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The fire truck was sitting at the old Elementary playground and the eggs were hiding on the playground. On Saturday April 16th at 10 a. m. Laramie County Fire District #6 put on their first Easter Egg Hunt. Council Member/Firefighter Jeff Appleman announced where each age group would be in each section. When the siren of the fire truck goes off then the hunt begins. He did say there was a raffle for Easter baskets to earn money for next years Easter egg hunt. The parents and kids were ready by...
Parents and kids gathered together to be directed to the right areas based on the ages of their children by the Pine Bluffs Lions Club. Saturday April 16th at 2 p.m. at the Leaning Rock Golf course in Pine Bluffs was the annual Lions Club Easter Egg Hunt. This Easter egg hunt has been happening for over fifty years that the Pine Bluffs Lions Club puts on. This year it was a bit windy and a tad chilly but the parents and children were determined to hunt the eggs. Most of the eggs contained...
Burns lions club dance and carpenter taco The smell of tacos was inviting and the dancers feet were moving to the beat at the Burns Plex on April 2, 2022. The Burns Lions Club hosted their second dance of the year. But this time the Carpenter Elementary School & community members joined in and served tacos. This started a few weeks ago on March 18th when the Burns Lions Club had dance lessons for folks that wanted to learn how to dance or to freshen up their dance skills. Dance Spirit dance...
The Easter eggs were everywhere far as the eye could see. April 9th at 10 a.m. at the Albin Community Center the kids and adults lined up according to their age. The age signs were posted on the side of the building. Mayor Kelly Krakow announced how the egg hunt was going to go. The little ones were in the building and the older ones were outside in different sections of the school grounds. The 0-2 age group was in the conference room. The room was closed off so the little ones could not escape...
This week is National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week. It’s an important week and we wanted to express our gratitude to the first first-responders who often don’t get the recognition they deserve. We are talking about the dedicated men and women that answer the call when you press 9-1-1. Dispatchers at the Laramie County Combined Communication Center (LCCCC) and the Wyoming Highway Patrol Communications Center may not be at the emergency scene but are vital in initiating the response 9-1-1 callers need. An experienced, well-trained dis...
"Cookies, we are selling cookies," said Allison Patridge. On Saturday April 9th at the Pine Bluffs Exxon, Girl Scout Troop 1319 from Cheyenne was selling cookies. They had boxes and boxes of cookies. People were stopping to get their gas and picking up cookies at the same time. They were having a great day. Two girls were selling for the day, Allison Patridge and Ali Bruckner. The cookies that seem to be the favorites and they sell the most of are the Thin Mints. But they had all the different...
CHEYENNE, Wyoming – Laramie County Community will host Let's Talk About Ukraine, a presentation and discussion about the war in Ukraine on Tuesday, April 19 from 12- 2 p.m. in the Student Lounge in the College Community Center (CCC) building. This event will feature LCCC speakers and panelists including, Iryna Wiggam, a native of Ukraine, current LCCC ESL instructor and Paralegal for Wyoming Attorney General's Office, along with Dr. Lily Rowan and Dr. James Miller, political science instructors at LCCC. The event will be moderated by LCCC P...
If there was ever a time to start growing your own vegetables this may be it. Joe Biden has recently informed us that we will face food shortages this year. Not "may", but "will". What does he know that we don't? I don't know but it sounds ominous to me. If you've been paying attention you seen prices rise on nearly every commodity on the market. I was appalled at the price of a sheet of OSB lumber, going from $15 a sheet to more than $60 almost overnight. Gas prices are more than double what...
CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- Gen. Anthony Cotton, commander of Air Force Global Strike Command, was announced as the Cheyenne Frontier Days Grand Marshal by the CFD General Chairman Committee during the AFGSC Senior Leader Conference April 7, 2022, in Cheyenne, Wyoming. "This is a wonderful announcement," said Col. Catherine Barrington, 90th Missile Wing commander. "Gen. Cotton and his family have deep roots in the community, and his selection speaks to the great relationship we have between Cheyenne and...
Two students from Laramie County School District #2 received awards from the Lions Club. The Pine Bluffs Lions Club hosted the "Student of the Quarter" at their meeting. They started off the meeting with a chicken fried steak dinner served by Rick Wagner of Estela's. After dinner the students were introduced. First was Isaac Bloom of Burns. He is the son of Amanda and Silas Deselms and Tommy Bloom. Bloom's mother Amanda attended the dinner with him. He said, "I do Fellowship of Christian Athlete...
Every year the Hillsdale United Methodist's have an Easter egg hunt on the Saturday before Palm Sunday. This year it was April 9th at 9 a.m. There were 20 to 25 volunteers helping set up and also helping kids find Easter eggs. There were 10 children that showed up at the Hillsdale United Methodist church. They had a low number but the kids and volunteers had fun. The winners received a basket with candy, gift cards, and stuffed animals. But everyone was a winner. Some of the eggs had cash in...
The helicopters were flying high over the bluffs as the wind whistled and the sun glared over the beautiful landscape in the Pine Bluffs recreational area. The morning of Wednesday March 30, 2022 the 90th Security Forces Group of F.E. Warren Air Force Base was training their total force integration concept in the bluffs. Mayor Justin Fornstrom, Kim Patterson, Sergeant Rodney Kemp, and Colonel Ford observed the training to see how it was going to go. Major Height and MSgt Magin set the stage and...
Two students received the bronze Congressional Achievement Award from Burns High School in Burns, Wy. On April 3rd at the Cheyenne Civic Center in Cheyenne, Wyoming Senator John Barrasso, Senator Cynthia Lummis and Congresswoman Liz Cheney presented Congressional Achievement Awards. The Congressional Achievement Award was started in Wyoming in 1979. There are four areas the students need to participate in. They are Volunteer Public Service, Physical Fitness, Personal Development, and...
All ages were walking around the Pine Bluffs City Park on March 31st throughout the day. It was "Take a Walk in the Park" day. Sonja Fornstrom and Heather Eggli from the Pine Bluffs Recreation Department set up three different times for people to get tickets for every time they went around the park. The first time was from 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. There was a couple of families and a few individuals walking. The next time was from 11:30 to 1:30 p.m. The Pine Bluffs Elementary came over to walk a...
Dancing is in the air or at least the feet are moving. The Dutch Hop has been happening since the 1800’s. In Pine Bluffs, Wyoming the Dutch Hop dance has been going on since 2004 annually. On April 16th from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. The Wyoming Art Council will be showing a film on the history of the Dutch Hop from the area at the dance. This film will feature some of the dances in the past along with interviews of the bands and people that remember Volga Germans history in their families. The Dutch Hop, a traditional dance that is the history of t...
It's hard to believe it's nearly April as I write this. But I woke up this morning shortly before daylight and opened the back door to hear the birds singing without the wind as their background band. The smell of the air had changed overnight from late winter/early spring to spring. I can't describe it but spring has a smell all its own. Standing on the patio with the eastern sky just starting to lighten is more than simply stimulating. It's wonderful. However, it's also that time of year when...
CHEYENNE, Wyoming – Laramie County Community College is excited to announce, welding student David Gordon has placed fourth in the WorldSkills Trials, as part of the SkillsUSA competition. Gordon is currently a second-year student at LCCC, from Burns, Wyo. Gordon started his journey to the WorldSkills Trials in Huntsville, Ala., in April 2021, when we competed for LCCC's SkillsUSA Team at the Wyoming state competition in Casper. Participating as part of LCCC's team in the individual c...
Burns High School competed in the Wyoming State Academic Decathlon Competition on March 27-28 in Casper. Students study a very challenging curriculum and compete in 10 different areas: Science, Math, Social Science, Art, Music, Economics, Literature, Speech, Interview, and Superquiz. The 2022 theme was water. In Casper, students delivered prepared and impromptu speeches. They also participated in interviews. Academic Decathlon gives students a great opportunity to get outside of their comfort...
For the last week of Women's History Month let us talk a bit about The Town of Burns. Burns, Wyo., is the only town in this extreme southeast corner of Wyoming who can boast about having not just one but two women mayors. From the December 12, 1975 Pine Bluffs Post Archives: Burns, Wyoming now has a woman as its mayor. Mrs. Vic (Janet) Plambeck was named mayor Dec. 4 to replace Dennis Grubbs, who resigned the position due to ill health. Mrs. Plambeck, who was also the first councilwoman elected...
A walk through with the health inspector and quotes for a sprinkler system were on the agenda for the Burns Town Council meeting on March 28th at 5:30 p.m. For new business the town has received a quote on the west lawn of the town hall. They would like to see two more quotes by the next meeting. They feel that would be more accurate to determine what to vote for. The council will decide at the next council meeting. The old business is the second reading the Ordinance 11D.01b. Council member Dennis Bastian made the motion and council member Ric...
Town residents were invited to attend a meeting on March 22 from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. for the Community Master Plan held at the Pine Bluffs community center. Attendees signed in to have a chance to win some money off of their utility bill. Set up in the community center were easels of what the community would like to see more or less of. There were maps to mark and sticky notes to identify where a person would like to see improvements or had added items to the maps. Miriam McGilvray gave a...
Laramie County Bar Bucks handed out awards. Two local businesses received awards. Mike's Saloon in Albin received his plaque two months ago. Owner Ryan Braman was excited that his saloon has raised so many bar bucks for the Laramie County Community Christmas Basket Program. Pine Bluffs Distilling received the traveling trophy on March 26th along with a plaque. This trophy goes to top bar that has raised the most money for the year. This is the second year in a row for Pine Bluffs Distilling....
Once upon a time America fed the world. Not literally, of course, but we did export food all around the globe and gave quite a bit away to countries in need. In fact, we had so much land in production for food that our government was paying farmers and ranchers not to use it. Not so much anymore. Our farm and ranch ground is decreasing faster each year as the land is being sold for development. What is going to happen when we can no longer produce enough food to even feed ourselves? Just since...
KINGS BAY, Ga. (March 24, 2022) - It has been more than 12 years since women were authorized to serve aboard submarines. While women comprise nearly one-fourth of the Department of Defense's total force, only a small fraction of women serve on submarines. The 15 enlisted women serving aboard the ballistic-missile submarine USS Wyoming's (SSBN 742) Blue Crew, homeported at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Georgia, recently reached a milestone accomplishment for all women who serve. These...
