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State FCCLA was held at Little America in Cheyenne 3/23-3/25. 12 student attended the conference and competed in various events such as Career Investigation, Entrepreneurship, Focus on Children, Sports Nutrition, and Cake Decorating. Burns High had 2 silver metal winners- Janice Horton and Aubrey Burns. They competed in the Focus on Family STAR (Students Taking Action with Recognition)event. They will travel to San Diego, CA June 29-July 3 for National FCCLA Leadership Conference where they...
The Pine Bluffs Town Council has special meeting and then a second meeting just for projects discussion on March 23 at 4 p.m. For new business, the contact for lawn maintenance and landscaping. Council member Allie Leitza made a motion that the Evergreen Lawn and Tree Care Company receive the contract. Council member Janna Kestner seconded. All approved. Next is the sixth-penny projects. Kim Patterson suggests to bond all projects except the water and road maintenance. They estimate around $95,000 per month (give or take) will be coming to Pine...
The discussion for personnel was on the agenda. Laramie County School District #2 school board meeting was March 23rd at 7 p.m. Chairman Julianne Randall opened the meeting with the pledge of allegiance. The motion to approve the agenda was made by board member Mike Olson. The second was board member Matt Haas. All approved The motion to move to executive meeting was made by board member Jeff Kirkbride. It was seconded by Russel Fornstrom. All approved. The executive session lasted about an hour. Board member Heida Romsa made a motion to come...
Instruments were tuning and voices were warming up on March 24th at the Pine Bluffs Historic high School in Pine Bluffs, Wyoming. Carpenter, Burns, Albin, and Pine Bluffs 5th and 6th grades had come together for a musical contest. This competition is an individual achievement. Each student is scored on their ability of the song they perform. The students do not compete against each other. The judge reads the music the students perform and critiques them. The judge then shows the students...
A new look with a new year and a new year to raise money for the Laramie County Community Christmas Program. Pine Bluffs Distilling decided to give a new look to their tasting room. The question was why? Chad Brown said, "It makes the consumer and the customers experience feel more like our brand. It's more friendly on the staff and it's way more friendly on the customers." They redesigned the entire tasting room. When you drive up a new sign of Pine Bluffs Distilling is on the building with a...
Bushnell soup The heat that was coming from the Bushnell Fire Department fire station wasn't due to a fire, but caused by the tasty soups permeating the air on March 12, 2022 from 4 p.m. through 7 p.m. The Bushnell fire department has been serving soup since the 1950's. It's a nice way to get folks out of the house for a good meal and some great camaraderie. This year the firefighters served four different kinds of soups. The choices were oyster soup, ham and bean, and two different kinds of...
The Albin Town Council is looking for bids for equipment. On March 10, 2022 the Albin Town Council met at 7 p.m. The first piece of equipment the council is looking at is a backhoe 420 XE. The council looked at a bid from CAT with their trade-in $82866.25. The council tabled the bid for the next meeting. The next bid is for the trash truck from Peterbilt. There was a motion from council member Jeremiah Johnson to reject the bid. Council member Bob Anderson seconded, all approved. The lunch program is looking good this month. Mayor Kelly Krakow...
We've all seen the fertilizer ads with the rich beautiful lawns and tall, lush flowers. As we get closer to spring the ads will increase in volume and make us all wish that our lawns were that lovely and lush and our flowers were bursting with all the wonderful green foliage and colorful blooms. All of the fertilizer companies swear that their product is the best in the market and if you just buy theirs, not the competitors, then you can have the same look that they show on TV and on their...
Mady Graves is a senior at Pine Bluffs High School. Her family has been raising cattle for a few generations. Graves started showing cattle at a young age, once she was old enough to join the Future Farmers of America. In January, Graves went to the National Western Stock Show at Denver, Colorado. At that show her light weight market heifer placed third in her class. This was the beginning of the shows Graves would be showing at. In February, she went to Holyoke, Colorado. Graves received...
The Burns High School Future Business Leaders of America attended the State conference in Laramie, Wyoming on March 16th through 18th. They had 31 members attend in their competitive events. They were able to go to leadership workshops, activities with other members, campus tours, and other events. These are the members that won their events. Adverising, Tava Holmes won fourth place. Banking & Financial Systems had two teams of two. Isaac Bloom and Spencer Smith received first place. Emma Bach...
The Future Business Leaders of America from Pine Bluffs went to the State Conference in Laramie, Wyoming March 16 through 18, 2022. The members went to competitive events, leadership workshops, campus tours, and other activities. The Pine Bluffs FBLA had eight members that made it to the final round of competition. Jace Slade received second in Economics. He was tested on the concepts and the principles of economics along with monetary and fiscal policy, productivity, macroeconomics, market,...
The frying pan was sizzling with Pine Bluffs Police Sgt. Rodney Kemp. At the Pine Bluffs Senior Center on Friday March 11, 2022 Sergeant Kemp was cooking liver and onions. He brags that he makes a great liver and onions. He said, "I like to soak the liver in milk overnight." The folks that like that kind of food were very excited for it. The reviews, "It was good." Sergeant Kemp loves to volunteer at the senior center in Pine Bluffs. He feels the people will call on the Pine Bluffs police if...
The eyes are to the souls of a person. They can also be a sign of drug use. At the Pine Bluffs town hall on March 8th from 6 p.m. through 7 p.m. a class called High Eyes was put on by Officer Briggs and Brian Kozak. It was only for an hour but was information packed. They started by introducing the eight categories of drugs. They are CNS depressants, CNS stimulants, hallucinogens, dissociative anesthetics, narcotic analgesics, inhalants, and cannabis. They went through the indicators for each drug. The indicators are HGN (horizontal gaze...
Molly Dennis has been appointed the official BurnsYouth League Coordinator and the Burns Town Council is putting AEDs in the main buildings. The Burns Town Council meeting was March 14th at 6:30 p. m. Burns Youth Coordinator Dennis had received a grant for the school for a new Volleyball system. They did not get money for a new scoreboard. She did purchase sweatshirts for the coaches. Dennis applied the lettering herself. The soccer signup sheets are out. They will have games by the first week of April. Dennis would like to know when the gyms a...
I thought last year was strange as far as the weather went but this year has been a real kicker. Last week we had temperatures in the 60's and this week down to zero. Weather like this forces me to look at the calendar to remind myself how far we are into the year. The Master Gardeners Plant Sale is just around the corner on May 14th and my start date for plants is already here. I won't start anything that is going to be planted outside until the first half of April, though. Mine will all go in...
Community, safety, agriculture, and following the law are some factors for Boyd Wrede. Wrede is running for Laramie County Sheriff. He is retired 21 years as a Cheyenne police officer. Wrede's first job was a 911 dispatcher. In 1998 he was hired on with the Cheyenne Police Department. Wrede was on the gang unit, detective division, and a bomb squad technician for 18 years along with commander for eight of those years. He has trained in ecoterrorism, and trained with the FBI, ATS, Secret...
Dear Editor, I am a landowner in senate District 6. I have reached out to Senator Bouchard on many occasions for his assistance, most notably when I testified to the Labor Health Committee on nursing issues. Although my Senator is about as smooth as sandpaper, I could always count on him to speak up and question the Committee when discussions were moving in the wrong direction. I think Senate 6 deserves their voice heard on the committees he was assigned. I question the validity of his removal and support my former Senator. If they can remove...
All three of the Chadron State College track and field athletes who competed Friday at the NCAA Division II National Indoor Championships in Pittsburg, Kan., gained experience that should pay off in the future, Coach Riley Northrup said, but none of them was able to make the finals. It was good experience for them, but we didn't have marks that moved us up the leader board so we were closer to the top," Northrup noted. "It's the first time any of the three has been to nationals. I'm sure...
The cars and people sit waiting for the bus rolling in from Interstate 80. On Facebook was updates of where the bus was. The excitement and pride arose with time coming nearer and nearer with the players being back home in Pine Bluffs. With the weather and slick roads, the prayers of having the players and parents' home safe was in the air. Laramie County Fire District #5 went to meet the bus on I-80 to assure everyone was safe. This was a championship win for the Hornets basketball players and...
A 25-year certificate in Wyoming banking was awarded to an employee at the Farmers State Bank in Pine Bluffs, Wyoming. The board of Farmers State Bank presented Michelle Thomas the certificate on March 1, 2022 at the board meeting. This award is given out by the Wyoming Bankers Association. Thomas has been in the banking business since 1989. Because she tried other adventures it was not consistent until 1997. She has always passionate and loved accounting of some sort all her life. Thomas...
At the state fair grounds in Douglas, Wyoming on March 1, 2022 the Middle School State Leadership Conference took place. The Burns middle school Future Business Leaders of America attended the State Leadership Conference. Five students' won in different divisions. There were nine divisions that the Burns students competed in. The first was Business Etiquette, which is not about rules and regulations but is about providing basic social comfort and creating an environment where others feel...
March 2nd at the Pine Bluffs Senior Center the Cheyenne Salvation Army was giving food out to people that stopped by from 1 p.m. through 3 p.m. The Salvation Army offers programs that are rooted in our passion to serve God by serving the lost, the vulnerable, the needy, the poor, the hurting, the helpless, and the hopeless. They have different programs to help people through rough times. Donna Regan and John Gates had a van full of food for anyone that was in need. Gates has been in the Salvation Army for three and half years as a driver....
March 2nd was National Read Across America Day. It was adopted as such due to the birthday of Theodor Seuss Geisel, also known as Dr. Suess who was born in 1904 at Springfield, MA. Albin Elementary was recognizing this day, not only by reading but it was to celebrate Dr. Seuss' birthday. Dr. Seuss published his first children's book 'And to Think I Saw it on Mulberry Street in 1937. After World War II he went back to writing children's books with a first of 'If I Ran the Zoo' in 1950. The...
There was excitement and possibly some jittery nerves at the Pine Bowl for the family of Zaiden Hottell. This fall Hottell finished his schooling at the Wyoming Cowboy Challenge Academy. It is a school that helps with discipline and learning some military manners. With that school behind him Hottell will not have to do the full eight weeks in basic. On March 1st Hottell's mom and dad signed the papers for him to go into the Navy. He wants to learn more in the culinary area. The recruiter feels...
The 4-H group Clover Club took two teams to the Black Hills Stock show. The first team is the livestock judging team. The individuals judge each group of animals from good to bad. Each contest may have different sets and kinds of animals to judge. For example, cattle, sheep, and pigs. It could be switched with goats or another kind of animal. The members look the animals over and writes notes down, next is giving reasons to the judges. The reason is why they had placed an animal in a certain...
