Skip to main content

Pizza and movie changed to May 2

Playing Dominoes at the Sagebrush Senior Center last week were Madeline and Bill Telfer, Betty Merrill, Phil Fleming, Laura Rettelle, Dick Blake, Bob & Lois Thompson, Jack Riddick and Sheila and Joe Remick
The coffee group included Laura Rettelle, Karen Dibbern, Patty Herring, Connie Beckham, Dodey Brown, Arliegh Simmons, Ellie Behrmann, Linda York and Mary Priquet.

Quiet week at the center

There were seven here to play bingo on Tuesday. Two-dollars winners were Nadene Kerbs, Lila Worden Madaline Forbes, Kathy Hennek, and Carl Kerbs. Berneil McCord and Madaline Forbes shared a $2 round. Madaline Forbes won the $4 blackout round.
There were five here for Bridge Monday. First place went to Mary Sjoden. Second place went to Sheila Johnson.
It has been a very quiet week.

Encampment fire fighters up to snuff

Reprint of this story from the April 18, 1902 issue of The Grand Encampment Herald brought to you courtesy of Grandma’s Cabin, Encampment, Wyoming. Preserving History - Serving the Community.

Grace in cow/calf raising

As the sun rises over the Cow Creek, Jim Miller has already checked on the calves, made a few phone calls and is putting hay in the feeder for the heifers.
Jim and his wife Shirley run a 300-head cow/calf operation. The steer calves are shipped to Kansas in the fall where they are eventually marketed to Japan.
With calves getting shipped to Japan, Jim is meticulous in recording when the calves are born, tagged and inoculated.

Carbon County Extension office has new range specialist

Abby Perry began her new position as the range specialist at the University of Wyoming Carbon County Extension Office Feb. 16.
Although her office is in Rawlins, the area she is responsible if far beyond Carbon County. She works with a group that serves Goshen County, Platte County, Albany County, Laramie County and Carbon County.

Getting the water right

When people think about water, most turn on a tap at their kitchen sink and think nothing of it.
For the people who live in Wyoming, it is much more complicated.

Where's the beef? - It's everywhere

Did you know that beef cattle produce much more thanjust meat or the hide for a few leather coats?
A 1200-pound market steer will yield approximately 650 pounds of meat, so nearly all of the remaining weight of the slaughtered beef animal is recovered for use in by-products. Beef by-products are something made from beef cattle besides meat.

Subscribe to Special Sections