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HEART MOUNTAIN

PETROLEUM CLUB

Closure
signals
the end
of an era
HEATHER RICHARDS

307-266-0592,
Heather.Richards@trib.com

Some of those who made the

pilgrimage to Heart Mountain
people such as Takashi Hoshizaki and Dorothy Kittaka said
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trumps words and
proposals come uncomfortably
close to what was said about
Japanese-Americans after the
bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Trump called for a ban on
Muslim immigration but later
revised his proposal to a ban on

A Wyoming lawmaker strolled

into the restaurant flanked by
two blondes, his arms linked with
theirs.
Inside, a group of businessmen,
lawmakers and education officials
sat around a table, eating dinner
and talking.
The trio interrupted the mineral committee meeting and the
women introduced themselves as
sisters. The serious conversation
quickly ended, with all attention
shifting to the newcomers.
They had obviously had a lot
of fun before they came to this
meeting, remembered Larry
Wolfe, a lawyer who has worked in
the energy industry in Wyoming
since 1980. They came in and it
was just a hoot. They proceeded
to disrupt all the pretensions of
everybody who wanted to have a
serious discussion.
Thats the way things were at
the Casper Petroleum Club. The
meeting ground for politicians,
industry leaders and businessmen was also their playground.
The upscale restaurant operated
for 67 years in the Oil City, serving
as an evolving cultural center for
industry, and later, for commerce
and politics.
The good times are coming to an
end. On Sept. 1, the clubs leaders
announced the Casper institution
would close by the end of the year
due to declining membership.
We still plan to be open as
long as we can, said Forrest Leff,
the president of the clubs board.
Our goal is to get to the December deadline, the 31st.
The days of blond sisters, business brunches and deals made
over cocktails will soon be over.
For those who visited the club,
a piece of Caspers history and
identity as an oil town will disappear with it.
The clubs fate could easily be
seen as a byproduct of Wyomings
current bust, its death a symbol of
the severe downturn in the price
of oil. Two years ago, a barrel
was trading at more than $100,
but that price sank into the $50
range and eventually bottomed
out around $30. Coal and gas operations experienced similar fates.
Across the state, production has
bottomed out and workers have
lost their livelihoods as manufacturers, support services and
industry firms have scaled back,
faced bankruptcy or shut down.
But the Petroleum Club has
survived downturns before.
In the early 80s, Casper was the
center of all things oil in the Rocky
Mountain West. Being a member
of the club was contingent on your
affiliation with industry.
Business such as Mobil, Marathon and Shell all had offices in
Casper, and those buildings were
filled with workers employees
in suits who had lunch at the club,

Please see LESSONS, Page A8

Please see CLUB, Page A9

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Shigeru Shig Yabu poses for a portrait July 30 at the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center.

LESSONS FROM
OUR HISTORY
Former internees
of Heart Mountain
worry about
todays rhetoric

LAURA HANCOCK

307-266-0581,
Laura.Hancock@trib.com

WELL As a boy, Sam

O
Mihara lived with his family
in a three-story home in San
Franciscos Japantown neighborhood.
One day when he was 9, plainclothes policemen and military
officers removed the family. The
government sent them to Heart
Mountain Relocation Center in
northern Wyoming, where they
were confined by a barbed-wire
fence. Armed soldiers patrolled
the perimeter and watched internees from guard towers.
In February 1942, President
Franklin D. Roosevelt signed
Executive Order 9066, forcing
immigrants and American citizens of Japanese descent to move
from the Pacific Coast, where
they were considered too close to
Japan and U.S. military installations, to one of 10 inland camps,
including Heart Mountain, for
the duration of the war.
It was really traumatic, Mihara says now. I had never been
imprisoned.
In total, 14,000 people lived at
Heart Mountain. Now, its a place
of learning, of history.
Fifty former incarcerees, now
in their 70s and older, and an-

The Grouch
If its a grizzly world,
I should hibernate.

A group of pilgrimage attendees gather in the reflection room looking out to Heart Mountain in the distance
in July at the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center in Powell. About 14,000 Japanese Americans were detained
at Heart Mountain during World War II.
other 200 family members and
friends recently made a pilgrimage to the former camp to
remember the past.
But for many of the incarcerees, the present is concerning.
People like Mihara see a troubling parallel between the hostility and mistrust toward Japanese-Americans in World War
II and the political rhetoric now
directed at Muslims, who are
painted by some leaders and
pundits as the enemy, or at least
as something other than fully
American.

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I really feel sad

history might be
repeated.
Sam Miraha, former Heart
Mountain internee
A recent Pew Research Center
poll, for example, found that 63
percent of Republicans and 41
percent of Democrats agreed that
about half or some Muslims
in the U.S. were anti-American.
I really feel sad history might
be repeated, Mihara said.

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Record high:
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Record low:
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Avg.Month to date:
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Pinedale
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Rapid City
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Casper
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Torrington
88 / 50

Rawlins
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Saratoga
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Laramie
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Cheyenne
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Southeast
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t-thunderstorms, ra-rain, sn-snow, fl-flurries, m-missing

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NOAA Weather radio frequencies (MHz): Casper 162.400, Cheyenne,162.550,

Evanston 162.450, Lander 162.475, Rawlins 162.425,
Rock Springs 162.550, Sheridan 162.475

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with a high temperature of 83,
humidity of 12%. Southwest
wind y, with a southwest wind
18 to 26 mph. The record high
temperature for today is 91 set
in 1993. Expect partly cloudy
skies tonight with an overnight
low of 44. Light winds. The
record low for tonight is 27
set in 1989. Monday, skies will
be mostly cloudy with a slight
chance of showers.

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Courtesy of Cheyenne Botanic Gardens

Elderberry extract has been used for centuries

to treat colds and flu. More recently researchers
have found that chemicals in the berries may
help reduce swelling in mucous membranes and
relieve nasal congestion. Two different studies
have shown that it also reduces the severity and
duration of viral infections. Always check with your
doctor before taking new medicines.

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Drones being used to help fish

Agencies hope to use
info to help species
survive in droughts
JOHN HOLLENHORST

KSL-TV

EVANSTON If a river dries

up, where do the fish go?
That question focused on
a fish species most people have
never heard of has launched a
study along the Utah-Wyoming
border. It involves a fish-finding
tool most people would never have
thought of: aerial drones.
Throttle is 63 percent, ground
speed is 15 meters a second, said
WYOMING GAME AND FISH DEPARTMENT a ground-based radio communicator as the drone flew comA northern leatherside chub is pictured.

puter-controlled loops along a

stretch of Yellow Creek.
Shes crabbing a bit with the
wind, but she looks really steady,
said drone pilot Daniel Robinson.
Both of his feet were planted firmly
on the ground just outside Evanston.
The fixed wing drone with a
wing-span of 8 feet is part of a
10-drone fleet owned by Aggie
Air, a flying research service out
of Utah State University. The target this time? A fish species rare
enough to have a worrisome future. The northern leatherside
chub lives only in tributaries of
the Bear River and the Snake River.
And nowhere else in the
world, said Joan Degiorgio of the
Nature Conservancy. If we cant
sustain them here, story over.

The problem is that Yellow

Creek tends to dry up late in the
summer when runoff from winter
snows is depleted and when farmers and ranchers are still drawing
water for late-season irrigation.
The diminishing water flow in the
creek leaves patches of dry creek
bed and isolated puddles of water.
Only in certain stretches is there
running water with a noticeable
current.
We want to try to find out
where we have water during the
worst conditions possible, so late
summer and during a drought
time, said Paul Thompson of
the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources.
Please see FISH, Page A4

Traveling
concert
is looking
for artists
BRENDAN MEYER

307-266-0544,
brendan.meyer@trib.com

Want to perform on the WYOmericana Caravan Tour? Now, you

can formally apply.
The traveling concert featuring
Wyoming musical acts is officially
accepting artist submissions for
its 2017 tour through the Rocky
Mountain region.
What we want to make sure is
everybody knows about it in hopes
that we dont pass anybody by,
said Aaron Davis, co-founder of
the tour. Everybodys got a fair
shot.
This year marks the fifth anniversary of the WYOmericana
Caravan Tour. It will include 12
to 15 shows through Wyoming,
Idaho, Montana, Utah, Colorado
and South Dakota during May and
June. Artists will perform 40- to
60-minute sets and must be based
in Wyoming.
The tour features all types
of music, from rock and roll to
acoustic to bluegrass and country.
Past artists have included Jalan
Crossland, Screen Door Porch,
The Patti Fiasco and more.
The WYOmericana Caravan
Tour has garnered national acclaim since it began three years
ago. In 2013, The New York Times
wrote a story about the tour. In
2014, the film WYOMERICANA
was screened and won first place
at the Laramie Film Festival.
The application deadline is Oct. 1.
Follow reporter Brendan Meyer on
Twitter @Brendan_Meyer13

Odyssey
is over
for now

orporately speaking, planning annual vacation a year

in advance is tricky. It becomes even trickier with a lean
staff.
Even with compassionate
discretion from management,
things come up and plans go
awry.
So it turned out
that I was gone
from the office
eight days in August and two more
as September
began, and in the
SALLY ANN office just 15 days
SHURMUR in August, which I
dont recommend
and will never do
intentionally again.
But there were nonrefundable hotel reservations made
in January for then, as well as
Peggy Jane the Moms birthday.
And after all of those plans were
made and paid for, we learned
in February of the Hall of Fame
induction in Laramie for no
less than 70 Fritz-era football
players that we were not going
to miss.

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PHOTOS BY JENNA VONHOFE, STAR-TRIBUNE

Pets on parade
Mr. Weenie, a dappled Dachshund, sports a Hawaiian lei for the 2016 Pet Fest costume contest Saturday at Washington Park.

Animals, owners take

home prizes at annual
Pet Fest in Casper
ELYSIA CONNER

307-266-0509,
Elysia.Conner@casperjournal.com

Colter Wade looped the princess dress over the goats head.
But the animal ducked and
dodged before the 12-year-old
could pull the ruffly gown down
its neck.
He settled for a leopard print
ear headband, which managed to
stay on the goats head through
the costume contest judging
line Saturday at Pet Fest held in
Washington Park. Colter wore
a pair of pink bunny ears on his
own head as he tugged Titan, a
male dairy goat.
Pet Fest is a Casper tradition
dating back about four decades,
said Lori Spearman, Casper
Recreation Division recreation
coordinator. The event is hosted

In the other critters category, Elsa, a mini lop rabbit, is swaddled in a

princess costume for the 2016 Pet Fest costume contest.
by the division and the Community Recreation Foundation,
which provides the prizes for
Pet Fest as well as scholarships
for children and seniors to participate in recreation activities in
the community.

I love the Pet Fest, she said.

I like to see the creativity for
costumes and all the different
kinds of animals.
The event features costume
and trick contests, races and
pet-related vendors. Everyone

wins at something, even the

slowest dog.
The judges make up prizes on
the spot, too. Colter told the judges
he was entering the cat category as
the only one there. But the goat,
Titan, won the best cat-goat,
bunny-man award instead.
Though cats were absent this
year, there was was a turtle, a rat
and plenty of dogs in costumes
ranging from a taco to a football.
Colters sister, Delaney Wade, 6,
walked the familys miniature
horse, Mystery, both wearing
princess dresses and tiaras.
Hes a princess today, but
Mystery is actually a dude,
Casper Recreation Division Manager Carolyn Griffith announced
while introducing the pet.
For the past three years, the
family has attended with different animals including chickens, a
goose and hermit crabs which
won the most like a rock prize
one year.
Please see PETS, Page A4

Game and Fish honors wildlife forensic analyst

EVE NEWMAN

Laramie Boomerang

LARAMIE When Wyoming

game wardens want to prosecute
wildlife crimes, they make a case
using evidence such as gut piles,
carcasses, antlers and blood
samples.
At their disposal, turning the raw
materials of a crime scene into information about what happened,
is the Wyoming Game and Fish
Department Forensics Laboratory.
Inside the lab, located on the
University of Wyoming campus,
forensic analyst Tasha Bauman
uses a host of sophisticated instruments to identify species,
discern their gender and figure
out how many animals are represented. Such information can link
suspects and victims at a crime
scene and be used to reconstruct
the narrative of a crime.

They build the case, and we

do the testing they request,
Bauman said.
For her work in the lab, Bauman was recently named the
Services Division Employee of
the Year for Game and Fish. The
department is divided into four
divisions wildlife, fish, physical and services. Bauman was
honored at a commission meeting in July in Pinedale.
Bauman, who grew up in Lyman, approached the end of her
studies at the University of Wyoming expecting to enter a career
in human forensics.
An internship at the Game and
AP
Fish lab in 2005 changed that.
I interned with the lab my se- Tasha Bauman, a forensic analyst at the Game and Fish Wildlife Forensic
nior year as an undergrad and just Laboratory, works Aug. 18 in a laboratory at the University of Wyoming
loved it, she said.
in Laramie. Bauman uses a host of sophisticated instruments to identify
species, discern their gender and figure out how many animals are
Please see ANALYST, Page A4 represented.

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Pets

IN BRIEF

Construction
on section of
Yellowstone
Grand Loop Road

Idaho confirms
whitefish kill in
South Fork of
Snake River

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK A section

of the Grand Loop Road
between Mammoth Hot
Springs and Norris Junction in Yellowstone National
Park will be closed for about
four weeks for construction.
The road was scheduled
to close at 10p.m. Sunday. It
will not reopen until Oct. 7.
The closure will take
place between Willow Flats,
just south of Indian Creek
Campground, and Roaring
Mountain, five miles north
of Norris Junction.
During this time, visitors
traveling south through the
park from the Mammoth
Hot Springs area will need
to take a detour. The detour
includes driving through
Tower Junction and over
Dunraven Pass for access
to Canyon Village and the
southern portion of the
Grand Loop Road.

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho

The Idaho Department

of Fish and Game says biologists have confirmed
thousands of dead whitefish on the South Fork of
the Snake River in southeastern Idaho.
Biologists suspect its an
outbreak of proliferative
kidney disease, the same
pathogen responsible for
killing thousands of whitefish in the Yellowstone
River last month and which
prompted the temporarily
closure of large sections
of that acclaimed river in
Montana.
The same disease was responsible for whitefish dieoffs on the South Fork of the
Snake River in 2012.
The agency said in a
news release Friday the
outbreak is unlikely to affect the rivers overall fish
population.

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But life happens, and the big-city shoe shopping involved. And we had appetrip for Moms birthday
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didnt happen. A family
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And the friend complieast.
mented me endlessly on
I distinctly remember
long ago being on a family my patience with his interesting family dynamic.
day trip from suburban
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probably the time limit, about the beloved Fritz the
or not getting to spend the Dad, mostly privately but
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And I remember Fritz
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The best part is to see

all kinds of animals there,
Colter said.
Prizes, prizes! Delaney
said of what she was most
excited about.
They just make it fun
for the kids, their mother,
Annie Wade, said. They do
such a nice job with it.
Another princess approached the horse.
Hes
extremely
friendly, Annie said, invit-

Fish
From A3

Yellow Creek meanders

on both sides of the border
in Utah and Wyoming, so
agencies from both states
and the federal government are working together.
Theyve partnered with the
Nature Conservancy, a private group thats been working for several years to improve the natural habitat of
the Yellow Creek watershed.
The job of the drone is
to find the water thats left
behind as the creek starts
to go dry. Two on-board
cameras capture images
in color and infrared. The
unmanned plane flies at
altitudes less than 400 feet

Analyst
From A3

She discovered a passion for the methodical

nature of laboratory work
and loved the process of
taking a sample all the way
through a process of identification and connection.
I had no idea wildlife
forensics existed, she said.
Bauman continued working at the lab as the tooth
aging coordinator after
completing a bachelors degree in chemistry and criminal justice. She then completed a masters degree in

Casper Star-Tribune

ing Kaylee Johnson, 5, to pet

Mystery.
Kaylee wore a Cinderella dress and tiara while
carrying a rabbit in matching princess garb. A lot of
people there pet her rabbit, named Elsa, Because
its so soft, she said. Elsa
was a small bunny last year
when Kaylee first attended
Pet Fest.
Now the rabbit is heavy
to tote, and she had to
keep pulling its tiara back
onto its ears. But it was
worth it to win the best
princess award, she said.

She hoisted the bunny in

one arm while she chose a
Frozen film-themed play
set at the prize table filled
with toys.
Her mother, Lisa, said
the bet part of the event
was watching all the children enjoy their pets and
seeing all the dressed-up
animals, like the taco
dog, which garnered a few
laughs from Kaylee.
Roman LaDuke, 9, has
been showing his dog at
Pet Fest since he was 4. The
13-year-old Jack Russell
terrier, Milo, sported a su-

shi costume this year that

Romans mother, Becky,
made that morning. She
tied a pink and white felt
costume to the dogs back,
while Roman sported a
headband as a sushi chef
with chopsticks in his
apron pocket.
I think its fun to get
Milo out of the house and
Roman enjoys looking at
animals, Becky said. They
have neat prizes. They go
all-out here.

above the creek.

Manned aircraft would fly
much higher, for reasons of
man-safety, Robinson said.
This aircraft can fly much
lower and pick up the data.
Without the drone,
Thompson said, we would
be walking 35 miles worth
of stream channel.
There are many places
where Yellow Creek is dried
up completely. In this era
of climate change, reduced
flows could get to be an
even bigger problem in the
future.
Well, its stressed right
now, Degiorgio said. If
the predictions are accurate, its pretty clear that its
getting hotter and drier.
Along one dried-up
stretch, Degiorgio and

Thompson found a small

pool of water almost hidden in a nook behind some
boulders. In the puddle
there were about a thousand tiny fish, leatherside
chubs hanging on surviving at the worst time
of year.
Yep, this is a leatherside, Thompson said as he
captured one of the minnow-sized fish and examined it in the palm of his
hand. Its very exciting
that there are still refuges
in a dry channel like this.
The agencies will use the
images and information
provided by the drones to
help map out a game plan
aimed at helping the species survive.
What were trying to

do is find out where we

have good water within
the watershed, Thompson
said. Then were trying to
protect those areas and enhance them.
Part of the goal is to keep
leatherside chubs off the
federal endangered species
list. That brings a whole
other level of regulation into
the mix, Thompson said, an
outcome he said state officials would like to avoid.
Other sensitive species in Yellow Creek include the boreal toad and
the Bonneville cutthroat
trout. If the bail-out effort
helps the leatherside chub,
it may also benefit plants
and other critters that are
barely surviving the worst
of the summer.

forensics science with a focus on DNA/genetics from

the University of California
and was promoted to forensic analyst in 2009.
Shes a certified wildlife
forensic scientist through
the Society for Wildlife
Forensic Science, and shes
court qualified to testify as
a wildlife forensic expert in
the state of Montana.
The Wyoming Game and
Fish Forensics Laboratory is
unique in what it can sample. Bauman can identify 18
different species, including all big game animals
in Wyoming. She can also
identify the gender, match

samples and figure out how

many individual animals
are represented in a sample.
We do a large number
of species that other states
dont have, she said.
When Bauman accepts a
sample from a law enforcement officer, she doesnt
learn anything about the
case, so shes not invested
in the outcome. Her concern is preparing samples
for testing and following the
process all the way through
until she analyzes the result.
For me, its exciting
to have a result to report
back, she said.
Ultimately, her focus is

using science to arrive at

the truth.
Its rewarding to see that
you do a good job, she said.
Dee Dee Hawk, lab director,
praised Baumans attitude.
She truly strives to increase the tools and skills to
become a better employee,
a better scientist and a better leader, she said.
Scot Kofron, services division chief for Game and Fish,
said Bauman was a valuable
employee for the department.
She is an essential component of the international
wildlife forensic community as well as the Laramie
community, he said.

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STAR-TRIBUNE EDITORIAL

Time of welcome
change at NCSD
STAR-TRIBUNE EDITORIAL BOARD

e are fortunate to be witnessing a time of great and positive change in the Natrona County School District.
The start of school marks the culmination of an ambitious program to reengineer how high school education is delivered and what defines that education in Natrona County.
The Pathways Innovation Center opened this month offering
four academies with diverse professional, service and vocational
avenues of study. It is where students from Kelly Walsh, Midwest,
Roosevelt and Natrona County high schools have the option for
advanced training on how to solve problems and participate in
hands-on education that has not been offered to all students before.
Students at all the schools today are far more mobile and more
digitally connected than their predecessors. The new schools
present environments where traditional education blends with
technology so students find a relevance that was not as apparent
before now. They consequently become more engaged in their
own education. We are betting more students graduate as a result.
But Pathways is not just for students who might have struggled
to graduate in other settings, administrators are quick to point
out. It boasts a community of diverse souls all trying to do their
best to succeed. Thats appropriate when preparing students to be
successful in the real world.
That makes it a truly new choice for families in the district.
The district has long embraced the schools of choice system; this
change provides very real choices at the high school level.
But this exciting approach is far from the only accomplishment
the district can list this year.
In terms of bricks and mortar, Kelly Walsh has been nearly completely replaced, a completely new school was constructed for
Pathways and Roosevelt High School and the bones of NCHS have
been refreshed and a lot of new construction is ongoing to flesh
out Wyomings largest high school.
The state, which foots the bill for these changes, allowed the
district to undertake all four high school projects concurrently because all of the schools are part of a new integrated system involving technology and an academy system, and the district needed all
the parts to make the whole.
Roosevelt High School, a small facility that was started for
at-risk students, is now in a new facility on the east side of the
new Pathways center. Roosevelt was once housed in a century-old building in the north part of the city, but its population
overflowed into modular buildings on the campus. This year, the
school known for small class sizes actually grew by about 100 students.
The situation is a little different for Midwest high-schoolers,
who usually attend a K-12 school some 40 miles north of Casper.
Their building was closed this year because of a gas leak, and they
are attending classes in the Pathways building. That late adjustment in itself was no small accomplishment, and district leaders
should be applauded for thinking quickly to ensure students had a
safe environment in which to continue their studies.
Kelly Walsh and Natrona County high school students, meanwhile, walked into new surroundings on their first day of school.
Kelly Walsh students were in a brand-new building, and NCHS
students will continue to navigate through construction for about
two more years.
Its important to note that none of this came easily. These projects, which have been on the table for nearly a dozen years, were
planned and funded with coal lease bonus money before the recent downturn in that energy business. District leaders worked
hard to achieve these transformative milestones because they
believed they would truly benefit Natrona County kids, leading
to better graduation rates, career opportunities and life skills for
generations.
Thats critical, as state data recently showed that 42 percent
of students in the district met or exceeded expectations, while a
whopping 58 percent fell below that mark. Thats measured under
the Wyoming Accountability in Education Act.
We in Natrona County can be proud that local citizens took the
lead and worked diligently to make these complicated changes a
reality.
Theres more to do as the work of making all the systems function properly continues. But this week marks a significant milestone where four new high schools were reengineered at one time,
a feat that will not likely be repeated ever again.
Congratulations to education leaders and to all of us who will
reap the benefits of this good work.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Music can bring

respect and peace
around the world

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Editor:
The whole world seems to relate
to good music. A recent documentary on PBS featured music by the
Beatles and their influence rocked
the Kremlin and Russian people
(especially the young people)
how the Fab Four led to downfall
of communism. With the words of
all you need is love, with a little
help with my friends Im back
in the USSR la de da the old
guard was swamped with hidden
records and the music came out in
the open with a concert in Moscow
by Paul McCartney! What a time
that was!
The words seem to bring peace
and love and understanding with
joy, singing and dancing all over
the world!
Another way to achieve world
peace when the Olympics were

held in Rio, Brazil, this summer.

There were 251 countries participating with athletic interaction
and competition that were amazing. The song Getting to know all
about you hoping that you like
me from The King and I, is a
musical example of rubbing shoulders, playing and singing together
that can bring about respect and
acknowledgement of one anothers talent. Next Olympics will be
held in Japan four years from now.
(Our great enemy in World War II,
now friends and allies.)
The Olympic games brought out
the awareness that global warming and climate change is upon us.
Working together to plant trees to
absorb the greenhouse gases since
Brazil is the breathing center of our
planet and the rain forest is fast
disappearing.
Lets remember the Beatles and
the Olympics and the unforgettable songs of love and peace that
bring about sharing the joy.
OLETA THOMAS, Casper

Saga of the hole continues

lans to build a childrens

museum to fill the hole in
historic downtown Cheyenne have taken a sharp turn.
The Childrens Museum Board
might as well take down the billboard-sized sign that identifies
the site on West 17th Street as
the future home of the childrens
museum.
It now appears that the original idea of building a museum in
the empty spot
isnt going to happen and that if the
museum is built, it
will be elsewhere.
The latest deJOAN
velopment was the
BARRON
announcement
that the museum
board and its then-president,
Amy Surdam, a candidate for
mayor, had arranged to buy land
in west downtown Cheyenne
from the Dineen family for the
new childrens museum.
To eliminate conflicts, Surdam
resigned as museum board president but kept her position as
head of the Downtown Development Association.
Earlier, Marian Orr, Surdams
opponent in the No. 8 mayoral
election, appeared at a news
conference with Stephanie
White, the niece and heir of the
late Paul Smith, former Hitching
Post owner.
They announced Whites offer
to donate to the museum 2 acres
of land near the Ice and Events
Center next to what remains of
the Hitching Post Inn on West
Lincolnway.
Either location would offer
ample parking, which the hole
location could not.

The drawback with the White

deal is the distance between the
site and the downtown area.
Two years ago Surdam and her
group scored a coup when they
were able to purchase the site of
the hole.
Their idea was to locate the
childrens museum in that location to remove a blight and
help vitalize the downtown
area.
Since then, many Cheyenne
residents, including the museums supporters, have questioned whether that location is
appropriate, given the lack of
parking in particular.
They also mention the downtown transient population.
Some residents want to see
the hole property developed for
parking for the adjacent Hynds
Building redo if that project
goes through.
Now the museum board intends to to sell the hole property
to Cheyenne LEADS, the economic development organization for Cheyenne and Laramie
County.
If that sale goes through, then
the hole will become LEADS
headache, or asset.
Meanwhile voters on Nov. 8
will decide whether Surdam or
Orr will be the citys next mayor.
They also will decide whether
to dedicate one fourth cent of the
sales tax for four years to build
the $20 million museum.
Supporters raised $3 million in
donations so far.
Surdam of course is for the
tax. Orr is strongly opposed.
If the tax fails, the entire project could derail.
And the hole probably would
become a parking lot or stay

the same.
That fate is not what the visionaries planned.
City officials and others have
offered a variety of options for
the hole over the last dozen
years.
One that seemed to have at
least some support was to convert the space into a pocket park.
It didnt really catch on either.
When the childrens museum
and education center popped up,
all other suggestions ceased.
Surdam was key to the movement.
The city officials had been trying to negotiate with the owner
of the hole property, a company
in Kansas.
Surdam kept calling the company until she reached the CEO.
Then she made a trip to Kansas
to talk to him.
He liked the idea of the childrens museum on that land and
agreed to sell it to the board at a
discount.
As I understand it, the contract between the Kansas company and the museum board
specified the land was to be used
for a childrens museum.
That may be yet another snag
with the project.
All told, it has been like
watching a major bill go through
the Legislature and picking up
many fingerprints along the way
with the tweaks, the additions
and deletions.
At the end you have a whole
new bill that has little resemblance to the original.
And the eyesore, the hole,
remains just that. A hole.
Contact Joan Barron at 307-6322534 or jmbarron@bresnan.net.

Clinton channels Richard Nixon

ne wouldnt think Hillary

Clinton and former President Richard Nixon would
have a lot in common, but in
responding to FBI investigators
that she could not recall any
briefing or training by State related to retention
of federal records
or handling classified information,
Clinton took a
page straight out
CAL
of Nixons playTHOMAS
book.
In a March 23,
1973, meeting with top aides
Bob Haldeman and John Dean
to discuss what Dean should say
during testimony before a grand
jury looking into the Watergate
affair, the following exchange
took place.
Haldeman: You can say you
have forgotten, cant you?
Dean: Sure, but you are
chancing a very high risk for a
perjury situation.
Nixon: But you can say I
dont remember. You can say I
dont recall...
Thirty-nine times by CNNs
count, Clinton invoked Nixons
advice in her response to questions from FBI investigators. No
wonder. The things she might
recall could be contradictory to
statements she has made in the
past.
The Weekly Standard has
chronicled a few of them in
an editorial titled Absolute,
categorical lies. They are too
numerous to list here but worth
reading.

Clinton also claimed to have

used two devices for her emails
one for work, the other personal. According to The Hill, in
the just-released report on Clintons emails, the FBI identified
13 mobile devices that were potentially used to send emails via
clintonemail.com. In addition,
writes Bloomberg Politics, the
FBI cited five iPads it sought
as part of the probe that were
potentially used to send private
e-mails. The FBI found three.
No one knows what happened to
the other two. Maybe someone
should dig up Sidney Blumenthals backyard.
You can almost smell the corruption.
In the age of reality TV, speculation is now considered almost
as good as fact, so suppose Clinton really cant recall? What if
there is a medical explanation
for her impaired memory?
Clinton fell and suffered a
concussion in December 2012,
which husband Bill said took six
months of very serious work to
get over. The State Department
claimed the recovery period was
much shorter. Who do we believe? The candidate admitted
to having a blood clot and double vision and to taking blood
thinners. Her doctors, however,
insist shes fit to be president.
Is there anything else? With the
Clintons the question answers
itself.
WebMD.com has some useful
information: A mild or moderate concussion may have longer-lasting consequences than
previously realized, a new study

suggests.
By comparing brain imaging
studies and thinking tests between healthy people and those
with relatively minor concussions, the researchers found that
the recovery of thinking skills
can take a long time...
Initially, those with concussions had thinking and memory
test scores that were 25 percent
lower than those in healthy
people. One year after injury,
however, while the scores for
those with and without concussions were similar, those who
had had brain injuries still had
evidence of brain damage on
imaging tests, with clear signs
of continued disruption to key
brain cells.
The findings are especially
important because 90 percent
of all traumatic brain injuries are
mild to moderate, said Andrew
Blamire, senior author of the
study and professor of magnetic
resonance physics at Newcastle
University, in the United Kingdom.
Is Clintons memory loss the
result of her concussion, or is
she lying? Im more inclined to
believe the latter, as the Clintons dissembling precedes her
injury. An examination by a
neurologist would answer one
question. The other will have to
be determined by voters.
But considering what happened to Nixon, Clinton might
not want to pattern herself after
him.
Email Cal Thomas at tcaeditors@
tribpub.com.

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feet high and wide. Here Ill just
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In the summertime I dont
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critters like snakes, scorpions
and various bugs and rodents.
This is especially true in ones
that have a lot of loose and
broken-up rock, cracks in the
walls, odd combustible items
and sometimes moss or dripping.
The time to camp in a cave
to be a caveman is in the
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I have half a
dozen such places
scattered around
Wyoming, Utah
and Colorado.
They are mostly
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TOM
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as its up. In just a few minutes,
this reflective sunlight can really boost the temperature, and
in the winter this is important.
The ambiance of a cave,
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because some of the heat comes
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You can always reconstitute
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I have also propped up slabs
of rock for back rests. I like to
have a pile of wood that will
last for three or four hours. And
sometimes Ive had visitors.
I was reclining and reading a
book by headlamp, and warmed
by a good fire, when gradually
I felt as though I were under
observation. I looked into the
darkness, and two glowing eyes
looked at me. They bobbed
around a little, shy and a little
uncertain, but curious. Gradually a bobcat came into focus.
I said, Hello Bob. You live
round here? This your cave?
Hows the hunting? Seen any
good antlers? Bob didnt answer, but he understood that
I meant no harm. Im just
passing through, and will only
be here for two nights. I hope
thats OK with you. He nodded

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in assent, but didnt get any
closer than 15 feet. Bob didnt
seem to want any food or anything. He just wanted to hang
out and keep me company. I was
grateful.
I said to Bob, I read a lot
of books, you know, and only
the most current will do. He
seemed to perk up with interest. This evening Im reading
Thoreaus Walden. He was a
little too civilized for my taste,
living in a cabin and all, but his
diction is pretty good. I lay
back and turn off the light. Bob
probably went off to his job of
rabbit control.
The fires glow softly illuminates the walls and ceiling. I
dream of what they have seen
and heard. Thousands of years
ago there would have been
saber-toothed cats, and shortfaced bears, animals that no
longer exist. Then a particularly
clever animal, group-oriented
and possessing incredibly intricate hands and a mental agility
like no other animal had ever
had, came along the first
waves of humans, the early Indians.
Later, the fur trappers arrived. Many of their stories are
recounted in the 10 volumes of
The Mountain Men and The
Fur Trade of the Far West,
edited by LeRoy Hafen. These
volumes are available in many
Wyoming libraries.
The cowboys came next.
Though today we put them on
pedestals, the reality is that
they were some of the poorest and most abused workers
the world has ever seen. One
cowboy in Wyoming was David
Love, who in winter would pack
an overhang with brush, then
set it ablaze to warm up the
dirt floor, then scoop it out and
sleep in it. Check it out in the
incomparable Rising from the
Plains, by John McPhee. Its a
Wyoming story blending geology with culture.
They all came to the Rocky
Mountain region and might
have made use of the same
caves I do. Today cavemen are
few, and like former U.S. presidents were a small and exclusive club. Im proud to be a
part of it a Rocky Mountain
caveman.
Tom Gagnon lives in Rock
Springs.

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Reconsider antiquated
water allotment system

recently went for a hike in

the Absaroka Beartooth Wilderness near Livingston,
Montana. I drove to the trailhead
along Mill Creek, the largest
tributary to the Yellowstone between Gardiner and Livingston.
The lower 6-7
GEORGE
WUERTHNER miles of the creek
was bone dry. If
one did not know
better, you might attribute this to
the regional drought conditions.
However, just before I reached
the border of the national forest,
a diversion dam directs the entire
flow of Mill Creek into an irrigation canal. Upstream of this, Mill
Creek is flowing with deep pools
that hold trout. Below the dam,
there are no pools. No trout. No
water.
This is not an uncommon occurrence. In most years, almost
all the tributaries to the Yellowstone between Gardiner and Livingston are totally dewatered by
ranchers irrigating hay fields and
pastures.
In fact, if it were not for the
head of water that comes out of
Yellowstone Park where ranchers cannot get their hands on
the water, the Yellowstone River
would not be a blue ribbon
trout stream. It might not even
be a stream at all.
As most Montanans know the
Yellowstone River was recently
closed (and partially reopened
in) to some sections) uses such
as fishing, rafting and other uses
due to a major fish kill. The fish
kill was the result of a parasite.
However, the ultimate cause for
this fish kill was attributed to low
water and high temperatures.
Many other Montana rivers are
governed by hoot owl regulations that restricts fishing to the
cooler parts of the day to avoid
stressing fish resulting from low
flows.

All of this harms many businesses from fishing guides, fly

shops, rafting companies to
motels and cafes in the communities which depend on fishing
businesses.
Meanwhile, ranchers continue
to remove water from these rivers
with impunity.
Even where there are not major
fish kills, dewatering of streams
harms all aquatic ecosystems.
Less water means the remaining
fish are crowded together where
there is greater competition for
food and good feeding lanes.
High water temperatures stress
fish and are a cause of higher
mortality.
Less fish not only affects
fishing and raft guides, but it
also means less food for other
fish-dependent wildlife from
bald eagles to river otters wildlife that the public loves to view.
Low water harms the adjacent
riparian vegetation that depends
on below-ground water flow.
The reduction in willows, cottonwoods and other vegetation
reduces nesting sites for birds,
and shade that would otherwise
cool the water.
Low water also concentrates
pollution most streams running through areas grazed by
cattle exceed EPA regulations
regarding E. coli, a deadly bacterium.
Most irrigation water in the
West, including California where
about half of the nations food is
grown, is used to produce lowvalue livestock feed crops like
alfalfa and hay.
In Montana about 97 percent
of all water removed from our
streams is used by agriculture
primarily the growing of livestock feed. However, this annual
degradation of our streams is
unnecessary. All the water in
Montana streams, as well as

other western streams is a public

resource like the air owned
by all citizens. It does not belong
to ranchers.
A water right is in reality a
water privilege because we
own the water. It is merely a system for allotting publicly owned
water assuming the public
decides it is in the best interest of
the states citizens to give away
(and we do give it away) to one
commercial interest the livestock industry.
Perhaps a hundred years ago it
made sense to give public water
free to private business, especially since no one else had a use
for it. But it is not 1916 anymore.
In 2016, there are many other
people living in the West who
have an interest and yes a right
to the water that ranchers are
wasting, not to mention that
we have some responsibility to
maintain adequate flows for the
wildlife that depends on this
water.
It is time to reconsider the
antiquated water allotment in
the West. In reality state governments have a public trust obligation to protect the public interest. Just as we no longer accept
that factories and power plants
can use the publicly owned air as
a convenient garbage dump for
pollution, we should no longer
accept that ranchers have a right
to take, especially for free, the
publics water when it harms
other businesses and the aquatic
ecosystems that we all depend
upon.
The annual dewatering of
western rivers is not an accident.
It is human caused which
means humans can fix it.
George Wuerthner is an ecologist
and writer who has published 38
books. He divides his time between
Montana and Oregon.

Wyomings recreational waters must remain pristine

ristine streams in Wyoming, as rare as they are

cherished, refresh weary
travelers hiking through the
forests, mountains and deserts
of Wyoming. A capful of water
poured overhead, or a cupful
splashed over the face, is a welcome blessing on
JOHN
a long, hot hike.
GANS
With the Wyoming Department
of Environmental
Qualitys new rule downgrading water quality across much
of the state, however, such experiences may become a thing
of the past.
Last week, the DEQ released a revised version of its
Categorical Use Attainability
Analysis for recreational water
quality. A year ago, the DEQ
rescinded its decision to downgrade water quality thresholds
for not having taken recreational concerns into account.
This time around there are
much-needed improvements,

Wyoming is unique for its open spaces and

intact ecosystems. People live in and travel to
this state to immerse themselves in natural
landscapes and open spaces. Wyomings
leadership recognizes this, and stresses the
importance of outdoor recreation to people and
the economy.
but at its root the study is fundamentally flawed and inappropriately downgrades recreational water quality standards
for nearly 83,000 miles of Wyoming streams.
Wyoming is unique for its
open spaces and intact ecosystems. People live in and travel
to this state to immerse themselves in natural landscapes
and open spaces. Wyomings
leadership recognizes this, and
stresses the importance of outdoor recreation to people and
the economy.
Many of the stream miles

to be impacted are on public

lands lands important to the
more than 97 percent of Wyoming residents who recreate
outdoors and to our wilderness
school, NOLS, for teaching
leadership and outdoor skills.
NOLS is one of Fremont Countys largest employers, while
the states outdoor recreation
economy is second only to the
energy sector in annual revenue.
Economic diversification
carries the state forward when
oil, gas and coal revenues falter. Now is the time to invest

in the outdoor economy, not

step backward on our water quality standards. These
stream standard downgrades, if
implemented, send a message
that Wyoming doesnt value
the pristine qualities of our
streams and natural resources.
Wyoming residents and visitors alike should be confident
that the streams they visit,
whether in their backyards or
deep in the backcountry, are
safe and will be maintained
to the highest recreational
standards. Families and children play in these streams.
NOLS students, too, use many
streams that would be downgraded.
The DEQs decision to implement bulk downgrades of
stream quality should not be a
future that Wyomingites settle
for. The existing system for
addressing watersheds on a
case-by-case basis is more appropriate and better preserves
Wyomings heritage.

Wyoming has the opportunity to take ownership of

its image as a land of pristine
waters and of its opportunities
for primitive and unbounded
outdoor recreation. The public
perception of these qualities,
Wyomings image of a pristine
Western landscape, is what
drives the tourism and outdoor recreation economies in
our state. We need the vision
to recognize the value of this
image, the actual quality of our
streams to uphold it, and the
leadership to grow them positively.
Clean water is not a privilege
in Wyoming. It is a birthright.
It is the responsibility of our
state agencies to maintain a
high level of water quality for
its citizens and for the country.
John Gans is the Executive Director of NOLS, which offers
wilderness education programs
from its headquarters in Lander,
Wyoming.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Keep the Red Desert

a wild place

ditor:
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In spring 2015 and 2016, I had
the opportunity to participate in
an organized run, Run the Red, in
Wyomings Red Desert. This area
is a place that I would have overlooked had it not been for the specific purpose of meeting up with
friends to run a half-marathon in
middle-of-nowhere Wyoming.
During my five years in Wyoming, I have made a point to visit
parks like Grand Teton and Yellowstone and to hike, climb and
run in mountain ranges like the
Winds and the Bighorns.
Even though the Red Desert
occupies a large portion of Wyoming, it was not on my radar as a
place to visit, but I am glad I did!
While camping and running
through different parts of the Red
Desert these last two years, I saw
landscapes that I previously had
not known existed in Wyoming.
The landscape is a diverse mix of
extensive sand dunes, badlands,
petroglyphs and unusual geologic formations, and it all felt
very wild.
Therefore, I urge the BLM
to continue to manage the Red
Desert to preserve its wilderness
character. Roads and developments are degrading high desert
ecosystems throughout Wyoming
and the West, but in the Red Desert we have the opportunity to
preserve this unique landscape,
which is not yet highly altered. I
hope to continue my visits to the
Red Desert, with all of its solitude
and wilderness values, long into
the future.
LAUREL GENZOLI, Laramie

Rock Springs
management
plan should be
transparent
ditor:
E
Right now the Rock Springs
BLM is quietly writing the draft
management plan for the Northern Red Desert and surrounding
areas, and the public waits without knowing the true direction
of the plan. Should we trust the
BLM to manage these areas in accordance with public will? Sadly,
history suggests no.
In 2003, the supplemental
Draft Plan for the Jack Morrow
Hills was released, calling for increased oil and gas development
in the Northern Red Desert. The
plan garnered over 69,000 comments, the largest number of
comments ever received by the
BLM for a single Wyoming planning project. Eighty-nine percent

of the comments were in favor of

the Citizens Wildlife and Wildlands Protection Alternative,
which postulated protection
measures throughout the area.
Despite the vast majority of the
public in favor of protection, the
BLM issued the Final Record of
Decision for the Jack Morrow
Hills, which ultimately called for
more development in the Northern Red Desert.
Given the above example, how
is the public to trust that the BLM
is drafting a plan that will reflect
their will and safeguard their interests? How is the public to believe that the Rock Springs Management Plan will protect open
spaces and threatened wildlife
corridors? Since original scoping five years ago, the public has
been given no chance for input on
important new information, such
as the migration corridor and new
BLM policy updates on lands with
wilderness characteristics. Nothing short of a dramatic increase in
public involvement and transparency will lead us to believe that the
BLM is acting on our behalf.
The public would feel better
if the BLM released preliminary
alternatives, which would allow
us to become invested in this
plan. BLM offices in other states
have provided preliminary management alternatives for public
review and comment, such as in
the Las Cruces District Office and
the San Pedro Riparian National
Conservation Area. It is time for
the Rock Springs BLM to listen to
the public and become transparent in the planning process of the
Rock Springs planning area.
MARTHA TATE, Laramie

Gods laws,
commands for
our own good
ditor:
E
Gods laws and commands are
for our good. Sexuality is a gift
from God, to be used within his
wise restraints like the levees that
hold back rivers from destructive
floods. Gods word and ways are
designed to keep our thoughts,
passions and desires in Godly
bounds for our good.
Our bodies are not for sexual
immorality as Paul wrote in 1
Corinthians 6:13: Our body is
for the Lord and the Lord is for
the body. One day our bodies
will be redeemed. To flaunt Gods
design in essence is to commit
idolatry be delighting in what
God hates.
Gods judgments are true and
just. Our answer is: Repent before
its too late. Our days are numbered.
ANN TATMAN, Wheatland

Bible is not the

law of the land

ditor:
E
In Robert Howards letter,
House candidate Greenes ethics are self-defeating, he criticizes Wyoming Demorcratic U.S.
House candidate Ryan Greenes
pro-choice, anti-capital punishment position, writing that As
a Conservative Baptist preacher
(independent, fundamentalist,
King James Bible-only-believing,
Christian), I find Greene position
to be reprehensible.
Howard states that Every citizen-voter of moral conscience
in this state must recognize that
abortion is murder under any circumstance, and that the Authorized Word of God requires execution of every criminal-slayer (Rom.
13:4).
As a citizen-voter of moral conscience, I find Howards statement
to be reprehensible. It sounds like
Howard is advocating the required
execution of abortion providers
as murderers by the Authorized
Word of God. Authorized by who?
Pauls letter to the Romans was
written in the first century, when
the emperor made the laws and
ruled as supreme Paul was instructing Christians to be obedient to that rule. Thankfully, in
21st century America, we live in
a secular, constitutional republic
in which we are all free and equal,
where our representatives we elect
make the laws. The Bible is not the
law of the land. Howards religious
titles give him no superiority over
anyone and he has no authority to
dictate to voters what they must
recognize.
Howards statement that abortion is murder is nothing more
than his opinion/belief (which he is
entitled to), it is not a fact. Abortion
is legal under U.S. law, therefore it
is not murder. In my opinion, that
is as it should be.
As for Howards Bible believingthere is no mention of abortion anywhere in the Bible, Old or
New Testament. There are 613 laws
in the Bible covering every aspect of
life; diet, hygiene, dress, farming,
business, the practice of slavery,
family and civil law, criminal law,
laws for religious practices, etc.
Very detailed and thorough, but interestingly no mention of abortion.
Quite an omission for the divinely
inspired infallible word of God.
DINO WENINO, Casper

people of faith. We are all created

as Gods beloved people and this
must be our witness to the world
around us.
St John 3:16 For God so loved
the world, Genesis 6:6 And it repented the Lord that he had made
man on the earth, and it grieved
him at his heart. That he gave his
only begotten Son, Love has nothing to do with God and His being
righteous, for man to live eternally
with Him. That whosoever believeth in him should (If it was from
God it would read shall) not perish,
but have everlasting life. The latest
craze is hope, grace, faith, love your
women, and 72 virgins with the
strength of one hundred men, all
you have to do is blow yourself up.
There were eight people left,
all on Noahs boat when the flood
came. They couldnt find ten righteous people in Sodom and Gomorrah when those two cities were destroyed. In Joshuas war when the
Sun and Moon stood still the Lord
fought for Israel. For the Lord your
God hath delivered them into your
hand. From the Civil War when
both armies said God was on their
side, through World War 1 and 11 to
the present, death has been in the
air. The penitentiaries are so full,
the states are letting people out to
make room for those more wicked.
We are writing about Gods beloved
people. In the crusades which side
was God on?
MICKEY R. MULLEN, Casper

Kaepernick is
insincere

ditor:
E
I think Colin Kapernick is insincere. When he first got in trouble
over sitting through the national
anthem, he said he did it out of
protest for the treatment of black
people in this country. I call foul
on that one.
I think it was simply a part of his
continuing protest over his situation in San Francisco. Hes pouting because no one recognizes his
brilliance. Just watch him during
his heyday when he lovingly kisses
his own biceps after a touchdown
toss to understand where his mindset is.
It is true that in some parts of this
nation, blacks and people of color
are treated differently by police
than others. No matter what type
of uniform theyre wearing, sheriffs deputy, highway patrol, city
constable, city police, some people
fail to be professional in their duties
and allow their own personal prejudices to influence their actions.
Some carry this prejudice into
their careers, having been brought
up in circumstances that condone
Editor:
the belief that Im better than you
What about religion? At the end are. Others come to it through calBob slipped in a little religion or lousness through having done

Politicians, public
should accept
views of others

the job so long and having been

through so much that they become
numb to the fact that everybodys
different and that the man they
harass today, could, under other
circumstances, be their friend.
They sometimes fail to respect
those whom they are charged to
protect. Theyll dictate to people, theyll insult people, not with
words but with their demeanor, and
it is that perceived disrespect that
is the root of our national troubles.
But it isnt just the police; its civilians, too. Too many people think
like Kapernick: Im special and
youre a pig! They have no respect.
What can be done? It starts in the
home and in the church and in the
schools. People must take to heart
the fact that we are all one people
and we are all disserving of basic,
human respect. We all must freely
give our respect if we hope to receive it in return.
Kapernick can start the process
by showing respect for our traditions and our national anthem.
LESLIE D. PUNCHES,
Green River

Grizzly deaths article

is misleading
ditor:
E
I was disappointed by your article, Deaths of grizzly bears down
in Yellowstone region, dated Sept.
4.
The article is misleading and
inaccurate. According to the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Teams
annual report for 2015, last years
number of grizzly deaths shattered
records. The GYE population lost a
stunning 10-11 percent of its population in a single year. In fact, 2015
deaths were a 20 percent increase
above the next-highest year, 2010.
Further, a high number of the dead
were adolescent and reproductive
females, which will negatively impact the population for years to
come.
It looks as if grizzly deaths will
break records again this year. There
are currently MORE grizzly bear
mortalities than there were at this
time last year.
Finally, mortality rates outside of
the core conservation area for 2015
were 47 percent. Experts agree,
though, that the Yellowstone area
population must connect with
other grizzlies for long-term survival. With 47 percent of dispersing
bears being killed, connectivity is
unlikely to happen.
As the United States Fish and
Wildlife Service is re-opening public comments on Sept. 7, the public
deserves accurate information on
the health of the Yellowstone area
grizzly population. I hope that your
publication will provide that.
MICHELLE MacKENZIE,
San Carlos, California

Art overcomes a religious misunderstanding

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t is certainly no secret that a

good deal of religious misunderstanding takes place these
days in both America and the
state of Wyoming.
Most of this misJOHN understanding comes
SMYLIE from the lack of
knowledge about each
others history and
traditions. To help overcome this
divide, the Episcopal Foundation
of the Diocese of Wyoming, in
conjunction with an international art group called CARAVAN, is sponsoring a statewide
art exhibit titled The Bridge.
This exhibit originates in the
Middle East and is designed to
promote interfaith dialogue.
The Bridge features the con-

temporary art of 47 Christian,

Muslim and Jewish artists from 15
different nations. It has appeared
throughout the world in places
such as Cairo, Egypt; London,
England; and Metz, France. It
has appeared nationally at the
Ground Zero site in New York, the
University of Chicago; Spokane,
Washington; and most recently in
Portland, Oregon. We are pleased
to have it come to Wyoming
where it will be displayed from
Sept. 7 through Sept. 28.
The premiere showing was set
for Sept. 7 at the Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts at the
University of Wyoming in Laramie. Openings will then be held
at Western Wyoming College in
Rock Springs, The Lander Art

Center in Lander and at Northwest College in Powell. Several

of the artists will be present at
each site to explain how art can
bring people of different faiths
together. At the conclusion of
each regional exhibit there will
be a special concert of Sufi
Songs of Love.
Each of these three faiths
can trace their beginnings back
to the common patriarch of
Abraham in the biblical book of
Genesis. Judaism and Christianity trace their heritage back to
Abraham and Sarah, while Islam
traces its heritage back to Abraham and his concubine Hagar.
The prophet Muhammad reformed this ancient desert faith
into what then became Islam.

Over the years they went their

separate ways, and sometimes
this led to strife and even enmity
between the three. Often this
enmity was caused by radical
factions that even used conflict
instead of the respective faiths
call to love.
Many of these divisions are
being played out today in world
affairs and tragically comes as
the result of the numerous conflicts in the Middle East where
all of this began.
It is into this spiritual void
that the Foundation of the
Episcopal Diocese is offering
the CARAVAN program to help
bridge the differences between
these three world religions of the
book. It is the Foundations in-

tention that each of these artistic exhibits will bring discourse

about not only the religions but
also the angels of our better nature that can bring peace to the
world instead of violence.
As Bishop of the Diocese of
Wyoming, I would urge people
to come and view any of these
shows that are a part of The
Bridge and learn more about the
faiths that they represent. In
doing so we hope to see light cast
on our societal differences where
too often we hear only about the
darkness. The Bridge is designed
to display that light through art.
The Rt. Rev. John Smylie is
Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese
of Wyoming.

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Lessons
From A1

foreigners who live in countries he described as compromised by terrorism.

In December, Time magazine asked Trump whether
he would have supported
Japanese internment camps.
I would have had to be
there at the time to tell you,
to give you a proper answer,
the billionaire said. I certainly hate the concept of it.
But I would have had to be
there at the time to give you
a proper answer.
Such words worry Hoshizaki.
The man doesnt know
history, he said of Trump.
Hes a businessman. Everything is right (at the
speed of) now. I think he
shoots first and asks questions later.
The Star-Tribune contacted Trumps Wyoming
campaign director, who
said she couldnt speak for
the real estate mogul but left
a message with campaign
officials. The newspaper did
not hear back from them.
Trump spokeswoman
Hope Hicks also did not respond to emailed questions
for this story.

Heart Mountain was built

in the summer of 1942 on
prairie about 13 miles north
of Cody near the Shoshone
River.
The stories of the people
who lived there contain a
complicated mix of emotions. Despite being held
against their will, many of
the former child incarcerees
described finding hundreds
of new playmates after arriving at the camp. They went
to school, joined scouting,
tromped around the Wyoming sagebrush and discovered new plants and wildlife.
Many said the injustice
didnt hit them until later
in life how their families
had to leave their homes and
the possessions that they
had worked so hard to earn,
because their countrymen
didnt trust them.
Here are four of their stories.

Takashi Hoshizaki

He arrived at Heart
Mountain from Los Angeles by train when he was
16 with thousands of other
Japanese-Americans. The
journey took four days, and
no one knew exactly where
they were going. One day,
Takashi Hoshizaki remembers a man poking his head
out the window and surmising they were in Pocatello, Idaho. Hours later,
they were in Wyoming.
My first impression was
this was a great place, said
Hoshizaki, who is known
as Tak. On the contrary,
my sister saw all the dust
blowing and said, This is a
terrible place.
Tak settled into life at the
camp he was a junior assistant scoutmaster for Boy
Scouts for Heart Mountains
Troop 313 but as time wore
on, he wondered about the
outside world. People could
not leave the camp unless
they had official business,
such as printing the camps
newspaper in Cody.
Soon enough, however,
he left Heart Mountain
though, again, not by
choice.
When he turned 18, he
received draft papers. But
with his loved ones robbed
of their civil rights and living like prisoners, Tak said
his conscience wouldnt let
him serve in the military. He
was among a group of 63
Heart Mountain internees
who resisted the draft. U.S.
marshals took him to Cody,
then to jail in Casper. His
trial was held in Cheyenne,
and he was sentenced to two
years in federal prison.
Taks decision to fight
the draft was a moral one, a
way to stand up to a government he felt was racist that
had upended peoples lives,
he said. Before he arrived
in Wyoming, he and thousands of Japanese-Americans were rounded up and
sent to the L.A. County
Fairgrounds in Pomona,
California, awaiting transport to the camps.
When I went to Pomona,
I heard the older (people)
say, We should have contested this.
When Tak was released,
World War II had ended
and his family was allowed
to leave Heart Mountain. He

Takashi Tak Hoshizaki pictured July 30 outside the Heart

Mountain Interpretive Center. Hoshizaki spent two years
in federal prison for refusing to enlist in the U.S. military
while he and his family were detained at the Heart Mountain
internment camp.
PHOTOS BY JENNA VONHOFE, STAR-TRIBUNE

Joanne Kumamoto admires a cutout of her husbands grandfather inside the Heart Mountain
Interpretive Center on July 30 in Powell.
joined them in Los Angeles. Ten years after his first
draft notice, he was called
to serve again when the U.S.
entered the conflict in Korea. That time, he proudly
answered the call, he said.
In time, Americans have
forgotten the history of the
Japanese internment. The
trouble is, history could repeat itself, Tak said.

Shigeru Yabu

He knows its controversial to say it, but Shigeru

Yabu had a great time at
Heart Mountain, though he
does remember his parents
being overwhelmed by the
conditions.
Shig arrived with his
family when he was 10 and
ran around with a gang of
boys his age, mostly having
fun and getting into a little
trouble, too.
The day after he arrived,
there was a knock on the
door. A friend from San
Francisco had come to play.
He and I wanted to go to
a guard tower, he said. We
wanted to see their guns. We
thought they were going to
talk to us. They never paid
attention.
Shig and his friends played
marbles and rock-paperscissors. They traced circles
in the dirt with pocket knives
and roamed the sagebrush,
seeing their first scorpion.
Another internee somehow had a car and they paid
him $10 for an all-day trip
around the Big Horn Basin. They heard there was a
river nearby, the Shoshone,
and often pushed down the
barbed wires of the fence to
sneak out of the camp. They
fished and swam in the river,
he said.
One day, the gang fired
a slingshot and knocked
down a birds nest. Inside
was a baby magpie they
named Maggie. They found
a cage for Maggie. Adults
and children fed her bugs
and food from the mess
hall and taught her to speak,
whistle and laugh, he said.
That bird was an internee, he said.
At Heart Mountain
School, Shig once forgot
the list of words for a spelling test. He didnt want to
tell his mother, knowing
shed be cross. So he feigned
sickness and ended up in the
camps hospital, which had
ice water, white sheets on
the beds and pretty nurses.
The doctor said he needed
to perform exploratory surgery to figure out what was
wrong with Shig, who became anxious because he
didnt want an operation.
The doctor figured out he
was faking and sent him
back to the barracks his
family lived in.
I had a great time, he
said, because of my age,
maybe.
Shig is now 84 and lives
in California. At the remembrance event, he wore
a T-shirt that said, I survived Heart Mountain!
The way he sees it, Trump
has the right to speak his
mind. People dont have to
believe him. And the best
way to fight rhetoric is with
more speech, he said.
I guess I believe in the
freedom of speech, he said.

sented her parents a loyalty

oath and pressured them to
sign it. Her parents hesitated. After all, this was the
country that was imprisoning them, she said.
Kittaka, who now lives in
Fort Wayne, Indiana, had relatives who refused to sign it.
They were American citizens
but decided to return to Japan. They were disheartened
by their country, she said.
Her parents reviewed the
oath and made a different
choice.
My parents decided to
sign it and move on with
their lives, she said.
Kittakas passion for music she became a music
educator as an adult was
sparked at Heart Mountain, where she saw a musician play a trumpet on the
playground. It was the same
tune nearly every day.
That melody stayed with
me, she said.
Though the conditions
at Heart Mountain were
less than desirable, her
parents fought to bring up
their children with manners. When coal shipments
arrived, incarcerees often
got mean and competitive,

trying to pick up the best

pieces for their furnaces.
Kittakas father made his
children hold back.
He said, Dont act like
animals, no matter the situation, she said.
As a result, the family
often took home the dusty,
dirty pieces of coal.
The family lost everything theyd left in Washington. They moved to Illinois after being released
from Heart Mountain.
The 77-year-old said
Trumps words are a chilling reminder.
I think he needs to stop,
she said of Trump. His
rhetoric at this point is the
same as we had heard and
read about at the time of the
internment.

Sam Mihara

At Heart Mountain, Sam

Miharas family settled into
a 20-by-20-foot room with
wall-to-wall cots and a coal
stove furnace. Temperatures that first year dropped
to 28 degrees below, sending
the camps residents most
of whom were accustomed
to the moderate climes of
California scrambling for

Dorothy Kittaka tells a story during the 2016 Heart Mountain

pilgrimage July 30 in Powell. Kittaka, along with her parents
and siblings, was detained at Heart Mountain after the
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
warm clothing.
Mihara, a city boy, had to
adjust to Wyoming.
We thought we had gone
to the end of the world
sagebrush country, he said.
No civilization, except a
two-lane highway and train
tracks.
After he was released, he
was bitter.
I didnt fully appreciate
what racial hatred could
do, he said.
Japanese-Americans
were depicted as the enemy
in mass media, with propaganda highlighting the Japanese attack on the United
States. Paranoia took hold
in the government, with

one report even suggesting

that folks living in America
could spy for the Japanese
government, scrolling secret messages with invisible
ink on products sent across
the Pacific.
Over time, Miharas bitterness dissipated. The
83-year-old now gives talks
on his experience at Heart
Mountain. He wants to teach
people what happened.
This camp is a good example of what can happen
to other people to Middle
Easterners, to others, he said.
Follow political reporter
Laura Hancock on Twitter
@laurahancock

Dorothy Kittaka

Dorothy Kittakas family lived in Auburn, Washington, before they passed

through a series of camps.
In 1943, they landed at
Heart Mountain, one of the
last groups to arrive.
Delays kept the family
in limbo, living in camps
and not knowing where
they would end up, she
said. Her older brother had
chicken pox, and the family
was quarantined for a year.
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Sunday, September 11, 2016|A9

After 15 years, last artifacts

of 9/11 have been given away
ADAM GELLER

Associated Press

NEW YORK Behind the

barbed wire, the white minivans

busted windows and crumpled
roof hint at its story. But forklifted to this windblown spot on
the John F. Kennedy International Airport tarmac, between a
decommissioned 727 and an aircraft hangar, its doubtful passing
drivers notice it at all.
In the long struggle with the
searing memories of 9/11, though,
the vans solitary presence here
marks a small but significant transition point.
Tons of wreckage twisted
steel beams weighing up to
40,000 pounds, chunks of concrete smelling of smoke, a crushed
fire engine, a dust-covered airline slipper were salvaged from
the World Trade Center site for
preservation in the weeks after
the 2001 terrorist attacks. Now,
15 years later, this van, part of a
government agency motor pool
likely sheltered from the impact
in the parking garage beneath the
complex, is the very last artifact
without a resting place.
When the van is claimed, as
soon as a few weeks from now, it
will fulfill a pledge that, to move
beyond 9/11 without losing sight
of it, New York would share relics
of that terror, along with the tales
of sacrifice and fear that come
with them.
The decision by officials to
give away pieces of Trade Center
wreckage has been praised and
criticized over the years. But its
impact is undeniable.
More than 2,600 artifacts have
gone to 1,585 fire and police departments, schools and museums,
and other nonprofit organizations
in every state and at least eight
other countries. Each recipient
has pledged to use them in memorials or exhibits honoring those
killed on 9/11. While some have
not followed through, the many
that have mean it is now possible
to touch a piece of September 11
during a Roman Catholic Mass
in Port St. Lucie, Florida, while
standing in the shadows of Colorados San Juan mountains, or in
a park honoring animals in Meaford, Ontario.
They are the relics of the destruction and they have the same
power in the same way as medieval relics that have the power of
the saints, said Harriet Senie,
a professor of art history at the
City University of New York and
author of Memorials to Shattered
Myths: Vietnam to 9/11.
History is a vague concept, but
if you have this tangible object that
was a part of this historical event, it
makes it very difficult to deny and
it also makes it possible to experience it in a very visceral way.

AP PHOTOS

A beam from the destroyed World Trade Center buildings, part of the 9/11 Memorial, is pictured Sept. 3 near the
Veterans Pavilion at the Fulton County Fair in Wauseon, Ohio.

A van damaged in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade
Center, is pictured Aug. 18 outside Hangar 17 at the JFK airport in New
York. When the Port Authority shuttered the artifact program in August,
officials moved the only remaining artifact to the tarmac.
In the days immediately after the
attacks, it wasnt at all clear what
would happen to the wreckage
of the Trade Center. Its not as if
anyone had confronted questions
of that scale before. There was no
certainty about exactly which artifacts, if any, should be saved.
The Port Authority of New York
& New Jersey, which owned the
Trade Center, dispatched an architect to comb through the site
and cull pieces that seemed distinctive. Investigators carted away
others. Most of the wreckage from
the site was scrapped or recycled.
But the agency saved about half of
1 percent of the total.
It all had to go somewhere. That
ended up being JFKs Hangar 17,
an 80,000-square-foot cavern
of sheet metal left empty when
tenant Tower Air went out of
business in 2000.
Officials were uncertain what to
do with so much material, given

the emotions intertwined with it.

A judge determined the artifacts
were not evidentiary or personal,
and approved donations to those
who promised to care for them.
But where to begin?
It was piles and piles, probably my height or higher, of steel
beams, says Amy Passiak, the archivist hired to catalog the artifacts
and manage their distribution,
recalling the first time she walked
into the hangar in 2010. Passiak, a
high school senior in Michigan at
the time of the attacks, had been
working as an intern at New Yorks
9/11 museum, but says she was still
unprepared for the scene.
I remember going home that
day and just being exhausted, just
from being there a few hours, just
being emotionally exhausted and
not being able to comprehend the
amount of work that was going to
go into the process. It was like,
maybe a year, maybe two years.

And here I am, six years later.

Passiak built a database of every
item, cataloging its size and approximate weight, with descriptive notes. As word spread that
the Port Authority was giving the
material away, requests poured
in. Through August, the Port
Authority had distributed 2,629
artifacts.
Many went to fire departments,
local governments and organizations in the New York area with
direct ties to the first responders
and workers who perished when
the towers fell.
When those buildings came
down, everybody and everything
in its path was either pulverized
or vaporized off the face of the
earth, said John Hodge of the
Stephen Siller Tunnels to Towers
Foundation, named for his cousin,
a New York firefighter killed on
9/11. In late July, the foundation
marked the looming closure of
Hangar 17 with a ceremony outside before hauling away an elevator motor from the Trade Center, a
piece of the parking structure, and
a portion of a broadcast antenna
that crowned the complex.
Thats where the DNA is. Neither my cousin or anybody else
from Squad 1 was ever found, but
its in that steel, Hodge said.
But for many of the people and
groups that adopted artifacts from
the Trade Center, the loss was
more abstract. At least it started
off that way.
Heath Satow, a sculptor in
southern California hired to design a 9/11 memorial for the plaza
fronting Rosemeads city offices,
recalls awkwardly scanning a

digital catalog showing beams

available from the Trade Center.
But hundreds of hours creating
the memorial a 10-foot beam
cradled by hands of chrome, the
palms and fingers formed from
2,976 interlocking birds representing individual victims left
a deep impression.
Every individual was attended
to, said Satow, his voice breaking
five years later, as he described
making the sculpture. I just was
totally unprepared for it. But when
you spend all that time seeing it as
individuals it will just wreck you.
Satow said he purposely positioned the beam at about eye
level, so people could see, touch
and feel it. Others who adopted
Trade Center artifacts used them
to similar effect.
Firefighters in Pagosa Springs,
Colorado, created a memorial in
front of their station around a
small piece of donated I-beam.
Many people in the town, surrounded by the San Juan mountains and the Southern Ute Reservation, will never get to New York
or Washington, D.C., said David
Hartman, who worked to obtain
the artifact. But September 11 was
his generations Pearl Harbor, and
being able to see and touch the
wreckage enables residents to
reflect on its lessons, he said.
At Flour Bluff Junior High
School in Corpus Christi, Texas,
a piece of Trade Center steel one
of three received by the school
district is housed in a case near
the entrance to the cafeteria. In
September, it is taken out and
students from the schools officer training program stand guard.
Bruce Chaney, the naval science
instructor who applied for the
artifacts, brings another, smaller
piece to his classes.
The artifact is twisted and
somewhat burned. Its not pretty.
Im hoping it will make them
think as theyre growing up, that
they have to pay attention to their
past, Chaney said.
Artifacts let people grapple with
pained memories. But 15 years after September 11, the dispersal of
artifacts from the Trade Center
has not resolved the publics conflicted feelings about those events,
now set against continued fears of
terrorism.
We just dont know where the
events of 9/11 have led us, said
Rick Sluder, fire chief in Wauseon,
Ohio, which obtained a Trade
Center beam and, together with
neighboring departments built
a memorial at the nearby Fulton
County Fairgrounds.
A lot of people are looking at
this as, is this the point of downfall or the point at which we rose
above the rest, the point of resiliency? Sluder said. I dont think
thats been determined yet.

Club
From A1

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made deals in the bar and strategized on how to grow, how to expand, how to face hurdles as the
commodity price skyrocketed.
Peter Wold was just joining
his fathers business in 1980.
The family has operated Wold
Oil Properties in Casper for half
a century and uses the club for
business and family affairs. Wold
is currently a member.
It was a pretty robust time in
1980. Those were fun days, he
said. But then things started to
turn about 82.
Oil tanked and businesses
went bust. But the club survived.
It bought its current building, a
former supper club, in 1986, at
the bottom of the oil downturn,
Wold said.
[The bust] started about 82
and trickled on in to 86, and 86
was when we bought the club,
he said. You can understand the
consternation of a lot of members
who were saying, Gee whiz. Why
would we be buying something
right now when oil and gas prices
are at very rock bottom?
The clubs members held a
meeting for their annual dinner.
At that time they were based in an
old warehouse downtown.
Ill never forget it, Wold said.
One of the gentlemen stood up
and introduced himself. Hed been
the president of a drilling company and said, I lost my drilling
company, sold it 10 cents on the
dollar. I would like to buy something 10 cents on the dollar. And
thats about what we did.
The club rolled on, but Casper
changed. By the late 90s, most

FILE, STAR-TRIBUNE

Jan Dunlap dresses up tables before a luncheon held for her motherin-law Tessa Dunlaps 100th birthday on Jan. 22, 2010, at the Casper
Petroleum Club.
of the oil companies had closed
offices in the city, and the clubs
board chose to open its membership to businessmen outside
of industry and flush the ranks,
Wold said.
Wolfe, the industry lawyer,
remembers a visible difference
in the city when he visited in the
late 90s.
Casper felt like a ghost town.
The offices once buzzing with the
business of oil were vacant.
I remember going into what
was the old J.C. Penney store on
Second Avenue, he said. The entire building was about 6 inches
deep in pigeon feathers. That
wasnt the only office building
in Casper that had nobody in it
except the birds that had taken
roost.
Casper has changed, as have the
people who live here. The economy is stronger due to diversification. It no longer rests solely on

the shoulders of oil and gas, Wold

said.
But despite the gains, there is
something to be said for whats
missing.
I think the Petroleum Club
just sort of ended up not having
much of a marketplace to serve
anymore, Wolfe said.
These days, business isnt done
through clubs, he said.
The culture has changed dramatically away from these kinds
of community organizations.
People just dont belong to them
anymore. They dont think about
joining them, Wolfe said. Young
people have so many other outlets
and ways to connect with people.
Its a cultural phenomenon.
Thats true for the club. Membership has declined for 15 years,
said Leff, the board president.
The younger generation are not
clubbers, he said. Private clubs
all over the country are struggling

FILE, STAR-TRIBUNE

The Casper Petroleum Club is seen in the late 1970s at its former
downtown location in the Townsend Hotel. The club eventually moved to
its own building on Wilkins Circle in the early 80s.
The membership dues are what
keeps the club going.
For many, the end of the club is
painful. Though there are more
restaurants in Casper today, there
is nothing to replace it.
It had this wonderful familiarity to it, Wolfe said of the club. It
was always the same.
When the club closes its doors,
it will close an era where business
was conducted around the dinner

table.
The former supper club, bought
for 10 cents on the dollar when oil
was $10 a barrel, will be one more
empty space a remnant of an
era in Casper when two blondes
disrupted a minerals committee
meeting and introduced themselves as sisters.
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Casper Star-Tribune

Clinton: Comment was grossly generalistic

CATHERINE LUCEY

Associated Press

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.

Hillary Clinton said Saturday that she was wrong to
put half of Donald Trumps
supporters in a basket of
deplorables, but didnt
back down from a description of his campaign the
Republican nominee said
smeared many Americans
and would take a political
toll.
Less than 24 hours after
she made the statement
at a private New York City
fundraiser, Clinton said, I
regret saying half that
was wrong, adding that it
was grossly generalistic.
But she argued that the
word deplorable was reasonable to describe much of
Trumps campaign.
He has built his campaign largely on prejudice
and paranoia and given a
national platform to hateful
views and voices, including
by retweeting fringe bigots
with a few dozen followers
and spreading their message
to 11 million people, Clinton said.
Clinton, who has said she
is the candidate to unify a
divided country, made the
deplorables comment
at an LGBT fundraiser Friday night at a New York
City restaurant, with about
1,000 people in attendance.
To just be grossly generalistic, you could put half

AP

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks Friday at an LBGT For Hillary Gala
at the Cipriani Club in New York.
of Trumps supporters into
what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist,
sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic you
name it, she said, before
stressing that other Trump
supporters are frustrated
and need sympathy.
Trump and his supporters quickly pounced on the
remark.
Wow, Hillary Clinton
was SO INSULTING to
my supporters, millions
of amazing, hard-working
people. I think it will cost
her at the polls! Trump
said in a tweet.
Running mate Mike
Pence, in remarks at the

Values Voter conference

in Washington, shot back:
The truth of the matter is that the men and
women who support Donald Trumps campaign are
hard-working Americans,
farmers, coal miners, teachers, veterans, members of
our law enforcement community, members of every
class of this country who
know that we can make
America great again.
The rhetorical scuffle
comes as the candidates
head into the final two
months of the campaign,
with Trump trying to make
up ground on Clinton before
the Nov. 8 election.

While Clinton is taking heat for her comment,

Trumps brand is controversy. At a rally in Pensacola, Florida, on Friday, he
said Clinton is so protected that she could walk
into this arena right now
and shoot somebody with
20,000 people watching,
right smack in the middle of
the heart. And she wouldnt
be prosecuted.
The comment was reminiscent of Trumps January
description of the loyalty of
his supporters. They say I
have the most loyal people
... where I could stand in
the middle of Fifth Avenue
and shoot somebody and I

wouldnt lose any voters,

OK? Its like incredible, he
said.
At the fundraiser, Clinton
bemoaned the people she
described as deplorables,
saying
unfortunately
there are people like that.
And he has lifted them up.
He has given voice to their
websites that used to only
have 11,000 people now
how 11 million. He tweets
and retweets their offensive hateful mean-spirited
rhetoric. Now, some of
those folks they are irredeemable, but thankfully
they are not America, said
the Democratic nominee,
who was the countrys top
diplomat during President
Barack Obamas first term.
Clinton then pivoted
and tried to characterize
the other half of Trumps
supporters, putting them
in that other basket and
saying they need understanding and empathy.
She described them as
people who feel that the
government has let them
down, the economy has let
them down, nobody cares
about them, nobody worries
about what happens to their
lives and their futures, and
theyre just desperate for
change.
It could prove a stumble
for a seasoned and polarizing politician who
wants to lead a country that
includes many who have

embraced Trumps exhortations to lock her up.

Clinton has made similar comments in the past.
In an interview with Israeli
TV this week, Clinton said
that Trump supporters are,
what I call the deplorables;
you know, the racists and
the, you know, the haters,
and the people who are
drawn because they think
somehow hes going to restore an America that no
longer exists.
Clinton spokesman Nick
Merrill said in a series of
tweets after the remarks
that Clinton has been
talking about the alternative right, or alt-right
movement, which often
is associated with efforts
on the far right to preserve
white identity, oppose
multiculturalism and defend Western values.
Merrill argued that altright leaders are supporting Trump and their supporters appear to make up
half his crowd when you observe the tone of his events.
In her statement, Clinton
said of Trump: its deplorable that hes attacked a federal judge for his Mexican
heritage, bullied a Gold Star
family because of their Muslim faith, and promoted the
lie that our first black president is not a true American.
So I wont stop calling out
bigotry and racist rhetoric
in this campaign.

Federal intervention on oil pipeline project unprecedented

JAMES MACPHERSON

Associated Press

BISMARCK, N.D. The

Standing Rock Siouxs effort to block a four-state oil
pipeline got a lifeline when
the federal government
temporarily stopped the
project, a move some say
likely may forever change
the way all energy infrastructure projects are reviewed in the future.
Just minutes after U.S.
District Judge James Boasberg denied the Standing
Rock Sioux tribes attempt
to halt the construction of
the Dakota Access oil pipeline that skirts the reservation in southern North
Dakota, three federal agencies appealed to the pipeline
company to voluntarily
pause work on a segment

that tribal officials say holds

sacred sites and artifacts.
Tribal officials challenged
the Army Corps of Engineers decision to grant
permits for Dallas-based
Energy Transfer Partners
$3.8 billion pipeline that is
intended to carry oil from
North Dakota to Illinois.
Fridays ruling by Boasberg, who was appointed
by President Barack Obama,
came amid growing protests
over the pipeline, which
would cross the Missouri
River less than a mile upstream of the reservation.
The statement by the Departments of Justice, Army
and Interior said it would
reconsider any of its previous decisions on land
that borders or is under Lake
Oahe, one of six reservoirs on

the Missouri River and the

drinking water source for the
tribal members on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation.
The statement from the
federal departments also
said the case highlighted
the need for a serious discussion about nationwide
reforms with respect to
considering tribes views on
these types of infrastructure projects.
Troy Eid, a former U.S.
attorney in Colorado who
now specializes in Indian
law, said the action was
unprecedented and a significant setback for the
pipelines builders.
Everywhere in Indian
Country, people are talking
about this, said Eid, who
spoke by phone Saturday
while on horseback during

a parade at the Navajo Nation Fair in Window Rock,

Arizona.
He said the lack of tribal
consultation on the Dakota
Access pipeline is a textbook example of how not to
do a project.
Historically, tribes only
have been consulted on energy infrastructure projects,
with the federal government
making the actual decisions,
said Eid, a Republican.
The Obama administrations action Friday likely
changed that, he said.

Tribes want to be able to

influence the outcome in a
substantive way, Eid said.
Industry
consultant
Brigham McCown, a former acting administrator
for the federal Pipeline and
Hazardous Materials Safety
Administration, said the
Obama administrations
involvement has changed
the lay of the land forever
for infrastructure projects.
This could bog down or
delay every single infrastructure project moving forward,
he said. I dont think they

even realize the can of worms

theyve opened.
As a regulator during the
George W. Bush administration, McCown said he
oversaw safety for 1 million
daily shipments of hazardous goods throughout the
United States by air, rail,
sea, land and pipeline.
We were very apolitical
in the decisions we made,
he said. Things are very
different now, whether from
the right wing or left wing,
politics of all kinds are being
injected into this.

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Casper Star-Tribune

Sunday, September 11, 2016|A11

Russia calling shots in Syria deal

BRADLEY KLAPPER
AND MATTHEW LEE

Associated Press

WASHINGTON Saturdays deal to renew a

nationwide truce in Syria,
open aid routes and establish a U.S.-Russian military
partnership may be the best
hope yet to end the brutal
five-year civil war. It is also
full of potential pitfalls and
leaves Moscow with far
more power than Washington to determine if there
can be lasting peace.
Careful to note the possibility for failure, Secretary
of State John Kerry and
Russian Foreign Minister
Sergey Lavrov were nevertheless upbeat as they
announced the agreement
after a marathon negotiating session in Geneva
that culminated dozens
of one-on-one conversations over the past several
months. Spurred on by the
violence that has enveloped
the Syrian city of Aleppo
intense airstrikes were
reported there Saturday
the two diplomats forged a
pact they say departs from
previous unsuccessful attempts to halt the bloodshed.
Yet the new blueprint appears to suffer from a fundamental imbalance common to the earlier efforts.
If U.S.-backed or other
rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar Assad break
the cease-fire, Russia could
threaten to respond militarily or allow his forces to
retaliate.
But if Assad breaks the
cease-fire, the U.S. has no
clear enforcement stick.
Washington is unlikely to
attack Syrian forces, given
President Barack Obamas
longstanding opposition to
entering the war, even after Assad famously crossed
Obamas red line by using
chemical weapons in 2013.
Allowing the opposition to
launch attacks would only
risk reopening a fight that
the rebels were losing to
Assads Russian-backed
military.
As a result, the U.S. strategy seems to rest almost
entirely on Russias good

AP

Secretary of State John Kerry talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday
during their joint news conference following their meeting to discuss the crisis in Syria, in
Geneva, Switzerland.
faith.
Moscow can punish Assad by withdrawing the
military support that has
shored up his position. But
if Russia acquiesces to Syrian government violations
or breaks the deal itself by
hitting U.S.-backed rebels, the only recourse the
United States may have is
to abandon the cease-fire
scheduled to start at sundown Monday and the military cooperation arrangement supposed to take effect seven days thereafter.
Suspicion that Moscow
wont live up to its word has
fueled Pentagon skepticism
of Kerrys plan.
Sustainability is another
potential problem, given
the Syrian oppositions rejection of any settlement
that leaves Assad in power.
Kerry said the breakthrough could lead to an
undefined political transition. He made no mention
of Assad leaving power.
Instead, Kerry stressed
the importance of Assads
government living up to
its obligations and to work
with us, suggesting the
Syrian leader could transform himself from international pariah to potential
peace partner. After Lavrov
said the Syrian government
pledged to abide by the
cease-fire, Kerry said Assad
must be prepared to live by
these agreements, which is
critical.

For Washington, the

fightings brutality and the
Islamic State groups rise
now trump any larger gain
it might have seen in Assads departure.
The suffering that we
have witnessed in Syria
over the course of more
than five years now is really beyond inhumane,
Kerry told reporters early
Saturday. People have all
seen the pictureswomen,
children tortured; barrel
bombs, gas.
To secure Russias cooperation, the U.S. hopes the
new military partnership is
enough of a carrot. For one,
it gives Russian President
Vladimir Putin a potential
out of the military intervention he launched in
September 2015, without
which Syrian government
gains could evaporate.
If calm emerges in a Syria
that leaves Assad in power,
Putin could legitimately
claim victory, a pill the U.S.
would have to swallow for
the sake of peace.
But many mechanics of
the cease-fire remain unexplained.
When the cease-fire begins Monday, Assads air
force can still fly combat
missions against IS and
Syriaa al-Qaida affiliate,
the Nusra Front, for seven
more days. That poses
problems because various
U.S.-backed rebels intermingle with the al-Qaida-

linked militants, a symbiosis the U.S. must break. A

Syrian strike against Nusra
can easily be perceived as
one against the moderate
opposition, confusion that
has regularly undermined
past truces.
After a week of compliance with the deal, Assads
forces would then be restricted to fighting only IS.
But even IS territory isnt
always clear. Its fighters,
too, mix with other militants sharing the goal of
defeating Assad.
Kerry said Assads air
forces will be restricted to
an area that we have agreed
on with very real specificity. The map wasnt shared
publicly, even though Kerry
said these restrictions are
the bedrock of this agreement.
Enforcement in Aleppo,
once Syrias largest city, is
especially difficult. Both
sides must withdraw from
various arteries and communities to allow aid to
reach civilians and commercial activity to resume.
Yet much of Aleppo remains under siege Assads forces captured
several significant transit points in recent days
and intense airstrikes
were reported on Satur-

day just hours after the

U.S.-Russian agreement
was reached. The Aleppo
Media Center, an activist
collective, said at least 45
people were killed while
the Britain-based Syrian
Observatory for Human
Rights said 30 people were
killed in Aleppo province
and another 39 were killed
by airstrikes in neighboring
Idlib province.
Alongside Russia, Assad
has received critical military assistance from Iran
and its Lebanon-based
proxy group, Hezbollah.
Although neither Kerry
nor Lavrov mentioned
them, their compliance will
be needed, too. Iran and its
allies often have proved a
spoiler to Middle East peace
efforts.
Underlying the entire
process is U.S.-Russian
mistrust. Obama spoke of
it a week ago after meeting
Putin in China. Lavrov used
the word Saturday.
As an aside, Lavrov delivered a sharp indictment of
what he labelled arrogant
new U.S. sanctions against
Russia over the crisis in
Ukraine.
Nevertheless, he said,
Russians are not offended
easily and want to settle
Syrias conflict.
But some of Lavrovs
particulars didnt quite
match Kerrys, a problem
compounded by the lack of
a publicly available, written
document.
While American officials highlighted the initial, weeklong phase of the
truce, Lavrov said it starts
with a two-day period and
then requires a 48-hour extension.
He said the U.S.-Russian
arrangement that comes
into force after a week still
allows Syrian air forces to
be functional in other areas outside those that we
have singled out for Russian-American military
cooperation. He didnt
outline those areas.

IRAN

Construction
begins on a
second nuke
power plant
NASSER KARIMI

Associated Press

TEHRAN, Iran Iran

began building its second

nuclear power plant with
Russian help on Saturday,
the first such project since
last years landmark nuclear
deal with world powers.
The project in the southern port city of Bushehr
will eventually include two
power plants expected to
go online in 10 years. Construction on the second
plant is set to begin in 2018.
The entire project will cost
more than $8.5 billion, with
each plant producing 1,057
megawatts of electricity.
Construction of the
power plant is a symbol of
Iran enjoying the results of
the nuclear deal, Senior
Vice-President Ishaq Jahangiri said at a ceremony marking the start of the project.
We will continue working with Russia as a strategic
partner and friend, he added.
Irans sole operational
nuclear reactor, also built
in Bushehr with Russian
assistance, produces 1,000
megawatts. It went online in
2011, and the two countries
have agreed to cooperate on
future projects.
Iran has a current capacity
of 75,000 megawatts, nearly
90 percent coming from
fossil fuels. It hopes to generate 20,000 megawatts of
electricity through nuclear
power in the next 15 years.
Sergey Kiriyenko, the head
of Russias atomic agency,
told reporters the plants
would be built according to
high safety standards, particularly those defined after
Fukushima, referring to
the Japanese nuclear power
plant that was badly damaged in the 2011 earthquake
and tsunami.

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A12|Sunday, September 11, 2016

NIGERIA

Famine
unlike any
we have
ever seen
MICHELLE FAUL

Associated Press

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria

The whimpers from skeletally thin babies too weak to

cry are a harbinger of worse
things to come: A quarter of
the children lucky enough
to make it to this emergency
feeding center are dying. They
are the latest victims of Boko
Harams Islamic insurgency.
No one knows how many
more children are dying of
starvation in refugee camps
and areas too dangerous
to access because of the
extremists presence, according to Doctors Without Borders, which runs the
emergency feeding center.
The aid group first sounded
the alarm of a humanitarian
crisis of catastrophic proportion in northeast Nigeria
as Boko Haram lost its grip
on some areas and its victims began to emerge.
These are kids that basically have been hungry all
their lives, and some are so
far gone that they die here in
the first 24 hours, said Jean
Stowell, an American midwife in charge of the center
in Maiduguri, the biggest
city in this largely Muslim
region. The 110-bed center
has quadrupled in size in recent weeks, but each time it
expands it rapidly fills.
Nearly a quarter of a million children are severely
malnourished because Boko
Haram has disrupted trade
and farming, U.N. Assistant
Secretary-General Toby
Lanzer warned at a meeting in Brussels on Thursday. About 2 million people
in the region have not been
reached, and we cant assess their situation. We can
estimate that its awful.
With Nigeria in a recession and without speedy
outside help, we will see,
I think, a famine unlike
any we have ever seen anywhere, he said.
One million refugees from
Boko Haram are crowded
into camps in Maiduguri.
Outside the camps, fresh
produce is cruelly bountiful. Markets are filled with
pineapples, oranges, cabbage, green beans, tomatoes
and carrots. But most refugees cannot afford them,
and Nigerias government
is investigating reports of
officials stealing food aid.
Elsewhere, 1 million children are trapped in areas too
dangerous to reach because
of Boko Haram, the U.N. childrens agency estimates. Its
effort to reach some of them
was put on hold in July when
the extremists attacked a military-escorted humanitarian
convoy on a major highway
and a rocket hit the windshield of an armored car. A
UNICEF worker was among
three civilians wounded.
Boko Haram has been
hostile to Western medicine.
A Doctors Without Borders
vehicle exploded a land mine
on the same road in July; no
one was seriously hurt. The
organization had just brought
the first aid to Bama, the regions second-largest city,
where they discovered that
six people a day were dying
of malnutrition and diarrhea.
Some children who make
it out of such areas remain
in danger.
In the steamy heat inside the feeding center,
Hassana Mohammed tried
to breastfeed a baby while
comforting 18-month-old
Yakubu, who was too weak
to swallow and was irritated
by the intravenous drip that
fed him through his nose.
Mohammeds five children
have known little but hunger
and fear since Boko Haram
killed her first husband when
her eldest, 7-year-old Aisha,
was just a month old.
Weve been on the run
ever since, but Boko Haram
was never far away, Mohammed said. You will see
some women dying in the
bush during childbirth, and
some dying on the way while
running because of hunger.
Some will run and leave their
children for their safety, now
many children were left in
the bush to die.

Casper Star-Tribune

CDC Director: Essentially out of money to fight Zika

ANDREW TAYLOR

Associated Press

WASHINGTON The
head of the governments
fight against the Zika
virus said that we are
now essentially out of
money and warned that
the country is about to
see a bunch of kids born
with microcephaly in the
coming months.
Fridays warning from
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Thomas Frieden
came as lawmakers start
to sort out a stopgap
government funding bill
that is being targeted to
also carry long-delayed
money to battle Zika.
Zika is spreading more
widely in the U.S. and
can not only cause microcephaly in which
babies are born with grave
brain defects but other
problems that the country
will face for decades. And
671 pregnant women in
the states and Washington, D.C., have the virus,
leading to the birth of 17
babies with microcephaly
so far.
Frieden said funding delays have slowed
long-term studies of the
disease and production
of new tests for it. We
havent been able to get a
running start on a longterm battle against Zika,
he said.
Frieden added that we
dont like to see the use
of pesticides such as Friday mornings spraying
of naled, in Miami Beach.
But, he said, new technologies for the application
of such toxic chemicals
are safe for humans. The
two localized mosquito-borne outbreaks in
Miami are quite difficult
to control, Frieden said,
adding that the type of
mosquitoes that spread
Zika are the cockroach
of mosquitoes.
President
Barack
Obama in February requested $1.9 billion to
fight Zika, but Republicans controlling Congress acted slowly on the
request. A Capitol Hill
fight this summer stalled
the Zika aid. Republicans
attached restrictions on
any of the money going to
affiliates of Planned Parenthood in Puerto Rico.
Democrats objected and
blocked the $1.1 billion
measure.
In the interim, the administration has shifted

AP

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Tom Frieden testifies July 13 on Capitol
Hill in Washington.
about $650 million from
other accounts to battle
Zika, most of it unused
money approved two years
ago to fight Ebola. That
money is almost gone.
Now, negotiations are
underway to break the impasse over Zika and add it to
the only piece of legislation
that has to pass Congress
before the election: A stopgap funding bill to avert a
government shutdown on
Oct. 1.
Democrats and the White

House have greater leverage

now since their approval
is needed for the stopgap
spending bill, and Republicans are signaling theyll
likely lift the restrictions
on delivering contraception, treatment and care
through Planned Parenthood, an organization that
many Republicans loathe
since it is a major provider
of abortion.
A bipartisan consensus is
emerging to fund the government through mid-De-

cember, though some House

tea party conservatives are
opposed and want a longer
duration for the measure to
avert a lame duck session of
Congress.
Since the summertime
impasse, Zika has spread
even more widely, and
frustration is mounting
from lawmakers representing affected areas. Almost 3,000 people in the
continental U.S. have been
found to have Zika, and the
total is far higher since most

people dont display symptoms. The figures including

Puerto Rico and the other
territories are much worse.
Look if we dont, then
fire all of us, said Florida
GOP Rep. David Jolly, whose
state is bearing the brunt of
the disease in the continental U.S. If we cant get
Zika funding by the end of
September then were nothing but a bunch of idiots up
here.
I think well look at this
delay in time and say, How
could they have waited so
long? This was so urgent.
It was the very definition of
an emergency, Frieden said.
Not only is this unanticipated, its unprecedented.
Its potentially catastrophic,
and its certainly that for the
kind of brain damage were
seeing.
Frieden noted that it is
extremely unusual to have
a new cause for a severe
birth defect and that the
health care system will be
grappling with the effects of
Zika for years. While microcephaly is the most immediate result of the outbreak,
Frieden noted that infants
are having problems swallowing and with their vision
and hearing.
We dont know what
congenital Zika syndrome
will look like, Frieden said.
We will likely be dealing
with this for decades to
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2016 |

OPEN SPACES

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GEAR JUNKIE

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CASEY PAGE, FOR THE STAR-TRIBUNE

As hunters begin filtering into the woods and along drainages in pursuit of big game, like this mule deer buck seen standing in the Yellowstone River
last week, they should carry bear spray to prevent an accidental encounter from becoming deadly.

Hunting in a grizzly world

As bears expand their
range, a reminder
to be cautious
BRETT FRENCH

For the Star-Tribune

Last year four grizzlies were

killed in Montanas portion of
the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem in whats known as defense
of life situations.
Unless archery and rifle hunters want to find themselves in
a similar circumstance this fall
they should buy, learn how to use
and carry bear spray.
For years our focus was primarily on conserving grizzlies.
Now in some areas were shifting
focus to education and conflict
management as the bears continue to expand their territory,
said Ken McDonald, Fish, Wildlife and Parks Wildlife Division
chief, in a press release.
Thats because in the GYE
which covers about 9,200 square
miles grizzly bear populations
have grown to about 700 bears.
Because the population has hit
federal recovery targets the species is being considered for delisting in the region.

On the edge

As the grizzly populations have

grown, more bears have moved to
fringe areas where they werent
previously seen, places like along
the Beartooth Front north and
south of Red Lodge. Recently
there were even trail cam photos
of a bear in the Big Hole River
drainage of southwest Montana
where grizzlies have not been
seen in decades.
Grizzly bear encounters resulting in human injuries and
(defense of life) related bear
mortalities has increased from
22 percent of the average annual
bear mortality between 19942004 to 35 percent between 2005
and 2015, according to the 2015
Interagency Grizzly Bear Study
Team report.
Increasingly were seeing
more (bear) mortalities in these
areas where the potential for
conflict is greater, explained
Frank van Manen, supervisory
research wildlife biologist for the
study team.

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK

Bear spray has been proven to be

an effective deterrent when used
properly.

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SUZANNA CARRITHERS SOILEAU

Trapping and relocating bears that are involved in livestock

depredation is one way wildlife managers attempt to reduce conflicts.

Wyoming conflicts

Purchase products that are

clearly labeled for deterring
attacks by bears, and that are
registered with the Environmental Protection Agency.
No deterrent is 100 percent
effective, but compared to all
others, including firearms,
bear spray has demonstrated
success in a variety of situations in fending off threatening
and attacking bears and preventing injury to the person
and animal involved. If you are
not trying to be quiet while
hunting, talk loud enough to
deter bears without surprising
them.

the Yellowstone Designated

Monitoring Area than ever before 61 known and probable
mortalities. The bears were killed
in management removals by fish
and wildlife agencies after killing
livestock or threatening humans,
as well as in collisions with vehicles and after being shot by
hunters. The next highest year of
bear mortality was 2010 when 50
grizzlies in the GYE died.
This year the count is up to 29
For more on living with bears
19 were human caused, and
and being bear aware, visit
seven are under investigation.
FWP website at fwp.mt.gov;
Highlighting the fact that bears
then click Be Bear Aware.
are expanding to areas outside
For more on bear resistant
Yellowstone is the report of two
products, go to the Interadult male grizzlies that fell into
agency Grizzly Bear Committee
the cement-sided Heart Mounwebsite.
tain Canal. The bears couldnt
escape and drowned. The canal
is fed by the Shoshone River just combination of events, van Maoutside Cody.
nen said.
Certainly a big driver was a
Grizzly deaths
Perfect storm
relatively poor food year, he said.
Last year there were more grizLast years high grizzly death
zly bears killed in whats called rate in the GYE was driven by a
Please see GRIZZLY, Page B2
The grizzly study team noted in
its report that, The expectation
is that grizzly bears will continue
to expand into areas beyond the
designated monitoring area, potentially resulting in an increase
in total conflicts and bear mortalities.
Perhaps nowhere is that more
evident than Wyoming.
The Wyoming Game and Fish
Department recorded 325 human-grizzly bear conflicts in
2015. Within Wyoming outside of the national parks and
Wind River Reservation, there
were 33 known or probable human-caused mortalities in 2015,
according to the study team report. Management removals accounted for 16 mortalities in 2015;
10 are under investigation by law
enforcement.

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WESTERN EXPOSURE

Fleeting opportunity
ALAN ROGERS

307-266-0548, Alan.Rogers@trib.com

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The start of football season signals that autumns arrival is just

around the corner. Even though
the days may still be toasty warm,
the crisp nights betray the season
to come.
My favorite part of fall is the
golden evening light during
those fleeting moments before
the sun dips below the trees.
When somehow (I dropped out of
physics class in high school, so I
really cant say) the rays from our
10,000-degree sun are filtered
down to about the same pleasant
warmth as a puppys breath on
your face.
Its also one of the best times

of the season and five the second

week.
Sometimes theres great action,
but sometimes the guys just stand
Western Exposure is a weekly feaaround until it fades. The majority
ture produced by the Star-Tribune
of those first games, and the enphotography staff. You can find it
tirety of the rest, will be played in
in Open Spaces each Sunday and
dull twilight or outright darkness
at trib.com. Find more photos on
under buzzing, under-powered
Instagram: @CSTribune.
lamps.
I didnt produce any iconic
football photos during that brief
to make a photograph. Unfortuwindow this year. A few uneventnately, it doesnt last long.
ful plays and it was all over.
Due to the angle of the sun,
Could I have tried harder to
the rapidly shortening days and
games that typically start around make the best of the situation?
7 p.m., there is really nice light for Sure. But for the most part the cirshooting high school football at cumstances were out of my hands.
Theres probably a lesson to be
best about 15 minutes per year.
Roughly 10 minutes the first week learned here about making the

About Western
Exposure

ALAN ROGERS, STAR-TRIBUNE

Sheridan football player Jacob Hallam looks to the sideline as the evening
sun fades on Sept. 2 at Kelly Walsh High School in Casper.
most of the hand youre dealt, but
Im a two-bit philosopher at best,
so Ill leave you to draw your own
conclusions. As for me, hopefully

Ill be ready the next time opportunity presents itself.

Follow managing editor Alan
Rogers on Twitter @alanmrogers

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Casper Star-Tribune

Landowners
help create
public access in
North Dakota
LAUREN DONOVAN

The Bismarck Tribune

COURTESY, BUCK NELSON

Buck Nelson paddles past white cliffs on the Missouri River as he traces the Lewis and Clark Trail from east to west.

Man traces Lewis and Clark trail

ERIC BARKER

Lewiston Tribune

Bruce Buck Nelson appreciates a good adventure.

Hes hiked the Continental
Divide, Pacific Crest and Appalachian trails. Hes canoed the
length of the Mississippi River,
hiked and hunted his way across
Alaska and spent 70 days living
off the land on Admiralty Island,
home to 1,600 brown bears.
Since late March, the 58-yearold retired smoke jumper of Fairbanks, Alaska, has been retracing
the steps and paddle strokes of
the Lewis and Clark Expedition
the hard wayunder only his
own power.
Heres a quick recap. Nelson
departed St. Louis March 24,
walked to Yankton, S.D., and then
started paddling against the current of the Missouri River. When
the rivers push or the wind was
too strong, he pulled his boat upriver while walking along cobbled
banks. At places like Great Falls,
he used a cart to portage his boat
and gear around obstacles. At
Three Forks, Mont., where the
Madison, Jefferson and Gallatin rivers join forces to form the
Missouri, he ditched the boat
and started walking. He climbed
Lemhi and Lost Trail passes,
strolled the length of the Bitterroot Valley and hopped over the
divide to the Lolo Motorway.
Nelson emerged from the Bitterroot Mountains and walked
from Weippe to Orofino, where
he got back in his kayak.
He then paddled into the confluence of the Snake and Clearwater rivers and nosed his kayak
onto Greenbelt Boat Ramp, where
he planned to rest a day before
shoving off for Astoria, Oregon.

Perhaps the first question is

why? What is it about epic journeys that appeals to him?
Its something I have always
enjoyed; since I was a kid I liked
to go out into the woods for several days at a time, he said. My
brother and I would go out and we
would call it living off the land.
We would go out for two or three
days and not bring any food.
The fact that such journeys are
difficult makes them even better.
Just the simple challenge aspect of it is fun to me, he said.
Some people say why would
you do something so hard, but
that adds a lot to the satisfaction
of the trip to me. Its just satisfying completing something that is
difficult.
Nelson grew up on a farm
in east central Minnesota and
started fighting Western wildfires when he left home. Hes
lived at Fairbanks for 35 years
and has been retired since 2008.
Now he plans and executes adventures and sometimes writes
books or produces videos about
them.
He authored Alone in the Fortress of Bears, about his 10 weeks
of fishing, foraging and hunting
on Admiralty Island, and DVDs
about hiking and hunting in the
Brooks Range of Alaska.
His Lewis and Clark trip came
about on a whim. Nelson was
planning to hike Idahos Centennial Trail after slogging north
from Arizona to Nevada. But he
read an account of somebody
paddling the Missouri, something
that had long been in the back of
his mind since a float down the
Yellowstone River, one of its tributaries.
I found a couple of accounts

of people who had paddled up

the Missouri, and I figured if
they could do it, I could probably
do it too, and I figured it would be
fun to retrace the whole route of
Lewis and Clark and to do it by
walking and paddling similar to
what they did.
So he changed his plans and
thus far the trip has been good.
Fighting currents and wind as
he headed up the Missouri has
been the most daunting aspect.
His least favorite part has been
the suspicion he has garnered in
some people.
In the East its so unusual to
see people walking around that
several times people called the
police to report, Somebody was
walking down the road and you
better check them out, he said.
I am normally not looked at as
a possible criminal and I didnt
really enjoy that.
Finding three bison skulls on
the Missouri ranks as his favorite
experience. He also enjoyed kayaking past the famous White Cliffs
in the Missouri Breaks section of
the river. The best hiking was
near the western edge of the Lolo
Motorway, where a trail leaves the
gravel road and passes through
huge cedar and ponderosa pine
trees.
Nobody was on the trail, just
a lot of deer and whatnot had
been using the trail, so that was
pleasant.
Even the days when he has
walked along highways with cars
and trucks roaring past have been
enjoyable.
So much of it is about attitude,
like walking down the Bitterroot
Valley. I could have been cursing
the fact there were cars nearby,
but instead I looked the other way

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Grizzly
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Berries, moths and whitebark

pine were all low last year. That
typically results in more conflicts,
which results in more removals.
This year, van Manen said, the
whitebark pine crop is better. But
the effects of a dry summer on
berry crops, along with numerous
wildfires inside and near Yellowstone that could displace animals,
has the potential to push grizzlies
into outlying areas and closer to
deer, elk and grouse hunters.
The next month is key, van

Manen said.
No single factor can be attributed to low or high conflicts
in a given year, the study team
wrote. It is always the combination of multiple factors including
natural food availability, climate
conditions, bear numbers, individual bear behavior, previous
bear removals, management efforts and human activities.

Delisting opponents

Critics of the GYEs grizzly

bears being removed from endangered species protection have
pointed to the unprecedented
number of mortalities last year as

one of many reasons to halt delisting. They see an implementation

of proposed hunting seasons in
the surrounding states of Montana, Wyoming and Idaho no
matter how conservative those
hunting regulations may be as
one more threat to the big bears
survival in the lower 48 states.
To these states, delisting is
a devoutly desired outcome,
because they can hunt and kill
more bears to satisfy clients, who
happen to be almost exclusively
ranchers and hunters, wrote
Louisa Willcox, a Livingston grizzly bear advocate, in her Grizzly
Times blog. In current state

and looked at the mountains and

the horses and things. It was fun.
I have enjoyed it all.
Along the way, friends have
met up with him and helped him
get supplies, or provided him
with a home-cooked meal and
a place to grab a shower. An old
smoke-jumping buddy delivered
his kayak to Orofino. But most of
the time he has had only himself
for company.
I never get lonely, he said.
That makes me an unusual person and it makes it a lot easier to
do trips like this.
With his return to the kayak
it would seem the hard part of
the journey was mostly over. But
still ahead were dam passages and
dealing with the famous wind of
the Columbia River Gorge.
People always theorize about
what is dangerous and they always want to warn me about
bears and lunatics and snakes
and whatnot, but there is very few
things more dangerous than water if you are not careful, so that
is what I respect.
He figures hell approach the
Columbia River Bar where the
river meets the Pacific Ocean
around Sept. 15. He hasnt decided if hell attempt to kayak
the notorious stretch of water. In
the meantime, hell make his way
downriver on a schedule thats all
his own.
I like to do trips like this myself. Its such a major advantage
to go at your own pace, to go
fast when you are in the mood
and to go slow when you are in
the mood, he said. Pacing is
so important and the freedom
is important. You give up a lot
of that when you team up with
someone.

BELFIELD, N.D. Nate Harling

and crew are pounding in more
than 100 signs around the biggest
public hunting access ever created
in North Dakota.
Those yellow PLOTS signs,
which stand for Private Lands
Open to Sportsmen, are a sight for
sore eyes to hunters looking for a
place to go where there is no fee,
no permission required.
The Richard Angus Ranch on
the far western edge of North Dakota consists of more than 20,000
contiguous acres that contain
some of the most wildlife-diverse
land around.
Ranch owners Byron and
Kathy Richard purchased what
had been the Beaver Creek Ranch
property north of Beach last year,
with the idea of creating a cattle and wildlife legacy ranch for
future generations. With miles
of free-flowing Beaver Creek
winding through, high bluffs,
buttes and open range supporting everything from chirr-upping prairie dogs to bugling elk,
it didnt take Byron Richard long
to realize he had quite an opportunity in hand.
This is a lot more than we need
for a couple of family members,
he said.
He contacted Harling, who
manages access programs for the
State Game and Fish Department.
Harling, in true sporting style,
took the ball and ran with it.
The result is not only the largest PLOTS project ever, its also
the first time so many public and
wildlife partners have cooperated
on a single project in North Dakota.
The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, Pheasants Forever, the
Wild Turkey Federation and the
Mule Deer Foundation joined the
agency to support the cost of access and infrastructure, including wildlife-friendly fence, water
tanks, signs and vehicle access
points. Volunteers helped tear out
an old cross-fence system, build
new fence and water systems, and
clean up the property, including
an old abandoned oil well location.
The idea with the water projects is to control cattle grazing
away from the creek to help restore the riparian areas the
trees, the grass, the fresh water
that provide critical habitat for
wildlife.
In exchange for the PLOTS payment and other wildlife contributions totaling $664,000, Richard
signed a 10-year deal, meaning
that sportsmen and women can
become familiar with the land and
the wildlife season after season for
a long time to come.
To get their return, they
needed a long-term commitment, Richard said. This is a
resource to share with the people.
Thats not to say hes not a little bit nervous with no idea how
many sportsmen to expect, how
much pressure there will be and
whether strangers will respect the
property.
He predicts good things but
says it only takes a few who drive
where they shouldnt, leave trash
or grind deep ruts into wet roads
to spoil the experience.
If they show respect and if I
dont see garbage out here, I dont
think it will be a big problem. It
will be enforced, and I do want to
see the game warden out here,
Richard said.
Wildlife attracts hunters and
hunters attract game wardens,
but hunters readily self-police because they dont like to see trash
and spoilers, either, according to
Harling.
This is walk-in access only, so
its not going to be overrun with
vehicles or foot traffic. This area
is so big, it would take extra effort
to pressure the game off the land,
theyll just move around, Harling
said.

governance there is no room for the study team report. Only half of
the rest of us, people who value the backpackers surveyed carried
grizzly bears simply because they bear spray.
exist.
Hunters are trying to be quiet
to sneak up on deer, elk and other
Bear aware
big games species, so they are at
Key to reducing all bear mortal- an even greater threat of surprisities, as well as attacks that could ing a grizzly.
endanger hunters or hikers, is to
The most difficult conflict type
be prepared and carry bear spray. to prevent is surprise encounter,
Persuading people to carry spray the study team report said. Such
isnt easy, though. Even in griz- encounters are currently trending
zly-rich Yellowstone National to be the leading cause of grizzly
Park surveys have shown that bear mortalities in the Montana
only 14 percent of day hikers car- portion of the GYE.
ried bear spray and 58 percent had
So a word to the wise hunter:
less than the recommended three buy bear spray, learn how to use
people in their group, according to it and always pack it along.

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TOWN CRIER: TODAYS HIGHLIGHTS

Sunday clubs and
meetings
Alcoholics Anonymous: 10a.m., 500 S. Wolcott, Ste. 200; 10:15a.m.,
917 N. Beech; noon, 500
S. Wolcott, Ste. 200;
6:30p.m., 456 W. Walnut;
6:30p.m., 500 S. Wolcott;
6:30p.m., 328 E. A; 8p.m.,
917 N. Beech; 8p.m., 328
1/2 E. A. Douglas: 1 p.m.,
Douglas, 628 E. Richards
(upstairs in back), womens meeting; 7:30p.m.,
Douglas, 7:30p.m., 628 E.
Richards (upstairs in back).
Unless otherwise noted, all
meetings are open. Casper
info: 266-9578; Douglas
info: (307) 351-1688.
Narcotics
Anonymous: Noon, 500 S.
Wolcott, 12-24 Club;
6:30p.m., 500 S. Wolcott,
12-24 Club; 8p.m., 15th &
Melrose at the church. Web
site: http://www.urmrna.
org.
Nicotine Anonymous:
5p.m., 500 S. Wolcott, 1224 Club. Info: Pam M.,
577-0518; Troy Y., 2676326.

links, potatoes, scrambled

eggs, French toast and omelets to order. New to the
menu is build your own
breakfast burrito. Also
served is toast, juice, tea
and coffee. All you can eat
for $7, children 5 to 12 are
$3, 4 and under are free.
Come down for the best
breakfast in town and see
the old crew again. For
more information, call
234-4839.

VFW Benefit
Breakfast

VFW Post 9439 and

Auxiliary, 1800 Bryan
Stock Trail, will host a
benefit breakfast for the
Boy Scout Troop 121 and
Girl Scout Troop 10053
from 8a.m. until 11a.m.
All proceeds will go to Boy
Scout Troop 121 and Girl
Scout Troop 10053. Menu
includes ham, bacon, sausage, biscuits with sausage
gravy, eggs, hash browns,
green chili, pancakes, danish, fruit and beverages.
Cost is $7 for adults and
$3.50 for children under
10. The public is welcome.
Thin Blue Line 5/10K Please call 235-4867 for
The Windy City Strid- more information.
ers are hosting the second
annual Thin Blue Line 5K September at Holy
and 10K starting at the Family
Town Hall in Evansville,
325 Curtis St. The fee is
Church of the Holy
$30 per participant or Family Anglican Rite,
$50 per team with a max of 4100 SE Wyoming Blvd.,
four people per team. Reg- announces its September
istration can be completed schedule.
online by going to raceit.
Sept. 11: Christian Edcom or you can register ucation for boys & girls
the morning of the race 9a.m. New Curriculum,
at 8a.m. The race starts audio/visual program-take
at 9a.m. All finishers will home prayers. Adult Holy
receive a medal and a thin Baptism & Confirmation
blue line sticker that has class. *After worship,helpbeen donated by Bar-D ers needed to remove carsigns. Qdoba has donated pet for new installation.
All interested people are
burritos for participants
after the race. Thanks welcome at all of these ofalso to our sponsors 1st ferings.
Bishop Ken Kinner 262American Title and the
Flour Bin.
7505; Father Jim Dean
All proceeds will directly 262-6875; Sr. Warden John
benefit our local law en- Becker 262-8813; Jr. Warforcement departments. den Dan Galles 258-9655.
You can find more information on the Windyc- Marriage class at
itystriders.com website Hilltop Baptist
under the calendar tab or
check it out on our FaceBeginning Sept. 11, Hillbook page, Casper windy top Baptist Church will
host a 12-week marriage
city striders.
class titled The MinPatriot Day
gling of Souls. For more
The Natrona County information or to sign up,
United Veterans Council please contact Rob or Niis profoundly honored to cole at the church office:
present this years Patriot 265-6540.
Day Ceremony at 11a.m.
at the Tom Walsh Chapel, Jam session
Oregon Trail State VeterJam Session at Eagles
ans Cemetery. Considering Hall, 306 N. Durbin St.,
the untenable events of the from 4 to 8p.m. Music to
last year, which caused the dance by or just listen and
murder of nine officers of enjoy. The Eagle Riders
the law, the council believes will be cooking some great
the community should hamburgers if you get huncome together on this day to gry. No admission fee, all
show our support for all first invited to join in on the fun.
responders. The ceremony No admission fee but donanot only honors these nine tions to the Eagle Charities
lives, but all first respond- are always welcome.
ers who gave their lives in
Robbie Daniels 235the line of duty during the 5130
past calendar year. The Fire
Department Pipe and Drum Coed bowling at
Corps will be present, and Sunrise
the camaraderie we share
as we honor each of these
Looking for people who
fallen heroes is undeniable. would like to bowl on SunPlease join us to share our day night starting Sept. 11
solidarity with our first re- until late April or early
sponders. Questions, Gary May. Start time will be
6p.m. at Sunrise Lanes.
237-7864.
Coed teams of four people.
Sunday breakfast at Yearly signup fee is $20,
then $14 per person per
the Elks
week. This is not a serious
Breakfast starts on Sun- league, we are sanctioned,
day, Sept. 11, at the Casper but we have a good time.
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Sharon Kay Hardesty
Morrison Blakeslee

Sandra Anne Sandy

(Waatti) Cordoba

Casper, Wyoming

Prescott, Arizona

September 14, 1945September 5, 2016

19382016

Sherri was born September 14, 1945 to Wilber L.

Burr and Erma B. Hale Hardesty in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. She passed away from emphysema and COPD
on September 5, 2016 at Central Wyoming Hospice.
Sherri attended grade school in Henry, Nebraska
and graduated from Torrington, Wyoming High
School in 1963 where she was active in GAA and Pep
Club. She was Jobs Daughters Honored Queen of
Bethel #40 in Lyman, Nebraska during her junior
year of high school. She has been a member of Order
of Eastern Star, Sunflower Chapter #214 for many
years.
Sherri moved to Denver in June 1963 to attend
Central Business College and graduated in January
1964. She obtained her first job with Beneficial Finance Company in downtown Denver shortly after
graduating. Sherri was employed by ATCO Drilling
Inc. in Casper for six years; Unit Rig 6 for six years
and then began a 15 1/2 year career with the State of
Wyoming, Department of Employment, Tax Division
retiring on January 15, 2008.
Sherri and Kenneth E. Morrison were married
August 28, 1966 at Henry United Methodist Church
in Henry, Nebraska. A son, Darren Wade, was born
on July 29, 1972. They divorced on August 28, 1990
after 24 years of marriage. Sherri married Terry L.
Blakeslee on October 2, 1995 in Casper, Wyoming.
She has lived in Casper since 1976.
Survivors include husband, Terry; stepsons, Sam
(Jennifer) Blakeslee and Rich Formby; step-granddaughter, Olivia Rebecca Blakeslee all of Casper;
brother, Edmon Dee Ed (Sandee) Hardesty of
Henry, Nebraska; sister-in-law, Joyce Hardesty
Kreiling of Scottsbluff, Nebraska; ten nieces and
nephews; numerous great and great-great nieces
and nephews and cousins.
Preceding her in death were her parents; son, Darren Wade Morrison on May 16, 2014; brother, Robert Dale Bob Hardesty; sister, Wilba Lea Rathbun;
brother-in-law, Wesley Rathbun; grandparents, Dale
B. Hale, Mary Euphema Hale Havely and Edmond W.
Shorty Havely, and John Robert Bob Hardesty
and Lillie Mae Avery Hardesty.
A Memorial Service will be 10:00 AM, Wednesday,
September 14, 2016 at Newcomer Funeral Home, 710
East Second, Casper. Graveside services and inurnment with her son Darren will take place in Forest
Lawn Cemetery, Morrill, Nebraska at a later date.
Memorials are requested to Henry Nebraska United
Methodist Church. PLEASE no flowers.

Elsie Marie Hess

Casper, Wyoming

November 18, 1925 September 3, 2016

TOWN CRIER: THIS JUST IN

African Childrens
Choir in Casper

ing and supporting this

powerful cause.

The African Childrens

Choir will be performing
at the First United Methodist Church at 7p.m.,
this Wednesday, Sept.
14. Admission is free.
These underprivileged
kids tour the country
putting on amazing song
and dance performances
so they can attract people to sponsor their education in Uganda, Kenya
and other parts of Africa. Each kid tours for
one year in the hopes
of finding four families
to sponsor them at $50
per month. If they dont
find sponsors, they may
not get to complete their
education and better
their family and village.
Please help by meet-

Indoor family pool

party Friday
The annual Community
Recreation Foundations
Family Pool Party has
been rescheduled for the
evening of Friday, Sept.
16, from 6 to 8p.m. at the
Casper Family Aquatic
Center.
Bring the entire family for a free evening of
swimming, games, refreshments, prizes and
fun. All facility rules apply;
children seven and under
must be accompanied by
an adult in the water.
For more information
or if you have questions
please contact the Casper
Recreation Division at 2358383.

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Sandra Anne Sandy (Waatti) Cordoba died of kidney disease in Prescott, Arizona on September 1, 2016.
She was born in Great Falls, Montana in 1938 to Jerome
and Ellen Waatti. They moved to Casper, Wyoming in
1944. Sandy graduated from Natrona
County High School in 1956.
Sandy attended Augustana College
in Sioux Falls, SD, and then the Minneapolis School of Art and Design,
where she received her five year BFA
in design. She eventually moved to
San Francisco where she established
herself as a fashion illustrator, working for several companies including
head illustrator for Mervyns Department Store. She also illustrated childrens books for Century School Book Press.
While in San Francisco, she met her husband and they
moved to South America in 1970 where her children Alex
and Amanda Cordoba were born. She remained active
with her art while in Colombia. When the couple split,
she returned to Casper, WY in 1976 where she opened
Cordoba Studio, her advertising agency. Her clients included those in the retail, hospitality, financial, travel, and
political fields. She was especially well known for her logo
designs. Sandy spent her final working years as Marketing
and Advertising Director for the Parkway Plaza.
Sandy donated her body to science. Cremains will be
spread in AZ and a celebration of life will be held next
spring in Casper.
Sandy was preceded in death by her parents and her
sisters, Maren Waatti Scovel and Paula Waatti.
She is survived by her children, Alex and Amanda Cordoba of Prescott; her grandsons, Bailey and Christian of
Phoenix; her sister, Holly Waatti Thompson of Casper;
nephews, Josh Thompson of Casper and Shane Scovel of
Phoenix; and great nephews and niece, Dylan Thompson,
Hayden and Avery Scovel.
Friendship has always been a strong part of Sandys life
and in her memory she would like you to take a friend out
to lunch. You may also choose to make donations to the
Glaucoma Research Foundation at www.glaucoma.org.
Condolence cards may be sent to Alex and Amanda
Cordoba, 522 E. Juniper Drive, Prescott, AZ 86303 and//or
Holly Thompson at 1825 E. 15th Street, Casper, WY 82601.

Elsie Marie Hess was born to George Seilbach and

Edna Seilbach Thompson on November 18, 1925 in
Casper, Wyoming. She graduated in 1943 from Natrona
County High School.
After graduation she went to work
for Western Union as a telegraph operator in Ft. Lewis, WA where she
met and married Clifford Powell in
Seattle, WA and they had four children. She returned to Casper after
the death of her husband.
She moved to Denver, Colorado
and worked for Colorado Central
Credit Union for 14 years. She married Glen Hess in Denver and they
were later divorced.
She returned to Casper and went to work for Wyoming National Bank now Wells Fargo.
She leaves three children, Sandra Chastaine of Arvada, Colorado, Alan Powell of Casper, Wyoming, and
Susan Poorman of Mills, Wyoming; and brother, Robert
Seilbach.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her first
husband; one son, Tim Powell; and sister, Helen Maher.
She enjoyed quilting, embroidering, reading, and
cross word puzzles.
Per her wishes no services will be held.

SENIOR MENUS

Sept. 11-17

----- Meals On Wheels ----MON: BBQ Pork Wings, Potato Wedges, Stewed
Tomatoes, Three Bean Salad, Grapes,
Wheat Bread, Milk
TUES: Swiss Steak, Rice, Winter Blend Vegetable,
Pea Salad, Prunes, Wheat Bread, Milk
WED: Oven Fried Cajun Chicken, Mashed
Potatoes w/Gravy, Carrots, Fruit Salad,
Jello, Wheat Bread, Milk
THU: Leg Of Lamb, Rosemary Potatoes,
Brussels Sprouts, Cucumber, Tomato &
Zucchini Salad, Fresh Fruit, Wheat Rolls,
Milk
FRI: Reuben Meatball Casserole, Riviera
Blend Vegetable, Marinated Vegetable
Salad, Fruit Cocktail, Wheat Bread, Milk

----- senIOR CenTeR ----SUN: Baked Ham, Baked Potato, Creamed

Cabbage, Fried Cinnamon Apples, Snicker
doodle
MON: Hawaiian Chicken, Baked Sweet Potatoes,
Key Largo Vegetables, Corn Meal Roll,
Baked Pineapple, Coconut Macaroon
MON EVENING: Hot Dish Buffet
TUES: Chicken Fried Steak Sandwich, Potato
Salad, Citrus Salad, Brownie
WED: Beef Pot Pie, Harvard Beets, Citrus
Salad, Chocolate Chip Cookie
THU: Chicken Stroganoff, Mixed Vegetables,
Pears on Lettuce Leaf, Vanilla Pudding
FRI: Salmon, Rice Pilaf, Corn Cobbette,
Tossed Salad, Tropical Fruit, Salad Bar
*Menu subject to change*
For information, call Meals on Wheels 265-8659, or Senior Citizens Center 265-4678

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TOWN CRIER: GROWNUP STUFF

Senior dancing Mondays

Free to Seniors 60 or older. Join

the tap dancing group of Joyces
Senior Stompers. It is fun easy
clogging, the exercise for both
mind and body. It helps to keep
flexible, coordination and build
strength. Exercise is important to
increase lung capacity, burn calories, relieve stress, and it is fun.
The more you challenge yourself,
the more fun it is. We meet on
Monday morning at 10a.m. for
beginners and 11:15a.m. for intermediate at the Casper Senior
Center. Call Joyce Sisk 237-4908
for more info.

stone Highway, sponsored by

Casper Cigar Company. There is
no cost to attend.
This is a time and place for our
communitys combat veterans to
relax and share their stories with
other combat veterans while enjoying a good cigar. Veterans receive 20 percent off cigars. For
more information, call Josh Cruse
at 307-337-4400 or josh@caspercigar.com

Showcase of Stars

Mountain Plaza Assisted Living,

4154 Talon Dr., presents Showcase
of Stars at 6p.m., on Friday, Sept.
16. Come support the residents,
Adult Coloring Club
staff and volunteers as they showDrop by the Natrona County case their talents for you in an eveLibrary anytime between 2 and ning of song.
5p.m. on Friday, September 16, for
our Adult Coloring Club. Coloring Audition for comedy
books and pages will be available Sept. 18
for you to turn into works of art.
Colored pencils, crayons, and
Casper Theater Company will
markers also will be provided. Just hold auditions for Marrying
bring yourself and your friends, Walt, a comedy by James Danek
and enjoy the afternoon. Call 577- at 4p.m., on Sunday, Sept. 18, at
READ ext. 2 or email reference@ 735 CY Ave.
natronacountylibrary.org for more
We are looking for fresh new
faces, and theater veterans of all
information.
ages to entertain the Casper and
WSO season tickets on
surrounding areas. Marrying
Walt will be performed Novemsale
ber 3-4-5-6 and 10-11-12-13. ReTickets are on sale for the Wyo- hearsals will start as soon as the
ming Symphony Orchestras 67th show is cast.
concert season, featuring internaA mobile home in Winter Hationally renowned guest artists, ven, Florida, is the home of Mary
and music from Prokofiev, Mo- and Walt. Mary has decided they
zart, Vivaldi and more. Octobers have been living in sin long enough
concert will be our last at Wheeler and they fly off to get married.
Concert Hall, before WSO returns Walts children pay an unexpected
to the new state-of-the-art audi- visit and clean up while Mary and
torium at NCHS for Decembers Walt are in Las Vegas, unknowholiday concert, and subsequent ingly throwing away all of Walts
performances.
hidden money.
We open the season with The
Please join us for this hilarious
Four Temperaments, a combina- comedy and be a part of the theater
tion of fiery virtuosity and soar- company family. We also need tech
ing themes, and then welcome people, assistant director, stage
pianist Spencer Myer to preform manager, and backstage help if
Prokofievs 3rd Concerto. For our acting is not your thing. Please
return to NCHS, Matthew Sav- come play with us. For more inery has planned a special concert formation visit our website or call
with the Collegiate Chorale from 267-7243.
Casper College and three vocalists
who will perform Vivaldis Gloria Murder mystery Sandbar
and Handels famous Hallelujah tour
Chorus among other holiday favorites. January brings an exuThe Sandbar Tour will be a murberant frolic of strings and wood- der mystery walking tour Sept. 16winds by Peck, Mozart and Gluck, 17 only. Tickets are $25. The tour
finishing with Handels rousing guide will take you for a walk on
Farewell Symphony. In March, the the Sandbar at 7:30p.m., where
WSO welcomes esteemed violinist you will come upon a victim of the
Stephanie Chase performing the times. There will be characters to
virtuosic Bruch G Minor Concerto. meet, all of whom had a motive.
The grand finale of our 67th season Each character will talk with you
will be a celebration of Wyoming and tell you about their life on the
musicians, featuring the Gold Sandbar, businesses, painted laMedalists from our second Young dies, bootleggers, and gamblers.
Artist Competition and finishing All will culminate at the end to
with Rachmaninoffs thrilling find out whodunnit. Reservations
Symphonic Dances.
and tickets are available now by
The first concert will feature calling 267-7243. This tour sells
both a Saturday night performance out quickly. This is a production
at 7:30p.m., and a Sunday mati- of the Casper Theater Company.
nee at 2:30p.m. Ticket prices are
the same for both performances. VAVOOM ladies night
Future concerts will be Saturdays,
The 16th VAVOOM (Vendors
at 7:30p.m. Family passes, which Avenue Venue Of Organized
allow the whole family to attend Marketing) otherwise known as a
noon rehearsals on Saturday of blast of a ladies night, is Sept. 16,
each concert are also available for from 6 to 9p.m., at the Ramada
$50 for the entire season.
Plaza Riverside. It is free to attend
Reserve your preferred seats and for adults only. More than 20
by calling 266-1478 or in person vendors will be offering unique
at the office, 225 S. David St. Dis- and affordable gifts/products
counts are available for students and services. Free entry for grand
and seniors (65+) as well as a pick entry door prize, free first glass of
3 option for those who cant at- beer, first 50 women in get a free
tend all five concerts. First time rose, munchies, each vendor ofsubscribers receive 25 percent off. fers a door prize upon purchase
Visit www.wyomingsymphony. or booking of a show, music, and
org for more information or to re- fun. For more information, please
quest a season brochure.
contact Ann McDaniel at 258-2533
or email anzfunkytown@bresnan.
Senior center photo
net

display
Come and be mesmerized by
the display at the Casper Senior
Center, 1831 E. Fourth St. Photography by Linda Cantrell abstracts, landscapes and patterns in
nature. Also included is some antique glassware from Janet Fields
collection. For more information,
call 265-4678.

Veteran Cigar Night

Concert Sept. 22

Mountain Plaza Assisted Living welcomes Band of Lovers at

1p.m., on Sept. 22. The band is an
acoustic folk trio, originally from
upstate New York but touring
full-time for three years. All are
welcome.

Oktoberfest at Mountain
Plaza

Every Wednesday from 5:30 to

Join the fun at Mountain Plaza
7p.m., all veterans are invited to Assisted Living, 4154 Talon Dr.,
Veteran Cigar Night at the Casper at its Oktoberfest celebration at
Cigar Company, 4717 W. Yellow- 2p.m., on Friday, Sept. 30.

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TOWN CRIER: FUNDRAISERS

Margaritas & Mutts
Sept. 14

sion and $36, and are on sale Friday at 11:30a.m., available online
at www.CasperEventsCenter.com,
Date correction: The 4th An- by phone at 577-3030, and at the
nual Margaritas & Mutts Happy Casper Events Center Box Office.
Hour fundraiser will be held
Wednesday, September 14 from 5 Gun-a-week raffle
to 7p.m. on the Observatory Deck
Tickets are available for the
at the Natrona County Interna- sixth annual Knights of Columbus
tional Airport. There will be a taco Gun-A-Week Raffle. Drawings will
bar, door prizes, $5 margaritas and be held for a gun every week for a
beers, shelter dogs, and music by year. Each ticket is $50 and winning
Cory & The Crew.
tickets are eligible for all 52 drawDog Day Afternoon a special ings. Drawing will begin when 1,500
CD release of original songs by nine tickets are sold. Proceeds help fund
of Caspers local musicians will the St. Josephs Society for Retired
be introduced and available for sale. Priests. Thank you for your support
All proceeds will benefit the Casper on our prior raffles. For a list of the
Humane Society.
prizes, rules and ticket information,
Admission is $10/person. This is please go to www.kofc9917.org or
a Happy Hour event and not suit- call Grant 234-2891, Bill 472-0173
able for youngsters.
or Steve 277-0515.
Steve Grapes 277-0515
For more information on the
event, visit the Casper Humane
Society Face Book page or call 265- Purses with a Purpose
5439.
Purses are like friends, you can
The Casper Humane Society never have too many! A silent
is a no-kill shelter supported en- auction for gently used purposes
tirely by local contributions and with a surprise inside will be held
charitable donations. It receives Saturday, Sept. 24, beginning at
no governmental support and is 10:30a.m. at the Sonrise Room of
not affiliated with any national First United Methodist Church (use
humane society, animal rights, or east doors). Win your bid to reveal
rescue group.
the surprise gift. Bidding open from
10:30 to 11:30a.m. Light refreshOktoberfest Sept. 17
ments will be served. $3 admission.
All are heartily invited to the 3rd All proceeds will go to the P.E.O.
annual Brook Trout Dental Okto- Sisterhood which provides eduberfest at 4:30p.m., on Sept. 17, cational opportunities for women
2016, to benefit spinal cord paral- through scholarships, grants and
ysis research. Donations may be loans. Purses for a Purpose is
made to the University of Wyoming open to the public.
College of Health Sciences, attn: Dr.
Jared Bushman.
Food for Thought presents
Menu is sauerkraut, rotkohl, Localicious
pretzels and root beer. Please bring
a Bavarian food to share or any tried
Saturday, September 24, from 4
and true American potluck favorite, to 8p.m. at the Food for Thought
lawn chairs, and your own beverage. Program Center, 900 Saint John
The address is 7486 W. Riverside St., join us for Localicious. Tickets
Dr., the Weinhandl residence. Take are $40 per person.
Highway 220 to Davis Road, left on
Wyoming Food for Thought
Sharrock which circles to Riverside. Project would like to invite you to
For directions, call 234-1776. Please celebrate everything local with us
RSVP to powdertrout@gmail.com. at Localicious 2016, an evening gala
event, with complimentary local
New boutique opens at
refreshments and food, live entertainment and silent auction.
Hospice
Let the sound of lively tunes
Come visit the new Memory guide you, as you arrive at the
Lane Boutique, 319 S. Wilson St., Food for Thought Program Ceninside the administration build- ter. Upon arrival, fill your plate
ing of Central Wyoming Hospice with locally handmade tapas,
& Transitions. Hours are Monday and fill a glass with a locally crethrough Friday, 10a.m. to 5p.m. ated refreshment, as you enjoy a
Current inventory includes jew- short and intimate stroll through
elry, household goods, furniture, our community gardens and high
books, pictures, games, and can- tunnel. Dinner will follow, with a
dles. Donations are gladly accepted; word from our Executive Director
all proceeds benefit Central Wyo- and Associate Director, complete
ming Hospice. If you would like with a dessert table. A silent aucmore information, please contact tion table will also be set up to
view throughout the evening,
us at 577-4832.
and winners will be announced
Contribute to cancer
at completion of the evening.

half-marathon
Della Works of Casper is running
the American Association for Cancer Research Rock n Roll Philadelphia Half Marathon on Sept. 18. It
is a fundraising race. Send contributions to AACR Foundation, write
Della Works on the memo line, and
send to Wells Fargo Bank, 234 E.
First St., Casper, WY 82601; attn.:
Mitchel Kautzmann. Deadline for
donations is Sept. 13.
According to Works, the American Association for Cancer Research was the first to have cancer
research in the world. With 36,000
AACR researchers, they are the
largest in the world in 107 countries. More than 200 different types
of adult and childrens cancers are
researched there.
This is Dellas first Rock n Roll
Half Marathon in Philadelphia.
She has run three Rock n Roll full
marathons in New Orleans, Arizona, and St. Louis, in the 75 to 79
age group and finished first in her
age group.
Della has run a total of 32 marathons and 19 half marathons.
For more information, call Della
at 234-8649.

Mills Fire Department

presents Collin Raye
The Mills Volunteer Fire Department will present Collin Raye
with Michael Johnson at 7:30p.m.
Sept. 19 at the Casper Events Center. All tickets are general admis-

Walk to end Alzheimers

The Alzheimers Association

is inviting residents of Natrona
County and central Wyoming to
unite in a movement to reclaim the
future for millions by participating
in the Alzheimers Association Walk
to End Alzheimers. The Casper
Walk to End Alzheimers will take
place on Saturday, September 24,
beginning in front of the Casper
Senior Center at Highland Park.
Registration will begin at 8a.m.
with the walk starting at 9a.m.
This is the first ever Walk to End
Alzheimers in Casper. Walk to End
Alzheimers is more than a walk. It
is an experience for participants in
Wyoming to learn about Alzheimers disease and how to get involved with this critical cause, from
advocacy opportunities to clinical
studies.
To start or join a team today, visit
the Alzheimers Association at alz.
org/walk. To learn more about disease and available resources, call the
toll-free Alzheimers Association
24/7 Helpline at 800-272-3900.

Sealed bids help 12-24 Club

The 12-24 Club is accepting

sealed bids for Feline Mischief,
by the renowned artist Maija. This
is print number 680 of 950. It is
professionally framed. It has been
donated to the 12-24 Club by benefactor, Helen M. Wolff, in memory
of her sister-in-law, Colleen Facinelli.
This piece of art will be shown at

various locations in Casper. Please

call 237-8035 for locations where
Feline Mischief can be viewed.
All proceeds will benefit the 1224 Club Inc. a 501 c (3) nonprofit
organization.

Recovery Rally Sept. 30

12-24 Club announces the 11th

annual Recovery Rally on Sept. 30
at the Ramkota Hotel. The rally includes dinner, entertainment and
a reverse raffle. This years grand
prize is $10,000. Reverse raffle tickets are $100 and may be purchased
at 12-24 Club, 500 S. Wolcott, or
Nissan of Casper, 111 SE Wyoming
Blvd.
For more information, please call
Dan or Carrie at 237-8035.

Fundraiser dinner Oct. 1

October is Elk National Foundation Month. Please join us in an

ENF Fundraiser Dinner October 1,
2016, at 6p.m. Dinner will be baby
back ribs. Cost is $15 for half rack,
$20 for a full rack and all the fixings.
ENF Fundraiser dinner is prepared
by Wes Stull and Casper volunteers.
Please sign up at the bar for reservations. Cut off is Sept. 25, 2016.
Members, significant other and
guest accompanied by member.
For more information, call Beth at
262-9077 or 234-4839.

Pumpkin patch
opens Oct. 1
Come Join Meals On Wheels for
our second annual pumpkin patch.
Pumpkin sales will begin Saturday,
October 1, and continue through
October 31. All pumpkins are grown
in Wyoming. Hours of operation
will be Monday through Wednesday, 8a.m. to 4p.m.; Thursday and
Friday, 8a.m. to 7p.m., and Saturday, 10a.m. to 6p.m. at the Meals
On Wheels Building, 1760 East
12th Street. For more information
or questions please call the office
at 265-8659 or visit us on the web
at www.mealswheels.com . Find us
on Facebook under Natrona County
Meals On Wheels.

Craig Morgan headlines

Cowboys for Cancer
The third annual Country for
Cancer concert is Oct. 7 at the
Casper Events Center. This years
featured artist is country music
entertainer, TV host and military
veteran Craig Morgan, with local favorite Whiskey Rebellion opening.
Whiskey Rebellion is a popular
southern rock tribute band based
out of Casper.
Country for Cancer is an annual
tribute concert for Wyomings cancer survivors. Country for Cancer
raises money for Wyoming Medical
Center Foundations Angels Cancer Care Program. The Angels serve
hundreds of cancer patients every
year, in addition to relieving the
tremendous burden experienced
by caregivers.
Tickets will be $29 and $39 each
available online at www.CasperEventsCenter.com, by phone at
800-442-2256, and at the Casper
Events Center Box Office.

A Night at the Oscars

Save the date of Oct. 15 for A

Night at the Oscars A Taste of
Hollywood to benefit Central Wyoming Hospice & Transitions at the
Parkway Plaza Hotel. Cocktails are
served 5 to 6p.m., honoring honorary chairwoman Paula Reid. Meet
and greet award-winning actor and
comedian Sam Adams. Dinner is
served at 6p.m., followed by the
main event, entertainment, and a
silent auction and raffle. For more
information, please call 577-4832
today or see www.cwhp.org

Save the date for trivia

The 2016 Trivia Tournament to

benefit Wyoming Dementia Care
is set for Nov. 5 from 6 to 9p.m., at
the Ramkota Hotel. Enjoy taco bar,
cash bar and trivia. Proceeds will be
used to help families and caregivers
of those with Alzheimers and other
dementia-related illnesses care for
their loved ones. Sponsorships
are available at a variety of levels.
For more information, contact
Mary Ann Collins at 265-1282 or
macwyo51@yahoo.com.

TOWN CRIER: CRAFT FAIRS/ FLEA MARKETS

Sunrise Shopping Center
Oct. 8-9
More than 60 vendors will show
fall household goods and homemade crafts at the Sunrise Shopping Center fall annual craft fair,
Saturday, Oct. 8, 9a.m. to 4p.m.,
and Sunday, Oct. 9, 10a.m. to
3p.m., at 4000 S. Poplar St. Strollers welcome. Food, fun and such a
great variety of items. For booth
availability, call 234-5886.

Funky Junk Sept. 17

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Petuniaz, 615 S. Durbin, hosts its

third Funky Junk flea market style
event of the year from 10a.m. to
5p.m., on Saturday, Sept. 17. More
than 20 booths will be filled with
up-cycled furniture, repurposed

home decor, vintage items, unique

and handmade gifts. There will
be a beer garden, food trucks and
outstanding live music including
Whippoorwill, Dee Tyler, Chad
Lore, Eazyside members, Willie
and Whitten, and more. For more
information, email petuniazjewelry@gmail.com or call Whitney
at 258-7722.

Apply for craft/vendor

space
Fraternal Order of Eagles is accepting reservations for the 3rd
annual Vendor and Craft Fair on
Friday, Oct. 14, 4 to 8p.m., and Saturday, Oct. 15, 9a.m. to 4p.m., at
306 N. Durbin. Reserve your tables
today. Call 235-5130.

Slingin Bling N More

Over 20 local vendors will show

their wares in a fun cozy environment on Friday, Oct. 21, from 6
to 8:30p.m., and Saturday, Oct.
22, from 10a.m. to 2p.m., Glitzy
Chicks, 1980 E. First St. Free goodie
bags to first 50 ladies (over 18)
loaded with coupons, samples and
treats. Lots of door prizes. Snacks
and soda available. Contact Jenifer
Gear 307.702.2866; www.JensJewelryBox.Com

Vendors needed

First Christian Church is hosting

a craft fair from 10a.m. to 4p.m.,
on Saturday, October 15, to coincide
with the Pumpkin Patch there. If
you would like booth space, they
are $25/booth. There are 24 spaces

available. Please call Carmen Good- unique booths offering crafts,

pottery, wood turned items, tole
man at 267-9892.
painting, hand-sewn items, jewVFW Nov. 4-5
elry, gem stones, crochet and knit
Save the date for the 7th Annual items, baked goods and candy,
Casper VFW Craft Fair, Friday, Nov. and a gift-wrapping/request your
4, 4 to 7p.m., and Saturday, Nov. 5, favorite Christmas carol booth.
9a.m. to 4p.m., 1800 Bryan Stock Strollers are welcome in the wide
Trail (up the hill across from the shopper friendly aisles and conlandfill). More than 40 vendors in cessions are available throughout
one spot. Spots available. Contact the event.
April Steffensmeier, 258-9415.
Recommended donation at the
door is $2. Proceeds from the craft
Rec Foundation Nov. 11-12 fair benefit the Community RecThe biggest craft fair in Wy- reation Foundations scholarship
oming is coming soon. Join us program that provides recreation
at the Community Recreation opportunities for financially disadFoundations Annual Craft Fair at vantaged youth and senior citizens
the Casper Events Center, Friday, and free special events for everyone.
Nov. 11, 8 to 8p.m., and Saturday,
Booths are available. Contact Joy,
Nov. 12, 9a.m. to 4p.m. Over 200 235-8383.

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TOWN CRIER: HELP YOURSELF

Saturday morning
watercolor classes

knowledge of their Android

device. Call 577-READ ext. 2
or email reference@natronaART321/Casper Artists countylibrary.org for more
Guild announces the sched- information.
ule for the Saturday Morning Watercolor Sessions for Get great tips at
the months of September and Extension open house
October 2016. We hope to see
you then to begin or continue
Getting tips for landscapyour learning experience ing, cooking demonstrawith us. All levels are wel- tions and preserving fruits
come. Saturday mornings, and vegetables are among
10a.m. to noon, $10 per ses- topics at the open house of
sion. If you have questions, the Natrona County office of
please contact Ellen Black at University of Wyoming Ex265-6783.
tension, Saturday, Sept. 17, in
Sept. 17, New Techniques Casper. The event is 9a.m.for New (Surprising) Re- noon at the Agricultural Results, Nancy Geldien; Sept. source and Learning Center,
24, practice session; Oct. 1, 2011 Fairgrounds Rd., said
Making Corrections; Oct. 8, extension educator Hannah
practice session; Oct. 15, Fall Swanbom.
Flowers, Garnette Jones; Oct.
Those attending can tap
22, practice session; Oct. 29, into the expertise of extenAchieve Harmony Through sion educators and specialUnderpainting, Michele Mc- ists, including community
Donald.
development, 4-H, horticulART321/Casper Artists ture, agriculture, nutrition
Guild, 321 W. Midwest Ave, and Master Gardeners.
Casper, WY, 82601, galThe WyoScape Xeric
lery hours Tuesday through Demonstration Garden at
Saturday, 10a.m. to 4p.m., the facility was named a
phone 265-2655, www. Habitat Hero garden by the
Terra Foundation for beart321.org
ing water-wise and wildlife
Water bath canning
friendly.
The open house coincides
Learn the basics of water
bath canning in a hands-on with the Master Gardener
class and take home your Farmers Market at the facilown filled jars of salsa and ity.
apple butter. Classes are ofBuilding tours, how to
fered from 1 to 4p.m. Sept. 17 make an emergency plan for
and 24. Class fee is $15, and pets and horses in emergenwill be held at the Natrona cies and a meet and greet
County Extension Office, with 4-H youth junior lead2011 Fairgrounds Road. Reg- ers are also planned.
ister soon as this program fills
For more information,
up quickly! Call 235-9400 or contact Swanbom at 235email kcase@natronacoun- 9400 or hswanbom@naty-wy.gov to sign up.
tronacounty-wy.gov.

Tai chi for pain

Tai Chi for Arthritis Part 1

is not just for those with arthritis. Tai Chi is an ancient
practice proven to reduce
pain and improve your mental and physical well-being. This series of Tai Chi
for Arthritis was developed
by Dr. Paul Lam. The form
uses gentle Sun style Tai
Chi postures that are safe,
easy to learn, and suitable
for every fitness level. This
form can be done standing
or seated. The practice of Tai
Chi will help you to reduce
stress, increase balance and
flexibility, and improve your
overall feeling of wellness.
Preregistration for the workshop is required. The cost is
$122 for 16 consecutive sessions, meeting Mondays and
Wednesdays from 1:30 to
2:30p.m., starting September 12 and ending November
2 for the next session. This
workshop class will be located at the Healthy Life Studio in the Sunrise Shopping
Center. You can register for
this workshop either online
at www.healthylifestudio.
com or call 472-1962.

The medicine Buddha

prayer
American Buddhist Monk,
Gen Kelsang Rinzin returns
to Casper from 11a.m. to
12:30p.m., on Saturday, Sept.
17, at the Healthy Life Yoga
Studio in the Sunrise Shopping Center. He will teach on
the Medicine Buddha Prayer.
This is a most beloved Buddhist prayer used for centuries for self healing and to pray
for others, The class includes
a short, guided meditation,
the teaching and a Q & A period. We are a small friendly
group of all ages and backgrounds who meet in a relaxed atmosphere. Everyone
of any religion, or no religion
is welcome. No registration is
necessary. Just show up. A $15
donation is requested. Questions? Call Joe at 315-1987.

Back-to-school
immunization clinics

Daniel: Lives of Integrity,

Words of Prophecy, by Beth
Moore, will be held Sept. 13
through Nov. 29 at Hilltop
Baptist Church, 2555 E. 2nd
St.
Registration will be held
at 6:30p.m. Sept. 13. Cost
of the book is $16. For more
information, call Jean Brown
at 234-3594.

Casper-Natrona County
Health Department, 475
South Spruce Street, is offering back-to-school immunizations on several dates
before exclusion day. During
the clinics, walk-ins will be
taken on a first-come-firstserve basis. No appointments are necessary. We just
ask that parents bring in the
childs immunization record
and insurance card (if applicable) to expedite the process. We encourage folks to
come in early to avoid longer
clinic wait times.
Sept. 20, 3 to 6p.m.; Sept.
30, 9a.m. to 4p.m. (exclusion day).

Tour residential
respite care

Free transit rides

Sept. 21

Central Wyoming Community Respite Program

hosts lunch and a tour of its
Residential Respite Facility
every Wednesday in September from 11a.m. to 1p.m.
Join us at 304 S. Fenway
and have your respite care
questions answered. Call
577-4832 with questions.
Come in for a tour and leave
knowing your loved one will
be in safe hands. Proudly
brought to you by Central
Wyoming Hospice and Transitions Program.

The public is invited

to attend the celebration
of Transit Day, at apa.m., on
proximately 9:15
Wednesday, Sept. 21, at the
Transfer Station, Second and
Beech, on the Nicolaysen side
of Beech St. Refreshments
will be served. All rides will
be free on both CATC and
The Bus that day.
Come learn about how
CATC and The Bus got
started in our community
and the outstanding success
it has enjoyed over the past 34
years. For more information,
call 265-1313 or 237-4287.

Heart of Casper Bible

study scheduled

Learn Intermediate
Android OS
The Natrona County Library will offer an Intermediate Android OS class on
Wednesday, September 14,
at 6p.m. This course will
cover some intermediate
features of the Android operating system. Learn how
to manage contacts, calendars, email, security, apps,
notifications, performance,
and more. Feel free to bring
your Android device with
you to follow along. Attendees should have a working

Adult Pottery class will be

offered on Thursday evenings
from 6 to 8p.m., beginning
Oct. 27. Students will learn
handbuilding,
throwing,
glaze application and decorative techniques on low-fire
clay. Registration fee is $67
for Rec Center members and
$79 for non-members.
Supplies are furnished for
both adult and youth classes
and firing is free. Classes are
instructed by Brandon Basset.
Dont delay class sizes
are limited, so register today! For further information
or to register for upcoming classes, please call the
Casper Recreation Center at
235-8383, register on line at
www.activecasper.com or
stop by 1801 E 4th.

Free personal
and professional
development classes

Seating is still available and

the Early Bird Registration
Discount has been extended
until Thursday, Sept 8, and
applies to paid registrations
received on or before that
date.
For class information and
to read attendee comments:
http://www.cathyhazeladams.com/parent-page/
co-creation-self-transformation-seminars/

Early bird book sale

The Friends of the Library

will hold a limited attendance Early Bird Book Sale
on Thursday, September
22 from 4:30 to 6:30p.m.
Attendees will have the opportunity to purchase items
from the Friends collection
prior to the public sale. Those
who wish to attend the Early
Bird Book Sale can purchase a
$10 admission ticket from the
front desk at the main library.
Tickets go on sale Thursday,
September 1. Only 50 tickets
are available for the Early
Bird Book Sale, and theyre
expected to go fast, so hurry
in! The Early Bird Book Sale
includes used books at great
prices, in all genres and for all
age groups. Other items for
sale include movies, music,
puzzles, and magazines. The
Friends accept cash, local
checks, and PayPal as well as
credit and debit cards.

Are you making the income you want? Are you

achieving your goals? Want
more connection in your
relationships? Want more
friends, career opportunities,
abundance in your life? Tired
of feeling tired and defeated?
If youre looking for tools to
help you get ahead in your
life, I have some for you. Join
me in class Thursdays Sept.
15 and 22, 7 to 9p.m. County
Extension Bldg., Midwest
room, 2011 Fairgrounds Rd. Book sale in
Eighteen and older, no chil- September
dren, be ready to play at 100
percent. Contact Amanda
The Friends of the Library
Steed Helm on Facebook or will hold a Book Sale on Satahelm232@gmail.com
urday, September 24 from
9:30a.m. to 4:30p.m. and
Trap release
Sunday, September 25 from
1 to 4:30p.m. The Book Sale
workshop
includes used books at great
Wyoming Untrapped is prices, in all genres and for all
sponsoring a trap release age groups. Other items for
workshop to show pet own- sale include movies, music,
ers how to release some of the puzzles and magazines. The
many traps that have been Friends accept cash, local
proliferating on public lands checks and PayPal as well as
in recent years. The workshop credit and debit cards.
is scheduled for 6:30p.m.
Thursday, Sept. 15, at the Na- Grief Share starts
trona County Library.
Sept. 13
Dave Pauli, Senior Advisor of Wildlife Response
Grief Share is a support
and Policy for the Humane group to support and enSociety of the United States, courage you during your grief
will use his props of artificial journey. After the funeral,
stuffed animals, to demon- when the cards and flowers
strate how to release a variety stop coming, most of the
of traps, using specific tools people around you return to
or by improvising. Dave has their normal lives. But your
traveled the world, giving grief continues and you feel
workshops and rescuing a alone.
variety of animals. We conOften, friends and family
tinue to hear about incidents want to help you, but dont
of pets caught in traps across know how. Thats the reason
the ! state. We have con- for Grief Share. Our group
firmed at least 21 incidents in is led by caring people who
which pets have been caught have experienced grief and
by traps in Wyoming since have successfully rebuilt
2011. Some sustained serious their lives. We understand
injuries that required costly how you feel because weve
veterinary care. For every been in the same place. We
dog or cat caught, there are will walk with your on the
many more that go unre- long path through grief toported. We encourage the ward healing and hope for
public to report pet trapping the future.
incidents to Wyoming UnWe will meet weekly at
trapped by going to http:// Highland Park Community
wyominguntrapped.org/ Church, 5725 Highland Dr.,
database/submit/. Join us for Casper, starting Tuesday,
this workshop to learn how to September 13, at 7p.m., Rm.
keep your pet safe and release 1324. There is a $15 fee for the
your pet from a trap should book. For more information,
the need ever arise.
please call Vickie ObermuelWyoming Untrapped is a ler at 262-8024 or The Heal501 (3) non-profit corpora- ing Place at 265-3977.
tion seeking ways to create a
safer and more humane envi- Casper Charla
ronment for pets, people and
Would you like to practice
wildlife.
conversational Spanish or
help others learn? Come and
Conscious co-creation join the Casper Charla! Te
gustara platicar en espaol?
seminar
Ven y charla con nosotros!
Conscious Co-Creation Todos son bienvenidos!
seminar on Saturday and
Come and join us on the
Sunday, Sept. 17 and 18, third Wednesday of each
8:30a.m. to 4:30p.m. This month this fall. We meet at
fun,
consciousness-ex- a different restaurant and
panding, two-day intensive partake in food, drink and
will be helpful to students at conversation. All levels of
every level: whether youre a Spanish are welcome, from
seeker, are newly-awakened beginning to native-speakor are a seasoned healing ers.
practitioner, you will take
Nos reunimos los miraway info and ideas that coles en varios restaurantes
will open portals to your en Casper. Ven por una copa,
next level of expansion and un antojito o simplemente
awareness. Attend in person una charlita.
in Casper or via simultaneous
Wednesday, September
14, 5-7p.m. at Tacos Mexlive Webinar.

ico; Wednesday, October

12, 5-7p.m. at Arepa Barn;
Wednesday,
November
9, 5-7p.m. at Don Juans;
Wednesday, December 14,
5-7p.m., place to be determined for the Fiesta de Navidad.

dren who wish to participate

in music in school. The sale
continues until Sept. 30. For
more information, please call
Dean Lorimer at 237-7322.

Chronic pain/illness
group starting

David: Seeking a Heart

Like His, by Beth Moore, will
be held at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, 2300 E. 15th
St., in two parts Sept. 19
through Oct. 24 and continuing Jan. 9 to Feb. 6.
If you are interested or
have questions, contact the
Church Office at 307-2346475 or pop@casperpoplc.
org. We encourage any interested woman to come. You
dont have to be a seasoned
Bible student to enjoy these
studies. Cost of the workbook is $17. Afternoon class is
offered 3:15 to 5:15p.m., and
same-day evening classes are
6:30 to 8:30p.m.

Ladies Bible study

Sept. 19

Highland Park Community Church and The Healing

Place are starting HopeKeepers. HopeKeepers is a support group designed to meet
the emotional and spiritual
needs of the person who lives
with chronic illness or pain.
Through the support group
setting you will have the opportunity to grow spiritually
surrounded by others who
share similar circumstances,
unrevealed answers, and even
joys, living with chronic pain
or physical pain.
The group will meet Monday evenings, 6 to 7:30p.m.,
Highland Park Community Plein air painting
Church, Rm #1332, start- workshop
ing September 19. Call The
Healing Place at 265-3977 to
If you have always had the
enroll.
desire to create your art in
the great outdoors, this is a
Family continues
wonderful time of the year to
do just that. ART321/Casper
suicide support
Artists Guild invites you
Good Grief, Support will to join other artists for the
continue at 5:30p.m. on the Plein Air Painting Worksecond and fourth Wednes- shop, instructed by Ginny
days of the month (Sept. 14 Butcher, Friday and Saturand 28) at the 12-24 Club, day, Sept. 30 and Oct. 1, from
500 S. Wolcott, by request 10a.m. to 4p.m. Media: Oil
of attendees. The family of or acrylic. Open to all levels.
J.R. Hunter, who died from Fee: $75 for members/ $110
suicide in June 2015 began the for non-members. ART321/
support before the especially Casper Artists Guild, 321 W.
tough holiday season. Any- Midwest Ave., Casper, WY,
one who is grieving a suicide, 82601, 265-2655, hours Tuesdeath, or considering suicide day through Saturday, 10a.m.
is encouraged to attend. At- to 4p.m., www.art321.org
tendance at the meeting, as
well as the content, will be Life After Loss starts
strictly confidential. The Oct. 4
Fresh Start Cafe will be open,
and you can eat during the
Life After Loss is a support
meetings. This meeting place group for people who have
was offered by Dan Cantine lost a loved one to suicide.
of the 12-24 Club. You need This is a nine-week program
not be a member to attend. designed to help you navigate
the troubled waters of this
New depression group time. The class starts October 4, 2016, at the Highland
begins
Park Community Church,
J.R.s Hunt for Life is 5725 Highland Dr., 5:30 to
offering See it Clearly, a 6:30p.m., Rm. 1327. There
free peer support group for is a $12 fee for the book and
persons suffering from de- materials, scholarships are
pression and other mental available. Please contact Arconditions that lead to sui- dith at 267-3532 or The Healcidal thoughts and actions. ing Place at 265-3977.
We are not professionals but
rather a group of like-minded Beginning Experience
peers wishing to support in November
each other in these struggles. We offer anonymity
Please note date change
and confidentiality to all at- below! Beginning Experitending. Our meetings are at ence of Wyoming is a week6:45p.m. on the second and end program that offers healfourth Wednesdays of the ing and renewal to divorced,
month at 500 South Wol- widowed and separated men
cott in the conference room and women. It is a nonprofit,
on the second floor, (12-24 faith-based comprehensive
Club). Meetings in Septem- program offered to all perber are Sept. 14 and Sept. 28, sons, regardless of religious
and so on through the year. If preference. A Beginning
you have ever considered or Experience weekend offers
attempted taking your life or support and direction to help
are struggling, please come. resolve grief or anger that can
You are important to us.
follow the end of a marriage
by divorce, separation or
death. The weekend can be
Annual musical
a time for a real awakening,
instrument swap
a re-evaluation, and a new
Do you have a musical in- beginning. Beginning Expestrument lying around gath- rience is a positive experience
ering dust? Bring it to Wyo- of hope. You can anticipate
ming Musics annual instru- an intense reflective, possiment swap and put it to good bly painful, but spiritually
use. Instruments are being honest self-encounter. You
accepted on consignment at will also find support, warm
Wyoming Music in the Sun- fellowship and community.
rise Shopping Center, 4230 S.
The next Beginning ExPoplar, during regular busi- perience weekend will be in
ness hours. This is a great op- Casper and starts at 7p.m.
portunity to sell your instru- Nov. 4 and runs through
ment and help someone else around 4p.m. Nov. 6. The
get a good used instrument at donation we ask for the
an affordable price for band weekend is $150, which inor orchestra. People can also cludes sleeping arrangedonate an instrument to a ments, meals, and materials.
needy student by dropping Scholarships are available.
it off. We will have it profes- No one is turned away due to
sionally cleaned, make sure it finances. Registration deadis set up correctly, and then line is Oct. 18, 2016. Contact
give it to a student who oth- these Casper team members
erwise could not participate for more information: Curin instrumental music.
tis at 307.240.1232 or email
Part of the proceeds from westcurtis2014@gmail.
the sale are used to help pro- com; Diane at 262.4142; or
vide instruments for chil- Paulette at 267.6375.

Pottery classes open

Children ages 7-14 can explore their creative side with

a new session of Youth Art
& Pottery beginning Sept.
13 at the Casper Recreation
Center. This class gives kids
an introduction to drawing,
painting with watercolor
and acrylics, and working
with clay. The class is held
on Tuesday nights from 6
to 7:30p.m. and will run for
seven weeks. Registration fee
is $54 for members and $66
for non-members.

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TOWN CRIER: SPORTS AND RECREATION

Poison Spider park
closure
Poison Spider Off-Highway Vehicle (OHV) Park,
near Casper, will be closed
for public safety from Monday to Friday due to pipeline
maintenance in the OHV
park. Poison Spider OHV
Park is a 285-acre open play
area located 14 miles from
Casper. This fee-free area is
a popular local destination
for off road vehicle enthusiasts. For more information,
contact the Bureau of Land
Management Casper Field
Office at 261-7600.

Football frenzy pool

Casper Amateur Hockey

Clubs annual Football
Frenzy Football pool is underway. Help support youth
hockey and purchase a ticket
for $20. Four prizes weekly
for the full 17 weeks of the

NFL regular season with

$500 in prizes awarded
weekly! Contact your favorite Oiler to get your tickets or
contact Diane at (307)3150188 or club@casperhockey.
com for more details.

Kennel Club hosts

puppy training class
The Central Wyoming
Kennel Club will be hosting STAR Puppy classes.
The classes last six weeks
for a half-hour per week on
Thursday evenings. Obedience manners classes will
also be held, and include
all of the criteria needed to
earn a Canine Good Citizen
title. The manners classes
meet for eight weeks for
one hour on Thursday evenings. Classes start soon.
Call Charlie Vogel at 4731614 or visit centralwyomingkennelclub.org.

ENGAGEMENT

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TOWN CRIER: HELP YOURSELF

Parkinsons exercise

Rocky Mountain Therapy is offering

a Parkinsons exercise program. Join
us from noon to 1p.m. Thursdays
at Rocky Mountain Therapy, 2546
E. Second St., Building 500. These
classes are open to anyone with Parkinsons or caring for someone with
Parkinsons.
Thursdays class is tailored for
the individual with more advanced
Parkinsons and focuses on improving endurance, safety and managing
symptoms. We are open to all ages and
can tailor the class to meet varying exercise needs. The cost of the class is
$5. To RSVP, call 577-5204 and ask for
Jerri or Shannon.

Womens Expo booth space

The Casper Events Center, Casper

Star-Tribune Communications, and
Townsquare Media are pleased to
present the 12th annual Wyoming
Womens Expo at the Casper Events
Center on Sept. 30 and Oct. 1.
The Expo Tradeshow hours are
Sept. 30 from 4 to 8:30p.m. and Oct.
1 from 9a.m. to 3p.m. It will feature
over 100 displays by a variety of vendors and sponsors. Products and services will include everything from the

latest in health and wellness products,

beauty and skincare, personal protection, banking and investment education, hot retail items and much more.
Booths start at $205.
The Wyoming Womens Expo offers
sponsorship packages with generous
print, radio, online, and tradeshow
advertising exposure with added perks
such as discounted Professional Development Day table rates and complimentary tickets to the expo. For
sponsorship information, please call
235-8456 or log onto www.WyomingWomensExpo.com.

cludes continental breakfast, lunch,

coffee bar, one martini, all speakers
and Girls Night Out ticket for $90. The
half day is from 11a.m. to 4:30p.m.
and includes lunch, coffee bar, keynote speaker, two content speakers, one martini and Girls Night Out
Ticket for $55. Tables of 8 are available
for both Half Day and Full Day.
Visit the new www.WyomingWomensExpo.com for a list and bios of Professional Development Day speakers.

Womens Expo
professional day

Celebrate Recovery meets at

5:30p.m. every Friday at Highland
Park Community Church, just south
of Elkhorn Valley Rehabilitation Hospital on East Second Street. We start
with a family meal, followed by praise
and worship. At 7p.m., theres either
a lesson from Celebrate Recoverys
planned curriculum or a testimony
by a person who has found recovery
through Christ. Then, people go to
gender-specific small groups until
8:30p.m., when dessert and fellowship conclude the evening. Child care
is available at no cost. For more information, contact Chris at 265-4073.

Our Professional Development Day

gives the working woman the chance
to have a conference experience right
here in Casper. This is a chance for
women to network, be inspired by
other women and empowered by dynamic speakers. Join us on Sept. 30 for
a day of professional development,
sponsored by the University of Wyoming at Casper.
This year, pick the option that best
fits your schedule. The full day runs
from 8:30a.m. to 4:30p.m. and in-

Celebrate Recovery
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Oregon, and at the Tate
Pumphouse in Casper.
The bride graduated from
Kelly Walsh High School in
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lege with a degree in world

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T H E Y SE RV E D W I T H HONOR : V I E T N A M
Each week, we will feature a different veteran 50 years after the start of the Vietnam War. Read all the profiles at trib.com/honor.

Photo by Dale Bohren

Wayne CHair smiles in front of a painting depicting the flag and a symbol of the Northern Arapaho tribe at the Arapaho Immersion School where he teaches.

SPC. 4 WAYNE CHAIR, ARAPAHOE

By Gayle Irwin

was a good kid I came

back a different man,
said Wayne CHair, a Northern Arapaho elder. Today, although Im 70 years old, Im
still wounded.
He joins the ranks of thousands of military service men
and women, from Vietnam and
other wars, who suffer from
post-traumatic stress disorder.
I could have been a great
man later on my tour there,
my service to my country, it
damaged me. I was never the
same, he said.
CHair served as artillery
support during his tour of duty
in Vietnam, from January 1967
to January 1968. He grew up on
the Wind River Indian Reservation and is a member of the
Northern Arapaho tribe. CHair
said that every boy in his high
school class went to Vietnam,
either through enlistment or
by being drafted. When he was
drafted, CHairs family asked
why he planned to go.
That war is not our war,
why go fight them? he remembers family members asking him at the time.
It wasnt such a simple
question, for him. You had to
go or go to jail ... We went anyway we were citizens of this
great country of ours and were
trying to do our duty.

SKILL AND SURVIVAL

Upon arriving in Vietnam,

CHair helped build a base
camp, constructing barracks,
bathrooms, showers and other
necessities.
I had carpenter skills. My
dad was a carpenter, he said.
We got mortar rounds
every night, he continued.
Everybody was scared. Everybody was scared to go over
there ... youd come under fire,
and of course you have to fire
back. I remember (those days)
all the time.

According to two different

studies, about 82,000 Native
Americans, including Alaskan
natives, served in the military
during the Vietnam era, and
about 42,000 served in-country. CHair said he met only
one other Native American
during his tour, a Navajo.
Wed get together, he said.
We prayed together. That
gave us power and strength for
the next day. Wed talk about
the stars, what they meant to
us; we are people of nature.
His culture and abilities
were respected by his fellow
servicemen.
Were caretakers of Mother Earth thats our purpose
(as Native Americans), he explained.
Wed stop ... the other
people. Theyd walk into ambushes, he remembered. Id
know there was something
wrong. Sure enough, thered
be an ambush ahead of us In
fact, they felt confident with
me all the time; they called me
Chief in Vietnam.

CHANGED FOREVER

The patrols and constant

threat of ambushes, air strikes,
sniper fire and mortar rounds
stayed with him upon his return.
I came back wounded from
my experience I went over
there a good man, he said. I
realized there was something
wrong with me later on.
His family saw the changes
in him. In fact, he said, until
his grandmothers dying day,
she thought he was still in
Vietnam that her grandson
had never returned.
I felt really bad about
that, CHair said. She
looked at me and said, You are
not my grandson, Wayne; my
grandson went off to war and
didnt come back. I changed
so much, she didnt recognize
me. ... The Army changes you,
me especially ... dirty lan-

guage, seeing some really bad

stuff. I still suffer from that
today.

HEALING AND
PURPOSE

CHair spent two years trying to rebuild his life and adjusting to returning home.
With the help of his family
and his native community, he
found his way back. He credits sweat lodges and prayer,
as well as family support and
counseling. He still receives
professional care, often via
conference call. Each element
helped him reengage with life.
After his tour, he held various jobs around Fremont
County, then found his purpose
working with tribal children.
He helps them and others regain a sense of culture, particularly through learning and
speaking the Arapaho language.
I was a real Arapaho Indian before I left. I spoke the
language, I (still) speak the
language, CHair said. We
are still Arapaho people; we
still have our culture here. The
main thing is our language
holds us together.
He works at the Arapaho
Immersion School, helping
educate young children about
the culture of their people.
Only Arapaho is spoken at the
school.
(Arapaho) is a pure, clean
language, CHair stated. I
give back (helping the children). I feel good talking our
native Arapaho language. Its
more colorful; its like a poem.
Speaking English is like
watching black and white
TV, he explained, but Arapaho
is colorful, visual, beautiful.
He also teaches Arapaho as
a foreign language at Central
Wyoming Community College,
and he taught the language for
several years at the University
of Wyoming.
Although he returned to
the United States during the

Photo by Dale Bohren

Wayne CHair displays a vest with a patch that is one of his only
remaining artifacts from his tour in Vietnam.
anti-war protests, his native though it has bad memories,
culture embraces veterans, he thats one thing I feel good
said. There are many veterans, about.
including those from the VietAnother thing he feels good
nam, Korean and other wars, about is helping preserve the
who are part of the tribe, and Arapaho culture, a culture that
they are often honored at pow- helped him before, during and
wows and other events.
after the Vietnam War.
Veterans are held in high
Its the most important
esteem among our people, he thing in my life. I dedicate my
said.
life to my language, to my peoCHair, as an elder for the ple, to our lifeways, he stated.
Arapaho tribe, often partici- I want to contribute as much
pates in gatherings honoring as I can to our native language,
tribal veterans. His service in- our culture, our lifeways. I
cludes carrying the colors.
want to see my kids, my grandI do that it gives me a sons, grow up in a good way
good feeling, he said. Even thats why I help out.

THEY SERVED WITH HONOR: VIETNAM is a partnership with the Wyoming Veterans Commission

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BUSINESS

Small business spotlight

Know of a small business doing big things? Email editors@trib.com.

Firearms
propmt
fashion
niche
Women are buying
clothing that allows
for concealed carry
LISA MARIE PANE

Associated Press

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Foreign fishermen aboard an American fishing boat unload a moonfish in Honolulu. Around 700 foreign men work in a unique Hawaii fishing fleet
without visas, thanks to a federal loophole written specifically for their ship owners.

Foreign fishermen confined to

boats catch Hawaiian seafood
MARTHA MENDOZA
AND MARGIE MASON

Associated Press

HONOLULU Hawaiis

high-quality seafood is sold

with the promise that its caught
by local, hard-working fishermen. But the people who haul
in the prized catch are almost all
undocumented foreign workers, confined to American boats
for years at a time without basic
rights or protections.
About 700 men from impoverished Southeast Asian and Pacific
Island nations make up the bulk
of the workforce in this unique
U.S. fishing fleet. A federal loophole allows them to take the dangerous jobs without proper work
permits, just as long as they dont
set foot on shore.
Americans buying Hawaiian seafood are almost certainly
eating fish caught by one of these
workers.
A six-month Associated Press
investigation found fishing crews
living in squalor on some boats,
forced to use buckets instead
of toilets and suffering running
sores from bed bugs. There have
been instances of human trafficking, active tuberculosis and
low food supplies.
We want the same standards
as the other workers in America, but we are just small people
working there, said fisherman
Syamsul Maarif, who didnt get
paid for four months. He was sent
back to his Indonesian village after nearly dying at sea when his
Hawaiian boat sank earlier this
year.
Because they have no visas,
the men cant fly into Hawaii,
so theyre brought by boat. And
since theyre not technically
in the country, theyre at the
mercy of their American captains
on American-flagged, American-owned vessels, catching
choice swordfish and ahi tuna
that can fetch more than $1,000
apiece. The entire system contradicts other state and federal laws,
yet operates with the blessing of
U.S. officials and law enforcement.

Please see FIREARMS, Page C5

AP

U.S. fishing boats crewed by undocumented foreign fisherman are docked at Pier 38 in Honolulu. In Hawaii,
federal contractors paid to monitor catches said they are troubled by what theyve seen while living weeks
at a time at sea with the men.

AP

Dr. Craig Nakatsuka, left, distributes medication and fruit to

undocumented foreign fishermen who work aboard American fishing
boats in Honolulu. The doctor comes to Pier 38 with a church outreach
project that holds services for the men twice a week.
People say these fishermen
cant leave their boats, theyre
like captives, said U.S. Attorney
Florence Nakakuni in Hawaii.
But they dont have visas, so
they cant leave their boat, really.
Each of the roughly 140 boats
in the fleet docks about once
every three weeks, occasionally

at ports along the West Coast,

including Fishermans Wharf
in San Francisco, but mainly
at Piers 17 and 38 in Honolulu.
Their catch ends up at fancy
restaurants and in supermarkets
premium fish counters across the
country, including Whole Foods,
Costco and Sams Club.

All companies that responded

condemned the mistreatment
of workers. Costco said it was
investigating. Wal-Mart, which
owns Sams Club, declined to
comment.
Charlie Nagle, whose family
has been in the seafood industry for 130 years, said his buyers
do not and will never knowingly
source from vessels that mistreat their crew. Richard Stavis
of Stavis Seafood said Thursday
that his company is not currently
selling fish from Hawaii.
Whole Foods spokeswoman
McKinzey Crossland said only 1
percent of the chain stores seafood comes from Hawaii, and
she has been assured that boat
crews are well paid with bonuses
and health insurance. She added
that the company is looking into
the issue.
The AP obtained confidential
contracts and interviewed boat
owners, brokers and more than
50 fishermen in Hawaii, Indonesia and San Francisco as part of
Please see FISHERMEN, Page C5

Crude oil swings on supply shocks

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rude oil staged a huge rally

throughout the week as
OPEC members talked
again about cutting production
to prop prices upward toward
$60 per barrel. The oil cartel
has been unsuccessful thus
far, but collaboration between
its members could shock the
global oil market higher.
The U.S. DeWALT
partment of
& ALEX
Energy fueled
BREITINGER
the run-up by
reporting on
Thursday morning that U.S. petroleum inventories unexpectedly tumbled by
more than 14 million barrels,
which helped boost prices to
$47.75 per barrel.
By Friday morning, prices
made a U-turn as traders took
profits and sold their holdings
as they considered that crude

ATLANTA For decades,

women have had few choices

when it comes to the clothing they can wear to hide that
theyre carrying a firearm. They
could wear baggy T-shirts or
coats, or put it in a purse and
hope it didnt get swiped or that
they didnt have trouble getting
it out in an emergency.
Enter holsters, corsets, camisoles and other clothing designed to be flattering, feminine
and functional for the pistol-packing mama crowd.
I dont want to dress in tactical gear and camo all the time.
I love tactical clothing for the
range. Its comfortable. I dont
want to ruin my everyday clothing, said Marilyn Smolenski,
who in 2012 created Nickel and
Lace, a company that caters to
women who want to carry a firearm concealed but dont want to
trade in their femininity. But I
dont want to wear it to the grocery store.
Smolenski started her company right around the time when
Chicago city laws changed and
she could again legally carry a
firearm. When that happened,
she struggled to find something that didnt make her look
frumpy and didnt broadcast
that she was packing heat. Most

stockpiles are still near record

highs, a sign that volatile prices
may be here to stay.

Grains brace for USDA

report
Grain prices climbed during
the week, rallying in anticipation of next Mondays USDA
report. The monthly tally will
show the agencys best guess at
the size of this years corn and
soybean crops, which were both
projected to be record size last
month.
Prices were also boosted
by new concerns about heavy
rains hurting the soybeans and
reports of early-harvested corn
being lower quality than anticipated.
Despite this weeks price
rally, some farmers and traders fear that the USDA could

show an ever-increasing corn

and soybean crop, which could
knock prices back to dirt-cheap
levels.
As of midday Friday, December corn traded for $3.40 and
November beans neared $9.80
per bushel.

Traders turn on stocks

and bonds
The U.S. economy could
reach or even exceed full employment soon, according to
Federal Reserve official Eric
Rosengren. While this is good
news for job-seekers, optimism
from the Fed caused panic
among stock and bond futures
traders and triggered a tumble.
Rosengrens comments implied the Fed may finally be
ready to raise interest rates
soon in an effort to combat

inflation. Economists fear that

low unemployment and low interest rates can spark inflation,
forcing them to carefully tailor
interest rate policy between
stimulating the economy and
controlling inflation.
Higher rates typically hurt
the stock market as they make
it more expensive for corporations to borrow. Meanwhile,
higher rates encourage investors to buy interest-bearing assets, eschewing commodities,
stocks and foreign currencies.
Opinions are solely the writers.
Walt and Alex Breitinger are
commodity futures brokers with
Paragon Investments in Silver
Lake, Kansas. They can be reached
at 800-411-3888 or www.paragoninvestments.com. This is not a
solicitation of any order to buy or
sell any market.

Colorado town
verges on big
changes amid
Superfund
cleanup
DAN ELLIOTT

Associated Press

DENVER A historic Colorado mountain town is on the

threshold of a transformation
after the federal government announced it will embark on an ambitious campaign to stanch the
flow of acidic wastewater cascading from abandoned mines.
The Environmental Protection
Agency on Wednesday designated an area north of Silverton
as a Superfund site, clearing the
way for a multimillion-dollar
cleanup that could last years.
I think were all in for one
heck of an adventure, said Mark
Esper, editor of the Silverton
Standard newspaper.
Tainted wastewater has been
flowing from idle mines in the
San Juan Mountains for years,
but some of Silvertons 600-plus
residents resisted a Superfund
designation, worried it would
discourage tourists and skiers.
Silverton is best known for the
steam-powered Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad
Please see SUPERFUND, Page C5

AP

Water flows through a series of

sediment retention ponds outside
Silverton, Colorado. A mine
that spilled 3 million gallons of
contaminated wastewater has
been designated a Superfund site.

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BRIEFCASE

State bar seeks

members
of public to
volunteer for
boards
The Wyoming State Bar
recently announced that it
is seeking non-lawyer volunteers to serve on panels.
The groups seeking volunteers are:
The Board of Continuing Legal Education, which
sets and interprets rules
and policies concerning
mandatory continuing legal
education for lawyers who
practice in Wyoming. The
board also certifies accreditation and reporting procedures. Members of this
Board are appointed by the
Wyoming Supreme Court
for three-year terms.
The Board of Professional
Responsibility, which receives, dockets and investigates complaints of
attorney misconduct and
conduct hearings as warranted. The board operates
on behalf of the Wyoming
Supreme Court. It may administer reprimands in less
serious instances or misconduct. For more serious
or repeated misconduct, it
may recommend imposition
of public discipline to the
Wyoming Supreme Court.
Members of this Board are
appointed by the Wyoming
Supreme Court for threeyear terms.
The Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee,
which investigates allegations of the unauthorized
practice of law in Wyoming
and may initiate litigation
in district courts for injunctive relief or criminal
contempt proceedings. The
committee may also make
recommendations to the

GAS PRICE TRACKER

Average price of
regular unleaded
gasoline across the
region by state

Montana
$2.33

Idaho
$2.46

South Dakota
$2.24

Wyoming
$2.25

Nebraska
$2.19
Utah
$2.31

Colorado
$2.19

Source: Gasbuddy.com. Price as of Friday.

Trends calculated from previous Fridays
averages.

Across Wyoming
Casper
$2.08-2.48
Cody
$2.36-2.39
Gillette
$2.03-2.15
Rock Springs $2.19-2.45
Cheyenne $2.04-2.39

Wyoming gas-price breakdown

Total average
Fuel, operating expenses, profit
Taxes

$2.25
$1.83
$0.414

Federal
State tax motor fuel license tax
State tax Leaking Underground Storage Tank account

$0.184
$0.230
$0.010

STAR-TRIBUNE STAFF GRAPHIC

Wyoming Supreme Court.

Members of this Board are
appointed by the Wyoming
Supreme Court for threeyear terms.
Any member of the public interested in volunteering to serve should visit
https://www.wyomingbar.
org/for-the-public/volunteer-to-serve/. Expressions
of interest are due on Oct. 1.

Western Vista
appoints new
executive VP
The Board of Directors
for Western Vista Federal
Credit Union has appointed
Steven Leafgreen executive
vice president.
Leafgreen has a lending
and operations background.
He has been Western Vistas
vice president of financial
services for the past six

years.
He also volunteers his
time serving as a director
on the Boards of WIDC
Frontier CDC, The Greater
Cheyenne Chamber of
Commerce and the Laramie
County Library Foundation.

Sandwich chain
Jimmy Johns
sells majority
stake to Roark
NEW YORK Sandwich
chain Jimmy Johns Sandwiches says it sold a majority stake in the company
to private equity firm Roark
Capital Group.
Financial terms of the
deal were not disclosed.
Roark Capital of Atlanta
has invested in several fast
food companies before, including pretzel seller Aun-

tie Annes and sandwich

restaurant chain Arbys.
Founded in 1983, Jimmy
Johns has more than 2,500
Jimmy Johns locations
across the country, including seven in Wyoming, and
plans to open 1,100 more
in the next few years. As a
comparison, rival sandwich
chain Subway has more
than 44,000 shops.
Jimmy
Johns
says
founder Jimmy John Liautaud will remain as chairman of the companys
board. James North will
remain as president and
CEO of the privately held
company, which is based in
Champaign, Illinois.

Mazda recalls
2.2M vehicles
worldwide; rear
hatches can fall
DETROIT Mazda is recalling 2.2 million cars and
SUVs worldwide because
the rear hatches can fall on
people and injure them.
The recall covers certain
2010 through 2013 Mazda
3 compact cars, as well as
2012 through 2015 Mazda 5
vans. Also included are certain 2013 to 2016 CX-5 and
2016 CX-3 SUVs. More than
759,000 vehicles in the U.S.
and Canada are affected.
Mazda says the corrosion
protection coating applied
to the hatch lift supports
at the factory wasnt sufficient. Over time, water containing road salt can get into
the supports, causing them
to corrode and break. Mazda
says it has no reports of accidents or injuries caused by
the problem.
Dealers will replace both
lift supports. Customers
will be notified in September or October about when

to bring their vehicles in for 2016 Ford Transit Connect

repairs.
small van.
Ford says a spring tab in
the door latches can break,
and the doors either wont
close or could pop open.
Dealers will replace the
latches for free. The company said it knows of one
crash and three injuries
that may be related to the
DETROIT Ford will problem.

spend $640 million to replace door latches on nearly

2.4 million cars, trucks and
vans this year because the
doors can pop open while
the vehicles are moving.
On Thursday, the company announced it would
add 1.5 million vehicles to
the pesky and growing reBRUSSELS Belgiums
call, which has become so government is considering
costly Ford had to cut its legal action against Caterestimated full-year pretax pillar over the U.S. heavy
profit to $10.2 billion from equipment makers decision
at least $10.8 billion.
to close a manufacturing
Customers have been site and lay off more than
complaining about the 2,000 workers.
problem, which has afPrime Minister Charles
fected much of Fords North Michel told lawmakers
American model lineup, Thursday that we will take
since 2014. At least 3 mil- action against Caterpillar if
lion vehicles have been re- necessary.
called due to the problem.
He described the exThe recalls come after a U.S. pected closure of the GosNational Highway Traf- selies plant in the Wallonia
fic Safety Administration region as brutal, cruel and
investigation found 1,200 heartbreaking.
customer complaints about
In a surprise announcement last week, Caterpillar
doors failing to latch.
Thursdays announce- said it would shift production
ment came under pres- to Grenoble, France, and other
sure from NHTSA, which facilities outside Europe.
About 2,200 workers are
deemed an Aug. 4 recall of
about 830,000 vehicles in- likely to be laid off as well
adequate because it wasnt as thousands more from
nationwide.
subcontractors working on
Ford said in a regulatory Caterpillar contracts. Some
filing that the $640 million learned they would lose
will cover the cost of both their jobs via social media.
the Thursday recall and the
Wallonia
officials
one announced Aug. 4.
slammed the move, saying
The latest recall includes Peoria, Illinois-based Caterthe 2012 through 2015 Ford pillar Inc. received substanFocus, the 2013 to 2015 Ford tial government financial
Escape and C-Max, the 2015 support and big tax breaks.
Ford Mustang and Lincoln
MKC and the 2014 through
Staff and wire reports

Door latch recall

to cost Ford, cut
into full-year
pretax profits

Belgium mulls
action against
Caterpillar over
plant closure

Insurance differences stem from random factors

Often, customers can
do nothing about that
TOM MURPHY

Associated Press

Tracey Stahl lost part of a leg to

bone cancer last fall, and she has to
wince through bouts of crippling
pain from an ill-fitting artificial
limb because of a strange health
insurance limit: Her plan covers
just one limb per lifetime.
She now has to weigh whether
to dump the nearly $9,000 cost
of a new leg on her credit card as
she fights her insurance company
over the restriction. I feel its
embarrassing to say paralyzed
about what to do, said Stahl, from
her home in Penfield, New York.
Caiti Rileys left leg was amputated below the knee at age 4 due
to a rare birth defect. The San Antonio resident is 31 now and covered by the best insurance shes
ever had. Her plan is paying most
of the roughly $5,000 bill for a new
running leg to complement the one
she uses every day.
I work out every day. Theres
nothing really that I cant do now,
she said.
Glaring differences in insurance
coverage persist for amputees,
children with autism and others
in need of certain expensive treatments even after the Affordable
Care Act set new standards as part
of its push to expand and improve
coverage, and despite efforts by
states to mandate coverage for
some treatments.
These differences dont develop
simply because some people pay
more for better coverage. Instead,
they stem from random factors like
what state someone lives in or who
happens to provide their coverage
and often people can do nothing about it. The federal health care
law largely leaves decisions on what
actually gets covered up to states or
employers who provide insurance
for their workers.
These gaps can bury patients in
debt or force them to skip care. And
they may become more common
as health care costs continue to rise
and insurers and employers look for
ways to control that expense.
Researcher Sabrina Corlette
thinks nothing short of federal action can close these coverage gaps,
and she doesnt see that happening
anytime soon.
I think you would need to see
Congress say, OK, we need more
uniformity here, said Corlette, a
Georgetown Health Policy Institute
professor. And I just dont see this
Congress or any near-term Congress stepping in and wanting to
do that.
States have passed about 1,800
mandates requiring the coverage of

AP

Caiti Riley, who lost her left leg when she was 4, poses for a photo near her home in San Antonio. Rileys
insurance plan is paying most of the cost for a new running leg to complement the one she uses every day.
various treatments or conditions,
according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. But
those mandates dont extend beyond state borders, and they dont
apply to the self-funded coverage
offered by nearly all large employers.
North Carolina, for example, recently became one of 44 states to
require coverage of autism treatments and it wont help Iris
Castillo one bit.
The Raleigh, North Carolina, resident said it felt like a cold bucket of
water had been tossed on her when
she learned that insurance from her

new job wont cover applied behavior analysis therapy for her 9-yearold son, Alex.
Hours of this daily therapy,
which is a standard treatment for
autistic children, have helped Alex
learn simple tasks like how to brush
his teeth or say hi to another kid.
Castillo worries that her son will
regress if treatment stops. But it
can cost more than $40,000 a year,
far beyond what Castillos family
can afford.
You dont feel like youre in
control, she said.
Her employers coverage is selffunded, which means it pays its

own health care bills instead of

buying coverage from an insurer.
That also means it doesnt have to
comply with most state coverage
mandates.
Employers have been slowly
switching to this type of coverage
for several years to help control
what has become one of their largest expenses and to avoid some of
the requirements imposed by the
ACA, said Robert Laszewski, a
health care consultant and former
insurance executive. He expects
gaps or differences in coverage to
become more common as health
expenses grow.

Insurers and employers routinely

cover organ transplants, heart
procedures and other expensive
surgeries. But coverage still varies
widely for a range of patients that
also includes people recovering
from eating disorders like anorexia
and women who need breast reduction surgery to ease back pain.
The cost of a particular treatment, the need for it in a covered
population and lingering disagreements over necessity help explain
some coverage differences.
Bariatric surgery, which can improve the health of obese patients
by limiting food intake, can cost
$7,000 to $30,000. Coverage is
improving, and Dr. John Morton
estimates that about 75 percent of
patients who need the surgery have
some insurance for it.
But the quality of that coverage varies widely, according to
the Stanford School of Medicine
surgeon. Some plans only cover
the procedure for severely obese
patients, while others may charge
deductibles of around $10,000,
which can dissuade many from
having surgery.
An annual survey of large employers by the benefits firm Mercer found that 40 percent offered
no coverage for infertility treatment last year. Some companies
dont view it as essential to a persons health, while others with an
eye toward attracting and keeping
good workers, have started offering
the coverage to help LGBT patients
conceive.
We see a lot of variation between employers, and its extremely
confusing to the consumer, said
Dr. David Kaplan, a senior partner
at Mercer.
Tracey Stahl, who lost her leg to
cancer, got a prosthesis in January,
but her leg shrank so the artificial
limb no longer fits. This forces her
to use crutches or a wheelchair
when she has to walk more than
a short distance. If the pain grows
too intense, she retreats to bed and
keeps her leg elevated.
She bought her coverage on New
Yorks public insurance exchange.
Her insurer, Excellus BlueCross
BlueShield, said the coverage it sells
there follows a model set by the
state. The insurer rejected Stahls
claim for a new limb in May and
then rejected her appeal in July.
In Texas, Caiti Riley said her previous insurance capped limb coverage at $2,500 every four years,
which she likened to a smack in
the face. Now her coverage is so
good she says she almost feels bad
about it.
I know what the challenges are,
she said. If you go out and get in
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Britains economy is stable

and people are surprised
DANICA KIRKA

Associated Press

ONDON Fear of an
L
economic meltdown was the
biggest weapon in the campaign to stop Britain from
leaving the European Union.
Economic and financial
experts in the City of London, which has a lot to lose
from an EU exit, warned that
a decision to leave would hit
business so hard as to put
the country in or close to
recession this year.
Ten weeks after the vote,
though, some say the fearmongering was overdone.
Though the pound has
fallen to a 30-year low, as
predicted, people continue
to spend and activity in
manufacturing and services
rebounded last month from
a sharp contraction in July.
House prices have held up.

Calm before storm?

The question is whether

this is simply the calm before the storm before
Britain goes through with
the decision to leave the EU
and negotiates its new relationship or is the country
such a good place to do business that it can weather the
dislocation of Brexit.
The City called it
wrong, Nigel Wilson, chief
executive of Legal & General, an insurer and pension
provider that has 746 billion
pounds ($1 trillion) under
management, told the BBC
this week. Everyone was
naturally a Remainer and
therefore when it didnt
happen, psychology took
over and we got some very
odd outcomes, which are
busily self-correcting over
a period of time.
But Swati Dhingra, one
of those who forecast severe damage to the economy, says the danger hasnt
passed. Warnings about the
impact of Brexit were focused on what might happen when Britain leaves the
EU, and that wont happen
for more than two years

at least. Until then, no one

knows what the countrys
relationship with the EU
will look like and what effect it will have on trade, labor supply and investment,
she said.
Its too early to tell, said
Dhingra, an expert on trade
and international economics at the London School
of Economics. The trade
policy changes have not yet
happened. Why are we expecting things to change?

Crucial questions

Among the most crucial

questions to be decided is
whether Britain will continue to have access to the
EUs single, tariff-less market of more than 500 million people and under what
conditions. The financial
services industry is particularly concerned about maintaining the current system of
passporting, which allows
professionals who are registered in one member state to
work anywhere in the bloc.
The details of Britains
new relationship with the
EU will be determined by
negotiations that will last
at least two years and wont
begin until the government
formally notifies European
authorities that it intends
to leave. Prime Minister
Theresa May has signaled
that she wont do this before 2017.
John Nelson, chairman of
the insurance market known
as Lloyds, suggested during
a speech this week that big
businesses are waiting to see
what sort of deal the government will strike.
If we are not able to access the single market, either through passporting
rights or other means, the
inevitable consequences for
Lloyds and indeed other
insurance organizations
will be that we will transact
the business onshore in the
EU. And that obviously will
have an impact on London,
Nelson said at the Lloyds

City Dinner.
One explanation for stabilization in economic indicators is that the Conservative Party chose a new prime
minister two months earlier
than was expected when David Cameron stepped down
following the referendum.
Since taking office, May has
dismissed calls for early parliamentary elections and,
critically, insisted that she
wont immediately trigger
Article 50, the clause in the
EU treaty that sets a departure in motion.
That eliminated some of
the political uncertainty
that fueled uncertainty after the vote and bought
the country time.
The Bank of England also
swung into action, launching a range of stimulus measures to bolster confidence
in the economy.
The multipronged approach greased the gears
of the economy by making borrowing easier and
cheaper. The bank cut its
key interest rate to 0.25
percent from a previous
record low of 0.5 percent
and agreed to pump an additional $78 billion of new
money into the economy
through the purchase of
government bonds.
The central bank also said
it would buy up to 10 billion
pounds of corporate bonds
to make it easier for companies to borrow, and provide
cheap loans for banks to
make sure they could lend
to people and businesses at
low rates.

Bold measures

The measures were bolder

than investors expected,
pushing stocks up and the
pound down. Experts say
they will help shore up trust
at a time of uncertainty by
showing that authorities
are taking action. But that
hasnt stopped lawmakers
from demanding answers.
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who campaigned to
leave the
EU, frostily
challenged
Bank of England Governor Mark
Carney
Carney at a
parliamentary hearing Wednesday
over the banks often severe
predictions about the impact of a vote to leave the EU.
Carney countered that the
banks actions helped calm
nerves and said he was serene about the measures.
This financial system,
under the oversight of the
Bank of England, sailed
through what was a surprise
to the vast majority of financial market participants,
Carney said.

What surveys show

In the weeks after the

June 23 referendum, surveys
showed that business and
consumer activity dropped
at the fastest pace since the
depths of the financial crisis in 2008. The purchasing
managers index posted a
record drop in July, falling
to 47.4, with anything below
50 indicating a contraction
in activity. But the index rebounded to 53.2 in August,
injecting some optimism
into the debate on how Britain is faring after the seismic
vote.
Economists are now waiting for more data that show
what the economy is doing
and where it is going
over the long term.
We are really relying on
crumbs, said Alpesh Paleja,
principal economist at the
Confederation of British
Industry about the dearth
of data. I think its very
difficult to tell how much of
a storm it is going to be because so much depends on a
competent hand on the part
of the government in handling Brexit.

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Amazon slashes
price, adds Alexa
to new Fire tablet
MAE ANDERSON

Associated Press

NEW YORK Ama

zon wants to be under the
Christmas tree this year.
Its cut the price of its new
Fire tablet almost in half
and added its popular voice
assistant, Alexa, in hopes
of making it a hot holiday
item, despite a slump in
overall tablet sales.
The new Fire HD8 tablet
will cost $90, down from
$150. Mixed-use battery life
is up to 12 hours from 8, and
the base storage is doubled
to 16 gigabytes.
The biggest change is that
the tablet will have Alexa
functionality. That means
that when users tap and hold
the tablets home button,
they can ask the assistant
for anything from weather
reports to news queries, and
also get the device do things
like adjusting the lights or
temperature on compatible
smart-home devices.
The tablet market in
general has been slumping.
Most people have already
bought one who wanted
one and see little reason to
upgrade. Worldwide tablet
shipments fell 12.3 percent
to 38.7 million in the second
quarter, according to the International Data Corp.
But Seattle-based Amazon.com Inc. has managed
to grow its share by slashing prices of its Fire tablet
and encouraging people to
buy more than one. Its base
model, with few bells and
whistles, costs just $49.
The Fire HD price cut in
particular makes it attractive to buyers, IDC research
manager Jonathan Gaw
said.
The rest of the tablet
category has pretty much
taken a dip, whereas Amazon has been able to increase
their share, he said. They
are not necessarily out to
make a great margin on the

AP

This undated image

provided by Amazon shows
a screenshot on the new
Amazon Fire HD 8 tablet,
demonstrating the Alexa
experience.
device itself so it works out
pretty well for them.
Alexa voice-recognition
software will be available
on all the new tablets, as
well as via a free over-theair software update for Fire
HD 8 tablets from last year.
The software was originally
part of Amazons Echo $180
smart speaker, which is activated by voice commands.
Third-party
devices
have begun to use it too.
A home-intercom system
called Nucleus and a portable speaker from Triby also
come with Alexa software
built in.
On the tablets, users can
see visual cards, similar
to whats on the Amazon
Echo app, for each query
they make.
Kevin Keith, Amazons
general manager of Fire
tablets said he expects tablet users to use Alexa mainly
while using tablets for entertainment like movies and
e-books.
Its a way to enhance the
entertainment experience,
he said.

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Tech may help steer older Hottest new

drivers down a safer road plastic is metal
MICHAEL LIEDTKE

Associated Press

AN FRANCISCO Older
S
drivers may soon be traveling a
safer road thanks to smarter cars
that can detect oncoming traffic,
steer clear of trouble and even hit
the brakes when a collision appears imminent.
A few of these innovations, such
as blind-spot warning systems,
are already built in or offered as
optional features in some vehicles, primarily in more expensive
models.
But more revolutionary breakthroughs are expected in the next
few years, when measures such
as robotic braking systems are
supposed to become standard
features in all cars on U.S. roads.
Better technology, of course,
can help prevent drivers of all
ages from getting into accidents.
But those in their 70s and older are
more likely to become confused
at heavily trafficked intersections
and on-ramps. Aging also frequently limits a bodys range of
motion, making it more difficult
to scan all around for nearby vehicles and other hazards. And older
drivers tend to be more fragile
than their younger counterparts,
suffering more serious injuries in
traffic accidents.
Anything that reduces the
likelihood or severity of a collision is really a technology that is
primed for helping tomorrows
older adults, says Bryan Reimer,
research scientist for the Massachusetts Institute of Technologys
AgeLab and associate director
of the New England University
Transportation Center. We are
moving toward an ecosystem
where older adults will increasingly be supported by the technology that may help enhance their
mobility.
Automakers are rolling out
more technology just as the first
members of the culture-shifting
Baby Boom generation turn 70
this year. By 2030, the U.S. Census Bureau expects there will be
nearly 54 million people who are

High-end credit
card causes a stir
KEN SWEET

Associated Press

AP

This rendering provided by Volvo Cars shows the City Safety feature
in one of their XC90 SUVs. City Safety features pedestrian and cyclist
detection with full auto brake, day and night.
70 or older living in the country,
up from about 31 million in 2014.
About 80 percent of that group
is expected to be licensed to drive,
based on current trends, and that
ratio could rise even higher if
technology lets elderly people
remain behind the wheel and
preserve a sense of independence
longer.
The presence of safety technology will be a key consideration for
three-fourths of the drivers older
than 50 who plan to buy a car in
the next two years, according to
a recent survey by auto insurer
The Hartford and MIT AgeLab.
In an indication that priorities
are shifting, only one-third of
the surveyed 50-and-older drivers who bought a car during the
past two years focused on safety
technology.
The push to engineer self-driving cars has helped heighten
awareness about the role technology can play in eliminating
the human error that causes most
accidents.
Google, now part of Alphabet
Inc., ignited the self-driving car
research seven years ago when it

began working on autonomous

vehicles in a secret laboratory.
Now, most automakers and other
major technology companies, including Apple and Uber, are also
working on self-driving technology, though there is still wide
disagreement over when robotic
chauffeurs will be ready and legally cleared to assume sole responsibility for navigating public
roads.
Google aims to have its fully
autonomous vehicles cruising
around by 2020. That objective is
considered too ambitious by many
auto industry executives and experts who believe self-driving cars
are a decade or more away from
becoming a reality.
In the meantime, plenty of
other technology should be widely
available for older drivers.
Earlier this year, the auto industry vowed to make automated
emergency brakes a standard
feature by September 2022, but
it wont be that long before the
technology is widely available.
Toyota plans to build it into most
models, including its Lexus brand,
by the end of next year.

NEW YORK The demand has

been so overwhelming that the
manufacturer ran out of raw material in just days. Enthusiasts extol its virtues all over the internet.
Millennials are clamoring for it.
Its not a new video game, or
some fancy food craze, or even Apples latest iPhone, but a credit card.
Calling it plastic wouldnt do
it justice. It is a high-end, highfee, high-reward card made of a
metallic alloy that gives it a satisfying heft and an impressive
thunk when you toss it onto the
table to pick up the check.
The Chase Sapphire Reserve
Card has become the hottest card
on the market just two weeks
after being introduced, even
though it came out during the
slow, end-of-summer period,
it carries a hefty $450 annual
fee and JPMorgan Chase spent
nothing on advertising it.
Im telling all my friends
about it, said Maddy Novich, 33,
of New York, who applied for the
card, as did her husband.
Like so many crazes these days,
this one has been fueled by social media, word of mouth and
the internet. Frequent travelers
and those who try to game travel-loyalty programs have been
writing extensively about the
card on blogs and forums.
I have never seen such interest in a credit card, and Ive been
doing this for 15 years, said Gary
Leff, who runs the travel and
points blog View From the Wing.
Chase has approved tens of
thousands of applications for the
card, said spokeswoman Lauren
Francis. Most of the customers
are millennials, who typically
shun credit cards and are not
usually a target for high-fee, ultra-premium plastic.
The demand has been so high

I have never seen

such interest in a
credit card, and Ive
been doing this for 15
years.
Gary Leff,
travel and points blogger
that Chase ran out of the alloy,
whose composition is a trade secret. Customers are being issued
temporary plastic cards.
Credit cards with high fees but
generous rewards are aimed at
well-to-do customers who spend
and travel extensively. The market has long been dominated by
American Express with its Platinum Card.
So whys the Chase card so hot?
Chase offers a 100,000-point
sign-up bonus if the customer
meets certain spending targets.
Those points can be worth up to
$1,500 in travel rewards. They
can also be converted to hotel or
airline points that could secure,
oh, a dreamy hotel suite in the
Maldives or a first-class ticket
for, say, a honeymoon.
The card also comes with a $300
annual credit toward travel, which
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points-earning program, with
triple points on travel and dining,
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Its one of the best offers Ive
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Novich said.
The cards metal composition
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Kayla Kania, a 33-year-old
manager at an accounting firm
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on Instagram and said she has received compliments about it from
cashiers and a co-worker.
The metal part of it, people
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Fishermen
From C1

an ongoing global look at labor

abuses in the fishing industry.
Last year, the AP reported about
fishermen locked in a cage and
buried under fake names on the
remote Indonesian island village of
Benjina. Their catch was traced to
the United States, leading to more
than 2,000 slaves being freed. But
thousands more remain trapped
worldwide in a murky industry
where work takes place far from
shore and often without oversight.
In Hawaii, federal contractors
paid to monitor catches are troubled by what theyve seen while
living at sea with the men.
Its like, How is this even legal?
How is this possible? said Forest
ONeill, who coordinates boat observers in Honolulu. They are like
floating prisons.
Under the law, U.S. citizens
must make up 75 percent of the
crew on most American commercial fishing boats. But influential
lawmakers, including the late Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye, pushed
for a loophole to support one of
the states biggest industries. It
exempted commercial fishing boat
owners from federal rules enforced
almost everywhere else.
Thus the workers in Hawaii,
who catch $110 million worth of
seafood annually, are paid as little
as 70 cents an hour. They are detained on boats by captains who
are required by law to hold their
passports. That potentially goes
against federal human trafficking
laws saying bosses who hold workers identification documents can
face up to five years in prison.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Coast Guard routinely inspect the Hawaiian boats.
At times, fishermen complain
theyre not getting paid and officers say they tell owners to honor
the contracts. But neither agency
has any authority over actual
wages.
This is a unique situation,
said Coast Guard vessel examiner
Charles Medlicott. But it is legal.
On some boats the fishermen are

paid as little as $350 a month, but

many make $500 to $600. A lucky
few get a percentage of the catch,
making it possible to triple their
wages. The men are willing to give
up their freedom to take these jobs
because the pay is better than they
can make back home in developing
countries where many people live
on less than $1 a day.
Boat owners pay brokers to bring
the men from overseas mostly
from Indonesia, the Philippines,
Vietnam and the tiny Pacific island
nation of Kiribati. It costs about
$10,000 to get each fisherman to
Hawaii. In the long run, foreign
crews end up being cheaper than
bait and ice.
Workers typically sign two- or
three-year renewable contracts,
and some extend repeatedly, staying up to a decade on boats.
In rare cases, boat owners can
request passes from federal authorities to take workers ashore for
things such as medical care. The
men also come on land when their
contracts are up and its time to go
home. Even though they never legally enter the United States, the
government provides a transit visa
that lets them exit through Honolulus airport.
Its a system that leaves the foreign fishermen potentially vulnerable.
Most of the fish caught and
sold in Hawaii is done by the use
of exploiting migrant workers in
what looks to be a human trafficking scheme legitimized by our
own laws, said Kathryn Xian, who
runs the nonprofit Pacific Alliance
to Stop Slavery.
Signs posted at Pier 17 in six languages offer a hotline to help fishermen who have been trafficked.
Thats what happened to Abdul
Fatah and Sorihin, who uses one
name. The Indonesians ran away
from their boat six years ago when
it docked in San Francisco and
were eventually granted visas after being designated as victims of
trafficking.
Sorihin has some advice for
American seafood lovers: Ask,
where did this fish come from? Is
it the kind of fish that you got from
someone in slavery?

AP

A United States Coast Guard team moves toward an American fishing

vessel off the coast of Honolulu for an inspection. U.S. Customs and
Border Protection along with Coast Guard officers routinely board and
inspect Hawaiian fishing boats. If they learn that fishermen have not
received their salaries, they tell owners to honor the contracts and pay
the workers, said a Customs supervisor in Honolulu. However, neither
agency has authority over the amount paid.

Sunday, September 11, 2016|C5

AP

Anna Taylor, founder and CEO of Dene Adams LLC, displays a corset that allows for the concealed carrying of a
firearm.

Firearms
From C1

of the clothing was geared

to men coats with hidden
pockets, or holsters that tuck
neatly inside a waistband. But
until the last few years, those
werent always great options for
women who dont wear belts as
frequently and are more likely
than men to wear form-fitting
clothing, making it difficult to
hide the fact theyre carrying a
firearm.
When you put a mans holster on a womans body it sticks
out. It doesnt hug the body,
said Carrie Lightfoot, founder
and owner of The Well Armed
Woman in Scottsdale, Arizona,
which does everything from
providing firearms instruction
to women to selling a variety of
concealed carry clothing. One
of her companys first missions
was to design and produce a holster that recognized the differences in body types and clothing
styles between men and women.
Womens waists tend to be
shorter, providing less room to
withdraw a gun from a holster.
Hips and chests can get in the
way, too, she said.
Lightfoot and Smolenski
said that some manufacturers
tended to shrink it and pink
it thinking that taking gear
produced for men and making
it smaller and brightly colored
would satisfy female customers. They and their counterparts
emphasize they are driven first
by function and safety before
aesthetics come into the equation.
Women need to know they
can carry effectively, Lightfoot
said. I think the key is finding
a way to carry it so you can be
comfortable and move through
your day without being poked
and having a big hunk of metal
in your pants and not be able to
sit at work.
Both also are advocates for
providing women with information and guidance on ways

AP

Marilyn Smolenski uses a mock gun to demonstrate how to pull a

handgun out of the concealed carry clothing she designs at her home in
Park Ridge, Illinois.
to feel secure and be safe. For
Smolenski, that goal has led to
the creation of the annual Firearms and Fashion Show which
includes seminars on personal
safety. Her company actually
got its start with a line of jewelry
from necklaces that can be
pulled away easily and then used
as a weapon to chopsticks that
can both be used to hold up hair
and then be wielded against an
attacker.
For Anna Taylor, the founder
and CEO of Dene Adams LLC
named after her grandfather,
who first taught her to respect
firearms and handle them safely
the road to creating a line of
concealed carry clothing began
at around the time she became a
single mom and the safety of the
family rested on her shoulders.
When she got her first concealed
carry permit in 2013, she went
through seven different holsters.
Some were hard and uncomfortable. Some of them Id have
to take off and set down when I
went to the bathroom and I was
afraid I would go off and leave it
just like Ive left my phone be-

Superfund
From C1

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and the Silverton Mountain ski

area.
But when the EPA accidentally triggered a 3-million-gallon
wastewater spill from the Gold
King Mine in August 2015, contaminating rivers in three states,
public opinion shifted. Silverton
and surrounding San Juan County
got behind the Superfund listing.
It has been a stunning turnaround, Esper said. He said he
wasnt sure of all the reasons for the
reversal, but others have said residents recognized that a long-term
solution was urgent and only the
federal government could afford it.
People I thought never would
be supporting Superfund totally
reversed, he said.
Silverton Town Administrator
Bill Gardner said he was tremendously happy with the Superfund
listing.
What a great benchmark for
this community and for our downstream partners, he said.
He praised the EPA for listening
to the towns concerns.
I think the EPA deserves a lot
of credit, he said. I think theyve
worked very hard with the voice of
the community.
The agency calls the project the
Bonita Peak Mining District Superfund Site. It includes 47 other
sites besides the Gold King, most
of them mining-related.
The EPA has already been at
work in the area, building a tem-

AP

Water flows through a series of retention ponds in the spillway downstream from a mine outside Silverton,
Colorado. The mine has been designated a Superfund site.
porary treatment plant to clean up
water still flowing from the Gold
King, sampling water and sediment and assessing fish and wildlife habitat.
That process will probably end
next year, said Rebecca Thomas,
EPAs manager for the project.
The agency will then study different cleanup methods, choose a
preferred option and ask for public
comment. Work would then start

on designing and implementing the

cleanup.
Fixes could include water treatment plants for acidic waste draining from the site, plugging abandoned mines that are leaking and
moving mine waste piles away from
streams, Thomas said.
Its too early to say how long the
cleanup will take or what it will
cost, Thomas said.
The EPA estimated that the Gold

King blowout sent 880,000 pounds

of metals into the Animas River
in Colorado, including arsenic,
cadmium, copper, lead, mercury,
nickel and zinc.
Utilities and farmers temporarily stopped drawing water from the
rivers for drinking and irrigation.
The EPA said water quality quickly
returned to pre-spill levels.
Public pressure on the EPA has
been intense.

hind before. Others, belly band

types with a print so bad you
could see the grip or outline of
the gun through my clothes,
Adams said. So when I went out
in public, I felt like I had these
awkward arms always trying to
hide this thing.
Her first design involved a
mousepad and a post-partum
corset to create a soft holster.
She was able to carry the kids
around, nurse, give the kids
baths even jump on the trampoline and I could forget
that it was there. With her last
$200, she found a manufacturer
willing to do a small run. Flash
forward three years and she
now has products on shelves
at nearly 100 dealers around
the country. She has expanded
into safety and training and is
now an NRA pistol and rifle instructor. She even has a few men
who buy her products including, she said, air marshals, who
gravitate to the snug, comfortable designs.
We have options that dont
have lace. We have solid black,
she said.

An investigation last year by

the Interior Department, which is
independent of the EPA, said the
cleanup crew could have avoided
the spill but rushed its work.
Interior officials said they found
no evidence of criminal wrongdoing. A separate criminal investigation is still underway, along with an
internal EPA inquiry.
Congress has conducted multiple hearings.
New Mexico has sued both the
EPA and Colorado over the spill,
while the Navajo Nation sued the
federal government. Utah officials
say they also plan to sue.
Acting New Mexico Environment Secretary Butch Tongate said
his state and other downstream
jurisdictions were excluded from
some of the Superfund planning.
We will persist in our fight to
protect New Mexicans and to hold
EPA fully accountable, he said in a
written statement.
Esper said Silverton could become a research center for cleaning
up leaking mines across the nation.
The Government Accountability Office estimates that at least
33,000 abandoned mines across
the West and in Alaska are contaminating water or causing other
environmental problems.
The Colorado cleanup might
also improve the towns finances,
which have been in decline since a
mine and mill closed in 1991, Esper
said.
I think people are really optimistic in the future of Silverton.
I dont think we see Superfund as
being a hindrance to that, he said.

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WYOMING ARTS CALENDAR

WYOMING EVENTS
POWELL: Free admission to Heart

Mountain Interpretive Center for grades

3-12 during 2016-17 school year in order
to participate in age appropriate programming that focuses on civil rights
and civil liberties. The goal of the program is to encourage students to understand, empathize with, and be motivated to engage in civil rights and civil
liberties issues. To qualify for free admission, groups must be booked in advance of the visit and participate in the
special programming offered at the Center. Educators can schedule their field
trip by contacting Claire Cella at (307)
754-8000 or e-mailing clairec@heartmountain.org.
SHERIDAN: ShredFest, Sheridan
County Public Library System, AARP
Wyoming and Secure Shred of Wyoming
host free shredding event and informational presentation. Smartphone Safety
program, 5:30p.m., Sept 13, library Inner Circle. A light meal will be provided
by AARP Wyoming at 5p.m. The Shred
Fest, 9:30a.m. to 12:30p.m., library
parking lot Sept. 14. A shredding truck
will be on hand to securely dispose of
documents and records, up to two banker
boxes of papers free, additional boxes
$10 per box.
SHERIDAN: Weekly farmers markets downtown, 5 to 7p.m., Thursdays,
through September, rain or shine. Variety of vendors selling local produce,
baked goods, free range meats, farm
fresh eggs, artisan crafts, and honey.
The Two Track Band will provide musical entertainment. 4-H will be hosting
weekly activities for the kids.
SHERIDAN: Sheridan and its branch
libraries in Story and Tongue River plan
fall book discussion groups. Books are
now available for check out at the front
desk of each participating library. At
Sheridan Fulmer Library, noon: Sept. 27,
The Namesake; Oct. 25, Native Speaker;
Nov. 29, Children of Syria (Frontline
DVD video). At Story Branch Library,
6:30p.m.: Oct. 4, Two Old Women; Nov.
1, Refuge; Dec. 5, We Are All Completely
Beside Ourselves. And at Tongue River
Branch Library, 4:30p.m.: Sept. 13, Refuge; Oct. 11, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves; Nov. 8, The Light Between Oceans.
LARAMIE: Peter Wittig, ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United States, will discuss
A World in Turmoil The Importance
of the Trans-Atlantic Partnership in the
Context of Global Crises, at 9:30a.m.,
Sept. 15, in the Wyoming Union Family
Room. Free.
LARAMIE: UW President Laurie
Nichols will provide updates on key issues and initiatives at 3p.m., Sept. 15,
during the UW Fall Convocation in the
Wyoming Union Ballroom.
LARAMIE: UWs Wyoming Center
on Aging hosts a Walk to End Alzheimers from 5:30 to 6:30p.m., Sept.
16, at the Farmers Market in downtown
Laramie. Free.
LARAMIE: An opening and reception for fiber artist Doris Florigs exhibit, The Fiber of Life, will take place
at 5:30p.m., on Friday, Sept. 16, in the
Berry Center. Free.
LARAMIE: The 16th Annual Wyoming Buddy Walk, 9a.m., Saturday, September 17, Washington Park band shell.
The purpose of the Wyoming Buddy
Walk is to celebrate the lives of people
with Down syndrome and raise awareness about Down syndrome in Wyoming.
Through the generosity of UW Athletics, anyone who registers for the Wyoming Buddy Walk may purchase a football ticket for the discounted price of
$12.50 a ticket, one ticket for each registered walker. Pre-registration by Sept.
2 is strongly recommended. Pre-registration $15 for adults (18 and up) and
$5 for youth (17 and under). Registration after September 2 is $20 for adults
(18 and up) and $10 for youth (17 and
under). Register online at www.wydsa.
org. Registration is also available on the
day of the walk. For more information,
please contact Bob Sell by phone, 307742-6641; by email, bob@arkrs.org; or
visit www.wydsa.org.
LARAMIE: A traditional Chinese
festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, will
take place from 2:30 to 9:30p.m., Sept.

17, in the Wyoming Union Ballroom and

Prexys Pasture.
GILLETTE: Taste of Home Cooking
School, Sept. 20, Cam-Plex. Trade Show
opens at 4p.m., in Energy Hall; Cooking School starts at 7p.m., in the Heritage Center Theater. Tickets: $15 each.
Cam-Plex Ticket Office, 307-682-8802;
www.cam-plex.com
CHEYENNE: Connect to Women
Mentoring Conference, Sept. 29-30, The
Plains Hotel, $200 registration. Investor opportunities available. Speakers
include Chief Judge Nancy Freudenthal
and UW president Dr. Laurie Nichols.
Proceeds will establish a fun at the Wyoming Womens Foundation to support
womens mentoring programs. Sponsored by Connect to Wyoming, a woman-owned business committed to connecting people with purpose. Register
at www.connect2wyoming.com or call
307-316-C2WY.
SHERIDAN: Farm to Plate Gala Dinner, sponsored by Sheridan Local Foods,
6p.m., Oct. 7, Barn in Big Horn. A fourcourse seasonally inspired dinner prepared by chef Antonia Armenta Miller
paired with wines from Jackson hole
Winery. Tickets: www.eventbrite.com
keywords SLF Farm to Plate Proceeds
benefit Sheridan Local Foods continued
commitment to support, promote and
educate community on importande of
buying and eating local.

WYOMING ART
LARAMIE: Between Trust and

Fear, a panel discussion about religion, will take place 7p.m., Sept. 14, in
the Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts recital hall. The discussion is in
conjunction with The Bridge, an international, interfaith art exhibition. Free.
LARAMIE: Dedication, Penumbra, by Laramie artist Stan Dolega, 5
to 5:30p.m., Sept. 15, northwest intersection of South Third Street and Interstate 80. The 200-foot long piece screens
an industrial property to the west, is located on private property and was primarily funded by private gifts.
LARAMIE: A reception for Visual
Extraction, an art exhibition by UW student Robert Bryans, is 5 to 7p.m., Sept.
15, in Gallery 234, located in the lower
level of the Wyoming Union. Free.
LARAMIE: Blue Like Me, a film
about Jewish artist Siona Benjamins
life in India, will be shown at 7:30p.m.,
on Sept. 17, and 2p.m., on Sept. 18, and
Benjamin will discuss her art in the College of Agriculture Building auditorium.
The program is in conjunction with The
Bridge, an international, interfaith art
exhibition. Free.
GILLETTE: Meet artist John Werbelow, 5 to 7p.m., Sept. 30, Cam-Plex Heritage Center. The event, Rare Trout and
Other Natural Oddities, will include an
artist talk and demonstration.

WYOMING THEATER
LARAMIE: Buddha and the Breath:

An artistic experience inspired by human anatomical exploration will include music, poetry readings, prose writing, dance and visual art at 7:30p.m.,
Sept. 15, in the Performing Arts Center
recital hall. The program is part of the
UW Department of Musics Faculty Recital Series. Free.
LARAMIE: Comedian Paula Poundstone will perform in the Performing
Arts Center concert hall at 7:30p.m.,
on Sept. 16. Tickets $35 for the public;
$30 for senior citizens, UW faculty and
staff; and $15 for UW students. For tickets and information, call (307) 766-6666,
go online at www.uwyo.edu/finearts, or
visit the Performing Arts box office or
the Wyoming Union information desk.
CHEYENNE: Auditions for Missoula
Childrens Theatre production of Aladdin, 1 to 3p.m., Sept. 19, St. Marys
Catholic School. Performance is Sept.
24. Those auditioning should arrive at
12:45p.m., and plan to stay for the full
two hours. Students ages kindergarten through 8th grade are encouraged
to audition. No advance preparation
is necessary. Info: Katherine Fender,
307-275-4975.
(Submit events to calendar@trib.com)

Sheridan hosts local food expo

STAR-TRIBUNE STAFF

he Sheridan Local Food

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Expo is a free annual event that
consists of workshops/panels,
networking and activities that
provide the attendees with the
hands-on education and experience necessary to support local food production, personal
health and economic development.
This year the event will take
place Oct. 5-8, kicking off with
a premier screening of the PBS/
Farm to Fork Episode of, Compost, at 5:30p.m. Oct. 5 at
Sheridan Public Library.
The gala dinner is at 6p.m.
Oct. 7, at the Barn in Big Horn,
228 Johnson Street. The event
is a fundraiser to help keep the
expo free and open to the pub-

lic, as it has been for the last five

years. Tickets for the dinner are
available at www.eventbrite.
com, keywords: SLF Farm to
Plate. A four-course seasonally
inspired dinner will be prepared
by Chef Antonia Armenta Miller
and paired with wines from
Jackson Hole Winery.
A portion of the proceeds will
also go to local youth programs
that promote our commitment
to support, promote and educate our community on the importance of buying and eating
locally.
The weekend will round out
on Oct. 8 with the fall festival farmers market, locally
sourced lunch service and an
Eating, Growing and Selling
panel.

Barbecue benefits UW ag students

STAR-TRIBUNE STAFF

he annual barbecue to raise

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money for student organizations
in the College of Agriculture and
Natural Resources is Sept. 17
during Ag Appreciation Weekend
at the University of Wyoming.
Serving is from 11a.m. to
1:30p.m. in the southwest corner of the Indoor Practice Facility prior to the University of Wy-

oming-UC Davis football game

which kicks off at 2p.m. Barbecue beef, pork and lamb will be
served. More than 565 people
were served last year, helping
raise more than $11,000 for the
organizations.
Students representing each
organization volunteer to help
prepare for and serve at the barbecue.

Casper Star-Tribune

Parks, recreation professionals

set Hall of Fame induction
STAR-TRIBUNE STAFF

he Wyoming Recreation and

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Parks Association, WRPA, will induct Don Reynolds and Bob Churchich into the WRPA Hall of Fame
on Sept. 21 during a ceremony in
Cheyennes historic Plains Hotel
Ballroom. The WRPA Hall of Fame
was established to honor individuals who have made outstanding
contributions to parks and recreation in Wyoming.
Inductee Reynolds spent his
professional career working for
the Lander Parks and Recreation
Department. He served as the assistant director from 1977-1985
and worked as the director of
the department for the 25 years
that followed. During that time,
Reynolds established Landers
Urban Forest Council and qualified Lander as a Tree City USA
in 1990. Working in partnership
with the Tree Board, Reynolds
co-authored the book, Trees
and Shrubs of Lander, and has
won awards from Tree City USA
in 1991 for planting and management and again in 1993 for

education and public relations.

Additionally, Reynolds enhanced
and upgraded the city of Landers
parks and recreational programs
including baseball and softball
fields, picnic shelters, playgrounds, restrooms, soccer fields,
two ice rinks, the Sinks Canyon
Center, various pathway projects,
developed more than 100 acres
of turf, cared for over 600 trees,
wrote numerous of grants and
worked extensively with thousands of volunteers, numerous
service clubs, the local School
District and many governmental
agencies.
Inductee Churchich has been
actively involved in WRPA as an
individual, business or exhibitor
member for 41 years. As owner
and sales representative of Churchich Recreation (representing
Miracle Recreation Equipment),
Churchich has continually supported WRPA sharing his expertise as an exhibitor and has contributed to the success of WRPA as
a sponsor for annual conferences,
workshops and many WRPA ed-

ucational and social events. Until

his retirement in 2015, Churchich
represented Miracle Recreation
Equipment Company for Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico and
West Texas (1974 to 2015). Additionally, Churchich co-founded
and funded, along with Ely Churchich, the Joseph A. Churchich
Scholarship at the University of
Nebraska. The scholarship is for
students majoring in recreation,
parks, horticulture or conservation with the intent to pursue a
career in the recreation or park
fields.
While earning his business administration degree at the University of Nebraska, Churchich was
the quarterback for the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers and
played in the Cotton, Orange and
Sugar bowl games during his tenure. He has since been inducted
into the University of Nebraska
Football Hall of Fame.
Information about the Wyoming Recreation and Parks Association is available at www.wyorpa.com.

VACCLAV SHUTTERSTOCK

Money is available for bear research. RFPs are due in October.

Money available for bear projects

STAR-TRIBUNE STAFF

ARAMIE The Wyoming

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Wildlife Foundation has announced their 2016 Memorial
Bear Fund request for proposals.
Grant requests of up to $5,500 will
be considered to support research,
habitat protection, education and
other similar projects for all species of bears.
The Memorial Bear Fund is administered by the Wyoming Wildlife Foundation. Contributions to
the fund are used to finance projects for all species of bears, with

an ultimate goal of establishing

a permanent fund to support
bear-related projects annually.
Agencies and organizations
interested in submitting a proposal must apply by Oct. 3.
Please make certain to read all
the instructions and follow
directions. To access the application, please visit http://
wyomingwildlifefoundation.
org, then Memorial Bear Fund
for application information.
The Memorial Bear Fund was
set up in 1992 to honor the mem-

ory of biologists Kirk Inberg,

Kevin Roy and pilot Ray Austin.
All three were tragically killed
while conducting a grizzly bear
telemetry flight in northwest
Wyoming in 1991. Pilot Fred Reed
was also killed in a plane crash in
northwest Wyoming in 1995 while
conducting bear research.
The Wyoming Wildlife Foundation is a priority fund of the Wyoming Community Foundation. For
more information, please contact
Crystal Mayfield at 307-432-9453
or crystal@wycf.org.

TOWN CRIER: FAMILY STUFF

Sunday breakfast
at the Elks
Breakfast starts on Sunday,
Sept. 11, at the Casper Elks Lodge.
Open to the public from 8 to
11a.m. Serving pancakes, biscuits
and gravy, bacon, sausage links,
potatoes, scrambled eggs, French
toast and omelets to order. New to
the menu is build your own breakfast burrito. Also served is toast,
juice, tea and coffee. All you can
eat for $7, children 5 to 12 are $3,
4 and under are free. Come down
for the best breakfast in town and
see the old crew again. For more
information, call 234-4839.

September at Holy Family

Church of the Holy Family Anglican Rite, 4100 SE Wyoming

Blvd., announces its September
schedule.
Sept. 18: Christian Education
boys & girls; Holy Baptism &
Holy Confirmation, Bishop Leo
Michael and Holly will be with us,
carry-in brunch follows.
Sept. 25: Christian Education
boys & girls; After Mass, special
guest Carla Mead will speak of
ministering to the homeless.
All interested people are welcome at all of these offerings.
Bishop Ken Kinner 262-7505;
Father Jim Dean 262-6875; Sr.
Warden John Becker 262-8813;
Jr. Warden Dan Galles 258-9655.

The Science Zone

Fall Programs
The Science Zone fall programming starts the week of Sept. 12.
Classes and events include Wee
Science for ages 3-5, Homeschool
Science, Dean Morgan Design
Team, SciGirls, Night at the Museum, Lego Club, Tinkering Tues-

Participants will discuss Middle School: The Worst Years of

My Life by James Patterson. The
group is open to teens in grades
7-8. Participants receive a free
drink, courtesy of the Friends of
the Library. To participate, pick
up a copy of Middle School: The
Worst Years of My Life in the Natrona County Librarys Teen Zone.
Tween Cooking Club
The Natrona County Librarys Call 577-READ ext. 101 for more
Tween Cooking Club will meet on information.
Monday, September 12, at 4p.m.
Students in grades 4-6 will make Late-summer trail
granola bar bites which contain pea- treks planned
nuts. All supplies provided. Call 577READ ext. 5 for more information.
The National Historic Trails
Interpretive Center will feature a
Never Too Old Book Club variety of late-summer pioneer
A book discussion of young Trail Treks, free and open to the
adult novel Doll Bones by public.
Trail Treks pass numerous artiHolly Black will be held on Tuesday, September 13, at 6:30p.m. facts and significant locations on
at Metro Coffee Co. The Never the Overland Trails. Attractions inToo Old Book Club, sponsored clude: emigrant rock-inscriptions,
by the Natrona County Library, Pony Express station sites, pioneer
discusses young adult literature graves and natural landmarks.
with adult appeal. The group is
Unless otherwise noted, all Trail
open to both teens and adults, Treks depart at 8a.m. from the
with parent-teen pairs espe- NHTIC parking lot. Approximate
cially encouraged. Pick up your return times are mid to late afterfree copy of Doll Bones at the noon. Personal transportation is
Librarys second floor Reference required. Carpooling is encourDesk. Call 577-READ ext. 101 for aged.
more information.
Participants should dress for
inclement weather and wear
Once Upon a LEGO
shoes suitable for uneven terrain.
The Natrona County Library Additional recommended items
will host a fairy-tale themed include: sunscreen, sack lunches
LEGO event for elementary-age and water or other hydrating bevstudents on Wednesday, Sep- erages.
Sept. 17: The Mormon Handtember 14, at 4p.m. Build castles, dragons, knights and more. cart Visitor Center and Martins
All supplies provided. Call 577- Cove/Devils Gate area
Sept. 24: Alder Clump near
READ ext. 5 for more information.
Glendo Reservoir to Fort Laramie
area
Afternoon Book Club
An afternoon book discussion
To register or for more informawill be held Thursday, September tion, please contact Jason Vlcan at
15, at 4p.m. at Metro Coffee Co. the NHTIC, (307) 261-7783.
day and many more! Times and
costs vary, but there is something
for everyone at the Science Zone.
Stop by 111 W. Midwest Ave. in
Casper, call 473-ZONE or check online at thesciencezone.org for more
information on classes and events
scheduled throughout the fall.

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FAITH IN BRIEF

Evening in the Word starts Tuesday

Evening in the Word nondenominational womens Bible
study will begin at 6:30p.m. Tuesday at Highland Park
Church in room 1321. The group is studying Redeemed
by Angela-Thomas Pharr. Books are $15. Call Gwen at 307262-0719 for more information. Check us out on Facebook!

Ladies Bible study Sept. 19

David: Seeking a Heart Like His, by Beth Moore, will
be held at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, 2300 E. 15th
St., in two parts Sept. 19 through Oct. 24 and continuing
Jan. 9 to Feb. 6.
If you are interested or have questions, contact the church
office at 307-234-6475 or pop@casperpoplc.org. We encourage any interested woman to come. You dont have to
be a seasoned Bible student to enjoy these studies. Cost of
the workbook is $17. Afternoon class is offered from 3:15 to
5:15p.m., and same-day evening classes are 6:30 to 8:30p.m.

Beginning Experience in November

There has been a date change for the next Beginning
Experience of Wyoming weekend. The new dates are
Nov. 4 to 6. Beginning Experience of Wyoming is a weekend program that offers healing and renewal to divorced,
widowed and separated men and women. It is a nonprofit,
faith-based comprehensive program offered to all persons,
regardless of religious preference. A Beginning Experience
weekend offers support and direction to help resolve grief
or anger that can follow the end of a marriage by divorce,
separation or death. The weekend can be a time for a real
awakening, a re-evaluation and a new beginning. Beginning Experience is a positive experience of hope. You can
anticipate an intense reflective, possibly painful, but spiritually honest self-encounter. You will also find support,
warm fellowship and community.
The next Beginning Experience weekend will be in
Casper and starts at 7p.m. Nov. 4 and runs through around
4p.m. Nov. 6. The donation we ask for the weekend is $150,
which includes sleeping arrangements, meals and materials. Scholarships are available. No one is turned away
due to finances. Registration deadline is Oct. 18. Contact
these Casper team members for more information: Curtis, at 307-240-1232 or email westcurtis2014@gmail.com;
Diane, at 262-4142; or Paulette, at 267-6375.

Fall back together at Good Shepherd

Good Shepherd Lutheran invites the community to its
annual Fall Back Together service at 9:30a.m. Sept.
18. We will highlight our upcoming plans for education,
worship and service at Good Shepherd. The service will
be followed by a fun fellowship hour. Good Shepherd is
at 51 Primrose Street in Paradise Valley, behind Shepherd
of the Valley Care Center. For more information, call the
Good Shepherd office at 237-3503.

UU hosts annual Water Communion

The public is invited to attend the Unitarian Universalist
Community of Casper services and other events at 1040
W. 15th St., just north of the west-side Albertsons parking
lot. Services are held at 10a.m. Sundays. Whoever you are,
wherever you are on lifes journey, you are welcome here!
Sept. 11 will be the annual Water Communion, led by
Annette Grochowski and featuring an encore performance
by guest musicians Cory McDaniel and Amy Gieske. On
Sept. 18, Athne Machdane will present Mabon: A celebration of the Autumnal Equinox and the season of harvest
in the Celtic Earth-Centered tradition, and on Sept. 25,
Janet de Vries and Leanne Woodfill will present Gay History-Where Were You When?
The weekly coffee talk is held at 10a.m. Tuesdays, and the
weekly meditation group will be meeting at 4p.m. Sundays.
The next Care N Share potluck will be held at 6p.m.
Sept. 21, featuring a roundtable discussion on the monthly
worship theme of inherent worth and dignity. Participants
are asked to bring a dish to share and monetary donations
to buy bus tokens for residents of the Central Wyoming
Rescue Mission.
For more information about these events or about Unitarian Universalism, visit uucasper.org, email news@uucasper.org, visit us on Facebook or call Laura at 259-4469.

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UU events

The public is invited to attend the

Unitarian Universalist Community of
Casper services and other events at
1040 West 15th Street, just north of
the west-side Albertsons parking lot.
Services are held Sundays at 10a.m.
Whoever you are, wherever you are on
lifes journey, you are welcome here!
September 11 will be the annual
Water Communion, led by Annette
Grochowski and featuring an encore
performance by guest musicians
Cory McDaniel and Amy Gieske. On
September 18, Athne Machdane will
present Mabon: A celebration of the
Autumnal Equinox and the season of
harvest in the Celtic Earth-Centered
tradition, and on September 25, Janet
de Vries and Leanne Woodfill will
present Gay History-Where Were
You When?
The weekly coffee talk is held Tuesdays at 10a.m., and starting September 4, the weekly meditation group
will be meeting Sundays at 4p.m.
The next Care N Share potluck
will be held Wednesday, September
21, at 6p.m., featuring a round-table
discussion on the monthly worship
theme of inherent worth and dignity. Participants are asked to bring a
dish to share and monetary donations
to buy bus tokens for residents of the
Central Wyoming Rescue Mission.
For more information about these
events or about Unitarian Universalism, visit uucasper.org, email news@
uucasper.org, visit us on Facebook, or
call Laura at 259-4469.

Art Lab at Nic

The Nicolaysen Art Museum will

host Art Lab for seventh- through
through 12th-graders from 4:30 to
6p.m. on Thursdays from Sept. 12 to
May 18. The class is free but class size
is limited and students must register in advance. Classes will focus on
different media and a variety of techniques guided by professional artists.
All skill levels welcome. For workshop
and classes description and registration forms, visit www.thenic.org or
call 235-5247.

Birthday pARTy at the Nic

Have an art-filled birthday party

at the Nic! Visit our website to
choose from a variety of age-appropriate art projects. To reserve a
party date or for more information,
please call 235-5247 or email zgallegos@thenic.org

Summer market
every Tuesday

Saturday markets weekly

sample with $7 to Lynda Johnson, P.O.

Box 215, Encampment, WY 82325.
Pick up entry forms at Agriculture
Extension Office, 2011 Fairgrounds
Road, 235-9400; Prism Quilt & Machine, 114 E. Second St., 234-4841;
or Dancing Sheep Yarn & Fiber, 122
E. Second St., 265-6173.
A Natrona County contest for constructed, knitted or crochet garments
only will be held at 6p.m. Oct. 26 at
the Wyoming Woolgrowers Association, 811 N. Glenn Road, 265-5250.
For more information, please contact district director Debby Matlack
Street Fair Sale-A-Bration
The Street Fair Sale-A-Bration, put at 307-262-6471.
on by the Highland Park Mothers of
Preschoolers, comes to Caspers Home School Art at Nic
downtown district Saturday, Sept.
Home school art class will be of17, from 10a.m. to 3p.m. This third fered at the Nicolaysen Art Muannual event is free to the public and seum on Wednesdays from Sept.
features local artists boasting high 14 to Oct. 19 and Nov. 9 to Dec. 14.
quality, handmade, original works Grades K through 2 will attend from
including glass, jewelry, leather, 1 to 2p.m., and grades 3 to 8 from 2
photography, printmaking, painting, to 3p.m. Build skills and learn about
sculpture, wood and ceramics. It has different art media in a fun and enbecome one of the most anticipated gaging environment. The class will
art fairs, wrapping up the summer focus on art styles, concepts behind
festival season in Casper!
the art and personal interpretation,
In addition to the exceptional art- while enhancing students individual
ists at the center of the event, the techniques through exploration of the
Sale-A-Bration is excited to offer elements of art and principles of defood vendors, music and a kid zone sign. Fees are $40 for members and
that will boast bounce houses, a pet- $50 for non-members per student,
ting zoo, face painting, yummy treats for each six-class session. For more
and cool experiments.
information, visit www.thenic.org or
The MOPS group will be meeting call 235-5247.
at Highland Park Church every first
and third Thursday starting on Sept. Megadeth in Casper
15, 2016 from 9:1511:15a.m. For
Global metal pioneers Megadeth
more information visit MOPSatHP premiered their video for the new
CCofCasperInfopage on Facebook, single Post American World, along
or email hpccmopsofcasper@gmail. with complete details for the fall dates
com.
for the North American leg of their
Dystopia World Tour. The Casper
Events Center is proud to present
Family LEGO Club
The Natrona County Librarys this tour, which kicks off in Casper on
Family LEGO Club will meet on Sat- Sept. 20 and will take the band across
urday, September 17, at 1p.m. Fam- the U.S., visiting 16 states, with speily LEGO Club is a great way to have cial guests to include Amon Amarth,
fun, relax, and spend time together, Metal Church and Havok.
Tickets are available at the Casper
making this the perfect family activity. The Library will supply a large Events Center Box Office, online
amount of LEGOs and ideas of what at CasperEventsCenter.com or by
can be created. Family LEGO Club phone at 800-442-2256. Tickets to
is held the third Saturday of every the Casper Events Center date of the
month. No registration required, tour will be available for just $40 for
open to all ages, new members al- reserved seating in the stands and
ways welcome. Call 577-READ ext. 2 $50.
or email reference@natronacountylibrary.org for more information.
Explorer Jenkins
Natrona County Master Gardeners
will be hosting the Saturday Farmers
Markets at the ARLC on Fairgrounds
Road each Saturday in August and
September, as long as the weather
holds out. Markets open at 7:30a.m.
and run until noon or when the vendors sell out. Members of the community will have the opportunity of
enjoying familiar and new vendors, all
offering top quality fresh produce and
garden-related products.

Fall back together

at Good Shepherd
Good Shepherd Lutheran invites
the community to its annual Fall
Back Together service on Sunday,
September 18, at 9:30a.m. We will
highlight our upcoming plans for
education, worship and service at
Good Shepherd. The service will be
followed by a fun fellowship hour.
Good Shepherd is located at 51 Primrose Street in Paradise Valley, behind
Shepherd of the Valley Care Center.
For more information, call the Good
Shepherd office at 237-3503.

From 5-7:30p.m., every Tuesday

night (through Sept. 27), enjoy the
Food for Thought summer market
on the grounds of the Nic, 400 E.
Collins Dr.
Both SNAP and Double Up Food
Bucks programs are offered at our
Food for Thought markets, and we
will also be starting a new POP (Power
of Produce) Club for kids.
Canned good donations will be accepted at the Food for Thought booth Wyoming Make it with
to help sustain the weekend food bag Wool contest
program for food insecure children
throughout our community.
The Wyoming Make it with Wool
For more information, visit our contest will be held Dec. 4-5. Get your
website at www.wyfftp.org.
wool tested now. Send a 4- by 5-inch

speaks in Casper
National Geographic writer and
University of Wyoming writer in
residence Mark Jenkins will speak
in Casper at 7p.m., on Wednesday,
Sept. 28, on Burmas Resurrection:
An Expedition Deep into a Fordbidden Land. The talk is at the Wheeler
Concert Hall, Music Building, Casper
College, and is free. Last year, Jenkins
attempted to climb the highest peak
in Burma at 19,300 feet. The trek was
featured in the September 2015 issue
of National Geographic as Point of
No Return, and in the Renan Ozturk
documentary, Down to Nothing.
Jenkins appearance is part of the
UW World to Wyoming Lecture Series and is made possible by the Ruth
R. Ellbogen Foundation. For more
information, contact Dr. Jean Garrison at garrison@wyo.edu or 307766-6119.

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| SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

Be confident that who you are is enough

HOROSCOPES

n this sad anniversary, a square of

Venus and Pluto
presents the positive side
of insecurity and lack.
Perceived deficiency can
be a gift. Feelings of inadequacy lead to harder
practice, more research,
higher energy, greater
effort and clearer thought
processes. The most dazzling results can grow
from the seeds of inadequacy.
TODAYS BIRTHDAY
(Sept. 11). Youll build on
the work of the last three
months to
create what
no one was
expecting, least
of all you.
Delighting people
HOLIDAY
becomes
MATHIS
somewhat
of a hobby
for you. November brings
a victory. Highlights of
2017 will include teaching the inexperienced,
protecting the innocent
and adventuring with the
worldly. Capricorn and
Sagittarius adore you.
Your lucky numbers are:
4, 42, 3, 28 and 33.
ARIES (March
21-April 19). Learning to
manage those who accept
and embrace you can be
even more tricky than
managing the ones who
turn you down. Therefore, if someone is saying
no to you, consider it
a blessing and a timesaver.
TAURUS (April
20-May 20). The high
road will be lonely and
dull. The low road leads
straight to Hades. Cut
down the middle. State
your truth. Speak your
feelings and intentions
honestly.
GEMINI (May 21June 21). As for that
person who rubs you
the wrong way well,
this may never change.
Directly following your
encounter youll need to
recalibrate yourself back
to the goodwilled, empathetic person you usually
are.
CANCER (June 22July 22). The trick is to
apply emotion where it
should be applied and
leave it out of everything else. This will be
harder than you thought
it would be today, but if
you stay mindful youll
achieve clean emotional
boundaries.

LEO (July 23-Aug.

22). Its a treat to be
around you now. You
make people feel good,
as you listen and respond
warmly because youre
genuinely interested. You
never know when youre
the best human connection in somebodys day.
VIRGO (Aug. 23Sept. 22). Let nothing
diminish your confidence. Youre giving your
best and can be proud of
that, regardless of the
result. On a side note, its
time to lose that possession of yours thats turning out to be something of
a money pit.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct.
23). Your day will be enhanced by the break you
get when things dont
go as planned. Its up to
you to see the opportunity in this. Stay aware,
and dont be afraid to ask
more questions. Its the
follow-up questions that
open doors.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24Nov. 21). You think you
know how you really feel,
but you dont until you
write about it. Your way
will be made smoother
through the increased
self-knowledge, but its
not just that. Certain
things will change as if by
magic.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov.
22-Dec. 21). The outer
signs point to life on
the up and up. Inwardly
theres some turmoil.
Its weird how success
can sometimes upset you
more than not getting
what you want does.
CAPRICORN (Dec.
22-Jan. 19). You feel like
youre a different person
from who you were last
year, so its a little surprising when history repeats.
It also serves as a beautiful
reminder that history is
always in the making.
AQUARIUS (Jan.
20-Feb. 18). You usually
dont care what people
think of you, but this time
your loved ones are also
being assessed in your
reflected light. The steps
you take to make sure that
light is fabulously flattering will be effective.
PISCES (Feb.
19-March 20). As for the
obstacle that lands in your
road today, dont go overthinking this the solution is not clever. Likely,
the best way is just to put
on your metaphorical
climbing shoes and get
yourself over it.

TODAY IN HISTORY
ASSOCIATED PRESS

Today is Sunday, Sept. 11,

the 255th day of 2016. There
are 111 days left in the year.
On Sept. 11, 2001, nearly
3,000 people were killed
on an unprecedented day
of terror as 19 members of
al-Qaida hijacked four passenger jetliners, sending
two of the planes smashing into New Yorks World
Trade Center, one into the
Pentagon and the fourth
into a field in western Pennsylvania.

On this date:
In 1714, the forces of King
Philip V of Spain overcame Catalan
defenders to end the 13-month-long
Siege of Barcelona during the War
of the Spanish Succession.
In 1789, Alexander Hamilton
was appointed the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.
In 1814, an American fleet
scored a decisive victory over the
British in the Battle of Lake Champlain in the War of 1812.
In 1857, the Mountain Meadows Massacre took place in
present-day southern Utah as a
120-member Arkansas immigrant
party was slaughtered by Mormon
militiamen aided by Paiute Indians.
In 1936, Boulder Dam (now
Hoover Dam) began operation as
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
pressed a key in Washington to
signal the startup of the dams first
hydroelectric generator.
In 1941, groundbreaking took
place for the Pentagon. In a speech
that drew accusations of anti-Semitism, Charles A. Lindbergh told an
America First rally in Des Moines,
Iowa, that the British, the Jewish
and the Roosevelt administration
were pushing the United States toward war.
In 1954, the Miss America pageant made its network TV debut
on ABC; Miss California, Lee Meriwether, was crowned the winner.
In 1962, The Beatles completed their first single for EMI,
Love Me Do and P.S. I Love You,
at EMI studios in London.

CASPER STAR-TRIBUNE

In 1974, Eastern Airlines Flight

212, a DC-9, crashed while attempting to land in Charlotte, North Carolina, killing 72 of the 82 people on
board. The family drama Little
House on the Prairie premiered
on NBC-TV.
In 1984, country star Barbara
Mandrell was seriously injured in an
automobile accident near Nashville
that claimed the life of the other
driver, Mark White.
In 1985, Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds cracked career hit
number 4,192 off Eric Show (rhymes
with how) of the San Diego Padres, eclipsing the record held by
Ty Cobb.
In 1997, Scots voted to create their own Parliament after 290
years of union with England.
Ten years ago: The nation
paused to remember the victims of
9/11 on the fifth anniversary of the
terrorist attacks. In a prime-time
address, President George W. Bush
invoked the memory of the victims
as he staunchly defended the war in
Iraq, though he acknowledged that
Saddam Hussein was not responsible for the 9/11 attacks.
Five years ago: The nation,
and the world, marked the 10th
anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist
attacks. In New York, a tree-covered memorial plaza at ground
zero opened to the families of the
victims for the first time. President Barack Obama, after visiting
the sites where terrorists struck,
declared: It will be said of us that
we kept that faith; that we took a
painful blow, and emerged stronger. Australian Sam Stosur beat
Serena Williams, pulling off a 6-2,
6-3 upset in the U.S. Open for her
first Grand Slam title.
One year ago: A crane collapsed onto the Grand Mosque in
Mecca, killing 111 people ahead of
the annual hajj pilgrimage. Former
Texas Gov. Rick Perry ended his second bid for the Republican presidential nomination, becoming the
first major candidate of the 2016
campaign to give up on the White
House. Roberta Vinci stunned Serena Williams to end her Grand Slam
bid in one of the greatest upsets
in tennis history; the 43rd-ranked
Italian won 2-6, 6-4, 6-4 in the U.S.
Open semifinals.

ear Annie: I am a
21-year-old guy in
college. I am on my
schools cross-country
and track teams, and in
my spare time, I am the
bass guitarist and one
of the vocalists for a
band.
Heres
the issue:
Despite
ANNIE
what apLANE
pear to
be ideal
opportunities to meet
women, none seems to
be interested in me. Im
friends with several of
them, but thats as good
as it gets.
I guess its because
of my looks. I have a
crooked nose; my ears
stick out (I mean WAY
out); I have a gap in my
front teeth (like David
Letterman); and I have
freckles under my eyes.
Think Alfred E. Neuman
from Mad magazine but
with brown hair instead
of bright red.
Im also very skinny,
which I need to be to run
miles in short periods of
time. I know that some

girls like guys with muscles, so that rules me out.

When the band gets
done playing for the
night, its as if the room
tilts away from me, as
all the girls are talking to
my better-looking band
mates.
The only girls who
come talk to me are either relatives or those
who ask me to introduce
them to one of the other
band members. (This
happens frequently.)
I dont mean to make
this some sort of misogynistic rant. I know that
women cant control
whom they are attracted
to any more than my
male friends and I can
control whom we are attracted to.
Ive thought about
asking both male and
female friends what my
problem may be or what
I could do to improve
the situation, but I cant
because Im too embarrassed.
Im an athlete AND
a musician. I shouldnt
have any problem at all,
right? Please help.
Stuck Alone
Dear Stuck: Trust me,

not all girls prefer human

Ken dolls. The imperfect attributes you mentioned can add to your
charm. You just have to
learn how to make them
work for you. You can
do that using the single
most attractive trait:
confidence.
So be confident that
exactly who you are is
enough. Let your warmth
and intelligence shine
through.
Crack jokes; laughter
is an aphrodisiac. When
youre playing shows,
flash that gap-toothed
grin proudly and women
will think its the cutest
smile theyve ever seen.
It may be a fake it till
you make it-type process, but gradually youll
start to feel that room tilt
in your direction.
Dear Annie: Nowadays, many people are
talking faster than I can
listen. Instead of having
clearly enunciated words,
sentences all run together as one continuous
sound.
Im not the only one
who cant decipher the
noise. Using the TV
remote, Ive tested my

comprehension skills
against my wifes, grandkids, neighbors and
friends. Sometimes we
replay a clip a few times
and still cant agree on
what was said.
I gave up on listening to phone messages;
theyre so rapid they blur.
Even a clear message is
wasted when the return
number is rattled off
quickly at the end. Annie,
you can help the nation
if you use your column to
encourage clear speech.
Hearing Gibberish in
Georgia
Dear Gibberish: I
hear you loud and clear.
Were living in a world
thats so fast-paced it
can become disorienting,
and that carries over to
speech. Im printing your
letter as a reminder to us
all to take a breath and
slow down.
Send your questions for
Annie Lane to dearannie@
creators.com. To find out
more about Annie Lane and
read features by other Creators Syndicate columnists
and cartoonists, visit the
Creators Syndicate website
at www.creators.com.

AP

Director James Cameron speaks May 29, 2014, at a news conference announcing a new show by Cirque du Soleil based on
his movie Avatar in Montreal. Cameron, who plans four film sequels, served as a consultant on Toruk The First Flight, a
stadium show that opened in Montreal in November and has since toured North America.

James Cameron talks about Avatar

sequels at Cirque du Soleil show
MARK KENNEDY

Associated Press

NEW YORK The first

Avatar sequel is still
years away from hitting
movie theaters, but fans of
the blue-hued Navi can get
their fix at a touring Cirque
du Soleil show that James
Cameron helped create
without his having to reveal too much of whats up
his cinematic sleeve.
Cameron, who plans four
sequels starting in 2018,
served as a consultant on
Toruk The First Flight,
a stadium show that opened
in Montreal in November
and has since toured North
America.
The writer and director
suggested to the Cirque
team things that the Navi
might do or how they
might think about certain
things, but said he largely
let writer-directors Michel
Lemieux and Victor Pilon
create freely.
I was just a cheerleader
on the side with some
pom-poms, Cameron said
this week when the show
stopped in Brooklyn. Interestingly, left to their own
devices, the Cirque guys
creatively wound up resonating very, very closely
to the overall arc of the
four-sequel saga.
The Cirque shows upcoming stops include Newark, New Jersey; Milwaukee,
Wisconsin; Minneapolis;
Winnipeg, Canada; Fresno,
California; Ontario, Canada; Los Angeles; Phoenix;
San Diego, California; Sacramento, California; and
Portland, Oregon.

The original 2009 film

centered on the conflict
between humans and the
blue-skinned alien race
Navi of Pandora. Toruk
is named after the massive,
dragonlike creatures from
the film and tells the story of
two Navi warriors finding a
series of sacred objects.
The action takes place on
the planet before humans
make contact, thereby
sidestepping the problem
of how to depict the 10-foot
Navi. Now Cirque gymnasts, no matter how tall,
can shine. If you want to
see that explosive celebration of human movement,
theyre not going to be tall
people, said Cameron.
Cameron, always on the
cutting edge of tech, will
shoot his sequels partially
using a high 48 frame rate
format and said he appreciated the Cirque show
employing 40 digital projectors to show everything
from lava to water.
He said that after seeing
the stage show, he might
swipe some of the hairstyles and costumes for
his films. He also said the
Cirque team never asked
what was coming up in the
sequels, afraid of leaks.
The filmmaker has a
history with Cirque that
includes being an executive producer and camera
operator for the 2012 fantasy film Cirque du Soleil:
Worlds Away. He said he
admires the way the company promotes talent and
keeps creative lines open.
They empower and
celebrate creativity and

empower the artist. Its the

exact opposite of Hollywood, he said. Its like the
anti-Hollywood. If Hollywood were just more like
that, I think movies would
be a whole lot better.
Cameron said he hopes
the first film sequel can open
at Christmas 2018 and then
hell roll out each successive
movie every year after that.
But Cameron said he would
tweak the timetable to ensure each film is released
as closely as possible so
there are no lengthy delays.
Once youre on that ride,
you dont want to get off,

he said.
The original 3-D Avatar
film has netted over $2.7 billion and Cameron pointed
to its beauty and its overall
theme of protecting nature
as reasons for its success. He
noted that more than half of
all humans now live in cities
and that were paving over
all the green.
Were all struggling with
our own nature-deficit disorder, he said. The angels
of our better nature know
that what were doing is
wrong, and I think Avatar
is just a way to process that
in a way.

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SOUTH SUDAN

UN: Fighting directed at highest level

JUSTIN LYNCH

Associated Press

JUBA, South Sudan A confidential U.N. report says South

Sudans deadly fighting in July was
directed by the highest levels of
government, and that leaders are
intent on a military solution that
has escalated the conflict from a
primarily political to tribal war.
The U.N. panel of experts report
says President Salva Kiir and army
chief of staff Paul Malong directed
the fighting in the capital, Juba,
that killed hundreds, using MI24 helicopters that only they had
the authority to deploy. It cites
numerous reports from South
Sudanese senior military personnel and politicians.
The report also says Kiir and
Malong have focused on procuring new weapons and ammunition, including the apparent acquisition of two fighter jets. Two
truckloads of ammunition were
transferred from neighboring
Uganda in June. There is no sign of
significant arms procurement by
the opposition in recent months,
the report says.
South Sudans civilians are
bearing the brunt of the resulting harm as weapons continue to
be procured, the report says. By
the governments own account,

AP

United Nations peacekeepers from Rwanda wait to escort members of the U.N. Security Council as they arrive
Sept. 2 at the airport in the capital Juba, South Sudan.
the vast majority of government
revenue ... has funded security expenses and the war effort, including the procurement of weapons,
rather than social services.
The U.N. Security Council has
threatened to impose an arms

embargo if South Sudans government doesnt comply with a plan

to deploy an extra 4,000 peacekeepers to protect civilians.
The findings of the South Sudan panel of experts show the absurdity of waiting even one more

day to impose an arms embargo on

South Sudan, said Louis Charbonneau, U.N. director at Human
Rights Watch.
The report also says officials
have focused on mobilizing
their respective tribes, which has

worsened ethnic tensions. South

Sudans civil war began in December 2013 between supporters
of Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, and former Vice President Riek Machar,
an ethnic Nuer.
Tens of thousands of Nuer
have taken shelter in U.N. camps
in South Sudan under often dire
conditions as a peace deal signed
a year ago threatens to fall apart
amid continued fighting. During
the July violence, house-tohouse searches were conducted
in at least five neighborhoods in
Juba, targeting mainly Nuer men
and women, but also individuals
perceived as anti-government,
the report says.
The government and rebels
arming of communities based
on tribal affiliation continues to
fuel widespread violence, it says.
The report comes just days after
the Security Council visited South
Sudan to pressure the government
to allow in the 4,000 additional
peacekeepers. A joint statement
by the council and the government said South Sudan accepted
their deployment, but just after
the diplomats left, government
officials announced conditions
including prior approval of troop
contributors and what weapons
they carry.

Cambodian opposition leader gets five months in jail

SOPHENG CHEANG

Associated Press

PHNOM PENH, Cam

bodia A Cambodian opposition leader was sentenced to five months in jail
Friday in the latest faceoff
between the government
and opposition as political
tensions over challenges to
Prime Minister Hun Sens
longstanding autocratic
rule show no signs of easing.
Sam Sokong, a defense
lawyer for Kem Sokha, deputy leader of the Cambodia
National Rescue Party, said
they will appeal the verdict,
which followed a trial that
lasted only several hours.
The trial conducted today did not comply with
procedures, he said.
Kem Sokha, who was not
in court, was convicted of
twice ignoring a summons
to answer questions related
to a case involving his al-

leged mistress. He refused,

saying the legal moves were
part of the ruling partys attempt to cripple the opposition.
Riot police were outside
the court, and nearly 1,000
opposition
supporters
gathered in front of their
party headquarters, with
riot police watching them
from about 500 yards away.
There were no reports of violence.
Opposition lawmaker Ou
Chanrith said the party was
not surprised by the verdict,
and urged supporters to
continue challenging government suppression.
The case is one of several
hanging over opposition
leaders in what is generally
seen as an attempt to disrupt their organizing efforts
ahead of local elections next
June. The next general election is not until the middle
of 2018, but holding power

ALL AGES WELCOME

OF THE

In the

fairness of the proceedings.

We urge the authorities to
adhere strictly to international fair trial standards
during the criminal proceedings, it said.
One victim of the legal
moves has been opposition
leader Sam Rainsy, who
did not return from a trip
abroad last November when
an old conviction for defamation was restored and his
parliamentary immunity
was stripped by the governments legislative majority.
It had been generally assumed that the conviction,

carrying a two-year prison

sentence, had been lifted
by a 2013 pardon which allowed Sam Rainsy to return
from a previous period of
self-exile. He also faces a
stack of separate charges
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year, and the murder in July
of a prominent social critic,
Kem Ley, allegedly by a man
to whom he owed money, is
widely regarded with suspicion.
The opposition has called
on its followers to turn out
to protest. It has strong
support in the capital, and
street demonstrations have
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Arkansas ballot a new test for medical marijuana

ANDREW DEMILLO

Associated Press

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. Republicans control all of Arkansas statewide offices, hold a majority in
both chambers of the Legislature
and are nearly assured of winning
the states six electoral votes in the
presidential election.
But this deeply red state could be
on the verge of an unusually liberal
move: legalizing marijuana for people who suffer from a host of medical ailments. The fall ballot will feature two marijuana measures, and
pro-pot advocates view them as an
important opportunity to show that
there is broad support for legalization even in conservative parts of
the country, particularly the South.
The referendums also offer a
chance at a symbolically powerful
victory in a state with a Republican
governor who once led the federal
Drug Enforcement Administration.
If a red conservative state like
Arkansas in the Bible Belt can pass
medical cannabis, then anybody
can, said Melissa Fults, who leads
the campaign for one of the medical
marijuana proposals going before
voters. People are depending on
us. We cant let them down.
Arkansas voters narrowly rejected a medical marijuana proposal four years ago, despite national groups spending big in favor
of legalization. Meanwhile, national
support for medical marijuana has
grown, and half of the states and the
District of Columbia have legalized
the drug in some fashion.
But pot remains mostly illegal
across the South.
The fall campaign is going to be
a little tougher battle, but I think
everyones views on medical marijuana are like their views on gay

AP

Melissa Fults, the campaign director for an effort to legalize medical

marijuana in Arkansas, speaks Aug. 5 at a news conference in the state
Capitol rotunda in Little Rock, Arkansas. While Republicans control
Arkansas state government, the state could be on the verge of a very
liberal move: legalizing marijuana for use by people who suffer from a
number of medical ailments.
marriage, said David Couch, the
sponsor of a competing medical
marijuana measure. Theyve softened over the past couple years.
Attitudes about marijuana have
eased in Arkansas, where voters
in two cities approved ballot initiatives that encouraged police to
regard arrests for small amounts as
a low priority.
Advocates hope the support for
medical cannabis will cross party
lines, and they are counting on
voters like Barb Soell, a 77-yearold retiree who expects to support
Republican Donald Trump for president.
Soell, who backed the legalization measure four years ago, said

she doesnt see any need to deny

the drug to people suffering from
cancer and other medical problems.
I dont think that medical marijuana is going to lead someone to
use heroin or other drugs, Soell
said. Thats nonsense.
Both measures on the ballot
would allow patients with certain
conditions to buy from dispensaries, but the proposals have different restrictions and enforcement
provisions. For example, Fults plan
would allow patients who dont live
near a dispensary to grow their own
marijuana. Couchs initiative would
not.
So far, support for medical marijuana among the states has not

translated into much progress at

the federal level. The Obama administration in August decided to
keep marijuana on the list of most
dangerous drugs but also planned to
allow more research into its medical
uses. Winning approval for medical
cannabis in a state such as Arkansas could help elevate the drug to a
federal issue.
At some point, theres going to
have to be change on the federal
level to ensure that federal law and
state law work together, said Tamar
Todd, director of legal affairs for
the Drug Policy Alliance, which is
backing Fults proposal. Certainly
adding Southern states and Southern constituencies to the push to
change laws at the federal level will
be very significant.
The path to legalization still faces
plenty of obstacles in Arkansas. Advocates fear having two measures
on the ballot will doom legalization
efforts, with the campaigns battling
each other as much as opponents.
If voters approve both proposals,
whichever one gets the most votes
becomes law.
A coalition of the states most
powerful lobbying forces, including
the Arkansas Farm Bureau, the state
Chamber of Commerce and social
conservative groups have united to
campaign against the measures and
have sued to block votes for both of
them.
Gov. Asa Hutchinson, who ran
the DEA during President George
W. Bushs first term, has stepped
up his criticism, warning that legalization would be a burden on
resources.
I do not see any tax boon to the
state. I see more of a tax drain to
the state, Hutchinson told county
officials from around the state at a

recent meeting.
Hutchinson and other opponents
are trying to focus the debate on
specific parts of the proposals that
could carry unintended consequences, rather than framing it as
a general fight over medical marijuana. Business groups, for example, argue that the proposals would
affect efforts to enforce drug-free
workplace policies.
You might have the best intentions in the world, but whats
happening is theres going to be a
lot of people who suffer because of
these not well thought-out policies
nationally, said state Surgeon General Greg Bledsoe, a spokesman for
the group campaigning against the
measures.
The state Democratic Partys
platform includes general support
for legalizing medical marijuana,
but the platform is silent on the two
ballot measures.
The states Democratic nominee
for the U.S. Senate, a former federal prosecutor, has likewise said
he supports developing a responsible medical marijuana program
nationally and in Arkansas but isnt
weighing in on the specific proposals.
The pro-marijuana campaigns
say even general endorsements
help. But they are relying more on
testimonials from sick people who
have used cannabis, such as Raven
Thompson of Little Rock, who battled a rare sarcoma.
Thompson, who has been in remission for the past two years, said
marijuana helped restore her appetite during chemotherapy and after
surgery.
I wasnt blatantly breaking the
law, Thompson said. I had to do
what I had to do.

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US Navy gives look inside Zumwalt destroyer

JENNIFER MCDERMOTT

Associated Press

NEWPORT, R.I. The Navy

gave a first look inside the stealthy
and futuristic Zumwalt destroyer
on Friday during the ships first port
stop at a Rhode Island naval station.
The 610-foot-long warship has
an angular shape to minimize its
radar signature and cost more than
$4.4 billion. Its the most expensive
destroyer built for the Navy.
Its headed from Naval Station
Newport to Baltimore, where it will
be commissioned in October before
going to its homeport in San Diego.
It was built at Bath Iron Works in
Maine.
During a tour, the Navy showed
off the ships bridge, weaponry and
mission center.
In the bridge, there are 180-degree windows and chairs for the
ships captain and executive officer to command the vessel. They
overlook two gun mounts that resemble cannon barrels. The Zumwalts powerful new gun system
can unload 600 rocket-powered
projectiles on targets more than 70
miles away.

AP

The USS Zumwalt sits at dock Friday at the naval station in Newport,
Rhode Island. The 610-foot-long warship has an angular shape to
minimize its radar signature and cost more than $4.4 billion. Its the most
expensive destroyer built for the Navy.
In the mission center, about two
dozen people can sit at consoles
with multiple computer screens to
plan missions, ranging from land
attack and air defense to anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare
and support for special operations
forces. Theres a large flight deck

and two small boats on board in a

bay that special operation forces
can use.
It looks like a much smaller vessel
on radar and its quieter than other
ships, which makes it hard to detect, track and attack.
Vice Adm. Tom Rowden mans,

trains and equips the surface ships

of the Pacific fleet, which will include the Zumwalt. He said Friday
the Zumwalt will make a significant
difference.
Its advanced technology and capabilities allow it to do a range of
defensive and offensive missions,
and project power, wherever it is
needed, and thats generating tremendous excitement within the
Navy, Rowden said. He said the
Zumwalt will be a very stabilizing sight for allies and partners,
and perhaps a menacing sight
for potential enemies.
And, the Zumwalts unique and
significant capability to generate
power could be used in ways perhaps not even envisioned yet, such
as in the testing and use of laser and
directed-energy weapons systems,
Rowden said.
We have the embodiment of
the spirit of technological breakthroughs and the future of our Navy.
I think we have the embodiment of
Adm. Bud Zumwalt, Rowden said.
And I think as you combine those,
and many other things together,
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MUFFIN TIN

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isnt just for
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anymore.
Ham and
Egg Cups

Prep 20 minutes
Bake 18 minutes at 350F
Stand 3 minutes
8 thin slices deli-style
cooked ham
cup shredded
mozzarella cheese
8 eggs
Ground black pepper
8 tsp. basil pesto (optional)
8 cherry tomatoes or grape
tomatoes, halved

Maple-Bacon Corn Muffins

Prep 15 minutes Bake 20 minutes at 350F Cool 5 minutes

1

3
10

cup yellow cornmeal

cup all-purpose flour
Tbsp. baking powder
tsp. salt
eggs, lightly beaten
cup maple syrup
cup milk
cup plain low-fat yogurt
Tbsp. vegetable oil
slices crumbled crisp-cooked
bacon
Maple syrup (optional)

3. Spoon batter into the

prepared muffin cups, filling each
two-thirds full. Bake for 20 to
25 minutes or until a wooden
toothpick inserted in the centers
comes out clean. Cool in muffin
cups on wire racks for 5 minutes.
Remove from muffin cups. Top
with the remaining two crumbled
bacon slices. Serve warm. If
desired, serve with additional
maple syrup. Makes 15 muffins.
To Make Ahead: Prepare
as directed through Step 2.
Divide batter among three 1-quart
freezer bags or 1-cup microwavesafe, airtight containers. Freeze
for up to 1 month. To serve, thaw
one or more portions of batter
overnight in the refrigerator. Or
thaw one portion at a time in the
microwave on 30 percent power
(medium-low) for 1 to 2 minutes,
breaking up and stirring batter
every 30 seconds. Continue as
directed in Step 3.

1. Preheat oven to 350F. Line

fifteen 2-inch muffin cups with
paper bake cups; coat bake cups
with nonstick cooking spray. Set
pans aside.
2. In a medium bowl stir
together cornmeal, flour, baking
powder, and salt. Make a well
in the center of flour mixture.
In a small bowl combine eggs,
the cup maple syrup, the
milk, yogurt, and oil. Add egg
mixture all at once to cornmeal
Per muffin 172 cal., 6 g fat
mixture. Stir just until moistened.
(1 g sat. fat), 32 mg chol., 326 mg
Fold in eight of the crumbled
sodium, 24 g carb., 1 g fiber, 5 g pro.
bacon slices.
Paper liners are a great way to prevent your baked muffin pan
goods from sticking. Look for unbleached, chlorine-free bake
cups. These are made of parchment but are not always labeled as such.

Strawberry Cream Scuffins

Prep 40 minutes Bake 25 minutes at 350F Cool 5 minutes

mixture. Using a fork, stir just

until moistened.
3. Spoon half of the dough
into the prepared muffin cups,
filling each one-third full.
Using a spoon or your thumb,
make an indentation in the
center of dough in each cup; fill
each indentation with 1 tsp. of
the strawberry jelly. Spoon the
remaining dough into muffin
cups. Brush with the reserved
2 Tbsp. egg mixture.
4. Bake about 25 minutes or
until tops are golden. Cool in
1. Preheat oven to 350F.
muffin cups on wire racks for
Line eighteen 2-inch muffin
5 minutes. Remove from muffin
cups with paper bake cups;
cups. Drizzle with Scuffin
coat bake cups with nonstick
Icing. Top with additional
cooking spray. Set pans aside.
strawberries. Serve warm.
In a small bowl combine egg
and whipping cream; set aside. Makes 18 scuffins.
Scuffin Icing: In a small
2. In a large bowl stir
bowl stir together cup
together flour, sugar, baking
powdered sugar, 2 tsp.
powder, and salt. Using a
whipping cream or milk, and
pastry blender, cut in butter
until mixture resembles coarse tsp. vanilla. Stir in enough
additional whipping cream or
crumbs. Stir in the 1 cup
milk, 1 tsp. at a time, to reach
strawberries. Make a well in
drizzling consistency.
the center of flour mixture.
Per scuffin 215 cal., 11 g fat
Reserve 2 Tbsp. of the egg
(7 g sat. fat), 43 mg chol., 171 mg
mixture. Add the remaining
egg mixture all at once to flour sodium, 27 g carb., 1 g fiber, 3 g pro.
1
1
3
2
1

egg, lightly beaten

cup whipping cream or milk
cups all-purpose flour
Tbsp. sugar
Tbsp. baking powder
tsp. salt
cup butter
cup chopped fresh
strawberries
6 Tbsp. strawberry jelly, jam,
or preserves
1 recipe Scuffin Icing
Chopped fresh strawberries

1. Preheat oven to 350F.

Coat eight 2-inch muffin cups
with cooking spray. Gently
press a ham slice into each
prepared muffin cup, carefully
ruffling edges of the ham.
Divide cheese among the
ham-lined muffin cups.
2. Break an egg into a
measuring cup, and slip egg
into a muffin cup. Repeat with
the remaining eggs. Sprinkle
with pepper. If desired, spoon
1 tsp. pesto onto each egg.
Top with tomato halves.
3. Bake for 18 to 20 minutes
or until whites are completely
set and yolks are thickened.
Let stand in muffin cups
for 3 to 5 minutes before
serving. Carefully remove
egg cups from muffin cups.
Makes 8 cups.
Per cup 145 cal., 10 g fat
(3 g sat. fat), 202 mg chol.,
413 mg sodium, 2 g carb.,
1 g fiber, 11 g pro.

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Sunday, September 11, 2016|D1

Sunday, September 11, 2016 | trib.com | SECTION D

NEBRASKA 52, WYOMING 17

4-GONE CONCLUSION

TED KIRK, JOURNAL STAR

Nebraska defensive end Freedom Akinmoladun gets to Wyoming quarterback Josh Allen moments after Allens pass attempt at Memorial Stadium on Saturday in Lincoln, Neb.

Four 4th-quarter
turnovers doom
Cowboys
BRANDON FOSTER

Brandon.Foster@Trib.com

LINCOLN, Neb. Four was not

Wyomings lucky number Saturday.
After 45 minutes of play, the
Cowboys trailed Nebraska by just a
touchdown at Memorial Stadium.
But in the fourth quarter, the
Cowboys turned the ball over four
times, allowed four touchdowns
and lost any chance of upsetting
Nebraska in a 52-17 loss.
It got out of hand really quick,
Wyoming receiver Tanner Gentry said. I think we just kind of
screwed ourselves over. I wouldnt
say that the final score of that game
really is a good indication of how
that game went.
Nebraska quarterback Tommy
Armstrong, who wears No. 4,
threw for 377 yards and three
touchdowns Saturday, becoming
Nebraskas all-time leader in passing touchdowns.
Wyomings quarterback, sophomore Josh Allen, was asked to do it
all for the Cowboys with their run
game held in check.
And Allen, making his first road
start, did just about everything.
Both good and bad.
He made a 35-yard pass to
Gentry look easy on fourth-and-

Natronas
Riley
Shepperson
scores a
touchdown
on the first
play of
the fourth
quarter
in the
Mustangs
win over
Laramie
on Friday
at Cheney
Alumni
Field in
Casper.
JENNA
VONHOFE,
STAR-TRIBUNE

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Cowboys Tracker
SATURDAY: Nebraska 52,
Wyoming 17.
RECORDS: Cornhuskers (2-0);
Cowboys (1-1).
ROCKY ENDING: Nebraska
scored 28 points in the fourth
quarter to close out the game
as Wyoming turned the ball
over four times.
HE SAID IT: That fourth
quarter was not us. Thats not
Wyoming football. Thats not
the culture we are trying to implement. UW safety Andrew
Wingard.
NEXT: UC-Davis at Wyoming,
2p.m., Sept. 17.
long scramble to give Wyoming a
touchdown in the final seconds of
the first half. He also accounted
for all six of Wyomings turnovers,
throwing five interceptions and
losing a fumble on a lateral pass.
Its unacceptable, Allen said.
You cant win a football game
against anybody that way.
For most of the game, though,
Allen was the one keeping Wyoming in contention. Wyoming
running backs averaged just 2.85
yards per carry, and the groundand-pound Wyoming offense
became uncharacteristically airborne.
Please see COWBOYS, Page D2

Despite struggles, Allen remains confident

Sophomore QB offers
no excuses for play
against Nebraska
BRANDON FOSTER

Brandon.Foster@Trib.com

LINCOLN, Neb. Well, you

cant say Josh Allen goes down
without a fight.
After throwing an interception
in the fourth quarter Saturday
against Nebraska, Allen chased
down Cornhuskers safety Nathan Gerry and tackled him with
one arm.
When Gerry handed Allen
the ball, a taunt that earned the
safety a 15-yard penalty, Allen
threw the ball back at Gerry in
disgust.
Allen turned the ball over four
times in that fourth quarter as he
tried to force a Wyoming comeback. He had six turnovers overall. One of his interceptions was
returned for a touchdown, and
his fumble on a lateral incompletion was brought back to Wyomings 1-yard line.
At one point, he threw an interception on three of four consecutive passes.
The throws were there, Allen
said. Ive just got to be smart
with the ball. Made a few bad decisions that really cost our team
eventually. You just cant allow

NATI HARNIK, AP

Wyoming quarterback Josh Allen throws during the first half against
Nebraska on Saturday in Lincoln, Neb.
it to keep continuing like it did.
Allen was making just his third
Division-I start and first on the
road. The crowds at his previous
two starts equaled a sum total of
less than 40,000 fans. The attendance Saturday at Memorial
Stadium was 89,895.
I mean, we expected it to be
loud, Allen said. It was that.
Obviously, played pretty decent
in the first three quarters, and it
just kind of snowballed on us in
the fourth.
Please see ALLEN, Page D2

Allen Tracker
WHO: Wyoming sophomore
quarterback Josh Allen.
PILING UP: Allen turned the
ball over six times in Wyomings 52-17 loss to Nebraska
on Saturday.
HE SAID IT: Everybodys
hurting. Im hurting, and I take
this one completely on myself,
and I didnt play well enough
to put our team in a position
to win. Allen.

PREP FOOTBALL

Mustangs continue to improve

Blocked FG in final
minute allows NC to
grab first win of season
BRADY OLTMANS

Brady.Oltmans@trib.com

When Riley Shepperson batted

away Laramies go-ahead field
goal with 38 seconds left on Friday, he preserved Natronas first
victory of the season. But his
leaping effort also embodied the
gritty attitude the Mustangs have
developed.
And it was on full display in the
14-13 victory at Cheney Alumni
Field.
We fought to the last minute
and we showed how much better
weve gotten from the beginning
of the season to now, Shepperson
said. Everyone stepped up. We
keep pushing, keep fighting and
were all doing it for our brothers

cling through tackles to keep the

Natrona offense on the field.
Linebackers Thomas Robitaille
FRIDAY: Natrona 14, Laramie
and Carlos Daniel contained Lara13
mie quarterback Taylor Dodd and
defensive tackle Preston Knight
FINALLY BREAKING
sacked the Plainsmens dynamic
THROUGH: Riley Shepperson
athlete twice. Stopping Dodd is no
caught an 11-yard touchdown
easy task, as Natrona well knows.
pass from Jesse Harshman
Last year we really struggled,
early in the fourth quarter for
he really ran up and down the
the Mustangs first touchdown
field on us, Natrona coach Steve
of the season.
Harshman said. We were able to,
HE SAID IT: We fought to the
for the most part, bottle that up.
last minute and we showed
Robitaille, Daniel and Knight
how much better weve gotten
are all seniors and have been key
from the beginning of the seafactors to the Mustangs defensive
son to now. Shepperson.
success. After the win, even their
head coach praised their resolve.
NEXT: Natrona at Gillette,
I probably underestimated,
7p.m., Friday.
starting with the seniors, the
pressure that they put on themnext to each other and we wont selves, Harshman said. And then
give up.
the juniors as well.
Junior running back Brett BrenPlease see MUSTANGS, Page D4
ton showed the same grit, mus-

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HOW THEY SCORED

NEBRASKA 52, WYOMING 17

Casper Star-Tribune

WYOMING AT NEBRASKA | THREE THINGS WE LEARNED

1. Growing pains

One interception wasnt his fault, another

came on a fourth-and-long and actually
saved Wyoming yards, and his fumble was
more on intended receiver Brian Hill than
him. But quarterback Josh Allen still had
six turnovers Saturday in a 52-17 loss to Nebraska. The redshirt sophomore was making
his first road start as a Cowboy, and his inexperience showed late.
He looked immune to the pressure early
on, making a brilliant throw to Tanner Gentry to give Wyoming points right before
halftime. But as Wyomings deficit grew,
Allen began to force things. Perhaps its to
be expected from a quarterback playing at
Memorial Stadium with just two starts under his belt. Luckily for him, and Wyoming,
he wont have to do that again.

2. No room to run

FIRST QUARTER

NEBRASKA 7, WYOMING 0
Tommy Armstrong Jr. 7-yard run (Drew Brown kick)
Time: 6:12
Drive: 7 plays, 97 yards, 3:05
Key play: Nebraska Tommy Armstrong Jr. completed
a 38-yard pass to Brandon Reilly, giving the Huskers two
straight receptions of 30-plus yards.

SECOND QUARTER

NEBRASKA 10, WYOMING 0

Drew Brown 29-yard field goal
Time: 9:03
Drive: 9 plays, 52 yards 3:58
Key play: Armstrong finds Alonzo Moore for a 28yard reception to put Nebraska in the Cowboys red zone.
NEBRASKA 17, WYOMING 0
Alonzo Moore 63-yard pass from Armstrong Jr.
(Brown kick)
Time: 5:57
Drive: 3 plays, 65 yards, 1:16
Key play: Moores touchdown catch was just the third
pass of the drive, which included a Nebraska personal
foul that Wyoming was unable to make the most of.
NEBRASKA 17, WYOMING 7
Tanner Gentry 35-yard pass from Josh Allen (Cooper
Rothe kick)
Time: :08
Drive: 5 plays, 52 yards 44 seconds
Key play: On the play before the touchdown, Allen
ran up the middle to avoid pressure and fumbled the ball.
The ball bounced between him and a defender, and Allen
was able to recover the ball so that Wyoming could try
the fourth-down play.

THIRD QUARTER

NEBRASKA 17, WYOMING 10

Rothe 27-yard field goal
Time: 11:08
Drive: 10 plays, 65 yards, 3:52
Key play: Redshirt freshman receiver Austin Conway
picked up 28 yards on a reverse.
NEBRASKA 24, WYOMING 10
K. Williams 23-yard interception return (Brown kick)
Time: 4:48
NEBRASKA 24, WYOMING 17
Brian Hill 1-yard run (Rothe kick)
Time: 1:35
Drive: 6 plays, 76 yards, 3:06
Key play: Conway broke open the drive again, this
time picking up 42 two yards on a run.

FOURTH QUARTER

NEBRASKA 31, WYOMING 17

Jordan Westerkamp 34-yard pass from Armstrong Jr.
(Brown kick)
Time: 13:11
Drive: 8 plays, 76 yards, 3:17
Key play: Armstrong completed a 5-yard pass to Terrell Newby on the first play of the quarter to convert on
third-and-3.
NEBRASKA 38, WYOMING 17
Devine Ozigbo 1-yard run (Brown kick)
Time: 12:59
Drive: 1 play, 1 yard, 4 seconds
NEBRASKA 45, WYOMING 17
Westerkamp 9-yard pass from Armstrong Jr. (Brown
kick)
Time: 7:28
Drive: 10 plays, 53 yards, 4:48
Key play: Nebraska had just one play of 10 or more
yards on the drive, an 11-yard run by Armstrong on the
first play.
NEBRASKA 52, WYOMING 17
Gabe Rahn 35-yard pass from Ryker Fyfe (Brown kick)
Time: 5:15
Drive: 1 play, 35 yards, :09
Star-Tribune staff

Cowboys
From D1

Allens touchdown to
Gentry prevented the Cowboys from going into halftime down three scores. The
Huskers had jumped out to
an early lead with 17 points
in the span of four drives,
the first of which was a 97yard touchdown march.
Like Wyoming, Nebraska
had most of its success
through the air, despite
throwing the ball just 13
times against Fresno State
the previous week.
They were throwing the
kitchen sink up there, Nebraska coach Mike Riley said
of the Cowboys run defense.
Wyomings offense went
three-and-out three times
in the first half, and whenever the Cowboys did get
into Nebraska territory, they
shot themselves in the foot.
On the Cowboys first
trip to the red zone, senior
tight end Jacob Hollister

Allen
From D1

Maulhardt in the hands but

popped into the air and was
converted into points.
Wyoming
responded,
however, with a six-play, 76yard touchdown drive aided
by a 42-yard Austin Conway
reverse. Conway, a freshman
receiver, was Wyomings
leading rusher with 70 yards
on three carries, all reverses.
Brian Hill punched in the
touchdown from 1-yard out,
and Wyoming was again
within a touchdown of an
upset.
Then came the fourth
quarter.
Nebraska extended its
lead to 14 with a 34-yard
pass from Armstrong to
Jordan Westerkamp. On
the next play, an Allen incompletion on a lateral
pass ended with Nebraska
taking over at Wyomings
1-yard line.
Touchdown Nebraska.
Interception Allen. Touchdown Nebraska. Interception Allen. Touchdown Nebraska. Interception Allen.

That fourth quarter

was not us, safety Andrew
Wingard said. Thats not
Wyoming football. Thats
not the culture we are trying to implement.
Wingard, who had an
interception of his own in
the second quarter, is one
of numerous Wyoming
players and coaches with
Nebraska ties. Wingards
father played for the Huskers. Head coach Craig Bohl
played at and coached for
Nebraska.
But no amount of added
motivation could make
up for six turnovers and a
28-point fourth quarter. The
Cowboys (1-1) are now 0-8
all-time against Nebraska.
There was a time we
were in the ballgame, but
obviously its a 60-minute
ballgame, Bohl said. We
didnt get it done, and I think
we got whupped today.

confidence in him, too.

Quarterbacks have bad
games, senior receiver
Tanner Gentry said. It just
happens. But the true tell
is just going to be if he can
come back and have a great
game against UC-Davis,
and I know he will.
Allen, a redshirt sophomore, is one of the captains
for the Cowboys. A week
ago, he was the hero, throw-

ing just two incomplete

passes in the second half
and scoring the game-winning touchdown in triple
overtime against NIU.
I believe in Josh, fellow
captain Lucas Wacha said.
I know hes hurting right
now, but I know hes going
to come back next week with
fire underneath him. Hes
going to come out with great
intensity next week. Thats

why hes one of our captains.

Hes a leader on this team.
Its easy to be a captain
when youre winning. Its a
little different when youre
losing.
Allen has done the former. Now, hell have to do
the latter.

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In the first half, Allen was

10-of-16 with a touchdown
and no interceptions, completing nine of his first 12
throws.
He was picked off twice
in the third quarter, but
one came on a fourth-down
throw that wouldve been a
turnover either way, and
the other was off the hands
of receiver Jake Maulhardt.
The Cowboys had to rely
on Allens arm much more
than they might have anticipated because Nebraska
shut down the ground-andpound Cowboys run game.
In Wyomings win against
Northern Illinois, Allen
threw the ball six fewer
times in regulation, despite
possessing the ball nearly
nine more minutes.
Allen didnt use that as an
excuse.
You know, its all about
preparation in the week
leading up to the game, he
said. I thought we did a really good job with that.
It sucks right now. Everybodys hurting. Im hurting,
and I take this one completely
on myself, and I didnt play
well enough to put our team
in a position to win.
Allen was clearly disappointed after the game. But
his confidence, repeatedly
commented on by coach
Craig Bohl in the preseason,
is still there.
Im very confident in
this offense, he said. Im
very confident in this team.
Its a special team, and I
truly believe that, and I
wish everybody couldve
saw that today.
His teammates expressed

was called for a false start

on third-and-3. Wyoming
couldnt convert, and Cooper Rothe missed a 42-yard
field goal.
On their second trip deep
into Huskers territory, quarterback Josh Allen missed a
wide-open Josh Harshman
across the middle for what
would have been a big gain or
maybe even a touchdown. Instead, Rothe missed a 46-yard
field goal attempt. It was the
fourth straight miss for the
true freshman, after he made
his first two of the season.
It wasnt until Allens
fourth-down heave with 8
seconds left in the half that
Wyoming was able to get
points on the board.
Early in the third quarter,
Rothe ended his drought
with a 27-yard field goal to
cap a 10-0 Wyoming run.
The Huskers extended
their lead with a 23-yard
touchdown from Kieron
Williams on Allens second
interception of the day. Allens pass hit senior Jake

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The one area Wyoming did have success in the run game was on the perimeter. Thats mostly thanks to Austin
Conway. Conway, a redshirt freshman who was on Wyomings basketball team last year, earned the punt returning
job before the season. Now hes getting more and more involved with the offense.
Conway led Wyoming with 70 rushing yards Saturday on just three tries. Even on a reverse that Nebraska was
ready for, Conway managed to use his moves to get back to the line of scrimmage and avoid a big loss. He wasnt too
shabby on special teams, either. His 25-yard punt return to set up Wyomings first touchdown was the longest by a
Cowboy since 2014.
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Wyoming passed the ball on more than

half of its plays Saturday. Despite the ugly
final score, it wasnt a matter of Wyoming
throwing the ball because it trailed all game.
The Cowboys were within a touchdown to
start the fourth quarter. They just couldnt
run the ball, especially with their running
backs.
Thats not typical of the Wyoming offense,
which passed the ball fewer than all but 14
teams last season. Hill, who had 125 yards
against NIU and more than 1,600 last season, averaged under three yards per carry.
In the first quarter, while trying to establish
the run, Wyoming managed just 16 yards on
six carries. The Cowboys wont face much
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL | TOP 25 ROUNDUP

Hail Mary lifts Chips to win

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

TILLWATER, Okla. A
S
mistake by the officials that
extended the game when it
should have been over allowed Central Michigan to
score the winning touchdown on a desperation pass
and lateral for an astonishing 30-27 upset of No. 22
Oklahoma State on Saturday.
Oklahoma State tried
to kill the final 4 seconds
by throwing the ball away
on fourth down, but the
Cowboys were penalized
for intentional grounding,
which is a loss of down
penalty. Rules state that
the game cannot end on an
accepted live-ball penalty,
referee Tim ODey of the
Mid-American Conference,
CMUs league, said.
Theres an exception to
the rule that says if enforcement of the foul involves
a loss of down, then that
brings the game to an end,
ODey told a pool reporter
after the game.
ODey said after conferring with NCAA rules
committee secretary Rogers Redding after the game,
the crew determined the
extension should not have
happened.
But the final result stood.
Article 3b of the NCAA
rulebook states: When the
referee declares that the
game is ended, the score is
final.
Corey Willis scored the
winning touchdown after
grabbing a lateral from Jesse

Kroll at the 12. Cooper Rush

lofted the pass that hit Kroll
just inside the 10. As Kroll
was being taken down, he
pitched it back to Willis,
who cut across the field
and barely managed to score
while being dragged down.
NO. 9 GEORGIA 26,
NICHOLLS 24
At Athens, Ga., the Bulldogs scored two quickstrike touchdowns one
on offense, one on defense
in a span of about two
minutes after the Colonels
took a third-quarter lead.
NO. 1 ALABAMA 38,
WESTERN KENTUCKY
10
At Tuscaloosa, Ala.,
freshman Jalen Hurts
passed for 287 yards and
two touchdowns in his
first career start to lead the
Crimson Tide past the Hilltoppers.
NO. 2 CLEMSON 30,
TROY 24
At Clemson, S.C., Deshaun Watson threw three
touchdown passes and the
Tigers avoided a host of
mistakes including an
embarrassing early celebration punt-return gaffe by
Ray-Ray McCloud that cost
the Tigers a touchdown to
hold off the pesky Trojans.
NO. 3 FLORIDA STATE
52,
CHARLESTON
SOUTHERN 8
At Tallahassee, Fla., Deondre Francois threw three
touchdown passes and Dalvin Cook ran for two more
score in the Seminoles victory.

BRODY SCHMIDT, AP

Central Michigan wide receiver Corey Willis runs for the

winning touchdown against No. 22 Oklahoma State on
Saturday in Stillwater, Okla.
Florida State (2-0) led
28-0 at the end of the first
quarter. It scored on the
first three drives and Bobo
Wilson had an 89-yard punt
return for a touchdown.

The NFL is back

BARRY WILNER

Associated Press

Jimmy
Garoppolo
couldnt have a tougher
assignment in his first NFL
start. While Tom Brady is
suspended, the third-year
quarterback faces the Arizona Cardinals, one of the
Super Bowl favorites, a team
owning a strong defense.
At Arizona.
In prime time.
Theres so much going on right now, Garoppolo said. Mentally, Im
straight Arizona, but it is a
phenomenal opportunity.
This is why you play the
game. You play to be in the
game and play; you dont
want to be the backup. The
opportunity is here. Ive
just got to go take advantage of it.
Arizona is quite the challenge, with perhaps the
most talented roster in the
NFL. And back from injury
is All-Pro safety Tyrann
Mathieu, who adds spark
and gumption to the defense.
GREEN BAY AT
JACKSONVILLE
Im playing football,
Packers receiver Jordy Nelson said when asked if his
knees were an issue as he
comes off a torn right ACL
in a preseason game last
summer at Pittsburgh.

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AT DALLAS
Time to find out if all that
optimism coming out of
Dallas about Dak Prescott
stepping in for injured quarterback Tony Romo is valid.

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At South Bend, Ind.,

DeShone Kizer threw two
touchdown passes and ran
for another score, Josh Adams rushed for 106 yards
and the Fighting Irish defense rebounded from a
disappointing performance
a week ago.
After being held scoreless in the first quarter by
Nevada (1-1), the Irish (1-1)
took control with a 25-point
second quarter the most
points in the quarter for Notre Dame since scoring 28
points against Pittsburgh
in Charlie Weis debut as
coach in 2005. Kizer was 15
of 18 for 156 yards with one
interception and Equanimeous St. Brown led Irish receivers with six catches for
85 yards with Torii Hunter
Jr. out with a concussion
sustained against Texas.
NO. 19 MISSISSIPPI
38, WOFFORD 13
At Oxford, Miss., Chad
Kelly threw for 219 yards
and three touchdowns to
lead the Rebels.
NO. 20 TEXAS A&M
67, PRAIRIE VIEW A&M
0
At College Station, Texas,
Trevor Knight threw for 344
yards and three touchdowns
and ran for another score in
the Aggies romp.
NO. 23 BAYLOR 40,
SMU 13
At Waco, Texas, Seth Russell threw for 261 yards and
two touchdowns and ran for
another score, and the Bears
recovered from a slow start
to rout the Mustangs.

A quick look at
the first weekend
of the season

Even worse, the Seahawks rell Suggs, Justin Forsett,

seem to be on a mission.
Steve Smith are ready.

MINNESOTA AT TENNESSEE
Minnesota is another
team without its starting
QB Teddy Bridgewater wrecked his left knee
in practice and is gone for
the season. The Vikings
dealt for Sam Bradford this
week, but how soon he will OAKLAND AT
be ready is a huge unknown. NEW ORLEANS
No such issues for the TiDrew Brees reworked his
tans with Marcus Mariota. contract. Now if only the
Saints can rework a defense
that ranked 31st across the
PITTSBURGH AT
board on the yardage charts
WASHINGTON, MONDAY
Without LeVeon Bell in in 2015.
the backfield and Martavis
Bryant at receiver (both sus- CINCINNATI AT
pended), the Steelers would THE NEW YORK JETS
appear undermanned. They
The first game in a very
still have Ben Roethlisberger tough opening stretch for
throwing to Antonio Brown, the Jets, who face five 2015
though.
playoff clubs in six weeks.
The Redskins added All- Adding Matt Forte to the
Pro Josh Norman at cor- backfield should help in the
nerback to bolster a D that short term.
ranked 25th against the pass.
BUFFALO AT BALTIMORE
MIAMI AT SEATTLE
Troubled Buffalo has been
Adam Gase made his rep- hit by suspensions and injuutation as a QB guru while ries already.
working with Peyton ManThe Ravens 2015 was runing in Denver. He now is in ined by injuries, and most
charge of the Dolphins, and of the key players who were
Ryan Tannehill is no Manning. sidelined Joe Flacco, Ter-

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TULSA 3
At Columbus, Ohio,
the Buckeyes overcame a
sluggish offensive start, a
lightning delay and a driv-

ing rainstorm in the second

half to beat the Golden Hurricanes.
NO. 5 MICHIGAN 51,
UCF 14
At Ann Arbor, Mich.,
Wilton Speight threw two of
his four touchdown passes
to Jake Butt, and Khalid Hill
ran for two scores in the
Wolverines victory over
the Knights.
NO. 6 HOUSTON 42,
LAMAR 0
At Houston, the Cougars
easily overcame the absence
of injured quarterback Greg
Ward Jr. and a 3 1/2-hour
lightning delay to rout Lamar.
With Ward on the sideline nursing an injured
right shoulder, backup Kyle
Postma ran 39 yards for a
score in the first quarter in
a game that lasted 6 hours,
18 minutes.
NO. 8 WASHINGTON
59, IDAHO 14
At Seattle, Jake Browning matched a school record with five touchdown
passes two each to Dante
Pettis and John Ross and
finished with 294 yards in
the Huskies victory over
the Vandals.
NO. 10 WISCONSIN
54, AKRON 10
At Madison, Wis., Corey
Clement ran for two scores
before leaving with an injury, Jazz Peavy had two
touchdown catches and the
Badgers stuffed the Zips
spread offense.
NO. 18 NOTRE DAME
39, NEVADA 10

LOS ANGELES AT
SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY
Los Angeles is back in the
NFL for the first time since
1994. Top overall draftee
Jared Goff is the backup
quarterback to Case Keenum for now.
FILE, AP
Seemingly the focal point
for most people watching Green Bay Packers wide receiver Jordy Nelson makes a catch
the 49ers is Colin Kaeper- in front of Tampa Bays Bradley McDougald during a 2014
nick not standing for the game in Tampa, Fla.
national anthem.
comes off two offseason background, the Falcons
were last with 19 sacks in
procedures on his back.
CLEVELAND AT
With Matt Forte gone, 2015 and must improve that
PHILADELPHIA
While Goff sits, the guy it will be intriguing to see immediately.
taken after him in April, Car- what the Bears running
son Wentz, was handed the game looks like.
DETROIT AT INDIANAPOLIS
Eagles job behind center.
The Lions have one victory in Indianapolis. In
The Browns brought in TAMPA BAY AT ATLANTA
Robert Griffin III, hoping he
Some have pegged the 1991. But their coach, Jim
can resurrect his QB career Bucs as a rising team, and Caldwell, led the Colts to
after it fell apart in Wash- they have the offense to be the Super Bowl in 2009.
Colts QB Andrew Luck is
ington.
dangerous behind Jameis
Winston, Doug Martin and expected to make his first
Mike Evans.
regular-season start since
CHICAGO AT HOUSTON
Three-time Defensive
Although coach Dan Nov. 8, when his injury-ravPlayer of the Year J.J. Watt Quinn has a solid defensive aged season ended.

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PREP FOOTBALL WEEK 2 | 5X5

Taking a look
at the best
and brightest
from this past
weekend, as well
as some notable
numbers and
statistics.

Names

AUSTIN CLEMETSON, Gillette: The junior ran for 180 yards

and four touchdowns on 12 carries
and added a 47-yard punt return TD
for good measure in the Camels 4714 win over Cheyenne Central.
KELLEN HANSEN, Star Valley: The senior rushed for 263 yards
and two scores to lead the Braves to
a 49-7 rout of Riverton.
COLTON WILLIAMS, Big
Horn: The senior finished with 360
all-purpose yards (178 rushing, 110

receiving, 78 punt return) and scored

five TDs in the Rams 59-22 win over
Burns.
RUGER LEWIS, Pine Bluffs:
The senior workhorse carried the ball
15 times for 178 yards in the Hornets
41-0 shutout of Wind River.
RILEY SHEPPERSON, Natrona: The junior kicked two field
goals, caught a touchdown, blocked
an extra-point and blocked a late
field goal in the Mustangs 14-13 win
over Laramie.

Numbers

3
13
110-0
299
30

Wins for Cheyenne South through three games, matching

the most wins in one season in program history.
Rushing yards for Powell on 25 carries
in its 7-6 loss to Buffalo.
Combined score for Greybull in the first two
weeks of the season. The Buffaloes won 57-0
at Kemmerer on Friday.
Career victories for Cokeville coach Todd Dayton
after the Panthers 40-0 shutout of Wright
on Saturday.
Consecutive losses Kemmerer has after Fridays 57-0
game against Greybull.
Star-Tribune staff

PREP ROUNDUP

PREP FOOTBALL | WEEK 2 BOX SCORES

CLASS 4A

Big Horn 59, Burns 22

Gillette 47, Cheyenne Central 14

Bur 0 8 0 14 22
BH 13 26 20 0 59
First Quarter
BH: Nolan McCafferty 6 run (Noah Iberlin
kick)
BH: Colton Williams 4 run
Second Quarter
BH: Williams 27 run
BH: Williams 23 run (Iberlin kick)
BH: Kade Eisele 2 run
Bur: Klayton Clark 3 run (Boe Clayson run)
BH: Williams 4 run (Iberlin kick)
Third Quarter
BH: Williams 46 run (Iberlin kick)
BH: McCafferty 2 run
BH: Colton Bates 35 interception return
(Iberlin kick)
Fourth Quarter
Bur: Clark 67 run (Clark kick)
Bur: Clayson 87 run (Clark kick)
BIG HORN STATISTICS
Rushing Colton Williams 9-178, Nolan
McCafferty 15-101, Cade Eisele 11-82,
Tanner Warder 2-1, Will Pelissier 2-0, Quinn
McCafferty 1-(-1).
Passing Warder 9-13-0148.
Receiving Williams 6-110, Kade
VanDyken 2-36, Colton Bates 1-2.

CC 0 0 0 14 14
Gil 20 14 7 6 47
First Quarter
Gil: Austin Clemetson 47 punt return
(Dalton Young kick)
Gil: Clemetson 38 run (kick failed)
Gil: Clemetson 22 run (Young kick)
Second Quarter
Gil: Clemetson 10 run (Young kick)
Gil: Madden Pikula 5 pass from Keaton
Wilkerson (Young kick)
Third Quarter
Gil: Clemetson 69 run (Young kick)
Fourth Quarter
CC: Ethan Sipe 9 pass from Kurt Simmons
(Aaron Barber kick)
Gil: Anthony Johnston 16 run (kick failed)
CC: Niko Bostic 66 pass from Daniel
Shumway (Barber kick)
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
RushingCC, Adarius Gallon 21-49, Kani
James 2-6, Nico Vite 1-1, Logan Hess 1-1,
Riley Boltz 1-1, Kurt Simmons 6-(-22). Gil,
Austin Clemetson 12-180, Isaiah Mata 4-21,
Anthony Johnston 2-19, Keaton Wilkerson
6-17, Madden Pikula 1-5, Parker Long 1-1,
Fathan Ferdyawan 1-(-2), Trent Johnson
1-(-9).
PassingCC, Simmons 6-15-036. Gil,
Wilkerson 18-26-1170, Johnston 0-2-00.
ReceivingCC, Ethan Sipe 2-11, Vite 2-10.
Gil, Pikula 8-59, Kade Bradley 2-33, Long
2-30, Tyler Hilliard 2-23, Clemetson 2-15,
Johnson 1-6, Caleb Durgin 1-4.

Natrona 14, Laramie 13

Lar 0 7 0 6 13
NC 3 3 0 8 14
Lar NC
First Downs
6
9
Run (att-yds) 19-52 37-119
Passing yards 229 151
Pass (comp-att-int) 16-37-0 10-18-1
Fumbles-lost 0-0 1-1
Penalties 7-55 7-75
Total yards 281 315
First Quarter
NC: Riley Shepperson 24 FG, 2:05.
Second Quarter
NC: Shepperson 20 FG, 10:02.
Lar: Connor Beeston 21 pass from Taylor
Dodd (Moore kick), 1:52.
Fourth Quarter
NC: Shepperson 11 pass from Jesse
Harshman (Chase Brachtenbach run), 11:55.
Lar: Dodd 5 run (kick blocked), 8:46.
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
RushingLar, Taylor Dodd 13-36, Carless
Looney 3-7, Dan Graeff 2-3, Isaiah Wookey
1-6; NC, Brett Brenton 24-101, Brachtenbach
6-14, Harshman 4-(-13), William Lance 2-3,
Shepperson 1-14.
PassingLar, Dodd 16-35-0 229, Nathan
Burman 0-1-0 0, Looney 0-1-0 0; NC,
Harshman 10-18-1 151.
ReceivingLar, Connor Beeston 9-124,
McCade Johnson 4-29, Looney 2-37, Burman
2-10; NC, Brenton 4-88, Shepperson 4-38,
Thomas Robitaille 1-16, Mason Gallegos 1-9.

Sheridan 49, Evanston 3

Eva 0 0 0 3 3
She 14 28 7 0 49
First Quarter
She: Drew Boedecker 38 run (Sam Smart
kick)
She: Parker Christensen run (Smart kick)
Second Quarter
She: Coy Steel pass from Boedecker
(Smart kick)
She: Steel 5 pass from Boedecker (Smart
kick)
She: Jacek Aksamit 25 fumble return
(Smart kick)
She: Steel 1 run (Smart kick)
Third Quarter
She: Kyle Custis 18 run (Smart kick)
Fourth Quarter
Eva: Jess RIchins FG
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
Rushing Eva, Tyus Cornia 10-35, Jess
Richins 11-30, Kaleb Fackrell 4-17, Payton
Walsh 3-16, Hunter Groll 1-2, Seth Lloyd 3-(10). She, Kyle Custis 7-47, Drew Boedecker
5-39, Aaron Woodward 1-16, Matt Willey
1-10, Parker Christensen 3-8, Coy Steel 1-1,
Quinn Haymeman 1-0.

JENNA VONHOFE, STAR-TRIBUNE

Laramies McCade Johnson runs the ball in the fourth quarter against
Natrona on Friday at Cheney Alumni Field in Casper.
Passing Eva, Lloyd 7-19-063. She,
Boedecker 7-8-0150, Woodward 0-1-00.
Receiving Eva, Malek Wagstaff 4-65,
Griffin Mitchell 2-4, Groll 1-(-6). She, Steel
6-124, Christensen 1-26.

Rock Springs 35, Kelly Walsh 12

KW 6 0 0 6 12
RS 8 7 7 13 35
First Quarter
RS: Oaklan Jenkins 58 run (Matt Fowler
run)
KW: Sesar Chavez 4 run (run failed)
Second Quarter
RS: Jenkins 42 run (kick good)
Third Quarter
RS: Jenkins 47 run (kick good)
Fourth Quarter
RS: Fowler 4 run (kick good)
RS: Fowler 4 run (kick failed)
KW: Sam Marsh 31 pass from Caige
McComb (run failed)

Cheyenne South 31, Cheyenne

East 28
CE 0 7 7 14 28
CS 0 10 21 0 31
Second Quarter
CS: Keyshawn Farmer 10 run (Bryce Codr
kick)
CE: Noah James 5 pass from Matt Semler
(Quinn Hunt kick)
CS: Codr 44 FG
Third Quarter
CE: Ethan Ashworth 2 run (Hunt kick)
CS: Dylan Mondragon 12 run (Codyr kick)
CS: DAndre McCray 1 run (kick failed)
CS: Farmer 4 run (Farmer run)
Fourth Quarter
CE: Semler 13 run (Hunt kick)
CE: Semler 30 run (Hunt kick)
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
Rushing CE, Ethan Ashworth 17-139,
Matt Semler 9-44, Rayce Phipps 4-14. CS,
Keyshawn Farmer 18-132, DAndre McCray
17-114, Dylan Mondragon 12-67, Eric Fowler
7-15, Caleb Price 5-11.
Passing CE, Semler 9-14-080. CS,
Fowler 0-3-00.
Receiving CE, Noah James 4-37, Seth
Green 1-15, Noah Humble 1-11, Ashworth
1-8, Quinn Hunt 1-7, Jamis Lopez 1-2.

CLASS 3A

ouglas 36, Cody 12

D
Dou 14 8 7 7 36
Cod 6 6 0 0 12
First Quarter
Dou: Tyrel Leman 17 pass from Ty Larson
(kick failed)
Dou: Larson 1 run (Zach Hoopman run)
Cod: Deardorff 1 run

Mustangs
From D1

The Mustangs balanced

offense got a big push from
the offensive line and made
it within five yards of the
end zone twice in the first
half, but were forced to settle for field goals both times.
I think our guys up
front did a pretty nice job,
Harshman said. They really blocked well and were
able to control the ball and
the time of possession.
It wasnt until a more
comfortable Jesse Harsh-

Second Quarter
Dou: Eric Jamerman 15 pass from Larson
(Leman pass from Larson)
Cod: Jared Grentz 80 kickoff return
Third Quarter
Dou: Jamerman 25 pass from Larson
(Christian Coffman kick)
Dou: Hoopman 10 run (Coffman kick)
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
Rushing Dou, Zach Hoopman 18-108,
Michael Yeaman 16-57, Gage Pitt 3-25, Tyrel
Leman 1-23, Talon Howard 1-13, Hayes 1-12,
Brandon Henry 2-11, Ty Larson 8-6. Cod,
Deardorff 10-57, Jared Grentz 6-20, Matt
Lovera 1-13, Jones 5-4.
Passing Dou, Larson 14-28-1214. Cod,
Lovera 1-7-133, Jordan Wasia 0-1-10.
Receiving Dou, Eric Jamerman 5-97,
Leman 4-56, Trenton Williams 3-38,
Hoopman 1-20, Pitt 1-4. Cod, Grentz 1-33.

Buffalo 7, Powell 6
Pow 0 0 6 0 6
Buf 7 0 0 0 7
First Quarter
Buf: Jon Schultze 7 run (Luke Glassock
kick)
Third Quarter
Pow: Mason Olson 1 run (kick failed)
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
Rushing Pow, Brekyn Herd 4-17, Mason
Olson 11-8, Josh Wolf 1-(-1), Zach Easum
2-(-1), AJ Lewis 6-(-3), Nathan MaGill 1-(-7).
Buf, Ray Rabou 23-101, Caleb Jones 7-29, Jon
Schultze 13-25, Cody Milmine 4-15, Ethan
Richins 1-4.
Passing Pow, Olson 17-31-1104. Buf,
Schultze 0-4-00.
Receiving Pow, Kenyon Gann 3-23, Herd
3-22, Groves 2-21, Paige Gann 4-18, Carson
Heinen 3-14, Easum 1-7, TJ Abraham 1-(-2).

Green River 56, Rawlins 12

Raw 6 6 0 0 12
GR 7 14 21 14 56
First Quarter
GR: Drew Wilson 1 run (Chance Hofer kick)
Raw: Colton Garlington 15 pass from Trey
Young
Second Quarter
Raw: Garlington 52 pass from Young
GR: Taylor Thornton 36 pass from Hofer
(Hofer kick)
GR: fumble recovery (Hofer kick)
Third Quarter
GR: Wilson 1 run (Hofer kick)
GR: Wilson 4 run (Hofer kick)
GR: Devin Love 11 pass from Hofer (Hofer
kick)
Fourth Quarter
GR: Kyle Ivie 33 run (Hofer kick)
GR: Ivie 33 run (Hofer kick)

man found Shepperson on

a seam route 5 seconds into
the fourth quarter that the
Mustangs scored their first
touchdown of the year. Natrona started the season on
a touchdown drought of
132-minutes, 5-seconds.
That drought caused the
Mustangs to play with tension and thats not when
Natrona is at its best.
I think our kids kind of
came full circle this week
and said, You know, were
out here to have fun. Friday
nights should be a celebration, not a time where we get
all tight, Harshman said.

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
Rushing Raw, Damon Taylor 13-61, Trey
Young 11-38, Kadin Forney 11-35, Hunter
Pixler 2-10. GR, Drew Wilson 16-102, Kyle
Ivie 3-71, Chance Hofer 9-42, Vergarra 5-41,
Candon Croft 6-35, James Bunderman 2-0.
Passing Raw, Young 10-20-2146, Pixler
6-14-054. GR, Hofer 12-20-1125.
Receiving Raw, Colton Garlington
7-126, Bryce Jerome 5-46, Beau Hines
1-20, Connor Mendez 1-12, Nate Williams
1-7. GR, Taylor Thornton 2-45, Cole White
3-42, Devin Love 2-22, Croft 2-7, Wilson 1-6,
Bunderman 2-3.

CLASS 2A
Newcastle 36, Moorcroft 14
New 14 7 0 15 36
Mor 0 0 6 8 14
First Quarter
New: Preston Rushton 17 run (kick failed)
New: Cameron Quigley 33 run (Rushton
run)
Second Quarter
New: Lyle Whitney 5 run (kick good)
Third Quarter
Mor: Thomas Schlater 8 pass from Chace
Petersen (kick failed)
Fourth Quarter
New: Quigley 67 run (kick good)
Mor: Rowdy Cranston 7 run (Cranston run)
New: Rushton 15 run (Deveraux run)
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
Rushing New, Preston Rushton 13-169,
Cameron Quigley 10-151. Mor, Grayson
Osman 11-61, Rowdy Pfeil 5-57, Rowdy
Cranston 8-54, Chace Peterson 16-46,
Brett Wassberg 1-5.
Passing New, Quigley 0-3-00, Triston
Roberson 0-1-00. Mor, Peterson 7-9-071,
Tommy Schlater 1-2-10.
Glenrock 63, Thermopolis 0
The 0 0 0 0 0
Glk 15 21 14 13 63
First Quarter
Glk: Garrett Schwindt 35 punt return
(kick failed)
Glk: Team safety
Glk: Schwindt 11 run (Tucker Bopp kick)
Second Quarter
Glk: Schwindt 41 run (Bopp kick)
Glk: Zane Moore 49 punt return (Bopp
kick)
Glk: Cooper Fargen 11 run (Bopp kick)
Third Quarter
Glk: Bopp 6 run (Bopp kick)
Glk: Dawson Blaylock 15 run (Bopp kick)
Fourth Quarter
Glk: Brysen Collier 11 run (kick failed)
Glk: Patrick Bruno 9 run (Bopp kick)

We want to play loose, play

fast and have fun.
Fridays win gave the
Mustangs a much-needed
confidence boost and the
experience of winning a
close game. That experience should go a long way in
helping the younger players
develop.
Juniors Harshman, Shepperson and Brenton have
improved week-by-week,
and sophomore running
back Chase Brachtenbach
has made the most out of
his carries.
The head coach doesnt
see that development end-

CLASS 1A/11-MAN
Pine Bluffs 41, Wind River 0
PB 14 14 7 6 41
WR 0 0 0 0 0
PINE BLUFFS STATISTICS
Rushing Ruger Lewis 15-178, Isaiah
Montanes 8-81, Haize Fornstrom 2-15, Kyle
Steger 2-11, Ishmael DePaulitte 3-4.
Passing Fornstrom 6-10-1193.
Receiving Chris Fornstrom 3-88, Cade
Kissinger 2-55, DePaulitte 1-50.
Lusk 58, Saratoga 12
Sar 0 6 0 6 12
Lus 24 14 6 14 58
First Quarter
Lus: Ryan Gilkey 81 punt return (Gilkey run)
Lus: Riley Ross 2 run (Gilkey run)
Lus: Kyle Anderson 2 run (Ross run)
Second Quarter
Lus: Ross 20 run (Jacob Muir kick)
Sar: Ziegler 37 pass from Toga
Lus: Ross 30 run (Muir kick)
Third Quarter
Lus: Ross 4 run
Fourth Quarter
Lus: Damian Molzahn 1 run
Sar: Ziegler 17 pass from Toga
Lus: Molzahn 1 run (Gilkey run)
Lusk rushing Riley Ross 18-139, Ryan
Gilkey 9-56, Tim Ross 10-44, Kyle Anderson
4-17, Damien Molzahn 9-43, James Stone
9-41.
Lusk passing Anderson 2-4-030.
Lusk receiving Gilkey 1-23, James
Blackburn 1-7.

Southeast 32, Shoshoni 13

Sho 7 0 6 0 13
SE 6 20 0 6 32
First Quarter
Sho: Jason Thoren 1 run (Thoren kick)
SE: Jared Myrtle 10 pass from Brady
Fullmer
Second Quarter
SE: Chase Lovercheck 12 run
SE: Chance Werner 12 run
SE: Kaden Malm 41 pass from Brady
Fullmer (Werner run)
Third Quarter
Sho: Patrick Cornell 5 run
SE: Werner 20 run
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
Rushing Sho, Wyatt Ramsey 20-41, Jason
Thoren 21-14, Patrick Cornell 8-10, Coleter
Jordan 2-3, Wyatt Weaver 1-(-5). SE, Brady
Fullmer 12-66, Jacob Cushman 13-39,
Chance Werner 11-38, Chase Lovercheck
2-14, Kaden Malm 1-1.
Passing Sho, Thoren 4-18-239, Anthony
Cousineau 1-1-015. SE, Fullmer 7-16-0119.
Receiving Sho, Cousineau 2-34, Gary
Medicine Cloud 1-15, Jordan 1-5, Weaver
1-0. SE, Malm 1-41, Lovercheck 1-34, Conner
Humphrey 1-13, Jacob Schmitt 2-13, Jared
Myrtle 1-10, Werner 1-8.

ing anytime soon.

Theres so much improvement were going to
continue to make and thats
the beauty of this thing,
Harshman said. We grew a
lot (Friday) but weve got a
really high ceiling and were
not even close yet.
As high as that ceiling
might be, the upcoming
task is just as tall. The Mustangs travel to top-ranked
Gillette to take on the unbeaten Camels this Friday.
Follow sports reporter Brady
Oltmans on Twitter
@Brady_CST

FOOTBALL

WHOS HERE: Tongue River, Upton, Wright,

Sundance-Hulett, Big Horn, Moorcroft, Lusk

Fridays Games

Friday-Saturday

C lass 4A
Sheridan 49, Evanston 3
Gillette 47, Cheyenne Central 14
Cheyenne South 31, Cheyenne East 28
Rock Springs 35, Kelly Walsh 12
Natrona 14, Laramie 13
Class 3A
Douglas 36, Cody 12
Star Valley 49, Riverton 7
Jackson 28, Lander 13
Buffalo 7, Powell 6
Green River 56, Rawlins 12
Torrington 19, Worland 13
Class 2A
Mountain View 28, Lyman 14
Lovell 26, Big Piney 20, OT
Big Horn 59, Burns 22
Greybull 57, Kemmerer 0
Newcastle 36, Moorcroft 14
Glenrock 63, Thermopolis 0
Pinedale 27, Wheatland 24
Class 1A/11-man
Pine Bluffs 41, Wind River 0
Tongue River 68, Wyoming Indian 0
Upton-Sundance 34, Rocky Mountain 14
Lusk 58, Saratoga 12
Southeast 32, Shoshoni 13
C lass 1A/6-man
Guernsey 39, Lingle 32
Snake River 61, Riverside 19

Saturdays Games
Class 1A/11-man
Cokeville 40, Wright 0
Class 1A/6-man
Midwest 76, NSI 43
Farson 40, Burlington 20
Kaycee 59, Hanna 7
Meeteetse 78, Dubois 27
St. Stephens 49, Ten Sleep 32
Hulett 47, Rock River 12

VOLLEYBALL
Wednesday
C lass 4A East
Cheyenne East 3, Cheyenne Central 1 (23-25, 25-20,
25-18, 25-11)
Interstate
Idaho Falls, Idaho 3, Star Valley 0 (25-23, 25-10, 25-20)

Thursday
C lass 4A West
Green River 3, Rock Springs 2 (25-16, 25-20, 20-25,
23-25, 15-10)
Class 2A Northeast
Sundance 3, Moorcroft 0 (25-10, 25-15, 25-15)
I nterclass
Big Piney 3, Cokeville 1 (25-17, 20-25, 25-17, 26-24)
Interstate
Cheyenne Central 3, Scottsbluff, Neb. 1 (25-23, 21-25,
25-14, 25-16)

Friday
C lass 4A East
Gillette 3, Cheyenne South 0 (25-23, 25-15, 25-11)
Laramie 3, Sheridan 0 (25-16, 25-20, 25-19)
Class 4A West
Kelly Walsh 3, Evanston 1 (25-20, 25-20, 14-25, 25-22)
Green River at Jackson, (n)
Class 1A Northeast
Hulett 3, Arvada-Clearmont 0 (25-16, 25-20, 25-21)
Class 1A Southwest
Encampment 3, Snake River 0 (25-11, 25-13, 26-24)
Cokeville at Farson, (n)
Class 1A
Guernsey at Midwest, (n)

Saturday
C lass 4A East
Laramie 3, Gillette 2 (21-25, 25-17, 19-25, 25-21, 17-15)
Sheridan at Cheyenne South
Class 4A West
Kelly Walsh at Jackson
Natrona 3, Evanston 0 (26-24, 25-16, 25-15)
Class 1A East
Midwest at Hulett
Class 1A Southeast
Snake River at Saratoga
Interstate
Bear Lake, Idaho at Kemmerer

Friday-Saturday
Rawlins Invite
WHOS HERE: Rawlins, Worland, Buffalo,
Thermopolis, Wheatland, Douglas, Newcastle,
Torrington, Cody, Powell, Lander, Riverton, Star
Valley, Mountain View, Lyman, Pinedale
Big Horn Invite
WHOS HERE: Big Horn, Glenrock, Upton, Wright,
Sundance, Tongue River, Pine Bluffs, Lusk, Southeast,
Burns, Lovell, Greybull, Riverside, Shoshoni, Wind
River

Saturday
anna Invite
H
WHOS HERE: Hanna, Kaycee, Lingle, Rock River,
Glendo, Ten Sleep, Dubois, Encampment

GOLF
Thursday-Friday
Worland Invite
WHOS HERE: Worland, Buffalo, Thermopolis,
Powell, Lander

Friday
Tongue River Invite

Star Valley Invite

WHOS HERE: Star Valley, Lyman, Pinedale,
Kemmerer, Evanston, Jackson, Cody

TENNIS
Friday
Boys

Natrona 4, Kelly Walsh 1

Singles
No. 1: Matt Paris, KW, def Michael Langmade, 2-6,
6-4, 6-4
No. 2: Jacob Pierce, NC, def Zach Richards, 6-1, 6-2
Doubles
No. 1: Ben Radosevich/Patrick Alleman, NC, def
Owen Hof/Grady Parrish, 6-2, 6-1
No. 2: Brayden Busch/Bradley Vendevoort, NC, def
Dylan Blakemore/Levi Connell, 6-1, 6-2
No. 3: Streeter Boatright/Evan Voyte, NC, def Jaymon
Roan/Colton Allaire, 6-3, 6-0
Sheridan 5, Cheyenne East 0
Singles
No. 1: Quinton Suska def Luke Macy, 6-1, 6-1
No. 2: Ethan Kutz def Dustin Jones, 6-2, 6-3
Doubles
No. 1: Noah Gustafson/Scott Rogaczewski def Jared
Marquardt/Troy Moore, 6-2, 6-1
No. 2: Liam Brown/Jackson Porterfield def Ian Allen/
Nolan Gerdes, 6-4, 6-0
No. 3: Logan Jensen/Kellen Mentock def Seth
Davidson/Grant Redman, 6-0, 6-0
Gillette 5, Laramie 0
Singles
No. 1: Dawson Miessler def Kyle Moore, 6-0, 6-0
No. 2: Garrett Seamans def Ben Graeff, 6-4, 6-1
Doubles
No. 1: Cory Myers/Logan Myers def Miles Stump/
Ky Fike, 7-6, 6-3
No. 2: Aaron Swan/Colton Larson def Noah Dreiling/
Quingfeng Li, 6-3, 6-4
No. 3: Tyler Neary/Zach Bradley def Abijah Ahren/
Mao Matsuda, 7-6, 6-4
Girls
Kelly Walsh 5, Natrona 0
Singles
No. 1: Emily Applegate def Julia Cox, 6-0, 6-1
No. 2: Allie Szewezyk def Skylar Eades, 6-1, 5-7, 6-2
Doubles
No. 1: Kelli Bennion/MacKenzie Chadderdon def
Destiny Keil/Leslie Briscoe, 6-1, 6-3
No. 2: Bailey Neff/Kylie Spangler def Aiyann Wolz/
Lorissa Finchum, 6-0, 6-2
Sheridan 4, Cheyenne East 1
Singles
No. 1: Maddie Garneau, She, won by forfeit
No. 2: Lea Paidoussis, CE, def Hannah Jost, 6-3,
4-6, 7-5
Doubles
No. 1: Skye Bensel/Delainy Szmyd, She, def Anna
Larson/Samantha Jurowski, 6-1, 6-3
No. 2: Libby Standish/Lennon Degroiw, She, def
Kooper Stringer/Kodi Stringer, 6-2, 6-1
No. 3: Aerianna Roth/Kate Arneson, She, def Delaney
Schmidt/Charlotte Hecht, 6-2, 6-1
Gillette 5, Laramie 0
Singles
No. 1: Gillette wins by forfeit
No. 2: Gillette wins by forfeit
Doubles
No. 1: Sarah Bridges/Brynn Holland def Ally Franc/
Morgan Bury, 6-1, 6-2
No. 2: Grace Wiley/Tatum Barstad def Tori Longress/
Caitlin Huang, 6-1, 6-3
No. 3: Jessica Brennan/Alli Hays def Niky Pisitpong/
not provided, 6-3, 7-5

GIRLS SWIMMING
Saturday
C heyenne South Invite
WHOS HERE: Cheyenne South, Cheyenne East,
Cheyenne Central, Gillette, Laramie, Douglas, Kelly
Walsh, Natrona, Green River, Evanston, Rawlins,
Sheridan
Gene Dozah Invite
at Powell
WHOS HERE: Powell, Cody, Lander, Riverton,
Jackson, Worland, Buffalo, Newastle

CROSS-COUNTRY
Saturday
ichelle Ludwig Invite
M
at Sheridan
Boys
Team: Kelly Walsh 45, Cody 73, Billings (Mont.) 92,
Sheridan 106, Billings West (Mont.) 119, Natrona 140,
Gillette 180, Worland 183, Douglas 240, Powell 276,
Riverton 289, Wheatland 374.
Individual: Jared McCafferty, She, 16:28.63; Peder
Rickbeil, Bil, 16:34.90; Brian Gonda, She, 16:38.84;
Jake Pearson, KW, 16:47.66; Nate Robinson, KW,
16:57.07; Tristan Knotterus, Gillette, 17:01.09;
Hunter Graves, Cody, 17:05.68; Brennan Hagar, NC,
17:24.98; Ned Murray, KW, 17:28.17; Joshua Martin,
KW, 17:30.23.
Girls
Team: Billings (Mont.) 49, Sheridan 83, Billings
West (Mont.) 114, Gillette 117, Cody 121, Natrona 151,
Thermopolis 164, Kelly Walsh 210, Riverton 232,
Powell 254, Worland 256, Douglas 279, Wheatland
362.
Individual: Tiahna Vladic, Bil, 17:41.86; Jules
Ward, The, 19:04.11; Jade Hallgrimson, Bil, 19:39.43;
Jaylyn Hallgrimson, Bil, 19:45.43; Sydney Wendt, Gil,
19:46.94; Xiomara Robinson, She, 20:12.66; Hailey

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SOCCER | ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE

Sunday, September 11, 2016|D5

TENNIS | US OPEN

Kerber wins 2nd major of year

HOWARD FENDRICH

Associated Press

MARTIN RICKETT/PA VIA AP

Manchester Citys Kevin De Bruyne, right, celebrates

scoring his sides first goal with teammate Nolito during
their match against Manchester United at Old Trafford, on
Saturday in Manchester, England.

Man City takes

Manchester derby
STEVE DOUGLAS

Associated Press

MANCHESTER, England It was bad enough

for Jose Mourinho that his
first Manchester derby
ended in defeat.
That the architects of the
loss were Pep Guardiola
and Kevin De Bruyne might
have been even tougher
for the Manchester United
manager to digest.
In a resumption of the
often-feisty rivalry between soccers two most
coveted coaches, Guardiola
got the better of Mourinho
as Man City beat Man
United 2-1 in the biggest
match of the English Premier League so far.
Citys fourth straight
win to open the season
was inspired by De Bruyne,
a player deemed not good
enough and discarded by
Mourinho when both were
at Chelsea.
De Bruyne scored the
opening goal in the 15th
minute and played a big
role in the second goal in
the 36th, sending in a shot
that thumped the post and
rebounded back to Kelechi
Iheanacho to tap in.
Kevin had an amazing,
amazing game, Guardiola
said.
With its crisp passing and movement, City
delivered a footballing
clinic in the first half at
Old Trafford to humiliate United and Mourinho,
who acknowledged that he
couldnt wait for halftime
to come. By then, Zlatan
Ibrahimovic had reduced
the deficit against the run
of play, volleying home after City goalkeeper Claudio
Bravo making his debut
dropped a free kick.
United couldnt cap an
improved
second-half
display with an equalizer,
leaving Mourinho with just
one win over Guardiola in
his last 10 attempts, and
only three in a total of 17

games against Guardiolas

teams.
There was no sign of the
bitterness that marked
their meetings in Spanish
football when in charge of
Barcelona and Real Madrid, with Mourinho and
Guardiola shaking hands
and even sharing a hug before kickoff and at fulltime.
I didnt come here
to see about the rivalry,
Guardiola said. He wants
to win, I want to win. He
beats me and I beat him in
the future. Its as simple as
that.
After three straight
wins, United dropped its
first points of the season.
Chelsea is the only team
apart from City to have a
100 percent winning start,
and plays its fourth game at
Swansea on Sunday.
Heres what else happened in the Premier
League:

LEICESTER

It doesnt look like

Leicester will deliver another fairytale title success
this season.
The champions were
beaten 4-1 by Liverpool
and have lost two of their
four games so far. Leicester
lost only three games last
season.
Perhaps Liverpool could
be the unlikely title challenger this time round.
Roberto Firmino scored
twice while Sadio Mane
and Adam Lallana also
scored at Anfield, which
hosted its first game of the
season following the completion of work to expand
the clubs main stand.
Liverpool has already
beaten Arsenal and Leicester this season, and drawn
at Tottenham.
Next up for Leicester:
A break from league play
and its first ever match in
the Champions League,
against Club Brugge on
Wednesday.

NEW YORK Early in

what would become a tight
test of a U.S. Open final,
Angelique Kerber sprinted
forward to somehow reach
a drop shot and scoop a
down-the-line
winner
that landed in a corner of
the court.
The Arthur Ashe Stadium
crowd roared, and Kerber
celebrated by raising her
right hand and wagging her
index finger in the air, as if to
remind opponent Karolina
Pliskova and everyone
else Im No. 1!
Yes, she is. And a twotime Grand Slam champion,
too.
Kerber won her first U.S.
Open title and the second
major trophy of an out-ofnowhere breakthrough season, taking five of the last
six games to beat a fading
Pliskova 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 on
Saturday.
It means a lot to me.
When I was a kid, I was always dreaming to one day
be the No. 1 player in the
world, to win Grand Slams,
said the 28-year-old Kerber,
who will move up one spot
from No. 2 and replace Serena Williams atop the WTA
rankings on Monday. I
mean, all the dreams came
true this year.
Never a Grand Slam finalist before 2016, Kerber
beat Williams for the Australian Open title in January,
then was the runner-up to
her at Wimbledon in July.
Adding the championship
at Flushing Meadows was
further proof that all of the
changes Kerber has made
are paying off.
The better fitness, via
extra time in the gym and
longer, more intense practice sessions; an improved
serve and a new willingness to attack during
points, rather than mainly
counter-punching, via instruction from coach Torben Beltz; a more positive
attitude on court, via help
from a mental coach.
Of course, now everybody will try to beat me and
have nothing to lose, Kerber said. I will try to take
this challenge.
On Saturday, the No.
2-seeded Kerber trailed by
a break at 3-1 in the third set
before coming back against
the 10th-seeded Pliskova,
who hadnt been past the
third round at a major until
this tournament.
It didnt look good,
Beltz said about the deficit.
But I think thats also her
strength. Because ... if she
sees she still has a chance,
shes grabbing it and she
goes for it.
Kerber is the first woman
from Germany to win the
U.S. Open and the first to
get to No. 1 since her idol

MLB | ROUNDUP

Bregman lifts Astros over Cubs

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

OUSTON Rookie Alex

H
Bregman homered, Collin
McHugh combined with his
bullpen on a two-hitter and
the Houston Astros beat the
Chicago Cubs 2-1 Saturday
as they tried to gain ground
in the AL wild card race.
Marwin Gonzalez drove
in a run with a third inning
squeeze bunt for the Astros, who began the day 2
1/2 games back for the ALs
second wild card.
Bregman put the Astros ahead with an opposite-field home run to
right-center against John
Lackey (9-8) in a two-run
third. After starting 1 for 34
following hus July 25 callup,
Bregman has eight home
runs all since Aug. 16. He
went 2 for 4 and raised his
average to .274 with 31 RBIs.
McHugh (10-10) won
his third straight decision,
allowing one run and two
hits in five innings. Chris
Devenski, Will Harris, Luke
Gregerson and Ken Giles
combined for hitless relief.

M
1

Jr. hit a two-run homer and

Toronto beat Boston to close
within one game of the AL
East-leaders.
Toronto stopped a fourgame losing streak and
avoided matching its longest skid this season. Devon
Travis had three hits for the
Blue Jays and is 6 for 9 in the
first two games of the series.
Happ (18-4) allowed
two runs and four hits in
six-plus innings to win for
the first time since Aug. 17
at the New York Yankees,
ending a three-start winless
streak. He didnt allow a hit
until Chris Youngs one-out
single to center in the fifth.

YANKEES 5, RAYS 1

At New York, Gary Sanchez homered and almost

hit another while Tampa
Bay was trying to intentionally walk him, leading Masahiro Tanaka and
hard-charging New York
to its season-best seventh
straight win.
The Yankees closed
within three games of AL
East-leading Boston, their
BLUE JAYS 3,
closest to the lead since
mid-April. They began the
RED SOX 2
day one game behind BalAt Toronto, J.A. Happ got timore and Detroit for the
his 18th win, Melvin Upton second wild-card spot, with

the Orioles playing the Tigers later at night.

Tanaka (13-4) struck out
10 and took a shutout into
the eighth inning. Chris Archer (8-18) tied the Tampa
Bay record for losses in a
season, set by Tanyon Sturtze in 2002.

MARINERS 14,
ATHLETICS 3
At Oakland, Calif., Felix Hernandez pitched six
scoreless innings to continue his dominance at the
Oakland Coliseum and Seattle beat Oakland.
Nelson Cruz had three
hits and three RBI, Nori
Aoki also had three hits and
drove in two runs, and Kyle
Seager hit his 28th home run
to help the Mariners to their
seventh win in eight games
against the As this season.
Seattle batted around
twice and had seven players
with two hits or more.
Hernandez (11-5) gave up
four hits and a walk in the
first two innings then settled in for his second consecutive win. Seattles sixtime All-Star walked one
and struck out two for his
seventh win since coming
off the disabled list.

SETH WENIG, AP

Angelique Kerber holds the champions trophy after defeating Karolina Pliskova in the U.S.
Open final on Saturday in New York.
and mentor, Steffi Graf, who
got in touch via text message before the final.
It was Pliskova who guaranteed Kerbers ascension
in the rankings by beating
Williams in the semifinals,
ending her streak of 186
consecutive weeks at the
top, which began in February 2013 and equaled Grafs
mark.
Kerber, who collected
$3.5 million in prize money

Saturday, lost to Pliskova

the last time they met, just
three weeks ago in the final
of a hard-court tournament
in Cincinnati.
But at the outset of this
final, it was Kerber who
was in charge. Her defense
is exemplary, scrambling
along the baseline to put her
racket on seemingly every
ball, crouching so low that
her knees would come close
to scraping the ground.

As she does against most

opponents, Kerber would
make Pliskova swing two,
three, four extra times to
try to end a point. And Pliskova was troubled by that
in the early going, making
17 unforced errors in the
first set alone, 14 more than
Kerber. By the conclusion
of the 2-hour, 7-minute
final, Pliskova totaled 47
unforced errors, 30 more
than Kerber.

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GOLF | BMW CHAMPIONSHIP

Johnson seizes control

IN BRIEF

DOUG FERGUSON

Associated Press

CARMEL, Ind. Dustin

Johnson plays a different

game than anyone else, and
he wanted to keep it that way.
Right down to his putter.
The U.S. Open champion
made a late change just before
starting the BMW Championship, and so far he has no
complaints. Johnson finished
with four birdies over the last
five holes Saturday on soggy
Crooked Stick for a 4-under 68, stretching his lead to
three shots going into the final
round.
He is smashing his driver
long and straight, just like
always. He is hitting wedges
good enough for multiple
birdie chances.
And now the putts are going in.
The strength this week has
been putting, Johnson said.
Im rolling it really nicely.
Even the putts that Im missing still look like theyre going
in.
He was particular about the
change, though.
Johnson decided to switch
to the TaylorMade Spider. But
right before he teed off in the
opening round, he was bothered by one aspect of his new
weapon. It was red, just like
the model world No. 1 Jason
Day uses. He recalled that his
brother and caddie, Austin,
had a similar model.
I was putting good with
it and right before we were
about to tee off on Thursday,
Im like, AJ, dont you have
the same one in black? And
he says, Yeah. And I said, Go
get it. I just didnt want to use
the same putter Jason was
like, the exact same one. That
was really the only reason I
changed.
Eighteen birdies and one
eagle putt later, Johnson was
at 18-under 198 and closing in

ON THE AIR
Today

CYCLING
2p.m.

NBCSN Vuelta a Espana, Stage 21: Las Rozas,

Spain to Madrid (same-day tape)
GOLF
4:30a.m.

GOLF European PGA Tour, KLM Open, final

round, at Spijk, Netherlands
10a.m.

GOLF PGA Tour, BMW Championship, final

round, at Carmel, Ind.
Noon

NBC PGA Tour, BMW Championship, final

round, at Carmel, Ind.
GOLF Web.com Tour, DAP Championship,
final round, at Beachwood, Ohio
MLB BASEBALL
11a.m.

TBS Baltimore at Detroit

6p.m.

ESPN Chicago Cubs at Houston

NFL FOOTBALL
11a.m.

CBS Regional coverage

FOX Regional coverage
2:25p.m.

FOX Regional coverage

6:20p.m.

NBC New England at Arizona

PARALYMPICS
5 p.m.

NBCSN 2016 Rio Summer Games (Swimming,

Track & Field, Wheelchair Basketball), at Rio
de Janeiro
RUGBY
Noon

NBCSN English Premiership, Exeter vs.

Saracens, at London (same-day tape)
SAILING
8p.m.

NBCSN Americas Cup World Series, at

Toulon, France (tape-delayed)
SOCCER
7:30a.m.

FS1 Bundesliga, SV Werder Bremen vs. FC

Augsburg
9a.m.

NBCSN Premier League, Chelsea at Swansea

City
9:30a.m.

FS1 Bundesliga, F.S.V. Mainz vs. TSG 1899

Hoffenheim
11a.m.

ESPN MLS, D.C. United at New York Red Bulls

5p.m.

FS1 MLS, Orlando City at Los Angeles

7:30p.m.

FS1 NWSL, Western New York at Portland

TENNIS
2p.m.

ESPN U.S. Open, Mens singles final, at

New York
WNBA BASKETBALL
2:30p.m.

NBA New York at Dallas

5p.m.

NBA Los Angeles at Seattle

FOOTBALL
NCAA
Mountain West Standings
Mountain Division

CONF. ALL

W-L PF PA W-L PF PA
Air Force
0-0 0 0 2-0 85 35
Boise State
0-0 0 0 1-0 45 21
New Mexico
0-0 0 0 1-0 48 21
Colorado State 0-0 0 0 1-1 30 58
Utah State
0-0 0 0 1-1 52 51
Wyoming
0-0 0 0 1-1 57 86
West Division

CONF. ALL

W-L PF PA W-L PF PA
San Diego State 0-0 0 0 1-0 31 0
UNLV
0-0 0 0 1-0 63 13
Nevada
0-0 0 0 1-1 40 66
San Jose State
0-0 0 0 1-1 76 80
Fresno State
0-0 0 0 0-1 10 43
Hawaii
0-0 0 0 0-2 34 114
Saturdays Games
Nebraska 52, Wyoming 17
Air Force 48, Georgia State 14
Southern Cal 45, Utah State 7
Notre Dame 39, Nevada 10
Colorado State 23, Texas-San Antonio 14
San Jose State 66, Portland State 35
New Mexico at New Mexico State, (n)
UNLV at UCLA, (n)
Sacramento State at Fresno State, (n)
Washington State at Boise State, (n)
California at San Diego State, (n)
Tennessee-Martin at Hawaii, (n)

THOMAS JOHANSSON/TT VIA AP

Finlands Lauri Korpikoski, left, challenges

Swedens Daniel Sedin during their IIHF Ice
Hockey World Cup pretournament match on
Saturday in Goteborg, Sweden.
WORLD CUP OF HOCKEY

Sweden tops Finland in warmup

AJ MAST, AP

Dustin Johnson drives off the tee of the sixth hole during the third round of the BMW Championship
golf tournament at Crooked Stick Golf Club on Saturday in Carmel, Ind., Saturday.
on his third victory of the year.
Paul Casey did his best to
stay with him. Casey, coming off a runner-up finish on
Labor Day at the TPC Boston,
matched two of Johnsons
birdies during his late run
until he had to scramble for
pars on the last two holes. He
still managed a bogey-free 68
and will be in the final group
Sunday.
We had a front row seat for
something very special, and
Ill get a front row seat for it
tomorrow, Casey said.
Casey missed five fairways,
his most this week in any
round, yet still managed to
keep bogeys off his card with
smart shots out of the wet
rough and solid putting. And
he still matched Johnsons
score, even though he didnt
make up any ground.
Not much you can do, Casey said. Hes got maybe the
best attitude in golf. When
he gets on his game, maybe

How the AP Top 25 Fared

N o. 1 Alabama (2-0) beat Western Kentucky
38-10. Next: at No. 19 Mississippi, Saturday.
No. 2 Clemson (2-0) beat Troy 30-24. Next: vs.
SC State, Saturday.
No. 3 Florida State (2-0) beat Charleston
Southern 52-8. Next: at No. 13 Louisville,
Saturday.
No. 4 Ohio State (2-0) beat Tulsa 48-3. Next: at
No. 14 Oklahoma, Saturday.
No. 5 Michigan (2-0) beat UCF 51-14. Next: vs.
Colorado, Saturday.
No. 6 Houston (2-0) beat Lamar 42-0. Next: at
Cincinnati, Thursday.
No. 7 Stanford (1-0) did not play. Next: vs.
Southern Cal, Saturday.
No. 8 Washington (2-0) beat Idaho 59-14. Next:
vs. Portland State, Saturday.
No. 9 Georgia (2-0) beat Nicholls 26-24. Next:
at Missouri, Saturday.
No. 10 Wisconsin (2-0) beat Akron 54-10. Next:
vs. Georgia State, Saturday.
No. 11 Texas (2-0) beat UTEP 41-7. Next: at
California, Saturday.
No. 12 Michigan State (1-0) did not play. Next:
at No. 18 Notre Dame, Saturday.
No. 13 Louisville (2-0) beat Syracuse 62-28,
Friday. Next: vs. No. 3 Florida State, Saturday.
No. 14 Oklahoma (1-1) beat Louisiana-Monroe
59-17. Next: vs. No. 4 Ohio State, Saturday.
No. 15 TCU (1-0) vs. Arkansas. Next: vs. Iowa
State, Saturday.
No. 16 Iowa (1-0) vs. Iowa State. Next: vs. North
Dakota State, Saturday.
No. 17 Tennessee (1-0) vs. Virginia Tech at
Bristol, Tenn. Next: vs. Ohio, Saturday.
No. 18 Notre Dame (1-1) beat Nevada 39-10.
Next: vs. No. 12 Michigan State, Saturday.
No. 19 Mississippi (1-1) beat Wofford 38-13.
Next: vs. No. 1 Alabama, Saturday.
No. 20 Texas A&M (2-0) beat Prairie View 67-0.
Next: at Auburn, Saturday.
No. 21 LSU (0-1) vs. Jacksonville State. Next:
vs. Mississippi State, Saturday.
No. 22 Oklahoma State (1-1) lost to Central
Michigan 30-27. Next: vs. Pittsburgh, Saturday.
No. 23 Baylor (2-0) beat SMU 40-13. Next: at
Rice, Friday.
No. 24 Oregon (1-0) vs. Virginia. Next: at
Nebraska, Saturday.
No. 25 Miami (2-0) beat FAU 38-10. Next: at
Appalachian State, Saturday.

NFL

Thursdays Game

DENVER 21, Carolina 20

Todays Games

Minnesota at Tennessee, 11a.m.

Cleveland at Philadelphia, 11a.m.
Green Bay at Jacksonville, 11a.m.
San Diego at Kansas City, 11a.m.
Chicago at Houston, 11a.m.
Oakland at New Orleans, 11a.m.
Tampa Bay at Atlanta, 11a.m.
Buffalo at Baltimore, 11a.m.
Cincinnati at N.Y. Jets, 11a.m.
Miami at Seattle, 2:05p.m.
N.Y. Giants at Dallas, 2:25p.m.
Detroit at Indianapolis, 2:25p.m.
New England at Arizona, 6:30p.m.
Mondays Games

Pittsburgh at Washington, 5:10p.m.

Los Angeles at San Francisco, 8:20p.m.
Thursday, Sep. 15

N.Y. Jets at Buffalo, 6:25p.m.

Sunday, Sep. 18

San Francisco at Carolina, 11a.m.

Dallas at Washington, 11a.m.
Miami at New England, 11a.m.
New Orleans at N.Y. Giants, 11a.m.
Baltimore at Cleveland, 11a.m.
Tennessee at Detroit, 11a.m.
Kansas City at Houston, 11a.m.
Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 11a.m.
Seattle at Los Angeles, 2:05p.m.
Tampa Bay at Arizona, 2:05p.m.
Jacksonville at San Diego, 2:25p.m.
Indianapolis at DENVER, 2:25p.m.
Atlanta at Oakland, 2:25p.m.
Green Bay at Minnesota, 6:30p.m.
Monday, Sep. 19

Philadelphia at Chicago, 6:30p.m.

the best ball-striker in golf.

Maybe the longest. And he
showed it today. So, if he keeps
doing what hes been doing
what he averaging, 6 under a
day? if does the same tomorrow, theres no catching
him.
Johnson will be going for
his third victory of the year,
which would move him to
the top of the FedEx Cup going into the finale at the Tour
Championship in two weeks
and make him a heavy favorite
to win PGA Tour player of the
year and the Vardon Trophy.
Still in the mix was J.B.
Holmes, who shot a 68 and
was four shots behind. Holmes
at least is making a compelling
case to be a captains pick for
the Ryder Cup when Davis
Love III announces three of
his selections on Monday.
Holmes finished 10th in the
U.S. standings.
Roberto Castro, who began the third round tied for

Kansas City (Kennedy 10-9) at Chicago White

Sox (Sale 15-7), 12:10p.m.
Texas (Lewis 6-1) at L.A. Angels (Weaver 10-11),
1:35p.m.
Seattle (Paxton 4-6) at Oakland (Alcantara
0-1), 2:05p.m.
West Division
Chicago Cubs (Arrieta 16-6) at Houston (Fiers

W L Pct GB
Los Angeles
80 61
.567
10-6), 6:05p.m.
Mondays Games
San Francisco 75 65 .536 4
Colorado 68 73 .482 12 L.A. Dodgers at N.Y. Yankees, 5:05p.m.
58 82 .414 21 Tampa Bay at Toronto, 5:05p.m.
Arizona
58 83
.411
22 Baltimore at Boston, 5:10p.m.
San Diego
Fridays Games
Minnesota at Detroit, 5:10p.m.
Cincinnati 4, Pittsburgh 3
Oakland at Kansas City, 5:15p.m.
Washington 5, Philadelphia 4
Cleveland at Chicago White Sox, 6:10p.m.
Miami 4, L.A. Dodgers 1
Texas at Houston, 6:10p.m.
N.Y. Mets 6, Atlanta 4
Seattle at L.A. Angels, 8:05p.m.
Chicago Cubs 2, Houston 0
St. Louis 4, Milwaukee 3
San Francisco 7, Arizona 6, 12 innings
COLORADO 4, San Diego 1
PGA
Saturdays Games
BMW Championship
Houston 2, Chicago Cubs 1
Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 5:05p.m.
Saturday
Washington 3, Philadelphia 0
At Crooked Stick CC
Atlanta 4, N.Y. Mets 3, 10 innings
Carmel, Ind.
Purse: $8.5 million
L.A. Dodgers 5, Miami 0
Yardage: 7,516; Par: 72
St. Louis 5, Milwaukee 1
Third Round
San Francisco at Arizona, 6:10p.m.
D. Johnson
67-63-68198
-18
COLORADO at San Diego, 6:40p.m.
67-66-68201
-15
P.
Casey
Todays Games
J. Holmes
69-65-68202
-14
L.A. Dodgers (Maeda 14-8) at Miami (Urena
R. Castro
65-65-74204
-12
3-6), 11:10a.m.
A. Scott
69-69-67205
-11
Cincinnati (Finnegan 8-10) at Pittsburgh M. Kuchar
68-69-68205
-11
(Vogelsong 3-4), 11:35a.m.
73-64-69206
-10
R. Palmer
N.Y. Mets (Lugo 3-2) at Atlanta (Perez 2-2), C. Kirk
68-66-73207
-9
11:35a.m.
B. Horschel
73-68-67208
-8
68-72-68208
-8
Philadelphia (Morgan 2-9) at Washington J. Spieth
H.
Matsuyama
68-71-69208
-8
(Gonzalez 10-9), 11:35a.m.
R.
Knox
71-69-69209
-7
Milwaukee (Davies 10-7) at St. Louis (Weaver
W. McGirt
67-73-69209
-7
1-2), 12:15p.m.
66-72-71209
-7
San Francisco (Moore 9-11) at Arizona (Greinke B. Harman
D. Berger
70-68-71209
-7
12-5), 2:10p.m.
K. Na
69-68-72209
-7
Colorado (Bettis 12-7) at San Diego (Jackson J. Lovemark
72-69-69210
-6
4-5), 2:40p.m.
J. Hahn
69-71-70210
-6
Chicago Cubs (Arrieta 16-6) at Houston (Fiers S. Woo Kim
71-68-71210
-6
10-6), 6:05p.m.
B. Watson
71-67-72210
-6
Mondays Games
J. Curran
69-71-71211
-5
J. Vegas
69-72-70211
-5
L.A. Dodgers at N.Y. Yankees, 5:05p.m.
P. Reed
70-70-71211
-5
N.Y. Mets at Washington, 5:05p.m.
J. Day
73-67-71211
-5
Pittsburgh at Philadelphia, 5:05p.m.
J.
Kokrak
69-70-72211
-5
Miami at Atlanta, 5:10p.m.
S.
Kaufman
70-71-71212
-4
Milwaukee at Cincinnati, 5:10p.m.
P. Mickelson
68-73-71212
-4
Chicago Cubs at St. Louis, 6:15p.m.
D. Hearn
67-73-72212
-4
Colorado at Arizona, 7:40p.m.
V. Taylor
71-70-71212
-4
San Diego at San Francisco, 8:15p.m.
L. Donald
69-73-70212
-4
Chicago 90 51 .638
St. Louis
75
66
.532
15
Pittsburgh 69 70 .496 20
Milwaukee 63 79 .444 27
Cincinnati 58 82 .414 31

GOLF

J. Herman
American League
C. Schwartzel
B. Snedeker
East Division
B. Haas

W L Pct GB
E. Grillo
Boston 79 62 .560
R. McIlroy
Toronto 78 63 .553 1
G. McDowell
Baltimore 77 64 .546 2
B. Grace
New York
76
65
.539
3
J. Walker
Tampa Bay
59
82
.418
20
S. Garcia
Central Division
Z. Johnson
B. Hurley III

W L Pct GB
Cleveland 82 58 .586 L. Oosthuizen
Detroit
76 65 .539 6 S. Piercy
Kansas City
73
68
.518
9 J. Dufner
Chicago 68 73 .482 14 J. Rose
Minnesota 52 89 .369 30 H. Swafford
S. OHair
West Division
C. Hoffman
J. Thomas

W L Pct GB
Texas
84 58 .592 H. English
Houston 75 67 .528 9 K. Reifers
Seattle
74 68 .521 10 F. Gomez
Los Angeles
62
78
.443
21 G. Woodland
Oakland 60 81 .426 23 B. Koepka
K. Streelman
Fridays Games
A. Baddeley
N.Y. Yankees 7, Tampa Bay 5
K. Chappell
Boston 13, Toronto 3
K. Kisner
Detroit 4, Baltimore 3
R. Fowler
Chicago Cubs 2, Houston 0
T. Finau
Chicago White Sox 7, Kansas City 2
B. Stuard
R. Moore
Cleveland 5, Minnesota 4
C. Howell III
Seattle 3, Oakland 2
D. Lingmerth
Texas 2, L.A. Angels 1
M. Leishman
Saturdays Games
B. Steele
Houston 2, Chicago Cubs 1
D. Summerhays
Toronto 3, Boston 2
B. Martin

N.Y. Yankees 5, Tampa Bay 1

Seattle 14, Oakland 3
Cleveland at Minnesota, 5:10p.m.
Baltimore 11, Detroit 3
National League
Kansas City 6, Chicago White Sox 5
Texas at L.A. Angels, 7:05p.m.
East Division
Sundays Games

W L Pct GBTampa Bay (Andriese 6-7) at N.Y. Yankees
Washington 84 58 .592 (Cessa 4-0), 11:05a.m.
New York
75
67
.528
9
Boston (Buchholz 6-10) at Toronto (Sanchez
Miami
70 72 .493 14
Philadelphia 63 79 .444 21 13-2), 11:05a.m.
Baltimore
(Tillman 15-5) at Detroit (Verlander
Atlanta
55 87 .387 29
14-7), 11:10a.m.
Central Division
Cleveland (Kluber 15-9) at Minnesota (Berrios
2-5), 12:10p.m.

W L Pct GB

BASEBALL

the lead, didnt make a birdie

in his round of 74 and fell six
shots behind. Worst yet, the
Georgia Tech alum who lives
in Atlanta hurt his chances of
moving into the top 30 who
advance to the Tour Championship.
Barring a collapse by Johnson it has happened before
his big finish after a rain
delay earlier Saturday eliminated several players. Adam
Scott finally got some putts to
drop and with birdies on the
last two holes, he shot a 67
and joined Matt Kuchar (68)
at 11-under 205.
But they finished before
Johnson was done making
birdies, and both were seven
shots behind.
Im certainly a long shot.
Im a long way back of the
leaders and some great names
on the leaderboard, Kuchar
said. But I got a chance, and
golf on Sunday in fun when
you have a chance.

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+2
+2
+3
+3
+4
+5
+6
+6

SOCCER
MLS

Chicago
Columbus

6 13 8 26 33 42
5 11 11 26 36 45

Western Conference

FC Dallas
REAL SALT LAKE
Los Angeles
COLORADO
Kansas City
Portland
Vancouver
San Jose
Seattle
Houston

W L T Pts GF GA
15 7 6 51 45 36
12 8 8 44 42 40
10 4 14 44 45 30
11 5 10 43 28 24
11 12 6 39 35 35
9 11 8 35 42 44
9 13 7 34 37 45
7 8 11 32 26 29
9 13 4 31 32 36
5 11 11 26 32 37

NOTE: Three points for victory, one point

for tie.
Fridays Games

Houston 3, Kansas City 3, tie

Saturdays Games

Montreal 1, Philadelphia 1, tie

Vancouver 3, Columbus 1
New England 3, New York City FC 1
Toronto FC 2, Chicago 1
COLORADO at FC Dallas, late
REAL SALT LAKE at Portland, late
Seattle at San Jose, late
Todays Games

D.C. United at New York, 11a.m.

Orlando City at Los Angeles, 5p.m.

BASKETBALL
WNBA
Eastern Conference

W L Pct GB
New York
21
10
.677

Atlanta
16 14 .533 4
Chicago 15 15 .500 5
Indiana 15 15 .500 5
Washington 12 18 .400 8
Connecticut 11 19 .367 9

12 9 8 44 49 50
12 9 7 43 47 35
11 10 8 41 48 45
9 8 11 38 42 43
7 7 13 34 45 45
8 12 9 33 34 48
7 9 11 32 35 36

UW VOLLEYBALL

Cowgirls sweep Matadors

Laura Beach had a team-high 14 points, including 11 kills, to lead the University of Wyoming volleyball team to a sweep of Cal StateNorthridge (25-21, 25-23, 25-15) on Saturday
in Laramie.
The Matadors had problems getting the ball
past the Wyoming defense, finishing with a
three-set hitting percentage of .076. The Cowgirls also combined for 10 blocks.
Lily Austin and Courtney Chacon each had
nine digs and Chacon added 35 assists. Bayly
Poor (Jackson) contributed to the offense with
10 kills and Emily Lewis added nine.
SOCCER

Alaves stuns Barcelona

At Barcelona, Spain, Barcelona coach Luis
Enrique likely thought that a match against
promoted Alaves would be a good opportunity
to give most of his stars the day off.
The defending La Liga champions guessed
wrong, as Alaves pulled off a stunning 2-1 upset
at Camp Nou on Saturday.
Not even Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez, and Andres Iniesta going on for the last half hour could
turn around a result that left Real Madrid alone
at the top of the table after three rounds.
Madrids Cristiano Ronaldo needed just six
minutes to score in his first match of the season,
starting a 5-2 rout of Osasuna.
GOLF

Hend takes lead in KLM Open

At Spijk, Netherlands, Scott Hend picked up
four shots in his last five holes to finish at 14
under and take a one-shot lead into the final
round of the KLM Open on Saturday.
The Australian eagled the par-5 15th and
birdied the last, while Italian Nino Bertasio
had a double-bogey seven on the 18th to slip to
second place at 13 under. Bertasio bogeyed the
final hole also on Friday when he had a chance
to take the lead.
The 2013 KLM Open champion, Dutchman
Joost Luiten, shot his first bogey of the week on
the par-3 16th but made up for it with a birdie
on the 18th to move into a four-way tie for third
place at 11 under.
Staff and wire reports

Western Conference

W L Pct GB
Minnesota 25 5 .833
Los Angeles
24
7
.774
1
Seattle
14 17 .452 11
Phoenix 13 17 .433 12
Dallas
10 21 .323 15
San Antonio 6 24 .200 19
F ridays Games

Seattle 81, Washington 76

Indiana 95, Chicago 88
New York 89, Connecticut 82
Dallas 92, San Antonio 84
Saturdays Games

No games scheduled
Todays Games

Chicago at Connecticut, 11a.m.

Indiana at Washington, 2p.m.
Minnesota at San Antonio, 2:30p.m.
New York at Dallas, 2:30p.m.
Atlanta at Phoenix, 4p.m.
Los Angeles at Seattle, 5p.m.
Friday, September 16

D.C. United at Chicago, 6p.m.

Saturday, September 17

Vancouver at Seattle, 2p.m.

Philadelphia at Portland, 4p.m.
FC Dallas at New York City FC, 5p.m.
Columbus at Orlando City, 5:30p.m.
New England at Montreal, 5:30p.m.
San Jose at COLORADO, 7p.m.
Houston at REAL SALT LAKE, 7:30p.m.
Sunday, September 18

Los Angeles at Kansas City, Noon

New York at Toronto FC, 3p.m.

TRANSACTIONS
Baseball
American League
CLEVELAND INDIANS Recalled RHP Austin
Adams from Columbus (IL).
MINNESOTA TWINS Placed 3B Trevor Plouffe
on the 15-day DL.
SEATTLE MARINERS Activated RHP Tom
Wilhelmsen from the 15-day DL.
TEXAS RANGERS Received RHP R.J. Alvarez
on a waiver claim from the Chicago Cubs.
Transferred RHP Lucas Harrell from the 15 to
the 60-day DL.
National League
LOS ANGELES DODGERS Reinstated OF Andre
Ethier from the 60-day DL.
Atlantic League

LONG ISLAND DUCKS Activated RHP Nick

Struck and LHP Daniel Herrera. Placed RHPs
Eastern Conference
John Brownell and Bobby Blevins on the

W L T Pts GF GA
Toronto FC
13 8 7 46 41 29 inactive list.
New York City FC
New York
Philadelphia
Montreal
Orlando City
New England
D.C. United

At Gothenburg, Sweden, Loui Eriksson and

Patric Hornqvist scored twice each to lead
Sweden past Finland 6-3 in the Scandinavian
rivals second warmup game for the World Cup
of Hockey on Saturday.
On Thursday, Finland won 3-2 in Helsinki in
overtime.
Rasmus Ristolainen and captain Mikko Koivu
scored 3:05 apart in the middle period for Finland to cut the Swedish lead to 3-2 after Eriksson netted his two in the opening period and
Hornqvist added one in the second.
Nicklas Backstrom, Hornqvist, and Filip
Forsberg sealed the Swedish victory with goals
in the final period.
Erik Haula scored the third for Finland.

Football
NFL
DETROIT LIONS Released LB Josh Bynes from
injured reserve.
KANSAS CITY CHIEFS Released LB Dezman
Moses.

SPORTS CALENDAR
PREPS
KELLY WALSH FOOTBALL
Cheyenne South
at Cheyenne East

DAY
Friday

TIME
7p.m.

Sept. 23

7p.m.

DAY
Friday

TIME
7p.m.

Sept. 23

7p.m.

NATRONA FOOTBALL
at Gillette
Evanston

COLLEGE
COWBOYS FOOTBALL
UC-Davis
at Eastern Michigan

DAY
Saturday

TIME
2p.m.

Sept. 23

5:30p.m.

PRO SCENE
COLORADO ROCKIES
at San Diego

DAY
today

TIME
2:40p.m.

at Arizona Monday

7:40p.m.

COLORADO RAPIDS
San Jose

DAY
Saturday

TIME
7p.m.

Sept. 24

5p.m.

DAY
Saturday

TIME
7:30p.m.

Dallas

Sept. 24

7:30p.m.

DENVER BRONCOS
Indianapolis

DAY
Sept. 18

TIME
2:25p.m.

at Cincinnati

Sept. 25

11a.m.

at Vancouver
REAL SALT LAKE
Houston

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