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121st Year, No. 232 Serving Sheridan County, Wyoming 

Wednesday, February 20, 2008 50¢ 

By Frances K. Foster 

Staff reporter 

High school students from 

Sheridan County School Districts 1 

and 2 who will be participating in Job 

Shadow Day mingled with employer 

mentors during a reception Tuesday 

at Sheridan College Main Street and 

found out what they need to know 

before showing up for “work” Friday. 

“What should I wear?” Sheridan 

High School senior Matt Hurst asked 

Matt Ruder, a staff engineer with 

HKM Engineering of Sheridan. 

“What you’ve got on is fine — 

jeans and a T-shirt,” came the reply. 

Although Ruder’s not sure what 

Hurst’s assignment will be Friday, 

some of last year’s job-shadow students 

with HKM analyzed traffic 

flow at a downtown intersection (the 

data were used for the city’s transportation 

plan) and then visited a 

water pipeline HKM engineers 

worked on. 

“It’s an opportunity to get talent 

when they’re young and show them 

the potential of what they can do with 

an engineering degree,” said Aaron 

Rosenlund, an HKM staff engineer. 

Hurst said he’s not yet sure what 

area of engineering he will major in, 

but he plans to attend the University 

of Colorado at Boulder. 

Rape suspect held 

on $50,000 bond 

By Josh Mitchell 


A Sheridan College student 

arrested for first-degree sexual 

assault Saturday was ordered held 

on a $50,000 bond in Sheridan 

County Circuit Court on 

Tuesday. 

DeAndre Marcell Taylor, 18, 

of Park Forest, Ill., allegedly 

raped a female in a room at South 

Hall, according to charging documents. 

Taylor now awaits his preliminary 

appearance in circuit court, 

when it will be decided if there is 

probable cause to bind him over 

to Sheridan District Court for a 

jury trial. 

Taylor has been suspended 

from Sheridan College because of 

the allegations, Deputy County 

and Prosecuting Attorney Dianna 

Bennett said in the initial Circuit 

Court appearance Tuesday. 

Taylor’s father and grandmother 

from Chicago were in the 

courtroom. If Taylor posts bond, 

he is not allowed to leave the 

state and cannot contact the 

alleged victim. 

The affidavit of probable 

cause states that the female went 

to a room with Taylor, and that 

he forced her to have sex with 

him. 

Charging documents state that 

the female told police that she 

had been drinking at a party earlier 

in the evening and was drunk 

but not incoherent. 

WEDNESDAY 

Getting ready for Job Shadow Day City now allowed 

Please see Shadow, Page 2 

Beef recalled from School Districts 1 and 2 



Beef products from Westland Meat 

Packing Co. in Chino, Calif., recalled 

this week by the U.S. Department of 

Agriculture have been separated from 

other food at Sheridan County School 

Districts 1 and 2, local officials said. 

Recalled items will be picked up 

by USDA representatives in the 

Wyoming Department of Education 

Commodity Program. 

“We are confident that none of the 

beef designated for recall has been or 

will be served to our students,” said 

District 1 Business Manager Jeremy 

Smith. 

The USDA provided schools with 

shipping dates stamped on the cases 

The Sheridan Press/Michael Sullivan 

Big Horn High School sophomore Alex Burtis speaks with WWC Engineering Geologist Mike Evers during 

Tuesday’s reception for Job Shadow Day sponsored by Sheridan County Chamber of Commerce. The 

reception gave students from Sheridan, Big Horn, Tongue River, and Fort Mackenzie high schools the 

chance to meet the professionals they will partner with Friday. 

• School officials confident none of the food in question was served to students 

of suspect beef, so all 

school staff had to do was 

locate and separate those 

boxes from other food, he 

said. 

District 1 (Big 

Horn/Tongue River) has 32 

20-pound cases of the beef 

that will be returned to the 

USDA, Smith said. 

School District 2 

(Sheridan/Story) received 

60 cases of the beef, but 

“none of it has been served 

to the students,” said 

Business Manager Marilyn 

Koester. 

The recall has been rated 

as Class 2 by the USDA — which 

means there is a “remote possibility 

of adverse health effects” from the 

beef — but “no one is 

going to take a chance on 

students getting sick,” 

Koester said. 

School districts will 

receive a “commodity 

allotment” replacement for 

the beef that is to be 

returned, she added. 

School District 3 

(Arvada/Clearmont) did 

not receive any recalled 

beef, said Business 

Manager Janet Riesland. 

According to the 

USDA Food Safety and 

Inspection Service Recall 

Release dated Feb. 17, 

Westland is “voluntarily recalling 

approximately 143,383,823 pounds of 

raw and frozen beef products deter- 

School District 1 Superintendent Sue Belish 

nominated for Wyo. superintendent of the year 



Sheridan County School District 1 

Superintendent Sue Belish is one of four 

candidates for the 2008 superintendent of 

the year award granted by the Wyoming 

Association of School Administrators, 

according to an e-mail from Converse 

County School District 1 Superintendent 

Dan Espeland. to District 1 trustee Suzie 

Dow. 

Belish was nominated by the other nine 

superintendents in the northeast Wyoming 

region, including those in Sheridan, Gillette, 

Crook, Johnson, Campbell, and Converse 

counties 

“It’s such an honor to be nominated by 

your peers,” Dow said. 

Please see Suspect, Page 6 

Marilyn 

Koester 

District 2 

Business 

Manager 

The superintendent of the year will be 

chosen from four candidates representing 

each of the state’s four regions, Belish said. 

“I was heartened to hear our board members 

say they would like to send a letter (to 

the WASA) in support of my nomination,” 

Belish said. 

The superintendent of the year award 

will be announced at the WASA annual 

conference April 24-25, she added. 

mined to be unfit for human food 

because the cattle did not receive 

complete and proper inspection.” 

Although “the animals passed 

ante-mortem inspection,” they 

“should have been identified as suspect 

requiring additional inspection 

after slaughter to determine if there is 

evidence of disease, injury, or other 

signs of abnormalities that may have 

occurred after ante-mortem inspection,” 

according to the release. 

A copy of the entire release is 

available on the USDA’s Web site 

and includes a list of all dates and 

labels on beef cases included in the 

recall. 

For more information on the 

recall, contact USDA Food Safety 

Consultant Steve Sayer at (909) 590- 

3340. 

Sue 

Belish 

District 1 

Superintendent 

Council Passes New Law 

to remove dead trees 

from private property 



LOS ANGELES (AP) — The last 

total lunar eclipse until 2010 occurs 

tonight, with cameo appearances by 

Saturn and the bright star Regulus on 

either side of the veiled full moon. 

Skywatchers viewing through a telescope 

will have the added treat of seeing 

Saturn’s handsome rings. 

Weather permitting, the total eclipse 

can be seen from North and South 

America. People in Europe and Africa 

will be able to see it high in the sky 

before dawn on Thursday. 

As the moonlight dims — it won’t go 

totally dark — Saturn and Regulus will 

pop out and sandwich the moon. 

Regulus is the brightest star in the constellation 

Leo. 

Jack Horkheimer, host of the PBS 

show ‘‘Star Gazer,’’ called the event 

‘‘the moon, the lord of the rings and 

The Sheridan City Council on 

Tuesday unanimously approved on 

final reading a tree ordinance that 

allows the city to remove dead and diseased 

trees from private property. 

The council heard from husband 

and wife Helen and Nick Voyadgis, 

who complained the ordinance is an 

invasion of private property rights. 

“We must find a willingness to 

resist at the lowest levels the impulses 

of planners and bureaucrats to limit 

our freedoms,” Helen Voyadgis said. 

Tom O’Leary 

City Project 

Manager 

But City Project Manager Tom O’Leary, who drafted the 

ordinance, said the city wants the authority to remove dead 

trees from private property for public safety, because a tree 

may fall on a neighbor’s house. 

The ordinance states that the city can advise private property 

owners that dead or diseased trees must be removed “when 

such trees constitute a hazard to life and property or harbor 

insects or disease which constitute a potential threat to other 

trees within the city.” 

Traffic control approved 

for Long Drive/West Fifth 



Please see Trees, Page 2 

In a 4-2 vote Tuesday, the City Council approved measures to 

better control traffic at the Long Drive/West Fifth Street intersection. 

The council approved paying overtime as necessary for a police 

officer to direct traffic there during the 

mornings and afternoons for a four-week 

trial period. 

The council also approved having 

city staff begin design of a four-way stop 

and flashing crosswalk signal for the 

intersection, repainting the crosswalk, 

and doing further study on area growth 

projections to see if a traffic light will be 

needed. 

City Councilors Kathy Kennedy and 

Scott Severs voted against the measures, 

with Kennedy saying she wants to further 

study the issue. 

Police Chief Mike Card said he 

opposes having an officer direct traffic at 

the intersection, because there is a limited 

number of officers, and directing traffic 

can be dangerous. 

The City Council has discussed 

putting traffic lights at the West Fifth 

Street/Long Drive and West 

Fifth/Mydland Road intersections following 

a school bus accident last month. 

A study by HKM Engineering of 

Sheridan showed that neither a traffic 

light nor four-way stop is needed at the 

intersections. 

Sheridan resident Jan Groshart told 

the City Council last night that a fourway 

stop is needed at the West 

Fifth/Long Drive intersection “before we 

lose a child.” 

City Councilwoman Mona Hansen 

asked what the school district’s responsibility 

is at the intersection, since the high 

school and Highland Park School are 

responsible for most of the traffic. 

Kathy 

Kennedy 

City 

Councilwoman 

Scott 

Severs 

City 

Councilman 

Mayor Dave Kinskey said the school district could possibly use 

one of its school resource officers in directing traffic. 

New housing development from Cloud Peak Ranch and the 

Rockwell Petroleum building is also expected to bring more traffic 

to the intersection. 

Tonight last chance to see 

full lunar eclipse until 2010 

heart of the lion eclipse.’’ 

Tonight’s event will be the last total 

lunar eclipse until Dec. 20, 2010. Last 

year there were two. 

The weather could be a spoiler for 

many in the United States. Cloudy skies 

are expected for most of the Western 

states with a chance of snow from the 

heartland to the East Coast, said Stuart 

Seto of the National Weather Service. 

‘‘It looks like it’s going to be a hard 

one to spot,’’ Seto said. 

A total lunar eclipse occurs when the 

full moon passes into Earth’s shadow 

and is blocked from the sun’s rays that 

normally illuminate it. During an eclipse, 

the sun, Earth and moon line up, leaving 

a darkened moon visible to observers on 

the night side of the planet. 

Please see Eclipse, Page 6

2 The Sheridan Press, Wednesday, February 20, 2008 

Trees 

(Continued from Page 1) 

If such trees are not removed within 

30 days, the city can have it done and 

assess the property owner the cost. 

Under the old tree ordinance, the 

city could not force a private property 

owner to remove a dangerous tree, 

O’Leary said. 

Helen Voyadgis said some residents 

may not be able to afford to have a tree 

removed, and others may want to keep 

a dead tree for aesthetic reasons or 

food sources for birds. 

Sheridan resident Tyson Emborg 

spoke in favor of the ordinance, saying 

if his neighbor has a dead tree threatening 

his home, the city should have the 

authority to remove it. 

O’Leary added that if a person’s 

tree falls on a neighbor’s house, the 

tree owner’s insurance is not responsible 

for the damages. 

The new ordinance will make 

Sheridan a Tree City USA, which helps 

when it comes to applying for treeplanting 

grants, O’Leary said. 

As a Tree City USA, the city is 

obligated to spend about $30,000 annually 

on tree planting and maintenance, 

celebrate Arbor Day, and create a city 

tree board, O’Leary said. 

The Voyadgises also said they 

oppose creating the city tree board, 

saying that such a board would be a 

“quasi-governmental organization” 

unelected by the public. 

Helen Voyadgis noted that under 

the ordinance, the tree board can 

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“Don’t wear open-toe shoes,” advised Ace Young, 

public relations manager with RENEW, in order to protect 

feet from some of the equipment that RENEW’s 

developmentally disabled clients require (e.g., 

wheelchair). 

The eight students scheduled for job-shadowing at 

RENEW will work in different departments, Young 

said. 

One will join him in public relations and help with 

the Real Life Fair for high school freshmen at Sheridan 

College, and another will find out what it’s like to work 

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“investigate, make findings, report and 

recommend any special matter of question 

coming within the scope of its 

responsibilities.” 

She said the ordinance is “so vague 

and unlimited that one immediately 

sees the potential for mischief, particularly 

for selective action upon anyone 

the board disdains.” 

The tree board, to be appointed by 

the mayor and City Council, will consist 

of a representative from the Public 

Works Department and up to six citizens, 

one of them a certified arborist. 

The Voyadgises should not be concerned 

that the tree board will not be 

accountable to the public, because the 

City Council oversees the board, and 

residents can appeal the board’s rulings, 

noted City Councilman Scott 

Severs. 

Mayor Dave Kinskey said he favors 

private property rights, but the city 

needs some authority over tree planting, 

noting that sometimes tree roots 

break water and sewer lines. 

O’Leary said he hopes the tree ordinance 

will lead to better tree-trimming 

methods. He said a procedure called 

“topping,” which involves cutting off a 

tree’s canopy, hurts trees. 

A certified arborist on the tree 

board can do public education about 

proper tree trimming, O’Leary said. 

The ordinance does not give the city 

authority to tell a private property owner 

how to trim his trees. But it states 

that public trees must be cut in a way 

that does not hurt them, O’Leary said. 

By Bob Gross 


It’s called an MOU, and 

many people don’t know what 

the letters stand for, let alone 

what it does. 

Sheridan County and the 

city of Sheridan have agreed to 

a “memorandum of understanding” 

to guide planning in an 

area close to the city but outside 

its corporate limits, said 

Mark Reid, Sheridan County 

planner. 

“The state statutes require 

that any subdivision that’s 

approved within a mile of the 

municipal boundaries be 

approved not only by the county 

commissioners, but also by 

the City Council,” said Reid. 

The county and the city first 

reached a memorandum of 

understanding regarding planning 

decisions in the one-mile 

area of the county contiguous 

to the city in 2006, said Reid. 

They updated that agreement in 

December 2007, he noted. 

in an accounting office, Young said. 

Others will have direct “client interface” in RENEW 

classrooms, where they will observe and participate in 

classroom activities or in the after-school program for 

ages 4 and older, he said. 

Job Shadow Day and its reception are organized by 

the Sheridan County Chamber of Commerce in conjunction 

with school counselors and teachers, said 

Chamber Program Coordinator Erin Butler. 

This year, 164 students have been matched with 63 

businesses and organizations that will offer the 10ththrough 

12th-graders an opportunity to experience the 

work world for a day, Butler said. 

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Memorandum Of Understanding 

• Intended as guide to planning in area just outside city limits 

The planning and 

approval process for 

developments in 

that area is still the 

county’s responsibility, 

said Reid. 

“In essence the 

county’s responsibility 

is to process 

it, handle the paperwork, 

get it scheduled 

for consideration, 

receive comments, 

put staff 

reports together, 

etc.,” said Reid. 

“There is a 

sequence of events that leads 

ultimately to the city’s approval 

and then the county commissioners,” 

he added. “The council 

would act on it prior to the 

commissioners’ consideration.” 

The idea behind the state 

statute, said Reid, is to facilitate 

development as cities 

expand their corporate boundaries. 

“The city staff will review 

those features of the development 

that are critical to them 

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and are important to 

the overall expansion 

of the city, so they’re 

looking at facilities 

that line up with the 

long-term master 

plan of the expansion 

of the city,” said 

Reid. 

“The county, 

as long as (the 

development) is in 

the county, (is) 

responsible for its 

approval in the end, 

but we’re trying to 

facilitate wise 

expansion of the municipality,” 

he said. “So we have streets 

that line up in the future — 

what a concept.” 

He said whichever development 

standard — the city’s or 

the county’s — is stricter 

applies within the one-mile 

area. 

If the city provides infrastructure 

such as sewer and 

water lines to a development 

within the one-mile area, said 

Reid, the city will then be 

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responsible for approving and 

overseeing the installation of 

that infrastructure. 

He said developers with city 

services within the area must 

also submit a pre-annexation 

agreement. 

“It’s a statement to the 

effect that, ‘Yeah, we agree to 

that, we’re not going to fight 

annexation,’” said Reid. 

He acknowledged there has 

been confusion, not only about 

what the memorandum of 

understanding does, but also 

the area it covers. 

The city and the county 

have agreed to work together to 

create a joint strategic plan in 

an area surrounding the city 

that includes and goes beyond 

the one-mile area covered 

under the memorandum of 

understanding. 

“The one-mile area is a 

statutory boundary,” said Reid. 

“The planning area takes a 

broader perspective, and it’s an 

agreed-upon area that we will 

look at in terms of general 

direction of the community.” 

Bid for 45 new golf carts awarded 

• Other action OKs potbellied pigs in Sheridan 



Kendrick Municipal Golf Course players will be 

riding in style as the City Council on Tuesday 

awarded a $125,575 bid for 45 new golf carts. 

According to golf course General Manager Brian 

James, 20 of the 40 carts being replaced are 10 years 

old and the others are five years old. 

The old carts are being traded in for $45,200, 

bringing the city’s total cost for the new carts to 

$125,575. 

The council also awarded a $10,899 bid for a beverage 

cart to deliver booze and other drinks to 

golfers. 

The lone bid for all the vehicles came from 

Masek Golf Car Co. of Gering, Neb. 

The vehicles are Yamaha and on a five-year 

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Enjoy an evening of International Cuisine 

at Sheridan College’s Agricultural Center 

Saturday, February 23 beginning at 6 p.m. 

Tickets are $30 for individual and $50 per couple 

Tickets are available at the Sheridan College Information Desk and at Sheridan College Main Street 

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Event sponsored by SC SIFE team 

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lease. Revenue from golf cart rentals is expected to 

cover the vehicles’ cost, James said. 

In other action, the council approved on final 

reading an ordinance that allows residents to have 

one Vietnamese potbellied pig as long as the pig is 

kept indoors and receives proper immunizations. 

A 1937 city ordinance prohibited residents from 

keeping any type of swine. 

Sheridan resident Donald Dickieson previously 

told the City Council he wanted to keep his pig 

because it is a member of his family, and the council 

subsequently revised the ordinance. 

Separately, the council gave final plat approval to 

a 16-lot residential subdivision on 4.93 acres south 

of the new Highland Park School and west of South 

Dome Drive. 

And the council tabled discussion of a new downtown 

parking plan to give the Downtown Sheridan 

Association until March to study the issue. 

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to buy back $3 million in stock 

DURANGO, Colo. (AP) — 

Durango-based Rocky Mountain 

Chocolate Factory says its board 

is authorizing the repurchase of 

about $3 million in stock. 

The confectionery products 

manufacturer also said Tuesday its 

board has declared a fourth-quarter 

cash dividend of 10 cents a 

share. It will be payable March 14 

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MBIA 1.36 29737 12.37 11.51 12.02 +.32 

MEMC 21556 76.64 73.58 76.41 —1.22 

Macys .52 21822 24.85 24.08 24.65 +.14 

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Masco .92 22908 19.14 18.39 19.02 +.39 

McDnlds 1.50 25877 56.05 55.01 55.75 +.08 

Medtrnic .50 27229 49.25 48.59 48.88 —.27 

Merck 1.52 41182 47.00 46.18 46.57 —.50 

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MetLife .74f 23999 58.30 57.66 57.91 —.99 

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Nucor .44a 24351 65.45 63.03 65.07 +1.18 

Penney .80 25067 48.20 46.50 47.48 +1.09 

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Pfizer 1.28f 136538 22.37 22.17 22.33 —.04 

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RiteAid 28533 2.57 2.48 2.53 +.00 

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Safeway .28 33339 32.20 31.36 31.72 +.02 

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SeagateT .40 28493 23.21 22.57 22.97 —.33 

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SwstAirl .02 21382 12.68 12.33 12.66 +.18 

SovrgnBcp .32 22885 12.20 11.78 12.14 +.10 

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Terra 20902 50.46 48.27 49.85 +.49 

Tesoro s .40 25258 40.49 38.61 39.50 +.54 

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WDigitl lf 26267 30.33 29.04 29.90 +.41 

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Oil above $100; refinery outage, possible OPEC cut cited 

NEW YORK (AP) — Oil futures shot higher 

Tuesday, closing above $100 for the first time as 

investors bet that crude prices will keep climbing 

despite evidence of plentiful supplies and falling 

demand. At the pump, gas prices rose further above 

$3 a gallon. 

There was no single driver behind oil’s sharp 

price jump; investors seized on an explosion at a 

67,000 barrel per day refinery in Texas, the falling 

dollar, the possibility that OPEC may cut production 

next month, and continuing tensions between the 

U.S. and Venezuela. 

Gasoline and heating oil prices appeared to be 

leading the advance, rising faster in percentage 

terms than oil due to the explosion Monday at Alon 

USA’s Big Spring, Texas, refinery, which could be 

shuttered for two months. 

‘‘The refinery fire in Texas is making people a 

little concerned,’’ said Michael Lynch, president of 

Strategic Energy & Economic Research Inc. in 

Amherst, Mass. 

Light, sweet crude for March delivery rose $4.51 

to settle at a record $100.01 a barrel on the New 

Commodities 

Cash Petroleum 

NEW YORK (AP) — Petroleum cash prices 

Tuesday compared with Friday 

Tue. Fri. 

Refined Products 

Fuel oil No. 2 NY hbr bg gl fob 2.7527 2.6382 

Gasoline unl prem RVP NY hbr bg gl fob 2.6506 2.5113 

Gasoline unl RVP NY hbr bg gl fob 2.5844 2.4588 

Prices provided by Moneyline Telerate 

x- prices are for RVP grade of gasoline 

Petroleum - Crude Grades 

Dubai $ per bbl fob 90.71 90.87 

North Sea Brent $ per bbl fob 95.64 96.78 

West Texas Intermed $ per bbl fob 99.92 95.59 

Light LA Sweet $ per bbl fob 102.40 98.51 

Alaska No. Slope del. West Coast 99.16 94.35 

Raw Products 

Natural Gas, Henry Hub, $ per mmbtu 8.91 8.71 

n.a.-not available-n.q. not quoted. 

r-revised. 

b-bid a-asked. 

n-nominal 

Gold 

Selected world gold prices, Tuesday. 

Hong Kong late: $910.90 up $2.50. 

London morning fixing: $916.15 up $7.90. 

London afternoon fixing: $924.00 up $15.75. 

London late: $927.10 up $18.85. 

Paris afternoon fixing: $916.50 up $5.65. 

Zurich late afternoon: $927.25 up $20.00. 

NY Handy & Harman: $924.00 up $11.50. 

NY Handy & Harman fabricated: $997.92 up $12.42. 

NY Engelhard: $926.22 up $12.02. 

NY Engelhard fabricated: $995.69 up $12.92. 

NY Merc. gold Feb. Tue. $926.60 up $23.80. 

NY HSBC Bank USA 4 p.m. Fri. $927.00 up $23.00. 

Grain Futures 

Close 

CHICAGO (AP) — Futures trading on the Chicago 

Board of Trade Tue.: 

Open High Low Settle Chg. 

WHEAT 

5,000 bu minimum; cents per bushel 

Mar 1030 1/4 1059 1/2 1018 1036 +8 1/2 

May 1042 1069 1030 1047 1/2 +5 1/2 

Jul 956 966 927 959 3/4 +22 1/4 

Sep 960 968 1/4 937 960 1/2 +18 1/2 

Dec 968 3/4 978 939 3/4 971 +22 

Mar 960 984 1/2 960 976 +20 

May 960 960 960 960 +15 

Jul 867 3/4 875 850 871 +16 1/2 

Sep 873 873 873 873 +16 

Dec 860 876 1/2 860 876 +16 

Jul 871 3/4 875 850 870 +15 

Est. sales 13,135. Fri.’s sales 77,977 

Fri.’s open int 435,826 

CORN 


Mar 519 524 3/4 514 1/4 520 +5 1/4 

54 s main st mon - sat 10 - 5 

• selec. items on sale. **restocked daily! 

York Mercantile Exchange after earlier rising to 

$100.10, a new trading record. It was the first time 

since Jan. 3 that oil had been above $100. 

March gasoline jumped 10.93 cents to settle at 

$2.6031 a gallon, and March heating oil rose 11.45 

cents to settle at $2.7614 a gallon, also a record. 

Oil prices are still within the range of inflationadjusted 

highs set in early 1980. Depending on how 

the adjustment is calculated, $38 a barrel then would 

be worth $96 to $103 or more today. 

The dollar fell Tuesday, giving investors another 

reason to buy oil. Crude futures offer a hedge 

against a falling dollar, and oil futures bought and 

sold in dollars are more attractive to foreign 

investors when the greenback is falling. 

For the moment, investors appear to have put 

aside concerns about the economy that have sent oil 

prices down into the mid-$80 range twice since 

crude peaked above $100 last month. Traders are 

instead focused on the Organization of Petroleum 

Exporting Countries, which will meet early next 

month to map out production plans, and Venezuela, 

where President Hugo Chavez made conflicting 

May 531 1/4 536 3/4 526 1/4 532 1/2 +5 1/2 

Jul 543 548 1/4 538 544 1/4 +6 

Sep 543 1/2 547 537 545 +7 

Dec 543 3/4 547 3/4 537 545 +7 

Mar 551 1/4 554 543 3/4 552 1/4 +7 1/2 

May 544 555 1/2 544 553 1/2 +6 1/2 

Jul 556 558 545 3/4 554 1/2 +6 1/4 

Dec 513 1/4 515 507 513 1/2 +5 1/2 

Mar 516 1/4 519 1/2 516 1/4 519 1/2 +5 1/2 

Jul 522 3/4 525 522 3/4 525 +6 

Dec 506 1/2 510 500 506 +4 


Fri.’s open int 1,456,235, up 4,722 

OATS 


Mar 367 1/2 369 1/4 357 368 +10 

May 376 379 368 377 1/2 +9 1/2 

Jul 384 3/4 388 1/2 380 387 1/2 +9 1/2 

Sep 390 1/2 393 1/2 389 1/2 393 1/2 +9 1/2 

Dec 399 1/2 403 395 402 3/4 +7 3/4 

Mar 404 404 404 404 +8 

May 404 404 404 404 +8 

Jul 404 404 404 404 +8 

Sep 404 404 404 404 +8 

Dec 404 404 404 404 +8 

Jul 404 404 404 404 +8 

Sep 404 404 404 404 +8 

Est. sales 414. Fri.’s sales 5,083 

Fri.’s open int 14,874, up 559 

SOYBEANS 


Mar 1397 1/4 1410 1375 1398 1/2 +24 3/4 

May 1415 1428 1393 1417 3/4 +26 1/2 

Jul 1427 1/4 1438 1/2 1404 1430 +27 1/2 

Aug 1417 1421 3/4 1400 1414 +26 

Sep 1384 1/4 1387 1358 1384 1/2 +34 1/2 

Nov 1353 1/2 1362 1317 3/4 1360 1/2 +43 

Jan 1358 1366 1322 3/4 1365 +41 3/4 

Mar 1352 3/4 1361 1333 1/2 1361 +44 

May 1343 3/4 1355 1317 1/2 1355 +41 1/2 

Jul 1318 1358 1318 1358 +41 1/2 

Nov 1295 1302 1252 1297 +45 

Jul 1280 1280 1280 1280 +40 

Nov 1235 1290 1235 1285 +36 


Fri.’s open int 609,669, up 4,889 

SOYBEAN OIL 

60,000 lbs; cents per lb 

Mar 60.33 60.40 58.80 60.21 +1.64 

May 60.93 61.11 59.50 60.97 +1.78 

Jul 61.54 61.67 60.34 61.56 +1.79 

Aug 61.70 61.85 60.75 61.83 +1.86 

Sep 61.91 61.95 61.25 61.90 +1.95 

Oct 61.87 61.87 61.24 61.80 +1.93 

Dec 62.05 62.20 61.00 62.20 +1.87 

Jan 62.25 +1.85 

Mar 62.15 62.30 62.15 62.30 +1.90 

May 62.32 +1.92 

Jul 62.32 +1.77 

Aug 62.35 +2.00 

Sep 62.10 +2.00 

Oct 61.10 +2.00 

Dec 60.45 61.10 60.20 61.10 +2.00 

Jul 61.00 +2.00 

Oct 61.00 +2.00 

Dec 61.00 +2.00 


Fri.’s open int 290,774, up 277 

SOYBEAN MEAL 

100 tons; dollars per ton 

Mar 360.70 367.00 356.80 361.70 +2.90 

May 367.50 373.80 363.90 368.90 +3.90 

Jul 370.90 376.00 367.50 372.60 +5.10 

Aug 369.60 372.00 365.40 369.70 +6.00 

Sep 360.30 364.00 357.90 364.00 +8.00 

Oct 345.10 349.00 337.70 349.00 +11.30 

Dec 341.50 346.50 333.00 345.50 +10.30 

Jan 346.20 +11.20 

Mar 339.00 342.70 339.00 342.70 +10.70 

May 341.20 +10.20 

Jul 338.00 340.00 338.00 340.00 +9.00 

Aug 338.50 +7.30 

Sep 335.50 +4.50 

Oct 322.70 +5.70 

Dec 322.60 330.10 322.50 322.50 +5.00 

Jul 312.50 

Oct 312.50 

Dec 312.50 



Livestock Futures 

CHICAGO (AP) — Futures trading on the Chicago 

Mercantile Exchange Tue: 


CATTLE 

40,000 lbs.; cents per lb. 

Feb 91.30 91.75 90.85 91.37 —.03 

Apr 94.05 94.67 93.30 93.92 —.05 

Jun 94.02 94.32 93.00 94.15 +.33 

Aug 96.95 97.37 96.22 96.90 +.28 

Oct 101.10 101.80 100.95 101.57 +.37 

Dec 102.40 102.90 102.27 102.70 +.28 

Feb 103.40 103.72 103.40 103.60 +.20 

Apr 103.00 103.00 102.80 103.00 +.25 

Jun 100.00 100.10 100.00 100.00 +.10 



FEEDER CATTLE 


Mar 104.90 105.00 102.87 104.90 +.28 

Apr 107.05 107.90 105.50 107.87 —.18 

May 110.45 111.00 109.75 110.97 +.17 

Aug 111.80 112.60 110.60 112.55 +.35 

Sep 112.50 112.60 111.60 112.60 

Oct 111.80 112.70 111.30 112.70 +.30 

Nov 111.50 112.80 111.10 112.80 +.80 

Jan 110.40 111.50 110.40 111.50 +.35 



HOGS,LEAN 


Apr 64.45 64.90 63.95 64.52 +.32 

May 73.25 73.25 73.00 73.07 +.07 

Jun 78.70 78.95 78.35 78.85 +.20 

Jul 79.10 79.40 78.90 79.27 +.12 

Aug 78.85 79.10 78.50 78.80 +.08 

Oct 72.30 73.20 71.90 72.65 +.65 

Dec 73.82 74.50 73.40 73.82 +.32 

Feb 76.70 77.25 76.25 76.70 +.50 

Apr 79.50 79.50 79.00 79.45 —.05 



statements this weekend about the country’s legal 

dispute with Exxon Mobil Corp. 

OPEC could move to cut production in the second 

quarter, typically a period of low demand, 

though many analysts feel that’s unlikely. In 

Venezuela, Chavez said he was not serious about an 

earlier threat to cut oil sales to the U.S., but also 

threatened to sue Exxon Mobil. The world’s largest 

oil company is fighting Venezuela’s nationalization 

of an oil project, and recently convinced several 

courts to freeze $12 billion in Venezuelan oil assets. 

None of the news is enough to justify a nearly $3 

a barrel jump in the price of crude, said James 

Cordier, founder of OptionSellers.com, a Tampa, 

Fla., trading firm. Echoing other analysts, Cordier 

argued that the oil market is in the process of 

‘‘decoupling’’ from oil’s supply and demand fundamentals. 

He said investors drawn by the falling dollar 

and momentum are pushing oil prices sharply 

higher despite reports last week from the Energy 

Department, OPEC and the International Energy 

Agency which all cut oil demand growth predictions 

for this year. 

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Feb 95.00 96.50 92.50 92.50 —1.00 

Mar 94.45 96.00 93.20 94.00 +.83 

May 95.00 97.30 94.25 95.52 +1.22 

Jul 94.00 95.80 94.00 94.50 +.70 

Aug 92.00 93.05 92.00 93.05 +1.35 

Est. sales 237. Fri.’s sales 307 


Wheat Futures 

KANSAS CITY (AP) —Wheat futures on the Kansas 

City Board of Trade Tue: 


WHEAT 


Mar 1094 1112 1070 1084 1/2 +2 1/2 

May 1090 1109 1070 1085 1/4 +2 3/4 

Jul 1013 1036 1011 1028 +11 3/4 

Sep 1015 1031 1015 1030 +11 

Dec 1035 1047 1025 1047 +17 

Mar 1048 1048 1048 1048 +11 

May 1025 

Jul 880 890 873 882 +7 

Sep 880 880 880 880 +5 

Dec 890 +10 

Jul 870 870 865 870 +8 

Fri.’s sales 20,802 


Cash Grain 

Kansas City cash grain 

Eds: Wheat 3,775 bushels: 12 cents lower to 30 

cents higher 

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Wheat 3,775 bushels: 

12 cents lower to 30 cents higher; No. 2 hard 10.14- 

10.71 1/2n; No. 3 10.03-10.70 1/2n; No. 2 red wheat 

10.79-11.56 1/2n; No. 3 10.68-11.55 1/2n. 

Corn 73,064 bushels: 5 cents higher to 7 1/2 cents 

higher; No. 2 white 4.97-5.08n; No.2 yellow 5.00 1/2- 

5.19 1/2n; No. 3 yellow 4.80 1/2-5.18 1/2n. 

No. 2 milo 8.76-9.01n. 

Soybeans 54,087 bushels: 26 cents higher to 25 1/2 

cents higher; No. 1 soybeans 12.84-13.20n. 

Hoppers 188.00-195.00. 

Metals 

NEW YORK (AP) — Spot nonferrous metal prices Tue. 

Aluminum -$1.276 per lb., London Metal Exch. Tue. 

Copper -$3.5793 Cathode full plate, U.S. destinations. 

Copper $3.7250 N.Y. Merc spot Tue. 

Lead - $3027.00 metric ton, London Metal Exch. 

Zinc - $1.1128 per lb., delivered. 

Gold - $924.00 Handy & Harman (only daily quote). 

Gold - $926.60 troy oz., NY Merc spot Tue. 

Silver - $17.550 Handy & Harman (only daily quote). 

Silver - $17.490 troy oz., N.Y. Merc spot Tue. 

Mercury - $550.00 per 76 lb flask, N.Y. 

Platinum -$2095.00 troy oz., N.Y. (contract). 

Platinum $2128.10 troy oz., N.Y. Merc spot Tue. 

n.q.-not quoted, n.a.-not available r-revised 

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Opinion THE 

SHERIDAN Press Wednesday, 

‘Liberal’ media 

support troops 

by portraying 

them as victims 

The Berkeley City Council has made national news 

by telling Marine Corps recruiters that they are unwelcome 

in that bastion of the academic left. 

It is a shame that Berkeley is not on some island in 

the South Pacific, because then they could be given 

their independence and left to defend themselves. 

As it is, members of our armed forces who put their 

lives on the line to defend America are also defending 

people like too many in Berkeley for whom the very 

word America, and the American flag, bring only 

sneers. 

Unfortunately, Berkeley is not unique. A professor 

at Harvard who put an American flag on his car after 

9/11 provoked looks of astonishment from his colleagues. 

They wondered what 

was wrong with him. 

All across the country, there 

are professors who push for 

keeping military recruiters off 

campus and for banning 

ROTC. Apparently if they 

don't like the military, then 

other people — such as students 

— should not be allowed 

to make up their own minds 

whether they want to join or 

Thomas 

Sowell 

Columnist 

not. 

Liberals in general, and 

academics in particular, like to 

boast of their open-mindedness 

and acceptance of non- 

conformity. But they mean not conforming to the 

norms of society at large. 

They have little or no tolerance to those who do not 

conform to the norms of academic political correctness. 

Nowhere else in America is free speech so 

restricted as on academic campuses with speech 

codes. 

In Berkeley, as elsewhere, the left has learned to 

cloak its anti-military intolerance with the magic 

words, "We support the troops." 

The liberal media use the same line when they 

undermine the military. 

In this, as in other things, the flagship of the media 

is the New York Times. Unsubstantiated charges 

against American troops in Iraq are front page news 

but incredible acts of heroism in battle are seldom 

reported there, if at all. 

Although things go wrong in every war, things that 

went wrong in Iraq — whether large or small — have 

been front page news in the New York Times. But 

when the military surge was followed by things going 

right, the Iraq war was suddenly no longer front page 

news. 

Back during the Vietnam war, the media criticized 

the American military for its emphasis on enemy 

casualties or "body count." Today the media have 

been fixated on American body count. 

What has been accomplished by the troops who lost 

their lives in battle has been of no interest to those 

who claim to be "supporting the troops." 

That thousands of Iraqis who fled the country during 

the height of the violence and turmoil are now 

returning is no big deal to the media. 

Those in the military who made this possible by 

putting their own lives on the line are not heroes to 

the media. Indeed, one of the consistent patterns in the 

liberal media has been to depict the troops not as 

heroes but as victims. 

The financial problems of some reservists who were 

called away from their civilian jobs were front page 

news in the New York Times. So were sorrowful 

goodbyes from family and friends. 

All these things made the troops victims. So does 

body count. 

Just last month, the New York Times found yet 

another way to portray the troops as victims. It ran a 

very long article, beginning on the front page of the 

Jan. 13 issue, about killings in the United States by 

combat veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. 

"In many of those cases," it said, "combat trauma 

and the stress of deployment" were among the factors 

which "appear to have set the stage for a tragedy that 

was part destruction, part self-destruction." 

As with so many other things said by liberals, the 

big question that was not asked was: Compared to 

what? 

As the New York Post reported a couple of days 

later, the murder rate among returning military combat 

veterans is one-fifth that of civilians in the same 

age brackets. 

So much for "supporting the troops" by depicting 

them as victims. 

To find out more about Thomas Sowell and read 

features by other Creators Syndicate columnists and 

cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at 

www.creators.com . 

Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover 

Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. 

His Web site is www.tsowell.com 

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Letters 

Before you criticize, 

ask some questions 

Editor: 

I have just a few thoughts in response to Dale Rath's 

recent letter about the warped rationalizers, pseudopatriots, 

and blind obeyers, also known at the Tuesday 

evening protesters. 

Actually, Dale, you don't know what we have done, 

outside of the vigils, to support the troops. 

Have you ever engaged in a discussion with any of 

"these" people in order to learn what we think and what 

we have done? 

Three of the people at the most recent vigil were military 

veterans. I guess they know a thing or two about 

the service. 

The majority of the population is opposed to the war, 

not just those people who vigil weekly. So, I have to 

ask, are your comments aimed at all of them too? 

That's all for now. Thank you. 

Joan S. Borst 


Attorney says Press 

owes client an apology 

Editor: 

I am an attorney who represents Paul Del Rossi. 

The latter part of your Feb. 18 article concerning the 

announcement by Holy Name Church that it was planning 

to purchase the Central School property from Paul 

Del Rossi contained a rather blatant incorrect quote by 

Mr. Fernando Pages. 

In that part of the article, the Press reporter 

describes that Mr. Pages and Brighton had filed a lawsuit 

against Mr. Del Rossi that included claims about 

the Central School property. 

The Press then “reported” a quote from Mr. Pages in 

which Mr. Pages fails to accurately state that his lawsuit 

had already been fully released and is being dismissed. 

Mr. Pages’ statement implies that his lawsuit was 

still pending against Mr. Del Rossi or the Central 

By Dan Neal 

Executive Director, Equality State Policy Center 

Not all working Wyomingites benefit from the energy 

boom, according to "The State of Working 

Wyoming," a new report from the Equality State Policy 

Center. 

Record-high energy production means high wages 

and increased employment in the energy industries, but 

according to statistics collected by the Wyoming 

Department of Employment, more than half the new 

jobs in natural resources and mining from 2004-2006 

went to nonresidents. 

Wyoming’s per capita income is relatively high, just 

over $37,000 in 2005 (note: the lag time for generating 

these official statistics is considerable), but this does 

not mean everyone in the state makes that kind of money. 

Per capita income is determined by taking total 

income for everyone in the state, including dividends, 

royalties, rents, interest, and other sources of income in 

addition to salaries and wages, and dividing by the population. 

The energy boom pulls up Wyoming’s per capita 

income in two ways: the relatively high wages paid in 

the energy industries; and the royalties paid to private 

mineral owners. 

Wyomingites who work outside the energy sector or 

who do not own shares of production see little of the 

additional boom income. They also must deal with the 

pressures on housing, child care, and other services 

generated by boom growth. 

School property somehow as of Feb. 18 and that it 

could somehow be affected by the property sale to Holy 

Name Church. 

Had the Press bothered to call the courthouse before 

blundering ahead to print the story, it would have 

learned that Mr. Pages and Brighton expressly asked 

the District Court to stay their lawsuit in late January 

because the case had settled. (See attached file stamped 

Court Order dated Jan. 31, 2008). 

The District Court also has on file a stipulation to 

dismiss the Pages/Brighton lawsuit against Mr. Del 

Rossi signed by Mr. Pages and Brighton’s attorney dated 

Feb. 11. (See attached stipulation to dismiss Mr. 

Pages’ and Brighton’s claims with prejudice and agreed 

order of dismissal filed Feb. 11, 2008.) 

Sheridan county clerk records also show clearly that 

on Feb. 7, Mr. Pages and Brighton expressly released 

all of their claims against Mr. Del Rossi, his property, 

and all claims they might possibly have against or concerning 

the Central School property or its present 

record owner. 

(See attached release of claims and liens dated Feb. 

7, 2008, and recorded in the Sheridan county clerk’s 

office on Feb. 8 at Book 493, Pages 0283-0293.) 

One simple Sheridan Press phone call to the court or 

Mr. Del Rossi would have made these facts known 

right away. 

Respectfully, you owe Mr. Del Rossi, the folks at 

Holy Name Church, and the present owners of the 

Central School property an immediate printed apology 

and retraction for this incorrect reporting. 

Anthony T. Wendtland 


Writer gives lesson on Muslims’ 

world-dominance agenda 

Editor: 

Quote from Agri-news, Jan. 11: 

“I know there are some people in the U.S. who feel 

sorry for us and do not understand our sacrifice, but I 

can tell you that the huge majority of soldiers out here 

fighting the fight are doing it because we feel a great 

sense of loyalty and patriotism for our country. 

"The State of Working 

Wyoming" also looks at 

Wyoming’s gender wage gap, the 

difference in wages earned by 

women and by men. 

Although Wyoming ranks 

high among the states in the number 

of women who own homes 

and businesses, its gender wage 

gap continues to be among the 

worst. 

Politicians frequently 

blame Wyoming’s gender wage 

gap on the fact that the high-pay- 

ing energy industries are male-dominated occupations, 

indicating that there’s nothing they can do 

about it. 

However, a study authorized by the Wyoming 

Legislature also pointed to relatively low compensation 

in female-dominated occupations such as teaching 

and nursing, and the prevalence of part-time 

employment among women. 

"The State of Working Wyoming" commends the 

Wyoming Legislature for its recent investments in 

education, including teachers’ salaries, and recommends 

that the state consider policies to enhance the 

value of part-time employment. 

The report also recommends raising the minimum 

wage for tipped employees, now set at $2.30/hour, 

and indexing the state minimum wage of $5.15/hour 

to the federal minimum wage or to inflation so that its 

buying power does not continue to erode. 

Health care costs are another major economic 

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February 20, 2008 

“We have seen firsthand people who have lost their 

freedom and we know how valuable it is.” — Jennifer 

Caci, U.S. Army, Afghanistan. 

In the same publication is a long letter from 

Catherine McRae, specialist, U.S. Army, in 

Afghanistan that says basically the same thing. 

Julie Saffel in her letter to the editor of Feb. 14 

says: 

“I could give examples in history when citizens 

speaking out against the government have accomplished 

great things.” And goes on to remind us that 

“we have all taken history classes.” 

Perhaps Julie and her friends need to not only go 

back to school, but tune in to the real world. 

The “war” is not in Iraq or Afghanistan. There are 

battles there, yes! And there will be more. The “war” 

is worldwide. If you and your friends have your way, 

we will be overrun. 

Denmark just had another cartoon episode. It seems 

the cartoon that Muslims claim demeans Muhammad 

resurfaced there sparking 90 fires and associated riots 

by Muslims in one night! 

I subscribe to the International Jerusalem Post 

among other things, and you should see how Islamic 

newsprint portrays Americans, Jews, Christians and, 

yes, Jesus and the pope! 

Yet you don’t hear about Americans or anyone else 

running amok in the streets of any of those countries 

burning mosques and turning over cars. 

Gen. W.T. Sherman made a deal with the Navajo 

after they were “invaded” by the U.S. Army. They 

were given their country back plus aid if they would 

behave themselves. 

They did, and were an example to surrounding 

tribes, which made it easier to secure peace between 

the U.S. government and the other tribes. 

On a much larger but similar scale, this is what is 

happening in Iraq and Afghanistan. 

You, Julie, and your protester friends are just 

another orange cone on the road to success in the global 

war on terrorism and the grand plan of the radicals 

to Islamize the rest of the world. 

Mike Kuzara 

Wyarno 

Report shows not all Wyomingites benefit from boom 

Dan 

Neal 

issue for Wyoming’s working families. Nearly 90,000 

Wyomingites have no insurance. 

Although some state children have insurance 

through the KidCare CHIP program, no "safety net" 

exists for adults who are not disabled. 

State studies of the income needed to cover basic 

household expenses throughout Wyoming show that 

individuals and families must earn about twice the 

poverty level just to get through the month (no vacations, 

movies, savings, etc.) 

If workers do not have job-based health insurance, 

they may not be able to afford private insurance in 

Wyoming’s uncompetitive market, and simply have to 

hope that they do not fall ill and into poverty. 

"The State of Working Wyoming" concludes with 

the recommendation that the pace of development be 

slowed in order to reduce the intensity of boom impacts 

on Wyoming’s communities and wildlife and to extend 

the benefits of the boom further into the future. 

"The State of Working Wyoming" now is available 

on the Equality State Policy Center's new Web site at 

equalitystate.org, which also contains The Wyoming 

LAP* Book, keeping you abreast of developments at 

the Wyoming Legislature. 

The Casper-based Equality State Policy Center 

describes itself as "a broad-based coalition of Wyoming 

interests (that) works through research, public education 

and advocacy to hold Wyoming state and local 

governments accountable to the people they represent, 

and to encourage and assist state residents to participate 

effectively in public policy decision-making."

People THE 


Social Security information 

also available in Spanish 

At Social Security, we are committed to 

providing the best possible information to 

the diverse communities we serve. 

That’s why Social Security offers materials 

in Spanish, the second most common 

language in the United States. Our goal is 

to help all Americans understand Social 

Security and how it relates to them. In an 

effort to help the Hispanic community, we 

offer a number of materials in Spanish, 

including: 

• www.segurosocial.gov/ 

español — a comprehensive Web site that 

provides valuable Social Security information 

on our programs, benefits and services. 

• Social Security Statement — the statement 

is available in Spanish upon request. 

Just visit www.ssa.gov/espanol/declaracion/howto7004_sp.html. 

The statement provides a personalized 

estimate of the worker’s future Social 

Security retirement and disability benefits, and survivors’ 

benefits that the worker’s family could receive 

should the worker die. The statement also contains an 

annual breakdown of the worker’s earnings history. It is 

mailed each year to workers over the age of 25 who are 

not receiving Social Security benefits yet. 

• Online Calculators — benefit calculators that provide 

estimates of future Social Security retirement benefits 

at different ages. You can find the online calculators 

Angela 

Hardin 

Social Security 

Administration 

Office Manager 

Rock Creek Wilderness 

focus of Cloud Peak Back 

Country Horsemen meeting 

The Rock Creek Wilderness proposal will be the 

focus of a meeting of the Cloud Peak Back Country 

Horsemen at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the basement of the 

ERA Carroll Realty Building, 306 N. Main St., in 

Sheridan. 

A representative from the Wyoming Wilderness 

Association will discuss the WWA’s efforts to have 

Wyoming U.S. Sen. Mike Enzi move this proposal 

through Congress. 

The meeting is open to the public. Refreshments will 

be served. 

Parking is available behind Carroll Realty. Those 

attending the meeting are asked to enter the building 

through the back door and go downstairs to the base- 

The Tunnel Inn Saloon & Steakhouse 

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• Free Interpreter Services — we are 

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• Automated Phone Services — available 

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to answer specific questions in Spanish 

from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through 

Friday. 

In addition to these services in 

Spanish, we also maintain a Multilanguage 

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at www.socialsecurity.gov/multilanguage. 

If you or someone you know finds it easier to read 

complicated information in Spanish or a language other 

than English, rest assured that at Social Security, we 

speak your language. 

Above: Mr. and Mrs. 

Chic Rawlings will 

celebrate their 40th 

wedding anniversary 

on Saturday at the 

Elks Lodge. Right: 

Billie Kawulok and 

Chic Rawlings were 

married Feb. 22, 

1968. 

Now Accepting Cardiology Patients 

Dr. Michel Skaf 

Cardiologist, F.A.C.C. 

Casper, Wyoming 

Board Certified: 

Internal Medicine 

Board of Nuclear Medicine 

Cardiovascular Disease 

Cardiac Devices 

Dr. Skaf will be seeing patients in the office of 

Dr. Roberto Fars located at 813 Highland. 

For appointments call 

Wyoming Cardiopulmonary Services P.C. 

1-800-445-3501 

www.heartcenterofwyoming.com 

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Rawlingses celebrate 40th anniversary 

Chic and Billie (Kawulok) 

Rawlings of Sheridan will celebrate 

their 40th wedding 

anniversary at 8 p.m. Saturday 

at the Sheridan Elks Lodge, 45 

W. Brundage St. 

The couple were married 

Feb. 22, 1968, in Sheridan at the 

home of the bride’s parents, 

Frank and Mary (Kaufeldt) 

Kawulok Jr. 

Mr. Rawlings is the son of 

Cap and Betty Rawlings of 

Ranchester. 

The couple met as students 

at Tongue River High School, 

where they both graduated in 

1964. 

Mr. Rawlings is a construction 

contractor and owner of CR 

Best Construction. Mrs. 

Rawlings is Port of Entry supervisor 

in Frannie. Both enjoy 

spending time in the Big Horn 

Mountains, hunting, fishing, 

playing dartball and horseshoes 

and spending time with their 

family. 

Their family includes daughters 

and sons-in-law Cindy and 

Tony Trujillo of Sheridan and 

Debi and Mike Giger of Buffalo 

and seven grandchildren. 

Girl Scouts honor Sheridan residents for volunteering 

From staff reports 

The Girl Scout Council of Wyoming 

honored four Sheridan residents for their 

volunteer assistance to the organization. 

Recognition came during a special Girl 

Scout meeting Feb. 2. Honorees were: 

• Doris Case, who received a GSCW 

Circle of Honor Pin. 

Case has been involved in Girl Scouting 

for about 45 years, according to the GSCW, 

which noted, “She was very involved in the 

Capital Campaign raising funds for Girl 

Scouts.” 

She has received the Outstanding 

Volunteer pin, Appreciation pin, Thanks 

Badge and Thanks Badge II from the organi- 

People Briefs 

ment meeting room. 

For more information, contact Marty or Linda Casey 

at 683-2800. 

TR Center announces 

events for next week 

The Tongue River Valley Community Center has 

announced its lineup of activities next week at the facility 

in Ranchester. All are open to the public. 

• Monday — Lisa Nichols, physical therapist with 

Sheridan Memorial Hospital, will present “Ergonomics: 

How to Maintain a Healthy Back” from 6-7 p.m. 

• Wednesday — United Blood Services will be at 

the community center from 1-6 p.m. for a blood draw. 

• Thursday — It’s bingo night from 7-9 p.m. 

Participants are asked to bring cash. There will be 

prizes and payouts, and concessions will be served. 

Think twice before buying an Easter bunny 

By Linda Lombardi 

For The Associated Press 

Easter rabbits: chocolate, or furry? 

If you’re tempted by the furry ones, 

especially for children, better do your 

research first. 

‘‘People buy them thinking they’re 

great low-maintenance starter pets,’’ 

says Mary Cotter, vice president and 

education/outreach director of the 

House Rabbit Society. But that’s a 

misconception, she says: ‘‘They’re 

closer to dogs and cats than they are to 

the so-called pocket pets.’’ 

Cotter, of Bronxville, N.Y., has a 

dog as well as rabbits, and says that 

she thinks that rabbits are actually the 

more time-consuming of the two. 

They have cages that need to be 

cleaned, like other small animals, but 

they need social interaction like a dog 

does, at least a couple of hours out of 

their cage each day. 

And your home needs to be carefully 

rabbit-proofed against chewing. 

The many electrical cords required by 

modern living are a particular hazard. 

Because people often don’t under- 

zation in past years. 

Case helps with the financial assistance 

paperwork for Girl Scouts in Sheridan and 

helps manage the Rowena Griffith fund. 

• Bessie Moore, who received an 

Outstanding Volunteer pin. 

She has helped with a Girl Scout troop 

for four years, arranging guest speakers and 

community-service projects. 

According to GSCW, Moore “is always 

positive and does a wonderful job building 

self-esteem in the girls. The girls know that 

they can ask her questions and get an 

answer.” 

Moore also is a volunteer for the homeless 

shelter, Salvation Army and Sheridan 

VA Medical Center. 

stand what they’re getting into when 

they buy a rabbit, her rescue organization 

gets at least 30 phone calls a 

month from people wanting to give 

them up, many of which were bought 

as gifts for children at Easter. 

That problem is why the Columbus 

House Rabbit Society started its 

‘‘Make Mine Chocolate!’’ campaign, 

says chapter manager Karalee Curry. 

The campaign encourages a better 

understanding of rabbits by distributing 

educational literature and raises 

awareness of the Easter issue by selling 

rabbit pins. 

• Janet Stacy, who received an 

Outstanding Leaders pin. 

She is a co-leader for a Junior troop as 

well as the service unit product sales manager. 

“She is always willing to help with anything 

the troop does,” GSCW stated. “She 

goes above and beyond to make sure Girl 

Scouts is a fun learning experience for all the 

girls. She is always a positive influence on the 

girls. Her troop has girls with special needs, 

and she gives the extra measure to ensure they 

receive the one-on-one time that they need.” 

Stacy also volunteers at her children’s 

school and Sheridan VAMC. 

• Jean Harm, who received the Thanks 

Badge II. 

Powell woman loves doing wedding cakes 

POWELL (AP) — Judy Walsh 

never planned to decorate wedding 

cakes; it just sort of happened. 

‘‘I started decorating cakes years 

ago, basically for my family to begin 

with,’’ she said. ‘‘I took one class in 

1977. I was self taught after that — 

trial and error, I guess you could say.’’ 

Soon, without any effort on her 

part, word of mouth spread and people 

began calling with requests for 

decorated cakes. 

‘‘If I had time, I would do it,’’ she 

said. ‘‘One thing led to another, and I 

started doing wedding cakes.’’ 

As time went by, wedding cakes 

became her favorite cake-decorating 

projects. 

‘‘I’d much rather do a wedding 

cake for 400 people than cakes for 

birthdays,’’ she said. ‘‘Isn’t that funny?’’ 

While many cake decorators prefer 

smaller — and easier — birthday and 

special-occasion cakes, Walsh does 

those only for her grandchildren these 

days. 

Even then, ‘‘I grit my teeth the 

whole time I’m doing it,’’ she said. 

Walsh, of Powell, decorates several 

wedding cakes per year — with 

some preset limitations. She decorates 

with frosting textures, patterns and 

borders, accented by ribbons and real 

flowers, and no flowers made of frosting. 

‘‘I don’t do frosting flowers,’’ she 

said. ‘‘When you’re not good at 

something, it’s best to stay away from 

it.’’ 

Besides, she said, ‘‘It’s much simpler 

and a lot prettier to use fresh 

flowers. Fresh flowers are much 

classier than an old frosting flower.’’ 

Walsh said she used to get most of 

her ideas for wedding cakes from the 

Wilton cake-decorating book. 

Nowadays, though, brides often come 

to her with their own ideas. 

Sometimes they get the designs for 

their cakes from the Internet; sometimes 

from brides’ magazines. Some 

brides make up their own designs. 

Brides today often are a little more 

brave in that way than those of 

yesteryear, Walsh added. 

GSCW stated, “In over 45 years of Girl 

Scouting, this Thanks Badge II recipient 

has exemplified the characteristics that distinguish 

a model Scout and adult volunteer. 

Her dedication to the Girl Scout program in 

Wyoming has enriched the lives of thousands 

of girls and inspired countless adult 

volunteers.” 

Harm began her Scouting career in the 

late 1950s, eventually earning the Curved 

Bar before she graduated from high school. 

She was a Girl Scout troop leader from the 

early 1970s until 1999. 

“Throughout this time, she was an 

excellent troop leader,” according to 

GSCW. “She encouraged girls to realize 

their dreams, no matter how large. She took 

One of the more unusual cakes 

Walsh decorates is what she calls a 

‘‘stack of packages,’’ with several 

square cakes piled on top of each other. 

Walsh makes her wedding cakes 

with chocolate or carrot cake, or white 

cake with raspberry or lemon filling. 

She uses only cream cheese or chocolate 

frosting. 

The results are delicious, as well as 

beautiful, creations. 

Walsh said she gets many compliments 

on how her cakes taste. 

But to her, ‘‘It’s not a big deal,’’ 

she added. ‘‘I’d rather have a coconut 

cream pie, myself,’’ she added with a 

laugh. 

Actually, serving pies instead of 

cakes at weddings is a new trend, with 

the pies arranged in tiered, decorative 

displays, she said. 

But she hasn’t had any requests for 

wedding pies yet, and that suits her 

just fine. 

Walsh said she doesn’t do a lot of 

wedding cakes, but she enjoys the 

ones she does. 

her troop camping annually, beginning in 

the Big Horn Mountains in the 1970s, then 

Camp Tatoka from 1981 on.” 

Harm also chaperoned her troop of 

Cadette Girl Scouts on a cross-country 

Amtrak trip. “In addition to providing lifelong 

memories,” GSCW added, “these trips 

also taught her troop members the valuable 

life skills of cooperation, budgeting, planning, 

outdoor skills and self-reliance.” 

Since 1996, Harm has served as codirector 

or director of Camp Tatoka, as 

well as service unit manager and event 

director. 

GSCW added, “Her commitment to the 

Girl Scout program in Wyoming is exceptional.” 

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Obama gains upper hand with victories 

over Clinton in Wisconsin and Hawaii 

WASHINGTON (AP) 

— Barack Obama added 

Wisconsin and Hawaii to a 

primary season winning 

streak that now totals 10 

and has put Hillary Rodham 

Clinton into a virtual mustwin 

scenario in Democratic 

contests coming early next 

month in Texas and Ohio. 

The former first lady 

now looks to a debate 

Thursday in Austin, Texas, 

to stall Obama’s momentum 

and reinvigorate her campaign. 

‘‘The change we seek is 

still months and miles 

away,’’ Obama told a boisterous crowd in Houston 

in a speech Tuesday night in which he also pledged 

to end the war in Iraq in his first year in office. 

‘‘I opposed this war in 2002. I will bring this war 

to an end in 2009. It is time to bring our troops 

home,’’ he declared. 

Sen. John McCain, the Republican front-runner, 

won a pair of primaries, in Wisconsin and 

Washington, to continue his march toward certain 

Suspect 

Barack 

Obama 

Presidential 

Hopeful 


When the female arrived in the room, Taylor started 

kissing her, and she told him to leave her alone, and he 

said, “No it’s fine. That’s why you came over here,” 

charging documents state. 

The female broke one of her earrings trying to fight 

off Taylor, charging documents state. 

She said they had intercourse, and she was telling 

him to stop, and he said, “Not until I’m finished,” 


Taylor walked to the sink because his phone was 

ringing and told the female, “Well, I’ll see you tomorrow,” 


The female left and called someone who met her in 

the lobby, charging documents state. It is unclear who 

John 

McCain 

Presidential 

Hopeful 

nomination. 

In a race growing 

increasingly negative, 

Obama cut deeply into 

Clinton’s political bedrock 

in Wisconsin, splitting the 

support of white women 

almost evenly with her. 

According to polling place 

interviews, he also ran well 

among working class voters 

in the blue collar battleground 

that was prelude to 

primaries in the larger 

industrial states of Ohio and 

Pennsylvania. 

Clinton congratulated 

Obama on Wednesday for 

his two latest victories but dismissed the Illinois senator 

as leading a movement with little to show for 

his eloquence and promises. 

She depicted Obama’s candidacy as a ‘‘campaign 

about a campaign’’ and cast herself as a champion of 

the middle class in a speech to a fundraiser at New 

York’s Hunter College. ‘‘Others might be joining a 

movement. I’m joining you on the night shift, on the 

day shift,’’ Clinton said to applause and cheers. 

the person she called is, because names in the charging 

documents are blacked out. 

Sheridan College police were called, and the female 

went to Sheridan Memorial Hospital, where she underwent 

an examination 

that found evidence of injury. 

Officers interviewed Taylor, who said the female 

called him and sent him a text message, saying she was 

coming over, charging documents state. 

Prosecuting attorney Dianna Bennett in court 

Tuesday told Judge John Sampson that Taylor had been 

arrested for sexual assault in Illinois on July 6, 2005. 

Police seized a condom, two pillows, a bedsheet, a 

comforter, and a pair of sweat pants from the Sheridan 

College room, charging documents state. 

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Lawmakers heavily amend 

‘castle doctrine’ bill 

CHEYENNE (AP) — A Wyoming legislative 

committee heavily amended a selfdefense 

bill Tuesday evening to remove a 

key provision that had specified homeowners 

couldn’t be prosecuted if they kill anyone 

who entered their homes illegally. 

The action by the House Judiciary 

Committee leaves the bill sponsored by 

Rep. Lorraine Quarberg, R-Thermopolis, 

with only one remaining feature: It would 

specify that residents who used deadly 

force against intruders would be immune 

from civil lawsuits. 

As amended, the bill would continue to 

leave decisions about whether to prosecute 

people who kill intruders into their homes 

in the hands of prosecutors and judges. 

‘‘This really looks quite a bit different than it did 

when it came in,’’ Quarberg said of her bill after the 

committee finished amending it. 

Testifying Tuesday morning to the committee, 

Quarberg said Wyoming needs to make its law on self- 

Lorraine 

Quarberg 

R-Thermopolis 

defense clearer and easier for people who 

aren’t lawyers to understand. The committee 

continued its hearing on the bill Tuesday 

evening, after the day’s legislative floor session. 

‘‘Currently, Wyoming has no statute 

on self defense and use of deadly force,’’ 

Quarberg said. 

Quarberg and other supporters have 

said that such a ‘‘castle doctrine’’ bill is necessary 

to specify that Wyoming residents have no 

duty to retreat from criminals in their own 

homes. They say the principle goes back to the 

English common law saying that, ‘‘a man’s 

home is his castle.’’ 

The National Rifle Association has 

pushed similar legislation through in 20 states around the 

country, a spokesman for the group said last week. 

Legislation is pending in five other states, including 

Wyoming. 

Quarberg has said that while she’s a life member of 

the NRA, the group didn’t help her draft her legislation. 

Pros, cons of city administrator debated tonight 


Mike Watkins, Dave Engels, 

George Carter and Vicki Taylor 

will debate the pros and cons of a 

city administrator at the Sheridan 

Eclipse 


The moon doesn’t go black because indirect sunlight 

still reaches it after passing through the Earth’s atmosphere. 

Since the atmosphere filters out blue light, the 

indirect light that reaches the moon transforms it into a 

reddish or orange tinge, depending on how much dust 

and cloud cover are in the atmosphere at the time. 

Wednesday’s total eclipse phase will last nearly an 

Senior Citizens Center at 7 o’clock 

tonight. 

Sheridan residents will vote on 

an ordinance establishing a city 

administrator/council form of government 

for Sheridan on Feb. 28 at 

the Senior Center. 

Tonight’s debate is sponsored 

by the Sheridan County Democratic 

Party, Sheridan County Taxpayers 

Association, and Taxpayer 

Advocates for Sheridan County. 

hour. Earth’s shadow is expected to blot out the moon 

beginning around 7 p.m. on the West Coast and 10 p.m. 

on the East Coast. West Coast skygazers will miss the 

start of the eclipse because it occurs before the moon 

rises. 

Unlike solar eclipses which require protective eyewear, 

lunar eclipses are safe to view with the naked eye. 

Later this year, in August, there will be a total solar 

eclipse and a partial lunar eclipse. 

Local news? 

Call The Sheridan Press 

at 672-2431. 

Do your part! 

Help save the Earth. 

Landon’s Early Order Sale www.LandonsGreenhouse.com 

Spring registration for 

Sheridan County Storm 

Soccer is coming soon! 

Who: Boys & Girls ages 8-14 

When: Thursday, February 21, 2008 

4:00 pm—8:00 pm 

Place: YMCA 

Fee: $ 75.00 per player. $ 58.00 if player played 

in Fall 2007 (card lamination fee already paid) 

**NEW PLAYERS: Please bring a copy of 

your child’s official state issued birth 

certificate and a recent school picture. 

Registration deadline is February 21, 2008, 

with the exception of team vacancies. 

Contact Registrar Mary Kay Liggett at 

672-8664 or President Jimmy Legerski at 

674-9249 with any questions. 

Registration forms can be printed 

from our website: www.sheridansoccer.org 

Did You Make the News? 

Reprints of photos are now available online at 

www.thesheridanpress.com

Scene THE 


Reports 

SHERIDAN FIRE-RESCUE 

Tuesday 

• Activated fire alarm, 500 block Avoca 

Avenue, 10:49 a.m. 

• Medical, 400 block North Jefferson Street, 

5:32 p.m. 

ROCKY MOUNTAIN 

AMBULANCE SERVICE 

Tuesday 

• Trauma (fall), 1900 block West Loucks Street, 

5:50 a.m. 

• Medical, 500 block Avoca Avenue, 9:53 a.m. 

• Medical, 1400 block West Fifth Street, 11 a.m. 

• Medical, 900 block West Brundage Lane, 6:30 

p.m. 

• Medical, 900 block Lewis Street, 11:06 p.m. 

SHERIDAN MEMORIAL 

HOSPITAL 

Tuesday 

• Admissions — Nina Felde, Sheridan 

SHERIDAN POLICE 

Tuesday 

• Domestic violence, Townhouse Place, 2:03 

a.m. 

• Damaged property, 1400 block Mydland Road, 

8:10 a.m. 

• Abandoned vehicle, no location available, 

11:35 a.m. 

• Accident (delayed report), South Many Lakes, 

noon 

• Burglary alarm (unfounded), no location available, 

12:03 p.m. 

• Incident involving animal, no location available, 

12:12 p.m. 

• Accident, no location available, 12:13 p.m. 

• Theft (newspaper machines broken into), 

Grinnell Plaza, 12:43 p.m. 

• Abandoned vehicle, South Main Street, 12:56 

p.m. 

• Cat trap, Cottonwood Circle, 1:45 p.m. 

• Accident (two vehicles, no injuries reported), 

South Main Street, 3:31 p.m. 

• Possession of stolen property, Lewis Street, 

3:15 p.m. 

• Abandoned vehicle, West 11th Street, 

3:51 p.m. 

• Suspicious person, South Main Street, 4:50 p.m. 

• Suspicious person, South Main Street, 4:51 p.m. 

• Possible identity theft, Dunnuck Street, 

5:01 p.m. 

Obituaries 

Harvey James 

Overman 

Harvey James Overman, 72, of 

Arvada died Feb. 18, 2008, en route 

to the hospital in Buffalo. 

Funeral services will be 10 a.m. 

Friday in Adams Funeral Home 

Chapel in Buffalo with Bob Moore 

officiating. Private burial will be on 

the Keeline Ranch. 

Mr. Overman was born Sept. 25, 

1935, in Lusk to Harvey and Goldie 

Overman. He grew up and attended 

schools in Lusk and Torrington. 

He went to work for the Keeline 

Ranch when he was 14. He also 

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Between 5:30-6:30 p.m. 

Monday-Friday 

or between 7:45-9 a.m. 

on Saturdays 

• Accident (hit-and-run), 900 block Jackson 

Avenue, 5:07 p.m. 

• Theft (money taken from business; under 

investigation), East Alger Avenue, 6 p.m. 

• Suspicious circumstance, Mountain Shadows 

Boulevard, 6:10 p.m. 

• Reckless driver, Sagebrush Drive, 7:37 p.m. 

• Violation involving dog (no details), West 

Loucks Street, 8:53 p.m. 

Today 

• Noise complaint, 1400 block Holloway 

Avenue, 2:49 a.m. 

SHERIDAN COUNTY SHERIFF 

Tuesday 

• Assisted stuck motorist, Keystone Road 

(Ranchester), 8:17 a.m. 

• Suspicious circumstance, Decker Road, 8:49 

a.m. 

• Assisted other agency (delivered message), 

Jackson Avenue, 10:14 a.m. 

• Report of gunshots (no criminal activity), 

Berry Avenue, 4 p.m. 

• Theft of services, Commercial Avenue, 5:09 

p.m. 

ARRESTS 

Tuesday 

• James Dean Roe, 45, of Rapid City; warrant 

(Campbell County — failure to appear on two 

counts of forgery), warrant (Campbell County — 

failure to appear on count of forgery); arrested 2300 

block North Main Street; Sheridan Police 

Department 

• Sarah Jane Mercer, 29, of 820 Marion St., 

Sheridan; warrant (Campbell County — no other 

information available); arrested 200 block North 

Main Street; SPD 

• William Joseph Hein, 22, of 1511 Mydland 

Road, No. 80, Sheridan; warrant — failure to 

appear (no other information available); arrested 

1400 block Holloway Avenue; SPD 

JAIL 

Today 

Daily inmate count: 92 

Female inmate count: 13 

Inmates at treatment facilities (not counted in 

daily inmate total): 3 

Inmates housed at other facilities (not counted in 

daily inmate total): 11 

Number of book-ins for the previous day: 3 

Number of releases for the previous day: 4 

worked for Madden’s Livestock and 

for Kerr-McGee Coal for several 

years. 

He married Lucretcia Ahern in 

May 1989. They made their home 

in Arvada. 

Mr. Overman worked for the 

Flying H Ranch for 10 years and, 

later, for Trig Marquess south of 

Gillette. He worked in ranching and 

construction until the time of his 

death. 

He was a member of the 

American Cowboy Team Roping 

Association, the Montana Team 

Roping Association and the 

Wyoming Team Roping 

Association. He shared reserve 

Champion 

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champion honors with Don Rice at 

the National Finals Team Roping in 

Reno, Nev., in 2000. 

He was preceded in death by a 

sister, Norma Niefert. 

Survivors include his wife; three 

sons, Craig of Newcastle, Clayton 

of Utah and Clint of Eveleth, Minn.; 

one stepson, John Ahern of 

Clearmont; two stepdaughters, 

Anne Ahern of Okeechobee, Fla., 

and Petey MacCarty of Sheridan; 

three sisters, Francis Dodson and 

Vergie Overman, both of 

Torrington, and Jo Adkins of 

Southerland, Neb.; 10 grandchildren; 

and one great-grandchild. 

Memorials may be made to 

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(located adjacent to the cemetery) 

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Owned by P.J. Kane 

CHEYENNE (AP) — A state investigation 

determined Wyoming had no 

policies in place last year to track violence 

against inmates being housed in 

out-of-state prisons. The probe also 

found that the beating of a state inmate 

by other inmates at a private prison last 

year in Oklahoma was not thoroughly 

investigated. 

The investigation by Maj. William 

Moore of the Wyoming Department of 

Corrections found ‘‘no WDOC Policy, 

Procedure or Directive is in place that 

requires the tracking and compliance of 

out of state incidents to ensure that these 

incident (sic) are properly tracked for 

compliance.’’ 

Municipal Court 

Clear Creek FFA in care of Adams 

Funeral Home, 351 N. Adams, 

Buffalo, WY 82834. 

Jeanie C. Shipley 

Jeanie C. Shipley, 77, of 

Sheridan died Feb. 17, 2008, in 

Westview Health Care Center. 

Memorial services will be 11 

a.m. Monday at the Church of Jesus 

Christ of Latter-day Saints. 

Arrangements are with Kane 

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The investigative report, completed 

last fall, was recently obtained by The 

Associated Press under the state’s public 

records law. 

The investigation was launched after 

an inmate was beaten last April at the 

private Northfork Correctional Facility 

in Sayre, Okla. Wyoming houses 375 

inmates there and has paid Corrections 

Corporation of America nearly $12.5 

million from June 2006 through 

December 2007 for their housing and 

medical care. 

An investigator with Corrections 

Corporation of America, which owns 

the Oklahoma prison, looked into the 

inmate beating and concluded there was 

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State investigation criticizes inmate policies 

Violators under age 18 and sentences 

under $100 and five days in jail 

are not reported. 

Jan. 30 

• Katrina Reynolds, 44, Sheridan 

(homeless), indecent exposure, five 

days’ jail, six months’ probation with 

no violations. 

• Larry D. Barrett, 40, Sheridan, 

public intoxication, $220, one day jail, 

six months’ probation, 90 days’ no 

alcohol or bars, three Alcoholics 

Anonymous meetings a week for 90 

days. 

Feb. 1 

• Miranda B. Lull, 30, Big Horn, 

driving while license canceled, suspended, 

or revoked, $120. 

• Chance Cameron, 18, Sheridan, 

failure to maintain liability insurance, 

$270, no violations for six months. 

• Justin Caleb Cross, 23, Sheridan, 

DWUI, $820, 30 days’ jail, one year 

probation, successfully complete drug 

court. 

Feb. 4 

• Ronald Rogali Vargas Campos, 

18, Sheridan, failure to maintain liability 

insurance, $420; charge dismissed: 

driver’s license required. 

• Ashley L. Nielsen, 22, Sheridan, 

public intoxication, possession of 

paraphernalia, $365, six months’ probation 

with no violations. 

• Stanley Budder, 38, Sheridan, 

DWUI, driving while license canceled, 

suspended, or revoked, $990 ($200 of 

fine suspended upon reinstatement of 

license), two days’ jail, six months’ 

probation with no violations, 90 days’ 

no alcohol or bars, alcohol evaluation. 

• Mary Cruz Soto Bustillos, 20, 

Sheridan, failure to maintain liability 

insurance, $420 plus restitution to 

Vickie Knapp and Rover LLC. 

• Charge dismissed: minor in possession/consuming 

alcohol; Nathan M. 

Olson, 20, Sheridan. 

• Scott Voyles, 19, Sheridan, minor 

in possession/consuming alcohol, 

$170. 

Feb. 6 

• Benjamin L. Hume, 50, Sheridan, 

DWUI, driving while license canceled, 

suspended, or revoked, $1,240, 15 

days’ jail, one year probation with no 

violations, alcohol, or bars, random 

testing, alcohol evaluation. 

• Hugolino R. Salinas, 24, 

Sheridan, DWUI, $655, five days’ jail, 

six months’ probation with no violations, 

alcohol, or bars, may not leave 

Sheridan without court permission. 

Feb. 7 

• Lane E. Reynolds-Reedy, 65, 

Story, speeding (45 mph in 30-mph 

residential zone), $100. 

C LARENCE W ILLIAM W EBER 

S EPT 9, 1933 – F EB 16, 2008 

Clare, age 74, passed away February 16, 2008 

from complications of a stroke at the V.A. Medical 

Center in Denver. 

He was a long time resident of Sheridan. Clare 

was born in 1933 in Monrovia, California to Ardin 

and Mary Weber. As a young kid his family moved 

here to Sheridan. He attended school at Linden 

Elementary. When his father acquired a farm in Fort 

Morgan, Colorado the family moved from Sheridan. 

On the farm Clare found a special love for animals. He wanted to 

become a veterinarian from his love of critters. 

Clare graduated from Wildona Valley High School in Colorado at the 

age of 16. Then he entered college to become a veterinarian. After a 

year of college Clare enlisted in the Army during the Korean war. He 

served is country in the 11th Airborne as a paratrooper. After being 

discharged from the Army Clare left his dreams of being a Veterinarian 

behind. Instead he went to work for Mountain Bell Phone Company 

which lasted for 33 years. 

In 1956 Clare met Shirley Ann McLane and married her in 1957. 

After a few years of bouncing around to different locations with the 

phone company Clare moved with his bride and children to Sheridan in 

1967 where he has remained ever since. 

Clare is survived by his wife Shirley, his son Larry W. Weber 

(Tammie Sheperd), His daughter Sandy L Dykhorst (Johan). Including 

his grand children of Autum Bogdanovic (Steve), Lance Weber, Mary 

Dykhorst, Thomas Dykhorst and Michael Dykhorst. Also his great 

grandchildren of Cameron Weight, Sharon Weight, and Kaytlin 

Bogdanovic, all of Sheridan. He also had nieces of Kathy Blane, Kristy 

Agee, Tia McLane and nephews of Terry McLane, Tracy McLane and 

Alan Weber. 

Clare was preceded in death by his parents, his daughter Mary Kay 

and his brother Dan Weber. 

Celebration of life for Clare will be held at the Shrine Kalif Temple 

on Feb. 23rd (Sat) 2008 at 2:00 pm. 

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‘‘no institutional deficiency that may 

have contributed to the inmate on 

inmate assault.’’ 

The inmate, whose name was 

redacted from documents released to the 

AP, sustained injuries in the beating and 

was airlifted to Oklahoma City for treatment. 

He later returned to the prison that 

day. 

In his report, Moore found the CCA 

prison investigator ‘‘conducted the most 

rudimentary of investigations regarding 

this incident and what little was accomplished 

focused only on the assault.’’ 

Attempts to reach a spokesman at 

the Oklahoma prison were unsuccessful. 

Feb. 8 

• Jacob M. Gonsalves, 24, Sheridan, 

driving while license canceled, suspended, 

or revoked, $420 ($200 of fine suspended 

with proof of license), no violations for six 

months. 

• Linda Kay Hernandez, 32, Sheridan, 

DWUI, failure to maintain liability insurance, 

$1,470, one day jail, six months’ probation 

with no violations, 90 days’ no alcohol 

or bars, alcohol evaluation. 

• Nickolas Mancini, 27, Sheridan, driving 

while license canceled, suspended, or 

revoked, $420; charge dismissed: failure to 

maintain liability insurance. 

• Travus D. Eisenman, 26, Sheridan, 

DWUI, $820, 180 days’ jail. 

Feb. 11 

• Charge dismissed: failure to maintain 

liability insurance; Catherine R. Walters, 44, 


• Charge dismissed: failure to maintain 

liability insurance; Andera D. Amende, 21, 


• John L. Fountain, 33, Sheridan, 

DWUI, driving while license canceled, suspended, 

or revoked, $1,745, 10 days’ jail, 

one year probation with no violations, alcohol, 

or bars, 15 days’ house arrest, six 

months’ random testing, alcohol evaluation. 

• Raymond C. Munson, 56, Sheridan, 

hit-and-run (unattended vehicle), $270 plus 

restitution to city for sign, no violations for 

six months.


Legislature 

on Tuesday 

CHEYENNE (AP) 

— Developments on 

the seventh day of the 

budget session of the 

Wyoming Legislature: 

BUDGET: The 

House gave preliminary 

approval to the 

general government 

appropriations bill. 

The Senate is will 

working through the 

bill on first reading. 

CLOSED 

ROADS: The House 

gave preliminary 

Legislative 

Roundup 

approval to a bill that would increase the fines for 

motorists who ignore road closures. 

ANIMAL ABUSE: The House gave preliminary 

approval to a bill that would make dog fighting and 

similar animal abuse a felony upon first conviction. 

GUN CONTROL: The House for the second time 

approved a bill that would prohibit state officials 

from trying to confiscate guns from law-abiding citizens 

during natural disasters or other emergencies. 

STREET GANGS: The House gave preliminary 

approval to a bill that would specify increased penalties 

for people who commit crimes as members of 

organized street gangs. 

ENCAMPMENT STUDY: A bill that would call 

on the state to study watersheds in the Encampment 

area before any proposed energy development there 

was sent to the House Appropriations Committee. 

GAME WARDENS: A bill that would allow state 

game wardens to enforce state littering laws received 

preliminary approval in the House. 

COURT SECURITY: The Senate placed a House 

bill that calls for increases in security at state courts 

on the general file for consideration. 

MENTOR HUNTING PROGRAM: The Senate 

gave final approval to a bill that would establish a 

mentor hunting program. 

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Fences 

Exhibit 

Open 

Breanna Fortman checks out images 

submitted for the “Fences of Sheridan 

County” photography exhibit with her 

grandparents Anne and Kent Chivers at 

a Sheridan County Fulmer Public 

Library reception Tuesday. The photographs 

are on display in the library’s 

Inner Circle through March 15. 


House approves dogfighting felony 

CHEYENNE (AP) — Legislators are attempting 

to make dog- and cockfighting a felony in 

Wyoming after Gov. Dave Freudenthal said 

national media scrutinized the state for lax dog 

fighting penalties. 

The issue was raised when Atlanta Falcons’ 

quarterback Michael Vick was indicted on federal 

dogfighting charges. He was suspended indefinitely 

by the NFL, pleaded guilty this summer 

and has been sentenced to nearly two years in 

prison. 

The Wyoming House gave preliminary 

approval to the bill Tuesday. The bill would 

need two more approvals from the House before 

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going to the Senate. 

Bill sponsor Rep. Rosie Berger, R-Big Horn, 

said passage of the bill would send a message to 

dog fighting offenders that Wyoming doesn’t 

want them here. 

‘‘In my community this is an issue,’’ Berger 

said. ‘‘We just feel very good about this one.’’ 

If the bill passes, Wyoming would be among 

48 states with felony animal fighting statutes. 

Wyoming law currently lists dog- and cockfighting 

as a high misdemeanor punishable by 

less than a year in jail and a $5,000 fine. The bill 

would increase the penalty to as much as two 

years in prison and a $5,000 fine. 

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Rawlins finding 

more volunteers 

for fire department 

RAWLINS (AP) — Rawlins 

Fire Chief Scott Hannum says a 

more aggressive recruiting effort 

to find volunteer firefighters is 

paying off. 

Hannum said the Rawlins 

Fire Department’s six-month 

training program should produce 

a four-person class in April. 

The fire department currently 

has about 25 volunteers. 

Hannum said he’d like to 

have 30 volunteer firefighters on 

the Rawlins Fire Department 

force by the end of the year. 

He says volunteer firefighters 

are essential to the department. 

DEQ groundwater 

cleanup continues 

in Powell 

POWELL (AP) — Efforts to 

clean up groundwater pollution 

caused by leaking underground 

fuel storage tanks in the area continue 

although progress has been 

made since work began nearly a 

decade ago. 

‘‘We’ve got the bulk of the 

contamination in most of these 

places contained,’’ said Paul 

Wollenzien, manager of the 

Powell project for the Wyoming 

Department of Environmental 

Quality. 

But work continues at several 

sites in an effort to bring the 

groundwater up to EPA drinking 

water standards, he said. 

‘‘A lot of these sites are just 

over the limit.’’ 

The project began in the late 

1990s with 19 sites where underground 

contamination ‘‘plumes’’ 

were found through soil testing. 

The testing was spurred by complaints 

from residents who reported 

gasoline fumes in their homes 

in several Powell neighborhoods. 

Many of the sites were linked 

to underground storage tanks that 

already had been removed. 

DEQ officials were careful to 

specify that although plumes 

were found near some currently 

operating businesses, they were 

not linked to practices of those 

businesses. 

Wollenzien said clean up 

efforts are still under way at five 

of the 19 original contaminated 

sites. 

The clean up effort is paid for 

by funds generated by 

Wyoming’s fuel tax. 

Highway Patrol 

to graduate 16 

CODY (AP) — The 

Wyoming Highway Patrol 

expects to fill 16 trooper vacancies 

around the state after graduating 

a new class of recruits this 

week. 

Graduation ceremonies for 

trooper certification training are 

planned this Friday in 

Cheyenne. 

To become a trooper, recruits 

need to pass written exams and 

oral interviews, as well as agility 

tests, psychological reviews and 

background checks. A physical 

also is required. 

The main requirement is 25 

weeks of intensive training, 

including marksmanship and 

coursework on state laws. 

Three troopers are joining the 

force in Gillette and two each in 

Lander and Rawlins. One trooper 

each is going to work in 

Buffalo, Laramie, Douglas, Big 

Piney, Jackson, Wamsutter, 

Lusk, Farson and Lyman.

Youth 

B1 

THE 

SHERIDAN Press Wednesday, February 20, 2008 

Sessions meets 

life’s challenges with 

unshakable diligence 

Summit Award winner 

Miranda Sessions is 

a strong academic student 

who has worked 

diligently to prepare herself 

for life after high 

school. 

Sessions’ family 

moved to Sheridan from 

Gillette last August to 

follow the family’s business. 

Most seniors’ preparation 

for college usually 

doesn’t involve a change 

in high schools, but this 

has not shaken Sessions’ 

success as a student at 

Sheridan High School. 

‘Harvey Birdman’ lands 

on the gaming console 

By David Thomas 

AP Tech Writer 

Miranda 

Sessions 

Summit 

Award Winner 

School guidance counselor 

Brenda White states: “Miranda has 

done a great job of making new 

friends and being involved in school 

activities and plans to play soccer 

this spring. 

“She is a very sweet young lady 

and a dedicated student. I have 

enjoyed getting to know her this 

year, and I know she will be successful 

after she leaves here.” 

Sessions’ initial challenge was to 

adapt to the way courses are offered 

at SHS. In Gillette, students work 

off a block schedule, which is four 

classes per day, compared to the 

seven classes per day at SHS. 

This proved to be more difficult 

than Sessions predicted, requiring 

much more homework than her old 

school; however, she still maintains 

a GPA of 3.9. 

Her favorite subjects in school 

prior to her senior year were human 

anatomy and physiology & health. 

Presently she is taking a pre-calculus 

algebra class at Sheridan 

College, which she enjoys the most. 

She has taken three years of 

Spanish, and although she reads it 

better than she writes it, she enjoys 

conversing with her uncle, who is 

fluent in the language, any chance 

she gets. 

Other classes this year include 

AP British literature, AP psychology, 

intro to pharmacy, and health 

occupations/Certified Nursing 

Assistant, which is a concurrent 

enrollment class at Sheridan 

College. 

Summit Award 

Culture has gone to the birds. 

Meet Harvey Birdman, cartoon 

star and video game newcomer. 

Once video games and cartoons 

were the exclusive domain of anyone 

too young to drink, or at least 

not mature enough to pursue more 

worthwhile adult activities. 

At least that was the stereotype. 

These days, with “The Simpsons” 

closing in on its 20th season and 

video games such as “Madden 

NFL” and “Halo” making the 

gaming console a fixture in the 

American family room, everyone 

seems to find time to kid around. 

So, it’s no wonder that these 

twin paragons of low culture find 

themselves teaming up time and 

time again to generate new entertainment 

properties. 

“Harvey Birdman: Attorney at 

Law” stands out as one of the 

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She will get her 

CNA certificate at the 

end of the semester. 

Mike Clift, 

instructor of AP British 

literature, states: “She 

came in very eager and 

willing to dive right into 

one of the more difficult 

classes and wasn’t the 

least bit afraid of it. 

“Typically there’s 

a substantial reading project 

over the summer prior 

to AP British literature. 

She is such a dedicated 

student that she 

completed the reading in 

a very short time.” 

Sessions appreciates Mr. Clift, 

saying, “I like the way he teaches 

and motivates me.” 

Sessions has been in National 

Honor Society the last three years 

and was in student council her freshman 

year. 

She states that she really enjoys 

the volunteer activities provided in 

these organizations, especially reading 

nights at the elementary schools. 

She serves as a peer counselor, 

which is an assistant to the guidance 

counselors. She is president of 

Laurels, a youth group in her LDS 

church, which teaches young women 

about lifetime activities. 

This group also tended a community 

garden weekly throughout the 

summers and helped at the local 

soup kitchen. 

Sessions was a soccer player in 

Gillette and plans on playing for 

Sheridan this spring. She has lettered 

in soccer all three years, as 

well as volleyball her freshman year. 

Hard work is no stranger to this 

senior. Sessions has held a job since 

she was about 15 years old, working 

approximately 15-20 hours/week. 

She states, “It makes me feel a 

little bit more independent to work 

and be able to make my own money.” 

Sessions will attend the 

University of Wyoming this fall and 

apply for the pharmacy program. 

She would like to work in the program 

as a pharmacy tech. 

She is the daughter of Steve and 

Heather Sessions. 

Academics for All is an all-volunteer group of individuals 

and donors who support academic excellence in Sheridan 

County School District 2. Members of the committee 

include: Jean Spiegelberg, Tempe Murphy, Bill Patton, Kay 

Pearson, Barbara Ziegler, Jeriann Jacobson, Bill Campbell, 

Dave DeBolt, Marilyn Pettit, Alison Ochs and Cam Forbes. 

more interesting examples of 

video games based on cartoons. 

Depending on how you look at 

it, this is either the future of interactive 

cartoon entertainment, or 

it’s simply a weird experiment that 

will soon fade from memory. 

The problem comes from the 

fact that the game works great as a 

cartoon. If you enjoy this “Adult 

Swim” regular on the Cartoon 

Network, complete with belowthe-belt, 

non sequitur and zany 

humor, then you can expect to 

laugh along with the game. 

There’s just something funny 

about watching a purple hippo in a 

suit and a safari hat trying to ignite 

a lighter with no thumbs. 

But what this cartoon is doing 

inside a game system is hard to 

figure. As funny as the performances 

and as true to the TV cartoon 

the visuals are, there isn’t 

much room left over for game 

play. 

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Cows, magnets, and keeping warm 

• Area future 

scientists show 

their work 

at regional 

science fair 



Cows and heifers are under a lot 

of pressure in the spring at calving 

time — barometric pressure that is. 

Holy Name School seventh-grader 

Nate Kane won the first-place 

award in zoology at the Northeast 

Regional Science Fair last 

Wednesday for tracking the effects of 

changing barometric pressure on the 

rate of calving on his family’s Angus 

ranch northeast of Sheridan. 

His two years of records for 2006- 

2007 indicated that when the barometric 

pressure dropped by .05 inches 

of mercury or more, the rate of 

heifers’ calving increased 25 percent 

and the rate of cows’ calving 

increased 11 percent during March 

and April. 

During the calving months for 

both years, Kane recorded the barometric 

pressure from a barometer in 

his home twice daily, 6 a.m. and 6 

p.m., and then accompanied his 

father, David Kane, to check on how 

many heifers and cows had calved. 

Nate said his father told him several 

years ago that he thought he’d 

observed this increase, so Nate set out 

to scientifically verify whether it was 

accurate. 

“The results were what he (David 

Kane) expected,” Nate said. 

Sam Sanders, sixth-grader at 

Sheridan Junior High School, wanted 

to find out to what degree magnets 

are repelled — not touching — by 

each other. 



Middle school pupils at Holy 

Name School of Sheridan 

received eight first-place awards 

in 14 project categories at the 

Northeast Regional Science Fair 

on Wednesday at the Sheridan 

County Fairgrounds. 

Sheridan Junior High School 

pupils received three first-place 

awards, and Tongue River Middle 

School received two. There was 

no first-place award in one category 

(computers). 

Eight middle and junior high 

schools from Sheridan, Campbell, 

and Weston counties contributed 

121 projects created by 145 pupils 

for the fair. 

All first-, second-, and thirdplace 

winners are eligible for the 

Wyoming State Fair on March 9- 

11 in Casper. 

Judges also chose honorablemention 

awards for some categories, 

but these will not be eligible 

for the state competition. 

Judges had the option of not 

awarding a first-, second-, or 

third-place if they felt no project 

met the criteria for that award. 

All pupils receiving awards 

Wednesday were presented with 

medals and $45 in cash. 

The monetary prizes were 

donated by K Bar K Enviroseal 

and First Interstate Bank, said 

Tongue River Middle School science 

teacher Tim Maze, who 

announced the winners. 

The following pupils are eligible 

for the state competition: 

Behavioral and Social Science 

• First — Hannah Garcia, 

Sheridan Junior High School, “Use 

Sheridan Junior High School sixth-grader Brittney Buckler discusses her science project with 

judges (from left) Dick Birkholz, Thayer Shafer, Mark Rogaczewski and Bob Giurgevich at the 

Northeast Regional Science Fair at the Sheridan County Fairgrounds last Wednesday. 

He constructed a round wood 

base with a large wood dowel 

attached to the center and then 

placed in varying order magnets 

and metal washers with holes in 

the middle — resembling very 

hard doughnuts — onto the dowel. 

When the poles of the magnets 

were arranged north to north or 

south to south, a gap of 1 to 1.5 

centimeters remained between 

them even with washers weighing 

a total of 3,500 grams (about 7.6 

pounds) on top of them. 

If aligned north to south or 

south to north, the magnets 

attracted — or touched each other. 

Sanders recorded the amount 

of space or lack of space between 

It or Lose It” 

• Second — Alanna Siler, 

SJHS, “Oh Busted” 

• Third — Antoinette Cudney, 

Holy Name, “Can You Remember 

Now?” 

• Honorable Mention — Carly 

Cottrell, Newcastle, “To Blink or 

Not to Blink” 

• Honorable Mention — Alexa 

Inchauspe, SJHS, “Battle of the 

Brains” 

Botany 

• First — Sarah Mockensturm, 

Holy Name, “Digging Deep” 

• Second — Brittany Buckler, 

SJHS, “They Move?” 

• Third — Barbara Griffin, Sage 

Valley Junior High of Gillette, 

“Smokin’ Beans” 

• Honorable Mention — Joshua 

Faass, Holy Name, “Elbow Room” 

• Honorable Mention — Adaline 

Ostler, TRMS, “Plants Under 

Light” 

Biochemistry 

• First — Noelle Golinvaux, 

Holy Name, “A Pain in the Neck” 

• Second — Nick Gill, SJHS, 

“Sweet Tart” 

• No third place was awarded. 

• Honorable Mention — Renee 

Merriman, Upton, “A Juicy Project” 

• Honorable Mention — Bailey 

Roberson, Upton, “DNA 

Sequences” 

Chemistry 

• First — Daniel Slipp, Holy 

Name, “Get the Lead Out!” 

• Second — Courtlynn Barba, 

Newcastle, “How Safe is Your 

Closet?” 

• Third — Katie Rotellini, SJHS, 

“Irony Cereal” 

• Honorable Mention — Faith 

Carson, Recluse, “Sulfuric Acid, 

Friend of Foe?” 

Computers 

• No first place awarded. 

• Second — Aaron Campbell, 

SJHS, “How Fast is Your 

Computer?” 

• No third place awarded. 

Earth and Space Science 

the magnets aligned in different 

directions and with different 

weights on them and presented 

them in a spreadsheet for his display. 

He received a first-place award 

in the physics category. 

Sarah Maze likes to read in 

bed, but in the winter, she often 

had cold hands holding her book 

outside the covers. 

So the Tongue River Middle 

School seventh-grader decided to 

find a way to keep her hands 

warm so she could better enjoy 

wintertime reading. 

She started with a blanket and 

lay on the floor with the blanket 

over her, marking with straight 

• First — Curtis Foster, Holy 

Name, “Spudtastic” 

• Second — Jesse Melius, 

SJHS, “River Runs Through” 

• Third — Ethan Hoopes, 

SJHS, “Radon” 

• Honorable Mention — 

Shaylinn Harvey, TRMS, “Green 

Salt Crystals” 


Chelsea Wiley, SJHS, “Can Water 

Float on Water?” 

Engineering 

• First — Justin Franck, Holy 

Name, “Gone With the Wind” 

• Second — Trace 

Addlesperger, SJHS, “Suspended 

in Disbelief” 

• Third — Malik Grant, “Solar 

Sun Suckers” 


Desirae Burtenshaw, Recluse, 

“Hydroelectric Dam” 

• Honorable Mention — Keith 

Tetschner, SJHS, “Paper 

Airplanes” 


Meredith Weber, SJHS, “Over 

Easy or Scrambled” 

Environmental Science 

• First — Phillip Klebba, Holy 

Name, “Burn, Baby, Burn” 

• Second — Grace Henderson, 

SJHS, “Popcorn Packaging” 

• Third — Ty Bock, Newcastle, 

“Which Water is Purest?” 

• Honorable Mention — Laurel 

Fosnight, SJHS, “The Bitter Truth” 

Inventions 

• First — Donovan Powers, 

Tongue River Middle School, “The 

Burning Brick Bracket” 

• Second — Sarah Maze, 

TRMS, “The ‘Hand’y Reader’s 

Blanket” 

• Third — Austin Peery, TRMS, 

“3-on-3 BB War” 

Medicine and Health 

• First — Cal Botten, Holy 

Name, “Glycemic Index: High and 

Low” 

• Second — Emily Spiegelberg, 

SJHS, “Wake Up, People” 

• Third — Bryan McLean, 

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pins the location of her arms 

underneath the blanket. 

She then cut slits in the blanket 

where she’d pinned it, removed 

the sleeves from a cotton blouse, 

and sewed the upper part of the 

sleeves around the slits. 

Finally, she sewed a glove onto 

each lower part of the sleeves, creating 

a blanket that can be worn — 

“The ‘Hand’y Reader’s Blanket.” 

You can even watch television 

while wearing it, Maze said. 

Maze said she will survey people 

she knows to find out whether 

there is a market for the blankets. 

If so, she’ll begin making them 

using different colors, designs, and 

fabric types. 

Fair Results • Holy Name School dominates 

first-place awards at regional event 

SJHS, “TV vs. Pulse Rate” 

• Honorable Mention — Sara 

Ellingrod, Arvada/Clearmont, 

“Blood Pressure” 

Microbiology 

• First — Becky Bridger, SJHS, 

“Soap vs. Germs” 

• Second — Trish Juhala, 

Upton, “How Well Do Disinfectants 

Work?” 

• Third — Liberty Filey, 

Recluse, “Yuck Mouth” 

• Honorable Mention — Kyle 

Atkinson, Arvada/Clearmont, 

“Mold Killer” 

Physics 

• First — Sam Sanders, SJHS, 

“Repulsive Magnets” 

• Second — Leah Wolf, 

Newcastle, “Which Absorbs More 

Heat, Dark or Light Colors?” 

• Third — Max Marquis, SJHS, 

“Magnetic Forces” 


Morgan Brenneman, SJHS, “Sink 

or Swim” 


Christopher Garber, Holy Name, 

“Up, Up and Away” 

Teams — Any Category 

• First — Chase Linhart and 

Wyatt Main, TRMS, “P.S. 1000” 

• Second — Hope Clark and 

Bethany McVay, Newcastle, “The 

Natural Way” 

• Third — Kaylee Harley and 

Alondra Munoz, Newcastle, 

“Merry-Go-Round Physics” 

• Honorable Mention — Kaycee 

Ashby, Cynthia Schalau, and 

Jasmine Wilson, Newcastle, 

“Effect of Drink Choice on Weight” 

• First — Nate Kane, Holy 

Name, “Cows Under Pressure” 

• Second — Owen Bensel, 

TRMS, “Cow Behavior” 

• Third — Abby Ouellette, Holy 

Name, “Hair Today, Gone 

Tomorrow” 


Morgan Jacobs, SJHS, “Pooch 

Smooch” 

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Presidents Day 

We celebrate Presidents Day this year 

on Feb. 18. George Washington was born 

on Feb. 22, 1732, in Virginia. 

George had several brothers and 

sisters. George was very close to his older 

half-brother, Lawrence, who helped him 

with his studies and taught him how to 

get along socially. 

George did well in math. He learned to 

survey, or measure land, at a young age. 

His father died when George was 11 

years old, so he helped his mother run the 

farm where they lived. He learned a lot 

about keeping books, planting and horses. 

Created by BETTY DEBNAM 

Presidents Day, Feb. 18 

Following George’s Rules 

This famous 

painting of 

George 

Washington 

shows him 

toward the 

end of his 

life. It was 

painted by 

Gilbert 

Stuart. 

Washington 

posed for the 

painting of 

the head, but 

someone 

else stood in 

photo courtesy National Portrait Gallery 

George’s rules 

Have you ever copied words, either to 

improve your handwriting or to 

memorize the material? 

George went to school only until he 

was about 14 or 15 years old. He was 

probably asked by his mother or a 

teacher to copy some “rules of behavior.” 

These rules were originally written by 

Jesuits, or members of a group of Roman 

Catholics, in the late 1500s. Over the 

years many people gave George credit for 

the rules, but he was not the author. 

for the body. A sample of 

Presidents Day honors all American 

presidents. It is also near Abraham Lincoln’s 

birthday (Feb. 12). 

Meet Maiara Walsh 

Maiara (my-AH-ra) Walsh stars as 

Meena Paroom in the Disney Channel 

series “Cory in the House.” She has acted in 

several movies and TV shows, including the 

Nickelodeon series “Unfabulous.” 

Maiara, 20, is Brazilian and American. 

She speaks Spanish, Portuguese and 

English. She and her family go to Brazil 

every year to visit family. The rest of the 

year, she lives with her family in the San Fernando Valley in 

California. She has one older sister. 

She began taking acting classes when she was 11 years old. 

She enjoys hiking, singing, dancing, surfing, reading and 

cooking. She is very concerned about the environment, and 

works to increase recycling. 

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George’s 

handwriting. 

This is a 

letter he 

wrote to his 

dentist about 

his badly 

fitting 

dentures. 

photo courtesy Mount Vernon 

Ladies Association 

In honor of Presidents Day, The Mini 

Page takes a look at some of the 110 

“Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior in 

Company and Conversation.” 

Some of the rules sound funny to us; 

the style of writing was different in 

George’s time. But most of them relate to 

basic good manners and respect for others. 

from The Mini Page © 2008 Universal Press Syndicate 

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What’s civility? 

Civility is courtesy, or politeness. We 

have added a short explanation for each 

rule. Try to figure out what the rules 

mean before reading the explanation. 

1. Every action done in company 

ought to be with some sign of respect 

to those that are present. 

Treat other people with respect. 

4. In the presence of others, sing not 

to yourself with a 

humming noise, nor 

drum with your 

fingers or feet. 

Don’t make 

annoying noises 

when others are 

trying to talk and 

listen. 

15. Keep your nails clean and 

short, also your hands and teeth 

clean, yet without showing any great 

concern for 

them. 

Practice good 

hygiene, but don’t 

make a big deal 

out of it. 

Because George’s father died when 

George was so young, he was not able to 

go to college. As an adult, he collected a 

large number of books, and he became a 

good writer. In this way, he made up for 

not having a college education. 

His writings have given us a 

thorough look at this former president. 

George as an adult 

As a man, George Washington did 

many things that affected our country. 

He was a member 

of the First 

Continental 

Congress in 1774, 

where leaders of 

the Colonies met to 

discuss unfair 

treatment by the 

British. At the 

Second Continental Congress, 

Washington was elected the commander 

in chief for the Colonies. 

In this position, Washington led 

thousands of soldiers in the 

Revolutionary War against the British. 

His troops and the colonists admired his 

courage and knowledge about warfare. 

More Rules From George 

22. Show not yourself glad at the 

misfortune of another though he were 

your enemy. 

Don’t be happy when something bad 

happens to someone else, even if you 

don’t like him or her. 

44. When a man does all he can, 

though it succeeds not well, blame not 

him that did it. 

If someone tries hard and fails, don’t 

criticize him for failing. 

48. Wherein you reprove another be 

unblameable yourself; for example is 

more prevalent than precepts. 

If you criticize someone about 

something, you should not do the same 

thing yourself. Actions speak louder 

than words. 

53. Run not in the 

streets, neither go 

too slowly nor with 

mouth open, go not 

shaking your arms, 

kick not the earth 

with your feet, go not 

upon the toes, nor in a dancing fashion. 

Walk calmly without jumping around. 

54. Play not the 

peacock, looking 

everywhere about you, 

to see if you be well 

decked, if your shoes fit 

well, if your stockings 

sit neatly, and clothes handsomely. 

Don’t check yourself out in mirrors all 

the time, seeing how you look. 

Next week, The Mini Page is about Sojourner 

Truth. 


Supersport: Rachel Dawson 

Height: 5-10 Hometown: Berlin, N.J. 

For Rachel Dawson, it was the perfect ending to a 

storybook college field hockey career. The dazzling senior 

led the University of North Carolina to a perfect 24-0 

season, the Division I national championship, and was 

voted the top female field hockey player in the nation. 

A two-time All-American, Dawson led the Tar Heels in 

scoring with 19 goals and was hailed by coach Karen Shelton as the most 

valuable player ever to play at UNC. 

Dawson, also a member of the U.S. National Team, excels in the 

classroom as well. She is a Dean’s List student majoring in business. She 

lists her dream job as being a “chief inventor and CEO of a major 

technological firm.” 

Dawson, who grew up in an athletic family with seven siblings, likes to 

read, watch sports and go to the beach. 

56. Associate yourself with men of 

good quality if you esteem your own 

reputation; for ’tis better to be alone 

than in bad company. 

People may make judgments about 

you based on who your friends are. 

60. Be not immodest in urging your 

friends to discover a secret. 

It may be better to keep the secret. 

65. Speak not injurious words 

neither in jest nor 

earnest. Scoff at 

none although 

they give occasion. 

Even if you’re 

kidding, don’t 

make fun of 

people. 

71. Gaze not on the marks or 

blemishes of others, and ask not how 

they came. What you may speak in 

secret to your friend deliver not before 

others. 

Don’t stare at or ask about marks on 

other people, such as warts or freckles. 

And don’t tell your friend’s secrets to 

others. 

73. Think before you 

speak. Pronounce not 

imperfectly nor bring 

out your words too 

hastily, but orderly and 

distinctly. 

Think about what you want to say 

before you start talking. Say the words 

correctly and not too fast. 

The Mini Page thanks Melissa Wood with 

George Washington’s Mount Vernon Estate 

and Gardens for help with this issue. 

Please include all of the appropriate registered trademark symbols and copyright lines in any publication of The Mini Page ® . 

Go dot to dot and color our first president. 

More About George 

photo courtesy Mount Vernon Ladies Association 

George Washington’s plantation, Mount 

Vernon. 

A gentleman farmer 

When he was not involved in his 

military career, George was a farmer. 

He and his wife, Martha, worked at 

their plantation, Mount Vernon, to 

make it more productive. He switched 

his crops from tobacco to wheat and 

started milling the wheat for flour. 

His country calls him 

After the Revolutionary War ended, 

George Washington left his military job. 

He had decided to never again serve in 

public life. But the new country’s problems 

interested him, and he worried that the 

Articles of Confederation were not 

working well. 


76. While you are talking, point not 

with your finger at him of whom you 

discourse, nor approach too near him 

to whom you talk, especially to his face. 

Don’t point at people while you talk 

to them, and don’t get too close. 

82. Undertake not what you cannot 

perform but be careful to keep your 

promise. 

Don’t start something you can’t 

finish, and keep your promises. 

96. It’s unbecoming to 

stoop much to one’s meat. 

Keep your fingers clean, and 

when foul wipe them on a 

corner of your table napkin. 

Eat politely. Sit up straight, and use 

your napkin to wipe your hands. 

97. Put not another bit into your 

mouth till the former be swallowed. Let 

not your morsels be too big for the jowls. 

Chew each bite thoroughly and 

swallow before taking another bite. 

Don’t take bites that are too big. 

100. Cleanse not your 

teeth with the table cloth 

napkin, fork or knife; but 

if others do it, let it be 

done with a pick tooth. 

Don’t use a knife or fork to pick food 

out of your teeth. Use a toothpick if 

necessary. 

110. Labor to keep alive in your 

breast that little spark of celestial fire 

called conscience. 

Keep in your heart your own 

sense of what’s right and wrong. 


Mini Spy . . . 


TM 

Rookie Cookie’s Recipe 

Tasty Oven-Fried Chicken Bites 

These bites are moist, tasty and healthy. Serve them with a 

You’ll need: 

salad and rice for a complete meal. 

• 3 boneless chicken breasts, cut into 1-inch cubes 

• 1/3 cup Italian dressing 

• 1/2 cup Italian bread crumbs 

• 1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese 

• 3/4 teaspoon dried basil 

• Cooking spray 

What to do: 

1. Cut chicken into 1-inch cubes and place in bowl with Italian dressing. 

2. Mix bread crumbs, parmesan cheese and basil in a separate shallow 

bowl. 

3. Coat chicken pieces with bread-crumb mixture. 

4. Spray a medium baking pan with cooking spray. Place chicken pieces 

in one layer in the pan. 

5. Bake for 30 minutes until chicken is done. Makes 4 servings. 

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Constitutional Convention 

In 1787 he went to Philadelphia for 

the Constitutional Convention. This 

meeting was called to make changes to 

the Articles of Confederation. The 

meeting took four months. George was 

in favor of a constitution. 

When the U.S. Constitution was 

finally approved, George wanted to 

again return to Mount Vernon and lead 

a quiet life. But in 1789, the U.S. 

Constitution had been approved by nine 

of the 13 states, and George Washington 

was elected president of the United 

States. 

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TRY ’N 

Presidents Day FIND 

Words that remind us of George Washington are hidden in the block below. Some 

words are hidden backward, and some letters are used twice. See if you can find: 

PRESIDENT, VIRGINIA, GEORGE, LAWRENCE, SURVEY, FARM, RULES, 

CIVILITY, RESPECT, WASHINGTON, WRITING, COMMANDER, MOUNT, 

VERNON, MARTHA, CONSTITUTION, TEETH, HYGIENE, MANNERS. 

Basset Brown 

The News 

Hound’s 

GOOD 

MANNERS 

COUNT! 

Washington 

served two 

terms as 

president. He 

returned to 

Mount 

Vernon and 

died there on 

Dec. 14, 

1799. 

Site to see: Mount Vernon 

www.mountvernon.org/learn/meet_george/ 

index.cfm/ss/26 

All the following jokes have something in common. 

Can you guess the common theme or category? 

Tim: Why was George Washington always 

standing in his official portraits? 

Thelma: Because he could not lie! 


C O N S T I T U T I O N K G R 

O B E C N E R W A L Y P Q M E 

M V J W A S H I N G T O N A S 

M E M O U N T N E D I S E R P 

A R E G R O E G S E L U R T E 

N N M A N N E R S Z I R M H C 

D O V G N I T I R W V V R A T 

E N E I G Y H K B L I E A B Q 

R X A I N I G R I V C Y F Z H 

Mini Spy and her friends are using good manners at a fancy 

dance party. See if you can find: • man in the moon • toothbrush 

• football 

• letter D 

• heart 

• leaf 

• paintbrush 

• pea pod 

• kite • fish 

• letter E 

• lima bean 

• letter C 

• teapot 

• ring • key 

• letter L 

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photo courtesy Mount Vernon Ladies Association 


Terry: Who set a record for having the biggest family? 

Tom: George Washington, because he is considered the 

father of his country! 

Tammy: Why would George Washington have 

difficulty throwing a silver dollar across 

the Potomac River today? 

Tess: Because a dollar doesn’t go as 

far as it once did!

Sports 

B3 

THE 

SHERIDAN Press Wednesday, February 20, 2008 

Rundown 

• What’s on Tap 

Today 

• No events scheduled 

Thursday 

Boys’ Basketball 

Tongue River vs. Guernsey- 

Sunrise (Class 2A East 

Region Tournament at 

Douglas), noon; Big Horn vs. 

Niobrara County (Class 2A 

East Region Tournament at 

Douglas), 1:30 p.m.; 

Normative Services vs. 

Saratoga (Class 1A East 


Torrington), 2 p.m. 

Girls’ Basketball 

Big Horn vs. Niobrara 

County (Class 2A East 


Douglas), 9 a.m.; Tongue 

River vs. Guernsey-Sunrise 

(Class 2A East Region 

Tournament at Douglas), 

10:30 a.m.; Arvada- 

Clearmont vs. Upton Class 

1A East Region Tournament 

(at Torrington), 5:30 p.m. 

• TV Today 

All times MST 

CYCLING 

9 p.m. 

VERSUS — Tour of 

California, stage 3, Modesto 

to San Jose, Calif. (sameday 

tape) 

MEN’S COLLEGE 

BASKETBALL 

5 p.m. 

ESPN — North Carolina 

at N.C. State 

ESPN2 — Marquette at 

St. John’s 

7 p.m. 

ESPN2 — Kansas St. at 

Nebraska 

NBA BASKETBALL 

7 p.m. 

ESPN — L.A. Lakers at 

Phoenix 

SOCCER 

3 p.m. 

ESPN CLASSIC — UEFA 

Champions League, 1/8th 

finals, leg 1, Celtic FC vs. 

Barcelona, at Glasgow, 

Scotland (same-day tape) 

9 p.m. 

ESPN CLASSIC — MLS, 

Pan Pacific Championship, 

Los Angeles vs. Gamba 

Osaka, at Honolulu 

11:30 p.m. 

ESPN CLASSIC — MLS, 

Pan Pacific Championship, 

Houston vs. Sydney FC, at 

Honolulu 

• Briefs 


SJHS ‘A’ boys’ hoop 

teams split 

The Sheridan Junior High 

School eighth-grade “A” boys’ 

basketball team finished the 

regular season with a 50-34 win 

over Sage Valley in Gillette on 

Tuesday. 

Taylor Kraft led the Broncs 

with 16 points, and Riley Ryan 

and Scott Brown both scored 

six. 

The seventh-grade “A” team 

lost to Sage Valley 74-17 in 

Gillette on Tuesday. Anthony 

Newlon led SJHS with 10 

points. 

The eighth-grade “A” team 

finished the regular season with 

an 11-0 record and is 6-0 in the 

Northeast District. 

The eighth-grade and seventh-grade 

“B” team games 

were postponed until Thursday 

because of a leaky ceiling at 

Sage Valley. 

The Northeast District tournaments 

will take place March 

1. Sheridan will host the seventh-grade 

tournaments, while 

the eighth-grade tournaments 

are at Sage Valley. 

Babe Ruth baseball 

registrations 

Registration for the 2008 

Sheridan Babe Ruth season for 

players ages 13-15 will take 

place from March 31 until April 

11 at the Sheridan Recreation 

District office at Thorne-Rider 

Park. 

The fee is $35 per player. 

There will be mini-camps 

and team drafts from April 12 

until May 1. 

The Babe Ruth season will 

begin in early May. The Sheridan 

Babe Ruth Tournament is 

June 21-22, and the district and 

state tournaments will be in 

mid-July. 

The Sheridan Babe Ruth 

league will be the only competition 

for 13-15-year-olds this 

season. It hopes to field six to 

eight teams. 

Generals snare Trappers 88-77 in overtime 


Sheridan College’s Dennis Williamson shoots over Northwest 

College’s Julian Olubuyi during first-half play at the Bruce Hoffman 

Golden Dome on Tuesday. The Generals won the game in overtime 

88-77. 

By Ken Hamrick 

Sports Editor 

The Sheridan College men’s basketball 

team got off to a slow start when it hosted 

Northwest College at the Bruce Hoffman 

Golden Dome on Tuesday. The Generals 

trailed by 14 points early, but came back to 

defeat the Trappers in overtime 88-77. 

“Northwest is a good team and they’re 

well-coached,” said SC coach Joel Davidson. 

“They’re not going to lay down for anybody. 

They came in and took it to us early and we 

didn’t match their intensity. But our kids kept 

their composure and battled back. They could 

have laid down out of the gate, but they 

didn’t. So hat’s off to them for that.” 

Michael Lebsack gave Northwest the early 

lead with a three-point basket. Dennis 

Williamson put SC on the board by making 

one of two from the line, but Jason Burke- 

Kavros knocked down a trey to push the 

Trappers’ lead to 6-1. 

Williamson scored from the inside, but 

Northwest scored 11 straight points to 

increase its lead to 17-3 with 14:01 left in the 

first half. 

Joshua Peery hit a three-pointer to end the 

Trapper run. Cedric Koffi then made two free 

throws, Tom Parks added a trey, and 

Moustapha Diarra scored in the paint to cut 

the Northwest lead to 17-13 with 12:17 

before halftime. 

The Trappers came back with seven 

straight points to take a 24-13 lead. But 

Antoine Watson made three straight baskets, 

and Parks nailed another trey to bring the 

Generals within 24-22 midway through the 

first half. 

Sloan Baker’s jumper and a free throw by 

Breanson Lawson increased Northwest’s lead 

Kenny 

Daniels 

Tom 

Parks 

Antoine 

Watson 

to 27-22. But Williamson’s hook shot and Koffi’s 

jumper cut the deficit to 27-26 with 7:41 before halftime. 

Neither team scored for the next two minutes. Diarra 

finally put the Generals in front with a layup, and Parks 

split at the line to give SC a 29-27 lead with 5:06 left in 

the half. 

Julian Olubuyi’s layup tied the score, and Lebsack 

hit a jumper to again put the Trappers into the lead at 

31-29. 

Diarra tied the score, but Baker made two free 

throws to again give Northwest a two-point lead. Peery 

scored in the lane to tie the score at 33-33 at the intermission. 

Williamson put SC into the lead at the beginning of 

the second half. After Burke-Kavros tied the score, the 

Generals got a layup and a three-pointer from Kenny 

Daniels, then got a free throw from Mari Konate to 

claim a 41-35 lead. 

Burke-Kavros drove for a layup, Lawson split from 

Lady Generals finish home season undefeated 


Sports Editor 

Sheridan College finished its 2007-08 women’s 

basketball home season with an undefeated record as 

the Lady Generals defeated Northwest College 82- 

48 at the Bruce Hoffman Golden Dome on Tuesday. 

SC went 12-0 at home this season. 

“It’s the first time in a long time that we went 

undefeated at home,” said SC coach Frank 

McCarthy. “I can’t tell you how proud I am of the 

girls. They play well together, and stuck with it all 

year. It’s been a tremendous year.” 

SC got off to a fast start with Tahnee Robinson, Randa 

Clabaugh and Mckenzie Gentry all scoring to give the 

Lady Generals a 6-0 lead. Gita Grava put the Lady 

Trappers on the board with a layup, but Sheridan responded 

with a pair of free throws from Robinson and a Lyndie 

NeVille layup for a 10-2 lead with 14:21 left in the first 

half. 

Erin Cooke scored twice to keep the Lady Trappers 

within 12-6. But NeVille connected on a three-point basket, 

then made one of two from the free throw line. 

Tonishea Mack scored a layup, was fouled on the play and 

hit the ensuing free throw for a 19-6 Lady General lead 

with 11:36 before halftime. 

After another Cooke layup, NeVille hit a jumper and 

Gentry drove for a layup for a 15-point SC lead. 

Northwest scored six straight points to narrow the 

deficit to 23-14. But Mack scored two straight baskets, 

and Neville split from the line for a 28-15 lead. 

The Lady Trappers pulled within 28-19, but NeVille 

hit another trey, then stole the ball in the backcourt and 

took it the distance. Randa Clabaugh also scored off a 

steal for a 35-19 SC lead. 

Ashley Buckner split from the line for the Lady 

Trappers. But Gentry and Robinson made back-to-back 

Tonishea 

Mack 

Lyndie 

NeVille 

Tahnee 

Robinson 

three-pointers, then a layup by Mack helped the Lady 

Generals extend their advantage to 43-22. 

Northwest scored the next five points, but NeVille 

scored just before the half to give Sheridan a 45-27 lead at 

the break. 

The Lady Trappers went on a 7-2 run at the beginning 

of the second half to reduce the SC lead to 47-34. But 

Mack followed a Robinson miss, and the Lady Generals 

got three-point baskets from Clabaugh, NeVille and 

Robinson to increase the lead to 58-37 with 12:56 left in 

the game. 

Aline Lino split from the line and Robinson hit another 

trey for a 62-39 advantage. Northwest scored five straight 

points, but SC got a jumper and a three-pointer from Kori 

Bingham, plus two treys from NeVille for a 73-44 lead 

with six minutes remaining. 

Crystal Gauthier’s layup ended the run, but the Lady 

Generals scored the next eight points, with Mack scoring 

four and NeVille and Gentry both scoring two, for an 81- 

46 advantage. 

“I thought we came out well and set a tone early and 

really played well at times,” McCarthy said 

Please see Lady Generals, Page B8 

Stender nominated for McDonald’s 

All-American game 


Sheridan High School senior 

Erika Stender has been named 

one of 1,000 nominees for the 

2008 McDonald’s All-American 

High School Girls’ Basketball 

Game, which takes place March 

26 in Milwaukee. 

Stender was nominated by 

the McDonald’s All-American 

Basketball Selection Committee, 

a group of 24 prominent basketball 

experts, including nationally 

Erika 

Stender 

known coaches and top high school journalists, earlier 

this month. The final roster of 24 players will be 

announced at the end of February. 

“Erika is an outstanding basketball player, but 

more importantly, she is an outstanding person,” 

said SHS coach Mark Elliott. “She is an extremely 

talented individual in many areas of her life, and it 

has been a pleasure getting to know her and her family 

over the last four years. I am sure she will have 

continued success wherever she goes and whatever 

she does. I congratulate her on all of her accomplishments.” 

Stender has been on the Lady Broncs varsity 

team the last three years. Sheridan won the Class 4A 

State Championship during her junior season and 

finished fifth her sophomore season. 

A portion of the proceeds from both the boys’ 

and girls’ games will benefit Ronald McDonald 

House Charities of Eastern Wisconsin. 

the line, and Meneptha Darden scored in the 

paint to bring the Trappers within 41-40. 

Diarra’s layup gave the Generals a 

three-point cushion, and after a layup by 

Jamal Rolle, Parks hit a jump shot, and 

Watson scored on the fast-break dunk to 

increase the SC lead to 47-42. 

Northwest again battled back with 

Burke-Kavros hitting a trey to reduce the 

Generals’ lead to 49-48. Parks and Daniels 

made back-to-back treys for a seven-point 

lead, but Burke-Kavros again hit from behind 

the arc to pull the Trappers within 55-51. 

Watson scored twice and Williamson 

scored on a hook shot to give SC a 61-54 

lead. Matt Kellogg then drove the lane for a 

layup, was fouled on the play, and made the 

free throw to increase the Generals’ lead to 

64-54 with 5:37 left in regulation. 

Lacey began another Northwest run 

with a three-pointer and he later made two 

free throws. Burke-Kavros’ layup pulled the 

Trappers within 66-61 with 3:44 remaining. 

Daniels’ two free throws gave SC a 

seven-point lead, but Burke-Kavros made 

two straight baskets to close the gap to 68- 

65. 

Daniels put SC up by five points, but 

Burke-Kavros hit another trey, and Lawson 

scored with 53 seconds remaining to tie the 

score at 70-70. 

Williamson had a chance to give the 

Generals the lead with 34 seconds left, but 

missed two free throws. Northwest pushed 

the ball upcourt, but Lacey stepped out of 

bounds with nine seconds remaining. 

Williamson’s last-chance shot was 

missed sending the game into overtime. 

“We had a chance to put it away,” 

Davidson said. “We missed free throws and 

made some turnovers and Northwest battled 

back. That just shows their character.” 

Olubuyi scored the first points of the overtime, but 

Williamson’s layup tied the score at 72-72. 

Parks gave SC the lead with a three-pointer. Olubuyi 

split from the line. but the Generals got a layup from 

Williamson and another trey from Parks to increase the 

lead to 80-73. 

SC made six of seven free throws in the final 2:13 to 

put the game on ice. 

“We came out and got the ball inside to Dennis right 

off the bat,” Davidson said. “That set the tone for the 

final five minutes.” 

Parks was SC’s top scorer with 20 points. Daniels 

and Watson both scored 14 and Williamson had 13. 

Burke-Kavros led all scorers with 22 points. 

The Generals outrebounded the Trappers 39-32 with 

Watson leading with eight, followed by Parks and 

Williamson both with six. 

Koffi led in assists with five. 

Please see Generals, Page B8 


Sheridan College’s Randa Clabaugh rises above Northwest 

College defenders Lacey Gilmer (14) and Inga Briede for a 

shot during first-half play at the Bruce Hoffman Golden 

Dome on Tuesday. The Lady Generals won 82-48. 

TR’s Rob Johnson a finalist 

for Wyoming football 

scholar-athlete award 


Sports Editor 

Tongue River High 

School senior Rob 

Johnson has been named 

one of 12 finalists by the 

National Football Foundation 

and College Hall of 

Fame Wyoming Chapter 

for the 2007 Wyoming 

High School Scholar- 

Athlete Award. 

As a finalist, Johnson 

will receive a $1,000 

Rob 

Johnson 

scholarship for the college of his 

choice. The overall 

state winner will be 

awarded an additional 

$1,000 and will be in 

contention for the 

Western Regional 

Scholar-Athlete 

Scholarship. The 

regional winner will 

be named a national 

finalist and will travel 

to New York for the 

National College 

Football Hall of Fame 

Awards Banquet. 

Please see Johnson, Page B8


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ALL-AROUND COWBOY 

1. Clint Robinson, Spanish Fork, Utah $23,787 

2. Cash Myers, Athens, Texas $20,800 

3. Trevor Brazile, Decatur, Texas $20,415 

4. Seth Glause, Rock Springs, Wyo. $17,896 

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7. Ryan Gray, Cheney, Wash. $13,689 

8. Bobby Mote, Culver, Ore. $11,505 

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3. Beau Franzen, Sidney, Mont. $19,855 

4. Curtis Cassidy, Donalda, Alberta $15,402 

5. Matt Reeves, Pampa, Texas $15,005 

6. Lee Graves, Calgary, Alberta $14,870 

7. Ken Lewis, La Junta, Colo. $13,840 

8. Brad Morgan, Brandon, Miss. $13,275 

9. Wade Sumpter, Fowler, Colo. $12,930 

10. Dean Gorsuch, Gering, Neb. $12,652 

11. Tooter Silver, Warner, Okla. $11,767 

12. Mickey Gee, Wichita Falls, Texas $11,074 

13. Sean Mulligan, Coleman, Okla. $11,060 

14. Gabe Ledoux, Kaplan, La. $10,117 

15. Bill Pace, Stephenville, Texas $9,327 

16. Stockton Graves, Newkirk, Okla. $8,325 

17. Joey Bell Jr., Athens, Texas $8,219 

18. Kyle Callaway, Gillette, Wyo. $8,121 

19. Cash Myers, Athens, Texas $7,910 

20. Anthony Norwood, Butler, Ala. $7,723 

TEAM ROPING (HEADING) 

1. Riley Minor, Ellensburg, Wash. $20,149 

2. Jake Barnes, Scottsdale, Ariz. $13,877 

3. Speed Williams, Deleon, Texas $13,840 

4. Reese Kerr, Comfort, Texas $13,097 

5. Matt Funk, Hermiston, Ore. $12,995 

6. Matt Sherwood, Queen Creek, Ariz. $12,960 

7. Shane Schwenke, Harlem, Mont. $12,673 

8. Garrett Tonozzi, Fruita, Colo. $12,555 

9. Luke Brown, Rock Hill, S.C. $11,674 

10. Turtle Powell, Alpine, Texas $11,309 

11. Jojo Lemond, Andrews, Texas $10,568 

12. David Key, Caldwell, Texas $10,475 

13. B.J. Campbell, Benton City, Wash. $9,894 

14. Travis Tryan, Billings, Mont. $9,338 

15. Jake Stanley, Hermiston, Ore. $9,176 

16. Jimmy Edens, Gatesville, Texas $9,045 

17. Trevor Brazile, Decatur, Texas $8,981 

18. Derrick Begay, Seba Dalkai, Ariz. $8,794 

19. Logan Olson, Flandreau, SD $8,289 

20. Jake Cooper, Monument, N.M. $8,201 

TEAM ROPING (HEELING) 

1. Brady Minor, Ellensburg, Wash. $20,149 

2. Clay O’Brien Cooper, Morgan Mill, Texas 

$16,121 

3. Allen Bach, Weatherford, Texas $13,840 

4. Jesse Echtler, Huntsville, Texas $13,097 

5. Bucky Campbell, Benton City, Wash. 

$12,995 

6. Randon Adams, Logandale, Nev. $12,960 

7. Kory Mytty, Lolo, Mont. $12,673 

8. Kinney Harrell, San Angelo, Texas $12,555 

9. Travis Graves, Jay, Okla. $11,309 

10. Martin Lucero, Stephenville, Texas $10,568 

11. Russell Cardoza, Knights Ferry, Calif. 

$9,894 

12. Michael Jones, Stephenville, Texas $9,754 

13. Broc Cresta, Santa Rosa, Calif. $9,270 

14. Marty Becker, Edmonton, Alberta $9,176 

15. Ryan Motes, Weatherford, Texas $9,045 

16. Patrick Smith, Midland, Texas $8,981 

17. Victor Aros, Tucson, Ariz. $8,794 

18. Kory Koontz, Sudan, Texas $8,232 

19. Jim Ross Cooper, Monument, N.M. $8,201 

20. Manny Egusquiza Jr., Madison, Ga. $7,851 

SADDLE BRONC RIDING 

1. J.J. Elshere, Quinn, S.D. $35,175 

2. Cody Wright, Milford, Utah $31,297 

3. Samuel Kelts, Millarville, Alberta $21,029 

4. Taos Muncy, Corona, N.M. $20,612 

5. Dustin Flundra, Pincher Creek, Alberta 

$12,889 

6. Cody DeMoss, Heflin, La. $12,784 

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10. Morgan Forbes, Kaycee, Wyo. $11,634 

11. Louie Brunson, Interior, S.D. $10,746 

12. Rollie Wilson, Buffalo, S.D. $10,530 

13. Cody Taton, Newell, S.D. $10,104 

14. Bradley Harter, Weatherford, Texas 

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15. Anthony Bello, Oakley, Utah $9,384 

16. Marty Eakin, Nazareth, Texas $8,579 

17. Mike Outhier, Utopia, Texas $7,930 

18. Billy Etbauer, Edmond, Okla. $7,332 

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1. Fred Whitfield, Hockley, Texas $23,137 

2. Adam Gray, Seymour, Texas $21,629 

3. Clint Robinson, Spanish Fork, Utah $20,431 

4. Hunter Herrin, Apache, Okla. $19,869 

5. Clay Cerny, Brazoria, Texas $17,839 

6. Blair Burk, Durant, Okla. $15,991 

7. Tyler Garten, Kingman, Kan. $14,908 

8. Jeff Chapman, Athens, Texas $14,311 

9. Mike Johnson, Henryetta, Okla. $14,287 

10. Cimarron Boardman, Stephenville, Texas 

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11. Randall Carlisle, Lipan, Texas $11,772 

12. Jerrad Hofstetter, Portales, N.M. $11,710 

13. Cash Myers, Athens, Texas $11,687 

14. Cade Swor, Chico, Texas $11,484 

15. Justin Maass, Giddings, Texas $10,869 

16. Tyson Durfey, Colbert, Wash. $10,774 

17. Scott Kormos, Teague, Texas $10,618 

18. J. Cody Jones, Kelseyville, Calif. $10,616 

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3. Lindsay Sears, Ropesville, Texas $18,315 

4. Brittany Pozzi-Pharr, Victoria, Texas $17,119 

5. Kelly Maben, Spur, Texas $16,567 

6. Heidi Meuwissen, Mayer, Minn. $14,656 

7. Tiffany Fox, Fox, Okla. $13,531 

8. Jill Moody, Letcher, S.D. $13,401 

9. Carrie Thompson, Morton, Miss. $13,084 

10. Kelly Carr, Henryville, Ind. $12,975 

11. Brenda Mays, Terrebonne, Ore. $11,809 

12. Annesa Self, Valley View, Texas $10,353 

13. Jodi Rush Cuccurullo, Carrollton, Texas 

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14. June Holeman, Arcadia, Neb. $10,061 

15. Sheri Sinor-Estrada, Alamogordo, N.M. 

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17. Wendy Culberson, Okeechobee, Fla. 

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1. Chance Smart, Philadelphia, Miss. $74,901 

2. Wesley Silcox, Payson, Utah $34,632 

3. Kanin Asay, Powell, Wyo. (Sheridan 

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4. Mike Moore, Kankakee, Ill. $31,771 

5. Logan Knibbe, Rockdale, Texas $28,010 

6. Luke Haught, Weatherford, Texas $18,975 

7. Cody Hancock, Taylor, Ariz. $18,699 

8. J.W. Harris, May, Texas $18,105 

9. Jarrod Ford, Greeley, Colo. $17,774 

10. Bobby Welsh, Gillette, Wyo. $15,523 

11. Tony Smart, Newton, Miss. $14,968 

12. Seth Glause, Rock Springs, Wyo. $14,855 

13. Myron Duarte, Auburn, Wash. $14,583 

14. Colin McTaggart, Las Vegas $13,360 

15. Spud Jones, Tohatchi, N.M. $13,072 

16. Zack Oakes, Elk, Wash. $11,118 

17. Howdy Cloud, Kountze, Texas $10,753 

18. Zeb Lanham, Sweet, Idaho $10,866 

19. Colby Reilly, Stratford, Wash. $10,818 

20. Trey Traweek, Denison, Texas $10,695 

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2. J.R. Olson, Sheridan, Wyo. $7,197 

3. Cody Lee, Gatesville, Texas $5,935 

4. Chet Herren, Pawhuska, Okla. $4,922 

5. Scott Snedecor, Uvalde, Texas $4,189 

6. J.D. Yates, Pueblo, Colo. $3,626 

7. Will Gasperson, Decatur, Texas $3,375 

8. Lawson Plemons, Chilton, Texas $2,816 

9. Bryce Davis, Abilene, Texas $2,780 

10. J.R. Magdeburg III, Rowland, Okla. $2,780 

11. J.P. Wickett, Sallisaw, Okla. $2,345 

12. Trevor Brazile, Decatur, Texas $2,327 

13. Dan Fisher, Andrews, Texas $2,283 

14. Troy Brown, Stephenville, Texas $2,283 

15. Will McBride, Ogallala, Neb. $2,184 

16. T.K. Tillard, Douglas, Wyo. $2,134 

17. Vin Fisher Jr., Andrews, Texas $2,079 

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Scoreboard 

H.S. BASKETBALL 

Tuesday’s Scores 

BOYS BASKETBALL 

Cody 50, Lyman 35 

Rock River 49, Chugwater 46 

Scottsbluff, Neb. 83, Torrington 64 

GIRLS BASKETBALL 

Casper Natrona 69, Evanston 44 

Cody 56, Lyman 23 

Star Valley 39, Casper Kelly Walsh 32 

Class 2A East Region Tournament 

Boys 

Monday, Feb. 18 

Play-in games 

Big Horn 64, Moorcroft 57 

Lingle-Fort Laramie 68, Pine Bluffs 47 

At Douglas 

Thursday, Feb. 21 

First Round 

Tongue River vs. Guernsey-Sunrise, noon 

Niobrara County vs. Big Horn, 1:30 p.m. 

Sundance vs. Lingle-Fort Laramie, 7 p.m. 

Burns vs. Wright. 8:30 p.m. 

Friday, Feb. 22 

First-round consolation 

Tongue River/Guernsey-Sunrise loser vs. 

Niobrara County/Big Horn, 1:30 p.m. 

Sundance/Lingle-Fort Laramie loser vs. 

Burns/Wright loser, 1:30 p.m. 

Semifinals 

Tongue River/Guernsey-Sunrise winner vs. 

Niobrara County/Moorcroft/Big Horn winner, 7 

p.m. 

Sundance/Lingle-Fort Laramie winner vs. 

Burns/Wright winner, 8:30 p.m. 

Saturday, Feb. 23 

Consolation semifinals, noon and 1:30 p.m. 

Third place game, 5:30 p.m. 

Championship, 8:30 p.m. 

Girls 


Play-in games 

Sundance 46, Moorcroft 26 

Guernsey-Sunrise 42, Lingle-Fort Laramie 

32 

At Douglas 


First round 

Big Horn vs. Niobrara County, 9 a.m. 

Burns vs. Sundance, 10:30 a.m. 

Tongue River vs. Guernsey-Sunrise, 4 

p.m. 

Pine Bluffs vs. Wright, 5:30 p.m. 



Big Horn/Niobrara County loser vs. 

Burns/Sundance loser, 9 a.m. 

Tongue River/Guernsey-Sunrise loser vs. 

Pine Bluffs/Wright loser, 10:30 a.m. 

Semifinals 

Big Horn/Niobrara County winner vs. 

Burns/Sundance winner, 4 p.m. 

Tongue River/Guernsey-Sunrise winner vs. 

Pine Bluffs/Wright winner, 5 p.m. 


Consolation semifinals, 9 and 10:30 a.m. 

Third place game, 4 p.m. 

Championship, 7 p.m. 

Class 2A West Region Tournament 

Boys 


Play-in game 

Rocky Mountain 66, Shoshoni 54 

At Riverton 


First round 

Thermopolis vs. Big Piney, 5:30 p.m. (RMS) 

Wyoming Indian vs. Riverside, 7:15 p.m. 

(RMS) 

Wind River vs. Rocky Mountain, 5:30 p.m. 

(RHS) 

Greybull vs. Mountain View, 7:15 p.m. (RHS) 



Thermopolis/Big Piney loser vs. Wyoming 

Indian/Riverside loser, 11:45 a.m. (RMS) 

Wind River/Rocky Mountain loser vs. 

Greybull/Mountain View loser, 11:45 a.m. 

(RHS) 

Semifinals 

Thermopolis/Big Piney winner vs. Wyoming 

Indian/Riverside winner, 2:30 p.m. (RHS) 

Wind River/Rocky Mountain winner vs. 

Greybull/Mountain view winner, 4:10 p.m. 

(RHS) 


Consolation semifinals, 9 a.m. (RHS and 

RMS) 

Third place game, 1 p.m. (RHS) 

Championship, 6:10 p.m. (RHS) 

Girls 


Play-in game 

Greybull 39, Rocky Mountain 26 

At Riverton 


First-round 

Thermopolis vs. Pig Piney, 2 p.m. (RMS) 

Wyoming Indian vs. Riverside, 3:45 p.m. 

(RMS) 

Mountain View vs. Greybull, 2 p.m. (RHS) 

Shoshoni vs. Wind River, 3:45 p.m. (RHS) 


Consolation first round 

Thermopolis/Big Piney loser vs. Wyoming 

Indian/Riverside loser, 10 a.m. (RMS) 

Mountain View/Greybull loser vs. 

Shoshoni/Wind River loser, 3:45 p.m. (RHS) 

Semifinals 

Thermopolis/Big Piney winner vs. Wyoming 

Indian/Riverside winner, 6 p.m. (RHS) 

Mountain View/Greybull winner vs. 

Shoshoni/Wind River winner, 7:40 p.m. (RHS) 


Consolation semifinals, 10:40 a.m. (RHS and 

RMS) 

Third place game, 2:40 p.m. (RHS) 

Championship, 4:30 p.m. (RHS) 

Class 1A East Region Tournament 

At Torrington 

Boys 


First round 

Saratoga vs. Normative Services, 2 p.m. 

(Eastern Wyoming College) 

Midwest vs. Glendo, 3:45 p.m. (EWC) 

Kaycee vs. Rock River, 5:30 p.m. (EWC) 

Southeast vs. Upton, 7:15 p.m. (EWC) 



Saratoga/Normative Services loser vs. 

Midwest/Glendo loser, 11:45 a.m. (THS) 

Kaycee/Rock River loser vs. Southeast/ 

Upton loser, 11:45 a.m. (EWC) 

Semifinals 

Saratoga/Normative Services winner vs. 

Midwest/Glendo winner, 5:30 p.m. (THS) 

Kaycee/Rock River winner vs. Southeast/ 

Upton winner, 7:15 p.m. (THS) 


Consolation semifinals, 11:50 a.m. (THS and 

EWC) 

Third place game, 2:45 p.m. (THS) 

Championship, 6:15 p.m. (THS) 

Girls 


First round 

Southeast vs. Midwest, 2 p.m. (THS) 

Kaycee vs. Chugwater, 3:45 p.m. (THS) 

Arvada-Clearmont vs. Upton, 5:30 p.m. 

(Torrington High School) 

Saratoga vs. Hulett, 7:15 p.m. (THS) 



Southeast/Midwest loser vs. Kaycee/ 

Chugwater loser, 10 a.m. (THS) 

Arvada-Clearmont/Upton loser vs. Saratoga/ 

Hulett loser, 10 a.m. (EWC) 

Semifinals 

Southeast/Midwest winner vs. Kaycee/ 

Chugwater winner, 2 p.m. (THS) 

Arvada-Clearmont/Upton winner vs. 

Saratoga/Hulett winner, 3:45 p.m. (THS) 


Consolation semifinals, 9:30 a.m. (THS and 

EWC) 

Third place game, 1 p.m. (THS) 

Championship, 4:30 p.m. (THS) 

Class 1A West Region Tournament 

At Lander 

Boys 


Play-in games 

Arapaho Charter 77, Cokeville 77 

Meeteetse 33, Farson-Eden 30 


First round 

Little Snake River vs. St. Stephens, 2 p.m. 

(fieldhouse) 

Arapaho Charter vs. Burlington, 5:20 p.m. 

(fieldhouse) 

Encampment vs. Meeteetse. 2 p.m. (auxiliary 

gym) 

Ten Sleep vs. Hanna-Elk Mountain, 5:20 

p.m. (auxiliary gym) 



Little Snake River/St. Stephens loser vs. 

Arapaho Charter/Burlington loser, 10 a.m. 

(fieldhouse) 

Encampment/Meeteetse loser vs. Ten 

Sleep/Hanna-Elk Mountain loser, 10 a.m. (auxiliary 

gym) 

Semifinals 

Little Snake River/St. Stephens winner vs. 

Arapaho Charter/Burlington winner, 2:30 p.m. 

(fieldhouse) 

Encampment/Meeteetse winner vs. Ten 

Sleep/Hanna-Elk Mountain winner, 4:10 p.m. 

(fieldhouse) 


Consolation semifinals, 9:30 a.m. (fieldhouse 

and auxiliary gym) 

Championship, 4 p.m. (fieldhouse) 

Third place game, (if necessary, fieldhouse) 

Girls 


Play-in games 

Dubois 39, Farson-Eden 32 

Fort Washakie 40, Little Snake River 20 


First round 

Hanna-Elk Mountain vs. Ten Sleep, 3:40 

p.m. (fieldhouse) 

Dubois vs. Burlington, 7 p.m. (fieldhouse) 

Cokeville vs. Fort Washakie, 3:40 p.m. (auxiliary 

gym) 

St. Stephens vs. Encampment, 7 p.m. (auxiliary 

gym) 



Hanna-Elk Mountain/Ten Sleep loser vs. 

Dubois/Burlington loser, 11:40 a.m. (fieldhouse) 

Cokeville/Fort Washakie loser vs. St. 

Stephens/Encampment loser, 11:40 a.m. (auxiliary 

gym) 

Semifinals 

Hanna-Elk Mountain/Ten Sleep winner vs. 

Dubois/Burlington winner, 5:50 p.m. (fieldhouse) 

Cokeville/Fort Washakie winner vs. St. 

Stephens/Encampment winner, 7:30 p.m. 

(fieldhouse) 


Consolation semifinals, 11:10 a.m. (fieldhouse 

and auxiliary gym) 

Championship, 2:45 p.m. (fieldhouse) 

Third place game (if necessary, fieldhouse) 

H.S. HOCKEY 

Wyoming Amateur Hockey League “B” 

State Tournament 

At Victor Riley Ice Arena, Cody 


Pinedale Glaciers vs. Sheridan Hawks, 

5:30 p.m. 

Douglas Ice Cats vs. Cheyenne Capitals, 

7:15 p.m. 


Pinedale Glaciers vs. Cody Ice Cats, 7:30 

a.m. 

Sheridan Hawks vs. Cheyenne Capitals, 

11:45 a.m. 

Douglas Ice Cats vs. Cody Ice Cats, 1:30 

p.m. 

Sunday, Feb. 24 

Consolation, 9:30 a.m. 

Championship, 1 p.m. 

NHL 

National Hockey League 

All Times EST 

EASTERN CONFERENCE 

Atlantic Division W L OT Pts GF GA 

New Jersey 34 21 5 73 161 143 

Pittsburgh 34 21 5 73 177 161 

N.Y. Rangers 30 24 8 68 157 155 

Philadelphia 30 24 6 66 186 174 

N.Y. Islanders 28 25 7 63 150 174 

Northeast Division 

W L OT Pts GF GA 

Ottawa 35 20 5 75 204 177 

Montreal 33 19 9 75 192 172 

Boston 30 23 6 66 155 160 

Buffalo 28 23 8 64 173 166 

Toronto 25 27 9 59 168 194 

Southeast Division 


Carolina 30 28 5 65 183 201 

Atlanta 29 28 4 62 165 195 

Washington 28 26 6 62 171 185 

Florida 27 29 6 60 169 178 

Tampa Bay 25 28 6 56 171 193 

WESTERN CONFERENCE 

Central Division 


Detroit 42 15 5 89 199 136 

Nashville 32 23 7 71 181 172 

St. Louis 28 22 9 65 157 164 

Columbus 27 26 9 63 150 164 

Chicago 27 26 6 60 166 169 

Northwest Division 


Minnesota 34 21 5 73 169 163 

Calgary 30 22 8 68 174 175 

Vancouver 30 22 8 68 160 154 

Colorado 30 25 5 65 165 166 

Edmonton 27 29 5 59 164 183 

Pacific Division 


Dallas 37 21 5 79 183 155 

Anaheim 33 23 7 73 156 157 

San Jose 31 20 8 70 154 146 

Phoenix 31 26 4 66 169 168 

Los Angeles 25 34 3 53 176 205 

Two points for a win, one point for overtime 

loss or shootout loss. 

——— 

Tuesday’s Games 

Boston 3, Carolina 2, SO 

Pittsburgh 3, Florida 2 

Montreal 6, N.Y. Rangers 5, SO 

Toronto 3, Columbus 1 

Ottawa 3, Philadelphia 2, SO 

St. Louis 5, Chicago 1 

Nashville 5, Edmonton 4 

Vancouver 3, Minnesota 2, OT 

Calgary 4, Phoenix 1 

Wednesday’s Games 

Tampa Bay at Buffalo, 7 p.m. 

San Jose at New Jersey, 7 p.m. 

N.Y. Islanders at Washington, 7 p.m. 

Minnesota at Chicago, 8:30 p.m. 

Calgary at Dallas, 8:30 p.m. 

Colorado at Anaheim, 10 p.m. 

NBA 

National Basketball Association 

All Times EST 

EASTERN CONFERENCE 

Atlantic Division 

W L Pct GB 

Boston 41 10 .804 — 

Toronto 28 23 .549 13 

New Jersey 23 30 .434 19 

Philadelphia 23 31 .426 19 1/2 

New York 16 37 .302 26 

Southeast Division 

W L Pct GB 

Orlando 34 21 .618 — 

Washington 25 28 .472 8 

Atlanta 21 29 .420 10 1/2 

Charlotte 19 35 .352 14 1/2 

Miami 9 42 .176 23 

Central Division 

W L Pct GB 

Detroit 39 14 .736 — 

Cleveland 29 24 .547 10 

Chicago 21 31 .404 17 1/2 

Indiana 21 32 .396 18 

Milwaukee 19 34 .358 20 

WESTERN CONFERENCE 

Southwest Division 

W L Pct GB 

New Orleans 36 15 .706 — 

San Antonio 35 17 .673 1 1/2 

Dallas 35 18 .660 2 

Houston 33 20 .623 4 

Memphis 14 39 .264 23 

Northwest Division 

W L Pct GB 

Utah 35 19 .648 — 

Denver 33 20 .623 1 1/2 

Portland 28 25 .528 6 1/2 

Seattle 14 38 .269 20 

Minnesota 11 41 .212 23 

Pacific Division W L Pct GB 

Phoenix 37 16 .698 — 

L.A. Lakers 36 17 .679 1 

Golden State 32 21 .604 5 

Sacramento 24 28 .462 12 1/2 

L.A. Clippers 17 33 .340 18 1/2 

——— 

Tuesday’s Games 

New York 113, Washington 100, OT 

Houston 93, Cleveland 85 

Orlando 103, Detroit 85 

Minnesota 104, Philadelphia 88 

San Antonio 85, Charlotte 65 

Denver 124, Boston 118 

Utah 119, Golden State 109 

Seattle 108, Memphis 101 

Sacramento 105, Portland 94 

L.A. Lakers 122, Atlanta 93 

Wednesday’s Games 

Orlando at Toronto, 7 p.m. 

Cleveland at Indiana, 7 p.m. 

New York at Philadelphia, 7 p.m. 

Chicago at New Jersey, 7:30 p.m. 

Detroit at Milwaukee, 8 p.m. 

Dallas at New Orleans, 8 p.m. 

L.A. Lakers at Phoenix, 9 p.m. 

Atlanta at Sacramento, 10 p.m. 

Boston at Golden State, 10:30 p.m. 

Memphis at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m. 

COLLEGE BASKETBALL 

Tuesday’s Major College Basketball Scores 

EAST 

Connecticut 65, DePaul 60 

Kent St. 76, Buffalo 66 

SOUTH 

Davidson 75, UNC Greensboro 66 

Florida St. 64, Clemson 55 

Kentucky 61, Georgia 55 

Savannah St. 63, Stetson 60, OT 

Utah Valley St. 69, N.C. Central 62 

MIDWEST 

Akron 56, Miami (Ohio) 52 

Bradley 72, Drake 71 

Creighton 88, Missouri St. 67 

Indiana 77, Purdue 68 

Indiana St. 83, Wichita St. 73, OT 

Iowa 53, Northwestern 51 

Ohio 69, Bowling Green 48 

SOUTHWEST 

Oklahoma 92, Baylor 91, OT 

Oral Roberts 71, S. Utah 62 

FAR WEST 

San Diego St. 79, Wyoming 68 

Tuesday’s Women’s Major Basketball 

Scores 

EAST 

Boston U. 77, Maine 56 

Providence 62, Syracuse 58 

Rutgers 57, Notre Dame 51 

Vermont 61, New Hampshire 54 

SOUTH 

Appalachian St. 58, UNC-Greensboro 53 

South Florida 77, Villanova 66 

MIDWEST 

Ball St. 76, Toledo 49 

E. Michigan 67, W. Michigan 61 

West Virginia 82, Cincinnati 63 

FAR WEST 

Utah 82, BYU 45 

NASCAR 

2008 NASCAR Sprint Cup schedule and 

standings 

Feb. 9 — x-Budweiser Shootout, Daytona 

International Speedway, Daytona Beach, Fla. 

(Dale Earnhardt Jr.) 

Feb. 17 — Daytona 500, Daytona 

International Speedway, Daytona Beach, Fla. 

(Ryan Newman) 

Feb. 24 — Auto Club 500, Fontana, Calif. 

March 2 — UAW-Dodge 400, Las Vegas 

March 9 — Kobalt Tools 500, Hampton, Ga. 

March 16 — Food City 500, Bristol, Tenn. 

March 30 — Goody’s Cool Orange 500, 

Martinsville, Va. 

April 6 — Samsung 500, Fort Worth, Texas 

April 12 — Subway Fresh Fit 500, Avondale, 

Ariz. 

April 27 — Aaron’s 499, Talladega, Ala. 

May 3 — Your Name Here 400, Richmond, 

Va. 

May 10 — Dodge Challenger 500, 

Darlington, S.C. 

May 17 — x-NASCAR Nextel All-Star 

Challenge, Concord, N.C. 

May 25 — Coca-Cola 600, Concord, N.C. 

June 1 — Dover (Del.) 400 

June 8 — Pocono 500, Long Pond, Pa. 

June 15 — Michigan 400, Brooklyn 

June 22 — Toyota/Save Mart 350, Sonoma, 

Calif. 

June 29 — Lenox Industrial Tools 301, 

Loudon, N.H. 

July 5 — Sprint Cup 400, Daytona Beach, 

Fla. 

July 12 — Chicagoland 400, Joliet, Ill. 

July 27 — Allstate 400 At The Brickyard, 

Indianapolis 

Aug. 3 — Pennsylvania 500, Long Pond, Pa. 

Aug. 10 — Centurion Boats At The Glen, 

Watkins Glen, N.Y. 

Aug. 17 — 3M Performance 400, Brooklyn, 

Mich. 

Aug. 23 — Sharpie 500, Bristol, Tenn. 

Aug. 31 — Sprint Cup 500, Fontana, Calif. 

Sept. 6 — Chevy Rock & Roll 400, 

Richmond, Va. 

Sept. 14 — Sylvania 300, Loudon, N.H. 

Sept. 21 — Dover (Del.), 400 

Sept. 28 — Kansas 400, Kansas City 

Oct. 5 — AMP Energy 500, Talladega, Ala. 

Oct. 11 — Bank of America 500, Concord, 

N.C. 

Oct. 19 — Sprint Cup 500, Martinsville, Va. 

Oct. 26 — Pep Boys Auto 500, Hampton, 

Ga. 

Nov. 2 — Dickies 500, Fort Worth, Texas 

Nov. 9 — Checker Auto Parts 500, 

Avondale, Ariz. 

Nov. 16 — Ford 500, Homestead, Fla. 

x-non-points race 

——— 

Driver Standings 

1. Ryan Newman, 190 

2. Kurt Busch, 175 

3. Tony Stewart, 170 

(tie) Kyle Busch, 170 

5. Reed Sorenson, 160 

6. Kasey Kahne, 151 

7. Elliott Sadler, 150 

8. Dale Earnhardt Jr., 143 

9. Robby Gordon, 142 

10. Greg Biffle, 139 

11. Bobby Labonte, 130 

12. Jeff Burton, 129 

13. Brian Vickers, 127 

14. Kevin Harvick, 121 

15. Sam Hornish Jr., 118 

16. Denny Hamlin, 117 

17. Dale Jarrett, 115 

18. David Reutimann, 109 

19. Carl Edwards, 106 

20. Martin Truex, Jr., 103 

TRANSACTIONS 

BASEBALL 

American League 

DETROIT TIGERS—Agreed to terms with 

RHP Joel Zumaya, RHP Yorman Bazardo, 

RHP Jordan Tata, RHP Virgil Vasquez, OF 

Brent Clevlen and OF Freddy Guzmanon on 

one-year contracts. 

OAKLAND ATHLETICS—Agreed to terms 

with C Rob Bowen, INF Kevin Melillo, LHP 

Dan Meyer, INF Donnie Murphy, INF Gregorio 

Petit and C Landon Powell on one-year contracts. 

SEATTLE MARINERS—Agreed to terms 

with OF Bubba Crosby on a minor league contract. 

TEXAS RANGERS—Agreed to terms with 

2B Ian Kinsler on a five-year contract. 

National League 

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS—Agreed to terms 

with LHP Ron Villone on a minor league contract. 

WASHINGTON NATIONALS—Agreed to 

terms with LHP Odalis Perez on a minor 

league contract. 

BASKETBALL 

National Basketball Association 

DALLAS MAVERICKS—Waived F Nick 

Fazekas. 

NEW JERSEY NETS—Traded G Jason 

Kidd, F Malik Allen and G Antoine Wright to 

Dallas for G Devin Harris, C DeSagana Diop, 

G-F Maurice Ager, F Keith Van Horn, F 

Trenton Hassell, two first-round draft picks and 

$3 million. 

Women’s National Basketball Association 

CONNECTICUT SUN—Signed G Lindsay 

Whalen to a three-year contract. 

INDIANA FEVER—Traded F Tamika 

Whitmore, the rights to G Jessica Foley and a 

2008 first-round draft pick to Connecticut for F 

Katie Douglas. 

MINNESOTA LYNX—Signed G Anna 

DeForge. 

SEATTLE STORM—Acquired G Swin Cash 

from the Detroit Shock in exchange for a 2008 

first-round draft pick. 

FOOTBALL 

National Football League 

NEW YORK JETS—Signed S Artrell 

Hawkins. 

SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS—Waived LB 

Derek Smith. 

WASHINGTON REDSKINS—Signed C 

Ethan Albright. 

Canadian Football League 

WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS—Re-signed S 

Ian Logan and LB Neil McKinlay. 

HOCKEY 

National Hockey League 

BOSTON BRUINS—Signed D Andrew 

Bodnarchuk. 

CAROLINA HURRICANES—Assigned F Joe 

Jensen to Albany (AHL). 

NEW YORK ISLANDERS—Recalled D Drew 

Fata from Bridgeport (AHL). 

PHILADELPHIA FLYERS—Acquired D 

Jaroslav Modry from Los Angeles for a 2008 

third-round draft pick. 

SAN JOSE SHARKS—Assigned C Mike 

Iggulden to Worcester (AHL). 

SOCCER 

Major League Soccer 

FC DALLAS—Named Drew Keeshan goalkeeper 

coach. 

COLLEGE 

ARKANSAS STATE—Announced the resignation 

of Dickey Nutt, men’s basketball coach. 

Named Shawn Forrest and Al Grushkin cointerim 

head coaches. 

ARMY—Promoted Stefanie Golan from 

women’s associate head soccer coach to 

women’s soccer coach, effective at the end of 

the 2008 season. 

PEPPERDINE—Named Tom Asbury men’s 

basketball coach, effective at the end of the 

2008 season. 

ST. ROSE—Named Chris Gilmore men’s 

soccer coach. 

UNLV—Dismissed G Marcus Lawrence from 

the men’s basketball team after he was 

charged with driving under the influence. 

UTAH—Named Morgan Scalley safeties 

coach. 

WASHINGTON—Announced F Jess 

McCormack has left the women’s basketball 

team.

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DEAR ABBY: My husband's 

sister, "Mia," is a lesbian who came 

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Mia had been treated. 

When she comes to town for 

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just as they do her, and we're 

caught in the middle. 

We have tried explaining to 

these family members that they are 

entitled to their position and we're 

entitled to ours; that Mia is family 

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They call us liberal freaks with no 

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Dear Abby Pauline Phillips and Jeanne Phillips 

reduced to tears by the harsh words 

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If you wonder why Mia even 

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she wants to maintain contact with 

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nephews. How do we handle these 

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SHERIDAN COMMUNITY 

Federal Credit Union is now 

accepting closed bids on 

the following vehicles: 

‘98 GMC Sierra 1500 P/U 4x4, 

ext. cab, 161,577 mi. 

‘96 Custom Softtail 

Motorcycle, Progressive 

suspension, pro-one 

wheels, S&S carb, custom 

paint job. 

Personals 2 

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Adoption 7 

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Furniture 14 

BRAND NEW 3 pc. bedroom 

set, 4 pc. living room set. 

$2500 for both OBO Call 

751-3555 

Outdoor blk. wicker patio set 

w/4 chrs. $350. 751-0141. 

Sporting Goods 20 

MORROW SNOW Board. 

$135, Burton bindings $85, 

Skis $50. 752-3325. 

Pets & Supplies 36 

2 male English Pointers out of 

Johnson Kennels, very 

good hunters. $500 ea 

OBO. Must Sell, Moving! 

751-5891. 

AKC Golden Retriever pups, 

7 wks., shots, dew claws & 

registration., $500 ea., 

(406)245-6311 Billings, MT. 

PARAKEETS, LOVE birds, 

cockatiels, finches, 

canaries. Must sell because 

of heart attack. 672-2507. 

REG AKC Choc. lab pups. 1st 

shots, (f) $400, (m) $350. 

673-4897 or 461-0499. 

Miscellaneous 60 

CALIF. KING bed, oak, w/6 

under dressers, & attached 

night stands. 737-2420. 

Firewood 63 

Cut, split, delivered in 

Sheridan, $130 cord 751- 

0339 

DRY PINE, 8’ lengths, 

$70/cord. 672-6543 

FIREWOOD, $50 truck load 

(long box). 752-3325. 

Wanted to Buy 70 

SHERIDAN BEER memorabilia. 

Call 307-631-6421. 

Furnished Apts for Rent 81 

Fully furn. & equipped 1 BR 

cottage near park. 

$1275/mo., incl. util. Call 

674-1604 or 752-5474. 

SM. 1 BR, No smk./pets 

Call 763-2638 

STUDIO. SHARED BA. Near 

downtown. No Smk/Pets. 

$325 util. incl. 752-9011. 

WEEKLY & Monthly rates 

avail. now. America’s Best 

Value Inn 672-9757. 

Unfurnished Apts for Rent 82 

1 BR in Dayton, gar. incl. No 

smk/pets. $475/mo. + dep. 

Call 674-9845. 

2 BR, suited for older professional, 

newly remodeled, 

sunny, utils. pd. No 

smk/pets. $900 with 1 yr 

lease. 672-2119, after 3p. 

Unfurnished Apts for Rent 82 

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2 BR 1 ba., $795/mo + utils. & 

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2BR, 1BA, No smk/pets.., 

Heat included. $695 + dep. 

751-4061. 

New 2 BR, 1.5 ba. 2 story, 1 

car gar., $1500/mo. lease. 

674-6447. 

Ranchester 2 BR 1ba., new 

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util. Call 674-8500 

Houses, Unfurnished for Rent 83 

1 BR $600+dep. No pets/smk. 

441 E. 3rd St., 673-1759. 

2 BR twnhse., 1 ba., 

$900/mo.+ utils & dep. No 

pets/smkg. 683-3164. 

2 BR, 1 ba. retreat cottage on 

Beaver Creek ranch 9 mi. 

from town. Quiet, geese, 

pheasants, deer in the yard 

w/mtn. view. Would be perfect 

for quiet artist, etc. 

$750/mo. incl. water & elec. 

Must pay own propane, but 

there is a good wood stove 

& carport. Will allow inside 

cat(s), but no dog, please 

don’t ask. 

Call Jane Clark 

672-8911 

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or e-mail SheridanVAjobs@va.gov 

“The Career You Want, 

For the Future You Deserve” 

Houses, Unfurnished for Rent 83 Storage Space 96 

3 BR 1 ba. on Gladstone, full Call Bayhorse Storage 

bsmt., all appls., pets ok, 

$1550 + dep. & utils. Mo. to 

1005 4th Ave. E. 752-9114. 

Mo. lease. Avail. now. 751- 

8821 or 461-0120. 

CIELO STORAGE 

1318 Skeels St. 752-3904. 

Houses, Furnished for Rent 84 

2 BR No pets/smk. 

$850 + util. Call 751-9199 

30% DISCOUNT avail. nightly, 

week, weekend, or monthly 

stays. Call 673-4425. 

EXECUTIVE HOME RENTALS 

at The Powder Horn. 

Contact Judy at Powder 

Horn Realty, 674-9545. 

NO MAINT. Patio Home @ 

The Powder Horn, 2-3 BR, 

$2000/mo. + $500 dep. No 

smk/pets. Call 672-0212. 

Duplexes, Unfurnished for Rent 

85 

2 BR w/gar., W/D hook-up 

$700/mo. Call 673-5381. 

3 BR 2 ba., 1 oversized gar. 

No pets/smk. $1100 + utils. 

Call 655-9275, evenings or 

751-4591, daytime. 

Wanted to Rent 90 

Looking for 3 BR, 1-2 ba. 

Have 2 pets. 307-221-3216 

Business Building for Rent 92 

3300 SQ. ft. of office space, 

on Coffeen Ave. $1750 per 

mo. 674-7032 or 752-7955. 

40x 60 WAREHOUSE w/ 

20x30 office. New bldg., 

good location. 674-9710. 

50x50 SHOP w/20x20 office, 

good heat & lighting. Call 

674-9710 

Office Space for Rent 94 

1200 SQ. ft. office space, 

$650/mo. + utils. 752-2090. 

4 LARGE offices w/reception 

areas. Coffeen Ave. 

$895/mo. 752-7955 or 

674-7032. 

900 sq. ft., ample pkg., utils. & 

outside maint. prov. 731 N. 

Main St. $1200, 672-2571. 

Prestigious Professional office 

w/receptionist; 1-3 avail. 

immed. Lisa at 674-1604. 

RETAIL OR OFFICE, approx. 

3000 sq. ft. Call 674-9710. 

Storage Space 96 

AACE SELF Storage units on 

Fort Rd. Office at 644 N. 

Gould. 672-2839. 

ACMS STORAGE 674-7350 

Gated, Secure & some climate 

control. 

CROWN STORAGE Inc., 298 

Scrutchfield Ln. 674-4676. 

DOWNER ADDITION storage. 

674-1792. 

ELDORADO STORAGE 

Helping you conquer space. 

3856 Coffeen. 672-7297. 

INTERSTATE STORAGE 

10 x 20’s now available 

752-6111 

WOODLAND PARK Storage. 

Also inside boats & RV's. 

5211 Coffeen. 674-7355. 

For Sale or Rent 97 

STADIUM PLACE 

APARTMENTS 

Available soon – 2 and 3 

bedroom townhouses. With 

garage, appliances, dish - 

washer, washer and dryer. 

2 Bedroom $560/month 

3 Bedroom $645/month 

Income restrictions apply 

For showing call 763.2682 

Work Wanted 113 

Flooring Installation, Carpet & 

Laminate. 673-1460. 

HANDYMAN! Any job! Big or 

Small. Trent, 751-2227. 

IN-HOME HEALTH care aide 

seeking job w/elderly, flex. 

hrs., great ref’s. 751-9899. 

Mountain Man Construction 

Roofing to Remodel. We can 

do it all! No job too small! 

751-5304. 

On Call Snow Removal 

Story, Banner, Big Horn, 

Buffalo, Sheridan. 

752-3118 or 683-2751. 

Classifieds 

Service • Business 

Directory 

For Only $20 

a week 

144 Grinnell • 672-2431 

Bitter Creek Pipelines, LLC 

A subsidiary of MDU Resources 

Group, Inc. is now hiring 

Operations Specialist I/II 

(3 openings) 

Operate, maintain, repair pipeline/facilities, 

compressor engines/other equipment 

involved in production, gathering, 

processing, transportation/storage of natural 

gas in assigned station/field areas. 

Experience or Associate degree in related 

field preferred. Requires mechanical/ 

electronic/computer/interpersonal skills, 

Class A CDL with Hazmat or obtainable 

within six months. Work may require 

occasional overnight travel away from home 

location. Will be required to work a rotating 

schedule and respond to call outs as 

scheduled or otherwise required. Position is 

located in Sheridan, WY. Pay will depend on 

experience. Full benefit package including 

health, dental and vision coverage, life 

insurance, 401 K-Plan, sick leave, vacation, 

holidays, and more. For further information 

or to obtain an application, please contact 

jobs.mdu.com or: 

Sheridan Workforce Center 

61 South Gould 

Sheridan, WY 82801 

(307) 672-9775 

Gillette Workforce Center 

901 Energy Court Suite 230 

Gillette, WY 82717 

(307) 682-9313 

Deadline: February 29, 2008 

An Equal Opportunity Employer 

POSITIVE Call Today RESULTS 

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Program 

Work Wanted 113 

PAINTING, Interior/Exterior, 

Quality Work, 673-1697. 

Help Wanted 130 

2 P/T people @ both bars in 

Ranchester. Apply in person. 

ACCOR HOTELS 

IMMEDIATE OPENING! 

Front Desk, Top wages. 

Apply in person at Motel 6. 

ALBERTSONS IS currently 

looking for a few enthusiastic 

applicants to join our 

team. We offer a benefits 

package including: 

•Health Insurance 

•Vision Insurance 

•Dental Insurance 

•Perscriptions 

•Personal Holidays 

After 1st Year: 

•Paid Vacations 

•Paid Holidays 

•401k Plan 

Various departments. Apply 

at Albertsons, 1865 Coffeen 

Ave. at the Kiosks or online 

at: 

www.albertsons.com 

AUTOMOTIVE DETAILER 

needed F/T. Start @ 

$9.50/hr., 8-5, M-F, Apply in 

person @ Martini’s 

Detailing, 409 Broadway 

BAR & GRILL needs 

•P/T evening bartender• 

•P/T day cook• 

Call 672-2128 

BIG HORN Y. Cashier positions 

avail. Pick up applications 

at the Big Horn Y, 

7084 Coffeen Ave. 

Find a Great Selection of Real 

Estate/Homes FOR SALE in the 

CLASSIFIEDS! 


BRITE BEGINNINGS has an 

opening for a Direct Care 

Assist. F/PT, free child care, 

competitive pay. Call 673- 

7285 for further info. 

Brundage Ln. Maverik. P/T 

bakery help & P/T graveyard. 

Apply at 1242 E. 

Brundage Lane. 

Looking for a Future? 

Seeking motivated 1st 

yr. Electrical 

Apprentice. We will 

train, loaded benefit 

pkg. Call 751-2148. 

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per month 

For just 1-2 hours 

Afternoons M-F 

& Sat. Morning 

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BUFFALO WYOMING 

Consultant Engineering 

business experiencing 

exceptional growth looking 

for qualified applicants to fill 

licensed surveyor position. 

Exper. in construction survey 

& GPS surveying req’d. 

Exper. in Microstation, CAD 

a plus. Please send or drop 

resume of to 117 S. Main, 

Buffalo, WY 828234, call to 

set up appt. at 307-684- 

1663 or email to: 

jmorey@jlmengineering.com 


CBM WELL PUMPER NEED- 

ED. F/T, year-round work. 

Exper. not req’d. Insurance, 

401k, vacation included. 

Please mail resume to 

Comet Energy Services, PO 

Box 594, Buffalo, WY 

82834 or fax to 684-9496. 

FAIRGROUNDS SHERIDAN 

Maintenance F/T w/benefits. 

Rodeo arena, tractor, 

mechanical skills, work 

w/public, varied shifts. Send 

resume to director@sherfair.com 

or mail/drop by fairgrounds 

office. 

$100 Sign-Up 

Bonus 

payable after 

completion of 

6 weeks 

CALL 672-2431 

144 GRINNELL 

CARRIER


CHILD DEVELOPMENT 

Center Region II is growing! 

We need a talented, 

motivated team member to 

provide services as a 

Family Service Coordinator 

for our Sheridan location. 

This position requires coordinating 

& executing programs 

for developmentally 

delayed children, birth to 3 

yrs. or age. Must have a 

Bachelor's Degree & possess 

Wyoming Department 

of Education certification as 

an Early Childhood Special 

Education Teacher. To 

obtain an application, 

please call 672-6610 or 

come by CDC at 345 S. 

Linden Ave. in Sheridan. 

CONSTRUCTION WORKER 

Knowledge/Exp. of all phases 

of home building gets you 

TOP PAY. Call 751-8876 

EASTER SEALS DIRECTOR 

Great opportunity for a dynamic 

individual to manage & 

develop innovative, community-based 

social programs 

as Director of Adult 

Services for Easter Seals 

Wyoming. A loving atmosphere, 

creative services & 

family-friendly employer are 

keys to the success of this 

agency. 5 yrs. management 

exper. in social services 

req’d. including exper. in 

program development, fiscal 

planning & marketing. 

Exper. w/CARF accreditation 

a plus. Position based 

in Sheridan. Excellent 

salary & benefits. Send 

resume to: Easter Seals 

Wyoming, 991 Joe St., 

Sheridan, WY 82801-3896, 

Attention Anita Badgett. 

EOE. 

Drivers: Poss. $12-$18/hr., 

incl. .15/mi., .50/delivery + 

tips & wage. Shift Leaders 

& Inside help needed $7- 

$9/hr. May receive bonus 

after 30 days. Please 

apply in person at 

Domino’s Pizza, 1538 N. 

Main. 

EASTER SEALS has the 

following positions available: 

•Admin Assistant• 

• Vocational Job Coach • 

• Housing Aides • 

• Day Hab • 

To apply please pick up an 

application at 991 Joe 

Street, Sheridan, WY 

82801. No Phone Calls 

Please. 

EXPER. MECHANIC needed 

at Scenic Padlock Ranch: 

Knowledge of farm, construction 

& irrigation equip. 

pref’d. Must be able to work 

independently, salary DOE, 

incl. 401k, 2 wks. vac. & 

insurance. Send resume to 

Padlock Ranch HC 64, Box 

65, Ranchester, WY 82836. 

PAPA MURPHY’S is hiring for 

weekends & evenings. 

Perfect P/T job for after 

school. Apply in person at 

1115 Coffeen Ave. 


EXPRESS SHUTTLE 

Hiring F/T & P/T drivers to 

transport BNSF crew members 

in & around the 

Sheridan area. Must have 

clean driving record & able 

to drive day or night. We 

offer health & dental ins. 

after 90 days & 401K after 

180 days. Call Eric 307-682- 

0485 or 307-680-8268. 

F/T & P/T TRAVEL AGENT 

Book air, car, hotel & vacation 

pkgs. Must be knowledgeable 

w/geography & able to 

do trip research. Ability to 

work well under pressure & 

with tight deadlines. Strong 

customer skills are a must 

as well as multi-tasking. 

Pay DOE & client base. 

Please bring resume to 

Brittain World Travel, 150 S. 

Main St., Sheridan 

GREAT OPPORTUNITY @ 

Perry’s Trailer Sales, bookkeeper/secretary. 

40 hrs. 

per wk. $10 to $15 DOE. 

Knowledge of Quick Books 

& Excel preferred. Apply @ 

2516 Coffeen Ave. 

HIRING COOKS, $10/hr. 

Apply in person, 1 E. Alger. 

No Phone calls please. 

We are increasing 

our number of 

CNAs. 

We currently have open - 

ings for all shifts. If you 

have a passion for the 

elderly and are interested 

in working with a team 

that strives for excel - 

lence in patient care, 

then Westview is for you. 

Interested in becom - 

ing a CNA? Sheridan 

College will be offer - 

ing their next class 

beginning March 11, 

2008. When you are 

enrolled in the class 

come see us for a job! 

SERVALL UNIFORM, Linen & 

Supply. Delivery Driver for 

the Sheridan area. Route 

consists of 5 days/wk., 

scheduled stops delivering 

entry mats, uniforms, paper 

products & linen supplies. 

Need clean D/L. Route is 

commission plus benefits 

including 401(k), health, 

den., vac. Call 1-800-503- 

1990 or 307-686-1113. 

Rail Link is looking for Locomotive 

Operators 

In the Sheridan Area to work at Spring 

Creek Decker Mines. 

These are e ntry level 12 hour shifts 

No experience necessary 

Starting wage $12.00 per hour $14.00 per hour 

BENEFIT PACKAGE INCLUDES 

Insurance: Health, Dental, Vision 

401K Plan 

Paid Vacation 

Flex Account 

Short Term Disability 

Employee Stock Purchase Plan 

Qualifications 

High School Diploma or GED 

Valid Drivers License 

Must have current MSHA or able to acquire it following 

successful processing for employment 

Pass Pre-Employment background Check, 

Drug Screen, and Physicals 

Fax or Email your Resume to: 

307-682-5451 attn: Nadine Decker 

Or 

ndecker@gwrr.com 

JOIN OUR TEAM!! 

(307) 672-9789 

1990 W. Loucks, Sheridan 


Brand New Hampton 

Opening Soon 

Postions Avaialble 

• Front Desk 

Manager 

• Breakfast Attendant 

• Laundry 

• Maintenance 

-Experience Required 

• Housekeeping 

• Night Audit 

• Front Desk 

Apply in person 

@ Motel 6 

911 Sibley Circle 

Sheridan, WY 

Smile out Loud . 

Become part of a team 

that makes you proud. 

Holiday Inn 

• Housekeepers 

• Bartender 

• Bellman 

• Banquets 

• Prep Cooks 

• Night Auditor 

Competitive Wages 

Vacation, 401K, 

HEALTH INSURANCE 

Hotel & Meal Discounts 

Please apply 

in person 

1809 Sugarland Drive 


EOE 

ULTIMATE INSTALLATIONS, 

an Authorized Service 

Provider for The Home 

Depot, seeks skilled craftsman 

for residential door & 

window installations. Must 

have a reliable truck & 

tools. Must pass background 

check. Please fax 

your resume to (303)741- 

8122 or email to 

resumes@ultimateinstall.com 


MOSSHOLDERS IS HIRING! 

If Home Furnishing and Sales 

are your passion, We have the 

Perfect Job for you. This is a 

full-time position for an 

energetic, Customer Service 

driven person. Come join our 

Team in a fast-paced Design 

Center with a fun atmosphere: 

• Competitive Wage 

• Holiday Pay 

• Paid Vacation 

• Bonuses 

• Benefits 

APPLY TODAY! 

818 Coffeen Ave., 


Sandy Nechvatal 307-672-3465 

sandynechvatal@yahoo.com 

Immediate Opening for 

Maintenance 

Tech 

40 hours per week 

Some weekends 

Good benefits 

Competitive Wages 

D.O.E. 

Contact Linda 

674-6700 x0 

or email 

linda@thepowderhorn.com 

EOE 

HYDROSOLUTIONS INC. is 

seeking a Hydrogeologist & 

Hydro Tech. Go to 

www.hydrosi.com 

 

for position info & instructions. 

LINE COOKS! Top Pay! 

Wyoming’s Rib & Chop 

House, new location, 5 E. 

Alger 

Looking for Office/Clerical 

help. Previous exper. 

with bookkeeping preferred. 

Vac. & benefits. 

Pay DOE Send reply to 

Box 03040, c/o The 

Sheridan Press, PO Box 

2006, Sheridan WY 

82801. 

MINE SERVICES personnel, 

Provide on sight cleaning 

services to mine equip. on 

scheduled basis. Above 

average pay. Please contact 

307-464-6200 for more 

information. 

Needed F/T Auto Lube 

Technician, M-F & every 

other Sat. Min. 18 yrs. old, 

good driving record, full 

benefit pkg. Apply in person 

at 107 E. Alger. No phone 

calls. 

NO EXPERIENCE 

NECESSARY 

DRIVERS Needed. Men & 

Women. Did you make 

over $35K last yr. after 

only 4 weeks of training? 

Job placement assist. 

Funding Available 

Funding is made possible 

by the Wyoming 

Workforce Service, prehire 

economic development 

grants. Call & ask if 

you qualify for 100% free 

tuition. Mountain West 

CDL School. 307-674- 

4447. 

POST OFFICE NOW HIR- 

ING. Avg. Pay $20/hr or 

$57K/yr Incl. Fed. Ben., 

OT. Offered by Exam 

Services, not affil. 

w/USPS who hires. 

1-866-768-7409 

Cook 

*All Shifts* 

Evening Servers 

Perkins Family Restaurant & Bakery 

is seeking a motivated and enthusiastic 

person to join our team. 

Pick up application at 1373 Coffeen Avenue 

NON SEQUITUR By Wiley 

PRODUCTION WORKER 

needed to do various task 

involved in pelleting & coating 

of seeds. Training provided. 

Ability to operate a 

fork lift a plus. Shift work, 

possible overtime. Work to 

last into April. apply at 

ASTEC, 1402 Sugarland 

Dr. (behind Perkins). 

ROCK STOP Subway needs a 

few good DAY people. 

Great personality & customer 

service a must. Apply 

in person @ 1514 E. 5th St. 

ROUSTABOUT & operators, 

truck foreman needed. $13- 

15/hr. DOE. 307-351-8345. 

SCHOOL DISTRICT #2 is 

accepting applications for: 

Outdoor Track Coach 

@ SHS 

EOE 

Contact 674-7405 ext. 5207 

for more info. 

THE CITY of Sheridan is 

looking for a Street Crew 

Leader to join the Street 

Division team. This position 

will be responsible for motivating, 

managing & supervising 

the street crew. 

Exper. in construction & 

maintenance of roadways, 

drainage & public facilities, 

heavy equipment operation 

& supervisory exper. pref’d. 

Ability to perform moderate/ 

heavy physical work req’d. 

Interested, qualified applicants 

w/ability to obtain a 

CDL w/air brake endorsement 

may apply at City Hall 

by February 28, 2008. This 

is a fully benefited position 

w/a hiring range of $15.09- 

$18.38/hr. DOE. A full job 

description can be found at: 

www.sheridanwyo.us 

The City of Sheridan is a 

drug-free work place. 

TACO JOHN’S is looking 

for a Night Manager 

starting at $12/hr. 

We’ve got just the right 

combination of great 

tasting food & 

a great opportunity! 

We’re looking for team 

members with a high standard 

of quality & customer 

service. If you are motivated 

& enjoy working with 

people, we have the opportunity 

for you! 

We offer competitive 

wages, pd. vac., benefits, 

meal plans, flexible scheduling 

& more. 

If you are interested in an 

exciting career & a fun 

place to work, apply at 401 

Coffeen Ave. today! 

Astro – Graph 

Thursday, Feb. 21, 2008 

With a little help from you, 

recent difficulties will begin to sort 

themselves out in the year ahead. 

Once you get things rolling, greater 

order and stability will be established 

in your life, and they will 

serve you well. 

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — 

Your judgment is exceptionally keen 

at this time, fortunately, because you 

will be required to make a decision 

that will have far-reaching effects 

both for you and for others. 

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — It 

behooves you to put forth your best 

effort because that which you 

accomplish will not go unnoticed, 

and larger rewards than usual will be 

the result. 

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — 

When you look up and see others 

copying everything that you do, 

don’t get upset. Remember that imitation 

is the sincerest form of flattery. 

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — 

Something in which you are presently 

involved will be producing a 

much larger payoff than you had 

experienced previously. Examine 

The Sheridan Press, Wednesday, February 20, 2008 B7 

Help Wanted 130 Help Wanted 130 

NWCC DISTRICT Faculty Job SUMMER EMPLOYMENT 

Openings: 

OPPORTUNITY for persons 

•Machine Tool Instructor w/training and/or exper. in 

(Sheridan College) 

counseling, social work or 

•Statistics & Mathematics education interested in 

Instructor (Gillette College) being part of Northern 

•English Instructor Wyoming Mental Health 

(Gillette College) 

Center’s Summer Day 

Excellent benefits included! Treatment Program. 

On-line applications & job Positions incl. supervisors 

descriptions at: 

& group leaders for this 9 

https://jobs.sheridan.edu or week program for children 

contact Sheridan College w/challenging behaviors. 

HR office at 674-6446 ext. Undergraduate & graduate 

2810 P.O. Box 1500, students welcome to apply. 

Sheridan, WY 82801. EOE. Program aides are also 

needed w/the following 

P/T Legal Secretary, pay 

$13+ depending on exper. 

Email: lisa@ricelaw.org 

requirements: must be 19 

yrs. or older & a high school 

graduate w/valid driver’s 

license. F/T, temporary 

employment from June 9- 

POSITION FOR Electrical August 7, 2008. Training & 

Apprentice open. 1-4 yrs. supervision provided. Send 

exper. Good wages & bene- resume, letter of interest & 

fits. Please submit resume 3 reference letters to 

or app. @661 Broadway. Northern Wyoming Mental 

Health Center, 1221 W. 

Fifth St., Sheridan, WY 

82801. Deadline: April 1, 

2008. 

SUMMER EMPLOYMENT 

OPPORTUNITY: Clinical 

Director of day treatment 

program offered by 

Northern Wyoming Mental 

Health Center. F/T temporary 

position from June 9 to 

August 8, 2008. Must be 

Licensed Professional 

Counselor/ Master’s Level 

person w/ exper. working 

with children/youth with 

challenging behaviors. For 

more info, please contact 

Don Boone @ NWMHC, 

674-4405. 

TARCO INC. is accepting 

resumes for Heavy 

Equip.Operators, Oilers, 

Mechanics & Laborers. 

Please fax resumes Attn: 

Kelly Cooper, 303-312- 

1387. 

THE SHERIDAN PRESS is 

looking for paper carriers 

in the following areas: 

•Town of Big Horn• 

•1st Ave./6th Ave. E.• 

•Hwy. 335• 

•Sheridan/Wyoming 

Ave area• 

• Sparrowhawk • 

• Holly Ponds area • 

• N. Heights area • 

•West Park• 

NEEDED IMMEDIATELY! 

SIGN-ON BONUS!! 

Please apply in person at: 

144 E. Grinnell, 

speak to Angel. 

TRIMAC is now hiring 

Company Drivers to transport 

coal from Gillette, WY 

to Osage, WY. Salary 

potential of $60K/yr. 5 on & 

2 off sched. Day & night 

shifts avail. Trimac offers 

full benefits, excel. wkly. 

compensation & safety 

incentives. Must have a 

good driving record & CDL- 

A w/T endorsement. 888- 

799-4374 

WANTED HEAT & Air Cond. 

Installer, 3+ yrs. exper., 

able to run own crew w/little 

supervision. Pay DOE & 

ability. Call 674-7894. 

To Give Away 162 

‘74 12 x 60, 2 BR, good cond. 

Free, must be moved by 

4/1. Call 751-5707 

WILLING TO donate proven 

AQHA yearling & two yr. old 

mares to FFA/4H members. 

Call if interested 751-0928. 

Business Opportunities 190 

MAKE BIG PROFITS on thousands 

of fast moving items 

at Swap Meets, Home 

Parties, Craft Fairs, etc. 

Use our catalog, get orders 

everywhere. Call 307-620- 

2579. 

MOTIVATED, ENTREPRE- 

NEUR Substantial income 

potential, we train, Serious 

ONLY 866-205-0518 

Real Estate 200 

1585 SF, 3 BR, 2 ba., attach. 

gar. w/bonus rm., 1.6 acres 

in Sherri View subdiv., 

$320K, call 307-752-7677. 

5 UNIT Apt. Bldg. near dwntwn. 

$200K. 752-9011. 

CUTE 2 BR 1 ba. on 

Thurmond, unfinished basement, 

$179,900, 673-4845. 

FSBO BRAND New 4 BR, 2.5 

ba., 3200 sq. ft. w/fireplace. 

Includes 24x24 detached 

garage, 16x24 guest house, 

24x30 horse barn on 14 

acres $610K. Call 751- 

5707. 

HORSE PROPERTY 3 BR 2 

ba., 2 car garage, fenced 

yard, well & city water. 

McCormick Creek. 3 acres 

5 mi. from town. $329K 

751-4955 or 751-7441. 

HOUSE RANCH STYLE & 2 

PC. LAND: 3.23; 3.77 

ACRES. 307-921-2685 

NEW 2 BR, 2 ba. no maint. 

home, incls. appls., blinds, 

near downtown, 674-6447. 

Mobile Homes for Sale 201 

‘74 12 x 60, 2 BR, good cond. 

Free, move by 4/1 751-5707 

MUST SEE! ‘01 28x80 4BR, 

2ba., 2 living rms., central 

air, huge arc windows, 

taped & textured walls, 

modern. Trade mobile, vehicle, 

ATV, etc. Asking $73K. 

817-357-0035 or 605-718- 

2369. Located in Sheridan. 

Autos-Accessories 300 

‘02 CHEVY 1500 HD, 4 DR., 

$17,000 OBO 752-5535. 

‘02 GMC 4dr., pickup. HD 3/4 

T. 140K. DVD, Navig. Sys., 

ranch hand bumpers. 

$22,000. 751-2526. 

‘03 Honda Accord Coupe, red, 

loaded, Sirius radio. 87K, 

$11,675 wholesale book 

value, 674-1604. 

‘04 SILVERADO 2500, ext. 

cab, short box, electric blue, 

sharp, 41K mi. Call 674- 

5380. 

‘05 NISSAN 350Z, immac. 

cond., 13500 mi., $21K 

OBO. Call 751-3555 

‘75 CHEVY El Camino, Excel. 

cond. w/70K. Across from 

Bino’s. $7500 . 752-3325. 

‘77 CHEV 3/4, 4x4 w/’94 pop 

up camper, $2K, 751-5707. 

‘79 CORVETTE, 350, auto, 

loaded, T-top, restored, 

perf. parts. $11K, 461-1105 

‘93 FORD Taurus, one owner, 

87K mi., runs good, $1500 

Call 751-1974 

what you are doing differently so it 

can be repeated. 

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — 

Without putting forth extra effort, 

you will find yourself getting along 

wonderfully with just about everyone. 

It’ll feel great to just relax and 

be yourself, instead of having to 

cater to hard hearts. 

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Your 

financial prospects look particularly 

encouraging at this time — Lady 

Luck herself will be taking charge of 

your affairs. Do whatever you can to 

help her, because she won’t stay 

around too long. 

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — 

Those you know socially will prove 

to be rather fortunate for you, especially 

in situations where you could 

use a little help, such as arranging an 

introduction to someone you’ve 

been anxious to meet. 

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — 

Whenever you place your destiny in 

the hands of your faith, things work 

out wonderfully for you. Be smart 

and trust in what you believe and 

not in what outward circumstances 

appear to be. 

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — 

Friends will play more important 

roles than usual in the outcome of 

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Autos-Accessories 300 

‘96 32’ pull type travel trailer. 

Good cond., asking 

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w/’98 K2500 Silverado, 

Combined price negotiable. 

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GALAXY 88 CB Radio 

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Recreational Vehicles 301 

Keith Siroky 

655-9181 

Stop by the Sheridan Press for 

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ATV's 302 

‘07 YAMAHA Grizzly, ltd. ed., 

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Motorcycles 303 

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Needing a little fixing or 

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Campers, Trailers 308 

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built, could be lived in year 

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Call Mike Cooper at 

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Garage Sales 410 

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New Location, 8th & Crook 

Thurs. & Sat., 9-1pm 

Appl., furn., metal desk, light 

fixt., new/used const. materials. 

Donations. 673-1847. 

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your affairs. Don’t hesitate to turn to 

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exceptionally strong right now, 

you’re not looking for anybody to 

simply hand you things. You’re 

willing to work hard to get what you 

want. 

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— In addition to your good eye for 

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don’t depend solely on minutiae. 

Your best bet is to use your ability 

to see things in their entirety. 

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B8 

Public notices 

BEFORE THE OIL AND GAS CONSERVATION 

COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 

The following matters will come before this 

Commission on TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 2008, at 9:00 A.M., 

or as soon thereafter as the matters may be heard, or 

between the hours of 8:00 A.M. and 5:00 P.M. on any of the 

subsequent days during which the Commission remains 

in session at the office of the State Oil and Gas 

Supervisor, 2211 King Boulevard, Casper, Wyoming. 

Cause No. 3, Order No. 1, DOCKET NO. 138-2008, brought 

on the application of Pennaco Energy, Inc., for an order authorizing 

an exception location for the Farmland Reserve 15-7-55- 

82 MZ/CR well, to be located 881 feet FSL and 1628 feet FEL 

and drilled to the Smith, Dietz, Monarch and Carney 

Formations underlying the SW1/4 SE1/4 of Section 7, 

Township 55 North, Range 82 West, 6th P.M., Sheridan 

County, Wyoming. 

Any interested party is entitled to appear at the aforesaid 

time and place to be heard by the Commission. The applications 

may be inspected in the office of the undersigned, 2211 King 

Boulevard, Casper, Wyoming, or on the Oil & Gas Conservation 

Commission website at http://wogcc.state.wy.us. If there are any 

protests, please make such known to the State Oil and Gas 

Supervisor at least three (3) working days before the hearing by 

filing a written objection. 

DATED this 13th day of February, 2008. 

WYOMING OIL & GAS 

CONSERVATION COMMISSION 

/s/Don J. Likwartz, Secretary 

Publish: February 20, 2008 

ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS 

Proposals are being accepted by the Sheridan Recreation 

District, 1579 Thorne-Rider Park, Sheridan, Wyoming until 

4:00 pm, Mountain Time, March 7, 2008 for a Ultra Low 

Volume Mosquito Sprayer. 

All proposals must be submitted in a sealed envelope and 

clearly marked “Ultra Low Volume Mosquito Sprayer”. 

Attention: Richard Wright, Director. 

Each bidder shall take notice of the provisions set forth in 

Section 113, Chapter 1 of Title 15, and Articles 1 and 2, 

Chapter 6 of Title 16, Wyoming Statutes annotate, 1977 

Republished Edition, pertaining to all public contracts. 

No bid may be withdrawn for a period of thirty (30) days 

after the date fixed for opening bids. 

The Sheridan Recreation District reserves the right to 

reject any and all bids and to waive all informalities. 

Preference shall be given to responsible Wyoming Bidders 

as defined by Wyoming Statutes, 1990. Section 16-6-102 in the 

amount of five percent (5%) higher than responsible non-resident 

bidders. 

Sheridan Recreation District, 


Richard Wright, Director 

Publish: February 20, 27, 2008 

IN THE MATTER OF THE INA F. LOMAX 

REVOCABLE TRUST, 

DATED DECEMBER 27, 2006 

NOTICE OF INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE TRUST ASSETS 

TO: ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN SAID TRUST 

YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that on the 20th day of 

January, 2008, Ina F. Lomax died in Sheridan, County, 

Wyoming. Ina F. Lomax was the Grantor of The Ina F. Lomax 

Revocable Trust, dated December 27, 2006. 

Notice is further given that within one hundred twenty 

(120) days after the second date of publication hereof, the 

Trustee of the above-referenced trust, James E. Lomax, 

intends to have the property of the deceased Grantor and of 

the trust distributed as permitted under the terms of the trust 

and subject to due and owing expenses and taxes. 

Notice is further given that all persons indebted to the 

decedent or to the decedent’s estate or trust are requested to 

make immediate payment to the undersigned at Yonkee & 

Toner, LLP, 319 West Dow Street, P. O. Box 6288, Sheridan, 

Wyoming 82801. 

Notice is further given that creditors having claims against 

the decedent, or the decedent’s estate or trust, are required 

to file a claim against the assets of the trust at the office of 

Yonkee & Toner, LLP, at the above-stated address, or shall 

commence a judicial proceeding to contest the validity of the 

trust, on or before two (2) years after the Grantor’s death, or 

on or before one hundred twenty (120) days from the date of 

the second publication of this notice, or must file a claim 

within one hundred twenty (120) days of the date of mailing 

to the creditor of actual notice of claim filing, whichever date 

is earlier. If such claims or judicial proceeding are not so filed, 

unless such claims are otherwise allowed or paid, they will be 

forever prohibited pursuant to Wyo. Stat. Sec. 4-10-507(b), as 

amended. 

DATED this 12th day of February, 2008. 

/s/James E. Lomax 

Trustee 

John F. Araas 

Yonkee & Toner, LLP, Attys. 


STATE OF WYOMING ) IN THE DISTRICT COURT 

) ss. FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT 

COUNTY OF SHERIDAN ) Foreign Probate No. PR2008-16 

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ) 

CONSTANCE BAKER BRIGGS, ) 

DECEASED. ) 

NOTICE OF HEARING ON ANCILLARY PROBATE 

All creditors, heirs, legatees, and devisees of Constance 

Baker Briggs, and all other persons interested are hereby 

notified that at 8:30 o’clock a.m. on the 12th day of March, 

2008, in the District Courtroom, Fourth Judicial District, for 

Sheridan County, Wyoming, has been fixed as the time and 

place for the hearing on the Verified Petition for Adoption of 

Constance Baker Briggs’ Probate of Non-Resident Decedent’s 

Estate, a Petition which alleges that Constance Baker Briggs 

died testate, a resident of Hennepin County, Minnesota, on 

May 29, 2005; that her estate has been duly probated and settled 

in the State of Minnesota; that she died owning certain 

real property in Sheridan County, Wyoming, which real property 

is a portion of Sections 24 and 25, Township 55 North, 

Range 78 West of the 6th P.M., Sheridan County, Wyoming, as 

more fully described in said Petition; that all of the debts of 

the estate of the Decedent have been paid in full; that the 

Petitioner intends and prays in his Petition that the probate 

proceedings in the State of Minnesota be admitted in the 

State of Wyoming as a probate of the Estate of Constance 

Baker Briggs; that if on the day set for hearing on the Petition 

no objection be made, the Judge of the Fourth District 

Judicial Court make an Order admitting copies of the proceedings 

in the State of Minnesota to record in said Court to 

be considered and treated from the time of entry of said 

LEGAL NOTICE POLICY 

Order as original proceedings in this Court and as conclusive 

evidence of the facts therein shown; and that the Decedent’s 

interest located in the State of Wyoming, including the real 

property described in said Petition, be distributed by 

order/decree one half (1/2) to Decedent’s brother, Thomas G. 

Briggs and one half (1/2) to Decedent’s brother, Jerome C. 

Briggs, in accord with the County of Hennepin, State of 

Minnesota decree of Distribution as to Wyoming Property. 

Greg Von Krosigk 

PENCE AND MACMILLAN LLC 

P.O. Box 602 


307-674-8500 

Attorneys for Petitioner 

Publish: February 20, 27, March 5, 2008 

ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS 

Proposals are being accepted by the Sheridan Recreation 

District office located at 1579 Thorne-Rider Park, P.O. Box 

6308, Sheridan, Wyoming 82801 until 4:00 PM Mountain Time, 

Friday, March 7, 2008 for Installation of MUSCO Lighting at 

Redle Ball Field located in Thorne-Rider Park, Sheridan, 

Wyoming. 

All Proposals must be submitted in a sealed envelope and 

clearly marked “Bid for Installation of MUSCO Lighting at 

Redle Ball Field, Attention: Richard Wright, contact at 

(307)674-6421 with any questions on specifications. 

Each bidder shall take notice of the provisions set forth in 

Section 113, Chapter 1 of Title 15, and Articles 1 and 2, 

Chapter 6 of Title 16, Wyoming Statutes annotate, 1977 

Republished Edition, pertaining to all public contracts. 

No bid may be withdrawn for a period of thirty (30) days 

after the date fixed for opening bids. Bidder to specify earliest 

possible date for delivery. 

The Sheridan Recreation District reserves the right to 

reject any and all bids and to waive all informalities. 

Preference shall be given to responsible Wyoming Bidders 

as defined by Wyoming Statutes, 1990, Section 16-6-102 in the 

amount of five percent (5%) higher than responsible non-resident 

bidders. 

Sheridan Recreation District 


Richard E. Wright, Director 


PUBLIC NOTICE 

The Wyoming Public Service Commission (Commission) 

gives notice that Montana-Dakota Utilities Company (MDU or 

the Company) has received authority to pass on a wholesale 

gas cost increase of $1.051 per Dth to all its customers. The 

increase for all classes of customers is due to an increase in 

the cost of gas withdrawn from storage. The Company states 

the increase will affect all customers in MDU’s Wyoming service 

territory and went into effect for usage on and after 

February 1, 2008. The pass on will result in an increase of 

$339,294 in the Company’s revenues during February 2008, 

based upon estimated sales volumes for the month. MDU’s 

Petition for Confidential Treatment of Exhibit 3(a) to its application 

was also granted. 

MDU’s current and proposed rates for Residential Service 

and General Service customers, stated in dollars per Dth, are 

detailed in the following table: 

Proposed Current Net Change 

Tariff Item Cost (Dth) Cost(/Dth) (/Dth) 

Purchased Gas Cost 7.404 6.353 1.051 

Amortize CBA (0.057) (0.057) 0 

Non-Core Revenue Credit (0.108) (0.108) 0 

Total Purchased Gas Cost $7.239 $6.188 $1.051 

Non-Commodity Rate 0.002 0.002 0 

Conservation Tracking 0.633 0.633 0 

Adjustment 

Total Gas Rate $7.874 $6.823 $1.051 

The proposed increase will result in an increase of $17.86 

or 14%, for the average residential customer using seventeen 

(17) Dths in February 2008. Actual bills will vary with usage. 

Sections 249 and 250 of the Commission’s Rules allow a utility 

to pass on, to its customers, known or prospective wholesale 

commodity cost increases or increases, subject to public 

notice, opportunity for hearing and refund. 

MDU’s application is on file at the Commission’s offices in 

Cheyenne, Wyoming, and in each of the Company’s Wyoming 

business offices in its gas service territory, and may be 

inspected by any interested person during regular business 

hours. 

Anyone desiring to file a statement, intervention, protest or 

a request for a public hearing in this matter must so file, in 

writing, with the Commission on or before March 5, 2008. The 

petition shall set forth the grounds of the proposed intervention 

or request for hearing, and the position and interest of 

the petitioner in this proceeding. 

If you wish to intervene in this matter or request a public 

hearing that you will attend, and you require reasonable 

accommodation for a disability, please contact the Wyoming 

Public Service Commission at (307) 777-7427, or write to the 

Commission at 2515 Warren Avenue, Suite 300, Cheyenne, 

Wyoming 82002, to make arrangements. Communications 

impaired persons may also contact the Commission by 

accessing Wyoming Relay at 711. Please mention Docket No. 

30013-198-GP-08 in your communications. 

Dated: February 5, 2008. 

Publish: February 13, 20, 2008 

SHERIDAN COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT #2 

CALL FOR BIDS FOR STUDENT INFORMATION SYSTEM 

The Board of Trustees of Sheridan County School District 

No. 2, will receive marked sealed bids for Student Information 

System at the Administrative Offices, 201 North Connor, Suite 

100, P.O. Box 919, Sheridan, WY 82801, up to the hour of 2:00 

p.m. (MST) on Wednesday, March 12, 2008. 

Bids are to be made only on the appropriate bid forms, 

which can be obtained upon request at the Business Office, 

201 North Connor, Suite 100, P.O. Box 919, Sheridan, WY 

82801, (307)674-7405. The sealed envelopes must be clearly 

marked in the left-hand corner "BID DUE 2:00 P.M., WEDNES- 

DAY, MARCH 12, 2008. Also list the nature of the bid and the 

name of the bidder on the envelope. 

The Board of Trustees reserves the right to accept or reject 

any or all bids and to waive informalities and irregularities. 

Sheridan County School District No. 2 may consider informal 

any bid not prepared and submitted in accordance with the 

provisions thereof, and reserves the right to reject any or all 

bids and to select the bid which best meets the needs of the 

school district. Bids must specify in written detail any variations 

from the specifications. 

Craig Dougherty, 

Superintendent 

Publish: February 20, 27, March 5, 2008 

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Cowboys defeated 

by San Diego State 79-68 

LARAMIE (AP) — 

Billy White scored 19 

points, including 17 in 

the second half, and 

grabbed 12 rebounds to 

lead San Diego State to 

a 79-68 victory against 

Wyoming on Tuesday 

night. 

Lorrenzo Wade 

scored 14 points, 

Richie Williams finished 

with 13 and Ryan 

Amoroso added 12 

points for the Aztecs 

(17-9, 7-5 Mountain 

West). 

The Cowboys (10- 

15, 3-9) led 35-32 at 

the break, but White’s 

put-back with 18:21 

remaining gave the 

Aztecs their first lead 

of the game. He and 

Wade combined for 22 

of SDSU’s first 23 sec- 

Johnson 

Generals 

Sheridan College (23-2, 6-2 National Junior College 

Athletic Association North Subregion IX, 6-2 

Wyoming Community College Athletic Conference) 

will play two road games this weekend to finish the regular 

season. On Friday, the Generals play Western 

Wyoming Community College in Rock Springs, and on 

Saturday, they play at Casper College. Tipoff for both 

games is 8 p.m. 

The Generals are assured at least a tie for first in the 

subregion and can still win the conference championship. 

“We want to win these two road games, and that 

would win us the conference,” Davidson said. “That’s 

just bragging rights, but if they’re going to hand out a 

trophy, we might as well get it.” 

Notes: Sheridan College went 12-1 at the Bruce 

Hoffman Golden Dome this season. The Generals’ only 

home loss was a 73-64 defeat by Northeastern (Colo.) 

Bridge 

Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2008 

French film director 

Robert Bresson said, 

"Cinema, radio, television, 

magazines are a school of 

inattention: people look 

without seeing, listen in 

without hearing." 

But not bridge players! 

They listen in to their 

opponents' bids, interpret 

them correctly, and produce 

informed opening 

leads. 

Look at the West hand. 

What would you choose to 

start your campaign 

against four hearts? 

What has the opposition's 

auction told you? 

South showed five hearts 

and opening strength. 

Tyson 

Johnson 

Ryan 

Dermody 

ond-half points, and the Aztecs led 

55-47 with 9:22 to play. 

‘‘Close to the basket I’m very 

comfortable,’’ White said. 

‘‘Coach told me to get the ball and 

try to attack the basket hard, so 

that’s what I was thinking.’’ 

Wyoming’s Tyson Johnson 

converted a three-point play with 

8:55 remaining to spark a 7-3 run 

that cut the lead to four points, but 

that was as close as the Cowboys 

would get. Williams hit back-toback 

layups to extend the advantage 

to 68-59 with 3:36 remaining. 

(Continued from Page B3) 

Johnson is a three-year starting quarterback for the 

Eagles and led Tongue River to the state playoffs all 

three years. In his junior season, he led TRHS to a 10-1 

record and a runner-up finish in the Class 3A State 

Championship Game. 

Also nominated are Scott Boner of Douglas, Matt 

Cook of Cheyenne Central, Kyle Crandall of Evanston, 

Randall Haefele of Wright, Jay Leininger of Burns, 

Kray Lutz of Glenrock, David Moats of Guernsey- 

Sunrise, Ray Moore of Sundance, Justin Palm of 


Lady Generals 


NeVille led SC in scoring with 29 points, followed 

by Mack with 17 and Robinson with 13. 

The Lady Generals had a 38-26 rebounding edge 

with Robinson leading with 11, followed by Mack with 

10. 

NeVille and Robinson both had six assists, and 

Robinson and Clabaugh led in steals, both with four. 

Sheridan College (25-3, 6-0 Wyoming Community 

College Athletic Conference) can wrap up the conference 

title this week as it plays two games on the road. 

The Lady Generals play Western Wyoming Community 

College on Friday in Rock Springs, and Casper College 

on Saturday in Casper. Both games will begin at 6 p.m. 

The Lady Generals could still host the National 

Junior College Athletic Association Region IX 

Tournament. However, Miles (Mont.) Community 

College would have to lose its game against Dawson 

White was fouled on a 

dunk and converted the 

three-point play a minute 

and a half later to help 

seal the win. 

‘‘Our biggest 

concern was to keep the 

ball out of the post, and I 

think Wyoming did a 

good job of that in the 

first half and we did a bad 

job,’’ said San Diego 

State coach Steve Fisher. 

‘‘We did much better at 

not allowing the ball to 

get into the post in the 

second half. 

‘‘It is hard for 

any team to come here 

and win, but we were able 

to do it tonight for a big 

team win.’’ 

Johnson led 

Wyoming with a careerhigh 

18 points. Ryan 

Dermody added 14 points 

and Brandon Ewing scored 12. 

SAN DIEGO ST. 79, WYOMING 68 

SAN DIEGO ST. (17-9) 

Wade 6-14 2-4 14, White 7-8 5-5 19, 

Amoroso 3-13 6-9 12, Thomas 1-2 0-0 2, Gay 

4-8 0-0 11, Johnson 0-0 0-0 0, Williams 4-9 5-6 

13, Pastorek 2-3 0-0 4, Davis 2-3 0-0 4. Totals 

29-60 18-24 79. 

WYOMING (10-15) 

Dermody 4-8 2-2 14, Johnson 8-11 2-2 18, 

Linskens 2-4 0-0 4, Jones 2-4 4-5 8, Ewing 4- 

12 2-2 12, Taylor 1-2 2-2 4, Platt 0-0 0-0 0, 

Nelson 2-5 4-4 8, Bunker 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 23- 

46 16-17 68. 

Halftime—Wyoming 35-32. 3-Point 

Goals—San Diego St. 3-11 (Gay 3-5, Pastorek 

0-1, Amoroso 0-2, Williams 0-3), Wyoming 6-17 

(Dermody 4-7, Ewing 2-6, Linskens 0-1, 

Johnson 0-1, Taylor 0-1, Jones 0-1). Fouled 

Out—None. Rebounds—San Diego St. 35 

(White 12), Wyoming 25 (Johnson, Taylor 6). 

Assists—San Diego St. 12 (Wade 3), Wyoming 

15 (Ewing, Jones 5). Total Fouls—San Diego 

St. 15, Wyoming 17. A—4,879. 

North, when responding in 

the suit directly under his 

partner's, would normally 

have at least five diamonds. 

Also, because he 

bid at the two-level, he 

should have 11-plus 

points. South indicated 

diamond support. North 

jumped to four hearts, 

showing three trumps and 

game-going values. 

The opponents have 

eight or nine diamonds. 

This means that East has 

at most one. It must be 

best to try to give him a 

diamond ruff or two. 

Which diamond would 

you select, though? 

When you lead from a 

weak suit like West's diamonds, 

you normally start 

Hanna-Elk Mountain, Matthew Sebade of Lander 

Valley, and Alex Stratton of Cheyenne East. 

Finalists from the University of Wyoming are Sean 

Claffey and Michael Molina. 

The Wyoming Scholar-Athlete Scholarship winner 

will be announced at the 14th Annual Wyoming 

Chapter awards banquet at the Casper Ramkota Hotel 

on March 15. Sheridan High School’s Firdose Khan 

will be presented with the chapter’s Scholar-Athlete 

Perseverance Award, and Ernie Rotellini, also of 

Sheridan, will receive one of three Outstanding 

Contributor to Amateur Football Awards. 

Junior College on Jan. 11, ending a 38-game home winning 

streak. SC has won 46 of its last 47 home games 

dating back to 2004. 

Sheridan College 88, 

Northwest College 77 (OT) 

Northwest College — Burke-Kavros 9-16 0-2 22, Lebsack 2-4 0-0 5, 

Lawson 2-4 2-4 6, Task 0-4 0-0 0, Olubuyi 3-5 3-5 9, Strong 2-4 0-0 6, 

Baker 3-5 2-2 9, Lacey 2-6 3-4 8, Rolle 2-6 0-0 4, Darden 4-8 0-0 8. 

Total 29-62 10-17 77. 

Three-point goals — Burke-Kavros 4-9, Strong 2-3, Lebsack 1-2, Baker 

1-3, Lacey 1-3, Task 0-2. Total 9-22. 

Sheridan College — Williamson 6-8 1-4 13, Konate 0-3 1-2 1, Watson 

6-15 2-4 14, Koffi 1-6 2-3 4, Daniels 5-7 2-2 14, Peery 2-2 2-2 7, Diarra 

4-10 0-0 8, Kellogg 2-6 3-3 7, Parks 6-11 3-4 20. Total 32-68 16-24 88. 

Three-point goals — Parks 5-8, Daniels 2-2, Peery 1-1, Koffi 0-2, Konate 

0-3, Watson 0-3, Kellogg 0-4. Total 8-23. 

Halftime — Northwest College 33, Sheridan College 33. Regulation — 

Northwest College 70, Sheridan College 70. Rebounds — Northwest 

College 32 (Lawson 10), Sheridan College 39 (Watson 8). Assists — 

Northwest College 12 (Olubuyi 5), Sheridan College 17 (Koffi 5). Steals 

— Northwest College 5 (Burke-Kavros 3), Sheridan College 10 (Parks, 

Watson 3). Turnovers — Northwest College 23, Sheridan College 11. 

Fouls — Northwest College 18, Sheridan College 17. Fouled out — 

Lawson. 

(Mont.) Community College today in Glendive, Mont. 

“Winning the subregion is really important, but winning 

the Wyoming Conference would be really good for 

our kids,” McCarthy said. 

Sheridan College 82, 

Northwest College 48 

Northwest College — Gilmer 0-1 2-2 2, Buckner 4-8 4-10 12, Briede 1- 

6 0-0 3, Grava 1-8 0-0 2, Cooke 7-12 0-2 14, Ryan 3-9 3-4 11, Chadwick 

1-3 0-0 2, Gauthier 1-3 0-0 2. Total 18-50 9-18 48. 

Three-point goals — Ryan 2-5, Briede 1-4, Gilmer 0-1, Gauthier 0-2, 

Grava 0-2. Total 3-14. 

Sheridan College — Robinson 4-14 2-2 13, Lino 0-1 2-6 2, NeVille 11- 

15 2-4 29, Clabaugh 4-11 0-0 9, Gentry 3-6 0-0 7, Mack 8-12 1-1 17, 

Bingham 2-5 0-0 5, Castaneda 0-0 0-0 0, Nielson 0-0 0-0 0, Thurston 0- 

1 0-0 0. Total 32-65 7-13 82. 

Three-point goals — NeVille 5-8, Robinson 3-9, Bingham 1-1, Gentry 1- 

3, Clabaugh 1-4, Thurston 0-1. Total 11-26. 

Halftime — Sheridan College 45, Northwest College 27. Rebounds — 

Northwest College 26 (Buckner 7), Sheridan College 38 (Robinson 11). 

Assists — Northwest College 12 (Gilmer 4), Sheridan College 21 

(NeVille, Robinson 6). Steals — Northwest College 9 (Briede 3), 

Sheridan College 16 (Clabaugh, Robinson 4). Turnovers — Northwest 

College 27, Sheridan College 19. Fouls — Northwest College 14, 

Sheridan College 14. Technical foul — Northwest College bench. 

Phillip Alder 

with top-of-nothing. But 

when you make a lead that 

you expect partner to ruff 

(on this round or, if your 

side has trump control, on 

the next), you should lead 

a suit-preference card. 

Here, you should lead the 

diamond two. 

The defense should go: 

diamond ruff, club to your 

queen, diamond ruff, club 

to your ace, diamond ruff 

for down two. 

Note that if East shifts 

to a spade at trick two, the 

contract cruises home. 

East should have doubled 

four hearts, asking for 

a diamond lead. He knew 

that if North ran to five 

diamonds, West would 

ruff an initial heart lead. 

Broncos 

founder 

Howsam 

dies at 89 

DENVER (AP) — Bob 

Howsam, who assembled the 

Big Red Machine in Cincinnati, 

helped put the St. Louis 

Cardinals to a World Series and 

co-founded the Denver Broncos, 

died Tuesday in Sun City, Ariz. 

He was 89. 

Howsam had heart problems, 

said his son, Robert Howsam of 

Colorado Springs. 

Howsam started his sports 

career in 1947 as owner of the 

Denver Bears of the Single-A 

Western League, later taking the 

team to Triple-A as a New York 

Yankees affiliate, his son said. 

Howsam helped found the 

American Football League in 

1959 and was principal owner of 

the Broncos, selling the team in 

1961. 

He became general manager 

of the Cardinals in 1964, the 

year they beat the New York 

Yankees in the World Series. 

In 1967 he became general 

manager of the Reds and is credited 

with building the Big Red 

Machine that won two World 

Series titles, four NL pennants 

and six division titles in the 

1970s. 

Howsam later was a member 

of the Colorado Baseball 

Commission, which helped 

bring the Rockies and major 

league baseball to Denver. 

Robert Howsam said his 

father lived in a retirement home 

in Sun City with his wife, Janet 

Howsam. He would have turned 

90 later this month.

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