FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 2016 BRIDGER VALLEY PIONEER PAGE A1

S E R V I N G
April 1, 2016
Volume 39 No. 48

H I S T O R I C

Inside...

B R I D G E R

Around the Valley......page A2

Public Records...........page A4

V A L L E Y

Classifieds................. page B2
Legal Notices............. page B6

S I N C E

Easter egg hunt..........page A2

Sports........................ page B1

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Lyman, Wyoming

Easter egg hunt brought out

a passel of kids and parents

The Easter egg hunt is over and the kids are going home with their bounties in sacks baskets after their hunt through the fort.

By VIRGINIA GIORGIS
Pioneer Editor
vgiorgis@bridgervalleypioneer.com
FORT BRIDGER Cars descended on
Fort Bridger last Saturday with armloads and

passels of kids on the march to the annual

Easter egg hunt hosted by the Mountain
View Lions Club at the State Site.
The Easter Rabbit (aka J. D. Flitner) had
stayed around after hiding oodles of eggs
throughout the fort grounds to greet the kids

Look what I found.

and have his picture taken with them. The

ground was dusted with snow and the air
was crisp, a nice day with no wind.
Divided into age groups, the kids were
led to their respective areas, and when the
starting sign was given the kids dashed off

PIONEER PHOTOS/Virginia Giorgis

on the run to look for the eggs. They could

be laying on the grass, nestled in the trunk or
a tree, around the bandstand and buildings,
or just anywhere waiting to be picked up. A
short time later, the hunt was over and the
kids had baskets of eggs.

Wyoming Democrats hone in on whom to support for presidential candidate

By VIRGINIA GIORGIS
Pioneer Editor
vgiorgis@bridgervalleypioneer.com
LYMAN The Wyoming Democrat Party will hold all of its
county caucuses next weekend on
April 9, beginning at 11 a.m.
Eight of Wyomings 18 delegates to the National Convention
are pledged in todays county caucuses. Wyoming has only a single
Congressional District.
In Uinta County the caucus will
be held in the Portland Rose Room
of the Evanston Roundhouse on
1500 Main Street. The sign in ends
at 11 a.m., and then the caucus
will begin.
Bret McCoy, Evanston, serves
as the county chair. For more information concerning the caucus
he can be called at 307-679-8962.
Part of the Democrats mantra is
Democrats who stay home, elect

Republicans as Wyoming is a proRepublican state. In order to vote

at the county caucuses, Democrats
had to be registered by March 25.
According to an AP story, the
county conventions are held for
the Democrats to decide who participates in the state convention
May 28, in Cheyenne, where 14
national delegates will be at stake.
Four others are automatic superdelegates. Wyoming Democrats
havent taken an official position
on caucuses or primaries and will
await the legislative committee
study, Wyoming Democratic Party
Executive Director Aimee Van
Cleave said.
Of course, were a party with
many diverse opinions on this.
Some folks are just fine with the
caucus system and think if its not
broke, dont fix it, she said.
According to information on the
Wyoming Democrat Party web-

page, the Wyoming Democratic

Party has a long history of allocating delegates using caucuses.
Overall, the members believe the
caucuses/meetings where voters
sit down with their neighbors and
discuss the various candidates
prior to casting votes encourages
greater participation and involvement rather than casting a ballot
alone.
At the end of the caucus, candidates are awarded delegates to
the State Convention in proportion to the number of supporters.
Delegates will be elected to attend
the State Convention and folks can
sign up to run as a delegate to the
National Convention. The county
caucus also provides Democrats a
chance to voice ideas for planks
for the countys platform, that may
even get adopted to the State platform. In addition, many counties
also draw up resolutions to bring

to state convention for Democrats

across the state to vote on.
According to John Hudak from
Brookings Brief, a research organization, the Clinton campaign
language that they always knew
the primary would be competitive
and that Sanders candidacy would
catch on is pure hogwash. No one
expected that so many Americans
would feel the bern. Media, the
party, voters and Brooklyn were all
caught off guard by Sanders appeal. Yes, Sanders can be labeled a
one issue candidate, or too extreme,
or unelectable, but there is a reality
in his message. Hes tapped into a
growing discontent among liberals, moderates, and conservatives
that the system is stacked against
them and change was necessary.
Americans are angry, and love him
or hate him, Bernie Sanders has
effectively talked to those angry
voters. Hillary Clinton has not.

But Sanders has done much

more for the Democrat Party. He
has injected passion into the Democratic racea passion Clinton
would not inspire if she marched
to the convention in Philadelphia
devoid of competition, readying
herself for a coronation.

WEATHER

No doubt about it, county will have to pay

By VIRGINIA GIORGIS
Pioneer Editor
vgiorgis@bridgervalleypioneer.com
LYMAN Uinta County will
have to pay the $1.8 million back
to Merit Energy due to their overpayment of taxes, and the only
compensation is the county will
not have to pay any interest on
the funds.
This information was provided
after Rep. Allen Jaggi, HD19, asked

for additional insight from a fellow

legislator, Michael K. Madden,
concerning this issue.
Madden is the representative for
HD 40, Johnson/Sheridan counties.
He holds a PHD in economics and
statistics.
According to the information
Jaggi received back from Madden
concerning Uinta Countys situation, the bottom line was there was
no legal help to tap into to reduce
the amount of repayment.

Jaggi had told Madden the county had planned well and had cut
some county positions and started
saving in the face of the declining
revenues statewide.
According to Jaggi Tuesday, he
was also searching for information
in which the county could possibly
be able to tap into that might save
the county some funds.
Jaggi said he would meet with
the town councils for Mountain
View and Lyman and with the

county commissioners.
In response to Jaggis request for
assistance, Madden responded, I
reviewed the current statutes and
cannot find anything that allows for
penalties in connection with inept
filing practices on the part of taxpayers. About the only thing that they
get as punitive damages is that they
receive no back interest on the funds

See

HAVE TO PAY, page A5

Mostly sunny today with

highs near 45 and lows
tonight around 25
For complete
details, see page A5