Serving the Platte Valley since 1888
Serving the Platte Valley since 1888
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We are back! Hello Everyone from the Sagebrush Senior Center. We have had a few changes along the way. Our Site Manager Ronda Krouch has left us to move on to bigger and brighter things. We wish her well in her adventure. Our new Site Manager is Kim Loftice who has been our Assistant for many years. We also welcome our new Assistant Manager Sarah Soderberg. Our Quilting Ladies were very busy these past few months and put together a very nice Bucking Horse Quilt to Celebrate Wyoming’s 125th Birthday. You can find it on d...
There were not enough here to play bingo on Tuesday. There were two tables for duplicate bridge Monday. High winners were Mariel O’Grady and Gertrude Herold. Second high went to Marianne Blue and Mary Sjoden. We got the papers for the tax refund for the Elderly and Disabled. So, you can come up and get the forms or come in and I will help you fill them out. We will be doing another breakfast from 8:00-8:30 a.m. on July 23. It will be sausage, pancakes and juice. Be sure to sign up and then come and have lunch at noon as n...
Games provide laughter and socialization during the week. On Sunday afternoon, four residents played Dominoes with Pat Rust winning. On Monday afternoon, four residents played Yahtzee with Pat Rust winning. On Wednesday and Friday afternoons, residents played Bingo. Nadine Caleb, Pat Rust, Truth Karstoft and Marie Huntley won Four Corners. Barbara Plummer, Marie Huntley and Elaine Burge won Blackout days. Our volunteers were Lila Worden, Dawna Erickson, Elder Palmer and Elder Bingham. On Saturday afternoon, residents played...
Centennial celebration surpassed all expectations July 11, 1990 25 years ago What a celebration Saratoga had this last weekend, honoring Wyoming’s Centennial as a state and also the 75th anniversary of the Saratoga Fish Hatchery! The turnout surpassed all expectations and it was “the more the merrier!” Events got underway on Friday with an old-fashioned western shoot-out right in downtown Saratoga. The shootout was a publicity ploy to get people to the musical melodrama staged by the Platte Valley Players later that eveni...
Hunter Mason, a 2015 graduate of Saratoga High School, brought home a second place trophy from the Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) National Convention in Chicago, Ill. that took place June 29-July 2. Mason explained how he felt during the awards ceremony, "It was pretty nerve-racking. I was surprised they called my name honestly." Students are allowed to compete in only one event at the national level. Mason competed in Computer Applications, an event in which a...
Reprint of this story from the July 12, 1888 issue of the Platte Valley Lyre brought to you courtesy of Grandma’s Cabin, Encampment, Wyoming. Preserving History - Serving the Community. A few miles above Saratoga there enters the Platte from the east Cedar Creek. This stream is generous in its gift of water supply to its valley, comprising in fact three creeks, all of great and rushing volume, via: Cedar creek proper, and the North and the South Fork. Cedar creek proper being nine miles in length, and each of the forks a...
PLATTE VALLEY AUTO CLUB Fourth of July 2015 Car Show Winners Contestant under 21 years of age: Colton Jones of Saratoga, Wyo. Pre-1940: Gene McDowell of Saratoga, Wyo. 1950 to 1960: Roger and Tracy Holcomb of Rawlins, Wyo. 1960 to 1970: Scott Lambert of Saratoga, Wyo. 1970 to 1980: Heather Wendelboe of Cheyenne, Wyo. 1980 to present: Dan McGuire of Saratoga, Wyo. Best Custom: Gene McDowell of Saratoga, Wyo. Best Truck: Greg Cooksey of Saratoga, Wyo. Best Motorcycle: Toni...
Summer is finally here with vacations, floating, camping and barbecues. But it’s not fun if someone you love is in the hospital and there is no blood on the shelf. Here, in the southern part of Wyoming, it takes 500 people a week to donate blood to serve the 47 area hospitals in this region. One out of every three people will need blood during their lives but only one in 20 people regularly give blood. Saratoga’s next blood drive with United Blood Services is from 12 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. on July 14 at St. Ann’s Parish Hall....
The Saratoga Museum will be hosting The Spirit of the West Band to celebrate the life of Charles Alonzo Kennaday 1856-1940. He was a homesteader at Cedar Creek in 1883 and resided in the Valley for 57 years with his wife Elizabeth. This will be open to the public at 6 p.m. Sunday at the Saratoga Museum. Also, Mountain Men Leathers, handmade by the Ed Kennaday of Saratoga, will be donated to the Saratoga Museum. For more information on this event, contact Jackie James at 406-690-2910....
Encampment Spanish teacher, Mr. Ricks, will be hosting a one-time screening of The Cokeville Miracle on Tuesday, July 14th at 7:30 p.m. at the Platte Valley Community Center. This film is based on actual events that took place in 1986. A madman and his wife took an elementary school in Cokeville, Wyo., hostage in hopes of gaining ransom money. They herded all of the students and staff into one classroom and held them there with guns and a bomb for several hours. Miraculously, when they detonated the bomb, the man and his...
“It’s nice,” James Chaney said, “because it helps me to let things go, let the past go, enjoy the water and the company I have with people with common backgrounds.” This was Chaney’s fourth year at the Wounded Warrior Project hosted by Trout Unlimited. With trained fishing guides, Wounded Warriors from the Cheyenne VA hospital practice casting, fishing or just relaxing in the great outdoors. The Warriors and members of Trout Unlimited went to a pond on the Upper Cedar Creek...
The Carbon County Fair Queen Committee is looking for contestants. The deadline for application is July 16, 2015, while the actual contest will be held on Sunday, July 26, 2015. The age divisions are as follows: Carbon County Fair & Rodeo Queen, at least 17 and not more than 23; Carbon County Fair & Rodeo Junior Queen, at least 13 and not more than 16; Carbon County Fair & Rodeo Princess, at least 8 and no more than 12. All contestants must be a resident of Carbon County. She shall not be pregnant, currently living with a...
The Platte Valley High School class of 1965 is holding their 50-year class reunion over the Fourth of July weekend. So far, 19 of the 28 classmates have registered to attend. Two classmates, Roy Holdeman and Gary Elliott have passed away. The reunion will kick off at the Saratoga Resort and Spa (Saratoga Inn) on July 2 with an evening ice breaker. On July 3, Candace (Carroll) France will host the classmates at her and Dwight France’s home in Riverside. Marilyn (Thompson) and Sam Verplancke will host lunch, followed by the f...
The Fourth of July is an exciting time to be in the Valley. There will be activities for all age groups during the holiday weekend of July 3-5, including the annual parade and fireworks show. All these activities on Independence Day allow the community to stay together and have all sorts of things to do. One event in particular, Togie Days, is being brought back to Saratoga for the Fourth of July. Togie Days is one of the events on the Fourth that is unique this year. From 2 -...