Pilot makes emergency landing on White Mountain

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Pilot makes emergency
landing on White Mountain
ROCK SPRINGS — Additional details have been released concerning
the airplane crash on White Mountain
on June 22.
Sweetwater County Sheriff Rich
Haskell said Jana Van Amburg, 51, of
Bend, Ore., was flying her single-engine Beech A36 from Bend to Salina,
Kansas, when she experienced engine
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trouble at an altitude of about 8,000
feet over the White Mountain area
around 11 a.m.
With a dead engine, Van Amburg
lowered her landing gear and executed an emergency landing in the sagebrush.
Haskell said Van Amburg, a seasoned pilot, was uninjured.
Unable to get a cell phone signal at
the crash site, she climbed a nearby
rise and contacted the Rock
Springs/Sweetwater County Airport
to report her situation.
A deputy sheriff in his four-wheeldrive patrol unit searching for the
downed plane was guided to the scene
by search aircraft.
Sweetwater County Sheriff Haskell
said federal authorities have been notified and will be conducting the official investigation.
“We were all very happy at the outcome,” Haskell said. “This could have
been a real tragedy. Quick thinking
and skill appear to have made all the
difference.”
A pilot flying a single-engine plane from Oregon to Kansas crashed in Sweetwater County after experiencing engine trouble. Jana Van Amburg, the pilot, was
not injured in the crash.
Best View In
The Big Top 2 arrested after
thefts and crash
ROCK SPRINGS: Danny Hoopes, left, and Brody
Hoopes, right, get a ride atop the elephants during the Shrine Circus on Tuesday afternoon.
Man arrested
following
Sat. standoff
Court charges include interference,
reckless endangerment and arson
ROCK SPRINGS — A man has been charged
with arson, interference and reckless endangering following a standoff with police.
A press release from the Rock Springs Police
Department said officers were dispatched to
840 W. Center No. 10 around 3:08 p.m. Saturday. Police said Jason Tomasini, 34, allegedly
threatened to burn down the trailer he was living in after he received an eviction notice the
same day.
When officers arrived, Tomasini allegedly
said his intent was to burn down the trailer with
gasoline and broke out a window to one of the
front trailer doors.
Tomasini repeatedly showed officers plastic
gas cans and appeared to pour gas both on him
and onto the residence.
At one point, the suspect allegedly set the
carpet in the living room of the residence on fire
and fire and black smoke could be seen inside.
The RSPD said it is unknown whether the
fire was put out by the suspect or went out on
its own.
Nearby neighbors had to be evacuated for
their safety.
After approximately two hours of trying to
negotiate with the suspect to surrender to police, he allegedly threw a gas can at RSPD Sgt.
Jubal Larimore and Green River Police Department Sgt. Bob Ross.
Ross is a hostage negotiator with the GRPD
who responded to assist. Officers entered the
residence in an attempt to take the suspect into
custody, prevent him from harming himself or
others or lighting the trailer on fire. Tomasini
allegedly barricaded himself in a bathroom. Officers entered and subdued Tomasini, who was
taken into custody.
He was arrested and charged with third-degree arson, interference and reckless endangering.
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ROCK SPRINGS — Bond partment reported a crash at the
was set Monday for two Mountainaire Animal Clinic at
Evanston men facing multiple 1801 Yellowstone Road, north of
charges stemming from two al- Rock Springs.
leged car thefts, a crash, and a
Eyewitness Michael Hensley
confrontation Sunday involving said he was driving north on
Sweetwater County
Foothill
Boulevard
deputies and Rock
when a 1996 Plymouth
Springs police officers.
Neon passed him at an
According to a press
extremely high rate of
release, during a virtuspeed. Hensley said
al court hearing, Cirthe Plymouth ran past
cuit Court Judge Dan
the stop sign at
Forgey set a $20,000
Foothill and Signal Dricash or surety bond
ve and continued north
each on Taylor Dee TAYLOR BERRY on Foothill toward
Miles Berry, 18, and JaGannet Drive.
cob J. Swisher, 18.
Hensley told investiBerry is charged
gating deputies he
with felony larceny, inknew the vehicle would
terference with a peace
never be able to negotiofficer, wrongful taking
ate the T-intersection
or disposing of properat Foothill and Gannet
ty, and conspiracy to
at that rate of speed.
commit
larceny.
Hensley said the PlySwisher faces charges JACOB SWISHER mouth sped through
of felony larceny,
another stop sign at
wrongful taking or disposing of Gannet, went airborne and
property, conspiracy to commit came to a halt in the Mounlarceny, reckless driving and tainaire parking lot.
driving while license canceled,
Officials said the Plymouth
suspended or revoked.
was airborne for about 50 feet
Sweetwater County Sheriff and traveled another 109 feet
Rich Haskell said around 9:19 before stopping near a tree.
a.m. June 24, an off-duty officer
of the Rock Springs Police DeSEE THEFTS, PAGE 3
Photo courtesy of Sweetwater County Sheriff’s Office
A stolen car was recovered at the Mountainaire Animal Clinic parking lot Sunday morning where the stolen 1996 Plymouth Neon
came to rest after the driver crashed it into the parking lot.
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Rock Springs High School students watch as high winds whip up their homecoming bonfire. By hosting the event, the school keeps students under adult supervision. The
Wyoming Department of Education released a study looking at risky high school behavior, including sex and the use of drugs and alcohol.
Survey looks at youth behaviors
PAUL MURRAY
Rocket-Miner Staff Reporter
CHEYENNE — Following a report detailing possible risky behavior by
teenagers, people in the community are
looking at what they can learn from the
numbers and trends.
For the youth behavior standards, a national sample of more than 15,000 high
school students was used in 2011 to compile the data. Wyoming had one of the larger participation levels with about 2,000
high school students sampled out of
roughly 20,000 grade 9-12 students in the
state, Wyoming Department of Education
public information officer Jerry Zellars
said.
Surveys were conducted in 43 states and
21 large urban school districts, according
to the WDE news release. Parental permission was obtained for students to participate in the survey and student participation was voluntary. Responses were anonymous.
Behaviors tracked in the 2011 Youth
Risk Behavior Survey included injury- and
violence-related behaviors, such as seat
belt use, weapon carrying, physical fighting and attempted suicide; tobacco use, alcohol and other drug use, sexual behaviors,
physical activity and asthma.
“The YRBS data allows school adminis-
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trators to view trends, determine the severity of behavior and identify areas of concern,” the release said. “In addition, this
data provides administrators and community outreach programs vital information
they can use when evaluating and improving programs that focus on these risk behaviors in students.”
ACTION AND REACTION
A majority of students questioned, both
in Wyoming and nationally, said they had
tried alcohol, and more than one-third said
they had tried marijuana.
The Rock Springs Police Department
has a limited supply of drug test kits available for parents who suspect that their kids
may be using drugs.
Detective Bill Erspamer said the kits test
for eight different kinds of drugs: cocaine,
opiate, methamphetamine, marijuana, amphetamine, BZO, barbiturates and oxycontin.
“The purpose of these kits is not to get
someone in trouble,” Erspamer said. “It’s
to help parents know what’s going on with
their kids so they can take action on their
own, with or without law enforcement.”
Erspamer also said they do not track
who comes in and takes the kits.
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PHOENIX — Melvin Dean
“Shorty” Comstock, 73, died Saturday, June 23, 2012, at home
with family.
A Phoenix resident and former
resident of Rock Springs,
he died following a
lengthy illness.
He was born April 7,
1939, in Oskaloosa, Iowa,
the son of Ralph and
Bertha (DeJong) Comstock. His family moved
to Reliance and Rock
Springs when he was 5.
He married Mary Jo
Popp on May 29, 1960, in Rock
Springs.
He was in the Army and served
as a truck driver and gunner. He
was in boot camp with Elvis Presley at Fort Hood.
He was a driller in the oil and
seismograph business and owned
and operated Mel’s “Shorty’s”
Drilling Co. in Casper.
He is survived by his wife of 53
years, Mary Jo of Phoenix; children, Steve of Carson, Nev., Rodney of Phoenix, Ranee Diefenderfer of Sheridan, James of Gillette
and Barbi Wynn of Napper, Calif.; sister, Janice
Layos and husband Gary
of Rock Springs; nieces
and nephews, including
Andrea Layos of Rock
Springs and Justin Layos
of Scottsdale, Ariz.; seven grandchildren; and
two great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in
death by his parents, Ralph and
Bertha Comstock; stepmother,
Clara Comstock; and brother,
Ron “Gene” Comstock.
Cremation is pending. His ashes will be taken to Sheridan at a
later date. Condolences may be
sent to Mary Jo Comstock and
family at 3955 E. Piccadilly Road
No. 1, Phoenix, AZ 85018.
CALVIN C. COOLEY
ROCK SPRINGS — Calvin C.
Cooley, 59, of Rock Springs, died
Monday, June 25, 2012, at Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater
County after a lengthy illness.
He was born July 23, 1953, in
Morgantown, W.Va., the son of
Evert M. Cooley and Dora Mae
Crigler Cooley. He attended
Clay-Battelle
High
School
in
Blacksville, W.Va.
He married Lonetta
M. Stephens on June 22,
1974, in Cheyenne.
He worked at Lewis &
Lewis in Rock Springs
for 10 years until his retirement in 2010.
His interests included fishing,
hunting, gold panning and spending time with his family.
Survivors include his wife,
Lonetta Cooley of Rock Springs;
mother, Dora Crigler of Core,
W.Va.; sons, Casey Cooley and
companion Kassie Martin of
Rock Springs and Micheal
Greenwood of Pennsylvania;
daughter, Jamie Loredo and husband Adan of Rock Springs;
brothers, Ray Cooley, Evert Coo-
ley, Rob Cooley, Mike Crigler, all
of West Virginia, and Steve Cooley of Iowa; brothers-in-law, John
Stephens and companion Peggy
and Don Stephens, all of Rock
Springs; sisters, Alice Action,
Brenda Wilerd, Debbie Crigler,
Donna Crigler and Mariland
Crigler, all of West Virginia;
sisters-in-law,
Edith Ramage and husband Kevin and Martha
Prelle, all of Rock
Springs; mother-in-law,
Alice Stephens of Rock
Springs; two grandchildren, Ariah Loredo and
Ashton Cooley; and numerous cousins, nieces
and nephews.
He was preceded in death by
his father, Evert Cooley; brother,
Kenny Cooley; sister, Joyce Weber; grandparents, Herb and Dolly McCartney and Evert McCleary, and father-in-law, Howard
Stephens.
Cremation has taken place.
Memorial services will be conducted at a later date. Condolences
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EDNA MARTIN GEORGIS
ROCK SPRINGS — Edna
Martin Georgis, 88, of Rock
Springs, died Saturday, June 23,
2012, at the Memorial Hospital of
Sweetwater County.
A lifelong resident of Rock
Springs, she died following a brief
illness.
She was born Aug. 15,
1923, in Rock Springs,
the daughter of Martin
Jensen and Hanna Dodd
Jensen. She grew up on
the Martin Jensen Ranch
on Muddy Creek, attended school at the oneroom Emerson schoolhouse and graduated
from Rock Springs High School
with the class of 1942.
She married Emilio Georgis on
June 4, 1944, in Sarasota, Fla. He
preceded her in death on June 9,
1994, in Rock Springs.
Mrs. Georgis worked in a shipyard in Oakland, Calif., as a document clerk, as a housewife and
at Parker Brothers Drug.
She was a resident of the Sublette Center in Pinedale for the
past eight years and had many
friends there and at Rendezvous
Point.
Her interests included being a
gardener, flowers, painting and
craft activities.
Survivors include one
son, Leslie E. Georgis
and wife Diana of Lakewood, Colo.; and two
grandchildren, Mandy
Trolinger and husband
Steven of Highlands
Ranch, Colo., and Tony
Georgis and wife Cristin
of Denver.
She was preceded in death by
her parents; husband; sister, Lilly
Spann; nine brothers, Clarence,
Ted, James, Rennard, Glen,
Floyd, Gladwon, Otto and
Lawrence; and several nieces and
nephews.
Cremation has taken place. At
her request, there will be no services.
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JACKSON (AP) — Federal water managers have begun their
annual procedure of closing
down the spigot out of Jackson
Lake Dam in northwest
Wyoming.
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation cut back flows from 4,000 to
3,800 cubic feet per second on
Monday. The Jackson Hole News
& Guide reports that similar reductions are planned in the days
ahead.
Bureau officials say water
flows into Jackson Lake peaked
at about 6,000 cfs on June 5.
Those flows into the reservoir are
now down to about 3,500 cfs.
The plan is to reduce flows to
2,000 cfs and keep it at that
amount until early October. That
will leave Jackson Lake about
three-quarters full heading into
the winter.
State officials
approve $250,000
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JACKSON (AP) — State officials have approved a $250,000
grant to begin to improve an
events center at Snow King Resort in Jackson.
The town of Jackson will
match the funding recently approved by the State Loan and Investment Board. The Jackson
Hole News & Guide reports that
renovations could begin in September with the $500,000 in
new funding.
Jackson Town Manager Bob
McLaurin says initial improvements will include a new entrance, new carpet and restroom
renovations.
ALTON T. AULT
LINCOLN, Neb. — Alton T.
Ault, 75, of Lincoln, Neb., died
Friday, June 15, 2012.
He was born Jan. 19, 1937, to
William and Mary (Poterola) Ault
in Randolph, Utah.
He worked as an instrumentation specialist at OCI Chemical
Corporation.
Survivors include his children,
Jesy and husband Doug Broers of
Lincoln and Toby Ault of Rock
Springs; grandchildren, Brittany
and Tyson Ault and Austin and
Brooklyn Broers; and nieces and
nephews.
He was preceded in death by
his parents; brothers; and wife,
Sandra Ault.
A celebration of life will be conducted at noon Thursday, July 5,
2012, at the Fraternal Order of
Eagles, 88 N. Second E. St.,
Green River.
Private inurnment will be in the
Riverview Cemetery.
New morgue has problems in Laramie County
CHEYENNE (AP) — The coroner in Laramie County says the
office won’t move into its new office until some construction problems are fixed.
Coroner Marty Luna tells the
Wyoming Tribune Eagle that the
newly built coroner’s office and
morgue at the Laramie County
Archer Complex is unusable.
He says the problems include
computer equipment in a biohazard room and a cracked floor. The
coroner also says that the bay
where bodies would be dropped
off and picked up should be big-
ger.
Luna warns that as the morgue
is constructed now, it could not be
accredited by the International
Association of Coroners & Medical Examiners.
Local officials told the newspaper they will try to work with the
coroner to resolve the problems.
Missouri town
remembers ‘62
Continental crash
ALAN SCHER ZAGIER
Associated Press
UNIONVILLE, Mo. (AP) —
Maureen Riordan’s family barely
spoke about the plane crash that
killed her father when she was
just 11. Same for Ronnie Cook, a
Missouri soybean farmer who as
a high school junior was among
the first on the scene when Continental Airlines Flight 11 went
down 50 years ago just south of
the Iowa border.
Aviation buffs know Flight 11
as the country’s first bombing of
a commercial jet airliner, an act of
sabotage by a passenger that
killed all 45 people on board. Yet
the crash of the plane, which departed Chicago en route to Los
Angeles with a Kansas City stop,
was largely forgotten as time
passed, families moved on and
more horrific airline incidents
came to dominate history.
Now, as the result of efforts by
a local historian and an aviation
blogger, families who carried
memories of the crash and residents who remembered that awful night are talking about it
again. They include the children
of auto executives and engineers
who were on board and who are
now in touch with others affected
by the disaster. A few weeks ago,
more than 100 people gathered
for a 50th anniversary observance in Unionville, where an updated memorial that describes
the crash was unveiled on the
downtown courthouse square.
The monument was first put up
two years ago, although only with
the names of Flight 11’s eight
crew members and 37 passengers.
Until recently, “folks here put it
aside, more or less,” Cook said.
“It was something that happened. Life went on. We just didn’t talk about it.” But the new attention, he said, “was something
that should have been done a
long time ago.”
Initial reports blamed a severe
thunderstorm for the crash on
May 22, 1962. But investigators
soon determined that passenger
Thomas Doty, a suburban
Kansas City salesman facing
armed robbery charges, was responsible for the explosion. He
detonated six sticks of dynamite
in the plane’s rear bathroom as
part of a botched plan for his
wife, 5-year-old daughter and unborn son to collect on a life insurance policy he purchased moments before takeoff.
The FBI investigation was led
by Kansas City special agent in
charge W. Mark Felt, who would
later earn acclaim as the Watergate whistle-blower known as
Deep Throat.
Some believed the bombing
helped lead to tightened airport
security measures a decade later
and partly inspired author Arthur
Hailey’s 1968 book “Airport,”
which became a popular movie
that spawned a run of 1970s disaster films. But airline bombings
by then were already entrenched,
said aviation historian Bill Waldock, a professor of safety science at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
Previous incidents had targeted propeller planes. An October
1933 bombing of a Boeing 247
plane flying cross-country from
Newark, N.J. to northern California killed all seven people on
board. And in November 1955,
Jack Gilbert Graham of Denver
planted a bomb in his mother’s
luggage on a United Airlines
flight to the West Coast, killing all
39 passengers and five crew
members. He too was motivated
by a desire to cash in recently
purchased life insurance policies.
Local historian Duane Crawford began resurrecting interest
in Flight 11 about a decade ago.
His efforts caught the attention
of aviation blogger Andrew Russell, a 26-year-old New Zealander
whose Web site began to attract
the children of Flight 11’s passengers and crew.
Those who came to this observance included Riordan, who said
her family never considered going to the scene of the accident
earlier because “it wasn’t something you did in those days.” But
Riordan, who lives near Hilton
Head in South Carolina, said she
always had an underlying urge to
know more about the death of
her father, a high school athletic
star who became a chemist after
World War II. He died on a business trip, as did many of the victims.
“They all had the same story,
nobody talked about it,” Riordan
said after talking to other surviving children. “Dads who were going off to do their jobs, that’s who
traveled then.”
Bob Gray, a 66-year-old Denver area resident, came to honor
his uncle Fred Gray, the plane’s
pilot.
Capt. Fred Gray’s death hit his
nephew especially hard. The 50year-old pilot had taken Bob Gray
on his first motorcycle ride, his
first flight as a student pilot and
for his first flattop haircut. Bob
Gray, who later earned his pilot’s
license and worked as an aviation
engineer, named his own son after his uncle.
On the trip, father and son met
strangers who also lost loved
ones a half-century ago.
“A lot of people felt a kinship
that they just didn’t even fathom
could exist, 50 years later,” said
Gray, who at the memorial service reconnected with a first
cousin he hadn’t seen in decades.
The
memorial
service’s
keynote speaker was Russell,
who said he created a Flight 11 remembrance on his Web site to fill
an information void about the incident.
“Here’s something that’s been
forgotten,” he said. “You can’t
Google it. There’s nothing.”
For Crawford, a Vietnam veteran and retired high school history teacher and football coach, the
quest to tell the story of Flight 11
became a passion. His efforts
helped the local historical society
obtain several crash site artifacts,
including fragments of pinion
shifts, hydraulic junction blocks
and other pieces of debris that
were scattered over 40 miles in
Iowa and Missouri.
He wanted to pay tribute to the
victims, Crawford said. “Every
family has got a story,” he said.
Fred Gray and his co-pilot
were found strapped into their
seats, their hands on the flight
controls and emergency checklists nearby, with the plane’s landing gear down and locked.
“I know that my uncle had
fought as hard as he could,” Bob
Gray said.
The revived attention to the
bombing has already had an impact. In 2009, at the request of
family members, Continental
agreed to retire the flight number.
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Alleged victim
testifies in sex
abuse case Tues.
Editor’s Note: It is the policy of
the Rocket-Miner not to identify victims of sexual assault or use information that could identify the victim.
PAUL MURRAY
Rocket-Miner Staff Reporter
GREEN RIVER — An alleged
victim testified in the sexual
abuse trial of a Rock Springs resident Tuesday afternoon.
Gregory Brown, 37, is facing
charges of attempted second-degree sexual abuse of a minor,
third-degree sexual abuse of a minor and two counts of second-degree sexual abuse of a minor for
alleged actions in 2007, 2008
and 2011. If convicted of all
charges, he faces a maximum
penalty of 75 years in prison and
$40,000 in fines.
The teen is scheduled to return
to the witness stand when the trial resumes at 9 a.m. Wednesday
in 3rd Judicial District Court.
Judge Nena James called a halt to
the trial at 5 p.m. Tuesday as defense attorney Harold Moneyhun
was cross-examining the witness.
Prosecutors Brett Johnson and
Suzannah Gambell played a 40minute portion of a tape where
the teen described multiple times
where Brown had alleged sexual
contact with her.
The witness was 12 at the time
of the claimed incidents with
Brown. She broke down in tears
multiple times on the witness
stand. She said she told Brown to
stop but he allegedly refused to
stop.
She said she delayed talking to
investigators because, “I blocked
it out. … I didn’t want to think
about it. I blocked it out.”
She also described what happened when she told her mother.
“I told my mom that (Brown)
had touched me inappropriately
and she started to cry,” she said.
She also said she was aware
Brown allegedly had sexual contact with another underage girl.
In his cross-examination, Moneyhun said it was his job to defend Brown and he needed to ask
some tough questions. Moneyhun asked why her testimony became more detailed four or five
years after her initial interviews
with investigators when the
events would have been fresher.
Moneyhun acknowledged she
may have blocked out certain incidents but asked how often she
had met with Gambell in preparation for the trial.
The teen said she had met with
Gambell, but not often, and was
told to tell the truth about what
had happened. She said Gambell
had not tried to tell her what to
say.
Moneyhun asked the alleged
victim what Gambell told her
about listening to the prosecution’s questions and facing the
jury when answering.
She said Gambell made suggestions about facing the jury
when answering questions on the
witness stand.
OPENING DEFENSE
STATEMENTS CONCLUDE
Moneyhun started the second
day of the trial by finishing his
opening arguments, which he had
begun late Tuesday.
“I won’t add any interpretation,
speculation or dramatization,”
Moneyhun said.
He said the way that investigators, including child psychologists, ask questions of a child can
influence the child’s answers.
“They’re supposed to extract
information from the child, not
impart information to the child
that could confuse the child’s recollection,” Moneyhun said.
He said the teen had not come
forward with certain information
until recently.
“This story has grown and expanded over the years,” Moneyhun said.
Moneyhun said prosecutors
had made a decision in 2010 not
to bring the case to trial and had
only done so now because they
could piggyback the 2007 and
2008 charges on top of the
charge from 2011.
DETECTIVE AND
PSYCHOLOGIST TESTIFY
Following the conclusion of
opening statements, prosecutors
called Rock Springs Police Detective Erica East to the stand. East
described the alleged sexual contact Brown had with the two
young teenage girls. East said she
had worked for the RSPD for six
years and been a detective for a
year and a half.
Child psychologist Dr. Fred
Lindberg of Casper testified regarding interview techniques. He
said methods include using openended questions and avoiding yes
or no questions with the goal of
extracting information from a
child without the interviewer
leading or suggesting what may
have happened.
Very young children, ages 3-5,
can be influenced by an interviewer making suggestions of
what may have occurred, Lindberg said. However, by ages 10-12,
he said a child is no more
amenable to an interviewer leading or suggesting than an adult
would be.
Lindberg said the process of a
child disclosing information
about sexual abuse usually consists of a little bit at a time, not an
everything-at-once description of
what happened. He said victims
first need to find an adult or
friend that can be trusted and
they then gauge the reaction of an
adult or friend as they provide information bit by bit.
Anywhere from 40 to 60 percent of sexual abuse incidents are
never reported, Lindberg said.
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SURVEY
Schools are also looking at
how they handle students who
use drugs.
Methods for handling students who are caught with drugs
on campus have changed, said
Sweetwater County School District No. 2 Assistant Superintendent Jamie Christensen. Formerly, a student caught with illegal
drugs or paraphernalia on campus was automatically expelled.
“Now, we suspend the expulsion,” Christensen said.
Instead, he said the focus is on
helping a student to face consequences, which have an educational purpose.
The newer methods are not a
slap on the wrist, Christensen
said. The student must sign a
rigid contract outlining clear objectives to be met, including participation in a 12-step program
and setting expectations for behavior and on-time attendance,
plus counseling and meetings
with school officials.
“It’s been pretty successful,”
Christensen said. “The school
board wanted to go in that direction.”
Education about alcohol and
tobacco as well as drugs is part
of the health curriculum. In order to help prevent alcohol
abuse, Christensen said former
students from Green River or
elsewhere who have made bad
choices are asked to come in and
speak to current students about
their unfortunate decisions and
the subsequent consequences.
Students caught smoking at
Green River High School get a
two-day suspension. However,
by that time, Christensen said
students have been hearing
about the need for healthy
lifestyles and exercise for many
years, from elementary school
onward, and hopefully the message has sunk in.
CAUSE FOR OPTIMISM
The news about students’
risky behavior needn’t be all bad,
according to Laura Schmid-Pizzato, manager of recovery services for Southwest Counseling
Service. She said some statistics
show that alcohol and drug use
among youth may be going
downward, although it will never
disappear entirely.
She cited alcohol use among
middle school students in
Wyoming as an example. In
2001, 47 percent of Wyoming
middle school students said they
had a drink of alcohol already
NATIONAL SURVEY RESULTS
• Question: Wyoming 2011; United States 2011
Injuries and violence questions
• Rarely or never wore a bicycle helmet when
riding a bike in the past year: 83.6 percent; 87.5
percent.
• In a physical fight one or more times in the
past year: 26.5 percent; 32.8 percent.
• Rode with a driver who had been drinking alcohol one or more times in the past month: 25.7
percent; 24.1 percent.
• Injured in a physical fight one or more times
and had to be treated in the past year: 4.1 percent;
3.9 percent.
• Rarely or never wore a seat belt: 15.8 percent;
7.7 percent.
• Bullied on school property in the past year: 25
• Attempted suicide in the past year: 11.3 percent; 7.8 percent.
Tobacco use questions
• Ever tried cigarette smoking, even a puff: 48.1
• Usually obtained their own cigarettes by buying them in the past month: 11.3 percent; 14 percent.
• Smoked at least one cigarette every day for 30
days: 16 percent; 10.2 percent.
• Used chewing tobacco, snuff or dip in the past
month: 15.1 percent; 7.7 percent.
Alcohol and drug use questions
• Had at least one drink of alcohol on school
property in the past month: 5.1 percent; 5.1 percent.
• Used marijuana on school property in the past
month: 4.7 percent; 5.9 percent.
• Had at least one drink of alcohol: 65.7 percent;
70.8 percent.
consisting of more than a few
sips. By 2011, that figure had
dropped to 34.5 percent.
In 2007, 19 percent of middle
school students reported having
had their first serious drink of alcohol before age 11. In 2011, that
figure was down to 14 percent.
Marijuana
use
among
Wyoming middle school students was at 12.7 percent in
2001, going down to 9.2 percent
in 2011.
In 2001, 4.8 percent of
Wyoming middle school students reported having used cocaine or one of its forms. In 2011,
3.5 percent of the middle schoolers did so.
Among Wyoming high school
students, in 1995, 81.1 percent reported having had at least one
drink of alcohol. In 2011, 65.7
percent of the high schoolers did
so. In 1995, 38.1 percent of
Wyoming high school students
• Ever used marijuana: 35.9 percent; 39.9 percent.
• Ever used any form of cocaine: 8.6 percent; 6.8
percent.
• Ever sniffed glue, breathed the contents of
aerosol spray cans or inhaled any paints or sprays
to get high: 14.4 percent; 11.4 percent.
Sexual behavior questions
• Ever had sexual intercourse: 47.9 percent; 47.4
percent.
• Did not use a condom during last intercourse:
41.4 percent; 39.8 percent.
• Did not use birth control pills before last intercourse: 78.5 percent; 82 percent.
• Drank alcohol or used drugs before last intercourse: 26.7 percent; 22.1 percent.
Dietary behavior questions
• Described themselves as slightly or very overweight: 27.3 percent; 29.2 percent.
• Did not eat for 24 or more hours to lose or
maintain weight in the past month: 13.1 percent;
12.2 percent.
• Took diet pills, powders or liquids to lose or
maintain weight without a doctor’s advice in the
past month: 8.1 percent; 5.1 percent.
• Vomited or took laxatives to lose or maintain
weight in the past month: 6.9 percent; 4.3 percent.
Physical activity questions
• Did not attend physical education class in an
average week: 43.7 percent; 48.02 percent.
• Used computers or video games for nonschool-related work on a school day: 20.4 percent;
31.1 percent.
• Watched television three or more hours on an
average school day: 20.6 percent; 32.4 percent.
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
reported having used marijuana.
In 2011, 35.9 percent made the
same report. In 1995, 73 percent
of Wyoming high school students reported having smoked a
cigarette. By 2011, that figure
was down to 48.1 percent.
TREATMENT PROGRAMS
For those students who do
end up using illegal drugs or alcohol, treatment options vary.
For a student who is still in the
experimenting stage, SchmidPizzato said early intervention
involves treatment that is not too
much, not too little.
For someone who is already
addicted, the treatment is more
intensive.
The adolescent intensive outpatient program at Southwest
Counseling Service is three
times a week for two hours.
There is also family support with
home visits, parent training, ses-
Investigators said Swisher and Berry were the
vehicle’s two occupants. At the scene, Berry allegedly became combative and swung several
times at Cpl. Rich Fischer of the Sheriff’s Office,
who blocked his punches.
Rock Springs Police Department Sgt. Bob
Christiansen deployed his Taser against Berry,
who fell to the ground and was handcuffed by Officer Brenda Baker.
It was determined that the Neon was stolen
from an apartment complex in Rock Springs that
morning.
County detectives were called out.
Law enforcement officers said Swisher and
Berry allegedly traveled to Rock Springs in a black
Ford Excursion stolen in Evanston. Haskell said
the Excursion wound up in the parking lot of
Kmart in west Rock Springs, where Fischer located and recovered it.
Also recovered from a dumpster behind the
Liquor Depot, across Foothill Boulevard from
Kmart, were a number of personal items from
both the Ford Excursion and the Plymouth Neon.
As of press time, both suspects remain in custody at the Sweetwater County Detention Center
as the investigation continues.
LANDER — With the severe
drought conditions and local
county fire restrictions, the
Wyoming Game and Fish Department is banning open fires
on all Game and Fish Commission-owned and administered
lands within the Laramie and
Lander regions.
These lands include Whiskey
Basin, Spence and Moriarty, Inberg/Roy, Ocean Lake, Sand
Mesa, Red Canyon, Chain
Lakes, Morgan Creek, Red Rim
Daley and Grizzly, Pennock,
Wick, Thorne/Williams, Forbes,
Table Mountain, Springer,
ROCK SPRINGS: Madalyn Youssef, left, and Andrea Youssef, right,
brave the giant snake during the Shrine Circus.
sions with the family and sessions with the child individually.
“Tobacco is the entry-level
drug,” Schmid-Pizzato said. “If a
child is smoking by age 10 or 11,
by the time they’re 14 or 15, they
quickly move up to other things.”
Schmid-Pizzato also cautioned against marijuana use.
“That leads to harder drugs,”
she said.
Parents who host beer parties
in their homes, thinking that it’s
a safe environment, also drew
concern from Schmid-Pizzato:
“The kids are not out driving,
getting a DUI, but there’s no safe
amount of alcohol for a developing brain. Teenagers’ brains are
still developing.”
Treatment programs for alcohol-addicted teens are similar to
those for drug-addicted teens,
Schmid-Pizzato said.
“I deal with this constantly,”
she said.
THEFTS
Photo courtesy of Sweetwater County Sheriff’s Office
Investigators recover a stolen Ford Excursion at the Kmart parking lot in Rock Springs.
The Sweetwater County Sheriff’s Office said a pair of alleged car thieves may have traveled to Rock Springs from Evanston in the Excursion before ditching it in the parking
lot.
More fire bans in effect on state lands
Smiling Snake Handlers
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Rawhide, and Laramie Peak
wildlife habitat management areas. Additionally, public access
areas (PAA) within the Green
River, Lander, and Laramie regions are affected, along with the
Sand Creek PAA.
Habitat Access Supervisor
Brian Parker said as drought
conditions continue across
Wyoming, the potential for human-caused fires, including fires
threatening commission-owned
and administered lands, has become very high.
“The effects of wildfire can
conflict with the wildlife and
wildlife habitat purposes of the
Game and Fish Commissionowned lands,” Parker said.
The following acts are prohibited on all commission-owned
and administered lands:
• Building, maintaining, attending or using a fire, campfire,
charcoal grill, coal or wood burning stove.
• Smoking except within an
enclosed vehicle or building, a
developed recreation site, or
while stopped in an area at least
3 feet in diameter that is barren
or cleared of all flammable material.
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RS fitness classes
offer benefits for all
ROCK SPRINGS — The Rock
Springs Parks and Recreation
summertime fitness classes are
now under way.
Classes include a variety of
strength training workouts conducted throughout the year.
The Rock Springs Civic Center
hosts quick body workouts Monday through Friday, with seven
different courses.
Staff said Strength in Training
Circuit and Body Definition are
two courses in particular that offer a variety of exercise within a
half-hour.
Another class hosted only at
the Civic Center is Rowbics, an
indoor rowing course that enhances posture, flexibility and
balance.
The center also offers water
aerobics classes every weekday.
All Civic Center fitness classes
except for water aerobics will end
on July 26 for floor refinishing.
The Civic Center and the Rock
Springs Family Recreational Center offer some of the same classes such as cycling, Zumba Fitness classes, and SilverSneakers.
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most attended class at the Recreational Center.
The SilverSneakers muscular
strength and range of movement
workout is designed to help with
daily living skills, using hand-held
Tuesday
Strength in Training Circuit, 7
a.m.
Water Exercise, 9 a.m.
Body Definition, 5 p.m.
Zumba Fitness, 5:45 p.m.
Water Exercise, 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday
Rowbics, 6:05 and 7:35 a.m.
SilverSneakers, 10:30 a.m.
Precision Cycling, 5:15 p.m.
Thursday
Strength in Training Circuit, 7
a.m.
weights and other easygoing exercises.
The Family Recreational Center alone offers a wide variety of
courses for all ages 5:30 a.m. to 7
p.m. Monday through Friday.
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Zumba Fitness, 5:45 p.m.
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Friday
Rock Springs Family
Recreational Center schedule
Monday
Spin City Cycling, 5:30 and 10:30
a.m.
Body Bar Conditioning, 9:15 a.m.
Aqua Zumba, 9 a.m.
Body Sculpt, 5 p.m.
Step Free Style, 6 p.m.
Zumba Fitness, 6 p.m.
Tuesday
Fusion Yoga, 8 a.m.
Zumba Fitness, 9:15 a.m.
Body Flex Weights, 10:30 a.m.
and 6 p.m.
Yoga Mind and Body, 5 p.m.
Spin City Cycling, 6 p.m.
A new program at the Recreational Center is Piloxing, a mixture of dance, kickboxing and pilates.
Also new this year is a Corebar
workout, which will not begin until July.
There are also a variety of yoga
and muscle building courses
available at the Family Recreational Center.
Senior recreation supervisor
Thursday
Aqua Zumba, 5:30 p.m.
Fusion Yoga, 8 a.m.
Body Flex Weights, 10:30 a.m.
and 6 p.m.
Yoga Mind and Body, 5 p.m.
Spin City Cycling, 6 p.m.
Friday
Yoga, 5:30 a.m.
Step Freestyle, 10 a.m.
Bike and Body, 10:30 a.m.
Aqua Zumba, 10:30 a.m.
Tina Dudic at the Family Recreational Center confirmed that all
classes have high attendance
rates.
“It’s a nice place to come and
meet people,” she said.
Staff said the fitness classes offered within the community bring
positive aspects to everyone involved and there are sufficient
benefits on health, fitness and social levels.
Tiny Tots Pinups
FANTASTIC FIVE: Kade Robert
Kramer celebrates his 5th
birthday on June 27, 2012. He
is the son of Jerad and Amber
Kramer of Rock Springs. His
grandparents are Bob and Peg
Conklin of Thompson Falls,
Mont., Penny Kramer of Rock
Springs and the late Larry
Kramer. He has a brother,
Kody Lawrence Kramer, 2.
Governor Matthew Mead will
open the Statehood Celebration
event at 11:30 a.m. followed by
Dave Walsh, voice of “Wonders of
Wyoming” and the Wyoming
Cowboys. Organizers said the
event will be full of musical entertainment, historical character actors, displays showcasing the history of baking, railroad, logging
and agriculture as well as kids’
games and activities.
“Statehood celebration is about
sharing memories, taking a look
at Wyoming’s history and how we
have grown,” Wyoming Territori-
Around Sweetwater County
Baker, DuPape win
YAH pinochle games
ROCK SPRINGS — James
Baker was the winner of the
June 21 pinochle games played
at the Young at Heart Recre-
ROCK SPRINGS — The
parents of Alyce Grossardt
and Jack Goich announce the
engagement and forthcoming
marriage of their children.
The bride-elect is the
daughter of Jeffery Grossardt
and Debra Phillips of Ridgecrest, Calif. She works for
John Bunning Transfer.
The prospective groom is
the son of Michael and
LaVonne Goich of Rock
Springs. He works for Black
Butte Coal.
library-sponsored programs and services visit
braries.com or facebook.com/sweetlibraries.
LARAMIE — Matthew
McIntosh graduated from the
University of Wyoming College of Law with a juris doctorate degree.
McIntosh is the recent recipient of the Sweetwater
County
Bar
Association
Scholarship.
He
moved to
Rapid City,
S.D., with
his family
and
will
join a law
firm where
he
will
practice in
both
Wyoming
MATTHEW
and South MCINTOSH
Dakota.
He is the son of Douglas
and Becky McIntosh.
ational Center.
Betty DuPape placed second, and Frank Willoughby
came in third.
Other pinochle players included Jim Rafferty, Betty Bybee, Gary Leslie, Lorraine Hill
and Gary Jensen.
tary honors to all deserving
Wyoming veterans.
The service opens with the
Pledge of Allegiance, a prayer,
the reading of the names of
the Wyoming veterans who
died during the month, a rifle
volley, the playing of “Taps”
and the folding of the U.S. flag.
The Wyoming Army National Guard provides free military honors for veterans’ individual services on request
through funeral directors.
Grossardt,
Goich to
wed in July
To learn more about this program and other
librarysystem online at www.sweetwaterli-
McIntosh graduates
from University
of Wyoming
College of Law
CHEYENNE — Continuing
its tradition of conducting a
monthly memorial service for
veterans, the Wyoming Army
National Guard’s Honor
Guard Team, in partnership
with the Natrona County United Veterans Council, will host
the memorial service on June
29 at noon at the Oregon Trail
State Veterans Cemetery.
The public is encouraged to
attend.
The goal is to provide mili-
children right away, eventually
having five sons and two daughters. Eight years into their marriage, she said her husband married Decker’s first cousin as a second wife, which only
proved to further complicate her already
strained marriage and
further exacerbate the
family’s near poverty
circumstances.
Many years into the
marriage Decker, with
the encouragement of
a friend, said she was
able to get help from a
therapist,
which
changed her world and
her life. It would take
many more years of
struggle and persistence, but she worked
her way out of her dysfunctional
life. On Monday night, Decker
will speak about her road to recovery and how her life changed
from one of sadness and misery
to love and acceptance. Copies of
Decker’s book will be available at
her presentation.
Decker’s book discussion is
sponsored by the Sweetwater
County Library System.
any Sweetwater County library or visit the
Student News
WyARNG hosts memorial
The public is invited to join author Kristyn Decker as she discusses her
life and book “Fifty Years in Polygamy: Big Secrets and Little White
Lies.”
Laramie Jubilee Days to celebrate Wyoming Statehood on July 10
LARAMIE — Since July 10,
1940, Laramie has celebrated
Wyoming’s statehood.
Laramie Jubilee Days has partnered with the Wyoming Territorial Prison State Historic Site to
create a new event this year,
“Wyoming Statehood Celebration” on July 10 at the Wyoming
Territorial Prison.
The event is scheduled from 11
a.m. to 2 p.m. at the prison located at 975 Snowy Range Road,
Laramie. Admission to the event
is free and free hot dogs will be
served to the first 300 people.
COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD
Wednesday
Spin City Cycling, 5:30 and 10:30
a.m.
Body Bar Conditioning, 9:15 a.m.
Piloxing, 5 p.m.
Step Free Style, 6 p.m.
Library hosts book
discussion on ‘Fifty
Years in Polygamy’
ROCK SPRINGS — Kristyn
Decker will be back at the White
Mountain Library on Monday at
7 p.m. July 2 to discuss her recently-published book, “Fifty
Years in Polygamy: Big
Secrets and Little
White Lies.”
Some will recognize
Decker from last summer when she spoke at
the library with her
brother and sister-inlaw.
At that time, she had
just finished writing
her book. Now published, she is on a multi-city book signing
tour.
Decker was born KRISTYN
into the Apostolic DECKER
United
Brethren
church, the second-largest organized polygamous group in the
United States. Her father was the
leader and prophet until his death
in February 2005.
She said after enduring a childhood that was wrought with
abuse and neglect, Decker was
encouraged to marry a man, eight
years her senior, at the age of 17.
Although she truly loved her husband, she said the marriage was
full of dysfunction and the
charming man that she had dated before marriage turned out to
be cruel and neglectful.
She said she started having
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Rock Springs
Civic Center schedule
Monday
Rowbics, 6:05 and 7:35 a.m.
Zumba in Bunning Park, 9 a.m.
Precision Cycling, 5:15 p.m.
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al Prison Superintendent Deborah Amend said.
The Wyoming territory was admitted into the Union as the 44th
state when President Benjamin
Harrison signed the Statehood
Bill on July 10, 1890.
Over the years, Laramie Jubilee
Days has evolved into a weeklong
hometown celebration to include
a number of different events,
many of which are still in existence. The state mission of
Laramie Jubilee Days Committee
is to provide a family celebration
of Wyoming Statehood through-
out Laramie and Albany County
in order to preserve, promote and
protect Western heritage.
“Most people do not understand why Jubilee Days is scheduled over July 10. It is because
Wyoming statehood is the reason
for the celebration. This year the
board wanted to emphasize
Wyoming statehood in a way that
will enhance the celebration and
become part of the tradition. It is
the only statehood celebration in
the state,” Laramie Jubilee Days
General Chairman Guy Warpness
said.
ALYCE GROSSARDT
AND JACK GOICH
The couple is planning a
July 21, 2012 wedding at Santa
Fe in Rock Springs.
Zoo’s octopus gets name
AKRON, Ohio (AP) — A giant Pacific octopus that’s the
star attraction at an Ohio zoo’s
new reef exhibit has chosen
her name by pulling shrimp
from a labeled ball.
A list of 2,200 suggestions
submitted to the Akron Zoo in
a public naming contest was
narrowed to three options
Monday for the 20-pound, 4foot-long octopus, and she
chose Cora. It’s a shortened
version of coral, which is a
popular octopus habitat and
the theme of the exhibit.
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Rock Springs Boys Little League Baseball
ROCK SPRINGS: Members of the Rock Springs Boys Little League Baseball T-ball team include, front from
left, Jordan Curtis, Noah Valdez, Koltin Gunyan, Weston Hanberg and Garen Pugmire; second row, Kylar Reeves, M.J. Botz, Cash Gunyan, Matthew Johnson and Michael Clark; and, in back, coach Jim Johnson.
Steve Ogden’s
ROCK SPRINGS: Members of the Rock Springs U14 girls’ division Steve Ogden’s softball team include,
front from left, Makayla Lowry, Taylor Campbell and Kailyne Dickinson; second row, Kia Comstock, Ali
Lange and Kaylie Huggins; third row, Sarah Stucki, Skya Legerski, Sydney Legerski, Brooke Jordan and
Maya Lowry; and, in back, coaches Becky Legerski and Tony Legerski. Coach Willie Campbell is also on
the team.
ROCK SPRINGS JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL HONOR ROLL
Second Semester Honor Roll
Seventh grade
Taylor Renee Adams
Mario Alonso De La Sierra
Alejandro Alvarez
Alexis Lorraine Anastos
Emily Christine Iris Aragon
Shenan Elijah Archuletta
Cesar Avila
Olivia Joelle Babbitt
Nathan Edward Baldwin
Khadijah Teralin Balla
Kylie Marie Ballance
Brayden Zachary Barker
Bryon Scott Bearden
Alexis Nicole Bedard
Brandy L. Belcher
Trey Joshua Bellamy
Kyle J. Boyer
Kevin Bravo-Maldonado
Damion Walter Brege
Kinley Ann Bruderer
Caren Anne Cantwell
Cameron Ardis Carter
Katelynn Ann Carter
Hosea Daniel Catterall
John Henry Chadey
Kody Spenst Chapman
Kaden Mark Cheney
Madison Denea Chidester
Kylie Elizabeth Chorazewitz
Dustin Neil Clark
Steven Wesley Clark
Mylynn Leighanne Collins
Kenyon Gene Comstock
Katrina M. Conner
Blake Christopher Cooper
Cory A. Cordova
Kiana Rose Corley
William Taylor Court
Bailey Taylor Cowan
Calie LeeAnn Cox
Daylin Ann Cox
Veronica Raye Coy
Mollie Crosmer
Dalton James Cunningham
Andrew Steven Daley
Aspen Davenport
Chloe Alexis Davidson
Selena Davila
Madison Taylor DeGoyette
Brittanie Lou Doan
Morgan Danielle Doporto
Stormy Rae Dorigatti
Cole Lewis Doroha
Andrew Michael DuPape
Abbigail Lee Edwards
Vincent P. Edwards
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Wil Garner
Noah Pierre Gipson
Mikaela Goicoechea
Paola Gonzalez
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Amy Nicole Grass
Kerry King Greve
Austin James Griffith
Kia J. Hafner
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Erica Noel Hall
Andrew Hamilton
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Trevor Hautala
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Carlos Hernandez
Emilee Sue Herrera
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Harlie Holt
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Ellie Anne Huxford
Brendan Scott Imlay
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Savanah Lee Jenkins
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Bailey Nichole Johnson
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Amber King
Pawel Teodor Klatka
Keeri Ann Klein
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Connor Kozlowski
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Ty Keegan Lancaster
Alex Edward Lane
Jared A. Lange
Brenden Scott Lapp
Emma Mackenzie Lapp
Kylee Brydon Lapp
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Taylor Marie Seilbach
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Amanda Verheydt
Fletcher Paul Wadsworth
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Rheanen S. Wells
Chance Robert Wiens
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Devyn Rae Williams
Beatrice Emmy Wilson
Brayden Joseph Wilson
Drew Anthony Yerkovich
Bailey Young
Shaylee Laray Zampedri
Zachary J. Zanetti
Eighth grade
Emelina Lynn Abram
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Brenden Elton Baucum
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Bethenie Gade-Ann Peck
Christian Kelby Peterson
Aaron Tyler Petrich
Angela Marie Phelan
Marianna Schmid Pizzato
Kaci Jo Pomrenke
Dakota R. Powell
Melinda B. Powers
Elizabeth Prater
Raeanne Aubrey Prather
August M. Prevedel
Kali Marie Prevedel
Amber Dawn Price
Erick Jonathan Ramirez
Perla Ramos
Alyssa Danae Randall
Preslee Mary Randall
Kailie Renee Rees
Keegan Arthur Rembacz
Shane Logan Riskus
Kennedy Layne Rissell
Delreace Renae Robinson
Jade Marie Rodiack
Jared Michael Rodriguez
Roberto Rodriguez
Carter David Rosette
Courtney Melissa Rutherford
Alejandro Jose Saavedra
Morgan Sanders
Hayden Lynn Searle
Delaney Troy Seilbach
Tayla Rayanne Sewell
Jackson Brady Seymour
Grace Marie Shields
Elyssa Kaylen Simpson
Kaetlyn Christine Sinn
KyeAnne Gene Skinner
Ashley Dawn Skorcz
Andrea Marie Smith
Justine Marie Snyder
Erikka Marie Soto
Sydnye Karen Spicer
Jasmine Eileen Isadora Spivey
Haley Anne Steele
Blake Anthony Stevens
Kaycee Lou Stevenson
Keenan Michael Stoll
Clayton Allen Stott
Alfredo Joseph Straw
Casey Elizabeth Swedlund
Payton Leigh Sweet
Devan Austin Tanner
Kaylen K. Taucher
Brandon David Thorne
Leora Elizabeth Tilly
Wyatt Gregory Tippit
Brayden Lance Tolar
Justine Nizhoni Toney
Jorge Torres
Miriam Torres
Havea Hikuleo Tukutau
Danietta Turpen
Emmanuel Valles
Mariana Carmen Vejar
Susett A. Velasquez
Megan Abbi Velez
Anthony Albert Vesco
Matthew Jonathan Vesco
Bryan Michel Wagner
Jacob Mathew Wagoner
Eric Tyler Ward
Brittnie Rae Wells
Morgan Christine Weskamp
Sierra Dawn Whittaker
Nicole June Williams
Ashley Marie Willoughby
Cassee Lynn Willson
Trenton Mark Wilson
Christopher James Wohletz
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AMERICAN LEGION
BASEBALL
Standings
AA
Gillette Roughriders
Cheyenne Post 6
Rock Springs Mustangs
Casper Oilers
1-0
1-0
0-1
0-1
36-15
20-24
15-6
23-21
A Northeast
Sheridan Troopers
Casper Drillers
Douglas Cats
Gillette Rustlers
4-0
2-0
1-3
0-4
27-4
19-12
8-23
19-22
A Southeast
Laramie Rangers
Wheatland Lobos
Cheyenne Hawks
Torrington Tigers
3-0
3-1
1-2
0-4
20-9
11-12
11-15
5-12
A Northwest
Powell Pioneers
Cody Cubs
Riverton Raiders
Lovell Mustangs
6-0
3-3
1-3
0-4
18-12
14-18
5-9
4-19
A Southwest
Jackson Giants
Evanston Outlaws
Green River Knights
Rawlins Generals
3-0
3-1
0-2
0-3
12-10
18-15
13-10
3-21
Schedule
Monday, June 25
Gillette Roughriders 19, Longmont,
Colo. 4
Gillette Roughriders 7, Laurel,
Mont. 4
Tuesday, June 26
Cheyenne Post 6 10, Post 24 Mustangs 2
Gillette Roughriders at Billings,
Mont.
Post 24 Mustangs at Cheyenne
Post 6
Casper Oilers at Laramie Rangers
Casper Drillers at Sheridan Troopers
Douglas Cats at Wheatland Lobos
Lovell Mustangs at Riverton
Raiders
Evanston Outlaws at Jackson Giants
Wednesday, June 27
Fort Collins, Colo. Rocky Mountain
HS at Cheyenne Post 6
Cody Cubs at Sheridan Troopers
Logan, Utah at Evanston Outlaws
Thursday, June 28
Greeley, Colo. at Gillette Roughriders
Douglas Cats at Lovell Mustangs
Laramie Rangers at Wheatland Lobos
Green River Knights at Rawlins
Generals
George Tani Memorial at Casper
Colorado Baseball Academy at
Casper Oilers
Palmer, Colo. vs. Jackson Giants
Friday, June 29
Mead, Colo. at Gillette Roughriders
Grandview, Colo. at Gillette
Roughriders
Rawlins Generals at Laramie JV
Palmer, Colo. vs. Post 24 Mustangs
Post 24 Mustangs vs. Colorado
Baseball Academy
Jackson Giants vs. Sheridan Troopers
Colorado Select vs. Sheridan
Troopers
Air Academy, Colo. vs. Jackson Giants
Gallatin Valley, Mont. at Casper Oilers
Cody Wood Bat Tournament
Teams and schedules TBA
Saturday, June 30
TBD vs. Gillette Roughriders
Cheyenne Post 6 at Wheatland Lobos
Cheyenne Hawks at Laramie
Rangers
Jackson Giants at Casper Drillers
Palmer at Casper Oilers
Post 24 Mustangs at Casper
Drillers
Gallatin Valley vs. Jackson Giants
Colorado Select vs. Post 24 Mustangs
Robert Morgan/Rocket-Miner
The Post 24 Mustangs baseball team huddles up before taking their turn to bat. The Mustangs, which
have been relentlessly offensive in winning their last two tournaments, went cold Tuesday night in
Cheyenne, where they lost to Post 6, 10-2, in the conference opener.
Opening setback
Errors, limited hitting send Post 24 to defeat in Cheyenne
ROBERT MORGAN
Rocket-Miner Sports Reporter
CHEYENNE — The Post 24
Legion baseball team had its
way with every pitcher it faced
in the Archie Hays Invitational
tournament over the weekend.
The group averaged 12 runs a
game en route to winning its
second-straight tourney. However, the Mustang batters met
their challenge Tuesday night in
Cheyenne. They struggled to hit
Post 6 pitcher Cameron Johnson and committed four errors
en route to a 10-2 loss in the
team’s AA conference opener.
Cheyenne carried a 4-0 lead
midway through the game before finally pulling away. The
hosts scored in each of the final
three innings to put the game
out of reach.
The Mustangs fell behind early because of Johnson’s work
from the hill. Johnson carried a
no-hitter into the seventh inning
before Brent Rhodes brought it
to a crashing halt with Post 24’s
first hit. The hit also led to several more base hits, which allowed Post 24 to score and
avoid a shutout.
The loss, which snapped a
five-game winning streak,
dropped Post 24 to 15-6 for the
season and 0-1 in conference
play as it now gets ready for
tournament play in Casper this
weekend. The win allowed Post
6 to improve 20-24 and 1-0.
The first three innings were a
classic pitching duel between
Rhodes and Johnson. Pitching
aces struck out four of the first
six batters they faced.
Post 6 ended the offensive si-
Mustang Chase Lambson gets a
little defensive as he runs down
a pop-up to secure an out.
lence in the bottom of the third
inning with four runs, two of
which were unearned. A leadoff
walk and a single to center field
by Zach Lain scored the game’s
first run. Lain went on to steal
second and score on the game’s
first error to make it a 2-0 ballgame.
Post 24 recorded the second
out of the inning before
Cheyenne punched in two more
scores. A walk and a two-run
single to left field by Logan Followell allowed Post 6 to move
ahead, 4-0.
The Mustangs were silenced
in the next two innings as they
were retired in order as Post 6
continued to play flawless defense.
Cheyenne flirted with more
runs in the fifth frame when it
put runners on the corners with
no outs. Rhodes got out of the
jam with three-straight outs to
keep things close.
Post 24 got a runner on base
in the sixth inning when Riley
Tolar was hit by a pitch to lead
off the inning. He advanced to
third base, where he was left
stranded and his team still without a score.
Cheyenne tacked on one run
in the bottom half of the inning.
A single, a walk and one error
scored one as the lead went to 50.
The Mustangs ended the nohitter in a big way in the top of
the seventh inning. Rhodes led
off with a double down the leftfield line. Chris Nelson followed
with a hit that was misplayed,
and Rhodes scored to make it a
5-1 contest.
Post 24 threatened to score a
few more when Chase Lambson
and Jozef Hunter followed with
singles to center field. Johnson
forced Tolar to ground out to
end the inning with runners in
scoring positions.
Cheyenne scored three runs
in the bottom of the seventh to
put the game out of reach. Runscoring singles by Dustin Parker and Followell as well as an error allowed three runs to cross
home as Post 6 went in front, 81.
The hosts scored their final
two runs of the game in the
eight inning. A double by Ty
Svex and singles via Brian
Lopez and Dixon Maggard
helped make it 10-1.
The Mustangs scored the final
run of the game in the ninth inning. A leadoff single by Jimmy
Lee, a walk to Rhodes and a
fielder’s choice by Nelson scored
one run to make it 10-2.
Wyoming national rodeo qualifiers announced
Rheanna Gail of
Farson qualifies for
NHSFR in barrel racing
ROCK SPRINGS — The
Wyoming high school rodeo season came to an end over the weekend.
Now all eyes are on the sport’s
biggest event in the country — the
National High School Finals
Rodeo, which will be hosted in
Rock Springs on July 15-21 at the
Sweetwater County Events Complex.
Cowboys and cowgirls accumulated points throughout the season at each rodeo event in the fall
and spring seasons as well as the
Wyoming High School State Finals Rodeo.
The top four competitors in
each event qualify for the NHSFR.
Alternates are on standby as replacements in the event if one of
the top four decline the offer to
compete at nationals.
The top seed in each event is
the Wyoming state champion for
the 2011-12 season.
Sweetwater County will have at
least one cowgirl representing the
area at the national finals. Rheanna Gail of Farson finished fourth
in barrel racing with 144.5 points
to secure her spot at the NHSFR.
WYOMING QUALIFIERS
Barrel Racing
1. Cassidy Kruse, Gillette, 197
2. Chandler Markel, Scottsbluff, Neb., 185
3. Teal Stoll, Pavillion, 171.5
4 (tie) Rheanna Gail, Farson, 144.5
4 (tie) Kylee Cahoy, Sheridan, 144.5
Bareback
1. Jeffery Zdziarski, Sheridan, 232.5 points
2. Garrett Ford, Gillette, 202
3. Justin Kissack, Gillette, 176
4. Grant Griffin, Wheatland, 65
Saddle Broncs
1. Blaze Cress, Hillsdale, 184
2. Mason Rockafellow, Clearmont, 172.5
3. J.W. Meiers, Mills, 163
4. Wiley King, Casper, 137.5
Alternate. Cody Miller, unattached, 61
Tie-Down Roping
1. Garrett Grieve, Baggs, 215
2. J.W. Thrush, Gillette, 195
3. Bailey Young, Gillette, 179.5
4. Cameron Irwin, Buffalo, 166.5
Alt. Reed Merritt, Greeley, Colo., 143.5
Breakaway Roping
1. Deena Norell, Meeker, Colo., 208
2. Coralee Spratt, Lysite, 193
3. Amelia McGuire, Wheatland, 182.5
4. Justene Hirsig, Cheyenne, 155.5
Alt. K.L. Spratt, Lysite, 142
Steer Wrestling
1. Austin Eller, Glendo, 222.5
2. Drew Antone, Kinnear, 203
3. Ross Wahlert, Grover, Colo., 185
4 (tie) Kane Butcher, Jelm, 155
4 (tie) Cutter DeHart, Laramie, 155
Goat Tying
1. Coralee Spratt, Lysite, 226
2. Jaime Thompson, Whitney, Neb., 196
3. Emily Faber, Rozet, 186
4. Shai Schaefer, Torrington, 176.5
Alt. Kaylee Burnett, Eden, 160.5
Pole Bending
1. Breanna Reimler, Buffalo, 242
2. Teal Stoll, Pavillion, 231
3. Chloe Ashenhurst, Wheatland, 202
4. Amber Robinson, Pinedale, 176.5
Alt. K.L. Spratt, Lysite, 122.5
Team Roping
1. Coley Nicholls, Kinnear, and Garrett Grieve, Baggs, 367
2. Jayden Johnson, Casper, and Klay Ready, Dixon, 253
3. K.L. Spratt, Lysite, and Logan Milligan, Torrington, 242
4. Ameila McGuire, Wheatland, and J.W. Thrush, Gillette,
231
Alt. Trever Nelson, Moorcroft, and Tanner Judge, Jackson,
218
Bull Riding
1. Hawk Whitt, Thermopolis, 168.25
2. Bryce Burnell, Arvada, 145.25
3. Tyler Orchard, Baggs, 127
4. Drew Antone, Kinnear, 114
Alt. Chantz Cates, Buffalo, 106
Boys’ Cutting
1. Chett Whitman, Big Piney, 225
2. Colby Thurston, Lance Creek, 204.5
3. Jayden Johnson, Casper, 172.5
4. Ty Garrett, Casper, 158.5
Alt. Casey Beck, Gillette, 127
Girls’ Cutting
1. Lacee Good, Greybull, 217.75
2. Shelby Eckley, Riverton, 193.5
3. Jasmine Gould, Meeteetse, 193.25
4. Lexi Hamm, Rozet, 188
Alt. Faith Carson, Arvada, 159
Boys’ All-Around State Champion
Garrett Grieve, Baggs
Girls’ All-Around State Champion
K.L. Spratt, Lysite
Green River Baseball
GREEN RIVER: Standout Green River Knights pitcher Phil Martinez
shows his arm strength as he mows down another batter via a strikeout. The Knights will return to the diamond Thursday when they travel to take on the Rawlins Generals in a pivotal conference game.
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UW swimmer
faces Olympic
challenge
earned All-American honors
from USA Swimming.
She finished no worse than
CHEYENNE — Morgan Har- second in the 100-yard event
tigan is a realist.
while at East.
That is why she describes herHartigan also has had her fair
self as little more than a long shot share of success at UW. She
at the U.S. Olympic
earned
All-Mountain
Swimming Trials.
West honors in the 100
Hartigan, who will be
and 200 breaststrokes
a junior at the University
and the 200 IM this past
of Wyoming this fall,
season.
qualified for the 100-meShe also earned Allter breaststroke prelimiMW honors as part of
naries with the 117ththree relay teams. She
fastest time.
has earned five such
Her time of 1 minute,
awards.
11.88 seconds is nearly MORGAN
Both Hartigan and
seven seconds behind HARTIGAN
Johnson see room for
top-qualifier Rebecca
improvement in the 200
Soni.
IM. She never swam the
“My main goals are to
event in high school, and
improve my time and to
that has caused her to
get a second swim,” the
struggle at pacing her2010 Cheyenne East
self.
graduate said.
“I take it out too fast
“I probably have to get
and hit the wall really
to 1:08 to get into the top
hard,” she said. “It’s hard
16 and get that second
to know that I’m going
swim. If I swim like I TOM JOHNSON too hard because I never
have been, I should be
feel like I’m going to hit
fine.”
the wall until I do.”
Also entered in the 100 breastHartigan is a work in progress,
stroke are world record-holder but Johnson said she has upside
Jessica Hardy and three-time potential, provided she learns to
Olympian Amanda Beard.
keep the pedal off the floor.
“When you’re a kid, you always
“The best of Morgan Hartigan
dream of going to the Olympic is yet to come,” he added.
Trials,” Hartigan said. “I didn’t
believe I’d made it at first. It took ALSO IN THE WATER
a while to sink in.
Hartigan isn’t the only UW
“It’s exciting to accomplish a swimmer at the Olympic Trials
goal that I set a long time ago.”
this week.
Reaching the 1:08 mark and
Senior Trevor LeValley of
being one of 16 swimmers to Lake Stevens, Wash., took part in
reach the semifinals isn’t out of the prelims of the 400 IM on
the question for Hartigan, UW Monday and finished 56th with a
coach Tom Johnson said.
time of 4:28.88.
She reached the qualifying
Ryan Lochte and Michael
standard at last summer’s U.S. Phelps — who have won a comSenior Regionals in Mount bined 17 Olympic gold medals —
Hood, Ore., so it’s safe to say she qualified first and second in the
has improved.
event, respectively.
How much is another story
Senior Brandon Fischer of
since colleges compete in short Livermore, Calif., also kicked off
course yards. The Olympic Trials his second Olympic Trials by
are swum in long course meters, competing in the 100 breastwhich is a longer distance with stroke on Monday. He was 27th
fewer turns.
with a time of 1:02.40.
No matter what happens,
Fischer also is qualified in the
though, competing at such a high 200 breaststroke and the 200
level is good for Hartigan, her IM.
coach said.
His time of 2:16.53 is 36th“This should be a stepping fastest in the 200 breaststroke
stone to being at the NCAA and his 2:06.47 is 123rd in the
(championships),”
Johnson 200 IM.
added. “That, in my mind, is the
The 200 breaststroke prelims
fastest meet in the world.
are Thursday and the 200 med“The NCAAs might even be ley prelims are Friday.
faster than the Olympics because
Sophomore Jordan Turner of
America is by far the deepest and Marietta, Ga., will also swim the
most talented country when it 200 IM. His time of 2:06.02
comes to swimming.”
ranks 97th.
Hartigan had a good chance of
Senior Kelsey Conci of Craig,
qualifying for the Olympic Trials Colo., has the 18th-fastest qualiin the 50 freestyle and 200 indi- fying time in the 100 backstroke
vidual medley, but she was held (1:01.77).
out of the Omaha (Neb.) SwimviConci also is entered in the 50
tational in early June due to strep free, where her times of 26.37 is
throat.
150th. The 50 free prelims will be
Hartigan won three state on Saturday.
championships and had three
Junior Jayce Calhoon of Sweet
runner-up finishes during her Home, Ore., has posted the 78thfour years at East. Two of those fastest time in the 200 backwins came in the 100-yard stroke at 2:04.35. He’ll compete
breaststroke, where she twice Friday.
A day later,
other Williams
sister wins at
Wimbledon
JEREMIAH JOHNKE
Wyo. Sports
Morgan Hartigan competes at the Citrus Classic. She is now swimming in the U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials.
LaRoche, Zimmerman help
Nationals rout Rockies
DENVER (AP) — Adam
LaRoche homered twice, Ryan
Zimmerman
collected
his
1,000th career hit and also
homered, and the Washington
Nationals routed the Colorado
Rockies 12-5 on Tuesday night.
Ian Desmond went 4 for 4,
Michael Morse had four hits and
Tyler Moore also connected for
the Nationals, who had a seasonhigh 21 hits, which tied the club
mark since the team moved to
Washington in 2005. They had
11 extra-base hits, the most since
becoming the Nationals.
7
Casey Delp pulls away for the victory in the Modified A races over the weekend at the Sweetwater
Speedway.
SWEETWATER
SPEEDWAY
RESULTS
June 9
Compacts
01
Lakota Cleveland
17JR
Jeff Snyder
69
Carl Vigil
00
Kyle Ogden
17
Anthony Adkins
35
33
32
30
29
Street Stocks
20
Larry Kaml
25
Ernerst Lemcke
27
Billy Mantell
19
Myron Kaml
57
Ron Swanson
3
Mike Leonard
7X
Alan Morgan
13
Delmer Durran
7
Mark Welsh
35
33
32
31
30
29
28
27
26
Northern Sport Mods
20
Chuck Delp
4V
Scott Verner
79
Travis Poll
35
33
32
Modified A
2W
Casey Delp
94U
Brian Ungero
191
Gordon Kelson Jr.
42M
David Merrell
26Z
Zach Hinsely
61
Charles Kersey
29
Jim Shoemaker
Candon Coft inches ahead of Braxton Yeager for first place in Karts
Main at the Sweetwater Speedway.
92
13
Harvey Tinnes
Ronnie Roy
5- 8-Year-Old Karts
88
Aiden Stone
33y
Bryson Yeager
25
Aiden Pergande
81
Rowdy Burns
9- 11-Year-Old Karts
17
Jarrod Shoemaker
97
Kanyon Sample
8
Caitlyn Croft
3
Patience Green
125 Karts Main
7
Candon Croft
33y
Braxton Yeager
Hansen caps comeback
with return to Olympics
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Brendan Hansen was done with
swimming after two doses of
Olympic heartache.
He’s feeling a lot better now.
Next stop: London.
Hansen, who retired from the
sport after the Beijing Games
but couldn’t stay away, made his
comeback worthwhile by winning the 100-meter breaststroke
at the U.S. Olympic trials Tuesday night.
“2008 was not lot of fun. I’m
having a lot of fun right now,”
Hansen said. “I’m back.”
Eric Shanteau is heading back
to the Olympics, too, and this
time he doesn’t have to worry
about battling cancer. He rallied
to finish second to Hansen,
pumping his fist when he saw
his position, slapping hands
with the winner, then running
across the deck to kiss his wife.
Four years ago, Shanteau beat
out Hansen for an individual
spot on the team shortly after
being diagnosed with testicular
cancer. He put off treatment until after the games and has been
healthy ever since.
Hansen wasn’t the only swimmer to use the second night of
the trials as redemption for
Olympic disappointment.
Dana Vollmer, a gold medalist
as a teenager in 2004, missed
out on the team four years ago
while battling injuries and health
problems. It’s all good now. She
got off to a blistering start and
soared through the water to easily win the 100 butterfly.
“I’m so relieved,” Vollmer
said. “It was such an exciting
race. I’m really overwhelmed
right now.”
And, oh yeah, there was another memorable race between
Ryan Lochte and Michael
Phelps, but there’s a bigger
showdown to come. One night
after Lochte beat Phelps in the
400 individual medley, Lochte
edged him out again in the semifinals of the 200 freestyle.
That’s just a tuneup for
Wednesday night’s final, which
figures to be another classic between the world’s two greatest
swimmers.
“Oh, that was the semifinals.
It doesn’t really matter,” Lochte
said. “It doesn’t matter until the
finals. We’re great racers, we just
want to win. We definitely
kicked it in gear the last 50, me
and him. We know tomorrow
night is going to be a lot faster.”
Said Phelps: “It’s going to be
a tough race.”
Lochte also has a strong
morning swim in the 100 backstroke during the preliminaries,
posting the second-fastest time
behind Matt Grevers. But the
laid-back Floridian doesn’t want
anything to take away from his
next race with Phelps, so he
dropped out of the back before
the semifinals.
“That actually felt pretty
good,” Lochte said. “I know I
have a lot left, so we’ll see what
happens.”
He said it was his choice to
scratch the 100 back.
“I just want to get ready,”
Lochte said. “I don’t want to
have to worry about swimming”
an extra race.
The 30-year-old Hansen rallied over the final lap for a time
of 59.68 seconds, giving him a
chance to make up for the disappointment of the past two
Olympics. He was one of the
world’s top breaststrokers lead-
ing up to the past two games,
but has yet to win an individual
gold. He took silver and bronze
in the two breaststroke races at
Athens, and was shut out of an
individual medal in Beijing.
Shanteau was fourth at the
turn, but he turned on the speed
heading for the wall and got second in 1 minute, 0.15 seconds.
“I’ve been back and forth with
that event for so long,” said
Shanteau, whose stronger race
is the 200 breast. “It’s nice having it all come together when it
counts the most. I’m a 200 guy,
so sometimes I don’t know what
I’m doing in the 100.”
Vollmer was more than a halfsecond under the world-record
pace at the turn, but she faded
on the return lap. Not to worry.
She had built such a commanding lead that she was a full body
length ahead when she touched
in 56.50.
Claire Donahue claimed the
second spot for London in 57.57.
Natalie Coughlin missed on her
first attempt to make her third
Olympic team, fading to seventh
in the eight-woman race (58.66).
WIMBLEDON, England (AP)
— On one point Tuesday at Wimbledon, Serena Williams dumped
a forehand into the net and
dropped to a knee, her jaw
clenched as she let out a shriek.
On another, she pushed a
backhand into the net while her
feet gave way, yet again leaving
her awkwardly splayed on the
grass at Court 2, the same place
where her sister Venus lost a day
earlier.
By the end, the younger
Williams was screaming after
nearly every point, good or bad
— and, well, there were plenty of
both. Her harder-than-the-scorelooked 6-2, 6-4 victory over the
62nd-ranked Barbora Zahlavova
Strycova of the Czech Republic
in the first round at the All England Club wasn’t exactly perfect
or pretty.
“Definitely a little relief,” the
sixth-seeded Williams said. “I
was letting out a lot of cries. I
was happy to get through that.”
Yes, Williams got the job done,
something she couldn’t say the
last time she was at a major
championship. Last month at the
French Open, the 30-year-old
American tossed away a big lead
— nine times, she was two points
from victory — and lost to a
woman ranked 111th, the only
first-round exit of Williams’ career in 48 Grand Slam tournaments.
“I learned that you got to ...
keep going,” Williams said about
that stunning defeat. “I was really disappointed. Obviously, I was
extremely disappointed. But as
Kelly Clarkson says, ‘What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.’”
In part because of a series of
health scares that sidelined her
for about 10 months, Williams
has gone two years since the
most recent of her 13 major titles,
including four at Wimbledon.
And even though she bowed out
quickly in Paris, Williams is a
popular pick to do well this fortnight.
“For me, when I’m playing a
match,” Williams said, “I either
win it or lose it.”
She’ll want to play better than
she did against Zahlavova
Strycova, who is 0-21 against
top-10 opponents, 13-27 in Grand
Slam matches, and never has
made it past the third round at
any major.
Some other top players were
sluggish at the start against unheralded foes Tuesday, when action was cut short in the evening
because of rain.
Two-time Wimbledon champion Rafael Nadal, for instance,
trailed 4-0 against 80th-ranked
Thomas Bellucci of Brazil before
turning it around and winning 76 (0), 6-2, 6-3.
“Fantastic for me,” Nadal said,
“but I have to improve a lot for
the next round.”
Defending women’s champion
Petra Kvitova fell behind 3-0 and
4-1 but eventually used a sevengame run to take control and
beat 96th-ranked Akgul Amanmuradova 6-4, 6-4. The match
was halted by a 30-minute rain
delay in the second set; when
they returned, Kvitova needed all
of three minutes to wrap things
up.
“In the beginning,” Kvitova acknowledged, “I think I was nervous.”
Twelve singles matches were
suspended in progress and four
were postponed altogether.
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on
upcoming apartments for
rent; two bedroom, one
bath for only $805, deposit
$400. Pet friendly, first two
months free pet rent. Best
deal in town. Call 382-6281
or go to www.sweetwater
apts.com.
MONROE APARTMENTS in
Green River. Two bed, 1.5
bath. $700 per month, $700
deposit. No pets allowed.
Call Southwest Real Estate,
307-382-9180 or visit:
southwestwyoming.com
Equal Housing.
***NEW LUXURY CONDO***
***FREE RENT***
Three bedroom, two bath.
Tile, granite counter tops,
air conditioning, garages.
Must see! First, last, plus
deposit. One year lease.
New, behind Smith’s, Green
River. (801) 368-8660.
LARGE TWO bedroom in
Rock Springs. $725 per
month, $600 deposit. NO
PETS. 870-4163.
GREEN RIVER - Two bedroom, $625/month, $500 deposit. NO PETS. 870-4163.
FREE 10x20 storage unit
with two bedroom, 1.5
bath. Very clean, some utilities paid, no pets, year
lease, $850/month, $1000
deposit. Call 362-9419.
409 ARCHERS Trail, four
bedroom, 2.5 bath town
house. Rent $1800 per
month, deposit starts at
*$1800. Call Southwest Real
Estate, (307) 382-9180 or
visit:
Equal Housing.
1017 OAK Way. Three bed,
1.5 bath house. Rent $1700
per month, deposit starts
at *$1700. Call Southwest
Real Estate, (307) 382-9180
or visit:
Equal Housing.
1240 10TH Street. Two bedroom, one bath, washer
and dryer hook-ups, with
yard and storage. $850 per
month, plus deposit. No
pets. 362-1921 or 371-2338.
1718 KENNEDY - $1800 per
month, four bedroom, three
bath home on large, landscaped lot. Call Margie
Smith, 382-2995. Home
owned by Real Estate Broker.
2016 JOHNSON Ave., four
bedroom, two bath townhome, garage and fenced
yard, $1350 per month,
307-677-0848.
TWO AND three bedroom
townhouses in Green River.
One year lease, no pets.
307-389-1077 or 871-1351
http://landlrentals.weebly.c
om
GREEN RIVER townhome,
two bedroom, 1.5 bath, no
pets, 875-5036.
BEAUTIFUL FIVE bedroom
two bath log home on five
horse-friendly acres, Pinedale area. $1700 per month
plus deposit. Call (415)
425-7212.
TWO
BEDROOM,
Rock
Springs, 1203 9th St. Duplex
home with laundry hookups, month to month lease,
$800/month, $1200 security
deposit. Russ, 307-922-3301.
LOOKING TO rent RV/Motorhome/Camper for High
School Rodeo July 14-22, to
sleep six, with air, needs to
be set up at Events Complex. Call 217-246-6178.
FOR RENT/LEASE/SALE approximately 2200 sq. ft.
prime commercial office
space, warehouse in rear,
12 ft. overhead door, located in Postal Square. Bill
389-1330; Sam, 801-860-4944
OVER 4000 sq. ft. building
for lease, with three 12 ft.
high overhead doors, located on Gannett Street,
zoned I-1. Owner is Real Estate Broker. Call Margie
Smith, Rock Springs Realty,
307-382-2995, 307- 350-7981.
FOR LEASE: 2200 sq. ft. retail location. Great visibility
on Dewar Drive, in Rock
Springs retail center. Call
Rocky Mountain Real Estate, 362-9990.
OFFICE/RETAIL SPACE, 300
- 1700 sq. ft. Available now.
Utilities included., (307)
389-6579.
SHOP UNIT available, end
of July. 307-875-2848.
SOLID, ESTABLISHED business for sale, Walker’s Bait
and Wholesale, 362-2828,
message.
3800 SUNSET Dr. #3, W Bar
K Park, Rock Springs. Tuesday through Saturday, 8
a.m. - 7 p.m. 2007 70cc four
wheeler, hide a bed, 60 in.
Sony TV, lots of kid’s
clothes, baby items, and
miscellaneous, 389-8317.
CLEAN TWO bedroom unfurnished with refrigerator
and range, no pets, $850.
362-7428.
TANNING BED, A-1 condition, $700 or best offer,
382-0823.
GREEN RIVER, newly remodeled two bed, 1.5 bath
townhome, no pets. Call
875-5036.
REMODELING
KITCHEN,
need to sell old appliances.
Smooth top electric stove,
microwave, dishwasher. All
white, all in excellent condition. Call (307) 350-0636.
RV LOTS available, $450 per
month, utilities included.
Call 307-382-7482.
TREADMILL, NORDIC track
Elite 9500 Pro series. Long
running surface and huge
motor, used very little,
$1100 or best offer. Total
gym XLS series, several attachments $500. 371-6961.
ONE BEDROOM RV’s for
rent. Short term, long term,
or just for the Rodeo.
307-382-7482.
NORTH OF Rock Springs,
three bed, one bath, remodeled. Tenant pays gas
and electric, $850/month,
$850 deposit, one year
lease, no pets, 560 Fairview Lane 6A. Call 389-1077
or 871-1351.
http://landlrentals.weebly.c
om
WANTED - RV rental to
sleep four for National High
School Rodeo Finals, July 14
- 22, (618) 924-5371.
VERY SPACIOUS three bedroom apartment. No pets,
all utilities paid, laundry
hook-up. $1000 rent, $600
deposit. 362-1727, leave
message if no answer.
WANTED TO rent, fully
equipped camper or RV,
can sleep five adults comfortably, slide-outs, air.
Renting from July 14 - 21,
call, (501) 837-0530.
THREE
BEDROOM
furnished, all utilities paid,
free
Wi-Fi.
No
pets!
362-3211.
NONSMOKERS, Nondrinkers, wanting to rent:
camper that sleeps six during the National High
School Finals Rodeo (July
14, 2012 - July 21, 2012. (605)
788-2205.
NELLY’S, 514 5th St. Western gifts, art, redesigned
furniture, custom framing
and collectibles. Monday Saturday, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
GREEN RIVER - one and two
bedroom apartments, no
pets. 875-5036.
NEW LISTING! Green River,
two bedroom, one bath,
with washer and dryer,
$675. 870-8274.
FAMILY OF four (two
adults, two high school
girls) wanting to rent
camper for National High
School Rodeo July 14-21.
Please call 605-748-2264 or
605-515-1297.
THREE BED, two bath townhome for rent, no smoking,
$1400 per month. (307)
705-3300.
FOUR BEDROOM, two bath,
includes washer/dryer and
dishwasher, across from
Wal-Mart. One year lease,
no pets, $1100 per month.
Call 389-2254.
TWO BEDROOM, two bath,
utilities paid. No pets, no
smoking. 371-8455.
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LOOKING TO rent an RV
that sleeps at least four,
has air and full sewer hook
up for the week of July
15-21, 2012 for the National
High School Finals Rodeo.
doug@wrightcounty
motors.com
ASSORTMENT OF Garage
Sale Type Items. Fans,
heaters, fancy serving
things, baskets, etc. Tuesday through Friday 10 a.m.
- 5 p.m. 527 N. Front St.,
CeeAnnas Originals.
WACKER 5600 hp generator, $1000. 307-389-4508.
CHAMPION
3000 watt,
307-382-8934
GENERATOR,
3500 peak.
SWAROVSKI CRYSTAL Eagle, Retired, $300; Waterford Crystal Eagle, $200;
4x6 tilt trailer, $450; Three
sets silver olympic chinese
coins - four coins each set,
$750 or best offer. 875-3428.
TRAILER AXLE, 3700 pound
Torsion hubs. Tongue, tires
and rims. Like new. Air
compressor
or
welder
setup, $200. 362-8404.
DELTA 32 inch Radial drill
press, adjustable, like new,
$180. 362-8404.
ROUTER/SABRE SAW table
with Craftsman router, like
new, $50. 362-8404.
DELTA 15 inch scroll saw,
extra blades, like new, $30.
362-8404.
WEDDING DRESSES, various sizes, many to choose
from, cheap. 382-2825.
GREEN RIVER Country Club
Golf Membership for Sale.
If interested please contact
Liza at 307-871-8804 for further details.
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STAGE AND DJ Lighting.
Pickin’ Palace, 553 N. Front
Street, Rock Springs.
PUBLIC NOTICE
The Wyoming Public Service commission (Commission) hereby gives
notice it has granted Rocky Mountain Power’s (Rocky Mountain Power
or th Company) Motion to Vacate and Reschedule Hearing and Joint
Motion to Consolidate thereby vacating and rescheduling the hearing set
in the Company’s 2011 general rate case, Docket No. 20000-405-ER-11
(Sub 405) and consolidating the Sub 405 docket with Rocky Mountain
Power’s 2012 ECAM docket, Docket No. 20000-410-EP-12 (Sub 410);
Naughton Unit 3 Engineering Costs Deferred Accounting docket,
Docket No. 20000-413-EA-12 (Sub 413); and Carbon Plant Deferred
Accounting docket, Docket No. 20000-414-EA-12 (Sub 414).
BUYING JUNK Cars, Trucks,
Machinery. Prices from $35
to $2000. 389-9225.
ANTLER BUYER coming to
area soon! Top grades and
prices. Call for details,
(435) 340-0334.
The public hearing set to commence the week of July 2-6, 2012, in
Rocky Mountain Power’s 2011 general rate case in Docket No.
20000-405-ER-11, has been vacated. The evidentiary portion of the public hearing set for the week of July 16-20, 2012, will not change and will
commence at 9 a.m. in the Commission’s hearing room located at 2515
Warren Avenue, Suite 300, Cheyenne, Wyoming. Public comments can
also be given at the Cheyenne hearing.
6 MONTH old female Alaskan Malamute, 871-8708.
AUSTRALIAN CATTLE Dogs,
6 weeks, first shots,
weaned, parents on site,
males and females. (928)
606-5179, Ken.
LION HEAD Bunnies, $30
each. 307-871-7669.
16 YEAR old registered
gelding, chestnut, TOB
overo paint; 11 year old bay/white gelding paint; 9
year old sorrel white mare
paint. 870-2856.
FOR RENT: two indoor
stalls, one outdoor run. Call
James, (307) 220-0916
BARREL SADDLE, Simko, excellent condition, asking
$500. Pack saddle, complete, asking $500, some
other tack. Call 382-9029,
252-1066.
TYNSKY’S GUNSMITHING.
Muzzle brakes. 875-9609 or
307-870-4709.
7MM - 08 Ruger, with Nikon
scope, $675. 371-0121.
WELDING BED, new condition, used three months,
ready for work, $2600/best.
389-7037.
RECLINER AND love chair
(brown), excellent condition $500. 42 in. Vizio TV
with Samsung Blu Ray and
Sony DVD, all for $500.
Queen size mattress and
box springs, excellent condition $500. 371-6961.
WASHER, $100 and up;
dryer, $100 and up; washer
and dryer set, $250 and up.
One GE refrigerator, side by
side, $250; one GE refrigerator, water and ice in door,
$350; 30 inch gas stove,
white, $195. Call Blaine,
(307) 212-2432 or come by
1313 9th St.
KENMORE DRYER, $150;
Kenmore Refigerator 19 cu.
ft. $250; Swivel Recliner
$65; Wardrobe/TV Center
$100; Full size 4 in. memory
foam topper $50. 382-2547.
USED WASHERS and dryers, singles and sets,
875-5036.
GREEN RIVER - Custom
made house for sale. Four
bed, library, laundry room,
three full baths, family
room. Three-car garage
and 48x12 covered back
porch with big sky lights
and windows all around,
40x12 front porch with
rails, overlooking the city,
plus balcony looking at
mountains. Sprinkler system front and back, peaceful big corner lot. Call for
appointment, serious buyers only, low price, $270,000
or best offer, 2270 West Teton Blvd. 871-6500, ask for
Luis.
2010 16x80 Magnolia mobile home located in Aspen
Trailer Court, Space 24.
Three bedroom, two bath.
New washer and dryer negotiable. $45,000. 350-5199,
350-5186.
THREE BEDROOMS on five
acres, in Eden. 875-8652.
28x56 KIT, $26,500 or best,
must be moved. 382-7392,
354-8703.
TWO BEDROOM with basement, two-stall garage,
$130,000. 389-9225.
THIS IS IT. 804 Windriver Dr.
Four bed, three bath tri-level in Rock Springs. Vinyl
windows and siding, stainless steel applicances.
Large fenced yard. Ready
to move in, $244,900. (307)
389-6001.
CUSTOM BUILT home, four
bedroom, three bath, with
master suite. Main floor
laundry, granite kitchen,
big back yard with 30x40
finished shop, complete
with privacy fence. A must
see! Only asking $419,000.
Call 362-6383 or 371-7115
for an appointment.
FOR SALE by owner - five
bedroom, five bath, 4300
sq. ft. with large living
spaces and upscale finishes, mature landscaping.
2201 Skyview Street. (307)
362-7751.
FOR SALE By Owner, 1360
Alpine St. Four bedroom,
two full bath, large two-car
garage, newly remodeled
inside/out. Asking $235,000.
Please call 389-1396.
10 ACRE rail site with rail,
for sale or lease. (307)
362-2247 or (307) 389-5380.
2006
CLAYTON
trailer,
16x60 three bed, two bath,
$40,000 or down payment
and take over loan. Call
705-3570 or 350-2732.
2007 FRIENDSHIP mobile
home in Pioneer Park. Very
clean, central air, large
storage shed. 871-0342,
871-2649.
2010 MOBILE home, 16x80,
in park. Large deck and
shed, landscaped with
large lot, $67,000 or best offer. 307-922-3474.
14x70 THREE bedroom, one
bath, all appliances, pellet
stove, swamp cooler, enclosed porch - B & R Park,
Reliance #51. Will consider
cash offers or partial trade
for RV. (307) 705-1701.
28x70 1994 Dutch three
bed, two bath in Pioneer
Park, $47,500. Call (307)
250-7880.
1973 VW Super Beetle,
110,000 miles, runs great,
$5500. 371-0121.
Interested persons may inspect the applications in Subs 405, 410, 413
and 414 during regular business hours at the Commission’s offices in
Cheyenne and at Rocky Mountain Power’s Wyoming service centers located in Casper (Casper Service Center and Casper Region Office),
Cody, Evanston, Laramie, Pinedale, Rawlins, Riverton, Rock Springs,
and Worland. The application and its supporting testimony and exhibits
may also be reviewed on the internet at http://www.pacificorp.com.
All interested persons are encouraged to attend the main evidentiary
public hearing to be held the week of July 16-20, 2012, in Cheyenne
commencing at 9 a.m. All hearings will be conducted in accordance with
the Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act and the Wyoming Public
Service Commission Rules and Special Regulations. Interested persons
may appear and be heard, either in person or through counsel, as provided by Commission rule. Interested persons may also file written comments by filing them with the Commission at the address listed below on
or before July 20, 2012.
The Commission’s hearing are open to all persons. If you wish to attend
any or all of the hearings and you require reasonable accommodation for
a disability, please contact the Commission at (307) 777-7427 (Voice or
TTY) in Cheyenne during regular business hours or write them at 2515
Warren Avenue, Suite 300, Cheyenne, Wyoming 82002, to make arrangements. Communications impaired persons may also contact the
Commission by accessing Wyoming Relay (TTY) by dialing 711. Please
mention
Docket
Nos.
20000-405-ER-11,
20000-410-EP-12;
20000-413-EA-12 and 20000-414-EA-12 in your correspondence. If you
wish to listen to the hearing scheduled in this matter to to http://psc.wy.us at the appropriate time and follow the instructions to connect to the
hearings.
Dated: June 25, 2012.
June 27___________________________________________________
1987 MERCEDES 560 SEL.
117,000 miles, black on
black. $5,000. 875-6817.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE THIRD JUDICIAL
DISTRICT WITHIN AND FOR SWEETWATER COUNTY,
WYOMING
1992 LEXUS ES300, good
running - Cash Price $2000.
Standard Motor, 362-4341.
In the Matter of the
Change of Name of
Bruce Whitfield Beach
1995 TOYOTA Corolla four
door, nice. Cash $2499.
1999
MERCURY
Sable,
$2500/best. 307-922-6853.
2007 PONTIAC G6 convertible, 15,000 miles, $16,000 or
best offer. Call Danielle or
Chester, 382-3778.
)
)
)
Civil No. C-12-401J
NOTICE
To: All Interested Persons
Notice is hereby given that a Petition has been filed in the District Court
of the Third Judicial District of Wyoming, within and for the County of
Sweetwater, by Bruce Beach, an adult person, the object an prayer of
which is to obtain a change of name for Bruce Beach, an adult. If the
Court finds that said change is not detrimental to the interests of others,
an order shall be entered changing said adult person’s name to Bruce
Whitfield Hamilton. Any objection to said Petition for Change of Name
must be made on or before thirty (30) days from the last date of publication of this notice. If no objection is made, said Petition for Change of
Name may be granted.
DATED this 1 day of June, 2012.
1988 FORD F250 extended
cab 4x4 - Cash Price $2000.
Donna Lee Bobak
Clerk of District Court
By: R. Masching
Deputy Clerk
June 6, 13, 20, 27___________________________________________
1999 GMC Yukon four door.
Your Cash Price $4500.
2007 JEEP Commander,
60,000 miles, $16,000. Call
307-389-4508.
2009 JEEP Wrangler Rubicon. Minimum bid $28,000.
Call Kathy at RSNB Bank
352-0411.
STATE OF WYOMING COUNTY OF SWEETWATER
IN THE DISTRICT COURT THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE
)
)Probate No. PR-2012-49-L
OF MARIO TEMPERINI, DECEASED.)
——————————————————————————
NOTICE OF PROBATE
TO ALL PERSON INTERESTED IN SAID ESTATE:
FOR SALE: 2011 Pace utility
trailer. Excellent condition.
Epoxy grip flooring removable shelving with fold
down table, 6x12 single
axle, asking $1800. Call
(303) 523-4746 or (303)
564-0933. Trailer is located
in Rock Springs.
2007 KTM XCFW 250,with
extras $3,300. 350-4202.
You are hereby notified that on the 8th day of June, 2012, the estate of
the above-named decedent was admitted to probate by the above-named
Court, and that Nick Bapis was appointed personal representative
thereof.
Notice is further given that all persons indebted to the decedent or to his
estate are requested to make immediate payment to the undersigned at
205 C Street, Rock Springs, Wyoming.
Creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate are required to
file them in duplicate with the necessary vouchers, in the office of the
Clerk of said Court, on or before three months after the date of the first
publication of this notice, which first publication is made on June 13,
2012, and if such claims are not so filed, unless otherwise allowed or
paid, they will be forever barred.
DATED June 11, 2012.
NICK BAPIS
Personal Representative
LEMICH LAW CENTER
205 C Street
Rock Springs, WY 82901
Phone: (307) 382-6600
June 13, 20, 27_____________________________________________
PUBLIC NOTICE OF INTENT TO ADOPT
RULES AND REGULATIONS
The Wyoming Department of Transportation (WYDOT) hereby gives
public notice of intent, in accordance with W.S. 16-3-103, to revise the
following rule and regulation within its Motor Vehicle and Licensing
Section:
* Chapter 1, Driver’s Licenses.
Chapter 1, Driver’s Licenses, is a revised rule and regulation of the Wyoming Department of Transportation. This rule and regulation is promulgated by authority of W.S. 24-2-105, W.S. 31-7-103, W.S. 31-7-305,
W.S. 31-7-310, and W.S. 31-7-401 to administer various matters relating
to driver’s licenses and commercial driver’s licenses (CDL).
This revised rule updates procedures relating to Ignition Interlock Device provisions, technical revisions, and other issues. This revised rule
and regulation incorporates legislative changes from the 2012 Wyoming
Legislature.
This rule replaces an emergency rule that goes into effect July 1, 2012.
Copies of the proposed rules are available through the department’s Internet homepage at http://www.dot.state.wy.us/ under the Administration tab.
Copies of this chapter are also available on request from the Wyoming
Department of Transportation, Management Services, 5300 Bishop
Blvd., Cheyenne, WY 82009-3340; by phone at (307) 777-4393; or by
FAX at (307) 777-4163.
All written comments must be submitted to the following address no
later than August 10, 2012, at 5 p.m. to be considered by the Transportation Commission of Wyoming:
John F. Cox, Director
Wyoming Department of Transportation
5300 Bishop Blvd.
Cheyenne, WY 82009-3340
June 27___________________________________________________
ORDINANCE NO. 2012-07
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE 4-1201 OF THE ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF ROCK SPRINGS, WYOMING, ENTITLED “HOURS OF CITY PARKS.”
WHEREAS, the Governing Body of the City of Rock Springs desires to
amend Section 4-1201 of the Ordinances of the City of Rock Springs,
entitled “Hours of City Parks.”
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE GOVERNING
BODY OF THE CITY OF ROCK SPRINGS, STATE OF WYOMING:
Section 1. That Section 4-1201 of the Ordinances of the City of Rock
Springs entitled “Hours of City Parks,” is hereby amended to read as follows:
4-1201 Hours of City Parks.
All City Parks shall be closed to public use daily between the hours of
9:00 P.M. and 7:00 A.M. It shall be unlawful for any person to be
within the limits of any of the City Parks of the City of Rock Springs between the hours of 9:00 P.M. and 7:00 A.M., except as follows:
(a) City employees on official city business shall have unlimited access
to city
parks.
(b) Any other individual or group who wishes to remain on City Park
property between the hours of 9:00 P.M. and 7:00 A.M. shall present to
the City Parks and Recreation Board a request for waiver of the hours of
closure herein which shall
set forth in detail:
(i) The name of the individual or group requesting such waiver.
(ii) The official name of the park or parks to which such waiver is to
apply.
(iii) The purpose for which the park is to be used.
(iv) The hours during which the waiver is to apply.
(v) A detailed inventory and explanation of any equipment or materials
which will be brought into the park and the purposes and/or reasons
therefore.
(vi) An explanation of the benefits to be derived by the City or citizen’s
by virtue of the proposed use of the park(s).
(c) The City Parks and Recreation Board shall investigate each request
for waiver of hours of closure and after doing so shall recommend to the
Governing Body that it either permit or deny such waiver. In determining its recommendation, the Board shall consider any and all adverse impacts the proposed waiver of hours of closure may have upon the park(s)
and/or the public use and enjoyment of the park(s), as well as any potential adverse impacts upon adjacent neighborhoods
and inhabitants of the City. The recommendation may include ways in which any
potential
adverse impacts may be satisfactorily mitigated including, but
not limited to, requiring that the person or organization making the request post a bond or deposit to ensure compliance with all requirements
established by the Parks and Recreation Board for the use of the park(s).
Any bond or deposit posted shall be returned if in the opinion of appropriate City staff or officials all such requirements have been complied
with.
(d) Upon receipt of the recommendation of the Parks and Recreation
Board as set forth herein, the Governing Body shall set the matter on the
agenda for action at the next regularly scheduled City Council Meeting
where final permission or denial of such waiver shall be given. (Ord.
No. 1940, 7-19-71; Ord. No. 91-07, 7-2-91).
(e) Exemptions. Overnight parking shall be permitted within the Paul J.
Wataha
Recreation Area RV Parking Area, as generally depicted in the
cross hatched section of the aerial photo attached hereto and incorporated herein as “Exhibit A,” at such times and subject to such restrictions
as the City deems appropriate.
This ordinance shall take effect immediately after it has been posted or
published as required by law.
1st Reading: May 15, 2012
2nd Reading: June 3, 2012
3rd Reading: June 19, 2012
PASSED AND APPROVED this 19th of June, 2012.
David M. Tate
President of Council
Attest:
Lisa M. Tarufelli
Carl R. Demshar, Jr.
City Clerk
Mayor
June 27___________________________________________________
NOTICE OF ACCEPTANCE AND FINAL PAYMENT
Notice is hereby given that the Western Wyoming Community College
District has accepted as complete, according to specifications, the work
performed under that certain contract between WWCC and MD Nursery
and Landscaping of Driggs, ID for work performed on the Courtyard #2
Landscape Renovations and the contractor is entitled to final settlement.
Therefore, the College will cause said contractor to be paid the full
amount due under said contract on July 23, 2012. All claims regarding
work or materials furnished to the contractor must be filed with Western
Wyoming Community College prior to July 23, 2012 or the same shall
be waived. The date of the first publication is June 13, 2012.
By: Shannon Honaker, Board of Trustees President
Western Wyoming Community College District
June 13, 20, 27_____________________________________________
See us online:
www.rocketminer.com
NOTICE OF REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS
Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) FY 2013 Projects
The Sweetwater County Tripartite Board is accepting proposals for FY
2013 projects to be funded by the Community Services Block Grant
(CSBG) through the Community Services Program Office, Wyoming
Department of Health. The purpose of this grant is to fund projects that
reduce and/or eliminate poverty as well as empower low income Individuals and families to become economically self-sufficient.
The term to complete projects will be October 1, 2012 through September 30, 2013. Proposal requirements can be obtained by contacting
County Grants Manger Krisena Marchal at (307) 872-6470.
No one will be excluded from this solicitation process because of race,
color, religion, national origin, gender, age, income, or disability. The
Sweetwater County Tripartite Board shall have the authority to reject
any or all proposals and to waive any formalities.
All proposals must be received by noon MST on Friday, July 13, 2012,
to the attention of Krisena Marchal, 80 West Flaming Gorge Way, Suite
19, Green River, Wyoming 82935. Proposed projects will also be subject
to a presentation to the Tripartite Board.
June 27___________________________________________________
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WORLD
1978 HARLEY Davidson
Shovel Head FX, totally rebuilt from the ground up,
new engine (not rebuilt),
$10,000, 705-3137.
2006 HARLEY Davidson Heritage, fully loaded, big bore
kit,
high
performance
cams, Thunder Max EFI,
custom rims, over $30,000
invested! $15,000, 705-3137.
Turkey warns Syria
away from its border
ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY
Associated Press
2003 YAMAHA Blaster,
Toomey B1 pipe, rejetted
carburetor, after-market
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June 20, 27__________________
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June 27, July 4______________
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June 27, July 4______________
BEIRUT (AP) — Turkey warned
Syria on Tuesday to keep its forces
away from the countries’ troubled border or risk an armed response — a furious reply to the downing of a Turkish
military plane last week by the Damascus regime.
NATO backed up Turkey and condemned Syria for shooting down the
plane but stopped short of threatening
military action, reflecting its reluctance
to get involved in a conflict that could
ignite a broader war.
Near the capital of Damascus, meanwhile, Syria’s elite Republican Guard
forces battled rebels in some of the
most intense fighting involving the special forces since the uprising against
President Bashar Assad’s regime began
in March 2011, according to activists.
Assad appeared to acknowledge the
seriousness of the situation while addressing his new Cabinet on Tuesday
in a statement broadcast on Syrian
state TV. He said his country is in a
“genuine state of war.” Up to now Assad
has described the uprising against him
as run by terrorists carrying out a foreign agenda.
More than 14,000 people have been
killed in the last 15 months. Despite
global outrage over the crackdown by
the Assad regime, the international response has been focused entirely on
diplomacy and sanctions, not intervention, as the violence escalates.
In a speech to parliament, Turkish
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan
said Syria shot down the unarmed reconnaissance plane in international airspace without warning in a “deliberate”
and “hostile” act.
“Any military element that approaches the Turkish border from Syria and poses a security risk and danger
will be regarded as a threat and treated as a military target,” Erdogan said.
He said border violations in the region were not uncommon and Syrian
helicopters had violated Turkish airspace five times recently without a
Turkish response. The two countries
share a 566-mile (910-kilometer) frontier.
Turkey’s limited response to Friday’s
incident suggested there was no appetite for a violent retaliation. Still, Erdogan cautioned Syria against testing
his resolve.
“No one should be deceived by our
cool-headed stance,” he added. “Our
acting with common sense should not
be perceived as a weakness.”
Syrian officials insist the plane violated its airspace, saying a Syrian officer shot it down with anti-aircraft fire
after spotting an unidentified jet flying
at high speed and low altitude.
Turkey disputes that. Turkey says although the RF-4E jet had unintentionally strayed into Syrian airspace, it was
inside international airspace when it
was brought down over the Mediterranean. Its two pilots are still missing.
The RF-4E is the reconnaissance
version of the U.S.-built Phantom fighter-bomber which was used heavily in
the Vietnam War. Most of the RF-4Es
were unarmed, although some have
been equipped with cannons and racks
for bombs.
Erdogan has said Syrian forces also
fired on a search-and-rescue plane Friday following the downing of the jet. It
was not clear if the second plane was
hit.
The incident renewed fears of an escalation of the violence that could draw
in neighboring countries. The Turks
have launched pre-emptive attacks in
the past, notably in 2007 and 2008
against Kurdish rebels in Iraq who used
Iraqi territory to strike targets inside
Turkey as part of their war for Kurdish
self-rule.
The head of NATO called the downing of the jet unacceptable after Turkey
briefed NATO’s North Atlantic Council
about it. The talks were held under Article 4 of NATO’s founding treaty,
which allows a member to request consultations if its security has been threatened.
The meeting was the first time a
country has invoked Article 4 in nearly a decade. In 2003, Turkey also invoked Article 4 when tensions escalated ahead of the U.S.-led invasion of
Iraq.
NATO Secretary-General Anders
Fogh Rasmussen said the alliance condemned the Syrian attack “in the
strongest terms” and expressed solidarity with Turkey — but he did not
speak of any possible armed action
against Syria.
“It’s my clear expectation that the situation won’t continue to escalate,” Fogh
Rasmussen told reporters after the
meeting. “What we have seen is a completely unacceptable act, and I would
expect Syria to take all necessary steps
to avoid such events in the future.”
The uprising against Assad has obliterated the once-close ties between Syria and Turkey. Turkey has repeatedly
called for Assad to step down as 33,000
Syrians have sought refuge in Turkey
from the violence.
Turkey also is also hosting civilian
opposition groups as well as members
of the Free Syrian Army, which is fighting to bring down the Assad regime.
“We will continue to support the
struggle of our brothers in Syria at any
cost,” Erdogan said. Turkey denies harboring armed Syrian rebels.
Fogh Rasmussen has repeatedly said
NATO would need a clear international mandate and regional support before
it embarked on a mission in Syria. Last
year, NATO launched airstrikes on
Libyan government targets only after
receiving such a mandate from the U.N.
Security Council, along with backing
from the Arab League.
But Russia and China — both vetowielding members of the Security
Council — have stood by Assad and
shielded his regime from international
sanctions. Both countries are keen to
avoid any type of military intervention
in Syria, and they vow to veto any attempts.
Military intervention has been all but
ruled out in Syria for now, in part because the conflict has so much potential for escalation. Damascus has strong
allegiances to powerful forces including
Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Shiite powerhouse Iran.
Russia’s president and foreign minister repeated Tuesday that Iran should
take part in a meeting on the Syrian crisis in Geneva, slated for Saturday.
“The more of Syria’s neighbors that
are brought into this process the better,”
President Vladimir Putin told Russian
journalists traveling with him in Jordan.
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said he
will take part in the Geneva meeting
even if Iran is not represented, but without Iran, “we will be talking about how
then to gather all of the participants.”
A deputy to international envoy Kofi
Annan told a closed Security Council
meeting that the principles and guidelines for a Syrian-led political transition
must be agreed on before the Geneva
meeting can happen, a diplomat said
on condition of anonymity because the
meeting was not public.
The diplomat said that Nasser AlKidwa, a deputy joint special envoy of
the United Nations and the Arab
League on Syria, told the council Tuesday that Annan believes the meeting he
is trying to organize will only be worth
holding if participants can agree on
how a Syrian political transition should
work, and can’t simply be a “talking
shop.”
As part of a U.N.-Arab League peace
plan that failed to take hold in Syria,
U.N. observers were sent to the country, but they suspended their work earlier this month after coming under fire.
The U.N.’s peacekeeping chief, Herve
Ladsous, told the Security Council on
Tuesday that it is too dangerous for the
observers to resume their mission, although it could restart at some point,
according to a diplomat who spoke on
condition of anonymity because the
session was closed.
Assad blames the violence gripping
his country on foreign terrorists and
armed gangs. In the early months of
the uprising, he acknowledged a need
for political reforms, but his opponents
have dismissed his gestures as a facade.
Tuesday’s fighting near Republican
Guard compounds and bases in the
suburbs of Damascus killed at least six
people, according to the Britain-based
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The Republican Guard, which is
commanded by Assad’s younger brother, Maher, has the task of protecting the
capital, the seat of the regime’s power.
The fighting suggested growing boldness by the rebels.
Clashes erupt regularly in the suburbs between troops and rebels, but Assad’s forces have firm control of Damascus and it is very rare for fighting to
take place near the Republican Guard
bases. It was unclear what prompted
the clashes or how close they were to
the heavily guarded compounds.
Syria’s military remains loyal to Assad despite some recent high-profile
defections, and the opposition is fragmented and unable to attack as a unified force, according to U.S. intelligence
officials who briefed reporters in Washington on the Syrian conflict.
The regime has maintained troop
loyalty by keeping paychecks coming
even as food and fuel run out for the
rest of the country, the officials said,
speaking on condition of anonymity to
provide the sensitive information.
Egypt court rules military cannot arrest civilians
MAGGIE MICHAEL
Associated Press
CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court suspended on
Tuesday a government decision allowing military police
and intelligence to arrest
civilians, a setback for the
country’s military rulers after
the decree drew an outcry
from opponents who accused them of trying to impose martial law.
The Justice Ministry issued a decree on June 13 that
allowed military police and
intelligence agents to arrest
civilians for even minor offenses such as traffic violations. Rights activists feared
the new powers essentially
reproduced the country’s
hated emergency law, which
had expired just two weeks
earlier after more than 30
years in force. The emergency law granted broad
powers of arrest and detention to police that were
abused over the years and
fed the popular anger that
led to last year’s uprising.
Critics said the new powers of detention could extend
the rule of the generals, even
if they transfer power to the
elected president by the end
of this month as promised.
“This (court ruling) is the
best possible way to have
such a repressive law struck
down,” said Heba Morayef, a
researcher with Human
Rights Watch in Egypt. “It is
a pretty significant decision
against a decree that would
have permanently given the
military this right of law enforcement and encroachment on civilian life.”
Military officials said at
the time that the new powers
were only meant to fill a security vacuum resulting
from the uprising when the
police force collapsed and
disappeared from the streets
during the first days of mass
protests.
The government, which
was appointed by the ruling
Supreme Council of the
Armed Forces (SCAF), can
appeal the court decision.
The military has pledged
to turn power over to a civilian government once a new
president is named. On Sunday, Islamist Mohammed
Morsi of the fundamentalist
Muslim Brotherhood was
declared Egypt’s first freely
elected president in modern
history.
However Morsi is facing a
power struggle with the military rulers after they
stripped the presidency of its
major powers one week before the winner of the election was announced.
The ruling military council
has used court decrees and
constitutional declarations
to stop Islamists from controlling all the executive and
legislative branches.
The same court postponed a key decision on
overturning the ruling military council’s order to disband the Islamist-dominated parliament.
The Muslim Brotherhood
and another Islamist group,
the ultraconservative Salafis,
won more than 70 percent of
parliament in a free election
around the start of the year.
The parliament, according
to Egypt’s interim constitution, is tasked with forming
a panel to write the constitution. Twice, liberals walked
away from panels formed by
the Islamist-controlled parliament, saying the panels
are packed with Islamists
and voicing fears that
Egypt’s new constitution
would end up more Islamic.
However, two days before
the June 16-17 presidential
runoff, the ruling council dissolved parliament after a
court determined that the
parliamentary elections were
illegal. As polls closed on
June 17, the SCAF issued a
declaration of constitutional
amendments that gave the
ruling military legislative
power and control over the
process of drafting the constitution.
They also declared a new
body, The National Defense
Council, dominated by generals with a wide mandate to
decide security, military and
foreign affairs.
Hossam Bahgat, a human
rights activist and head of
the Egyptian Initiative for
Personal Rights, said the
court decision Tuesday gives
Morsi and other mediators
ammunition in their battle
with the ruling generals to
argue that the decisions to
entrench military power are
unlawful and can be challenged. Bahgat said the military decisions started as a
“power grab and effectively
transformed into a military
coup.”
“Today is the first time we
get the judiciary pushing
against one of the three pillars of this coup,” he said.
“Today’s decision should
and could empower the
president to explain in the
clearest terms that what the
(generals) are asking for is
against the law.”
There are other pending
court cases against all the
military’s recent decisions.
But on Tuesday, Morsi
also suffered a setback in his
power struggle with the mil-
itary. Attempts to reverse
some of the military council’s decrees were stalled after the Cairo Administrative
Court postponed a ruling to
July 7 on the legality of dissolving the 498-member
parliament.
The case was brought by
lawmakers.
In the absence of a parliament, Morsi must take his
oath of office before the
Constitutional Court, which
was behind the ruling that
recommended dissolving
the Brotherhood-led parliament.
If Morsi takes the oath in
front of the court, it will undermine him in the eyes of
many, especially those who
staged a sit-in for a week in
Cairo’s
Tahrir
Square
against the military’s power
grab.
Morsi, according to his
spokesman Yasser Ali, has
been meeting with legal and
constitutional experts to try
to resolve the swearing in
dilemma.
Also on Tuesday, the same
court postponed to Sept. 1
an appeal that sought to disband a 100-member panel
appointed by parliament to
draft a new constitution.
That left the panel and the
constitution drafting process
in limbo.
Queen, ex-IRA chief face
N. Ireland peace milestone
SHAWN POGATCHNIK
Associated Press
ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland (AP) — Queen
Elizabeth II prayed together Tuesday with Catholic
and Protestant leaders
from across Northern Ireland as this long-divided
land demonstrated its rising faith in a shared future
— and braced for a peacemaking milestone that has
been a quarter-century in
the making.
The British monarch
visited the lakeside town
of Enniskillen, scene of
one of the Irish Republican
Army’s most shocking
atrocities, for events symbolizing how far Northern
Ireland has come from its
darkest days of bloodshed.
On Wednesday she’s expected to meet and shake
hands
with
Martin
McGuinness, former commander of the dominant
Provisional IRA faction, in
what many see as the symbolic conclusion to a fourdecade conflict.
Their first-ever contact,
long avoided by McGuinness’ Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein, follows the
Provisional IRA’s killing of
some 1,775 people since
1970,
including
the
queen’s own cousin Lord
Louis Mountbatten — a
1979 assassination that
IRA experts say McGuinness himself sanctioned.
McGuinness today is the
senior Catholic in Northern Ireland’s unity government, an institution forged
following the Provisionals’
2005 decision to renounce
violence and disarm.
Yet the political difficulties that McGuinness
faces are writ large on the
Northern Ireland landscape. Catholics and
Protestants alike are suddenly ribbing him, if not to
his face, as “Sir Martin of
Londonderry” — a tonguein-cheek reference to his
home city, because virtually all Irish nationalists reject that British name and
use its native Irish name of
Derry. Many Protestant
leaders and analysts likewise have asserted, triumphantly, that the peace
process has left McGuinness with no choice but to
bend the knee to the
British monarch.
“If Martin McGuinness
is to be the deputy first
minister of Northern Ireland, he needs to recognize that her majesty is
head of state of the United
Kingdom,” said Jeffrey
Donaldson, a lawmaker
from the main Protestant
party, the Democratic
Unionists, which today
runs Northern Ireland in
an odd but surprisingly
stable coalition with Sinn
Fein.
“Other than moving into
Buckingham Palace and
curling up like an old green
corgi at the foot of the
queen’s bed, I’m not sure
how much more Sinn Fein
could do to indicate that
their war has been lost and
the
surrender
terms
penned by the British,”
said Belfast commentator
Alex Kane, a former
Protestant political activist.
More troublingly, supporters of small IRA
groups that still mount occasional shootings and
bombings in Northern Ireland have daubed walls in
McGuinness’ home city
with slogans denouncing
Sinn Fein as “sellouts.”
And overnight, the hillside overlooking Sinn
Fein’s other principal power base, Catholic west
Belfast, was decorated
with a massive Irish flag
and the slogan “Erin (Ireland) is our Queen.”
Protestant
militants
stormed the hill Tuesday
night, vandalized it and assaulted one of the Irish nationalist hard-liners guarding it. Police said the
man’s injuries weren’t lifethreatening. A police helicopter hovered overhead,
using a spotlight to keep
tabs on the two rival
groups.
Fears that a future IRA
might rise out of alienated
Catholic districts were
nowhere to be heard Tues-
day in Enniskillen as the
queen arrived in a 10-car
motorcade for an ecumenical church service in
honor of her 60th anniversary on the throne. Sinn
Fein members stayed
away from the event.
She and her husband
Prince Philip received a
standing ovation as she
visited the town’s Catholic
cathedral, her first visit to
a Catholic church in her
20 visits to Northern Ireland as queen. And in the
neighboring Protestant
cathedral, a veritable who’s
who of Northern Ireland
religious life and politics
gathered to pray for continued peace. Church leaders praised the contribution of Elizabeth, who last
year made her first tour of
the Republic of Ireland to
broad public support. Sinn
Fein was heavily criticized
for boycotting her visit.
Archbishop Alan Harper, leader of the Anglicanaffiliated Church of Ireland, said in his sermon
that the queen’s tour of the
Irish Republic “was an occasion of profound significance and deep emotion”
that signaled an era of genuine peace “perhaps for
the first time ever in the
recorded history of this island.”
The queen greeted some
of the thousands of locals
who had spent hours
standing on the packed,
narrow sidewalks of Enniskillen’s Church Street.
In a private meeting at a
Protestant clergyman’s
home, she met survivors
of the Provisional IRA’s
bomb attack on the town
25 years ago.
The no-warning bomb
exploded during an annual ceremony honoring the
British dead of both world
wars, and its victims were
all Protestant civilians: 11
dead and 63 wounded,
among them an Enniskillen school principal
who never recovered from
a coma. Worldwide revulsion over the callousness
of the slaughter spurred
IRA leaders, particularly
McGuinness, to begin
sounding out British government and intelligence
officials for the terms of an
IRA cease-fire.
“Today brings back
some terrible memories, to
be sure, but above all it
shows us that the Enniskillen victims have not
been forgotten,” said
Stephen Gault after meeting the queen. He was
wounded in the 1987 blast
while his 49-year-old father Sam was killed.
“She’s a total lady. We
were nervous, but she
made us feel at ease,”
Gault said of the queen.
Despite the continuing
threat from small IRA factions clinging to the aim of
forcing Northern Ireland
out of the U.K., organizers
of the queen’s trip announced it weeks in advance, a radical departure
from a decades-old policy
requiring a media blackout
until her arrival. Police in
flak jackets did line
Church Street but faced
not a word of protest or
any sign of trouble.
McGuinness,
whom
British and Irish officials
say was a Provisional IRA
commander from 1971 to
2005 when the outlawed
group effectively went out
of business, is dogged by
questions over his insistence that he quit the Provisionals way back in 1974
after he was convicted of
membership in the outlawed group.
Experts on Irish republicanism universally dismiss his claim as a lie designed to protect him from
potential criminal prosecution or lawsuits by victims. The Provisional
IRA’s most high-profile
victim was Mountbatten,
Prince Philip’s uncle. The
79-year-old World War II
hero had defied police
warnings and kept holidaying at his Irish castle
each summer. The IRA
blew up his yacht as it left
harbor, killing him and
three others, including his
14-year-old grandson and
a 15-year-old schoolboy
from Enniskillen.
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LARRY MARGASAK
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Now that the politically potent National Rifle Association is
keeping score, some Democrats may join
House Republicans if there’s a vote to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of
Congress in a dispute over documents related to a botched gun-tracking operation.
The chief Democratic House head counter,
Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland, declined to tell
reporters how many defections he expected,
but acknowledged that some in his party
would consider heeding the NRA’s call for a
“yes” vote.
One of those Democrats, Rep. Jim Matheson of Utah, said, “Sadly, it seems that it will
take holding the attorney general in contempt
to communicate that evasiveness is unacceptable. It is a vote I will support.”
The gun owners association injected itself
last week into the stalemate over Justice Department documents demanded by the
House Oversight and Government Reform
Committee. The NRA said it supports the
contempt resolution and will keep a record of
how members vote.
An NRA letter to House members contended that the Obama administration “actively
sought information” from Operation Fast and
Furious to support its program to require
dealers to report multiple rifle sales.
The program, which began last August, imposed the requirement for sales of specifically identified long guns in four border states:
Texas, California, Arizona and New Mexico.
A federal judge upheld the requirement.
Republicans want Eric Holder to become
the first attorney general to be cited by the
House for contempt, because he has refused
to give the Oversight and Government Reform Committee all the documents it wants
related to Operation Fast and Furious.
Unless a last-minute deal is worked out, always a possibility in Congress, the contempt
vote is scheduled for Thursday — the same
day the Supreme Court is to announce its ruling on the legality of the nation’s health care
law.
A vote to hold Holder in contempt of Congress wouldn’t send any documents to the
Oversight committee and its chairman, Republican Rep. Darrell of California. President
Barack Obama has claimed executive privilege, a legal step that presidents have used to
maintain secrecy of internal administration
documents.
Obama invoked what is known as “deliberative process privilege,” a claim designed to
broadly cover executive branch documents.
However Issa, in a letter to the president, said
Obama was misusing the narrower “presidential communications privilege,” which is reserved for documents to and from the president and his most senior advisers.
White House Spokesman Eric Schultz said
Tuesday that Issa’s analysis “has as much
merit as his absurd contention that Operation
Fast and Furious was created in order to promote gun control. Our position is consistent
with executive branch legal precedent for the
past three decades spanning administrations
of both parties.”
Ironically, the documents at the heart of the
current argument are not directly related to
the workings of Operation Fast and Furious,
which allowed guns to “walk” from Arizona to
Mexico in hopes they could be tracked. The
department has given Issa 7,600 documents
on the operation.
Rather, Issa wants internal communica-
WHAT IS EXECUTIVE
PRIVILEGE?
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presidents dating
back to George Washington have claimed a
murky power to keep the inner workings of
their administrations secret from Congress.
That authority — known as executive privilege — isn’t in the Constitution. It hasn’t been
clearly defined by the courts. Yet invoking it
has proven effective for presidents determined to keep witnesses or documents away
from congressional investigators.
President Barack Obama is the latest to assert the privilege: He refused Wednesday to
turn over some Justice Department documents about a botched anti-smuggling operation that allowed hundreds of guns sold in
Arizona to end up in Mexico. Because of the
standoff, the House Government Oversight
and Reform Committee then voted to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of
Congress. The committee’s recommendation
next would go to the full House for a vote.
A look, in question and answer form, at executive privilege and the fuzzy state of the
law regarding showdowns between Congress
and a president:
Q: How can a president shrug off a subpoena from a congressional committee?
A: Presidents say they should be free to engage in private decision-making with their
advisers without fearing how their words or
internal memos might look to Congress or
the public. Several presidents have argued
that this authority also extends to the work
of high-level agency officials, even if they
weren’t communicating with the president or
White House about such work.
Q: Where does the idea of executive privilege come from?
A: It’s a principle based on the constitutionally mandated separation of powers —
the idea that the executive branch, Congress
and the courts operate independently of
each other.
The concept of executive privilege dates at
least to 1792, when Congress was probing a
disastrous battle against American Indians
that cost the lives of hundreds of U.S. soldiers. President George Washington and his
Cabinet decided the president had the right
to refuse to turn over some documents if disclosing them would harm the public. In the
end, Washington gave lawmakers what they
sought. But the idea of executive privilege
took root.
Q: Didn’t the Supreme Court settle the issue when it ordered President Richard Nixon
to hand over the Watergate tapes recorded in
the White House?
A: Not really. The court ordered Nixon to
tions from February 2011, when the administration denied knowledge of gun-walking, to
the end of that year, when officials acknowledged the denial was erroneous. Those documents covered a period after Fast and Furious
had been shut down.
In Fast and Furious, agents of the federal
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and
Explosives in Arizona abandoned the
agency’s usual practice of intercepting all
weapons they believed to be illicitly purchased. Instead, the goal of gun-walking was
to track such weapons to high-level arms traffickers who long had eluded prosecution and
to dismantle their networks.
Gun-walking long has been barred by Justice Department policy, but federal agents in
surrender the tapes in that case — a criminal
investigation. But the justices also found a
constitutional basis for claims of executive
privilege, leaving the door open for presidents to cite it in future clashes with Congress.
Q: Do presidents claim executive privilege
often?
A: Most reach for it sparingly. Wednesday
was Obama’s first time in his 3 1/2 years in
office. His predecessor, George W. Bush, cited
it six times in eight years. Bush’s father invoked it only once in his single term.
The administration of President Bill Clinton, who faced investigation of his Whitewater land deals and then a sex-and-lies scandal, asserted executive privilege 14 times.
Some of those claims were kept quiet and
quickly dropped, however.
Q: What comes next for Obama?
A: Probably more negotiation. In the past,
presidents and lawmakers have been loath to
let an executive privilege fight escalate into a
court battle.
Q: Why not go to court to settle questions
about executive privilege once and for all?
A: There’s too much risk. Presidents worry
that if they lose, courts will take away a valuable tool and weaken the power of the office.
If the lawmakers lose, they could permanently weaken Congress’ subpoena power when
it investigates executive branch blunders.
Q: What if the White House and Congress
can’t reach a compromise?
A: The next step is a contempt of Congress
vote in the full Republican-controlled House.
Full House approval would send the case to
the local U.S. attorney for enforcement. Who
is that U.S. attorney’s boss? Holder and, ultimately, Obama, who appointed him.
That’s why the Justice Department traditionally declines to pursue such criminal contempt of Congress cases.
Q: Is there something else Congress could
do?
A: If, as history suggests, the Justice Department won’t prosecute a criminal case
against Holder, the House could hire its own
lawyer and file a civil lawsuit in federal court
in hopes of winning an order for Holder to
turn over the documents. But in addition to
the risk of losing, a court fight certainly
would be long and drawn out, making that an
unappealing option.
The Democratic-controlled House filed suit
in 2008 seeking to compel testimony from a
former White House counsel to George W.
Bush. The lawsuit was dropped a year and a
half later, after Bush’s term ended and a newly elected Congress had been seated. Congress did get some of the documents it
sought, however.
Arizona experimented with it in at least two
investigations during the George W. Bush administration before Fast and Furious. These
experiments came as the department was under widespread criticism that the old policy of
arresting every suspected low-level “straw
purchaser” was still allowing tens of thousands of guns to reach Mexico. A straw purchaser is an illicit buyer of guns for others.
The agents in Arizona lost track of several
hundred weapons in Operation Fast and Furious. The low point of the operation came in
Arizona in 2010, when U.S. Border Patrol
Agent Brian Terry was killed in a firefight
with a group of armed Mexican bandits and
two guns traced to the operation were found
at the scene.
MIKE STOBBE
AP Medical Writer
ATLANTA (AP) — Would you
go to a drugstore to get tested
for AIDS?
Health officials want to know,
and they’ve set up a pilot program to find out.
The $1.2 million program will
offer free rapid HIV tests at
pharmacies and in-store clinics
in 24 cities and rural communities, the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention announced Tuesday.
Drugstores now offer blood
pressure checks, flu shots and a
few other types of health services. Officials are hoping testing
for the AIDS virus will become
another routine service.
“By bringing HIV testing into
pharmacies, we believe we can
reach more people by making
testing more accessible and reduce the stigma associated with
HIV,” CDC’s Dr. Kevin Fenton
said in a statement. He oversees
the agency’s HIV prevention
programs.
The tests are already available
at seven places, and the CDC
will soon pick 17 more locations.
The HIV test is a swab inside
the mouth and takes about 20
minutes for a preliminary result.
If the test is positive, customers
will be referred to a local health
department or other health care
providers for a blood test to confirm the results, counseling and
treatment.
When the project ends next
summer, CDC officials will analyze what worked well and what
didn’t, said Paul Weidle, the epidemiologist who is heading up
the project.
An estimated 1.1 million
Americans are infected with
HIV, but as many as 20 percent
of them don’t know they carry
the virus, according to the CDC.
It can take a decade or more for
an infection to cause symptoms
and illness.
Since 2006, the CDC has recommended that all Americans
ages 13 to 64 get tested at least
once, not just those considered
at highest risk: gay men and intravenous drug users.
On special occasions, health
organizations have sent workers
to some drugstores to offer HIV
testing. This week, Walgreens —
the nation’s largest chain of
pharmacies — is teaming with
local health departments and
AIDS groups to offer free HIV
testing at stores in 20 cities.
But this CDC pilot program is
different: It’s an effort to train
staff at the pharmacies to do the
testing themselves, and perhaps
Federal court upholds
EPA’s global warming rules
NEW YORK (AP) — A rare original copy of President Abraham
Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation sold Tuesday at a New York
auction for more than $2 million.
It’s the second-highest price
ever paid for a Lincoln-signed
proclamation — after one owned
by the late Sen. Robert Kennedy
that went for $3.8 million two
years ago.
The latest copy of the 1863 document ordering the freeing of
slaves, which was auctioned at the
Robert Siegel Auction Galleries,
went to David Rubenstein, managing director of the Carlyle Group
investment firm. The American
seller remained anonymous.
The $2.1 million purchase price
includes a buyer’s premium.
“This price — much higher than
we expected — shows that there’s
a growing appreciation for documents that capture the most important moments in our history,”
said Seth Kaller, a dealer in American historic documents and expert on the Emancipation Proclamation; he’s handled eight signed
copies.
The document will go on public
exhibit somewhere in Washington,
he said. The name of the institution is yet to be announced.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court
on Tuesday upheld the first-ever regulations aimed
at reducing the gases blamed for global warming,
handing down perhaps the most significant decision
on the issue since a 2007 Supreme Court ruling that
greenhouse gases could be controlled as air pollutants.
The rules, which had been challenged by industry
groups and several states, will reduce emissions of
six heat-trapping gases from large industrial facilities
such as factories and power plants, as well as from
automobile tailpipes.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in
Washington said that the Environmental Protection
Agency was “unambiguously correct” in using existing federal law to address global warming, denying
two of the challenges to four separate regulations and
dismissing the others.
Michael Gerrard, director of the Center for Climate
Change Law at Columbia University, said no one expected the “complete slam dunk” issued by the court
Tuesday, and said the decision was exceeded in importance only by the Supreme Court ruling five years
ago.
It also lands during a presidential election year
where there are sharp differences between the two
candidates when it comes to how best to deal with
global warming.
President Barack Obama’s administration has
come under fierce criticism from Republicans, including Mitt Romney, for pushing ahead with the regulations after Congress failed to pass climate legislation, and after the Bush administration resisted such
steps. In 2009, the EPA concluded that greenhouse
gases endanger human health and welfare, trigger-
DINA CAPPIELLO
Associated Press
ing controls on automobiles and other large sources.
But the administration has always said it preferred to
address global warming through a new law.
Carol Browner, Obama’s former energy and climate adviser, said the decision “should put an end,
once and for all, to any questions about the EPA’s legal authority to protect us from dangerous industrial carbon pollution,” adding that it was a “devastating blow” to those who challenge the scientific evidence of climate change.
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson called the ruling
a “strong validation” of the approach the agency has
taken.
The court “found that EPA followed both the science and the law in taking common-sense, reasonable actions to address the very real threat of climate
change by limiting greenhouse gas pollution from the
largest sources,” Jackson said in a statement.
At a town hall meeting in New Hampshire last year
Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential
nominee, said it was a mistake for the EPA to be involved in reducing emissions of carbon dioxide, the
chief greenhouse gas.
“My view is that the EPA is getting into carbon and
regulating carbon has gone beyond the original intent of the legislation, and I would not go there,” he
said.
The court on Tuesday seemed to disagree with
Romney’s assessment when it denied two challenges
to the administration’s rules, including one arguing
that the agency erred in concluding greenhouse gases endanger human health and welfare. Lawyers for
the industry groups and states argued that the EPA
should have considered the policy implications of
regulating heat-trapping gases along with the science. They also questioned the agency’s reliance on
a body of scientific evidence that they said included
significant uncertainties.
TRYOUT PERIOD: Health
officials are setting up a pilot program to offer free
AIDS testing at drugstores.
The tryout involves pharmacies and in-store clinics in
24 cities and rural communities, the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention said.
ENCOURAGE TESTING: By
making testing more accessible and routine, the goal is
to reduce the stigma associated with the HIV virus and
encourage more people to
get tested. Fewer than half
of adults younger than 65
have been tested.
QUICK RESULTS: The test
takes about 20 minutes and
involves a swab inside the
mouth that is then put in a
solution. If positive, customers will get a referral for
a lab blood test to confirm
the results, and for counseling and treatment.
Source: The Associated Press
make it a permanent service.
“I’m excited. It’s such a new
and novel thing for us,” said
Sarah Freedman, who manages
a Walgreens in Washington,
D.C., that is participating in the
pilot program.
At her pharmacy, the testing
is done in a private room.
They’ve also taken steps to
make sure that a customer can
very quietly request the test. For
example, they’ve put out stacks
of special test request cards —
they look like business cards —
at George Washington University and other nearby businesses.
Anyone seeking a test can simply hand the card to the clerk,
she said.
Only three or four customers
have gone through with a test in
the first few weeks.
“We get a lot of questions,”
she said. “Usually they get the
information and they go and sit
on it and think about it.”
There’s a second Walgreens in
Washington offering the test, as
well as branches in Chicago and
Lithonia, Ga. Other test sites:
East Pines Pharmacy in
Riverdale, Md., Mike’s Pharmacy in Oakland, Calif. and a federal Indian Health Service location in Billings, Mont.
Each of the locations will get
enough tests to check 200 to
300 people.
Pentagon holds gay pride event
PAULINE JELINEK
Emancipation
Proclamation
copy sells for
$2.1 million
WOULD YOU
CONSIDER A
DRUGSTORE AIDS
TEST?
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the
course of a year, Marine Capt. M.
Matthew Phelps says he went
from being a gay man “in the closet,” afraid of being discharged, to
invitee at the White House gay
pride reception, drinking champagne with his commander in
chief.
Phelps told his story Tuesday
at the Pentagon’s first-ever event
to recognize the service of gay and
lesbian troops. The historic event
came nine months after repeal of
the 18-year-old “don’t ask don’t
tell” policy that had prohibited gay
troops from serving openly and
forced more than 13,500 service
members out of the armed forces.
“Last June ... I was at a point in
my career that if anyone had
found out that I was gay ... I could
have lost my job,” Phelps told
some 400 uniformed and civilian
Defense Department employees
packed into a Pentagon auditorium.
“A year later ... I, Capt. Matthew
Phelps, was invited to attend this
pride reception at the White
House,” Phelps said of the June 15
reception hosted by President
Barack Obama. “And I thought
how amazing is it over the course
of a year, I could go from being
fired for being who I am, to having
champagne with the commander
in chief — on cocktail napkins
with the presidential seal on it.”
Phelps appeared on a panel of
current and former service members, some of whom told of their
experiences before the repeal of
“don’t ask don’t tell” and how life
is different now. The audience
filled the seats and dozens more
stood along the walls, roughly 1 in
5 were in uniform and the rest
civilians who had not been subject
to the old policy.
“For those service members
who are gay and lesbian, we lifted
a real and personal burden from
their shoulders,” top Pentagon
lawyer Jeh Johnson said in a
speech opening the event that
lasted about an hour and a half.
“They no longer have to live a lie
in the military” or “teach a child to
lie to protect her father’s career.”
Before the repeal, gay troops
could serve but could be discharged if they revealed their sexual orientation. At the same time,
a commanding officer was prohibited from asking a service
member whether he or she was
gay.
“For all of us, we should honor
the professional and near-flawless
manner in which our entire U.S.
military implemented and adapted to this change,” Johnson said of
the months since repeal.
Although some had feared repeal would cause problems in the
ranks, officials and gay advocacy
groups say there have been a few
isolated incidents but no big issues — aside from what advocacy
groups criticize as slow implementation of some changes, such
as benefit entitlements to troops
in same-sex marriages.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said last month that military
leaders had concluded that repeal
had not affected morale or readiness. A report to Panetta with assessments from the individual
military service branches said that
as of May 1 they had seen no ill effects.
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DEAR ABBY
WONDERWORD By
David Ouellet
MOMMA by Mel Lazarus
By Abigail Van Buren
DEAR ABBY: My husband, who
is 53, talks often about his college
days when he smoked marijuana.
I tried it once and didn’t like it.
Over the past several years he has
started smoking it again.
I have told him I don’t approve,
but he says he does it only occasionally “to take the edge off.”
Many times he has smoked when
we’re out on bike rides, on road
trips or a Sunday drive. It makes
me feel like he needs to be high in
order to have a good time with me.
I tried compromising by asking
him not to do it when we are together. He agreed, but he doesn’t
keep his word. He does it thinking
I don’t know what he’s up to.
I have noticed that he is becoming forgetful and is sometimes unable to understand information. Is
this a midlife crisis he’s going
through? How do I get him to
stop? — MRS. POTHEAD IN
WINONA, MINN.
DEAR MRS. POTHEAD: It’s not
a midlife crisis. I’m told that the
grass that’s available today is far
stronger than when your hubby
smoked it in college.
Your husband may be becoming
forgetful and unable to process information because he’s smoking
pot A LOT, or because of a neurological problem.
Since you can’t convince him to
stop, you could benefit from visiting a support group for families
and friends of individuals who are
addicted to drugs, because marijuana is one, and it appears your
husband has become addicted.
P.S. Of course, marijuana is also
illegal.
DEAR ABBY: “Jerry,” my husband, has been sending pictures of
himself to online dating sites, advertising for a personal relationship with the so-called “right
woman.”
I feel this is a betrayal of our
marriage vows and that it’s cheating. He claims he’s “just looking”
at what’s out there.
My concern is, why is he looking in the first place? All I get from
him is “I love you” and “I want to
be with you.” I have seen these dating sites, and I feel hurt and betrayed. Am I wrong to feel this
way, or should I believe what he
says about harmless fun? — BROKEN-HEARTED
LIBRA,
LOUISVILLE, KY.
DEAR LIBRA: Your instincts are
right on the money. You have
every right to feel betrayed, hurt
and cheated on because your husband’s words don’t match his actions. What he’s doing is not
“harmless fun”; it is a danger to
your marriage.
Do not tolerate it. Run, don’t
walk, to a marriage counselor. If
your husband won’t go with you,
go alone because your marriage
could depend upon it.
GARFIELD by Jim Davis
DOG EAT DOUG by Ryan Anderson
BECKER BRIDGE Sylvia Strikes a Telling Blow
AGNES by Morrie Turner
ZACK HILL by J. Deering and J. Macintosh
JANRIC CLASSIC SUDOKU
BLONDIE by Dean Young and Dennis Lebrun
HOROSCOPE
By Holiday
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 2012
ARIES (March 21-April 19) You’ll have luck
in group endeavors and highly structured
arrangements. You’ll be able to apply what
you learn almost immediately. You’ll unknowingly exert your influence on those
with whom you come into casual contact.
CROSSWORD By
ONE BIG HAPPY... by Rick Detorie
Thomas Joseph
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Being a trusted
friend sometimes means you have to warn
the one who is getting off track. You’ll do
what’s right and necessary. It may be
years before this is properly appreciated.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21) Your role as the
friendly one who brings people together
will be highlighted. Avoid elitism in any
form. In social arenas, break up the
cliques by talking to outsiders.
CANCER (June 22-July 22) Complex issues
arise, and the easy answers won’t feel correct to you. Writing about what you believe and why is one way to steel your discipline and crystallize your wisdom.
FLO AND FRIENDS by John Gibel and Jenny
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) You have a busy day
of giving ahead of you. When you tire of
taking care of others, you’ll hardly have
the energy to take care of yourself. That’s
when sleep is the best thing you can do.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) An indirectly
competitive atmosphere prevails around
you, and you’ll notice people competing
with one another by keeping score of their
children’s successes or the successes of
their friends, family, company or even
their pets.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) You’re through researching, wondering and asking questions. It’s time to make a firm decision.
The ambivalence has to go if you’re to
move forward quickly and with a smile on
your face.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21) Some of your
most cherished beliefs are either unproved or can’t be proved. That you still
hold them dear is a tribute to the quirkiness of your delightfully complex personality.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) We are designed to gather meaning from experience. Sometimes we perceive patterns of
cause and effect where there are none.
Give your mind a break. Stop searching for
answers and just let it be.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Your mood
alternates. At times you’ll be an open
book, accessible to all who care to investigate. Other times you’ll snap shut, guarding your mysteries inside.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) You direct a
certain longing to the heavens. Your need
to reach upward is primal. It’s inside every
infant reaching for mother; it’s in the limestone blocks of the pyramids and the jet
fuel of rocket ships.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Complex problems can have simple solutions. But before
you try to find one, first assess whether
the problem is really yours to solve. You
wouldn’t want a loved one to miss the
chance to handle his or her own life.
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The war against battered
and confused drug addicts
FROMA HARROP
Rodney King’s best statement
isn’t what he’s famous for. Twenty years ago, the African-American suffered a sadistic beating at
the hands of white Los Angeles
police, an event caught on tape.
When the officers were acquitted
of brutality charges, rioting convulsed largely black South Central Los Angeles. The pandemonium cost 53 lives and destroyed
600 buildings. In the middle of it
all, King, who died this month at
47, remarked with immortal simplicity: “Can we all get along?”
In his book, “The Riot Within,”
King wrote, “I no longer blame
them (lawyers and politicians) for
taking a battered and confused
addict and trying to make him
into a symbol for civil rights.”
King knew exactly what was up.
He was a drugged or drunk black
ex-con tortured by racist police
officers whom he had just led on
a high-speed hour-long chase.
Recipe for pain. But to what extent did the war on drugs accelerate the downward spiral of King
and others like him? Suppose
drugs were legal. King could have
been open about his addiction.
Perhaps he could have gotten
treatment for it. If the ban on
drugs hadn’t driven the price of
narcotics so high, perhaps his
jobs could have covered his
“needs.”
Your writer was once mugged
at knifepoint by a glassy-eyed addict desperate for a drug that,
had it been legal, could have been
bought for the price of celery. Instead, he traumatized me for $35
and probably cost the city of New
York over $1,000 pursuing a case
that was never closed, like many
thousands of others. King reminded me of him.
King had possibilities. He held
jobs. He married the mothers of
his children. He tried to kick his
habits. He was not particularly violent, even during the grocery
store robbery that put him in jail.
And he was basically humane, de-
livering the “Can we all get
along?” comment with genuine
distress. In the book, he expresses agony at seeing a tape of Reginald Denny, a white truck driver,
dragged out of his vehicle during
the riots and beaten mercilessly
by a mob — and his pride at the
heroism of Bobby Green Jr., an
African-American who rescued
Denny and drove him to the hospital.
The intention isn’t to nominate
King for sainthood, but to note
that he was a forgiving man with
good qualities and fine perception. His life could have gone differently, especially if being an addict weren’t itself criminal.
Other victims of the prohibition against drugs are the estimated 50,000 Mexicans murdered at the hands of the cartels.
New Yorker writer Patrick Radden Keefe recently described the
drug gangs’ sophistication in
transporting their wares to the
streets of Los Angeles and other
U.S. cities. They use fishing
boats, 747s and submarines.
They’ve catapulted bales of marijuana over high-tech fences in
Arizona and have constructed
more than 100 tunnels under the
border. To avoid smuggling
costs, they’ve taken over public
land in the U.S. to grow marijuana. Mexican farmers with AK-47s
were found guarding their crops
in the North Woods of Wisconsin.
If the war on drugs were over,
the murderous drug business
would be over. Americans would
save about $50 billion a year
prosecuting a war in which every
dealer’s arrest means more profits for a competitor. Addicts
could find treatment without admitting criminality. Or they could
get their fix without hitting
strangers over the head or ripping copper pipes out of old
buildings. High-schoolers caught
smoking pot wouldn’t have their
lives ruined by a criminal record.
And a “battered and confused addict” might have some chance at
a decent life.
The mythical right to decency
JACOB SULLUM
Pity the poor speech regulators
at the Federal Communications
Commission, who are charged
with sifting through complaints
about TV and radio programs in a
farcical attempt to determine
which references to "sexual or excretory organs or activities" are
"patently offensive as measured by
contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium."
Last week, the Supreme Court
declined to rule on the constitutionality of this charade, thereby
forcing the FCC’s butt-coverers
and word-bleepers to contemplate
a backlog of 1.5 million or so complaints.
“The FCC must now enforce
our right to decency on the public
airwaves,” declared Morality in
Media President Patrick Trueman. Unpacking that statement
reveals the intellectual and constitutional bankruptcy of this whole
censorious enterprise.
Trueman’s “right to decency” is,
in essence, a right not to be offended, which sits rather uneasily
with the right to freedom of
speech. The First Amendment
would not amount to much if it extended only to inoffensive utterances. And what about the right
to indecency? Profit-driven broadcasters do not air things that offend Patrick Trueman out of a perverse desire to upset him; they do
so because they are trying to attract viewers, who evidently have
different tastes. Why should Trueman’s idea of good television
trump theirs?
Here is where the concept of
“the public airwaves” comes in:
The government allows broadcasters to use a public resource and
therefore has a right to impose
conditions on them. That was the
Obama administration’s position
in the case decided last week,
where the Supreme Court overturned three FCC indecency actions on narrow due process
grounds but dodged the broader
First Amendment issue.
Notably, this view of the airwaves as a public resource was not
the basis for the 1978 ruling in
which the Court first upheld the
federal government’s authority to
regulate TV and radio content.
That decision hinged instead on
the premise that broadcasting was
“uniquely pervasive” and “uniquely accessible to children” — neither of which is true now that programming is widely and readily
available via cable, satellite, Internet, DVD and DVR.
Unlike broadcasting, none of
those media is monitored by the
government for naughty words
and images, and the Court has
made it clear that any attempt to
do so would violate the First
Amendment. Yet there is no constitutional basis for this distinction, no matter how many times
professional puritans like Trueman call the airwaves “public.”
After all, satellite TV, cellphones
and the Internet also use “the public airwaves,” but that fact does not
subject them to content regulation. I used the public airwaves,
through a Wi-Fi connection, to
transmit this column, but that
does not mean I have to worry
about being fined if I happen to offend the FCC.
Extending the concept only
slightly, coaxial and fiber-optic cables follow public rights of way, periodicals are delivered via public
roads, and every speaker’s voice is
both powered and transmitted by
the public air. Does Patrick Trueman have a right to decency in
these media, as well?
It’s true that the government
treats broadcasting as a privilege
with strings attached, as opposed
to a transferable property right,
but that decision does not justify
itself. If the government has the
authority to regulate broadcast
content because it controls the airwaves and licenses TV stations,
why can’t it regulate newspaper
content by nationalizing printing
presses and licensing journalists?
In addition to violating the First
Amendment, the ban on broadcast indecency undermines the
rule of law because it is so hard to
predict what will offend the FCC.
A glimpse of bare buttocks may be
deemed indecent in a cop show
but not in a war movie. Four-letter
words that can trigger multimillion-dollar fines may be tolerated
if the FCC deems them artistically or journalistically justified. Such
embarrassingly subjective, unjustly arbitrary and unconstitutionally
speech-chilling judgments are unavoidable as long as the government insists on protecting the
mythical right to decency.
Trip over mountain shows
fire danger for this summer
“Wyoming is so dry, the fire
hydrants are chasing the dogs,”
says Gillette attorney and State
Rep. Tom Lubnau.
And here in Fremont County,
he is absolutely right.
Of course, Lander’s firecracker-fueled July 4 will provide additional dangers to our
mountains.
Among the most
beautiful day trips you
can take here in Wind
River Country is what
our family calls the traditional “Loop Road Trip.”
It is not unlike the
mountain roads you can
take all around Yellowstone or Teton National
Parks, or in the Big
Horns or around Casper BILL
or south of Rawlins and SNIFFIN
Laramie.
You can also take
these mountain-type trips in the
Wyoming Black Hills near Devil’s Tower or the breaks north of
Lusk. Or above Cheyenne, too.
Evanston, Mountain View and
Rock Springs also have favorite
touristy roads.
But if you go on one of these
drives, I assume other Wyomingites like myself will be stunned
at how dry things are for this early in the summer season.
On our trip, we started the
journey in the aptly-named Sinks
Canyon, where the Popo Agie
River disappears into the east
side of the canyon and reappears
a quarter mile farther down on
the west side.
The water is usually roaring
here but is definitely showing the
lack of snowpack in the mountains right now. Last time I
checked the measurement of
snow left in the mountains, it
was 25 percent of normal. Not good.
The newly paved
switchbacks going up
the mountain from
Bruce’s Camp now provide
a
wonderful
smooth ride.
Longtime Forest Service employee Jim
Smail says it is the driest he has ever seen it
and he has been working on the mountains
for over 50 years.
Signs warning of fire
danger were all around
us. I had even heard that authorities were thinking about discouraging horseback trips with
metal shoes on the horses’
hooves because of the potential
of sparks.
A call to prohibit all campfires
may be next.
We stopped at the lookout
above the last switchback. Despite some haze, the view of
Wind River Peak was awesome.
Not much snow left on that huge
mountain.
There is a huge rock formation
that juts out above the switchbacks which locals have always
Views
called Windy Point. It looks like
a man who is searching the heavens and could easily be described as an Indian Chief. I
have always thought it could be
named Washakie Rock or Man’s
Head or some other creative
name that sounds much better
than Windy Point. There are
probably a dozen “windy points”
across our breezy state.
Frye Lake (which later this
summer some visitors will call
Dry Lake) is starting to empty,
as water is being drained out for
irrigation.
We went up to Worthen Reservoir for lunch. Water seemed
down there slightly as I understand more water is being taken
out of there because of the dry
weather.
Again, the weather was wonderful and the 83-degree temperature was just right for a packed
lunch and some beverages. We
watched a young wife hold up
her trout while her husband
videotaped it.
High point of our trip, both enjoyment-wise and elevation-wise,
was a hike up to the top of the
Blue Ridge fire ranger lookout.
This is a great place to view the
southern end of the Wind River
Range.
We spent quite a bit of time up
there just enjoying the 360-degree panorama. The Civilian
Conservation Corps built it in
1938. It takes a four-wheel drive
to travel up through the trees to
the site or it can be a nice hike up
the hill.
We paused along the road
heading toward Louis Lake to
look back at towering mountains.
Lizard Head Peak, which is
part of the Cirque of the Towers,
juts up majestically.
The beach campground at
Louis Lake was a place where we
have taken our relatives for picnics for 40 years. Years ago, my
late brother-in-law Bob Kloewer
of Omaha carved his name into a
huge log on the beach. We always thought it would be there
forever.
Then one year, it was gone. I
still look for that old log.
The trip home on the paved
highway includes wonderful vistas for Red Canyon, especially
late in the afternoon.
On this day, it was really hot
and the breeze seemed even hotter. This trip was in late June and
conditions seemed more like late
August.
Lord help us here in Wind River Country (or elsewhere in
Wyoming) if lightning strikes or
a careless camper leaves a fire
burning.
Check out Bill Sniffin’s columns and blogs at
www.billsniffin.com. He is a longtime
Wyoming journalist from Lander who has
three books that are available at fine bookstores. He has a Facebook page for Wyoming
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Wyoming governor revamps
juvenile justice task force
BEN NEARY
Associated Press
CHEYENNE (AP) — Gov.
Matt Mead is revamping the task
force he established last year to
recommend improvements to
the state’s juvenile justice system,
increasing the presence of judges
and prosecutors while curtailing
involvement from the American
Civil Liberties Union and children’s’ advocacy groups.
Mead appointed roughly two
dozen people to the task force
last summer after his administration backed away from its initial
proposal to develop a unified
court system for juvenile offenders. The task force has been
meeting roughly every week for
nearly a year but a top official in
Mead’s cabinet said Friday it’s
largely failed to produce useful
information.
“Right now we don’t have a
grasp, from any of the reports,
from any of the things the task
force has done, nobody has gotten a comprehensive evaluation
of what has gone on, in say Park
County, Campbell County, Natrona County,” Tony Young,
deputy chief of staff to Mead,
said Friday.
“We can do more,” Young said.
“There was not enough input
from those who were actually
providing services to the kids.”
Increasing the role of judges
and prosecutors will provide information from people who work
with children in the justice system about what’s working and
how the state can augment those
programs, Young said.
Young will serve as Mead’s liaison to the task force, replacing
Gary Hartman, a former judge
and policy adviser to Mead, will
continue to work on other issues
for the governor.
Young said he and Brian David
Christensen, a Natrona County
prosecutor, will oversee restructuring the task force. Young said
he expects the reorganization will
be complete in a couple of
months and said it’s possible the
group could make recommendations to the Wyoming Legislature
in time for the its general session
that starts early next year.
Young said it’s not clear yet
which existing members will be
asked to stay, but said he does
not expect that officials from the
American Civil Liberties Union
or advocacy groups will have
leadership roles in the new task
force. He emphasized that everyone who has an interest in juvenile justice issues will be able to
voice their concerns to the task
force.
Linda Burt, head of the ACLU
in Wyoming, has served on the
task force.
“It’s been very disappointing
for those of us who have been
trying to get some kind of reform
for years and years, and there are
people who have been working
much longer than I have trying to
get reform,” Burt said Friday of
Mead’s decision to reorganize
the task force. “There have been
calls for the last 40 years in
Wyoming for some kind of reform.”
The ACLU issued a report early last year titled “Inequality in
the Equality State” that concluded Wyoming has one of the highest rates of incarcerating nonviolent youths in the country. It
called on the state to establish a
unified court system to handle all
criminal cases involving juveniles.
Wyoming currently prosecutes
children accused of crimes in either municipal, circuit, juvenile
or district courts. The decision
whether to charge teenagers accused of serious crimes in either
adult or juvenile court rests largely with county prosecutors.
County prosecutors have
voiced concerns about the
prospect of creating a separate
juvenile court system. Some
prosecutors have claimed the
ACLU overstated the figures on
how many juveniles were jailed in
the state.
Mike Blonigen, district attorney in Casper, said Friday the
original task force had been in
danger of becoming, “an advoca-
cy group for the ACLU’s position.”
“I have seen them do really
very little, except really stir
things up and say a lot of things
that we then spend a lot of time
rebutting,” Blonigen said. “The
idea that in an era of budget cuts
that we can create a whole new
court with whole new court personnel is kind of pie in the sky.”
Blonigen said he believes
Wyoming needs to focus on creating and supporting early diversion programs, to give options
and help to children who get in
minor trouble with the law before
the take the jump into major
crimes and start facing felony
charges.
Blonigen discounted the argument that prosecutors are opposed to creating a dedicated juvenile court system because they
don’t want to give up their power to decide whether to charge
young offenders in juvenile or
adult court. He said every prosecutor has control and discretion
over charging a criminal case.
“The prosecutor is the one that
knows what’s going on in his
county,” Blonigen said. “Simply
because they won’t go along with
what these other people want to
do doesn’t mean that they’re acting unreasonably. They’re usually more aware of what they have
in the counties and what they
can do for these individual kids.”
Drought-stricken Wyo.
ranchers look to N.D.
BLAKE NICHOLSON
Associated Press
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) —
Drought-stricken cattle ranchers
in Wyoming are looking to surrounding states for grazing land,
and their best bet might be
North Dakota, where farmers
this year have been luckier than
their neighbors.
While large areas of Wyoming,
Montana, Nebraska and South
Dakota are in drought, or at
least abnormally dry, that’s not
the case in North Dakota. The
U.S. Department of Agriculture
reports about two-thirds of
North Dakota’s pasture and
range land is in good-to-excellent shape. In comparison, less
than half of South Dakota’s pasture and rangeland is doing that
well.
That’s one reason Wyoming
Department of Agriculture Director Jason Fearneyhough contacted North Dakota Agriculture
Commissioner Doug Goehring
this week to inquire about the
possibility of Wyoming cattle being moved to that state.
“With the conditions the way
they have been in Wyoming, we
have a lot of producers looking
for other options for their operations,” Fearneyhough said in a
statement. “To help alleviate the
issues that Wyoming producers
are facing, we hope producers in
The Daily Sentinel
Wyoming maintains
high ranking on
student spending
CASPER (AP) — U.S. Census
Bureau figures show that
Wyoming remained sixth in the
nation in the amount of money it
spends on public education.
Wyoming increased its per
pupil spending by 4 percent during the 2009-2010 school year to
$15,169 per pupil. That’s up from
$14,573 in the 2008-09 school
year.
The per-student spending in
Wyoming grew at a rate nearly
four times faster than the nation
as a whole.
Nationally, public school systems spent an average of $10,615
on each student. The District of
Columbia spent $18,667 to lead
the country, followed by New
York, New Jersey, Alaska and Vermont.
State Rep. Steve Harshman, of
Casper, tells the Casper Star-Tribune that Wyoming’s per-pupil
spending is reflected in the state’s
rising student test scores.
DFS pitches cuts: 30
positions, $8 million
in spending
CHEYENNE (AP) — The
Wyoming Department of Family
Services is proposing to eliminate
30 positions and cut $8 million in
spending to meet Gov. Matt
Mead’s request for spending reductions.
The Casper Star-Tribune reports that the cuts would leave
DFS with about 750 positions.
Department spokesman Tony
Lewis says the agency is going
through a reorganization that
mainly involves consolidating
management jobs.
He says the cuts would include
a deputy director job that is empty and would not be filled.
Federal agency to
examine Sinclair
SO2 emissions
RAWLINS (AP) — A federal
agency is preparing to examine
sulfur dioxide emissions from a
refinery
in
south-central
Wyoming.
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
plans to look at three years of
data on air pollution from the Sinclair Refinery. The agency is part
of the Centers for Disease Control.
The Casper Star-Tribune reports that the Wyoming Outdoor
Council environmental group
sought a broader public health assessment of the refinery.
The agency declined to do that
but spokeswoman Tina Forrester
says the research being planned
will help determine if a more in-
depth investigation is needed.
The Sinclair Refinery has a history of problems with air and water pollution. Refinery officials
were unavailable for comment.
Decision on western
gas field delayed
JACKSON (AP) — BridgerTeton National Forest officials
have delayed releasing a document that will decide the extent of
a proposed natural gas development in western Wyoming.
The U.S. Forest Service had
maintained that the supplemental
environmental impact statement
would be out by the end of June.
But this past week, forest
spokeswoman Mary Cernicek
tells the Jackson Hole News &
Guide that the plan is now due
out in August.
The original environmental
study on Plains Exploration &
Production Co.’s proposed natural gas development near Bondurant was deemed inadequate
last January.
The original plan was to drill
136 gas wells from 17 well pads.
The proposal has drawn opposition from conservation groups
and area residents.
PAW pays BLM to
speed along permits
CASPER (AP) — A petroleum
industry group is trying to speed
along federal drilling permits by
paying the U.S. Bureau of Land
Management to hire temporary
staff and cover overtime expenses to process them.
The manager of the BLM’s
Casper Field Office, Joe Meyer,
says applications for drilling permits have more than doubled in
the past couple years.
He says the Casper BLM office
is hiring contract employees
through a local temp agency. The
Casper Star-Tribune reports that
the Petroleum Association of
Wyoming is paying for those
workers through the temp agency.
Association President Bruce
Hinchey says the costs will be at
least $100,000.
Meyer says neither the association nor any company is involved in hiring the workers and
there is no way for the petroleum
association to exert improper influence.
Miss Goshen County
crowned Miss Wyo.
SHERIDAN (AP) — A Torrington native has been crowned Miss
Wyoming.
Lexie Madden will go to Paradise, Nev., next January to compete in the Miss America competition. As Miss Goshen County,
Madden was crowned Miss
Wyoming 2012 in Sheridan on
Saturday.
The Sheridan Press reports
Madden’s platform is “Raising
Awareness of the Importance of
Physical Activity in Youth.” She
runs a youth program at the
Laramie Recreation Center to
promote childhood activity.
The runners-up were Miss
Johnson County Sarah Cheeney,
Miss Sheridan County Heidi
Montano, Miss Newcastle Rebecca Podio, and Miss Central
Wyoming Jessica Bean.
Sierra Club calls for
Grand Teton elk
hunt review
JACKSON (AP) — The Sierra
Club has asked Grand Teton National Park to undertake a new
environmental review of its annual elk hunt.
The organization argues that
conditions had changed since the
park last completed such a study
of the hunt in 2007.
Critics of the hunt say it habituates threatened grizzly bears to
eating gut piles and puts visitors
at risk.
Steve Thomas of the Sierra
Club tells the Jackson Hole News
& Guide that a group of photographers spurred it to request the
study.
In a written response, Grand
Teton Superintendent Mary Gibson Scott said that various concerns about the hunt are being or
have been addressed and that no
additional analysis was necessary.
The hunt’s goal is to keep the
park’s elk population at about
1,600.
Proposal would
require ATM parks
donation option
CHEYENNE (AP) — A legislative panel meeting this week will
consider a proposal that would require ATMs in the state to give
customers the option of donating
to state parks and historic sites.
Republican state Sen. Bruce
Burns, of Sheridan, is sponsoring
a draft of the bill that was to be
presented to the Legislature’s
Joint Travel, Recreation, Wildlife
and Cultural Resources Interim
Committee.
The committee is meeting
Tuesday and Wednesday in Rock
Springs.
Burns tells the Wyoming Tribune Eagle that he came up with
the idea as an “out-of-the-box
way” to deal with possible budget
cuts that the state faces.
With tourism being Wyoming’s
second-biggest industry, he says
he thought the ATM donation
feature would be of interest.
Yellowstone road
work set for
summer season
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL
PARK (AP) — Road and parking
area improvement projects are
scheduled to begin the first week
of July in Yellowstone National
Park’s Tower Junction and
Canyon Village areas.
But the park says little impact
is expected on visitors enjoying
the summer season because most
of the work will be during the
night.
Crews will construct and widen
a 2.5-mile stretch of road between
Tower Junction and Tower Fall
and reconstruct the Canyon Village parking lot.
The Tower Road work will result in closures from 11 p.m. to 7
a.m. into September. There could
be 30-minute delays during open
hours.
The Canyon Village Main Parking Area will be open during the
day but closed from 11 p.m. to 6
a.m.
All stores will remain open for
business during their normal operating hours.
surrounding states have some
grass available for rent.”
Wyoming officials have requested a federal disaster declaration for all but one county, said
Muff Parker, executive secretary
of Wyoming’s Department of
Agriculture. Almost all of the
state is abnormally dry, and
more than half is officially in
some form of drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.
“Last year we had plenty of
grass, everything was wet, we
were doing great,” Parker said.
“This year we didn’t get a lot of
moisture. We were well below
our snow levels and didn’t get
any spring rains. Our grass isn’t
in good shape.
“Director
Fearneyhough
thought North Dakota would be
a good place for us to check,”
she added.
Jim Magagna, executive vice
president of the Wyoming Stock
Growers Association, said the
drought is worst in southeast
Wyoming, where some ranchers
have started selling some cattle.
Last year, ranchers in Texas
and other parts of the southwest
sold off massive numbers of animals after a severe drought destroyed pasture and range land
and a hay shortage caused
prices to skyrocket. So far,
Wyoming is the only state to inquire about renting land for cattle to graze in North Dakota.
Family’s aerial business helps fight fires
PAUL SHOCKLEY
STATE BRIEFS
15
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.
(AP) — Leonard Felix Jr. didn’t
need an official invitation.
A friend was in danger.
Fresh off a day’s work spraying fields around his airstrip in
Olathe, the 67-year-old Felix saw
white smoke billowing below
Grand Mesa and just north of
Cedaredge, where he knew there
was a cluster of homes. Felix
also knew that same smoking
stretch of land was close to the
home of a friend, Scott Morris.
Morris called Felix around
4:30 p.m. on June 8.
“He’d been watching the fire
and it was moving toward his
house pretty fast,” said Felix,
owner of Olathe Spray Service
Inc. “(Morris) probably called
about 30 to 40 minutes after we
first saw the smoke. He wanted
us to get up there.”
Over the course of roughly
four to five hours, Felix and his
son, Deven, did just that in a
company fixed-wing airplane
and a helicopter.
In doing so, officials said the
family spray business of 43 years
played a major role in averting a
much more destructive windwhipped wildfire than the June 8
blaze that burned a mere 39
acres — a blaze fire officials on
the ground in Cedaredge declared “knocked out” within four
hours of receiving the first call.
“If there wouldn’t have been
an aerial attack, we’d have been
looking at this fire on top of
Grand Mesa and it would probably still be burning as we
speak,” Delta County Emergency Manager Rob Fiedler said
Friday.
“Not to take anything away
from the ground crews, but
Leonard can fly down and read
the ladybugs on the dandelions,”
Fiedler said. “He drops water
that close.”
With the elder Felix flying a
fixed-wing tanker, and with Deven flying a spray helicopter,
Olathe Spray Service Inc.
dropped approximately 10,000
gallons of water with 25 to 30
runs between Felix’s air tanker
and a helicopter over the course
of four hours.
“We kind of lost track (of the
number of drops),” Leonard Felix said.
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Home sales indicator
The National Association of
Realtors releases its pending
home sales index for May
today.
The index tracks the number
of Americans who signed contracts to buy homes. Contract
signings typically indicate
where the housing market is
headed.
The index rose steadily in
the first three months of 2012,
but fell in April to 95.5. A level
of 100 is considered healthy.
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Dividend Footnotes: a - Extra dividends were paid, but are not included. b - Annual rate plus stock. c - Liquidating dividend. e - Amount declared or paid in last 12 months. f
- Current annual rate, which was increased by most recent dividend announcement. i - Sum of dividends paid after stock split, no regular rate. j - Sum of dividends paid this
year. Most recent dividend was omitted or deferred. k - Declared or paid this year, a cumulative issue with dividends in arrears. m - Current annual rate, which was decreased
by most recent dividend announcement. p - Initial dividend, annual rate not known, yield not shown. r - Declared or paid in preceding 12 months plus stock dividend. t - Paid in
stock, approximate cash value on ex-distribution date. PE Footnotes: q - Stock is a closed-end fund - no P/E ratio shown. cc - P/E exceeds 99. dd - Loss in last 12 months.
Commodities
FUELS
CLOSE
Crude Oil (bbl)
79.36
Ethanol (gal)
2.19
Heating Oil (gal)
2.58
Natural Gas (mm btu) 2.77
Unleaded Gas (gal)
2.65
Corn futures
rose on supply
worries. Hot and
dry weather
across parts of
the Midwest is
raising expectations that this
year’s harvest
will be weaker
than initially forecast.
PVS.
79.21
2.16
2.54
2.69
2.65
%CHG %YTD
+0.19 -19.7
+0.14
-0.5
+1.50 -12.2
+2.71
-7.4
-0.03
-1.5
METALS
Gold (oz)
Silver (oz)
Platinum (oz)
Copper (lb)
Palladium (oz)
CLOSE
1574.00
27.04
1426.80
3.32
592.65
PVS.
1587.50
27.52
1439.40
3.31
606.20
%CHG %YTD
-0.85
+0.5
-1.75
-3.0
-0.88
+1.9
+0.05
-3.4
-2.24
-9.6
AGRICULTURE
CLOSE
PVS.
%CHG %YTD
Cattle (lb)
1.15
Coffee (lb)
1.65
Corn (bu)
6.46
Cotton (lb)
0.68
Lumber (1,000 bd ft) 274.40
Orange Juice (lb)
1.17
Soybeans (bu)
14.71
Wheat (bu)
7.29
1.16
1.59
6.31
0.70
276.00
1.23
14.83
7.24
-0.39
+4.22
+2.38
-3.05
-0.58
-4.32
-0.81
+0.66
-6.2
-27.1
-0.1
-25.6
+11.1
-30.5
+22.7
+11.7
Stocks Recap
1,400
S&P 500
2,960
Nasdaq composite
1,340
Close: 1,319.99
Change: 6.27 (0.5%)
2,880
Close: 2,854.06
Change: 17.90 (0.6%)
1,280
2,800
10 DAYS
1,450
10 DAYS
3,200
3,100
1,400
3,000
1,350
2,900
1,300
2,800
2,700
1,250
1,200
2,600
J
F
M
A
M
J
2,500
J
F
M
A
M
Question of the Day
How closely do you review the
guidance of financial analysts
when making an investment?Ê
A. rely on it
B. small factor
C. depends on firm
D. ignore it
Wall Street predicts sharp annual increases in earnings
and revenue for Lennar’s second quarter.
The homebuilder is coming off a strong first quarter,
when its new home orders rose the most since 2008.
Lennar’s March-toMay results, due out
today, coincide with a
period when sales of
new homes declined
nationally in two out of
the three months. Did
the positive sales
trends hold up?
S&P 500
1,319.99
DOW
12,534.67
CRUDE OIL
$79.36
30-YR T-BONDS
2.70%
p
p
p
p
+6.27
NASDAQ
2,854.06
+32.01
GOLD
$1,574.00
+.15
EURO
$1.2499
+.02
6-MO T-BILLS
.15%
p
q
p
n
+17.90
-13.50
+.0004
...
Homebuilders leading
stocks up on Wall Street
MATTHEW CRAFT
AP Business Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Homebuilders
led stocks up on Tuesday, helping major indexes recoup some losses from
the day before. Rupert Murdoch’s News
Corp. surged after the media conglomerate said it may split into two companies.
The Dow Jones industrial average
rose 32.01 points to close at 12,534.67.
PulteGroup, Lennar and other housing stocks climbed following news that
a measure of national home prices rose
1.3 percent in April, the first increase in
seven months. The Standard &
Poor’s/Case-Shiller home price index
showed a rise in 19 out of the 20 major
cities tracked; Detroit was the only city
where prices fell.
PulteGroup rose 49 cents to $9.72
and Lennar rose 81 cents to $27.39.
“There’s some good news out there,
especially if you look at the housing
market,” said John De Clue, regional investment director of U.S. Bank’s wealth
management unit in Minneapolis. “But
there’s this overriding theme: concerns
over global growth. Things are pretty
much slowing everywhere you look.”
News Corp. jumped 8 percent. The
company confirmed that it’s contemplating a breakup into two publicly traded companies. The split would divide its
publishing from its entertainment businesses. The media empire includes The
Wall Street Journal, Fox News Channel,
and newspapers in Britain and Australia. News Corp.’s stock leapt $1.68 to
$21.76.
In other trading, the broader Standard & Poor’s 500 index gained 6.27
points to 1,319.99. The Nasdaq compos-
ite rose 17.90 points to 2,854.06.
Investors sold coal company stocks
after S&P lowered the credit rating for
James River Coal deeper into junk status, citing weaker demand for coal. Utilities have favored natural gas instead of
coal to generate electricity and are also
preparing for new emission standards.
James River plunged 15 percent, or 43
cents, to $2.49.
Alpha Natural Resources sank 20
cents, to $7.73. Peabody Energy
dropped 34 cents to $21.12.
More worrisome developments in
Europe kept U.S. markets in check.
Spain’s borrowing costs jumped in a
pair of short-term debt auctions, the latest sign that investors are hesitant to
lend the country money. The interest
rate on the country’s 3-month bills was
2.36 percent Tuesday, nearly triple the
rate in the last such auction in May.
Facebook draws user ire with e-mail switcheroo
BARBARA ORTUTAY
AP Technology Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — In yet another
change that upset users, Facebook has
replaced the e-mail addresses users
chose to display on their profile pages
with (at)facebook.com addresses.
Previously, users may have displayed their personal yahoo.com or
gmail.com address to let people know
how to contact them outside of Facebook. Now, Facebook has hidden
those addresses and put a Facebook
e-mail listing in its place.
The changes raised users’ suspicions. By hiding other e-mail addresses Facebook can keep its already-captive audience even more captive.
Sending an e-mail to a Facebook.com
address will land the e-mail in the
messages section of a user’s Facebook
profile. The more people use Facebook to communicate, the more the
company can target ads based on the
conversations they have on its platform — just as Google targets ads to
Gmail users based on text in their emails.
“They’ve got an e-mail service that
no one is using,” said Forrester analyst
Nate Elliott. Getting people to send emails to and from Facebook deepens
people’s connection to the site, he
added. “This is a way of encouraging
use — it’s just a rather crude way.”
The e-mail change was first pointed
out by bloggers over the weekend and
publicized by media outlets Monday.
The exposure led to gripes from users,
mostly on their Facebook pages and
on Twitter.
In a statement, Facebook said it is
giving users Facebook.com e-mail addresses “because we find that many
users find it useful to connect with
each other, but using the Facebook email is completely up to you.” It added
that the e-mail address people use to
log in to Facebook or receive notifica-
tions won’t change.
Users who are bothered by the
change can reset their profile. Facebook didn’t delete the previously displayed e-mail addresses. So, to revert
back to the original address, click on
the “about” section of your profile.
Once there, look for “Contact Info”
and click on the edit icon on its right
hand corner. There, you can change
who can see your e-mail address and
which e-mail addresses they can see.
The Facebook.com e-mail address
allows users to communicate with outside e-mail addresses via Facebook,
but it’s unclear how many people use
the feature.
Popular as Facebook has been with
more than 900 million monthly users,
its messages and posts have not replaced e-mail, texting and other forms
of communication. According to comScore, Facebook visitors spent an average of 381 minutes (or 6.35 hours)
on the site last month.
Sunny side of the Street
Investors don’t have much to worry about — at
least if you ask financial analysts on Wall Street. This
famously cheery group says earnings at the biggest
U.S. companies will start growing again this summer,
then leap nearly 15 percent in the last three months
of 2012 from a year earlier.
To investors who believe these stock analysts,
some veteran market watchers have a word of
warning, or rather two: You’re dreaming.
“Unless something miraculous happens, like all of
a sudden Greece is wonderful, I don't see how we
get 15 percent,” says Christine Short, a senior
manager at S&P Capital IQ, a research firm.
Economists have been cutting economic growth
estimates, not raising them. And this wouldn’t be the
first time analyst estimates misled investors.
In June 2007, their estimates for the next 12
months indicated that stocks in the Standard &
Poor’s 500 index were trading at 16 times their
projected earnings per share. By the end of the year,
the economy was in recession, and the forecasts
turned out too high. Analysts slashed them, but
stocks were already dropping.
As it turned out, based on actual earnings, stocks
were trading that June at an expensive 22 times
earnings per share.
Analysts notoriously take a long time to cut
forecasts. In January, they predicted earnings for the
second quarter of this year would rise 4 percent from
a year earlier. Now, they say earnings will fall 0.8
percent for that period.
David Kostin, a strategist at Goldman Sachs, thinks
earnings for the S&P 500 will barely grow from here,
eking out maybe a 3 percent gain for the year, versus
the 8 percent the typical analyst projects.
Using his figures, the S&P 500 is trading at 13
times earnings over the next 12 months, slightly
above its 35-year average. Kostin expects the index
to end the year at 1,250, down 5 percent from
Tuesday’s close.
J
Quarterly
terly outlook for S&P 500 earnings growth
14.5%
g expectations
Analysts’ declining
for 2Q 2012 as of the date noted
Y E S T E R D AY ’ S P O L L
As the Supreme Court
deliberates on health care, how
many justices can you name?Ê
1 or 2
0%
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Lennar’s 2Q
MON
$77.87
Agricultural giant Monsanto is 84
$65.96
benefiting from brisk demand
for corn and soybean seeds.
71
Sales of corn seeds, by far
the company’s biggest
’12
segment, jumped 17 percent 58
in the second quarter, while
est.
Operating
$1.26 $1.55
soybean seed sales, its next
EPS
3Q ’11
3Q ’12
largest segment, rose 12
percent.
Price-earnings ratio:
22
Monsanto is expected to
based on past 12 months’ results
report improved results when
Dividend: $1.20 Div. yield: 1.5%
it releases third-quarter
Source: FactSet
results today.
Pending home sales
98
14.6%
2012 earnings grow
growth
7.9%
6 or 7
40%
3.9%
3.4%
1.7%
%
Quick click your answers at
3 to 5
40%
ALL 9
20%
Results do not reflect a scientific poll.
They show only how readers responded. Figures may not total 100 due to rounding.
July 1,
2011
Oct. 3,
2011
Jan. 3,
2012
Source: S&P Capital IQ
Aprilil 2,
2012
-0.8%
-0.8%
Today
2Q
3Q
4Q
Bernard Condon; J.Paschke
Ber
J.
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