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For the next two years, the fundraising focus at the Platte Valley Community Center will be for a new gym floor, according to Platte Valley Community Center Executive Director Joe Elder. The seventh annual Party on the Platte begins with cocktails at 5:30 p.m., Sept. 13 at the Platte Valley Community Center. The current gym floor was replaced in the 1960s, Lisa Burton, town of Saratoga Recreation Director said. It is a soft floor, not a wooden floor like the new gymnasiums have now, Burton...
Editor’s note: This is the final story in a series about the journey to write “The Legends of Old Baldy”. By Liz Wood [email protected] Pegge Luchsinger Thompson worked as George Storer’s secretary for 17 years until his death in 1982. Then, for the next 10 years, she worked for Mary Storer, George’s fifth wife, until 1992. Author Linda Durbano said she believes that Storer learned to be a humanitarian through his father. “He really gave with an open heart.” Storer was named after his fat...
Deb Clark is the second person in Saratoga to be nominated for Wyoming Business Report’s Wyoming Women of Influence this month. Clark’s nomination falls in the non-profit category for her work as Adjutant of the Angus England American Legion Post No. 54. Clark has been the Adjutant with the American Legion since the spring of 2010 when Gary Maki retired form the position. The Adjutant is responsible for the day-to-day running of the Legion’s business, doing the bookwork and keeping inline what...
Friday night the Platte Valley Trout Unlimited is hosting a fly casting clinic before a memorial service honoring Mike Smith. It is only fitting for the fly fishing clinic to coincide with Smith’s memorial, because he loved to fish. Smith was one of three certified casting instructors in the Platte Valley. The other two, Jeff Streeter and Bud Fackelman, are the instructors for Friday night. Streeter and Fackelman, like Smith, were certified through the Federation of Fly Fishers, Streeter said. ...
If Friday's play by the Encampment Lady Tigers was any indication of what the rest of their season will look like, the team will go far in the 1A division this fall. The Lady Tigers varsity team won both of their matches Friday against 1A Hanna Elk Mountain Medicine Bow (HEM) and 2A Saratoga Lady Panthers. In junior varsity play, the Tigers fell in two sets against the Lady Panthers. The score was 19-25 in both sets. The varsity line up for the Lady Tigers was changed for Friday's game, as...
Lindy Glode, of Saratoga, was one of 87 women nominated for the Wyoming Women of Influence award. Glode said she did not know who nominated her, but was grateful because there are a lot of women who qualify. "I have always believed that women need to hold each other up, not put each other down," Glode said. "Lots of women do good things." Glode said she was notified by email that she had been nominated and asked if it was for her volunteer work, as she belongs to many volunteer boards. Glode...
The Saratoga Volleyball team is hosting a volleyball match that will feature the Lady Panthers, Encampment Lady Tigers and the Hanna-Elk Mountain Lady Miners at the Saratoga Middle High School gym. The first match begins at 1 p.m....
Editor’s note: This is the second in a series about the journey to write “The Legends of Old Baldy.” Carole Ward, a researcher for the “Legends of Old Baldy”, said she is not a writer, but when she was approached about the book, she felt it was important enough to pursue. Around 20 members at the Old Baldy Club showed an interest and Ward said she thought she could delegate some of the work. Her husband Bill was suffering from health issues, and they weren’t able to tackle a project like this a...
More than 80 quilts will be displayed at the Pieces of History Quilt Show Friday and Saturday at the Platte Valley Community Center. The quilt show is sponsored by the Saratoga Museum and includes many quilts made by people in the Platte Valley. One of the oldest quilts to be displayed is from 1895, Saratoga Museum Director Virginia Parker said. "The quilts are different from last year," Parker said. "We have a lot of hand-sewn quilts locally made. It should be an interesting show." Parker said... Full story
Despite cold temperatures and rainy weather, around 200 people attended the Ryan Park Volunteer Fire Department fundraiser Saturday. Dan and Helen Gough, who haul their fifth wheeler to camp in the Medicine Bow Routt National Forest, comes from Burton, Kansas, specifically for this event. The Gloughs bid on, and won, the homemade beer made by Daniel Beach, son of Ryan Park Volunteer Fire Chief Homer Beach. Teense Willford entertained the crowd with his band and with his wit as the auctioneer...
Ryta Sondergard, Sinclair Community Relations Director, and Steve Sondergard, Sinclair Refinery Manager attended the Ryan Park Volunteer Fire Department fundraiser Satruday. Sinclair donated $1,700 to the Ryan Park Volunteer Fire Department. Ryta said part of her job, as Sinclair’s Community Relations Director, is to go out into Carbon County and see what the needs are in the communities. “We get a lot of requests from Rawlins and Saratoga, but for Ryan Park – a very small community – we had...
Rod Waeckerlin said selling Valley Pharmacy was not even considered when he sold the pharmacy portion of Bi-Rite Pharmacy, in Rawlins to City Market. The deal is scheduled to close on Aug. 21 and Robyn Miller and Sarah Laughlin were getting phones calls to see if it affected the only pharmacy in the Platte Valley. Waeckerlin said selling the pharmacy in Rawlins was an emotional decision for him. He has owned the Rawlins-based pharmacy for 27 years and it has been in Rawlins for nearly 40 years....
George Storer was a visionary who dreamed of building a world class golf and fishing resort, when everyone else saw baron sagebrush fields, Linda Durbano said. Durbano, who wrote "The Legends of Old Baldy", said the book will fascinate any reader who has a dream. The Old Baldy Club is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Durbano, Carole Ward and Pegge Luchsinger Thompson released their book "The Legends of Old Baldy" earlier this summer in celebration of that anniversary. Old Baldy Club...
The Platte Valley's future of agriculture showed they know their animals at the Carbon County Fair last week in Rawlins. Aubrey Berger, of Saratoga, won overall Grand Champion for her Cochin chicken Monday. In the lamb show Tuesday, Aubrey nabbed the Reserve Champion Breeding Meat Doe in the breeding goat show. Chaze Wiant, of Saratoga, won Grand Champion with his market goat Tuesday. Rowdy Alameda, of Saratoga, won the Reserve Grand Champion for his market lamb Tuesday. Koye Gilbert, of... Full story
Carbon County Fair is over. The kids who did well are now at the Wyoming State Fair to see how they do against the top in the state. Fair week is always an exhausting week for me, so I can’t even imagine what it is like for the parents and grandparents who spend the week at fair working with their children, advising them on how to get their animals ready to show. These families have spent months working with their kids, reminding them to do chores, taking them to pre-fair shows, loading the a...
The bulls and bull riders put on quite a show for the Bullfest audience Saturday night. Jason McClain, of Cortez, Colo. split the buckle and prize money with Kayne Boswell, of Cheyenne. Both men scored an 83 in the first round of the Bullfest Saturday night. The weather was cool, and the bulls were mad enough to give many bull riders a less-than-eight second ride. Six riders would get thrown before the buzzer went off, and only three men rode the required eight seconds in the long round. Josh... Full story
"One thing we have to remember is we are stepping into their world, they are not stepping into ours," Craig Cameron said Saturday at the horse training clinic at Buck Springs Arena. Sarah Keller's horse, Miracle Maddie, had been ridden for 60 days last year and then put out to pasture for the winter. As Cameron worked with Keller's horse, he said if you quit working with the horse when she is trying to get away, you end up teaching the horse the wrong thing. "You've got to have enough common sen...
Take a step back in time Aug. 9 with the Saratoga Museum, as Chilly Rollison shows people how to identify tipi rings located on the Big Creek Ranch. Rollison has a Bachelor's Degree in American Indian studies. More than 200 years ago, most of the residents of the Valley were Native Americans. They were nomads that moved around from place to place following the game. Shoshone, Arapahoe, Comanche and Ute's were four tribes that passed through what is now known as the Platte River Valley. Tipis ran...
When I was 15 years old, my sister pressured me to take the driver’s permit examination with her. My sister, who is one year younger than me, couldn’t wait to drive. I had friends who drove or I took the bus, so I really didn’t care. Living in a city without a driver’s license is a lot easier than in rural Wyoming. My dad, who did a lot of mechanical work in his spare time, thought it would be a good idea to teach my sister and I how to change the oil and rotate tires before we learned how to...
Peg McAlister said her goal was to live to 90, and she will be happy with whatever comes after that. Peg said staying physically and mentally active is what keeps her going. She turned 90 years old Monday, and Sunday her friends at the Saratoga Presbyterian Church had a reception for her. Peg likes to be involved. She said she has had a lot of difficulties, but also a lot of fun. "Faith in God can get you through the low times and remembering lots of good times." Peg worked in the newspaper...
Chris Irwin spent 14 years working with wild mustangs in Nevada to learn how they communicate with people. Saturday, he came to Saratoga and the Platte Valley for the first time to share his knowledge. Irwin had not worked with horses until he was 19 years old. Irwin said he was a disillusioned 19-year-old when he ran away to find the truth about himself. As fate would have it, he said, he was looking for work when he found day work at the race tracks in Seattle, Wash. When he saw the horses,...
Twenty-one non-profit organizations benefited from the concert put on by Brush Creek Ranch's Valley Strong Sunday night. With varying levels of donations, community members opened their checkbooks and tapped their toes to old-time favorites and new songs by Sawyer Brown. Michael Williams, chief operating officer for Brush Creek Ranch, told the audience of 400 plus people that they fundraiser had made nearly $300,000. While donations are still coming in for the Corbett Medical Foundation, unoffic...
Stuart Domingue was the only bull rider who managed eight seconds and a score of 74 among the nine bull riders who competed at the Platte River Rodeo. Domingue, of Casper, won the Vaun Savage buckle at this past week's rodeo for his bull ride and has been bull riding since he was 12 years old. "It's something that kind of grabbed a hold of me," Domingue said of his bull riding career. He started with the Western Junior Rodeo Association. In 2011 he joined the Professional Bull Riders. He joined...
For the 18th year, the Platte River Rodeo Association (PRRA) is putting on a rodeo at Buck Springs Arena east of Saratoga. The Western Rodeo Association (WRA) sanctioned events and amateur events begin at 7 p.m., Friday and Saturday nights. A new event, which is a special bronc riding event sanctioned by the Western States Ranch Rodeo Association will be featured this year. The “Cowboy Up” event has contestants ride with a regular stock saddle, committee member Chuck Larsen said. So far, fiv...