m.
• Animal found,
Mydland Road, 2:16 p.m.
• Accident, North Main
Street, 2:35 p.m.
• Lost property,
Sheridan area, 3 p.m.
• Cat violation,
Gladstone Street, 4:08 p.m.
• Cat trap, Gladstone
Street, 4:34 p.m.
South Sheridan Avenue,
5:02 p.m.
• Suspicious circumstance, West Fifth Street,
6:18 p.m.
• 911 hang-up, North
Main Street, 6:48 p.m.
• Warrant service, West
• Minor in possession,
Long Drive, 8:58 p.m.
• Bar check, Sheridan
area, 8:59 p.m.
• Suspicious circumstance, Coffeen Avenue,
9:54 p.m.
• Drug, North Main
Street, 10:08 p.m.
• Dispute, Long Drive,
10:26 p.m.
• DUI, Coffeen Avenue,
10:57 p.m.
• Suspicious circumstance, Broadway Street,
11:41 p.m.
Saturday
• Noise complaint, Avon
Street, 1:05 p.m.
• Suspicious circumstance, West Brundage
Street, 2:03 a.m.
• Suspicious circumstance, North Main Street,
6:35 a.m.
• Burglar alarm, Avon
Street, 8:37 a.m.
• Medical, West Loucks
Street, 8:40 a.m.
• Reckless driver,
Coffeen Avenue, 8:44 a.m.
• Burglary (cold), East
Loucks Street, 9:24 a.m.
• Animal injured,
Grinnell Plaza, 10:13 a.m.
• Mental subject,
Coffeen Avenue, 10:25 a.m.
• Accident with injury,
Highway 14A, 10:44 a.m.
• Dog at large, East
Seymour Street, 10:45 a.m.
• Dog at large, North
Main Street, 11:05 a.m.
• Juvenile out of control, Sheridan area, 11:20
a.m.
• Shoplifting, Coffeen
Avenue, 11:40 a.m.
• Dog at large, North
Park, 1:37 p.m.
• Agency assist,
Interstate 90 eastbound,
2:24 p.m.
• Accident, East Loucks
Street, 3:06 p.m.
• Dog at large, Sheridan
area, 3:13 p.m.
• Suspicious circumstance, East Loucks
Street, 3:34 p.m.
• Medical, North Main
Street, 6:07 p.m.
• Welfare check, West
Fifth Street, 7:49 p.m.
• Bar check, North Main
Street, 8:08 p.m.
• Suspicious circumstance, Coffeen Avenue,
8:50 p.m.
• Child abuse (cold),
West Fifth Street, 9:06 p.m.
• Found property,
Mydland Road, 9:11 p.m.
• Death notification,
Parker Avenue, 9:14 p.m.
• Accident, East
Brundage Lane, 9:28 p.m.
• Bar check, North Main
Street, 9:52 p.m.
• Bar check, Sugarland
Drive, 9:56 p.m.
• DUI, South Main
Street, 9:59 p.m.
Sunday
• Bar check, Broadway
Street, 12:26 a.m.
• Barking dog, Parker
Avenue, 12:47 a.m.
• Bar check, Broadway
Street, 12:55 a.m.
• Littering, Coffeen
Avenue, 1:13 a.m.
• Welfare check, Big
Horn Avenue, 8:50 a.m.
• Suspicious circumstance, Skeels Street, 9:40
a.m.
• Animal found, West
Fifth Street, 9:41 a.m.
• Welfare check, Long
Drive, 9:49 a.m.
• Animal found, Laclede
Street, 10:15 a.m.
• Dog at large, South
Sheridan Avenue, 10:39
a.m.
• Driving under suspension, Sugarland Drive,
10:51 a.m.
• Animal found, Marion
Street, 10:57 a.m.
• Drug, North Main
Street, 11:39 a.m.
• Parking complaint,
South Thurmond Street,
12:44 p.m.
• Dog at large, Sheridan
area, 12:49 p.m.
• Dog at large, Coffeen
Avenue, 1:06 p.m.
• Dog at large, Sumner
Street, 1:58 p.m.
• Careless driver,
Sheridan area, 2:33 p.m.
• Motorist assist, West
Burkitt Street, 3:30 p.m.
• Animal found, Yonkee
Avenue, 3:48 p.m.
• Neighbor dispute,
Gladstone Street, 5:03 p.m.
• Warrant service,
Nebraska Street, 5:24 p.m.
• Welfare check, East
Ninth Street, 6:03 p.m.
• Dog at large, Illinois
Street, 6:24 p.m.
• Suicidal subject,
Pinyon Place, 6:35 p.m.
• Threats (cold),
Saberton Avenue, 8:21
p.m.
• Suicidal subject, North
Custer Street, 9:13 p.m.
• Noise complaint, Val
Vista Street, 9:16 p.m.
• Battery (cold), North
Carlin Street, 9:48 p.m.
• Suspicious circumstance, Sheridan area,
11:23 p.m.
Way, 6:54 a.m.
• Hit and run, Upper
Road, 7:44 a.m.
• Agency assist, Coffeen
Avenue, 8:51 a.m.
• Theft from auto,
Prairie Hills Lane,
Banner, 10:09 a.m.
• Agency assist, Coffeen
Avenue, 10:43 a.m.
• Trespassing, River
Road, Ranchester, 3:57
p.m.
• Accident, Paradise
Park Road, 7:06 p.m.
• Family dispute, Wagon
Box Road, Banner, 11:06
p.m.
Sunday
Highway 343 and Highway
14 West, Dayton, 12:25 a.m.
SHERIDAN COUNTY
SHERIFF’S OFFICE
Friday
• Violation of restraining order, West Fifth
Street, 10:06 a.m.
• Theft (cold), Big Goose
Road, 11 a.m.
• Welfare check,
Harlequin Drive, 7:13 p.m.
Saturday
• Welfare check, Five
Mile Road, Parkman, 12:23
a.m.
• Accident with injury,
Highway 14A, Dayton, 2:27
a.m.
• Accident, Carrington
JAIL
Today
Daily inmate count: 74
Female inmate count: 6
Inmates at treatment
facilities (not counted in
daily inmate count): 0
Inmates housed at other
facilities (not counted in
daily inmate count): 3
Number of book-ins for
the weekend: 10
Number of releases for
the weekend: 6
Highest number of
inmates held over the
weekend: 74
Nancy Jean Favero
Nancy Jean Favero, 83, of Sheridan, died Thursday, Feb. 25,
2016, at Sheridan Memorial Hospital. A visitation will take
place from 4-6 p.m. on Tuesday, March 1, 2016, at Champion
Funeral Home. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. on
Wednesday, March 2, 2016, at Champion Funeral Home. Burial
will follow in the Elks Cemetery. Online condolences may be
written at www.championfh.com. Arrangements are under the
direction of Champion Funeral Home.
DEATH NOTICES |
Gloria P. Picariello
Gloria P. Picariello, 93, of Banner, Wyoming, died Saturday,
Feb. 27, 2016, at Westview Health Care Center. Online condolences
may
be
written
at
www.championfh.com.
Arrangements are under the direction of Champion Funeral
Home.
Kristin Anne Kraft
Kristin Anne Kraft, 41, of Sheridan, died Saturday, Feb. 27,
2016, in the Bighorn Mountains.
Services will be held at a later date.
Online condolences may be written at www.kanefuneral.com.
Kane Funeral Home has been entrusted with arrangements.
ARRESTS
Names of individuals
arrested for domestic violence or sexual assault
will not be released until
those individuals have
appeared in court.
Friday
• Lacey G. Pilcher, 36,
Story, DWUI, circuit
court, arrested by SPD
Saturday
• Shane William Merkey,
23, Sheridan, house parties with minor present,
breach of peace, circuit
court, open container,
municipal court, arrested
by SPD
• Adrian Aguirre Lopez
Jr., 68, Sheridan, DWUI,
speeding in 75 mph zone,
circuit court, arrested by
Wyoming Highway Patrol
• Joshua Scott Campbell,
26, Sheridan, burglary, circuit court, arrested by
SPD
• Terril James Weitzel,
52, Sheridan, DWUI, fail to
obey traffic device, circuit
court, arrested by SPD
Sunday
• Clifford Gene
Birdinground, 51, Lodge
Grass, Montana, DWUI,
circuit court, arrested by
SCSO
• Leonard Gary Gardner,
58, Lodge Grass, Montana,
DWUI, circuit court,
arrested by SCSO
• Tyler Jon Stine, 22,
Sheridan, bench warrant
(contempt of court), circuit court, arrested by
SPD
Dolores J. Romanchak
Dolores J. Romanchak, 86, of Sheridan, died Sunday, Feb. 28,
2016, at Sheridan Memorial Hospital.
Online condolences may be written at www.kanefuneral.com.
Kane Funeral Home has been entrusted with arrangements.
OBITUARY |
Judy G Dregoiw
March 6, 1943 - January 6, 2016
Judy G Dregoiw, of Sheridan, WY, died on
Wednesday, January 6, 2016, at Saddle
Ridge, West View nursing home.
Judy was born, March 6, 1943. She graduated from Sheridan High School,
Sheridan College and went on to UW to get
her Bachelors Degree in Nursing. She
Judy G
spent a year working as a nurse in Lihue,
Dregoiw
Kauai, Hawaii. From there she went to the
University of Denver and received her Masters degree in Social
work. She went on to work in the Sheridan VA mental health
division, retiring in 2010.
Upon retirement, she spent many hours with our dad, loved
to walk, sing in choirs, did makeup for several plays in the community, and continued on with her lifelong work with Al- aNon. She loved to fly and received her pilots license. She also
loved to travel. She and friends traveled to many European destinations.
She was preceded in death by her mother (Margery Dregoiw)
and her father (John Dregoiw). She is survived by her sister
Linda Johnson and husband Jelmer, along with their son Jon,
wife and grandson, and daughter Robin and husband and
grandchildren, and her brother Mickey Dregoiw and Jackie,
along with son Glen, his wife, Amanda and grandchildren
A Celebration of Life will be held at 11:00AM, on March 4,
2016 at the Trinity Lutheran Church, here in Sheridan, WY,
with Pastor Phil officiating and a light lunch to follow in the
parish hall. A private family interment in the Sheridan
Municipal Cemetery will be held at a different time.
Memorials can be made in Judy's name to AlAnon , Sheridan
Junior College, or a memorial of your choosing.
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COURTESY PHOTO |
Volunteers who helped with a Love in Stitches event Saturday, pictured back row from left,
are Wendy Griffith, Riley Griffith, Emma Whiteman, Janika Sweeney, Laura Alicke, Guan Yin
Stevens, Mei Li Stevens and Dominic Stevens. Front row, from left, are Alyssa Magestro,
Gabbie Moore, Rita Geary and Nicki Kyle.
STITCHES: Sharing comfort, warmth
Love In Stitches is one of their three
providers, through coordinating with
The small group hosted Saturday’s
Child Advocacy Services. Trier has
event at Sunrise Assembly of God, team- never met with anyone from the quilting
ing up to make fleece “tie blankets,” a
nonprofit, but she said she is grateful
relatively quick process that requires no for the donations.
sewing.
Having “something all of their own”
Because Love In Stitches is a small
means a lot to kids in those vulnerable
group, National Honor Society students situations, she said.
from Sheridan High School also showed
“Sometimes the clothes don’t fit anyup to lend a hand.
more, sometimes the hygiene stuff is all
Covalt said she had reached out to the used up,” Trier said, discussing other
sheriff ’s department to see whether
items the kids’ care kits include. “But
they could use blankets. They could, and the quilt is theirs to keep. It’s a constant
Love In Stitches plans to supply them
for them. When they go to sleep at night,
with 34 blankets — or two for each
it’s there, and they need that type of
squad car.
security.”
The nonprofit has made similar blanCovalt said Love In Stitches pays for
ket donations to other local organizaall of its own materials using money
tions serving youth. Most, she said, go
from donations and fundraisers. She
to the Child Advocacy Services of the
estimated that the group has donated
Big Horns, which assist youth in emer150 blankets since 2013, when the organgency foster situations. The Legacy
ization began.
Pregnancy Center has also received
“The thing is, we started out as just a
blankets from the local quilting group.
couple of us ladies,” Covalt said. “We
Carla Trier, executive director of
just have this passion for quilting and
Sheridan Foster Parent Exchange, helps also a desire to help our community.
prepare kits to deliver to kids right
And so we got together and said, ‘How
when they enter foster care. They
can we marry these two things?’”
always try to include a blanket, and
Clearly they’ve found their answer.
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The Jonah does have a history — albeit a shorter one,
having been built in the
1970s — that includes housing a former Kmart and Pay
'n Pak hardware store.
“At first, I was kind of less
than thrilled about it,” Rep.
Charles Pelkey said about
moving into the new digs.
“This used to be a Kmart, so
I jokingly referred to it as
Leg'-Mart.”
Pelkey, a Democrat from
Laramie, has since softened
his criticism, prompted in
part by memories of nearly
a decade ago when the
Wyoming Supreme Court
was under renovation. Its
temporary space, furnished
with folding tables, was
more cramped, he said.
In addition to the House
and Senate chambers, the
Jonah building has a small
office for Gov. Matt Mead
and some of his key staffers
to use during the legislative
session. There is one room
where the secretary of state,
auditor, treasurer and
superintendent of public
instruction and their staffs
can work.
“WAM has decided to call
the Jonah Building our
nicknames — either JB, for
the Jonah building, or the
Emerald City, which of
course is in the great Land
of Oz,” said Shelley
Simonton of the Wyoming
Association of
Municipalities.
So who in the Emerald
City is the Wizard of Oz?
It depends on the day,
Simonton said.
The Legislature's space at
the Capitol was about 37,000
square feet. At the Jonah it's
45,500. That includes larger
space for both the House
and Senate chambers.
But Rep. Mark Baker, RRock Springs, said in the
Capitol, lawmakers had an
aisle next to each of their
desks. In the Jonah, staff
and lawmakers are walking
behind each other to distribute paperwork and get in
and out of their seats. The
result is a feeling of less
personal space, he said.
Pelkey said he can live
with the inconveniences.
His biggest complaints are
the increasing costs of the
Capitol reconstruction project and the time it's taking
to complete.
“I think these things
always take longer than
they promise,” he said.
In the Jonah, members of
the public can watch their
Legislature in rooms behind
the House and Senate, each
separated by a wall with
windows — reminiscent of
church crying rooms.
Technically, they're the
House and Senate galleries.
But at the Jonah, lawmakers call them the fishbowl,
because of the effect of
being stared at through the
glass.
The galleries are on the
same floor as the lawmakers. In the Capitol, the galleries are one flight of
stairs above the House and
Senate, giving the public a
better view during standing
votes.
Sometimes, leadership
asks lawmakers to stand if
they are in favor of a bill.
Those who remain sitting
are opposed to it. At the
Jonah, it's difficult to see
who is standing and who is
sitting because tall people
in the back block the view
of legislators up front.
“I'm not fond of the fishbowl,” said Marian Smith
Orr, a lobbyist who has
observed the Legislature for
21 years. “I don't like looking at the back of everybody's head. I have the back
of everybody's head memorized.”
At the Jonah, lawmakers
don't have exclusive bathrooms. They have to do
their business among the
masses.
Lawmakers run into journalists, lobbyists and members of the public in the
restrooms.
“You might have a chance
to get another vote in the
ladies' room that you would
never have had before,” said
Simonton, of the
Association of
Municipalities.
Simonton hasn't yet asked
a lawmaker in the bathroom
to vote for a bill her association wants.
“But I'm not above it,” she
said.
Forefathers who designed
and built the Equality
State's Capitol never envisioned — or perhaps they
never wanted — many
women in the building.
There are only three stalls
for women in the Capitol —
two in the basement and
one in a unisex bathroom
off the House gallery.
In the Jonah, there is gender equality — at least for
the washrooms — with two
bathrooms for the fairer sex
and 18 stalls total for them.
Overall, observers say the
public's access to lawmakers
is better at the Jonah.
Committee rooms are larger, meaning more people
can get a seat when bills are
discussed, Smith Orr said.
Lawmakers more frequently walk the same halls
as the public. They have to
pass commoners on their
way to the office space and
to a room where lunch is
frequently served. People
often stop them to talk.
That's different than the
Capitol, which contains
office space and break
rooms blocked off from the
public, she said.
Lobbyists rent a space,
which they call the Capitol
Club, where they can rest,
eat and meet people.
The doors to the lawmakers' parking lot are in the
Capitol Club. Mostly, lobbyists are respectful and don't
ambush lawmakers, Smith
Orr said.
“I don't think that the legislators actually like it,” she
said.
The Wyoming
Legislature's nonpartisan
staff says the building was
constructed in 1978. The
Laramie County Assessor's
Office says it was built in
1971. Both agree the building originally was a Kmart
and Pay 'n Pak.
“It's ironic they're discussing the budget in a former discount retail space,”
Smith Orr said.
The building was once a
place for slashing prices.
Now, it houses lawmakers
who, in the face of declining
revenues, are slashing programs, reducing money to
state agencies and borrowing from savings.
Cheyenne Mayor Rick
Kaysen said the building
housed Kmart and Pay 'n
Pak until the late 1980s.
“Then it stood vacant for a
number of years,” he said.
In 1991, the building got
an addition for SafeCard
Services, a Florida company
that provided services for
lost or stolen credit cards.
In 1996, SafeCard was sold
and became Trilegiant. In
2004, Trilegiant closed
Cheyenne operations and
moved to Connecticut.
The building was vacant
until 2007, when Casper
businessman Mick
McMurry purchased it.
Don Wright is the building
superintendent at Jonah. He
has worked in the building
since 1994, when he provided security for SafeCard.
“At one point, we had a
full restaurant in here, it fed
people who worked here,”
he said. “Of course, all that
changed with renovations.”
Once the state began leasing space for the
Legislature, the state and
the Jonah Building management tore down walls, created new rooms and installed
overhead speakers for people to hear floor action in
the House and Senate.
The state is leasing the
space for three years —
through 2018. The state has
the option of two, one-year
extensions, Wright said.
The Legislature is not the
only occupant. Other tenants include EOG
Resources, Trihydro and
Unicover.
Without the symbolism
and seriousness of the
Wyoming State Capitol, people have been more casual
at the Jonah.
In the Capitol, Lawmakers
typically refer to each other
as “Representative” or
“Senator.” That's not always
the case now.
‘It’ll do until we get
back to the Capitol.
It’s not the State Capitol.
But they’ve really done
great work out here and
everything’s running
pretty smooth.’
Sen. Gerald Geis
R-Worland
“More than once I've
heard a legislator refer to
another legislator by their
first name on the House
floor,” said Smith Orr, the
lobbyist. “That's not part of
protocol. That's easy to have
happen when you're in a
casual conversation.”
Smith Orr doesn't believe
the casualness is good. The
work lawmakers do is
important. Lawmakers need
to treat it as such, she said.
Smith Orr is excited for
the Capitol restoration to
finish.
“That building is such a
jewel that really needed to
be polished and restored,”
she said. “I believe there's
going to be some really
thoughtful design in it.”
Sen. Gerald Geis, a
Republican from Worland
who has served in the
Legislature off and on since
the 1970s, said the Jonah is
serving the Legislature's
needs.
“It'll do until we get back
to the Capitol,” he said. “It's
not the State Capitol. But
they've really done great
work out here and everything's running pretty
smooth.”
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STATE CHAMPIONS
MIKE DUNN | THE SHERIDAN PRESS
Hayden Hastings, right, embraces head coach Tyson Shatto after winning his 160-pound state title
match Saturday at the Casper Events Center.
Hastings dominates to
finish undefeated season
BY MIKE DUNN
MIKE.DUNN@THESHERIDANPRESS.COM
CASPER — Hayden Hastings
came into this season with only
one goal in mind: he was going
to be dominant.
After his title-winning match
Saturday evening, no one could
doubt that he had achieved his
preseason goal.
Hastings, the 160-pound junior
for the Sheridan Broncs
wrestling team, capped off what
had been a storied season with
his second state title.
“I wanted to keep improving
every day and just dominate
everyone I went up against,” an
elated Hastings said after beating Cheyenne East’s Seth Green
by pin in the second round. “I
came into that mentality every
match this year.”
‘I just wanted to go out
there thinking I am the best.’
Hayden Hastings
Sheridan Broncs
He was dominant all year, and
his final match was no exception.
Almost as soon as the referee
blew his whistle, Hastings was
an unstoppable force on the mat.
He grabbed a take down within
15 seconds; he had a near fall a
minute later.
Despite Green’s best efforts, he
could not turn the tables in his
favor. It was over by the end of
the first round — when Hastings
was on top 9-1.
Green’s only point came when
Hastings cut him, in which the
champ proceeded to get another
takedown five seconds later.
But heading into the second,
Hastings put the nail in the coffin. On top, he locked Green’s left
arm and slowly rolled him to his
back.
The sound of the Sheridan
crowd was deafening. Then a
whistle blew, followed by a slap
on the mat.
With a grin no one could wipe
away, Hastings jumped up in celebration and pointed to the
crowd. The ref raised Hastings’
MIKE DUNN | THE SHERIDAN PRESS
Hayden Hastings points to the crowd
after winning the 160-pound state
championship Saturday in Casper.
hand in the air. He was champ
again.
“We knew if he went out there
and controlled the pace of the
match, he could do something
like that,” Broncs head coach
Tyson Shatto said about
Hastings.
“I just went out there with that
ticked off mentality. I just wanted to go out there thinking I am
the best,” Hastings said.
Hastings built an impressive
resume this year. He went 41-0
and earned all-American status
to go along with his state championship.
As a team, the Broncs finished
fourth with 153.5 points at the
tournament. Aside from
Hastings’ state title, the Broncs
earned two third-place finishes
from Dominic Miller and
Trenten Heil and three fourthplace finishes from Kris Yager,
Tucker Goss and Wyatt Avery.
Overall, Shatto — who was
named 4A East Coach of the
Year — was pleased with the way
his team performed this weekend, especially the way they battled adversity.
“Some rounds were full of
highs, other rounds were full of
lows,” Shatto said. “But I’m so
proud of the way these kids battled … This is a special event,
this is a special sport where you
have to be able to harness your
emotions, and go out there and
give it your best shot. In a lot of
ways, we did that this weekend.”
MIKE PRUDEN | THE SHERIDAN PRESS
Sheridan High School swim coach Brent Moore, right, embraces Presley Felker after Felker won the
100-yard butterfly at the Wyoming 4A state swim meet Saturday in Gillette.
Felker sets school record in 100-yard butterfly
BY MIKE PRUDEN
MICHAEL@THESHERIDANPRESS.COM
GILLETTE — It was a long time
in the making, but Presley Felker
finally captured the Sheridan
High School record in the 100yard butterfly in his second to
last swim Friday at the 4A state
swim meet in Gillette.
His last swim? Well, it was even
sweeter.
Felker had the top time in the
preliminary race Friday with a
53.39-second swim, good enough
for the school record. He broke
his own record Saturday with a
52.75-second finish, and he needed
every bit of the six-tenths he
shaved off.
Felker defeated Riverton’s
Travis Fisher by one-tenth of a
second to claim the Broncs’ lone
state title. The Sheridan senior
could barely contain his emotions
after the race.
He thanked his opponents with
handshakes.
“The competition between the
other racers was worth it,” Felker
said. “We pushed each other all
year and became good friends.”
He thanked his coach, his parents and his teammates with
hugs.
“I couldn’t have done it without
them,” Felker said. “They were
the motivation to help me win
that race.”
There were a lot of long, grueling days for Felker leading up to
that top spot on the podium. A
couple of knee surgeries, some
disappointing losses and a few
times coming up just short of the
record. So as he gripped the
medal around his neck, the state
champ wasn’t quite sure how to
piece it all together just yet.
“Every race flashed into my
head,” Felker said. “Seeing that
first place, the amount of joy, it’s
just hard to describe how I felt.
But it’s worth it.”
“He had some pressure,”
Sheridan’s head coach Brent
Moore said of Felker’s performance. “I think he was able to
mature a lot between last year
and this year and just handle that
pressure so much better. I think
he knew he could do it going in,
and he just laid it down.”
Felker’s joyful two-day trip to
Gillette was just the icing on the
cake for the SHS swim team.
The Broncs finished fourth as a
team at the meet, their best finish
since 1997 and their first top-five
finish since 1998. On top of that,
they broke three other school
records and moved the program
in a direction coach Moore has
been pushing toward over the last
several years.
The SHS girls went 11 years
without a top-five state finish
before finishing third, fifth and
third in the last three years,
respectively. Now, the boys seem
to be making similar strides.
SEE SWIMMERS, PAGE B3
Sheridan High School’s Presley Felker competes in the 100-yard butterfly at the state win meet Saturday in Gillette.
Felker set a school record on his way to winning the event and becoming a state champion.
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Johnson pulls alongside the Intimidator with 76th career win
HAMPTON, Ga. (AP) — Jimmie Johnson
reached another milestone in his brilliant
NASCAR career.
This one was really special.
Win No. 76.
Right up there with the Intimidator.
Johnson’s victory at Atlanta Motor
Speedway on Sunday pushed him into a tie
for seventh place on the career list with the
late Dale Earnhardt, who was killed in a
last-lap crash at the 2001 Daytona 500 just a
few months before Johnson joined the Cup
series.
“I didn’t have a chance to race against
him,” Johnson said. “There’s been a big
void in my mind ... so to tie him, for me
personally, it gives me a little bit of attachment to the great Dale Earnhardt.”
After a chaotic finish, the significance of
the triumph didn’t occur to Johnson at
first. Then it hit him, so he took another
spin in front of the grandstand, sticking
his hand out of the car to hold up three fingers.
No. 3 was Earnhardt’s number, of course.
And, in an appropriate twist, Johnson
teammate Dale Earnhardt Jr. crossed the
line next, edging out Kyle Busch for the
runner-up spot by mere inches.
“I think dad would’ve liked Jimmie as a
person,” Junior said, “but he certainly
wouldn’t have enjoyed competing against
him.”
Next on Johnson’s bucket list: another
series championship. By winning the second race of the season, he essentially
wrapped up his spot in the season-ending
Chase, where he’ll be attempting to join
Earnhardt and Richard Petty as the only
drivers to capture seven Cup titles.
“The six that I have, I know how special
and meaningful they are,” Johnson said.
“If I have a chance to win a seventh and tie
Petty and Earnhardt, that would be just
monumental.”
Polished and well-liked throughout the
garage, Johnson would appear to have little
in common with the Intimidator, a roughand-tumble driver who didn’t mind making
others mad and doing whatever it took to
win the race — even if it meant knocking
someone out of the way.
“He didn’t get that Intimidator title by
being nice to everybody,” quipped Rick
Hendrick, the owner of Johnson’s No. 48
car.
But Earnhardt Jr. thinks his father, if he
had lived, would have become fast friends
with Johnson.
Certainly, he would’ve respected
Johnson’s skills behind the wheel, which
were on full display Sunday as he struggled
to maintain control of his car on fading
tires, having made his final green-flag pit
stop ahead of everyone else in a strategic
bid to snatch the lead away from Kevin
Harvick.
“Knowing dad and knowing Jimmie’s
character, they would’ve gotten along
tremendously and dad would’ve thought
the world of him,” Earnhardt Jr. said.
“How can you not like Jimmie? He’s just a
good guy who never stepped over the line
with anything he’s ever said or anything
he’s ever done.”
All he does is win, with staggering consistency.
The 40-year-old has now earned a victory
in every full-time Cup season, extending
the streak to 15 years in a row. As fit as any
driver in the series, he could likely remain
at the top of the game for another decade
or more. While Petty’s record of 200 career
victories is unlikely to ever be duplicated
— he competed largely in a different era
with far more races each year — Johnson
certainly has the potential to reach the second spot on the list.
David Pearson won 105 times. Johnson
has averaged a bit more than five victories
a year, a pace that would push him past the
Silver Fox in another six seasons.
Shorter term, Johnson can set his sights
on Cale Yarborough (83 victories), Bobby
Allison and Darrell Waltrip (84 apiece), and
longtime teammate Jeff Gordon, who
retired after last season with 93 wins.
“You’ve got to say that he’s one of the
best that’s ever been in the sport,”
Hendrick said of Johnson. “It’s going to be
interesting to see how many races and
championships Jimmie and Chad (Knaus,
his crew chief) can win.”
It was Knaus who made the call that
essentially gave Johnson a shot at his latest
victory. Knowing it would be tough to get
around Harvick, who led more laps than
anyone, the crew chief brought in the No.
48 for its last scheduled pit stop nine laps
before Harvick, gambling that Johnson
could make his tires last longer on the
bruising Atlanta track.
The move worked, giving Johnson a big
lead, though a late yellow flag forced overtime. Everyone came back into the pits for
new tires, Johnson returned to the track
still out front, and a four-car crash on the
backstretch shortly after the restart sealed
the win.
Johnson gave much of the credit to his
crew chief.
Knaus gave it right back.
“Jimmie is pretty amazing, isn’t he?” the
crew chief said, breaking into a big smile.
“Let’s be honest, he’s just a heck of a racecar driver.”
Even the Intimidator would agree with
that.
Jones has key block
as UNLV holds off
Wyoming 79-74
COURTESY PHOTO |
Sheridan Ping Pong Club in full swing
The Sheridan Ping Pong Club met for the first time Wednesday at the Sheridan YMCA. Pictured are, back row, from left, Kamran Groteluschen, Eric Skretteberg
and Nathan Gilbert. Middle row, from left, are Alice Roach, Jean Ellenwood, Willie Duran, Tim Scott, Derek Gilbert, Leonard Skretteberg, Jake Bray, Nicole Cullison,
Elijah Gilbert and Brad Balmer. Bottom row, from left, are Anna Rouch, Carly Covill, Decker Trahan, Rod Trahan and Steele Cullison. The club meets every
Wednesday at 5:45 p.m. at the YMCA.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Derrick Jones Jr.
scored 23 points and had a key block
with 16 seconds left to help UNLV beat
Wyoming 79-74 Saturday night.
Jason McManamen drove the lane and
Jones recovered to block the layup
attempt. Ike Nwamu grabbed the loose
ball and was fouled near midcourt with
13.9 left. He made both free throws for a
six-point lead.
Nwamu and Jerome Seagears each
added 18 points for UNLV (17-13, 8-9
Mountain West). Stephen Zimmerman
Jr. had 12 points and 11 rebounds.
Josh Adams led Wyoming (13-17, 6-11)
with 31 points and seven 3-pointers.
Adams also had five rebounds and five
assists but fouled out with 35 seconds
left. McManamen added 19 points and
three 3s for the Cowboys, who have lost
four of their last five games.
Adams and McManamen combined to
score 26 of Wyoming’s 33 first-half
points. Seagears led UNLV with 12
points as the Runnin’ Rebels had a 37-33
at the break.
SCOREBOARD |
NCAAM |
This Week's Top 25 Fared
The Associated Press
1. Villanova (25-4) lost to No. 5 Xavier 90-83; beat
Marquette 89-79.
2. Kansas (25-4) beat No. 19 Baylor 66-60; beat
Texas Tech 67-58.
3. Oklahoma (22-6) beat Oklahoma State 71-49;
lost to No. 25 Texas 76-63.
3. Virginia (22-6) lost to No. 12 Miami 64-61; beat
No. 7 North Carolina 79-74.
5. Xavier (25-4) beat No. 1 Villanova 90-83; lost to
Seton Hall 90-81.
6. Michigan State (24-5) beat Ohio State 81-62;
beat Penn State 88-57.
7. North Carolina (23-6) beat N.C. State 80-68; lost
to No. 3 Virginia 79-74.
8. Iowa (20-8) lost to Wisconsin 67-59; lost to Ohio
State 68-64.
9. Arizona (22-7) lost to Colorado 75-72; lost to No.
22 Utah 70-64.
10. Maryland (23-6) lost to No. 20 Purdue 83-79.
11. Louisville (22-7) beat Pittsburgh 67-60; lost to
No. 12 Miami 73-65.
12. Miami (23-5) beat No. 3 Virginia 64-61; beat
No. 11 Louisville 73-65.
13. Oregon (23-6) beat Washington State 76-62;
beat Washington 86-73.
14. West Virginia (22-7) beat No. 17 Iowa State 9787; beat Oklahoma State 70-56.
15. Duke (21-8) beat Florida State 80-65; lost to
Pittsburgh 76-62.
16. Kentucky (21-8) beat Alabama 78-53; lost to
Vanderbilt 74-62.
17. Iowa State (20-9) lost to No. 14 West Virginia
97-87; beat Kansas State 80-61.
18. Indiana (23-6) beat Illinois 74-47.
19. Baylor (21-8) lost to No. 2 Kansas 66-60; beat
TCU 86-71.
20. Purdue (22-7) beat No. 10 Maryland 83-79.
21. Texas A&M (22-7) beat Mississippi State 68-66;
beat Missouri 84-69.
22. Utah (23-7) beat Arizona State 81-46; beat No.
9 Arizona 70-64.
23. Notre Dame (19-9) beat Wake Forest 69-58;
lost to Florida State 77-56.
24. SMU (24-4) beat Memphis 69-62; beat Tulane
74-53.
25. Texas (19-10) beat Kansas State 71-70; beat
No. 3 Oklahoma 76-63.
NCAAW |
This Week's Women's Top 25 Fared
1. UConn (28-0) beat SMU 88-41; beat Tulane 8040.
2. Notre Dame (28-1) beat No. 12 Florida State 7366; beat Clemson 71-52; beat Boston College 7058.
3. South Carolina (28-1) beat Alabama 66-46; beat
Mississippi 66-45; beat LSU 75-39.
4. Baylor (29-1) beat No. 23 Oklahoma 78-70; beat
Kansas State 63-52.
5. Ohio State (23-6) lost to Minnesota 90-88, OT;
lost to No. 20 Michigan State 107-105, 3OT.
6. Maryland (27-3) beat Wisconsin 83-77; beat
Minnesota 110-77.
7. Oregon State (25-4) lost to No. 13 Stanford 7654; beat California 54-44.
8. Texas (26-2) beat Texas Tech 76-55; beat TCU
71-58. at No. 4 Baylor, Monday.
9. Arizona State (25-5) beat Southern Cal 50-45;
lost to No. 14 UCLA 74-61.
10. Louisville (24-6) beat No. 17 Miami 79-51; beat
Pittsburgh 65-36.
11. Texas A&M (21-8) beat Auburn 57-49; lost to
No. 15 Kentucky 71-58.
12. Florida State (23-6) lost to No. 2 Notre Dame
73-66; beat N.C. State 56-52; beat No. 17 Miami
70-67.
13. Stanford (24-6) beat No. 7 Oregon State 76-54;
beat Oregon 69-42.
14. UCLA (22-7) beat Arizona 80-53; beat No. 9
Arizona State 74-61.
15. Kentucky (21-6) beat No. 24 Missouri 69-59;
beat No. 11 Texas A&M 71-58.
16. Mississippi State (24-6) beat Vanderbilt 65-59;
beat Alabama 61-52.
17. Miami (22-7) lost to No. 10 Louisville 79-51; lost
to No. 12 Florida State 70-67.
18. Syracuse (23-6) beat Boston College 71-55.
19. DePaul (24-7) beat Marquette 98-65.
20. Michigan State (22-7) beat Illinois 71-43; beat
No. 5 Ohio State 107-105, 3OT.
21. South Florida (21-7) beat Tulsa 72-66; beat
Temple 76-62.
22. Oklahoma State (20-8) beat Kansas 71-49; lost
to West Virginia 82-48.
23. Oklahoma (19-9) lost to No. 4 Baylor 78-70;
beat Iowa State 85-54.
24. Missouri (21-8) lost to No. 15 Kentucky 69-59;
lost to Vanderbilt 56-52.
25. Colorado State (26-1) beat New Mexico 49-48;
beat Nevada 74-56.
NBA |
National Basketball Association
By The Associated Press
All Times EST
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
W
L
Pct
Toronto
39
19
.672
Boston
35
25
.583
New York
25
36
.410
Brooklyn
17
42
.288
Philadelphia
8
51
.136
Southeast Division
W
L
Pct
Miami
33
26
.559
Atlanta
33
27
.550
Charlotte
30
28
.517
Washington
28
30
.483
Orlando
26
32
.448
Central Division
W
L
Pct
Cleveland
41
17
.707
Indiana
31
28
.525
Chicago
30
28
.517
Detroit
31
29
.517
Milwaukee
24
35
.407
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Southwest Division
W
L
Pct
GB
—
5
15½
22½
31½
GB
—
½
2½
4½
6½
GB
—
10½
11
11
17½
GB
San Antonio
50
9
.847
—
Memphis
34
24
.586
15½
Dallas
32
28
.533
18½
Houston
29
30
.492
21
New Orleans 23
35
.397
26½
Northwest Division
W
L
Pct
GB
Oklahoma City 41
18
.695
—
Portland
32
28
.533
9½
Utah
28
30
.483
12½
Denver
23
36
.390
18
Minnesota
19
41
.317
22½
Pacific Division
W
L
Pct
GB
x-Golden State 53
5
.914
—
L.A. Clippers 38
20
.655
15
Sacramento
24
33
.421
28½
Phoenix
15
44
.254
38½
L.A. Lakers
11
49
.183
43
x-clinched playoff spot
___
Sunday’s Games
Washington 113, Cleveland 99
Atlanta 87, Charlotte 76
Portland 111, Indiana 102
Detroit 114, Toronto 101
Orlando 130, Philadelphia 116
Dallas 128, Minnesota 101
Miami 98, New York 81
Monday’s Games
Indiana at Cleveland, 7 p.m.
Philadelphia at Washington, 7 p.m.
Utah at Boston, 7:30 p.m.
Houston at Milwaukee, 8 p.m.
Memphis at Denver, 9 p.m.
Oklahoma City at Sacramento, 10 p.m.
Brooklyn at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.
Tuesday’s Games
Phoenix at Charlotte, 7 p.m.
Chicago at Miami, 7:30 p.m.
Portland at New York, 7:30 p.m.
Orlando at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.
Atlanta at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.
Brooklyn at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m.
Wednesday’s Games
Charlotte at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.
Chicago at Orlando, 7 p.m.
Utah at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.
Portland at Boston, 7:30 p.m.
Washington at Minnesota, 8 p.m.
Indiana at Milwaukee, 8 p.m.
Detroit at San Antonio, 8 p.m.
Sacramento at Memphis, 8 p.m.
New Orleans at Houston, 8 p.m.
L.A. Lakers at Denver, 9 p.m.
Oklahoma City at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.
Ottawa
Montreal
Buffalo
Toronto
Metropolitan
63
30
27
6 66
62
30
27
5 65
63
25
31
7 57
60
21
29
10 52
Division
GP
W
L
OT Pts
Washington
61
45
12
4 94
N.Y. Rangers 62
36
20
6 78
N.Y. Islanders 60
33
20
7 73
Pittsburgh
60
31
21
8 70
Philadelphia
61
28
22
11 67
New Jersey
63
30
26
7 67
Carolina
64
28
26
10 66
Columbus
63
26
29
8 60
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Central Division
GP
W
L
OT Pts
Chicago
64
39
20
5 83
Dallas
63
38
19
6 82
St. Louis
65
36
20
9 81
Nashville
63
31
21
11 73
Colorado
64
32
28
4 68
Minnesota
63
28
25
10 66
Winnipeg
61
26
31
4 56
Pacific Division
GP
W
L
OT Pts
Los Angeles
62
37
21
4 78
Anaheim
61
34
19
8 76
San Jose
61
33
22
6 72
Vancouver
61
24
25
12 60
Arizona
62
27
29
6 60
Calgary
61
26
31
4 56
Edmonton
64
23
34
7 53
NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime
loss.
Sunday’s Games
Chicago 3, Washington 2
St. Louis 5, Carolina 2
Minnesota 3, Florida 1
Tampa Bay 4, Boston 1
San Jose 4, Vancouver 1
Anaheim 4, Los Angeles 2
Edmonton 3, N.Y. Islanders 1
Monday’s Games
Columbus at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m.
Calgary at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.
Arizona at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.
Tampa Bay at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.
Detroit at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.
Montreal at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.
Tuesday’s Games
Calgary at Boston, 7 p.m.
Carolina at New Jersey, 7 p.m.
Edmonton at Buffalo, 7:30 p.m.
St. Louis at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m.
Pittsburgh at Washington, 7:30 p.m.
Dallas at Nashville, 8 p.m.
Colorado at Minnesota, 8 p.m.
Florida at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.
N.Y. Islanders at Vancouver, 10 p.m.
Wednesday’s Games
Toronto at Washington, 7 p.m.
Chicago at Detroit, 8 p.m.
Montreal at Anaheim, 10 p.m.
NHL |
National Hockey League
By The Associated Press
All Times EST
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
GP
W
Florida
62
35
Tampa Bay
62
36
Boston
63
34
Detroit
62
31
L
19
22
23
20
OT
8
4
6
11
Pts
78
76
74
73
TRANSACTIONS |
Sunday's Sports Transactions
BASEBALL
American League
CLEVELAND INDIANS — Signed INF Juan Uribe
to a one-year contract.
KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Agreed to terms with
INF Christian Colon, LHP Brian Flynn, OF
Reymond Fuentes, LHP Matt Strahm, OF Paulo
Orlando and INF Ramon Torres to one-year contracts.
TEXAS RANGERS — Named Spike Owen interim
third base coach.
TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Signed RHP Rafael
Soriano to a minor league contract.
Frontier League
EVANSVILLE OTTERS — Signed LHP Payton
Baskette.
FLORENCE FREEDOM — Sent OF John Cruz and
RHP Ryan Richardson to Gary SouthShore to complete a previous trade.
LAKE ERIE CRUSHERS — Signed OF Tom Nagy.
Sent RHP Ryan Richardson to Florence to complete a previous trade.
SCHAUMBURG BOOMERS — Signed OF Justin
Byrd.
BASKETBALL
National Basketball Association
HOUSTON ROCKETS — Recalled F Sam Dekker
from Rio Grande Valley (NBADL).
HOCKEY
National Hockey League
NHL/NHLPA — Named Gerard Gallant assistant
coach for Team North America in the World Cup of
Hockey 2016.
BOSTON BRUINS — Placed F Zac Rinaldo on
waivers.
CAROLINA HURRICANES — Acquired RW
Valentin Zykov and a 2016 conditional fifth-round
draft pick from Los Angeles for F Kris Versteeg.
CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Agreed to terms with
G Mac Carruth on a one-year contract.
COLORADO AVALANCHE — Placed G Reto Berra
on waivers.
COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS — Placed F Rene
Bourque on waivers.
FLORIDA PANTHERS — Placed C Derek
MacKenzie and C Dave Bolland on injured reserve.
LOS ANGELES KINGS — Placed F Jordan Nolan
on injured reserve.
NEW YORK ISLANDERS — Placed C Mikhail
Grabovski on injured reserve, retroactive to Feb.
19.
NEW YORK RANGERS — Acquired C Eric Staal
from Carolina for C Aleksi Saarela and secondround draft picks in 2016 and 2017. Assigned F
Marek Hrivik to Hartford (AHL).
PHILADELPHIA FLYERS — Signed F Michael
Raffl to a multiyear contract extension.
PITTSBURGH PENGUINS — Placed D David
Warsofsky on waivers.
SAN JOSE SHARKS — Placed F Mike Brown on
waivers.
TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS — Placed G Alex
Stalock on waivers. Acquired a 2016 second-round
draft pick, D Connor Carrick and F Brooks Laich
from Washington for F Daniel Winnik and a 2016
fifth-round draft pick from Anaheim.
VANCOUVER CANUCKS — Placed F Adam
Cracknel on waivers.
WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Activated C Jay
Beagle from long-term injured reserve.
THE SHERIDAN PRESS
B3
SWIMMERS: SHS broke 4 records
FROM B1
Oscar Patten competes in the 500-yard freestyle event at the Wyoming 4A state swim meet Saturday in Gillette.
Patten set a new school record in the event with a time of 4 minutes, 57.80 seconds.
“I hope this is finally a turning
point for our program,” Moore said.
“If we can just hang on and keep
getting some new guys — we had
some boys swim here, this was their
first year swimming, and they were
able to compete with us at state and
contribute to team points. Hopefully
we can keep it up.”
Oscar Patten broke two school
records over the weekend, as well.
He took fourth place in the 200-yard
freestyle with a record time of one
minute, 47.34 seconds. He added a
fifth-place finish in the 500-yard
freestyle with a time of 5:02.53, but
his Friday prelim time of 4:57.80
was a new school record.
Patten and Felker teamed up with
Jakob Eckard and Jacob Ahlstrom
to add a fourth school record in the
200-yard freestyle relay with their
time of 1:31.02, good for fourth place
in the event.
Felker added a fourth-place finish
in the 50-yard freestyle with a time
of 22.53, and the team of Felker,
Ahlstrom, Patten and Kody Palmer
was fourth in the 400-yard freestyle
relay with a time of 3:26.37.
The Broncs scored 115.5 points to
finish fourth as a team. Kelly Walsh
(188.5 points) was third, Laramie
(207) was second, and Gillette (257)
repeated as state champions.
“We scored it based on seed, and
LOCAL SPORTS BRIEFS |
FROM STAFF REPORTS
Rams go cold, drop
regional championship
to Pine Bluffs
BIG HORN — The offense stalled
for the Big Horn Rams this weekend as they eventually fell just
short of a regional title Saturday
against Pine Bluffs.
The 77-point outing from
Thursday’s opening round
dropped to a 55-point night Friday,
but it was still enough to beat
Wright 55-44 in what Big Horn
head coach Ryan Alley called a
“battle.” Big Horn shot just 30 percent from the field and 16 percent
from behind the arc, but they utilized free throws to ice the game
down the stretch and earn a spot
in the regional championship.
Big Horn’s offense hit a dry spell
at the wrong time, though. The
Rams lost to Pine Bluffs 63-44 in
Saturday’s title game, shooting
just 31 percent from the field, 20
percent from 3-point range and 53
percent from the free-throw line.
While Pine Bluffs’ shooting numbers weren’t great — 41 percent
from the field and 25 percent from
3 — the Hornets hit 20 of 22 (91
percent) from the free-throw line
in the win.
Colton Williams led the Rams in
scoring with 13 points, and Colton
Bates scored 11 as the only two
Big Horn players in double figures.
Saturday’s loss was Big Horn’s
lowest scoring game since a 62-42
loss to Wyoming Indian on Dec. 19.
Big Horn will see that same
Wyoming Indian team in the first
round of the state tournament
Thursday in Casper. The Rams
earned the East’s two-seed, while
Wyoming Indian is the three-seed
out of the West.
Pine Bluffs — the East’s oneseed — was somewhat of an
Achilles’ heel for Big Horn this
year. The Rams sandwiched 16
straight wins with losses to Pine
Bluffs in the only two matchups
between the schools this year. The
Hornets defeated Big Horn 57-48
on Jan. 8.
The Rams (19-6) will need to get
back to the high-scoring offense
that helped them rattle off 16
straight wins — they averaged 66.6
points during that stretch — in
order to beat Wyoming Indian and
advance in the state tournament.
Wyoming Indian (20-6) averages 64
points per game.
Big Horn and Wyoming Indian
are set to tipoff the 2A state tournament Thursday at noon at
Casper College. For a full breakdown of the 2A bracket, see
whsaa.org.
Eagles beats Wright,
earn trip to
2A state tourney
DAYTON — The Tongue River
Eagles are heading to the state
tournament.
The Eagles pulled off a 60-55 win
over Wright in a loser-out, winnerto-state game at the 2A East
regional basketball tournament
Saturday, giving them their second
berth to the state tournament in
as many years.
Tongue River will go into the
state tournament as the four-seed
out of the East after falling to the
Southeast Cyclones later Saturday
in a tough 65-55 loss.
Jaren Fritz averaged 11.5 points
per game on Saturday while Cody
Buller averaged 11.
This is the first time since the
2007-2008 seasons that the Eagles
have earned back-to-back state
tournament berths. The last time
Tongue River won a state tournament game was in 2008.
Getting to the tournament is an
accomplishment in itself, but staying in is a tougher task. The
Eagles will open up tournament
play against juggernaut Wind
River, a team that is 23-1 this year
and beat the Eagles in a 78-30 rout
on Dec. 19. The Cougars haven’t
lost a game since Jan. 9.
That game will tip off at 1:30
p.m. on Thursday at the Casper
Events Center in Casper.
TR girls come up
short at regionals
DAYTON — The Tongue River
Lady Eagles’ season came to a
screeching halt over the weekend.
In a must-win game Saturday
morning, the Lady Eagles fell to
the Burns Lady Broncs 39-32 in
the consolation semifinal game.
The 2A Southeast conference
proved to be too much for the
northern counterparts. After
Tongue River was eliminated, the
Southeast conference took all four
spots to state out of regionals.
Despite their loss in the 2A
regional tournament, the Lady
Eagles still have a lot to hang their
hats on this season. They finished
with a solid 16-9 record and tied
for first in their conference.
AC, NSI boys end
seasons with regional
losses Saturday
SHERIDAN — It was do or die
time for both the ArvadaClearmont and Normative
Services Inc. boys basketball
teams Saturday at the 1A East
regional tournament.
Unfortunately for both teams,
their seasons ended with tough
losses in the consolation bracket.
After AC and NSI stayed alive
with wins Friday afternoon, the
two teams needed to beat Hanna
Elk Mountain and Lingle-Ft.
Laramie, respectively, to earn
trips to the 1A state tournament.
Neither team could keep up with
its opponent as AC fell to H.E.M.
50-21 and NSI lost 62-41 to LingleFt. Laramie.
Upton went on to win the regional tournament, which was hosted
by NSI at Sheridan High School.
The Bobcats defeated Kaycee 56-52
in the championship game. Kaycee
got the best of Upton in the girls
bracket with the Lady Bucs winning 46-36 to claim the title.
SHS in doubleheader
with Laramie to open 4A
East regional tourney
SHERIDAN — The regular season is over and the bracket is set
for the 4A East regional tournament, which kicks off Thursday
in Cheyenne.
Both the Sheridan High School
boys and girls basketball teams
will take on Laramie High School
in the opening round.
The Broncs and Lady Broncs
needed tiebreakers to determine
their final seeds. The Sheridan
boys were on the positive end of
their tiebreaker, while the girls
were on the negative end. But they
both earned three-seeds when it
was all said and done.
The Broncs finished the conference season 4-6 and in a three-way
tie with Cheyenne South and
Cheyenne East. The first tiebreaker goes to the team with the best
record against the other teams
during the regular season, which
went to Sheridan with a 3-1 record
against South and East. South
earned the four-seed at 2-2, and
East was 1-3 to round out the seeding.
The Lady Broncs had to get
through the Wyoming High School
Activities Association’s long list of
tiebreakers before finding out
their seed. The first five tiebreak
rules for 4A are as follows:
1. Head to head conference competition between and among the
tied teams.
2. Compare the records of the
tied teams against the record of
the highest-ranking non-tied team;
continue through conference
standings until tie is broken.
3. Head to head competition
between tied teams at common
sites.
4. Compare records of tied
teams against the record of the
highest-ranking 4A nonconference
opponent at a neutral site; continue through the 4A nonconference
standings until the tie is broken.
5. Compare records of tied
teams against the record of the
highest-ranking 4A nonconference
opponent; continue through the
4A nonconference standings until
the tie is broken.
Sheridan needed No. 5 to break
its tie with Cheyenne East for the
second and third seeds in the conference. Both school’s finished 7-2
in conference play but beat each
other once. Rock Springs was the
common opponent in the West.
East beat Rock Springs, and
Sheridan lost to Rock Springs,
making the Lady Broncs the threeseed.
The Sheridan girls will take on
Laramie Thursday at 7 p.m. with
the SHS boys to play immediately
after.
we were in sixth place by two
points,” Moore said referring to the
preliminary standings. “For us to
move up today the way we did was
awesome. We’ve been bottom of the
barrel — eighth, seventh, tenth —
for the last five years, so that’s a big
move.”
It’s actually been 19 years since
the Broncs have finished that high
at the state swim meet, but it
appears the Sheridan swimmers are
tired of looking at the bottom of
that barrel.
Broncs at state
School records
100-yard butterfly; Presley Felker 52.75
200-yard freestyle; Oscar Patten 1:47.34
500-yard freestyle; Oscar Patten 4:57.80
200-yard freestyle relay; Felker, Patten,
Jakob Eckard, Jacob Ahlstrom 1:31.02
Top finishes
(last 20 years)
2016-fourth
1997-fourth
1998-fifth
2015-seventh
2000-seventh
Coyotes acquire Plotnikov
from Pens on deadline day
JOHN WAWROW AND STEPHEN WHYNO
AP SPORTS WRITERS
The Arizona Coyotes opened the final day of the NHL's
trading period by acquiring winger Sergei Plotnikov from
the Pittsburgh Penguins in exchange for prospect Matthias
Plachta and a conditional seventh-round pick in 2017.
The teams announced the deal Monday morning, hours
before the NHL trade deadline.
Signed out of the Kontinental Hockey League last offseason, the 25-year-old Plotnikov has just two assists in 32
games. He is set to be a restricted free agent this summer.
Plotnikov carries a salary-cap hit of $743,000.
The Edmonton Oilers re-signed two rookies — defenseman
Brandon Davidson and goalie Laurent Brossoit — to twoyear contract extensions. They also added two players who
were placed on waivers a day earlier: Vancouver forward
Adam Cracknell and Winnipeg defenseman Adam Pardy.
Though a number of trades were expected before the deadline, numerous teams spent the previous week adding players and freeing up salaries of players who are in the final
years of their contracts. One of the biggest moves occurred
on Sunday, when the New York Rangers acquired Hurricanes
captain Eric Staal in exchange for Finnish prospect Aleksi
Saarela and a pair of second-round draft picks.
Last week, the defending Stanley Cup champion Chicago
Blackhawks acquired Winnipeg forward Andrew Ladd in
exchange for rookie forward Marko Dano and a first-round
pick in this year's draft. And the Atlantic Division-leading
Florida Panthers made three trades in acquiring Oilers forward Teddy Purcell, Calgary Flames forward Jiri Hudler and
Detroit defenseman Jakub Kindl.
Ian Desmond headed
to Rangers outfield
SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) —
Ian Desmond started his
transition from one-time AllStar shortstop to everyday
left fielder with the Texas
Rangers on Monday, when he
signed his $8 million, oneyear contract and took part
in his first workout with the
AL West champions.
Desmond said it's a new
chapter he's ready to
embrace. Desmond has
played shortstop throughout
his seven major league seasons, all with the
Washington Nationals. The
30-year-old Desmond was an
All-Star in 2012 but has started only one of his 927 career
games in the outfield.
“As far as swallowing my
pride and moving to the outfield, that's not going to be a
problem,” Desmond said.
“Learning the position, I'm
obviously a little bit behind,
about 7-10 days and in some
cases years and years and
years, because it's been a
long time since I've done
this. But I'm going to work as
hard as I can.”
Josh Hamilton, the 2010 AL
MVP and a five-time All-Star,
will start the season on the
disabled list for the Rangers.
He is expected to miss at
least the first month because
of lingering problems with
his left knee that was operated on twice last year.
The fact that Desmond hasn't appeared in the outfield
in a game since 2010, and
that was for only one-third of
an inning, posed no concerns
to the Rangers in getting the
deal done.
General manager Jon
Daniels, who spoke to
Desmond several times
before the deal was complete,
said a review of reports on
Desmond included many
scouts saying in the past that
they bet he could play center
field. Desmond's willingness
to play left field was a key
factor in the Rangers signing
him.
“It's a really natural fit for
us as far as the kind of player we look for, elite athlete,
tremendous makeup, and
whoever you ask, it's universal, this guy's a big-time competitor, plays hard, runs
hard, pushes other players,”
Daniels said.
B4
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BABY BLUES® by Jerry Scott and Rick Kirkman
COMICS
DRS. OZ & ROIZEN
Dr. Mehmet Oz and Dr. Michael Roizen
MARY WORTH by Karen Moy and Joe Giella
BORN LOSER® by Art and Chip Sansom
THE LEAKY GUT LIST
BY MICHAEL ROIZEN,
M.D., AND MEHMET OZ,
M.D.
ESPN's Fantasy Football
had to create The
Undroppable Players List:
Players who can't be sent to
waivers/free agency. The goal
of the regulation? To prevent
out-of-contention fantasy
owners from dropping star
players so a buddy could pick
them up and improve his or
her team's chances.
Well, the woefully underregulated processed-food
industry has been allowed to
come up with its own version; we call it the
Unpalatable Players List, and
its effect is just the opposite.
Instead of preserving the
integrity of processed food, it
makes a roster of products
that are seriously healthdamaging.
In a recent study,
researchers laid out evidence
that the increase in autoimmune diseases (Type 1 diabetes, ulcerative colitis,
inflammatory joint diseases,
primary biliary cirrhosis,
etc.) is a result of the consumption of food additives
that cause "leaky gut." They
compromise the integrity of
the intestine's walls and
allow bad guys to sneak into
the bloodstream, where they
set off immune system
alarms triggering an autoimmune response.
Among the culprits are
emulsifiers, organic solvents,
nanoparticles and microbial
transglutaminase.
Emulsifiers keep ingredients
in processed foods well-blended. One organic solvent,
hexane, is used to extract
about 60 million tons of oils
(mostly soy) annually.
Microbial transglutaminase
improves texture and appearance in meats and baked
goods. Nanoemulsions protect oils and oil-soluble flavors, vitamins and nutraceuticals. These guys are everywhere and virtually invisible.
Clearly, here's another reason to cook using fresh produce; vegetable proteins like
nuts, seeds, beans and
quinoa; trout and wild
salmon; and 100 percent
whole grains. Do you have
the guts for it?
DEAR ABBY
Pauline Phillips and Jeanne Phillips
GARFIELD by Jim Davis
FRANK & ERNEST® by Bob Thaves
REX MORGAN, M.D. by Woody Wilson and Tony DiPreta
ZITS® by Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman
DILBERT by S. Adams
ALLEY OOP® by Dave Graue and Jack Bender
WIFE CAN'T GET PAST
ANGER AT HUSBAND WHO
CHEATED
DEAR ABBY: My husband
cheated on me and told me to
find somebody else. He
moved in with the other
woman and spread lies about
me, telling my in-laws that I
had cheated on him. He was
on probation, so I reported to
his probation officer that he
was lying about where he
was living. He was arrested
for it.
He is now incarcerated and
facing a two-year prison sentence. We're trying to work
on our marriage, but I
haven't told him that I'm the
person who reported him to
his probation officer. I'm still
angry at him for cheating on
me. When I write him, I tend
to bring up what he did when
he was out. I have told him I
forgave him, but lately, I don't
even take time to respond to
his letters. What should I do?
-- JUST PLAIN ANGRY
DEAR ANGRY: You're not
writing to your husband
because you are still angry
with him, and this is another
way of punishing him for
leaving you. What you should
do is ask yourself, honestly
and rationally, if it's worth it
to try and get past the fact
that he not only cheated, but
tried to damage your reputation as well. What you should
NOT do, for your own safety,
is tell him that the person
who turned him in for a
parole violation was you.
DEAR ABBY: I don't know
what to do with my parents'
wedding album. My mother
gave it to me as a gift when I
was a teen, and I assume it
was a coming-of-age consideration. I'm now in my 30s with
a career that has me
moving around frequently. I have moved once a
year for at least the last
five years, and I have had
to pack up this album
and box it every time.
I think that when my
mother gave it to me, she
figured I would pass it on
to grandchildren, but I
have chosen to not reproduce. My parents' marriage was anything but
storybook. What little I
remember was abusive
and chaotic, and my parents split up before I
reached kindergarten.
While these photos are
fantastic imagery of a
certain era, I do not want
to move them around
anymore. My father has
since passed, and my
mother lives in a small
apartment on limited
means, so I don't want to
return it to her. She is
also quite sentimental,
and I'm afraid that handing this heirloom back to
her will be disruptive.
I'm getting ready to
move again and don't
want to schlep this
unwanted item to yet
another location. Any
advice? -- BREAKING
WITH THE PAST
DEAR BREAKING: I
see no reason why you
should feel compelled to
hang onto a memento of
your parents' failed,
unhappy marriage.
However, I do not think
you should get rid of it
without first offering it
back to your mother.
Although her apartment
is small, she might want
to make room for it not
only because she's sentimental, but also because
it is a part of her history
-- like any other family
album.
If she doesn't want it
back, consider offering it
to another relative -aunt, uncle, etc. -- or your
state historical society
before disposing of it.
Dear Abby is written
by Abigail Van Buren,
also known as Jeanne
Phillips, and was founded by her mother,
Pauline Phillips. Contact
Dear Abby at
www.DearAbby.com or
P.O. Box 69440, Los
Angeles, CA 90069.
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Household Goods
2007 KING COAL.
170K BTU. Boiler w/
auger. 8x8 coal bin with
legs. $2900. Will take
20' shipping container
as part trade. 683-2969.
5' X 6' Green THROW
RUG. $50. 751-1866
BEDROOM LAMP $50.
751-1866.
MOTION LIGHT $20.
751-1866.
SPRING
CLEANING?
NEED TO
DECLUTTER?
SELL ANY ITEM
($50 or less)
FOR FREE IN THE
SHERIDAN PRESS!
For more details,
call Irene 672-2431.
Sporting Goods
TRAPPERS: LOOKING
to buy bobcats. 40 yrs
experience. Traveling in
March. Don Judkins
208-816-1532
Horses
CUSTOM HORSE
BOARDING to meet
your needs. Horse
boarding available.
Inside stalls, pasture,
full & partial care.
Endless space to ride.
307-737-2680
Miscellaneous
HAVE AN ITEM you
want to sell for
$50 or more?
Advertise with us!
ONLY $20.16!!!
Run it until it sells!
Call Irene
672-2431
Miscellaneous for Sale
MEN'S XL VARSITY
Jacket. Dark Green w/
black leather sleeves.
Only worn twice. $100
OBO. 307-683-6529.
Delivery
problems?
Call 672-2431
Musical Instruments
BASIC
TECHNIQUES of
Singing. AMAZE
Your Friends at
Karaoke! SHINE in
Your Church Choir!
ROCK Your Metal
Band! Call Kristi at
307-763-3412.
For Lease
Rail Road Land
& Cattle Co.
Buildings
for lease, Shop
space,
Warehouse
space, Retail
space, &
office space.
673-5555
Roommate Wanted
ROOMMATE WANTED
$450/mo. incl. util.
Call 751-7353.
Furnished Apts for Rent
ROCKTRIM. $500 / mo.
Wi-Fi/Cable. 752-8783.
WKLY FROM $210.
Monthly from $630.
Am. Best Value Inn
672-9757
Unfurnished Apts for
Rent
Business Bldg. for Rent
Help Wanted
4,200 SQ. FT. office/
shop w/ lot on Coffeen
Ave. $2000/mo. Agent
owned. ERA Carroll
Realty. Call 752-8112
Office Space for Rent
COFFEEN AVENUE
Location with lots of
parking! 2 Office
Suites Available with
access to signage on
Coffeen Avenue.
Licensee Owned . Call
674-7522.
2 BR. Ranchester 4Plex
$710/mo + dep, util.
incl. Non smk.
672-8641.
NICE CLEAN 2 BR,
quiet neighborhood,
ldry. hkps, sm storage
unit. $650/mo + $500
dep. Sm. pet negot.
1 yr. lease. 751-2445.
1 BR. $600/mo incl.
utils. No smk/pets.
763-2848.
SPOTLESS UPSCALE
3 BR, 2.5 BA condo w/
garage. $1100/ mo.
Lease w/ deposit.
No pets. 672-6174
2 BR/1.5 Ba. Patio.
W/D. Range.
Refrigerator.
Fireplace. No pets/smk.
$800/mo + $800 dep.
Water/sewer pd. Avail.
Mar 1st. 1 yr. contract.
Located at 1549 Taylor,
Unit #5. 751-8291.
2 BR/1 Ba. Nice, quiet
upstairs. Fenced yard.
Garage. Heat incl. No
smkg. $750/mo + sec.
dep. 751-5815
LOOKING FOR A
BEAUTIFUL
PROFESSIONAL
OFFICE to start or
build your business?
Includes janitorial,
utilities, security
doors, conference
room. Street signage
available. Large or
small office space
available at
Cottonwood Center,
LLC. 672-8700 or
751-3828.
SHOP/OFFICE SPACE
5200 SqFt, nice
location, paved street,
easy access. 673-5555.
Commercial Space for
Rent
602 E. 6th St. 2,100 sf
w/ 2 bay shop, office,
waiting room, restroom,
laundry room & work
benches. Good location
& nice clean property w/
parking. $1000/mo.
307-763-1628.
Storage Space
DOWNER ADDITION
STORAGE 674-1792
1 BR. Newly
remodeled. Laundry
facilities. A/C.
$600/mo. util. incl. No
smoking. 751-5815.
WOODLANDPARK
STORAGE.COM
5211 Coffeen
Call 674-7355
New Spaces
Available!
NICE CLEAN 2BR 1Ba.
DW, W/D, no pets, no
smoking. $725/month.
763-3352.
CALL BAYHORSE
STORAGE 1005 4th
Ave. E. 752-9114.
Houses, Unfurnished for
Rent
CIELO STORAGE
752-3904
QUIET COUNTRY
3 Br/2 Ba. Office. Lge
fenced backyard.
$1195/mo. 752-3665.
E L D O R A D O
STORAGE Helping you
conquer space. 3856
Coffeen. 672-7297.
1BR / 1Ba. W/D.
Licensed real estate
agent. $750. 752-8112
INTERSTATE
STORAGE. Multiple
Sizes avail.
No deposit req'd.
752-6111.
3 BR/2 Ba Executive
Home. $1600/mo.
Licensed real estate
agent. 752-8112.
3 BR/2 Ba. W/D.
$950/mo + util. No
smoking/pets. Come by
Clemens Exteriors for
application. Avail. Mar
1. 674-7675 or
751-4826.
1 BR/1 Ba. Bonus rm.
12'x16' storage shed.
W/D. $750/mo + util,
dep & 6 mo lease.
No smkg/ No pets.
307-672-3507.
1 BR. W/D. No
smk/pets. $575/mo.
W/S/G incl. 1st, last &
deposit. 307-737-2230.
Duplexes, Unfurn. for
Rent
2 BR/1 ba w/ appl,
$800/mo + util. Lease
& dep. No smk/pets.
Includes lawn care.
307-751-6772
10’ X 20’ storage unit
available. 673-5555.
Child Care
DEPENDABLE
CHILDCARE. 673-0712
Work Wanted
TEMPORARY
BOOKKEEPING /
ADMINISTRATIVE
SERVICES. Excellent
ref's. Sheridan area.
307-751-2658.
Help Wanted
LOG TRUCK DRIVER
needed. 2 yrs exp. Call
501-847-5041 after 5.
LEADING NORTHERN
Wyoming landscape
company needing
laborers & operators for
2016 season. Wage
DOE. Submit resume to
Box 240, c/o The
Sheridan Press, PO
Box 2006, Sheridan,
WY 82801
AN INDEPENDENT
insurance agency is
seeking a part time
commercial customer
service agent in our
Sheridan office. Must
possess excellent
communication and
computer skills while
working in a fast
paced environment.
Insurance experience
and P&C
license are preferred.
Send resume to
nstichert@tegeler
insurance.com or
267 N. Main
Sheridan WY 82801.
YOUTH SERVICES
SECURITY OFFICER,
Wyo. Girls School,
Sheridan; Class Code
SOYS04-04149, Target
Hiring Range: $2417$3021. General
Description: Conduct
the operations of the
Risk Management
Department, ensuring
the safety and security
of the juvenile
correctional facility,
serving adjudicated
female delinquents,
ages 12-21; for the
purpose of changing
their thinking and
behavior of delinquency
and dysfunction to
become a more
productive member of
their community and a
less threat to re-offend
upon their release. For
more info or to apply
online go to:
https://www.
governmentjobs.com/
careers/wyoming or
submit a State of Wyo.
Employment App. to the
HR Division, Emerson
Building, 2001 Capitol
Ave., Cheyenne, WY
82002-0060, Phone:
(307)777-7188, Fax:
(307)777-6562, along
w/ transcripts of any
relevant course work.
The State of Wyo. is an
Equal Opportunity
Employer & actively
supports the ADA &
reasonably
accommodates
qualified applicants w/
disabilities.
SHERIDAN COUNTY
SCHOOL DISTRICT
#1 is in need of a
contracted for services
Speech and Language
Pathologist for the
2016-2017 school
year. Hours of
contracted service will
be determined by
case load/hours of
service per week at
one of the district’s
elementary schools.
SCSD #1 will contract
for services at
$75/hour. Contract will
run from August to
May. Contact Bob
Heimbaugh for more
info or to apply at the
SCSD #1 Central
office at 655-9541 ext.
107. Position is open
until filled. E.O.E.
Help Wanted
Help Wanted
Help Wanted
SHERIDAN COUNTY
School District #1, is
accepting applications
for a special education
position for the 20162017 school year.
Qualified candidates
should have a valid
WY Special Education
Teaching License in
the area of special
education generalist,
K-12. The
SPECIAL
EDUCATION
TEACHER is
responsible for
developing,
maintaining and
documenting all
instructional and
behavioral programs
within the school
setting. Average
special education
student caseload is 10
students. Position
begins August 2016.
Only completed
district application
packets will be
considered.
Applications will be
accepted until the
position is filled. Visit
www.sheridan.k12.wy.
us to apply. E.O.E.
Now Hiring
Help Wanted, Medical
HERITAGE
WOODWORKS
is seeking a long-term
general carpenter with
interest in finish work
and cabinetry. Must
be quality-oriented
and interested in
working with logs,
timbers, and
reclaimed wood. 40+
hrs/wk with benefits.
Pay DOE. Call
763-4017 to apply.
Hostess
Cook
Server
Maintenance
Font desk/
night audit
*Wage DOE
Apply in person at the
Front Desk.
CHILDREN'S
CENTER is hiring F/T
caregiver for two
year olds. Apply in
person at 863
Highland Ave.
1809 SUGARLAND DRIVE
SHERIDAN, WY
55 OR OLDER?
Unemployed? Lowincome? The Senior
Community Service
Employment Program
might be right for you.
Limited
openings! Call
Experience Works
today 877-314-5519.
Funded by the U.S.
Dept of
Labor. No Fee.
Nonprofit Organization.
Equal
Opportunity Service
Provider.
NOW HIRING RNs,
LPNs & CNAs.
Call Miranda at
307-674-4416.
WE ARE looking for
RNs, CNAs, PT & OT
for the Buffalo &
Sheridan area. For
more info, call Sharon's
Home Health Care,
Moorcroft, WY
307-756-3344. Ask for
Lacy, Helene or Joey.
NOW HIRING
housekeepers.
Apply at
Candlewood Suites
1709 Sugarland Dr.
MT or MLT Generalist
Come join the South
Big Horn County
Hospital Team! New
hospital, ER, lab & XR.
Competitive pay, great
co-workers. Immediate
opening for full time
ASCP registered or
equivalent. M-F, 8 or 10
hour days, some WE
and evening call.
Application online at
midwayclinic.com or at
facility. 388 US Hwy 20
S. Basin, WY. Drug free
workplace. EEO 307568-3311.
LOOKING FOR FT
Member Services
Rep. Great benefit pkg.
Pay DOE. Drop off
resume at Sunlight FCU
1447 Sugarland Dr.
These Animals are Available
at the Dog & Cat Shelter
84 East Ridge Road
Dogs
Cats
“Mittens”, 8 yr. old, SF, black & silver, Scottie mix
“Reginald”, 2 yr. old, NM, dapple, Dachshund mix
“Echo”, 2 yr. old, SF, black & blue, Sheeler/Shepherd mix
“Lisa”, 3 yr. old, SF, black & blue, Heeler mix
“Rosco”, 7 mo. old, NM, brown, Heeler mix
“Rainy”, 7 mo. old, SF, red, Heeler mix
“Snoopy”, 2 yr. old, NM, black & white, Retriever/Lab mix
“Aug”, 1 yr. old, SF, black & white, Border Collie/Lab mix
“Ruger”, 1 yr. old, NM, black & tan, German Shepherd mix
“Dusty”, 2 yr. old, SF, Cream Seal Point, Siamese mix, DSH
“Holly”, 1 yr. old, SF, Dilute Calico, gray & orange, DLH
“Cudi”, 4 yr. old, SF, brown & orange Torbie, DSH
“Hulk”, 5 yr. old, NM, brown & black, DSH
“Monet”, 7 yr. old, SF, black & white, DSH
“Sampson”, 5 yr. old, NM, gray & white tabby, DSH
“Sassy”, 7 yr. old, SF, orange & white, DSH
“Shania”, 8 yr. old, SF, Dilute Calico, gray & orange,
front declawed, DSH
“Syd”, 10 mo. old, NM, orange tabby, DSH
DSH = domestic short hair DMH = domestic medium hair DLH = domestic long hair
NM = neutered male • SF= spayed female
We have 29 cats and 15 dogs up for adoption!!
Come up and see what we have for you!
Please bring your aluminum cans either to our Can Hut just inside the Shelter
gates or to our can trailer at Scotty’s Skate Castle. Recycling proceeds are
used to care for the animals.Thanks for your support.
CLASSIFIEDS
B6 THE SHERIDAN PRESS
BIZZARO
Vehicle
for sale?
Call Irene
at 672-2431
Hints from Heloise
Charitable Deluge Drowns
Interest
Dear Readers: Today's
SOUND OFF is really a slew
of Sound Offs:
Margaret in Lubbock,
Texas, wrote: "I've been
overwhelmed with pleas for
contributions for charities
I've never had on my list! I
wish they would save their
money and clean up their
lists. I've received free
greeting cards, calendars
and enough mailing labels
to last me 100 years!"
Stella in Danville, Ky.,
wrote: "We make several donations annually in the
spring. Now just about
every group and several
new ones are asking for donations at the end of the
year. What a waste of paper
and postage. We only donate
once a year." HELOISE
HERE: The end of the year,
especially during the holiday season, is "prime" charity solicitation time ... they
pull at your heartstrings.
Mary Ann in Orange,
Calif., wrote: "My Sound Off
is about organizations that
send address stickers
(sometimes with incorrect
spelling) that can be destroyed only by shredding.
I've written, but to no avail.
I have a once-a-year budget
rule for these needs, but am
considering stopping altogether."
Dear Readers: You are not
alone. This has been going
on for DECADES! Here is
about all you can do: If
there is a paid return envelope, put everything back in
and mark on the contribution slip "REMOVE FROM
LIST." If a phone number is
listed, call. Remember, they
are asking you -- you did not
invite them into your home.
Do not feel guilty, either!
Donate to the charities you
can and to the ones you care
about. -- Heloise
SEND A GREAT HINT
TO:
Heloise
P.O. Box 795000
San Antonio, TX 782795000
Fax: 1-210-HELOISE
Email:
Heloise(at)Heloise.com
FAST FACTS
Dear Readers: Uses for
fake credit cards and used
gift cards:
* Scrape ice off windows/mirrors.
* As a straight edge when
graphing or designing patterns.
* Clean the mud or grime
off your shoes.
* Tape identification to it
Bridge
TWO SUITS OFFER DOUBLE THE CHANCES
Steve Jobs said, "Quality
is more important than
quantity. One home run is
much better than two doubles."
However, at the bridge
table, you are often better
placed with a two-suited
hand than with a one-suiter,
because you get twice the
chance to find a fit with
your partner.
For the next two weeks,
we are going to look at handling two-suiters in various
situations.
If you open one of your
higher-ranking five-card
suit, and partner immediately raises, you should immediately upgrade your
hand.
In this deal, North is right
to make a limit raise of
three spades. He counts one
shortage point for each doubleton. Then South, with
such a strong side suit,
starts wondering about a
grand slam; if partner has
the spade ace-queen and diamond ace, South rates to
Heloise
and use as an ID tag.
* Scrape dried particles off
countertops.
-- Heloise
EYE-MAKEUP REMOVER
Dear Heloise: Eye-makeup
remover can be expensive,
but it doesn't have to be. I
put a few drops of tearless
baby shampoo on a round
makeup pad and run it
under the water. It dissolves
my mascara and brow pencil very well. I rinse it off
with water, and presto, no
more eye makeup.
I buy the travel size, as I
don't need the big bottle.
Thanks for your great ideas!
-- Molly S., Dayton, Ohio
Molly, you are brilliant! I
use baby shampoo and
water (about half and half)
in a pretty hand-soap disPICKLES
penser as a hand and facemakeup wash. Now I'm
going to use it for eye
makeup, too! Cheap at
thrice the price. -- Heloise
WOODEN CAP HOLDER
Dear Heloise: My husband
has a variety of baseballtype caps. I rounded up his
"frequent use" caps, took a
wooden pants hanger,
opened it up, slipped those
caps onto the wooden rod
and closed the hanger.
NON SEQUITUR
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Autos & Accessories
SHERIDAN
ORTHOPAEDIC
has an opening for a
full-time Radiologic
Technologist.
The position includes
the operation of our
Digital X-Ray, MRI and
Dexa Machine. ARRT &
MRI experience not
required although
beneficial.
Email resumes to:
glagorio@sheridanortho
.com or fax
307-674-4619
CAR VACUUM $20.
751-1866.
Lost & Found
FOUND DOMESTIC
young rabbit (bunny)
white with black ears,
nose, tail & feet.
672-8145
FOUND LG
TRACFONE around the
800 block of West 11th.
Call the phone to claim
or come to Sheridan
Press
144 E. Grinnell.
Autos & Accessories
13
SP
Fuller
transmission. $1600. 4
GMC 8 hole wheels
165. $100. 4 875 R165
tires. $300. OBO. Like
new. 752-2887
1997 PONTIAC Grand
Prix 3.8. 96K miles.
$1500. 672-7628
2 CAR MATS $50.
751-1866.
PRIME RATE
MOTORS is buying
clean, preowned
vehicles of all ages.
We also install B&W
GN hitches, 5th Wheel
Hitches, Pickup
Flatbeds, Krogman
Bale Beds. Stop by
2305 Coffeen Ave. or
call 674-6677.
LOST
PET?
Place an ad in
The Press!
Call 672-2431
Pickups & Vans
1986 F150 2WD
Extended Cab. Needs
fuel pump. Dual gas
tanks. $500 OBO.
806-632-9281.
Phillip Alder
take all of the tricks. But he
cannot immediately use
Blackwood, because he does
not have a diamond control.
South controlbids four clubs,
then, when partner returns the
compliment with
four diamonds,
South launches
Roman Key Card
Blackwood. When
North shows two
aces and denies
the spade queen,
South settles for
the small slam.
After West leads
the diamond
king, how should
declarer plan the
play?
Since the opponents have established a diamond
trick, South cannot afford to lose
the lead until he
has discarded
dummy's diamond five. So, he
should cash the
spade ace and
king, then start running
clubs, and discard that diamond on the third round.
Here, it is a home run.
Omarr’s Daily Astrological
Forecast
BIRTHDAY GAL: Actress
Cara Buono was born in
New York today in 1971.
This birthday gal portrayed
Martine Rousseau on "Person of Interest," Faye Miller
on "Mad Men," and Sheriff
Anna Turner on "The Dead
Zone." She's also appeared
on episodes of "The Mysteries of Laura," "Elementary,"
and "The Carrie Diaries."
Buono's screen appearances
include parts in such films
as "Paper Towns," A Good
Marriage," and "Let Me In."
ARIES (March 21-April
19): Keep your eye on the
ball. While the ball is in the
air be prepared to catch.
Your ability to act on opportunities will bring you benefits. Be alert for wise
advice or guidance that
may help you score a home
run.
TAURUS (April 20-May
FOR SALE:
2001 Buick LeSabre
Custom. 150K+ miles.
New starter. Good
tires. Needs some
work. $500.
307-461-1227.
20): The dog that wags his
tail signals that he is
friendly. A loyal friend may
be just what you need in
your corner. Don't be deterred by those who seem
overly businesslike and unapproachable. Wag your
own tail.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20):
Reinvent yourself and earn
rave reviews. Remain openminded about new age ideas
and progressive philosophies. Start any matter that
needs to receive widespread
publicity or where you wish
to attract personal kudos.
CANCER (June 21-July
22): Sitting on the sidelines
is more enjoyable when
your team wins. Just because you are currently taking a back seat to major
initiatives doesn't mean you
can't offer help. Be proactive about supporting a
partner's efforts.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Let
someone else handle the
dirty work. Keep your
hands perfectly clean so
that you can fondle fine fabrics and lovely artwork. Indulge a taste for the finer
things of life including an
affectionate and happy relationship.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
Develop your genius and
pull a genie out of the bottle. Use your head to overcome minor controversy.
Friends may offer constructive criticisms or offer a
testing ground so that you
can tweak a plan into concrete accomplishment.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):
Be satisfied by nothing but
the best. You may be overly
picky about spending your
hard earned pennies but
that has a plus side. It is bet-
Jeraldine Saunders
ter to wait until you can afford to purchase items of
good taste and distinction.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov.
21): Daydreaming is counterproductive. While Mars
is still in your sign you
should remember that actions speak louder than
words. Make your mark by
being an entertaining
friend and well-grounded
communicator.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21): You shouldn't be
resting on laurels if you sincerely want to reach your
goals. You can become a
powerhouse of efficiency
under these stars and may
surprise yourself by finishing up a difficult project
with honors.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.
19): Get in the swim of
things. Be the biggest fish
in your local pond. You will
be happiest when mingling
with like-minded people
who share the same political beliefs or work to promote popular causes.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
18): It's not what you know
but who you know that
counts. Form alliances with
powerful or influential people and a little of their fame
and fortune could rub off on
you. A special someone
could demonstrate extra affection.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
20): It is much easier to sail
with the current then
against it. The latest news,
the most recent fads, and
most innovative methods
may attract you. You may
prefer peace and quiet in
which to master a new computer skill.
IF MARCH 1 IS YOUR
BIRTHDAY: Keep your nose
to the grindstone for the
next eight to 10 weeks and
you will end up with a bag
full of money. Your passion
for perfection can make you
a workaholic between now
and mid-April, but your
paycheck will reflect your
efforts. You might be in the
mood for a dream vacation
or romantic escapades in
April but responsibilities
may prevent you from enjoying them. Listen for the
sound of opportunity
knocking in late May or
early June when a bit of advice from a friend or a passing opportunity can set you
off in a more beneficial direction or bring a situation
that improves your life.
YOUR ELECTED
OFFICIALS |
CITY
John Heath
Mayor
307-675-4223
Public Notices
Kristin Kelly
Councilor
307-673-4751
Shelleen
Smith
Councilor
307-461-7082
Thayer
Shafer
Councilor
307-674-4118
Alex Lee
Councilor
307-752-8804
Jesus Rios
Councilor
307-461-9565
Kelly Gooch
Councilor
307-752-7137
COUNTY
Pete Carroll
Treasurer
307-674-2520
Eda
Thompson
Clerk
307-674-2500
Nickie Arney
Clerk of District
Court
307-674-2960
John Fenn
4th Judicial
District Court
Judge
307-674-2960
Shelley
Cundiff
Sheridan
County Circut
Court Judge
307-674-2940
William
Edelman
4th Judicial
District Court
Judge
307-674-2960
P.J. Kane
Coroner
307-673-5837
Terry
Cram
Commissioner
307-674-2900
Tom Ringley
Chairman
Commissioner
307-674-2900
Mike
Nickel
Commissioner
307-674-2900
Steve
Maier
Commissioner
307-674-2900
Dave
Hofmeier
Sheriff
307-672-3455
Bob
Rolston
Commissioner
307-674-2900
Paul
Fall
Assessor
307-674-2535
Matt
Redle
County
Attorney
307-674-2580
STATE
Matt
Mead
Governor
307-777-7434
Mark
Jennings
Representative
House Dist. 30
307-461-0697
Mike
Madden
Representative
House Dist. 40
307-684-9356
Bruce
Burns
Senator
Senate Dist. 21
307-672-6491
Rosie
Berger
Representative
House Dist. 51
307-672-7600
Dave
Kinskey
Senator
Senate Dist. 22
307-751-6428
Mark
Kinner
Representative
House Dist. 29
307-674-4777
PUBLIC NOTICE
NOTICE OF ACCEPTANCE
AND FINAL PAYMENT AND
SETTLEMENT
Notice is hereby given that on the 14th day of March
2016, final settlement will be made by the Town of
Ranchester, for and on account of a contract with Ace
Builders, Inc. for the Main Street Mercantile Project a
WBC “Business Ready Grant and Loan Program”. The
above work having been completed and accepted
according to the plans and specifications of Main Street
Mercantile and the above date being the 41st day after
the first publication of this notice, the said Contractor
will be entitled to final settlement and payment
therefore. Any person, partnership, association, agency
or corporation who shall have any unpaid claims
against said Contractor for or on account of the
furnishing of labor, materials, equipment, sustenance,
provisions, or other supplies used or consumed by such
contractor and/or subcontractor in or about the
performance of said work may at any time, up to and
including the date of final settlement and payment, file
a verified statement of any and all amounts due on
account of such claim with: Town of Ranchester Attn:
Chris Johnson, PO Box 695, Ranchester, WY 82839.
Failure on the part of the claimant to file such
statement prior to final settlement and payment will
relieve absolutely the Town of Ranchester, for all or any
liability for such claim. Peter Clark, Mayor
Publish: February 3, 12, 29, 2016.
ORDINANCE NO. 2165
AN ORDINANCE annexing a portion of the Higby Rd.
Right-of-Way.
WHEREAS, the City has initiated annexation
proceedings for the annexation of the right of way
described below into the City of Sheridan, and has
adopted Resolution 37-15 certifying compliance with
W.S. §15-1-404; and
WHEREAS, the Planning Commission of the City of
Sheridan has recommended to the City Council that
said right-of-way be annexed to the City; THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
SHERIDAN:
Section 1. ANNEXATION.
That the following described right-of-way hereby
annexed into the City of Sheridan, to wit:
A tract of land situated in the
SE1/4SE1/4 of Section 15 and in
the NE1/4NE1/4 of Section 22,
Township 56 North, Range 84 West
of the Sixth Principal Meridian,
Sheridan County, Wyoming; this
tract of land also being a portion of
a County Road platted within the
boundaries of the Suburban Homes
Company Addition to the City of
Sheridan, Sheridan County,
Wyoming, known as Higby Road
(County Road No. 123); being more
particularly described as follows:
Beginning at the Southeast Corner
of Lot 34, Block 18 of said Suburban Homes Company Addition;
thence along a projection of the
Southerly line of said Block 18 on a
bearing of N 67° 15'14" E for a distance of 61.86 feet to a point on
the Westerly Right-of-Way of the
Burlington Northern Railroad; thence
along said Westerly Right-of-Way,
S 8°39'41" E for a distance of
1,257.71 feet; thence leaving said
Westerly Right-of-Way on a bearing
of S 76°37'49" W for a distance of
244.71 feet to a point on the
Northerly Right-of-Way of the railroad spur to Fort Mackenzie, this
point lying on a non-tangent curve
to the left; thence along said curve
to the left, this curve having a
Radius of 766.78 feet, a Central
Angle of 7°59'34", an Arc Length of
106.97 feet and a Chord bearing N
69°13'04" W for a Chord length of
106.88 feet, this point also lying on
the Southerly line of Lot 10, Block
28, said Suburban Homes Company
Addition; thence leaving said nontangent curve on a bearing of N
76°37'49" E for a distance of
277.90 feet to the Southeast
Corner of Lot 1 of the Arrowstar
Subdivision, Sheridan County,
Wyoming; thence N 8°39'41" W
along the Easterly line of Lot 1 of
the Arrowstar Subdivision and the
Easterly line of Block 21, Suburban
Homes Company Addition, for a
distance of 1,187.40 feet to the
point of beginning.
Said tract of land contains 2.04
Acres.
Basis of bearing is Wyoming State
Plane, East Central Zone
Section 2. FINDINGS.
That the City Council resolves and makes the following
findings in accordance with Wyoming State Statute
W.S. §15-1-402 and Sheridan City Code Appendix
B§804:
Annexation
(i.) The annexation of the area is for
the protection of the health, safety
and welfare of the persons residing
in the area and in the city or town;
(ii) The urban development of the
area sought to be annexed would
constitute a natural, geographical,
economical and social part of the
annexing city or town;
(iii) The area sought to be annexed
is a logical and feasible addition to
the annexing city or town and the
extension of basic and other
services customarily available to residents of the city or town shall,
within reason, be available to the
area proposed to be annexed;
(iv) The area sought to be annexed
is contiguous with or adjacent to the
annexing city or town, or the area
meets the requirements of
W.S. 15-1-407;
(v) The City Council, as governing
body, will honor all existing electrical
franchise agreements in regard to
serving the above described annexation area; and is prepared to issue
one (1) or more franchises, if necessary, pursuant to
W.S. §15-1-410; and
(vi) As required by W.S. § 15-1-407
the City Council also declares that
as established via quitclaim deed
recorded in the Sheridan County
Courthouse records of deeds, Book
536, page 366; the City of Sheridan
is the sole owner of the property
described above in Section 1.
Section 4. SEVERABILITY.
If any provision or portion of this ordinance is declared
by any court of competent jurisdiction to be void,
unconstitutional, or unenforceable, than all remaining
provisions and portions of this ordinance shall remain in
full force and effect.
Section 5. EFFECTIVE DATE.
That this ordinance shall be in full force on February 16,
2016.
PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED this 15th Day of
February, 2016
City of Sheridan
/s/John Heath
John Heath, Mayor
ATTEST:
/s/Brenda K Williams
Brenda K Williams, Deputy City Clerk
Publish: February 29, 2016.
ORDINANCE NO. 2164
AN ORDINANCE annexing a parcel of land located in the
SW1/4SW1/4 of Section 28 and the NW1/4NW1/4 of
Section 33, Township 56 North, Range 84 West of the
6th P.M. Sheridan County Wyoming; and zoning said
parcel as part of R-1 Residence District.
WHEREAS, the City has initiated annexation
proceedings for the annexation of the land described
below into the City of Sheridan, and has adopted
Resolution 37-15 certifying compliance with WS §15-1404; and
WHEREAS, city staff have recommended that the
property be zoned as part of a R-1 Residence District;
and
WHEREAS, the Planning Commission of the City of
Sheridan has recommended to the City Council that
said tracts of land be annexed to the City, and that the
same be zoned as part of a R-1 Residence District;
THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
SHERIDAN:
Section 1. ANNEXATION.
That the following described property hereby annexed
into the City of Sheridan, to wit:
A Tract of land located in the Southwest Quarter of the Southwest
Quarter (SW 1/4 SW 1/4 ) of
Section 28 and in the Northwest
Quarter of the Northwest Quarter
(NW 1/4 NW 1/4 ) of Section 33,
Township 56 North Range 84 West,
of the 6th P.M., Sheridan County,
Wyoming, Being more particularly
described as follows:
Beginning at the Northwest corner
of the Southeast Quarter of the
Southwest Quarter (SE 1/4 SW 1/4)
of said Section 28; Thence along the
East Line of the SW 1/4 SW 1/4 of
said Section 28 S 1°01’50” E,
1316.92 feet to the West OneSixteenth Corner between said
Section 28 and said Section 33;
Thence along the East line of the
NW 1/4 NW 1/4 of said Section 33
S 1°15’19” E, 48.93 feet; Thence S
84°59'38" W, 60.34 feet, Thence N
14°42'46" W, 98.51 feet; Thence N
25°37'33" W, 226.08 feet; Thence
N 21°08’24” W, 92.52 feet; Thence
N 18°47'52” E, 77.23 feet; Thence
N 40°02'12" E, 49.02 feet; Thence
N 18°50'20"E 63.31 feet; Thence N
4°47’00” E, 32.35 feet; Thence N
11°'36'18” W, 45.18 feet; Thence N
23°34’51" W, 47.94 feet; Thence N
32°13’06” W, 50.54 feet; Thence N
32°23’52" W, 60.01 feet; Thence N
35°12'41” W, 63.43 feet; Thence N
46°52'18" W, 816.91 feet to a
point on the North line of the SW
1/4 SW 1/4 of said Section 28;
Thence along said North line S
89°21’51” E, 832.15 feet to the
point of beginning, said Tract being
9.664 acres, more or less.
Section 2. ZONING
That the above described land be zoned R-1 Residence.
Section 3. FINDINGS.
That the City Council resolves and makes the following
findings in accordance with Wyoming State Statute 151-402 and Sheridan City Code Appendix B§804:
Annexation
(i.) The annexation of the area is for
the protection of the health, safety
and welfare of the persons residing
in the area and in the city or town;
(ii) The urban development of the
area sought to be annexed would
constitute a natural, geographical,
economical and social part of the
annexing city or town;
(iii) The area sought to be annexed
is a logical and feasible addition to
the annexing city or town and the
extension of basic and other services customarily available to residents of the city or town shall,
within reason, be available to the
area proposed to be annexed;
(iv) The area sought to be annexed
is contiguous with or adjacent to the
annexing city or town, or the area
meets the requirements of
W.S. 15-1-407;
(v) If the city or town does not own
or operate its own electric utility, its
governing body is prepared to issue
one (1) or more franchises as necessary to serve the annexed area
pursuant to W.S. 15-1-410; and
(vi) The annexing city or town, not
less than twenty (20) business days
prior to the public hearing required
by W.S. 15-1-405(a), has sent by
certified mail to all landowners and
affected public utilities within the
territory a summary of the proposed
annexation report as required under
subsection (c) of this section and
notice of the time, date and location
of the public hearing required by
W.S. 15-1-405(a).
Section 4. SEVERABILITY.
If any provision or portion of this ordinance is declared
by any court of competent jurisdiction to be void,
unconstitutional, or unenforceable, than all remaining
provisions and portions of this ordinance shall remain in
full force and effect.
Section 5. EFFECTIVE DATE.
That this ordinance shall be in full force on February 15,
2016.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED THIS 15, Day of
February, 2016
City of Sheridan
/s/ John Heath
John Heath, Mayor
Attest:
/s/Brenda K Williams
Brenda K Williams, Deputy City Clerk
Publish: February 29, 2016.
ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS
The City of Sheridan, Wyoming will receive sealed bids
for the Grinnell Street Sidewalk Project. The project is
generally described as follows:
The Bid includes removing 2140
square feet of concrete surfacing
and replacing with curb, gutter,
commercial sidewalk and a concrete
surfaced parking area on the north
side of E. Grinnell Street, just east of
Broadway Street intersection.
Sealed bids will be received at City Hall, Customer
Service on the 1st floor, until 10:00 am local time on
March 10, 2016. The bids will then be opened and read
aloud at the Council Chambers on the 3rd floor of City
Hall.
All bids shall be submitted in accordance with and on
the forms included in the Project Manual. Bids shall be
submitted in a sealed envelope addressed to:
City of Sheridan
Customer Service
Attn: Lane Thompson
Grinnell Street Sidewalk Project
55 Grinnell Plaza
Contract Documents, including proposal Bid Forms,
Construction Drawings and Project Manual, have been
placed online at https://goo.gl/ls7GBl.
Contract Documents may be obtained on or after
February 19, 2016 online at https://goo.gl/ls7GBl, at the
non-refundable cost of $10.00 per set.
A PRE-BID CONFERENCE will be held on March 3, 2016
at 10:00 am local time, beginning in the Council
Chambers on the 3rd floor of City Hall, Sheridan,
Wyoming.
Contractors, in submitting their respective bids,
acknowledge that such bids conform to all
requirements of Wyoming State Statute. Each bidder
must include a bid security with the bid, payable to the
City of Sheridan, in accordance with the Instruction to
Bidders.
No bidder may withdraw its bid after the scheduled
time of the bid opening. Bids are to remain open for 60
days after the bid opening. The Owner reserves the right
to reject any and all bids or parts thereof, and to waive
any irregularities of any bid. The Owner also reserves
the right to award the contract to such responsible
bidders as may be determined by the Owner.
City of Sheridan, Wyoming
By: /s/Nicholas Bateson
Nicholas Bateson, Public Works Director
Publish: February 19, 24, 29, 2016.
ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS
Sheridan County and the City of Sheridan, Wyoming will
receive sealed bids for the
Holloway Avenue Reconstruction Project. The project is
generally described as follows:
The Project includes street reconstruction along Holloway Avenue
between 11th Street and 15th
Street and installation of storm drain
system from 11th Street to an outfall at Soldier Creek. Included in the
project are removal of approximately 604 sy of existing surfacing,
3,145 cy of unclassified excavation
above subgrade, installation of
approximately 5,354 sy of asphalt
surfacing, 2,657 lf of curb & gutter,
807 sy of sidewalk, 2,370 lf of RCP
storm drain system and other
enhancements.
Sealed bids will be received at the Public Works Office,
224 S. Main Street, Suite 428, Sheridan, WY 82801, until
3:00 pm local time March 10, 2016. The bids will then be
opened and read aloud at the 2nd Floor Public Meeting
Room 210, Courthouse Annex, 224 S. Main Street,
Sheridan, WY.
All bids shall be submitted in accordance with and on
the forms included in the Project Manual. Bids shall be
submitted in a sealed envelope addressed to:
Sheridan County Public Works
Attn: Ken Muller
HOLLOWAY AVENUE RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT
224 S. Main Street, Suite 428
placed online at http://goo.gl/ls7GBl.
February 25, 2016 online at http://goo.gl/ls7GBl, at the
non-refundable cost of $10.00 per set.
A PRE-BID CONFERENCE will be held on March 3rd, 2016
at 10:00 am local time, beginning in the 2nd Floor
Public Meeting Room 210, Courthouse Annex, 224 S.
Main Street, Sheridan, Wyoming.
must include a bid security with the bid, payable to
Sheridan County, in accordance with the Instruction to
Bidders.
Sheridan County, Wyoming
By: Chairman, Sheridan County Board of County
Commissioners
Publish: February 22, 29, March 7, 2016.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR A TRANSFER OF A
RESTAURANT LIQUOR LICENSE
Notice is hereby given that on the 16 day of February,
2016 The New Museum at the Bradford Brinton DBA
The Brinton Museum filed an application for a transfer
of a restaurant liquor license, in the office of the County
Clerk of Sheridan County for the following described
place and premises to wit, a 21' X 26' room on the West
side of 3rd floor at 239 Brinton Road, Big Horn , WY.
Protests, if any, against the transfer of the license will
be heard on the 1st of March, 2016 in the
Commissioner’s Board Room located on the 2nd floor of
the new courthouse addition.
/s/Eda Schunk Thompson, Sheridan County Clerk
Publish: February 26, 29, 2016.
Public Notice
Board of Adjustment
The Board of Adjustment of the City of Sheridan,
Wyoming, will meet in the City Council Chambers at City
Hall, 55 Grinnell Plaza, Sheridan WY, at 7:00 P.M. on
March 10, 2016 to consider the following item:
1. Consideration of PL-16-4: 752
1st Ave West; a request for a
variance to extend a commercial
building which has existed for longer
than five years (W.S.
15-1-608(b)(iii)), which is nonconforming by virtue of there being
three different primary use
structures on the same parcel.
2. Consideration of PL-16-9: 752
1st Ave West; An appeal of a staff
zoning regulation determination that
a dog training facility does not constitute a Business or commercial
school as allowed in a B-1 Business
District (Sheridan City Code
Appendix A Sec. 7.A).
/s/ Jim Harmon
Jim Harmon, Finance and Administrative
Services Director
Publish: February 29 and March 7, 2016.
ADVERTISEMENT FOR REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS
The City of Sheridan, Wyoming and the Senior Center
will receive sealed proposals for the Sheridan Senior
Center Remodel and Expansion Project Design Build.
THE SHERIDAN PRESS
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The project is generally described as follows:
The City of Sheridan is seeking qualified consultant/contractor to form
a project team to provide d
design/build services for the
remodel and expansion of the
Sheridan Senior Center. The project
is funded through a grant from the
Wyoming Business Council, the
Sheridan Economic and Educational
Development Authority, and private
donors. The total project consists of
approximately 21,300 sq. ft. of
remodel and expansion of the
existing facilities at 211 Smith St. in
Sheridan, WY.
Sealed proposals will be received at City Hall, Customer
Service on the 1st floor, until 5:00 pm local time on
March 28, 2016.
All proposals shall be submitted in accordance with and
on the forms included in the request for proposals.
Proposals shall be submitted in a sealed envelope
addressed to:
City of Sheridan
Customer Service
Attn: Lane Thompson
Sheridan Senior Center Remodel and
Expansion Project
55 Grinnell Plaza
placed online at https://goo.gl/ls7GBl.
February 26, 2016 online at
https://goo.gl/ls7GBl, at the non-refundable cost of
$10.00 per set.
A MANDATORY PRE-PROPOSAL CONFERENCE will be
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THE SHERIDAN PRESS
© 2016 by Vicki Whiting, Editor
Jeff Schinkel, Graphics
Vol. 32, No. 13
Write a Press
Release
Think about something that
has happened at your school
or in your community or
neighborhood this past week.
Did you go on a field trip?
Did anyone win an award or
do something special? Write a
press release about it!
Zoey is a Wisconsin 3rd grader. She
reads Kid Scoop in her local
________________, the
Watertown Daily Times.
Her mother, who publishes
a newspaper for the 5th
grade at her __________,
inspired Zoey to ________
her own newspaper.
Zoey also wants other _______ to
contribute to her paper. “Kid Scoop
helped me by getting my classmates
excited about writing,”
said Zoey. “I also like it
when they __________
when they get published.”
Zoey’s newspaper is
called Webster3. She
gets her story ________
from the world around her. The
next issue is all about birthdays, and
_________ that she will do an issue
about how animals survive.
Her paper will be available to
kids and ___________ online.
“When I grow up,” Zoey said,
“I want to be a magazine
editor and president, a fashion
designer and a pro-cupcake
baker.”
Zoey’s biggest challenge is getting
people to take her seriously. “They
don’t think I’m really going to do it.
But they are wrong!”
Read the first three paragraphs of an article
in the newspaper. Underline who the article
is about in red. Underline what the article is
about in blue. Circle in green when and
where the event in the article takes place.
Then fill in the chart below:
On Wednesday, March 9th,
classrooms in Watertown, Wisconsin,
will put books aside and spend the
day learning with the newspaper.
This is an annual event for the
Watertown Daily Times and is called
No Books Day. Last year 49
classrooms participated.
“Teachers tell us students love a
break from the usual text books and
that they love seeing how their
school subjects connect to the real
world,” reports Dawn McBride,
Newspaper In Education Coordinator
for the Watertown Daily Times.
Write a paragraph using the
facts you used to complete the
form above.
“Newspapers can be used in the
classroom for activities using every
school subject – math, science,
social studies, history, art and
even P.E.,” says McBride.
On a sheet of newspaper, find and circle the
letters that spell each of the following words
that are a challenge to spell. Connect the
circled letters for each word with lines. Can
you make a design from your lines and dots?
A great rainy day activity:
Twist several sheets of the
newspaper together to form a
hockey stick. Use tape to hold it
together. Make a puck by
crumpling one sheet into
a ball and taping it.
Look through the
newspaper to find:
• Five numbers that
add up to 100.
• Three numbers
that add up to 65.
• Six numbers that
add up to 44.
Find the
differences.
Standards Link: Number
Sense: Calculate sums to 100.
he newspaper isn’t all serious stuff. Comics, puzzles,
movie listings and more make the newspaper
entertaining. Set a timer for five minutes. Look through
the newspaper and see how many fun things you can find.
Circle each item with a blue crayon. Have a friend try next,
using a red crayon. Who found the most?
Give these comic characters something
funny to say.
Standards Link: Research: Use the newspaper to locate information.
Use the form below to organize
your information.
NEWSPAPER
CRUMPLING
DESIGNER
ARTICLE
SERIOUS
COMICS
EDITOR
ANNUAL
CHART
ISSUE
BAKER
WEIRD
USUAL
TEXT
ACHE
T R A H C N U S N
Send your press release to the
editor of the paper! Be sure to
include your name and how
to contact you in case the editor
needs to ask you questions.
Take three sheets of paper.
Label one ANIMAL. Label
the others VEGETABLE
and MINERAL. Cut
pictures or advertisements
from the newspaper. Paste
them on the correct papers.
Try to find several for
each page.
I
A C H E R S C E E W
N R E E U
N O I
I W R K E
A M S E
U T L O P S
I
I
D L
O E C
A I C A L U R U A I
L D P S
I
E D S S T
T E X T N B A K E R
R R E N G
I
S E D A
This week’s word:
CONTRIBUTE
The verb contribute means
to work at something often
to learn it well.
The students contributed
an article about pandas for
Zoey’s newspaper.
Try to use the word
contribute in a sentence
today when talking with your
friends and family members.
Cutting Cut Lines
The short information info under a picture
is called a cut line. Cut out pictures from
today’s newspaper. Separate the pictures
and cut lines. Give them to someone to see
if they can put them back together correctly.
ANSWER: The Daily Moos.
Standards Link: Research: Use the newspaper to locate information.
Why do you like to read the
newspaper? Which parts of
the newspaper do you like
the best?

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