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S GILLETTE NEWS RECORD S GILLETTE, WYOMING
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Sheridan cyclist killed, wife
injured in crash
SHERIDAN — A man is dead and his wife is critically
injured after they were hit by a vehicle while cycling in
Sheridan.
Sheridan Media reports that longtime Sheridan resident
65-year-old Larry Hurst was killed in Saturday’s crash. His
wife, Sarah, was taken to a hospital in Billings.
Ronda Holwell, a spokeswoman for the Wyoming
Department of Transportation, says they were hit on U.S.
Highway 87, about a half mile south of Sheridan College.
She says they were riding single file in the emergency lane
when they were hit by a vehicle that was also headed
southbound.
By BRIELLE SCHAEFFER
JACKSON HOLE NEWS & GUIDE
NEW MEXICO
Stock Growers
endorse Gov. Mead
County to fight
rare grouse listing
CHEYENNE — The
Wyoming Stock Growers
Association has endorsed
Gov. Matt Mead’s bid for
re-election.
Executive Vice President
Jim Magagna says Mead has
stepped forward at critical
times to address challenges
faced by Wyoming ranchers
and noted the successful delisting and state management of
wolves as a highlight.
Magagna went on to cite
Mead’s support of Wyoming
agriculture and his consistent
open discussion about ag and
its contributions to our state.
The Wyoming Stock
Growers Association was
formed in 1872 and is
Wyoming’s oldest trade association. It has over 1,000 members statewide.
PORTALES — An eastern
New Mexico county is suing
the federal government in an
effort to stop the listing of a
rare grouse as a threatened
species.
The Roosevelt County
Commission will meet in
special session Tuesday to
give notice of intent to file a
suit against the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service. The county
also is joining an Arizona/
New Mexico coalition in combating the lesser prairie chicken listing.
Ranchers and oil companies
believe the listing will have a
negative effect on the ranching, oil and gas and wind farm
industries in New Mexico,
Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and
Colorado. That’s where the
chicken’s habitat is known.
The federal government said
those states had fewer than
18,000 lesser prairie chickens
in 2013, down almost 50 percent from 2012.
Federal officials say the bird
has lost more than 80 percent
of its traditional habitat, mostly because of human activity
such as oil and gas drilling,
ranching and as power lines
and wind turbines were built.
Roosevelt County Manager
Charlene Webb said the listing
will hurt the county’s road
budget. That’s because every
time the road department
has a project that is federally
or state funded, they have to
have an environmental consultation, Webb said.
Evacuations stressed
as Poudre rises
GREELEY — Greeley is
suggesting that some residents
evacuate because of high
water along the Poudre River.
About 200 homes and businesses got a reverse 911 call
telling them of the voluntary
evacuation just before midnight Sunday.
Television video on Monday
morning showed an irrigation
ditch filling up close to the
edge of a major road and a
park covered by water.
Other flood advisories and
watches are in effect in western Colorado as the warm
weather melts the mountain
snowpack. The Elk River in
Routt County and most rivers
and streams in Jackson and
Grand counties are among the
waterways at risk of flooding.
MONTANA
State musicians to
play at D-Day event
KALISPELL — Some
Montana musicians will be
taking part in the commemorations in France marking the
70th anniversary of D-Day.
Seven members of the
Flathead Valley Community
Band are joining about 100
community band members
from throughout the United
States to perform during a
memorial concert marking the
June 6 landings in Normandy.
The concert will take place
at the American Cemetery and
Memorial near Omaha Beach.
Many of the band members
had fathers who served in
World War II and consider it
an honor to be a part of the
70th anniversary commemoration of D-Day.
NORTH DAKOTA
Second pipeline
summit planned
BISMARCK — Gov. Jack
Dalrymple is meeting with
industry leaders later this
month in Bismarck to push
for more oil and gas pipelines
in North Dakota.
The summit is slated for
June 24 at Bismarck State
College’s National Energy
Center of Excellence.
Dalrymple hosted a similar
event last year that was attended by more than 100 industry
and government officials.
North Dakota is the nation’s
No. 2 oil producer behind
Texas. The state is producing
about 1 million barrels a day
but about 70 percent is being
moved by rail, as producers
increasingly have turned to
trains to reach U.S. refineries
where premium prices are
fetched. Dalrymple says more
pipelines will reduce truck
traffic, curb natural gas flaring
and create more markets for
the state’s oil and natural gas.
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MONDAY
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Campbell County Public Library.
TEEN DUNGEONS & DRAGONS:
4-6 p.m., Campbell County Public
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TUESDAY
STORYTIME: 10:30-11:30 a.m.,
Campbell County Public Library.
Children’s section, for children
ages 3-5, 687-9225.
TEEN CARD CLUB: 4-5 p.m.,
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ADULT GAME NIGHT: 6:307:30 p.m., Campbell County
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JACKSON — How do you
say hello in Chinese?
Bruce Simon can tell you.
The broker and owner of
Prime Properties of Jackson
Hole is catering to an emerging
tourist market with his recently opened East Meets West
Chinese Information Center in
Jackson.
Simon’s center provides
translation as well as language and cultural lessons to
businesses around town. For
visitors, the post offers tour
booking, ride-along Chinesespeaking guides and more.
“Jackson is falling behind in
its tourist marketing or business for foreign visitors,” he
said. “And since the Chinese
visitor is a huge portion of the
population, I thought it would
make sense. Chinese tourism
is changing the world tourist
economy.”
The center opened May 1
and is managed by Li Wang,
who teaches Mandarin Chinese
at Jackson Hole Community
School, Simon said. She is
originally from Xian, China.
“We’re testing the market,
but we’ve gone viral already,
there’s been so much interest in
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Obituary
Death notice
Ellen Cowen
Mass of Christian burial for
Ellen Cowen, 87, of Gillette
will be at 10 a.m. Thursday
at Blanche
Beck
Memorial
Chapel at
Pioneer
Manor in
Gillette.
Burial will
be at 2 p.m.
Thursday
ELLEN
at Custer
COWEN
Cemetery in
Custer, South
Dakota.
Visitation will be from
4-7 p.m. Wednesday at
Gillette Memorial Chapel.
Mrs. Cowen died Thursday,
May 29, 2014, at Pioneer
Manor from natural causes.
She was born Feb. 22,
1927, to Henry and Nettie
(Horton) Raetz. She grew
up in Dalzell, South Dakota,
and graduated from New
Underwood High School.
She married Donald Cowen
in 1946, and they made their
home in Enning, South
Dakota, before moving to
Rapid City, South Dakota.
After Donald’s death Ellen
moved to Grand Junction,
Colorado, and then later
moved to Gillette.
Ellen was on the school
board in Meade County,
South Dakota, for many
years. She also enjoyed
playing bingo and doing arts
and crafts while living at the
Pioneer Manor.
She is survived by sons,
Tom and Jim Cowen, both
of Gillette; daughters, Nancy
Langford and Sue Cowen,
also of Gillette; nine grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren; numerous nieces
and nephews; sisters, Wanda
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Barry Koch
Barry Koch, 42, died
Saturday, May 31, 2014.
Arrangements are pending
with Gillette Memorial Chapel.
Wilbert Williams
Wilbert Williams, 85, of
Gillette died Sunday, June
1, 2014, at Close to Home
Hospice. Arrangements are
pending with Walker Funeral
Home.
Brandon Lee
Montgomery
Brandon Lee Montgomery,
26, of Gillette died Friday, May
30, 2014. Arrangements are
pending with the family.
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STRANGULATION
JESSE J. VEATCH, 36, 4000
Nepstad #15, pleaded not guilty
at his arraignment May 2 to
strangulation. His live-in girlfriend came home and found
him in bed with another woman.
She pushed him and he grabbed
her by the throat and forced her
to the ground, and she briefly
lost consciousness. When she
eventually got away, he chased
her and punched her in the
mouth with a closed fist, according to court documents.
ENDANGERED CHILD
SHAWN R. NIKKILA, 31, 12
Jayhawker, waived his preliminary hearing in Circuit Court
on May 19 and was bound over
to District Court on a count of
endangering a child by allowing
him to be in a house where
methamphetamine was stored.
State and local law enforcement
agencies searched the home
on Feb. 9 where he and five
others lived. Officers found 52.5
grams of meth, with 50 grams
of it stored in the bedroom he
shared with Holly Hatch, according to court documents. There
also were toys in the room.
DRUGS
TYRONE COOKS III, 18, 2801
Sandalwood Drive, pleaded not
guilty at his arraignment May
20 to possession of methamphetamine, his third offense
within 10 years, making it a
felony. He was arrested April 26
after police were asked to do a
free-air sniff at Arbuckle Lodge
with a drug dog because there
was an unusual amount of foot
traffic in and out of a room. The
dog indicated drugs were present near a light bulb made into a
meth pipe that was sitting on a
nightstand. It contained crystal
meth, and 1 gram of meth was
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found elsewhere in the room,
along with 15 syringes, a meth
pipe, a safe and plastic bags. All
three residents of the room were
arrested, according to court
documents.
DRUNKEN DRIVING
BRADLEY TAYLOR, 29, pleaded
not guilty at his arraignment
May 8 to driving while under the
influence of alcohol, his fourth
or more offense within 10 years,
making it a felony. He was pulled
over about 2 a.m. Feb. 21 on
Second Street for an illegal turn
and told officers he’d had eight
Bud Lights since midnight.
BATTERY
ANDREW L. MORIN, 24, 707
Vivian Apt. 6, was found guilty
May 29 of battery. Circuit Judge
Terrill R. Tharp sentenced him to
three days in jail (all served) and
fined him $420.
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Anders and Bernice Chord
of Sturgis, South Dakota,
and Gloria Roberdeau of
Brandon, South Dakota;
and brother, Bill Raetz of
Matador, Texas.
She is preceded in death
by her husband, Donald;
parents; a son, Donnie; two
grandchildren; and one
brother.
The family asks that memorials be sent to a charity of
one’s choice in Mrs. Cowen’s
name.
Memorials and condolences can also be sent in
Mrs. Cowen’s name in care
of Gillette Memorial Chapel,
210 W. Fifth St., Gillette, WY
82716. Condolences may
also be sent via its website at
www.gillettememorialchapel.
com or attached to the obituary on the News Record’s
website at www.gillettenewsrecord.com.
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STORYTIME: 10:30-11:30 a.m.,
Campbell County Public Library.
Children’s section, for children
ages 3-5, 687-9225.
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book tours.
“We really know what the
best activities are for them,”
Simon said.
Jackson Hole Shooting
Experience is popular because
civilians in China can’t own
or even touch guns, he said.
Wildlife tours and Western
experiences such as the Bar J
Chuckwagon are also popular.
Simon has also set up a real
estate and investment tour for
visitors.
“Chinese are buying real
estate all over the U.S.,” he
said. “In China, when you own
real estate, you own the building above the land but the government owns the land.”
The center also offers ridealong guides for visitors who
want a tour of the parks.
“I’m just trying to be a part of
the world economy,” he said.
Simon also thinks his business will provide better relations between Americans and
the Chinese.
“There is stress between the
two countries on a political and
military level,” he said. “Part
of what I’m doing is building
bridges on a person-to-person
level.”
The East Meets West Chinese
Information Center is open
daily.
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sively in China and knows a
lot about the economy and culture, he said.
“When I travel as a tourist in
China I always feel very welcome,” he said.
Visitor centers there have
people who speak English and
Mandarin, he said.
“They’re set up for tourism,”
Simon said. “The converse is
what we’re trying to accomplish.”
Several businesses — including Barker-Ewing River Trips,
the Million Dollar Cowboy
Bar, Haagen-Dazs and Knobe’s
Radio Shack — have used the
center’s translation services, he
said.
“All the businesses have
been smacked in the face by
the Chinese,” he said.
And it’s important for valley
businesses to better understand
the culture to be able to market
to the Chinese visitor, Simon
said.
“Their culture is so different
than ours,” he said. “It’s very
helpful for local businesses to
understand their culture. For
instance, the Chinese are used
to negotiating prices. That’s
their culture. They negotiate,
but our culture is things are
priced as marked and firm.”
East Meets West also helps
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it,” he said.
China’s population is 1.2 billion, and most Chinese people
have heard about Yellowstone
National Park, Simon said.
Chinese people typically visit
big American cities such as Los
Angeles and New York City
on their first trip to the United
States, he said.
“The second time they
come they all want to see
Yellowstone, so all the gateway communities see an influx
of Chinese tourists,” he said.
“It’s projected to continue and
grow.”
This year, Simon said, 60
million Chinese are expected
to travel overseas. In five years
that number is projected to
reach 100 million.
The Jackson Hole Chamber
of Commerce has been following the numbers, too, communications manager Kate Foster
said.
“It’s certainly a target market for the chamber,” she said.
Especially in the offseason.
“As people may have noticed,
there’s been lots of tour buses
in the spring,” she said. “It’s
helping to fill our rooms in a
traditionally quieter time of the
year. It helps businesses and
the community as a whole.”
Simon has traveled exten-
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