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Don Herman is looking to bring a new voice and new ideas to the office of mayor in the May 2 Pine Bluffs town elections. "I grew up in this town and the way I look at things around here a lot of things need to change," Herman said during the Meet and Greet event for candidates for office held in Town Hall, April 12. He believes that the town has not done enough in regards to infrastructure and to bring new businesses to town. He also questions the town's reliance on the sixth penny tax and wonde...
After eight years on the town council, Alan Curtis is seeking to take on the duties of mayor, in the May 2 town elections, upon the retirement of Mayor William Shain. "I work for Centennial Ag Supply, an ag fertilizer company in town. We started it up in January 2006. We put a shingle up and started that. I was previously with another company here in town and this opportunity came along. It was kind of a start from scratch," Curtis said. "That's what I've done all my working life, forty years...
"Dear Mom; I was sworn in Dec. 7 at about 6:00 and left Denver at 7:30. Sure glad to be moving at last. Quite a coincidence going out on Dec. 7 isn't it." Donald Eisenhauer was born in Wolbach, Neb. on March 28, 1924 to Harry and Truly Eisenhauer. In 1926, his brother Delbert followed him into the world. Two years later came Robert, then in another two Lloyd was born, followed two years later by Tom. Another two years saw the emergence of Howard. Then a long time nobody: That's Loren or "Poot"...
The season has ended, not as hoped for but as expected, for the Pine Bluffs High School (PBHS) Academic Challenge team. Four members of the team, Brandon Steege, Samuel Garcia, Amy Bauer and Scout Pachel were in Riverton at the Central Wyoming Community College April 8 to compete for the state title in the Wyoming Academic Challenge (WAC) in the small school category, schools with 250 or less students. "Laine (Vasko) and Nicole (Kimble) were unable to make the event, so we were playing with...
"Dear Mom: It's been a long time since I've written, I know, but I could tell from your letter that you understood. This letter will probably be a little late getting there, but if I could rush it any I would, you know that." The preceding is the beginning of a letter written by Pfc. Donald W. Eisenhauer to his mother, Truly Eisenhauer who was living in Pine Bluffs, Wyo. Eisenhauer was serving in Company A, First Battalion, 27th Regiment of the Fifth Marine Division in World War II. Eisenhauer...
Wyatt Ebben, a freshman at Burns High School, did Wyoming and his school proud by taking a first place in the Chadron State College Scholastic competition April 7 in Nebraska. Ebben managed to out-test sophomores, juniors and seniors in the Business Information Systems test. Fellow Burns students, Tyler Norris and Kate Norris, were also competitive in the event. Tyler took second in the Physical Education and Sports Knowledge category, while Kate took a third in Accounting. According to Jeri Neuharth, assistant to Dr. Margetts, dean of the...
In a seven to one vote the Laramie County School District No. 2 Board of Trustees approved the school boundaries that were proposed and debated these past two months. At the April 10 meeting, board member Lee May was the sole dissenting vote on the matter. While he did not oppose the the issue philosophically, he believed that the district might lose students to Cheyenne schools. He was not convinced that action at this time was necessary. “I'm a little bit torn, but if we could wait a year I think I would rather do that personally and I t...
Pine Bluffs Town Treasurer Kim Patterson addressed the annual town clean-up at last Monday's town council meeting. During the following discussion the subject of county residents driving into Pine Bluffs and depositing their trash in town dumpsters, a subject and sore spot that was also the topic of conversation amongst the council two meetings previous, in addition to contractors pitching their debris into the dumpsters. “Recently, with the nice weather we've been having a lot of contractors are out there making repairs to a lot of homes a...
Farmer and local businessman, Justin Fornstrom, is seeking the office of town councilman in the upcoming May 2 town elections. He is one of three candidates hoping to secure one of the two vacant seats, one of which has been held for eight years by his brother, Mark who is stepping down from his seat. Justin Fornstrom states that while they are brothers, their styles are different. "My brother and I own several businesses, we have the NAPA Auto Parts store, are farmers and the owners of several...
The Easter Bunny spent a busy Saturday in southeast Laramie County hopping from Albin to Burns, in the morning, and finally to Pine Bluffs in the afternoon bringing joy, eggs and candy to kids in the area. In Albin, the holiday hare was assisted by the Town of Albin and the Community Center in hiding his eggs. The town spiced up the hunt by providing books for the children to take home, snacks to eat and coffee for the parents. Due to the windy and cool conditions, the younger children, ages...
While she is not the first woman to seek office in Pine Bluffs, there have been more than a few of those, at 29, Janna Kestner is certainly one of the youngest. The wife and mother of a 15-month-old son, Warwick, has been interested in public service for sometime, but with starting a new family and establishing her family's home in Pine Bluffs, Kestner has not had the time until now. "My husband, he got the job offer here. We moved here, we started settling in. Pine Bluffs started to feel like...
Games, raffles, auctions live and silent, presentations, food and beer on tap were available to sponsors and their guests at Saturday night's 17th annual Pheasants Forever Banquet in the Pine Bluffs Community Center. Uncle Fred's Catering served up fried chicken, Rocky Mountain Oysters and all the fixin's while Jim Wilson served as Master of Ceremonies keeping the evening moving until auctioneer, Steve Price, "The Steve Price," according to Wilson, stepped up to the microphone. With all that foo...
Tucked away in a RV park east of Cheyenne and the TA Truck Stop are two antelopes reposing at the bottom of a swimming pool at the WYO Campground. As antelope are neither fish nor aquatic fowl, the curious traveler may indeed wonder how two of the beasts had come to be there. Not surprisingly, they will soon discover their presence is the result of art, not nature. They are the work of artist Marcia Pavlica, who along with her husband Mike, is the owner of the campground. Pavlica stated that it...
Pine Bluffs and Burns High School seniors who are members of their FFA chapters received their State Degrees at the 2017 Wyoming FFA Convention in Cheyenne last Thursday night. The convention ran from Wednesday, April 5 through Saturday April 9. In addition to the state degrees, awards were given to those who showed proficiency in parliamentary procedures and agriculture related fields competitions with a Burns Junior High team moving on to the national convention. Five Pine Bluffs chapter...
Authors across the school district have written pieces of poetry, fiction and nonfiction in a hope of representing the district against the other districts of the state in the Young Authors Competition. Once the pieces were written, all the children's names were removed in order to make the judging as impartial as possible. The pieces are then judged by teachers in their school of grades different than the authors. For example, pieces written by first graders are judged by, teachers from the...
Last Friday crews tasked with the work of removing dying trees in Pine Bluffs and planting new ones as part of the town's reforestation project unearthed a time capsule in Reher Park. The capsule appeared as Mitch Reisdorfer and Chris Walstone, of Cheyenne Lawn and Tree Care, were in the process of pushing over the tree just to the west of the marker which, in 1969, dedicated the park in honor of Virgil V. Reher, who served Pine Bluffs as a councilman and mayor from 1961-68. The capsule, buried...
Children at schools in Pine Bluffs and Carpenter Fifth grade, sixth grade and kindergartener Saw a man in a hat with stripes red and white Tell Dr. Seuss stories, what a delight! They laughed, they giggled, they shouted with glee They heard of the "Sneetches." What fun, yippee! He told of "The Zax" and about "The Big Brag" He kept their attention, he wasn't a drag Two other stories he told them that day Then he was finished and went home to L.A. Los Angeles-based actor Duffy Hudson visited...
After 24 years Deidre Hanson is retiring form her duties as a school nurse at Pine Bluffs and Albin and with the honor of being named Wyoming's Greatest School Nurse. In a contest put on by the Pfizer Corporation, Hanson was chosen to represent Wyoming in an effort to name America's Greatest School Nurse. The goal of the contest is to recognize school nurses who go above and beyond and honors those who often don't get the credit they deserve day in and day out, according to Amy Procaccini of...
Walking tacos, bingo and prizes were the fare for the evening at Carpenter Elementary School Saturday night to raise funds for the kids, schools and communities of Carpenter and Burns. The parent's organizations of both communities put on the event each year. This year Carpenter School and Community (CSC) operated the bingo games while the Parent Organization of Burns elementary furnished the food. Kierstin Butler was the coordinator for the bingo night, as president of CSC. "It's primarily for...
Rocky mountain oysters were on the menu at the 47th Annual Grover FFA Hired Hand Auction and Oyster Fry held at Pawnee School in Grover, Colo. last Saturday night. Also being served were chicken strips, potato salad, beans and corn. A silent auction was held, with attendees able to bid on various items like, welding gloves or masks, a roll of barbed wire, wildflower seeds, tools, etc. The oyster fry was over seen by Alexandria Sanders the FFA advisor. Sanders, in addition, teaches the fifth thro...
Competing in their fifth Wyoming Science Olympiad (WYSO), Burns Junior High students won their first trophy, taking home third place, in Division B. The competition took place at Casper College campus on March 25. The WYSO is open to junior and senior high schools across the state and consists of two divisions: Division B for junior high students, which may contain 5 ninth graders, and Division C for high school students. Eric Nelson, Physical Science, Physics, and Chemistry at Burns Jr./Sr....
Elementary and Junior High School students in the district were treated to constructive analysis and critiques of their musical ability at the District Music Festival held at Albin Elementary March 30. Their performances were judged, or adjudicated, by University of Wyoming music education majors. Sharon Duffey, music teacher K-6 for Pine Bluffs Elementary and Albin Elementary Schools, served as the chairman for this year's festival. The other directors were Misty Curtis-Pine Bluffs Jr./ Sr....
Throwing his cowboy hat into the ring, Donn Randall is vying for one of the two open Pine Bluffs Town Council seats which are to be decided in the May 2 election. Randall had briefly considered a run for mayor but realized he had not the experience in, at least in governmental affairs. He believes it would be better to serve on the council before any real consideration for higher office. "I've never served on the council. I've dealt with them a lot over the years with teaching and the many...
A happy wife at home and happy children in the classroom were the results of a promise kept by Todd Thompson of Pine Bluffs Elementary School (PBES). The promise was kept at the PBES Thursday assembly in the Theater room of the school when five of Thompson's students took clippers to his beard. Thomson had promised his fifth-graders that if they really tried and gave there best efforts on the Proficiency Assessments for Wyoming Students (PAWS) test, they could shave off his beard. "I bet the...
Weighing in at two pounds and 10 to 12 ounces, prospects for baby Lavitra Bodley Lanning's survival, on Bodley's Hill, were tenuous at best. Lanning recalls her mother telling her she was placed in a box on a table with jars of hot water in all four corners and a light bulb above her head. While not a practice used in modern medicine, her mother's home remedy proved effective. Little Lavitra survived and has done so for 87 years. "I guess there is reason I'm supposed to be here; to give...
