GEM annual meeting to feature sheep industry

The Grand Encampment Museum (GEM) is holding its annual meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday.

GEM President John Farr is the guest speaker presenting the program “Wyoming, the Sheepherder State.”

The presentation will cover the sheep industry from the “time of Christ till the end of the Second World War,” Farr said.

Farr’s family was involved in the sheep and fat lamb business, then later got involved with the cattle industry in Weld County, Colo.

Three of the nine GEM board positions are being voted on. Ballots are required to be returned to GEM by Thursday.

On the ballot are incumbent bo...