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Dawn Kenneda, Medicine Bow American Legion Auxiliary Unit No. 64 Girls State Chairman, had some of her northern Carbon County girls attend the 76th session of the American Legion Auxiliary Wyoming Girls State (Girls State) held June 10-16 at Laramie County Community College in Cheyenne. Caitlin Cloe Olsen, and Taylee Widdisen of Hanna Elk Mountain Medicine Bow High School, were selected to attend for their accomplishments to the community. Olsen was selected for her...
One of the draws of being in the military is being able to travel the world. The same applies to being a pastor and a missionary. Pastor Phil Arndt of Saratoga Alliance Church has done both. While enlisted in the military and stationed in Korea, Arndt was involved with a small group of Christian servicemen and felt the calling to become a pastor. It also helped that being a missionary was in his blood. "My parents had been missionaries in Honduras and Central America," said Ar...
The Saratoga Lions Club met July 5 to award member Doug Campbell a pin for his 40-year membership and install new officers. The members seemed in a good mood as business was conducted and Joe Glode announced the incoming officers. During the meeting Glode expressed the need for new members and new projects to be undertaken. The new Lions Club officials are: James Beckmann, President; Gary Condict, First Vice President; Tim Dziadon, Second Vice President; Travis Moody, Third...
In the early morning hours of July 4, as the sun began to rise over the Snowy Mountain Range, people began to gather in the parking lot of the Platte Valley Community Center (PVCC) to register for the 2018 Cancer Walk/Run. As people sipped coffee and registered, they also listened to music from The Bird and The Bear, Garry "The Bear" Wood, being a cancer survivor himself after a battle with non-hodgkin's lymphoma. A large contingent of those participating in the event had...
The wind was gusty on the evening of July 4 in Medicine Bow as the dusk was closing in. It was blowing hard enough the town's fire department felt it would be wise to move the fireworks from their original set up to make sure there would be no chance of a fire from sparks being sent out past the perimeter they had deemed safe. This delay saw families play with sparklers and assorted other small fireworks. The crowd waited patiently until the music started at around 10 p.m....
Doug and Kathleen Campbell often joke about the fact that they bought the Hotel Wolf on April Fools Day. Obviously not superstitious, they are celebrating the hotel's 125 anniversary on Friday the 13th. The Campbell family has been the proprietors of this immensely popular establishment for 41 years. For any person that comes to Saratoga and doesn't know this historical landmark, the Hotel Wolf is an L-shaped, two and one-half story, brick and frame building on the corner of...
Staff Report 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 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 noon to 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, July 17 at...
When one is standing on the shore of the Upper North Platte River, the sounds one expects to hear would be the songs of birds. On one warm summer weekend, June 23, a different sound joined the avian melodies. The arrhythmic beeps of morse code and the whitenoise of an amateur radio in search of other stations could be heard on the property of the Ryan Ranch. The ranch owned by Greg Ryan, who also owns Ryan Electronics, was playing host to the Amateur Radio Relay League (ARRL)...
Summer is here and Hanna resident Rose Dabbs presided over the monthly Hanna Agricultural Resource Team (HART) meeting held at 5:30 p.m. on June 26 at the Hanna Market to discuss work needed to be done outside the fenced area of the Community Garden. "I would like to talk about the upkeep of the outside of our garden," Dabbs said. "The thistles are growing taller and we need to figure something out because I don't think any one person should have to it." Several ideas were...
A new ministry for single adults has blossomed at St. Barnabas’ Episcopal Church. Singles Eating Together is a monthly time for adult singles—of any faith—to gather and share a meal and conversation. The next Singles Eating Together gathering will take place on Monday, July 9th at 5:30 p.m. in St. Barnabas’ Church’s Agape House, located at the corner of First Street and Main Ave. in Saratoga. Single adults in the valley are welcome to join us for food and fellowship. This ministry grew out of a study undertaken by members...
Residents in Hanna now have a place to go to for breakfast on Sunday mornings. The Biscuit Barn, housed in the building that shares Skinny's Bar, opened two months ago. Katrina Tolbert and Lennie Powell are the proprietors of the new breakfast eatery. For the time being, a buffet is offered for morning munching fare. Tolbert said the next step is to start having made-to-order specials such as possibly a breakfast burrito. She said Powell created the interesting restaurant...
Local Carbon County lass, Carly Cooper, daughter of Robert and Shelly Cooper of Medicine Bow, was promoted to the rank of Major in the United States Army. Early in May of 2018 C. Cooper joined the ranks of Army field grade officers by being promoted to Major at Fort Riley, Kansas. C. Cooper was born in Wyoming and grew up in Medicine Bow where her parents still reside. She is a 2003 graduate of Hanna, Elk Mountain,Medicine Bow High School in Hanna. C. Cooper received an...
The Lincoln Highway enters the state from the east on U.S. 30 at Pine Bluffs and, established in 1913, was America's first coast-to-coast highway. Much of the route in Wyoming today is dirt and gravel and is impassable for much of the year, but in celebrating Ft. Steele's 150 year birthday, a historic walk was hosted by the National Park Service on Saturday. The walk was on parts of the original road near Ft. Steele that went by the Platte River where remnants of a bridge...
The Wyoming Rancher Family Camp, which was started by a handful of Wyoming ranchers and their families, will be entering it’s 73rd year. This year, the event will host speaker Brandon Buller, a pastor born in Nebraska and raised in Wyoming. After graduating high school in 1999, Buller attended Frontier School of the Bible in LaGrange, Wyo. and is now the pastor at Glendo Community Church where he has served for the last four years. Bible Study will be lead by Pastor Shon McIntyre from The Real Tree Church in Farmington, M...
On June 15, 1918 the end of World War I was approaching. The University of Wyoming had just announced it would no longer be teaching German as a foreign language, following the lead of many other institutes of higher learning in the United States. The Austrians, at the behest of the Germans, began an offensive along the Piave River in Italy that they would not be able to hold. Also, on that day, Lyle Mackinen was welcomed into the world. Very few people live to be 100 years...
At noon on June 9 at Carbon Cemetery, Victor Gabriel Anderson's life was celebrated by over 150 people. Victor Anderson was born on Dec 1, 1930 and passed away at his home in Coyote Canyon on March 3. There were several generations at the celebration of his life. Wife Nancy started the celebration by telling how she and Victor first came together before their marriage in 1966. "I was told (there was) a fella who lives in Coyote Springs, who may be calling and was that okay?"...
Saratoga Friends of the Library (FOL) is encouraging people to get down to their roots as well as look towards the skies this month. The FOL encourages residents to stop by the Saratoga Branch Library to check out the Saratoga Free Seed Library. Seeds are packaged in small amounts and may be picked up from the display cabinet in the entryway of Saratoga Branch Library at 503 West Elm Ave. during regular library hours. Entering it's third year, the project began as a suggestion...
The Hanna Agriculture Resource Team (HART) met at 5:30 p.m. on May 29 at the Hanna Market for their monthly gathering of members. The meeting had Jon Ostling, Hanna resident, introduce himself to the group as a candidate for Hanna mayor. Before Ostling spoke, Rose Dabbs, member of HART awarded David Freeman, a 2018 Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow High School graduate the first HART scholarship for $150. The scholarship was started this year and will be available next year....
Members the Platte Valley Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 6125 is heading to Cheyenne this weekend for the annual convention. Jaden Campbell will be one of the guests at the convention to recite her Patriot’s Pen essay, Adjutant Liz Wood said. The VFW has added some active members but is looking for more to keep the VFW going. “In Wyoming, it is difficult to keep active members,” Wood said. “We don’t want to lose our post like so many other Wyoming towns have.” The organization meets the first Thursday of each month,...
The Medicine Bow Lions Club chapter met at 6 p.m. on June 15, at the Virginian to elect new officers for the June 2018 to June 2019 terms. Carol Maddox replaces outgoing president Pam Glasser. Serving with C. Maddox is first vice president Bob Heward; Second vice president Lindsey Freeman; third vice president Rob Maddox; secretary Kathy Thompson; treasurer Shane Blakeman and Lion Tamer Sharon Heward. The board of directors now consists of Don Mayfield, Martin Mayfield, Harold Mayfield, Mike McGraw, Pamela Glasser and Cindy C...
According to an old Chinese proverb, "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the second best time is now." Valley residents will no doubt remember this quote as it was a favorite of the late Glen Levengood, who worked for the Saratoga Encampment Rawlins Conservation District (SERCD) before his passing. Every year for the past 11 years, the SERCD has donated trees to the Town of Saratoga for its Arbor Day celebration. This year, the SERCD donated spruce trees to be...
Lorin Young is a self described retired coal miner. He is originally from Utah, but came to Wyoming when he was nine. He met his wife, Cheryl, in Rawlins and they came to Hanna to work for the mines. Young worked in mines around Hanna in the 1970s and then Steamboat, Colo. for 33 years. He said Peabody was his last coal mining employer after it bought out RAG Shoshone Coal Corporation. "Peabody was a good company to work for," Young said. "You hear about big companies not...
The ladies of the Valley Service Organization (VSO) gathered at the historic Hotel Wolf at noon on Thursday, May 24 to honor one of their own. Before doing so, Carol Beach announced Saratoga Middle High School senior Gage Bartlett was the winner of the VSO Scholarship for 2018. In a prepared speech for the 2018 Woman of Distinction, VSO member Carol Sherrod informed the gathered members of the numerous contributions Elva Evans had made to the Valley over the years. These...
Many longtime residents of the Platte Valley have fond memories of the community picnics that had been organized by Kendall McBride for several years. John Zeiger, one of those residents, is hoping to bring the community picnic back, beginning this year. According to Zeiger, he and a handful of other people began talking on Facebook after friends and former classmates passed away about how unfortunate it was they had lost contact with each other. As the discussion evolved,...