Seven Rawlins residents, including four children ages 6, 4, 3 and 1-1/2, were rescued early Saturday morning on Bridger Pass.
David and Michelle Wolfe, Nathan Gallant and the four children left Rawlins Friday morning to hunt elk in the Bridger Pass area.

2013 is here and changes are in the air. Lila has resigned from writing this article. Thank you for all the good years, Lila. So, you will have to deal with me for a few weeks. Then I will be signing off and we will see who takes over from there. Maybe, I can encourage Rhonda to step in.
Our count was down for the week. But, there were family members visiting and folks gone for the holidays, trusting all picks back up about now.

At Valley View, residents enjoyed many activities throughout the week. 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.
The residents and staff of Valley View want to wish the people of the Valley a safe and Happy New Year.  We hope that the world will be at peace during 2013.

100 years ago
January 2, 1918
Boxing Contest
The boxing contest pulled off here last night was a good clean 10 round go. The contest was between Jess Boche, of Lander, and Young Martin, of Encampment, with H.L. Groninger as referee. The contest was fast in the beginning and closing rounds and was well worth the price of admission. Referee Groninger decided it a draw and it met with satisfaction to the crowd.

On Tuesdays and Thursdays shoppers at Valley Foods will get to see, taste, smell and buy meals cooked by Chef Eugene Api.
Shoppers at the store in the morning will smell the aroma of food as Api prepares his featured meal of the day. On Friday, that meal was chili served over jasmine rice, with steamed vegetables on the side.

Saratoga High School freshman Sierra Schutte is following in her brother’s footsteps by being accepted into Wyoming’s All-State Choir.
Sierra said she loves to sing and last year she took a music class, but she also practice’s a lot at home.
She is enrolled in choir at Saratoga High School this year.
“Singing is one of my passions,” Schutte said.

Bobby Chitwood and his family are the newest fixtures to blow into Saratoga. The new owner of Lollypops’ is a jack of many trades. Bobby has a country music band and tours regularly. He is a celebrity spokesman for the Wounded Warriors Home, an organization that helps place wounded vets into rehabilitative homes in cases of severe head trauma. Chitwood is also active in the Wyoming National Guard.