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Keeping children safe Larry and Caroline Vyvey are great-grandparents to a 14-month old boy. Recently their granddaughter had reversed the car seat in the truck, but they did not know why. Saturday, at the Child Passenger Safety inspection, the Vyvey's learned why. Katie Emmons, with Sage Communities in Cheyenne, explained to them that the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends the reversal of car seats for the safety of the child. When in a car accident, the infant seat would fly forward, an... Full story
When a wounded soldier returns from war, life is anything but normal. Regardless of the wound, whether obvious or hidden, it takes years to recover from the physical and emotional scars. No one is more aware of that than Tony Seahorn, a Vietnam veteran. This year was the third year that Platte Valley Trout Unlimited (PVTU), a group that Seahorn is active in, has invited wounded warriors to participate in a two-day fishing expedition. The first day is spent at Upper Cedar Creek Ranch, where host... Full story
I love to travel, whether it is across the country, around the state or just in the Platte Valley. The nomad gene comes from my father’s side of the family. His family was known for packing up the tent in their younger days and traveling clear across the country to camp out in a forest. When I was growing up, my dad would take us to various places around Iowa. My mom worked on Saturdays and dad would load up the four of us and take us on a fun-filled, educational trip. During spring break and s...
Mayor Pro Tem Judy Welton said she is very pleased with the first annual Beautify Saratoga at the Saratoga Town Council meeting June 4. Welton pointed out it was not just a group effort, but an individual effort, too. Valley Service Organization members, Saratoga High School students and Welton and a friend picked up trash around town the past two weeks to help with the Beautify Saratoga program. Four cars were donated to Wheels for Wishes and they came and picked up the cars, Welton said....
“Every time I walk, my tongue wags,” Marty Huntley said. It is a sense of humor that has kept Marty going through four surgeries and three bouts of squamous cell carcinoma. The most recent surgery was on July 14, 2011, when muscle tissue from his leg was used to rebuild his tongue after most of his cancerous tongue was removed. He was in surgery for 13 hours and has been fed through feeding tubes known as g-tubes and j-tubes, which were inserted directly into Huntley’s stomach and jejunum. For t...
The forest is resilient. That was the message from the United State Forest Service and The University of Wyoming Thursday night at the Platte Valley Community Center on the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests. The dead trees are hard to miss when traveling through the forest by vehicle. Brent Ewers, an associate professor with the University of Wyoming Department of Botany, said there is a mosaic of living and dead trees in the forest, which has always been the case. Ewers is part of a research...
Saratoga and Encampment middle and high school students took the classic fairytale “The Princes and the Pea”, put their own twist on it and called it “The Pea Test: The Real Story of the Princess and the Pea”....
Saratoga graduate Sam Streeter is completing his fifth year at Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H., working on his Bachelor of Arts in Engineering with a Biomedical Engineering Major and Earth Sciences Minor. In March of 2012, Streeter traveled to Peru for a not-for-credit, extracurricular volunteering opportunity funded by the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding. The Dickey Center is an entity within Dartmouth College. The nine-week internship allowed him to work in...
The American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars have memorial services planned for Memorial Day in the Platte Valley. The VFW Post 6125 is having their services at 10 a.m., Monday at the Grand Encampment Cemetery. The American Legion Post 54 is holding services at 11 a.m., Monday at the Valley Chapel at the Saratoga Cemetery. The Avenue of Flags will be on display at the Encampment cemetery beginning Friday. Volunteers with the American Legion and VFW decorate the graves of veterans with the... Full story
Mother’s Day weekend I traveled to Nashville to visit my son Garry, his fiancé Mirthe (Meur-tah) and meet her parents. Nashville is a music lover’s paradise. On Broadway there is live music in every bar almost any time of the day. On the sidewalks, musicians are busking. Visitors are surrounded by talent. I stayed at the hostel Garry is working for. For those of you who have not stayed in a hostel, it is a unique experience. You meet a lot of people. Your neighbors become quick friends. At the...
Last May, the Wyoming Game and Fish found a nice surprise in Saratoga Lake. Iowa Darters were found on education day. “This is good news,” fish biologist Steve Gale told the Trout Unlimited audience April 4. Iowa Darters have been found in only two places in Wyoming since the 1980s, Gale said, so to see them get into places they haven’t been before is a good thing. In July, the Game and Fish sampled the fish population in the Laramie Region. This region covers 13,000 square miles, 5,500 strea...
My son Garry used to live in Boston, so when I heard news of two explosions going off in Boston Monday, it caught my attention. I was at home recovering from surgery, watching TV and scanning through the news on the internet when I saw the headline breaking news. I did what every American probably did; I turned the station to my favorite news station and watched the news for the rest of the afternoon. Wars exist everywhere. We watch them from our living room and then we go back to our business.... Full story
On April 3, Wyoming State Engineer Patrick T. Tyrrell announced the call on the Platte River remains in effect. Joe Glode, president of the Upper North Platte River Water Users Association, said that water users are now starting to irrigate and the call now affects those that have junior water rights. Irrigators, municipalities, industries and storage reservoirs that have junior water rights are those that were established after 1904. Glode said a lot of land in the Platte Valley has junior...
The second phase of the Master Plan for Shively Field will begin with a public workshop from 3-6 p.m. on Monday, at the Saratoga Town Hall. Michael Haak, with Aeroland Planning LLC, and Dave Scultz with Sage Civil Engineering, have been working closely with the Saratoga Airport Board to develop a Master Plan. Haak said the first workshop was in December and the information collected was used to make a forecasted 20-year outlook. That has been approved by the Federal Aviation Administration...
Carbon County is set to be No. 1 in the nation for energy development. That is what Voices of the Valley (VOV) volunteers heard at the Wyoming Infrastructure Authority meeting in March. VOV has been studying the effects of what a major energy boom in Carbon County would do and how it would change the county – including housing, tourism impacts and air quality. Judd Campbell, president of VOV, and Jim States, vice-president of VOV attended council meetings last month to introduce themselves a...
It looks like the town of Saratoga and Randy Stevens may be headed back to court. On March 20, Stevens filed a motion to enforce a settlement agreement. The motion stated “Plaintiff has not offered any explanation as to why it has failed or refused to execute the Stipulated Order.” The motion goes on to say that the plaintiff has offered a counter-proposed Stipulated Order that does not conform to the terms agreed to by the parties on Jan. 4, 2013. Mayor John Zieger told the Saratoga Sun tha...
A group that has been supporting student athletes for years is in need of some help itself. The Saratoga High School Booster Club is short on people. “We have great financial support,” treasurer Jan Young said, “but we need bodies.” The Booster Club has been short of volunteers for several years now, and with President Gayle Batemen and Young stepping down, the group is shrinking more. “We only meet once a month and the meetings last around 45 minutes to an hour,” Young said. The next meetin... Full story
Waddie Love was one of 71 nominees who made it to the final rounds of the Wyoming Chapter of the National Football Foundation. On March 16, Love, along with 13 other high school football players in Wyoming, received recognition for their high school careers. “My heart is pumping fast,” Love said after the banquet. “I feel so honored to be here. Everyone has worked so hard to be here.” Love said he didn’t know what to expect at the banquet, and that it was a huge surprise for him. One of the su...
Freshman Thatcher Spiering made the All State Wrestling team. His coach Jared Mason said it has been several years since a freshman made All State, the last to make it was Decker Hubbs. “The sky is the limit,” Mason said of Spiering’s wrestling ability. “He loves to wrestle and would do it 365 days a year I think, if he could.” That type of drive and determination is what it takes to be successful, Mason said. “The kids who are like this are state champions and go on to wrestle in college.” S...
Before Justin Irene wrestled his final match of his high school career, Hanna wrestling coach Lyle Richardson told him “Win or lose, you made All State Wrestling”. Irene said he was happy and surprised. He finished second in the heavyweight class at state. Richardson said the wrestler Irene lost the state title to has been the same wrestler he has been falling to all season long. Tanner Allison of Moorcroft is an accomplished athlete, Richardson said. Irene broke the school record for num...
Ben Gates During the 2012-2013 basketball season, he averaged 9.5 points per game and scored 219 points through the season. Those statistics earned Ben Gates a nod as an All Conference player his senior year. Basketball head coach Josh Sandlian said Gates is a leader. He participates in every sport. “That leadership shines through,” Sandlian said. “Gates can score, rebound, do all the things you ask him to.” “I feel really honored that I received this (award) for All Conference basketbal...
The community garden, which began last year, will have a full growing season and can begin signing up for the beds. The beds are $25 each and entitle the renters to use of the bed and to pick produce from the community strawberry plants and apple trees in the garden. The garden also has three beds of herbs to be used for education purposes. The beds are 9-foot long by 3-foot wide and 18 inches high are available to anyone who lives in the Platte Valley. On April 26, a workday is scheduled to...
Five of the top pool players in the world are competing this weekend at the sixth annual Wyoming Open in Saratoga. Rodney Morris, Raj Hundal, Charlie Williams, Shane Van Boening and Stevie Moore are signed up. Van Boening just won the U.S. Open and is ranked No. 1 in the United States. The team of Boening and Morris competed in the World Cup in the Philippines and are ranked No. 3 in the world. The team won the World Cup in 2008. The news of the Wyoming Open spread even wider thanks to the effor...
Lindy Glode and Sue Jones were elected as the second and third female Carbon County Commissioners last fall and took office in January. The two women are from the PlatteValley. Glode lives in Saratoga and Jones lives in Encampment. After serving for three months as commissioners, the women talked with the Saratoga Sun about their experiences on the five-commission board. Glode said serving as a commissioner is very challenging but also exciting. She likes the dynamics of the five-member board....