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The Sheridan Press E-edition Feb. 24, 2015
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February 24, 2015
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Mraz trial
Sheridan woman
on trial for
felony forgery
Committee
advances school
safety bill
CHEYENNE (AP) — A
state Senate committee has
voted to restore funding to a
bill that would create a new
statewide school safety tip
line.
The Wyoming Tribune
Eagle reports that the
Senate Education
Committee voted 5-0 Monday
to advance House Bill 144
and send it to the Senate
floor.
The panel approved an
amendment that would add
$145,000 for two full-time
positions that the House
removed when it passed the
bill earlier this session.
The legislation would set
up a Safe2Tell tip line, a program first implemented by
Colorado after the 1999
Columbine High School
shootings. It would allow
students to anonymously
report potentially dangerous, violent or criminal
activities.
Safe2Tell would replace
Wyoming’s WeTip hotline,
which lawmakers and state
officials said is ineffective
because it requires little outreach and follow-up efforts.
Safe2Tell would use a 24/7
call center and be administered by a school safety unit
in the Wyoming Division of
Criminal Investigation,
which is part of the attorney general’s office.
The House legislation
includes $225,000 for equipment and support services
and would fund $265,000 for
three full-time positions,
instead of $410,000 for five
positions that the bill originally proposed. The change
was to make it virtually
“revenue neutral,” with the
state eliminating a similar
school safety and security
unit under the Department
of Education.
The Senate Education
Committee agreed to
Attorney General Peter
Michael’s request to have
the two extra positions
restored.
Wyoming Department of
Homeland Security Director
Guy Cameron said the
WeTip hotline has only been
used 200 times in its sevenyear history. Cameron said
the Safe2Tell tip line would
be much more focused on
outreach and make sure that
students know it is available.
Funding will be reviewed
next by the Senate
Appropriations Committee.
It will then need to pass
three readings on the Senate
floor. If that happens, the
House and Senate will need
to reconcile their two versions of the bill.
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Dan Adams, of Helena, Montana, watches the ball come down in a game of handball during the Cowboy Classic
Saturday at the Sheridan County YMCA. More than 30 players from Montana, Colorado and Wyoming came to compete
in the annual tournament that began Friday and ran through Sunday.
SHERIDAN — Miranda
Mraz’s felony forgery trial got
underway Monday in 4th
Judicial District Court.
The jury is comprised of
eight women and five men.
Mraz was arrested in June on
charges of felony forgery and
theft stemming from accusations that she allegedly altered
customer credit card receipts
at the Firewater Grill on Main
Street between November 2013
and January 2014 to give herself larger tips. Her arrest
came only a few days before
the Wyoming Supreme Court
acquitted her on previous theft
charges.
Prosecuting attorney
Christopher LaRosa told the
jury in his opening statement
that the trial was about a
woman who stole money from
restaurant customers until she
was caught.
“This is about a server who
wanted more money, so she
paid herself more using other
people’s money,” LaRosa said.
He advised them to follow the
money when looking into the
evidence.
“These are her customers,
these are her transactions,
these are her tips in her pocket
at the end of her day to her
benefit,” he said.
Defense attorney John
Robinson told the jury there
was more to the story than the
prosecution was telling them.
He said there were red flags in
the form of managers’ discounts on many cash transactions and suggested that perhaps something more was
going on than altered receipts
that Mraz had nothing to do
with.
“The prosecution is telling
you to follow the money,”
Robinson said. “But they don’t
want you to follow all of it.”
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3 Wyoming airports facing steep federal cuts
CASPER (AP) — A nationwide
pilot shortage is affecting Great
Lakes Aviation’s ability to serve several Wyoming airports, reducing
flights, passengers and possibly federal money for capital projects.
The Casper Star-Tribune reported
Monday that Sheridan is one of
three Wyoming airports that boarded fewer than 10,000 passengers last
year. That may trigger a cut from $1
million to $150,000 in federal funding
for capital projects unless Congress
intervenes.
The newspaper reports funds for
Riverton and Cheyenne regional airports are also on the chopping block.
Wyoming lawmakers are considering coming to the rescue for some
projects.
Sen. Mike Enzi introduced a bill
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last month seeking to use 2012 passenger boarding numbers to calculate federal money through 2017. A
similar bill is being considered in
the House.
The 2012 numbers come before federal changes that airlines and industry experts say caused the pilot
shortage and passenger downturn.
Following a 2009 plane crash in
Buffalo, New York, that killed 50 people, Congress increased the required
training hours to fly from 250 hours
to 1,500 hours. The rules took effect
in August 2013.
With fewer pilots available, smaller
regional airlines are cutting back
service to low-traffic airports like
those in Wyoming.
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Wyoming Department of
Education seeks sponsors for
summer food service program
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2015
SCSD2 offers online registration for 2015-16 school year
FROM STAFF REPORTS
SHERIDAN — Officials at the Wyoming Department
of Education are seeking sponsors to participate in the
Summer Food Service Program for the summer of
2015.
Just as learning does not end when school lets out,
the need for good nutrition remains. Children learn
better, behave better and feel better when they aren’t
hungry.
The SFSP helps all children to the age of 18 receive
the nutrition they need to learn, play and grow during
summer months, when they don’t have access to other
school meal programs.
The SFSP is administered at the federal level by the
U.S. Department of Agriculture, while the Wyoming
Department of Education manages it at the state level.
Many Wyoming communities have successfully participated in the program, but there remains a need for
serving sites. The WDE would like to see more communities involved in the effort to help children receive
good nutrition during the summer months.
The SFSP can be a part of a YMCA, Parks and
Recreation, library, church or other private, nonprofit
program.
Summer sites must meet specific criteria regarding
the income eligibility of either children living in the
area or children enrolled in the program at the chosen
site. Information for possible sites in Sheridan can be
obtained through the WDE.
Parties interested in setting up a Summer Food
Service Program feeding site, or seeking more details,
contact Amanda Anderson, Nutrition Programs
Consultant, at 307-777-7168.
Even though summer seems far away, the need for
planning is now.
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Seventh-grade students Lizzy Arnold, left, and Alicia Thoney play a geography game on their Chromebooks during American History
in Renel Ellis’ classroom in October 2014 at Sheridan Junior High School.
FROM STAFF REPORTS
SHERIDAN — While the use of
technology in the classroom continues to expand, parents will also
begin experiencing the benefits of
living in a digital world. Sheridan
County School District 2 will offer
online student registration for the
coming school year.
Previously, high school course
selection and some minor forms like
demographic changes have already
been offered online. Registering a
child for school, though, required
taking a trip to the school to complete paperwork. For parents with
multiple children, this could mean
multiple school visits and repeated
forms.
Now, the entire process has been
moved online with updates made
available on Infinite Campus, the district’s online learning management
system.
As a test of the new system,
kindergarten registration held earlier this month utilized the online documents but the district had the parents do it from their child’s new
school. This was done, in part, to
work out some of the potential bugs
and receive feedback from the parents.
SCSD2 Director of Elementary
Education Scott Stults said the
process went smoothly and will be
rolled out for all levels of students
for the next open registration period.
However, future parents of incoming
kindergarteners will still have to do
their registration at the school.
“I was adamant that the parents
actually come to the building, meeting the staff, get a tour and do that
process on-site,” Stults said.
“Especially with brand new parents,
this could be the first time they’ve
been in the school system.”
Kindergarten registration is also
unique in the district due to the fact
that there are specific times for
kindergarten registration, whereas
registration for upper grades will
remain open online throughout the
summer. As the district never knows
how many kindergarteners are coming in each year, staffing numbers
are determined annually by the
number of students who are registered during the set window, and if
parents don’t register their child
until later there is a possibility of
the first-come first-serve classes
being full.
Additional online advantages being
added include the digital scanning
and permanent storage of paperfiled student documents such as
birth certificates and immunization
records and the ability for students
at Sheridan Junior High School to
select their courses online.
Individual course registration for
current eighth-graders was due yesterday and course selection will open
online for current grades nine
through 11 next week.
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Montana woman
struck and killed
on Wyoming road
GILLETTE (AP) — A 59-year-old
Montana woman who was walking along a
road in Gillette at night was struck by two
vehicles and killed.
Gillette police identified the victim of
the Feb. 19 collisions as Nancy Elizabeth
Morse of Great Falls, Montana.
Lt. Chuck Deaton tells the Gillette News
Record that Morse was walking along the
road when she was hit by a pickup truck.
A second vehicle swerved to avoid hitting
the woman and the truck. A third vehicle
hit the woman.
Deaton says police do not know why
Morse was walking along the road at 11:10
p.m. Thursday.
The drivers involved are cooperating
with the investigation.
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MRAZ: Trial expected to last through the week
FROM 1
Robinson pointed out that the first
complaint against Mraz came in
November, but Mraz was not spoken to
or reprimanded and the complaint
wasn’t taken to anyone in authority.
He told the jury that it was not until
January, when a customer came to
manager Rob Romero with a complaint of a substantial overcharge that
Mraz’s transactions were looked into.
In fact, Robinson said, Mraz had
received two promotions during the
time of the alleged forgeries.
LaRosa’s first witness, Willard
Smathers, said he had been notified by
police that he might have been
defrauded by Mraz during one of his
visits to the Firewater Grill in
November 2013. Because the meal had
been a business lunch, Smathers was
able to provide police with the cus-
tomer copy of a credit card slip he had
received when he paid for his meal.
When LaRosa asked Smathers to
look over a group of exhibits, defense
attorney Chris Wages objected
because the defense had not seen the
exhibits in the way they were being
presented. Fenn had the jury removed
from the courtroom and spoke with
the attorneys in the case.
Wages told the court that he found
LaRosa’s behavior concerning
exhibits “hinky” and suggested
LaRosa was trying to inconvenience
the defense and make their case harder to represent. He accused LaRosa of
noncompliance to orders given during
pretrial conferences and suggested the
binder of exhibits be kept out of the
trial due to that noncompliance.
LaRosa pointed out nothing in the
exhibit package was new evidence,
that only the way it was being present-
ed was new.
Fenn expressed frustration over the
continued difficulties between the
state and the defense concerning
exhibits over the course of pretrial
hearings and into the trial.
LaRosa agreed that the state would
present a copy of the exhibit package
to the defense in the morning and
allowed the defense to re-examine the
exhibits to be used in Smathers’ examination.
The jury returned to the courtroom,
and LaRosa’s direct examination of
Smathers continued with Smathers
identifying copies of his credit card
statement and copies of his credit
card receipts from the meal in question.
After short cross and redirect examinations, court recessed for the day.
The Mraz trial is scheduled to last
through the week.
AIRLINES: Cuts in federal money puts plans on hold
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A nine-passenger Great Lakes flight serves Sheridan
once a day, six days a week. Airport manager John Stopka
said Great Lakes, the only airline serving Sheridan, is losing money on the flights, adding the airport won’t reach
the 10,000-passenger mark this year.
The Sheridan airport could be forced to delay safety projects like replacing lighting and a 20-year-old electric fence
meant to keep out wildlife, according to Christy Yaffa, airport planning and programming manager for the state’s
aeronautics division.
Cheyenne Regional Airport boarded 5,380 passengers in
2014, a 56.4 percent drop from 2013, according to an unoffi-
cial count.
“It is going to hurt immensely,” said Tim Barth, airport
manager, regarding the looming federal cuts.
Cuts in federal money could mean delaying or scaling
back plans to replace an old terminal building next year.
The airport has secured $14 million and needs another $4
million to provide the facility the community deserves,
Barth said.
Other projects that could be affected include replacing
snow removal equipment and fixing pavement.
Sheri Taylor, air service development manager for
Wyoming’s aeronautics division, said her department is
trying to work with other rural states to get Congress talking about the issue.
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Father, son snowmobilers from Minnesota found after overnight search
FROM STAFF REPORTS
BIGHORN MOUNTAINS — Sheridan County Sheriff ’s
Office Lt. Mark Conrad said Monday afternoon that the
father, son pair of snowmobilers who were reported missing Sunday night were found late Monday morning.
Conrad said Corey Gostonczik, 40, and his teenage son,
Cole, had left Bear Lodge Resort at approximately 5 p.m.
Sunday and Sheridan Area Search and Rescue crews were
called out at approximately 11 p.m. Search and rescue
teams from Johnson and Big Horn counties contributed to
the search.
A total of 10 teams, consisting of anywhere between
three and five people, searched for the pair.
At approximately 10:45 a.m. Monday, search teams found
an abandoned snowmobile. Crews convened on that area
Rep. Patton remains
hospitalized in Cheyenne
FROM STAFF REPORTS
SHERIDAN — Rep. John Patton,
R-Sheridan, remains hospitalized
Tuesday due to a setback in his
recovery from a blocked artery
and heart procedure.
Doctors diagnosed the 84-yearold with a lung ailment late last
week, delaying his anticipated discharge from the Cheyenne
Regional Medical Center.
“They’re describing it as a general malady called acute respiratory
distress syndrome, which means
his lungs are inflamed,” Patton’s
and found the second abandoned sled, then the pair
approximately 600 or 700 yards away.
The snowmobilers were near the east-facing side of
Garden of the Gods.
Conrad noted that the Gostoncziks were well, but were
seeking medical attention in Sheridan for their feet, which
had become very wet and cold overnight. The pair are
from New Ulm, Minnesota.
SPD: Easy way to avoid abandoned vehicle notice
BY KELLI HEITSTUMAN-TOMKO
THE SHERIDAN PRESS
SHERIDAN — If you can’t drive it, don’t leave
it on the street.
That is the rule of thumb to avoid finding a
sticker on your vehicle informing you that you
have three days to move it.
A city ordinance states that any junked vehicle
parked on public property — streets, alleys, easements, or rights of way — are subject to removal
after a three-day warning.
In city ordinance terminology, “junked” means
any vehicle that cannot be driven because it is
either inoperable or because you will be pulled
over for expired tags. The word has no bearing
on any other physical condition of the vehicle.
“If you have a junker that is licensed and drivable, you aren’t going to get a notice,” Sheridan
Police Department Lt. Tom Ringley said.
There is, though, a simple way to avoid the
warning if the vehicle is inoperable.
son, Jack, reported.
While Patton’s heart is healing
well from the insertion of a stent
on Feb. 17, doctors have not offered
a timetable for recovery of his
lungs. Patton is wearing a pressure mask full time and remains
in the intensive care unit.
“He is in good spirits,” Jack
Patton added. “He’d like to [go
back to work], but he’s not going to
get out of the hospital until his
lungs are much improved.”
The 2015 legislative session is
expected to conclude March 6.
“Just pull it into the driveway,” Ringley said.
“The fact (the vehicles) are on the street is the
problem, and officers can see them just driving
down the street.”
And the police are not the only people who will
be happy not to have derelict vehicles on the
street. Ringley said that most “abandoned vehicles” are called in by neighbors.
While there are regulations about keeping
junked, wrecked, dismantled or unlicensed vehicles on private property, that is still the best
place for those vehicles that need a quick fix, a
tire change or a license plate before it’s roadworthy again.
“There’s an entire list of definitions for vehicles that might meet exceptions, but they still
have to be on private property and not on the
street,” Ringley said.
Those wanting to check the code for themselves can find it on the city’s website, sheridanwy.net. A hard copy of the municipal code can be
found at City Hall at 55 Grinnell St.
Univ. of Colorado
student dead after
skiing at Breckenridge
Mingling
with DAR
Louise Palm visits with
speaker Lenette Hansen,
right, one of Sheridan's
newest naturalized
American citizens. Palm is
an associate member of
the Sheridan Chapter of
the Daughters of the
American Revolution and
Honorary State Regent in
Montana.
BRECKENRIDGE, Colo. (AP) — A 22-year-old
University of Colorado student is dead after skiing at
the Breckenridge ski area.
Summit County deputy coroner Maggie Cox says
Jacob Koltun died after
skiing an expert area on
Peak 7 and wasn’t wearing a helmet.
She said his death
appears to be an accident but didn’t release
any other details about
what happened.
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WGFD to host
public
meeting on
water project
FROM STAFF REPORTS
CLEARMONT — The Wyoming Game
and Fish Department will host a public
informational meeting to discuss work
associated with lower Clear Creek and the
Kendrick bypass channel Monday at 7 p.m.
in Clearmont.
Fisheries biologist Bill Bradshaw and
aquatic habitat biologist Travis Cundy will
be present to discuss recent fisheries work
in the area.
“We have been doing some interesting
work on lower Clear Creek and lower
Powder River while evaluating the bypass
channel that was constructed in 2010
around Kendrick Diversion dam,”
Bradshaw said. “We want to keep landowners in the area and the public informed of
what we have found and we thought the
best way to do that was to have a public
meeting in Clearmont.”
Bradshaw will give a presentation that
will take about 30 minutes and then there
will be a question and answer session.
The public meeting will be held at the
Clearmont Community Library, located at
1254 Front St.
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Obama faces left-right opposition on trade, military force
WASHINGTON (AP) — Reps.
Barbara Lee and John Fleming are
highly dubious at best about
President Barack Obama’s requests
for enhanced powers to make trade
deals and to deploy the U.S. military.
And that’s like oil and water mixing
easily.
Ideological chasms usually separate
Democrat Lee of California — one of
Congress’ proudest liberals — and
Republican Fleming of Louisiana,
among its staunchest conservatives.
But they personify Congress’ odd leftright coalition that’s complicating
Obama’s bid for two of his priorities.
Like many House Democrats and
Republicans, they reached their positions by different paths. Lee says
trade deals hurt American workers.
And she shares many liberals’ aversion to new wars that seem openended.
Fleming, meanwhile, doesn’t want
to cede more power to Obama on any
front, because he’s still fuming over
the president’s executive actions on
health and deportation policies.
“I’m less willing to give him flexibility in authority than I would most
presidents, Democrat or Republican,
because of his abuse of authority,”
Fleming said.
This left-right union requires
Obama to seek a large centrist coalition in a Congress whose political
“middle” hardly exists anymore.
Many issues, including taxes, spending and immigration, typically split
along partisan lines. Trade and warfare do not.
Liberals back Obama on most
issues, but scores of them feel snakebitten by two events of the past 21
years. They contend the 1994 landmark North America Free Trade Act
(or NAFTA) led to millions of U.S.
jobs going overseas. And they say
Republican President George W. Bush
misled the nation and Congress when
he won approval to invade Iraq in
2003.
Congress voted twice to endorse
Bush’s military goals after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Within
days of the deadly attacks, lawmakers
gave Bush wide leeway to pursue alQaida. And in 2002, Congress
approved Bush’s plan to invade Iraq.
That country’s much-discussed
“weapons of mass destruction”
proved not to exist.
Memories of those votes now hamper Obama’s request for “authorized
use of military force” against terrorists from the so-called Islamic State.
His request would leave in place the
2001 war-making authority, which
many liberals insist on ending.
Lee calls it “an overly broad blank
check” that’s used “to keep us in a
state of perpetual war.”
Trade is another issue that cleaves
many liberals from Obama. Like Bill
Clinton, he’s a Democratic president
who supports free trade despite weak
support from Democratic lawmakers.
Republicans, meanwhile, call themselves a pro-trade party. But dozens of
GOP House members threaten to
oppose the White House’s trade push
because of their animosity toward
Obama, not to trade itself.
Obama wants renewal of “fast
track” authority, which has let past
presidents negotiate trade deals that
Congress can ratify or reject, but not
amend. A strange-bedfellows force
opposes him.
The Communications Workers of
America union, which strongly supports Obama on most issues, is working with conservative Republicans to
thwart him on trade.
Obama “has consistently broken his
trust with the American people on
immigration, health care and foreign
policy, yet he is now asking for
expanded power to negotiate trade
deals,” says a letter distributed by the
union and written by Republican Rep.
David McKinley of West Virginia.
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The question arose after former New
York City mayor Rudy Giuliani told a private audience that he doesn't think Obama
loves America. He further noted that
Obama wasn't raised like him or members
of the audience (conservative business people and assorted media),
which, though probably
true (Obama grew up in
Hawaii and for a time in
Indonesia), wasn't really
the point.
Translated, Giuliani's
observation was to question whether Obama is
really on the home team,
KATHLEEN
specifically when it comes
PARKER
to defeating the Islamic
State. Whether Giuliani
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intended to dredge up the
"otherness" of Obama, a
remnant of the 2008 presidential election,
isn't clear (or likely), the effect was to stoke
long-simmering doubts about Obama's
legitimacy.
To certain people, he is still an alien who
doesn't think the way "we" do and is the
son of a Kenyan anti-colonialist. (Aren't we
all anti-colonialists these days?) The fact
that he also happens to be AfricanAmerican has many viewing Giuliani's
comment as dog whistling to racists, which
probably is not true.
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“We are fighting a war for freedom, fighting a
war to defend all of Europe. To some extent,
the financial package, the support the world is
giving us, is in recognition of that fact that we
are fighting that war.”
— Ukraine’s Finance Minister Natalie
Jaresko.
“Muslims have been here maybe since the
inception of this country. The MuslimAmerican history is rooted even in the forefathers. President Jefferson had a copy of the
Holy Quran.”
— Jaylani Hussein, executive director of the
Minnesota chapter of the Council on
American-Islamic Relations, who believes
“American Muslims here feel maybe more integrated” than in Europe.
“White males have dominated things for so
long that it’s been hard to image an alternative
that would produce or be open to producing the
types of projects that are likely to enlist more
people of color or women. So it becomes a selffulfilling prophecy, this vicious cycle that produces the same type of stuff over and over
again. It’s hard to blame any single institution.
It’s not all the networks. It’s not all the studios.
It’s not all the talent agencies. But together, the
way they all do business, combines to create
this stalemate where we just don’t get past
where we are right now.”
— Darnell Hunt, a UCLA professor and
director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for
African American Studies, who co-authored a
2014 diversity report on the film and TV industries.
“Contrary to the common sentiment, we are
not anti-science. I’m not opposed to medicine,
and I think vaccines have a place. We think it’s
a medical choice, and it should be researched
carefully.”
— Michelle Moore, a businesswoman and
mother who chooses not to vaccinate her children.
Republicans struggle with Obama’s love of country
epublicans seem ceaselessly enamored
of litmus tests, but the newest one —
Do you believe President Obama loves
America? — makes birthers seem witty.
Phillip Ashley
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2015
Still, what he said had a certain familiar
ring to it. And racists will embrace
Giuliani's comments as speaking to them
regardless of what was intended. As a
result, Giuliani not only has tarnished his
own legacy as America's mayor but has
created problems for the Republican Party,
which needed no new reasons for black voters to see them as unwelcoming.
Now, in the litmus test du jour,
Republican presidential candidates are
being forced to indicate whether they agree
with Giuliani and also whether they
believe President Obama is a Christian
who loves his country. Good grief.
To be fair, these questions are coming
from the media, not from the RNC, but litmus-voters are paying attention — and so
are Democrats. It is hard to fathom what
exactly certain Republicans want from
Obama. Tears? A public declaration of
love?
Several years back, some insisted that
Obama wasn't a patriot because he didn't
want to wear a flag lapel pin. This was
absurd on its face. Wear a little flag pin and
we're all good? Refuse to wear one and you
might be a Muslim operative?
Giuliani's comments followed closely on
the heels of Obama's much-criticized
speech at the National Prayer Breakfast,
which did fall short of inspiring, one has
to admit. In his attempt to appear humble,
the president tried to give equal time to our
nation's flaws as he commended its accomplishments, saying:
"Lest we get on our high horse and think
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this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the
Inquisition, people committed terrible
deeds in the name of Christ."
Well now, there's a comparison unlikely
to curry favor among the brethren. This
weird teaching moment might work in an
op-ed piece or in academia, but when the
enemy invokes these very events, we might
want to avoid lending legitimacy to their
justifications for savagery and genocide.
Uniqueness, meanwhile, is irrelevant.
Using history as a guide lest we repeat it is
one thing; it is quite another to essentially
minimize present horrors because, hey,
we've all been bad. Christians aren't currently burning people alive or beheading
them in an attempt to convert the world to
Christianity.
Obama's failed attempt to show the world
how even-handed he is revealed a surprising lack of logic. But this hardly means
that he doesn't "love" America, whatever
that means.
It isn't really so shocking that Obama's
too-careful wording might cause someone
like Giuliani to react strongly in the
moment. The fact that Republicans aren't
eager to distance themselves from the comments suggests that there are enough on
the right who agree with him that a denunciation might be risky.
The first summoned to the interrogatory
was Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, for whom
the dinner was intended when Giuliani
stole the show. Walker has been asked
repeatedly whether he thinks Obama loves
America, an idiotic question that only a
fool would answer except to say,
"Absolutely!"
Instead, Walker grabbed a shovel and
starting digging a hole right next to
Giuliani's. Though he first replied that he
didn't feel he needed to comment on
Giuliani's comments, he later said he doesn't know if Obama is a Christian.
Well, of course he doesn't "know," but
everyone knows what Obama has said. He's
a Christian. I'm no less inclined to believe
the president when he says he's a Christian
than I am to believe Walker when he says
he's one. If either man is a fake Christian,
he has plenty of company, the fact of
which makes very little difference to most
Americans.
This is all politics, in other words, and
Republican candidates need to get smarter.
Litmus tests will keep coming their way,
and anyone seriously considering running
for president needs to know what he thinks
before he's asked. When the camera is running is no time to share one's deliberations.
It seems that Walker could use better
advisers and advance people — and the
president might want to shake up his
speech-writing department. In the meantime, only Giuliani owns his opinions.
Too bad they're so repugnant.
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2010 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary.
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Sheridan Ice
groundbreaking
set for March 4
FROM STAFF REPORTS
SHERIDAN — The nonprofit Sheridan On
Skates officials are inviting the public to the
construction ground breaking for the new
Whitney Rink at the M & M’s Center ice arena.
A brief ceremony will take place at noon
March 4 at the current rink.
There will be a short program sharing project
details and thanking donors. Refreshments, provided by Sheridan College, will follow.
Sheridan On Skates encourages everyone to
join in the celebration of this project — a new
covered ice rink for the community.
For additional information, call 674-2020 or see
www.sheridanonskates.org.
The ice rink is located at 475 E. Brundage St.
FROM STAFF REPORTS
SHERIDAN — The University of
Wyoming World to Wyoming lecture
series will feature Mark Jenkins at 7
p.m. March 11 at the Sheridan Junior
High School Early Auditorium.
Jenkins, from National Geographic
and UW, will present “Vietnam underground: The Viet Cong, spelunkers and
the biggest cave on earth.”
Hidden deep in the jungles of central
Vietnam, on the edge of the Truong
Songwriters in the
round to feature
local artists
Son Mountains, is a network of massive caves. Created by underground
rivers cutting their way through limestone, most of these caves remain unexplored. In the past two decades, a highly accomplished team of British spelunkers have been penetrating ever
deeper into these gigantic caverns.
Jenkins was invited on an expedition
to descend into what would turn out to
be the largest cave ever discovered,
Hang Son Doong. Exploring this cave
was so treacherous and difficult the
FROM STAFF REPORTS
SHERIDAN — Groundloop Records
will present Songwriters in the Round
Saturday from 7-9 p.m. at the Carriage
House Theater.
The event will feature Sarah Sample,
Julie Szewc and Tris Munsick.
Tickets for the event are $12 and are
FROM STAFF REPORTS
SHERIDAN — Eastern
Wyoming College recently
hosted the Wyoming
Academic Challenge. Eight
Wyoming high schools sent
thirteen teams to compete.
The two- to five-member
teams participated in four
rigorous rounds of competition. Questions ranged from
current events to mathematics and literature.
Schools participating were
Big Piney, Cheyenne East,
Douglas, Evanston, Lovell,
Riverside, Sheridan and
Tongue River.
Sheridan placed first with
a total of 795 points. Second
place went to Big Piney with
770 points. Cheyenne East
placed third with 715 points.
Big Piney also won the
small schools division.
The winning teams were
presented with plaques and
medals. Students on the
COURTESY PHOTO |
overall first-place teams
were presented with scholSheridan High School students Maya Gilmore, left, and Lachlan Brennan recently took first place
arships to attend EWC.
at the Wyoming Academic Challenge held at Eastern Wyoming College.
Disney animators win Oscar 2 years in a row
Suzan-Lori
Parks’ trilogy
wins Kennedy
Prize for Drama
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SHS students win Academic Challenge
NEW YORK (AP) — The Walt
Disney Co. proved Sunday that its
power doesn’t only come from Pixar.
For the second year in a row,
Disney Animation won an Academy
Award for best animated feature, as
“Big Hero 6” followed up last year’s
“Frozen” win. The studio’s “Feast”
also won for best animated short.
Neither film is connected to the company’s Pixar unit, which Disney
bought in 2006 for $7.4 billion in
stock. Since then, the Disney Pixar
combo had scooped up most animated
feature Oscars (Paramount’s “Rango”
won in 2011) with blockbusters
including “Finding Nemo,” ‘’Toy
Story 3” and “Brave.” Pixar didn’t
release a film in 2014.
“Big Hero 6” is Disney’s first animated film to take advantage of the
company’s 2009 acquisition of
Marvel. Based on a Marvel Comic,
“Big Hero 6” explores the friendship
that develops between a science-geek
teenager and an inflatable robot. The
win shows that Disney has “deepened
its bench” with the Marvel deal and
2012 acquisition of Star Wars owner
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Lucasfilm, said Seth Shapiro, a professor at the University of Southern
California’s School of Cinematic
Arts.
“Those are game changers, so the
win is not so much a sign necessarily
of Pixar weakening,” he said.
“Big Hero 6” might not have the
fame of “Frozen,” but it has done
very well in theaters. It opened in
November and in just two months
was the 10th top grossing film in
North America for 2014 with $201.5
million. The Oscar win will have a
positive effect on future earnings
power, said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for box-office tracker Rentrak, although the effect is difficult to quantify. It will probably
boost sales internationally, where
“Big Hero 6” is still generating millions in theaters. And likely spur
video and rental revenue, if audiences who haven’t seen the film now
decide to see it or previous viewers
decide they want a repeat viewing.
In general, studios get roughly half
of the theatrical box office after splitting revenue with theaters, he said.
NEW YORK (AP) — Suzan-Lori Parks’
historical trilogy set during the Civil War
has won a theater award honoring the
late U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, one of the
largest prizes given for dramatic writing.
Parks’ “Father Comes Home from the
Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3)” traces the journey
of a slave named Hero, his wife, Penny,
and the best friend he betrayed, Homer.
Spanning a total of three hours, the plays
premiered last fall at the Public Theater
to largely rave reviews. It is the initial
trio in a planned nine-play cycle.
“No matter what, the Oscar win for
“Big Hero 6” brings enormous cachet
and prestige to the title and to Disney
and will live on with the film as parts
of its legacy forever,” he added. “Not
only that, the Oscar will now become
a very effective part of any marketing campaign for the film.”
Animation was the bright spot on
Sunday for Walt Disney Co. Other
Disney properties, including musical
“Into the Woods,” Marvel’s
“Guardians of the Galaxy” and
“Maleficent” were nominated in some
categories but did not win.
Meanwhile, Disney Pixar will be
back in action soon: “Inside Out” and
“The Good Dinosaur” will hit theaters later this year. A sequel to
“Finding Nemo,” called “Finding
Dory,” is due in 2016 and in 2017 the
unit plans to release “Toy Story 4,”
directed by original “Toy Story”
director John Lasseter.
Shares of Burbank, Californiabased Disney rose 55 cents to $105.10
in afternoon trading. The stock has
been up 11 percent since the beginning of the year.
The Edward M. Kennedy Prize for
Drama Inspired by American History
honors a new play or musical that
explores the United States’ past and deals
with “great issues of our day.” Given
every year through Columbia University,
it comes with $100,000.
The winning play Monday beat out four
other finalists: Robert Schenkkan’s “The
Great Society,” Marcus Gardley’s “The
House That Will Not Stand,” and two by
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins — “Appropriate”
and “An Octoroon.”
team actually lived underground for
days to complete the first descent.
In his presentation, Jenkins will take
the audience across Vietnam — a
vibrant country finally thriving after
decades of war — and into the dark
belly of the earth.
The event is free and open to the public.
For additional information, contact
Manuela Hofer-McIntyre at 307-766-3415
or [email protected].
SJHS is located at 500 Lewis St.
available through the WYO Theater box
office, online at wyotheater.com or by
phone at 672-9084. Tickets will also be
available at the door just before the
event.
The WYO Theater box office is located
at 42 N. Main St.
The Carriage House Theater is located
at 419 Delphi Ave.
Big Horn High School
announces Principal’s
Honor Roll
FROM STAFF REPORTS
BIG HORN — Big Horn High School officials recently announced the school’s second-quarter honor rolls.
Those students on the principal’s honor roll earned
at least a 3.5 grade point average and had no grade
below a B.
The following students were named to the Principal’s
Honor Roll.
12th grade
Garrett Allen, Edward Atter, Lyndon Bare, Rebecca
Gilbert, Armando Herrera, Tyrell LaMeres, Christian
Mayer, Elianna Paninos, Paul Quinn, Jack Roberts
11th grade
Bailey Bard, Brice Beisher, Ashlyn Blare, Cassidy
Enloe, Kimble Hendrickson, Maxon Lube, Mazzy Lund,
Haley Madson, Avery McCurry, Kaylin McKinley,
Nathan Motsick, Morgan Nance, Collin Powers, Alyssa
Redinger, Christopher Redinger, Hunter Sersland,
Travis Walker, William Walker
10th grade
Christopher Alzheimer, Colton Bates, Eliza Beisher,
Madison Booth, Barak Broad, Abigail Buckingham,
Ethyn Etchechoury, Zachary Granger, Lydia Mayer,
Nolan McCafferty, Robert Michaud, Kiara Paninos,
Saije Pollard, Andrew Quinn, Andrew Ratty, Brendan
Redinger, Zachary Redinger, Tanner Warder, Andrew
White
Ninth grade
Mallarie Apodaca, Kristen Carlson, Delani
Cunningham, Emma Enloe, Brayton Fox, Gabriel
Gardiner, Koen Gore, Caroline Haile, Miranda
Johansson, Kayla Lee, Jillian Mayer, Nathaniel
McAdoo, Tazmyn Olson, Braeden Sersland, Karsyn
Ulibarri
EDITOR’S NOTE: The BHHS school honor roll will publish in the Feb. 25 edition of The Sheridan
Press.
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TODAY IN HISTORY |
10 things to
know today
FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Your daily look at latebreaking news, upcoming
events and the stories that
will be talked about
Tuesday:
1. STATES USE SECRET
SURVEYS TO REDUCE
PRISON POPULATIONS
An AP investigation finds
that psychological assessments are being used to
determine whether inmates
are likely to commit future
crimes to judge who might
be safe to release—despite
high-profile failures and
uneven application.
2. WHAT A HOMELAND
SECURITY SHUTDOWN
COULD MEAN
Most of the department’s
staff would continue working without being paid
because they are deemed
essential for the protection
of the nation.
3. WHERE RECREATIONAL
POT IS NOW LEGAL
Alaska becomes the third
state to legalize planting
and possession of marijuana as supporters urge lowkey celebrations.
4. FIFA PANEL
RECOMMENDS SHIFTING
2022 WORLD CUP DATES
To avoid Qatar’s brutal
summer heat, the tournament may be held in
November-December under
a tighter schedule, posing
challenges to soccer
leagues in Europe.
5. UKRAINIAN REBELS
CLAIM PULLBACK START
Pro-Russian separatists
say they have begun withdrawing heavy weapons in
line with an international
peace plan to create a
buffer zone in eastern
Ukraine.
6. VA CHIEF APOLOGIZES
FOR MISSTATEMENT
Veterans Affairs
Secretary Robert McDonald
made an erroneous claim
about serving in the military’s special forces.
7. ACTIVISTS: ISLAMIC
STATE KIDNAPS AT LEAST
70 ASSYRIANS
Two monitoring groups
say the militant organization overran a string of villages in northeastern Syria
and captured dozens from
the Christian minority population.
8. RISING GOP STAR
SCRUTINIZED FOR
QUESTIONABLE SPENDING
Illinois Rep. Aaron
Schock doled out thousands
of dollars in taxpayer and
campaign funds for such
things as flights on private
aircraft, the AP determines.
9. NORWAY FACES RUDE
AWAKENING AS OIL PRICE
FALLS
Norwegians, who have
long benefited from their
country’s high oil revenues,
may have to adjust to a new
lifestyle reality.
10. A-ROD SHOWS UP
EARLY FOR WORK
Coming off a season-long
drug suspension, the
Yankee slugger arrives at
spring training three days
ahead of time, acknowledging that he’s “dug a big hole
for myself.”
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Straining for a better view
Ten-year-old Kaitlyn Andersen watches Bob Krumm demonstrate fly tying during a Trout Unlimited class Saturday at the Fly
Shop of the Bighorns.
LOCAL BRIEFS |
FROM STAFF REPORTS
Sagebrush to host artist reception
Thursday
SHERIDAN — The two- and three-dimensional
art by David Jones will be on display at the
Sagebrush Community Art Center through
Friday.
An artist reception for the show titled, “Scale,
Metaphor and Visual Props: Works Addressing
Place,” will be held Thursday from 5-7 p.m.
The Sagebrush Community Art Center is located at 201 E. Fifth St.
VOA to present advanced screening
of ‘Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me’
SHERIDAN — Volunteers of America will present an advance screening of the award-winning
documentary, “Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me” on
Thursday.
The film will begin at 7 p.m. at the WYO Theater.
The documentary is a powerful portrait of the
life and musical legacy of the great American
musical icon known for hits including
“Rhinestone Cowboy,” “Wichita Lineman” and
“Gentle on My Mind.”
Admission to the film is free.
In 2011, when Glen Campbell was diagnosed
with Alzheimer’s disease, he joined forces with
his family to fight the biggest battle of his life. He
and his wife made history by going public with
the diagnosis — the first time a major American
celebrity would share this experience with the
world. The Campbell family then embarked on a
short “Goodbye Tour,” but the three-week engagement turned into an emotional and triumphant
151-show nationwide tour de force.
“We want to raise awareness about a crippling
disease that will become more prevalent with our
large aging population,” said Skye Heeren, VOA
director of development in Wyoming. “Glen
Campbell’s heroic journey is informative and
inspiring.”
Suicide prevention training
set for Thursday
SHERIDAN — The Sheridan County Suicide
Prevention Coalition will offer free training
Thursday from 10 a.m. to noon.
The QPR training will teach individuals to recognize the warning signs of a suicide crisis and
how to question, persuade and refer someone to
help.
Refreshments will be provided.
Space for the training is limited, therefore
organizers ask those planning to attend to sign up
by calling the Sheridan Suicide Prevention
Coalition.
The training will be held at the Sheridan County
Chamber of Commerce training room, located at
171 N. Main St.
For additional information or to sign up for the
training, contact the coalition at 655-8263.
WEDNESDAY EVENTS |
• 6 p.m., Sheridan Ice’s sixth annual Ice Show, Sheridan Ice Rink, 475 E. Brundage St.
• 7:30 p.m., International guitar night, WYO Theater, 42 N. Main St., $26 for adults, $21 for seniors and
students
TIPPED OVER |
Convict in murder plot
that inspired ‘Blind
Faith’ book dies
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A New
Jersey insurance salesman convicted of plotting to kill his wife
in a crime that inspired the bestselling book “Blind Faith” and a
TV movie has died.
New Jersey’s Department of
Corrections said Robert O.
Marshall died Saturday at South
Woods State Prison in southern
New Jersey. Citing privacy rules,
the department didn’t disclose a
cause of death. Marshall was 75.
Marshall was convicted in 1986
of arranging the slaying of his
wife, Maria. She was found shot
to death in a picnic area along
the Garden State Parkway as the
couple returned from a night in
Atlantic City. Prosecutors contended Marshall had his wife
killed so he could collect a $1.5
million life insurance policy.
Marshall was to have appeared
before the state parole board
next month, according to parole
board Chairman James Plousis.
Marshall’s two sons had testified
at a victim impact hearing this
month, Plousis said.
For nearly 20 years, Marshall
was first in line for execution in
New Jersey after the state reinstated the death penalty in 1982.
But his death sentence was overturned in 2004 when a judge
agreed with Marshall that his
defense lawyer had erred by not
calling any witnesses in the
penalty phase of his trial. New
Jersey abolished the death
penalty three years later.
In a 2007 interview with The
Associated Press, Marshall
maintained his innocence and
said he was framed. Referring to
his move from death row to the
prison’s general population,
Marshall said: “You always have
that hanging over your head.
You think your appeals are going
to run out and you’re going to
take the long walk.”
His story was the subject of
Joe McGinniss’ book “Blind
Faith” and a 1990 movie of the
same name.
The case resurfaced last year
when Larry Thompson, who had
been acquitted of being the triggerman by the same jury that
convicted Marshall, confessed to
the crime. In prison in Louisiana
for armed robbery at the time,
he told authorities that witnesses who said he was in Louisiana
when Maria Marshall was killed
were lying or mistaken.
Legendary jazz
musician Clark Terry
dead at 94
NEW YORK (AP) — Legendary
jazz trumpeter Clark Terry, who
mentored Miles Davis and
Quincy Jones and played in the
orchestras of both Count Basie
and Duke Ellington and on “The
Tonight Show,” has died. He was
94.
Terry’s wife announced his
death on his website late
Saturday night. Gwen Terry’s
statement did not provide further details, and she did not
immediately respond to messages from The Associated Press.
“Our beloved Clark Terry has
joined the big band in heaven
where he’ll be singing and playing with the angels,” Gwen
Terry wrote on the musician’s
official Facebook page.
Today's highlight:
On Feb. 24, 1975, the
Congressional Budget Office,
charged with providing independent analyses of budgetary and economic issues,
began operating under its
first director, Alice Rivlin.
On this date:
In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII
issued an edict outlining his
calendar reforms. (The
Gregorian Calendar is the calendar in general use today.)
In 1803, in its Marbury v.
Madison decision, the
Supreme Court established
judicial review of the constitutionality of statutes.
In 1815, American engineer
and inventor Robert Fulton,
credited with building the
first successful commercial
steamboat, died in New York
at 49.
In 1864, the first Union
prisoners arrived at the
Confederates' Andersonville
prison camp in Georgia.
In 1868, the U.S. House of
Representatives impeached
President Andrew Johnson
following his attempted dismissal of Secretary of War
Edwin M. Stanton; Johnson
was later acquitted by the
Senate.
In 1912, the American
Jewish women's organization
Hadassah was founded in New
York City.
In 1920, the German
Workers Party, which later
became the Nazi Party, met in
Munich to adopt its platform.
In 1938, the first nylon bristle toothbrush, manufactured
by DuPont under the name
"Dr. West's Miracle
Toothbrush," went on sale.
In 1946, Argentinian men
went to the polls to elect Juan
D. Peron their president.
In 1955, the Cole Porter
musical "Silk Stockings"
opened at the Imperial
Theater on Broadway.
In 1988, in a ruling that
expanded legal protections for
parody and satire, the
Supreme Court unanimously
overturned a $150,000 award
that the Rev. Jerry Falwell had
won against Hustler magazine
and publisher Larry Flynt.
In 1990, magazine publisher
Malcolm Forbes died in Far
Hills, N.J., at age 70. Fifties
balladeer Johnnie Ray died in
Los Angeles at age 63.
Ten years ago: Pope John
Paul II underwent an operation to insert a tube in his
throat to relieve breathing
problems, hours after being
rushed to the hospital for the
second time in a month with
flu-like symptoms.
Five years ago: Testifying
before Congress, Toyota CEO
Akio Toyoda apologized personally and repeatedly to the
United States and millions of
American Toyota owners for
safety lapses that had led to
deaths and widespread recalls.
Trainer Dawn Brancheau was
dragged to her death by a
killer whale, Tilikum, at
SeaWorld in Orlando, Fla.
One year ago: Despite
Western pressure, Ugandan
President Yoweri Museveni
signed an anti-gay bill that
punished gay sex with up to
life in prison. Writer-directoractor Harold Ramis, 69, died
in Glencoe, Ill. "Late Night
with Seth Meyers" premiered
on NBC.
Today's birthdays: Actor
Abe Vigoda is 94. Actor Steven
Hill is 93. Actress
Emmanuelle Riva is 88. Actorsinger Dominic Chianese is
84. Movie composer Michel
Legrand is 83. Opera singerdirector Renata Scotto is 81.
Singer Joanie Sommers is 74.
Former Sen. Joseph
Lieberman, I-Conn., is 73.
Actor Barry Bostwick is 70.
Actor Edward James Olmos is
68. Singer-writer-producer
Rupert Holmes is 68.
Thought for today: "The
house of every one is to him
as his castle and fortress, as
well for his defence against
injury and violence as for his
repose." — Sir Edward Coke,
English jurist (1552-1634).
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SHERIDAN FIRE-RESCUE
Monday
• Structure fire, 600 block Canby
Street, 5:40 a.m.
• Smoke investigation, 1700 block
Sugarland Drive, 7:04 p.m.
• Rocky Mountain Ambulance
assist, 50 block Linden Avenue, 7:43
p.m.
10:02 a.m.
• Custody dispute, Warren Avenue,
10:13 a.m.
• Dog at large, Canby Street, 10:50
a.m.
• Hit and run, Coffeen Avenue, 12:51
p.m.
• Dog at large, Industrial Drive,
12:52 p.m.
• Dog at large, Dunnuck Street, 1:03
p.m.
• Harassment, North Main Street,
1:05 p.m.
• Damaged property, Sparrow Hawk
Road, 1:08 p.m.
• Dog at large, Fifth Avenue East,
3:06 p.m.
• Child abuse (cold), East Works
Street, 3:28 p.m.
• Dog at large, Martin Avenue, 3:45
p.m
• Animal cruelty, East 11th Street,
5:28 p.m.
• Reckless driver, Works Street, 5:55
p.m.
• 911 hang up, Wyoming Avenue,
6:29 p.m.
• Smoke investigation, Sugarland
Drive, 7:01 p.m.
• Warrant service, Coffeen Avenue,
7:15 p.m.
• Suspicious circumstance, Fifth
Street, 7:26 p.m.
ROCKY MOUNTAIN
AMBULANCE
Monday
• No reports available at press time.
SHERIDAN MEMORIAL
HOSPITAL
Monday
• No admissions or dismissals
reported.
SHERIDAN POLICE
DEPARTMENT
Information in the police reports is
taken from the SPD website.
Monday
• Structure fire, South Canby
Street, 5:39 a.m.
• Medical, Avon Street, 7:11 a.m.
• Accident, Coffeen Avenue, 7:20
a.m.
• Abandoned vehicle, South Elk
Street, 8:50 a.m.
• Dog at large, Skeels Street, 8:51
a.m.
• Dog at large, South Gould Street,
9:08 a.m.
• Agency assist, Coffeen Avenue,
8:16 a.m.
• Dog violation, Swaim Road, 9:04
a.m.
• Theft (cold), Kyle Drive, 2:15 p.m.
• Fraud, Ponderosa Drive, Banner, 6
p.m.
• Suspicious circumstance, Lane
Lane, 8:34 p.m.
• Motorist assist, Red Grade Road,
11:39 p.m.
ARRESTS
Names of individuals arrested for
domestic violence or sexual assault
will not be released until those individuals have appeared in court.
Monday
• Christopher Ryan Sittner, 23,
Sheridan, probation violation/revocation, district court, arrested by
SPD
• Shaliena Marie Lee, 18, Buffalo,
out of county bench warrant (contempt of court), out of county court,
arrested by SPD
JAIL
Monday
Daily inmate count: 61
Female inmate count: 8
Inmates at treatment facilities (not
counted in daily inmate count): 0
Inmates housed at other facilities
(not counted in daily inmate count): 3
Number of book-ins for the previous day: 2
Number of releases for the previous day: 3
SHERIDAN COUNTY SHERIFF’S
OFFICE
Monday
• Theft (cold), H Street, Ranchester,
MARRIAGES AND DIVORCES |
Marriage licenses
issued and recorded by
the Sheridan County
clerk’s office in January:
• Jason Lee Peles, 44,
Williston, North Dakota,
and Rebecca Lynn Butler,
35, Williston, North
Dakota, Jan. 5
• Walter Marino De Leon,
53, Sheridan, and Dania
Elizabeth Castillo, 32,
Sheridan, Jan. 12
• Megan Danielle
Brumfield, 26, Gillette, and
Colt Weston Hamaker, 25,
Gillette, Jan. 15
• Killian Christopher
Leetch, 21, Sheridan, and
Lynn Therese Strandwitz,
28, Sheridan, Jan. 15
• Susan Marie
Rockafellow, 34, Sheridan,
and Travis Ray Lemarr, 32,
Sheridan, Jan. 21
• Anthony Thomas
Christensen, 43, Sheridan,
and Traci Sue Kroger, 47,
Sheridan, Jan. 22
• Joseph Daniel Schoen,
38, Sheridan, and Shannon
Dianne St. Martin, 39,
Sheridan, Jan. 23
• Toni Rae Blue Shield,
60, Vernal, Utah, and
Garland Lee Not Afraid, 61,
Pryor, Montana, Jan. 26
Divorces granted in
January in 4th Judicial
District Court (plaintiff
v. defendant):
• Robert W. Laird v.
Deanna N. Kreusel, Jan. 7
• Russell Borzenski v.
Christina Marie Borzenski,
Jan. 7
• Nicholas Todd Ekel III v.
Lauren Lee Ekel, Jan. 8
• Stacy Ruth Lindberg v.
Travis David Lindberg,
Jan. 12
• Timothy J. Varilek v.
Paula A. Varilek, Jan. 15
• Rita Irene Taylor v.
Bruce Glenn Taylor, Jan. 29
WYOMING BRIEFS |
Wyoming committee
hears constitutional
convention bills
Casper woman reaches
plea agreement
in child abuse case
CHEYENNE (AP) — A Wyoming
legislative committee has endorsed a
nonbinding bill calling on Congress
to amend the United States
Constitution to authorize congressional votes on whether to approve
federal regulations.
The Senate Rules and Procedures
Committee postponed action Monday
on other measures that would add
Wyoming to the growing list of
states calling for a constitutional
convention to consider a balanced
budget amendment to the
Constitution.
The committee heard hours of testimony on the balanced budget proposals before Senate President Phil
Nicholas, a Laramie Republican,
adjourned the committee. He said it
would come back Wednesday morning to take action on the bills.
Nicholas expressed concern that
any constitutional convention must
WEDNESDAY
Death in Laramie County
ruled a suicide
CASPER (AP) — A Casper woman
accused of burning, shaking and suffocating a child last September
reached a plea agreement on the day
her trial was to begin.
The Casper Star-Tribune reports
25-year-old Stephanie Shirts pleaded
guilty Monday to two counts of child
abuse, one count of aggravated child
abuse and two counts of child endangerment with methamphetamine.
Under the plea agreement, Shirts
can be sentenced to up to 20 years in
prison.
Shirts was charged with rolling a
hot saucepan on a 14-month-old girl’s
face, forcefully shaking her and suffocating her with a blanket because
she wouldn’t stop crying. The girl
CHEYENNE (AP) — The Laramie
County coroner’s office has ruled a
34-year-old man whose body was
found behind a Cheyenne-area steakhouse died of suicide.
Officials had said David Pease died
of a stab wound to the chest that
pierced his heart.
A co-worker at T-Joe’s Steakhouse
and Saloon went looking for Pease
when he didn’t show up for work on
Feb. 14. They found his body outside
his trailer at an RV park behind the
restaurant. Officers found a large
knife nearby.
Employees said they had last seen
Pease late on Feb. 13.
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Kristen Elaine (Ellefson) Madson
Kristen Elaine (Ellefson) Madson, 52, of Ranchester, passed
away on Monday, February 23, 2015, at the Sheridan
Memorial Hospital.
Online condolences may
be
written
at
www.kanefuneral.com.
Kane Funeral Home has been entrusted with arrangements.
OBITUARY |
Marie Jorgensen
March 9, 1924 - February 19, 2015
Marie who was born the ninth of ten
children on March 9, 1924, a few miles west
of Upton, Wyoming, was called Home to be
with the Lord on Thursday February 19,
2015.
The daughter of Harry and Mae Ellis,
Marie
Marie was married to Wallace Jorgensen
on October 8, 1940. Wallace preceded her in
Jorgensen
death on September 24, 2001, just 2 weeks
shy of their 60th anniversary.
She lived in and raised their family mostly in the Upton
area later moving to Saratoga, then to Sheridan, most recently living in Montana with family. Having accepted the Lord as
her personal Savior in 1955, she became active in the First
Baptist Church in Upton where she was the head cook at
Bible camp for many summers.
Preceding her in passing were all of her brothers and sole
sister, her husband and son Carl. Two sons, LeRoy of Texas
and Dean of Montana, eight grandchildren and several greatgrandchildren, survive her.
Viewing will be held at Kane Funeral Home, 689 Meridian,
Sheridan, WY, on Friday, February 27, from 12:30 until 1:30
P.M. Followed by a Graveside Service at 2:00 in the Sheridan
Municipal Cemetery. Please come and share your memories
of Marie. All who knew her will sorely miss her.
May she Rest in Peace.
Online condolences may
be
written
at
www.kanefuneral.com.
Kane Funeral Home has been entrusted with arrangements.
CORRECTIONS |
The score reported in Monday’s edition of The
Sheridan Press for the Saturday’s boys basketball game
between Big Horn High School and Tongue River High
School was incorrect. The game ended with a final score
of 50-48 in favor of the Tongue River Eagles. The Press
regrets the error.
The number of Sheridan High School wrestlers who
finished in first-place reported in Monday’s edition of
The Sheridan Press was incorrect. Of the 17 Sheridan
High School wrestlers heading to the state tournament,
four were first-place finishers at regionals. Trenten Heil
took home the title in the 113 class to join Hayden
Hastings (152), Kerry Powers (220) and Tory Music (hvwt)
as regional champions. The Press regrets the error.
In Monday’s story “Crews respond to an early morning
fire,” the address reported for the structure fire was
incorrect. The house is located in the 600 block of Canby
Street. The Sheridan Press regrets the error.
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was taken to Children’s Hospital
Colorado with bleeding in her brain
and eyes.
District Judge Catherine Wilking
will sentence Shirts in about eight
weeks. She remains jailed on
$250,000 bond.
give each state a single vote, not
afford votes according to state population. Wyoming is the least populous state.
Della M. Cahoy, 74, of Sheridan, passed away on Monday,
February 23, 2015, at the Sheridan Manor.
Online condolences may
be
written
at
www.kanefuneral.com.
Kane Funeral Home has been entrusted with arrangements.
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www.thesheridanpress.com
Key lawmaker, vets group leader
disappointed in VA secretary
WASHINGTON (AP) — A key committee chairman and the head of the American Legion have
expressed disappointment with Veterans Affairs
Secretary Robert McDonald, who admitted misstating that he served in the military’s special forces.
McDonald has apologized after making the erroneous claim while speaking to a homeless veteran
last month.
Michael Helm, national commander of the
American Legion, the largest veterans service
organization, said Tuesday McDonald’s comment
was especially disappointing because he leads a
department trying to restore trust following a
nationwide scandal over long wait times at VA
health centers and falsified records covering up
delays.
House Veterans Affairs Chairman Jeff Miller of
Florida said McDonald must “redouble” efforts to
ensure that his statements, and others by VA leaders, are “completely accurate.”
Teaching fly tying techniques
JUSTIN SHEELY | THE SHERIDAN PRESS
Bob Krumm demonstrates a fly tying technique for tying an Olive Wooly Bugger during the Trout Unlimited Fly Tying class
Saturday at the Fly Shop of the Bighorns.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2015
Bone and joint
doctors fly across
Wyoming to offer care
LARAMIE (AP) — Dr. Mark McKenna watches from a cruising
altitude of 11,000 feet as dawn breaks over Wyoming’s plains.
The landscape below is flat, brown and vast — cast in long shadows, creased and riven in watercourses flowing off the Laramie
Range.
“Once you clear the mountains, it’s definitely a different terrain,” said the Premier Bone and Joint Centers orthopedic surgeon. “You can watch the sun rise over the course of the flight.”
McKenna rides in a Beechcraft King Air C90A. Guided by Pilot
Cody Diekroeger, the twin-engine turboprop sails quietly through the air, its nose pointed for Torrington.
Registered Nurse Abra O’Brien sits across from
McKenna, and Lisa Sinicki, Premier Bone and Joint
travel staff, rides alongside Diekroeger in the cockpit.
The team is preparing for a long day, one which
began before their roughly 6:50 a.m. takeoff from
Laramie Regional Airport; one which would take
McKenna
them to clinics in both Torrington and Casper, where
McKenna would see some 50 patients, as well as perform one bicep surgery in Casper; and one which would have the
entire team back in Laramie by about 7 p.m. — more than 12
hours after departure.
Sitting in the plane’s leather chair, O’Brien said she doesn’t
mind flying all over the state on a day-to-day basis.
“Traveling breaks up your week a little bit,” she says. “It’s not
the same thing every day.”
McKenna and crew are part of one of the most unique orthopedic practices in the country.
Based in Laramie, Premier Bone and Joint flies eight specialized physicians to 11 towns and cities throughout the state. On
any given day, as many as four of the practice’s Beechcraft King
Airs could be aloft in Wyoming skies, whisking doctors and nurses to satellite clinics in places as far flung as Gillette and Rock
Springs, or as small as Wheatland, Torrington and Douglas.
“There’s not another group like this, that does what these guys
do,” Thomas Wolfe, Premier Bone and Joint CEO, said of the
practice. “How they work within the entire state — no other state
has this. Other groups might have one plane, but not four. This
practice is the biggest of its kind.”
Breadth and scale are not the only distinctive features of the
practice, which owes its existence to a sort of symbiotic relationship between the physicians and their patients throughout the
state.
‘There’s not another group like this, that does
what these guys do.’
Thomas Wolfe
Kerry: Russia has lied about its activities in Ukraine
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Secretary of State John Kerry
says Russia has lied “to my face
and the face of others on many
different occasions” about its
activities in Ukraine.
Kerry told a Senate
Appropriations subcommittee
on Tuesday that Russia is
engaged in the biggest propa-
ganda exercise that he’s seen
since the height of the Cold War.
He says Russia has repeatedly
furthered “misrepresentations
— lies — whatever you want to
call them” about its activities
there.
Russian President Vladimir
Putin denies arming rebels in
the war in eastern Ukraine,
which has killed more than 5,600
people and forced over a million
to flee their homes. The fighting
began in April, a month after
Russia annexed the mostly
Russian-speaking Crimean
Peninsula.
Kerry wouldn’t say whether he
favors giving Ukraine lethal
weapons.
McConnell: Strip immigration issue from Homeland budget bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Senate’s top Republican shifted
tactics Tuesday to try to free up
stalled legislation to fund the
Department of Homeland
Security in advance of a Friday
midnight deadline.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell, R-Ky., moved to disentangle contested immigration
measures from the Homeland
Security budget and debate the
issues separately.
McConnell took procedural
steps to take up stand-alone legislation to reverse President Barack
Obama’s November orders to
allow millions of immigrants in
the country illegally to live and
work in the U.S. McConnell would
leave in place a 2012 directive that
allows immigrants brought to the
U.S. illegally as children to
remain in the country.
“As long as Democrats continue
to prevent us from even debating
that bill, I’m ready to try another
way,” McConnell said.
But he again ran into opposition
from Minority Leader Harry Reid,
D-Nev., who demanded the
Homeland Security budget pass
first before any immigration
debates.
“We’re eager to debate immigration now or any other time,” Reid
said. “But... we can’t do that until
we fully fund the Department of
Homeland Security. We’ve been
saying that for four weeks.”
Tuesday’s developments did little to clear up the impasse over
immigration that is threatening to
partially shut down the Homeland
Security Department within days.
There’s growing sentiment among
Senate Republicans — especially
in the wake of last week’s decision by a federal judge to halt
Obama’s most recent moves on
immigrations — to move beyond
the impasse.
A key vote could come Friday on
the stand-alone immigration
measure, which would likely push
the Homeland Security budget
past a midnight deadline, though
speculation was growing that a
short-term budget measure might
prevent a shutdown.
McConnell’s move appeared
aimed at pressuring Senate
Democrats who have opposed the
legislation because the immigration language is included. It also
would allow Republicans who
oppose Obama’s executive actions
on immigration to register their
opposition with a stand-alone vote
on a separate measure.
But McConnell left unclear how
he would get the department’s
funding bill passed ahead of
Friday’s midnight deadline to
fund the department or see it shut
down.
“This proposal doesn’t bring us
any closer to actually funding
DHS, and Republicans still have
no real plan to achieve that goal,”
said Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.
“It’s a disgrace that ISIS and alShabab are fully funded, but
thanks to Republican game-playing, the Department of Homeland
Security might not be.” ISIS is one
acronym for the Islamic State militant group that has taken over
much of Iraq and Syria. Over the
weekend, a video purported to be
released by Somalia’s al-Qaidalinked rebel group al-Shabab
urged Muslims to attack shopping
malls in Western countries.
After last week’s federal court
ruling putting Obama’s immigration programs on hold, a growing
number of Senate Republicans
argued for letting the immigration fight play out in court, and
passing a “clean” bill to fund
Homeland Security, free of the
language on immigration.
House conservatives, by contrast, said the court developments
only strengthened their resolve to
use the Homeland Security budget
to fight Obama on immigration.
They remained adamantly
opposed to a funding bill that
doesn’t include language blocking
Obama on immigration, and also
said they would not support a
short-term extension of current
funding levels.
It was unclear whether
McConnell would succeed in
breaking the unity of Senate
Democrats, who held together for
a fourth time Monday night to
block debate on the House bill
that funds the department
through the Sept. 30 budget year,
while also overturning Obama’s
moves granting work permits to
millions in the U.S. illegally.
“It’s another way to get the
Senate unstuck from a Democrat
filibuster and move the debate forward,” McConnell said on the
Senate floor after the vote to
advance the House-passed bill
failed 47-46, short of the 60 votes
needed. Three previous attempts
earlier in the month had yielded
similar results.
McConnell’s move came after
Obama warned the nation’s governors that states would feel the economic pain of a Homeland
Security shutdown, with tens of
thousands of workers in line to be
furloughed if the agency shuts
down at midnight Friday, and
many more forced to work without pay.
“It will have a direct impact on
your economy, and it will have a
direct impact on America’s
national security,” Obama told
governors as they visited the
White House as part of their
annual conference.
Premier Bone and Joint CEO
On the one hand, a city the size of Laramie could never support
nine highly specialized doctors, Wolfe said.
To find a group with this degree of fellowship training, one
would have to go to a big city, such as Denver or Salt Lake City.
But by expanding care to Wyoming’s near 600,000 residents, the
market is large enough to support the specialized group.
On the other hand, the physicians’ willingness to fly all over the
state grants patients access to specialized care in their hometowns — orthopedic treatment they wouldn’t otherwise receive
without traveling outside of Wyoming.
Premier Bone and Joint’s roots date back to 1973, when David A.
Kieffer opened his orthopedic practice in Laramie. He was joined
in 1976 by Robert Curnow, and the duo renamed the practice Gem
City Bone and Joint.
Over the years, the doctors grew their practice, changed the
name to Premier Bone and Joint and began offering care in other
cities.
In the early years, doctors ran sorties to satellite clinics in a
hired limo. In time, however, it became apparent too many hours
were wasted commuting doctors to and fro on the roads, and, in
the winters, blizzards and ice-sheathed highways made the trips
harrowing and unpredictable.
The partners decided they needed a plane, and the Beechcraft
King Air proved worthy of the task.
Today, the practice employs four pilots and more than 120
administrative and clerical staff. It operates locally out of a 33,000
square-foot building in east Laramie, owns clinics in Rock
Springs and Casper and rents space to treat patients in nine other
locations.
The net effect, Diekroeger said, is a practice covering roughly
three-fourths of Wyoming’s 97,814 square miles.
The backbone of the operation is the doctors, each of whom is a
partner in the practice. Seven are highly specialized orthopedic
surgeons, focusing on a range of subspecialties covering the
entire body — from the neck, back and spine, to joints, shoulders
and knees.
The eighth physician, Michael Kaplan, specializes in non-operative spinal care and interventional spine management — special
methods for treating spinal issues without surgery.
“I challenge you to find another group — in a town of this size
— that has this degree of expertise and advanced, fellowship
training and diversity,” Kaplan said of the doctors.
At about 7:25 a.m. Feb. 3, the plane touches down in Torrington,
a city of about 6,500.
During the approach, Diekroeger uses his smartphone to
remote-start the Premier Bone and Joint vehicle parked at the
Torrington Airport — a warming convenience during cold winter
months.
Diekroeger drives the team to the clinic, a medical office building. They operate out of three rooms, McKenna consulting with
patients, O’Brien and Sinicki checking them in. On this day, a
busy one, 30 patients make the roster. Scrolling through the schedule, O’Brien explains the patients come from all over the area:
Guernsey, Fort Laramie, Lingle and Lusk as well as Mitchell and
Potter, Nebraska.
One of McKenna’s early patients is Jackson Reifschneider, 17, a
Torrington High School student who hurt his knee playing football.
McKenna examines the knee, asking Reifshneider questions and
prompting him to take his knee through a series of movements.
Then he offers three suggestions: Work with the pain through
therapy, get an MRI to determine the extent of the damage or take
injections for the pain.
Reifshneider’s father, Patrick, indicates his son might play football again next season.
McKenna suggests the MRI would likely be the best idea.
“If it was my kid, that’s would I would do,” he says.
The Reifshneiders schedule an MRI for the following week in
Torrington.
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LOCAL BUSINESS BRIEFS |
FROM STAFF REPORTS
Kennon names Wright
CEO
SHERIDAN — Kennon
Products, Inc. has named Joe
Wright as chief executive officer.
Wright, who previously
served as executive vice president for Kennon, succeeds Ron
Kensey, the company’s founder
and previous CEO. Wright
holds a bachelor’s degree in
industrial engineering from
Montana State University and
is a licensed Professional
Engineer. He joined Kennon in
February 2010.
Prior to his employment at
Kennon, he worked for UPS in
many different states over the
span of 13 years, serving within
the company’s engineering and
operations functions. Wright
grew up in Montana. He and
his wife, Alyssa, have been married 17 years and have a son,
Austin and a daughter,
Gabriella.
Kensey started Kennon in
1984. The company moved from
California to Sheridan in 1989.
This year, Kensey established
an Employee Stock Ownership
Trust to begin transferring
ownership of the company to
its employees. Kennon currently employs 38 people.
"Joe has demonstrated exceptional leadership at Kennon
and previously at UPS,” Kensey
said of the change in leadership. “Our company is growing
and I'm confident that Joe has
the ability and support of his
team to further improve and
advance the company into the
future. It's an exciting environment, one which I'll continue to
be a part of, but ever so grateful
to transfer responsibility and
authority to one as capable as
Joe.”
Landon’s to host
workshop on indoor
gardening
SHERIDAN — Landon’s
Greenhouse and Nursery will
host a free workshop Saturday
beginning at 11 a.m. on the
adventures of indoor gardening.
Houseplants add so many benefits to homes but sometimes
can be a tad overwhelming.
The workshop will include
discussion on the basics of
growing houseplants including
light, temperature, watering
and pest issues.
Landon’s will also be hosting
its weekly farmers market from
9-11 a.m.
A prize drawing will be held
directly after the workshop for
those who call and pre-register
for Saturday’s workshop. Call
672-8340 to sign up, or stop by
the greenhouse at 505 College
Meadows Drive.
More information about
Landon’s workshops can be
found online, at www.landonsgreenhouse.com.
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Transition to Ridley’s Family Market to occur next week
BY MIKE DUNN
THE SHERIDAN PRESS
SHERIDAN — Officials say customers and employees of the
Sheridan Safeway should hardly
see the difference when the transition to Ridley’s Family Market
takes place next week.
Due to the merger between
Safeway and Albertson’s in 2014,
four Wyoming Safeway stores,
including the Sheridan store
located on Coffeen Avenue, will
be transformed into Ridley’s
Family Markets. The official
change in ownership of the
Sheridan store will take place on
Monday.
“[The Sheridan store] is the
first of four stores we are buying
from Safeway,” said Mark Ridley
owner of Ridley’s Family
Market.
Ridley’s is not expected to
change the existing store’s layout
or services.
“There is going to be a lot of
the same people, the same products,” Ridley said. “There are
going to be a lot of similarities
between the two stores.”
Long-term plans for the store
include introducing more bakery
items, made-from-scratch deli
items and possibly more organic
foods. Safeway brand items will
be removed from the store. All of
the current departments, including the pharmacy, bakery and
meats will remain in the new
Ridley’s Family Market.
Steve Ralston, store manager of
the Sheridan Safeway and soonto-be store manager of Ridley’s
Family Market said his customers have mostly been excited
about the transition to Ridley’s.
“Most of them are pretty excited about the change because
change always brings new
MIKE DUNN | THE SHERIDAN PRESS
Current Safeway manager Steve Ralston, left, and Mark Ridley, owner of Ridley's Family Market, said they expect a
smooth transition to new ownership. Ridley’s Family Market bought the Sheridan store and is expected to take over
ownership next week.
things. I think they are looking
forward to it,” Ralston said.
The news of the change in
ownership has been mostly positive for his employees as well,
Ralston said.
Upon Mark Ridley’s arrival in
Sheridan, Ridley’s corporate and
management teams have been in
the process of hiring people to
work at Ridley’s.
With around 40 people currently working at Safeway, most of
the people hired are current
employees of the Safeway, Ridley
said. Wages and benefits for
those employees will remain
approximately the same once the
change of ownership takes place.
“Our pay scale is very competitive with the market,” Ridley
said. “It’s comparable, if not
higher, than the pay scales of
Safeway.”
Current Safeway employees
were a part of the United Food
and Commercial Union. Ridley
said none of his current stores
are unionized and he is unsure if
the Safeway employees plan to
maintain their union status.
“It’s all pretty much the same,”
Ralston said. “We are going to
continue to operate a grocery
store the same as we did before.
We will continue to try to provide the best fresh items for customers as we can.”
Other locations being purchased by Ridley’s include stores
in Casper and Laramie. Ridley’s
Family Market, headquartered in
Jarome, Idaho, employs around
2,000 people in 24 stores primarily operating in Utah and Idaho.
Ridley’s also has two Wyoming
stores located in Pinedale and
Kemmerer.
Colorado oil, gas debate resumes as task force finishes up
DENVER (AP) — A battle over who should
regulate oil and gas drilling in Colorado has
roared back to life, just as a task force that
was supposed to help settle the dispute is finishing up its recommendations.
The 21-member task force has been
wrestling with how much power local governments should have to regulate drilling,
how to protect the rights of surface owners
when someone else owns the minerals underground, and what health and safety restrictions should be imposed.
The panel is scheduled to take final votes
Tuesday and submit its long-awaited recommendations to Gov. John Hickenlooper on
Friday.
Hydraulic fracturing opponents are
announcing a renewed campaign to ban the
practice in Colorado. Meanwhile, the
Republican-controlled state Senate last week
passed a bill to penalize cities that try to
restrict the technique — though the measure
isn’t expected to survive the Democrat-controlled House.
Similar battles are playing out in other
states, but it’s especially intense in Colorado,
which has abundant oil and gas, a deep-rooted belief in property rights and a strong
environmental movement.
Among the recommendations that might
have enough support to get into the final
report are allowing local governments to
impose stricter rules than the state and giving surface property owners more of a say in
where drilling rigs can be set up.
A proposal to require full disclosure of
drilling chemicals had less support in preliminary votes. Backers also withdrew a proposal to increase the minimum distance between
rigs and houses, citing a lack of support.
‘I think that Coloradans rightly expect
industry to be responsible, they rightly
expect the state to enforce regulations on
the industry...’
Frank McNulty
Former state lawmaker
The task force isn’t considering a ban on
hydraulic fracturing, like the one in New
York state. But a new group called
Coloradans Against Fracking is launching a
campaign against the practice on Tuesday.
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, pumps
water, sand and chemicals under high pres-
sure to break up underground formations
and release oil and gas.
“We believe that the task force recommendations fail to address the inherent harms of
fracking and similarly will fail to protect
Coloradans,” said Sam Schabacker, regional
director of Food & Water Watch and one of
the organizers of Coloradans Against
Fracking.
Compounding the debate, some drilling rigs
are working at the doorstep of residential
neighborhoods, triggering complaints about
non-stop noise and lights and raising fears
about potential health effects and pollution.
Hickenlooper set up the task force in
August in a deal that kept four divisive measures off the November ballot. Two would
have restricted drilling and two would have
encouraged it.
Frank McNulty, a Republican and former
state lawmaker who was a primary backer of
the pro-industry measures, said he expects
the debate to be settled by voters, not the task
force.
“I think that Coloradans rightly expect
industry to be responsible, they rightly
expect the state to enforce regulations on the
industry. But I also know Coloradans benefit
from having a strong oil and gas industry in
the state,” he said.
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2015
Grizzlies beat Clippers 90-87 behind Conley and Green
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Memphis
Grizzlies are on a roll with Jeff Green.
The Los Angeles Clippers aren’t the same
without Blake Griffin.
When the teams got together, they played a
grind-it-out style better suited to the Grizzlies
than the high-flying Clippers, whose fourgame winning streak ended with a 90-87 loss
Monday night.
Mike Conley scored 18 points, Jeff Green
added 16 and Marc Gasol had 14 to help the
Grizzlies improve to 15-3 since Green joined
the team on Jan. 12.
“We just grind, play hard, play defense and
play together,” said Zach Randolph, who had
10 rebounds. “There’s nothing pretty about it.
We don’t have any high-fliers. We always play
A-Rod
back early
with
Yankees
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Alex
Rodriguez reported to the
New York Yankees three
days ahead of schedule. He
spoke for 8 1/2 minutes
about his season-long drug
suspension.
But on his first day back
with the team since
September 2013, he never
said why he resumed the
use of performance-enhancing drugs, never explained
what he did and avoided getting into any specifics.
“I cringe when I look at
some of the things I did,”
Rodriguez said, surrounded
by about 40 reporters on the
sidewalk outside the
Yankees minor league complex. “No mistake that I
made has any good answer,
no justification. It’s unexplainable, and that’s on me.
I’ve dug a big hole for
myself. Paid a price.”
New York asked him to
hold a pre-spring training
news conference at Yankee
Stadium, but Rodriguez
declined. The Yankees told
him they didn’t want him
holding one at Steinbrenner
Field, where they felt it
would be a distraction.
So Rodriguez improvised.
Wearing a green
University of Miami sweatsuit, he arrived at
Steinbrenner Field on
Monday morning for his
physical, three days before
the first workout for
Yankees’ position players.
Shortly before 1 p.m., he
showed up at the minor
league complex, a little less
than 1 mile away, carrying
what appeared to be a tan
bat box.
After changing into
Yankees’ shorts, a T-shirt
and a spring training cap,
Rodriguez worked out for
about an hour. He hit six
home runs in 71 swings and
took grounders at shortstop.
Yankees manager Joe
Girardi and general manager Brian Cashman say
Chase Headley will be their
starting third baseman and
Rodriguez will compete for
at-bats at designated hitter.
Rodriguez called Headley
an “excellent addition” to
the team. Rodriguez did not
take grounders at first base.
“I’m willing to try,” he
said. “When Joe needs me,
I’m going to be ready. I’m
here early, trying to get a
jump-start. It’s a process.
It’s going to take time.”
Suspended for violations
of baseball’s drug agreement and labor contract,
Rodriguez apologized to
team officials during a meeting at Yankee Stadium on
Feb. 10 and to fans in a statement last week. His handwritten statement to fans
offered no details.
the same way, so it didn’t matter if Blake was
out there or not.”
It did to the Clippers, who still had their
other late-game option in Chris Paul. But he
lost the ball with 1.9 seconds left and bent over
with his hands in his head.
“All I could think about was if I was watching at home this dummy didn’t even get a shot
up,” said Paul, who had 30 points and 10
rebounds. “I didn’t execute on that last play.
You try to thrive in those situations and for
that to happen, it’s tough.”
Memphis led by eight before the Clippers
scored seven in a row to close to 88-87. After
Conley stripped Paul, he got fouled and made
both. The game ended with Matt Barnes
throwing the ball into the hands of Courtney
Lee.
“We like to wrap teams up with both hands
and put them down in the mud,” Gasol said.
“That’s where we feel more comfortable.”
Jamal Crawford added 15 points off the
bench for the Clippers.
No surprise that it was a tight game between
the teams who’ve met in the playoffs twice in
the last three years. Neither led by more than
eight points and there were 12 lead changes
and 11 ties. The teams will meet again Friday
in Memphis.
The Clippers fell to 4-2 without the injured
Griffin, and have lost both meetings with the
Grizzlies this season. DeAndre Jordan finished with nine points — well under his 20.8
average without Griffin — and 17 rebounds.
Athletes
OF THE WEEK
Athletes of the Week are selected by The Sheridan Press sports reporters.
Tiana Hanson Hayden Hastings
Sheridan College - Basketball
Hanson
• Hanson had 30 points, 15 rebounds,
two steals and two blocks in a win
over Gillette.
• She shot 16-of-18 from the
free-throw line against Gillette.
• She finished with 15 points and nine
rebounds against Miles CC.
Sheridan High School - Wrestling
• Hastings won the regional
championship in the 152 weight class.
• He won four matches on his way to
the title. Three were by pinfall.
• He defeated Gillette’s Logan
Wagoner (Dec. 8-4) in the title
match.
Hastings
Stanford
starts spring
trying to
regain
reputation
STANFORD, Calif. (AP) —
There is no momentum
from a major bowl berth, no
satisfaction from surprising
skeptics and no sugarcoating the challenge ahead for
Stanford.
For the first time in five
years, the Cardinal kicked
off spring practice Monday
night the way so many other
programs do: out to show
they belong among the country’s best after a season that
fell short of expectations.
“I love it,” Stanford coach
David Shaw said. “There’s a
hunger right now. As much
as we try not to worry about
what other people say about
us, it’s nice when people
talk about our conference
and don’t talk about us. Our
guys get a little upset. I
think that’s great. Because
the bottom line is you have
to prove yourself every
year.”
Stanford routed its final
three opponents —
California, UCLA and
Maryland in the Foster
Farms Bowl — to finish 8-5
last season, which not long
ago would’ve been considered a success on The Farm.
But nobody around here
will praise that kind of
record these days, not after
winning the Pac-12 title the
previous two years and
making a BCS bowl the previous four.
Shaw is as curious as anybody to see if the Cardinal
can carry their late-season
surge over to spring practices, voluntary summer
workouts and fall Saturdays
and re-establish the program as a College Football
Playoff contender.
“Both extremes, you get a
chance to see what kind of
character you have,” Shaw
said. “When you have a lot
of success, you get a chance
to see if guys come back and
still work. When you don’t
have success, you don’t
reach your goals the year
before, you want to see if
guys are hungry and want
to come back and reach
those goals.”
SEE REPUTATION, PAGE B8
David Ortiz:
‘My belly
hasn’t grown
like Panda’
FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — Big Papi arrived at
spring training with a weighty quip about new teammate Pablo Sandoval.
“My belly hasn’t grown like Panda,” David Ortiz said
Tuesday, joking about new Boston Red Sox teammate
Pablo Sandoval.
Ortiz, the final player on the 40-man roster to report,
wore black-framed glasses and was dressed in a black
T-shirt with black jeans. He gave hugs and handshakes
to many of his teammates and front office personnel.
“It’s like that every year, I think, everybody anticipates him showing up,” Boston pitcher Clay Buchholz
said. “When he does, it’s usually with a new haircut
and different shoes and different pants, but he always
comes in looking like David Ortiz, and that’s the best
part about him. Everybody loves being around him
and loves him being around in general. He’s just a
good guy to have in your clubhouse.”
Signed as a free agent in 2003, the 39-year-old Ortiz is
the longest-tenured player on the Red Sox.
A career .285 hitter with 466 homers and 1,533 RBIs,
Ortiz joined Hall of Famers Ted Williams and Carl
Yastrzemski last season as the only three players with
400 homers while playing for the Red Sox.
Ortiz is the only player who was part of Boston’s
World Series winning teams in 2004, ‘07 and ‘13.
The 2013 World Series MVP is entering his 19th season in the majors and his 13th with the Red Sox.
SC signs two players for soccer teams
FROM STAFF REPORTS
SHERIDAN — The Sheridan College
soccer program has added two players for
the 2015 season.
Dustin Gaskill has signed to play for
Jeff Hallenbeck’s men’s soccer team next
season at Sheridan College. Gaskill is a
midfielder and striker from Show Low,
Arizona.
Kendall Bright officially joins the
Gaskill
Sheridan College women’s soccer team as
the first player to commit for the class of 2015. Bright
comes from Eugene, Oregon, where she played goalkeeper for Willamette High School.
After displaying great confidence in goal during
the Sheridan College Soccer Players Camp, Sheridan
head coach Stefan Skillman is excited to start the
2015 class with her.
“We are very excited to have Kendall play for us
next year,” Skillman said. “She is a very confident
goalkeeper. She brings a great amount of playing
experience with her and a desire to learn.”
Bright plans on studying dental hygiene at
Sheridan College.
COURTESY PHOTO |
Kendall Bright signs her letter of
intent to play soccer at Sheridan
College.
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James Hahn finds no substitute for desire and hard work
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The next two
months suddenly are loaded with perks
James Hahn never imagined.
His victory Sunday at Riviera gives him a
two-year exemption on a PGA Tour that
took him a decade to reach. He qualified
for two World Golf Championships. He’s
going to the Masters for the first time.
What’s more, his wife is expecting their
first child in three weeks.
But like so many other players who toiled
like Hahn, winning is sweeter when looking back, not forward.
“Came from a small town. Didn’t do well
in college. Was never an All-American.
Sold shoes for a living,” he said, reciting a
journey that sounded more back roads
than Autobahn. “And then just one day, the
putts started going in and I started playing
a little better. Won a couple of golf tournaments, and now I’m here.”
If only it were that simple.
Hahn, born in South Korea and raised in
the Bay Area, walked through the locker
room at Riviera and saw portraits of the
past champions. It’s an impressive collection, ranging from Ben Hogan to Byron
Nelson, from Johnny Miller to Tom
Watson, from Fred Couples to Phil
Mickelson.
None of them ever worked at Nordstrom.
“I sold a lot of shoes,” Hahn said with a
smile, the silver trophy from the Northern
Trust Open at his side. “I was pretty good
at it.”
Golf was a little harder.
He tried the mini-tours. He played one
year in South Korea, two more in Canada,
trying to find his way. What he remembers
distinctly is a tournament in Edmonton,
Alberta, where he had about $200 in his
wallet and was asking himself if it was
worth the effort.
And that’s when he questioned his own
effort.
“I’m sitting there in my room,” he said.
“I’ve got to borrow money to pay for my
caddie fee. It was a little embarrassing. I
was going to borrow money from my parents to get a flight home. And I’m sitting
there on the computer going on Craigslist
and I start looking for jobs. It kind of hit
me like, ‘Hey, you have an opportunity to
do something with your life.’ And I was
just wasting it, hanging out with friends,
partying on the weekends. I wasn’t putting
in the time.”
Perhaps it was that honesty that cleared
his mind and allowed him to finish in the
top 10 that week. He recalls making around
$3,000, which felt closer to $1 million. When
he returned to Edmonton a year later, he
won.
“I thought I was a millionaire,” he said.
“I was like, ‘Dinner’s on me, guys. Got
$1,000 in my bank account. Don’t worry
about.’ Seeing exactly a year ago where I
was and how much work I put into it, and
to be able to play golf at that point ... that
was a big, big goal of mine, just to keep
playing golf.”
He has more in the bank account now.
Hahn rolled in a 25-foot birdie putt on the
third extra hole at Riviera — the par-3 14th
— to beat Dustin Johnson and Paul Casey
in a playoff. Hideki Matsuyama, Jordan
Spieth, Keegan Bradley and Sergio Garcia
all missed the playoff by a shot.
He earned $1.26 million, and when someone asked if it felt like a million, Hahn
quickly corrected him.
“No, it is $1 million. It’s not like $1 million,” he replied with that easy smile.
He spent Wednesday afternoon on the
practice range trying to hit 60-yard wedges
into small nets because it reminded him of
his days as a kid. That came in handy with
a flop shot over the back bunker on No. 10
that set up a birdie and allowed him to stay
in the playoff with Johnson.
And the rain that hit Riviera over the
final two hours? More memories of his
road to winning.
“I love the rain, absolutely love it,” he
said. “Not to be spiritual about it, but I feel
like it’s God’s way of just washing the
streets and making everything fresh again.
Because that’s what happens in the Bay
Area when we get a lot of rain. The streets
are clean, spotless.”
SCOREBOARD |
PRO RODEO LEADERS |
Pro Rodeo Leaders
By The Associated Press
Through Feb. 22
All-around
1. Trevor Brazile, Decatur, Texas $34,858
2. Steven Dent, Mullen, Neb. $15,185
3. Josh Peek, Pueblo, Colo. $11,124
4. Clayton Hass, Terrell, Texas $8,762
5. Tuf Cooper, Decatur, Texas $6,622
Bareback Riding
1. Tim O’Connell, Zwingle, Iowa $20,860
2. Ryan Gray, Cheney, Wash. $16,404
3. Luke Creasy, Lovington, N.M. 16,267
4. Tyler Nelson, Victor, Idaho $15,232
5. David Peebles, Redmond, Ore. $14,012
6. Bobby Mote, Stephenville, Texas $11,561
7. Kaycee Feild, Spanish Fork, Utah $11,117
8. Kash Wilson, Gooding, Idaho $10,660
9. Seth Hardwick, Laramie, Wyo. $9,927
10. Steven Dent, Mullen, Neb. $9,042
11. Austin Foss, Terrebonne, Ore. $8,394
12. George Gillespie IV, Hamilton, Mont. $8,165
13. Clint Cannon, Waller, Texas $7,512
14. Tilden Hooper, Carthage, Texas $7,397
15. Ty Taypotat, Regina, Sask. $6,634
16. Bill Tutor, Huntsville, Texas $6,312
17. Winn Ratliff, Leesville, La. $6,164
18. Zachariah Phillips, Casper, Wyo. $5,909
19. Evan Jayne, Marseille, France $5,498
20. Jake Vold, Ponoka, Alberta $5,440
Steer Wrestling
1. Ty Erickson, Helena, Mont. $16,575
2. Adam Strahan, McKinney, Texas $14,708
3. Baylor Roche, Tremonton, Utah $14,663
4. Kyle Irwin, Robertsdale, Ala. $13,555
5. Dirk Tavenner, Rigby, Idaho $13,192
6. Matthew Mousseau, Hensall, Ontario $12,216
7. Beau Clark, Belgrade, Mont. $11,139
8. Tyler Pearson, Louisville, Miss. $10,017
9. Austin Courmier, Oakwood, Texas $8,627
10. Darrell Petry, Cheek, Texas $7,348
11. Hunter Cure, Holliday, Texas $6,864
12. Tanner Brunner, Ramona, Kan. $6,752
13. Trevor Knowles, Mount Vernon, Ore. $6,579
14. Josh Peek, Pueblo, Colo. $6,434
15. Sterling Lambert, Fallon, Nev. $6,251
16. Nick Guy, Sparta, Wis. $6,102
17. Dakota Eldridge, Elko, Nev. $5,946
18. Blake Knowles, Heppner, Ore. $5,773
19. Luke Branquinho, Los Alamos, Calif. $5,440
20. Charles Harris, Salinas, Calif. $5,257
Team Roping (header)
1. Clay Tryan, Billings, Mont. $17,654
2. Trevor Brazile, Decatur, Texas $16,619
3. Jesse Stipes, Salina, Okla. $16,440
4. Doyle Hoskins, Chualar, Calif. $13,637
5. Matt Sherwood, Pima, Ariz. $12,510
6. Riley Minor, Ellensburg, Wash. $12,076
7. Tyler Wade, Terrell, Texas $11,428
8. Charly Crawford, Prineville, Ore. $10,786
9. Erich Rogers, Round Rock, Ariz. $9,318
10. Clint Summers, Lake City, Fla. $9,096
11. Chad Masters, Cedar Hill, Tenn. $8,397
12. Bubba Buckaloo, Caddo, Okla. $7,766
13. Cale Markham, Vinita, Okla. $7,630
14. Coleman Proctor, Pryor, Okla. $7,614
15. Jake Cooper, Monument, N.M. $7,572
16. Aaron Tsinigine, Tuba City, Ariz. $6,791
17. Jake Barnes, Scottsdale, Ariz. $5,822
18. Caleb Smidt, Bellville, Texas $5,738
19. Travis Bounds, Grand Junction, Colo. $5,715
20. Joel Bach, Mount Vernon, Texas $5,606
Team Roping (heeler)
1. Jade Corkill, Fallon, Nev. $17,654
2. Patrick Smith, Lipan, Texas $16,619
3. Billie Jack Saebens, Nowata, Okla. $15,340
4. Kinney Harrell, Marshall, Texas $12,548
5. Quinn Kesler, Holden, Utah $12,510
6. Brady Minor, Ellensburg, Wash. $12,076
7. Shay Carroll, La Junta, Colo. $10,786
8. Cory Petska, Marana, Ariz. $9,318
9. Brad Culpepper, Sylvester, Ga. $9,096
10. Buddy Hawkins II, Columbus, Kan. $8,891
11. Travis Graves, Jay, Okla. $8,397
12. Matt Kasner, Cody, Neb. $7,968
13. Jake Long, Coffeyville, Kan. $7,614
14. Tyler McKnight, Wells, Texas $7,572
15. Russell Cardoza, Terrebonne, Ore. $6,296
16. Junior Nogueira, Scottsdale, Ariz. $5,822
17. Joe Roderick, Loma, Colo. $5,715
18. Tommy Zuniga, Centerville, Texas $5,606
19. Travis Woodard, Stockton, Calif. $5,571
20. Wyatt Cox, Arroyo Grande, Calif. $5,423
Saddle Bronc Riding
1. Cody DeMoss, Heflin, La. $29,085
2. Joe Lufkin, Sallisaw, Okla. $18,794
3. Spencer Wright, Milford, Utah $17,035
4. Taos Muncy, Corona, N.M. $14,201
5. Chad Ferley, Oelrichs, S.D. $12,392
6. Clay Elliott, Nanton, Alberta $9,686
7. Bradley Harter, Loranger, La. $9,318
8. Curtis Garton, Kaitaia, New Zealand $8,578
9. Rusty Wright, Milford, Utah $8,560
10. Heith DeMoss, Heflin, La. $8,386
11. Chuck Schmidt, Keldron, S.D. $8,148
12. Jesse Bail, Camp Crook, S.D. $8,130
13. Jesse Wright, Milford, Utah $7,437
14. Layton Green, Meeting Creek, Alberta $7,309
15. Brady Nicholes, Hoytsville, Utah $7,057
16. Cort Scheer, Elsmere, Neb. $6,948
17. Rusty Allen, Eagle Mountain, Utah $6,902
18. Steven Dent, Mullen, Neb. $6,143
19. Cole Elshere, Faith, S.D. $6,117
20. Sam Spreadborough, Snyder, Texas $6,033
Tie-down Roping
1. Monty Lewis, Hereford, Texas $22,033
2. Sterling Smith, Stephenville, Texas $17,494
3. Hunter Herrin, Apache, Okla. $15,290
4. Chase Williams, Stephenville, Texas $15,242
5. Cory Solomon, Prairie View, Texas $15,168
6. Jordan Ketscher, Squaw Valley, Calif. $12,454
7. Dane Kissack, Spearfish, S.D. $11,873
8. Timber Moore, Aubrey, Texas $11,846
9. Trevor Brazile, Decatur, Texas $10,287
10. Blair Burk, Hermiston, Ore. $9,308
11. Matt Shiozawa, Chubbuck, Idaho $8,468
12. Adam Gray, Seymour, Texas $8,178
13. Marcos Costa, Childress, Texas $8,002
14. Clint Nyegaard, Victoria, Texas $6,843
15. Ace Slone, Cuero, Texas $6,644
16. Michael Perry, Bandera, Texas $6,462
17. Joe Keating, Sour Lake, Texas $6,190
18. Cade Swor, Winnie, Texas $6,104
19. Clint Robinson, Spanish Fork, Utah $6,040
20. Houston Hutto, Tomball, Texas $6,018
Steer Roping
1. Scott Snedecor, Fredericksburg, Texas $13,708
2. Vin Fisher Jr., Andrews, Texas $9,194
3. Trevor Brazile, Decatur, Texas $7,952
4. Jason Evans, Huntsville, Texas $7,301
5. Landon McClaugherty, Tilden, Texas $6,805
6. Mike Chase, McAlester, Okla. $4,764
7. Rocky Patterson, Pratt, Kan. $3,989
8. Walter Priestly, Robstown, Texas $3,920
9. Roger Branch, Perkins, Okla. $3,888
10. JoJo LeMond, Andrews, Texas $3,484
11. Chance Kelton, Mayer, Ariz. $3,356
12. Randy Wells, Cisco, Texas $3,257
13. J.B. Whatley, Gardendale, Texas $2,650
14. Cody Lee, Gatesville, Texas $2,542
15. Trey Sheets, Cheyenne, Wyo. $2,427
16. Tuf Cooper, Decatur, Texas $2,390
17. Marty Jones, Hobbs, N.M. $2,363
18. J.P. Wickett, Sallisaw, Okla. $2,049
19. Guy Allen, Santa Anna, Texas $2,034
20. Kim Ziegelgruber, Edmond, Okla. $2,003
Bull Riding
1. Parker Breding, Edgar, Mont. $20,027
2. Brett Stall, Detroit Lakes, Minn. $17,319
3. Zeb Lanham, Sweet, Idaho $16,975
4. Brennon Eldred, Sulphur, Okla. $15,965
5. Wesley Silcox, Santaquin, Utah $15,422
6. Caleb Sanderson, Kissimmee, Fla. $14,921
7. Clayton Savage, Yoder, Wyo. $13,629
8. Dustin Bowen, Waller, Texas $12,690
9. Nile Lebaron, Weatherford, Texas $12,021
10. Casey Huckabee, Grand Saline, Texas $10,086
11. Cain Smith, Pendleton, Ore. $10,084
12. Reid Barker, Comfort, Texas $10,066
13. Ardie Maier, Timber Lake, S.D. $10,064
14. Jacob O’Mara, Baton Rouge, La. $10,063
15. John Jacobs, Little Eagle, S.D. $9,952
16. Kanin Asay, Powell, Wyo. $9,912
17. Dylan Vick Hice, Escalon, Calif. $9,758
18. Joe Frost, Randlett, Utah $9,694
19. Shane Proctor, Grand Coulee, Wash. $8,518
20. Trevor Kastner, Ardmore, Okla. $8,437
Barrel Racing
1. Sarah Rose McDonald, Brunswick, Ga. $21,578
2. Megan Johnson, Deming, N.M. $19,683
3. Fallon Taylor, Collinsville, Texas $17,591
4. Alexa Lake, Richmond, Texas $17,269
5. Layna Kight, Ocala, Fla. $17,192
6. Victoria Williams, Kiln, Miss. $15,960
7. Kelly Tovar, Rockdale, Texas $15,375
9. Callie Duperier, Boerne, Texas $15,289
8. Shelby Herrmann, Stephenville, Texas $13,282
10. Shelly Anzick, Livingston, Texas $12,087
11. Jana Bean, Fort Hancock, Texas $11,629
12. Kali Parker, Fort Wendell, Texas $11,601
13. Benette Little, Ardmore, Okla. $10,675
14. Cassidy Kruse, Gillette, Texas $10,478
15. Jennifer Mosley, Palm City, Fla. $9,920
16. Megan Swint, Lithia, Texas $9,836
17. Chloe Hoovestal, Helena, Texas $9,512
18. Kenna Squires, Fredonia, Texas $9,312
19. Carmel Wright, Roy, Mont. $9,225
20. Morgan Breaux, Tomball, Texas $9,000
NBA |
National Basketball Association
By The Associated Press
COURTESY PHOTO |
SHS freshman basketball team wraps up season
The Sheridan High School ninth-grade boys basketball team defeated Sage Valley Junior High School to win the 2015 Harry
Geldien League Conference Tournament Saturday in Casper. The team finished its season with a 17-4 record. Pictured, back row
from left, are head coach Mark Elliott, Abraham Ross, Brayden Lee, Drew Mavrakis, Connor Jorgenson, Bryce Taylor, Aaron
Woodward, Blayne Baker and assistant coach Ben Phillips. Front row from left, are Aaron Sessions, Kyle Custis, Noah Erickson
and Kirby Coe-Kirkham.
All Times EST
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
W
L
Pct
Toronto
37
19
.661
Brooklyn
23
31
.426
Boston
21
33
.389
Philadelphia
12
44
.214
New York
10
45
.182
Southeast Division
W
L
Pct
Atlanta
44
12
.786
Washington
33
23
.589
Miami
24
31
.436
Charlotte
22
32
.407
Orlando
19
39
.328
Central Division
W
L
Pct
Chicago
36
21
.632
Cleveland
35
22
.614
Milwaukee
31
25
.554
Detroit
23
33
.411
Indiana
23
33
.411
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Southwest Division
W
L
Pct
Memphis
40
14
.741
Houston
38
18
.679
Dallas
38
20
.655
San Antonio
34
22
.607
New Orleans 29
27
.518
Northwest Division
W
L
Pct
Portland
36
19
.655
Oklahoma City 31
25
.554
Utah
21
34
.382
Denver
20
36
.357
Minnesota
12
43
.218
Pacific Division
W
L
Pct
Golden State 43
10
.811
L.A. Clippers 37
19
.661
Phoenix
29
28
.509
Sacramento
19
35
.352
L.A. Lakers
14
41
.255
___
Monday’s Games
Miami 119, Philadelphia 108
New Orleans 100, Toronto 97
Chicago 87, Milwaukee 71
Houston 113, Minnesota 102
Boston 115, Phoenix 110
Brooklyn 110, Denver 82
GB
—
13
15
25
26½
GB
—
11
19½
21
26
GB
—
1
4½
12½
12½
GB
—
3
4
7
12
GB
—
5½
15
16½
24
GB
—
7½
16
24½
30
Utah 90, San Antonio 81
Memphis at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.
Tuesday’s Games
Golden State at Washington, 7 p.m.
Cleveland at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.
Indiana at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.
Toronto at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.
Wednesday’s Games
Miami at Orlando, 7 p.m.
Dallas at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m.
New York at Boston, 7:30 p.m.
Brooklyn at New Orleans, 8 p.m.
Charlotte at Chicago, 8 p.m.
Philadelphia at Milwaukee, 8 p.m.
Washington at Minnesota, 8 p.m.
L.A. Clippers at Houston, 8 p.m.
Phoenix at Denver, 9 p.m.
L.A. Lakers at Utah, 9 p.m.
Memphis at Sacramento, 10 p.m.
San Antonio at Portland, 10:30 p.m.
22. VCU
21-6
182
25
23. Butler
19-8
165
19
24. San Diego St. 22-6
117
—
25. Providence
19-8
72
—
Others receiving votes: Georgetown 58, Michigan
St. 56, Murray St. 42, Oklahoma St. 25, Ohio St. 12,
Valparaiso 10, Texas A&M 8, Rhode Island 3,
Stephen F. Austin 2, Oregon 1, Texas 1.
NCAA TOP 25 |
Record
Pts
Prv
1. UConn (34)
26-1
850
1
2. South Carolina 25-1
807
2
3. Baylor
26-1
786
3
4. Notre Dame
25-2
750
4
5. Maryland
24-2
699
5
6. Tennessee
23-3
692
6
7. Oregon St.
25-2
635
7
8. Louisville
23-3
618
8
9. Florida St.
25-3
574
9
10. Arizona St.
24-4
515
12
11. Mississippi St. 25-4
483
14
12. Texas A&M
22-6
464
15
13. Kentucky
19-7
414
11
14. Princeton
25-0
401
16
15. North Carolina 22-6
400
17
16. Duke
19-8
361
10
17. Iowa
21-6
263
13
18. Chattanooga 24-3
246
20
19. Stanford
20-8
217
18
20. Rutgers
20-7
164
19
21. Florida Gulf Coast25-2 143
22
22. George Washington24-3 101
24
23. Syracuse
20-8
86
25
24. California 21-7
78
—
25. Northwestern21-672
—
Others receiving votes: Seton Hall 44, Minnesota
33, South Florida 30, Nebraska 28, James Madison
18, DePaul 16, Green Bay 16, Oklahoma St. 9,
Texas 9, Dayton 7, Oklahoma 6, Ohio St. 4, W.
Kentucky 4, Quinnipiac 2, Wichita St. 2, Gonzaga 1,
NC State 1, Washington 1.
The Women's Top Twenty Five
The Associated Press
The top 25 teams in The Associated Press'
women's college basketball poll, with first-place
votes in parentheses, records through Feb. 22, total
points based on 25 points for a first-place vote
through one point for a 25th-place vote and last
week's ranking:
The Top Twenty Five
The Associated Press
The top 25 teams in The Associated Press' college
basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Feb. 22, total points based on
25 points for a first-place vote through one point for
a 25th-place vote and last week's ranking:
Record
Pts
Prv
1. Kentucky (65)
27-0 1,625
1
2. Virginia
25-1 1,526
2
3. Gonzaga
28-1 1,471
3
4. Duke
24-3 1,448
4
5. Wisconsin
25-2 1,390
5
6. Villanova
25-2 1,306
6
7. Arizona
24-3 1,228
7
8. Kansas
22-5 1,111
8
9. Notre Dame
24-4 1,109
10
10. N. Iowa
26-2 1,032
11
11. Wichita St.
25-3
930
13
12. Iowa St.
20-6
887
14
13. Utah
21-5
876
9
14. Maryland
22-5
695
16
15. North Carolina 19-8
655
15
16. Oklahoma
19-8
622
17
17. Louisville
21-6
613
12
18. Arkansas
22-5
564
18
19. Baylor
20-7
473
20
20. West Virginia 21-6
453
23
21. SMU
22-5
357
21
Columbia hires former Penn coach Bagnoli to lead lowly Lions
NEW YORK (AP) — Columbia has hired Al Bagnoli, who
retired as Penn’s coach 13 weeks ago after a long and successful run with the Quakers, to try to revive the Ivy
League’s worst football program.
Columbia announced the hiring of Bagnoli on Monday.
The 62-year-old Bagnoli was at Penn for 23 years, won nine
Ivy League titles and had an overall record of 148-80,
including 112-49 in the conference. Penn had six undefeated seasons in the Ivy League and three perfect seasons
under Bagnoli.
Bagnoli stepped down after last season, handing the head
coaching job to defensive coordinator Ray Priore and moving into an athletic administration job at Penn. Bagnoli’s
NCAA WOMEN’S TOP 25 |
last league title came three seasons ago, but his last two
teams combined to win six games.
“He is a proven winner whose record speaks for itself —
and who teaches his student-athletes to win on the field, in
the classroom and in life,” athletic director Peter Pilling
said in a statement. “We are thrilled that he has decided to
commit his widely admired leadership to building the
long-term success of Columbia football.”
Pilling, a former vice president at the sports marketing
firm IMG College, was hired by Columbia earlier this
month.
Bagnoli is scheduled to be introduced at a news conference on campus Tuesday.
2015 Adult CoEd Volleyball League
Trying to find a way to kick start your Spring Fitness Routine? What
about something that’s fun and gets you out off the couch? Sheridan
Recreation District is taking Registrations for Co-Ed Volleyball
starting February 9th through March 6th. Divisions are
Co-Recreation “Upper” and Co-Recreation “Lower” with games
being held on either Tuesday or Thursday nights (depending on
league) thru the month of May. Upper will have a league end
tournament and awards, where as the Lower will only have a season
end champion with awards with no tournament. The cost for Upper
is $210.00 and cost for Lower is $160.00. There will be a Managers
Meeting February 25th at 6:00pm at Sheridan Jr. High School. All
teams that are represented will receive a $10.00 discount on their
team fees.
Contact Robbie Spencer at the Sheridan Recreation District
office at 674-6421 for more information.
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DEAR ABBY: I have been
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years. It's my second marriage. My problem is I never
see her. She has always spent
more time with her mother
than with me. We see each
other for about an hour a day
after she returns from her
mom's, usually at 9:45 to 10
p.m.
I have had several conversations about this with her
over the years, but nothing
seems to work. We'll argue
and she starts to cry, and it
ends without a resolution.
Her mother is in her mid-80s
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Carla has a sister who
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Driver for loading and
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to Ed DeTavernier
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Manager
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pment.com or stop in at
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County
Implement 2945 West
5th Street Sheridan
ROCK STOP SUBWAY
& CONVENIENCE
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carpenter helpers for
temporary summer
employment from May
to September. Must
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Possibility of
permanent
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benefits based on
performance. Apply at
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www.
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.com. No phone calls
please. EOE.
NOW TAKING
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cooks, Servers w/ exp.
& Host/ hostesses.
Morning & eve. shifts
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Delivery problems?
Call 672-2431
IMMEDIATE
OPENINGS Housekeeping.
Experience
preferred. Top
wages. Apply in
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Hampton Inn.
TRUCKS AND SUV’S
Storage Space
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following extra duty
positions available.
*BHHS
Volleyball
Head Coach
*TRHS
Volleyball
Head Coach
Please complete the
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(found
on
district
website) and return it
to Brandi Miller b m i l l e r @
sheridan.k12.wy.us
If you have position
specific
questions
please
call
the
perspective
HS
Principal.
www.sheridan.k12.wy.
us. Positions are open
until filled. E.O.E.
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Bridge
DON'T TAKE
A FINESSE
THAT MUST
LOSE
Does your
partner suffer
from finesseophilia? Will she or he
take every available finesse? If so, show your partner this deal.
How should South play
the play in four spades?
West leads the diamond ace
(under which East encourages with his nine), continues with the diamond king
and plays a third diamond
to his partner's queen.
Note South's bidding sequence. To make a takeout
double, then, after partner
advances with a minimum
bid in a suit, to rebid shows
a very strong hand: at least
18 high-card points (or a
super 17).
Declarer starts with five
potential losers in his hand:
Phillip Alder
one heart, two diamonds
and two clubs. He has only
eight top tricks: five spades,
one heart and two clubs.
Perhaps South would think
that he can get at least one
more heart trick. And
maybe clubs are 3-3, or
the fourth round can be
ruffed in the dummy. But
if a finessing fanatic
crosses to dummy with a
trump and runs the heart
queen, he will fail here.
West takes the trick and
returns, say, a trump.
Count the high-card
points. There are only 15
missing, and East has already produced the diamond queen. West must
have the heart king.
South should cash his
heart ace and lead another heart. If West takes
the trick, declarer has 10
tricks: five spades, three
hearts and two clubs. Or,
if West ducks, South can
play three rounds of
clubs to arrange a club ruff
in the dummy.
Use the bidding to place
missing key-cards and do
not take a finesse that must
lose.
Hints from Heloise
Dear Heloise: Regarding
your recent column in the
newspaper and the importance of having renters insurance: We were told that
if a person does not have
renters insurance and a
FIRE destroys the
home/building, the landlord's insurance company
may sue the tenant for the
loss of the structure if the
fire is the fault of the renter.
I don't know if that's true
or not, but it is well worth
looking into in case it is
fact. Thank you for your interesting column. -- Linda
Greene, via email
Linda, this is correct, and
thank you for a very good
reminder! The key wording
here is if the cause of the
fire can be proven to be the
tenant's fault, which does
seem right when you think
about the situation. A
neighbor left something
cooking on the stove and
the building caught fire? A
tenant left the apartment
with a fire in the fireplace,
or went to bed with decorative candles still burning in
the den? Who is at fault?
Not the landlord, and not
THE CITY of
SHERIDAN is
currently accepting
applications for the
position of
FINANCE & ADMINISTRATIVE
SERVICES
DIRECTOR. As part of
the City’s executive
team, the person in
this position plans,
organizes, directs &
manages the Clerk &
Treasurer's
Departments including
financial management,
budget administration,
clerk central files, &
purchasing. This
position also oversees
IT services. Qualified
applicants should
have a Bachelor’s
degree in finance,
accounting, public
administration,
business
administration, or a
closely related field, a
minimum of 5 years of
administrative and
supervisory
experience and 3
years of increasingly
responsible
professional finance
experience. The
salary range for this
position is $86,893 $132,561/yr DOE. The
City offers a
comprehensive benefit
package including
health, dental, vision
and life insurance and
state pension
retirement. Interested
applicants should
submit a completed
City of Sheridan job
application to City
Hall, 55 Grinnell Plaza
by 3/2/15. A complete
job description and
application can be
found at
www.sheridanwy. net.
The City of Sheridan
is a drug-free
work place.
you.
Most people who rent an
apartment, condo or house
just assume that the landlord's insurance covers
claims of this sort. The landlord's insurance company
usually tries to go after the
person at fault.
Not having renters insurance (it's cheap, too!) is a bet
you should NOT gamble on.
-- Heloise
SPARE KEY
Dear Heloise: Ever since I
locked my keys in the car, I
carry a spare key with my
pocket change. The hardware store cuts a key on the
right blank for a couple of
dollars. The key won't start
my car, but it will unlock
the door. Car keys with
computer chips can cost
$100 or more. (Heloise here:
Depending on the key
and/or key fob, it can cost
several hundreds of dollars.) -- Richard in Ohio
I have done the same, and
I slip the single key (sometimes known as a valet key)
in my wallet. Mine only
opens the door and starts
the truck. A few bucks to
save hundreds, and a little
Heloise
peace of mind. Well worth
it! -- Heloise
NUMBER PUZZLES
Dear Heloise: My husband
and I enjoy doing the number-placement puzzle in our
daily paper. The problem
was deciding who got to do
it. The first one to the paper
quickly draws the puzzle on
another piece of paper, then
completes the puzzle.
We use the back of junk
mail and printer paper we
don't need. I can draw it in
less than 45 seconds. You
can draw it larger or, if you
make a mistake, draw it
again. It's much easier to
see the number pattern this
way also. We both do the
puzzle and reuse paper that
was headed to the trash. -Sally, via email
ADHESIVE BANDAGES
Dear Heloise: We have
several adhesive-bandage
boxes, but didn't know what
size was in which box. So
we sorted the bandages into
sizes, with an example
taped to the front of each
box. Maybe this hint will
help others. -- Mary A., Vancouver, Wash.
EXPERIENCED
ROOFING installers
wanted. U. A.
required. P. D. O. E.
Call for interview
307-672-7643.
edges and problems disappear.
TAURUS (April 20-May
20): Maintain your dignity.
Generous gifts might be
perceived as an insincere
effort to buy someone's allegiance. Tone down your exuberance in formal
business settings.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20):
Friends in high places may
help you reach your objectives, so listen to what they
say. Tried-and-true friends
could have ideas that will
increase your standing in
the community or help you
along your career path.
CANCER (June 21-July
22): Look on the bright side,
but keep a flashlight on
hand to navigate the shadows. Optimism with no
basis in reality could trip
you up. Keep your money
safe in the bank and avoid
extravagant spending.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):
Networking could pay off.
You could stumble onto a
gold mine if you listen carefully to what is said. Old
friends are more reliable
than new ones, but new contacts can open up the door
to opportunity.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
Remember that "all that
glitters is not gold" and "appearances can be deceiving." Someone may be able
to fool you and worm their
way into your confidence
by playing on your sympathies.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): If
you can't say anything good
about someone, don't say
anything at all. It could be
Autos-Accessories
1989 JEEP
CHEROKEE. 105K
miles. $1500. 672-7628.
HARD TO FIND 2008
Chrysler Aspen. Fully
Loaded.
Excellent
Condition. 1 owner.
71,000 miles. Asking
$17,000 FIRM. Call
307-461-3464.
NEED EXTRA
CASH? PRIME RATE
MOTORS will buy
your clean vehicle.
Stop by 2305 Coffeen
to get an appraisal or
call 674-6677.
PRIME RATE
MOTORS is buying
clean, preowned
vehicles of all ages.
We also install B&W
GN hitches, 5th Wheel
Hitches, Pickup
Flatbeds, Krogman
Bale Beds. Stop by
2305 Coffeen Ave. or
call 674-6677.
Omarr’s Daily Astrological
Forecast
BIRTHDAY GUY: Actor
Justin Berfield was born in
Los Angeles, Calif., on this
date in 1986. This birthday
guy is known to TV viewers
for his roles as Reese on
"Malcolm in the Middle"
and Ross Molloy on "Unhappily Ever After." His film
work includes "Max Keeble's Big Move," "Wanted"
and "The Kid with X-Ray
Eyes." He served as executive producer for the 2010
season of "Sons of Tucson"
and also appeared on the
show.
ARIES (March 21-April
19): You can catch more
flies with honey, as the saying goes, so exude sweetness and sociability and
you can defuse tense situations. Apply kindness and
warmth and watch as rough
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Day shift (6a-2p) and
Evening shift (2p-10p),
C.N.A.spositions
available immediately.
Our full time team
members
enjoy
employment
which
offers
access
to
medical, dental, vision
insurance, paid time off,
flexible
scheduling,
c o m p u t e r i z e d
continuing
education
system,
opportunities
for
growth
and
advancement, as well
as, a warm, family-like
atmosphere. $500 Sign
on Bonus! If you are
energetic, caring and
enjoy giving excellent
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family. Apply in person
at
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Sugarland
Ridge.
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tempting to twist the truth
to make yourself appear in
a better light, but that
might set off a chain of unfortunate events.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov.
21): An ounce of discretion
is worth a pound of disclosure. It's usually better to be
absolutely forthright and
honest. At the same time,
you don't need to disclose
everything about a financial situation.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21): Clean out your
closets and sweep under the
beds. Find ways to organize
your finances and possessions for greater efficiency.
Make no promises or guarantees, but honor existing
commitments.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.
19): Teamwork is the key to
success. Your competitive
nature may be less noticeable if you strive to be generous and cooperative. This
is a good time to start new
projects that you will see to
the end.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
18): If someone is smitten
with your charms, be flattered and add his or her
name to your long list of admirers. Just don't take a
new conquest too seriously;
only time will tell whether
this is the real thing.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
20): Stick to your principles.
Exercise your body, as well
as your mind. Part with
your extra pennies and put
a little pizzazz in your surroundings. It's a great time
to clear out the closets.
IF FEBRUARY 25 IS
YOUR BIRTHDAY: Life
seems more tranquil and
harmonious to you during
the next 4-6 weeks. You're
more sensitive to your surroundings, as well as others. The first half of March
is an excellent time to be
more practical, however.
Reassess your business, career, or financial goals because your business sense
will be at a peak. May is a
very good month for a vacation or a romantic interlude. Plan ahead so you
won't need to make major
changes or launch key projects in November, when
Lady Luck won't be around.
YOUR ELECTED
OFFICIALS |
CITY
John Heath
Mayor
307-675-4223
Public Notices
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2015
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WHY PUBLIC NOTICES ARE IMPORTANT |
Kristin Kelly
Councilor
307-673-4751
Shelleen
Smith
Councilor
307-461-7082
Thayer
Shafer
Councilor
307-674-4118
Alex Lee
Councilor
307-752-8804
Jesus Rios
Councilor
307-461-9565
Kelly Gooch
Councilor
307-752-7137
COUNTY
Pete Carroll
Treasurer
307-674-2520
Eda
Thompson
Clerk
307-674-2500
Nickie Arney
Clerk of District
Court
307-674-2960
John Fenn
4th Judicial
District Court
Judge
307-674-2960
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GLOSSARY OF TERMS |
Public notices allow citizens to monitor their government and make sure that it is
working in their best interest. Independent newspapers assist in this cause by
carrying out their partnership with the people’s right to know through public
notices. By offering an independent and archived record of public notices,
newspapers foster a more trusting relationship between government and its
citizens.
Newspapers have the experience and expertise in publishing public notices and
have done so since the Revolutionary War. Today, they remain an established,
trustworthy and neutral source that ably transfers information between
government and the people.
Public notices are the lasting record of how the public’s resources are used and are
presented in the most efficient and effective means possible.
ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS
Sealed proposals will be received by the City of
Sheridan, Wyoming, at the office of the Deputy City
Clerk until 2:00 PM Mountain Daylight Savings Time,
February 25,2015, for furnishing the following
equipment: ONE(1)Automatic Closed Baling Press for
Recycling, in accordance with specifications and bid
documents on file at the City Service Center, 1148 KROE
Lane, Sheridan Wyoming 82801.
The bids will then be opened and read aloud at the
Deputy City Clerk Office, 3rd Floor
All bids shall be submitted in a sealed and clearly
marked envelope as per the bid item. Delivery dates
listed in Bid Documents.
Proposals shall be addressed to:
Attn: Brenda Williams Deputy City Clerk
City of Sheridan
55 Grinnell Plaza
Sheridan, Wyoming 82801
The City of Sheridan reserves the right to reject any and
all bids and to waive all informalities or minor defects
in the bids, to accept or reject any qualified or
conditional bid, and to accept any item or combination
of items in bid.
Preference shall be given to responsible Wyoming
bidders as
defined by Wyoming Statutes, 1990, Section 16-6-102
in the amount
of five percent (5%) higher than responsible nonresident bidders.
CITY OF SHERIDAN
/s/ Nicholas Bateson ,
Nicholas Bateson, Public Works Director
Publish: February 10, 24, 2015.
THE SHERIDAN PRESS
Default: Failure to fulfill an obligation, especially the obligation to
make payments when due to a lender.
Encumbrance: A right attached to the property of another that may
lessen its value, such as a lien, mortgage, or easement.
Foreclosure: The legal process of terminating an owner’s interest in
property, usually as the result of a default under a mortgage.
Foreclosure may be accomplished by order of a court or by the
statutory process known as foreclosure by advertisement (also
known as a power of sale foreclosure).
Lien: A legal claim asserted against the property of another, usually
as security for a debt or obligation.
Mortgage: A lien granted by the owner of property to provide
security for a debt or obligation.
WYOMING DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
CHEYENNE, WYOMING
NOTICE OF ACCEPTANCE OF
AND
FINAL SETTLEMENT FOR HIGHWAY WORK
Notice is hereby given that the State Transportation
Commission of Wyoming has accepted as completed
according to plans, specifications and rules governing
the same work performed under that certain contract
between the State of Wyoming, acting through said
Commission, and Rocky Mountain Erectors LLC, the
Contractor, on Highway Project Number SALTSTR in
Sheridan County, consisting of 30’ x 40’ Salt/Sand
Building at Arvada, and the Contractor is entitled to
final settlement therefore; that the Director of the
Department of Transportation will cause said
Contractor to be paid the full amount due him under
said contract on March 23, 2015.
The date of the first publication of this Notice is
February 10, 2015.
STATE TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION OF
WYOMING
By:Kimberly Lamb
Project Resource Coordinator
Budget Program
Publish: February 10, 17, 24, 2015.
Power of Sale: A clause commonly written into a mortgage
authorizing the mortgagee to advertise and sell the property in the
event of default. The process is governed by statute, but is not
supervised by any court.
Probate: The court procedure in which a decedent’s liabilities are
settled and her assets are distributed to her heirs.
Public Notice: Notice given to the public or persons affected
regarding certain types of legal proceedings, usually by publishing
in a newspaper of general circulation. This notice is usually
required in matters that concern the public.
Disclaimer: The foregoing terms and definitions are provided merely as a guide to the
reader and are not offered as authoritative definitions of legal terms.
Your Right
To Know
and be informed of
government legal
proceedings is embodied
in public notices. This
newspaper urges every
citizen to read and study
these notices.
We strongly advise those
seeking
further information to
exercise their right of
access to public records
and public meetings.
LEGAL NOTICE POLICY
The Sheridan Press publishes Legal
Notices under the following schedule:
If we receive the Legal Notice by:
Monday Noon –
It will be published in
Thursday’s paper.
Tuesday Noon –
It will be published in
Friday’s paper.
Wednesday Noon –
It will be published in
Saturday’s paper.
Wednesday Noon –
William
Edelman
4th Judicial
District Court
Judge
307-674-2960
Shelley
Cundiff
Sheridan
County Circut
Court Judge
307-674-2940
It will be published in
Monday’s paper.
Thursday Noon –
It will be published in
P.J. Kane
Coroner
307-673-5837
Tuesday’s paper.
Mike
Nickel
Chairman
Commissioner
307-674-2900
Friday Noon –
It will be published in
Wednesday’s paper.
Terry
Cram
Commissioner
307-674-2900
• Complete information, descriptions
Steve
Maier
Commissioner
307-674-2900
and billing information are required
with each legal notice. A PDF is
required if there are any signatures,
Tom
Ringley
Commissioner
307-674-2900
with a Word Document attached.
Dave
Hofmeier
Sheriff
307-672-3455
• Failure to include this information
WILL cause delay in publication. All
legal notices must be paid in full
Bob
Rolston
Commissioner
307-674-2900
Paul
Fall
Assessor
307-674-2535
Matt
Redle
County
Attorney
307-674-2580
These unidentified ladies and gentleman are pictured in the Tongue
River Canyon next to the old tie flume. The flume had been out of use
for years but is still in good shape in this photo. The photo is in the Layton collection in the Sheridan County Museum's Memory Book Project.
We are always looking to identify individuals in our photographs. If you
recognize someone, please contact the Sheridan County Museum.
before
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STATE
Matt
Mead
Governor
307-777-7434
Rosie
Berger
Representative
House Dist. 51
307-672-7600
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Representative
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John
Patton
Representative
House Dist. 29
307-672-2776
Mike
Madden
Representative
House Dist. 40
307-684-9356
Dave
Kinskey
Senator
Senate Dist. 22
307-461-4297
307-278-6030
Bruce
Burns
Senator
Senate Dist. 21
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Perry, Silfverberg lift Ducks over Wings 4-3
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Until a
third-period scoring burst, the
Anaheim Ducks had no answers
for Pavel Datsyuk’s domination.
Datsyuk controlled the stat
sheet for the Detroit Red Wings
until the Ducks’ line of Ryan
Kesler, Jakob Silfverberg and
Andrew Cogliano finally got
Anaheim going Monday night.
The Ducks rallied by scoring
three goals in the third period
after falling behind 2-0. They
came away with a 4-3 shootout
win over the Red Wings despite
two goals from Datsyuk.
Cogliano ignited a furious surge
with his goal midway through the
period, setting the stage for Corey
Perry and Silfverberg to score in
the shootout for a third consecutive Anaheim win.
John Gibson made 35 saves for
the Ducks, then stopped Tomas
Tatar’s shot in his first-ever
shootout appearance to secure the
extra point.
“We hung in,” said Ducks coach
Bruce Boudreau, who won his
350th career game. “We stayed
within striking distance of a team
that was outplaying us pretty
good in the first two periods. We
got lucky and won it.”
It seemed as if the Ducks would
never get that chance after
Datsyuk scored twice in the second period, leaving the sizable
and boisterous contingent of Red
Boston
Celtics top
Suns, 115-110
Wings fans at Honda Center giddy.
With Henrik Zetterberg sidelined (possible head injury),
Datsyuk picked up the slack on
offense by picking off Clayton
Stoner’s attempt to clear the puck
and scoring 3:54 into the period.
He added his sixth goal in his last
five games and 21st of the season
three minutes later on the power
play.
“Datsyuk is such a good player,
and when you can control him . I
know it sounds weird considering
he got two goals, but when Kesler
was out there he was controlling
him. And that’s a tough job to do,”
Boudreau said.
“Kesler’s line was great all
night. There was only one shift
they didn’t play against Datsyuk,
and Datsyuk scored, and then he
scored on the power play goal.
Everything else, I thought the
Kesler-Silfverberg-Cogliano line
was really good.”
With the Red Wings unable to
extend their lead, the Ducks eventually cracked Jimmy Howard,
who stopped 22 of 25 shots. After
Cogliano whacked home a
rebound, Emerson Etem did the
same by sending the puck
between Howard’s legs 90 seconds
later.
Francois Beauchemin put the
Ducks ahead at 12:57 in the third
period before Riley Sheahan tied
the game with 3:49 remaining.
PHOENIX (AP) — Avery Bradley
scored 23 points, Isaiah Thomas
burned his former team with eight
critical points in the last two minutes, and Boston held off Phoenix.
Boston made a season-high 14 3pointers, 10 in the first half as the
Celtics ran out to a 19-point lead
against the struggling Suns. But
Phoenix cut the lead to one on a 3
from Eric Bledsoe with 2:33 remain-
His 10th goal came on a onetimer set up exquisitely by Gustav
Nyquist.
Datsyuk hit the post on his try
in the shootout, and the Ducks
made the Red Wings pay for their
inability to put the game away.
“We needed to just keep playing
how we played in the first two
periods,” Datsyuk said. “I think
after it was 2-0 we tried to be safe
and play back. They started to
shoot everything and follow the
rebounds.”
The Red Wings played without
Zetterberg for the first time this
season.
He was scratched after being
punched in the face by Dallas’
Jamie Benn in the second period
of a wild 7-6 win over the Stars on
Saturday. Zetterberg leads the
team with 34 assists and 49 points.
NOTES: The Red Wings continue their six-game road trip
Tuesday night against the Kings.
It will be the Red Wings’ seventh
set of back-to-back contests this
season; they are 4-1-1 on the second night. The Ducks, who have
not won at home in regulation
since Jan. 21, will look to snap
that streak Wednesday when they
host Ottawa. . The Ducks
remained unbeaten on Monday
this season, picking up their
fourth win. . Ducks center Nate
Thompson suffered a lower body
injury.
ing.
Thomas, just four days removed
from his deadline-day trade to
Boston, scored 21 points in his
return.
Bledsoe had 21 points and 10 assists
in the Suns’ eighth loss in the past
nine games. Brandon Knight,
acquired in another Suns deal last
Thursday, had 20 in his first start for
his new team.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2015
REPUTATION: Expectations
notable names coming back
have Stanford feeling optiPlayers said they’ve already
mistic.
noticed a difference in the attiQuarterback Kevin Hogan is
tude at practice.
entering his fourth and final
“It’s nice that the expectation year as the starter. Christian
is so high that if you do mess
McCaffrey is coming off a senup, you have someone who is
sational freshman season and
going to be on your back,” wide could take over as the primary
receiver Devon Cajuste said.
running back, where junior
“Whereas last year, it might
Barry Sanders and fifth-year
have been a little different,
senior Remound Wright also
like, ‘Hey, it’s OK. But we
will compete for carries.
expected you to do better.’ That
Shaw said Wright will miss
leisurely attitude kind of is
the first spring session because
what caused us to have the sea- of a disciplinary issue. He also
son that we had.”
missed a session last spring
Stanford has replaced key
because of a disciplinary issue
contributors in each of Shaw’s and had to play catch up in the
first four years as coach,
fall.
whether it be quarterback
The wide receiver group
Andrew Luck, running back
should remain strong with the
Stepfan Taylor or any number
return of Cajuste, Michael
of defensive standouts in the
Rector and Francis Owusu.
NFL now.
The young tight end trio of
The task will be equally diffi- Austin Hooper, Eric Cotton,
cult this year, however, the
and Greg Taboada showed sigchallenge comes in different
nificant progress last season,
places.
and decorated recruit Dalton
The Cardinal lost cornerSchultz — who redshirted as a
backs Alex Carter and Wayne
freshman — will finally get his
Lyons, safety Jordan Richards
chance to emerge as a fourth
and all three starters on the
option.
defensive line — Henry
“I know that we have a lot of
Anderson, David Parry and
talent, and everyone’s really
Blake Lueders. Left tackle
hungry,” Hogan said. “Just
Andrus Peat, a possible firstlooking forward to getting back
round pick in the draft, is the
to that high level of play.”
lone starter on the offensive
NOTES: DE Aziz Shittu and
line who left.
DB Ronnie Harris will miss all
Versatile wide receiver and
of spring practice with undisreturn specialist Ty
closed injuries. ... LB Kevin
Montgomery also is gone, and
Anderson will be limited early
running back Kelsey Young
in spring practice because of a
and backup quarterback Evan
hand injury. ... FB Patrick Skov
Crower — along with Lyons —
will miss the first session with
are not on the spring roster. All a swollen knee. ... Stanford’s
three are pursuing opportunifirst spring session runs
ties to transfer and would be
through March 7, and the seceligible to play immediately as ond session starts March 30
graduate students.
and culminates with the annuDespite those departures, the al spring game April 11.
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