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Sheriff requests funds for vests, Tasers, patrol vehicles
SHERIDAN — The Sheridan County Commission will continue its budget meetings this week and met with mul-tiple department heads Monday.
Sheriff Dave Hofmeier and Lt. Allen
Thompson spoke to the commission-ers about the budget for the Sheridan County Sheriff’s Office.
Hofmeier requested funding to replace four vests, which expire every five years and cost about $800 each to replace.
Sheridan County Administrative Director Renee’ Obermueller said the total request in the clothing and uni-form category is $4,000 for the fiscal year 2018 budget; a $1,000 increase
from FY2017 budget.Obermueller said in the past, the
entire cost of the vests was covered by U.S. Department of Homeland Security grants, but now are not.
“They’re not allowing us to really buy any law enforcement supplies if they are for routine law enforcement,” Obermueller said. “… It has to be a terrorism, nexus related.”
BY CHELSEA COLI
Budget cuts mean districts must make tough decisions
SHERIDAN — John Chestnut has left Wyoming many times, but he’s always found his way home.
After graduating from Greybull High School, he went to college in Idaho — only to return to the Equality State to earn his wildlife and fisheries biology and manage-ment degree at the University of Wyoming.
With few wildlife and fisheries jobs available, Chestnut went to Texas to pursue a job in his field. Yet, just as he did several years prior, Chestnut made his way back home where he is working toward a teaching degree at UW.
But with recent cuts to the state’s budget, Chesnut is worried he may have to leave the state once again.
The Wyoming Legislature’s decision to reduce education
spending by $34 million will have an impact on the number of teaching positions filled at local schools. Sheridan County school district officials said they plan to hire fewer teachers this spring.
More than $400,000 will be cut from Sheridan County School District 1’s budget, and Sheridan County School District 2 will have an approximately $1.44 million reduction to its budget for the 2017-18 fiscal year.
In a typical year, SCSD1 hires eight to 10 new teachers. That number is expected to be reduced nearly by half this year.
SCSD1 Superintendent Marty Kobza said as of last week, only four teaching positions were advertised for the district. Three open teaching positions, via retirement, will be eliminated through attrition.
BY MIKE DUNN
US Supreme
Court justice
family has
deep ties inWyoming
CASPER (AP) — New U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch comes from a family with deep ties to Wyoming and plenty of political support from within the conservative state.
After a contentious vetting process in the U.S. Senate, Gorsuch was sworn in Monday to replace Antonin Scalia, who died last year.
Gorsuch’s mother was born in Casper and led the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency under Ronald Reagan. His family was prominent in the Saratoga area back when Wyoming was a territory.
Gorsuch’s moth-er, Anne Gorsuch
Burford, was born in Casper. She held bachelor’s and law degrees from the University of Colorado-Boulder. She died in 2004 at age 62.
She served in the Colorado Legislature before President Ronald Reagan nominated her to lead the EPA.
Her less than two years as EPA chief included rolling back regulation and steep cuts to the agency.
She resigned under pressure after the EPA settled a law-suit filed by the U.S. House of Representatives over a sub-poena for documents.
“The period of Gorsuch’s reign was really relatively brief — it was less than two years — but she did an awful lot to change the agency,” Joel Mintz, a law professor at Nova Southeastern University and author of “Enforcement at the EPA,” told the Casper Star-Tribune.
Gorsuch’s great-great-grand-father, Frederick Wolf, was a German immigrant who worked for the Union Pacific Railroad. Wolf built the Hotel Wolf in Saratoga.
The Hotel Wolf is still open and is a landmark in Saratoga.
Gorsuch
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Students work on an assignment last week at Tongue River Elementary School. School districts in Sheridan County are planning on hiring fewer teachers this year compared to previous years due to statewide reductions in education funding..
Teacher hiring in jeopardy
Project timelines addressed in council work session
SHERIDAN — Monday’s Sheridan City Council work session featured several upcom-ing projects, accompanied by estimated time frames for each.
Fluoride surveys
City public works director Nic Bateson
presented the idea, derived from councilmen Kelly Gooch, Jesus Rios and Mayor Roger Miller, to send a survey by mail or online to 8 percent of the customer base for the city and Sheridan Area Water Supply water consum-ers to determine how they feel about fluoride in the water system.
Funding for the survey will come out of the Water Enterprise Professional Services bud-get as a line item.
Passport processing
Four city employees have been certified to receive applications for new and renewed passports. The barrier of a conflict of interest remains the one disadvantage for the trained employees. Employees must not process appli-cations for those they know beyond a reason-able comfort level.
BY ASHLEIGH FOX
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SEE DECISIONS, PAGE 3
SEE BUDGET, PAGE 3
Sheridan County Sheriff’s Office officials discussed budgets Monday.
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Wolf’s granddaughter, Freda Henrietta Munz, married into the Gorsuch family in Colorado.
Neil Gorsuch was born in Denver and holds a law degree from Harvard
University. He was a judge on Denver’s 10th U.S. Circuit of Appeals for a decade.
Wyoming’s all-Republican congressional delegation supported Gorsuch’s rise to the nation’s highest court. Sen. John Barrasso praised his “integrity, intelligence and independence.”
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Bateson said the city can expect to receive anywhere between 800-900 passport applications. With a required $25 fee from the federal government, if that amount comes in, the city will exceed payback beyond the $3,000 cost to implement the program.
Liquor ordinance revisions
Sheridan Police Department Chief Rich Adriaens presented statewide changes to liquor ordinances alongside SPD’s ordi-nance suggestions for Sheridan. Adriaens wanted to keep the 6 a.m. - 2 a.m. serving and selling ordinance in place for facilities providing alcohol to consumers, rather than the 24-hour ordinance put in place by the state of Wyoming. He also said he wants to have an ordinance in place by July 1, when the state changes will also be made.
In addition, Adriaens suggested a change of name for Tipsy Taxi to Safe Ride, and discussed the financial feasibility of the program moving forward.
Electronic signage
Planning and economic development director Robert Briggs suggested the mayor and council review laws regarding electronic signage within Sheridan’s city limits. Recent interest from local business-es prompted Briggs to offer a reevaluation of the laws currently in place. Briggs said with electronic signs, the primary areas to consider will be downtown and its preser-vation, interstate commerce and residen-tial interruptions.
The public is invited to provide feedback to the city at three scheduled meetings, with the first taking place on April 13 at the Downtown Sheridan Association. A
drafted ordinance is expected by May 15 for city council review.
Hydroturbine construction
Utilities director Dan Roberts said only one company entered a bid for construc-tion around the hydropower turbine machinery at the Beckton Road hydropow-er facility. The recommendation to award the contract to Fletcher Construction of Sheridan for $365,000 will be on the coun-cil’s next meeting agenda. The bid comes in over the engineer’s estimate of $324,155, but Roberts said the project overall looks to be under budget. Construction is project-ed to begin June 5, with an expected Sept. 15, 2017, completion date.
Pipe bursting project
The city’s pipe bursting project will be completed by LJS Construction of Sheridan along the Leopard Street water main starting at the airport and work-ing its way down. LJS Construction bid $129,152.25 for the project and plans to begin August 2017, with final completion estimated in October 2017.
The project is fully funded with a DWSRF loan and WWDC funds. DWSRF offered 50 percent principal forgiveness with a 2.5 percent interest rate over 20 years.
ISO Rating
Sheridan Fire-Rescue Chief Terry Lenhart presented to council about the department’s most recent ISO rating. Sheridan sits at a Class 3 Public Protection Classification.
The classification includes checks with emergency communications or dispatch, the fire department, water supply and community risk reduction. On a 100-point scale, SFR received 74.57 points.
JUSTIN SHEELY | THE SHERIDAN PRESS
Racing uphillEight-year-old Hannah Mowry charges up the hill during the “Lead the Way” 5k Saturday at Soldier Ridge Trail in Sheridan. The race was organized by Sheridan High School’s National Honors Society to support Wyoming Big Brothers Big Sisters.
Mountain lion captured in GilletteGILLETTE (AP) — Wyoming
wildlife managers have captured a young male mountain lion in Gillette and relocated it to the Bighorn Mountains.
Dustin Kirsch of the Wyoming Game and Fish Department said the lion was captured Monday in a subdi-vision.
Kirsch told the Gillette News
Record that the lion was about 1 1/2 years old and weighed about 100 pounds. He said it was first capture of a mountain lion in the Gillette area since the summer of 2015.
US Official: Russia knew Syrian chemical attack was coming
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has con-cluded that Russia knew ahead of time that Syria would launch a chemical weapons attack last week, a senior U.S. official says.
The official offered cir-cumstantial elements to back up his claim, but no concrete proof. And others in the Trump administra-tion cautioned that final American determination had been made that Russia had advance knowledge of the attack, which killed more than 80 people and prompted retaliatory U.S. cruise missile strikes.
The senior official said Monday that a drone operated by Russians was flying over a hospital as victims of the attack were rushing to get treatment. Hours after the drone left, a Russian-made fighter jet bombed the hospital in what American officials believe was an attempt to cover up the usage of chem-ical weapons.
The presence of the sur-veillance drone over the hospital couldn’t have been a coincidence, the senior U.S. official said, arguing that Russia must have known the chemical weap-ons attack was coming and that victims were seeking treatment
The official, who wasn’t authorized to speak public-ly on intelligence matters and demanded anonymity, didn’t give precise timing for when the drone was in the area. The official also didn’t provide details for the military and intel-ligence information that form the basis of what the Pentagon now believes.
A senior White House official later said there is “no U.S. intelligence com-munity consensus” yet on when Russia might have known of the attack. That official refused to be quot-ed by name, even though President Donald Trump has criticized media for cit-ing anonymous sources.
The allegation of Russian foreknowledge is grave, even by the standards of the currently dismal U.S.-Russian relations. And it is being made as Secretary of State Rex Tillerson trav-els to Moscow for talks on Syria and other matters.
Although Russia has steadfastly supported Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government, and they’ve coordinated mil-itary attacks together, Washington has never pre-viously accused Moscow of complicity in any attack that involved the gassing of innocent civilians, includ-ing children. The former Cold War foes even worked together in 2013 to remove and destroy more than 1,300 tons of Syrian chemical weapons and agents.
Until Monday, U.S. offi-cials had said they weren’t sure whether Russia or Syria operated the drone. The official said the U.S. is now convinced Russia con-trolled the drone.
The official said it still isn’t clear who was fly-ing the jet that bombed the hospital, because the Syrians also fly Russian-made aircraft.
U.S. officials previously have said Russians rou-tinely work with Syrians at the Shayrat air base where the attack is sup-posed to have originated.
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While an exact number was not specified, SCSD2 will likely run with a thin-ner teaching staff next year, as well.
“We’ve been really delib-erate in our staff planning to make sure we are looking at the budgetary side of things carefully,” Assistant Superintendent Mitch Craft said.
Much like SCSD1, SCSD2 officials plan to reduce teaching positions through attrition. Every retirement this year will be examined by staff and the school board to determine whether it’s necessary for the posi-tion to be replaced, Craft said.
However, Craft said, the district aims to exam-ine staffing positions in non-classroom areas, or staff who don’t work direct-ly with students, first. This way, the district can still cut costs while having a reduced impact on students.
As of April 10, the only job opening posted on SCSD1’s website is an English teach-ing job at Tongue River High School. Other posi-tions advertised this spring included science teachers and an elementary teacher.
SCSD2 has openings in English, elementary phys-ical education/health, art, business/computer science and general elementary.
SCSD2, which has a large pool of applicants to pick from annually, will have to filter through a wider range of applicants this year. Craft said district employers give preference to applicants who have a strong teaching background, positive refer-ences and classroom perfor-mance.
That’s concerning for those who wish to enter the teaching workforce.
Chestnut, who already had difficultly finding a job in Wyoming with his previous degree, remains nervous that he will run into the same situation as a teacher.
“It’s really upsetting because when I look at job openings, there are quite a few across the county,” Chestnut said. “But I don’t want to go across the coun-try. If I can, I want to stay in Wyoming.
“It makes me nervous that I am going to have to move off somewhere for a few
years, or permanently, to have a career,” he added.
Chestnut’s predicament has people like Kathy Vetter scared for the future of Wyoming education.
The president of the Wyoming Education Association said fewer available jobs will have a ripple effect that will hurt the state’s economy and districts’ ability to provide a quality education for stu-dents.
“There will be impact to your community,” Vetter said. “Teachers are mem-bers of the community, and it will impact the economic development in Wyoming with less people in the state.”
Vetter added that news of layoffs and fewer job openings will spread region-ally and nationally. With a national teacher shortage, that could spell trouble for Wyoming’s ability to recruit and retain top-performing educators.
“People are less likely to apply for a job in states where there is a decrease in the number of teaching posi-
tions than (states) that are actively seeking teachers,” Vetter said.
While there will likely be fewer positions hired, layoffs at local school dis-tricts are unlikely for the 2017-18 school year. Other districts across the state aren’t as lucky. Last week, the Riverton Ranger report-ed Friday that the Riverton school district will likely see a reduction of about 20 jobs, with about five of those being layoffs.
Sara McGinnis, curric-ulum director at SCSD1, said while the district is working hard to figure out how to minimize the impact on students, the reality of budget cuts to a small dis-trict is unavoidable and will have a negative long-term impact on programs and student support systems.
Cuts also lead to larger student-to-teacher ratios. McGinnis said higher ratios may reduce face-to-face time with students who struggle, which has a direct impact on student learning.
“We analyze every vacat-ed position trying to deter-
mine the impact on pro-grams and student support,” McGinnis said. “As a result of the recent budget cuts, we
may not be able to offer the programs we’ve offered in the past, or the same level of support.”
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Obermueller also said they’ve looked into categorizing the vests as a necessity for a SWAT situation, as she said that could be consid-ered a terrorist type activity, but Homeland Security wasn’t open to it because the SCSO doesn’t have an active SWAT team.
She said the Department of Justice does offer another grant program for vests, but it only cov-
ers half the cost.Hofmeier was adamant about the
importance of vests for any officer to do his or her job.
“If we hire somebody, they will not go out onto the street unless they have a vest,” Hofmeier said.
Hofmeier also requested a total of $20,000 in the law enforcement supply category, which is up $17,500 from the FY2017 budget.
The additional funding would go toward replacing Tasers, which cost about $1,000 each. Hofmeier said the
department replaces at least two Tasers every year and there’s 14 that currently need to be replaced that are outdated.
Hofmeier said Tasers are an item the office doesn’t want to get rid of because it allows for a less lethal form of protection.
“I mean you take that out of their hands,” Hofmeier said, “and then… you’re confronted with an incident that you would be able to use your Taser and now you have stepped it up by not having that option.”
Hofmeier also said the depart-ment needs to replace patrol vehi-cles. Obermueller said this is not included in the SCSO budget, but is reflected in the Optional One-Cent Sales Tax budget.
She said the cost has not been determined yet to replace the four patrol vehicles.
Hofmeier said anything that can be taken off the old vehicles, like the radio and cage, will be removed and reused on the new vehicles to save costs.
JUSTIN SHEELY | THE SHERIDAN PRESS
A teacher guides her student on a math exercise last week at Tongue River Elementary School. School districts in Sheridan County are planning on hiring fewer teachers this year compared to previous years.
RIF policy passes 6-3 on second reading
SHERIDAN — Some Sheridan County School District 2 board members remain unsatisfied with revisions to the reduction in force policy.
The policy, which has been the center of debate for board members since January, includes revising the criteria in the event of a RIF.
With the revisions, the top considerations the superintendent must take into account before making a decision include student learning needs, teacher job performance, ability and competence and written
evaluations. Other factors, such as
years of service, will be con-sidered as well.
However, several board members argue that a teach-er’s years of service need to be made a higher priority.
“I think it needs more objective listings for deter-mining (RIF), such as time of service,” said Molly Steel, SCSD2 board member.
Board members Wayne Schatz and Sue Wilson agreed with Steel’s state-ment and voted against the policy. However, the second reading of the policy still passed six votes to three.
The board plans to exam-ine the policy for the third and final reading at the May
board meeting. In other news: • Three Sheridan High
School students, Zach Gale, Behley Malkuck and Anna Miech, were awarded Daniels Fund Scholarships. The scholarship provides a four-year, full-ride college scholarship for graduating high school seniors in the western United States.
• The board approved an all-day kindergarten pilot for students at Woodland Park Elementary School. Students currently attend school from 7:55 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. The pilot would shift the finish time to 2:55 p.m., which aligns with the dis-missal time for grades one through five.
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Kopczynski recalls JCPenney memories
Include Ray Kopczynski among the customers, employees and others who are upset about our downtown JCPenney store closing after gener-ations of customers have shopped there. The
decision to shutter 138 stores nationwide came last month. Sheridan was among four stores in Wyoming and the only one to close.
Some history. Sheridan’s Golden Rule opened in 1907 by Guy Johnson and Henry C. Stevens. The store was bought out in 1927 and became one of the new 131 JCPenney stores in 1928. The
Sheridan JCPenney celebrated its centennial in 2008. James Cash Penney opened the first of his stores in 1902 in Kemmerer. It will remain open.
Kopczynski was the store’s manager in Sheridan from 1988 until 1995. He was with the Penney Company, his term, for 23 years. Kopczynski, 68, now resides in Albany, Oregon, a city of more than 50,000, where he is a member of the city council.
“We loved Sheridan,” Kopczynski said by phone the
other day. “We became involved in the communi-ty, which made our experiences there richer.”
Fire seemed to be one constant the summer of 1988 when the Kopczynskis moved here. It was the year of the Yellowstone Park fires. There were fires in downtown Billings. Then the fire of Sam Mavrakis’ sporting goods store on Main Street. Kopczynski offered Mavrakis store racks and fix-tures from Penney’s to re-open quickly thereafter, he says.
He and his wife, Pat, a paralegal who was asso-ciated with Lonabaugh and Riggs, were active in WYO Theater productions. He also served as the Sheridan County Chamber of Commerce pres-ident. While leading the Chamber, Kopczynski
was active in getting a couple of top speakers into Sheridan for the annual banquets, including Dick Cheney. (He also remembers a young Garth Brooks singing at the WYO one night.)
Kopczynski was a devoted collec-tor of JCPenney store memorabilia, including the sign that’s now atop the Main Street entrance. When the former
neon sign came down when he arrived, he sold the current sign from his collection to the company. He left JCPenney and Sheridan in 1995, weary of what he called the “politics” of retailing. Some merchandise bought at markets, and destined for Sheridan retail, had little chance of attracting cus-tomers. “I loved the people, the history of the area, the four distinct seasons.”
He and his wife relocated to Albany where he got into the computer business and later began working at a career development nonprofit where he helped people draft resumes and prepare for the workforce. He retired in 2014. He was elected to the Albany City Council and has been reelected. It’s a six-member council with a mayor and city manager and he enjoys the give-and-take of local politics and how government functions for the greater good.
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COURTESY PHOTO |Ray Kopczynski , left, and a JCPenney employee at a ‘Crazy Days’ retail promotion.
Democrats hoisted on their own petards
Re: Gorsuch confirmation
The confirmation pro-cess of new Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch involved considerable wail-ing and gnashing of teeth by Senate Democrats. On a mostly party-line vote, the Senate voted to extend the judicial non-filibuster rules put in place by then-Dem-ocrat Senate Leader Harry Reid in 2013 to include Supreme Court nominees.
The sycophant national “news” media are writ-ing that Republicans have “invoked the nuclear option” and “torn up the rules of the Senate.” A recent New York Times editorial described last week’s move as a “parti-san tool.” But in 2013 when Sen. Reid changed the rules on judicial nominees to pre-vent the Republican minority in the Senate from blocking votes, the Times editori-al title read “Democracy Returns to the Senate.”
One of the arguments Senate Democrats used to oppose Gorsuch was that Republicans had refused to consider Obama’s nom-ination of Judge Merrick Garland during last year’s election season. But in 1992, their current protestations notwithstanding, these same Democrats invoked a long-standing Senate tra-dition of not considering Supreme Court vacancies in an election year — a tra-dition defended at the time by Reid, then-Senator Joe Biden, and current Senate Democratic party leader, Sen. Chuck Schumer.
The intent of Reid’s “nucle-ar option” in 2013 was to insulate President Obama’s federal circuit appellate judg-es from a possible 60-vote filibuster. They simply used their erstwhile majority to exclude from filibusters judicial nominees below the Supreme Court level, as well as all presidential cabinet appointments.
This year, Sen. Schumer announced that Democrats would attempt to filibuster Justice Gorsuch. Prior to the administration of President George W. Bush, there had been no partisan filibusters of judicial nominations at any level. The Democrats changed that in 2003-4 with their blocking of 10 Bush nominees to district and appellate courts.
So, Democrats single-hand-edly and unilaterally trashed Senate customs and tradi-tions by introducing the concept of partisan judicial filibusters against majori-ty-supported nominees. Then they reversed course in 2013. They started this partisan practice when they were in the minority, then blew it up when they were in the major-ity.
It turns out that all the Republicans did last week was to restore Constitutional order to this process. As The Washington Post noted, “Democrats have no one to blame but themselves for the bind they are in. At every step along the way, they are the ones who broke long-standing precedent on judicial nominations.”
That’s called being hoisted on one’s own petard and the Democrats richly deserve it!
Charles ColeSheridan
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What does the Democrat party stand for?
Professor Allison Stanger of Middlebury College has written another excellent column — this one, in The New York Times — in which
she worries aloud about the increasing unwillingness of self-identified progres-sives to adhere to values — like protecting free inquiry at universities — that she treasures as linchpins of liberal thought. I can’t help but wonder whether Professor Stanger may soon find herself in the company of individuals like former NPR reporter Juan Williams or red diaper baby David Horowitz; people who feel more wel-come among conservatives than progres-sives. (Ronald Reagan was also a former Democrat. He famously said, “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party; the party left me.”)
GOP shortcomings aside, what does the Democratic Party have to recommend it these days? A string of items ripped from recent headlines reinforces the question:
Judge Neil Gorsuch is highly qualified, widely regarded as tem-perate in disposition and respected. Every Democrat in the Senate in 2006 — including Chuck Schumer, Harry Reid, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama — voted in favor of his confirmation to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. Their objec-tions now are purely political and fraudulent.
It is Senate Democrats’ fault that we’re looking at a filibuster/”nuclear option” showdown. As Guy Benson concisely explained on Townhall this week, the Democrats’ “toxic partisanship” started this with the inflammatory and false accusations made by former senator Ted Kennedy against Robert Bork in 1987. It contin-ued with mistreatment of Bush nominee Miguel Estrada in 2001, and the “Biden/Schumer” rule of not confirming the nominations of a sitting president in an election year. Chickens, meet roost.
Democrats scream about Donald Trump’s vulgarity, but they have no respect for real gentlemen, as shown by their treatment of Mitt Romney in 2012, and Vice President Mike Pence, who they try to smear as a freak (or worse! sexist!) because he doesn’t have dinner or drinks alone with women other than his wife. Every kind of sexual depravity is A-OK for the left, but fidelity and decency are unpardonable sins.
One of progressives’ cutesy slogans is “Bash the fash” — i.e., it’s OK to beat up so-called fascists. So they scream down speech, destroy property and physically assault people. And then wail that they need “safe spaces.”
Trump is giving away his presidential salary. A few days ago, it was announced that his first quarter check was being given to the National Park Service. Opponents called it a “publicity stunt.” Did Obama ever give away his presiden-tial paycheck? Did the Clintons ever turn down a paycheck?
Where do the Democrats stand on honesty or law enforcement? Former U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice lied about Benghazi and Bowe Bergdahl. Now she’s on the hot seat regarding the Obama administration’s surveillance of Donald Trump. Hillary Clinton lied about Benghazi, and about using a personal email server to transmit confidential information. Obama lied repeatedly about his signature health care law. Both of his attorneys general were caught up in scandals and professional improprieties. There never seem to be any consequenc-es.
The left seems incapable of defending any issue without resort to accusations of “hate,” “bigotry,” baseless insults or vulgarity.
The so-called “party of science” denies biological and genetic facts whenever they’re inconvenient. Among them: an unborn child is a biologically, genetically distinct human being. (An ovum is not. Sorry, sperm are not. Your arm or leg is not.)
The most sacrosanct, untouchable insti-tution for the left is Planned Parenthood, an organization whose primary business model is killing unborn babies. Better not mention that Planned Parenthood does not perform mammograms. Nor do the vast majority of them provide any prena-tal care. At all.
Speaking of Planned Parenthood, California encourages the filming of undercover videos to expose cruelty to animals, but will prosecute anyone who secretly films Planned Parenthood admit-ting that it harvests and sells the body parts of aborted babies. Nice.
Democrats are still hiding behind that tired nostrum that they are “for the little guy.” But nine of the top 15 wealth-iest people in Congress are Democrats. The Clintons are multimillionaires, as are the Obamas. Even populist/social-ist Bernie Sanders owns three homes, including posh digs on Lake Champlain in Vermont. Hollywood Democrats and Silicon Valley techie lefties are among the country’s super-rich. Candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton got big chunks of their campaign cash from the wealthiest ZIP codes in the United States, which — surprise! — overwhelm-ingly lean “D”. The “little guys” are fac-tory workers, cops, farmers and the mili-tary. These folks apparently make certain lefties want to vomit.
Eventually, everything that starts as “choice” becomes a matter for govern-ment coercion for the left. A columnist in Australia recently argued that being a stay-at-home mom should be illegal; once kids reach school age, all parents should be forced to work outside the home. “[F]eminism,” she writes, “is not about choice, it’s about equality.” Yeah, thanks for clearing that up.
Is this your father’s Democratic Party? Is it any wonder they’re losing elections?
LAURA HOLLIS teaches entrepreneurship and business law. She resides in Indiana with her husband and two children.
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PEOPLE Annie, Amy Smith to perform at the WYO
SHERIDAN — Annie and Amy Smith will perform at the WYO Theater Thursday at 7:30 p.m.
The Smiths are fifth gen-eration Wyoming natives and professional songwrit-ers. They have toured as Nashville Recording artists for Warner Bros. Records,
performed on USO Tours and presidents.
The cost to attend is $15 for adults, $11 for seniors and military members, and $7 for students.
Tickets can be purchased at the WYO Theater box office, online at wyotheater.com or by phone at 672-9084.
The theater is located at 42 N. Main St.
FROM STAFF REPORTS
Clearmont ag teacher recognized
CLEARMONT — Lynne Latham, the Clear Creek FFA advisor, was recent-ly recognized at the state FFA Convention as 2017 Champion Ag Teacher.
The award was announced during the second day of the event, April 6.
The Wyoming FFA Association is part of the National FFA
Organization. This youth organization has more than half a million stu-dent members nation-wide, and more than 2,800 in 54 chapters in Wyoming. The FFA mis-sion is to make a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their potential for pre-mier leadership, personal growth and career suc-cess through agricultural education.
FROM STAFF REPORTS
Online subscriptions only $79 per year and
free to print subscribers.
AARP meeting to
focus on age-friendly communities
SHERIDAN — On Friday, the AARP Chapter of Sheridan will host a session on creating livable and age-friendly communities.
David Hough, a member of the AARP-Wyoming Executive Council, will lead a discussion on the charac-teristics of a livable commu-nity and how a city or town can improve its appeal for individuals of all ages. With more than 30 years of expe-rience in community and park planning, Hough has studied many aspects of community design and liva-bility. He has been involved in the establishment of tran-sit systems, trails, has pre-pared bicycle and pedestri-an plans, and has designed neighborhood parks. He resides in Casper, where he served the city of Casper in the community development and public services depart-ments for 18 years.
After finishing out his planning career as a private consultant, Hough retired and became involved in AARP.
He found the AARP ini-tiatives on livable and age-friendly communities of particular interest and has built an understand-ing of these programs and how they would apply to Wyoming communities. He has assisted the city of Casper with the imple-mentation of the recently completed Senior Services Study (an update of the 2008 Baby Boomer Study) and helped secure a commit-ment by the Casper City Council to be the first AARP designated Age Friendly Community in Wyoming.
Hough is now working with other Wyoming com-munities like Sheridan and Jackson on steps they can take to make their communities more livable not just for seniors but for residents and visitors of all ages.
Friday’s event will include a potluck dinner beginning at 5:30 p.m. A short busi-ness meeting will follow and Hough’s presentation will begin at 6 p.m.
The event will take place in the dining room at Heritage Towers, 428 N. Jefferson St. For more information, contact Wayne Schatz at 751-5047.
FROM STAFF REPORTS
City to host meetings on electronic signsSHERIDAN — The city
of Sheridan will host a series of public meetings to explore options regard-ing electronic sign regula-tion in the city.
The open houses will allow business owners and residents to learn
more about the signage and provide feedback on possible options for new city regulations.
Meetings will take place:
• Thursday from 5-6 p.m. at the Downtown Sheridan Association, 121 S. Main St.
• April 18 from 5-6 p.m.
at the Sheridan County Chamber of Commerce, 171 N. Main St.
• April 20 from 5-6 p.m. at the Sheridan County Chamber of Commerce, 171 N. Main St.
For more information, contact Robert Briggs at the city of Sheridan, 675-4226.
FROM STAFF REPORTS
Jets zip through narrow Star Wars Canyon, drawing visitors
DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — Silence and stillness set-tled over the deep, sunbaked gorge as a pair of photographers sat on a cliff, waiting.
Then the rumbling started. As it grew louder, they scrambled into position.
Within seconds, a thunderous roar reverberated from the steep, narrow canyon as an F-18 fighter jet streaked through it, passing beneath their feet. It came so close they could see the pilots’ expressions.
This deafening show that was over in a flash is a fairly common sight at Death Valley National Park, 260 miles (415 kilometers) east of Los Angeles, where U.S. and foreign militaries train pilots and test jets in the gorge nicknamed Star Wars Canyon.
Photographers — some capturing images for work, others for fun — along with aviation enthusiasts and others have been traipsing to the remote 4,688-square-mile (12,142-square-kilome-ter) park in growing numbers to see the jets soaring below the rim of what’s offi-cially called Rainbow Canyon, near the park’s western entrance.
It earned its nickname because its min-eral-rich soil and rocky walls in shades of red, gray and pink draw to mind a landscape in a galaxy far, far away — Tatooine, the home planet of “Star
Wars” character Luke Skywalker.The unusually close-up view of mili-
tary planes zooming through the crag-gy gorge has become so popular the National Park Service is considering making it an attraction, with informa-tional signs about the training that dates back to World War II.
Park Service officials recently dis-cussed erecting signs and possibly paving a spot for cars because so many people are driving to the canyon to see the training, park spokeswoman Abby Wines said.
Wines understands the rush people get from seeing the jets up close. Once she was doing technical canyoneering, hanging from a rope on a 180-foot verti-cal, when a jet roared over her head but below the canyon rim.
“It’s the loudest thing I have ever heard in my life,” she said. “It was a scary experience since I was holding onto the rope and not anything else.” She also felt a sense of awe.
But on days when one jet passes after another, the noise gets to her.
Elsewhere in the park, the jets also have made it tough when performing the living history show at Scotty’s Castle, a Spanish mission-style villa reflecting early California architecture. The villa recently closed until further notice because of flood damage.
‘Guerrilla’ drama creator defends characters’ ethnicityLOS ANGELES (AP) — John Ridley said he expected
his “politically sharp” TV miniseries “Guerrilla,” about England’s 1970s black power movement, to be provocative.
But criticism that the drama excludes the role played by black female activists took him by surprise at a screening in London, he said Monday.
He pointed to his track record of writing for black actresses in projects including TV’s “American Crime” (Regina King) and “12 Years a Slave” (Lupita Nyong’o, Quvenzhane Wallis), among others.
Given that, he said, it was odd to hear that people “feel as
though I’m not putting enough women of color in spaces.”“I would say very sincerely to anybody, if they find fault
with what I’m doing or how I’m doing it, you don’t need to wait for me to tell your stories,” Ridley said. “You don’t need anybody’s permission to go out and tell the story you want to tell.”
At last week’s screening, Ridley was questioned by some audience members about the project’s approach. “Guerrilla,” debuting April 16 on Showtime, stars Indian actress Freida Pinto and black British actor Babou Ceesay as an activist couple.
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Kids and scienceSeven-year-old Luke Rankin looks at insects captured during Science Saturday at the Sheridan College Science Center. The group ventured to a nearby natural area to collect insects and take a closer look under microscopes.
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LOCAL BRIEFS |FROM STAFF REPORTS
March Against Sexual Assault set for Friday
SHERIDAN — Join the Sheridan Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the Advocacy and Resource Center in a march against sexual assault Friday.
The event will begin at 9 a.m. at the Sheridan VAMC auditorium. It will include music and refreshments.
For additional information, call 672-7471.The Sheridan VAMC is located at 1898 Fort Road.
Banff Mountain Film Festival tickets still on sale
SHERIDAN — Tickets for the annual Banff Mountain Film Festival world tour are on sale now through the WYO Theater.
The event, which benefits the Wyoming Wilderness Association, will take place at 6:30 p.m. April 25 at the theater.
Tickets cost $19 apiece for adults, seniors and military members. The cost is $10 for students.
Tickets may be purchased through the WYO Theater box office, online at wyotheater.com or by calling 672-9084.
The film festival takes place each fall in Banff, Alberta, Canada, and then goes on a world tour in the following months. The film festival will bring audience favorites and special tour edits to Sheridan.
For additional information, see the WWA web-site, wildwyo.org.
The WYO Theater is located at 42 N. Main St.
Tickets for FAB Women’s Conference available
SHERIDAN — The fifth annual FAB (For. About. By.) Women’s Conference will take place April 28 at the Sheridan College Edward A. Whitney Academic Center.
Tickets for the event are now on sale.The conference, which will begin with registra-
tion at noon, will include a keynote presentation from Shelli Johnson.
Johnson is an entrepreneur, life and leadership coach, consultant and Epic adventure guide who has coached more than 130 individual leaders from throughout the U.S. in the last five years.
She lives in Lander with her husband and their three sons. Johnson was recently featured in Prevention magazine.
Other sessions for the conference will focus on how to have difficult conversations in the workplace, navigating career transitions, suicide prevention training, how to create your own herb garden, maintaining passion in your relationships and how to create travel plans for memorable adventures.
Tickets for the event are $40 for the conference, which includes lunch and snacks, $30 for the FAB Woman of the Year banquet and $65 for both. Tickets can be purchased at The Sheridan Press, 144 Grinnell St., or online at thesheridanpress.com/fab.
During the cocktail hour prior to the banquet, nonprofits and businesses are welcome to set up tables to interact with FAB attendees. Nonprofits can participate at no charge, and businesses can participate for a fee of $25 per table. No items may be sold at the event. For additional information, contact Kristen Czaban at The Sheridan Press, 672-2431 or [email protected].
WEDNESDAY EVENTS |
• 11:30 a.m., Casual Conversations in History, Sheridan Senior Center, 211 Smith St.• 11:30 a.m., Sheridan County Chamber of Commerce luncheon, Best Western Sheridan Center, 612 N.
Main St., $17 per person for lunch
NATIONAL OBITUARY |
Spike Dykes, revered former coach at Texas Tech, dead at 79
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Spike Dykes, the folksy West Texas native who led Texas Tech to its only Cotton Bowl when that game was reserved for the Southwest Conference champion, has died. He was 79.
School spokesman Matt Dowdy said Dykes died Monday in Horseshoe Bay, Texas, near Austin. There was no immediate word on a cause of death.
Dykes gave Texas Tech coaching stability after the Red Raiders had been spurned by David McWilliams, who left Texas as an assistant to become Tech’s head coach in 1986 only to return to Austin a year later when Fred Akers was fired.
Texas Tech promoted Dykes, who had joined the staff in 1984, and he retired as the school’s winnin-gest coach with a record of 82-67-1 over 13 seasons, plus an Independence Bowl loss after McWilliams’ departure.
Mike Leach, who took over when Dykes retired at the end of the 1999 season, broke Dykes’ mark with 84 wins in 10 seasons.
The Red Raiders hadn’t had a head coach stay more than five years since JT King in the 1960s before Dykes and Leach, whose combined tenures covered 23 seasons. Dykes was a three-time SWC coach of the year.
“Anyone who met Spike quickly learned how much he loved West Texas and most importantly, Texas Tech,” athletic director Kirby Hocutt said. “The legacy he left at Texas Tech will be remem-bered forever.”
William Taylor Dykes, the son of a cotton gin-ner, was born across the street from the Texas Tech campus and grew up in tiny Oasis, near the New Mexico state line. He was a high school stand-out in Ballinger, another small West Texas town.
Dykes spent 40 years in coaching, starting in high schools mostly in West Texas before a few college assistant stops that included Texas and Mississippi State. He returned to the high school ranks at West Texas power Midland Lee in the early 1980s before joining Jerry Moore’s staff at Tech.
The Red Raiders finished in a five-way tie for second in the SWC in 1994, when Texas A& M went 10-0-1 but was ineligible for postseason play because of NCAA sanctions.
Texas Tech got the Cotton Bowl bid in the sec-ond-to-last season of the SWC because it had the longest Cotton Bowl drought. The Red Raiders lost to Keyshawn Johnson and Southern California 55-14.
Dykes’ homespun style endeared him to fans, players and reporters. In his words, a loss was “a bad day at Black Rock” and good teams were “a rollin’ ball o’ butcher knives.”
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcom-ing events and the stories that will be talked about today:1. TILLERSON WARNS RUSSIA ON ASSAD ALLIANCEThe U.S. secretary of state tells Moscow to side with Washington and likemind-ed countries on Syria, or embrace Iran, militant group Hezbollah and embat-tled Syrian leader Assad.
2. BRIEF MARRIAGE PRECEDES SAN BERNARDINO SHOOTINGCedric Anderson, 53, walked into his estranged wife’s elementary school class and opened fire, kill-ing her and an 8-year-old student before fatally shoot-ing himself, authorities say.
3. BOMBARDMENT IN MOSUL TAKES HEAVY TOLL ON CIVILIANSIraqi government forces trying to wrest back the western half of the city from Islamic State group fighters are relying on heavier firepower.
4. ANOTHER SNIPPET OF VIDEO SHOWS TROUBLING SCENEThe Chicago passenger who had been dragged on his back to the front of a United Express plane later appeared dazed as he spoke through bloody lips.
5. DEMOCRATS FACE UPHILL CLIMB WITH ELECTORATEDelivering a unifying mes-sage that resonates with anti-Trump protesters as well as white working-class voters in the Rust Belt and other presidential battle-grounds remains elusive.
6. ‘SLIDING INTO CATASTROPHE’Two months after South Sudan declared a famine, aid workers say the severe hunger has become more widespread than expected.
7. ATTORNEY GENERAL TO TOUR ARIZONA-MEXICO BORDERSessions has made immi-gration enforcement a key priority, saying he will speed up deportations of immigrants in the country illegally who were convict-ed of federal crimes.
8. TEXAS VOTER ID LAW AGAIN FOUND DISCRIMINATORYThe latest judicial ruling is significant because it raises the possibility of the state being stripped of the right to unilaterally change its election laws without feder-al approval.
9. PROSTATE CANCER TESTS NOW OK WITH FEDERAL PANELWith their doctor’s help, men have to decide wheth-er to take an imperfect PSA test that has a small chance of detecting a deadly can-cer.
10. US, CANADA, MEXICO FAST-TRACKING WORLD CUP BID PROCESSThe North American bid to host the 2026 World Cup has asked FIFA for a decision in June 2018, two years ahead of schedule, AP learns.
FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Today’s Highlights in History:
On this date:In 1689, William III and
Mary II were crowned as joint sovereigns of Britain.
In 1713, the Treaty of Utrecht was signed, end-ing the War of the Spanish Succession.
In 1865, President Abraham Lincoln spoke to a crowd outside the White House, saying, “We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.” (It was the last public address Lincoln would deliver.)
In 1921, Iowa became the first state to impose a ciga-rette tax, at 2 cents a package.
In 1945, during World War II, American soldiers liberated the Nazi concen-tration camp Buchenwald in Germany.
In 1951, President Harry S. Truman relieved Gen. Douglas MacArthur of his commands in the Far East.
In 1965, dozens of torna-does raked six Midwestern states on Palm Sunday, kill-ing 271 people.
In 1970, Apollo 13, with astronauts James A. Lovell, Fred W. Haise and Jack Swigert, blasted off on its ill-fated mission to the moon.
In 1979, Idi Amin was deposed as president of Uganda as rebels and exiles backed by Tanzanian (tan-zuh-NEE’-uhn) forces seized control.
In 1980, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued regula-tions specifically prohibiting sexual harassment of workers by supervisors.
In 1981, President Ronald Reagan returned to the White House from the hospital, 12 days after he was wounded in an assassination attempt. Race-related rioting erupt-ed in the Brixton district of south London.
In 1996, 7-year-old Jessica Dubroff, who’d hoped to become the youngest person to fly cross-country, was killed along with her father and flight instructor when her plane crashed after take-off from Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Ten years ago: North Carolina’s top prosecutor dropped all charges against three former Duke University lacrosse players accused of sexually assaulting a stripper at a party, saying the ath-letes were innocent victims of a “tragic rush to accuse.” MSNBC announced it was dropping its simulcast of the “Imus in the Morning” radio program, responding to grow-ing outrage over host Don Imus’ on-air reference to the Rutgers women’s basketball team as “nappy-headed hos.” (CBS Radio followed suit the next day.) Death claimed author Kurt Vonnegut in New York at age 84 and actor Roscoe Lee Browne in Los Angeles at age 84.
Five years ago: George Zimmerman, the Florida neighborhood watch vol-unteer who fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, was arrested and charged with second-degree mur-der. (He was acquitted at trial.) A California prison panel denied parole to mass murderer Charles Manson in his 12th bid for freedom. A University of California task force said that UC Davis police should not have used pepper-spray on student dem-onstrators in an incident that prompted national outrage. Algeria’s first president, Ahmed Ben Bella, 95, died in Algiers.
One year ago: Secretary of State John Kerry visited the memorial to Hiroshima’s atomic bombing, delivering a message of peace and hope for a nuclear-free world.
Thought for Today: “We think in generalities, but we live in detail.”
— Alfred North Whitehead, British philoso-pher (1861-1947).
FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
JUSTIN SHEELY | THE SHERIDAN PRESS
Student art installations High school students work in the student gallery for a 3-D drawing project during the High School Art Intensive Thursday at the Sheridan College Whitney Center for the Arts. High school students from the area were invited to experience various art forms and make installments at the college.
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SERVICE NOTICE |John F. Narrow
John Narrow, a 76-year-old Buffalo man, died April 4 at Sheridan Manor. Graveside funeral services will be held Thursday, April 13, at 10 a.m. in Willow Grove Cemetery with Pastor William Dunlap officiating and VFW and American Legion in charge of military grave-side rites. Visitation will be held at Harness Funeral Home Chapel on Wednesday from 1-9 p.m. Donations in Narrow’s memory may be made to Buffalo Senior Center or Meals on Wheels in care of Harness Funeral Home, 351 N. Adams, Buffalo. Online condolences may be made at www.harnessfuneralhome.com
Dorothy A. HarperMay 4, 1921 - April 7, 2017
Dorothy A. Harper, 95, passed away on Friday, April 7, 2017, at her resi-dence.
Dorothy was born on May 4, 1921, to parents William Burke and Anna Virginia (Mull) Lynch in Marshall, MO. She married Earl William Harper on November 25, 1944 in Kansas City, MO.
Dorothy enjoyed playing bridge, attending sporting events especially when her children and grandchildren were participating, the Colorado Rockies, bowling, dancing with her husband, church activities, going to the Senior Center and especially spending time with her family and friends. She was a member of the Akcita Win, several bridge clubs and the First United Methodist Church.
Dorothy was preceded in death by her parents, hus-band, grandchildren Jennifer Alden, Thomas Alden and Cody Warnke. She is survived by her children; Sandra Lee (Larry) Alden of Sheridan, WY, Pamela Kay (Dennis) Doughty of Las Vegas, NV, Vicky Jo (Mike) Hedderman of Las Vegas, NV, Tammy Ann (Mark) Wells of Sheridan, WY, sixteen grandchildren, thirty nine great grandchildren and three great great grand-children.
Services will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, April 12, 2017, at the First United Methodist Church with Pastor Don Derryberry officiating. An Inurnment will be in the Elks Cemetery. A reception will follow at the church.
Memorials to honor Dorothy can be made to the Sheridan Senior Center, 211 Smith Street, Sheridan, WY 82801.
Online condolences may be written at www.kanefu-neral.com.
Kane Funeral Home has been entrusted with arrange-ments.
OBITUARY |
Dorothy A. Harper
REPORTS |
SHERIDAN FIRE-RESCUEMonday• Activated fire alarm, 50
block East Grinnell Plaza, 9:56 a.m.
• Rocky Mountain Ambulance assist, 800 block Illinois Street, 12:55 p.m.
GOOSE VALLEY FIRE DEPARTMENTMonday• No calls reported.
ROCKY MOUNTAIN AMBULANCEMonday• Trauma, Interstate 90,
mile marker 15, 5:42 a.m.• Medical, Sibley Circle,
9:21 a.m.• Medical, West Fifth
Street, 10:26 a.m.• Medical, Champion
Drive, 10:44 a.m.• Medical, Illinois Street,
10:59 a.m.• Trauma, North Jefferson
Street, 12:16 p.m.• Medical, Halbert Street,
Ranchester, 12:24 p.m.• Medical, Illinois Street,
12:54 p.m.• Medical, Kooi Drive, 2:33
p.m.• Trauma, South Sheridan
Avenue, 4:01 p.m.• Trauma, Sugarland
Drive, 4:29 p.m.• Medical, Highway 14
West, 8:41 p.m.• Medical, West Loucks
Street, 11:40 p.m.
SHERIDAN MEMORIAL HOSPITALMonday
• No admissions reported.• Dismissals — Sandra
L. Kuper, Banner; Emry Kuper, Banner
SHERIDAN POLICE DEPARTMENTInformation in the police
reports is taken from the SPD website.
Monday• Damaged property,
Wesco Court, 7:02 a.m.• Stolen vehicle cold,
Broadway Street, 7:32 a.m.• Damaged property, East
Burkitt Street, 7:39 a.m.• Welfare check, West
Montana Street, 8:06 a.m.• Dog at large, Coffeen
Avenue, 8:12 a.m.• Careless driver, Coffeen
Avenue, 8:43 a.m.• Dispute all other, Run
Road, 8:59 a.m.• Medical, Sibley Circle,
9:09 a.m.• Vehicle identifica-
tion number inspection, Gabrielle Court, 10:02 a.m.
• VIN inspection, Gabrielle Court, 10:02 a.m.
• Traffic complaint, East Loucks Street, 10:04 a.m.
• Abandoned vehicle, Kroe Lane, 10:11 a.m.
• Drug activity, Sheridan Area, 11:04 a.m.
• Cat trap, Blue Sky Court, 11:10 a.m.
• Barking dog, North Gould Street, 11:30 a.m.
• Damaged property, North Main Street, 12:28 p.m.
• Public intoxication, Coffeen Avenue, 12:51 p.m.
• Medical, Illinois Street,
12:52 p.m.• Suspicious circum-
stance, Esther Lane, 1:15 p.m.
• Removal of subject, West Alger Avenue, 1:56 p.m.
• Theft cold, Sugarland Drive, 2:00 p.m.
• Custody dispute, South Sheridan Avenue, 2:14 p.m.
• DUS, West Fifth Street, 2:36 p.m.
• Threats cold, Bowman Avenue, 2:42 p.m.
• VIN inspection, West 12th Street, 3:17 p.m.
• Dog at large, Long Drive, 3:19 p.m.
• Assault with deadly weapon, South Sheridan Avenue, 3:47 p.m.
• Traffic complaint, Vista Street, 4:43 p.m.
• Traffic complaint, East Heald Street, 5:02 p.m.
• Traffic complaint, Coffeen Avenue, 5:11 p.m.
• Threats cold, Sixth Avenue East, 5:22 p.m.
• Barking dog, Sumner Street, 6:21 p.m.
• Skateboarding, South Gould Street, 7:38 p.m.
• Damaged property, Third Avenue East, 7:55 p.m.
• Welfare check, Martin Avenue, 8:39 p.m.
• Child neglect, North Main Street, 9:27 p.m.
• Bar check, North Main Street, 11:51 p.m.
• Bar check, North Main Street, 11:51 p.m.
SHERIDAN COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICEMonday
• Records only, West 13th Street, 1:54 p.m.
• Warrant service, North Main Street, 2:25 p.m.
• Assist agency, South Sheridan Avenue, 3:49 p.m.
• Suspicious vehicle, West 15th Street, 4:42 p.m.
• Harassment, West Halbert Street, Ranchester, 7:10 p.m.
ARRESTSNames of individuals
arrested for domestic vio-lence or sexual assault will not be released until the individuals have appeared in court.
Monday• Ricky Ralph Rowland,
44, Sheridan, child support warrant, district court, arrested by SCSO
• Bryan Van Smith, 21, Sheridan, aggravated assault and battery, circuit court, arrested by SPD
• Daniel Joseph Olson, 32, Sheridan, child abandon-ment without just cause, circuit court, arrested by SPD
JAILTodayDaily inmate count: 68Female inmate count: 9Inmates at treatment
facilities (not counted in daily inmate count): 0
Inmates housed at other facilities (not counted in daily inmate count): 3
Number of book-ins for the previous day: 3
Number of releases for the previous day: 8
CORRECTION |In an article published Saturday, The Press incor-
rectly explained the Welch Cancer Center “Partners in Survivorship” and “A Shared Journey” programs.
Partners in Survivorship classes in Sheridan are conducted by Billings Clinic over video-conferencing and in collaboration with Sheridan Memorial Hospital and The Welch Cancer Center. The program is offered twice a year and involves a series of six classes – one per week for six consecutive weeks.
A Shared Journey is an adult cancer support group. The group meets every Monday evening from 5:30-6:30 p.m. at the Sheridan Senior Center. The Press regrets the errors.
‘Lead the
Way’Katelyn Kayser runs in front of a view of the Bighorns during the “Lead the Way” 5k Saturday at Soldier Ridge Trail in Sheridan. The race was organized by Sheridan High School’s National Honors Society to support Wyoming Big Brothers Big Sisters.
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Teen’s quest for Wendy’s
nuggets gets huge Twitter
supportRENO, Nev. (AP) — A teen’s Twitter
stunt to win a year of free chicken nuggets from Wendy’s might become the platform’s most retweeted post of all time.
Carter Wilkinson asked the fast food chain on Twitter last week how many retweets it would take for him to get free nuggets for a year. Wendy’s replied, “18 million.” The 16-year-old from Nevada took up the challenge, writing: “Consider it done.”
Wilkinson’s screenshot of the exchange has since been retweeted nearly 2.5 million times and is getting
closer to the all-time retweet mark of nearly 3.3 million, held by Ellen DeGeneres’ viral tweet from the 2014 Oscars.
Wilkinson tells the Reno Gazette-Journal that all the attention is “a lit-tle distracting,” and he’s now known as “the chicken nugget man” at his high school.
Dog Gone: Pet named
General opens doors, flees
animal clinicSTAFFORD, Va. (AP) — A dog who
escaped from a Virginia animal hos-pital after opening several doors has been found and reunited with his
owner, reports say.Travis Campbell tells news outlets
that his family was boarding their 10-year-old Great Pyrenees named General at the Aquia-Garrisonville Animal Hospital in Stafford while they vacationed in Virginia Beach when the dog left the clinic early Monday.
Surveillance video shows the 124-pound dog unlatching the door to his kennel and opening a second door before wandering down a hallway. Footage then shows General using his mouth to open another door.
The dog was seen in an office area before opening yet another door lead-ing to a parking lot behind the build-ing and walking out.
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5-Day Forecast for SheridanTONIGHT FRIDAY SATURDAYWEDNESDAY THURSDAY
A rain or snow shower in spots
Partly sunny Some sun Partly sunny and cooler
Mostly sunny
Precipitation (in inches)
Temperature
Sheridan County Airport through MondayAlmanac
Monday ........................................................... 0.02"Month to date ................................................. 0.39"Normal month to date .................................... 0.41"Year to date .................................................... 5.52"Normal year to date ....................................... 2.49"
High/low .........................................................52/27Normal high/low ............................................56/28Record high .............................................78 in 1971Record low ...............................................11 in 2013 The Moon Rise Set
The Sun Rise Set
Sun and Moon
Last New First Full
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A8 THE SHERIDAN PRESS www.thesheridanpress.com TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 2017
BUSINESSSheridan WYO Rodeo to launch whisky with Bighorn SpiritsSHERIDAN — The imagery of cowboys
sipping whisky seems as old as the West itself, and the Sheridan WYO Rodeo and Bighorn Spirits hope to continue that tra-dition.
The Sheridan WYO Rodeo announced this week that it is partnering with Bighorn Spirits to introduce WYO Rodeo Whisky, a premium Canadian whisky aged for 12 years in oak barrels.
Frank Maestri, co-founder of Bighorn Spirits, said his grandfather had purchased the whisky before his death, hoping that the whisky market would pick up.
“Now we’re going to put his booze into bottles,” Maestri said, adding the the alco-hol industry is in his family.
The whisky, for example, has been housed in barrels for years in California, where the Maestri family owns and operates Frank-Lin Distillers Products. Another relative founded Casa Maestri Tequila in 2008, pro-ducing tequila from Mexico.
WYO Rodeo board President Nick Siddle said the idea got started when he and Maestri began talking about sponsorships and partnerships for the rodeo.
“We started talking about two months ago and I threw out the idea of a product we could co-brand,” Siddle said. “He jumped on it and said ‘Let’s do something.’”
Made for sipping and cocktails, this ultra premium whisky will be available for special order through the Wyoming Liquor Commission this June. Tastings will be scheduled throughout Sheridan WYO Rodeo week at the Sheridan County Fairgrounds and local liquor stores. Bottles will be on retail shelves in July.
Maestri said his goal is to be in all west-ern states in the next five years.
His wife, Kirsten, said the co-branded product is good for both her family’s com-pany and the rodeo.
“This allows us to work with a name with great quality already behind it,” Maestri said of the Sheridan WYO Rodeo.
Siddle added that the product will keep the Sheridan WYO Rodeo name in front of consumers throughout the year and help build the name.
“The Sheridan WYO Rodeo is all about preserving western culture and expanding our local economy,” Siddle said, adding that more merchandising opportunities may also arise.
Frank Maestri said he hopes to utilize the popular “Get WYO’d” phrase associated with the rodeo for his whisky as well.
Anyone need a WYO and coke?
FROM STAFF REPORTS
‘The Sheridan WYO Rodeo is all about preserving western culture and expanding our local economy.’Nick SiddleSheridan WYO Rodeo board president
A camera flash highlights Newt Brasfield in the bull riding competition during the Sheridan WYO Rodeo on Friday, July 15, 2016, at the Sheridan County Fairgrounds. The Sheridan WYO Rodeo has partnered with Bighorn Spirits to introduce WYO Rodeo Whisky this spring.
MIKE PRUDEN | THE SHERIDAN PRESS
Bomar named new Morrison-Maierle
vice president
SHERIDAN — Morrison-Maierle, a Sheridan firm specializing in engineering, surveying, planning and science, recently announced that Randy Bomar has been named a vice president.
He is currently serving as the Sheridan operations manager and is a senior engineer in the transpor-tation market group. He and his team at Vista West became part of Morrison-Maierle in 2016.
“I am very honored to be named a vice president of Morrison Maierle,” Bomar said after a recent board meeting. “Working with great people across all of our offices is very reward-ing and knowing everyone is working to make the company better every day makes my job extremely sat-isfying. This is an excellent
company and I am proud to be part of it.”
First Federal employee
recognized in Billings
SHERIDAN — DeDe Stoner, vice president of First Federal Bank & Trust, was honored with one of four Billings Chamber Business Excellence awards as the 2017 Manager of the Year.
Stoner leads First Federal’s Billings Home Loan Center and received the award at the Billings Chamber annual breakfast.
“We are fortunate to have a leader of Ms. Stoner’s caliber putting her exten-sive experience and keen insights to work on behalf of our clients and our bank,” said Dave Ferries, CEO. “We congratulate her on this well-deserved and high-ly-competitive award.”
In February, First Federal Bank & Trust received
the Sheridan Chamber of Commerce Large Business of the Year Award of Excellence.
Registration open for Third Thursdays,
farmers markets
SHERIDAN — Registrations are now open for the 2017 Third Thursday events and the downtown farmers markets.
The Third Thursdays will take place June 15, July 20, Aug. 17 and Sept. 21. If you register for a booth at all four events by May 26, you can receive a 10 percent dis-count on booth fees.
The Sheridan Farmers Market will kick off June 15 on Grinnell Plaza and will take place every Thursday through Aug. 31.
For additional infor-mation, or to register for either event, contact the Downtown Sheridan Association at 672-8881 or [email protected].
FROM STAFF REPORTS
BUSINESS BRIEFS |
Cheyenne mayor candidate named state aeronautics
director
CHEYENNE (AP) — A Cheyenne woman is the new director of Wyoming’s Aeronautics Division.
Amy Surdam is a nurse practitioner who owns urgent care facilities in Cheyenne and Laramie.
She’s also a lieutenant colonel in the Wyoming Army National Guard and founder of a children’s museum under development in Cheyenne. Surdam ran unsuccessfully for Cheyenne mayor in 2016.
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Hitting winners at Never Flinch TournamentSheridan’s Carly Laumann hits the ball in a U14-bracket game against Casper during Sheridan Volleyball Club’s Weston Johnson “Never Flinch” Memorial Tournament Saturday at Sheridan High School.
Wil Myers hits for cycle as Padres open series with 5-3 win over Rockies
DENVER (AP) — Andy Green started screaming “three!” the moment Wil Myers ripped a line drive to the left-center gap leading off the eighth inning.
The San Diego slug-ger couldn’t hear his
manager because he was yelling, too. Sort of.
“I was screaming three to myself,” Myers said. “Inside. I wasn’t screaming out loud.”
Myers stumbled around second base but easily made it to third for a triple that completed the first cycle of his career, and the Padres beat the Colorado Rockies 5-3 on Monday night.
Myers singled in the first, dou-bled in the third and homered in the sixth to help the Padres win for the third time in four games. Matt Kemp had the only other cycle in San Diego history on Aug.
14, 2015, also at Coors Field.“Those moments don’t happen
very often,” Green said. “To see somebody get it, someone like Wil, kind of the cornerstone of your franchise, it’s a lot of fun to watch.”
Hunter Renfroe also homered for the Padres, a two-run shot. Miguel Diaz (1-0), the second of six San Diego pitchers, went one inning to get his first major league win.
DJ LeMahieu and Mark Reynolds homered for the Rockies.
Jarred Cosart started for San
Diego in place of Trevor Cahill, who went on the 10-day disabled list Sunday. Cosart was solid for four innings, holding the Rockies without a run and inducing three double plays to get out of jams.
“Guys are going to get on base,” Cosart said. “If they don’t score any runs, it doesn’t matter how you do it.”
He left with a 1-0 lead on Myers’ RBI double in the third but didn’t get the win because he didn’t last five innings.
The Padres padded their lead in
the fifth on Myers’ leadoff homer. After a one-out walk, Renfroe took Tyler Chatwood deep just over the scoreboard in right field to make it 4-0.
After his third homer of the sea-son, all that was left for Myers was the triple, a situation he has faced three times in his baseball life. He cashed in on the fourth oppor-tunity despite nearly tripping at second base.
BY MICHAEL KELLY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Generals hold steady at Colorado State rodeo
SHERIDAN — The Sheridan College men’s rodeo team maintained its top ranking in the Central Rocky Mountain Region with a second-place finish at the Colorado State University rodeo over the weekend.
The Generals scored 420 points, finish-ing behind Gillette (795) and keeping SC ahead in the standings with 3,770 points.
Freshman Hunter Carlson split first and second in the bareback-riding aver-age after rides of 74 points and 72 points, respectively, in the long and short rounds. He placed second in each round, and his weekend total bumped him to 1,105 points, best in the region.
Chance Ames was right behind Carlson with a 73-point third-place ride in the first round of bareback, and he split sixth place with a 67-point ride in the second round. He finished fourth in the average.
Rounding out the bareback standings were Trig Clark and Kyle Bloomquist. Clark and Bloomquist each went for 67-point rides in the long go, splitting fifth and sixth. Clark went for 67 points in the second round and placed fifth in the average, while Bloomquist’s 63 in round two put him seventh in the aver-age.
After a 60-point long round, fresh-man Trevor Clark went for 57 in the short round of saddle bronc riding for a fourth-place finish. Cameron Benbough scored a fourth-place ride of 66 in the long round before he was bucked off in the short go.
Garrett Uptain and Sam Thurston went toe to toe in the saddle bronc long round with 65-point rides, splitting fifth and sixth. Uptain won the war with a 71-point ride in the second round, which placed him second in the round and second in the average. Thurston’s short-round ride earned 65 points, good for fourth in the round and the average.
The Lady Generals took fifth at the CSU rodeo with 110 points, 10 points behind Colorado State University-Pueblo. The SC women hold a slight advantage over Chadron State in the overall standings with 1,024 points com-pared to Chadron’s 1,016.
FROM STAFF REPORTS
Siemian medically cleared as Broncos
begin offseason work
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Trevor Siemian won’t be sitting back and watching Paxton Lynch take all the snaps at the Denver Broncos’ minicamp in two weeks.
Coach Vance Joseph said at the start of his team’s offseason program Monday that Siemian had made a quicker-than-expected recovery from his offseason shoulder surgery.
“Trevor’s full-go, guys,” Joseph said. “He’s been cleared to be a full participant in the offseason pro-gram. So, he’s full-go. He’s ready to go, no issues.”
BY ARNIE STAPLETON AP PRO FOOTBALL WRITER
Myers
SEE QUARTERBACK, PAGE B6
SEE PITCHING, PAGE B6
SEE RODEO, PAGE B6
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In an episode of “Star Trek: Enterprise,” Captain Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula) is testy, seemingly out of worry about his sick dog. But the ship’s doctor, Phlox (John Billingsley), asks him, “How long has it been
since you were intimate with a woman?” Archer realizes that his mood is caused by prolonged sexual tension with Vulcan commander T’Pol (Jolene Blalock).
We’ve all heard someone comment that a grumpy co-worker or friend needs to “get some.” But is it true? Does sex make you happier? According to new research published in Social Psychology and Personality Science, yes -- as happy as a $50,000 raise!
Researchers conducted three studies using data on more than 300,000 people and found that -- up to a point -- the more sex people were having, the more their life satisfaction increased. In fact, the boost in life satisfac-tion between people who had
sex less than once a month versus those having it once a week was even bigger than the difference between people who made $15,000-$25,000 a year and those in the $50,000-$75,000 yearly salary range.
The magical benefits of more sex did level off at the once-a-week mark. But that doesn’t mean you and yours shouldn’t jump between the sheets more often. Having monogamous intimacy seven times a week makes a man’s RealAge younger, and increased sexual satisfaction makes a woman’s RealAge younger -- and not just a lit-tle. The extra good news? If you and your partner are in a dry spell, making an effort to be intimate once a week should be a great starting place.
DEAR ABBY: A few years ago I met a wonderful person. I spent roughly three months with him in a budding rela-tionship. My issue is that one night he said those three little words, and I panicked and disappeared from his life. I know it was a horrible and cowardly thing to do. I just didn’t know how to handle it other than ask him why and saying, “You can’t mean me, right?”
I have felt horrible that I vanished without any expla-nation and most likely hurt him. I really would like to apologize for my actions and immaturity. He didn’t deserve that type of treat-ment. I recently found his address and wonder if it would be all right to send an apology, or if it would be best not to open potential wounds. -- DISAPPEARED IN ILLINOIS
DEAR DISAPPEARED: Because you feel an apology and an explanation are in order, I see no harm in offer-ing them. However, before you do, think this through. Is there more to this than a guilty conscience? Because years have passed, you both may be at different places in your lives than you were then. One or both of you may be married or involved with
others. So before you do this, be absolutely sure not only of your motivations, but also of your expectations.
DEAR ABBY: I have recent-ly had discussions with friends and family about the best way to express concern for someone who is facing major surgery. Some say they’d prefer hearing about others who have undergone similar procedures success-fully. (But might that set expectations that can’t be met, since not all procedures and physical circumstances are the same?) Or is it best to keep comments general? For example: “You will be in my thoughts/prayers/heart,” or “I hope it goes even better than you hope it will.” What’s the most helpful way to express concern? -- SENSITIVE SUBJECT
DEAR S.S.: Unless the surgery is for something life-threatening -- in which case the thoughts, prayers and heart are necessary -- keep the message upbeat and positive. Example: “Is there anything I can do for you while you’re recuperating?” And if the answer is no, say, “I’ll give you a call in a cou-ple of days to see how you’re doing, and we’ll visit when you’re up for company.”
DEAR ABBY: If you give a wedding shower gift, is it proper to also give a wed-ding gift? I have done both for many years, but recently was questioned about why I do it. I told the person that’s the way my mother raised me. Was she correct? -- GIFT GIVER IN CONROE, TEXAS
DEAR GIFT GIVER: Your mother raised you right. Weddings and showers are separate events. When attending a shower, it is cus-tomary to give the honoree a gift. The same is true for a wedding. That someone has given the bride a shower gift does not mean the person is not supposed to give the cou-ple a wedding gift.
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.
What teens need to know about sex, drugs, AIDS and getting along with peers and parents is in “What Every Teen Should Know.” Send your name and mailing address, plus check or money order for $7 (U.S. funds) to: Dear Abby, Teen Booklet, P.O. Box 447, Mount Morris, IL 61054-0447. (Shipping and handling are included in the price.)
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BIRTHDAY GUY: Actor Ed O’Neill was born in Youngstown, Ohio on this date in 1946. This birthday guy has earned three Emmy nominations for his por-trayal of Jay Pritchett on “Modern Family.” He also played the iconic TV dad Al Bundy on “Married with Children” from 1987-1997. On the big screen, O’Neill’s film resume includes “En-tourage,” “The Bone Collec-tor,” and “Wayne’s World,” as well as voicing Hank the Octopus in “Finding Dory.”
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Your most loyal friends and lovers can be found in your own backyard. It isn’t necessary to hook up with someone new. Put decisions about a joint financial ven-ture on the back burner for a few more days.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Loved ones may be
more sociable or sensitive than usual. If you want to win someone’s heart pamper them with little luxuries or treats. Put your business ideas and joint de-cision-making on hold for a few days.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Be resourceful to avoid regrets. Tackle emerging problems with a quick fix that may pleasantly sur-prise those around you. Make corrections to any errors or mistakes that are pointed out and do not ig-nore them.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Things are getting better all the time. Your finances may seem like a roller coaster of ups and downs. A brief respite from ordinary routines may allow you to clear your head and face daily tasks with new vigor.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Making a big impression could backfire so lay low. Don’t get involved in group debates or make crucial de-cisions based on a peer re-view. Learn something new or focus on your studies for the best success.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Speak and they will listen. Your personal magnetism is such that people will hang on your every word. Public presentations to co-work-ers or business contacts will meet with resounding success and constructive criticisms.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Possession might be nine tenths of the law but your bank account is one hun-dred percent of yours to control. This isn’t the best time to acquire new invest-ments. Avoid putting cru-cial changes or plans into
motion.SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov.
21): Some days your judg-ment is not quite as good as it should be. Avoid being pinned down to a promise or taking on any new com-mitment. Focus on being attractive and kind to the people who mean the most to you.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Lend an ear to a friend in need. Offering some objective advice to someone who is in a blue mood could brighten their day. Indulge your fantasies, even if it’s just sometime over lunch spent daydream-ing.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Pace yourself. Those who try to run before they can walk are doomed to fail. A new project may be tedious but the frustration will only grow if you try to
rush through. Take the time to do the job right.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You can’t win them all but sometimes you win either way. You may fight an internal mental battle in which you debate the merits of plodding along the straight and narrow path versus trying something new.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Turn your frown upside down. You may get ahead in the short term by being aggressive and demand-ing, but thoughtfulness and friendliness will take you much further. Focus on being charming and friendly.
IF APRIL 12 IS YOUR BIRTHDAY: You may feel energized throughout the upcoming two to three weeks. Use your executive ability to take action when
needed and find suitable activities to upgrade your physical health. Late May and early June is a time when your judgment and luck is at its best and when you can push forward with major endeavors. Ambi-tions could become more important in July. Focus on making money and earning the credentials and experi-ence that will make you a force to contend with. Au-gust and early September are time periods when you should avoid making any ir-revocable decisions as your judgment is out of kilter and you could be easily de-ceived. Wait until mid-Sep-tember or October to make your move by accepting a new job or implementing crucial financial decisions such as changing banks or making major purchases.
Hints from Heloise Heloise
Dear Hel-oise: One of the greatest and most fre-quent threats to INFANTS is suffocation as they sleep. Sometimes
parents put an infant in a crib with fluffy bedding, probably thinking that this will keep the child warm.
This is a dangerous way for a child to be put to bed. One of the ways to provide safe sleep is to put the baby into a “sleep sack” -- a one-piece sleeper that zips up. It can be made of various weights of fabric to provide the level of warmth needed. It can be a lifesaver! -- Kathy W., North Port, Fla.
Good information, Kathy. Putting a baby to bed safely is so important: It can cut down on sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Here are some additional hints from the U.S. Depart-ment of Health and Human Services:
* A baby should never sleep on the big bed between mom and dad.
* Keeping the crib in the master bedroom will help with bedtime.
* Place your baby in the crib on his back, not on his belly.
* No pillows, blankets, stuffed animals or crib bum-pers in the crib.
* A firm mattress covered with a fitted sheet is all that should be in the crib.
-- HeloiseCOMPACT-DISC CAREDear Heloise: Even with
all the digital music avail-able, I still purchase com-pact discs, and I have to be careful in handling them. I always return the CD to its storage case. I never keep CDs in the car -- the tem-perature is either too hot or too cold, and sunlight beat-ing into the car can damage the CDs, too.
I only handle the CD by the edges, never the top or bottom. I can clean the CD’s bottom with a microfiber cloth and warm water. There are commercial kits for cleaning also, and for repairing scratches. -- John H. in Idaho
STUCK ON YOUDear Heloise: I stack my
drinking glasses, but they can get stuck together. The easiest way to get them unstuck? I fill the top glass with ice cubes and run a tiny bit of cooking oil in be-tween the glasses. After just a few minutes, the glasses will separate! -- Jill U. in Ohio
HINT FROM HIM
Dear Heloise: My wife put me up to this one. She stores my golf balls in an egg carton so they can stay organized and tidy. She doesn’t put them in the re-frigerator, though; extreme temperatures can affect their performance. -- Bruce C., Harrisburg, Pa.
TIDY BATHROOMDear Readers: A shoe or-
ganizer on the back of the bathroom door can hold hairbrushes, curling irons (let them cool down first), shampoos, cosmetics and most anything else, to give you more counter space when getting ready! -- Hel-oise
TIMER TROUBLEDear Heloise: I can’t hear
the timer on my clothes dryer at the other end of the house, so I carry an egg timer with me. This saves me time, and I can pull out the clothes when they are finished so they won’t get wrinkled. -- Helen F. in Cal-ifornia
Send a money-saving or timesaving hint to Heloise, P.O. Box 795000, San Anto-nio, TX 78279-5000, or you can fax it to 1-210-HELOISE or email it to Heloise(at)Heloise.com. I can’t answer your letter personally but will use the best hints re-ceived in my column.
Bridge Phillip Alder
A SLAM PLAYED FROM THE WRONG SIDE
Common wisdom recom-mends making
the stronger hand of a part-nership the declarer. But that does not work all of the time. In today’s deal, the second consecutive six-heart contract my wife and I bid at bridgebase.com last month, it would have been better if North were the declarer. But that seems impossible in a normal se-quence.
In our auction, two di-amonds was natural and game-forcing. Then, once we had agreed hearts at the three-level, a drawback of two-over-one arose: Nei-ther player knew partner’s strength, except that each had opening values. We use a variation of an idea that was originally proposed, I believe, by Eric Rodwell. With a minimum, South
would have raised to four hearts. With middling strength, she would have bid an artificial three no-trump: a semi-serious slam-try. Her actual three-spade control-bid was a serious slam-try.
After I control-bid four clubs, East doubled to ask for a club lead. This might have given my part-ner pause, but she drove into six hearts.
West led the club eight. De-clarer needed hearts 3-2 and West with the diamond ace. Also, just in case spades were 5-0, after winning with the club ace and cashing the heart ace-king, South played a spade to the king. She then drew the last trump, ran the spades (discard-
ing two clubs and a dia-mond from the board) and led the diamond jack.
Declarer took five spades, three hearts, one diamond, one club, a diamond ruff in her hand and a club ruff on the board.
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WHY PUBLIC NOTICES ARE IMPORTANT |Default: Failure to fulfill an obligation, especially the obligation to
make payments when due to a lender.
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Kristin Kelly
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Shafer
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Tom Ringley
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Matt Mead
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Roger Miller
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NOTICE OF REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE FORE-CLOSURE BY ADVERTISEMENT AND SALE
On December 13, 2013, Jeffrey R. Neeson, El-len Goode-Neeson, and Linda Lea Goode, asMortgagors, made, executed, and delivered amortgage to First Federal Savings Bank in Sherid-an, Wyoming, as Mortgagee. The mortgage wasdated December 13, 2013, was duly recorded onDecember 17, 2013, in Book 876, at Page 76, inthe office of the County Clerk and Ex-Officio Re-gister of Deeds of Sheridan County, Wyoming,and is made a part hereof and incorporated hereinby reference. The mortgage covers the followingdescribed real property located in SheridanCounty, Wyoming, to wit:
Lot 5 of the Hutton Subdivision, saidsubdivision being a part of theSE1/4SW1/4, N1/2SW1/4 and S1/2NW1/4of Section 20, Township 54 North,Range 83 West, of the Sixth PrincipalMeridian, in Sheridan County, Wyoming,upon which the Hutton Subdivision islocated as shown by the plat and surveyorcertificate and particularly described asfollows: Beginning at the South QuarterCorner of said Section 20, thence North2417 feet to a point on the East line of saidN1/2SW1/4, thence Northwesterly 1827feet to a point on the North line of saidS1/2NW1/4 which is 900 feet West of theNortheast corner thereof, thence West 744feet on said line to a point on the East lineof Highway No. 87, thence South 13degrees 36’ East on said Highway line adistance of 4056.6 feet to a point on theSouth line of said Section 20, thence East818 feet to the point of beginning.
(hereinafter referred to as the "Mortgaged Prop-erty"). The mortgage was given to secure the pay-ment of Promissory Note December 13, 2013, inthe principal sum of $305,000.00, that Jeffrey R.Neeson and Ellen Goode-Neeson made, ex-ecuted, and delivered to the Mortgagee.
The record owners of the Mortgaged Propertyare Jeffrey R. Neeson, Ellen Goode-Neeson, andLinda Lea Goode, and all right, title, and interest inand to the Mortgage is currently held by First Fed-eral Bank & Trust, f.k.a. First Federal SavingsBank
The Mortgagors have failed to pay the princip-al and interest on the Note and Mortgage de-scribed above when the same became due andpayable, and in this regard, and otherwise, havedefaulted in performance under the terms andconditions of the Note and Mortgage.
Because the Mortgagors have defaulted underthe terms and conditions of the Note and Mort-gage, the Mortgagee has elected and declared,and does hereby elect and declare, to accelerateand to make the entire debt secured by the Mort-gage due and payable without further demand,and to exercise the power to foreclose the Mort-gage by advertisement and sale as provided in theMortgage. No suit or proceeding has been insti-tuted at law or otherwise to recover the debt se-cured by the Mortgage or any part thereof.
TAKE NOTICE THAT, pursuant to the powerof sale by advertisement contained in the Mort-gage, and pursuant to Wyoming law, the Mort-gage described above will be foreclosed, and theabove-described Subject Property will be sold bythe Sheriff or Deputy Sheriff of Sheridan County,Wyoming, to the highest bidder, for cash, at pub-lic vendue, at the entrance to the Sheridan CountyCourt House that is nearest the intersection ofSouth Main Street and West Burkitt Street, at10:05 o'clock a.m. on the 28th day of April, 2017.The proceeds of the sale shall be applied first tothe amount claimed to be due on the Note andMortgage which, as of February 16, 2017, equaledthe sum of $305,l000.00, plus interest which hasaccrued and will continue to accrue at the rate of3.75% per annum, late charges, escrow adjust-ments, attorney fees, costs, and expenses of thisforeclosure. Any remaining proceeds will there-after be distributed in accordance with Wyominglaw.
The property being foreclosed upon may besubject to other liens and encumbrances that willnot be extinguished at the sale and any prospect-ive purchaser should research the status of titlebefore submitting a bid.
Dated this 24th day of March, 2017.FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS BANKThomas J. KlepperichAttorney at LawP. O. Box 538Big Horn, Wyoming 82833(307) 672-9240
2017 Publication Dates: April 4, 11, 18, 25.
ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDSThe Town of Clearmont, Wyoming will receivesealed bids for the Clearmont Landfill ClosureProject. The project is generally described as fol-lows:
The Base Bid includes placement of approx-imately 4,400 cubic yards of material overthe Clearmont Landfill as a cap. Work alsoincludes placement of approximately 1,000cubic yards of topsoil. Construction of agreen waste area will also be constructedand will include installation of approximately400 feet of barbed wire fencing aroundthe green waste area.
Sealed bids will be received at Town Hall until10:00 AM local time on May 4, 2017. The bids willthen be opened and read aloud at the Town Hall.All bids shall be submitted in accordance with andon the forms included in the Project Manual. Bidsshall be submitted in a sealed envelope ad-dressed to:
Town of ClearmontCLEARMONT LANDFILL CLOSURE PROJECT
P.O. Box 1271605 Pennsylvania Ave.
Clearmont, Wyoming 82835Contract Documents, including proposal BidForms, Construction Drawings and Project Manu-al, have been placed on the QuestCDN website athttps://questcdn.com/. Bidders will need to re-gister as either a free member or premium mem-ber on the QuestCDN website. The QuestCDNproject number is 4822396.Contract Documents may be obtained on or afterApril 4, 2017 at the non-refundable cost of $10.00per set through the QuestCDN website, or a hardcopy can be obtained at the office of EnTech,1949 Sugarland Drive, Suite 205, Sheridan,Wyoming 82801 for the non-refundable cost of$75 per set.A PRE-BID CONFERENCE will be held on April25, 2017 at 2:00 PM local time, beginning in theTown Hall, Clearmont, Wyoming.Contractors, in submitting their respective bids,acknowledge that such bids conform to all require-ments of Wyoming State Statute. Each biddermust include a bid security with the bid, payable tothe Town of Clearmont, in accordance with the In-struction to Bidders. For bids greater than$150,000, bid security shall be in the form of a BidBond, prepared on the form provided in theProject Manual, issued by a Surety authorized todo business in the State of Wyoming and accept-able to the OWNER in the amount of five percent(5%) of the total bid.The successful Bidder shall be required to furnisha contract performance bond and a labor and ma-terials payment bond, each in the amount of onehundred percent (100%) of the contract price asoriginally bid or subsequently modified. The suretycompany shall be authorized to do business in theState of Wyoming. The cost of the bonds shall beincluded in the Contractor’s Bid Proposal. Whenthe successful Bidder delivers the executedAgreement to the Owner, it must be accompaniedby the required Construction Performance Bond,and Construction Payment Bond on the forms in-cluded in this Project Manual. No exceptions willbe made.No bidder may withdraw its bid after the sched-uled time of the bid opening. Bids are to remainopen for 60 days after the bid opening. The Own-er reserves the right to reject any and all bids orparts thereof, and to waive any irregularities ofany bid. The Owner also reserves the right toaward the contract to such responsible bidders asmay be determined by the Owner.Pursuant to W.S. 16-6-106, “preference is herebygiven to materials, suppliers, agricultural products,equipment, machinery and provisions produced,manufactured or grown in Wyoming or supplied bya resident of the state, quality being equal to art-icles offered by the competitors outside of thestate”.
Town of Clearmont, WyomingPublish Dates: April 4, 11, 18, 2017.
FORECLOSURE SALE NOTICEWHEREAS, default in the payment of principal
and interest has occurred under the terms of apromissory note ("Note") and real estate mort-gage (“Mortgage”). The Mortgage dated October24, 2008, was executed and delivered by LanceE. Moyer and Beverly L. Moyer (“Mortgagor(s)”) toFirst Interstate Bank, as security for the Note ofthe same date, and said Mortgage was recordedon October 24, 2008, at Instrument No. 624847 inBook 719, Page 755 in the records of the office ofthe County Clerk and ex-officio Register of Deedsin and for Sheridan County, State of Wyoming;and
WHEREAS, the Mortgage contains a power ofsale which by reason of said default, the Mort-gagee declares to have become operative, and nosuit or proceeding has been instituted at law to re-cover the debt secured by the Mortgage, or anypart thereof, nor has any such suit or proceedingbeen instituted and the same discontinued; and
WHEREAS, written notice of intent to fore-close the Mortgage by advertisement and sale hasbeen served upon the record owner and the partyin possession of the mortgaged premises at leastten (10) days prior to the commencement of thispublication, and the amount due upon the Mort-gage on the date of first publication of this noticeof sale being the total sum of $171,484.47 whichsum consists of the unpaid principal balance of$165,595.48 plus interest accrued to the date ofthe first publication of this notice in the amount of$5,320.11, plus other costs in the amount of$1,368.88, less a suspense balance in the amountof $800.00, plus attorneys' fees, costs expended,and accruing interest and late charges after thedate of first publication of this notice of sale;
WHEREAS, the property being foreclosedupon may be subject to other liens and encum-brances that will not be extinguished at the sale.Any prospective purchaser should research thestatus of title before submitting a bid;
NOW, THEREFORE First Interstate Bank, asthe Mortgagee, will have the Mortgage foreclosedas by law provided by causing the mortgagedproperty to be sold at public venue by the Sheriffor Deputy Sheriff in and for Sheridan County,Wyoming to the highest bidder for cash at 10:00o'clock in the forenoon on April 28, 2017 at thefront door of the Sheridan County Courthouse loc-ated at 224 South Main Street, Sheridan, Wyom-ing, Sheridan County, for application on theabove-described amounts secured by the Mort-gage, said mortgaged property being described asfollows, to-wit:
Lots 4 and 5, in Block 12, Highland ParkSecond Addition to the City of Sheridan,County of Sheridan, State of Wyoming.which has the address of 1236 LaCledeStreet, Sheridan, Wyoming 82801.Together with all improvements thereonsituate and all fixtures and appurtenancesthereto.
First Interstate BankBy: Danette BaldacciCrowley Fleck PLLPP.O. Box 6550Sheridan, WY 828011-844-280-7990
Publish: March 28, 2017, April 4, 11, 18, 2017.
Department of Environmental Quality, Division ofAir Quality PUBLIC NOTICE: In accordance withChapter 6, Section 2(m) of the Wyoming Air Qual-ity Standards and Regulations, notice is herebygiven that the State of Wyoming, Department ofEnvironmental Quality, Division of Air Quality, pro-poses to approve a request by Liberty ResourcesManagement Company, LLC to conduct well com-pletion and re-completion activit ies in theStatewide, Upper Green River Basin andJonah/Pinedale Anticline Development Areas inWyoming. The proposed permit includes require-ments to conduct well completions or re-comple-tions using best management practices to reduceemissions of regulated pollutants associated withsuch activities to the extent practicable and tomonitor, maintain records and report emissionsfrom the completions or re-completion activities.For the duration of the public comment period,copies of the permit application, the agency’s ana-lysis, and the public notice are available for publicinspection online at http://deq.wyoming.gov/aqd/new-source-review/resources/applications-on-notice/ and at the Albany County Clerk’s Office,Laramie, Wyoming; Big Horn County Clerk’s Of-fice, Basin, Wyoming; Campbell County Clerk’sOffice, Gillette, Wyoming; Carbon County Clerk’sOffice, Rawlins, Wyoming; Converse CountyClerk’s Office, Douglas, Wyoming; Crook CountyClerk’s Office, Sundance, Wyoming; FremontCounty Clerk’s Office, Lander, Wyoming; GoshenCounty Clerk’s Office, Torrington, Wyoming; HotSprings County Clerk’s Office, Thermopolis,Wyoming; Johnson County Clerk’s Office, Buffalo,Wyoming; Laramie County Clerk’s Office, Chey-enne, Wyoming; Lincoln County Clerk’s Office,Kemmerer, Wyoming; Natrona County Clerk’s Of-fice, Casper, Wyoming; Niobrara County Clerk’sOffice, Lusk, Wyoming; Park County Clerk’s Of-fice, Cody, Wyoming; Platte County Clerk’s Office,Wheatland, Wyoming; Sheridan County Clerk’sOffice, Sheridan Wyoming; Sublette CountyClerk’s Office, Pinedale, Wyoming; SweetwaterCounty Clerk’s Office, Green River, Wyoming;Teton County Clerk’s Office, Jackson, Wyoming;Uinta County Clerk’s Office, Evanston, Wyoming;Washakie County Clerk’s Office, Worland, Wyom-ing; Weston County Clerk’s Office, Newcastle,Wyoming. In accordance with the Americans withDisabilities Act, special assistance or alternateformats will be made available upon request for in-dividuals with disabilities.Written comments may be directed to Nancy Vehr,Administrator, Division of Air Quality, Departmentof Environmental Quality, 200 West 17th St.,Cheyenne, Wyoming 82002 or by fax (307) 635-1784. Please reference A0004311 in your com-ment. Comments submitted by email will not be in-cluded in the administrative record. All commentsreceived by 5:00 p.m., Monday, May 15, 2017 willbe considered in the final determination on thisapplication. A public hearing will be conductedonly if in the opinion of the administrator sufficientinterest is generated or if an aggrieved party sorequests.Publish: April 11, 2017
STATE OF WYOMINGCOUNTY OF SHERIDANIN THE DISTRICT COURT
FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICTCivil Action No. CV 2016-356
DIVERSIFIED RESOURCES, LLC, a Wyominglimited liability company, and the SHERIDANCOMMUNITY LAND TRUST, a Wyoming non-profit corporation, Plaintiffs,
vs.THE HEIRS AND DEVISEES OF DEWITTDILLON, AMERICAN PLASTICS AND CHEMIC-ALS, INC., a Delaware corporation, LEE BARTEL,and ANY PERSON WHO MAY CLAIM AN IN-TEREST IN THE SUBJECT PROPERTY LOC-ATED IN SHERIDAN COUNTY, WYOMING. De-fendants.
NOTICETo: American Plastics and Chemicals, Inc.,Current Address UnknownBecause you may claim an interest in, or lien
or encumbrance on real property located inSheridan County, Wyoming, which is the subjectof this complaint, you have been named as a De-fendant in a Complaint for Declaratory Relief andQuiet Title that has been filed in order to establishthat a Notice of Lis Pendens related to a Texaslawsuit is void and to quiet the title of the propertysubject to the Lis Pendens in the name of PlaintiffDiversified Resources, LLC, free and clear of theNotice of Lis Pendens. The Complaint has beenfiled in the Fourth Judicial District Court in Sherid-an County, State of Wyoming, and has been as-signed civil action number CV-2016-356. You arerequired to file an answer with the Court within 30days of the last date of publication of this notice,which will be on May 2, 2017. Judgment by de-fault may be rendered against you if you fail to ap-pear.
DATED this 6th day of April, 2017.CLERK OF COURTBy: /s/ Julie Hutton
Publication dates: April 11, 18, 25 & May 2, 2017.
WYOMING DEPARTMENT OFTRANSPORTATION
CHEYENNE, WYOMINGNOTICE OF ACCEPTANCE OF AND
FINAL SETTLEMENT FOR HIGHWAY WORKNotice is hereby given that the State Transporta-tion Commission of Wyoming has accepted ascompleted according to plans, specifications andrules governing the same work performed underthat certain contract between the State of Wyom-ing, acting through said Commission, and Inter-mountain Slurry Seal, Inc., the Contractor, onHighway Project Number 2300041 in Westoncounty, consisting of microsurfacing and mis-cellaneous work, and the Contractor is entitled tofinal settlement therefore; that the Director of theDepartment of Transportation will cause said Con-tractor to be paid the full amount due him undersaid contract on May 15, 2017.The date of the first publication of this Notice isApril 4, 2017.
STATE TRANSPORTATIONCOMMISSION OF WYOMINGBy /s/ Kimberly LambProject Resource CoordinatorBudget Program
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In the District Court, Fourth Judicial DistrictState of Wyoming, County of Sheridan
Tara Graham, Plaintiff)vs. Civil Action No.: CV2016-320Kody Graham, Defendant)
NOTICE OF PUBLICATIONNOTICE TO Kody Graham, DEFENDANT,Address unknown:
You are notified that a Complaint for Divorce,Civil Action No. CV2016-320 has been filed in theWyoming District Court for the Fourth Judicial Dis-trict, whose address is 224 South Main, Sheridan,Wyoming, seeing dissolution of your marriage toTara Graham and a Decree of Divorce in her fa-vor.
Unless you file an Answer or otherwise re-spond to the Complaint for Divorce referencedabove within 30 days following the last date of thisnotice, a default judgement will be taken againstyou and a Decree of Divorce will be granted.
Dated this 7th day of April, 2016.By /s/ Julie Hutton, Clerk of CourtClerk of District Court, Deputy
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RODEO: Two rodeos remaining for SC in regular seasonFROM B1
Latasha Weiferich led the way for the Lady Generals over the weekend with a third-place finish in barrel racing. Her 15.11-second long round placed her second before a third-place time of 15.25 seconds in the short round. Her weekend finish moved her to third in the region standings.
Taylor Bothwell had a strong show-ing, as well, in breakaway roping. She caught her calf in 2.9 seconds, seventh
fastest in the long round. A 3.4-second run in the short go placed her third in the round and bumped her to third in the average.
Buffalo’s Lauren Rives was chas-ing Weiferich in barrel racing with a first-round time of 15.21 seconds. She followed with a 15.52-second run in the short go, placing her eighth in the average.
Closing out the women’s scoring were Savanna Bolich and Cricket Cunningham in goat tying. Bolich
placed fifth in the average after two 7.5 seconds rounds. Cunningham took seventh in the long round with a 7.7-second run, but she injured her knee in the short go and wasn’t able to finish.
The SC rodeo team will take a week off before heading to Casper for the second-to-last rodeo of the season. The Generals will look to widen the gaps in the standings at the University of Wyoming rodeo on April 27-29 to close out the regular season.
PITCHING: Chatwood had issues again in second startFROM B1
“I almost fell. I was trying too hard, I think,” he said. “If I’d have fell I still would have tried for it.”
Chatwood (0-2), who was 4-8 with a 6.12 ERA at Coors Field last year, allowed four runs and seven hits in 5 1/3 innings.
“That’s what happens in baseball,” Chatwood said. “You go along and you give up two homers out there and you lose the game for us.”
LeMahieu hit a solo homer in the sixth and Reynolds a two-run shot, his
fourth, with two outs in the ninth.SURPRISE, SURPRISESan Diego catcher Luis Torrens
made his first start but didn’t find out he was in the lineup until he arrived at Coors Field on Monday. That was by design, Green said.
“I did the same thing to Torrens that I did for Allen Cordoba, which is getting him no heads up whatsoever, figuring it would keep him sleepless all night,” Green said. “I would rather ambush him with their start. I will communicate that with that in the future.”
Torrens was hitless in three at-bats before leaving in a double-switch.
UP NEXTPadres: RHP Jered Weaver (0-1, 7.20
ERA) will make his second start for San Diego. Weaver allowed four runs in five innings during his Padres debut Thursday.
Rockies: Rookie RHP Antonio Senzatela will get the second start of his career. He tossed five shutout innings in his major league debut at Milwaukee on Thursday. He finished with six strikeouts in Colorado’s 2-1 win.
QUARTERBACK: Siemien had surgery to repair shoulderFROM B1
Siemian had surgery on his left shoulder Jan. 3 after playing three months with what’s been described as a grade-5 A.C. joint sprain, which he suffered in Week 4, forcing him to miss 1½
games. He also missed a game with a sprained foot.
The severity of his shoul-der injury is usually seen in car crashes, not on football fields, and the recovery can take up to half a year.
Joseph said at the NFL combine last month that
Siemian’s statistics — going 8-6 while throwing for 3,400 yards with 18 TDs and 10 interceptions — were all the more impressive when you consider he played most of the season with a severely damaged left shoulder.
It was expected that Lynch at least initially would get more snaps when the Broncos begin their on-field work with their April 24-27 minicamp.
Lynch won’t have that head-start now.
Joseph reiterated this is an open competition between Siemian, a 2015 seventh-rounder from Northwestern who won the job last year, and Lynch, the 26th overall pick in last year’s draft who is still adjusting to the pro offense after running the spread at Memphis.
“It is open, guys, it’s open, 50-50, it’s an open competi-tion,” Joseph said. “We’ve got these two young guys who have bright futures and it’s open. It’s going to go down to the wire, I hope. Right now it’s a new system that’s going into place here
with (offensive coordinator) Mike McCoy. So, it’s a fair, open competition and the best guy is going to play.”
Siemian has been working out in Denver for several weeks and Lynch returned recently to acclimate him-self to the altitude.
“He’s been fine. He’s been around the last couple of weeks. He’s been engaged. He’s excited to be here. He’s got a big smile on his face, so that’s important,” Joseph said.
Asked what Lynch could do to impress the coaches, Joseph said, “Paxton was obviously a first-round pick for a reason. He’s a big guy with a big arm. He’s very athletic. I think playing that position is about deci-sion-making. And if he does those things better, he’ll have a chance to compete to be our starting quarter-back.”
NOTES: The Broncos’ announced their preseason schedule Monday, consist-ing of games at Chicago and San Francisco and home games against the Packers and Cardinals.
Through April 9All-around1. Tuf Cooper, Weatherford, Texas $55,6362. Josh Peek, Pueblo, Colo. $54,3883. Caleb Smidt, Bellville, Texas $50,3284. Clayton Hass, Weatherford, Texas $44,0975. JoJo LeMond, Andrews, Texas $29,3686. Ryle Smith, Oakdale, Calif. $27,7067. Trell Etbauer, Goodwell, Okla. $24,4828. Seth Hall, Albuquerque, N.M. $23,8779. Bart Brunson, Terry, Miss. $19,69510. Marcus Theriot, Poplarville, Miss. $19,42911. John Leinaweaver, Orrtanna, Pa. $16,64412. Justin Thigpen, Waycross, Ga. $14,20513. Trevor Brazile, Decatur, Texas $13,883
15. Cash Myers, Athens, Texas $11,65416. Cody Doescher, Oklahoma City, Okla. $10,57917. Morgan Grant, Didsbury, Alberta $10,17418. Brent Lewis, Pinon, N.M. $9,55519. Paul David Tierney, Oral, S.D. $9,298Bareback Riding1. Tim O’Connell, Zwingle, Iowa $58,646
3. R.C. Landingham, Hat Creek, Calif. $53,7344. Bill Tutor, Huntsville, Texas $47,3755. Caleb Bennett, Tremonton, Utah $39,9056. Jake Brown, Cleveland, Texas $39,8577. Chad Rutherford, Lake Charles, La. $37,6408. Tyler Nelson, Victor, Idaho $36,8509. Mason Clements, Santaquin, Utah $35,71810. Justin Miller, Billings, Mont. $33,568
12. Winn Ratliff, Leesville, La. $28,81913. Ty Breuer, Mandan, N.D. $26,28814. J.R. Vezain, Cowley, Wyo. $24,370
16. Wyatt Bloom, Bend, Ore. $19,54517. Orin Larsen, Inglis, Manitoba $18,65018. Luke Creasy, Lovington, N.M. $16,90219. Richmond Champion, The Woodlands, Texas $16,86120. Jake Vold, Ponoka, Alberta $16,748Steer Wrestling1. Ty Erickson, Helena, Mont. $91,3792. Tyler Waguespack, Gonzales, La. $51,9893. Olin Hannum, Malad, Idaho $41,0604. Baylor Roche, Tremonton, Utah $34,0635. Josh Peek, Pueblo, Colo. $32,6646. Luke Branquinho, Los Alamos, Calif. $30,2857. Nick Guy, Sparta, Wis. $26,7708. Clayton Hass, Weatherford, Texas $26,6429. Tyler Pearson, Louisville, Miss. $25,15910. Justin Shaffer, Hallsville, Texas $24,26811. Matt Reeves, Cross Plains, Texas $21,71012. Blaine Jones, Templeton, Calif. $21,08613. Jason Thomas, Benton, Ark. $20,90214. Jon Ragatz, Beetown, Wis. $20,15315. J.D. Struxness, Appleton, Minn. $19,841
16. Dean McIntyre, Cloncurry, Australia $19,018
18. Cody Cabral, Hilo, Hawaii $18,29619. Rowdy Parrott, Mamou, La. $18,09820. Chance Howard, Cedarville, Ark. $17,974Team Roping (header)1. Erich Rogers, Round Rock, Ariz. $53,7902. Luke Brown, Stephenville, Texas $47,897
4. Coleman Proctor, Pryor, Okla. $36,5525. Kaleb Driggers, Albany, Ga. $36,3786. Cody Snow, Los Olivos, Calif. $33,1097. Garrett Rogers, Baker City, Ore. $31,6088. Bubba Buckaloo, Kingston, Okla. $24,0769. Jake Cooper, Monument, N.M. $22,16610. Travis Tryan, Billings, Mont. $21,33511. Jesse Stipes, Salina, Okla. $20,00312. Tom Richards, Humboldt, Ariz. $19,23913. Kelsey Parchman, Cumberland City, Tenn. $19,13614. Edward Hawley Jr., Surprise, Ariz. $18,36915. Clayton Hass, Weatherford, Texas $17,45516. Hayes Smith, Central Point, Ore. $16,35917. Levi Simpson, Ponoka, Alberta $14,94318. Blake Teixeira, Tres Pinos, Calif. $14,90919. Dustin Bird, Cut Bank, Mont. $14,77920. John Alley, Adams, Tenn. $13,509Team Roping (heeler)1. Cory Petska, Marana, Ariz. $53,7902. Jake Long, Coffeyville, Kan. $39,3683. Russell Cardoza, Terrebonne, Ore. $38,0574. Wesley Thorp, Throckmorton, Texas $37,1625. Kory Koontz, Stephenville, Texas $36,6496. Billie Jack Saebens, Nowata, Okla. $36,5527. Junior Nogueira, Presidente Pruden, Brazile $36,3788. Jake Minor, Ellensburg, Wash. $31,6089. Chase Tryan, Helena, Mont. $23,58710. Buddy Hawkins II, Columbus, Kan. $23,35211. John Robertson, Polson, Mont. $22,05112. Travis Graves, Jay, Okla. $19,35113. Kinney Harrell, Marshall, Texas $19,13614. Ty Romo, Whiteriver, Ariz. $18,36915. Paul Eaves, Lonedell, Mo. $17,54016. B.J. Dugger, Three Rivers, Texas $15,86117. Tyler McKnight, Wells, Texas $15,85618. Jeremy Buhler, Arrowwood, Alberta $14,94319. York Gill, Stephenville, Texas $14,24220. Travis Woodard, Stockton, Calif. $13,974Saddle Bronc Riding1. Jacobs Crawley, Boerne, Texas $82,8902. CoBurn Bradshaw, Beaver, Utah $55,9403. Zeke Thurston, Big Valley, Alberta $47,1174. Audy Reed, Spearman, Texas $40,1495. Hardy Braden, Welch, Okla. $37,8606. Tyrell J. Smith, Sand Coulee, Mont. $36,3617. Jesse Wright, Milford, Utah $33,7518. Chuck Schmidt, Keldron, S.D. $31,1579. Clay Elliott, Nanton, Alberta $27,265
11. Sterling Crawley, Stephenville, Texas $24,12212. Curtis Garton, Kaitaia, New Zealand $22,267
13. Jake Wright, Milford, Utah $22,06514. Nat Stratton, Goodwell. Okla. $20,41615. Tyler Corrington, Hastings, Minn. $19,74816. Ryder Wright, Milford, Utah $19,38317. Cody Wright, Milford, Utah $17,88918. Allen Boore, Axtell, Utah $17,79919. Shade Etbauer, Goodwell, Okla. $16,51520. Cooper DeWitt, Rio Rico, Ariz. $16,324Tie-down Roping1. Marty Yates, Stephenville, Texas $50,4042. J.C. Malone, Plain City, Utah $48,5403. Caleb Smidt, Bellville, Texas $42,5844. Bryson Sechrist, Apache, Okla. $42,2265. Marcos Costa, Childress, Texas $38,7956. Randall Carlisle, Athens, La. $37,3127. Tuf Cooper, Weatherford, Texas $37,1258. Shane Hanchey, Sulphur, La. $36,5049. Matt Shiozawa, Chubbuck, Idaho $32,19910. Hunter Herrin, Apache, Okla. $31,83511. Tyson Durfey, Weatherford, Texas $27,99512. Cody Quaney, Cheney, Kan. $27,93313. Cade Swor, Winnie, Texas $25,12414. Ace Slone, Cuero, Texas $23,17815. Joseph Parsons, Marana, Ariz. $22,84216. Josh Peek, Pueblo, Colo. $21,72417. Tim Pharr, Resaca, Ga. $20,82618. Cory Solomon, Prairie View, Texas $20,06519. Westyn Hughes, Caldwell, Texas $19,72620. Scott Kormos, Teague, Texas $17,171Steer Roping
2. JoJo LeMond, Andrews, Texas $28,4883. Jason Evans, Glen Rose, Texas $25,4694. Troy Tillard, Douglas, Wyo. $22,4825. Tuf Cooper, Weatherford, Texas $21,0716. Tony Reina, Wharton, Texas $19,905
8. John Bland, Turkey, Texas $18,3309. Chet Herren, Pawhuska, Okla. $17,22610. Cody Lee, Gatesville, Texas $16,41611. Garrett Hale, Snyder, Texas $13,16412. Shay Good, Midland, Texas $12,044
14. Chris Glover, Keenesburg, Colo. $11,34015. Roger Branch, Wellston, Okla. $10,66016. Rocky Patterson, Pratt, Kan. $10,30617. Bryce Davis, Ovalo, Texas $9,40118. Trevor Brazile, Decatur, Texas $8,28719. Brodie Poppino, Big Cabin, Okla. $7,790
Bull Riding1. Garrett Smith, Rexburg, Idaho $62,1072. Ty Wallace, Collbran, Colo. $54,0093. Roscoe Jarboe, New Plymouth, Idaho $50,7764. Sage Kimzey, Strong City, Okla. $47,1345. Cole Melancon, Liberty, Texas $40,622
7. Tanner Learmont, Cleburne, Texas $36,1628. Dustin Bowen, Waller, Texas $34,7709. Bayle Worden, Charleston, Texas $32,18210. Tim Bingham, Honeyville, Utah $31,62811. Lon Danley, Tularosa, N.M. $31,047
12. Jordan Spears, Redding, Calif. $29,52813. Trevor Reiste, Linden, Iowa $29,20114. Brady Portenier, Caldwell, Idaho $28,42315. Scottie Knapp, Albuquerque, N.M. $25,87216. Dalan Duncan, Ballard, Utah $25,61217. Jeff Askey, Athens, Texas $23,944
19. Jordan Hansen, Okotoks, Alberta $21,47920. Guthrie Murray, Miami, Okla. $21,044Barrel Racing1. Tiany Schuster, Krum, Texas $111,1802. Kathy Grimes, Medical Lake, Wash. $80,7973. Kassie Mowry, Dublin, Texas $76,5014. Amberleigh Moore, Salem, Ore. $59,6535. Stevi Hillman, Weatherford, Texas $43,7746. Nellie Miller, Cottonwood, Calif. $37,463
8. Taylor Langdon, Aubrey, Texas $36,1129. Carmel Wright, Roy, Mont. $29,94110. Kellie Collier, Hereford, Texas $29,795
12. Jana Griemsman, Piedmont, S.D. $25,81913. Sammi Bessert, Grand Junction, Colo. $24,11414. Ivy Conrado, Hudson, Colo. $23,66015. Jordan Moore, Mauston, Wis. $22,84316. Emily Miller, Weatherford, Texas $22,68617. Carley Richardson, Pampa, Texas $22,630
19. Cayla Small, Bokchito, Okla. $21,25220. Brooke Rix, Skidmore, Texas $21,194
BASEBALLAmerican LeagueDETROIT TIGERS — Optioned RHP Bruce Ron-don to Toledo (IL). Selected the contract of RHP Joe Jimenez from Toledo.NEW YORK YANKEES — Optioned LHP Chasen Shreve to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL).SEATTLE MARINERS — Optioned RHP Chase De Jong to Tacoma (PCL).TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Recalled RHP Dominic Leone from Buffalo (IL).National LeagueLOS ANGELES DODGERS — Acquired RHP Joe Gunkel from Baltimore for a player to be named or cash consideration.ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Optioned RHP Sam Tu-ivailala to Memphis (PCL). Reinstated RHP Trevor Rosenthal from the 10-day DL.SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Optioned LHP Ste-ven Okert to Sacramento (PCL). Reinstated RHP Hunter Strickland from paternity leave.WASHINGTON NATIONALS — -chael A. Taylor from Syracuuse (IL). Placed SS Trea Turner on the 10-day DL.
National Football LeagueBUFFALO BILLS — Signed DE Ian Seau and QB T.J. Yates.
CHICAGO BEARS — Waived DB Tracy Porter.NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Re-signed DL Alan
OAKLAND RAIDERS — Waived DL Demetrius Cherry.PHILADELPHIA EAGLES — Agreed to terms with QB Matt McGloin on a one-year contract.HOCKEYNational Hockey LeagueCAROLINA HURRICANES — Sergey Tolchinsky to Charlotte (AHL).DETROIT RED WINGS — Tomas Nosek and Ben Street and D Robbie Russo to Grand Rapids (AHL).FLORIDA PANTHERS — Reinstated Dale Tallon as general manager. Removed interim coach and general manager Tom Rowe.LOS ANGELES KINGS — -di and coach Darryl Sutter. Named Rob Blake vice president and general manager and Luc Robitaille team president in charge of all hockey and busi-ness operations.NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Aberg from Milwaukee (AHL).NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Blandisi, Blake Coleman, Ben Thomson and Miles Wood to Albany (AHL).NEW YORK ISLANDERS — Ho-Sang and Connor Jones and D Adam Pelech to Bridgeport (AHL) and D Jesse Graham from Missouri (ECHL) to Bridgeport.VANCOUVER CANUCKS — Desjardins and assistant coaches Doug Lidster and Perry Pearn.WASHINGTON CAPITALS —
-steyn to a three-year, entry-level contract.COLLEGEKANSAS —
to the school from Memphis.MICHIGAN — Announced the retirement of hockey
but will not hire agents.NEBRASKA — Jacobson has decided to transfer.NOTRE DAME — Announced women’s basket-
Patberg will transfer.OREGON — Announced sophomore G Tyler Dors-ey will enter the NBA draft and hire an agent.PURDUE —
Swanigan will enter the NBA Draft, but will not hire agents.TCU — Announced RB Trevorris Johnson is
eligibility.UCLA — Announced C Thomas Welsh and G Aaron Holiday will enter the NBA draft, but will not hire agents.
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