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Scott and Michelle McIlvaine wanted to help out the American Legion, specifically with Tyler Pickett Park. To that end, the McIlvaines purchased 85 trees and 35 wreaths worth $3,500. After paying that bill, all the profits will go to the American Legion. The pair will be selling those trees in Veterans Park which is located downtown between Lollypops and Studio T. Already, several community members have purchased trees or wreaths and donated a little extra to the cause. Of this, Michelle said....
The holiday season started Wednesday evening for Platte Valley Helping Hands (PVHH) volunteers. Chris Shannon was bathing and seasoning the eight turkeys, this year donated by the Hotel Wolf, to be cooked for the 23rd annual free Thanksgiving dinner held at St. Ann's Parish Hall in Saratoga that next day. Thanksgiving day started early for PVHH volunteers as convection ovens at the Platte Valley Community Center started the job of roasting the seasoned turkeys. Throughout the morning,...
The Saratoga Planning Commission met at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday and prefaced their meeting with two public hearings for setback variances. Public Hearings The first hearing was opened for a 20 foot setback for a garage on 908 Rochester. Though the normal setback is 50 feet, the forms were in order and no discussion was made in moving Bob Keel's request to the commission. The second hearing was on a 1303 Club Court property owned by Kerry Russell. This variance asked for a six inch setback on a...
At a meeting Wednesday night at the Platte Valley Community Center, about 35 people showed up with questions about the Platte Valley Clinic and its future. The Healthcare Sustainability Project Subcommittee (HSPS), which is now a subcommittee of the Corbett Medical Foundation (CMF), answered those questions after giving an overview of current operations at both the clinic and the Saratoga Care Center. Board member Will Faust opened the meeting by introducing the other members on the panel....
This is the most stream-of-consciousness thing I have written in a while. I have had a lot of things swirling around my mind lately (elections, veteran day, Halloween, etc.) including writing a story about dressing as Spider Man. It was so darn ... well you'll see. A social media question Is social media killing social skills? I saw a girl recently walk by intensely scrutinizing her cell phone while heading somewhere at a furious pace. I said "Hi" the second time she walked by and she raised...
The Platte Valley Medical Clinic is open again after a brief closure. Dr. Bryan Kaiser signed a Termination of Lease agreement with the town on Oct. 31 which paved the way for Health Management Services (HMS) to move their temporary version of the clinic which was at the Platte Valley Community Center back to the 1208 River Street location. During the transition the clinic has changed its name from the Platte Valley Medical Clinic to Platte Valley Clinic. HMS representative Mark Pesognelli said... Full story
You can learn about the history of the Lincoln Highway in Wyoming during two showings of a Wyoming PBS documentary entitled “100 years on the Lincoln Highway.” The program, sponsored by local historians Leslie Johnson and Dick Perue, will be shown between 1 and 2:30 p.m. and again between 6 and 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 8 in the Shively Room of the Platte Valley Community Center. Johnson and Perue are showing the documentary as a public service and Johnson wants to work on getting a his...
The temporary clinic at the PVCC has been seeing patients and taking record requests for a week now. During their first week in operation, the clinic has taken 313 requests to have medical records transferred to the new management free of charge. The clinic has also seen 55 patients over the opening week including giving flu shots. According to HMS representative Mark Pesognelli, "We have already spent over $12,000 to equip the community center with the needed supplies and equipment to be able...
Monte Thayer is looking forward to pool season. Thayer is the organizer of the Platte Valley Wednesday night pool league and has announced an initial organizational meeting for tonight at the Hotel Wolf and a follow up final meeting Wednesday, Oct. 24 at the American Legion. A proposed start night of Nov. 7 is on the slate to be discussed along with teams, team locations, length of season, tournament format and more. A change this year is that the Wednesday night league will no longer sanction...
The Wyoming Public Lands Initiative (WPLI) Advisory Committee made the following recommendations for the four Carbon County Wilderness Study Areas (WSAs) in an Aug. 20 document. The comment period for most of these areas closed Sept. 9 but there will be a single topic meeting to discuss the Wild and Scenic status for the Encampment River from the Colorado State line downstream to the Encampment River trailhead at the Bureau Land Management BLM campground. This meeting will be held at 9 a.m. Oct....
River restoration is a set of activities that aid in the environmental health of a river. Most of these projects are aimed at flood management, improving fish and game habitat, landscape improvement, bank erosion repair and more. Four river restoration projects are currently ongoing with three proceeding on the Encampment River and one on the North Platte. The benefits to River restoration are manifold as these projects aid agricultural producers in preventing loss of land due to erosion, help...
Mondays and Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. you will find Nick Haderlie teaching Judo on the stage adjacent to the Platte Valley Community Center Gym basketball court. On Tuesdays at 5:30 p.m. Christina Reyes passes on Taekwondo lessons at the same location. Both of these martial arts disciplines are offered for free-though donations are accepted. Haderlie keeps a supply of the traditional robe worn, or Gi, on hand for newcomers but recommends students purchase their own. The cost for a Gi is about...
The Corbett Medical Foundation (Foundation), named for former Valley doctor Ray A. Corbett, was incorporated as a 501(c)(3) in September of 1993 and set their bylaws in January of 1994. The Foundation was started to remove both fund raising and dispersement burdens from the governing body of the Town of Saratoga. Mission Statement Generally stated, the mission statement of the Foundation was set to respond to the critical medical needs of the Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2) area....
When a business has burned through nearly half a million dollars and is still not on track, it is normally time to rethink that particular business model. This is the case the with the Platte Valley Medical Clinic (Clinic). Since August 2017 the Clinic has gone through $499,228 in subsidies and more has been requested. Most of those costs are normal business costs for a clinic. A $5,000 moving allowance and a $10,000 signing bonus are normal in recruiting a new doctor. Some costs do not make...
Despite trying to avoid the call to service, Rev. Karen Buckingham has been settling in to her role as Reverend of the St. James Episcopal Church in Encampment for about a year now. Buckingham and her family moved to Rawlins in 1972 when her husband, who worked for the highway department, was transferred there from Burgess Junction, Wyo. While in Rawlins, Buckingham, who is originally from California, went to work for the local school district as a school nurse-a position she held for 28 years....
I have had a thought about what people who reside in Wyoming call themselves for some time now. The term that is officially used (I guess) is Wyomingite. Wyomingite? There is a Cure Wyomingite sounds like something you get a shot for: “So what is it Doc?” “You’ve got Wyomingites. Fortunately a lengthy course of penicillin will cure it.” Ewww. Call me crazy (go ahead, I’ve heard it before—lots) but I think we should be Wyomingonians. It’s a little trickier to say initially but way more “bounc...
By Keith McLendon Despite a rainy Saturday morning, over 550 craft beer enthusiasts, mostly from Wyoming and northern Colorado, attended the 23rd annual Saratoga Steinley Cup Microbrew Festival and Competition. Though the morning was wet, the afternoon was pleasantly overcast and the crowd seemed to enjoy the cooler weather, chili, crafts, microbrews and music until a brief shower gave the late afternoon a short intermission. The band Maxwell Mud played popular rock songs as crowds sampled...
Danny Roy Perniciaro was 13 when he got his first guitar for Christmas. That instrument set him on a path that would lead the Bay St. Louis, Miss. native on a 46-year journey around the country. Nine years later, the 22-year old would set off on the road with his 4-person band, Seabreeze. In 1972 Seabreeze contracted with the Holiday Inn hotel chain and the band was off on a 10-year ride to places like Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Florida and South Carolina. In the meantime, Perniciaro...
I have dreaded August since January. Augusts in even numbered years mean one thing to me … I will be losing my mind (even more than normal). Augusts contain Back-to-School sections, County Fair coverage, Fall Sports Sections and, in the aforementioned even-numbered years, … Election Sections. You may have noticed that the actual paper is outweighed by the Primary Election Section by eight pages. It is a pain … to put it lightly. Getting Started I started assigning candidates to my repor...
“This is huge for Saratoga. This is the kind of bandwidth that larger communities dream about. This is going to far exceed what we find in Casper or Cheyenne,” Merrit Engebretsen, account executive for Union Telephone, summed up Wednesday evening’s broadband presentation by Union telephone. Engebretsen added, “I live in Casper and right now I get about 40 megs—which I feel that is pretty good. Here we are talking about being able to offer a gigabit speed to a resident. Then if we need to get in...
Medicine Bow Museum Director Sharon Biamon was on hand to sort out donated items for sell in a Saturday silent auction to raise funds to move and preserve the Como Bluff fossil Cabin (See Dinosaurs on the Move on page 1 of the July 4 Saratoga Sun). Two of the four owners of the Old West Bar, Joe Hall and Kristi Wickizer, were there early to help with the afternoon's activities and get ready to throw some darts. Events planned for the afternoon included a 50/50 Raffle an Indian Taco bar, the sile...
Fairly recently I have run some photos of the Carey sisters. These photos ran for two weeks in a row because they showed up for both the Independence Day celebrations Saratoga held and the centennial-and-a-quarter proceedings at the Hotel Wolf. You might wonder why I would give two out-of-towners the press. I have two reasons. First, they showed up in turn-of-the-century period costumes. Second, these ladies were a hoot. Everyone I talked to thought pretty much the same thing. The first time I...
At 8 a.m. Saturday, 22 local residents and 4 participating businesses will kick off the weekend in south county with bargains galore. A garage sale spanning the Encampment/Riverside area features 22 published locations with maps available at the local participating businesses (The Red Wagon, Good Things, Sagebrush Senior Center and the Grand Encampment Museum) and in the foyer of the Encampment Town Hall. Encampment Mayor Greg Salisbury characterized the yard sale like this: "Everybody runs...
What has been called the "Best Punk Rock Party in America" by Casper radio station 101.9 "The King" will be going on this weekend in Medicine Bow. Vicki and Vernon Scott, owners of the landmark three-story Virginian Hotel, will once again be hosting the frenetic, yet friendly, occurrence and will be moving furniture to accommodate the crowds this week. The free admission event, called the Battle of Old Wyoming (BOW), features several regional punk rock and alternative bands along with free area...
The 12th annual 4-H Shooting Clays Fundraiser was held July 20 and 21 at the Spur Outfitters shooting range. The event, originally conceived by Spur Outfitters lead guide Dave Sturm, has raised around $400,000 for the 4-H Foundation over the run of the event. Sturm has always stipulated that the money raised at the event goes toward the shooting sports division of the 4-H foundation. Sturm said, "I started it when I built the sporting clays course," and since Sturm knew people who have long...