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The FBI, in partnership with Homeland Security Investigations and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, is issuing a national public safety alert regarding an explosion in incidents of children and teens being coerced into sending explicit images online and extorted for money—a crime known as financial sextortion. Over the past year, law enforcement has received over 7,000 reports related to the online financial sextortion of minors, resulting in at least 3,000 victims, primarily boys, and more than a dozen suicides. A l...
I’ve been confused about cryptocurrency ever since I heard Glenn Beck pushing Bitcoin several years ago. It’s never made since to me. My frame of reference is that in order to be an investment an item has to be tangible, something a person can hold in their hand. Cryptocurrency only exists in a computer, because someone says its there. Then I questioned cybersecurity. Any computer system, any program, can be hacked. I remember the CEO of Oracle bragging that Oracle was “hack-proof” and offering $1 million to anyone who could hack it. It was...
This year seems to have just zipped by without ever slowing down. It's hard to imagine that it's already December and Christmas is just around the corner. Even though I started writing about the plants of Christmas a few weeks ago, the time of year just sunk in. I don't know if I've been that busy or if maybe it's just old age. Could be a combination of both, I guess. Regardless, I still find myself stopping to reflect on Christmas when I was growing up. This week I thought of poinsettias. Mind...
This Christmas is more poignant than most for me. I have a nephew just entering the Air Force and facing his first Christmas away from home. It's caused me to think back to when I went to basic training so long ago. I left just before Thanksgiving so I missed two holidays. Since I was a little older than most trainees it wasn't as bad for me but I recall the distress that so many of the others felt. They were all fresh out of high school and most were pretty homesick. This is only one of many...
Feliz Navidad, Joyeux Noel, Frohe Weinachten, Buon Natale. Christmas Around the World was the theme for the Albin Elementary Christmas concert on December 19th. A wonderful international variety of songs included the United States, England, Spain, Mexico, Germany, France, French Canada, China, Czechoslovakia, Ghana, and Ireland. To start the program the 5th and 6th grade students supported two trumpets, a flute, and a snare drum. Playing Jingle Bells and Up on the Housetop the trumpets were the...
The students were impeccably dressed for a great night of music and cheer. Burns Elementary had their Christmas Concert for Kinderboost through third grade students on Thursday December 1st at 6:30 p.m. The theme of concert was Christmas around the World. It started with all the students singing Jungle Jive of Pierpont, arranged by Teresa Jennings. This was to represent the United States of America. There wer Jingle Singers singing in between the groups of students singing. They were Brooklyn,...
Twas an afternoon of beautiful music, wonderful singing and laughter from the children and audience at 'A Hometown Christmas' concert held in the Historic High School on Sunday. The concert was organized by the United Methodist Church of Pine Bluffs. "This use to be an event the church did for years under the talent of Shirley Lemaster." stated United Methodist Church pianist, Joleen Marquardt. "Shirley had organized this Christmas concert for so many years, and after her passing, it went by... Full story
Going into new business immediately after agenda approval and the consent agenda, Mayor Justin Fornstrom read the Resolution 2022-03 on the agenda for review and approval. The resolution - “A Resolution amending the Town of Pine Bluffs fiscal year 2022-2023 budget to capture revenue and expenditures related to Emergency Medical Services (EMS) staff retention funds provided by the Wyoming Hospital Association; providing for severability and providing an effective date,” was given further discussion by Kim Patterson, Treasurer, in which she exp... Full story
The board gave recognition to a well deserved team from the school district. Laramie County School District #2 had the committee of whole meeting on December 7th at 7:00 p.m. First was the welcoming of the three new board members which were Cody Nusbaum, Kendra Roeder, and Michael Lerwick. Lady chairman Julianne Randall informed everyone that the reorganization of the board leadership and the appointment of the Rec Board members will be at the regular meeting on Monday December 12th. Laramie... Full story
The Wyoming Association Municipalities Wintershop is coming up and an Emergency Medical Technicians class is being held in January for anyone interested in attending. The Albin Town Council met on December 8th at 7:00 p.m. For old business, a review of the lunch program shows it is doing fine. Mayor Krakow gave an update stating that the trash truck is in production as of December 5th, the council ordered it last year from the sixth penny money and the new toolcat will be delivered this month, possibly by the end of the week. It was also... Full story
A slate of free interactive online programming, supported by the Wyoming Department of Health and designed to increase activity and wellness among older Wyoming adults, is currently featuring a number of winter holiday options. Jeff Clark, Community Health Section manager with the WDH Aging Division, said the “GetSetUp” digital education platform is designed to help older adults bridge the digital divide, combat social isolation and live more connected lives. “Wyoming residents can access thousands of interactive classes taught by older adult... Full story
America was founded mostly by Christians seeking religious freedom. This was taught to every school child in the 60’s and 70’s. The message blurred in the 80’s. Now our youth are taught that America was founded by conquerors wanting to subdue the native people and take their land. Barak Hussein Obama is noted for saying there is nothing exceptional about the United States, then bowing down to other world leaders. Joe Biden often derides our country and does his best to drive our name into the mud. Nothing could be less true. In the early years... Full story
Deck the halls with boughs of holly...Fa La La La La. My granddaughter has been singing that Christmas classic for the last three weeks or so. This is a wonderful time of year in our household and music of all sorts fills the air from sunup until long after sundown. If it isn't on the stereo then somebody is singing. Linda is decking the halls now only our holly is artificial. I grew up with real holly because it was so plentiful. Holly is one of the more recognizable plants of the winter and... Full story
The 2022 annual 4H Awards Banquet was a night of friends, fun, games and, above all, a time to honor the achievements of 4H members and leaders from all over Laramie County. The highlight of the night, at least for me, was to hear all the awards from the Hillsdale Tiptoppers 4H club. The Tiptoppers are primarily made up of youth from the Hillsdale and Burns area. I've judged several of these members and have enjoyed watching them grow over the years. Kelle Hawes and Jessica Allred are the adult... Full story
The Grover cafeteria was full of activities. Pawnee High School had their first Craft Fair on December 3rd from 4:00 p.m. through 7:00 p.m. It was at the cafeteria at the Pawnee High School in Grover, Colorado. It was a small craft fair, there were eight vendors at the event. The vendors had personal drawn greeting cards, soaps of different kinds, crocheted dish towels and rags, school calendars, homemade baked goodies, pictures of photos, school t-shirts, and a table of Christmas items. In the... Full story
Instruments were being tuned and voices were warming up. Festively dressed students and teachers were preparing to dazzle the audience filled with parents, grandparents and many other spectators at the Pine Bluffs Jr./Sr. High School Holiday concert on December 6th at 7:00 p.m. in the Pine Bluffs Historic High School The Jr./ Sr. High School Jazz ensemble who have only been together for a month started the musical evening with Frosty the Snowman by Walter Rollins & Steve Nelson, arrangement by L... Full story
The lights were bright and the community was full of activities. The start of the Christmas season was in Pine Bluffs. Every year the first Monday in December the town of Pine Bluffs celebrates Christmas at Home. A parade started the festivities by going down Main Street from south to north. In the middle of the intersection by Farmers State bank was a Christmas tree. Santa Claus was chauffeured to the tree to light it up and start the Christmas season while some caroling around the Christmas...
The tables were lined with items for the parents and kids to choose from. Shepherds Closet started last year for the first time to help families at Christmas. It started with one Saturday. This year it will be all three Saturdays in December. People have helped the program with donations of items or money to Shepherds Closet. Shepherds Closet is a non profit organization that the churches assist with. People are welcome to go into the different rooms to check out items they may need at the...
The gym at the Burns south plex was decorated for Christmas. On December 3rd the Town of Burns with Shepherds Closet, and the Burns Lions Club hosted for the first time a Rustic Holiday Dinner in Burns. The Town of Burns is excited to give back to the community. Shepherds Closet set up the gym and organized the event. The Burns Lions Club served the delicious meal. Rustic Diner manager Sam Cook, and owners Joseph and Sandra Nicholson prepared the meal. Sandra Nicholson said, " Cook was the the...
Brad Talich was inducted into the Southern Nevada Football Coaches Association Hall of Fame at a ceremony at halftime of the UNLV vs Fresno St. football game in Las Vegas on November 11, 2022. Brad is the son of Dennis and Barbara Talich of Pine Bluffs. Brad began his teaching and football coaching career in Nevada in 1999 after spending his first eight years coaching in Wyoming. He held various assistant coach and defensive coordinator positions and was the Head Coach at Coronado HS and Desert...
The Pine Bluffs Senior Center was hopping with people that were supporting the Donald Eisenhauer American Legion Post 60. On December 4th the Pine Bluffs American Legion Post 60 and Auxiliary Unit 60 were hosting their annual Christmas Social.Throughout the years it has grown so much. The Christmas started at the Legion post. Ample room to sit and visit while enjoying a great dinner. Plenty of room to walk around the tables full of silent auction items looking for the right item to bid on....
After the Nov 8th elections, Democrats were quick to commence their victory dance. They declared victory over Republicans even though the House of Representatives is now under Republican control. It’s been a few weeks now and they’re still singing and dancing around the bonfire of a nation in flames, proclaiming how the American people have chosen the Leftist path. I had to pick my jaw up off the floor after I saw the brazenness of their proclamations. The next day word reached the American public of mass layoffs from large corporations. Ama...
Few plants are identified with Christmas as the Christmas cactus unless it's the poinsettia. I really had no idea what a Christmas cactus was as a child. My grandmother had one, but to me it was just "that plant over there". It was pretty for a few weeks out of the year and I never understood why it was so special to her. It was only after I met Linda that I got an idea of what the Christmas cactus was and why it was so special to people. Her mom had several and one was absolutely HUGE. It...
In the early 1950s a young couple living in Eau Claire, Wisconsin were expecting a child. Warren and Barbara Johnson welcomed into this world their son, Douglas "Doug" Johnson. Johnson would spend his childhood years in Eau Claire and graduate from Altoona High School in Altoona, Wisconsin in 1969. Johnson felt his most important plan after high school was finding a job. After all, he had registered for the draft and he had a high draft number, "I didn't think about joining the military at the...