Serving the Platte Valley since 1888
Serving the Platte Valley since 1888
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Photo by Joshua Wood Smoke from fires elsewhere in Wyoming created an orange sunset on Saturday evening as cattle grazed west of Saratoga....
As a freelance faith columnist and Christian author, I’m honored to have the opportunity to provide thoughts and ideas to relay to others. I’m sure all Bible teachers and pastors feel they are God’s messengers. What I do is nothing more special than how millions of other Christians serve Him, and I humbly acknowledge that most are more talented and effective. God’s people are important pieces of a large puzzle, stones in His wall, and a voice among many who represent the one who created everything and knows everything. Writin...
All Christian Churches teach and confess this paradoxical truth: That Jesus Christ is true God, begotten from the substance of the Father before all ages, and He is man, born of the substance of His mother in this age. Perfect God and perfect man, composed of a rational soul and human flesh. (quoted from the Athanasian Creed). According to logic, Jesus must be man, or God, or a mixture of the two, greater than man but less than God. But this is not what the Christian Church teaches. Rather, the Christian Church teaches that...
It just doesn’t get any better than this: gorgeous weather slowly ushering out summer, school starting, beginning of best season of the year—Indian Summer, Labor Day weekend, a soak in the Hobo Pool and all topped-off with a free meal and fellowship. All you folks, especially the hungry and lonely, are invited to “Gather at the Table” to eat, meet and greet Monday evening, Sept. 2nd, from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m. in the Saratoga Presbyterian Church Fellowship Hall at the corner...
Brady McKinney, a fifth grader at Burns Elementary School, found gold at the Pine Bluffs Trail Days Junior Rodeo on August 3. McKinney won the gold belt buckle in the junior breakaway event. McKinney has been competing for the past three years and is very good at it. He competes in the breakaway, team roping and goat tying events. He started breakaway about three years ago. McKinney’s dad, Chad McKinney, got him started in rodeo about 3-4 years ago. “Dad does team roping and...
Having the opportunity to be engaged in a constant dialogue with Christ is more than just a hope. It can happen just the same as when we sit at our kitchen table and have an enjoyable conversation with a friend. And how is this possible? Because He’s real the same as you and I are real. Remember that old song, “My God is real, for I can feel Him in my soul?” If you believe He has spoken to people before, why can’t He speak to you? God communicates to us in our conscience, by providence, teachers, and most importantly through...
Oh, boy! Does the world ever need love now! “What the World Needs Now is Love,” a popular song from the 1960s, was written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach. The song is as timely today as it was during the tumultuous decade of the 1960s—a time of divisiveness, prejudice, hatred, and violence. Today, in the United States and in other countries, there seems to be an increasing culture of divisiveness, bigotry, hatred, and violence. Many people have become distrustful and fearf...
A World War II training aircraft, the AT-6 Nella, was at Shively Airfield on August 13. According to The Bullock Texas State History Museum, the AT-6 airplane was first known as The Texan, becoming the most important training aircraft ever. The Texan would change its name to the AT-6 Nella in 1944, named after Fifinella, the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) Squadron mascot. The AT-6 Nella was used in training classes from mid-1943 until the WASP Squadron was disbanded in...
WHITE MOUNTAIN—“That’s a lot of horses,” lamented Cheyenne resident Robyn Smith from a high-desert ridgeline. It wasn’t her first exasperated exclamation. “Argh, oh crap,” was her immediate reaction to learning a federal judge had given the Bureau of Land Management the OK to proceed with plans to fully remove two wild horse herds from the landscape in southwest Wyoming. A retired architect donning a “Return to Freedom” ball cap that featured a bucking mustang, Smith pr...
Have you ever known someone that you admired because of who they were? There is something special and refreshing to witness the light and love of Christ shining brightly in one of His children. I know a sweet lady like this. I will not mention her name because she does not like the attention of anyone telling her how wonderful she is, even though it’s true. She just enjoys working and serving quietly in the background no matter where she is or what she’s involved with. For example, if someone mentions that something nee...
The Platte Valley Arts Council is bringing a unique art quilt exhibit to the Platte Valley Community Center on August 30 through September 2, 2024. The traveling exhibit is part of the Cherrywood Hand-Dyed Fabrics annual Cherrywood Challenge. Over forty quilts will be on display from 10 am to 4 pm each day of Labor Day weekend. This showcase of vibrant masterpieces comes to life, so don't miss the chance to immerse yourself in this vivid display. The Platte Valley Arts Council...
Today I would like to share a message that Dale G Renlund shared last April titled “The Powerful, Virtuous Cycle of the Doctrine of Christ.” Years ago, my wife, Ruth; our daughter, Ashley; and I joined other tourists on a kayaking excursion in the state of Hawaii in the United States. A kayak is a low-to-the-water, canoe-like boat in which the rower sits facing forward and uses a double-bladed paddle to pull front to back on one side and then on the other. The plan was to row to two small islands off the coast of Oahu and...
Anyone who has a dog, cat, horse or any domestic animal has a friend in Dr. Warner McFarland. McFarland was picked as this year's Carbon County Fair Parade Grand Marshall, which took place on August 3. McFarland said he accepted the honor of being Grand Marshall when the Carbon County Fair Board called him. “I got a phone call from Justin Ready of the Carbon County Fair Board and he asked if I would be Grand Marshall for this year’s fair,” McFarland said. “I don’t know how...
When going to the Carbon County Fair, it’s a given that you have to enjoy the fair food. The grounds hold a wide variety of vendors who spend the week at the fair, from various food trucks to people in stands selling lemonade outside the exhibit hall. The concessions stand is a mainstay, offering a wide variety of foods to fair goers. The stand is run on a volunteer basis, with all proceeds going to Carbon County School District No. 1 (CCSD1). Students from CCSD1 work at t...
A coalition of conservation groups filed a motion in federal court Friday to intervene in Wyoming and Utah’s lawsuit against the Bureau of Land Management’s Public Lands Rule, becoming the latest entrant to the legal melee over the controversial policy. The motion, which the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, the Wilderness Society and the Conservation Lands Foundation filed, comes as a rejoinder to Wyoming and Utah’s June motion that seeks to prevent the agency from imple...
Just in time for canning season, the University of Wyoming Extension has updated and expanded its signature food preservation publication, “Preserving Food in Wyoming.” This free downloadable resource is designed to help Wyoming residents safely can or freeze their harvest at home. Appropriate for both experienced and aspiring food preservers, the publication provides research-tested recipes and step-by-step instructions for preserving vegetables, fruit, meat and fish using a boiling water canner or pressure canner. Unl...
At the July 2024 General Convention of The Episcopal Church, an important resolution was unanimously adopted by the body. As a member of the Wyoming Episcopal Church Deputation to this Convention, I was proud to support Resolution C032 – “A Prayer to Remember the Innocents.” This resolution expresses the church’s remorse for its role “in the irreparable harm suffered by Indigenous children who attended Indigenous boarding and residential schools in the 1800s and 1900s and acknowledges that the effect of that harm carries o...
I’ve been in church all my life and I know people who believe that attending an assembly fulfills the majority of their Christian obligations. Somewhere down through the centuries the idea of the Ekklesia being a boot-camp to train soldiers and a school to teach disciples how to engage in spiritual warfare and develop their ministries, became watered down into an easy country club lifestyle of comfort and pride. The word Ekklesia appears in the New Testament 114 times and is often translated as church or assembly. It means t...
In observance of the “dog days of summer” everyone is invited to “Gather at the Table” for baked spaghetti, hearty salad, garlic bread, pineapple cake with cream cheese frosting and strawberries plus a choice of beverages Monday evening, Aug. 5, from 5:30 to 7:00 in the Saratoga Presbyterian Church Fellowship Hall. Last month’s complimentary meal drew more than fifty folks, so this month “Gather at the Table” committee cooks are preparing for even a larger crowd to come and e...
On September 25, 2000, two years after being diagnosed with bipolar disorder, 19-year-old Kevin Hines in a state of chaos and despair, attempted to commit suicide by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge. He fell more than 220 feet to the freezing dark waters of the Pacific Ocean, slamming into it at 75 miles per hour. The fall took only 4 seconds, and no one was more surprised that he had survived than Kevin himself. You see, the bridge was completed in 1937 and since that time nearly 2,000 people are known to have jumped to...
What do you seek in life? Wisdom? Strength? Wealth? These are not necessarily the best things to pursue. You might consider seeing and knowing God as your highest goal in life. In the Old Testament, Jeremiah quotes the Lord in Jeremiah 9:23, [23] Thus says the LORD: “Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, let not the mighty man glory in his might, Nor let the rich man glory in his riches; [24] But let him who glories glory in this, That he understands and knows Me, That I am the LORD, exercising lovingkindness, j...
Western music and poetry brought out a range of emotions during the 22nd Annual Grand Encampment Cowboy Gathering as people laughed, smiled and shed a few tears. Every song or poem from each artist told a story of romance, drinking, farming, family, traveling, and adventure in the eyes of a cowboy. Floyd Beard has performed music and poetry since the late 1970s. Beard said he always had a love for rhyming with words, which helped him become a poet. “I have always been in l...
The University of Wyoming hosted the 38th annual VisCom Conference at the Saratoga Hot Springs Resort from June 17-20. Scholars and professors from UW and other universities shared their work and ideals on social, political, cultural, and sexual issues through visual communication. At the end of each presentation, scholars and professors answered questions from the audience about the research they put into their project. Professor Cindy Price Schultz, head of communication...
It’s reassuring to know that as a child of God, you are not alone in this world. Our gracious heavenly Father has promised that He is aware and interested in even the tiniest occurrences in your life and has promised to be with you always. Does this mean you will never have struggles and problems? Of course not, but knowing we are secure in the palm of His hand definitely gives us hope and faith. Matthew chapter six reveals that He knows what we need before we even ask Him, and this spiritual insight brings comfort to r...
Part 1 I recently read in the newspaper that the State of Louisiana just passed a law that all classrooms in all public school will post the Ten Commandments in clear view so that everyone can see them. Louisiana is the first state in the union to pass such a law. I know that this law will end up in front of the Supreme Court with numerous challenges saying it violates the principle of separation of Church and State. You can no more take God out of any institution that you can take nitrogen out of oxygen and still have...
