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Editor: Art is one of the most important things for a developing student. Art helps kids with critical thinking and cognitive ability. Art is essential in a child’s education. With Pam Kraft’s upcoming retirement the Carbon County School District has decided to cut the Encampment art program to half time. This is a tragedy. Pam Kraft spent her whole life developing one the greatest art programs in the state, even my college art professors admire her for what she’s done and the artists she’s emerged from Encampment. The No Child Left Behind...
Platte Valley Kiwanis sponsored the local Stars of Tomorrow Sunday at the Platte Valley Christian Center. Seventeen children from Hanna, Elk Mountain, Encampment and Saratoga participated in music, songs, dance and other talents. Val Morris, the chairperson of the Stars of Tomorrow, cooridinated the acts for the programs fifth year. The Kiwanis Traveling Bake Sale is 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. Thursday. Kiwanis members will be going around to businesses. People who are interested in buying goodies can also stop at The Flower Pot in downtown Saratoga. Th...
When education is threatened, community members will stand up to protect it at any cost. At least that was the impression when more than 100 people showed up at the Carbon County School District No. 2 Board of Trustees meeting. The 109 teachers, students, parents and other community members stormed the meeting Monday in the name to protect two full-time teaching positions across CCSD 2. Pending cuts threatened a half-time art teacher in Encampment, a full-time position at Saratoga Elementary...
Gov. Matt Mead took a chainsaw to the ribbon Friday afternoon during the Saratoga Forest Management Sawmill’s ribbon cutting. The backdrop for the ribbon cutting was a stack of beetle-killed logs. Before the ribbon cutting ceremony, Mead toured the mill with sawmill owner Gary Ervin, sawmill partner Clint George and Scott Williams, the sawmill’s operation manager. Also on the tour were Wyoming Senate District 11 Larry Hicks, BLM Assistant Field Manager of Resources Tim Novotvy, Saratoga May...
Gerald Wayne Cook passed away in his home in Saratoga, on Saturday, March 2, 2013. He was born on March 6, 1938 in Rawlins, to Maxine (Darknell) Cook Buckman and Joseph E. Cook. He was a 1956 graduate of Hanna High School in Hanna. He was married to the love of his life and best friend, Carol, on June 25,1960 and three beautiful daughters were born soon after. Gerry was an avid fisherman, hunter, and woodworker, always inspired by the wonder of his treasured Wyoming outdoors. He was the owner of Cook’s Conoco in Medicine Bow for many years a...
Katherine “Kathie” V. (Unger) Tinney, 60, of Cheyenne, passed away Sunday, March 17, 2013, at the Davis Hospice Center after a long battle with leukemia. Kathie’s family will receive friends on Friday, March 22, 2013, from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. as the Schrader Funeral Home in Cheyenne. A funeral service will be conducted on Saturday, March 23 at 12:00 p.m. at the Saratoga Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. There will be a viewing beginning at 11 a.m. at the church with the funeral service to follow. Kathie will be burie... Full story
Town officials and stakeholders got a good idea of how much it might cost to study the North Platte River Friday afternoon. Three representatives from Stantec, the firm chosen by a seven-man selection committee, met with the committee and others from Saratoga to present a projected budget for a river study and also to iron out some details. Stantec will act as the main firm for the study and Wildland Hydrology will assist with the study. Both firms were chosen because of their previous work on t...
The Wyoming Humanities Council is seeking programs for its Humanities Forum, a roster of independent contractors who travel around Wyoming, speaking on humanities-centered topics. Presentations can vary, but should be 30 to 45 minutes long, followed by audience discussion, a press release said. The Wyoming Humanities Council pays a $150 honorarium for each presentation, mileage, lodging and per diem expenses. The council is interested in presentations related to “Journey Stories”, a Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibit about America as...
The Valley Service Organization (VSO) is now accepting applications from graduating high school seniors for its 2013 Youth Citizenship Award worth $500.00. Sudie Trowbridge, VSO co-chairman for the award program with Leslie Johnson, said applications are now available from the counselors’ offices at the all Carbon County School DistrictNo. 2 high schools. All graduating seniors in the district are eligible to apply, including those who are home schooled, she said. Deadline for returning applications is April 15. Applicants must be residents of...
This week the nation celebrates the industry that feeds the world—the agricultural industry. Being a city girl who has lived in Wyoming for 25 years, I have lived in this rural state longer than I lived in Iowa. While Iowa is considered a rural state, I was not a rural girl. Since living in Wyoming, I have learned to cut and wrap beef, feed chickens, pluck chickens, feed pigs, buck bales of hay and ride a horse. My education in Wyoming agriculture grows every year. My husband grew up in the c...
Editor: As someone who has subscribed to the Saratoga Sun for some forty years, and seen the newspaper’s ups and downs, you are to be commended for carrying substantive information and opinion about the Encampment arts program. I would observe, however, that opponents to cuts in the program may have missed the most compelling arguments. First, the foundation for all learning is built in the primary grades, and earlier. Second, exercises in the arts encourage creativity in all fields, something which is becoming more and more essential to thrive...
Editor: Why the big fuss? As planning commission members, city ordinance 18.03.10 gives us some general guidelines for deciding the issues brought before us. I personally have some guiding principles. First, I try to always be even handed in my decisions. I consider neighbors, property values, and any future impact my decision might have. Recently there has come an issue before us as to the interpretation of what requires a special use permit as to home occupations, particularly as to how our ordinance 18.06.190 is interpreted. 18.06.190 is... Full story
Editor: Reading and the love of reading is important in a young child’s life. The appreciation, care, ownership, and love for a book, a physical, hardbound, in-your-hands book, is how the love of reading begins. Learning to read, appreciating the book, and wanting to read more is accomplished by truly educated and experienced librarians. So why would an elementary school or even a school district want to cut a full-time, experienced, educated, dedicated elementary librarian and reassign her to a classroom, where she can affect probably 20 c... Full story
A suicide prevention specialist visited Saratoga to give community members some tools. Not hammers and screw drivers, but knowledge and skills to help identify and prevent suicide in Saratoga. BJ Ayers, Wyoming suicide prevention specialist, led a suicide prevention training activity Thursday. Those who attended learned how to identify signs of suicide and help prevent someone from committing suicide. “It’s time for all of us, especially in Wyoming, to wake up and realize suicide is a pub...
The town of Saratoga discovered grease was clogging sewage lines after sending video cameras through the system. “It’s not uncommon, but it’s one of those things you just do not want to find out about,” said Public Works Director Chuck Bartlett. The question is who put the grease there? Bartlett showed video of several grease-clogged areas In a Water and Sewer Joint Powers Board Meeting on March 13. Town officials used rented specialized video equipment to survey the pipes, and covered about 2...
Search and rescue volunteers were all doing something different before they got the call reporting a plane went down on Pennock Mountain March 3. Volunteer Matt Roberts was spending time with his children. Carbon County Sheriff’s Deputy Travis Starck was at a benefit dinner in Encampment. Volunteer Randy Sikes was doing chores. But they all responded to the call in the same way. Roberts, Starck and Sikes, along with several other search and rescue volunteers, dropped what they were doing and r...
Simply Amazing. There’s no better way to describe the weekend that Saratoga FBLA members had at their annual State Leadership Conference. To begin, an attendance record was set when over 700 members from 38 schools across Wyoming converged on the Holiday Inn in Cheyenne, Wyoming March 14 through 16. Students were there to compete in a variety of business related topics with hopes of qualifying for a chance to compete this June in Anaheim, California at the National Leadership Conference. The Saratoga members did just that – qualify in mas...
Reprint of this story from the March 30, 1900 issue of The Grand Encampment Herald brought to you courtesy of Grandma’s Cabin, Encampment, Wyoming. Preserving History - Serving the Community. ROBBINS MINING CO. Making Preparations for Active Operations this Season. Since the purchase of an interest in the Robbins group of claims by Messrs. Robbins and Copeland, these gentlemen have devoted considerable time to the organization of the Robbins Copper Mining Company. As soon as the organization was completed they immediately arranged for d... Full story
There were five here to play bingo Tuesday. $2 winners were Berneil McCord, and Merle Starr. Madaline Forbes and Merle Starr shared a $2 round. Berneil McCord won the $3 blackout round. There were two tables for duplicate bridge Monday. First place went to Vivien Campbell and Gertrude Campbell. Second high went to Glee Johnson & Sheila Johnson. We are always happy to deliver you a meal if you are under the weather or just been in the hospital. Please give us a call at 326-5564 and we will do our best to help you out. If you are 60, or the spous...
At Deseret Health and Rehab, residents enjoy many activities. 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. It has often been said that the two most important activities at the facility are Hair Care and Nail Care. On Wednesday mornings, resident line up outside the Activity room for these activities. Janice Kerpan and Mildred Hennek gave beautiful hairdos to nine ladies. Brenda Zeiger did the nails of t...
We had a good week here at Encampment Senior Center. At the Council meeting on Monday it was approved to get what is needed to allow the center to have wi-fi for seniors’ access. It was also approved for us to buy some hummingbird feeders for to be placed at some windows the viewing enjoyment of our seniors. We had our Birthday/Anniversary/St. Patty’s Day Evening meal we served 48 people which included home deliveries. Door prizes were given to Vicki Loftice, George Bauer, and Nancy Lynch, Mrs. Lynch also won lunch tickets from the Bir... Full story
The Carbon County Coroner’s Office discovered the cause of death of a California man who died after crashing his plane of Pennock Mountain. Gordon Davis, 63, of Tehachapi, Calif., died due to exposure to extreme temperature, according to the coroner’s report. The report stated trauma was also a factor. Dr. Pat Allen conducted the autopsy. The Carbon County Sheriff’s Department, Civil Air Patrol and several volunteers searched the west and east sides of Pennock Mountain From the night of March... Full story