Warriors fish, bond and heal

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WEDNESDAY • JULY 2, 2014 • VOLUME 127 • NO. 48 • $1
River claims
Laramie man
Warriors fish, bond and heal
National Guard,
Search and Rescue,
Game and Fish and
various locals assist
in recovery
By Liz Wood
Photo by Liz Wood
Volunteer fishing guide Steve Heinitz holds the net as Lenny Beutelspacher, an
Army Vietnam veteran picks up the fish he just caught. Beutelspacher was one of
12 veterans who participated in the Wounded Warrior Event last week.
Independence day events in the Valley
By Mike Dunn
Over the past two years, SkillAs America celebrates its 238th sUSA raised $8,000. This sumbirthday, Valley residents will be mer, they hope to raise at least
putting on their own celebrations $10,000 for cancer research.
More than 120 people particithis weekend.
pated in the walk in 2013, and at
the April 1 Saratoga town council
Cancer Walk
For the third year in a row, the meeting, SkillsUSA advisor Scott
SkillsUSA chapter of Saratoga Bokelman said they are expectHigh School will be hosting their ing more participants in 2014.
annual Cancer Walk in Saratoga.
Parade
Starting at 8 a.m. on July 4, resAmerican Legion Post No.
idents will participate in a walk
through downtown to benefit 54 will once again lead Carbon
the Wyoming affiliate of Susan County’s only parade through the
town of Saratoga.
G. Komen.
In the
Sun:
Public sounds off at
DKRW meeting
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The parade will begin at
the old AmeriGas building on
First street, and will continue
north then turn west on Bridge
street.
Deb Clark, the adjutant of the
American Legion in Saratoga,
said their organization has coordinated the parade for at least
the last seven years.
“It should be a fairly large parade,” Clark said. There tends to
be more participants on election
years.
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Students “Journey
into the Past”
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Bartholomew elected
WMS Pres.
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Tony Seahorn knew it was
a dangerous situation he was
putting himself into, when he
made the decision to help the
stranded rafters.
“I couldn’t have gone past
them, not with my military
training. We were taught ‘leave
no man behind’,” Seahorn said.
“I could not have lived with
myself if I had not tried to save
him.”
Stephen Kaisler, a 70-yearold man from Laramie, was
trapped in a log jam lodged up
against the island. His family
and friends were crying for help,
Seahorn said.
Seahorn, who was guiding
Vietnam veteran Keith Bausserman on the river, knew he
had to take care of the passenger who was on his boat, and
the people who were crying for
help. Bausserman suffers from
multiple sclerosis, and would
not be able to help in the rescue
effort. Bausserman was also
not experienced on the river.
Seahorn said he knew he had
to make sure Bausserman was
safe too. Seahorn pulled his drift
boat into a small eddie.
Seahorn, an experienced
Wounded Warrior Event guide
and a decorated Vietnam War
veteran, made every effort to
help the trapped rafter, but the
force of the water was overpowering.
Seahorn said he had only seconds to assess the situation as
he was guiding last Thursday on
the North Platte River.
Bob Smith, another experienced guide who was also part
of the Wounded Warrior Event,
Veterans take 3,100
mile walk
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was downstream of Seahorn’s
boat. Seahorn heard Smith
shouting to someone, but could
not see what was happening
until he came around the bend.
Smith was telling the floaters
“You’ve got to pull away, you’ve
got to pull away.”
Smith then yelled to Seahorn,
“Raft overturned, occupants in
the river, one didn’t come out.”
Seahorn knows the Platte
River well, and he knew they
were in the most dangerous part
of the Platte between Treasurer
Island and the hot pool public
access. An island sits between
the river and Cottonwood Creek,
and the current pushes right
into the island, according the
Seahorn. Large ripples were
pushing up into a log jam caught
on the island. Seahorn said it is
a crucial area and rowers need
to make a decision early to go
to the left or right at that point
in the river, or be pulled in by
the current.
Smith, who had two military
veterans with him, rowed his
boat to the east side of the river,
called for a search and rescue
team and ensured his passengers were out of harm’s way.
Seahorn said he first ran to the
three rafters who were hanging
along the shore in the swift water, and then he ran with the
oarsman to where Kaisler was
located. “Most of the raft was
submerged under the massive
log sweep,” Seahorn said. “With
the full river current, it was not
allowing any movement of the
victim or the raft.”
Seahorn got into the water
where he could grab a hold of
Kaisler and try to lift him out
of the log jam. At one point,
Seahorn was up to his chest in
water, and the current was so
strong it kept sweeping him off
his feet. There were times that
Seahorn felt he may become a
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Branching out on
Hwy. 70
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Dorman Ewing
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Dorman Ewing, of Saratoga,
passed away on June 23, 2014
at the Deseret Health Care
Center in Saratoga.
Dorman James Ewing was
born on Nov. 10, 1927 to Amos
and Helen (Warner) Ewing in a
ranch house east of Sundance,
Wyo. When he was nine years
old, the family moved to a
ranch they bought on Houston Creek, west of Sundance,
where he grew up. He attended
rural Crook County Schools.
When he was 17 years old, he
enlisted in the United States
Navy and was honorably discharged in 1946.
He married Ellen Frederiksen on May 21, 1949, and
they lived in several Wyoming
towns including Sundance,
Newcastle, Sheridan, Edgerton
and Gillette, as he worked on
road construction and drove a
truck. In 1969 they moved to
Saratoga and in 1970 established Saratoga Corporation, a
heavy equipment construction
and trucking company, which
he managed until retirement
in 2010. In 1983 they bought
some acreage north of Saratoga
and established a small ranch.
He built a big shop, sheds,
barn and a nice cabin there
and moved the Saratoga Corporation equipment there from
a shop he had on West Bridge
Street. He always had horses,
mules or calves there that he
enjoyed caring for, and also
spent lots of time restoring old
farm equipment, which worked
like new when he was finished.
He always had a team and gave
wagon rides and sled rides to all
who enjoyed doing that.
He was a member of the
Town Council, the Planning
Commission and the Landfill
Board for many years. In 2002
he was presented with the Pioneer Award by the Wyoming
Trucking Association for driving two million miles without
an accident or a citation. In
2009 he was privileged to go
on the September Honor Flight
to Washington, DC where
he viewed the World War II
Memorial and other war memorials.
He was preceded in death by
his parents, an infant sister,
Louella, and a sister, Mercedes
Peery in 2009.
He is survived by his wife of
65 years, Ellen; his children,
Billy Ewing, Linda (Chuck)
Larsen, both of Saratoga, and
Sharon (John) Anderson, of
Encampment; 12 grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren
and 3 great-great-grandchildren; and a sister, Gail Fall of
Belle Fourche, S.D.
He was a wonderful man
who truly loved his family, his
home and his little ranch.
Services are planned for
Saturday, July 5, 2014 at 11:00
a.m. at the Valley Chapel in
the Saratoga Cemetery. In
lieu of flowers, memorials to
the Platte Valley Community
Center, PO Box 128, Saratoga,
WY would be appreciated.
Tributes and condolences
may be offered online at www.
carboncountyfuneralhome.
com.
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Tree removal road closures
Staff Report
A series of closures are
scheduled to begin June 30 on
Medicine Bow National Forest
Road 225 (South French Creek
Road) in the Snowy Range.
These temporary closures
aid in the safe and efficient
removal of hazard trees from
roads managed by the Brush
Creek-Hayden Ranger District
(BCH).
The closures will occur between the junctions of WY
Highway 130 and Forest Road
227. Once operations have been
completed on that portion of
the road, the closure will shift
to the next section.
Except for Fourth of July
holiday weekend, closures will
be continuously in effect all
day, every day until Aug. 31.
Beginning Sept. 1, closures will
be modified to be open during
evening and weekends.
Visitors to this part of the
Medicine Bow National Forest
are encouraged to check the
status of work areas by calling 307-326-5258 or stopping
by the BCH Ranger District
office at 2171 S. Highway 130
in Saratoga between 7:30 a.m.
and 5 p.m., Monday through
Friday this summer.
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At the Saratoga branch, the
Carbon County libraries will
put on “GermBusters.” The
MythBusters-style program will
take teens 11 to 18 years old
through germy and nauseating
experiments. The program will
take place at 1 p.m. on July 11.
People will also be able to
explore culinary chemistry
at the Saratoga and Encampment branches. Families will
have kits available to make
handmade Mozzarella cheese.
Registration is required due to
limited supplies. “Make your
own Mozzarella Cheese” will
take place from 1 p.m. to 3
p.m. on July 18 at the Saratoga
branch, and 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. on
July 22 at the Encampment
Library.
The Saratoga branch will
host “Astronomy for Everyone:
Size & Scale of the Universe.”
The family program will include a formal presentation,
then will go outdoors to view
celestial objects in the night
sky. The program will be held
from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on July 26,
and all ages are welcome.
The Saratoga Sun
July 2, 2014, Page 3
Public sounds off on DKRW
Photo by Mike Dunn
Dr. Jay Lillegraven asks Wade Cline to mark on the map
where the man camp for Medicine Bow Fuel and Power
will be will be located.
By Liz Wood
Wade Cline, executive vice
president of construction for
DKRW, told an audience of
around 47 people in Medicine
Bow Thursday that there are
only two things left for DKRW
Advanced Fuels LLC to get
their coal to liquefaction plant
built, but they are big things.
One is the Engineering,
Procurement and Construction
(EPC) agreement. Cline said
Sinopec was not meeting the
time lines they need to complete the EPC and that was
becoming very problematic for
DKRW.
Cline said DKRW has had
multiple meetings with EPC
contractors who are familiar
with the project and had bid
on it the first time it went out
for bid.
“We have a conceptual agreement with them on the process
forward, what it takes from
today to signing an EPC agreement with them,” Cline said.
Cline said the agreement
also includes the front end
engineering design (FEED)
study, which is a very detailed
blueprint of the project. Cline
said that they are still trying
to determine what the project
will cost; how long it will take
to build the plant before the
lender can be paid back and
the financial strength of the
EPC contractor.
Cline referred to the U.S.
Department of Energy (DOE)
loan guarantee that DKRW
sought in 2009 and said that
after two years of inaction on
the loan the DOE has pulled
it out and said “Let’s look at
this again.”
Part of the reason is because
the DOE has money allocated
from the federal government
that they have not spent in
programs that were developed
in 2005 and 2007, Cline said.
“The current administration
is getting a lot of criticism for
basically adopting rules that
are hurting the coal industry,”
Cline said.
Cline talked about equity
ownership, which could possibly change the percentage
of the company that DKRW
could own. “It could go from
68 percent down to possibly
50 percent, or 63 percent,”
Cline said.
A timeline was presented
with the cautionary note that
it changes daily. Cline said
timeline will be updated continually.
In the second half of 2014,
the FEED will be reviewed.
It contains around two terabytes of information. The
EPC contractor validates the
information. With these plans,
the EPC contractors say “We
can build it with ‘X’ and then
explain what ‘X’ is,” Cline said.
They are receiving preliminary numbers on what ‘X’ is.”
DKRW will then select the
final EPC contractor and will
be diligent with the DOE loan
guarantee. Documentation
will be supplied to the parties
and DKRW will continue to
work on permits through 2015.
In 2015, they will also update
the socio-economic impact
study, a process that takes
around four months Cline said.
In 2016, DKRW will finalize
the plans to begin construction. The plans include determining where the man camps
will be located.
Once the permits from the
Industrial Siting Council are
approved, Cline said he predicts construction will begin in
the fourth quarter of 2016. The
beginning construction work
will be ground preparation
work, according to Cline.
After 40 minutes of explaining the details of what is
required to build the plant,
public comment began.
Carbon County Commissioner Leo Chapman asked about
a $66 million loss written off
by Arch Mineral. Cline did
not know the details. Chapman also asked why DKRW
was delinquent in paying the
$10,000 owed to Bureau of
Land Management (BLM).
Cline stated that they had
already paid around $250,000
in cost reimbursement to BLM,
and had received a letter that
they needed to pay another
$10,000. Cline did not explain
why the $10,000 was not paid
by the first deadline, but said
the amount had been paid.
Cindy Chase, with the Medicine Bow Town Council, said
that she knows a lot of people
think that DKRW is just a big
farce, but people have no idea
what DKRW has to go through
to meet the demands of the
federal government.
Cindy Wallace, with the
Carbon County Economic Development Corporation, said
she is received calls from
housing developers and how
this is going to be coordinated
with the Sierra Madre and
Choke Cherry projects. “I like
to be kept in the loop because
we do get a lot of questions,”
Wallace said.
Wallace said people are
losing interest because the
project it taking so long. Cline
replied that he too is receiving
calls from people who want
to come to Medicine Bow. He
referred to one lady from Montana who wants to operate a
food service truck. “I told her
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The Saratoga Sun
A
s one of my favorite musicians, Red Knuckles,
used to say “mighty fine
and a great big howdy!” After 17
years of being an archaeologist
I am very happy to be starting
a new career as a reporter and
photographer here at the Sun. My
wife and I have been in Saratoga
full time for just about two years
now, but since I still don’t know
many of you I’ll give you a brief
introduction to myself.
I was born in the Shenandoah
Valley of Virginia, but raised in
the suburbs of Washington, D.C.
I think the D.C. area is a place
everybody should visit for its
outstanding culture, architecture,
and natural beauty, but I was not
built to live with so many people
in such a small area.
After graduating from high
school, I made my escape to the
Rocky Mountain West and settled
down for college in Fort Collins.
In what was a great surprise to
me I ended up living in Fort Collins for 22 years. While there I
acquired both undergraduate and
master’s degrees in anthropology
and worked a very successful a
career in archaeology. Not long
before I left Fort Collins, I married my beautiful wife, Jillian,
who is an archaeologist with
the Forest Service. When Jillian
had the opportunity to move
her duty station to Saratoga, we
took a leap of faith and moved to
the Valley along with our oldest
dog, Pancake. Since living here
we adopted Meatball, another
rescue dog.
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well. We bought a great house
with an amazing view of the
golf course, Old Baldy, and the
Medicine Bow mountains and
it cost less than our old house
in Fort Collins. Instantly, we
found the residents of Saratoga,
Encampment, and Riverside to be
welcoming and now feel we are
a part of this neck of the woods.
Being a part of, and giving back
to the community has been a priority of mine, and I think working
at the Sun will really help me
with that. I have also been on the
board of the Saratoga Museum
since last summer which has
given me the chance to be more
involved around town lend some
of my archaeological expertise to
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My wife and I are lucky enough
to be starting our family here as
Jillian is due with our first child
at the end of October. I have to
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While I do not have a background in journalism I have been
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have to adapt my writing style
a bit, but I think I can bring a
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its readers. Growing up in the
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national news is local news, made
politics a part of my daily life. I
also played football, soccer, and
lacrosse, until my sophomore
year in high school when I became a comparative runt at 5’ 7”
and only 150 pounds. I never got
any taller, but I sure have gotten
heavier since then.
In a rare occurrence for the
D.C. area, my family has a farm
where I grew up taking care of
horses and became familiar with
horse shows, even if it was that
sissy English riding.
During high school I worked for
a while setting up concerts and
sporting events at George Mason
University, and got to understand
what backstage life is like and
what rigors touring musicians
and athletes face. I’m also a musician who played in a bluegrass
band for several years down in
Colorado. I’ve finally been getting out and playing some music
around town, so maybe I’ll see
some of you folks in that capacity.
As for how I view the sociopolitical world around me, let’s
just say I may not be as conser-
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vative as many in the Valley. I
consider myself a moderate, but
in Wyoming that seems to make
me a liberal. I intend to keep my
reporting free and clear of any
socio-political views I have, but in
my monthly columns you should
be prepared for a dose of my views
on the world. I am a gun owner,
but I believe in gun control. I am
a straight, married, white male,
but I believe in the right of anyone
to marry whomever they choose.
I think there are major problems
on both sides of the aisle in Congress, but we have to work within
the Republic that we have, which
includes the necessity of voting
for our beliefs. It is a pet peeve of
mine that so many people blame
congress for not acting like the
supreme court, the president for
not having the powers of congress
and the supreme court for being
both too political and not political
enough.
I think education is the key to
our future, and teachers are underpaid and undervalued. Those
are just a few of my thoughts on
the world at large.
So, if you read something of
mine that you don’t agree with
down the road, let’s have a civilized debate. I have a pretty thick
skin and a good sense of humor,
which are already proving to be
critical around the office here at
the Sun. I invite any comments,
criticisms and questions the
readers of the paper have for me.
Stop by the office and say howdy
if you get a chance, I’d love to
meet as many of you as I can.
Editor
It is time to dump our Mayor
and his administration and get
new blood to run our town that
will hopefully demonstrate
some administrative competence that has been totally
lacking. Here are a few of the
in-competences demonstrated
by the current administration:
1) The new $4M budget they
approved that is an 84% increase. That is ridiculous!
2) The disastrous water meter/sewer line replacement
project. I am an engineer and
I watched the implementation
of this project with total dismay. I did not see a city official inspect one piece of the work
at our location at N. Veterans
St., nor probably anywhere else
in town. Any engineer knows
that no matter how good the
design or planning may be, the
work must be closely inspected
as it is performed to prevent
failures…especially when the
low bid contractor has limited
credentials. The Sun article on
May 28 quoted the contractor
as saying during his fight with the town for payment that
the specification issued by the Town didn’t even require the
contractor to have any certified plumbers. I watched them attempt the installation of our
meter pits 3 times before they
got it right…all without any
inspections. I also watched
the contractor install the new
sewer line at the corner of N.
Veterans and Saratoga St. as
a 90 degree right angle which
immediately started clogging.
Everyone knows you install
corner sewer lines with two 45
degree angles to avoid clogging.
As a result they had to dig it up
and do it over. Again, I saw no
inspectors from the Town.
3) To date the Town is still
trying to get the wireless meter network to work. Costs to
the Town budget have been
astronomical and are still not
over. Other towns have not had
problems with this wireless
meter system, implying the
problem is local.
4) The proposed walking
bridge from Hobo Pool to
Veterans island. Why is it
even needed...especially with
an 84% budget increase? I
Town isn’t bike friendly
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July 2, 2014, Page 5
Editor:
Is Saratoga friendly to bicycle tourists who come peddling
through town almost every day in
the summertime?
I’m inclined to think not after
observing a situation that occurred
this last Friday the 27th. I watched
two young men as they approached
town hall after 5 p.m. Since the
business day was over, they went
around the corner to the police
station, where I learned later, they
asked directions to the nearest
camp site and were told they had
to go to Saratoga Lake. As I was
finishing up my recycling for the day, I watched them peddle around
town, first to Veteran’s Island
then to the hot pool where I first made contact with them. Having
suspected they were told to go to
the lake, I took the time to drive
there and measure the distance.
From the police station to the pay
booth at the lake is 2.3 miles. In an
attempt to determine the shortest
route I took the back road back to
Saratoga. It was 1.9 miles.
When I discussed the distance
with them they were disappointed, and inquired if there were any
closer options. They had traveled
65 miles from Walden that day
and didn’t relish two more miles to
a patch of grass with a bathroom
and no shower. Sadly I could offer
no other option. I did suggest Deer
Haven Campground only to find out later there was no tent camping allowed, due to lack of public
bathrooms and showers.
These men were spending the
summer peddling from Arizona to
Glacier National Park. They indicated this was the first town they had come to in their travels that
had no camping facilities within
the town for bicycle tourists. The
irony was this conversation occurred beside the hot pool where
they could have taken a shower
and soaked their sore muscles
after a hard day’s ride before going
downtown to spend money in our
community buying a meal and
maybe a beer.
Why couldn’t they have spent
the night on that undeveloped
land, owned by the city, right behind the hot pool? In my opinion,
Saratoga is sending a bad message
about their friendliness to bicycle
travelers and Continental Divide
hikers by not having camping facilities within the town limits. It
began to rain and I broke off the
conversation. How did these fellows spend the night in Saratoga
and what memories did they take
with them as they peddled out of
“Happy Valley” the next morning?
Sincerely hoping we can do
better.
Richard Hodges
Saratoga
learned from STANTEC that
the Town failed to tell them of
this intended bridge until Dec
2013, which could have been
a major impact on their river
restoration project design.
5) The decision by the Town
to pursue a $1.5M outfall
transmission sewer project,
which will discharge raw ammonia into the river and can
potentially devastate our precious trout population. When
questioned as to what alternative approaches had been
investigated that would be
cheaper and not create a discharge into the river, the answer was vague at least. Many
cities in the country don’t have
a river to discharge sewer
effluent into and have to use other alternatives. For example a close friend who lives in
Las Cruces, NM tells me that
they solved their sewer plant
problem (without a river) with
a closed set of lagoons that use
an algae process to handle the
sewage..all without any environmentally hazardous discharges. Why can’t Saratoga
do something similar?
6) Failure to enforce Town
Ordinances. After the Town approved the “Clean up ordinance”
practically nothing was done to
enforce it. I submitted a complaint under this ordinance as
a fire and health safety hazard for an adjacent property shortly
after it was passed and waited
7 years for the city to actually
do anything to enforce the ordinance with the property owner
in question. One of the draws of
our town as a tourist site should
be its appearance. I have had
relatives tell me that Saratoga
looks to them like a dirty little
river town with so many properties littered with old cars,
trash, broken down equipment,
etc. That is not the appearance
or reputation you want to have
as a tourist town.
7) I have watched the battle
for 3 years over the ordinance
that requires property owners
who are running a business on
their property to be permitted.
Still it is not resolved. The one
case of an owner basically running a saw mill and log home
construction business on his
property within the city limits
goes on and on without resolve.
Even after the owner was
presented a cease and desist
order he continues to operate
and the Town seems unable or
unwilling to take action and
enforce it.
Space limits me from presenting a much longer list. A
common thread among all of
them is the lack of good communication by the Mayor and
his administration. Latest
meeting with STANTEC to
hear their status of the river
restoration project and collect
input, was given in the newspaper with only two days notice…
no other announcement. Town
council and Planning Commission meetings are a joke...
parliamentarian rules of order
usually ignored, lots of the
members telling the citizens
how it is going to be whether
they like it or not, and practically no listening/acknowledgement to their concerns or
complaints. It is time to clean
house and change the culture
of our Town administration!
John Ellis
Saratoga
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River claims Laramie man,
casualty himself.
Both men grabbed Kaisler’s
wrists and pulled. Kaisler’s face
was only partially above water,
Seahorn said.
Seahorn used his knife to
puncture the raft bladder to
relieve the pressure of the river
pushing against the raft.
“We were able to grab both
wrists and turn him slightly to
try and get his head and shoulders above water,” Seahorn said.
The pressure was too great and
the current eventually pulled his
body and the raft beneath the log
jam and out of reach.
Seahorn said when he grabbed
Kaisler’s wrist the second time,
he felt the life leave Kaisler’s
body. He still was desperately
trying to retrieve the body as the
family and friends cried for help.
The Rescue Team
Brad Cary, with the Saratoga
Search and Rescue team, had
rowed his rescue raft to the
site as Kaisler slipped out of
Seahorn’s hands.
“I was still in recovery mode,”
Seahorn said, as Cary approached the scene. “The wife
was crying for us to retrieve the
body and I was trying to see if
there was anything else I can
do.”
Cary told Seahorn, “Tony, you
have done everything you can.
We need to do our work. If you
would take the survivors in your
boat across the river, we have
an ambulance coming across
the Kelley Land and Cattle hay
meadow. If you get them across,
they will be out of the way and
they need to be checked for hypothermia.”
Seahorn said the survivors
had lost their shoes and were
soaking wet.
“(Brad) basically relieved me
and said ‘you need to get them
across if you would please and
get your vets on down the river,’”
Seahorn said.
“He helped me a lot, because
number one he said ‘Tony, I am
relieving you from your mission,
you have done all you can.’ When
he asked me to shuttle the people across they were afraid of
the water; they were afraid to
get back in the river,” Seahorn
recounted.
“(Brad) says, ‘Tony is veteran,
he is one of our local heroes,
he’s been guiding or rowing on
this river for 40 or 50 years.’
I thought ‘I didn’t know Brad
knew this much about me,’”
Seahorn said.
Cary told the survivors “I
guarantee Tony will get you
across the river.” Seahorn said
he didn’t have extra life jackets
for the survivors and theirs had
been lost with the raft.
“Brad was so reassuring to
them and did such a good job
of saying ‘Let me tell you about
Tony so that you know he can
take you across safely’,” Seahorn
said. “Those types of reassurances
are very important in a situation
like this.”
Cary had two other search and
rescue team members with him
on the raft; Bo Alameda and Bub
Barkhurst. Melanie Fullman,
Chuck McVey and Randy Sikes
also responded with the search
and rescue team.
As Seahorn approached the
bank, he saw a four-by-four
vehicle approach. He saw his
neighbor, Jason Theisefield, and
Matt Roberts with a chainsaw.
Both men are on the search and
rescue team. Once he dropped off
the survivors, he took the search
and rescue team members back
across the river. The river was so
treacherous he had to row downstream around 400 yards from the
rescue site to drop off the rescue
team. The search and rescue team
walked up to the accident site to
see if they could recover the raft
and Kaisler’s body.
The log jam was extremely
extensive and complex, Seahorn
said. “I think they would have had
to cut 15 logs to try and figure out
where they were.”
Seahorn estimated that the
depth of the river was more than
10 feet. Kaisler’s body was pulled
down by the current past the log
jam, which Seahorn thought was
down six feet or more. Kaisler’s
body was recovered downstream
by a group of Wyoming Army
National Guard who were floating
the river.
The National Guard
Members of the National
Guard, who earlier in the month
had worked sandbagging the
area during major flood stage,
had come to Saratoga Thursday
to float the river. They were
downstream from the accident
when they saw the body. Sandy
Streeter, a Wounded Warrior
Event volunteer, witnessed the
National Guard team and said
she was very impressed with the
great care in which they had taken when retrieving Kaisler’s body.
Steeter advised the National
Guard team where to dock and
called Randy Sikes to lead him to
the recovery site.
Streeter had just left the station
15 where she had rendezvoused
with members of the Wound
Warrior Event. Streeter was part
of the support team that provided
drinks and food as the floaters
stopped to rest.
Streeter said she was flagged
down by the National Guard and
stopped to see if they needed
help. She soon discovered through
conversation they had found Kaisler’s body. As she walked toward
the shoreline, she could see the
blinking lights of the ambulance,
the fire department’s search and
rescue suburban. They identified
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themselves as National Guard.
Sandy explained to the National Guard they would not
be able to dock near the ambulance. “They can’t get to you
from there,” she told them. You
need to come to this side (of the
river).”
Streeter walked up to a big
grassy spot and witnessed the
treatment of Kaisler’s body. “She
was so kind, reverent and gentle,” Streeter said of the way a
female National Guard member
treated Kaisler’s body as they
rowed across the river.
At first, Streeter thought the
National Guard had been called
out on the recovery effort. They
told her they were on days off
and were floating the river.
The National Guard members had already contacted the
sheriff’s office, and when the
ambulance had not arrived,
Streeter called Sike’s to advise
him of the recovery location. She
met them at Shay Bridge to told
them where the National Guard
was with the body.
He still was
desperately
trying to retrieve
the body as the
family and friends
cried for help.
Seahorn’s wife, Janet, also
was at the recovery site.
Janet said it was so important
to the female National Guard
member to know Kaisler’s name.
“I thought, ‘she wanted his wife
to know (her husband was in
good hands),’” Janet said.
Dr. Dean Bartholomew was
also on the Wounded Warrior
Event float trip as a guide and
medical support.
Bartholomew and Seahorn
drove from the picnic site to
the recovery site and help move
the body from the raft to the
shore, Streeter said. Seahorn
confirmed this account in his
interview.
The Game and Fish
Ryan Kenneda was called out
to the rescue site to fill in for
Game Warden Biff Burton, who
was out on another assignment.
Kenneda, who is the Game
Warden in Elk Mountain, said
he was on standby with the
Wooldridge 110 horse power jet
boat. “Biff uses the jet boat to
check fishing licenses on the river,” Kenneda said. The boat can
also be used in search and rescue
operations, Kenneda added.
Burton said the boat is also
used to check boating compliance, access areas and for wild-
life and fishery surveys.
By the time Kenneda was in
place to launch the boat, he was
told the survivors had been rescued. On Friday, Kenneda and
Burton returned to the river to
retrieve the raft as evidence in
the investigation.
The raft was lodged on the
east side of the river upstream
from the Old Baldy Club cookout site, and took more than 45
minutes to retrieve. Kenneda
said that Game and Fish is often
called in for search and rescues
on the river, because they do
have jurisdiction in the investigation. The Game and Fish then
report their findings to the Coast
Guard, as Wyoming has adopted
the Coast Guard rules. Since
Game and Fish is reimbursed by
the Coast Guard for the work on
the inland waterways, reports of
accidents on the river are turned
over to Coast Guard.
“This is a tragedy for the
family and my heart goes out to
them,” Kenneda said. The river
is a valuable resource, and fun
to float on, but it can also be
dangerous, Kenneda said. “It
takes a certain amount of skill to
navigate,” During snow runoff,
the flows of the river change and
it is the most dangerous during
the spring, Kenneda said. When
the river is high, that is when it
changes the quickest, Kenneda
said. Trees fall over and create
hazards and people must use
caution.
Just five days into summer,
the river was still high and
proved that it is still a danger.
The Wounded Warriors
Seahorn said one of the things
that Platte Valley Trout Unlimited is trying to do is to make
a difference in the lives of the
veterans who have a disability,
using the river has a healing
affect for the veterans, Seahorn
said.
“Of all the tragedy we have
in war, we are trying to move
forward and heal through the
wounds of war. Our Wounded
Warrior Event is all about that,”
Seahorn said. “We are trying to
make a difference with those we
are hosting. They are struggling
with a lot of physical and emotional issues.”
“It also helps those of us who
are involved, I think,” Seahorn
said. “Whether to heal from our
wounds or issues and in some
way by giving back, we can continue to move down that road of
healing.”
Seahorn knows first-hand
what it like to be a wounded
veteran of war. His helicopter
was shot down in Vietnam and
he has dedicated his life to working with wounded warriors. He
is the co-founder of the Wounded
Warrior Event and participates
every year. The program has
been in Saratoga for four years.
Many of the veterans have
expressed their gratitude each
year at the closing dinner on
Thursday night.
After the closing dinner
Thursday night, the veterans
who witnessed the rescue efforts
visited with Tony and each other
to debrief on what happened
earlier that day. Seahorn explained at the briefing, the first
thing that went through the
veterans’ mind is it was one
of the rafts with the Wounded
Warrior Event, which included
Dr. Dean Bartholomew, Ethan
Bartholomew, this reporter and
three employees of the Veterans Association – Vickie Richards, Kristi Rubin and Janel
Melinkovich.
Whether or not it was a fellow
wounded warrior boat has also
crossed Seahorn’s mind, but he
knew Bartholomew was good on
the river and the raft was not
the color of Bartholomew’s raft.
“The shock went through me at
first, oh my God, it’s them and
then I realized it’s not the right
color.”
The veterans, who did not
process the fact the rafts were
different colors, were still afraid
that it was the support boat that
Bartholomew was operating.
“That was part of the emotion,”
Seahorn said. “Tears were rolling because they were so concerned about Kristi and Janel.”
Rubin and Melinkovich were
part of the debriefing, and the
veterans told the ladies “We
thought it was you.”
“I reassured them. Accidents
and tragedies in life can happen.
But when we put you in boats
with our Wounded Warrior
Event you are with the best
people available,” Seahorn said.
“We are not going to put you in
a boat with anybody who is not
totally capable.”
Seahorn explained to veterans
that all of the guides that day
were experienced, and several
people volunteer to guide the
event, but the organizers hand
pick who is guiding the veterans
because they want to ensure
their safety.
That made them feel better,
Seahorn said. “They were thinking it could have been them and
it could have, but I wanted to
reassure them that we are not
going to put them in harm’s
way.”
The veterans shared their
experiences of losing their best
friends in combat and friends
dying in their arms. “Some of us
can relate to that,” Seahorn said.
Vietnam veterans have seen so
much death and destruction and
this accident really brought out
the emotions. “I shared some
of my emotions.” The veterans
said to Tony, “We hope you are
not second guessing what you
did today.”
Tony said “I am going to grapple with this for a while, but I
know that I did what I could do
and reacted the way I thought I
would react.”
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July 2, 2014, Page 7
Photo by Erik Gantt
Rod Laird, center, teaches summer school students about the Casper Site bison kill.
Left to right, are Byron Bates, Chloe Shumaker, Avangalye Purchase and Rhea Irby.
Monkey hair cape
and a mammoth tooth
By Erik Gantt
Summer school students
from Saratoga Elementary
visited the Saratoga Museum
Thursday as part of their summer theme “Journey into the
Past”. The group was made up
of 17 children, kindergarten
through sixth grade, led by first
grade teacher Annette Kelley
and kindergarten teacher Kelly
Horn.
The kids were toured through
indoor and outdoor exhibits
by museum Director Virginia
Parker and board member
and geology and archaeology
expert Rod Laird.
Parker said “everybody
found something they were
interested in,” and the most
comments during the tour
were about a monkey hair
cape, a Union Pacific caboose,
and a sheepherder’s wagon.
Laird showed the students
around the artifact-filled geology and archaeology rooms,
quizzing students about fossils
and what the Paleoindian version of a grocery store might
have looked like. According
to Laird, “education is … the
major goal of the museum.
We seize every opportunity
that comes along to show the
youngsters of the community
information about our past.”
Fee will be bad for business
Editor,
I write in opposition to the
Town Council passing an ordinance which would add a 4%
franchise fee to the franchise
agreement in negotiation now
with the Carbon Power and
Light (CP&L) which would
begin July 1, 2014. This would
affect the CP&L bills of the
1032 households and 262 commercial accounts within the
Town of Saratoga. This is an
anti-business maneuver by this
administration that will last
for the next 10 years. In the
last 10 years our water bills
have gone up greatly, despite
the “money-saving” wells that
replaced the treatment of water
from the river. Families are
now charged an often unattainable $250 to use the Town pool
in our short summer. Charging
a franchise fee to CP&L will
increase our electric bills as
it must be passed down to its
customers - it’s a non-profit
company we all own. This 4
% fee/tax hurts our citizens
on fixed incomes. But it most
greatly impacts our schools
and our businesses. In January 2014 the 262 commercial
accounts were billed $130,301
by CP&L, that’s an average of
$497 per month per account,
while the 1032 household accounts were billed $126,258.
That means our schools and
businesses would provide 51%
of this tax from ¼ as many
accounts. This from a Town
administration that is not
receiving less income in fiscal
year 2014/2015, and has done
little to decrease their budget.
It is estimated that CP&L collects 2.8 million a year in the
Town, so the Town proposed
4% franchise fee would add
$112,000. Fifty-one per cent
or $57,120 of that fee/tax
would be on the backs of our
businesses and schools. Last
year’s electric bill for CCSD#2
in Saratoga was $120,000 (before sales tax). Four percent
added to their electric bill is a
$4800 decrease in the CCSD#2
budget. What school program
will they have to cut? And
I can’t imagine the margin
on 2 X 4s is very high and I
would bet our newest major
employer is also our largest
user of electricity who will be
hit hard by this fee/tax. Think
also of the Town taxing their
own large electric bills and
the Platte Valley Community
Center – will the Town add
that back to their budget?
This Town has never had an
executed franchise agreement
with CP&L that charged a
franchise fee in 70 years. Why
start now and hurt our schools
and businesses?
Cindy Bloomquist
Saratoga
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Kid’s Activities include: Mutton Bustin’ • Boot Race
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Entries for the WRA events will be through the WRA Entry System.
Sign-ups for the Amateur events will be taken June 30th from 6 - 8 p.m.
and July 7th from 6 - 8 p.m. by calling either (307) 329 5769
or (307) 710-8949. Callbacks are July 8th from 6 - 8 p.m.
UPDATE
Page 8, July 2, 2014
The Saratoga Sun
Dr. Bartholomew elected President of WMS
By Erik Gantt
Dean Bartholomew, M.D.,
the physician-owner of the
Platte Valley Medical Clinic
(PVMC), was elected President of the Wyoming Medical
Society (WMS) last week.
Bartholomew said “It is exciting, it is an honor and a privilege to be able to represent
the society and the physicians
throughout the state.” He
feels that his presidency will
help represent the rural voice
and be of benefit to smaller
clinics, especially in this time
when there are policy changes
involving Medicare and the
Affordable Care Act.
In Bartholomew’s view, it’s
a difficult time for medical
practice’s in Wyoming right
now, especially in regard to
electronic filing and sharing of
medical records. It’s hard for
smaller clinics that don’t have
large staffs with administrative officers that are tasked
solely with compliance responsibilities. This is an area where
Bartholomew feels particularly
adept at representing the view
Photo Erik Gantt
Dr. Dean Bartholomew was recently elected president of
the Wyoming Medical Society. He is hoping to give rural
health care a voice to benefit smaller clinics.
of the small clinic to the WMS.
Bartholomew’s duties will
call for added time away from
the clinic, but he is comfortable
with that because his nurse
practitioner Jennifer Oiler
and physician’s assistant Ed-
win Sheils will be there to see
patients.
Bartholomew’s duties as
president include being a
spokesperson for the WMS,
heading quarterly board meetings, and managing day-to-day
affairs of the Society along
with the Executive Director.
Because of his exposure
as president of the WMS,
Bartholomew thinks “It’s a
great chance for Saratoga and
the Corbett Medical Foundation. People know what’s
happening here at the state
level.” He would also like to
have a WMS Board of Trustees
meeting in Saratoga as a way
to introduce members to the
Valley and the PVMC.
The WMS represents over
500 physicians state-wide with
approximately 25 members
on the board of trustees. The
primary goals of the Society
are physician and patient representation at the state level
and physician recruitment;
especially in rural areas.
Bartholomew feels that physician recruitment is a particularly sensitive issue in state
because of the implementation
of the Affordable Care Act and
the fact that Wyoming has
not approved an expansion of
Medicaid. The WMS is in favor
of expanding Medicaid in order
to allow more patients access
to insurance.
When asked if the Affordable
Care Act is a good thing for
small practices in Wyoming,
Bartholomew said that obviously there is a political side,
but from a patient standpoint,
it is overall a good thing because patients who didn’t use
to have access to healthcare
now do.
From a clinic standpoint
the Affordable Healthcare Act
probably helps because there
are more patients with insurance and they can pay their
medical bills, although there
has been an overall increase
in deductibles. Bartholomew
said, “health insurance is getting to be a little more like car
insurance…it kicks in when
you have a major incident.”
In regard to Medicaid expansion, patients from zero to 138
percent above the poverty level
could be covered, but Wyoming
has opted not to participate
and that group now does not
have access to insurance.
The Saratoga Sun
July 2, 2014, Page 9
RE-ELECT
Cancer in the Platte Valley
Part Two: Crossing mountains
By Mike Dunn
Editor’s note: This is the second story in a series about Michelle McWain. She is a wife,
a mother, a Carbon County
School District No. 2 employee
and a breast cancer survivor.
***
When Michelle McWain received the call telling her she
had breast cancer, there was
no time for her to feel sorry for
herself. Her life was at risk,
and waiting was not an option.
“The most frustrating thing
was being your own advocate,”
Michelle said. “You are trying
to deal with the shock of being
diagnosed, and in my mind,
things didn’t go fast enough.”
But along her road to recovery, there was literally a
mountain range in her path.
Michelle chose the Meredith
and Jeannie Ray Cancer Center in Laramie for her treatment. The staff there
was incredible, Michelle
said, but the 100-mile
drive was anything but
convenient. Additionally,
from June to September,
Michelle would drive to
Cheyenne once a week
to meet with her plastic
surgeon.
According to statistics
from the American Cancer Society, in 2014 there will
be on average 1.5 new cases
of breast cancer, 1 new case
of colon cancer and 1.5 new
cases of lung cancer in the
Platte Valley every year. Local
physician Dean Bartholomew,
M.D., said those numbers are
standard with the national average, but still creates a problem for Platte Valley residents
who are looking for treatment.
“Probably the biggest
struggle is the distance,”
Bartholomew said. “When
you start talking about cancer
treatment, that takes a lot of
visits with the oncologist.”
Michelle drove to Laramie
and Cheyenne numerous times
throughout her fight with cancer. She would take Highway
130 across the Snowy Range to
get to Laramie until October.
Once the road closed for the
season, Michelle was forced to
take Interstate 80 to Laramie.
The road conditions on I-80
were hazardous; Michelle
fought the blowing snow just
to get to her treatments. The
cost of gas driving to her appointments back and forth
was high.
***
With the cancer she had,
there was a good chance it
would spread to her other
breast. Her doctors at the
Cheyenne Regional Medical
Center gave her choices; she
could have a lumpectomy,
which would remove just the
tumor and infected tissue in
her breast; a single mastectomy, which would remove the
entire breast with the cancerous cell; or a radical double
mastectomy, which would remove both of her breasts.
Going through treatment
once was more than enough
for her.
Without deliberation from
family members, she chose to
undergo a double mastectomy.
“I wanted them both gone, I
don’t want to have to deal with
this in two years,” Michelle
said.
chemotherapy and cancer.
But everyone has a breaking
point.
By the fourth chemotherapy
treatment, Michelle had lost
30 pounds, the holiday season
was coming up and she wanted to feel well again. She just
wanted to be done.
Michelle would not have
done the fifth and sixth treatment without support from
others. “You’ve come this far,
just a few more,” she was told
by nurses and friends.
She counted down every
treatment until her last “Five
more chemo sessions, four
more sessions … ”
It was only by the grace of
God, Michelle said, that she
finished the last two treatments.
***
Chemotherapy did not physically pain Michelle — the side
effects just made her feel
nauseous. It was uncomfortable, she said.
However, the treatment took its toll on her
mentally.
Michelle never saw herself as much of a vain person. She cared about her
looks, she said, but it was
never her top priority.
“But the minute my
hair started falling out, that
was so sad,” she said.
Michelle would find her hair
on the pillow after a night’s
sleep. It would fall out while
she was washing her hair. She
would occasionally reach up to
touch her head, only to come
down with globs of hair stuck
to her hand.
This is typical while undergoing chemotherapy. While
chemotherapy kills the cancerous cells, it kills healthy
cells with it. Most commonly,
hair cells are the first to die off
after the treatment.
Eventually, Michelle’s loss
of hair became too much for
her; she asked her husband to
shave her head.
“When you have no hair, no
eye lashes, no breasts; you just
lose a part of your femininity,”
she said.
Michelle never wanted to
look in the mirror. She avoided
all photos. It was too much to
see herself like that.
But the hair does grow back.
The sickness does go away.
“It’s just the light at the end
of the tunnel that you have to
constantly push to,” she said.
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“You’ve come this far,
just a few more,” she
was told by nurses and
friends.
She had the surgery, but Michelle still had another mountain to cross: chemotherapy.
***
Michelle watched as the slow
drip of the chemotherapy went
into her arm. The treatment
took seven hours to complete.
She would pass the time by
reading, watching TV, visiting
with staff and talking with
family members who accompanied her.
According to the National
Cancer Institute, chemotherapy is a type of cancer treatment
that uses drugs to destroy cancer cells. The treatment works
by stopping or slowing the
growth of cancer cells, which
grow and divide quickly.
She was scheduled to have
six treatments.
Michelle would have her
treatment on Thursday and
would feel well enough to work
on Friday. However, once the
weekend came, she would
start to feel nauseous as the
side effects of her treatment
kicked in.
Michelle would be back to
work on Monday. If nothing
else, work took her mind off
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not to spend a dollar yet. Projects have risk and although I
do believe this project will go
forward, I can’t guarantee it.”
Wallace has concerns that all
of the construction could hit all
at once. Cline responded that
is part of the socio-economic
impact study and if there is
not enough housing for the constructions workers, DKRW will
be required to build the housing
at their own cost.
Reese Johnson, whose ranch
is located near the plant proposed by DKRW, asked why
DKRW has submitted and withdrawn three different construction proposals over the course of
12 months. Johnson asked for
specifics on a man camp near
the construction site. She also
asked for the name of project
manager at the Department of
Energy.
Cline responded the project
manager with the Department
of Energy is Lynn Alexander.
About the construction schedule, Cline said, “We had an
unrealistic schedule … it was
too optimistic.”
Johnson said she couldn’t understand how they can have 360
pages about the FEED and can’t
have an idea of where the
man camp is going to be located. Johnson said the man
camps will have a significant
impact on the communities.
Cline told Johnson while
the man camps are significant, they are not part of the
FEED and EPC process.
Determining the location
for a man camp is not nearly
as critical as knowing exactly
where the gasifier is going to
be, Cline said. He explained
there are several companies
that build man camps and
they have several modular
designs those companies can
use for the man camps.
Lillegraven said that the
geographic location of the
man camp is required by the
Industrial Siting Council.
Based on that, Lillegraven
stated the permit should not
have been approved by the
Industrial Siting Council.
Lillegraven has been asking
where the man camp is going
to be placed for a very long
time and said “I really want
to know and I think a lot of
people want to know.”
Lillegraven had a copy of
the official map and asked
Cline to mark where the man
camp is going to be placed. “We
should have known in 2007 and
certainly in 2008 when the permit was approved.”
Cline said he would not submit anything the night of the
meeting. “On that map as I see
it, our facility is further east
and north of that.”
Cline and Lillegraven disagreed on the township in the
legal description of the map.
A discussion began asking
about the number of workers
and when they would be in the
construction area and whether
or not they are coordinating
with Power Company of Wyoming. Cline said that one of
the purposes of the Industrial
Siting Permit and that it is
explained in the permit how
many people will be on the job
site during certain times of construction. “It’s on a bell curve,”
Cline said.
Dave Throgmorton, of
Rawlins, asked what would
happen that if the Department
of Energy doesn’t award the
loan guarantee.
“If they turn us down, we will
continue to pursue other means
of financing,” Cline said.
Good leaders study to be informed,
to understand what an ordinance is
saying in order to fairly enforce it.
Photo by Doug Radunich
I will bring this belief to the table with the hope of
benefiting all who live here in our beautiful valley.
Left to right, Shawn Murphy, Thomas Gathman and Rob
Voorhis, are participating in the Warrior Hike.
through New Mexico, Colorado,
Wyoming, Idaho and Montana
before ending in Canada.
“The three of us have done
every single mile so far, and
we aim to try and do every
single mile from here on out
too,” Gathman said. “An Army
Blackhawk Pilot with us fractured his foot and had to take
time off to heal, but he’s hoping
to catch back up with us by
July 1. He wants to pick up
on the trail where we are and
continue on. Another guy with
us had a herniated disc issue
that stemmed from an issue
in combat, and another had a
torn meniscus in his knee that
required surgery.”
From 2006 to 2010, Gathman
served in the Marine Corps and
did two combat tours to Iraq.
After completing the Appalachian Trail, he said he wanted
to try his luck along the Continental Divide.
“I did the Appalachian Trail
last year with the Warrior Hike,
and I loved it so much I wanted
to keep hiking,” Gatham said. “I
got the bug as soon as I hiked
the Appalachian, and I realized
I wanted to continue doing this.
This is one of the best trails on
the market so I figured I’d give
it a shot, and so far so good. We
haven’t even hit the hard parts
yet as far as I’m concerned.”
Voorhis, a Marine for five
years, served in Afghanistan
and took tours in Southeast
Asia after 9/11. He said he had
also heard good things about
the Continental Divide Trail.
“They call this the king of
all trails, and if we haven’t
hit the hard parts yet, we’ve
hit enough of it,” Voorhis said.
“It’s pretty difficult, and I’ve
even traveled around a bunch
before this. This was a great
opportunity to get out here
and really give the thru-hiking
thing a shot. This is my first
thru-hike, and I didn’t choose
the Continental Divide Trail,
it chose me.”
Voorhis said it is easy to get
lost at times during their journey along the divide.
“A lot of the trails are not
completely marked yet and
there isn’t really a defined
route, unlike the Appalachian
and Pacific Crest Trails,” he
said. “You can’t get lost on
those trails, especially Appalachian, but on this one you can
get misplaced a lot. I’ve been
misplaced dozens of times so
far, but you always find your
way back and it always works
out in the end.”
Murphy served in the Army
from 1984 to 1990. He said he
mostly served during peace
time, but dealt with the United States invasion of Panama
near the end of his service.
Before attempting the
CDNST, Murphy said he hiked
the Pacific Crest Trail all by
himself.
“I love thru-hiking, and I’ve
done the Pacific Crest Trail on
my own,” he said. “I was going
to do this one as a solo hike,
and Sean Gobin, the director
of Warrior Hikes, asked if I’d
go with these guys. I jumped
on it on it because I thought,
‘You mean, I get to hike with
a bunch of Marines?’”
Gathman said they usually
hike between 20 and 30 miles
per day, but hike around 10 or
less miles if walking through a
town that day.
Gathman added, the whole
hiking experience gives them a
way to prepare for life outside
of the military.
“We’re using this experience,
adventure and journey as a
way to give ourselves a little
bit of a different perspective
on life,” he said. “We can kind
of work through sights, sounds
and experiences that we may
have had in combat while in
the Middle East and Afghanistan. This will better help us
determine what we want to
do next in life after those experiences, and it’s a good tool
to give yourself a goal to work
toward. We can find some kind
of solace and use nature as a
tool to have some decompression time, which is what this
program is all about.”
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Three ambitious military
veterans from across the U.S.
are hiking the Continental
Divide National Scenic Trail
(CDNST).
The veterans—Thomas Gathman, Rob Voorhis and Shawn
Murphy—are hiking the 3,100mile trail as part of a “Walk Off
the War” trek done through the
Warrior Hike program. The
program is designed to support all veterans transitioning
from their military service by
“thru-hiking”, as it is called,
along America’s National Scenic Trails.
According to the program
website, Warrior Hike was
founded by Sean Gobin, a Marine who returned home from
three combat deployments to
Iraq and Afghanistan in 2012.
After hiking the Appalachian
Trail, Gobin recognized the
therapeutic effects of long-distance hiking, and later created
the program.
Warrior Hike’s “Walk Off
the War” treks allow veterans
to experience a journey and
transition process with the
camaraderie of other veterans,
who also understand the challenges facing today’s veterans.
In addition to the CDNST,
the program trails include the
Appalachian Trail and Pacific
Crest Trail.
Out of the hikers currently
on the Continental Divide,
Gathman and Voorhis are
both Marines. Gatham is from
Lewisburg, Penn., and Voorhis
is from Chenango Forks, N.Y.
Murphy, who had served before 9/11, is an Army veteran
from Auburn, Wash.
The three vets took a break in
Encampment June 13 as part
of their journey along the trail.
All three began thru-hiking
along the CDNST on April 13
this year, and according to an
estimate from Gatham, they
are roughly more than 900
miles into the trail thus far.
“Today we hiked to the top
of Bridger Peak, and we had
about a foot of snow over our
heads in many places,” Gathman said. “There were six of us
at the start of the trail, but the
other three injured themselves
and had to quit. On a trail like
this or any long-distance trail,
you’re going to have a high
attrition rate. Just because we
put in our time in the military,
that doesn’t equate to everyone
hiking a full long-distance trail
because injuries and accidents
happen.”
The veterans began at the
trail’s starting point in Mexico,
and will keep heading north,
expecting to finish at the trail’s
end in Canada by mid-September. The CDNST runs
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Adversity becomes artistry
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July 2, 2014, Page 13
Summer Events?
By Erik Gantt
Sue Anderson traveled a
hard road before bringing her
award-winning artistic talents
to Encampment. Severe head
and neck injuries resulting
from a car accident in 2010
forced her to end a 20-plus-year
career in nursing.
The loss of her job meant living on a Social Security disability payment. She couldn’t afford
the mortgage on her house.
To add to her woes, she has
a violent ex-husband with a
history of physical abuse who
began stalking her and vandalizing her property. The police
were of no help in ensuring her
safety.
In December of 2013 after
not seeing her sister in 20
years, Riverside resident Kim
MacDonald decided she didn’t
like the way Anderson had to
live and feared for her physical
well-being. MacDonald then
started a community effort to
get her sister out of the big city
and into the Valley.
After convincing Anderson
to get out of Arvada, a suburb
of Denver, MacDonald and
several other Encampment and
Riverside locals showed up at
Anderson’s door with a horse
trailer. They loaded up her
belongings and resettled her in
Encampment.
According to Anderson, “Out
of everything bad there is something good.”
Having to leave nursing has
allowed her to focus on her art.
She has been painting with oils
since 1992 when she met her
teacher and mentor, Jodie Binkley. Anderson primarily paints
wildlife, focusing on wolves and
bears, but also paints flowers in
a style influenced by Georgia
Find out about them in the Sun.
Courtesy Photo
Medicine Bow student Bethany Howard won the “Kids
for the Cure” contest with this drawing. Her design will
be featured on the shirts of children participating in the
Wyoming Race for the Cure.
Photo by Erik Gantt
A glimpse into the life of an artist reflects in her studio.
Anderson, who works in her home uses art to overcome
her hardships.
O’Keeffe.
After moving to Wyoming,
Anderson wants to start working with local wildlife including
antelope and coyotes. She said,
“Animals have souls like people.” She tries to capture the
soul in the eyes of the animals
she paints. Currently, Anderson
has reproductions and prints of
her work at The Red Wagon in
Encampment.
Anderson has won several
awards at juried art shows,
but says her favorites are those
voted on by the public. It just
means more to her than the
awards handed out by judges.
After being in Encampment
for a few months, Anderson is
really enjoying getting away
from the stress of the city and
feels like she is “done with
Colorado”.
Saving sage grouse
Staff report
On Thursday, the Bureau of
Land Management (BLM) and
Wyoming Governor Matt Mead
announced the final approval of
a comprehensive management
plan for public lands in central
Wyoming. The Lander Resource
Management Plan (RMP) will
provide direction for managing
2.4 million acres of BLM-administered surface land and 2.8 million acres of BLM-administered
sub-surface mineral estate.
County Commissioners in
Fremont, Natrona, Hot Springs,
Carbon, and Sweetwater Counties have been involved in the
development of the plan as cooperating agencies
The RMP is the first of its
kind to address management of
important greater sage grouse
habitat. The State of Wyoming,
the Wyoming County Commissioners Association (WCCA), and
many other state organizations
have taken the task of protecting sage-grouse seriously, and
actively engaged with the BLM
and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service to draft a plan all parties
can accept. The Lander plan
proactively adopts policies and
measures that are designed to
minimize disturbance in key habitats, while providing certainty
for economic development.
“Today is the culmination
of many years of hard work
by County Commissioners, the
BLM, the State of Wyoming and
many other groups with a vested
interest in maintaining multiple
use of our public lands. We hope
that the success of the Lander
RMP will be a benefit to other
groups working on reviewing or
developing similar plans across
the West,” Fremont County
Commission Chairman Doug
Thompson said.
The Lander resource management plan and Record of Decision
are available at the Lander BLM
Field Office and on the project
website: www.blm.gov/wy/st/
en/programs/Planning/rmps/
lander.htrnl. The BLM will soon
announce dates for open houses
that will provide additional
information regarding the plan
and how it will be implemented.
Summer
Market Review
Student draws
for the cure
By Mike Dunn
A Medicine Bow student’s
art will help save lives.
Bethany Howard, a third
grade student at Medicine
Bow Elementary, won the Kids
for the Cure art contest. As
first prize, her drawing will be
featured on the shirts of children at the Wyoming Susan
G. Komen Race for the Cure.
When she heard she won,
Bethany said she was surprised. But it was hardly a
surprise when looking at the
votes. Using Facebook “likes”
to determine the winner, Bethany’s drawing won by a landslide, receiving the most support from voters with 81 likes.
The second place drawing only
had 39 likes.
Bethany said her fantastic
drawing ability comes from
her family tree.
“Everyone in my family likes
to draw,” Bethany said.
The rules required Wyoming children 12 years old
and under to only use four
colors, include the pink ribbon
associated with breast cancer
awareness to draw a picture
that representing Wyoming
Race for the Cure’s theme
“Racing for Wyoming.”
“I thought about putting in
for the contest and when I was
drawing it, I decided to make
the face between the ribbons,”
Bethany said about her art
process.
Bethany used markers for
her drawing because she liked
what colors she could get from
it.
“I knew what colors I could
get [with markers],” Bethany
said. “It just looked better.”
Using a horse in her design,
Bethany said she got the
inspiration for her drawing
from her ranch in the Sherley
Basin. Though she does not
have any horses, she said her
ranch has many other animals
like sheep and cattle.
Bethany’s teacher, Heather
Booth, said when she heard
about the contest, Bethany
instantly came into mind.
“She is a fantastic artist,”
Booth said. “When you give
her a book on how to draw
something, she just come out
with it looking nice.”
Bethany and her family will
be attending the Susan G.
Komen Race for the Cure on
Aug. 9 in Cheyenne with free
overnight accommodations.
She will lead the pledge of allegiance before the race.
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Healing waters ...
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Photos by Liz Wood
Platte Valley Trout Unlimited spent two days teaching veterans how to fly fish.
Vietnam Army veteran Keith Bausserman is all smiles
after catching his first fish on a fly rod. Ken Messick, left,
a member of the support group works on Bausserman’s
fly rod and Roger Thimm congratulates Bausserman on
his catch.
SARATOGA SUN • SARATOGA SUN • SARATOGA SUN • SARATOGA SUN
Jeff Streeter prepares to row onto a pond at Upper Cedar Creek Ranch June 25 as Rex
Hohnholt pushes the drift boat off the bank. Rod Steiger, left, gets his fly rod ready to A leaping trout’s reflection is crystal clear at the Upper
fish as Vietnam Veteran Lew Waldron, a 20-year veteran with the Air Force waits to cast. Cedar Creek Pond.
Fishing lines frame a trout as it jumps high to try and
release itself from Ray Sautter’s line.
... make a
difference
By Liz Wood
The Wounded Warrior Event
is intended to make a difference in a military veteran’s life,
co-founder Tony Seahorn said.
It made a difference in Randall
Steiger’s life.
Last year, Steiger attended his
first Wounded Warrior Event.
Steiger is an Army veteran of
the Iraq war.
It was the first time he ever
caught a fish. “I was hooked,”
Steiger said. He went on to catch
around 10 fish. He caught three
at Tom Arthur’s pond, then seven more on the Platte River the
next day.
When Steiger went home after
the two day event, he said, “I felt
amazing … it was a really cool
experience and it was awesome.”
He enjoyed the food, the people and met Duane Cook with
Project Healing Waters. “We
spoke briefly on the river during
lunch and Duane asked me if I
would like to do this more often,”
Steiger said.
“I said ‘yes, like sign me up. I
would really like to’.”
Steiger said he went fishing a
couple more times last summer
at local places near Cheyenne.
Over the winter Steiger learned
how to tie flies. “That was something fun to do on Saturdays and
get to know the people.”
Steiger said he also learned
how to fly fish and how to tie
knots and get ready for this
summer to put it to use.
“This is the first time I have
successfully fly fished. Today I
caught seven fish on my fly rod
with flies I made and it was really cool,” Steiger said.
Last year, Steiger came as part
of the Veterans Administration
group, which transports the veterans to Saratoga for the event.
This year, he came with the
Project Healing Waters group.
The advice Steiger has for
wounded warriors who have not
tried an event like this, “Give
it a shot. Come out, meet some
guys, have some good food, some
laughs. It is a great experience,”
Steiger said. “I understand why
it’s called Healing Waters.”
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Trees on the east side of
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Gus Geisick and Mary Martin dig holes while Sandra Martin watches.
Encampment and Riverside
branch out
By Liz Wood
Bob Berger and Leroy
Stephenson move trees onto
the highway right-of-way.
Mary Martin
digs a little
deeper for the
Canadian Red
Chokecherry
tree along
Highway 70
Saturday
morning.
Photos by
Liz Wood
Sunday morning, Encampment and Riverside volunteers
worked together planting
trees along WY Highway 70.
The Encampment/Riverside
Tree Beautification project
was organized by Lee Ann
Stephenson, after she noticed
that the trees along Highway
70 had died.
Stephenson who often walks
along Highway 70 from Riverside to Encampment enjoys
the bluebirds that fly in the
area and wanted to improve
their habitat and beautify the
area along the highway.
Trees had been planted in
1989 for the bicentennial.
While the cottonwood trees in
front of the Riverside/Encampment Lions Club arena were
thriving, the trees east of the
arena had died.
Stephenson presented the
idea of planting trees to the
Riverside Town Council and
they gave $1,500 toward the
purchase of trees.
They still needed water.
Stephenson went to the Encampment Town Council to
see if they could help, and they
offered to supply the irrigation
water and replace the irrigation pipe.
Stephenson’s husband Leroy,
who serves on the Riverside
Town Council, volunteered to
be the liaison between the two
towns.
“What I think is so great
about this, is this is a project
that Riverside and Encampment cooperated on,” Stephenson said.
Through the winter and
spring, Stephenson researched
information on trees. She
discovered the Wyoming Department of Transportation
(WYDOT) no longer allows
cottonwood trees to be planted
in their right-of-ways, so she
looked for another type of tree.
She picked the Canadian Red
Chokecherry tree.
Stephenson said she picked
the trees because of the blossoms in the spring and the
trees only grow to about 20
feet tall.
Volunteers worked to remove
the roots of the dead trees,
removed the old irrigation
pipe, saving the drip nozzles
to reuse.
They also saved the metal
fence poles and wire and rub-
ber hosing to help stand the
trees.
Encampment councilwoman
Mary Martin and Riverside
councilman Stephenson volunteered along with a small
group of others to plant the
trees. Bob Berger, who works
at Lazy Acres Campground,
Lee Ann Stephenson, Sandra
Martin and Gus Geisick moved
trees dug holes and planted and
stabilized the trees.
The trees were purchased
from Doggett Greenhouse and
Brad Hebig, owner of High
Plains Foam Building Systems,
volunteered his time and equipment to dig holes for the trees.
With the $1,500 from the
town of Riverside, 10 trees were
purchased. The other five trees
were purchased by people in
memory of loved ones.
“One of the trees was purchased in memory of Jeff Goolsby, who worked for the town of
Encampment until he lost his
battle with cancer,” Stephenson
said.
WYDOT doesn’t allow markers, but people will be able to
drive by the trees and remember their loved ones, Stephenson said.
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Schools, and Jennifer Young, candidate for Secretary of State.
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Page 18, July 2, 2014
The Saratoga Sun
THE CELEBRATION AT
GRAND ENCAMPMENT
The Fourth of July has been
celebrated in Grand Encampment in the good, old fashioned
way.
The day dawned bright and
clear and gave promise of being
an ideal day for the events as
planned, but before noon the
atmosphere had turned chilly
and late in the afternoon a
drizzling rain set in. However
the day was a glorious one, the
events were full of interest, and
everything passed off pleasantly without serious accident or
other disagreeable features.
There was a big crowd in town
from early morn until a late
hour, and it seemed that all the
residents of the hills and valleys
for many miles round had come
into the Hub of Progress to help
make the Eagle scream, and she
screamed.
The business houses of the
city were nicely decorated with
flags and bunting. Phil Rearden
brought in several loads of jack
pines which he placed in front
of the business places, and decorated with the national colors.
Phil is an artist and did his work
in a commendable manner.
The Rawlins cornet band
arrived Thursday evening, and
proceeded at once to announce
their arrival by a short concert
on Freeman Avenue. At nine
o’clock Friday morning the band
turned out for a short concert
in front of the M. E. tabernacle
where the oration of the day
was given.
The Willis George Emerson
band of this city put in a novel appearance as the miners’
band, the boys being dressed in
working clothes of the typical
miner, some of the costumes
representing the miner somewhat in the extreme. The band
came down Freeman Avenue
from the Herald office to the
Brought to you By:
Bohn hotel playing on the march
and received an ovation of hand
clapping and cheers. They were
joined by the Rawlins band and
the two aggregations marched
back to the tabernacle playing
together.
The oration of the day was
given by Attorney Charles K.
Winter, of Grand Encampment,
and was well received throughout. The full text of the address
is printed in this issue.
The ball game between the
tramway team and the town
boys resulted in a victory for
the tramway after a hard fought
contest. The town boys shut
out the tramway in the first 2
innings, the score standing 6 to
0 at the end of the second inning.
In the third inning the tide was
changed and the tramway boys
scored nine runs before again
taking the field. At the end of
the ninth inning the score was a
tie, 16 to 16, and another inning
was played. A two base hit by
a cable stretcher, Fred B. Watt,
placed the tram boys a run
ahead, winning the game.
After lunch, the horse races
were called. The cow pony race
was the first, several horses
being entered. Chub, owned by
Amos Wilcox, and mounted by
Tex Broadwell, won first money,
while Teddy, owned by Frank
Wilcox and mounted by himself,
won second money.
The sorrel mare, Maud,
mounted by Bert Bailey, won the
free for all race, Hays Rankins’
sorrel gelding running second.
The bucking bronco contest
was the most exciting event of
the day. Several broncos were
entered, and each made the
crowd scatter in all directions
and do some fast scrambling to
keep out of the way. The prize
winner was Ross Wolford.
The event of greatest interest
to the miners was the rock drilling contest. The rock secured was
the hardest granite to be found
in the country. The double jack
teams were the first called and
worked as follows on the fifteen
minutes time: Alex Spears and
Bud Ross, 25 1/8 inches; Duffy
and Martin, 26 1/8 inches. The
first prize of $125 was awarded
to Duffy and Martin.
Friday, July 4, 2014
7:30 p.m., Alcoholics Anonymous, Saratoga Senior Center
Saturday, July 5, 2014
9 a.m., Narcotics Anonymous, Saratoga Senior Center
Monday, July 7, 2014
8 a.m.-6 p.m., Children’s activities at The Hub, 106 W. Bridge
9 a.m., Yoga Session, Saratoga Library
11 a.m.-7 p.m., Saratoga Branch Library
5:45-6:45 p.m., Yoga Session, Saratoga Library
6 p.m., AA Meeting, Saratoga Senior Center
7 p.m., Odd Fellows, Odd Fellows Hall
Tuesday, July 8, 2014
8 a.m.-6 p.m., Children’s activities at The Hub, 106 W. Bridge
11 a.m.-7 p.m., Saratoga Branch Library
4-5:30 p.m., Platte Valley Food Pantry, 116 E. Bridge, Rm. E
6 p.m., Saratoga Town Council, Town Hall
For information on ALANON, call 326-8405 or 326-8723
Did you know Farm Bureau has CDs?
Wednesday, July 2, 2014
8 a.m.-6 p.m., Children’s activities at The Hub, 106 W. Bridge
9:30 a.m., Prayer Shawl Knitters, Presbyterian Fellowship Hall
11 a.m.-7 p.m., Saratoga Branch Library
11:15 a.m., Story Time, Saratoga Branch Library
Noon, Chamber of Commerce meeting, PVCC
1:30 p.m., Overeaters Anonymous, PV Lutheran Church, 326-5917
5:30-7:30 p.m. Family History Center at LDS Church, 950 Hugus
5:45-6:45 p.m., Yoga Session, Saratoga Library
7 p.m., Order of Eastern Star, Masonic Hall
7 p.m., Saratoga Volunteer Fire Dept. Business Meeting, Firehouse
7 p.m., Theta Rho Club, Odd Fellows Hall
7:30 p.m., Alcoholics Anonymous, Saratoga Senior Center
Thursday, July 3, 2014
8-6 p.m., Children’s activities at The Hub, 106 W. Bridge
11 a.m.-7 p.m., Saratoga Branch Library
7 p.m., Knitting Group, Saratoga Library
7 p.m., ALANON, Building next to St. Barnabas Church
Encampment/Riverside Community Events
Wednesday, July 2, 2014
1-6 p.m., Encampment Library
2 p.m., Dirt Diggers, Encampment Library
4 p.m., Story Time, Encampment/Riverside Branch Library
4:30 p.m., Beading Group, Enc./Riv. Branch Library
7 p.m., Planning Commission, Encampment Town Hall
7 p.m., Upper Platte River Solid Waste Disposal District, Encampment
Library
Thursday, July 3, 2014
11 a.m.-4 p.m., Encampment Library
7:30 p.m., Alcoholics Anonymous, Encampment Library
Saturday, July 5, 2014
7:30 p.m., Alcoholics Anonymous, Encampment Library
Monday, July 7, 2014
11 a.m.-4 p.m., Encampment Library
1 p.m., Knitting group, Enc/Riv. Branch Library
Tuesday, July 8, 2014
11 a.m.-4 p.m., Encampment Library
Email saratogasun@union-tel.com with events for the community calendar.
July 2, 2014, Page 19
Center closed on the 4th
The celebration at Grand Encampment
Reprint of this story from the
July 4, 1902 issue of The Grand
Encampment Herald brought
to you courtesy of Grandma’s
Cabin, Encampment, Wyoming.
Preserving History - Serving the
Community.
The Saratoga Sun
Carl Ashley won the boys
foot race. Sammie Blair being
second.
The tug of war between the
tramway and the town boys
resulted in a victory for the
former team.
Hose Company No. 2 made
two runs of 400 ft., one of which
was made in 35 seconds. Hose
Company No. 1 failed to materialize.
A few minor events advertised
were not pulled off, there being
no entries.
The rain interfered with the
firemen’s ball at the pavilion,
and the school house was turned
into a ball room until a late
hour. A large and well behaved
crowd attended the event, which
was a success socially and financially. The Rawlins orchestra
furnished music. The fireworks
display in the evening was a
pleasant feature of the program.
The committees in charge of
the program of sports managed
affairs in good shape. In all,
the Fourth of July celebration
at Grand Encampment was a
glorious one in every respect.
Carbon County
Senior Centers
Wednesday – Chicken
a La King, biscuits, spinach salad, orange whip,
chilled milk.
Thursday – Swiss
steak, baked potato,
Brussels sprouts, wheat
bread, strawberries,
brownie, chilled milk.
Friday – Company
holiday, if open, Chef’s
choice.
Monday – BBQ chicken, potato wedges, carrot/
raisin salad, wheat roll,
citrus fruit, chilled milk.
Tuesday – Beef fajitas,
flour tortilla, steamed
rice, stewed tomatoes,
pineapple tidbits, chilled
milk.
&
Past
Present
The Saratoga Sun
There were eight here for
bingo Tuesday. Two-dollar winners were Grace
Johnston, Betty Dean, Sue
Howe, and Janet Lasco.
Madaline Forbes won the
$3 blackout.
There were two-and-ahalf tables for duplicate
bridge on Monday. High
winners were Pat Bailey
and Sue Howe. Second
place went to Gertrude
Herold and Mary Sjoden.
I now have the forms for
the elderly and disabled
tax returns. Stop by and
get one or call and I will
help you fill them out and
get them sent back. You
have until Aug. 31 to get
the forms in. Qualifications
are you have to be at least
65, if you are single you
can make up to $17,500 per
Saratoga
Senior
Center
By Sue Howe
year. Married couple can
make up to $28,500.
We had a fair turnout for
our breakfast last Thursday.
We will be closed on Friday, so our staff can spend
the holiday with their families. If you need a lunch
for Friday please be sure
we know by Wednesday so
we can have it ready to be
delivered with your meal
on Thursday.
We want to wish everyone a safe and happy
Fourth of July.
The Saratoga Sun
(307) 326-8311
June 23, 2014 to June 29,
2014, the Saratoga Police Department responded to 137
calls that included the following call classifications: Alcohol
Offense (1); Ambulance (3);
Assist Business (1); Bar Check
(8); Business Checks (52); Cit-
izen Assist (5); Civil Standby
(1); Dog at Large (1); Dog Bite
(1); Barking Dog Complaint
(2); Lost Dog (1); Dog Tag
(1); Fingerprints (3); Found
Property (1); Gas Drive Off (1);
Hot Pool Check (28); Larceny
(1); Lost Property (1); Notice
Jeannie James family donates bench
At Deseret Health and Rehab, residents enjoyed many
activities throughout the week.
The Activity Department offers
a wide variety of activities each
week to meet the residents’
interests, as well as the physical, mental and psychological
well-being of each resident.
With the warm weather of
summer, residents are going
out on the patio to enjoy it and
the flowers. In our pergola, we
have a beautiful new wooden
bench donated the family of
Jeannie James, who was a
long-time resident from 2003 to
2013. She enjoyed going out on
the patio in the warm weather
with other residents to soak up
some rays.
Games throughout the week
provided fun and laughter. On
Sunday afternoon, five residents played Dominoes with
Charlotte Gibbons winning.
On Monday afternoon, five
residents played Yahtzee with
Pat Rust winning. On Tuesday
morning, four residents played
Dominoes. On Wednesday afternoon, 12 residents played
Bingo, and Friday afternoon,
nine residents played Bingo.
to Quit (1); Parking Problem
(1); House Watch (1); Record
Check (1); Reddi (1); Search
and Rescue (1); Smoke Report
(1); Suspicious Person, Circumstance (4); Traffic Complaint
(1); Traffic Hazard (1); Traffic
Stop (3); Travelers Assist (2);
Independence day events,
Art Show
The Blackhawk Art Show
will feature local and regional
artists. The art show is scheduled to run July 4 through July
6 and takes place at the Episcopal Church on the corner of
Main and First Street. Eleven
Old Fashioned
artists are participating inBake Auction
cluding local artists Trisha
Those with a sweet-tooth can Kauffman, Jerry Wood and
bid for baked items at the Old Sierra Smith.
Fashioned Bake Auction.
With cakes, pies and many
Crafts Fair
other baked goods on hand,
A crafts fair will be held in
people will have the opportu- Saratoga for the Fourth of July
nity to bid for items during a celebration at the municipal
live auction.
parking lot and is sponsored
The auction will take place by the Town of Saratoga Recimmediately after the parade reation Department.
and will be located on the corner of Bridge and First Streets
Free Barbecue
in downtown Saratoga. ProThe American Legion and
ceeds from the event will ben- the American Legion Auxiliary
efit the Platte Valley Kiwanis will also be hosting a barbecue
Club and their community at 2 p.m. a the Post Home on
projects.
South River Street.
“We usually have a good turnout of spectators,” she added.
To enter a float in the parade, sign up at the American
Legion or call 326-9600 or 7108998. The parade will begin at
11 a.m.
Elaine Burge, Dora Martin,
Frank Jereb, and Kenny Hoagland won Four Corners. Charlotte Gibbons and Elaine Burge
won Blackouts. Our Bingo
helpers were Lila Worden,Gloria Rakness, Joni Johnson, Ed
Kennaday, Julieanne Lempke,
and the Big Brother/Big Sisters
kids. They were Haley Miller,
Emily Gonzalez, Kayla Smith,
Sam Fiedor, Kate Fiedor, Garrett Sperry, Brian Smith, and
Jordan Travis.
On Sunday morning, four residents played Wii Bowling, plus
four other residents watched
the excitement.
Deseret
Health &
Rehab
By Tom Mansfield
On Sunday afternoon, Sharon Hughes stood in for Pastor
Arlen Hughes of the Abundant
Life Fellowship at our church
service. Doris Davis assisted
on the keyboard.
For Lunch Out at the
Saratoga Senior Center, three
residents had spaghetti with
meat sauce on Monday and five
residents had hot hamburger
sandwiches on Friday.
On Tuesday morning, Pastor
Arlen Hughes offered Bible
Study to four residents.
On Tuesday afternoon, five
residents went on a van ride
up the Snowy Range Road to
Libby Flats, seeing moose, wild
turkeys, and antelope.
On Wednesday morning,
Lynda Healey, Georgia Schroer, Kathy McMorrow, and
Janice Kerpan gave hair care
to 11 residents and nail care to
11 residents.
On Thursday afternoon,
residents helped decorate our
bulletin boards for July.
On Saturday afternoon, residents enjoyed ice cream sandwiches.
The Activities program relies
on the assistance of volunteers
to enhance the lives of residents. If interested in being
a volunteer, pleas call Tom
Mansfield, Activity Director,
at 326-8212.
Trespassing (1); Unsecured
Warnings, Citations
Premises (1); Unwanted Person
and Arrests:
(1); Utility Problem (1); VIN
Serial Number Inspection (2); June 28
Welfare Check (1)
A juvenile, of Golden, CO,
37 homes are in the House was given a verbal warning for
Watch program and one person speed.
is in the Home Alone program.
continued from page 1
Fireworks Show
There will be several fireworks shows in the Platte Valley that are free to the public.
The Town of Encampment
will host a fireworks show
Friday night at McClure field,
located at E. Fourth Street and
Barnette Avenue. Fireworks
will begin at dusk.
The Old Baldy Club will be
launching their own fireworks
for the town of Saratoga this
weekend.
Long-time Old Baldy Club
employee John Baxter, said the
club has put on the show for
around the past 26 years. They
will be launching the fireworks
from their golf course.
Baxter recommends residents watch the fireworks
show from the northern ridge
across from Old Baldy Club.
Watching the show from Kathy
Glode Park is also a good option for spectators.
The fireworks show is set to
A blacksmith demonstration
go off at around dusk.
will take place at 11 a.m.
Linda Durbano will be signSaratoga Museum’s
ing and selling “Legends of Old
Custom and Culture Days Baldy Club” at 1 p.m.
July 5 and 6, the Saratoga
Food, baked goods and an
Museum is hosting A Celebra- old-fashioned root beer wagon
tion of Custom and Culture at will be on hand to add to the
the Saratoga Museum Pavilion event.
on Constitution Ave.
On Saturday, a dutch-oven
cook off begins at 10 a.m. and
is followed by a blacksmith
demonstration. A tipi will be
set up at noon followed by a
brain tanning demonstration.
At 2:30 p.m. a presentation on
the history of printing, with
the cook off ending at 3:30 p.m.
On Sunday, presentations
will take you back to pre-historic days and the customs of
PaleoAmericans, Clovis and
pre-Clovis will begin at 10
a.m., following by a presentation on the history of the Platte
Valley river.
The staff of
the Saratoga
Sun wishes
you a safe
and happy
Independence
Weekend.
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The Saratoga Sun
The Saratoga Sun
July 2, 2014, Page 21
TOWN
ORDINANCE # 825
AN ORDINANCE GRANTING
A FRANCHISE TO VYVE
BROADBAND J, LLC TO
MAINTAIN A CABLE
COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM
IN THE TOWN OF SARATOGA; SETTING FORTH CONDITIONS ACCOMPANYING THE
GRANT OF THE FRANCHISE;
PROVIDING FOR REGULATION AND USE OF THE SYSTEM; AND PRESCRIBING
PENALTIES FOR THE
VIOLATION OF ITS
PROVISIONS
The Town of Saratoga ordains:
FINDINGS
In the review of VYVE BROAD‑
BAND J, LLC (“Grantee”), the
Town of Saratoga makes the
following findings:
The Grantee’s technical ability,
financial condition, legal qual‑
ifications, and character were
considered and approved in a full
public proceeding after due no‑
tice and a reasonable opportunity
to be heard;
Grantee’s plans for operating
the System were considered and
found adequate and feasible in a
full public proceeding after due
notice and a reasonable opportu‑
nity to be heard; and
The Franchise granted to Grant‑
ee by Grantor complies with the
existing applicable laws and
regulations.
SECTION 1.
SHORT TITLE
AND DEFINITIONS
Short Title. This Franchise Ordi‑
nance shall be known and cited
as the Cable Communications
Ordinance.
Definitions. For the purposes
of this Franchise, the following
terms, phrases, words, and their
derivations shall have the mean‑
ing ascribed to them by the Cable
Communications Policy Act of
1984, as amended from time
to time (the “Cable Act”), to the
extent contained therein. When
not inconsistent with the context,
words in the singular number
include the plural number. The
word “shall” is always manda‑
tory and not merely directory.
The word “may” is directory and
discretionary and not mandatory.
“Basic Cable Service” means
any service tier which includes
the lawful retransmission of local
television broadcast signals and
any public, educational, and gov‑
ernmental access programming
required by the franchise to be
carried on the basic tier in analog
and/or digital format.
“Cable Programming Service”
means any Video Programming
provided over a Cable System,
regardless of service tier, includ‑
ing installation or rental of equip‑
ment used for the receipt of such
Video Programming, other than:
Video Programming carried on
the Basic Service Tier; Vid‑
eo Programming offered on a
pay‑per‑channel or pay‑per‑pro‑
gram basis; or
A combination of multiple
channels of pay‑per‑channel or
pay‑per‑program Video Program‑
ming offered on a multiplexed or
time‑shifted basis so long as the
combined service: consists of
commonly‑identified Video Pro‑
gramming; and is not bundled
with any regulated tier of service.
“Cable Service” means the one‑
way transmission to Subscribers
of Video Programming, or other
programming service, and Sub‑
scriber interaction, if any, which
is required for the selection of
such Video Programming or other
programming service.
“Cable System” or “System”
means a facility, consisting of a
set of closed transmission paths
and associated signal generation,
reception, and control equipment
that is designed to provide Cable
Service which includes Video
Programming and which is pro‑
vided to multiple Subscribers
within a community, but such
term does not include: a facility
that serves only to retransmit the
television signals of one or more
television broadcast stations; a
facility that serves Subscribers
without using any public right‑
of‑way; a facility of a common
carrier which is subject, in whole
or in part, to the provisions of 47
U.S.C. §§201 et seq., except that
such facility shall be considered
a Cable System (other than for
purposes of 47 U.S.C. §541 (c)
to the extent such facility is used
in the transmission of Video Pro‑
gramming directly to Subscrib‑
ers, unless the extent of such
use is solely to provide interactive
on‑demand services; an open
video system that complies with
47 U.S.C. §653; or any facilities
of any electric utility used solely
for operating its electric utility
systems.
“Town” means Town of Saratoga,
acting by and through its Town
Council.
“Drop” means the cable that
connects the ground block on
the Subscriber’s residence to the
nearest tap of the System.
“FCC” means the Federal Com‑
munications Commission and
any legally appointed, designated
or elected agent or successor.
“Franchise” means an initial
authorization, or renewal thereof
(including a renewal of an autho‑
rization which has been granted
subject to 47 USC §546 issued by
a franchising authority, whether
such authorization is designated
as a franchise, permit, license,
resolution, contract, certificate,
agreement, or otherwise, which
authorizes the construction or
operation of a Cable System.
“Franchise Area” means the
area within the legal boundaries
of Town.
“Grantee” is VYVE BROADBAND
J, LLC
“Grantor” is the Town of
Saratoga.
“Gross Revenue” means all
monthly revenue received from
Basic Cable Service, Cable Pro‑
gramming Service, and Pay Tele‑
vision directly by Grantee from
the operation of its System within
Franchise Area. The term “Gross
Revenues” shall not include
non‑Cable Service fees including
Installation fees, disconnection
fees, upgrades and downgrades
of service fees, fees for telecom‑
munications or information ser‑
vices, fees for the sale, leasing
and serving of equipment, late
fees, insufficient funds checking
fees, network capacity and facili‑
ties rent for the provision of tele‑
communications or information
services, investment income, any
fees itemized and passed through
as a result of Franchise imposed
requirements, or any taxes or
fees on services furnished by
the Grantee imposed directly
on any Subscriber or user by
any municipality, state, or other
governmental unit and collected
by Grantee for such governmen‑
tal unit.
“Installation” means the con‑
nection of the System from feeder
cable to the point of connection,
including Standard Installations
and custom installations.
“Lockout Device” means an
optional mechanical or electrical
accessory to a Subscriber’s ter‑
minal which inhibits the viewing
of a certain program, certain
channel, or certain channels pro‑
vided by way of the Cable System.
“Multichannel Video Program
Distributor” or “MVPD” means
a person such as, but not limited
to, a cable operator, a multi‑
channel multipoint distribu‑
tion service, a direct broadcast
satellite service, or a television
receive‑only satellite program
distributor, who makes available
for purchase, by subscribers or
customers, multiple channels of
video programming.
“Open Video Services” or “OVS”
means any Video Programming
Services provided to any person
in the Franchise Area by a Person
certified by the FCC to operate
an Open Video System pursuant
to Section 47 USC §573, as may
be amended, regardless of the
facilities used.
“Pay Television” means the
delivery over the System of
pay‑per‑channel or pay‑per‑pro‑
gram audio‑visual signals to
Subscribers for a fee or charge,
in addition to the charge for Basic
Cable Service or Cable Program‑
ming Services.
“Person” is any person, firm,
partnership, association, corpo‑
ration, company, or other legal
entity.
“Standard Installation” means
any residential installation which
can be completed using a Drop
of one hundred twenty five (125)
feet or less.
“Street” means the surface of,
and the space above and below,
any public street, road, highway,
freeway, lane, alley, path, court,
sidewalk, parkway, or drive, or
any easement or right‑of‑way
now or hereafter held by Grantor.
“Subscriber” means any Per‑
son who lawfully receives Cable
Service.
“Video Programming” means
programming provided by, or
generally considered comparable
to programming provided by, a
television broadcast station.
SECTION 2.
GRANT OF AUTHORITY AND
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Franchise Required. It shall
be unlawful for any Person to
construct, operate or maintain a
Cable System or to provide Cable
Service or other competing MVPD
services, including OVS, in the
Franchise Area without a Fran‑
chise in the form of a Franchise
Agreement as required by Section
2.3.(c) herein.
Grant of Franchise. This Fran‑
chise is granted pursuant to the
terms and conditions contained
herein.
Grant of Nonexclusive Authority. Grantee shall have the
non‑exclusive right and privilege
to construct, erect, operate,
repair and maintain, in, upon,
along, across, above, over and
under the Streets, alleys, pub‑
lic ways and public places now
laid out or dedicated and all
extensions thereof, and addi‑
tions thereto in the Franchise
Area, poles, wires, cables, un‑
derground conduits, manholes,
and other television conductors
and fixtures necessary for the
maintenance and operation in
the Franchise Area of a Cable
System as herein defined.
Grantee shall have the right
to conduct direct selling in the
Franchise Area, including door
to door sales, notwithstanding
any peddler or solicitor laws or
regulations to the contrary.
This Franchise shall be nonex‑
clusive, and Grantor reserves
the right to grant a similar use
of said Streets to any MVPD at
any time during the period of this
Franchise, provided, however,
that any additional Franchise
shall contain the same substan‑
tive terms and conditions as
this Franchise in order that one
MVPD is not granted a compet‑
itive advantage over another. In
the event a MVPD commences
operation without a Franchise or
is granted a Franchise or permit
to operate by Grantor, the terms
and conditions of which do not
comply with this Ordinance,
Grantee shall have the right
either (i) to accept the material
terms of the competitor’s Fran‑
chise by providing ten (10) days
prior written notice to Grantor,
which shall then act to amend
this Franchise within thirty (30)
days; or (ii) to petition Grantor for
modifications to this Franchise,
in which case Grantor shall work
in good faith with Grantee to re‑
view and adopt the modifications
which Grantee deems necessary,
and such review and approval by
Grantor shall not be unreason‑
ably denied or withheld. A MVPD
is not an entity that provides
direct broadcast satellite services
for purposes of this Section.
Notwithstanding any provisions
of this Section to the contrary,
if Grantor does not possess au‑
thority under applicable laws to
require a Franchise of a Person,
the provisions of this Section
shall not apply.
Franchise Term. This Franchise
shall be in effect for a period of
ten (10) years from the date of
acceptance by Grantee, unless
renewed, revoked, or terminated
sooner as herein provided.
Previous Franchises. Upon ac‑
ceptance by Grantee as required
by Section 9 herein, this Fran‑
chise shall supersede and re‑
place any previous Ordinance or
Agreement granting a Franchise
to Grantee to own, operate and
maintain a Cable System within
the Franchise Area.
Rules of Grantee. Grantee shall
have the authority to promulgate
such rules, regulations, terms
and conditions governing the
conduct of its business as shall
be reasonably necessary to en‑
able said Grantee to exercise its
rights and perform its obligation
under this Franchise.
Territorial Area Involved. This
Franchise is granted for the cor‑
porate boundaries of Grantor, as
it exists from time to time. In the
event of annexation by Grantor,
or as development occurs, any
new territory shall become part of
the area covered, provided, how‑
ever, that Grantee shall not be
required to extend service beyond
its present System boundaries
unless there is a minimum of
thirty‑five (35) homes per linear
strand mile as measured from the
tap from which Grantee would
extend service. Grantee shall be
given a reasonable period of time
to construct and activate cable
plant to service annexed or newly
developed areas, but in no case
shall this period of time be more
than one (1) year.
Written Notice. All notices,
reports, or demands required to
be given in writing under this
Franchise shall be deemed to
be given (i) when delivered per‑
sonally to any officer of Grantee
or Grantor, (ii) forty‑eight (48)
hours after it is deposited in the
United States mail in a sealed
envelope, with registered or
certified mail postage prepaid
thereon, addressed to the party
to whom notice, report or de‑
mand is being given, or (iii) on
the next business day if sent
by express mail or nationally
recognized overnight air courier
addressed to the party to whom
notice, report or demand is being
given, in each case, as follows:
If to Grantor:
TOWN OF SARATOGA
P.O. Box 486
Saratoga, WY 82331
If to Grantee:
VYVE BROADBAND J, LLC
Four International Dr.
Ste. 330
Rye Brook, NY
Attn: General Counsel
Such addresses may be changed
by either party upon notice to the
other party given as provided in
this Section.
Drops to Public Buildings.
Subject to Grantee’s receipt of
all required easements, permits
or authorizations, Grantee shall
provide Standard Installation
of one (1) cable Drop, one (1)
cable outlet, and monthly Basic
Cable Service (“Complimentary
Service”) without charge to the
following public buildings or
locations:
School Media Center
315 N. 1st St.
Saratoga Fire Department
114 E. Spring
Saratoga Elementary School
122 W. Elm
Saratoga Middle School
122 W. Elm
Saratoga High School
801 W. Elm
Saratoga Water & Street Dept.
209 S. River St.
Saratoga Police Department
301 S. River St.
Saratoga Library
503 W. Elm
Town of Saratoga
110 E. Spring St.
No redistribution of the free Basic
Cable Service provided pursuant
to this Section shall be allowed.
Additional Drops and/or outlets
in any of the above locations will
be provided by Grantee upon
request and upon (i) payment
by the institution for the cost of
such installation, which shall
be billed at the cost of Grantee’s
time and materials, and (ii) the
Institution’s agreement to pay
for Basic Cable Service. Nothing
herein shall be construed as
requiring Grantee to extend the
System to serve additional insti‑
tutions as may be designated by
Grantor. Additional institutions
may receive Complimentary Ser‑
vice with the mutual consent of
Grantor and Grantee.
Rights Reserved. Grantor re‑
serves its rights under its lawful
police powers. Any generally
applicable, non‑discriminatory
fees or charges paid, including
permit fees, to the extent they
are not by Federal law deemed to
be a Franchise Fee shall be paid
in addition to the Franchise Fee
required under this Franchise.
SECTION 3.
CONSTRUCTION STANDARDS
Construction Codes and Permits. Grantee shall obtain all
required permits from Grantor
before commencing any con‑
struction upgrade or extension of
TOWN
the System, including the opening or disturbance of any Street,
or private or public property
within Franchise Area.
Grantor shall have the right to
inspect all construction or installation work performed pursuant
to the provisions of the Franchise
and to make such tests at its own
expense as it shall find necessary
to ensure compliance with the
terms of the Franchise and applicable provisions of local, state
and federal law; provided any
such testing must be coordinated with Grantee to avoid service
disruption to Subscribers.
Grantee shall comply with all
generally applicable, non-discriminatory state and local laws
and building and zoning codes
currently or hereafter applicable
to construction, operation or
maintenance of the System in the
Town. In addition to the requirements of local law, including
those uniform codes adopted by
the Town, as well as those conditions established by the utilities
whose facilities are used by the
System, all such work shall be
performed in accordance with
good construction practices.
The Grantor may adopt a comprehensive right of way management (“ROW”) code. The Grantor
agrees that its ROW management
code shall be generally applicable
to all ROW occupants and that
it shall not hold the Grantee to
a different standard than that
applied to all other occupants of
the ROW. If the Grantor adopts
a ROW code, any future construction or changes to Grantee’s
System shall comply with the
Grantor’s ROW code and any
part of this Franchise Ordinance
which is in conflict with the
Grantor’s ROW Code is hereby
repealed. Grantee’s existing
System as of the effective date of
the Grantor’s ROW Code shall be
grandfathered under the terms of
this Franchise Ordinance.
Repair of Streets and Property. Any and all Streets or public
property which are disturbed or
damaged during the construction, repair, replacement, relocation, operation, maintenance
or reconstruction of the System
shall be promptly restored by
Grantee, at its expense, to a condition as good as that prevailing
prior to Grantee’s work in accordance with generally applicable,
nondiscriminatory law.
Conditions on Street Use.
If at any time during the period
of this Franchise Grantor shall
elect to alter, or change the grade
or location of any Street, alley or
other public way, Grantee shall,
at its own expense, upon reasonable notice by Grantor, remove
and relocate its poles, wires,
cables, conduits, manholes and
other fixtures of the System, and
in each instance comply with the
standards and specifications of
Grantor. Grantor shall reimburse
Grantee for the actual cost of any
such relocation. Grantee shall
not be required to relocate for
any telecommunications system
or Cable System.
Grantee shall, on request of any
Person holding a moving permit
issued by Grantor, temporarily
move its wires or fixtures to permit the moving of buildings with
the expense of such temporary
removal to be paid by the Person
requesting the same, and Grantee shall be given not less than
thirty (30) days advance notice
to arrange for such temporary
changes.
Grantee shall have the author-
ity to trim any trees upon and
overhanging the Streets, alleys,
sidewalks, or public easements
of Grantor so as to prevent the
branches of such trees from coming in contact with the wires and
cables of Grantee.
Nothing in this Franchise relieves
a Person from liability arising out
of the failure to exercise reasonable care to avoid injuring Grantee’s System or facilities while
performing work in, on, under
or over a Street or public place.
Undergrounding of Cable.
Whenever in any place within
the Town, all the electric and
telephone utilities shall be located underground, it shall be the
obligation of Grantee to locate
its property underground within
such places in accordance with
any generally applicable nondiscriminatory law. In any area
where one or more utilities are
aerial, Grantee may construct
and install its System aerially or
above ground.
If all the electric utilities or telephone utilities shall be located
underground in any place within the Town after Grantee has
previously installed its property,
Grantee shall at the same time
or immediately afterward remove
and relocate its property underground in such places in accordance with any generally applicable nondiscriminatory law. In areas of the Town where all utilities
are underground, Grantee may
locate certain equipment above
ground consistent with generally applicable nondiscriminatory
applicable law.
Facilities of Grantee placed
underground at the property
owner’s request in an area where
electric utilities or telephone utilities are aerial shall be installed
with the additional expenses paid
by the property owner.
SECTION 4.
SYSTEM PROVISIONS
Technical Standards. The System
shall comply, at minimum, with
the technical standards promulgated by the FCC found in Title
47, Section 76.601 to 76.617,
as may be amended or modified
from time to time.
Lockout Device. Upon the request of a Subscriber, Grantee
shall provide by sale or lease a
Lockout Device.
3) System Maintenance. (a)
Interruptions to be Minimized.
The Grantee shall schedule
maintenance of the System so
that interruptions are minimized
to the extent possible, and so
that activities likely to result in
an interruption of service are
performed during periods of
minimum Subscriber use of the
system.
System Line Extension. Provision of Service to Subscribers:
System Extension. The Grantee
shall make Cable Service distributed over the Cable System available at then prevailing installation charges to every occupied
dwelling unit within the Service
Area reaching the minimum
density of at least thirty-five (35)
dwelling units per linear strand
mile of cable as measured from
the point of connection of existing
activated plant.
Extension of Service. Subject
to this Section 4 and Grantee’s
customary requirements for
provision of service and under
normal conditions, Grantee must
extend Cable Service to any person requesting it within seven
(7) business days of the request,
where Cable Service can be pro-
vided by activating or installing
a Standard Installation or in all
other cases, within six (6) months
of the request.
Non-Standard Installation. Notwithstanding anything herein
to the contrary, if a Subscriber
requires a non-Standard Installation, Grantee shall, upon
request, provide a quote for construction of the non-Standard
Installation and shall establish
a mutually acceptable payment
schedule not to exceed one (1)
calendar year.
SECTION 5.
SERVICES PROVISIONS
Subscriber Inquiry and Complaint Procedures. Grantee shall
have a publicly listed toll-free
telephone number and be operated so as to receive Subscriber
complaints and requests on a
twenty-four (24) hour-a-day, seven (7) days-a-week basis.
Refund Policy. In the event a Subscriber establishes or terminates
service and receives less than
a full month’s service, Grantee
shall prorate the monthly rate on
the basis of the number of days in
the period for which service was
rendered to the number of days
in the billing.
Public Educational and Government Access Channel(s).
Grantee may make available to
Grantor one (1) channel to be
used only for public, educational
and governmental (“PEG”) access
programming (“PEG Channel”)
on a channel location in Grantee¹s sole discretion. The PEG
Channel(s) shall be shared with
other municipalities receiving
programming from a common
headend and all municipalities
shall receive the same programming at the same time. Grantee
shall have no obligations whatsoever beyond making the PEG
Channel available and shall
have no obligation to provide
any PEG Channel equipment or
any management, operations,
programming, financial or technical support or services. Upon
sixty (60) days prior written
notice, Grantee may move the
PEG Channel to another channel
location or discontinue making
the PEG Channel available in its
sole discretion.
4) Non-discrimination. Grantee
shall comply with applicable law
regarding non-discrimination.
5) Hearing and Visually Impaired. The Grantee shall provide information concerning the
cost and availability of equipment to facilitate the reception
of services by the hearing and
visually impaired in compliance
with Federal law.
6) Regulation of Rates and
Charges. The Grantor may regulate Grantee’s cable rates and
charges to the fullest extent
permitted by Federal law and
regulations whether or not the
cable rate or charge is specified
in the Franchise. The Grantor
may adopt regulations governing
the review of cable rates charged
by the Grantee, consistent with
Federal law. Grantee shall file a
schedule of its cable service rates
and charges with the Grantor with its acceptance of this
Franchise and shall maintain a
revised schedule whenever any
cable service rate or charge is
changed on its website.
7) Customer Service Standards.
Grantee shall have an obligation
to comply with the FCC Customer
Service Standards as set forth
in47 CFR §76.309. The Grantor
reserves the right to modify or
add additional standards as permitted under Federal law.
SECTION 6.
OPERATION AND ADMINISTRATION PROVISIONS
Indemnification of Grantor.
Grantee shall indemnify, defend,
and hold harmless Grantor from
and against all liability, damages,
and penalties which it may be
legally required to pay as a result
of the exercise of this Franchise,
except for (i) claims covered by
worker’s compensation insurance or other insurance coverage, (ii) claims arising directly
or indirectly from, or related to,
the negligence or misconduct
of Grantor or its employees,
contractors, representatives or
agents, and (iii) claims arising
directly or indirectly from, or
related to, the programming,
programming content, administration, operation or other use of
the PEG Channel(s).
Liability for Negligence in Use
of PEG Channel. Grantor shall
be responsible for its own negligence in the operation of the
PEG Channel(s), as well as any
liability, damages, or penalties
arising directly or indirectly from,
or related to the programming,
programming content, administration, operation, or use of the
PEG Channel. Nothing contained
herein shall require Grantor to
indemnify the Grantee for Grantor’s negligence.
3) Governmental Immunity.
Grantor is a Wyoming municipality and preserves all immunity
for its public officials, appointed
officials, officers and employees.
Nothing contained herein shall
be construed to be a waiver of
that immunity.
4) Notice and Process for Indemnification. In order for
Grantor to assert its rights to be
indemnified, defended, and held
harmless, the Grantor must with
respect to each claim:
Promptly notify the Grantee in
writing of any claim or legal proceeding which gives rise to such
right; the failure to provide timely
notice shall not affect the rights
to indemnification hereunder,
except to the extent that the indemnifying party is prejudiced
or demonstrates actual damage
caused by such failure;
Afford the Grantee the opportunity to fully control any compromise, settlement or other resolution or disposition of any claim
or proceeding. If a settlement
will result in any continuing
obligations of the party seeking
indemnification hereunder, then
the indemnifying party shall not
be entitled to settle any claim
without the indemnified party’s
consent, which shall not be unreasonably withheld, delayed or
conditioned; and
Fully cooperate with reasonable
requests of the indemnifying
party in its control, compromise,
settlement or resolution or other disposition of such claim or
proceeding.
5) Limitation of Liability. NEITHER PARTY SHALL BE LIABLE
TO THE OTHER FOR ANY INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES
ARISING IN CONNECTION WITH
THIS FRANCHISE OR THE PROVISION OF SERVICES HEREUNDER, UNDER ANY THEORY OF
TORT, CONTRACT, WARRANTY,
STRICT LIABILITY OR NEGLIGENCE, EVEN IF THE PARTY
HAS BEEN ADVISED, KNEW
OR SHOULD HAVE KNOWN OF
THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
DAMAGES.
6) Insurance. Grantee shall
maintain in full force and effect
at its sole expense, a comprehensive general liability insurance
policy, including contractual
liability coverage. The policies
of insurance shall be in the sum
of not less than Five Hundred
Thousand Dollars ($500,000)
for personal injury or death of
any one Person, and One Million
Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($1,500,000) for personal
injury or death of two or more
Persons in any one occurrence,
Five Hundred Thousand Dollars
($500,000) for property damage to any one Person and One
Million Five Hundred Thousand
Dollars ($1,500,000) for property
damage resulting from any one
act or occurrence.
7) Franchise Fee. (a) Grantee
will pay Grantor an annual franchise fee (as defined in 47 USC
§542(g)) in the amount of five
(5%) percent of Grantee’s annual
Gross Revenues.
(b) The franchise fee shall be payable quarterly. The payment shall
be made within thirty (30) days
of the end of each of Grantee’s
fiscal quarters, together with a
brief report showing the basis for
the computation.
(c) Upon request, Grantee shall
also file with the Town Clerk
within sixty (60) days following
conclusion of each fiscal year a
Grantee annual report showing
the yearly total Gross Revenues
and payments to the Grantor.
(d) Upon thirty (30) days prior
written notice, Grantor or its
authorized representative, shall
have the right to conduct an
independent audit of Grantee’s records solely to determine
Grantee’s compliance with the
franchise fee payment obligation imposed by this Franchise.
Grantor’s right to audit and
Grantee’s obligation to retain
records related to franchise fee
payments shall expire three
(3) years after each franchise
fee payment has been made to
Grantor.
SECTION 7.
REVOCATION,
ABANDONMENT, AND
SALE OR TRANSFER
Grantor’s Right to Revoke. In
addition to all other rights which
Grantor has pursuant to law or
equity, Grantor reserves the right
to revoke, terminate or cancel
this Franchise, and all rights
and privileges pertaining thereto, if after strictly following the
procedures required by Section
7.2 herein, it is determined that
Grantee has violated any material provision of this Franchise
and has failed to substantially
cure said violation.
2) Procedures for Revocation.
(a) Grantor shall provide Grantee
with written notice of a cause
for revocation and the intent to
revoke and shall allow Grantee
sixty (60) days subsequent to
receipt of the notice in which to
substantially cure the violation
or to provide adequate assurance of performance. Together
with the notice required herein,
Grantor shall provide Grantee
with written findings of fact
which are the basis of the revocation.
(b) Grantee shall be provided the
right to a public hearing affording
due process before the Grantor
elected body prior to revocation,
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which public hearing shall follow
the sixty (60) day notice provided
in paragraph (a) above. Grantor
shall provide Grantee with written notice of its decision together
with written findings of fact supplementing said decision.
(c) After the public hearing and
upon written determination by
Grantor to revoke the Franchise,
Grantee may appeal said decision
with an appropriate state or federal court or agency.
During the appeal period, the
Franchise shall remain in full
force and effect; provided, however, Grantee may elect to discontinue offering Cable Service
or terminate the franchise in its
sole discretion at any time during
the appeal period.
Upon satisfactory correction by
Grantee of the violation upon
which said notice was given, the
initial notice shall become void.
Sale or Transfer of Franchise.
No sale or transfer of this Franchise shall take place without
the written approval of Grantor,
which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld. All of the
rights, privileges, obligations,
duties, and liabilities created by
this Franchise shall pass to and
be binding upon the successor
or assign of Grantee. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no approval shall be required for (i)
a transfer or assignment of any
right, title or interest of Grantee
in this Franchise or the System
to secure indebtedness, or (ii) a
transfer or assignment of this
Franchise or the System to an
entity that through one or more
intermediaries, owns or controls,
or is owned or controlled by, or
under common ownership or
control with, Grantee.
Grantee Termination of Franchise. In the event Grantee elects
to terminate this Franchise and
discontinue providing Cable Service, Grantee shall provide ninety
(90) days prior written notice to
Grantor. Upon the expiration of
the ninety (90) day notice period,
this Franchise shall be deemed
to be rescinded and Grantee
shall be deemed to be released
from any further obligations to
Grantor with no further action
required by Grantee or Grantor.
SECTION 8.
MISCELLANEOUS
PROVISIONS
Franchise Renewal. Any renewal of this Franchise shall be done
in accordance with applicable
federal, state and local laws and
regulations.
Amendment of Franchise Ordinance. Grantee and Grantor
may agree, from time to time, to
amend this Franchise. Such written amendments may be made at
any time if Grantor and Grantee
agree that such an amendment
will be in the public interest or if
such an amendment is required
due to changes in federal, state
or local laws. Grantor shall act
pursuant to local law pertaining
to the ordinance amendment
process.
Subscriber Privacy. Grantee shall
comply with the terms of 47 USC
§551 relating to the protection of
Subscriber privacy.
4) Force Majeure. Grantee shall
not be held in default under,
or in noncompliance with, the
provisions of this Franchise, nor
suffer any enforcement or penalty relating to noncompliance or
default (including termination,
Franchise), where such noncompliance or alleged faults occurred
or were caused by riot, war,
earthquake, flood, tidal wave,
unusually severe rain or snow
storm, hurricane, tornado or
other catastrophic act of nature
or judicial order or regulation
or fiber cut or other damage to
the Cable System or other event
that is reasonably beyond the
Grantee’s ability to anticipate
or control. This provision also
covers work delays caused by
waiting for utility providers to
service or monitor their own utility poles on which Grantee’s cable
and/or equipment is attached,
as well as unavailability of materials and/or qualified labor to
perform the work necessary and
delays caused by limited access
to easements, poles or Streets.
5) Integration. This Franchise
Agreement constitutes the sole
and entire understanding and
agreement of Grantor and Grantee with respect to the subject
matter contained herein and
supersedes all prior or contemporaneous understandings and
agreements, both written and
oral, with respect to such subject
matter.
6) Severability. If any provision
of this Franchise is for any reason held illegal or invalid, or is
preempted by any Federal law,
rule or regulation, such provision
shall be deemed to be separate
and distinct and such holding or
preemption shall not affect the
validity of the remaining provisions of this Franchise.
SECTION 9.
PUBLICATION, EFFECTIVE
DATE AND ACCEPTANCE
Publication; Effective Date. If
applicable, this Franchise shall
be published in accordance with
law. The effective date of this
Franchise shall be the date of
acceptance by Grantee in accordance with the provisions of
Section 9.2. Grantee shall be
responsible for reimbursement to
the Town for costs of publication
of this Franchise Ordinance. All
costs of reimbursement will be
paid to the Town within thirty
(30) days after the final publication of this Ordinance.
Acceptance.
a. Grantee shall accept this
Franchise by executing same.
Such acceptance by the Grantee
shall be deemed the grant of this
Franchise for all purposes. With
its acceptance, Grantee shall also
deliver any insurance certificates
required herein that have not
been previously delivered.
Upon acceptance of this Franchise, Grantee shall be bound
by all the terms and conditions
contained herein.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION
FOR A NEW RETAIL
LIQUOR LICENSE
Notice is hereby given that on the
4th day of June, 2014, D’s Bar and
Grill, Inc., filed an application for
a new a retail liquor license in the
office of the Town Clerk, Encampment, Carbon County, Wyoming,
for the following described place
and premises, to wit: a room 8’
X 16’ in the southwest portion of
the building located on Lots 5-12,
Block 25, Town of Encampment,
Wyoming. Any protest, if any there
be, against the issuance of such
license, will be heard at the hour
of 8:00 p.m., or as time allows, on
the 10th day of July, 2014 in the
Council Chambers of the Town Hall
located at 614 McCaffrey Avenue,
Encampment, Carbon County,
Wyoming.
Doreen Harvey, CMC
Clerk/Treasurer
Legal #6379
Published in the Saratoga Sun
June 11, 18, 25 and July 2, 2014
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
LIMITED RETAIL (GOLF CLUB)
LIQUOR LICENSE
NOTICE IS HERBY GIVEN that
on or about the 13th day of June
2014, application for a Limited
Retail (Golf Club) Liquor License
was filed in the Office of the Carbon County Clerk for the following
individually described place and
premises, to-wit:
Sinclair Golf Club LLC dba
Sinclair Golf Club: 20’x30’ room
in the south end of the first floor of
the building located 6 miles northeast of Sinclair, Wyoming.
Protests, if any, against the issuance of the listed license will be
heard at 11:15 a.m. on the 15th
day of July 2014, in the Commissioners Room at the Carbon
County Courthouse, 415 West Pine
Street, Rawlins, Wyoming.
Dated this 13th day of June 2014.
-s- Gwynn G. Bartlett
Carbon County Clerk
Legal #6381
Published in the Saratoga Sun
June 18, 25 and July 2 and 9, 2014
PROPOSED TEMPORARY
TURBIDITY INCREASE
IN CADWELL SLOUGH
IN CARBON COUNTY
Urbani Fisheries, LLC, has
requested a waiver from the
Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality Water QualPassed and adopted this 17th ity Division (DEQ/WQD) for a
temporary increase in turbidity
day of June, 2014.
in Cadwell Slough (Section 19,
T17N, R83W) in Carbon CounGRANTOR
ty. Activity in Cadwell Slough is
By: John Zeiger
normally limited to a ten nepheMayor, Town of Saratoga
lometric turbidity unit (NTU) increase over background. ApprovGRANTEE ACCEPTANCE
This Franchise is accepted and al of this request would allow an
we agree to be bound by its terms exceedance of this limit for up to
30 days, subject to monitoring
and conditions.
and reporting. This activity will
follow the procedures in Chapter
VYVE BROADBAND J, LLC
1, Section 23(c)(ii), of the WyoBy:
ming DEQ Water Quality Rules
and Regulations, which allow for
Dated:
temporary elevated levels of turbidity in certain circumstances.
Legal #6390
Published in the Saratoga Sun A 404 Permit from the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers has been isJuly 2, 2014
sued. Proposed activities include
LIQUOR
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July 2, 2014, Page 23
STATE
manipulation for fish habitat
enhancement.
Requests for related information and documents about the
proposed temporary turbidity
increase should be directed to
Cathy Norris by email (cathy.
norris@wyo.gov) or phone (307777-6372). Comments must
be addressed to Cathy Norris,
Wyoming DEQ/WQD, Herschler
Building, 122 W. 25th Street,
Cheyenne, WY, 82002, and postmarked before 5:00 p.m. on July
15, 2014 (or faxed to 307-7775973) to be considered. Phone
or email comments will not be
accepted.3
Macpherson, Kelly
4,539.25
& Thompson, LLC
Martin Silver Stationers 552.74
Mason Neiman
750.00
Mary A Sjoden
2,550.00
Living Trust
Meadow Gold Dairies 3,213.01
MPM Corp dba
750.50
Evergreen Disposal
Northern Tools
797.69
Office Depot
564.24
Office Wonderland
639.00
PCD Engineering
2,482.00
Services, Inc.
Pederson, Susan
500.00
Perceptions Plus
1,000.00
Perkins Oil Company 6,839.60
Perue Printing
1,170.62
Pesi Health Care
699.99
Legal #6389
Pine Cove
1,401.00
Published in the Saratoga Sun
Consulting, LLC
July 2, 2014
Prairie Dog Electric LLC 504.90
Primus
664.23
Pronghorn Lodge,
1,112.94
Carbon County
Budget Host
School District #2
Quill Corporation
1,251.68
June 2014 Bill List
Ramkota Hotel
1,162.00
$500.00 and over
- Casper
Rawlins Daily Times
924.30
Vendor
Amount Ricoh USA
1,535.81
Amazon.Com
1,431.13 Rocky Mountain Power 8,705.94
Amundsen RB+B
9,819.28 Rodeway Inn-Loveland
613.00
Architects
Saratoga Auto
896.50
API Systems
5,098.00
Parts, Inc.
Integrators
Saratoga Elementary
556.55
Berris, Frank
524.16
Hot Lunch
Best Western-Inn
960.00 Saratoga Sun
1,036.00
at Lander
Scambler,
4,921.60
Carbon Power &
17,393.44
Douglas J. Ph. D.
Light Company
Shell Fleet
663.97
Conoco Fleet
578.22
Management
Cowboy Supply House
509.23 Sheridan Motors
34,989.70
CTL Thompson
5,887.50 Shively Hardware
4,364.39
Days Inn-Casper
828.00 Sinclair Oil Corporation 718.43
Deerspace LLC
500.00 Sopris West Inc.
1,236.88
Dennis, Wayne
19,462.50 SourceGas, LLC
10,934.18
Eastwood Company
649.87 Southwest Airlines
2,207.50
Elder Equipment
516.00 State Of Wyoming
8,445.91
Leasing, Inc.
- ETS
Follett School
1,836.87 Supplies Guys
516.95
Solutions Inc.
Sysco Food Service
745.35
Food Service
5,117.69 Texmac Inc.
650.00
of America
Town Of Encampment
683.50
Ground
2,280.00 Town Of Hanna
519.95
Engineering Consultants
Town Of Saratoga
1,334.87
Hampton Inn
995.67 Track Doctor
4,500.00
- Westminster
TV Liquidators
1,035.00
Holiday Inn-Laramie
950.00 Union Telephone
3,340.48
Holiday Inn Express
1,172.00
Company
- Casper
Universal Athletic
7,551.00
Hyatt Regency
1,755.48
Services
- Minneapolis
Valley Foods
657.55
Imprest Fund
578.49 Valley Oil Company
6,095.85
- Erickson, Mike
WYO Steel &
601.20
Imprest Fund
727.68
Recycling Iron/Metals
- Uhling, Larry
Xerox Corporation
1,048.63
Joed Produce
1,367.71
Kid Sounds LLC
3,090.88 Legal #6388
Laramie Recreation
515.00 Published in the Saratoga Sun
Center
July 2, 2014
Lego Education
1,324.74
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BUSINESS DIRECTORY
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and individuals, with an emphasis in commercial law and
litigation, construction related matters, real estate, business law,
land use law and planning, government and administrative law,
natural resources and environmental law.*
217 North First Street • P.O. Box 1859 • Saratoga, WY 82331
(307) 326-3102 • www.schnallaw.com
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and not rely upon advertisement of self-proclaimed expertise.
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Local Therapy,
LLC
Jane Johnston
MS, SLP/CCC
Speech-Language Pathologist
307-326-8111 • cell 307-329-8398
1210 S. River (next to Platte Valley Medical Clinic)
ARMY SURPLUS •
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BUSHCRAFT
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MONThLY SPECIALS!
TUES-SAT 9AM-6PM
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307-710-3355
ANOTHER PAIR
OF
HANDS
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THIS
SPACE
FOR
RENT.
$9 a week
(10 week minimum)
Notary Public
Organize garage sales, closets, sheds, etc ...
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Vacation fill-ins for small offices
Running errands
House cleaning
MUCH, MUCH MORE!
When you need help on projects you
don’t have time for, call me.
THIS SPACE
FOR RENT.
$16.00 a week
(10 week minimum)
Licensed - 40 years experience
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FOR
RENT.
$9 a week
(10 week minimum)
Merrill
Meat
Company
Custom processing
since 1972
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327-5345
bee
329-6998
2 miles north of
Encampment
415 West Cedar Street
Rawlins, WY 82301
(307) 328-5557
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Kris Thorvaldson
Financial Advisor
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Call Big Bale
Company at
(307) 262-5572
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Classified ads are $8 for the first 15 words, 20 cents per word after the first 15.
Classbox ads are $8 per column inch. • Classified ads must be pre-paid.
Call Liz at 326-8311 or email sunads@saratogasun.com to place a classified ad.
Real estate
Help wanted
FOR SALE. Beautiful 40
acre tracts in the Medicine Bow National Forest.
Beartooth Ranch & Land,
LLC / 406-328- 4129 /
w w w.beartoothlandcompany.com
Permanent full-time Program Technician needed in
the Saratoga USDA-Farm
S er v ice A genc y O f f ice.
See www.USAJOBS.gov ,
vacancy number WY-20140 0 0 8, for f u l l v ac a nc y
announcement and online
ER A Shepard & Associapplication information.
ates. For available rentals
FSA is an Equal Opportuvisit: ERAWyoming.com or
nity Employer. Looking for
call (307) 324-4099.
part-time seasonal worker.
S ee ou r ad on Pa ge 5. Variety of work along the
Centur y 21 Cornerstone Platte River. 329-7490.
Realty.
Desert Health is seeking
a part-time social worker
Rentals
and nurse. Apply in person
with Tim or Omie at 207
East Holly.
announcements
announcements
The governing body of
the Town of Saratoga will
be accepting applications
to fill a vacancy on
the Saratoga Planning
Commission.
Interested citizens may
apply to the Town of
Saratoga, P.O. Box 486,
Saratoga, WY 82331.
Attn: Mayor John Zeiger.
The governing body of the
Town of Saratoga will be
accepting letters of interest
from individuals interested
in serving on the Steering
Committee to develop the
Master Plan for the Town of
Saratoga. Interested citizens
may apply to the Town of
Saratoga, P.O. Box 486,
Saratoga, WY 82331.
Attn: Mayor John Zeiger.
Hanna
203 Madison
207 Madison
108 Larkspur
Saratoga 326-5760 or
Rawlins 324-3349
House
foR
Rent
3 bedroom, 2 bath manufactured homes available.
Please ca l l for move-i n
specials. (307) 324-8822.
Retail space
Large retail space at 114
East Bridge Street. 3265621.
fuRnituRe
Airport Hanger for Sale. 60
ft. x 60 ft. metal building
with framed interior. Great
location on Lot 1, Shively
Field, Saratoga, Wyoming.
Electric bi-fold door a lmost the full width of the
building, concrete f loor,
insulated, lighted, east
facing. Easy to enter and
exit. Available immediately. Call Dave for pricing at
801-698-4146.
automoBiles
1979 Fiat Spider 2000.
Refurbished. $5,000 OBO.
Call (307) 329-6756.
statewide classifieds
Sawmills
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$4397.00. MAKE AND SAVE
MON EY w it h your ow n
bandmill. Cut lumber any
dimension. In stock, ready
to ship. FREE Info/DVD:
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1-800-578‐1363 Ext.300N.
Student corner computer
Help Wanted
desk. Lots of storage and
cubbies. Black, good con- POSITIONS AVAILABLE AT
dition. $50. Call Cindy at FREMONT CO. SCHOOL
DISTRICT #25 IN RIVER329-8923.
TON, WY. Need IT/Maintenance Computer Technician
Business seRvices
and Systems Support/IT
C a l l D e ep S we ep, I nc. Technician. Also, Social
for professional business Studies Teacher at HS level.
and residential cleaning. See our website: http://www.
Bonded & Insured. Call fremont25.k12.wy.us/em326-8207.
ployment/jobs.html for more
information or call Karen at
Building mateRials 307-856-9407.
Four-foot concrete forms. ADVERTISING SALES REPRESENTATIVE. The SheriCall (210) 215-8426.
dan Press. Established account list. Base pay plus
fRee
commission, full benefit
Free mobile home. 80x14’
package. Previous sales ex3 bedroom 1978 Chickaperience required. E-mail
saw. Must be moved from
resume to: phil@thesheri208 West Saratoga. Phone
danpress.com. EOE.
(307) 326-5621.
Notice:
Help wanted
FARMERS STATE BANK is
seeking a Personal Banker with Lending Experience. Pay will DOE. Please
submit resume to P.O.
Box 459, Pine Bluffs WY
82082.
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for yourself! Review public
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www.wyopublicnotices.com
or w w w.publicnoticeads.
com/wy.
Help wanted
Part-time evening
bartender/barback
positions.
Experience not required.
Pick up an
application at the
Wolf Hotel.
Saratoga Resort and Spa is currently accepting
applications for the following positions:
• Maintenance Assistant
• Housekeeping
• Mechanic
• Servers • Golf and Grounds Crew
• Spa Therapist (contract)
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Saratoga
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505 N. 2nd St.
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Are you ready to
make a difference?
July 4 Craft Show
RETAIL SALES
REPRESENTATIVE
We are looking for vendors with
unique and handcrafted items.
Vendors must provide their own table and
booth. The cost is $25 and will run from
9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the town parking lot
adjacent to the Saratoga Town Hall.
Sponsored by the Town of Saratoga Recreation
Department. Call Lisa at (307) 326-8338 for more
information or to register as a vendor.
The Saratoga Sun
CROSSWORD
THEME: (*Themed Clue)
NATURAL DISASTERS
ACROSS
1.
6.
9.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
21.
23.
24.
25.
*Hurricane-prone U.S. city
Olympic chant
British singer-songwriter
Gibson garnish
Hair goo
Subject of the musical,
“Evita”
Declare invalid
Flower necklace
Latin American plain
*One killed over 200,000
people in 2004
Crying like a sheep
How many “if by sea?”
Chinese dynasty (13681644)
In the capacity of
LAST WEEK’S ANSWERS
July 2, 2014, Page 27
28.Chesterfield,e.g.
30. Designated limit
35. “Do ___ others...”
37. Schindler kept one
39. Art class support
40. Pains
41. Torcher’s misdeed
43. Japanese soup
44. Bear down under
46. Dublin land
47. 100 centavos
48. To imbue with soul
50. “____ Las Vegas” starring
Elvis
52. Bloodshot
53. Horticultural implement
55. Get it wrong
57. *Warm current
60. *Dry spell
64. “Bye” to Banderas
65. Pastrami holder
67. “Umble” Heep
68. “That is,” Latin
69.Reeffish
70. Artillery burst
71. Unit of force
72. Hole puncher
73. Senior
8. Way out
9. Kosher eatery
10. *1972 deadly blizzard
killed thousands here
11. Goes with ding
12. Lennon’s lady
15. *Black Death
20. Dough
22. Mandela’s org.
24. Like a hippopotamus
25. *Measured by seismograph
26. Soviet entity
27. Rand McNally book
29. *It can get wild
31. Pack down
32. Basket material
33. Band on coat of arms
34.*Itcanhappeninaflash
36. 1952 Winter Olympics
host
38. Reality TV star Spelling
42. “_____ Say Never”
45. ENT, e.g.
49. Local network
51. Kindle
54. Land of “Gangnam Style”
56. Like country life
57. Whirlpool
DOWN
58. Property right
1. Castle feature
59. Facial protrusion
2. Travelers’ stops
60. “The Farmer in the ____”
3. Hokkaido native
61. Embellish
4. *“_____
St.
Helens,” 62. Possess or hold
erupted in 1980
63. *God of thunder
5. They come with marriage 64. *This usually quickly fol6. Wrinkly fruit
lows disasters
7. “___ no evil...”
66. Coniferous tree
$13.79/hour • Full benefits
Apply online at www.unionwireless.com
The Town of Saratoga would like to thank the
SER Conservation District for the donating
trees to various projects this summer and for
your continued dedication to beautifying
and improving Saratoga.
We also want to thank Glenn
Leavengood and Rebecca Burton
for planning and managing the tree
planting project at Good Times Park
on June 7th.
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Check the Sun next week for the answers
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Saratoga prepares for July
Fourth celebrations
Photo Mike Dunn
Saratoga Town Hall shows its patriotism for
Independence Day.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident,
that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator
with certain unalienable Rights,
that among these are Life, Liberty
and the pursuit of Happiness.”
—The Declaration of Independence
SHIVELY HARDWARE
COMPANY
119 E. Bridge • 326-8383
8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Mon-Fri • 8 a.m. to noon. Sat
Photo by Mike Dunn
Bridge Street Bargains line the front of their store
with American flags in preparation for the Fourth
of July Parade.