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Brett Dabb and Eliza Hotchkiss proudly announce the birth of their son, Cooper Alan Dabb, on July 8, 2019 at Lutheran Medical Center in Wheat Ridge, Colo. Cooper weighed 7 pounds 10 ounces at birth and was 19.75 inches long. Paternal grandparents are David and Laurel Dabb of Wilmington, N.C.; maternal grandparents are Berk and Peggy Hotchkiss of Saratoga. Cooper was baptized at St. Barnabas' Episcopal Church in Saratoga on Aug. 25, 2019,by his grandma, the Rev. Peggy...
The Hanna Agricultural Resource Team (HART) came together at 5:30 p.m. on Aug. 27 at the Hanna Market. Perry Goodrich, chairman of HART, told the members present, the cleanup on July 27 was successful. He said the next cleanup around the garden was slated for Sept. 28. Linda Goodrich, secretary for the organization, said the mayor was looking into getting water onto the site through water container trucks. L. Goodrich and Rose Dabbs, HART member, told the group they were...
Even though Chris Irwin has been coming to the Valley for five years now, the number of people attending his clinics does not appear to dissipate. This year, the Canadian-born horse trainer held another three-day clinic at Blackhall Mountain Ranch, where he was hosted by Jean Burger. While the majority of the attendees were women, a few men are in the audience as well. Some of them have taken the clinic before, but return to learn more from the trainer. On the morning of Aug....
For 12 years, Mark Gutierrez served in Iraq and Afghanistan in the United States Navy Special Operations where he was tasked with explosive ordnance disposal. "I was defusing and rendering safe improvised explosive devices and other explosive booby traps," said Gutierrez. "I had my bell rung one too many times and I started experiencing black outs. I was sidelined and I went through a medical work-up and I was medically retired for traumatic brain injury (TBI) and...
Native American history was the subject on the Grand Encampment Museum Trek with a visit to war lodges, the Coffin Bison Kill site and around 72 tipi rings east of Riverside Saturday. Tour guides Mark Dunning and Chilly Rollison shared their knowledge of life in the 1850s on what is now the Quill Ranch, Big Creek Ranch and Six Mile Gap on in the Routt National Forest. Trekkers crossed the Cherokee Trail on the Quill Ranch on the way to the war lodges located in a grove of...
Nicole Karem is Gateway Community Coordinator for the Continental Divide Trail Coalition (CDTC) and she came to Carbon County on July 22 to explain designating Encampment/Riverside as a Gateway Community on the Continental Divide. Karem said there are currently five states involved in the 3,100 total miles on the Continental Trial Divide (CDT). 550 miles of the CDT are in Wyoming. The addition of Encampment/Riverside brings the total of gateway communities on the trail in Wyom...
At just about any county fair, it is not uncommon to see a variety of different animals ranging from swine to poultry to steer. The Carbon County Fair is no different and, every year, children and young adults throughout the county work to raise their chosen animal in the hopes of winning an award for their hard work and, maybe, make a sale. Despite the rural area that encompasses most of the county, and the state, not everyone has the space to raise larger animals. Other...
Two programs by local historian Dick Perue, one sponsored by the Saratoga Friends of the Library and another sponsored by the Saratoga Museum, have been cancelled. The Friends of the Library program, which was scheduled for Aug. 15, was intended to relate the history of the Barrett Ridge ski jump and Ryan Park Ski Club and would lead into the museum trek, which had been scheduled for Aug. 31. Due to what Perue described as considerable interest in the two events, the local...
The Grand Encampment Museum (GEM) will be holding a historical trek that will appeal to both local and Native American history buffs on Aug. 17 as they host the "Native American Trek at Big Creek: A Benefit to Support the Grand Encampment Museum." The trek, which will last all day Saturday, will feature three guest speakers; Dr. Jason LaBelle, Associate Professor of Archeology at Colorado State University (CSU), Ray Sumner, a first-year doctoral student in anthropology at CSU,...
On the evening of Aug. 2, the Grand Encampment Museum (GEM) hosted a panel of authors and historians at the Grand Encampment Opera House as part of their Pioneering Women Symposium. The panel, called "Finding the Stories," was moderated by local historian Candy Moulton and panelists included Chris Enns, Donna Coulson, Jennifer Lawrence and Dick Perue. During each panelists introduction, they all touched on the theme of the panel, informing the audience how they came to get...
A trivia contest based on six C.J. Box books is the heart of a Western themed gala that kicks off this Saturday. The Saratoga Museum sponsored event takes place at The Yard, an outdoor venue at 108 SE River Street, from 5:00 to 8:30. Teams of six Joe Pickett fans will compete for prizes of $400, $350, and $150. The contest is based on these books: Free Fire, Blood Trail, Below Zero, Nowhere to Run, Cold Wind and Force of Nature, with bonus questions from Box’s latest thriller, Wolf Pack. Questions concern those who p...
A Saratoga/Rawlins rivalry is starting up again. No, it’s not like the Hatfields and McCoys this time, it’s coed softball to raise funds for a favorite cause in each municipality. The Saratoga and Rawlins teams are set and ready to go—all they need are spectators and folks to cheer their home teams on. Organizers TK Skraastad and Monte Thayer decided to do a fundraiser for Saratoga Safe Ride with the Saratoga game and came up with coed softball games. The Rawlins coed team...
Located on the Grand Encampment Museum grounds July 26 through 28, local black powder enthusiasts recreate the days of the Mountain Men with primitive camping, authentic costuming, traders row, black powder shoots, pan tosses and tomahawk throws. The fire starting competition is a favorite as crowds watch different age and gender groups start fires using steel, flint and tinder. Another popular event is the trading blanket which is the last event of the night. After dark...
This year the United States will be celebrating the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment. This historic amendment gave the right of citizens of the United States to vote, stating they shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. In other words, it gave women the right to vote. While this American landmark amendment is hitting a century in 2019, Wyoming will celebrate the 150th anniversary of women voting. The...
On July 20, 1969, broadcast journalist Walter Cronkite said, "The least of us is improved by the things done by the best of us, because if we are not able to land at least we are able to follow" as CBS provided coverage of the moon landing. Eight years after President John F. Kennedy urged the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to put a man on the moon "within a decade", Neil Armstrong stepped onto the surface of the moon with "one small step for man, one...
Susan Dyer was ordained as a vocational deacon in Colorado in 2000. Dyer worked in this position in the larger suburban Denver area helping out as a hospice chaplain, hospital chaplain and homeless shelter aide working to bring the needs of the world to the church and taking the gospel outside the church. Dyer and her husband, Steve, then began a seven year project building a house in Saratoga. The couple finally moved into that house in 2010. During the build, Dyer was...
It is nothing new to see bicyclists pedaling through Saratoga as the area is on both the Continental Divide Trail and Trans-America routes. Just recently, however, the Platte Valley Christian Center hosted over 30 bicyclists who are making their way from Yorktown, Va. to Astoria, Ore. as they work to raise awareness about affordable housing. "Bike & Build is a non-profit that organizes cross country cycling trips to raise money and awareness for affordable housing and, sort...
Stories of Wyoming’s role in the development of woman suffrage, trail pioneers, and women who made their mark at frontier forts, in outlaw country and in mining camps of the Grand Encampment copper district are the focus of “Pioneering Women: a symposium on the history of Women in Wyoming and the West.” The symposium, sponsored by the Grand Encampment Museum, will be held Aug. 2 and 3. The program begins at 7 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 2 with a panel discussion “Finding the Stories” that will focus on the research and stories o...
Long-time Brush Creek ranch couple, Tim and Margo Barkhurst, has been selected as 2019 Carbon County Pioneers by the Grand Encampment Cowboy Gathering Outfit (GECGO) and will be honored during the upcoming 17th annual weekend gathering July 19 thru 21st in Encampment, Wyo. The couple will be recognized throughout the three day event and will be honored during intermission of the All-Star show Saturday night, July 20th, in the Encampment High School gym. Presentation of the...
Ah summer! It’s 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 3 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 on Tuesday, July 16th from noon to 5:30 pm at St. Ann’s Parish Ha...
The Wyoming Ranchers Family Camp will be celebrating 74 years as they gather at Bottle Creek Campground outside Encampment from July 11-14. According to a press release, “what started out by Wyoming ranchers with families some 74 years ago as a Mountain Top Christian get-together has survived and grown.” The press release went on to state that the event has become “a really neat way to have a blessed gathering for a weekend.” Those interested in the event are invited to bring their camper or tent to the campground and take pa...
"Other kids that live with their grandparents are able to help a lot more. One of my main chores is getting (fire)wood and it takes me maybe 15-30 minutes and, afterwards, I'll be in so much pain and just being able to help her has been a lot harder than it should be, at my age." For many people, life presents challenges at different times in their life. When it comes to 17-year-old Katie Russell, those challenges have been present since the fourth grade and continue today wit...
"I got a horse when I was seven," Jake Zielke said. "We more or less saved it from the slaughterhouse because it was old. The first year, I rode it bareback before I could save up enough money to buy a saddle." Little did he know this first step would lead him to travel to every habitable continent -where has made his living as a cowboy. The purchase of "Snowball" was one of Zielke's first steps in becoming a cowboy. Zielke started his years in Estes Park, Colo. where his...
On a bright Saturday morning, June 29, around 33 people interested in learning about the past gathered at the Saratoga museum for a trek to area burial places to soak up information about local cemeteries, those who populate them and those who have worked to restore and beautify them. The trek, titled "From Boot Hill to Paradise", began with Saratoga Museum director Kim Givens introducing the host for the Saratoga Historical and Cultural Association sponsored journey, local hi...
On June 11 the trio of Christina Barrineau, Aquatic Habitat Biologist for Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD), Joe Parsons, District Manager for the Saratoga-Encampment-Rawlins Conservation District, and Jeff Streeter, North Platte River Project Manager for Trout Unlimited (TU), were in Washington, D.C. to receive national awards for work they have been doing in restoring fisheries on Upper North Platte river drainages including the Big Creek and the Encampment River and...