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Happy Spring!! As I look back on the last year as your pres-ident I have really enjoyed all the amazing members that I
have met and the amazing experiences I have had. I want to thank you all for letting me lead you. I look forward to the great things the Wyoming CattleWomen will do in the next few years.
I want to remind everyone that we do have funds from the Wyoming Beef Council to use for education. Their guidelines are for the funds to be used toward Millennial education. I strongly believe that we need to make use of these funds as much as we possibly can. For more information or details contact Ann Witt-mann with the WBC or any WCW Officer.
Another exciting thing we have going on right now is the Audubon Grant that we were awarded. The money is to be used for three different components. The first is to create a display about cattle and land conservation to be used by the WCW or any of our groups at fairs and expos. The second is an internship for college-age women in ranching. The third is to put on a couple of workshops about increasing profitability in ranching. This is a very exciting opportunity for WCW and I look forward to seeing the great things that come from it. For information or details contact Treasurer Becky Langley.
I would like to invite everyone to our next meeting on Wednesday, June 5 at 4 p.m. in Gillette. It will be held in conjunction with the WSGA summer convention at the Cam-Plex. I will not be able to be there as I was lucky enough to be selected by the WSGA to attend the NCBA’s Young Cattlemen’s Conference which will be happening at the same time. I will miss seeing you all, but I am sure it will be a great meeting.
Congratulations to the incoming officers, and WCW is always looking for people to step up and lead this great organization. Thank you again for the last two wonderful years as your president. - President Kahla Mills
A Message From Our President
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ANCW REGION V CONFERENCE
Kahla Mills
By WCW Secretary Jenny Conrad
The Montana CattleWomen and their President, Connie Ahlgren, did a fabulous job putting together the 2019 ANCW Region V
conference! Wyoming had great representation at the event held May 2-4 in Billings, Mont. The gathering started off with a tour of Trail Head Spirits’ distillery complete with cocktails, followed by dinner at Jake’s Steakhouse.
A fun-filled Friday began with a business meeting which included election of Region V representatives and the passing of a Resolution that reads (in pertinent part) “…ANCW supports mutu- REGION V CONTINUED ON PAGE 7
Volume 34 • Issue 2 • May 2019 Editor: Marcia Campbell
The News l e t t e r o f the Wyoming Ca t t l eWomenBEEF IT NEWS
June 5 • 4 pmCam-Plex
Wyoming Center - GilletteContact WCW President Kahla Mills
at 307-660-1882 or [email protected].
Held in conjunction with the WSGA Cattle Industry Convention
June 5-7, 2019Learn more at www.wysga.org
Thank You
Platte Valley Bank, C.H. Brown Company
LLC, & J. G. Elliott Insurance Center for
sponsoring the printing of Beef It News!
WYOMING CATTLEWOMEN
MEETING
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ANCW President-Elect Evelyn Greene.
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Thank You 2019 Associate Members!
WCW Associate Members pay $40 annually, receive a WCW window cling, and are listed in CattleWomen publications and at our event booth. Ten dollars is returned to the county affiliate. Ask your local businesses to join as associate members! Collect names, addresses, contact information and dues from each business and send to Lindsay Wood, 6946A US Hwy 14-16, Arvada 82831. Questions? Contact 307-670-0171 or [email protected].
support the businesses that support your local and state CattleWomen!
WCW OFFICER & COMMITTEE REPORTS
MembershipAs of April 30, 2019, the Wyoming CattleWomen has 318 mem-
bers for the 2019 year. Ten of those are lifetime members. 125 members from 2018 have not renewed their memberships. Letters were sent to those ladies on May 1, so we expect to start seeing responses from those members soon. It is believed that the majority of those who have not renewed are older members who do not use email (so have not received the emailed notices) and may not attend
regular county meetings.Upcoming 2020 memberships are due beginning Oct. 1, 2019.
They are considered delinquent Dec. 31, 2019. The cost is $25/year or $300/lifetime. Forms are available online at www.wyocattlewomen.org/membership.htm. Send to membership chair Jenny Conrad at the address on the form. We encourage you to include an email address as we send much of our correspondence by email. This allows us to provide you with more information without increasing expenses. - Membership Chair/Secretary Jenny Conrad
SHERIDAN COUNTY CATTLEWOMENBig Horn Livestock Services, Inc., SheridanCathy M Peldo, SheridanCattle Cliffs Ranch, Parkman Dragon Fly Trucking, Parkman Eisele Quarter Horses, Sheridan Heartland Kubota, Sheridan Jane P Clark, Sheridan King’s Saddlery, Sheridan Linda Ernsz, Sheridan Padlock Ranch, Ranchester Plants Plus Greenhouse, Parkman Rose Mary Schank, Sheridan Sheridan Seed Co Inc., Sheridan Ward Ranch, Sheridan X-X - Ranch LLC, Parkman NATRONA COUNTY COW-BELLES Lou Taubert Ranch Outfitters, Casper Wyoming Livestock Roundup, Casper LARAMIE PEAK CATTLEWOMEN (PLATTE CO.)Banner Capital Bank, Wheatland Daly Ranch, Glendo Graves Ranch, Inc.,Wheatland Laramie Peak Veterinary Associates, Wheatland Miners & Stockmans, Hartville JOHNSON COUNTY CATTLEWOMENFirst Interstate Bank, Buffalo HUB International Insurance, Buffalo
ReRide Western Wear, Buffalo Farm Credit Services of America, Casper ANB Bank, Buffalo First Northern Bank, Buffalo Kilpatrick Creations, Sheridan MTR Ranch Supply, Buffalo The Bank of Buffalo, Buffalo Tri County Gas, Buffalo GREEN RIVER VALLEY CATTLEWOMENGreen River Valley Program of JHLT, Pinedale GOSHEN COUNTY CATTLEWOMENPinnacle Bank, Torrington Platte Valley Bank, Torrington FREMONT COUNTY CATTLEWOMEN Bailey Enterprises, Inc., Riverton
CROOK COUNTY CATTLEWOMEN Sundance State Bank, Sundance
SNOWY RANGE CATTLEWOMEN (CARBON CO.) Bank of Commerce, RawlinsJ.H. Kaspar Oil Co., Rawlins Shively Hardware Co., Saratoga The Wolf Hotel, Saratoga Town & Country Realty, Saratoga
CAMPBELL COUNTY CATTLEWOMEN First National Bank of Gillette Campbell, Gillette
WCW OFFICER & COMMITTEE REPORTS
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Stay Up To DateLike us on Facebook (Wyoming CattleWomen) for up-to-
date event information, educational materials, and fun! We usually re-share information or post about our upcom-
ing meetings, etc. I usually share a few pics from functions I attend. - Social Media Chair, Angela Whitlock
Beef I t Edi tor to Ret ireI am going to put down my editor’s pen after this issue. I look
forward to spending more time with my grandchildren!I started as assistant editor to Bobi Lentz in 2002, and
continued as editor until 2019—17 years! I have been honored to serve Wyoming CattleWomen. The Beef It News is the con-nection with each member and we can be proud of it. Thanks to the designers, the gals who sent in news so faithfully, and the friends who have helped prepare to mail. Dennis Sun and Andrea Zink have been incredibly supportive.
Many of those years were with Tracy Alger as the graphic designer. I loved working with that special gal.
Because the paper was previously longer, we had the chal-lenge and the fun of “features” for each issue. You all pulled through with submissions for “Branding Meals”, “Trailing Food”,” Tips for Easy Calving Meals” “Holiday Meals”, and past presidents caught us up on “Where Are They Now”.
Currently, I am blessed to work with Liz Lauck, a very busy woman with small children, who never loses her patience with me! She is a talented graphic designer and with the addition of color, the paper is beautiful! She can also edit to get all news and pictures included in a professional way. Plus, she is kind and nice.
I am amazed by the activities our County Groups under-take. In this issue alone, several have major cooking projects. And the thing about this is they all have been doing these effective beef promotions for at least the 17 years I have been editor. And often the same ladies are the cooks and servers! An-other wonderful project many groups have is an Ag Expo for school children in 3rd or 4th grade. Giving beef chubs to food pantries and home-less shelters and other beef promotions are all activities we love to read about and then try in our own counties!
I have absolutely loved sharing all this fabulous activity with you. Hopefully you have picked up an idea or two.
If you would be interested in becoming the next editor of Beef It News, please let Leslie Miech know. She is our next president. [email protected], 307-760-2118. - Fond fare-well - Marcia Campbell, Editor Beef It News.
Legis la t ive ReportThe USDA and FDA will both be involved in regulatory
oversight of cell-cultured food originating from livestock and poultry-known as “Fake meat.” Jointly USDA Food Safety and Inspection Services and FDA announced the agencies will jointly oversee the production of human food products derived from the cells of livestock and poultry. This formal agreement will regulate cell-cultured or lab-grown proteins as they enter the marketplace. These agencies believe a shared approach will ensure safety and labeling of cell-cultured products derived from the cell lines of livestock and poultry. North American Meat Institute is a company focused on cell-based meats. They are pleased the two organizations will ensure cell-based meat and poultry products are wholesome, safe for consumption, and properly labeled. Source: April 2019-www.Drovers, com/USDA-FDA-Fake-Meat.
“MEATLESS MONDAYS”Fake meats, government regulations, disastrous weather and
volatile markets all are topics discussed with a false perception that “cows are killing the planet”. Many believe getting rid of animal agriculture and meat production will help greenhouse gas emis-sions. “WELL IT AIN’T SO!” We in Agriculture need to become informed and committed to opposing anti-cow propaganda. Dr. Frank Mitloehner, Professor and Air Quality Extension Specialist in the department of animal science at University of California Davis is actively showing beef critics how their data is flawed. Find important facts and information from Dr. Mitloehner in the April 2019 Drover Magazine. He debunks myths with science. For example, 70% of agricultural land is marginal, meaning unsuitable for crops. Only grazing animals can make use of this land. He feels the efforts to re-duce meat and milk production globally will result in more hunger in poor countries. - Janet A Jensen, Legislative Committee Chair
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Albany County CattleWomenThe Ag Expo was held April 16-17, 2019 at the UW Hansen
Teaching Arena just outside Laramie. In its 22nd year, this annual event is presented to third-grade students in Albany County. Thanks to our wonderful committee of 17 people, our sponsors, the presenters, and FFA members, the Ag Expo was successfully presented to about 363 students and 71 teachers/parents. We had nine education-al stations over the two days.
A poster contest was created and organized by Trish Penny of the Laramie Rivers Conser-vation District. She used a Beef Magazine and the theme of the contest was “What’s behind the Beef ”. The Ag Expo Committee judged the posters. Trish Penny presented the awards at the Expo. We had 171 entries this year.
About one week before the event, educa-tional boxes were sent to the classrooms. Edu-cational materials were included in the teacher packets for teachers to share information with students before or after the Ag Expo. Various items such as crayons, coloring books, erasers, pencils, stress cows, honey sticks, licorice, small bars of soap, ag bags, I love beef tattoos and bookmarks were included in the boxes with information as to how each item is related to agri-culture and/or beef by-products.
Since 1984 the association has given a total of 96 scholarships valued at $77,700! For 2019 the committee will offer three regular $1,000 scholarships, one special scholarship in honor of Pat Parker for $1,000, and one anonymous do-nor scholarship also for $1,000. The scholarship winners are: McKenna Clingman - Colorado Northwest Community College, Kelsey Ander-son - University of Wyoming, Jedid-iah Hulett - University of Wyoming, Alden Summers - Sheridan College, and Rory Clark Johnston - Dakota County Technical.
The Beef Promotion Commit-tee has been surprising shoppers when they are looking at beef. For St. Patrick’s Day Janet Talbott snuck up on a couple that was looking at corned beef. She purchased it for them and gave them some recipes!
ACCW Member Amanda Christensen competed in the ChemE Car contest which challenges student chemical engineers (University of Wyoming) to design and construct a car that runs and stops solely from chemical reactions. “The ChemE Car That
Cud” showcases Wyoming’s dominant industries of ranching and mining while we fuel the car with hydrogen generated from
cow rumen fluid (aka cud), and use cesium (a byproduct of uranium mining) to time the stop-ping of the car. This was the first car WY entered in the contest in five years, but we won 7th place in the ‘race’ portions of the contest (we beat CSU!) and second place in the poster portion of the contest.– Submitted by Mary Louise Wood
Cody Country CattleWomenTo close the Cody Country CattleWomen’s
2018 activities, a delicious Prime Rib Christ-mas Dinner was enjoyed at Chuck and Marilyn Walker’s home. In February we thanked those vendors that sell our products which support our various activities by giving each a platter of home-made cookies around Valentine’s Day. In March we recognized National Ag Week by donating to the Cody Cupboard food bank a case of 1 lb. packages of ground beef with four sheets of easy beef recipes attached to each package. We also visited five elementary school’s
3rd grade classes and 40 home-schooled kids, (approximately 200 kids) educating them where their food and by-products come from. We read and gave each school library two books
called “The Cow’s Girl and The Cow’s Boy”. In April we selected Mathew Montgomery to win our $500 scholarship for 2019. On May 9 we supported the FFA Ag Expo by serving home-made ice cream, ex-plaining how beef sticks are made, and giving samples.
During the year we have had several very interesting guest speakers at our meetings: Mary Flitner on her book, My Ranch, Too; Tycee Mohler, University Extension Service, on “What’s Your Beef Made Of ”; Bob Richard and his book, Journey to Yellow-stone and Mack Frost showed his amazing pictures of the Eclipse. – Submitted by Shirley Bales
Converse County Cow-BellesMaggie Booth received her awards for the Supreme Cow
Contest, Phase I, at our annual Christmas Party. We appreciate Deb Simon and Allen Roush of Broken Diamond T Angus for the generous donation of a heifer calf to the Phase II winner last summer and are excited to see this heifer in our Phase I contest at County Fair. Brace & Linda Rhamy of Y-Hart Livestock will
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Albany County Member Aman-da Christensen competed in the ChemE Car contest.
COUNTY HAPPENINGS
Cody Country CattleWomen visiting 3rd graders to teach about agriculture.
be donating the heifer to be given to the Phase II winner this summer. A big “Thank You” to them for this donation. Several of our Cow-Belle members have made generous cash donations to our Supreme Cow Contest program and we really appreciate all the support.
Our Converse County Ranchers’ Memorial scholarship recipients are: Loganne Werner, Dax Read, Madison Tillard, Colby Davidson, Taylor Rodeman, Janie Dziardziel, and Daniel Goold. - Submitted by Cheryl Jacobson
Crook County CattleWomenProjects worked on during Winter Months were
articles in local papers by Tracy Bush, Criss Crozier Neiman, Linda Larson, Janet Jensen, Linda Wolfskill, Hulett School about serving locally-donated Beef and monetary donations for local schools in Crook Coun-ty. We started with Hulett and now are ready to serve Beef in other Crook County schools. Beef is taken by the donor to be processed to each school’s needs at Sturgis Meat Packing Plant in SD, as they are the USDA approved processor closest to our area. Letters were sent out to ranchers in each of our local communities explaining the program and how to become involved.
Our group has gift items for sale, including brand dinner napkins and a Confident Cooking with Beef pamphlet from the Beef Checkoff bound together with a bandana. We also have brand notecards (10 each) with Crook County CattleWomen pens attached.
Our new officers are: President Criss Crozier Neiman, Vice President Linda Larsen, Recording Secretary Hanna Ista, and Treasurer Roxie Dacar.
A display board set up to promote the cattle industry in Crook County has now been retired to Sundance State Bank to be viewed. Ranchers paid a fee of $5 to display their ear tag and information about their ranch or $10 to have Jan Bush place information on the tag. Jan took this display around to businesses in Hulett, Moorcroft, and Sundance to show how ranchers impacted businesses in the county.
Like us on Facebook - Crook County CattleWomen and visit our website - www.CrookCoCattleWomen.com. - Submitted by Janet A. Jensen
Goshen CattleWomenGoshen CattleWomen were recognized for their efforts to
promote beef by winning first place in the Torrington Christmas Parade last December. The theme of the float was Cowboy Christ-mas, featuring a large tumbleweed Christmas tree, luminarias with brands, and Mary and Joseph stood by a large wooden cross. Members and their families rode on hay bales, followed by three
wise men on horseback.In April, Goshen CattleWomen participated
in the Ag Expo, where 4th graders learned about branding and other traditions in agriculture. Following tradition, Goshen CattleWomen served roast beef sandwiches to students for lunch. - Sub-mitted by Lisa Johnson
Lander Valley CattleWomenLander Valley CattleWomen have had a pretty
good season. Since the last Beef It went to press we hosted our Ag Expo. We chose to have a fall expo in September. It seemed like the 3rd graders that participated were completely enthralled with the presentations. We lucked out with the local news-paper sending an outstanding reporter so the news coverage shared all of the expo highlights.
Following the Ag Expo, the holidays were upon us. Lander Valley hosts their families for a prime rib
Christmas dinner. There were about 50 of our families there for visiting and celebrating the holidays.
Wyoming State Winter Fair was in February. Lander again served beef sandwiches to the fair goers. All in all, it was a good, new experience. Right after Winter Fair, we served
sandwiches during the Lander Garden Expo. The expo attracts a very large crowd which certainly helps our sand-wich sales.
At our last meeting we voted to send funds to Ag in the Classroom, to award two scholarships to our local FFA Chapter - stipulating that the recipients help at a couple of our events. Our mug supply and our cloth napkin supply have been depleted so we will start making plans to order more of both. We are going to order two sizes of mugs so we will have choices for our shoppers.
There is talk of a beef symposium that will be held in August. If it happens, we will take advantage of the opportunity to both educate and promote our industry and beef products. We will also participate in the Fremont County Fair and have an entry in the table setting contest.
For such a small group, we feel like we are doing some pret-ty big projects. - Submitted by Janet Givens
Natrona County Cow-BellesNatrona County Cow-Belles held a successful Gala last Febru-
ary that helped raise funds for our projects. On the First Day of Spring we helped serve a beef meal at the
three senior centers in Natrona County. This is one of their most attended meals of the year. We thank Sinclair Oil Charitable Com-mittee for helping with the cost of beef this year!
May is Beef Month and we are donating $600 worth of
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COUNTY HAPPENINGS
Goshen CattleWomen’s Cowboy Christmas parade float.
Maggie Booth receiving her Supreme Cow Contest award from the Converse County Cow-Belles.
COUNTY HAPPENINGS
frozen beef chubs to several food pantries in Casper. There are plenty who need help and we rotate among them.
Natrona County Cow-Belles awarded scholarships to Torena Houston to attend Casper College, and Baylie Till to pursue a trade.
The end of May we are sponsoring buckles for the Beef Prospect Show in Casper, and will have a booth selling our brand products and showing examples of our projects.
Our Royal Court young ladies will be helping at the CNFR and at the Special Olympics held in conjunction with the CNFR.
Our next meeting will be the first Saturday in September. - Submitted by Marcia Campbell
Sheridan County CattleWomenThe Sheridan County CattleWomen have had a busy fall
and winter. The good news is that our organization continues to grow! Our guest speaker Chairman is Edith Harper and she does a great job finding interesting people and topics for us.
Our ranch tour chairman, Ro-chelle Koltiska, planned a ranch tour of our members who live East of I-90.
It was a great day; we took the Sheridan Trolley from the Holiday Inn and toured ranches East of Hwy 366, stopping in at the UW Wyarno Experiment Station along the way. We brought lunches and had our meeting at the home of Catherine Kukowski, loaded back up, and toured more of the ranches on the way back into Sheridan. What a fun day!
One of our yearly events is the Christmas Stroll, which is always the Friday evening after Thanksgiving. Sheridan businesses are open in the evening for Christmas shopping and the area really comes out for this event. Our Chairman for this event is Riki Davidson and she and her crew cook up nine large roasters of chili! We set up outside of First Interstate Bank and serve free chili to promote beef to all who stop by on their stroll. We also put together a “raffle basket” and sell tickets for a chance to win the basket and the winner is drawn at the close of the Ranchester Bazaar. The basket includes a Montana Silversmith necklace and earring set, our SCCW napkins, mug, towel, and cook-book, a bottle of wine made especially by one of our members, honey from one of our members, Koltiska’s Winter Mint Liquor by one of our members and numerous other items.
We have a table at the Ranchester Bazaar and members bring baked goods to sell. We also continue to sell tickets for our raffle basket, our mugs, napkins, t-shirts, and towels. It is a good money maker for us and is another way for us to promote beef!
We are also in the planning stages for other events that are coming up such as the Ranchester Blood Drive, the Buyer’s din-
ner for the 4-H and FFA market animal sale and our Ag Expo for 4th graders in September.- Submitted by Linda Cummings
Washakie County Cow-BellesNovember, 2018: 4-H Achievement Night. Cowbelles gave
the hard luck award to Dani Warner and provided Bar-b-que beef sandwiches for the event.
December, 2018: Festival of Trees. We donated a wagon wheel wreath, provided hamburger for Christmas baskets for the needy and we gave Angel tree gifts for one boy, one girl, one se-nior, and two for the Boys’ School. Cowbelles decorated a float for the Ten Sleep Christmas Parade. This year there was no universal theme. Our float was Winter Wonderland.
February, 2019: Westi-Ag Days. We provided lunches for both days of the event. First day included Bar-b-que sandwiches, chunk oven potatoes, baked beans, cole slaw, desserts and drinks. Second day included meat loaf, potato casserole, green beans,
rolls, lettuce salad, desserts and drinks. Snacks were also provided each day. On February 15, the Cow-belles served the John Deere Appre-ciation Dinner which included roast beef, baked potatoes, corn, cole slaw, desserts and drinks.
March, 2019: We served an evening meal for the new Bomgaar’s store in Worland. The meal consisted of Bar-b-que beef sandwiches, potato casserole, coleslaw, desserts and drinks. For St. Patrick’s Day, the Cow-belles gave two $25 gift certificates at Blair’s grocery store.
April, 2019: We had an Easter basket drawing. People could sign
up at Co-op and Bomgaar’s in Worland or Dirty Sally’s in Ten Sleep. The basket contained a $25 beef certificate, Cowbelle mugs, apron and napkins. At the April meeting, the Cowbelles gave three $1000 scholarshps. Two went to Ten Sleep graduates and one to a Worland graduate. - Submitted by Kathy Bush and Martha Sutherland
Weston County Cow-BellesWeston County Cow Belles celebrated Christmas with a
noon luncheon at the Pizza Barn in Newcastle. Owner Pam Gualtieri prepared a wonderful Prime Rib luncheon and served it on festively decorated tables. The members enjoyed a hilar-ious white elephant gift exchange. The CowBelles gave $100 in beef gift certificates to the local Bread Office. Several members matched the gift so that Weston County low income citizens could have a brighter Christmas. All members donated canned goods or personal items.
Several months of the winter the members met at the local UW extension office for a sack lunch meeting. In March we partnered with the Weston
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Natrona County Cow-Belles Marcia Campbell, Pat Cheney and Judy Bradshaw at Senior Cen-ter beef meal. (Not pictured: longtime volunteer Ruby Ziehl).
COUNTY HAPS CONTINUED ON PAGE 7
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COUNTY HAPPENINGSNEWSREGION V CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
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al affiliation with any like-minded agri-business organizations, women’s groups or breed affiliates that may fall within the goals, purpose, operational and fiduciary needs” and “encourages the development of mutual affiliate or associate memberships that strengthen its ability to create pathways of growth…”. This Reso-lution will now move forward to be presented at the ANCW busi-ness meeting in July 2019. ANCW President-Elect, Evelyn Greene from Auburn, Alabama spoke to the group; and Suzanne Bohleen shared her great ideas for beef education. USDA APHIS Wildlife Advisory Committee member Trina Jo Bradley enlightened the group on the challenges of living with Grizzly bears and what is being done to promote population growth in the endangered species while still protecting the lives of humans and the livestock in their care. After lunch the group traveled to Columbus, Mont. for a tour of Montana Silversmith’s facilities. The group enjoyed seeing how the jewelry is all hand-made. They were treated to champagne and cheese trays as they selected their favorite jewelry pieces in the store following the tour.
Business started bright and early on Saturday over breakfast. ANCW President Wanda Pinnow, of Baker, Mont. gave a busi-ness update. Wyoming’s own Criss Neiman, from Crook County, discussed the work that the Crook County CattleWomen have done to work with the area school district and producers to put real beef on the menus of Crook County schools. We are very proud of these ladies as their program is being used as a model for similar programs in other regions throughout the country. Representatives from Northern Livestock Auction provided an informative lesson on contracts. Chaley Harney introduced us to “Chuck Knows Beef” and provided us with a demonstration of how the technology works. Kelsi Gambill and Wanda Pinnow gave us some tips and tricks for promoting the industry and our farms/ranches on Social Media. The event was closed with a silent auction and lunch.
The 2020 ANCW Region V conference will be held April 30-May 2, 2020 at the Pendleton Convention Center in Pendleton, Ore. Those wishing to attend are encouraged to book early as this will be a busy time for area hotels.
Region V attendees toured Montana Silversmiths as part of the fun-filled, education-packed meeting in May.
County UW extension educator to sponsor a free class on the use of air fryers and electric pressure cookers. Members demonstrated several beef dishes as well as using other foods including vegetables and desserts. Twenty nine women and two men attended the class. The participants were of all ages from teenagers up. The CowBelles awarded certificates for cuts of beef as door prizes.
In April we provided salads and desserts to accompany a beef dinner served to participants of the local Ag Symposium. This was an event sponsored by the Weston County Natural Resource Dis-trict. While inclement weather resulted in about half the planned crowd, the educational event was interesting and gave the Cow-Belles a chance to attend sessions and visit with other agricultural people in the area.
Newcastle 4th grade students are busy writing essays for our annual “Father of the Year” contest. Winners will be chosen at our May meeting. Prizes including a beef dinner at a local restaurant for the best essay author and father will be presented at the Awards Assembly at the end of the school year.
Weston County CowBelles wish you all a great summer with lots of sunshine and green grass! - Submitted by Nancy Darnell
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WCW 2018-2019 OFFICERS & COMMITTEE CHAIRSOFFICERS
President Kahla Mills218 Iberlin Rd | Gillette 82718
660-1882 | [email protected]
Vice President Leslie Miech1256 N. 4th St | Laramie 82072
760-2118 | [email protected]
Secretary Jenny Conrad5648 Rd 27 | Veteran 82243
534-6010 | [email protected]
Treasurer Becky LangleyPO Box 530 | Wright 82732
298-0405 [email protected]
Auditor Deanna CroftsPO Box 226 | Riverton 82501
856-1350 | [email protected]
Parliamentarian Melissa Dutcher2830 Hwy 50 | Gillette 82716
299-3454 | [email protected]
Director & Nominating Janet Givens
442 17-Mile Rd. | Arapahoe 82510856-6310
Director Angela Whitlock
1221 Southfork Rd. | Cody 82414587-7235 | [email protected]
Wyoming Beef Council Executive Director Ann Wittmann
P.O. Box 1243 | Cheyenne 82003777-7396 | 630-7399
Wyoming Stock Growers Association Executive Vice
President Jim MagagnaP.O. Box 206 | Cheyenne 82003
638-3942 | [email protected]
COMMITTEESAssociate Membership:
Lindsay Wood6946A US Hwy 14-16
Arvada 82831670-0171 | [email protected]
Beef It News: Marcia CampbellP.O. Box 250 | Midwest 82643
Condolence: Karen Buchanan34 E Pavillion Rd Pavillion 82523
856-1567 | [email protected]
Legislative: Janet Jensen295 Jensen Rd
Belle Fourche, SD 57717896-3164 | [email protected]
Membership: Jenny Conrad(see Secretary contact info)
Beef Promotion: Liz Lauck907 20th St | Wheatland 82201
331-3113 | [email protected]
Grassroots Funding:Angela McCann
635 N. Pavillion Rd. Pavillion, WY 82523
Historian: Vacant
Website: Liz Lauck(see Beef Promotion contact info)
Social Media Co-Chairs:Angela Whitlock1221 Southfork RdCody, WY 82414
(307) [email protected]
Becky Langley(see Treasurer contact info)
Animal Well-Being: Amanda Hulet
259 Sunset Ave | Buffalo 82834620-2898 | [email protected]
*All phone numbers have a (307) area code, and all addresses are
Wyoming, unless otherwise stated.
Wyoming CattleWomen, Inc.P.O. Box 250
Midwest, WY 82643
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