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At Deseret Health and Rehab, residents enjoyed many activities throughout the week. The Activity Department offers a wide variety of activities each week to meet the residents’ interests, as well as the physical, mental and psychological well-being of each resident. Our dining room has been repainted and looks decidedly better with new light fixtures and various pictures hanging on the walls. Nearly completed, these renovations were done by staff and Brenda Eaton’s family. Our Sirius radio is working again for residents to...
There were four here for Bingo Tuesday. Two-dollar winners were Betty Dean, Madaline Forbes and Sue Howe shared a $2 round. Winnie Allen won the $2 blackout round. There were eight here for Bridge Monday. There was a tie for high winners between Mary Sjoden and Sheila Johnson and Bob Johnson and Sue Howe. We had our birthday dinner Friday. We had a pretty good turnout. Those having birthdays this month are, John Larsen, Fred Williams, Brian Manley, Dora Martin, Claudia Bartlett, Margaret Karstoft, Ginny Riddick, Sandy Willfor...
Students at Saratoga Elementary School made "Leprechaun Traps" and "Green Goop" during "St. Paddy Science" Monday....
For the second time in two years, the Carbon County School District No. 2 Speech and Debate Team took home a 1A/2A State Champion Trophy from last weekend's 2014 Wyoming State High School Speech and Debate Tournament. The team took first place overall out of eight 1A and 2A teams at the event, which took place Thursday, Friday and Saturday at Western Wyoming Community College in Rock Springs. The state tournament consisted of 31 teams and 353 competitors, and featured around...
Education does not end with formal school, and with her new job as Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) coordinator at Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD#2), Melissa Donough's goal is to insure that everyone in the community has an opportunity to continue their learning. As BOCES coordinator, her goal is to provide the public with the materials and access to educational opportunities. "It's an entity that we want to expand educational opportunities for all...
Six Saratoga Middle High School graduates have received top marks at Western Wyoming Community College (WWCC) for the Fall 2013 Semester. Brandee Forster and Taylor Boydstun both made the Dean’s list for maintaining their grade point averages between 3.25 and 3.99 while maintaing a minimum of 12 credit hours. Kaleah McClain, Heather Oxford and Miranda Paddock were recognized on the WWCC part-time honor roll. Students on this list have completed a minimum of 12 credit hours in consecutive semesters with a GPA of 3.5 and c...
From March 10 to March 16, the Saratoga Police Department responded to 141 calls including the following classifications: Agency assistance (1); alarm (2); animal problem (1); assist business (1); assist school (1); bar check (14); business checks (56); citizen assist (7); dog at large (4); lost dog (2); dog tag (1); domestic disturbance (1); fingerprints (1); fish and game (1); hot pool check (20); lockout (2); parking problem (1);traffic accident with damage(1); house watch (2); reddi (1); school zones (8); suspicious...
There were four here for bingo Tuesday. $2 winners were Sue Howe, Madaline Forbes. Berneil McCord and Winnie Allen shared a $2 round. Merle Starr won the $3 blackout round. There were eight here for Bridge Monday. High winner were Gertrude Harold & Lee Groshart. Second high went to Glee Johnson & Sheila Johnson. We want to wish Marty Perue a speedy recovery. She suffered a mini stroke this week. She is doing OK but is recovering at home. We miss her cheery face up here. Get well soon. We will be having our birthday dinner...
At Deseret Health and Rehab, residents enjoyed many activities throughout the week. The Activity Department offers a wide variety of activities each week to meet the residents’ interests, as well as the physical, mental and psychological well-being of each resident. With the arrival of St. Patrick’s Day, Thursday morning saw three residents making little leprechaun hats. They heard about “kissing the blarney stone” and getting “the gift of gab.” With television in nearly every resident’s room, residents get to hear local, n...
Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD#2) Board of Trustees had a productive evening at their March 17 regular scheduled meeting. Saratoga Police Chief Tom Knickerbocker discussed the possibility of renewing the contract to place a resource officer at Saratoga Middle/High School (SMHS). The current contract, which expires January 2015, keeps a Saratoga Police officer at SMHS for a minimum of 70 percent of the time during a given shift. Knickerbocker asked if CCSD#2 would...
Jim Copeland, of Fleming, Colo., will be the new superintendent of Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD#2) effective July 1. On the night of March 13, the CCSD#2 Board of Trustees took action and offered Jim Copeland a two-year contract. CCSD#2 Board Chairman Diana Berger said that the board was very pleased with all of the finalists. However, she said that Copeland was selected because he shared a similar vision with the board. "We just felt like he was the right fit,"...
A former Saratoga resident is on his way to pursuing a life in Law Enforcement. Joseph Grubb, a 2010 graduate of Saratoga Middle/High School, recently graduated from the Florida police academy at the top of his class. Law enforcement has always been a career goal for Joseph. In 2010, he escaped the blustery cold of the Platte Valley and attended Southeastern University in Lakeland, Fla. "I went their to enjoy the coast and the warmer weather," Grubb said. "I wanted to go to a...
Encampment K-12 School's ProStart management team students became state champions at the Student Invitational Culinary Competition March 3. The event took place at the Hilton Garden Inn Laramie, and was put on by the Wyoming Lodging and Restaurant Association Education Foundation. Members of the management team, consisting of Matt Jarrett, David Flauding, Harold Jackson, Brett Ralston and alternate Jacob Wells, all took home first-place medals from the event. Ty Trevillian...
The Vocational Agriculture (Vo-Ag) shop at Saratoga Middle/High School is currently filled with machinery that is older than the kids that use them. But not for long. Dressed in their signature blue jackets, several members of the Future Farmers of America (FFA) held up a poster-sized check for $23,556 given by Sinclair Wyoming Refining company. Lane Moreland, the Vo-Ag Teacher at Saratoga Middle/High School said that the grant will go to purchasing new shop equipment. "The...
Our coffee ladies are still drinking the coffee. The Domino players are still working on their wins following our last week’s winners, Phil Fleming, Ginny Riddick, Dick Blake, and Laura Rettelle. The quilters started a new quilt this month. It is Lila Walbye’s, it is a bright and very colorful one. As for the puzzle well let’s just say it has been a great challenge. Nevertheless, they are chugging away at the 1000 piece puzzle. News for the month: March looks to be a busy month. Breakfast is at noon this month. Satur...
There were eight here for Bridge Monday. High winner were Teense Willford and Bob Johnson. Second high went to Sandy Willford and Vivien Campbell. It has been a pretty quiet week. We want to welcome Pat Rust from the nursing home to our little group. She just got into the nursing home and will be joining them several times a week when they come to have lunch with us. We want to tell Jim Elliott we are going to miss him very much. He is moving over to Cheyenne to a senior housing apartment. He will be closer to his family and...
At Deseret Health and Rehab, residents enjoyed many activities throughout the week. The Activity Department offers a wide variety of activities each week to meet the residents’ interests, as well as the physical, mental and psychological well-being of each resident. With the advent of daylight savings time on Sunday, the sun continues its march higher in the sky towards longer and warmer days. Moving the clocks forward one hour caused residents (and everyone else) to be sleepy at breakfast. On March 20, spring officially a...
The American Legion Auxiliary met at 6:30 pm on Dec. 17, 2013 at the Post Home. It was reported that the food raffles are going well with the last two to be held in January 2014. This project is for the Christmas year round for the VA Hospitals. Discussion was held about the concessions for the Fishing Derby in January 2014. There was a special meeting Jan. 15, 2014 to finalize plans for this project. Fruit baskets were delivered to the veterans at the Deseret Health and Rehab Center on Dec. 21, 2013. The members put craft...
“Dang, those Mexican food words always mess me up,” Amber Williams exclaimed Saturday afternoon after she was eliminated in the fifth round of the 2014 Wyoming State Spelling Bee for misspelling chalupa as “c-h-o-l-u-p-a.” Because of an error in the final tabulation of the first three rounds of written competition, the Saratoga Middle/High School eighth grader almost missed the final oral competition. In order to qualify for the finals, the 69 students from all Wyoming counties had to receive an 80 percent or above. When th...
Carbon County School District No. 2 Speech and Debate Team members will show their gift of gab at the 2014 Wyoming High School State Speech and Debate Tournament. Taking place at Western Wyoming Community College in Rock Springs Thursday through Saturday, teams from all over the state will converge to showcase their skills and practice. Saratoga’s individuals will enter events ranging from oratory, drama, humor, duet, Lincoln-Douglas debate and Congress. “Teams from all over the state will converge for three days to sho...
The mountain snow pack and associated snow water equivalents (SWE) were reported as “above average” for February. The Wyoming Weather Service reported that there is a moderate to high potential for flooding due to snow melt in the Encampment and Riverside area. There is also a moderate potential for flooding associated with snow melt for Saratoga residents. State Engineer’s Office reported that the North Platte River Drainage is currently sitting at a drainage average of 120 percent of the 30-year average, which is up from...
Rhett Sebastian Diaz was born Jan. 31, 2014 in Laramie. He weighed 8 lbs and 10 oz, and was 20.5 inches long. Parents are Laura Sanches and Mac Diaz. Maternal grandparents are Dick and Char Anderson of Walden, Colo., and the paternal grandparent is Rosa Sanchez of Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Rhett's big sister is six-year-old Sophie Diaz....