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Science symposium increases hands-on learningSHERIDAN — Sheridan Junior High

School students utilized modern tech-nology and worked to emphasize their individual strengths at their science symposium Wednesday.

The format used for the event was a twist on the traditional science fair, encouraging students to follow their interests.

The primary reason behind launch-ing the symposium, teachers said, was

to increase student engagement.The school previously used the

International Science and Engineering Fair, a worldwide science fair compe-tition allowing high school and middle school students to present science experiments.

But the ISEF had its downfalls. Paperwork required to enter the fair became overwhelming for teachers and parents, and students had limited options for their science topics.

Previously, all sixth-grade students were required to enter projects for

the ISEF, but it was optional for seventh-grade students. As a result, teachers discovered a majority of seventh-grade students elected to not participate.

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Signature effort begins for Wyoming

Promise

SHERIDAN — Wyoming Promise secured its first two peti-tion signatures Wednesday to sup-port the group’s initiative titled “An Act to Promote Free and Fair Elections.” The initiative, certified by Wyoming Secretary of State Ed Murray two weeks ago, aims to reverse the decision of Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission regarding election campaign spending.

The first two signatures on the petitions came from Wyoming Promise group founders Ken Chestek and Shelby Shadwell.

Chestek’s experience with dark money came during his campaign for House District 46 in 2016, when unknown sources sent nega-tive campaign material about his Republican opponent.

Shadwell works as an associate art professor for the University of Wyoming. The two, with the help of other Wyoming Promise group members, need to secure signa-tures from 15 percent of the total number of votes cast in the 2016 general election in Wyoming, or 38,818 total signatures, in order to get the issue on the ballot for the 2018 election season.

The group looks to push Wyoming to become the 20th state to call for a 28th amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

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PRESERVATION OF THE PASTWyoming Room manager takes

on records of Iron Works

SHERIDAN — This summer, one Sheridan man will take on the dangers of a hazardous build-ing as he continues his mission to save a piece of the city’s his-tory.

Sheridan County Fulmer Public Library’s Kim Ostermyer, who manages The Wyoming Room, is in the process of recov-ering more than 100 years of Sheridan Iron Works documents left in the building when the company closed in 2014.

“What’s great about this col-lection is it’s overall pristine,” Ostermyer said.

Among the endless boxes are time books, records of stockhold-ers, building layouts and plans, invoices, photo negatives and product blueprints.

Ostermyer said the records were brought to his attention last fall, after the Boy Scouts organized a haunted house in the building. He said this sparked a discussion in The Wyoming Room about who owned the records and the need to remove and save them.

Ostermyer said the records are important because of the Iron Works’ extensive lifespan and integral role in the community and workforce.

“The Iron Works was such an institution here there’s a need to kind of pick apart what’s worth keeping,” Ostermyer said. “You

have a history that goes back 110 years, so this really saw the development of Sheridan as the metropolis.”

The building contains enough files to fill a semi-truck, Ostermyer said, and while find-ing such intact records is rare and exhilarating, it’s also very

time consuming for one man to sort through.

“It’s just thousands of feet of boxes,” Ostermyer said. “It’s great, I’m excited but at the same time I’m trying to figure out how I approach this with the hours I have.”

Ostermyer works part-time at the library and has been taking on the project nearly solo, with only occasional help from one other person.

The conditions in the building aren’t ideal either; Ostermyer said there’s layers of dust to clean off the collection, along with dead pigeons and pigeon excrement, so going through the massive number of documents is proving to be laborious. He said he wears a ventilator, goggles and a safety suit when working in the building.

“I look like I’m working on a nuclear reactor,” Ostermyer said.

While he said he’d like help, the conditions present safety issues when it comes to taking on volunteers.

Ostermyer said a project like this, with so much information, begs the question of what is old, important and worth keeping.

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Shelby Shadwell signs the petition for Wyoming Promise’s initiative to remove dark money from politics. The group must collect signatures from 15 percent of Wyoming’s 2016 election voting population.

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Sixth-grader Lathe Brown demonstrates a solar-powered chicken coop door during the science symposium Wednesday at the Sheridan Junior High School.

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Kim Ostermyer carries a box of records to his pile in the attic of the old Sheridan Iron Works Building on May 26. Ostermyer, manager of The Wyoming Room in the Sheridan County Fulmer Public Library, is saving the logs, draw-ings, invoices and other records that have been kept in the attic of the brick building for more than 100 years.

SEE SCIENCE, PAGE 8


Kim Ostermyer pulls a tarp from a pile of boxes he has collected over the past weeks in the attic of the old Sheridan Iron Works Building on May 26.

SEE WORKS, PAGE 3

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Body of missing kayaker found in

Wyoming reservoir

RAWLINS (AP) — The body of a 25-year-old man missing since April has been found in the Seminoe Reservoir in south-central Wyoming.

Jason Hunter of the Wyoming Game and Fish Department told the Rawlins Daily Times that agency wardens found the body of Michael Proberts of Wamsutter last Saturday.

The Carbon County Sheriff’s Office said that an autopsy found no signs of foul play and that the cause of death was drowning from hypothermia.

Authorities said Proberts went to the reservoir on the morning of April 15 with a kayak. The sheriff’s office was notified the next day that Proberts should have returned by then.

The initial search found a kayak, paddle, life vest and ball cap near a cove across from the campground where Proberts launched his kayak.

Second release of endangered

Wyoming toads planned

CASPER (AP) — Another batch of some 900 rare Wyoming toads is being released into wetlands in the Laramie region.

The effort by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, landowners, volunteers and others is an attempt to rein-troduce Wyoming toads into their native habitat.

The toad was declared extinct in the 1980s, likely due to a deadly fungus but was then rediscovered near Laramie in 1987.

The toad resembles the Canadian toad, but scien-tists say it had evolved into its own distinct species after being separated by glacial retreat.

In May 2016 about 900 toads were released around Laramie.

Doug Keinath of the Fish and Wildlife Service told the Casper Star-Tribune that researchers don’t know yet if last year’s release was successful.

Biologists will count the toads throughout the sum-mer.

Wyoming man accidentally shoots

himself in chest

CHEYENNE (AP) — A Wyoming man shot him-self on accident this past weekend after he ran out his front door to check on a disturbance and dropped his gun, which fired on contact.

The Wyoming Tribune Eagle reported the man is expected to fully recover after shooting himself in the chest Saturday night.

Laramie County Sheriff’s Department states a man walked up to responding deputies and told them he brought the hand gun with him after hearing a distur-bance and dropped it on the concrete as he ran out of his front door.

The man reported that one shot was fired from the gun when it hit the ground.

The Sheriff’s office had not identified the man as of Tuesday.

Montana broadcasters launch campaign to combat suicidesHELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana broad-

casters unveiled a series of ads Wednesday, for radio and television, as part of a cam-paign to heighten awareness over the issue of suicide — how to look for signs of dis-tress and where to find help.

A key component of the campaign is to draw attention to the role firearms play in many suicides in a state where guns are easily available. Suicide-prevention groups advocate wider use of gun locks.

Montana has among the highest rates of suicide in the nation, with at least 555

Montanans killing themselves between January 2014 and March 2016. The state’s rate is twice the national average.

The grim statistics has alarmed commu-nities across the state as they seek more resources and greater awareness to better address the matter.

In April, Gov. Steve Bullock signed a bill authorizing spending $1 million to help pre-vent suicides. Part of that money will go to schools, tribes and other community groups who work toward suicide prevention.

Bullock joined members of the Montana Broadcaster’s Association on Wednesday to unveil the campaign.

The association, comprised of 155 tele-

vision and radio stations across the state, produced the ads and will air them free of charge over the next year, the group said. The public service work is valued at more than $200,000.

“The role of this messaging is to start a conversation about an issue that’s diffi-cult to discuss,” said Angela Terry of the Montana Radio Company, which helped produce some of the spots.

One of the ads focuses attention on mili-tary veterans, who account for more than a fifth of suicides in Montana.

“Although we have resources, what we have not been able to do is to get that word out sufficiently so every service member,

every veteran, across the state of Montana is aware of the resources that are avail-able,” said Major General Matthew Quinn, the commander of Montana’s National Guard.

Among the resources is a suicide hotline, (800) 273-8255.

The underlying message of the ads is that suicide is not the answer to life’s challenges and that people don’t have to be alone in facing grief and personal woes.

Matt Kuntz, the executive director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness for Montana, said more needs to be done to expand mental health services across the state, particularly in rural communities.

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SpaceX taking recycling all the way to orbit with cargo ship

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX is taking recycling to a whole new realm — all the way to orbit.

On this week’s supply run to the International Space Station, SpaceX will launch a Dragon capsule that’s already traveled there. The milestone comes just two months after the launch of its first reused rocket booster for a satellite.

“This whole notion of reuse is something that’s very, very important to the entire space industry,” NASA’s space station program manager Kirk Shireman said at a

news conference Wednesday.While the concept is not new — the space

shuttles, for instance, flew multiple times in orbit — it’s important for saving money as well as technical reasons, he noted.

This particular Dragon flew to the station in 2014. SpaceX refurbished it for Thursday evening’s planned launch, providing a new heat shield and fresh parachutes for re-entry at mission’s end. There were so many X-rays and inspections that savings, if any, were minimal this time, said Hans Koenigsmann, vice president of flight reli-ability for SpaceX.

BY MARCIA DUNN AP AEROSPACE WRITER

SEE RECYCLE, PAGE 8

Ready to

race for

high school

rodeoDani Oedekoven of Gillette gets her horse ready for barrel racing during the Sheridan County high school rodeo Monday at the Sheridan County Fairgrounds.


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WORKS : Preserving important part of cityFROM 1

As he sorts through the boxes of informa-tion, this will be decided, with important doc-uments being scanned into the library’s sys-tem for the public to view and the documents deemed unimportant to be recycled.

Derek Gilbert, who bought the Sheridan Iron Works building in the spring of 2016, said he’d like to see the important documents saved and preserved, and other items that are interesting but of lesser value to be displayed in the building once it’s remodeled.

Gilbert added that he has not yet deter-mined plans for the building.

Gilbert said he’s proud to be part of the building’s history, and is striving to keep that history intact; he said he’s received multiple offers to buy the iconic Iron Works sign but said it belongs with the building.

Ostermyer said the finding of such complete records is rare and that Sheridan has missed out on preserving history from other signif-icant companies, like the Sheridan Brewing Company.

Sheridan Brewing, Ostermyer said, is sim-ilar to the Iron Works in that it was innova-tive and integral to Sheridan coming into its own.

“When the brewery closed down there wasn’t a lot of thought about that…it wasn’t thought of being a significant building when in fact it was,” Ostermyer said.

“Sheridan has kind of this weird history of we should have saved this or we should have saved that; it’s always in hindsight,” he added.

Kim Ostermyer snaps on a respirator as he gears up for entering the old Sheridan Iron Works Building on May 26. The work is slow, messy and hazardous due to the conditions of the attic, which contains decades of dust, water leaks and dead birds. Ostermyer wears special equipment as precautions against any health risks.


PETITION : FROM 1

Organizers hope the amend-ment would remove dark money from politics, the group’s Facebook page said. Chestek said the Mountain West shows the most traf-fic for this initiative, with Washington state, Nevada, Montana and Colorado already approving the initia-tive.

Wyoming Promise delivered the initiative to Murray’s office, and the secretary of state certified the initiative. Now, the group is working to collect signatures.

The organizers have 18 months to collect the signa-tures in order to put the mea-sure on the ballot before the next election. The secretary of state’s office maintains complete neutrality regard-ing the content of this or any other initiative, a press release said. Murray certified the initiative after sponsors submitted 216 signatures to the office.

The secretary of state’s office organized the printing of the petitions for Wyoming Promise. Chestek and Shadwell signed the petitions within the first five minutes of receiving the five boxes of 75,000 petition papers from the secretary of state’s office. Chestek said the group will launch the petition signing statewide soon.

The group continues to collaborate with teams repre-senting each county in order to satisfy the requirement of retrieving verified signatures of 15 percent of the total vot-ing population. That 15 per-cent mark must be reached for 16 of the 23 Wyoming counties. If not, more than 50 percent of the voting popula-tion in a certain number of counties must be reached.

“Sheridan is a county we’re still working on,” Chestek told The Sheridan Press. “We’ve identified people but roles aren’t yet clear.”

Chestek called the organi-zation of teams a grassroots endeavor that requires self-sufficiency of the county teams. Wyoming Promise will continue to provide support for the teams and team lead-ers.

Chestek said the vetting process to ensure valid signa-tures is already in place.

“We are going to be hiring a data management company to help us keep track of all the signatures,” Chestek said.

The data management com-pany will enter signatures into a database that cross-checks the signatures with the list of official voters — the same list the secretary of state will use to verify the sig-natures once the petitions are completed.

Murray, who remains confident in the cross-check processes of the 2016 election season in general, remains neutral on this initiative, but said he promotes the First Amendment.

“I’m in strong favor of free speech,” Murray told The Sheridan Press during his visit to Sheridan last month. “That’s for doggone sure.”

Senate panel eager to hear from Comey, given OK to testifyWASHINGTON (AP) — The

House intelligence committee says it is issuing subpoenas for Michael Flynn and Michael Cohen — President Donald Trump’s for-mer national security adviser and Trump’s personal lawyer — as well as their businesses as part of its investigation into Russian activi-ties during last year’s election.

Additional subpoenas for the National Security Agency, the FBI and the CIA seek information about requests that government officials made to unmask the identities of U.S. individuals named in classified intelligence reports.

The subpoenas were announced Wednesday as the special counsel overseeing the government’s inves-tigation into possible Trump cam-paign ties to Russia has authorized former FBI Director James Comey to testify before the Senate intel-ligence committee, according to a Comey associate.

White House press secretary Sean Spicer said inquiries about the Russia investigation must be direct-ed to Trump’s longtime personal attorney, Marc Kasowitz. It marked the first time the White House had officially acknowledged that outside counsel had been retained. Calls and emails to Kasowitz’s New York firm were not returned Wednesday.

The Comey associate, who wasn’t authorized to discuss details of the testimony and spoke on condition of anonymity, declined to discuss the content of Comey’s planned

testimony. The associate did say that Robert Mueller, appointed by the Justice Department this month to lead the government’s inquiry, is allowing Comey to make certain statements.

Lawmakers are likely to ask Comey about his interactions with Trump as the bureau pursued its investigation into his campaign’s contacts.

Associates have said Comey wrote memos describing certain inter-actions with Trump that gave him pause in the months after the elec-tion, including details of a dinner in which Comey claimed the president asked him to pledge his loyalty, and a request to shut down the investi-gation of Flynn.

A spokesman for Mueller declined to comment. Mueller’s separate probe could conceivably look at the circumstances surrounding Comey’s firing.

Congress is currently out of ses-sion. It resumes next Tuesday. No date for Comey’s testimony has been set.

The Associated Press reported this month that Comey planned to testify after Memorial Day, but the approval from Mueller to do so could indicate that date is fast approaching.

A spokeswoman for the com-mittee’s chairman, Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., said the committee welcomes Comey’s testimony, but declined to comment further.

The House panel pursuing its

own investigation of the Trump campaign and possible Russia ties has also sought information from Comey, asking the FBI to turn over documents related to his interac-tions with both the White House and the Justice Department.

Subpoenas were approved Wednesday for Flynn and his com-pany, Flynn Intel Group, and Cohen and his firm, Michael D. Cohen & Associates.

Cohen, who’d earlier refused a request for information say-ing it was “not capable of being answered,” told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he would comply with subpoenas, should they be issued. He said he has “nothing to hide.”

Trump has repeatedly dismissed allegations that his campaign col-laborated with Russia ahead of the presidential election. Early Wednesday morning, the president tweeted “Witch Hunt!” in reference to testimony by Comey and former CIA director John Brennan before Congress on the topic.

Also Wednesday, a Justice Department official confirmed that Mueller had named a top Justice Department official to his team. Andrew Weissmann had been head of the criminal division’s fraud section since 2015. He was FBI general counsel under Mueller and began his career with the Justice Department in 1991 at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of New York.

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Diverse eventsthis weekend

My, what a diverse, cultural expanse coming this week-end in Sheridan. Consider:

• The Bots Sots Remount Sale will be Saturday at the Sheridan Inn. The sale of 50 select horses from a variety of disci-plines will be sold off the front porch beginning at 1 p.m. Ike Sankey, the manager of the event,

says to expect some 2,000 peo-ple. Advance preview of the horses will be Friday at the Sheridan County Fairgrounds.

• Tom Balding welcomes the public to his showroom Thursday and Saturday

for open houses with National Horses Reining Association Hall of Famer Bob Loomis (4-7 p.m. Thursday) and Buck, Mary and Reata Brannaman (4-7 p.m. Saturday.) Loomis and Brannaman have local exhibi-tions scheduled. Balding, whose artisan skills and manufactur-ing of bits, spurs and tack have reached a global clientele and has been the subject of a Discovery Channel program, will give guid-ed tours of his facility.

• The Whitney Center for the Arts will feature “Wyoming Baroque,” a concert featuring the music of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s ‘Stabat Mater.’ The eight musicians will also include Sheridan College’s Dr. Mark Elliot Bergman, musical director. The performance will also include new music by Dr. Bergman. Tickets ($20/$15) are available at WhitneyArts.org. That evening, June 3, the artist and musician David Klaren will have his open-ing reception beginning at 5 p.m. His show will run through July 9 and is free to the public.

•••••• Last week, Kathy Adamson

celebrated 25 years with The Sheridan Press in our mailroom. Always on time and dedicated. Congratulations! And thanks.

•••••• I see by the paper…..• According to Bloomberg News,

the University of Utah is the first major sports university to offer a scholarship in competitive video gaming.

• According to Variety, who keeps up with this sort of thing, the current president was the subject of 1,060 jokes during his first 100 days. In comparison, President Barack Obama was mentioned in monologue jokes 936 times; Presidents George W. Bush (546) and Bill Clinton (440) were also featured.

• Amazon went public 20 years ago last month. If you had invest-ed $1,000 back then during its first public offering, that stock would be worth $239,045, according to the New York Times. Amazon’s valuation at $464 billion is now twice the size of Wal-Mart.

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Quotable

“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.”

— B.F. Skinner, American psychologist, author, inventor, 1904-1990

PUBLISHER’S NOTEBOOK|Stephen Woody

Buckley captained conservatism before it was hijacked

In 1950, the year before William F. Buckley burst into the national conversation, the literary critic Lionel Trilling

revealed why the nation was ripe for Buckley’s high-spirited romp through its political and cultural controversies. Liberalism, Trilling declared, was “not only the dom-inant but even the sole intellec-tual tradition” in mid-century America because conservatism was expressed merely in “irritable mental gestures.” Buckley would change that by infusing conser-

vatism with brio, bringing elegance to its advocacy and altering the nation’s tra-jectory while having a grand time.

Today, con-servatism is soiled by scowl-ing primitives whose irritable gestures lack

mental ingredients. America needs a reminder of conserva-tism before vulgarians hijacked it, and a hint of how it became susceptible to hijacking. Both are in Alvin S. Felzenberg’s “A Man and His Presidents: The Political Odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr.” Yale University Press pub-lishes this biography of the man who first challenged the liberal consensus in 1951 with an exco-riation of his alma mater, “God and Man at Yale.”

Influenced by his isolationist father, Buckley was precocious-

ly opinionated. He named his first sailboat “Sweet Isolation.” While at school in England in September 1938, the 12-year-old Buckley saw Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain deplane from the Munich Conference proclaiming “peace for our time.” On May 23, 1941, Buckley, then 15, attended an America First rally in Madison Square Garden addressed by Charles Lindbergh. As a soldier stationed in Georgia in April 1945, Buckley was a young officer selected for the honor guard for Franklin Roosevelt’s casket en route to the train from Warm Springs to Washington.

In the Yale Daily News, Buckley inveighed against the 1948 presidential campaign of leftist Henry Wallace because, Felzenberg writes, Buckley’s “reading of history persuaded him that ideas advanced in the course of elections could outlast losing campaigns, capture the imagination of budding intel-lectuals and, under the right circumstances, gain acceptance over time.” So, National Review, founded by Buckley in 1955, func-tioned, Felzenberg says, as Barry Goldwater’s “unofficial head-quarters and policy shop” during the 1964 presidential campaign. Goldwater lost 44 states but put the Republican Party on the path to Ronald Reagan.

Some Buckley judgments were dotty (Goldwater should offer the vice presidential nomination to the retired Dwight Eisenhower), puerile (Eisenhower was “a miserable president”; Douglas

MacArthur was “the last of the great Americans”) or worse (the name of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People conceded that its constit-uents were “less advanced”). But Buckley’s ebullience, decency and enthusiasm for learning pro-pelled him up from sectarianism.

He had the courage of his convictions that were cost-ly. Although one of National Review’s staunchest benefactors was Roger Milliken, a protec-tionist textile magnate, Buckley supported the North American Free Trade Agreement, urging conservatives “to stand steady, joyful in our faith in the basic propositions of a free society.”

Said the novelist Edna Buchanan, “Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.” Buckley, with his talent for friendship, had an extraordi-narily extended family that included Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who in the 1970s wrote that something momentous had happened: The Republican Party had become the party of ideas. Some, howev-er, were incompatible, producing the dissonance that currently is crippling conservatism.

Buckley famously said he would rather be governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston telephone directory than by Harvard’s faculty, but he briskly defended the Council on Foreign Relations from “those American right-wingers who specialize in ignorance.”

“All his life,” Felzenberg writes, “Buckley walked a

tightrope between elitism and populism,” never resolving the tension between them. If only he had.

He, to his credit, befriended Whittaker Chambers, whose autobiography “Witness” became a canonical text of conservatism. Unfortunately, it injected conser-vatism with a sour, whiney, com-plaining, crybaby populism. It is the screechy and dominant tone of the loutish faux conservatism that today is erasing Buckley’s legacy of infectious cheerfulness and unapologetic embrace of high culture.

Chambers wallowed in cloy-ing sentimentality and curdled resentment about “the plain men and women” — “my peo-ple, humble people, strong in common sense, in common good-ness” — enduring the “musk of snobbism” emanating from the “socially formidable circles” of the “nicest people” produced by “certain collegiate eyries.” Buckley, a Bach aficionado from Yale and ocean mariner from the New York Yacht Club, was unembarrassed about having good taste and without guilt about savoring the good life.

“His true ideal,” Felzenberg writes, “was governance by a new conservative elite in which he played a prominent role.” And for which he would play the harpsichord.

GEORGE WILL writes on politics, law and social character. Will began writing for The Washington Post in 1974. He is a contributor for Fox News, a Pulitzer Prize recipient for commentary, and is the author of 12 books.

GEORGE WILL|

Legislature should

reset prioritiesRe: No funding for private business

Two headlines in the May 25 edition of The Sheridan Press should make us pause. The first article reported a private company, Vacutech, is going to be given $3 million in state taxpayer dollars.

It is wrong to give private companies our taxes. A business that is profitable and able should risk growing with pri-vate money. We can and should support private companies with roads and utili-ties. We should not be asked to fund their expansion. As independent Wyoming folks, we prefer to use our money to improve our own families and fund our own ventures.

The Wyoming Constitution recognizes that it is wrong to give private com-panies our taxes. Article 3, Section 36 specifies that “No appropriation shall be made …. to any person, corporation or community not under the absolute con-trol of the state….”

The second article reported that the Wyoming Legislature’s Revenue Committee was “looking at new taxes or increasing existing taxes.” Since 2000, when energy prices started to take off, we have seen the state budget balloon. A whole host of spending and programs were created, that previously we lived perfectly happily without. This addition-al spending has become a choking vine to what really matters in state govern-ment support. For example, all levels of education have been cut and we are told to expect more.

I urge legislators to reset priorities, not tax us to support a state led economy. We want to be free in a free market.

We should insist that our Legislature spend our money on education, safety, public health, good roads and basic ser-vices. And that they get rid of programs, subsidies and favoritism that redistrib-utes our income to private companies and individuals not in need.

Jack Landon Jr.Sheridan

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PEOPLEGrant

application deadline June 15

SHERIDAN — The Wyoming Community Foundation is encouraging nonprofit organizations in the Cowboy State to submit grant applications for fund-ing by June 15.

Typical grant awards range from $500 to $5,000, but can be more. Grants awarded support a wide range of nonprofits working to build community — from those working with chil-dren to those working for solutions in healthcare, and everything in between.

Wyoming Community Foundation program associ-ate Anita McLaughlin said due to Wyoming’s tough economy, grant applications have increased over the last few years. The Wyoming Community Foundation hopes to lend support to many of those organizations who have been impacted by the state’s economic down-turn.

“We certainly can’t fill all of the holes left by funding cuts,” McLaughlin said, “but we can create positive impact and support some really incredible programs around the state.”

To learn more about grants, email McLaughlin at [email protected] or call 721-8300.

FROM STAFF REPORTS

Bots Sots Remount events start FridaySHERIDAN — The Bots Sots

Remount will kick off Friday with a preview at the Sheridan County Fairgrounds, then get into full swing Saturday at 1 p.m. at the

Historic Sheridan Inn.The Bots Sots Remount is a

horse sale that will feature 50 horses from all across the equine spectrum. Buyers from across the country are registering for the sale.

The preview at the fairgrounds, located at 1753 Victoria St., will begin at 1 p.m. Friday and will be followed by a social at the Sheridan Inn scheduled for 5:30-8 p.m.

On Saturday, the sales horses

will arrive for inspection at the Sheridan Inn at approximately 10:30 a.m.

The sale will begin at 1 p.m. on the lawn at the inn.

The Sheridan Inn is located at 856 Broadway St.

FROM STAFF REPORTS


Kids practice on unused courts between games during the Hoop Jam last year at Sheridan High School. Approximately 130 teams played in the annual hoop jam to support Wyoming Rehab.

Hoop Jam to take over SHS parking lot

SHERIDAN — The annual Wild West Hoop Jam will take over the Sheridan High School parking lot all day Saturday and Sunday for the annual three-on-three basketball tour-nament.

The two-day event will fea-ture 18 courts and approxi-mately 800 participants of all ages from across the region.

Registration and a welcome barbecue will take place Friday.

The Hoop Jam is a fund-raising event that supports

athletic training programs and Wyoming Rehabilitation Clinic’s sports medicine pro-gram.

For more information, call Wyoming Rehab at 674-1632 or see hoopjamwyo.com.

Sheridan High School is located at 1056 Long Drive.

FROM STAFF REPORTS

www.thesheridanpress.com

GO ONLINE!Liquor Dealers Golf Tournament set for June 4SHERIDAN — The annual Sheridan

County Liquor Dealers Association golf tournament will begin at 10 a.m. June 4 at Kendrick Municipal Golf

Course.Those planning to participate should

choose their own four-person team.The cost is $85 per golfer and

includes beverages and lunch.The tournament is a fundraiser,

with proceeds benefitting the SCLDA scholarship fund and Safe Ride.

Sign-ups are available at Kendrick Golf Course, OK Corral, Beaver Creek Saloon and Star Liquor.

For more information, call 674-7419.

FROM STAFF REPORTS

Philly’s ‘Rocky’ statue

closed for 2 weeks

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Yo, tourists! The Rocky statue in Philadelphia is off-limits once again.

The statue of the fiction-al boxer is located near the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where Sylvester Stallone runs up the steps while training for big fights in various “Rocky” movies.

The statue was off-lim-its to tourists at the end of April while crews tore down a temporary stage erected for the NFL Draft. On Tuesday, the city’s Department of Parks and Recreation says the statue will be closed to tourists for two weeks.

That’s because improve-ments are being made to the site surrounding the statue at the head of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. The area will be repaved and its perimeter protection will also be replaced. That work will keep tourists from get-ting close enough to the stat-ue to take selfies and other photos.

Reality check: USOC on board with made-for-TV scouting camp

DENVER (AP) — America’s got tal-ent, and the leaders at the U.S. Olympic Committee are turning on the TV camer-as to find it.

The quest for gold and America’s insa-tiable appetite for reality television are merging this summer with an Olympic scouting camp that will ultimately be packaged as a one-episode reality show. Instead of earning a final rose, eight athletes from an original cast of 100 will find themselves competing for spots on future U.S. Olympic teams.

“For a few years, we’ve been thinking a lot about talent transfer. High-level athletes around the country playing one sport or another who may not make it to the top of that sport,” said Alan Ashley, the USOC’s chief of sport performance. “This is a chance for them to look at Olympic sports, to transfer over and get involved.”

Lest we all start jumping off the couch and warming up, there are a few cave-ats:

— In the first phase of the project, the USOC is looking only for athletes for cycling, rugby and the sliding sports of bobsled and skeleton.

— The USOC is in search of “elite” ath-letes, and is focusing much of its atten-tion toward college rosters.

— The individual sports have lofty requirements to even be considered for the initial tryout roster of 50 men and 50 women. For example, a rugby hopeful would need to squat around two times his or her weight for three repetitions; a man trying out for bobsled or skeleton would need to broad jump nearly 11 feet (at most NFL scouting combines, about a

dozen players reach that distance).The idea of crossover athletes at the

Olympics is nothing new, of course.Patriots special teamer Nate Ebner is

one of three players to wear NFL uni-forms who went on to earn a spot on the U.S. rugby team in the reintroduction of that sport to the Olympics last year.

And track stars (see Lolo Jones), foot-ball players (see Herschel Walker) and people who do both (see Willie Gault) have long been crossing over from their original sports to ride bobsled in the Winter Olympics.

But where the individual sports orga-nizations and athletes were often left to discover each other on their own in the past, now they’ll get some institutional help from the USOC, which will host the 100 candidates at the Olympic Training Center in July for a week’s worth of workouts. To get in the mix, athletes can go through the USOC’s online portal or show up June 24 at 24 Hour Fitness loca-tions in 13 cities across the country.

The USOC and leaders in the four sports will choose eight athletes — one man and one woman for each sport — to become eligible for financial, training and medical services as they prepare to compete for their spot on the Olympic team in their sport.

“It’s great the USOC is jumping into this,” said Darrin Steele, the CEO of USA Bobsled and Skeleton. “From Day 1, we said, ‘Hey, we’re perfect for it.’ We know it’s not a golden ticket onto the team. It’s a screening process. It’s throw-ing a very wide net and trying to appeal to athletes who might not realize what the possibilities are.”

Make it or not, they will get air time.Team USA will feature the camps on

its social websites.

BY EDDIE PELLS

AP NATIONAL WRITER


PAGE SIX10 things to know today

1. WORLD AWAITS TRUMP DECISION ON PARIS CLIMATE AGREEMENTAround the world, coal-fired power plants are being shuttered as governments and private companies invest billions in wind tur-bines and solar farms — the adoption of cleaner forms of energy seems likely to progress whatever the U.S. president decides.

2. PUTIN: RUSSIAN STATE HAS NEVER BEEN INVOLVED IN HACKINGThe Russian president, while conceding that some individual “patriotic” hackers could mount some attacks on the West, says “no hackers can influence election campaigns in any country of Europe, Asia or America.”

3. KABUL REELING AFTER MASSIVE TRUCK BOMBINGAfghans mourn the loss of family members, friends and colleagues a day after a suicide bombing in the capital left at least 90 people dead.

4. SHORT OF ALLIES, SYRIA’S REBELS DOWN BUT NOT OUTVeteran rebels tell AP that, battered by defeats and feeling abandoned by the U.S., they are faced with the choice of turning to Turkey or to al-Qaida for support.

5. COMEY OK’D TO TESTIFY, ASSOCIATE SAYSThe special counsel oversee-ing the government’s inves-tigation into possible Trump campaign ties to Russia approves the former FBI director’s testimony before the Senate intelligence com-mittee.

6. INVESTORS PICK TESLA’S PROMISE OVER GM’S STEADY PROFITSAs far as auto industry visionaries, Wall Street is favoring Tesla, the upstart led by flamboyant Elon Musk, over the established icon headed by the more restrained Mary Barra.

7. HOW POLICE ARE PROTECTING DRUG-SNIFFING DOGSOfficers are using Naloxone, a drug that has already been used for years to reverse overdoses in humans, to protect their four-legged partners on the narcotics beat.

8. DUTERTE ASSAILS CHELSEA CLINTONThe Philippine president denounces the former first daughter in an expletive-lad-en speech after she criti-cized a comment he made about rapes committed by soldiers.

9. WHERE PROCEEDS ARE GOING FOR GRATEFUL DEAD GUITAR SALEJerry Garcia’s “Wolf” six-string fetches $1.9 million at a New York auction and the money earmarked for the sale will benefit the Southern Poverty Law Center.

10. HISTORY: WARRIORS MEET CAVS FOR 3RD STRAIGHT TIME IN NBA FINALSSome predictions see the championship round end-ing quickly and all seem to agree on Golden State beat-ing Cleveland.

FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Today’s Highlights in History:

It was 50 years ago today — June 1, 1967 — that the Beatles album “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” was released, as was David Bowie’s debut album, epony-mously titled “David Bowie.”

On this date:In 1796, Tennessee became

the 16th state.In 1813, the mortally

wounded commander of the USS Chesapeake, Capt. James Lawrence, gave the order, “Don’t give up the ship” during a losing battle with the British frigate HMS Shannon in the War of 1812.

In 1868, James Buchanan, the 15th president of the United States, died near Lancaster, Pennsylvania, at age 77.

In 1917, the song “Over There” by George M. Cohan was published by William Jerome Publishing Corp. of New York.

In 1927, Lizzie Borden, accused but acquitted of the 1892 ax murders of her father, Andrew, and her stepmoth-er, Abby, died in Fall River, Massachusetts, at age 66.

In 1943, a civilian flight from Portugal to England was shot down by Germany during World War II, killing all 17 people aboard, includ-ing actor Leslie Howard.

In 1957, Don Bowden, a student at the University of California at Berkeley, became the first American to break the four-minute mile during a meet in Stockton, California, in a time of 3:58.7.

In 1977, the Soviet Union formally charged Jewish human rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky with treason. (Shcharansky was impris-oned, then released in 1986; he’s now known by the name Natan Sharansky.)

In 1997, Betty Shabazz, the widow of Malcolm X, was severely burned in a fire set by her 12-year-old grandson in her Yonkers, New York, apartment (she died three weeks later). The Chicago Tribune published a make-be-lieve commencement speech by columnist Mary Schmich which urged graduates to, among other things, “wear sunscreen” (the essay ended up being wrongly attribut-ed online to author Kurt Vonnegut).

In 2009, Air France Flight 447, an Airbus A330 carry-ing 228 people from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of everyone on board.

Ten years ago: Assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian walked out of a Michigan prison, where he’d spent eight years for ending the life of a man suffering from Lou Gehrig’s disease.

Five years ago: A judge in Sanford, Florida, revoked the bond of the neighborhood watch volunteer charged with murdering Trayvon Martin and ordered him returned to jail within 48 hours, saying George Zimmerman and his wife had misled the court about how much money they had available when his bond was set at $150,000. (George Zimmerman was ultimate-ly acquitted of the murder charge; Shellie Zimmerman pleaded guilty to perjury and was sentenced to a year’s probation and community service.)

One year ago: After kill-ing his estranged wife in a Minneapolis suburb, a former UCLA student drove from Minnesota to Los Angeles, where he shot and killed his former professor before tak-ing his own life.

Thought for Today: “The past is our only real posses-sion in life. It is the one piece of property of which time can-not deprive us; it is our own in a way that nothing else in life is. In a word, we are our past; we do not cling to it, it clings to us.” — Grace King, American author (1852-1932).

FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LOCAL BRIEFS |

Free fishing day set for Saturday

SHERIDAN — In conjunction with the Wyoming Game and Fish Department’s Free Fishing Day on Saturday, daily use fees are waived at all parks/recreation areas that provide angling.

Wyoming State Parks locations offering free entrance are Boysen, Buffalo Bill, Curt Gowdy, Edness K. Wilkins, Fort Phil Kearney, Glendo, Guernsey, Keyhole, Seminoe and Hawk Springs.

Fishing opportunities also exist at the following sites, which offer free entrance year-round — Bear River, Hot Springs, Medicine Lodge and Sinks Canyon. Camping fees are not waived.

Those planning to fish may do so without a fish-ing license that day.

Free Fishing Day is offered annually by the Wyoming Game and Fish Department and involves lakes and reservoirs throughout the state.

SC to host Wyoming Baroque

SHERIDAN — The Whitney Center for the Arts will celebrate art and music Friday with a concert by Wyoming Baroque.

Wyoming Baroque brings together nation-ally-known artists specializing in historically informed performances of 17th and 18th century repertoire as well contemporary compositions featuring instruments built to the same specifi-cations. While the performers are based through-out the country, the ensemble is in residence at Sheridan College.

The concert will feature a brand new work, “The Temple,” by Sheridan’s own Mark Elliot Bergman. The Temple is based upon a H.P. Lovecraft’s short story first published in Pulp magazine in 1925. The story tells of a German U-boat officer named Altberg-Ehrenstein during World War I. After sinking a British freighter, the German U-boat crew finds an ancient, carved, ivory pendant on the body of a dead British sailor. One of the offi-cers decides to keep the carving and soon after, members of the crew begin to go mad.

Concert tickets cost $20 for adults and $15 for students; they are available through the WYO Theater box office. More information can be found at WhitneyArts.org.

Dead Swede Hundo races

scheduled for Saturday

SHERIDAN — The Dead Swede Hundo, which includes 100-mile and 40-mile bicycle races, will take place Saturday.

Both races will begin and end at the Black Tooth Brewing Company, located at 312 Broadway St.

Registration is $75 per person for the 100-mile race and $45 for the 40-mile race. Entry fees include race entry, a meal ticket, a beer ticket, a T-shirt, a water bottle and other perks.

Following the race, Black Tooth Brewing Company will host a street dance featuring music, food trucks, lawn games, street vendors and more. Bands set to perform include the Jalan Crossland Band, the April June Trio and Gary Small and the Coyote Brothers. Music will begin at 4 p.m.

For more information, see www.thedeadswede.com.

FROM STAFF REPORTS

FRIDAY EVENTS |

NATIONAL OBITUARY |

TODAY IN HISTORY |


Break from the actionA Sheridan County student sits on the gate as a barrel racer competes during the Sheridan County high school rodeo Monday at the Sheridan County Fairgrounds.

• All day, Bob Loomis reining clinic, Sheridan College Agripark, 1 Chris LeDoux Way• All day, Buck Brannaman clinic, Houlihan Ranch, 642 U.S. Highway 14 East• 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Tom Balding Bits and Spurs open house, 655 Riverside St.• 5 p.m., “Color Not Absent” Polly Burge artist reception, Expressions Art Gallery and Framing LLC,

645 Broadway St.• 5:30 p.m., Bots Sots Remount social, Sheridan Inn, 856 Broadway St.• 6 and 8 p.m., Donna’s Dance Academy “United Through Dance,” WYO Theater, 42 N. Main St., $17.50

for adults, $15.50 for seniors and students• 7 p.m., Koltiska Distillery anniversary party, Koltiska Distillery, 644 Crook St.• 9 p.m., Glow-in-the-dark volleyball tournament, Cloud Peak Volleyball Club, $20 per person or $25 per

person for day-of registration

Award-winning sports writer

Frank Deford dies at 78

(AP) — Frank Deford, the award-winning sports writer and commentator whose elegant reportage was a staple for years at Sports Illustrated and National Public Radio, has died. He was 78.

He died Sunday in Key West, Florida, his family said Monday.

Deford was a six-time Sports Writer of the Year and a member of the National Association of Sportscasters and Sportswriters Hall of Fame. He wrote and spoke with a lyrical touch and this month retired from NPR’s “Morning Edition” after 37 years as a contributor.

“Frank was dealing with an audience that doesn’t turn to the sports pages first thing,” said Tom Goldman, an NPR sports correspondent who recently spent time with Deford in Key West. “And he was proudest of the many comments he got over the years from people saying, ‘I don’t really like sports, but I like what you did, and you made me more interested in it.’”

He was the first sports writer awarded the National Humanities Medal.

In 2013, President Barack Obama honored Deford and his career for “transforming how we think about sports.”

“A dedicated writer and storyteller, Mr. Deford has offered a consistent, compelling voice in print and on radio, reaching beyond scores and statistics to reveal the humanity woven into the games we love,” Obama said at the time.

Deford called the award the one he is most proud of.

His long profiles, covering all corners of sports, were for years a showcase in Sports Illustrated.

“He could watch the grittiest game and zoom in on the moment that made it important,” said Jim Litke, a national sports columnist for The Associated Press. “Nobody was better at connect-ing sports to the culture at large. He dressed up every event he attended.”

He also dressed up in a more literal way, always sharply attired and cutting a debonair figure at 6-foot-4 with his shock of dark hair and thin mus-tache.

Deford was a prolific book author, including several novels, and contributed commentaries to HBO’s “Real Sports” program and hosted docu-mentaries on the cable network.


ALMANACOBITUARY |

Joseph Sebastian Michelena

January 16, 1929 - May 25, 2017

On May 25, 2017, God took the hand of Joseph Sebastian Michelena, “Cowboy Joe”, 88 of Clearmont, Wyoming to go rest high on the moun-tains of Heaven, as his work here on earth was done.

Right up to the end of his life, he was not only gracious and inspiration-al, but constantly worried about everyone else and was a hero to all of his family. Joe was always respectable and hard-

working; he knew the value of a handshake. He was an honorable man-he did what was right even if no one was looking. He was spared the pain of the cancer and we are very blessed that his mind was very sharp and clear during his final days with his family.

He was born on January 16, 1929, the first born of Sebastian and Anna Michelena, in Buffalo, Wyoming. Joe grew up in Arvada, Wyoming and he often spoke of the memo-ries he had of the sound of the steam engines and the cry of their whistles as they came through Arvada and how he enjoyed riding the passenger trains. For his 80th birth-day, his family sent him on the Durango/Silverton steam engine train ride along with accommodations at the Grand Imperial Hotel so he could re-live those train memo-ries; he embraced every moment of that trip.

Joe attended first grade at Trabing, south of Buffalo, then attended school in Arvada from the second through the twelfth grade, graduating in 1948. From 1948-1951, he worked for his father on the ranch. In March of 1951, he was inducted into the US Army. His father had him deferred for one year prior to 1951. During his two years in the Army, he was the company clerk for AAA Gun Battalion. He was stationed at Ft. Lewis, Washington; Ft. Bliss, Texas, Ft. McCoy, Wisconsin and finally at Ft. Sheridan, Illinois. He was discharged in March of 1953, with the rank of Corporal.

Chicago is where he met the one true love of his life, Dolores (Dolly) Kruk. He often told the story of how he was introduced to her through a blind date. On January 31, 1953, they were married in Chicago. They remained in Chicago from March 1953 through June 1953. Joe was employed by US Steel Corporation in Chicago during that time.

Joe and Dolly moved to Arvada in June 1953, where Joe was employed by the CB&Q Railroad in Arvada. Dolly, the city girl, was homesick for Chicago, so they moved back where he again went to work for US Steel Corporation until April 1954. After being laid off from the steel mill, he went to work for Sears as a sales person in the hardware department.

First born child, Gloria was born May 1954. In June of 1954, Joe, Dolly and their two week old daughter moved to Arvada in their 1953 Chevrolet pickup, and Joe went back to work on the railroad. Joe was never one to sit still and in his spare time, he also helped with the haying on the George Clabaugh Ranch, he was the Fire Chief for the Fire Department in Arvada for a time, and was always willing to help neighbors with branding or other ranch work.

They lived in Arvada from 1954 until November 1967, at which time Dolly became homesick for Chicago and her family again. While in Arvada, Joe and Dolly added to their family: Raymond born March 1956; Bonnie born October 1958; John born July

1961; Jim born October 1963. All of the chil-dren attended the Arvada school.

Once they moved back to Chicago, Joe went to work for Republic Steel Corporation as a crane operator, lifting 25 tons of hot and cold steel, loading trucks and railroad cars. He was always proud of the fact that in the thirteen years there, even though he did have chains or cables break or the two large magnets on the crane would quit due to no power, that he never injured anyone when a 25 ton load would drop.

In August 1968, the last born child, Angela was born in Chicago. Joe once said that Dolly lived in Arvada for thirteen years and he lived in Chicago just a few months shy of thirteen years-so that they were even. In March 1979, Dolly passed away at the age of 45 due to extensive injuries received from being struck by a car on their residential street.

Joe moved to Clearmont, Wyoming in August 1980 with Angela (John and Jim remained in Chicago to finish High School, then moved to Wyoming) where he became employed by the Clearmont School as a custodian and bus driver where he worked until 1991, when he retired. Joe was not very good at retirement, so from 1991 till 2009 (at the age of 80), he worked with Bonnie and JB helping them with their tree trimming business.

In June 1984, his friend Stella and her son Charles moved out to Wyoming after her husband passed away. Stella was Joe’s com-panion for 33 years.

Joe’s most happy place on earth was spending time in the Bighorn Mountains above Buffalo, Wyoming where his two sons John and Jim have cabins. He loved sitting on the deck of John’s cabin, watching and hearing the sheep come down for water, looking across to where his father had his homestead and reliving memories of when he stayed with the sheep in his youth there. He loved catching fish in the creek and having fresh fried trout and wine on the deck with his family. He was an avid hunt-er and fisherman. He loved the West and living close to the mountains, he valued his Basque heritage, he loved herding and working with sheep, and seeing or sitting in John’s sheep wagon touched him to his soul. Most of all, he loved his kids, grandkids and great grandkids. Joe’s family remembers well his favorite words of advice to them: “If you can’t walk to work, you find a way-you crawl if you have to” and “When you feel you are at the end of your rope, you tie a knot and hang on”.

Joe is survived by his six children, Gloria (Bob), Ray (Sue), Bonnie (JB), John, Jim, Angela (Ryan). He is survived by his 18 grandkids and by 13 great grandkids. He left quite the legacy and took great pride in each of their achievements and lives. Joe is also survived by his siblings: Kathleen, Jean, Betty Kay, Santiago, Juaquin, Mary Louise, Pete and Marcina as well as numerous niec-es and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Dolly; by his parents Sebastian and Anna; and by his brothers Sabe, Martin and Sebastian.

Per Joe’s wishes, no funeral services will be held—a private family memorial service will be held at a later date.

Memorial donations are suggested to the following organizations:

Close to Home Hospice Care, 300 S. Burma, Gillette, WY. 82716 Ph#307-688-1000 www.cchcf.com Big Horn Basque Club, PO Box 308, Buffalo, WY. 82834 Attn: Jason Camino, Ph#307-751-0142.

Special thanks and appreciation to Misty at Sheridan Memorial Hospital for her care and for giving Joe a piece of her heart – it meant so very much to him and to his family. The family would like to sincerely thank Close to Home and Home Health and Hospice of Gillette who cared for him with dignity and love.

Joseph Sebastian Michelena

OBITUARY |Dolores Isabelle

AndersonJuly 6, 1928 - May 28,

2017

Dolores Isabelle Anderson, a long-time resident of Sheridan, passed away Sunday the 28th of May at Sheridan Manor.

Born July 6, 1928, in St. Paul, MN, Dolores

graduated with honors from high school in 1945. She continued her education in North Dakota by pursuing business college, gradu-ating in 1947. While attending school and liv-ing in a lady’s boarding house, Dolores met the owner and operator’s son, Purdon “Pete” Anderson, who was home on leave from the U.S. Navy. After World War II, Purdon and Dolores were married in Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Colfax, ND on February 8, 1948. Purdon and Dolores had six children: Michael Phillip, Kathleen Joyce, Steven Thomas, SuzAnne June, Timothy James, and Jonathan Peter.

Dolores had a successful career as the Executive Secretary for Armour and Company. In 1955, the family moved to Missoula, MT to allow Purdon to continue

his career as a pipefitter/plumber. Dolores was able to remain home with their chil-dren.

In her younger years, Dolores enjoyed dancing and singing, as well as playing the piano for her children. In her later years, she enjoyed arts and crafts, often bringing home medals and ribbons. She also enjoyed playing bingo, sharing in good times with friends and family. In 2005, Dolores moved to Sheridan, WY to be closer to her eldest daughter, Kathy. A short time later, she moved to Sheridan Manor where she lived for over 10 years. Dolores was an active member in the Sheridan Manor community, where she was well loved. She also enjoyed socializing and caring for her baby dolls. Dolores was kind, funny, and had a wonder-ful smile that could light up a room.

She is preceded in death by Purdon, and their youngest son, Jonathan. She is sur-vived by her children, her many grandchil-dren, and several great-grandchildren.

We will always remember the joys and blessings she brought into our lives.

Services will be held at 2:00 pm on Friday, June 2, 2017, at Kane Funeral Home with Father Robert Rodgers officiating.

Online condolences may be written at www.kanefuneral.com.

Kane Funeral Home has been entrusted with arrangements.

Dolores Isabelle Anderson


Arresting the principalFirst-grader Haley Barker “arrests” school principal Deb Hofmeier during the end-of-school play day Wednesday at Tongue River Elementary School. The play day celebrated the end of the school year and was themed around Hofmeier — who retires this week.

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RECYCLE:Booster use

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The vast majority of this Dragon has already been to space, including the hull, thrusters and tanks. It’s packed with 6,000 pounds of station cargo, including mice and flies for medical research.

While this Falcon boost-er is new, SpaceX will attempt to land it at Cape Canaveral following liftoff so it, too, can be reused. So far, first-stage boosters have flown back and land-ed vertically four times on the designated X at the Air Force station; even more touchdowns have occurred on ocean platforms, all part of an effort to save time and money.

The private SpaceX and NASA are discussing the possibility of flying a reused booster on an upcoming delivery mission.

Koenigsmann told report-ers more and more reused capsules will carry cargo to the space station, each possibly flying three times. Dragon capsules are being developed to carry astro-nauts to the space station as early as next year; it’s too soon to say whether those, too, will be recycled, he said.

Wednesday marked the fifth anniversary of the return of the first Dragon capsule to visit the space station.

This will be the 12th Dragon visit overall and the 11th under NASA con-tract. The Dragon is the only unmanned supply ship that returns to Earth; the others are filled with trash and burn up on re-entry.

And by SpaceX’s count, this will be the 100th launch from NASA’s his-toric Launch Complex 39-A at Kennedy Space Center.

SCIENCE : New format aims to engage students, spark interestsFROM 1

“That was a big red flag,” SJHS science teacher Ryan Fuhrman said. “We thought if we are trying to get kids excited (about sci-ence) and when they have the option, they don’t do it, then maybe we need to fix some-thing.”

As a result, SJHS teachers created their own format. They simplified the requirements and expanded the opportunities for students to present their long-term science projects.

The symposium permitted students to pres-ent their projects through mediums such as slideshows, oral presentations, posters, vid-eos, charts, models and other formats.

This allowed students to emphasize their strengths, teachers said.

“They got to do whatever they felt comfort-able or whatever worked best for their proj-ect,” said Pete Karjanis, sixth-grade science teacher.

Even with the new format, students gain similar skills as from the traditional science fair; students implemented the scientific method into their projects and awards were presented for top experiments.

The science symposium reflects shifts in science education. Over the past several years, science teachers have taken a hands-on approach to science as opposed to curriculum centered on lectures and textbook reading.

The hands-on, critical-thinking method will be the focal point of new Wyoming science standards, which schools must adopt by the 2020-21 school year.

“It’s more hands-on and requires deeper thinking,” Karajanis said about science edu-cation. “The assessments are ... no longer multiple choice — it’s all written. It’s about understanding and going above and beyond to apply the concepts they are taught.”

The first year of the science symposium included everything from potato batteries to studies on ballistics and solar panels.

“I’ve been really, really pleased with the quality of their thinking, and the diverse nature of what they’ve done,” Fuhrman said. “You’ll see lots of what seems random experi-ments, but what really shows is their passions and interests.”

Teachers plan to keep the symposium next year and make it an annual event at the school.


Students, parents and teachers wander through a classroom during the science symposium Wednesday at the Sheridan Junior High School.

SHERIDAN FIRE-RESCUEWednesday• Dumpster fire, 400 block

Coffeen Avenue, 9:55 a.m.• Rocky Mountain

Ambulance assist, 2000 block South Sheridan Avenue, 10:05 a.m.

• Activated fire alarm, 3000 block Coffeen Avenue, 2:47 p.m.

• RMA assist, 800 block Coffeen Avenue, 4:54 p.m.

• Barbecue fire, 600 block Emerson Street, 5:08 p.m.

• Illegal burn, 700 Riverside Street, 10:27 p.m.

GOOSE VALLEY FIRE DEPARTMENTWednesday• No calls reported. ROCKY MOUNTAIN AMBULANCEWednesday• Medical, East Sixth

Street, 12:26 a.m.• Trauma, West Fifth

Street, 9:09 a.m.• Medical, South Sheridan

Avenue, 9:52 a.m.• Trauma, Second Avenue

and Custer Street, 11:05 a.m.• Medical, West Loucks

Street, 11:48 a.m.• Medical, West Fifth

Street 3:59 p.m.• Medical, Coffeen Avenue,

4:50 p.m.• Medical, East Jefferson

Street, 5:10 p.m.• Medical, Mydland Road,

6:05 p.m. SHERIDAN MEMORIAL HOSPITALWednesday• No admissions or dis-

missals reported. SHERIDAN POLICE DEPARTMENTInformation in the police

reports is taken from the SPD website.

Wednesday• Suspicious vehicle,

Avoca Place, 12:15 a.m.• Assist agency, Marion

Street, 12:28 a.m.• Bar check, North Main

Street, 12:47 a.m.• Mental subject,

Industrial Drive, 7:16 a.m.• Burglar alarm, North

Gould Street, 7:35 a.m.• Weed violation, East

Fourth Street, 10:34 a.m.• Weed violation, Illinois

Street, 10:51 a.m.• Accident, Custer Street,

10:54 a.m.• Barking dog, Avon

Street, 11:03 a.m.• Cat trap, Colony Park

Drive, 11:16 a.m.• Weed violation, Illinois

Street, 11:18 a.m.• Dog at large, Birch

Street, 11:38 a.m.• Transport, West Fifth

Street, 11:46 a.m.• Accident, Coffeen

Avenue, 1:24 p.m.• Traffic complaint, Lewis

Street, 1:40 p.m.• Suspicious vehicle, West

Fourth Street, 2:13 p.m.• Animal incident, Marion

Street, 2:44 p.m.• 911 hang up unknown,

North Main Street, 2:48 p.m.• Sexual battery cold,

Terra Avenue, 3:18 p.m.• Animal welfare, West

14th Street, 3:18 p.m.

• VIN Inspection, West 12th Street, 3:38 p.m.

• Mental subject, Avoca, 4:04 p.m.

• Sexual battery, Avoca Place, 4:14 p.m.

• Careless driver, Steffen, 4:23 p.m.

• Dispute, Huntington Street, 4:23 p.m.

• Juvenile found, West Alger Avenue, 5:04 p.m.

• Suspicious person, Lewis Street, 6:12 p.m.

• Gas theft, Coffeen Avenue, 6:55 p.m.

• Traffic complaint, Fifth Street, 7:15 p.m.

• Traffic complaint, Creekside Lane, 7:36 p.m.

• Traffic complaint, Fifth Street, 7:41 p.m.

• Traffic complaint, DeSmet Avenue, 7:51 p.m.

• Suspicious circumstanc-es, Park Side Court, 8:13 p.m.

• Vandalism cold, Lookout Point Drive, 8:14 p.m.

• Parking complaint, East Brundage Street, 8:16 p.m.

• Livestock loose, Stevens Avenue, 8:18 p.m.

• Suspicious circumstance, Hill Pond Drive, 8:32 p.m.

• Stalking, East First Street, 8:40 p.m.

• Domestic, Long Drive, 9 p.m.

• Shots, North Sheridan Avenue, 9:41 p.m.

• Barking dog, Johnson Lane, 9:57 p.m.

• Mental subject, North Main Street, 10:09 p.m.

• Burning in city limits, Riverside Street, 10:23 p.m.

• Civil dispute, Coffeen Avenue, 10:35 p.m.

• Noise complaint, Smith Street, 11:42 p.m.

SHERIDAN COUNTYSHERIFF’S OFFICEWednesday• Accident, North Custer

Street, 11:32 a.m.• Domestic disturbance,

Trish Drive, 12:14 p.m.• Fraud, Trail Drive,

Ranchester, 12:52 p.m.• Civil standby, Willow

Street, Big Horn, 3:09 p.m.• Records only, Highway

14 West, Dayton, 3:17 p.m.• Warrant service, West

13th Street, 4:03 p.m. ARRESTSNames of individuals

arrested for domestic vio-lence or sexual assault will not be released until the individuals have appeared in court.

Wednesday• Curtis Keith Garn, 22,

Sheridan, contempt of court/bench warrant, cir-cuit court, arrested by SCSO

• Felicia Rae Moen, 29, Sheridan, destruction of property, circuit court, arrested by SPD

JAILTodayDaily inmate count: 56Female inmate count: 7Inmates at treatment facil-

ities (not counted in daily inmate count): 0

Inmates housed at other facilities (not counted in daily inmate count): 2

Number of book-ins for the previous day: 4

Number of releases for the previous day: 3

REPORTS |

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Nolan McCafferty gets waved home during a sixth-inning rally against Gillette Wednesday at Thorne-Rider Stadium. The Troopers scored seven runs in the inning to overcome a 6-1 deficit.

Sixth-inning rally scores 7, Troopers top Gillette

SHERIDAN — The Sheridan Troopers need-ed a momentum shift Wednesday evening. Veteran head coach Ben Phillips has plenty of experience creating in-game adjustments, so he took a seat in the dugout.

Relieving himself of his typical third-base coaching duties, he sent assistant coach Isaac Carel — his first game back with the Troopers this summer — out to make the calls at third in the bottom of the sixth inning.

Sheridan scored seven runs in the inning on their way to a come-from-behind 9-6 victory over the Gillette Roughriders.

“I absolutely don’t want to give him any credit,” Phillips said poking fun at his former player and assistant coach. “But the team obviously responded to somebody with less-er skill level than their coach, so we had to switch things up. He did a good job; I told him to go get some runs, and he did. So, yeah, that might be permanent.”

Trailing 6-1 in the sixth, the Troopers load-ed the bases with no outs to open the inning. Then, the team connected on a handful of base hits and the RBIs piled up.

Race Johnston got things started with an RBI single that scored Connor Jorgenson. Johnston went on to have a 4-for-5 night at the plate and drove in two runs. He also came in to relieve starting pitcher Nolan McCafferty

in the fifth inning, throwing three innings and giving up just two hits and no runs in his first outing on the mound all season.

“To go out and give us three scoreless and give us an opportunity to get to Quinton (Brooks) to pitch those last two innings was huge,” Phillips said of Johnston’s night. “My hat’s off to him.”

After Brooks struck out, the Troopers tacked on another run on a Blake King single. A field-er’s choice led to another out but also another run, and a Jeff Shanor walk followed by a McCafferty single scored two more runs and tied the game at six.

As the Roughriders ran through their bull-pen — they used three pitchers in the inning — Noah Gustafson closed out the rally with a two-out, two RBI single to left field. Sheridan quickly turned its 6-1 deficit to an 8-6 lead by the end of the inning.

“Kids this age, I swear that they feed off each other,” Phillips said of the games’ ral-lies. Gillette scored all six of its runs in the third inning in similar fashion to Sheridan’s sixth-inning rally.

After McCafferty worked through six of Gillette’s first seven batters in the first two innings — he struck out three and gave up just one single — the tide shifted on a bang-bang play to open the third inning. From there, Gillette took advantage of the momentum.

BY MIKE PRUDEN

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Center fielder Blake King reaches for a catch near the wall Wednesday at Thorne-Rider Stadium.

Penguins take 2-0 Stanley Cup lead with 4-1 win vs PredatorsPITTSBURGH (AP) — By coach Peter

Laviolette’s math, the Nashville Predators have been pretty good for all but 10 minutes of the Stanley Cup Final.

It’s not much. Unless you’re playing the Pittsburgh Penguins. Then it’s too much. Way too much.

The defending Stanley Cup champions needed just over three minutes at the start

of the third period to turn a taut Game 2 into a runaway, beating Pekka Rinne three times in a 4-1 victory on Wednesday night to inch closer to becoming the first team in nearly 20 years to win back-to-back titles.

The barrage started with Jake Guentzel. Mired in an eight-game goal drought heading into the series, the 22-year-old Nebraska-born rookie provided the winner in Game 1 and again in Game 2 when he pounded home a rebound just 10 seconds into the third for his third of the series and

12th of the playoffs.“It’s crazy,” said Guentzel, who has an

NHL rookie record five game-winning goals this postseason. “You can’t even put into words what it feels. But we know the ultimate goal is two more wins and they’re going to be tough to get.”

Only if Rinne turns back into Rinne. The 34-year-old spent the first three rounds of the playoffs helping carry Nashville to the Final for the first time. Now he’s the biggest reason the Predators head back to

“Smashville” for Game 3 on Saturday night reeling. After giving up four goals on 11 shots in Game 1, he allowed four more on 25 shots in Game 2. He was pulled when Evgeni Malkin ended Pittsburgh’s surge with his ninth of the playoffs 3:28 into the third.

Rinne entered the series with a .947 save percentage in the postseason.

BY WILL GRAVES

AP SPORTS WRITER

NBA Finals pick up where they left off with Cavaliers-Warriors IIIOAKLAND, Calif. (AP) —

After a summer highlighted by Kevin Durant’s decision to leave Oklahoma City for the star-laden Golden State Warriors, a six-month regular season and three rounds of playoffs, the NBA Finals are right back where they ended last June.

Not that anyone expected any different.

Take III of the NBA Finals trilo-gy between Golden State and the Cleveland Cavaliers gives Stephen

Curry and Draymond Green a chance to avenge last year’s Warriors collapse and LeBron James the opportunity to add a fourth title in his chase of Michael Jordan’s six.

Perhaps most noteworthy, it gives Durant the chance at a first championship and validation for his decision to leave the Thunder and join the league’s latest super team.

“I can’t go out there and do everything on my own or I can’t go out there and just let my team-mates do all the work for me,” Durant said Wednesday, a day

before the series opener. “I got to do my part and we all got to make it come together as a group.”

This matchup has seemed ordained since James walked off the court in Oakland last June, having delivered his native north-east Ohio its first major team championship since 1964.

James had won two titles as part of another “super team” in Miami but last year’s crown meant even more to his legacy.

“I’m not in the ‘prove people wrong, silence critics’ department no more,” James said. “I got a pro-motion when I got to the 30s. At

the end of the day, I know the way I’m built. My only motivation is to be able to compete for a champion-ship every single year.”

The Warriors have been right there the past two years, winning the franchise’s first title in 40 years in 2015 and then blowing a 3-1 lead last year to put a sour end-ing on a record-breaking 73-win season. That series turned when Green was suspended for Game 5 and James and Kyrie Irving took over from there.

“Any time someone beats you, you’d love to play them,” Green said. “But at the end of the day

winning a championship is win-ning a championship. You don’t care who you’ve got to take down, you just want to take whoever that is down.”

Here are some other things to watch in Part III:

FINALS REMATCHWhile the Cavs and Warriors

have played in the Finals the past two years, Durant and James met before that in different uniforms. James won his first title in 2012 with Miami in a five-game series over Durant and the Thunder.

BY JOSH DUBOW

AP SPORTS WRITER

Mourning father,

American wins at

French Open

PARIS (AP) — Steve Johnson held everything in, all of it, until he simply could not any longer.

Still mourning the recent death of his father, a tennis coach who helped Johnson learn the game back home in California, the 25th-seed-ed American didn’t allow the jumble of feelings show outwardly. He didn’t permit them to affect his ability to smack a tennis ball, either, and managed to edge Borna Coric 6-2, 7-6 (8), 3-6, 7-6 (6) and reach the French Open’s third round.

For nearly 4 full hours Wednesday, Johnson stayed the course, over and over, even as the on-court par-ticulars grew complicated. He managed to be OK even after his initial four match points slipped away. And even when he was docked a point by the chair umpire for what an incredulous Johnson considered an innocuous extra hit of the ball deep in the fourth set. And yet again when Coric twice was a single point from forcing a fifth set.

Only when, on his fifth chance to end things, Johnson delivered a clean forehand winner to seal the victory, did he let go, drop-ping onto to his knees near the baseline, his chest heav-ing, his eyes filling with tears.

“I have no idea what hap-pened after I hit the fore-hand. I just kind of collapsed and, emotionally, it got the best of me,” said Johnson, who faces No. 6 Dominic Thiem next. “The other days, I was able to kind of get to the locker room and kind of compose myself a lit-tle bit. Today was just such an emotional match. A long match. Up and down.

BY HOWARD FENDRICH

AP TENNIS WRITER

SEE STARS, PAGE B2

SEE NASHVILLE, PAGE B2

SEE OPEN, PAGE B2SEE COMEBACK, PAGE B2

B2 THE SHERIDAN PRESS www.thesheridanpress.com THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 2017

COMEBACK: Troopers drove in 8 on 12 hitsFROM B1

A hard-hit groundball to Shanor at short stop was fired to first base and appeared to be another out for McCafferty’s defense, but Jorgenson was ruled off the bag at first, and the runner was safe.

A walk and a single led to back-to-back RBI singles, a sacrifice fly, a two RBI dou-ble and another RBI single in the inning.

But the Troopers seem to be hitting their stride after a shaky start to the season, so brushing off the rough inning was a tad more comfortable for Phillips’ veteran varsity squad. Sheridan went undefeated in five games over the weekend in Gillette before snatching its eighth-straight win Wednesday night.

“These guys have all played a lot of base-ball; they’re experienced,” Phillips said. “It just took us a little bit to get going, and I think we’re just relaxed and confident right now.”

Along with Johnston’s 4-for-5 perfor-mance, Gustafson batted 3 for 4 with two RBIs, and McCafferty went 2 for 5 and

scored three runs. Sheridan finished the game with 12 hits and eight RBIs.

McCafferty gave up nine hits and six runs in four innings before Johnston and Brooks backed him up on the mound. Brooks fin-ished with two strikeouts as he earned the save, including the final out of the game. Gillette utilized five pitchers.

The Troopers (14-6) will be back in action in Casper this weekend and at Gillette Tuesday before returning home to battle Casper on June 9.

Sheridan Jets

The Gillette Riders had their way with Sheridan’s junior varsity team, the Jets, Wednesday in Gillette. Sheridan lost 26-4.

The Jets fell in a 6-0 hole in the first inning before making up three runs in the second. But Gillette tacked on four more runs in the bottom of the second, and an 11-run third put the game away for good. The Riders added five more in the fourth before the game ended via mercy rule.

Sheridan utilized five pitchers, and none of them went longer than an inning. The

Jets also committed six errors in the field.The Jets will host Powell in a doublehead-

er Saturday at Thorne-Rider Stadium. The first game begins at 1 p.m.

MIKE PRUDEN | THE SHERIDAN PRESS

Race Johnston fires a pitch against Gillette Wednesday at Thorne-Rider Stadium. Johnston threw three scoreless innings in his first pitching appearance of the season for Sheridan.

NASHVILLE: Predators carry 7-1 record on home ice during playoffsFROM B1

Against Pittsburgh, it’s at .777 and he remains winless in his career against the Penguins in games he’s started.

“The limited chances they’ve had they’ve done a good job,” Rinne said. “Overall these two games, like I said, it’s disappoint-ing to be down 2-0 but we have to be feeling still positive with the way we played as a whole and creating chances.”

Asked twice afterward if he was committed to starting Rinne on Saturday, Laviolette stressed Rinne has been “terrific,” adding there are plenty of things the Predators can do better in front of him like stopping the odd-man rushes that allowed the Penguins to take charge.

“There’s a stretch they’re able to gain some momentum, able to capitalize and be opportunistic and that swung two games in their favor,” he said.

Pontus Aberg scored the lone goal for the Predators , who were once again undone by a sudden barrage from the NHL’s highest-scoring team, though

they haven’t lost faith in Rinne. Defenseman P.K. Subban said the team was “extremely confi-dent” and in the prospect of going home, where the Predators are 7-1 during the playoffs.

“We’re going to win the next game and then we’ll see what happens from there,” Subban said.

In Game 1, the Penguins pushed three goals by Rinne in a span of 4:11 in the first period to build a 3-0 lead. The Predators rallied to tie before Guentzel’s go-ahead goal with 3:17 remaining put the Penguins ahead to stay.

This time, Pittsburgh’s flurry came a little bit later. And it was once again led by the baby-faced son of a coach who has no problem shouldering the respon-sibility of playing alongside star Sidney Crosby.

The game was tied at 1 at the start of the third period when Guentzel jumped on a rebound to put Pittsburgh ahead.

It was 1 second shy of the fast-est goal to start a period in Final history.

Wilson was credited with his third of the playoffs just over 3

minutes later when a centering pass caromed off Nashville’s Vernon Fiddler and by Rinne. Malkin’s shot sent Rinne to the bench in favor of backup Juuse Saros, who made his playoff debut.

“When we score one, we don’t stop,” Malkin said. “We want to score more. The first shift in the third period, we score. We want more. It’s our game. Never stop.”

Pittsburgh vowed to put more pressure on Rinne than it man-aged in their 5-3 victory in Game 1, a win they managed despite going 37 minutes without throw-ing a single puck Rinne’s way and none in the second period, the first time that’s happened since the NHL started tracking shots in 1957.

The Penguins matched their entire shot total from the opener (12) by the end of the first period but still found themselves trying to keep up with the Predators. The Stanley Cup newbies were disappointed but not dismayed by their Game 1 loss, pointing to the way they carried play for long stretches as tangible proof they weren’t just happy to be here.

The result was the kind of up-and-down play that show-cased the speed on both sides and included more than a dash of antagonism, particularly early.

Nashville’s Matt Irwin drilled Pittsburgh’s Matt Cullen from behind into the boards in the first period, a hit that left the 40-year-old Cullen headed down the runway for a quick check but didn’t result in a penalty. Minutes later, Penguins forward Chris Kunitz became tangled up with P.K. Subban and ended up cross-checking Subban in the head, part of a sequence that saw Malkin go off for hooking. Malkin and Subban even ended up fight-ing in the third period when things got out of hand.

It was a scene hard to imagine through the first two taut and chippy periods.

Pittsburgh stayed in it thanks to Matt Murray (37 saves) and when Pittsburgh returned to the ice for the start of the third they, as coach Mike Sullivan is fond of saying, “got to their game.”

A style that now has the Penguins two victories away from the cusp of a dynasty.

STARS: 11 All-Stars in series

FROM B1

Durant played well, averag-ing 30.6 points and shooting 55 percent but James came out on top.

“I know I’ve grown as a play-er just through experience from the last five years, but if I don’t go out there and execute, none of that matters,” Durant said.

BROWN CONNECTIONJames’ first trip to the

Finals came 10 years ago when the Cavs were swept by San Antonio. His coach that year was Mike Brown, who has served as acting coach for the Warriors while Steve Kerr is out following complications from back surgery. Brown had two stints as coach in Cleveland, leading the team to the playoffs five straight times from 2006-10 before returning for a one-year stint in 2013-14 when the Cavs won 33 games.

“It feels a little surreal,” Brown said. “I’m sure come tip-off tomorrow, when I’m looking at those guys in that uniform, it will feel even more that way, but right now just kind of taking everything in stride.”

UNDERDOG CAVSAccording to the odds makers

in Las Vegas and the number crunchers at analytical sites, the Warriors are the clear favorites to win the series after sweeping their way through the playoffs with a record-set-ting margin of victory of 16.3 points per game. James has called Golden State a “jugger-naut” but the Warriors aren’t buying all that talk.

“We’ve had a great season to this point, a great playoff run. And hopefully we keep it going, but we fully respect and are aware that this team that we’re playing, they’re the champions and we’re not,” Kerr said.

KLAY’S SHOTOne of the few things that

hasn’t gone right for Golden State this postseason has been Klay Thompson’s shooting. He has hit just 38 percent of his shots as his normally reliable jumper has failed him.

“I’ve had a week off,” Thompson said. “So I feel great. Can’t get caught up in your shot falling or not.”

Thompson has been stellar on the defensive end even when his shot has been off and will likely be counted on at times to slow down Irving, who scored 98 points in the final three games last year, including the series-clinching 3-pointer.

BY THE NUMBERSThe Warriors are the first

team to win their first 12 games of the postseason, sweeping all three rounds so far. The Cavs haven’t been far behind, losing only in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference final to Boston.

This series also features 11 players who have been named All-Stars in their careers, including seven this year. The only other time a Finals matchup featured 11 former All-Stars came in 1983 when Philadelphia swept the Los Angeles Lakers.

OPEN: 2008 runner-up Tsonga’s first opening-round loss in 12 yearsFROM B1

“Just to get through it was something that I know I’ll be very proud of.”

At the other end of the court, Coric man-gled his racket by rearing back and smashing it one, two, three, four times, then after a pause, once more for good measure.

Coric said afterward he knew about the per-sonal difficulty his foe was dealing with.

“Super tough, definitely,” the 40th-ranked Croatian said. “And all the credit to him, that he was able to go through this period and also to play this good.”

After they shook hands, Johnson leaned his head on his arm atop the net, sobbing.

Steve Johnson Sr. passed away three weeks ago.

“I know it’s going to be emotional for quite some time. Who knows how long it’ll take? I just know he’s with me. He raised me to be a competitor and a fighter to the last point. And that’s what I try to do with my tennis,”

said the 27-year-old Johnson, who won two NCAA singles titles and four team titles at Southern California. “I may not be the best tennis player. But there’s not going to be a day where I’m just going to let you win. I’m going to try and give it my best.”

There were other winners and losers, of course, on Day 4 of the French Open, but nothing quite so poignant.

The 12th-seeded Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga left meekly, eliminated 7-5, 6-4, 6-7 (6), 6-4 by 91st-ranked Renzo Olivo of Argentina after only one game Wednesday in a match suspended a night earlier because of dark-ness. It was 2008 Australian Open runner-up Tsonga’s first loss in the first round in Paris since his debut 12 years ago.

“Last week, I won my first-ever clay tourna-ment,” Tsonga said, referring to an event in Lyon. “And today, I lost at the French Open. It’s the paradox of tennis.”

Ah, so philosophical.No call for such reflection from those who

advanced, including defending champion Novak Djokovic and nine-time champion Rafael Nadal among the men, and defending champion Garbine Muguruza, former No. 1s Venus Williams (whose pregnant sister Serena was in the stands) and Caroline Wozniacki among the women. There were a couple of surprises: No. 6 Dominika Cibulkova was beaten 6-4, 6-3 by 114th-ranked Ons Jabeur of Tunisia, while 18-year-old Californian CiCi Bellis defeated No. 18 Kiki Bertens of the Netherlands 6-3, 7-6 (5).

Two-time major champion Petra Kvitova, who needed surgery on her left hand after a knife attack at her home in December, bowed out in the second match of her comeback, a 7-6 (5), 7-6 (5) loss to American qualifier Bethanie Mattek-Sands.

“It’s weird. I mean, I’m disappointed, for sure. I came here to win the matches,” Kvitova said. “The fairytale ended. Now, in upcoming weeks, I think it will be business as usual.”

Powder Horn crowns various tournament champions

SHERIDAN — Men’s league and Memorial Day filled the tournament sheet at the Powder Horn last week, with a handful of the club’s top golf-ers racking up big prizes.

In the senior men’s league, Mark Haik, Mike Nachvatal, Harley Reile, Bill Rohrbaugh and Keith Densler combined for a 121 in the variable best-ball six-shooter competition. Three teams scored 124 to tie for sec-ond.

Dick Esses won closest to the pin, and Jerry Hill won longest putt.

In the annual Memorial Day flag tournament, Leon Thomas was the top dog in the men’s first flight. Jake Jones took second, and Matt Ehlers

was third.In the men’s second flight, PJ

Johnson was first, Duane Madsen took second, and Lance Phillips fin-ished third. The men’s senior flight featured a tie between Cliff Root and Bob Cross at the top, with Ed Hawkinson coming in third.

For the women, Caryn Johnson won the red flight, beating Pepper Stevens and Margret Taylor. Nancy Cross edged Kathy Harris and Phyllis Rotellini in the yellow flight.

PJ Johnson also took the pin prize for longest putt in the tournament, and Ken Watson and Ehlers scored closest to the pin honors. For the women, Nancy Cross made the lon-gest putt, while Barbara Pomar and Katy DeLapp were closest to the pin.

FROM STAFF REPORTS

Broncos’ Barrett out several months for hip

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Broncos outside line-backer Shaquil Barrett will miss the rest of the team’s offseason program because of a hip injury sustained in a non-team workout last week.

Coach Vance Joseph tweeted that Barrett won’t need surgery but will be out “at least the next few months.”

Barrett missed OTAs this week to travel to Vail, Colorado, to see how severe his injury was. Joseph said doctors told the team Wednesday that the injury could be treated conservatively.

“It’s a tough break losing him for at least the next few months, but we’re still counting on him being a big part of our team in 2017,” Joseph said. “I have no doubt Shaq will work very hard during his rehab. We’re look-ing forward to getting him back on the field when he’s healthy.”

Barrett, an undrafted free agent out of Colorado State in 2015, has seven sacks over the last two seasons.

BY ARNIE STAPLETON

AP PRO FOOTBALL WRITER

DRS. OZ & ROIZEN Dr. Mehmet Oz and Dr. Michael Roizen

DEAR ABBY Pauline Phillips and Jeanne Phillips

The term “sticky wicket” often is used to describe a tough spot that’s hard to get out of. It’s also a cricket term, describing the field of play (the wicket) as being wet and soft, and apt to cause a

wicked slide of the ball, mak-ing it tough for the batsman (batter). Great for the bowler (pitcher), though.

Avoiding the sticky wicket of Alzheimer’s disease is an obsession for many people today, and new research is showing that there are several things you can do in middle age (we’ll call that 50) to minimize developing one of the biggest hallmarks of Alzheimer’s -- those sticky amyloid tangles.

Researchers recently pub-lished a 24-year study of 322 men and women in JAMA that found that having just one of the following risk factors for cardiovascular disease -- smoking obesity, Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure or high LDL choles-

terol levels -- doubles your chances of developing amy-loid clumps. Two or more risk factors tripled the risk. So how do you buck those odds?

According to a new study in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, it’s summed up in one word: EXERCISE. A combination of aerobic (10,000 steps a day -- with interval intensity!) and weight training is the most effective way to protect cog-nitive function if you’re 50 or older. A 45-minute session five times a week produces the best results. So if you want to bowl over your odds of developing dementia, you can opt for increased gym time, outdoor walking or maybe even cricket!

DEAR ABBY: I’ll be retir-ing next year. My husband is already retired. When I do, I want to travel in the U.S. and internationally. We are healthy, able to travel and we have the funds to do it.

The problem is, my hus-band isn’t crazy about trav-eling. He’ll go if I book it, but he fusses the whole time until we go. It’s not like he has to do anything. I do all the booking and packing. All he has to do is show up.

I told him one of my buck-et list items was to live in Mexico for a month. Because I hate cold weather, I want to live somewhere warm.

Can you give me some advice on this matter? Help me change his mind about seeing the world before we are no longer able to. Or do you think I need to find a travel companion? -- BUCKET LIST IN VIRGINIA

DEAR B.L.: You may need to do exactly that, and the way to change your hus-band’s mind about travel might be to say it. Not every-one has wanderlust. If he’s a confirmed homebody who regards travel as a punish-ment instead of a privilege, you should not have to suffer for it.

DEAR ABBY: My doctor prescribed medication to con-trol my migraines, but I have to take the pills four times a day -- at breakfast, lunch, din-ner and bedtime. Although I’m not ashamed, I don’t want to have to explain why I am taking the medication because I’m afraid there may be a stigma attached to it. I don’t know what to do. If I try to vary the times, I end up forgetting to take a pill. What should I do? -- PRESCRIBED IN SAN ANTONIO

DEAR PRESCRIBED: Take the medication on time as instructed by your physician. If you need a reminder, pro-gram it into your cellphone. There’s no more stigma attached to taking medication to prevent headaches than there is in taking it for any other medical reason. If you prefer not to be questioned about it, excuse yourself and do it in the restroom.

DEAR ABBY: Hi. I have a problem. My best friend is moving away to a different state this summer. School is ending soon. She is my only friend, and I’m currently dat-ing her brother. He’s the only boy I like, and she is my only friend. I don’t know what to do.

I’ll be in ninth grade in a couple of months, which means I’ll have to start high school without a best friend or a boyfriend. What should I do? I’ll be all alone. -- SAVANNAH IN COLORADO

DEAR SAVANNAH: Not quite! A lot of changes occur when students leave the lower grades and start high school. Even established friendships can change. When school begins, many of your classmates will be in

exactly the same position as you. If you are friendly, I’m sure you’ll find others who will be open to being friendly to you.

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

For an excellent guide to becoming a better conversa-tionalist and a more sociable person, order “How to Be Popular.” Send your name and mailing address, plus check or money order for $7 (U.S. funds) to: Dear Abby, Popularity Booklet, P.O. Box 447, Mount Morris, IL 61054-0447. (Shipping and handling are included in the price.)

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FRESH LOCALLYgrown rhubarb.

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VIOLIN IN excellentcondition. Used 1

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3BD/1BA remodeledfenced yrd $1075 plusutil and dep 631-6024

2BD 1BA house BigHorn w/d hook garage.

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Storage Space

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Omarr’s Daily Astrological Forecast Jeraldine Saunders

BIRTHDAY GAL: Actress Morena Baccarin was born in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil today in 1979. This birthday gal’s role as Jessica Brody on “Homeland” earned her a 2013 Emmy nomination. She stars as Leslie Thomp-kins on “Gotham” and voices the role of Gideon on “The Flash.” Barracin has also appeared on episodes of “The Mentalist,” “Firefly,” and “V.” Her film work in-cludes “Deadpool,” “Spy,” and “Back in the Day.”

ARIES (Mar 21-Apr. 19): Know what you are getting into. Set ground rules for a romantic relationship by making it clear you are looking for a long-term re-lationship or just a quick fling. Making too many as-sumptions could leave you feeling foolish.

TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 20):

Bide your time. You may be itching to take action but if you hold off until next week you may improve your chances of success. Your sparkling personality will make you the center of at-tention in social circles.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Dreams can come true. Don’t write off lofty goals as unattainable without at least thinking over the pros and cons. You can have anything that your heart desires if you want it badly enough and have a strong resolve.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Social butterflies can spread their wings. You’re at your best when mingling with people so make a pub-lic appearance. Take care to pay attention to costs before buying things as money is likely to slip through your

fingers.LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):

Stay focused. There may be a tendency for your mind to wander toward plans for the weekend while the work be-fore you goes undone. Pay close attention to finances as, upon careful scrutiny, the numbers may not add up.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Opportunity knocks. Most of the time offers are “too good to be true” but today there may be merit in some-one’s proposal. A chance meeting with someone who has connections could open new doors for you.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22.): Change your attitude. See the tasks that lie before you as a challenge rather than work and you may recharge your enthusiasm. Talk things over with someone

you’ve had reservations about and you may find something of value.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Sparks can quickly turn into flames. Romantic pur-suits could quickly switch cool to hot tonight as pas-sionate energy runs high. At the same time, there may be a tendency to lose your temper over minor issues.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Get the job done. Lock the doors until an advantageous agreement is reached. Show someone the courtesy and respect they deserve by listening to what they have to say, even if you don’t agree with them.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Don’t let them say “I told you so.” You can eas-ily avoid silly mistakes by paying attention to sound advice. Being upbeat and

friendly with those around you will be contagious and create a pleasant atmo-sphere.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Improve your love life. The object of your affection should become the center of your universe as the hardcore romantic within you rises to the surface. Business matters should be put on hold as you focus on pleasure.

PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20): You can do no wrong. Enjoy a brief period of prosperity during which everything will seem to go your way in all aspects of your life. Take a chance on a long shot or buy yourself something that makes your eyes light up.

IF JUNE 2 IS YOUR BIRTHDAY: Your superb business instincts can help you make a success of in-

vestments and financial affairs during the upcoming three to four weeks. You must, however, avoid being overly sensitive and falling prey to hidden fears. In both June and July your circle of friends or another group could drain your resources and energies or distract you from something of more importance. Remain vigi-lant about honoring your commitments and fulfilling your obligations in October when you may have extra duties or a busy schedule. Late November and early December is the best time to attend to health matters, hire a professional who has your best interests at heart or to put key initiatives into motion.

Hints from Heloise Heloise

Dear Heloise: My concern is cleaning my mother’s RHINESTONE JEWELRY. I would like to wear it to my granddaughter’s wedding in a month. -- Marnie W. in The Villages, Fla.

Hello to my friends in The Villages! Lovely costume jewelry from bygone days often was made from rhine-stones -- lead glass or crys-tals glued into a setting of base metal, gold or silver.

Careful cleaning is neces-sary. Use a solution of mild soap and warm water, and a soft-bristle brush. Avoid getting the setting wet; you don’t want to loosen the glue holding in the stone.

Dry facedown on a fluffy towel.

Antique or valuable pieces should be profession-ally cleaned. -- Heloise

IRON IT OUTDear Heloise: My clothes

iron is clogged -- help! What’s the best way to clean

it? -- Carolyn D. in North Carolina

Carolyn, don’t despair! Help is on the way. First off, have you read the operating instructions that came with the iron? It’s always best to read them first.

If the booklet is not avail-able, and you can’t reach the manufacturer on the phone, let’s go to my ol’ standby: vinegar! Mix equal parts white vinegar and water, and pour into the water well.

Turn the iron on high, hold it horizontally over the sink and let it steam.

Flush out the steam vent by depressing the steam button several times. Un-plug the iron, let it cool and empty out the mixture if any remains. Rinse the res-ervoir by pouring in fresh water several times.

Caution: Do this method only sporadically. Too much vinegar could corrode the inner workings of the iron.

Vinegar is my go-to house-hold helper. It is cheap, readily available and non-toxic. To receive a pamphlet of my best vinegar hints, visit www.Heloise.com to order, or send $5 and a long, stamped (70 cents), self-addressed envelope to: Heloise/Vinegar, P.O. Box 795001, San Antonio,

TX 78279-5001. There are commercial cleaning solu-tions available to clean the clothes iron, too -- look for them in the laundry aisle, and follow the directions to the letter. -- Heloise

MEMORY MAKERDear Heloise: I have

collected many T-shirts through the years, and I decided to stitch them to-gether to make a quilt. I cut out the design and sewed over the raw edge, then sewed them together.

It took some time to place everything and put the backing on, but it sure is a conversation-starter!

Rare or vintage T-shirts don’t make the cut. -- Benny C. in Philadelphia

FOIL TOILDear Heloise: Crumple

aluminum foil to scrub the bottoms of pots and pans if you have burnt or baked-on residue. This is a cheap al-ternative to expensive com-mercial scrubbers. -- Helen and Mike T. in Pennsylva-nia

SLIPPERY SOLESDear Heloise: My biggest

beef is about getting new shoes: The bottoms of the soles are so slippery! I’m just afraid I am going to fall. I have to scuff the soles on the concrete to break them in. -- Rose H. in California

Bridge Phillip Alder

WHEN YOU NEED, TRY HARD TO FIND

Bob Hope said, “A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove you don’t need it.”

A bridge table is a place where you need tricks to win money -- or match-points or interna-

tional match points. In this six-no-trump deal, how many dummy entries did South need? From where did he get them?

South’s sequence showed a balanced 22-plus to 24 points. North plunged into six no-trump. This contract, unusually, would have been better played by North, when a heart lead around to the queen would have been beneficial. Here, though, after the heart-jack lead was covered by the queen, king and ace, South’s back was against the bank’s wall.

Declarer had only eight top tricks: two spades, one heart, four diamonds and one club. He needed to find four more winners without losing the lead; otherwise, the de-fenders would have run the heart suit. So, the club finesse had to be winning. But here South needed to take that finesse twice, then, after dropping East’s club king under his ace, get into the dummy to cash the last two clubs. From where was declarer going to get those three dummy entries?

They had to come from diamonds: the

ace, jack and four. South cashed his dia-mond king, then led the diamond seven to dummy’s jack. If the diamonds had broken 4-1, declarer would have needed East to have king-singleton or -doubleton in clubs. Here, though, South took a club finesse, led the diamond queen to dummy’s ace, took a second club finesse, cashed the club ace, played the diamond three to dummy’s four and claimed.

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HOT SPRINGSCOUNTY SCHOOL

DISTRICT #1,THERMOPOLIS, is

accepting applicationsfor a secondary mathteacher for the 2017-

2018 school year. Emailkandreen@

hotsprings1.org or visitwww.hotsprings1.orgfor details. Position

open until filled.EOE

PT job several hrs weekstarting July, Sheridan

resident needs helpsorting mail & fwd

medical bills. Reply503-927-2269, talk ortxt to set up interview.

Help Wanted

Established companyin Ranchester isseeking qualifiedapplicants for an

Accountant position.Accounting or

business degree withtwo years accountingexperience required.Position is full time

with competitive wageand benefit package.

Apply at SheridanWorkforce Center.

Tongue River MS willneed a long term

math substitute tostart the next school

year. The position willbe Aug. 14 through

the end of Oct.(appx.). Math

experience preferred.Contact Pete Kilbrideat 655-9533 ext. 4107Searching for PT SalesClerk for liquor store.Must be able to work

evenings andweekends. Some

experience preferred.Starting wage $9/hr.

Apply at Rendezvous,1842 Sugarland Dr.

#105

Help Wanted

Perkins is currentlyaccepting applications

for SUMMEREMPLOYMENT:

Dining Room Manager,line cooks, lead prep

cook, servers & hosts.AM & PM shifts avail.

Apply in person at1373 Coffeen Ave oronline at www.please

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SCSD #1 is acceptingapplications for 2

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Position hours willbe Monday-Thursday

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us and call FoodService Coordinator,Dennis Decker, with

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Antiques

“COLUMBIAGRAFANOLA" 1915

crank phonograph. Verygood condition, works

well! Original records &operating instructions.

$600. 763-3829

Land/Property

4 LOTS on 1 acre ofriver front prop on interof NB Ave and Marten

St. Next to walkingbridge over Big Goose,1 lot has utilities $110k

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DEVELOPMENTPROPERTY 1 mi eastof Sheridan, on HWY14. 180 acres more orless, $13,700 per Acre

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Real Estate

CABIN ON leasedland in Big Horn

Mountains outside ofSheridan, WY.

Approx. 1 mi past BigGoose Ranger stationon 4WD Rd. $175,000

[email protected]

FSBO: 2,300 sq. ft.family home: 1825 Hol-loway Ave, Sheridan.

4BR/3Ba. 24’ x 32’heated garage.

New roof & siding.Located in county,minutes from town.$253,500. Call for

showing 674-6023. Seephotos & open houseschedule on Zillow.

Autos & Accessories

TRANSFER CASE/standard transmission

for a 1997 Nissan. $275OBO.

Other parts available.763-1004

FOR SALE : 2004Ford F-150 SuperCab STX, with campershell, 134,000 miles,new transmission..R u n s G r e a t .$ 8 5 0 0 . 0 0 O B OCall 307-683-7938LIFTED 1987 Toyota

Pickup with topper $800751-7411

PRIME RATEMOTORS is buying

clean, preownedvehicles of all ages.We also install B&W

GN hitches, 5th WheelHitches, Pickup Flat-beds, Krogman Bale

Beds. Stop by2305 Coffeen Ave. or

call 674-6677.SAFARI CAMPERShell. White. Easy

access from 3 sides,sliding front window;

light; Excellent cond ona 98 Ford. $300.00 Firm

Call 752-2515

ATV’s & Snowmobiles

2010 HONDA Ranch-era comes with plow

and ramp 471mi $6000Call 406-545-9675

2001 S & S9 ft. slide-in camper.

$3500. 672-0959

Garage Sales

10 BOX Cross Rd, Fri &Sat 8-4 Assorted Items

1438 VICTORIA 8am,Fri & Sat. Big Sale!

3 HOME Ranch Place.Sat 7:30-2 Sun 9-1

Vintage, Crystal, Misc

76 JOHN LN in StorySat & Sun 8-4

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Tips for starting, maintaining container plantsN

early any container can be used as long as it promotes good drainage. Containers made from porous materials like lay and wood lose moisture quickly

but allow for air movement not the root zone. Metal, plastic, and glazed containers

are non-porous and hold water longer but restrict air movement, making drainage holes especially important.

Containers are portable, but if they are too heavy, add container dollies with wheels. Containers should be large enough so plants won’t dry out between waterings.

Smaller containers will need daily maintenance during summer.

Porous pots may look

more natural but can deteriorate quickly if consistently exposed to moisture and freez-ing temperatures.

Bring these pots inside to prevent crack-ing during the winter. Non-porous contain-ers, including glazed pottery, have a longer life span but are usually more expensive. They may be stored outdoors in the winter. Use non-porous containers, except glazed pottery, for growing early-season plants like lettuce or pansies. They can withstand the likelihood of frost or freezing during the spring.

The container size should accommodate the roots of the plant when fully grown. Plant vegetables such as tomatoes, egg-plant, pepper, cucumbers, cabbage and beans in at least 5-gallon containers. Beets, carrots, lettuce and green onions need a 3-gallon pot.

Most herbs and radishes grow well in

containers of 1 gallon or less. The general rule with flowers: the taller the flower, the more root mass it produces, thus requiring a larger container.

Water frequently; do not allow containers to dry completely or fine roots will die. Use water-holding polymers or gels, mixed with soil before planting, to extend time between watering.

New sep-watering pot systems may reduce watering maintenance.

The rapid growth of many container plants quickly depletes the fertilizer in soil. Mix controlled-release fertilizer granules into the soil mix at planting. Use diluted soluble fertilizers every watering or full strength on a weekly or every two-week basis

Annuals are good container plants. New versions of old favorites are available in most garden centers.

“Indoor” or tropical foliage plants are great for shady areas. Consider dracaena, schefflera or ficus.

Cacti and succulents are good bets, too, but don’t combine them with moisture-lov-ing plants.

Perennials can be combined with annu-als. Pair plants by their fertilizer and watering needs.

Almost any vegetable that will grow in a typical backyard garden will also do well in a container. Look for varieties that are labeled as ‘bush,’ ‘patio,’ ‘dwarf,’ or ‘com-pact.’

Herbs for containers include thyme, oregano, parsley, rosemary, basil, chives, cilantro and lavender.

(Source: Cooperative Extension)

SUSAN WOODY has been a home and garden writer for more than 20 years and is a master gardener.

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Homebuyers can leap

the down payment

hurdleLOS ANGELES (AP) —

Saving up for a down pay-ment is the biggest hurdle for many would-be home-buyers, particularly those looking to make the leap from renting to owning.

More than two-thirds of renters consider setting aside money for a down payment the No. 1 obstacle to buying a home, according to a recent survey by real estate data provider Zillow. That edged out other con-cerns, including job security and a thin supply of homes on the market.

While there are home loans that require as little as 3 percent down, rising home prices, especially in expensive coastal states, keep driving up the amount of money buyers need to come up with for a down payment.

Even so, many first-time buyers are managing to save enough on their own. Some 76 percent used their sav-ings to fund their down pay-ment last year, according to the National Association of Realtors.

START SOON

Begin saving now. Renters may want to calculate what their extra monthly costs would be as a homeown-er and then set aside that amount, minus rent and utilities. This accomplishes two goals: Saving money for a down payment and getting you accustomed to the financial constraints of living with the costs of homeownership.

Another strategy that may help: open a separate sav-ings account just for your down payment. That will help lessen the temptation of using the funds for some-thing else.

You’ll also have to set aside money for closing costs, which can run into the hundreds or thousands of dollars.

WEIGH LOAN OPTIONS

The type of home loan you get may determine how much of a down payment you need. For many years, buyers sought to put down 20 percent of the purchase price. That would lower their monthly mortgage payment and allow them to avoid having to pay for private mortgage insurance, or PMI. But as home prices have risen, that trend has waned.

Backyard flights of fancy — Hobbits and moreMany a kid (and grown-up) has dreamed of

having a magical playhouse. If you’ve got more cash than carpentry skills, there are creative entepreneurs who specialize in bringing those storybook flights of fancy alive with Hobbit holes, treehouses, castles and more.

“We didn’t set out to be a Hobbit hole com-pany,” Melissa Pillsbury says of the J.R.R. Tolkien-inspired playhouses that she and her husband, Rocy, sell under the company name Wooden-Wonders. “He had all sorts of designs. But the response to the Hobbit holes told us we had something unique and special.”

The Maine-based home business got the trademark to the Hobbit name and sells around 100 Hobbit holes per year. The compa-ny ships or delivers the flat-packed kits around the country. In addition to kid-size playhouses starting at $1,695, Wooden-Wonders offers a larger, grown-up version called the Faehaven for just under $4,000, as well as the $7,995 Bag End, a full-size model made to be built into a hillside.

The company also does custom Hobbit holes, which have been used for everything from a maple syrup sugar house to a moss-covered musician’s studio. One client ordered three for a farm. The most memorable project, Pillsbury says, was with the Make-a-Wish foundation, which connected them with a boy dying of can-cer whose greatest wish was to have a Hobbit hole of his own. With the help of volunteers, Wooden-Wonders installed a landscaped cre-ation in his suburban backyard.

While many customers are fans of “The Lord of the Rings,” Pillsbury says others simply like the Hobbit holes’ half-moon design. Some have even asked what a Hobbit is.

“People naturally gravitate to things that are round and cave-like,” Pillsbury says.

Chris Axling, owner of Magical Playhouses in Port Townsend, Washington, agrees, saying curves are the secret to any magical design. His custom creations have wavy rooflines and rounded windows for a look straight out of a storybook.

Axling, who once worked with treehouse guru Pete Nelson of the Animal Planet TV

show “Treehouse Masters,” is known for his dragon playhouse, a 12-foot wonder with stained glass windows, custom cabinetry and a 4 ½-foot-tall dragon head erupting from the roof. Starting with a chainsaw, Axling carved the 60-pound dragon out of two huge chunks of cedar, and added steer horns from a taxidermy shop in Texas.

While fantasy drives the bulk of his business, Axling’s work was born from not-so-charming beginnings; he lost his job in high-end residen-

tial construction. Taking on the role of stay-at-home parent, he devised a carpenter-dad way of entertaining his 2-year-old: He built her a schoolhouse. Since then, he’s been making whimsical backyard structures alongside both of his two young children.

“My daughter is out there with me pounding nails,” Axling says. “She wants to be a carpen-ter when she grows up.”

Spending time with kids was exactly what sent San Diego grandfather Brian Caster on the hunt for a treehouse. He grew up with the playhouse bug, having “more fun than should be allowed” in his own childhood tree fort, and reading stories like “The Jungle Book.”

“I thought, someday I’m going to build my own ‘Swiss Family Robinson’ tree fort,” Caster says.

It only took his first grandchild to convince him that day had come. Unable to build the tree fort himself, he found Daniels Wood Land, a California-based builder of treehouses that come with their own recycled tree. Perched atop massive, 200-year-old stumps, their playhouses push the outer limits of the word “house,” and can run up to $30,000.

Caster liked their pirate ship treehouse, and worked with Daniels Wood Land to customize it.

“It was great seeing what they came up with,” he says. “My only limitations were how much I wanted to spend.”

His 27-foot “Deluxe Scallywag Sloop” play-house arrived on a semi-truck. It features an entrance through the tree, and has a back deck and a twisty slide. But the magic lies in the details, from the skeleton figurehead and nest-ing seagulls to the cannon and pirate flag.

“It was way beyond my expectations,” says Caster.

A few years and five grandchildren later, Caster realized something was missing. He ordered a second, custom treehouse from Daniels Wood Land — the “Swiss Family Robinson” house he’d always wanted. Now the two treehouses sit side-by-side, connected by a rope bridge.

“It brings back so many childhood memories for me,” Caster says. “That’s what this is all about — making kids feel welcome and creat-ing memories.”

BY CEDAR BURNETT

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

COURTESY PHOTO | JONATHAN GIFFIN VIA AP

In this undated photo provided by Wooden Wonders, Rocy and Melissa Pillsbury and their children sit atop a custom Hobbit House in Santa Fe, Tennessee.

COURTESY PHOTO | CHRIS AXLING VIA AP

In this undated photo provided by Magical Playhouses, children play in and around the compa-ny’s 12-foot-tall, dragon-themed playhouse in Port Townsend, Washington.

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