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Bill Days comeback

SHERIDAN — Sheridan can look forward to the return of Buffalo Bill Days. The Sheridan County Fair Board announced at its Thursday meeting that it is partnering with Sheridan Travel and Tourism to bring the event back in 2018.

County Fair Office Manager Gianna Randazzo said that the event stopped about five years ago, par-tially due to advertising fail-ures. She said there’s talk of having the event at the fair-grounds as well as a parade downtown.

Fairgrounds Director Jamie Ringley said he doesn’t foresee adding the spectacle to the fairground’s calendar would require any large construction or repairs to the grounds. In fact, 2017 will be the first in his four years that there won’t be a construction project at the fairgrounds, which is good considering the organization’s jammed-packed calendar.

Sheridan Travel and Tourism Executive Director Shawn Parker said the event is still in the early stages of planning.

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COLLECTING CHRISTMASFamilies pass traditions down for generations, holidays to come

SHERIDAN — A homesteader on the high plains of Wyoming, she gave birth to his dad in the morn-ing and cooked chickens for the harvest crew that same afternoon. David Motsick’s “Grandma Lillie” Motsick was anything but dain-ty — except when it came to her tiny cardboard Christmas village that she set up every year with her children and her children’s children.

“That little itty bitty town starts my Christmas,” Motsick said.

When his grandma passed away in 1990, Motsick inherited her village. It isn’t Christmas for him until those dozen houses, motel and church — each smaller than a sticky note — are placed just so on a fluffy bed of cotton snow.

So it is with Christmas collec-tions. Whether it is a village that occupies the entire living room or an Elf on the Shelf, a holiday collection launches the season and becomes its cheer for intentional and accidental collectors alike.

•••••The Motsicks — David, Becky,

Nathan, 18, and Carley, 15 — revel in setting up their Christmas col-lections each year. Each one holds memories.

Early in the process, Becky Motsick pulls out her grand-dad’s old trunk that holds a white ceramic Nativity set made by her mom in 1980. When she was a child, that Nativity “was Christmas” to her — and still is.

Then, with “Manheim Steamroller” playing in the background, the Motsicks set up Grandma Lillie’s itty bitty vil-lage, the Willow Tree Nativity set David bought for Becky when they moved to Sheridan, and two Christmas villages that grow each year.

The main Christmas tree glim-mers with two collections of crystal ornaments, which feature unique designs for each calendar year, that will be passed on to Nathan and Carley. Since both kids were born near Christmas, the downstairs “birthday tree” features ornaments — ballet danc-ers and sports athletes, toy exca-vators and fishing poles — that follow the trends of what Carley and Nathan liked as they grew up.

“As you can probably tell,

we are very sentimental at our home,” Becky Motsick said. “We do this for us.”

•••••While some Christmas collec-

tions are steeped in memory, others are steeped in pure delight in the season and the chance to unleash cozy creativity.

Kaye Penno has decorated for

Christmas all her life, including a stint in Las Vegas as a profes-sional interior decorator. She now revels in turning her entire house into a winter wonderland she can share with family, friends and children from her church.

“I would much rather give than receive, and I love for people to come see the house,” Penno said.

For Penno, more is better.She starts the process in mid-Oc-

tober, pulling out more than 60 large plastic totes and a dozen Christmas tree boxes. She can feel her heart fill with the spirit of the season as she removes piece after piece and gives each one a place.

BY HANNAH SHEELY

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Above: Youth group members unpack part of the Christmas village collec-tion last week at Immanuel Lutheran Church. The collection was donated by church member Bobbie Whisler, and contains dozens of buildings, including ones that depict Antelope Butte, the Sheridan Inn and the Whisler’s farm from the early 1900s.

Left: Thirteen-year-old Brodie Juergens holds a chapel as the others unpack part of the Christmas village collection.

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‘History is big business

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we can better

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draws like we’ve never

done before.’

Shawn ParkerExecutive director, Sheridan Travel and Tourism

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Alleged elk poaching case under advisement of Sheridan County District Court

SHERIDAN — Judge John Fenn decided to take arguments presented in a poach-ing case involving a Crow member under advisement during Friday’s appeal hear-ing in 4th Judicial District Court. Around 20 attendees filled the seats in the district courtroom to hear the case of Herrera vs. the State of Wyoming.

On April 29, 4th Judicial Circuit Court Judge Shelley Cundiff found Clayvin Herrera guilty on two poaching charges from a hunt in January 2014 that began on the Crow Reservation in Montana but ended roughly a mile south of Montana-Wyoming border markers, according to an earlier report of The Sheridan Press. Herrera shot and killed the elk in the Bighorn National Forest out of season.

Three main points remained at the fore-front of both defense attorney Kyle Gray’s and Deputy County and Prosecuting Attorney Christopher LaRosa’s argu-ments — whether the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals Crow Tribe of Indians v. Repsis case from December 1995 holds ground in district court, if the United States occupied land of Bighorn National Forest extinguishes the rights of Native Americans as listed in Article 4 of the 1868 Treaty with the Crows and the issue of

conservation as Herrera killed the elk out of its hunting season in Wyoming.

Article 4 of the 1868 Treaty with the Crows states “…but they shall have the right to hunt on the unoccupied lands of the United States so long as game may be found thereon, and as long as peace sub-sists among the whites and Indians on the borders of the hunting districts.” While LaRosa said the creation of the Bighorn National Forest in 1897 transitioned the lands to an “occupied” status as lands of the nation and the state of Wyoming, Gray refuted. Gray said they “backtracked” and changed their argument of the state’s cre-ation rather than the forest’s creation as the official extinguishing of the Treaty.

Fenn steered the direction of the argu-ments back to the Repsis case, saying the facts of the 1995 case were “pretty darn close if not identical” to the case at hand. Fenn asked Gray why Repsis is not an applicable law to apply to this case. Gray held on her belief that the Repsis decision was “just clearly an incorrect decision.” Grey said Repsis was not a precedent of this court and played no role in this court.

Fenn concluded by taking the matter under advisement with further action and hearing dates pending. He also reserved the right for additional briefing from the two parties no later than 45 days after requested by the court.

BY ASHLEIGH [email protected]

Mars earns Governor’s Arts AwardSHERIDAN — Gov. Matt Mead has announced the recip-

ients of the Wyoming Arts Council’s 2016 Governor’s Arts Awards. Recipients will be honored at a dinner and awards ceremony on Feb. 3 in Cheyenne.

The recipients are: Adam Duncan Harris, Ph.D., author/art historian/curator from Jackson; Marianne Vinich, art teacher/visual artist from Lander; Tim Sandlin, arts advocate/writer from Jackson; and a posthumous award to Forrest E. Mars Jr., an arts patron from Big Horn.

Established in 1982, the Governor’s Arts Awards winners

are selected based on their substantial contributions made in Wyoming that exemplify a long-term commitment to the arts, with special consideration given to nominees whose arts service is statewide.

There are many nominations submitted for the Governor’s Arts Awards each year, and the selection pro-cess is quite competitive. Nominations are submitted to the Wyoming Arts Council in October, and reviewed in November by the Wyoming Arts Council Board, which sends recommendations to the Governor, who makes the final decisions on which recipients are honored.

Nominations are open to any Wyoming citizen, business

or community member. Award criteria includes: length of commitment to the arts, outstanding contribution or impact, breadth of support, involvement in special initia-tives supporting the arts, artistic excellence/level of stan-dards.

The Governor’s Arts Awards were first made possible by an endowment from the Union Pacific Foundation in honor of Mrs. John U. Loomis, a life-long patron of the arts. Over the years, individuals and organizations from more than 20 Wyoming communities and state-wide orga-nizations have been honored for their dedication to the arts in Wyoming.

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skateEight-year-old Joni Simonsen puts on a pair of skates during the Tongue River Valley Community Center’s Fun Friday visit to Whitney Ice Rink in the M&M’s Center on Friday. The commu-nity center provides fun activities for Tongue River area students since the school district does not hold class on Fridays.


Mattis received anonymous email in Petraeus caseWASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect

Donald Trump’s choice for defense secre-tary was among U.S. military officials who the FBI concluded received anonymous emails from the woman whose affair with then-CIA director David Petraeus led to his downfall, The Associated Press has learned.

The emails to now-retired Marine Gen. James Mattis and others, warning them to stay away from a Tampa, Florida, socialite, led to the discovery of the affair and reve-lations that Petraeus had shown classified secrets to his lover, Paula Broadwell.

According to an FBI report and a U.S. offi-cial, agents interviewed Mattis, who said he always had proper interactions with the socialite, Jill Kelley. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to discuss the investiga-tion publicly.

The bizarre scandal surfaced four years ago but has crept back into headlines in recent weeks because Petraeus is among candidates Trump is considering to become secretary of state.

Petraeus resigned as CIA director in November 2012, and later pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor charge of mishandling

classified information. He was also fined $100,000 and remains on probation.

The scandal unfolded when the FBI investigated anonymous emails sent to high-ranking military officials and to Kelley’s husband, warning them about what was described as Kelley’s inappro-priate behavior toward the men. The FBI concluded that the emails were from Broadwell, Petraeus’ biographer, and as they investigated, they learned of the affair and learned that Petraeus had shared clas-sified materials with Broadwell.

One of the officials who received an anonymous email was Mattis, who Trump announced last week would become his nominee for secretary of defense.

Mattis had been interviewed by the FBI about the email and his statement was memorialized in FBI reports. He told inves-tigators he could not understand why any-one would send him a warning because he always had above-board interactions with Kelley, who he described to the FBI as hold-ing an honorary ambassador title. Mattis had met Kelley when he served as a top offi-cer at U.S. Central Command headquarters in Tampa.

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Clearmont mayor asks legislators to remember rural communitySHERIDAN — Mayor

Chris Schock, of Clearmont, addressed the legislators at the Sheridan County Chamber of Commerce leg-islative forum Thursday. He requested to continue receiving money from the $105 million state direct dis-tribution funding, brought the legislators up to speed about projects the town has worked on throughout the year and shared future proj-ects for the town.

Clearmont’s annual bud-get is $350,000. Schock said that he pays 10 percent of the budget to the town’s two employees, who work 32-hours per week with no benefits. If the town of Clearmont loses the $35,000 it receives from state direct distribution funding, he will have to cut the employ-ee hours to 20 hours per week, which would severely impact the services the town currently provides its resi-dents.

“So when you guys are talking about direct distri-bution, please, just remem-ber Clearmont,” Schock said.

A lot has been happening in Clearmont this year, and there are already proj-ects planned for next year. Schock reported that the town had a 1600-foot water well drilled, and the water is worse than what the town already has. Plans are underway to drill another well, this time to 90-feet.

“The water may be smelly, but we might be able to aer-ate that water and blend it with existing water to possi-bly help the water quality,” Schock said. “We may just

have to be satisfied with what we’ve got and live with it.”

Clearmont completed a water main replacement and street paving project over the summer. The water main on Water Street was more than 40 years old and was replaced. The street paving project included Water, Meade, Pennsylvania and School streets.

Schock said that the engi-neers estimated the project to cost $800,000 so the town received funding from the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund, a 50 per-cent forgiveness loan and funding from the State Loan and Investment Board. The final bid for the project was $400,000.

Schock said he plans to attend the State Land

Investment Board meeting Feb. 19 to request utiliz-ing the leftover money to replace another waterline and repave Canal Street.

The street project and landfill closure go hand-in-hand Schock said, because the town is using 5,000 cubic yards of dirt and asphalt that was removed during the street paving project to cover the landfill.

Schock said he attended the SLIB meeting Dec. 1 and reported that the board granted Clearmont $300,000 to finish the landfill closure project, which should be completed by the summer. SLIB is funding 90 percent and Clearmont’s share is 10 percent, or is $30,000.

Rep. Mike Madden, R-Buffalo, asked Schock what happened with the

Rock School in Clearmont. Schock explained that the old school building was torn down.

“When they brought the excavator in to knock the walls down, it just had to touch the back wall and the whole thing collapsed in on itself,” Schock said. “There was mortar on the outside, but on the inside there was no mortar. It was just dirt and sand holding it all together.”

The community formed a committee to build a pavilion in place of the schoolhouse, with a plaque commemorating the Rock School and its history. The cost of the pavilion will be $7,000 and a community member has donated $5,000 toward the project.

Sen. Dave Kinskey,

R-Sheridan, asked Schock about a rumor he had heard about someone selling the individual rocks from the schoolhouse.

“People were able to come in and buy individual rocks from the schoolhouse to put in their yard or what-ever they wanted to do,” Schock confirmed. “I don’t know how much they were charging for them, but the money is going toward building the pavilion.”

Kinskey requested a Rock School rock, stating it would be fun to have one.

Clearmont has three future projects planned:

• In the spring, the town plans to chip-seal the rest of the streets in town.

• The 1.4-acre Red Arrow property in Clearmont was sold to the Blair Corporation, which plans to build a park-like RV park for Ranch at Ucross employ-ees. Schock said that it is a good thing because it will help clean up the town.

• Schock will send a letter of intent to the Wyoming Department of Transportation Jan. 1 for Clearmont to have a rail-road quiet zone installed during the 2018-2019 fiscal year. The town will be able to allot Capital Facilities Tax money to pay $44,000, which is its 13 percent

responsibility of the total project cost of $450,000.

BY KRISTIN MAGNUSSON

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Town of Clearmont Mayor Chris Schock speaks during the Legislative Forum Thursday in the Commissioners’ Boardroom at the Sheridan County Courthouse.

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USFS seeks public comment on projectSHERIDAN — The U.S.

Forest Service is seeking public comments on a proposed project to autho-rize a new assigned site to Wind River Outfitters.

The proposal is to autho-rize a new big game out-fitter camp at the end of Forest Service Road 601 in the Medicine Wheel Ranger District. The pro-posed project would autho-

rize use of the new camp during fall hunts and allow nine head of live-stock at the camp. The pro-posal would not authorize hunting in new areas.

For more information about the proposed project and how to comment, visit the Bighorn’s website at https://goo.gl/zIo9Vs or contact Bob Cochran at 307-548-5308 or [email protected].

Comments must be

received by Dec. 22 and can be sent via email to [email protected] with “Wind River Outfitters” in the subject line or fax to 307-548-5316. Comments can also be sent by regular mail or hand delivered to David Hogen, 95 Highway 16/20, Greybull, WY 82426. Office hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, except federal hol-idays.

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American Legion Post 7 Honor GuardGoldie Steigelman, member of the American Legion Post 7 Honor Guard, waits in the luggage bay with the others after being escorted onto the tarmac to welcome home Pearl Harbor survivor Mel Heckman Friday at the Sheridan County Airport.

Police dog tracked, found after partner’s crashCASPER (AP) — A police

dog has been found after jumping out of his partner’s patrol car and running away following a crash.

KTWO-AM reports that Wyoming High Patrol troop-er Scott Neilson, Kenneth Magrath of Thayne and K-9 Hunter were all hospitalized

after a crash north of Afton. A news release says Neilson is still hospitalized with injuries that were not con-sidered life-threatening.

Neilson stopped on U.S. Highway 89 Wednesday to help a driver change a tire and had started to make a U-turn from a stopped posi-

tion when he collided with a pickup truck driven by Magrath.

Hunter jumped out of the car and ran off. It was snowy and 15 degrees below zero, but troopers tracked Hunter for about three miles and eventually found him.


OPINION Fake news?

There’s a solution

How do you define fake news? It seems pretty straight forward, but some-how there seems to be some

disagreement on the definition.The concept of fake news has

taken on a whole new level with the incident inside a Washington pizza shop involv-ing a gunman and a speech

from Hillary Clinton this week.

So what is fake news? Why is it so hard to deci-pher between reliable, researched, credible news and news that perpetuates blatant lies?

Both appear next to each other in social media feeds; similar news stories might be covered by mainstream media outlets; both kinds of news are presented in similar formats and fashions. Fake news proponents don’t make it easy.

According to a study recent-ly released from Stanford University, more than 80 per-cent of middle school students couldn’t tell the difference between a news story and spon-sored content on a website. Sponsored content is content paid for by advertisers.

Can you tell the difference?A senior fellow at George

Washington University recently wrote an article on the topic for Forbes.

In it, he notes that, “Perhaps the best approach might be to recognize that instead of ‘fake’ and ‘true’ news, we have a hundred shades of gray in between.”

As a journalist, that idea makes me a little squeamish.

Yes, news organizations some-times get it wrong. No one, time has shown, is infallible.

Fake news articles come from both sides of the political spectrum. They range from ludicrous to believable based on your own biases as a reader. No matter where fake news falls on the spectrum of “truthiness,” though, it casts doubt on the topic it covers. It causes those reading or listening to it to question what’s real and what’s not.

While that doesn’t sound so bad — forcing people to think and consider different angles of a story can be beneficial — facts haven’t seemed to play a large role in how people decipher what they hear or read.

The Oxford English dictionary even crowned “post-truth” as its international word of the year. The dictionary defined the word as “relating to or denoting cir-cumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shap-ing public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.”

Ludicrous comments used to be reserved for things like the National Enquirer. You know the stories I’m referring to — “Bigfoot kept lumberjack as love slave” or those referencing any number of alien interac-tions.

Now, though, they permeate more than our time at the gro-cery store checkout.

While I’m not sure the “fake news” phenomenon warrants speeches from former presi-dential candidates, it certainly appears worrisome.

I used to love the quote from the movie “State of Play” that touches on the subject. “In the middle of all the gossip and speculation that permeates people’s lives, I still think they know the difference between real news and bulls***.”

I’m not sure that’s the case anymore.

EDITOR’S COLUMN|Kristen Czaban

Such evil as this: Roof death penalty trial begins

Adeep stillness settled over the federal courtroom as graphic photos were shown of the nine people murdered last year at Mother Emanuel A.M.E. Church.

The defendant, 22-year-old Dylann Roof, sat motionless throughout, as he has since his death penalty trial began last Wednesday.

Behind him sat his paternal grandparents, media and members of the general public. Although Roof has pleaded not guilty, his attorney David Bruck, a renowned anti-death pen-alty advocate, told jurors that he didn’t expect them to find his client not guilty. At stake is whether Roof deserves to die or spend the rest of his life in prison.

Roof, who posed in online pictures with the

Confederate battle flag, allegedly told his vic-tims he had to kill them because blacks were taking over and were “raping our women.”

In a serendipitous display of unwanted irony, the South’s racial divisions that Charleston, especially, has worked so hard to bridge were refashioned by happen-stance and logistics in the courtroom itself. Reserved seating placed the victims’ family and friends, primarily black, on one side of the room and the defendant’s family and the mostly white media on the other. This imposed segregation was purely circumstan-tial but painful, nonetheless.

Before the photo display, U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel repeatedly warned fam-ily members that the pictures were graphic, saying there was no shame in sitting out this

portion of the trial. The quiet was profound and leaden as each person in the room tried within his or her own space to convey respect for the dead and the bereaved. The pin-drop silence was interrupted only once when a young black man, upon seeing the body of 70-year-old Ethel Lance, bolted from the courtroom.

Most striking of the photographs was that of Rev. Clementa Pinckney, who seemed to have been running toward the altar when he was felled by three bullets, according to the autopsy report. He had pitched headfirst toward the raised lectern in a prone position reminiscent of reverential prostration. A wide ribbon of blood streamed away from his head for several feet before disappearing from the frame.

Those who have followed the events of June 17, 2015, and thereafter are familiar with Pinckney and the eight black parish-ioners who died. Over time, we’ve learned their names and faces, and feel as though they were friends or people we’d like to have known. Seeing their photos in the courtroom, their bodies labeled with a number as the only way to identify them initially, refreshed a sense of the killer’s anonymous presence among them that night and the deft, dispas-sionate brutality with which he dispatched them.

From the evidence, it was easy to discern how the shooter went about his business. Shell casings and empty magazines were found around the perimeter of the room, indicating that the killer was moving around while shooting. One magazine was left on one of three round tables in the center of the room where the Bible study group was meeting and where most of the victims were

found. This particular table was draped with a bright yellow-and-green-patterned cloth. Next to the dark, empty magazine was a large, opened Bible and a piece of paper.

Bullet holes in another of the tablecloths and an indentation in the metal frame under-neath suggested that the shooter deliberately aimed under the tables to kill those crouched below. The precision of his execution, at once heartbreaking and unconscionable, would deliver a staggering psychic blow to any decent human being.

For almost an hour, according to previous reports, Roof sat among these welcoming people, pretending to share their spiritual purpose, and then opened fire in a blaze of resigned fury. When a wounded Tywanza Sanders begged him to stop, Roof kept firing until four bullets riddled Sanders’ body. How could he? How could anyone?

By anyone’s definition, Roof is a racist, but surely this is too facile an explanation. The rational mind wants more. Insanity? Not according to a psychiatrist who examined him. What then?

The “what” will be the focus of defense attorneys who will try to persuade jurors to spare Roof’s life. If they do, he still faces another death penalty state trial next year. Whatever is decided here — and again later — it may be difficult to get beyond the way survivor Felicia Sanders described the assailant as the prosecution’s first witness. Looking directly at Roof, she said, “Evil, evil, evil.”

KATHLEEN PARKER is a syndicated columnist of The Washington Post, a regular guest on television shows like The Chris Mathews Show and The O’Reilly Factor, and is a member of the Buckley School’s faculty. She won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary.

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New era for Sheridan dawning, exciting times ahead I

t feels like we’re on the cusp of new and exciting times here in Sheridan — a new era as a noteworthy Mountain West destination, perhaps? It feels like the community is excited about the opportunities ahead, too — our local lodging tax

passed with more than 76 percent of the vote in the November General Election, which, just in case you’ve forgotten, was one of the most contentious in American history.

So what’s next, now that we can focus our efforts on developing Sheridan’s travel and tourism portfolio over the coming four years? Working with local, regional and state partners, Sheridan Travel and Tourism has identified three key sectors in which our community has potential to become a regional tourism leader.

The first of these is historical tourism. We are surrounded by some of the most important battle sites in the country. We’re home to attractions like the Trail End State Historic Site and The Brinton Museum, we have a beautiful historic downtown and the framework for an incredible historic rail district and we

feature two historic landmark hotels in the Sheridan Inn

and the Mill Inn. If we can redefine the visitor experience from a history perspective, provide better access, tours and transportation, we can become a serious player in the historical tourism business.

The second sector is experiential tourism. We must pro-vide immersive experiences for visitors interested in our Western heritage, our arts and culture and even our boom-ing craft beer, wine and spirits industry. That may mean a new, innovative booking engine that allows travelers to book a flight, hotel, ranch experience, brewery tour, tick-ets to The Brinton Museum, WYO Rodeo tickets or event tickets for the new Whitney Center for the Arts. We have a wealth of attractions and events that thrust visitors into the Western experience. It’s time that we coordinate our community efforts to maximize engagement and boost eco-nomic development for every organization and business involved.

The third sector of focus is outdoor and adventure tour-ism. We have one of the country’s most spectacular moun-tain ranges right on our doorstep, and it exists now as a great attraction and playground for thousands of locals and visitors, but there’s more we can do to push visitor funds toward local businesses. We can streamline access to public waterways, canyons, mountains and outdoor recre-

ation areas. We can help fly fishing, hiking, climbing and biking outfitters market their services to reach a broader, more diverse audience across the country. We can push to make the Antelope Butte Mountain Recreation Area a success even before we have the first skier bomb down the mountain in late 2017 by encouraging shoulder and sum-mer season participation in festivals and events.

As a bonus, we can work on film and digital production to create a cottage industry for features, shorts, commer-cials and reality programming that will in turn help spot-light the three sectors I’ve outlined here.

There are already many community members working on programs and initiatives in each of these sectors, and they’ve helped to make Sheridan the spectacular place it already is. Our job at Sheridan Travel and Tourism is to market, promote and advertise these offerings to travelers far and wide, to help bridge the gap between public and private sector promotion by way of our tourism grant pro-gram and to foster an identity for the community that we can all be proud of.

A great new era is dawning for Sheridan, and I’m excited to watch the sun rise up over the Bighorns.

SHAWN PARKER is the executive director of Sheridan Travel & Tourism.

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Nobel laureate of 2016 revisitedT

here has been ferment among the literati since Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Many say that how-

ever well Dylan does what he does, it is not literature. Dylan did not go to Stockholm Saturday to collect his prize, which the Swedish Academy says was awarded “for having created new poetic expressions within the

great American song tradition.” Well, then:

“God said to Abraham, ‘Kill me a son’

Abe says, ‘Man, you must be put-tin’ me on’”

or:“Einstein, dis-

guised as Robin Hood

With his memo-ries in a trunk

Passed this way an hour ago

With his friend, a jealous monkHe looked so immaculately fright-

fulAs he bummed a cigaretteThen he went off sniffing drain-

pipesAnd reciting the alphabetNow you would not think to look

at himBut he was famous long agoFor playing the electric violinOn Desolation Row”The New York Times primly notes

that the academy is famous for “its at times almost willful perversity in picking winners.” Scottish nov-elist Irvine Welsh (”Trainspotting”) professes himself “a Dylan fan” but tweeted that the Nobel is “an ill-con-ceived nostalgia award wrenched from the rancid prostates of senile, gibbering hippies.” Strong letter to follow.

One critic says that the more than 150 books on Dylan are “a library woozy with humid overstatement

and baby boomer mythology.” A sample of the humidity is: “Dylan seemed less to occupy a turning point in cultural space and time than to be that turning point.” But Dylan should not be blamed for the hyperventilating caused by DSD — Dylan Derangement Syndrome. Besides, Dylan has collected a Pulitzer Prize for “lyrical com-positions of extraordinary poetic power,” so there.

Now 75, he was born Robert Zimmerman in Duluth, Minnesota, and lived in Hibbing, Minnesota, 150 miles from Sauk Centre, Minnesota, home of Sinclair Lewis, who won the 1930 Nobel for literature (”Babbitt,” “Elmer Gantry”). This was evidence of abruptly defining literature down: Thomas Mann won in 1929. If you recognize even one-third of the 113 literature prize winners since 1901, you need to get out of the house more. Philip Roth has not won, a fact that would cost the Swedish Academy its reputation for serious-ness, if it had one.

The Weekly Standard’s Andrew Ferguson would win the Nobel Prize for Common Sense, if there were one. He notes that by not taking himself too seriously or encouraging others to do so, Dylan has “proved two propositions that seemed increasingly unlikely in the age of media-saturation: You can shun publicity and still be hugely famous, and you can be hugely famous and not be obnoxious about it.” For this, Dylan deserves some sort of prize. Ferguson laments that it is evidently impossible to take Dylan “for what he is, an impressive man worthy of admiration, affection and respect, and leave it at that.”

Impossible. In an age of ever-more-extravagant attention-get-ting yelps about everything, people have tumbled over one another reaching for encomia, such as this from a Harvard professor: “Dylan has surpassed Walt Whitman as the

defining American artist.”(Hawthorne, Melville, Dickinson,

Wharton, Fitzgerald, Faulkner?)If song lyrics are literature, why

did the academy discover this with Dylan and not Stephen Sondheim (from “West Side Story” on)? Last year, the literature prize was won by Belarusia’s Svetlana Alexievich whose specialty is interviews woven into skillfully wrought books (e.g., “Secondhand Time”). They are high-ly informative, even moving, but are they literature?

Sean Wilentz, Princeton professor of American history, grew up in New York City near the end of its red-tinged folk revival and was 13 when he attended Dylan’s 1964 con-cert at Manhattan’s Philharmonic Hall. Wilentz’s book “Bob Dylan in America,” which would better have been titled “America in Bob Dylan,” interestingly locates him in the stream of American culture and celebrates him for expanding his range as relentlessly as he has toured — more than 1,400 shows in this century. Wilentz recalls how Dylan “going electric” at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival scandalized “the fetishists of authenticity,” but Dylan did not look back. “He sees,” Wilentz says, “a kind of literature in performance.” If that is so, then is Mike Trout, baseball’s best per-former, doing literature for the Los Angeles Angels? Literature is becoming a classification that no longer classifies.

Never mind. Just enjoy the music of the surprising man who in 1961 arrived in Greenwich Village and who once said “my favorite pol-itician was Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater.”

GEORGE F. WILL is a Pulitzer-prize winning newspaper columnist, author and television commentator for The Washington Post Writers Group. He has authored books on baseball, politics, and American culture.

Supreme Court ruling gives government

agencies chance for transparency

BY JIM ANGELLWYOMING PRESS ASSOCIATION

Wyoming’s Supreme Court handed the state’s government agencies a tremen-

dous opportunity recently.The court ruled 3-2 on

Nov. 30 that government agencies may charge mem-bers of the public a fee to simply look at public doc-uments that exist only in an electronic form. Not to grab a copy and walk off, mind you. Wyoming’s laws have always allowed for a “reasonable” copying fee for someone wanting to get a hard copy of a document. The Supreme Court’s ruling would apply to anyone sim-ply wanting to see, view or inspect an electronic docu-ment.

This ruling was a bit of a surprise coming from a court that has steadfast-ly defended government transparency throughout the 47-year history of the Wyoming Public Records Act. Writing for the majori-ty, Justice William Hill said there are costs associated with retrieving electronic documents that do not exist when dealing with paper files.

Now, this flies in the face of what Wyoming’s taxpay-ers were told while being asked to spend billions of dollars on advanced comput-er systems for government agencies — that it is easier to store and retrieve docu-ments in an electronic form than in a paper form.

Justice Hill’s ruling said the costs associated with electronic documents are so onerous as to render a crucial line of Wyoming law meaningless: “Nothing in this section shall be con-strued as authorizing a fee to be charged as a condition of making a public record available for inspection.” (W.S. 16-4-204(a)).

But no matter.The important thing

to note here is that the Supreme Court ruled gov-ernment agencies MAY charge a fee for the simple service of making public documents available to the very people who paid for them. Not shall or must. May.

This means the state’s cit-ies, towns, counties, school districts – any entity that generates documents – can now take the lead in promot-ing the principles of govern-ment transparency.

A properly operating

government relies on an informed electorate capable of deciding how it should be governed. Access to the government documents that spell out how government resources are used and why government decisions are made is crucial to that goal.

As a result, when asked to retrieve a document, local government agencies should think twice before taking advantage of the court’s rul-ing. A person making a rea-sonable request to see pub-lic documents should not be discouraged from doing so by an access fee.

After all, Wyoming’s tax-payers have already paid to have these documents gen-erated and stored. Charging someone a fee to simply inspect what they already own doesn’t make much sense.

It would be reasonable to guess the overwhelming majority of people running for public office in Wyoming vowed to keep the voters informed on what happens within government.

Here is the opportunity to live up to those promises, to set the pace for transparen-cy in Wyoming, by adopting policies that would allow people to simply inspect at no cost the documents they already own.

Of course, occasionally, a burdensome request will be received. And Wyoming law gives agencies the latitude to deal with such requests in such a way their usual business won’t be disrupted.

But the bottom line for all government agencies at every level should be to increase citizen participa-tion in government, not to discourage it. Charging a fee for each and every docu-ment request, regardless of size or expanse, seems coun-terproductive.

As Justice Michael Davis wrote in the opinion’s dissent: “…(T)here can be no doubt that such fees could be used to discourage access.”

We fervently hope Justice Davis’ prediction does not come to pass. It now falls to the state’s elected offi-cials to protect the rights of Wyoming’s citizens. The rights to review the infor-mation those citizens need to make informed decisions.

We are hopeful those offi-cials will err on the side of the people.

JIM ANGELL is the executive director of the Wyoming Press Association.

GEORGE WILL|


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LOCAL BRIEFS |FROM STAFF REPORTS

Number of holiday concerts

planned at local schools

SHERIDAN — ‘Tis the season for children’s holiday performances. Here is a list of upcoming concerts planned at local schools.

Dec. 13• Woodland Park Elementary, 9 a.m. and 1 p.m.• Meadowlark Elementary, 6 p.m. at the

Sheridan Junior High School auditorium• Tongue River High School band, 6 p.m.• Tongue River Middle School band concert, 6

p.m.Dec. 14• Big Horn music department, 7 p.m., Big Horn

High School auditorium• Tongue River High School choir,• Tongue River Middle School choir, 6 p.m.Dec. 15• Sagebrush Elementary, 9 a.m. and 1 p.m.• Story School, 6 p.m.• Sheridan High School band, 7 p.m., Sue Henry

Auditorium at SHS• Tongue River Elementary School, 6:30 p.m.Dec. 16• Highland Park Elementary, 9 a.m. and 1 p.m.Dec. 20• Henry A. Coffeen Elementary, 9 a.m. and 12:45

p.m.

Sweeney to speak at e2e

SHERIDAN — In less than three years Sheridan

native Mike Sweeney launched Summit Energy Services and Liquid Logistics, grew the compa-nies to over 175 employees with almost $40 million in annual revenue and then sold both businesses to Waste Management, Inc.

Sweeney will speak at the next e2e Wyoming in Sheridan on Dec. 13. The event will start at 5:30 p.m. at the Best Western Sheridan Center and is open to the public.

Sweeney will tell the story of Summit Energy Services and Liquid Logistics with an emphasis on topics such as startup funding, banking rela-tionships, customer interaction strategies, ser-vant leadership and out-of-the-box benefits.

Prior to launching Summit, Sweeney worked as a regional manager for an oil and gas construction company. It was this position that brought him to the Williston Basin in 2009. He has extensive management experience in the energy industry as well as in engineering, banking, and international business start-up.

Sweeney is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and the Navy’s Supply Corps School. Sweeney lives in Sheridan, and is married to Stacy Sweeney. They have nine children.

Bank of the West

organizes charity drive

SHERIDAN — The Bank of the West will gath-er coats, gloves and hats to benefit the Sheridan Foster Parent Exchange through Dec. 30.

Items may be dropped off at the Bank of the West, located at 2 N. Main St.

Items welcome in the drop-offs include gently used winter wear like coats, hats and gloves.

SUNDAY AND MONDAY EVENTS |Sunday• 2 p.m., “A Bright New Boise,” Carriage House Theater, 419 Delphi Ave., $15 for adults, $12 for

seniors, students, military members • 6:30 p.m., Bluegrass jam session, Tongue River Valley Community Center, 1100 U.S. Highway 14,

Dayton Monday• No events planned.

NATIONAL OBITUARY |Senior German politician Hildegard

Hamm-Bruecher dies at 95

BERLIN (AP) — Hildegard Hamm-Bruecher, the “Grand Dame” of Germany’s pro-business Free Democratic Party who made an unsuccessful bid for the country’s presidency in 1994, has died, her party said Friday. She was 95.

The FDP’s branch in Bavaria announced the death without providing further details.

Born in 1921 in Essen, Hamm-Bruecher’s par-ents died when she was young and she was raised in Dresden by her grandmother, whose ancestors had converted to Protestantism from Judaism.

In a 2012 interview with the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper, she said the family was dis-criminated against under the Nazis for being part-Jewish.

Under the looming threat of deportation to a concentration camp, her grandmother killed her-self in 1942. In addition, friends and acquaintanc-es she met as a student in Munich and who joined the anti-Nazi White Rose movement were execut-ed by the Nazis.

“My grandmother’s suicide and the execution of the White Rose students led me to the conclusion that if I survived this madness, I would fight my whole life so that something like it could never happen again,” Hamm-Bruecher she told the newspaper.

Hamm-Bruecher entered politics with the Free Democratic Party, which became the kingmaker of post-war German politics, in 1948. She served as a member of the federal parliament from 1976 until her retirement in 1990.

She was the FDP’s candidate for president in 1994, but lost to Roman Herzog of then-Chancellor

Helmut Kohl’s Christian Democrats.Chancellor Angela Merkel said Germany had

lost “an outstanding democrat” who had helped rebuild the country politically after the war.

“Having experienced the war and violent dicta-torship, freedom for her was a privilege, but also a responsibility,” Merkel said.

“Democracy as a form of life meant for Hildegard Hamm-Bruecher a lifetime of opposing any form of ideology, extremism and anti-Semi-tism,” the chancellor said.

Investigative journalist Phillip

Knightley dies at 87

LONDON (AP) — A fascination with spies and scandals, combined with deep patience and per-sistence, made Phillip Knightley a legend among investigative journalists.

Knightley, who has died aged 87, helped gain compensation for the victims of thalidomide through a landmark investigation for London’s Sunday Times, and shone light on the murky world of Cold War espionage.

Former Sunday Times editor Harold Evans called him “the gold standard of public journal-ism.”

“Phil was spurred by injustice,” Evans wrote in a tribute.

Knightley died Wednesday in London, his liter-ary agent Rachel Calder said Friday.

Born into a working-class family in Sydney in 1929, Knightley worked for publications in Australia, Fiji and India before joining London’s Sunday Times in the 1960s. Under Evans, the paper became renowned for its investigations.

Today’s Highlight in History:

On Dec. 10, 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for helping to mediate an end to the Russo-Japanese War.

On this date:In 1520, Martin Luther pub-

licly burned the papal edict demanding that he recant, or face excommunication.

In 1931, Jane Addams became the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize; the co-re-cipient was Nicholas Murray Butler.

In 1946, newspaperman Damon Runyon, known for his short stories featuring colorful Broadway denizens, died at a New York hospital at age 66.

In 1950, Ralph J. Bunche was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the first black American to receive the award.

In 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. received his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, saying he accepted it “with an abiding faith in America and an auda-cious faith in the future of mankind.”

In 1967, singer Otis Redding, 26, and six others were killed when their plane crashed into Wisconsin’s Lake Monona.

In 1972, baseball’s American League adopted the designated hitter rule on an experimental basis for three years.

In 1986, human rights advo-cate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepted the Nobel Peace Prize.

In 1994, Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin received the Nobel Peace Prize, pledging to pur-sue their mission of healing the anguished Middle East.

In 1996, South African President Nelson Mandela signed the country’s new con-stitution into law during a ceremony in Sharpeville.

Ten years ago: Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet died at age 91. Iraqi President Jalal Talabani criticized a biparti-san U.S. report on American war policies, saying it con-tained some “very dangerous” recommendations that would undermine the sovereignty of Iraq. Tenor Roberto Alagna walked out of a performance of Verdi’s “Aida” at Italy’s famed La Scala opera house when the audience booed his rendition of the aria “Celeste Aida.”

Five years ago: Tens of thousands of Russians staged anti-government protests, charging electoral fraud and demanding an end to Vladimir Putin’s rule. Robert Griffin III beat out preseason favor-ite Andrew Luck to win the Heisman Trophy.

One year ago: The Senate Judiciary Committee rebuked Donald Trump by endorsing a nonbinding amendment, 16-4, that said barring indi-viduals from entering the United States based on reli-gion would be un-American (the Republican presidential front-runner had called for blocking Muslims from enter-ing the country in the after-math of attacks in the United States and abroad.) Russell Taylor, the former director of a foundation started by ex-Subway pitchman Jared Fogle, was sentenced by a judge in Indianapolis to 27 years in a federal prison for producing child pornography. (Fogle had been sentenced the previous month to more than 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to trading in child pornography and having sex with two underage prosti-tutes.)

Thought for Today: “You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year.” — Damon Runyon (1880-1946).

FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESSStop the clock on

skin aging

None of us like to admit that we’re getting older. But let’s be real: we’re all aging — and so is

our skin. The primary cause of skin aging is something most of us enjoy: wonderful, life-giv-ing sunshine. But the more we enjoy it, the “older” our skin becomes.

One way to visualize the aging process is to imagine what happens to a rubber band when it is left in the

sunshine. After a while, it loses its elasticity. It becomes brittle, won’t return to its original shape, and is easily damaged. Like a rub-ber band,

the elastin in youthful skin is compromised by the sun’s ultraviolet radiation, and the effects are similar along with increased number of sun spots and elevated skin can-cer risk. So my first (and sec-ond and third) piece of advice is to adequately protect your skin from the sun. This means avoiding sunburns and tanning. You can’t back up a train without stopping it first, which is what it’s like trying to fight aging without sun protection! Using a facial moisturizer with a SPF of 30 every morning is a good place to start.

With those basics out of the way, we can discuss more aggressive ways to fight the aging process. One of the most common medical inter-ventions for facial wrinkles is botulinum toxin, commonly known as Botox. In small, safe amounts, the toxin is injected into muscle tissue in order to weaken it, thereby preventing the muscle from causing wrinkles on the skin. This makes Botox an excel-lent choice for doing away with frown lines and crow’s feet. Botox has both the ben-efit and drawback of being fairly temporary as it only works for 3-4 months and then wears off.

The lines around the mouth (where Botox isn’t a good choice due to its paralytic properties) are better treated with fillers. Juvederm and Restylane are examples of fill-ers, which are clear, smooth gels similar to natural sub-stances found in our skin. Fillers last longer than Botox, usually nine months to a year, or even longer.

Another way to prevent skin aging is exfoliation. This is the removal of the top layer of skin in order to achieve even skin tone and prevent age spots from developing. Chemical peels, cleansing brushes, scrubs or even a rough washcloth can work. Many aestheticians also per-form microdermabrasion, a more thorough form of exfoliation. Areas that don’t respond to exfoliation can be faded with retinol-contain-ing night creams, prescrip-tion tretinoin (Retin-A) or removed by freezing or laser treatments. Lastly, remember to moisturize after exfoliation to avoid irritation and dry-ness.

So, while there may be no way to completely stop the clock with regard to skin aging, there are ways to slow it down. Sun protection, exfo-liation, and cosmetic proce-dures can’t make you young again, but they can help your skin look and feel that way!

AMBER ROBBINS, MD is a board certified dermatologist with Robbins Dermatology, P.C.

HEALTH WATCH |

AMBER ROBBINS|


Taking a spillNine-year-old CJ Wilkins takes a spill on the ice during the Tongue River Valley Community Center’s Fun Friday visit to Whitney Ice Rink in the M&M’s Center on Friday. The community center provides fun activities for Tongue River area students since the school district does not hold class on Fridays.


COLLECTING : Just one of the many joys of Christmas FROM 1

The rooms change each year as her whimsy dic-tates, but it is always “all out” country vintage to its fullest in every nook and cranny.

Every room is bedecked with vintage Santas, snow-men, ice skates, reindeer, sparkly lights, trees lav-ish and simple and more. Elves entwine themselves playfully on the stairway banister, the living room becomes an ode to vintage Coca-Cola Christmas and even the top of the stove holds a removable shelf full of candles and Santa figu-rines.

In Penno’s home, Scrooge could not be Scrooge.

“It’s just a collection of what I like, and I love Christmas so I’ve just continued to collect…and collect…and collect,” Penno said. “Every year I say I’m not buying more, but I always do.”

•••••Bobbie Whisler’s

Christmas village became personal. Sprawled across her living room, it captured her own life in miniature, filling the house with fond memories and the children and elderly people she loved to share it with.

About 10 years ago, Whisler’s health began to fail, so she donated her collection to Immanuel Lutheran Church. Every

year since, church mem-bers and students in the youth group have gathered to set up the expansive vil-lage, spreading the joy of one person’s collection to many people, church mem-ber Judy Hayworth said.

They carefully set up the “Poor Farm,” a section filled with hay bales, old tractors, farm animals and barns that represents

Whisler’s family farm in Rosette. “Downtown Sheridan” is captured by the old Immanuel Lutheran Church with its tall stee-ple, the Sheridan Inn and railroad and the bridge over Big Goose Creek at Kendrick Park. Nearby, pine-filled Story, Wyoming, blends into Antelope Butte Mountain Recreation Area, complete with miniature

skiers bombing down snowy runs.

“She gave this to the community and the church, and we wanted to make sure it was honored, that we would have it up every year,” Hayworth said. “It’s just wonderful to see people enjoy it and think about their youth and past times. It’s one of the joys of Christmas.”


A horse and carriage rides up Main Street from the Christmas village collection last week at Immanuel Lutheran Church. The collection was donated by church member Bobbie Whisler, and contains dozens of buildings, including ones that depict Antelope Butte, the Sheridan Inn and the Whisler’s farm from the early 1900’s.

Mead uninterested in any Trump administration job

CASPER (AP) — Wyoming’s governor says he wouldn’t be interested in taking a job in Donald Trump’s administration.

Mead has been governor of Wyoming since 2011 and says he is focused on Wyoming and his fami-ly. He has a son in high school in Cheyenne and a daughter in college in Laramie.

Mead tells the Casper Star-Tribune he talked to

Trump’s transition team. Trump and his advisers haven’t publicly named Mead as a contender for any jobs in the adminis-tration.

Mead says it would be good to have somebody from Wyoming as Interior secretary.

Outgoing Republican U.S. Rep. Cynthia Lummis says she had an hour-long interview with Trump.

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Community members say retention, recruitment continues to be a problem for UW

SHERIDAN — Since Dr. Laurie Nichols took over as president of the University of Wyoming in the spring, the university has complet-ed an overhaul of its opera-tions — hiring freezes and budget cuts included.

Nichols, though, has stressed the importance of outreach — visiting many schools and communities over the last seven months. On Thursday, Nichols visit-ed Sheridan for a listening session.

Her message was loud and clear: the university wants to hear from the commu-nity. The community sent a message right back: they want to keep Wyoming stu-dents in Wyoming and keep them here after graduation.

There are some challenges in approaching those topics.

Chad Baldwin, the direc-tor of internal communi-cations at the University of Wyoming, said of the approximately 13,500 stu-dents at UW, there are 222 undergraduate students from Sheridan County at the Laramie campus. This year, 44 first-year students are attended UW in the fall semester, which is up from 28 the previous year.

Ninety-one students trans-ferred from the Northern Wyoming Community College District to UW this past year.

“It’s really part of our land grant mission,” Nichols said. “We want to be a uni-versity for the people of Wyoming.”

Still, many community members say that those numbers are not high enough.

One attendee of the lis-tening forum said he was concerned with the fee increases proposed by the university. With many stu-dents already making their

way to out-of-state colleges, he said that the school needs to remain affordable.

Nichols agreed with the need to keep costs down. Starting in 2017, the uni-versity will participate in the Western Undergraduate Exchange, a system that allows students to attend select schools across 15 western states for 150 per-cent of the costs of in-state students. Nichols said this will help alleviate costs for out-of-state students who wish to transfer from Wyoming community col-leges to the university.

One of the concerns administrators have is the number of residents who have bachelor’s degrees. Currently, the state is first in the U.S. in the percentage of residents who have a high school degree, but remains near the bottom in percent-age of those who have bach-elor’s or master’s degrees.

Some suggested changes to curricula. A former grad-uate of UW who works in the tech field said that the curriculum for computer science has not changed in 25 years, and that it needs to evolve with the times.

“Students now need to learn different skills,” he said.

In response to concerns over the college of educa-tion, the university also launched a new education initiative aimed at improv-ing the quality of education and producing more effec-tive teachers.

“We are going to be look-ing at metrics at where we actually are, and make them transparent and available to the public,” said Ray Reutzel, dean of the College of Education.

Then, there is that tran-sition between college and career. Most listening ses-sion attendees agreed that there simply are not enough internships in Wyoming.

When the opportunities to get experience are not avail-able, often students choose to live elsewhere, or they end up underemployed after school. One audience mem-ber suggested incentives provided by the university for organizations and busi-nesses to take in interns.

“Numbers show that if we lose these students out of

high school or out of college, we tend to not get them back (in Wyoming),” Nichols said.

University officials said they plan to take the sug-gestions to heart. Soon, the university will draft a five-year, strategic plan based upon input provided by the 10 listening sessions across the state.

BY MIKE DUNN

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COMEBACK : Generating excitement on national levelFROM 1

He said they’re looking into exhib-itors as well as building community support.

Parker, who is spearheading Buffalo Bill Days’ revival, said that with so much time until the tentative open-ing of June 2018, his organization has an opportunity to up its advertising game and “loop” it into existing pro-motional efforts. He said a few of these options include feature stories in mag-azines, print and digital advertising and a video campaign.

“We’ll also look to sell this experi-ence to bus and group tour operators a year out,” Parker said in an email.

Parker said that in order to get maximum benefit from the event, the organizations have to approach it with excellence and with a mindset focused on economic development. He said it comes back to advertising to generate regional as well as national excite-ment for the reincarnated event.

Supplementing the economic benefits the event will produce for Sheridan is its historical nature. Buffalo Bill Days is the perfect addi-tion to historic landmarks and events in Sheridan and the surrounding areas that can be capitalized on, Parker said.

“Historical tourism can be one of the hallmarks of Sheridan’s tourism

portfolio,” Parker said, explaining that Sheridan already sees high num-bers of visitors who are interested in Western and Native American histo-ry. He added, “And events like Buffalo Bill Days will strengthen the relation-ship between history and current life-style experiences.”

There’s still a lot of work to be done to secure the success revitalizing the event. For now, Parker said he’s opti-mistic that this focus will turn out as beneficial as he predicts.

“History is big business in the tour-ism industry,” Parker said, “And I’m hoping that we can better capitalize on our inherent draws like we’ve never done before.”

Capturing

the eventA parent records video on a cell-phone during the Kids Chorus program Thursday at the YMCA. The program is offered for kids Kindergarten through third grade to learn the foundations of music. The program resumes in January at the YMCA.



ALMANACDEATH NOTICES |

Clarence Nelson

Clarence Nelson, 78, of Sheridan, died Friday, Dec. 9, 2016, at Sheridan Manor.

Online condolences may be written at www.kanefuneral.com.

Kane Funeral Home has been entrusted with arrangements.

See old obits online!www.thesheridanpress.com

AGENDAS |Sheridan County School District #3

Special School Board Meeting5 p.m. Wednesday

Clearmont Elementary Multi-Purpose Room

•Call to order•Roll call•Pledge of Allegiance•Approval of agenda•Executive session A.Superintendent evaluation•Adjourn

Sheridan County School District #3School Board Work Session

6:30 p.m. WednesdayClearmont Elementary

Multi-Purpose Room6:30 – 6:45 p.m.•Review Board agenda6:45 – 7 p.m.•Short Break

Sheridan County School District #3School Board Meeting

7 p.m. WednesdayClearmont Elementary Multi-

Purpose Room•Call to order•Roll call•Pledge of Allegiance•Approval of agenda•Delegations, visitors, communications

& public comments•District presentation A. Business class – Best

“Shark Tank” 1. Mr. Sauers 2. Business class students•Consent items Approval of warrants

and vouchers A. Approval of minutes 1 .Nov. 9 Regular board meet

ing at 7 p.m. B. Approval of executive ses

sion minutes 1. Nov. 9 Regular board meet

ing executive session C. Approval of Clear Creek

Recreation Board meeting minutes 1. Oct. 18 D. Approval of notice of

School Board meetings for 2017 – Regular meetings

1. Second Wednesday of every month

2. Start time – 7 p.m. 3. Location – Clearmont

Elementary multi-purpose room 4. Meetings are open to the

public 5. Exception is the July

meeting which will be held the third Wednesday

E. Approval of notice of Availability of Board minutes for 2017

1. Board minutes are available for inspection by any citizen during regu-lar District office hours

F. Approval of bank deposito-ries

1. First Interstate Bank 2. WIGA – Wyoming

Government Investment Agency G. Approval for Sheridan

Press to be the newspaper to provide notice of the SCSD #3 budget

H. Approval of out-of-district requests

1. Moseman Family a. Matthew Moseman 2. Buckingham Family a. Kaitlyn Conda b. Cordelia Buckingham•Administration reports A.District activities / Athletics

Director (Mr. Sauers) 1. Activity updates B. Special Education Director

(Ms. Dyess) 1. District updates 2. State report updates C. District Technology

Supervisor (Mr. Auzqui) 1. District technology updates 2. District Website D. District Transportation

Supervisor (Mr. Roebling) 1.Transportation updates E. District Maintenance

Supervisor (Mr. Buhr) 1. Maintenance updates F. K-12 Principal (Mrs. Wright) 1. K-12 updates G. District Food Service

Supervisor / Business Manager (Mr. Rohrer)

1. District food service updates

2. State report updates 3. District audit update

4. District financial report a. Expenditures b. Revenues•Review board policies / leadership

governance policies A. Board policies 1. 1310 – Use of kitchen and

multi-purpose room facilities 2. 1400 – Trespassing B. Leadership governance 1. Leadership governance 1.1 –

Commitment 2. Leadership governance 1.2

– Board member covenants•Action items A. Election of Board Officers 1. Approve 2017 Board officers

– Nominated and voted on by the Board only

2. Approve Chairman and Treasurer to sign checks

B. Appoint / approve 2017 BOCES representative

C. Approve 2016-2017 district education goals

D. Approval of 2016-2017 Wyoming School Comprehensive Plan for Sheridan County School District #3

E. Approval of the Reconfiguration of the Clear Creek Recreation District Board Plan – Second (2nd) and final reading

F. Approval of the 2017-2018 district calendar

G. Approval to remove board policies – First (1st) reading

1. Remove Policy 4245 – Educational support personnel – holi-days

2. Remove Policy 4246 – Educational support personnel –holidays

H. Approval of High School Assistant Boys / Girls Basketball Coach – Kenneth “Mike” Sauers

I. Approve letter of resigna-tion – Melissa Martin

1. Full-time 9-month custodi-al / maintenance position

J. Approve full-time 9-month custodial / maintenance position – Sandra Hirz

•Discussion items A. HVAC / Bus barn / Summer

MM updates B. 2017 legislative update C. AdvancEd update D. Sheridan County Chamber

presentation update E. Small school district

update F. Funding update 1. JEC meeting Dec. 19 –

Cheyenne G. WSBA annual conference

reflection H. Head soccer coaching posi-

tion for Buffalo High School I. Rock school update J. WSBA information 1. Memos•Superintendent report A. Upcoming district events B. Federal grant update•From the board•January board meeting – Jan. 11, 2017 A. Establish regular board

agenda items 1. Approve contracts a. District Superintendent b. District Business Manager B. Establish work session

agenda 1. TBA•Sign disclosure of interest forms &

signature certifications•Sign all warrants and vouchers•Executive session A. Personnel•Adjourn

Sheridan County CommissionRegular Session Staff Meeting

9 a.m. MondaySecond Floor Commission Library,

#216•Call to order•Staff / elected reports•Discussion with Eda Schunk

Thompson, County Clerk, concerning hir-ing a temporary full-time position to fill a vacancy created by a request for leave

•Executive session pursuant to W.S. 16-4-405(a)(iii) Matters concerning litigation

•Historic Preservation Commission update

•Adjourn

Sheridan Economic & Educational Development Authority Joint

Powers Board

11:30 a.m. TuesdayCity Hall – 1st Floor Conference

Room•Call to order•Roll call•Agenda additions / deletions•Review and approve minutes (Sept.

27)•Treasurer’s report•Public comment•Old business•New business A. First Light Early Childhood

Education Center update – Casey Osborn B. Sub-Committee report

out: SEEDA Scope and project approval process

•Board and staff updates A. Staff update – filming

locations project•Time and place of next meeting: TBD

(Q1, March 28, 2017)•Adjourn

Bighorn Forest Roadless Collaborative

10 a.m. – 4 p.m.Big Horn County Weed and Pest,

Greybull•Welcome – Co-Chairs Grant &

Durante (Informational) A. Welcome, sign in, attendee

introduction•Meeting logistics – Ben Irey

(Decisional) A. Facilitator reviews his role B. Review, amend and

approve ground rules C. Review, amend and

approve dicision-making protocol D. Review, amend and

approve meeting notes E. Review, amend and

approve agenda F. Review bin items•Forest-wide recommendations for

municipal watersheds and WUI – Rob Davidson (Decisional)

A. Discuss, amend and approve a forest-wide recommendation for

a. Municipal watersheds b. The wildland urban inter-

face•Lunch break•RACR areas south of Hwy 14/14A –

Ben Irey (Decisional) A. Review, propose recom-

mendations and vote on recommenda-tions for the RACR areas in

a. The middle third of the Bighorn National Forest

b. The southern third of the Bighorn National Forest

•Public Comment – Ben Irey (Informational) – three (3) minutes for each member of the public

• Meeting summary & critique – Ben Irey (Informational)

A. Facilitator summarizes decisions, action items and bin items from the meeting

B. Meeting attendees provide feed-back on the meeting

• adjourn

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US close to solving mystery of alleged hacking of Georgia elections systemWASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Homeland Security

Department moved closer Friday to solving the mystery about why the state of Georgia believed the federal govern-ment was trying to hack its election systems.

An employee in the department who worked far removed from cybersecurity operations visited the Georgia secre-tary of state’s website for his work, an official told The Associated Press. The employee’s system was configured in a way that caused Georgia’s outside security vendor to misinterpret the visit as a scan of its systems. The official

spoke on condition of anonymity because this person was not authorized to publicly discuss preliminary findings.

In a letter Thursday sent to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, Georgia Secretary of State Brian P. Kemp said a computer traced back to the federal agency in Washington tried unsuccessfully to penetrate the state office’s firewall one week after the presidential election.

The letter speculated that what it described as “a large unblocked scan event” might have been a security test.

A Homeland Security Department technical team was working Friday to coordinate with the state’s office to uncover what happened.

The computer address Georgia provided to U.S. officials traced back to an internet gateway that funnels traffic for thousands of computers across the 22-agency department. By Friday afternoon, DHS investigators had followed the trail back to a specific computer.

The employee told investigators that he was checking the state website to determine whether an individual had a certain type of professional license issued by the state. Due to the way the employee’s computer was configured, it appeared his computer was scanning the state sys-tem, which can be interpreted as a prelude to a hacking attempt, the official said.

The department expected its team would be working through the weekend to confirm what happened, and the identified computer has been taken offline as a precau-tion, the official said.

The agency also preserved all its activity logs for Nov. 15, after it received the secretary of state’s letter, the offi-cial said.

The department did not have an agreement to scan

Georgia’s system. Such a scan would typically have been conducted by the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center, the agency’s cyber hub. But no such scan was done from there, the official said.

Georgia’s secretary of state sought details about the activity, including whether the agency conducted an unau-thorized scan, who might have authorized it and whether other states might have been similarly probed. Kemp cited the federal law against knowingly accessing a computer without authorization or exceeding authorized access, which is a felony.

Kemp said this was “especially odd and concern-ing” given that he is a member of the U.S. Election Infrastructure Cybersecurity Working Group run by the federal agency.

Forty-eight states accepted offers by the Homeland Security Department to scan their networks ahead of the presidential elections. The scans looked for vulnerabili-ties that hackers could exploit by hackers. The U.S. also described how states could patch their networks to make it more difficult to penetrate them.

Georgia was among two states that did not accept the department’s offer. It said it had contracted with an out-side agency and already implemented protective mea-sures.

Georgia’s system holds personal information on more than 6.5 million residents, more than 800,000 corporate entities and more than 500,000 licensed or registered pro-fessionals. The office registers voters, tracks annual corpo-rate filings, grants professional licenses and oversees the state’s securities market.

Welcome

home MelPearl Harbor survivor Mel Heckman salutes the honor guard assembled on the tarmac after returning from his visit to Honolulu, Hawaii Friday at the Sheridan County Airport. Mel Heckman is one of the few remaining survivors to travel to Hawaii for the 75th anniversary of the attacks on Pearl Harbor. The event has been called by many as “the last reunion” of the survivors. Heckman was wel-comed by dozens of veterans, friends and ambassadors from the Sheridan County Chamber of Commerce at the Malcolm Wallop Terminal.


SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2016 www.thesheridanpress.com THE SHERIDAN PRESS B1

SPORTS No. 11 Colorado begins practice

for 1st bowl game since 2007

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Colorado senior quarter-back Sefo Liufau usually makes the same, routine walk to the locker room.

This week, it was more difficult passing through a hallway that features the only Heisman Trophy in school history and a ceil-ing-to-floor photo of the tailback who earned it.

Liufau and the 11th-ranked Buffaloes began on-field prepara-tions Friday for the Alamo Bowl with heavy hearts after the passing of 1994 Heisman Trophy winner Rashaan Salaam , who was found dead Monday night in a Boulder park. The park is less than 2 miles from Folsom Field, where Salaam rose to national prominence.

As a tribute to Salaam, the Buffaloes are look-ing at wearing a helmet sticker for their first bowl game since 2007.

“Just incredible, the legacy he’s left here for people to strive for,” said Liufau, whose team faces No. 13 Oklahoma State on Dec. 29. “Just with the way he played, the way he led Colorado back in the day.”

The bounce-back sea-son for the Buffaloes (10-3) has been one of the biggest story lines in college football this year. Picked to finish last in the conference’s presea-son media poll, Colorado captured the Pac-12 South title before losing to No. 4 Washington in the league’s title game last week.

At the Alamo Bowl, Colorado has a chance to become the fourth team in school history to win 11 games. This group would join the 1989 team (11-1) that lost in the Orange Bowl, the ‘90 squad (11-1-1) which captured Colorado’s only national title and the ‘94 team (11-1) that was highlighted by Salaam rushing for 2,055 yards.

“This is why we came here, this is what we were working for, striving for — playing for the Pac-12 Championship and getting to a bowl game,” senior defensive back Ahkello Witherspoon said. “We’re excited to go out there and try to win it.”

These days, coach Mike MacIntyre is constantly approached about his team’s resurgence. He doesn’t mind in the least.

“It’s just really neat, people coming up and talking to you, saying, ‘We’re glad Colorado foot-ball is back,’” MacIntyre said.

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Sheridan College’s Xavier Jackson scoops a layup against the Williston State Tetons Friday at Williston State College in North Dakota.

Generals knock off Williston on the roadWILLISTON, N.D. — Matt Hammer told his

Sheridan College Generals they’d have to be 10 points better than the Williston State Tetons to win the game. The players responded and ended up with an 80-62 victory Friday night.

The Generals (12-2) defeated Williston State (5-7) 79-72 on Nov. 25 at the Bruce Hoffman Golden Dome, but Hammer was preparing his team for a much different environment on the road Friday.

“They’re going to be 10 points better on their home floor,” the coach told his team after shoot around Friday morning. “We have to be 10 points better, too.”

In Sheridan’s two losses this season — both on the road — the team secured significant leads before allowing the opponents to come back and steal wins. That wasn’t the case Friday.

The Generals took a 12-point lead late in the first half, but a couple of turnovers and 3-pointers from the Tetons kept it close. Sheridan led 34-30 at the break.

But the Generals didn’t falter, even after Williston cut another double-digit deficit down to 5 in the second half. Sheridan showed what Hammer called “tremendous growth” during the win, turned on the jets and simply became too much for the home team to keep up with.

“Alright boys, here it is,” Hammer told his

players in a timeout after snatching a 10-point lead in the second half. “This is going to show if we’re growing up at all, if we’re maturing at all, or if we’re going to be an average team.”

It started at the defensive end. After big men Sebastian Ferenc (injury) and Elhadji Dieng (foul trouble) went to the bench, the Generals were forced to play small against a roster that far outsized them.

Sheridan forced bad shots — often just one per possession — and turned its lack of size into a strength on the offensive end. Fast-break layups, quick dribble penetration and deep shots pushed the game out of reach.

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Tongue River boys fall

to Rocky Mountain

SHERIDAN — The Tongue River Eagles basketball team had a rough start to the sea-son with a 64-51 loss to the Rocky Mountain Grizzlies Friday.

Jay Keo led the Eagles with 14 points, and Brennan Kutterer put up 12 points for his team.

“It was a physical game,” new head coach Ronnie Stewart said. “They shot the ball well and caught us off guard defensively.”

“It wasn’t an impressive start to the season,” he added.

Rocky Mountain started the game with a 19-7 first quarter lead and kept the foot on the accelerator.

Stewart said the Grizzlies were simply fast, forcing the Eagles to use a small lineup. Still, he said that his bench stepped up defensively when it was called to action.

To keep up with the Rocky Mountain offense, Stewart said that he was forced to use

a small lineup, which was met with mixed results. Despite making a fourth-quarter push, Tongue River could not make up the deficit.

The Eagles have another shot at getting their first mark in the win column today when they play 2A Lovell for the team’s home opener. For Saturday’s game, Stewart said his offense needs to step up to keep the heat off of its defense.

That game begins at 4 p.m. at Tongue River High School.

Lady Eagles fall

to Lady Grizzles Friday

SHERIDAN— The Tongue River Lady Eagles got off to a rocky start after they fell to the Rocky Mountain Lady Grizzles 52-33 Friday night in Cowley.

Tongue River couldn’t stop the Lady Grizzlies in its opening game of the season. After falling behind 26-13 at the half, Rocky Mountain maintained control of the game on its way to a double-digit victory.

Comments from the coach were not avail-able at press time.

The Lady Eagles will return to action today for their first home game against the Lovell Lady Bulldogs. That game begins at 2:30 p.m. at Tongue River High School.

Sheridan Broncs swimmers

earn second place

in 200 yard butterfly relay

SHERIDAN — Oscar Patten, Caleb Johannesmeyer, Noah Luhman and Noah Hodges brought the Sheridan boy’s swim team a second-place victory in the 200 yard butterfly relay Friday night at Laramie High School. Johannesmeyer and Hodges also swam in the 400 yard medley relay with Sam Sampson and Jacob Ahlstrom, taking fourth place. Johannesmeyer, Emmett Potter and Thomas Yates took fourth in the boys 13-14 200 yard freestyle relay and Hodges, Luhman and Patten took fourth with Jacob Ahlstrom in the 200 yard breaststroke relay. Emmett John came in fifth in the 1 meter diving. The Broncs will resume action Saturday at Laramie.

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BOWL GAME : Colorado team preparing for high octane offence of Oklahoma StateFROM B1

The fourth-year Colorado coach has been on a whirl-wind schedule since the Pac-12 title game. He hit the recruiting trail earlier in the week, made an appearance in San Antonio on behalf of the Alamo Bowl and then traveled to Atlanta to accept The Home Depot Coach of the Year Award on Thursday night.

MacIntyre’s squad got back to business Friday on the indoor practice field as the Buffaloes prepare for the high-octane offense of Oklahoma State (9-3). A football practice in December hasn’t happened in quite some time for Colorado.

“It’s great to extend my time here, because it could be over now,” said Liufau, who has broken most of the school’s passing records over his career. “I’m very happy to keep practicing.”

The recent break from practice gave Liufau’s right ankle more time to heal after he twisted it on the Buffaloes’ first drive of the league title game. Although he returned to start the second half, he wasn’t the same and threw three interceptions, including one that was returned for a TD.

“He did good out there today,” MacIntyre said. “He moved around, he did everything. He wasn’t 100 percent, but we didn’t have to take him out.”

The next challenge for MacIntyre: balancing practice

sessions with final exams, which are set to begin on cam-pus.

“We told all these guys they have to compartmentalize,” MacIntyre said. “They have to really understand that and take care of that. I think they will. We won’t keep them out here too long and keep them fresh.”

MacIntyre said he had a chance to talk with Salaam’s family before practice Friday. Salaam’s funeral was Friday at the Islamic Center of Boulder. The mourners included Salaam’s former teammate Michael Westbrook.

“Like his parents said, some of the greatest days of his life were here and he enjoyed it,” MacIntyre said. “He did a lot for Buff Nation and for Colorado football, for sure.”

Raanta, Rangers beat Blackhawks

1-0 in overtimeCHICAGO (AP) — Nick

Holden scored 55 seconds into overtime, Antti Raanta made 26 saves against his former team and the New York Rangers beat the Chicago Blackhawks 1-0 on Friday night.

Derek Stepan passed from the boards to a streaking Holden in the middle of the ice, and he beat Scott Darling on the stick side for his fourth goal of the season.

Darling was going for his second straight shutout while subbing for injured starter Corey Crawford but had to settle for another solid performance.

Raanta, who made his NHL debut with Chicago in 2013 and played for the Blackhawks for two seasons before he was traded to New York, improved to 15-0-3 in 20 career appearances at the United Center.

The 27-year-old Raanta had 17 saves in Thursday’s 2-1 victory at Winnipeg, and coach Alain Vigneault opted to give him a second straight start over Henrik Lundqvist because of his recent play and his success in Chicago.

Marian Hossa appeared to have the go-ahead goal for the Blackhawks when he shot it between the legs of Rangers defenseman Ryan McDonagh and Raanta 6 minutes into the third. But Vigneault challenged the play and it was waived off when a replay review showed Hossa was offsides.

The Blackhawks played without defenseman Brent Seabrook, who was side-lined by an upper-body inju-ry. Captain Jonathan Toews

missed his eighth straight game with an upper-body injury, and Crawford missed his fourth in a row after he had an emergency appendectomy last weekend.

New York forward Rick Nash was sidelined for the second straight game by an upper-body injury. Nash is tied for second on the Rangers with 11 goals.

While each team was miss-ing some star power due to injuries, Raanta and Darling put on quite a show.

Raanta made a great glove save on Patrick Kane’s one-timer early in the first and had a dazzling stop on Richard Panik’s wide-open look in the middle in the second. The 6-foot-6 Darling made a couple terrific saves in rapid succession in the second, denying Stepan on the doorstep before getting over to knock away Jesper Fast’s prime opportunity on a 2-on-1.

Raanta got some help in the third when Mats Zuccarello swept a loose puck away from the goal line with 2:20 left.

NOTES: Rangers F Jimmy Vesey returned to the lineup after missing a game with an upper-body injury. Nash, D Adam Clendening and RW Josh Jooris were scratched. ... Blackhawks D Michal Kempny was a healthy scratch. ... The Rangers and Blackhawks play again on Tuesday night in New York.

UP NEXTRangers: Hosts the New

Jersey Devils on Sunday night.

Blackhawks: Hosts the Dallas Stars on Sunday night.

GENERALS : Win comes during three day road tripFROM B1

Austin Sherrell hit a 3-pointer with 7:00 left to make it an 8-point game. Ladan Ricketts turned a steal at the other end into a floater to regain a double-digit lead, and the Generals never looked back.

The team went on to hit four more 3-pointers to close things out — one from Dmonte Harris, one from Ricketts and two from Sherrell, the last of which earned a “Bingo!” from assistant coach Richard Sutphin on the bench. The shot put Sheridan up 77-56.

“They responded,” Hammer said. “They came out, they got that lead, and it was good to see.”

Hammer noted that a win is always important, especially the way Sheridan closed it out, but this one was big heading into win-ter break for the Generals. Sheridan has just one game left Saturday before a three-week break.

The win also came during a three-day road trip after a night in a hotel, in a packed gym full of rowdy Williston State hockey players.

“This is a great place to play,” Hammer said. “The environment — it’s like a Division II gym. It was good to see our guys respond and get the job done.”

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Elhadji Dieng, center, gets surrounded by two Williston State defenders Friday at Williston State College in North Dakota.

Matthews gets 26, Barnes 25 to lead Mavs past Pacers 111-103DALLAS (AP) — A night after a 31-point

home loss that embarrassed Wesley Matthews and his teammates, they all showed up at a charity event hosted by the Dallas shooting guard.

Coach Rick Carlisle called it a team-build-ing moment for the unit with the worst record in the Western Conference. Matthews couldn’t really disagree.

“I’ll have an event every night if that’s what we’re going to do,” Matthews said after matching a season high with 26 points as the injury-plagued Mavericks answered their lowest point in a difficult season with a 111-103 victory over the Indiana Pacers on Friday night.

A listless second half in a 120-89 loss to Sacramento prompted a team meeting. Two nights later, the Mavericks started the third quarter with a 10-2 run for their first double-digit lead in just their third win in 15 games. Harrison Barnes scored 25 points.

“That game, I think it ate at a lot of peo-ple, as it should,” said Matthews, who was 8 of 16 from the field and 5 of 10 from 3-point range. “I was embarrassed. I think a lot of other people were, too.”

Indiana had 10 3-pointers in the first quarter and a half, including four from Dallas high school product C.J. Miles. But the Pacers couldn’t sustain it against the NBA’s worst defensive team at the arc, fin-ishing 14 of 25.

Paul George scored 22 points to lead the Pacers (11-12), who failed for the third straight time with a chance to get above .500. Indiana hasn’t had a winning record since dropping Game 2 at Brooklyn after beating Dallas at home in overtime in the opener.

“It’s real disappointing,” said George, who had just nine points after the first quarter. “I don’t know what it is. I don’t have the answers for that.”

Matthews outscored the Pacers by him-self during a 32-11 spurt that turned a 50-42 deficit into a 74-61 lead. He had 16 points during the run , capped by a 3-pointer mid-way through the third quarter.

The Mavericks (5-17) shot 58 percent in the third quarter, making six of 12 from long range and outscoring the Pacers 31-25. In a 120-89 loss to Sacramento on Wednesday, Dallas was outscored 29-12 in

the third.Dallas is without starters Dirk Nowitzki

(strained right Achilles tendon) and Andrew Bogut (right knee injury) and key backup guard J.J. Barea (left calf strain).

“We are in desperate need of wins,” Carlisle said. “We really played a solid game tonight.”

TIP-INSPacers: Indiana made its first 24 free

throws before Jeff Teague missed the first of two with 1:34 remaining. The Pacers fin-ished 25 of 26. ... Myles Turner, who grew up in the Dallas area, scored 18 points. He had 30 in the first meeting. ... Miles scored 18 points, going 6 of 9 from long range.

Mavericks: G Seth Curry returned after missing four games with a right knee sprain. He matched Deron Williams for the team lead with six assists and scored four points. Williams scored 16. ... The Mavericks scored their most points in regu-lation, topping a 109-97 win at the Lakers.

GOOSE EGGFormer Dallas guard Monta Ellis was

scoreless on 0-for-5 shooting. It’s the first time he was held without a point since Feb.

9, 2015, during his final season with the Mavericks when he played just 4 minutes and missed his only shot. “Monta is just trying to figure out his role within what we have going on,” George said. “We’re all try-ing to figure this out.”

CAREER NIGHTUndrafted Dallas rookie Dorian Finney-

Smith had career highs with 12 points and eight rebounds, the latter a game high along with Barnes. His scoring included a running one-handed dunk on a fast break. “I put in the work so I deserve to go out there and shoot it with confidence and that is what I’ve been doing,” Finney-Smith said.

UP NEXTPacers: After the first of two five-game

trips, a season high, Indiana plays a pair of home games against Portland (Saturday) and Charlotte (Monday) before three more away from home.

Mavericks: A visit to Houston on Saturday is followed by home games against Denver (Monday) and Detroit (Wednesday) with Dallas in a stretch of seven out of nine at home.

Harris English, Matt Kuchar take

Shootout lead

NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — Harris English and Matt Kuchar shot a 6-under 66 in windy mod-ified alternate shot play Friday to take the second-round lead in the Franklin Templeton Shootout.

English and Kuchar were at 21 under at Tiburon after opening with a 57 on Thursday in the scramble round. They won in 2013 in their first start together and finished second

the last two years.“Alternate shot’s always a tricky format. If

you would have told us 6 under bogey-free in today’s conditions, we’d take that straight-away,” Kuchar said. “I’d be surprised if another group was bogey-free today. It was good golf. I don’t remember a hole being ner-vous that we might walk away with a bogey. Every hole we kind of had a chance and it was

a good, fun round of golf.”The event ends Sunday with a better-ball

round.“We would have the same game plan tomor-

row whether we’re up four or up one,” Kuchar said. “You have to keep plodding away having two chances at birdies. You keep trying to make pars out here and these guys are going to catch you and pass you.”


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NFL suspends Saints safety

Vaccaro 4 games under PED policy

METAIRIE, La. (AP) — New Orleans Saints safety Kenny Vaccaro will serve a four-game suspension, start-ing this Sunday at Tampa Bay, because he violated league rules pertaining to performance enhanc-ing drug use, the NFL announced Friday.

The league did not specify which banned substance was found in Vaccaro’s system. The league not only bans steroids, but also diuretics that have been known to mask steroid use, so a positive test for either could have triggered a sus-pension.

The Saints have four regular-season games left, meaning Vaccaro’s won’t play again this season unless New Orleans (5-7) rallies to make the playoffs. The Saints trail NFC South Division leaders Tampa Bay and Atlanta by two games.

Saints defensive coordi-nator Dennis Allen said the Saints were aware of the initial positive test, which had to be confirmed and could have been appealed, so he and his staff had time to develop a contingency plan for this very scenario.

“We’re ready to go out and execute that contin-gency plan,” Allen said. “Obviously, when you lose a guy of his caliber, it’s tough and hard on your defense. It’s hard on the football team, but yet it’s no different than dealing with injuries throughout the sea-son. These things happen and you have to be prepared for them when they do.”

Vaccaro, a first-round draft choice out of Texas in 2013, was in on 67 solo or

assisted tackles this season. He had one sack, five tack-les for losses, two intercep-tions, two forced fumbles, a fumble recovery and eight quarterback hits.

His versatility has allowed the Saints to play in a number of three-safety alignments on defense, with Vaccaro playing near the line of scrimmage and cov-ering slot receivers or tight ends — acting sort of as a hybrid linebacker and nick-el back — while fellow safe-ties Jairus Byrd and Vonn Bell played deeper and in roles more traditional for safeties.

Veteran reserve safety Roman Harper is one player who could be called upon to play more in Vaccaro’s absence. New Orleans also on Friday signed a new linebacker, Travis Feeney, off of Pittsburgh’s practice squad.

“Certainly, anytime you lose a player of (Vaccaro’s) caliber, it affects how you go about game-planning,” Allen said. “That is some-thing that, as we went throughout this week and over the last few weeks, it is something that we have had to keep in the back of our mind because you never knew when this was going to occur. It is certainly something that we have had to pay attention to over the last few weeks.”

Saints head coach Sean Payton said Vaccaro could have appealed, but that it made more sense for him to accept a four-game suspen-sion now, rather than risk having a later suspension that could carry over into next season.


Competing for a varsity positionSheridan High School’s Matthew Legler, top, wrestles Chaydon Mullinex in the 120 weight class during the 6th annual Sheridan Bronc Wrestling Blue and gold Wrestle Offs Tuesday at Sheridan Junior High School. Each player were competing for varsity positions in their respective weight class. The Bronc Wrestling team will host a dual against Worland on Thursday, 5 p.m. at Sheridan High School.

Matthews gets 26, Barnes 25 to lead Mavs past Pacers 111-103DALLAS (AP) — Wesley

Matthews matched a season high with 26 points, Harrison Barnes had 25 and the Dallas Mavericks beat the Indiana Pacers 111-103 on Friday night for just their third win in 15 games.

Two nights after a listless sec-ond half in a 31-point home loss to Sacramento prompted a team meet-ing, the Mavericks started the third quarter with a 10-2 run that gave them a double-digit lead.

Matthews outscored the Pacers by himself during a 32-11 spurt that turned a 50-42 deficit into a 74-71 lead. The shooting guard had 16 points during the run, capped by a 3-pointer midway through the third quarter.

Indiana had 10 3-pointers in the

first quarter and a half, includ-ing four from Dallas high school product C.J. Miles. But the Pacers couldn’t sustain it against the NBA’s worst defensive team at the arc, finishing 14 of 25.

Paul George scored 22 points to lead the Pacers (11-12), who failed for the third straight time with a chance to get above .500. Indiana hasn’t had a winning record since dropping Game 2 at Brooklyn after beating Dallas at home in overtime in the opener.

The Mavericks (5-17) shot 58 per-cent in the third quarter, making six of 12 from long range and out-scoring the Pacers 31-25. In a 120-89 loss to Sacramento on Wednesday, Dallas was outscored 29-12 in the third.

TIP-INSPacers: Indiana made its first

24 free throws before Jeff Teague missed the first of two with 1:34 remaining. The Pacers finished 25 of 26. ... Myles Turner, who grew up in the Dallas area, scored 18 points. He had 30 in the first meeting. ... Former Dallas G Monta Ellis was scoreless on 0-for-5 shooting. ... Miles scored 18 points, going 6 of 9 from long range.

Mavericks: G Seth Curry returned after missing four games with a right knee sprain. He matched Deron Williams for the team lead with six assists and scored four points. Williams scored 16. ... The Mavericks scored their most points in regulation, topping a 109-97 win at the Lakers.

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MARY WORTH by Karen Moy and Joe Giella

BABY BLUES® by Jerry Scott and Rick Kirkman

ALLEY OOP® by Dave Graue and Jack Bender

BORN LOSER® by Art and Chip Sansom

GARFIELD by Jim Davis

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DEAR ABBY Pauline Phillips and Jeanne Phillips

The sweet and not-so-sweet gut check

As the saying goes, “You gotta have guts!” Well, not quite. You gotta have good, happy guts! That’s essential for optimal functioning, mentally and physically. But it’s easier said than done in today’s gut-banging, pro-cessed-food culture. Turns out lots of things in -- and taken out of -- the foods you eat can upset your guts and the trillions of microbes that live there, making you sus-ceptible to a wide range of diseases and conditions, from weight gain and diabetes to irritable bowel.

Gut CheckThere are over 100 trillion

microbes living in your digestive tract (or gut biome), and they work together to keep you healthy -- unless you throw them out of balance by eating red and processed meats and other processed foods, loading up on added sugars and sat fats, skimping on fresh veggies and fruits, and overlooking the goodness of 100 percent whole grains.

When in balance, your biome helps protect you from food poisoning, strengthens your immune system, wards off allergies and colds, eases eczema, stops diarrhea and irritable bowel syndrome, prevents colitis-related colon cancer and even protects against elevated glucose and heart attacks.

But not all gut bacteria are health-promoting, and you need to keep your harmful gut bacteria in check by having a strong and thriving population of beneficial gut

bacteria. So what knocks your biome out of balance?

Sweet and Artificially Sweet Biome Disruptors

We need sugar to function, but you can get what you need by eating gut-loving, fiber-rich fruits and vegeta-bles. Unfortunately, in the U.S., the average person consumes 150-170 pounds of processed sugar annually (it was just 7.5 pounds back in 1700) and 50 percent of that comes from high fruc-tose corn syrup in fat-free foods like salad dressings and soft drinks. Researchers at Oregon State University conducted a study and found that the typical high-sugar diet causes changes in the mix of the gut biome that interferes with the formation of both long- and short-term memories, and reduces cog-nitive flexibility. And Israeli researchers found that artifi-cial sweeteners alter the gut biome in ways that trigger glucose intolerance and raise glucose levels! Or, as the National Institutes of Health put it: Some zero-calorie arti-ficial sweeteners “functional-ly alter” the gut microbiome and can “promote metabolic derangements” in certain groups of people.

Lack of FiberMost Americans eat fruit

just once a day and veggies twice a day, which means only about 10 percent get the minimum recommend-ed amount daily! That’s gut-bashing 101. Research indicates that eating foods that provide a wide range of both soluble and insoluble fiber -- like veggies and fruit -- may be the No. 1 one way

to keep your biome in bal-ance. (A lack of diversity in the biome has been linked to weight gain and obesity.) So, make sure you eat 5-9 serv-ings of fruits and veggies, and get at least two servings of 100 percent whole grains every day.

Too Much of a Good Thing Taking megadoses of some

vitamins can cause imbal-ance in your gut. For exam-ple, researchers have found that having too much of the B vitamin-like substance cho-line in your system can keep biome-bugs from doing their good works. So stick with half a multivitamin morning and evening, with levels close to the recommended daily intake, and the same for min-erals.

Balancing the 100 TrillionSome believe probiotics are

another way to help restore balance to your gut biome if you’ve gone off track. (You may be out of balance if you’re overweight, have problems with constipation, diarrhea or gas, are prone to colds or have elevated blood glucose levels.) We favor daily supplements that can make it through the stomach acid to your guts: the hard-shelled Digestive Advantage (contains bacillus coagulans GBI-30, 6086) and Culturelle (lactobacillus GG), which are activated by stomach acid. And don’t forget to enjoy no-sugar-added low-fat yogurt and other cultured foods, like sauerkraut and kimchi, that deliver billions of bifidobac-terium, streptococcus ther-mophiles and lactobacillus (particularly acidophilus).

DEAR ABBY: I’m afraid something is wrong with my younger brother. He’s just turned 13, and he’s become violent and angry. Before, he used to tease me and our sister once in a while, but now it’s becoming an every-day thing. If we tease him back, he gets mad and starts yelling.

He directs most of his anger at our younger sister and our mom, and he has started to push my mom. She’s worried that he might hurt one of us. If she con-fronts him when he gets out of hand, he starts yelling, “What? I didn’t do anything!” Then later, he’ll come back and try to push or kick her. I have noticed that he talks to himself, too.

We don’t know what to do. We hear how kids some-times harm their families. I’m afraid for my mom and my sister, but also for my brother. I love him and want to help him. -- AFRAID IN ARIZONA

DEAR AFRAID: If you want to help your brother, talk to your mother about getting professional help for your brother NOW, before he hurts someone. He should be evaluated to determine whether his problem is anger management or the onset of a mental illness. His pedi-atrician can refer her to a licensed mental health pro-fessional. If he doesn’t have a pediatrician, the county department of mental health can suggest someone.

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

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Dear Heloise: My friend asked me to FOSTER A DOG. I was happy to do it, because I love dogs.

This dog is amazing! I’m keeping her for just a week, and then she will be adopted, but in that time, I want to get her socialized and used to being around people. Then she’ll get spayed, get her shots and get adopted into a fabulous family, hopefully with a big backyard and kids to play with.

When she’s settled with her new family and on a schedule, her personality will bloom -- I’m excited for her future!

You can search the hashtag #Fostering-SavesLives to read amazing adoption stories. Thanks for being a voice for animals.

Oh, and I’d like for Lulu to be a “Pet Pal,” please! -- Eliz-abeth in San Antonio

PET PALDear Readers: We are

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KID OF THE DAYDear Heloise: I saw the

hint in your column back in October regarding siblings arguing about using the front seat. I came up with an idea we called “The Kid of the Day” to solve “it’s my turn” issues.

I have two boys, and we al-ternated days for their time to be “The Kid,” but it cov-ered anything that might come up, such as: which TV station they might watch, who got the last piece, which fast-food place, who sat in the front, pepperoni or mushroom, etc. -- any decision that needed to be made (within reason), the Kid of the Day made. They completely accepted their brother’s choice because they knew tomorrow would

be their day! It was a LIFE-SAVER! -- Cindy F., Jaffrey, N.H.

EASY CAT TOYDear Heloise: I take empty

toilet-tissue cores and crimp one end, put in some cat treats, then crimp up the other end. I give it to my cats -- they love it! -- Joy K., Waco, Texas

Make sure the cat doesn’t ingest any of the paper. -- Heloise

‘BIRD’ IS THE WORDDear Heloise: First of all,

I can’t tell you how many of your articles I have cut out. You do us all a favor. Thank you.

Someone wrote in about having trouble with birds flying into the windows be-cause the birds were coming to a bird feeder. When I was young, my mom would wash both of the family room’s glass sliding doors.

Then a poor bird would fly into it, and we would nurse it back to health. We put some large, pretty stickers in several places on the windows. Problem solved. -- Annette T., via email

Bridge Phillip Alder

Mike Law-rence wrote many excel-lent books quite some time ago. He has revamped them, and the

latest is “Tips on Cardplay” (Master Point Press). In 300 pages, you get a vast amount of sound advice about declarer-play and de-fense, with approximately twice as much space on de-fense -- which is as it ought to be because you are a de-fender twice as often as you are the declarer.

How should West defend in this deal? Against four spades, he leads his single-ton heart. East wins with the ace and returns the heart queen, South play-ing the four and 10. What should West discard?

North’s two-heart cue-bid showed spade support and at least game-invitational values.

What is going on? If East began with the heart ace-king-queen, he should have won the first trick with the

queen, not the ace. If East started with the heart ace-queen-jack, that is consis-tent with his play, but then why did South not try to win the second trick with his heart king?

Declarer knows from the bidding and the heart-deuce lead that West started with a single-ton, and South does not want West on lead.

If West trusts everyone, he should “dis-card” a trump at trick two(!) and shift to a diamond. Here, that produces the first four tricks for the defense -- the only way given the heart lead.

Yes, South made a clever play, but East should have led the heart

nine at trick two. Since South surely has the club ace, East could anticipate this being the only winning defense. When you want partner to ruff, lead a loser that declarer must cover.

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Omarr’s Daily Astrological Forecast Jeraldine Saunders

BIRTHDAY GAL: Ac-tress Taylor Hickson was born in Kelowna, British Columbia, on this date in 1997. This birthday gal por-trayed Meghan Orlovsky in the hit movie adaptation of the comic book “Dead-pool.” Her other film work includes “Blackway” and she will next star in an up-coming film drama called “Everything, Everything.” Currently, Hickson stars as Brianna Copeland on the Canadian series “After-math.”

ARIES (Mar 21-Apr. 19): Just get it over with. A nagging responsibility may have you looking for ways to get out of it but you’ll find the easiest solution is sim-ply to do it. Don’t become too frustrated by mistakes as the experience provides a valuable lesson.

TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 20): Show your support for the home team. Family or close friends may need a shoulder to lean on and you are just the one to fit the bill. The lights along the streets of romance will be all green in the week ahead.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Don’t assume anything. Re-ality may be quite different from what you expect it to be so don’t act on precon-ceived notions and wait for cold hard facts. A past con-flict may finally be resolved in the week ahead with a simple apology.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Imitation is the sincer-est form of flattery. Don’t become alarmed or offended if you find that someone is employing your own meth-ods as it may be nothing more than they just admire

your style. Give a loved one the attention they deserve.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Get those creative juices flow-ing. You’ll gain the most satisfaction from activities that require imagination and an artistic flair. Resolve to follow your own agenda this week and don’t become embroiled in other people’s controversies.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You need not travel far to find answers. Problems can be easily solved if you ar-en’t too proud to ask friends or trusted advisors for their advice. Take time to weigh the options carefully when trying to make important decisions.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22.): It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Take advan-tage of your cheerful and generous nature by getting out and crossing a few items off of your holiday shop-ping list. Friends and loved ones will offer unwavering support for your latest en-deavor.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): When opportunity knocks, you would be wise to open the door. Being overly skeptical could backfire if a lucrative offer comes your way. You may not win the lottery but you’ll have Lady Luck on your side when needed.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You’ve got nothing to worry about. Don’t be overly sensitive by what you may see as flaws in your appearance as these may well be the traits that attract others to you. Get-ting out of the house may help clear your head.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-

Jan. 19): Have a little faith. A trusted friend will come through for you in a pinch so don’t feel as if you are facing the world on your own. Ignore the urge to shake up your finances as the situation will eventually improve on its own.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20- Feb. 18): Slide into the driver’s seat. You’ll find that your leadership skills will be quite the asset when im-mersed into a group setting this week. There’s nothing wrong with using the influ-ence of a powerful friend to achieve your ends.

PISCES (Feb. 19- Mar. 20): A rolling stone gathers no moss. Avoid settling into safe routines that keep you moving in circles when the only way that you’ll make progress is through defin-itive action. You’ll never know what you can accom-plish unless you try.

IF DECEMBER 11 IS YOUR BIRTHDAY: Follow the rules and steer clear of trouble between now and mid-January. You may be burdened by more than your fair share of respon-sibilities so it isn’t a good time to take on any more voluntarily. In February you could be misled by a romantic fantasy or con-fused about what is really important in a relationship. Wait until April when you are wiser and luckier than usual to make irrevocable decisions, to implement key changes or to launch new plans.

BIRTHDAY GUY: Actor Wings Hauser was born in Hollywood, Calif., on this day in 1947. This birthday

guy’s long film resume includes “Rubber,” “The Siege of Firebase Gloria,” and “Vice Squad.” More recently, he’s guest-starred on episodes of “Castle,” “Rizzoli & Isles,” and “Ha-waii Five-O.” Wings has performed musically under the name Wings Livinryte and is the father of actor Cole Hauser.

ARIES (Mar 21-Apr. 19): Every cloud has a silver lining. Try to look on the bright side of a situation and you may find it is not nearly as bad as you origi-nally thought. A purchase that you’ve had your eye on recently may have addi-tional benefits.

TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 20): Keep your poker face on. Bluff your way through negotiations by making ridiculously high demands, then settling for the happy medium that is still to your advantage. Determination and willpower will help you get the job done.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Knowledge is golden. Pay close attention to what a friend or co-worker has to say as they may provide a wealth of useful informa-tion. Don’t hesitate to ask for assistance if a problem has you stumped as others will be glad to help.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Roll the dice. You may need to step out of your comfort zone to accomplish a goal but the unknown factors should align in your favor. Projects, plans and endeavors that you start now are likely to result in rousing success.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Consult with those in the

know. Seek out the profes-sional counsel of doctors, lawyers or stock brokers regarding crucial decisions that need to be made. Your personal goals may be put on hold in order to deal with other issues today.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): As Mr. Spock would say, “Be logical, flawlessly log-ical.” There’s no obstacle that you can’t overcome if you stay cool and employ the scientific method to find a solution. Follow your own good judgment when mak-ing purchases.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22.): All for one and one for all. Being part of the team means that each member does their part to achieve the common good and no one sets their own needs above the rest. A bit of humor at the right time could ease tensions.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You can’t fool all of the people all of the time. Bluff-ing your way through a sit-uation will only get you so far as you’ll eventually have to back up your words with action. Remain honest and forthright and you’ll have no problems.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Don’t hold back. Take your place at center stage by showing off your prowess and know-how and letting everyone know that you are the right one for the job. A romantic interest may have their sights set on you this evening.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): He who hesitates gets left behind. Events may unfold in rapid succession today and you’ll need to be on top of your game to han-

dle it all. Use your instincts and good judgment to reach important decisions quickly.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): If you’re going to lead people, you have to have somewhere to go. Your leadership abilities could come into question if your charges aren’t all working in the same direction. Try to be more decisive when making choices.

PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20): Finish what you start. New ideas or unexpected events could distract you from completing your allot-ted tasks. Pay attention to the advice of experienced sources as you may dis-cover that you’ve been fo-cusing your energy into the wrong direction.

IF DECEMBER 12 IS YOUR BIRTHDAY: You ar-en’t at your best during the upcoming four to six weeks. Hold off on job interviews, bypass new romantic re-lationship and steer clear of controversies. You may be anxious to explore new horizons during February but at the same time find it difficult to get along with people in authority. It is best to maintain a low profile and perform your job thoroughly. Wait until May, when your judgment is at its best, to make key decisions and changes. Any opportunity that shows up will be in your best inter-ests to accept.

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Create a family

cookbook

The holidays often mean time with family and good friends. This year try something new and you’ll end up with a family memento that could

well span several generations — create your own family cookbook.

Here are some tips in accomplishing your task:

• Spread the word — call, write, email or text family members, requesting their favorite family recipes or recipes from past generations that were handed down. (Everyone may not have your great-grand-mother’s pound cake recipe.)

• Include anecdotes with each recipe entry. Ask the cooks to reflect on why a dish is a fami-ly favorite — who loves it, who handed it down — and to indicate if it’s served at a specific hol-iday or time of the year. The more they elabo-rate, the better.

• Use a recipe software application to format your cookbook. These programs have easy-to-follow tem-plates that make inputting recipes easy. They also let you import text from emails and, depending on the application, you can also import or export recipes from one program to another.

• Personalize your cookbook with fam-ily photos and illustrations. Some web-sites offer free food-related drawings that you can download and import into your recipe files. Or ask some young family members to draw pictures of their favor-ite foods.

• Place recipes in an inexpensive pre-sentation binder that has plastic (spill-proof) pages. Color-code the categories, or use stick on tabs to clearly label and divide each section.

• Send a cookbook to each family house-hold or to everyone who contributed.

This is a project that could produce updates as new family recipes came in or new generations started their own fam-ilies and traditions. Who knows where it could end up, but your family’s favor-ites would be together for whatever the future brings.

Christmas stockings

It is not too late to throw together a few new Christmas stockings for the kids. Or perhaps you have a new grandchild this year to make one for.

— Create a stocking template from paper. Make it generous but not gigantic.

— Use felt squares or buy felt by the yard or half-yard in assorted colors.

— Use your pinking sheers to cut out stockings then spend 30 seconds and sew one up on a sewing machine. Remember to add a small felt rectangle for hanging up the stocking.

— Use fabric paint, glitter, pompoms, etc. to decorate the stocking. Or use scraps of the felt to make stars, trees, wrapped packages, angels, tree orna-ments, etc. then glue them (using fabric glue) onto the outside of the stocking. You don’t have to, but I usually add the name of the recipient on the outside too.

SUSAN WOODY has been a home and garden writer for more than 20 years and is a master gardener.

SUSAN WOODY|

Landscape design for the do-it-yourselferDesigning your own garden

is half the fun, whether you do it all at once or a bit at a time. But you don’t have to do it alone: help, advice and good ideas are as close as your smartphone, where you can find garden design apps and other online gardening tools.

Garden designers often use sophisticated software to design and present their ideas. The computer-assisted design programs they rely on are made for professionals, and they’re tricky to master -- and frustrating, especially if you’re just going to be a one-time user. Apps and online tools, on the other hand, have been devel-oped to help you work comfort-ably with the fundamentals of design so you can transform your property into a garden you can be proud of.

“You’re not ready to pick up a shovel until you have a plan,” says Jennifer Silver, communications manager for Julie Moir Messervy Design Studio in Vermont. Four years ago, Messervy’s six-person garden-design firm introduced a design app called Palette, now renamed Home Outside (which is the also the title of one of Messervy’s most popular books). The app, which is free, puts professional design tools in your hands, but you don’t have to be a pro to use them.

Home Outside enables you to make an overall garden plan for your property. Even if you’re only thinking of install-ing a patio in the backyard, drawing up a master plan is a good idea, Silver says. It helps

establish flow, so the whole garden -- from the curb to the back fence -- will be more graceful, coherent and accom-modating. A full-garden plan also helps you avoid expensive mistakes, she says, because it forces you to look at each part of your yard and think about the way the spaces work and feel and relate to one another.

With Home Outside, users can simply import a Google Earth image of their proper-ty, which neatly solves the challenge of measuring and mapping existing features. This image is the essential first layer of the landscape design. From there, the app guides you through the process of adding more layers or overlays — paths, walls, flower beds, water features and plants. You can even add labels and notes, make a list of materials or sources, or jot down the names of specific plants you’re inter-ested in. If you decide you need professional advice (for a fee, of course), you can use the app to contact and collaborate with garden designers in Messervy’s office.

Free is hard to beat. Another design app, Garden Planner, which costs $34 (though a free 15-day trial is available), lets you sketch the layout of your property and drag icons rep-resenting walls, paths, trees, shrubs and flowers around the space and reshape them. Putting a plan together like this feels like playing, which encourages experimentation.

HGTV also offers landscape design software ($80) that includes a Deck Wizard feature to help gardeners design decks and patios. You start

with a plan view or by import-ing digital images of your prop-erty, then use a simple drag-and-drop process to add paths, fences, flower beds and other features. The software allows your design to be viewed both as a plan and as if you were standing looking at the garden (in elevation). It shows how the landscape changes through the seasons and even projects how trees and shrubs will grow from garden-shop size to matu-rity. A built-in plant encyclo-pedia will help you choose the best plants for your climate. For first-time designers, the options may appear almost overwhelming.

Garden design is a complex process, and it really starts with taking stock of your prop-erty, making lists of priorities and possibilities, and trying to imagine a garden where there is nothing at present. Designer-based apps and software help you do all these things and keep you from going down a lot of dead ends.

It will be helpful to listen to the thoughts and comments of experienced designers, which you can do from any spot with a Wi-Fi connection. YouTube, the champion of do-it-your-self projects, is a great source of short garden design vid-eos. Houzz, an online design resource, presents hundreds of thousands of garden images — a deep well of ideas — with links to designer websites where you can find videos, workbooks, galleries of projects and, in general, lots of inspira-tion.

Looking at pictures, watching videos and moving garden fea-

tures around on a template on the screen of your phone, com-puter or tablet may not seem like hands-in-the-dirt garden-ing, but the point of a design is that you’re interested in the overall effect, not just the beauty of individual flowers scattered around your yard. It’s hard to design a good garden until you explore the territory. Dig in online first, and you’ll be sowing the seeds for a suc-cessful garden plan.

BY MARTY ROSS

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COURTESY PHOTO | UNIVERSAL UCLICK

Plan views are scale drawings that allow you to see how a landscape design will fit into the available space. Here, the plan shows plenty of room for six chairs around the generous fire pit.

SOURCES / SCREEN

TIME— Home Outside is the garden design app developed by Julie Moir Messervy Design Studio

(jmmds.com). The app and all its tools are free. In addition to

garden design, the app also has an “events” palette to help users plan garden weddings and out-door parties. You’ll need some

practice to take advantage of all the features of this professional

app.— With the Garden Planner app

($34), you can create a template for your property and add trees, shrubs, flower beds, paths and patios, among many other fea-

tures. The app’s intuitive design is easy to use.

— HGTV Ultimate Home Design with Landscaping and Decks software ($80; homedesign-

software.tv) lets you upload an image of your home, then design landscaping around it. An ency-clopedia with more than 7,500

plants is included.— Check houzz.com and YouTube

for garden ideas and resources.

RIGHT AT HOME: Saddle up in style on new rocking horses

The rocking horse, off-spring of the hobby horse, seems to have appeared first in the early 17th century. Not much more than a log with board sides, it may have been inspired by the cradle, according to Alec Kinane of Legends Rocking Horses in Buckinghamshire, England.

“The horse on bow rockers that we know and love today was a product of 18th centu-ry England,” Kinane says. “It was popular with the wealthy, and it is said they were used to help develop children’s balance for riding real horses.”

Kinane and his wife,

Beverley, have been hand-carving and restoring rocking horses for 30 years. Their finely finished steeds, crafted from hardwoods like oak and cherry, with real horse hair manes and tails and leather saddles, sell for thousands of pounds.

It may have been Queen Victoria’s love of the rock-ing horse that led to its becoming a children’s favor-ite.

Maggi Batch is a collec-tor and dealer in antique rocking horses, in Norfolk England.

“When I was a child, because we came from a poor background, a rocking horse was just something we saw if we visited a state-ly home,” she said.

BY KIM COOK

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C2 THE SHERIDAN PRESS www.thesheridanpress.com SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2016

SENIORCheck these

resources before hiring in-home careSHERIDAN — If you are

caring for an ill loved one, hiring professional health help can be a smart move for not only their care but also respite for you. Consult your physician on what help would be benefi-cial for you.

You can always utilize a professional licensed home health agency such as the Sheridan Senior Center, or a private business, but you can also hire directly.

Proceed cautiously before bringing someone you don’t know into your home to care for a loved one. Following is a list of contacts that the Senior Center uses to follow up on an applicant’s background that can help you get the best information on some-one you are thinking of bringing into your home.

1. First, plan to interview applicants as if you are an employer rather than a client. Think professional and don’t be shy in asking direct directions to get the best insight if the applicant is a good fit for your fam-ily.

Set up a place outside of your home to conduct the interview. Public places where there are people around are good choices such as the public library, a local coffee shop or a quiet corner in a restau-rant. The applicant is also interviewing you and would probably appreciate a public place since they don’t know you either.

2. Background check: Before the interview, it would be a good idea for you to download a form for a background check from the Department of Family Services. This step checks if the applicant has a back-ground of abuse against a vulnerable adult. Go to http://dfsweb.wyo.gov/cen-tral-registry. The applicant has to sign this before you can mail it in so it is best to bring this form to the interview. If you don’t have a computer at home, check with the local library to use their computer. There may be a fee for pages printed so check with the library assistant first.

If you want to proceed with an applicant, mail $10 and the signed back-ground check form to the

Department of Family Services. It will take 10 days for a response on this step of the interview pro-cess. You can ask the appli-cant to do this, also, and bring back the response to you at a future date (and at a location away from your home).

3. Check on the appli-cant’s CNA license from the Wyoming State Board of Nursing at https://nurs-ing-online.state.wy.us/veri-fications.aspx. Licenses are renewed every two years so a current report does not necessarily mean the appli-cant is currently working under a licensed nurse. At the interview, ask the applicant for the name and contact information of the nurse who is supervising him or her.

4. Do a criminal back-ground check: the appli-cant will need to be fin-gerprinted for this step. In Sheridan, fingerprinting is done at Cedar’s Health Clinic located at 813 Highland Ave. in Sheridan. The phone number is 673-5501. There is a fee and the interviewer can ask the applicant to pay for this. Two standard FBI 8-by-8-inch blue applicant finger-print cards are completed and appropriate fees in the form of a certified check or money order made out to the Office of the Attorney General are sent to: Division of Criminal Investigations, ATTN: ATS, 208 South College Drive, Cheyenne, WY 82002. For complete details go to http://wyomingdci.wyo.gov/dci-criminal-justice-in-formation-systems-section/criminal-records-section/criminal-history-checks

5. Check with the Sheridan Police Department for any inter-actions the applicant may have had with them: 45 W. 12th St., Sheridan. Phone: 672-5609.

6. If you want the suc-cessful applicant to drive your loved one to appoint-ments or outings, check their driving record with the Wyoming Department of Transportation: 5300 Bishop Boulevard, Cheyenne. Phone: 307-777-4375.

It is a lot of work but well worth the effort for the integrity of bringing some-one into your home.

FROM THE SHERIDAN SENIOR CENTER

A caregiver’s survival toolkit SHERIDAN — If you are

caring for someone who is ill, frail or when the daily activities of living have become a struggle for them, you are a caregiver. Caregiving can be as sim-ple as helping someone get ready for bed or preparing or getting them connected with meals or even bath-ing.

Caregivers care for their spouse, their parents, their adult child, a friend or a neighbor with meals, trans-portation, remembering appointments or even med-ication management.

“What I see is that often-times a spouse thinks ‘I’m just the husband’ or ‘I’m just the wife,’” said Stella Montano, director of Family Caregiver Support Services at the Sheridan Senior Center. “They don’t see themselves in a care-giver role. But their loved one’s needs have gone way beyond being able to do for themselves.”

But as your loved one’s needs increase, so does the demand on your time and energy…and on your health.

“Caregivers always tend to put their loved ones

first,” Montano said.Montano is passionate

about supporting the care-givers in their role. This includes teaching caregiv-ers to take care of them-selves.

“I like to use the analogy when you’re traveling and you’re on a plane,” said Montano. “The flight atten-dants will tell you that in the case of an emergency and should the oxygen masks deploy, you are told

to put your mask on first before taking care of any-one around you. The same goes for caregiving. If you don’t take care of yourself, you’re not able to take on the demands of caregiv-ing.”

Montano has seen time and again when demands of caregiving have taken their toll on caregivers’ health sometimes to the point of hospitalization.

She offers the following five tips for a survival toolbox for caregivers.

Your first tool? Accept help. Have a list of ways others can help you. Someone may be willing to sit with your loved one for a couple of hours while you take a break or run much needed errands. Ask them to pick up groceries or accept an offered meal. It’s import-ant to focus on what you are able to provide and know that you are doing the best you can. No one is perfect so let go of that guilt that you are not doing enough.

A second important tool for a caregiver: set real-istic goals. Break large tasks into smaller steps that you can do one at a time. Prioritize, make lists and establish a daily routine. When you have a routine, those helping you will know your rou-tine.

Tool No. 3: Get con-nected. Find out about resources in your com-

munity that can help you. In Sheridan, the Senior Center offers transporta-tion, Day Break Adult Day Care, adaptive equipment, home delivered meals, housekeeping, personal care and respite services. Call the Senior Center at 672-2240 for specifics.

Don’t underestimate the value of support groups. This is Tool No. 4. Participants know what you’re going through. They can validate your reality, provide encouragement, and help with valuable problem solving.

And Tool No. 5? Montano encourages caregivers to set personal health goals.

“Set regular appoint-ments to see your doctor,” said Montano. “Make sure you let your doctor know that you are a caregiver.” If your doctor knows that you’re a caregiver, they can support your decision for using community sup-port services.

Montano also recom-mends to caregivers to set some personal health objec-tives such as taking walks, listening to favorite music while you make dinner, staying hydrated and using whatever form of relax-ation you may choose.

“Caregiving is not a sprint, it’s a long-distance run,” said Montano.

Stocking your metaphor-ical caregiving toolkit can support you as a caregiver as you care for and love another.

BY LOIS BELL

SHERIDAN SENIOR CENTER

COURTESY PHOTO |

Caregiving for a loved one can take a toll on the well-being of the caregiver. Mike and Yvonne Buchan and Damian Carrillo are three caregivers who value the weekly support group they attend at the Senior Center.

SENIOR CENTER HAPPENINGS |

• The Senior Center’s Green Boomerang Thrift Store is currently look-ing for volunteers to help clean, repair and display donated jewelry to be placed in the store for pur-chase.

If you are interested in helping out, please contact the director of volunteer services, Haley Rougeau at 672-2240, or stop in at 211 Smith St. and fill out an application today.

This position will begin Tuesday, Dec. 6 at 9:30 a.m. We are also always looking for cashiers to work Wednesday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

• The Senior Center is holding a Craft Room Sale in the Art Studio at 211 Smith St., Wednesday, Dec. 13 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The public is invited to come in. For details, call Jean Harm at 672-2240.

Online subscriptions only $79 per year


PEOPLEReal Life Church

organizes holiday event

SHERIDAN — The Real Life Church has organized a hands-on, interactive experience of living in Bethlehem in Bible times.

The church will put on the event Dec. 16 at Highland Park Elementary School. The evening will feature fun for the whole family and those planning to attend

can arrive anytime between 6-8 p.m. Craft stations for children and light snacks will be pro-vided.

The event is free and open to the public.

For additional informa-tion, contact Ryan Charest at 752-4906.

Highland Park Elementary School is located at 2 Mydland Road.

FROM STAFF REPORTS

WYO to host ‘Bad Billy’s’ Christmas

SHERIDAN — The WYO Theater will host Bad Billy’s Best Christmas Pageant Ever for four shows Dec. 15-18.

The show brings the audience into Billy Craft’s living room for a Craft family tradition, the reading of one of the most beloved Christmas sto-ries of all time, “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever,” by Barbara Robinson.

The event will feature special musical guests The Craft Brothers, Spurs of the Moment and Dave Munsick.

The event will take place in the Mars Theater.

The cost for tickets is $22 for adults, $18 for seniors and military members, and $15 for students.

For additional informa-tion or to buy tickets, see wyotheater.com.

The WYO Theater is located at 42 N. Main St.

FROM STAFF REPORTS

Online subscriptions only $79 per year

Schraders celebrate 50th anniversarySHERIDAN — Richard

and Beverly Schrader of Greeley, Colorado, will cel-ebrate their 50th wedding anniversary Dec. 18.

The couple wed Dec. 18, 1966, in Victor, Iowa.

Richard Schrader was a civil engineer and worked for the state of Wyoming for 31 years. He retired in 1999 and moved from Sheridan to Greeley, Colorado.

Beverly Schrader also worked for the state of Wyoming. She worked for the Sheridan County gran-stman and the Wyoming Department of Family Services. She retired and worked part-time in 1999.

The Schraders have two children, daughter Jody (Emery) Legg of Golden, Colorado, and son Clint (Monica) Schrader, of Camarillo, California.

The Schraders also have two grandchildren.

FROM STAFF REPORTS

COURTESY PHOTO S |

Richard and Beverly Schrader of Greeley, Colorado, will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary Dec. 18.

Carriage House to host ‘Small Stage’

show Dec. 16SHERIDAN — The

Carriage House Theater will play host to the next round of the Small Stage Concert Series on Dec. 16 at 7:30 p.m.

The event will feature local guitarists and vocal-ists Ann and Andy Lowe.

Tickets to the event are $15 apiece and available through the WYO Theater box office, by calling 672-9084 or online at wyothe-ater.com.

Or, those planning to attend can purchase tickets one hour before the show at the Carriage House Theater, located at 419 Delphi Ave.

FROM STAFF REPORTS

Judge refuses Brad Pitt’s request to

seal custody filingsLOS ANGELES (AP) —

A judge on Wednesday rejected Brad Pitt’s request to seal details about custody arrange-ments in his divorce from Angelina Jolie Pitt.

Los Angeles Superior Court Richard J. Burdge Jr. denied Pitt’s request in a brief written order that states the filing did not meet the require-ments for sealing details at this time. Pitt had sought to seal details of his custody dispute with Jolie Pitt at an emergen-cy hearing, but Burdge declined to hear the petition on an expedited basis.

Pitt’s motion came two days after the release of a custody agree-ment that he and his estranged wife reached in late October. The agreement calls for the actor to have visitation with his children under the guidance of a thera-pist.

Pitt intends to seek temporary custody orders soon, and his filing states that he wanted those documents sealed to protect the children’s privacy. He was also seeking the sealing of any custo-dy-related filings.

“I am extremely con-cerned that if court records regarding custo-dy are not sealed, infor-mation contained there-in will cause irreparable damage to our children’s privacy rights,” Pitt wrote in a sworn decla-ration filed Wednesday.

Pitt’s attorney Gary Fishbein declined com-ment after the hearing.

Jolie Pitt filed for divorce in September and currently has pri-mary custody of their six children.

The divorce filing came days after a dis-agreement broke out on private flight ferrying the actors and their children from France to Los Angeles. Pitt was accused of being abusive toward his 15-year-old son during the flight, but investigations by child welfare officials and the FBI were closed with no charges being filed against the actor.

After filing for divorce, Jolie Pitt’s attorney said it was done “for the health of the family.”

Custody has been the primary issue in the divorce. Jolie Pitt is seeking sole custody of the children, while Pitt is seeking joint custody. A final agreement will be part of the couple’s divorce judgment when it is entered.

California law favors joint custody, although details about custody arrangements are rarely made public in celebrity divorce cases.

Jolie Pitt’s attorney Laura Wasser said the actress does not oppose sealing details of the pair’s custody arrange-ments, but Pitt’s attor-neys did not consult with them before filing the motion Wednesday.

Pitt and Jolie were married for two years and together for 12 years after becoming close while filming 2005’s “Mr. & Mrs. Smith.”

Dogs and babies among Helen Mirren’s

acting inspirations

NEW YORK (AP) — Helen Mirren’s acting inspirations involve fur and diapers.

The Oscar-winning actress says she hopes to capture the magic of dogs and babies in her perfor-mances because “you can-not take your eyes off them ... they are fantastic.”

Mirren, 71, spoke earlier this week at a Manhattan lunch celebrating her AARP cover for December/January. The actress, who is starring as Death in this month’s “Collateral Beauty,” tried to offer an explanation as to how she’s maintained her longevity in Hollywood. She credited

her work in theater and the fact that she never had any interest in being a movie star.

But Mirren said she was able to “let go” and not focus on trying to be what she may have once been — a problem she sees for other actors her age.

“They’re clinging on to what they were, and they aren’t that anymore,” she said.

And while Mirren is cele-brated for her looks as well as her acting, she dismissed the notion of being a sex symbol: “I would argue ... I’m so not that.”

“It’s just something that gets hung on your back-pack, and you can never get it off,” she said.

BY NEKESA MUMBI MOODY

AP ENTERTAINMENT WRITER

Trump is Time magazine’s Person of the YearWASHINGTON (AP) — Time maga-

zine on Wednesday named President-elect Donald Trump its Person of the Year.

“It’s a great honor. It means a lot,” Trump said in a telephone interview on NBC’s “Today” show.

The magazine’s managing editor, Nancy Gibbs, said on the program that Democrat Hillary Clinton was the No. 2 finalist.

Gibbs said the choice of Trump this

year was “straightforward.”“When have we ever seen a single

individual who has so defied expec-tations, broken the rules, violated norms, beaten not one but two politi-cal parties on the way to winning an election that he entered with 100-to-1 odds against him?” Gibbs said.

The Time cover reads, “Donald Trump: President of the Divided States of America” and the cover image features a photograph of the

president-elect sitting in his private residence at Trump Tower.

Gibbs said Time gives the title to the person who has had the greatest influ-ence on events “for better or worse.”

Trump went from fiery underdog in the race for the GOP presidential nomination to defeating Clinton in the Nov. 8 election. Trump won 306 elec-toral votes, easily enough to make him president when the electors meet on Dec. 19. Clinton won the popular vote.


FAITH

ARVADA COMMUNITY CHURCH

(non-denominational)

223 Main St., Arvada, 758-4353. Pastor

Bob Moore. Sunday: 11 a.m. service,

11:30 a.m. children’s Bible study.

BAHA’I FAITH OF SHERIDAN

673-4778. The Baha’i Faith for

Devotional Programs from the sacred

writings of all religions and Study

Circles.

BETHESDA WORSHIP CENTER

5135 Coffeen Ave., 673-0023, www.

bethesdaworship.com. Pastor Scott

Lee. Sunday: 10:30 a.m. service, chil-

dren’s ministry, nursery. Sunday eve-

ning HS Youth group. Wednesday: 6

p.m. Bible study. Small groups meet

throughout the week.

BIG HORN CHURCH

115 S. Third St., Big Horn, 673-0157.

Pastor Jon Willson. Sunday 9:15 a.m.

prayer time; 10 a.m. worship service,

followed by a light lunch and fellow-

ship time.

BUDDHIST MEDITATION

FELLOWSHIP

1950 E. Brundage Lane. Sunday: 7-8

p.m. Sessions include discussion

of the dharma reading, sitting and

walking meditation. For informa-

tion call Victor at 672-3135 or email

[email protected]

CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH

1660 Big Horn Ave., 672-3149. Pastor

Terral Bearden. Sunday: 9:30 a.m.

Sunday school, 10:45 a.m. wor-

ship service, 6 p.m. Bible study.

Wednesday: 7 p.m. prayer meeting.

Thursday: 6 p.m. youth group.

CALVARY CHAPEL SHERIDAN

606 S. Thurmond, 751-2250, www.

ccsheridan.org, email: nanelson@

fiberpipe.net. Pastor Nels Nelson.

Sunday: 10 a.m. non-denominational

worship service, teaching through the

Bible verse by verse.

CHURCH OF CHRIST

1769 Big Horn Ave., 763-6040.

Sunday: 9:30 a.m. Bible classes,

10:30 a.m. worship and communion.

Wednesday: 6:30 p.m. Bible study.

THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF

LATTER DAY SAINTS

Ranchester branch, 1066 Big Horn Ave.,

Ranchester, 655-9085. President

James Boulter. Sunday: 10 a.m.

Sacrament meeting, 11:20 a.m.

Sunday school and primary meetings,

12:10 p.m. Priesthood and Relief

Society meetings.


LATTER DAY SAINTS

Sheridan 1st Ward, 2051 Colonial Dr.,

672-2926. Bishop Kim Anderson.

Sunday: 9:30-10:40 a.m. Sacrament

meeting, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Sunday

school meeting, 10:40 a.m. to 12:30

p.m. Primary meeting, 11:40 a.m. to

12:30 p.m. Priesthood, Relief Society

and Young Women’s meetings.


LATTER DAY SAINTS

Sheridan 2nd Ward, 2051 Colonial

Dr., 672-6739. Bishop David Bailey.

Sunday: 1:30-2:40 p.m. Sacrament

meeting, 2:50-4:30 p.m. Primary

meeting, 2:50-3:30 p.m. Sunday

school meeting, 3:40-4:30 p.m.

Priesthood, Relief Society and Young

Women’s meetings.


LATTER DAY SAINTS

Sheridan 3rd Ward, 2051 Colonial Dr.,

673-7368. Bishop Charles Martineau.

Sunday: 9-9:50 a.m. Priesthood,

Relief Society and Young Women’s

meetings, 9-10:40 a.m. Primary

meeting, 10-10:40 a.m. Sunday

school meeting, 10:50 a.m. to noon,

Sacrament meeting.


LATTER DAY SAINTS

Sheridan YSA Branch, 2051 Colonial

Dr., 673-9887, Branch President

Bradley G. Taylor. Sunday: 2:30 p.m.

Sacrament, 3:50 p.m. Sunday School,

4:40 p.m. Priesthood and Relief

Society.

CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY

2644 Big Horn Ave., 751-5238. Father

Lewis Shepherd. Sunday: 10 a.m.

prayer and mass.

CLEARMONT COMMUNITY CHURCH

Across from gymnasium in Clearmont,

758-4597. Pastor Shane Haynes.

Sunday: 9 a.m. worship service, 9:45

a.m. children’s church.

CORNERSTONE CHURCH

4351 Big Horn Ave., 672-8126, www.cor-

nerstoneofsheridan.org, email: cor-

[email protected]. Pastor

Tony Forman. Sunday: 8:30 a.m.

worship service, 10:30 a.m. worship

service with children’s church. Call

the church for youth group, Women

of the Word and B.O.O.M. (for kids

grades 1-5) schedules.

DAYTON COMMUNITY CHURCH

318 Bridge St Dayton, 655-2504, Pastor

Matt Tremain, Associate Pastor Collin

Amick. Sunday worship 8:30 am,

Sunday School 9:45 am, Second ser-

vice 11 a.m. Sunday Youth Group MS

4 p.m., HS 5:30 p.m. Miscellaneous

studies throughout the week.

FAMILY LIFE CENTER (Foursquare

Gospel Church)

118 W. Fifth St., 674-9588, familylife-

center.biz. Pastor Scott Orchard.

Sunday: 9 a.m. Sunday school; 10

a.m. worship service. Wednesday: 7

p.m. adult Bible study.

FIRST ASSEMBLY OF GOD

1045 Lewis St., 674-6372, email:


Jay Littlefield. Sunday: 9 a.m. Sunday

school, 10 a.m. worship, 6 p.m. eve-

ning fellowship.

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH

3179 Big Horn Ave., 674-6693, www.

fbcsheridanwy.org, email: office@

fbcsheridanwy.org. Senior pastor

John Craft, Associate Pastor of Youth

Ministries Shane Rosty. Sunday: 9

a.m. worship service, Sunday school

classes for all ages and nursery; 10:30

a.m. worship service, adult class, chil-

dren’s programs and nursery, 6 p.m.

senior high youth group. Wednesday:

6 p.m. junior high youth group,

children’s program and adult Bible

study. Small group Bible studies meet

throughout the week.

FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH

(Disciples of Christ)

102 S. Connor St., 674-6795, www.

sheridandisciples.org. Pastor Doug

Goodwin. Sunday: 8 a.m. worship, 9

a.m. Sunday school, 10 a.m. worship.

Tuesday: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thrift Store

open. Wednesday: 10 a.m. Bible

study. Saturday: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Thrift Store open.

FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST,

SCIENTIST (Christian Science

Church)

455 Sumner St., 672-2041. Sunday: 11

a.m. church and Sunday school (10

a.m. June-Aug). Wednesday: 7:30

p.m. testimony meeting. Reading

Room: 45 E. Loucks St., Suite 015,

open weekdays except holidays 1:30-

4 p.m.

FIRST CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE

907 Bellevue Ave., 672-2505, Pastor

Jody Hampton. Sunday: 9:45 a.m.

Sunday school for all ages, 10:45

a.m. worship and children’s church,

6:30 p.m. praise and Bible study.

Wednesday: 7 p.m. Bible study and

prayer meeting for all ages.

FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

(UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST)

100 W. Works St., 672-2668, www.

sheridanfirstcongregationalucc.word-

press.com, email: godworks@sheri-

danucc.com. Sunday: 11 a.m. worship

service. Monday through Friday: noon

to 12:45 p.m. Lunch Together.

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

2121 Colonial Drive, Sunday — 8 a.m.

Worship, 10 a.m. Worship, children’s

program, Congregational meeting,

Pot luck lunch, Youth Group 4 p.m.,

Monday — 7 p.m. Bells. Tuesday

Committee meetings. Thursday —

6:30 a.m. Breakfast Study, 7 p.m.

Choir rehearsal. Friday — Office open-

8-noon, 6-8 p.m. Christmas light

trolley ride.

FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

215 West Works 672-9779

For Sunday: 8:15 am – Adult Seekers

Class , 9:00 am – Children’s Sunday

School Classes, 9:30 am – Praise

Singing, 9:45 am – Worship Service,

10:45 am – Fellowship. The Closet

is open every Tuesday from 9 am to

2 pm. See www.fumc.vcn.com for

complete calendar of events.

GRACE ANGLICAN CHURCH

1992 W. Fifth St., 307-461-0237, email:

[email protected], Facebook:

Grace Anglican Church. Pastor Kevin

Jones. Sunday: 10 a.m. church service.

GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH

(Independent-Fundamental)

1959 E. Brundage Lane (one-fourth

mile east of Interstate 90 on

Highway 14), 672-7391, www.grace-

baptistsheridan.org. Pastor Stephen

Anderson. Sunday: 10 a.m. Sunday

school for all ages, 11 a.m. worship

service with children’s church and

nursery provided, 6 p.m. worship ser-

vice with nursery provided. Tuesday:

6:30 a.m. men’s Bible study, 9 a.m.

women’s Bible study (every other

week). Wednesday: 7 p.m. Bible study

and prayer, Bible club for children and

youth.

GRACE CHAPEL

Story. Pastor William Dill. Sunday: 10

a.m. Sunday school, 11 a.m. worship.

HOLY NAME CATHOLIC CHURCH

260 E. Loucks St., 672-2848, www.

holynamesheridan.org, email: holy-

namechurch@holynamesheridan.

org. Pastor: Father Glenn Whewell,

Associate Pastors: Father Robert

Rodgers and Father Michael

Ehiemere. Sunday: 8 a.m., Mass; 10

a.m., Mass; 5:30 p.m., Mass. Monday

through Thursday: 7 a.m., Mass.

Friday: 8:20 a.m., Mass. Saturday: 8

a.m., Mass; 4-5 p.m. (or by appoint-

ment), Sacrament of Reconciliation;

6 p.m., Vigil Mass.

IMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH

(LCMS)

1300 W. Fifth St., 674-6434, email:

immanuellutheran82801@gmail.

com. Pastor Paul J. Cain, email:

[email protected]. Home of

Martin Luther Grammar School (K-5

Classical Christian Education, www.

SheridanMLGS.blogspot.com, email:

[email protected], accredited

by NLSA and CCLE). Sunday: 8:05

a.m. The Lutheran Hour on KWYO

1410 AM, 9:15 a.m. Sunday school and

Bible class, 10:30 a.m. Divine service.

Wednesday: 7 p.m. service. Monday-

Friday: 9:05 a.m. By the Way on

KROE 930 AM.

LANDMARK INDEPENDENT BAPTIS

T CHURCH

Sheridan Holiday Inn, Sheridan Room,

307-461-0964, email: maynardmin-

[email protected]. Pastor Clayton

Maynard. Sunday: 10 a.m. Sunday

school, 11 a.m. worship service.

Wednesday: 6 p.m. Bible study.

MOUNTAIN ALLIANCE CHURCH

54 W. Eighth St., 6732-6400, www.

mountainalliance.com. Pastor Ron

Maixner. Sunday: 9 a.m. worship ser-

vice, 6 p.m. youth group.

MOUNTAINVIEW FELLOWSHIP

BAPTIST CHURCH (SBC)

54 W. Eighth St., 673-4883. Pastor Jim

Coonis. Sunday: 9:45 a.m. Sunday

school, 11 a.m. worship service. Call for

mid-week Bible study information.

NEW COVENANT PRESBYTERIAN

CHURCH

24 Grinnell Ave., 672-5790, www.

newcovenantwy.org. Pastor Ron Ellis.

Sunday: 10 a.m. worship, 11:30 a.m.

Sunday school.

OLD APOSTOLIC LUTHERAN

CHURCH

111 Metz Road. Sunday service 11 a.m.

Sunday school follows the morning

service. Everyone welcome.

OUR LADY OF THE PINES CATHOLIC

CHURCH

34 Wagon Box Road, Story, 672-2848.

Saturday: 5:30 p.m. reconciliation,

6 p.m. mass served by Holy Name

Catholic Church.

PRAIRIE DOG COMMUNITY CHURCH

Prairie Dog Community Clubhouse,

southeast of Sheridan at intersection

of Highway 14 East and Meade Creek

Road (County Road 131), 672-3983.

Pastor Terry Wall. Sunday: 9 a.m.

non-denominational worship service.

QUAKER WORSHIP SHARING

(Religious Society of Friends)

Second and fourth Sundays. Call Gary

Senier, 683-2139, for time and place.

RANCHESTER COMMUNITY CHURCH

1000 Highway 14, Ranchester. Pastor

Claude Alley. Sunday: 10 a.m. wor-

ship, 10:15 a.m. children’s church.


Thursday: 9 a.m. to noon, 1-3 p.m.

Community Cupboard and Clothes

Closet open.

REAL LIFE CHISTIAN CHURCH OF

SHERIDAN

http://reallifesheridan.com/

Sunday Gatherings 10 am @ the Wyo

Theater , 42 N. Main Sheridan, WY

Contact Us: real@RealLifeSheridan.

com, 307-752-4906. Like us on

Facebook - www.Facebook.com/

RealLifeSheridan/

THE ROCK CHURCH

Non-denominational, contemporary

Christian church. 1100 Big Horn Ave.,

673-0939, www.bighornrock.com.

Pastor Michael Garneau and Pastor

Rod Jost. Sunday: 8:45, 10:30 a.m.

worship.

ST. EDMUND CATHOLIC CHURCH

310 Historic Highway 14, Ranchester,

678-2848. Mass: Sunday 10 a.m..

Reconciliation: The first Sunday of

the month immediately following

mass. Served by Holy Name Catholic

Church.

ST. PETER’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH

1 S. Tschirgi St., 674-7655, email:


John Inserra — Rector, Family Minister

Dr. John Milliken. Sunday: 7:30 a.m.

Quiet Holy Eucharist with traditional

language and no music; 10 a.m.

Choral Holy Eucharist with hymns

and choir. Tuesday: 10 a.m. healing

service.

THE SALVATION ARMY

150 S. Tschirgi St. 672-2444 or 672-

2445. Captain Donald Warriner,

Lieutenant Kim Warriner. Sunday: 10

a.m. Sunday school, 11 a.m.,worship.

SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH

345 S. Main St., 672-5969, pastor-

[email protected]. Pastor Chuck

Gadway, 303-229-2103. Saturday:

9:30 a.m. lesson study, 11:15 a.m.

church service. Call for time and loca-

tion of home prayer.

SHERIDAN WESLEYAN CHURCH

404 W. Brundage Lane, 672-0612,

www.sheridanwesleyan.org. Pastor

Darrell White. Sunday Schedule:

Connection Hour 9:15 a.m., Worship

Service 10:30 a.m. Please contact

church for information on small

groups, youth and children’s groups

that meet throughout the week.

STORY COMMUNITY CHURCH

4 Ponderosa Drive, Story, 307-217-

0393, Facebook: Story Community

Church. Pastor John Constantine.

Sunday: 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 11

a.m. worship, 5:30 p.m. youth group.


SUNRISE ASSEMBLY OF GOD

570 Marion St., 674-8424. Pastor John

Jackson. Sunday: 10 a.m. Sunday

school, 11 a.m. worship, 6 p.m. wor-

ship. Wednesday: 7 p.m. worship and

adult Bible study.

THEE CHURCH OF CHRIST

45 E. Loucks St. (Old Post Office

Building), Suite 19. 672-2825. Richard

Snider 672-2825, Scott Osborne 752-

2009. Sunday: 10 a.m. Bible class,

11 a.m. worship and communion.

Wednesday: 7 p.m. Bible study.

TONGUE RIVER BAPTIST CHURCH

(Southern Baptist)

305 Coffeen St., Ranchester, 752-0415,

email: [email protected].

Pastor Granger Logan. Sunday: 9:45

a.m. Sunday school, 11 a.m. worship,

6:30 p.m. worship. Wednesday: 6:30

p.m. prayer service and Bible study.

TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH

135 Crescent Drive, 672-2411, tlco@act-

access.net. Pastor Phil Wold.

Sunday: 8:30 a.m., Worship; 9:45

a.m., Sunday School for all ages,

Sunday School Christmas Program

Practice; Coffee Fellowship, Trinity

Choir Practice; 10:00 a.m., Sanctuary

Update Committee’s Informational

Meeting; 11:00 a.m., Worship

(BASICS); 12 Noon, Sr. High Youth

Group Meets at Trinity. Monday: 7:00

p.m., Scouts and Webelos. Tuesday:

1:00 p.m., Service Group. Wednesday:

6:00 p.m., BASICS Practice; 7:00 p.m.

UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST

FELLOWSHIP

1950 E. Brundage Lane, 672-3325,

www.sheridanuu.org. President Bill

Bradshaw. We are a welcoming, non-

dogmatic and spiritually liberal fel-

lowship. Weekly Sunday service and

Montessori-based religious education

for ages 3 years to fifth grade at 10

a.m., followed by a time for coffee

and fellowship. Meditation pratice

every Sunday 7-8 p.m.

VALLEY LUTHERAN CHURCH

(WELS)

Meets at 1981 Double Eagle Drive, Suite

B, 672-9870. Sunday: 9 a.m. Bible

class, 10:15 a.m. Worship.

WAGON WHEEL BAPTIST CHURCH

Pastor Terry White. 325-207-1407.

Meets at the YMCA in the Whitney

Room. Sunday:1:30p.m.

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The spirit of God is at workC

hristmas is just two weeks away, and many of us find that the fran-tic pace of this season threatens to overwhelm us. It almost seems

as if it is crowding out all sense of the holy. Perhaps we all, at times, lament the seeming lack of the presence of Jesus in much of what takes place this time of

year.Those of us in the

church are especial-ly prone to bemoan-ing how the very rea-son for the season is lost in the frenzy of materialism and all.

While at times this is true for all of us — that we lose sight of God’s presence in the world — it is also true that the Spirit of God is at work,

calling you forward to live in the love of God. I would suggest that the hectic pace of these days is not all that differ-ent from the general, every day chaos that we live with year ‘round.

While our attempts to put Christ back into Christmas are certainly well intentioned, they might seem a bit odd to God.

Can God be taken out of the world which God created, loves passionately

and constantly seeks to restore?More likely, we should be looking

more closely, taking note of the pres-ence of God, (a presence often sadly missed) and rejoice that God has entered our very busy lives.

A friend tells a story of his college days. He was studying in Israel, and he took a trip to Bethlehem to visit the place of Jesus’ birth. Since the weather was so hot, he was wearing shorts. This presented a problem, for men were not allowed to visit the site without proper attire. Apparently this did not include shorts. However, con-veniently placed right outside, was a vendor offering people like him slacks that he could “rent.”

It all seemed to him a scam. There were crowds bustling about, and the noise and chaos of commerce threat-ened to drown out any sense of the sacred. He told me that for a while he thought it all terribly wrong that the birthplace of Jesus should be like this. Everyone in Bethlehem seemed to him to be blissfully ignorant of the Christ child.

Then he thought some more.Was Bethlehem so different when

Jesus first came? There was no room in the inn even for a very pregnant refugee. People rushed about, and only a few (seemingly) insignificant shep-

herds were there to welcome the child.The story of Christmas is the story

of God entering our busy world, to bring forgiveness and life, hope and purpose, justice and peace.

In the hectic Advent season, no one’s life is so out of whack that God cannot enter. This is true always. It is not up to you to create a place for God in your life. Simply receive the God who comes to your chaotic world, and brings the peace that passes under-standing.

Can the winds of the Holy Spirit blow into our Christmas preparations? Can God get through our busy-ness and shower us with God’s own love and grace, in spite of our frantic rush-ing about? I believe so. Although there always seems to be the threat that God may be crowded out of our lives, the wonder of Christmas, and always, is that God continues to break into the very midst of your world, to take hold of you and to embrace you with God’s own infinite love.

May God bless your hectic and not so hectic times, with the knowledge of God’s own loving and caring presence through Jesus Christ.

PHIL WOLD is the pastor at Trinity Lutheran Church.

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BUSINESS

UK govt agrees under pressure to divulge Brexit plan details

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s House of Commons voted Wednesday to back Prime Minister Theresa May’s March 31 deadline to start the U.K’s. formal exit from the European Union, after the government agreed to publish details of its negoti-ating plan.

The Conservative govern-ment has been reluctant to reveal much about its strat-egy or goals, saying that would weaken its hand in negotiations with the EU.

Fearing defeat through an opposition motion calling for ministers to disclose more details before the talks start, the government agreed to publish a plan. However, it did not make any promises on how specif-ic the plan would be.

The government also proposed a concession of its own by amending the motion to state Parliament’s support for triggering EU exit talks by March 31.

The motion passed by a vote of 448 to 75 after the main opposition Labour Party said it would accept the amendment.

Labour Brexit spokesman Keir Starmer said his party was not seeking to block Brexit — backed by a major-ity of voters in a June refer-endum — but to bring “clar-ity, scrutiny and account-ability” to the process.

“The terms upon which we leave the EU will define us and our country for

many years,” he said.Brexit Secretary David

Davis promised the govern-ment would set out “strate-gic plans,” but said it would not reveal anything that could “jeopardize our nego-tiating position.”

The vote marked the first major success in efforts by pro-EU lawmak-ers — including those in Conservative ranks — to influence the course of Brexit. Some 48 percent of electors voted to stay in the bloc, and many want to avoid a “hard Brexit” in which the country leaves the EU single market in goods and services.

Conservative lawmaker Anna Soubry said “remain” voters felt ignored, and implored the government to “include that 48 percent” in plans for leaving the EU.

Both the government and the opposition say the motion is does not affect a case at the Supreme Court over whether the govern-ment has the authority to start negotiations without legislation in Parliament. May’s government is appeal-ing a lower court’s ruling that lawmakers must get a say before Article 50 can be invoked.

Eleven Supreme Court judges are hearing the case, which has major constitu-tional implications for the balance of power between Britain’s legislature branch and the executive.

May plans to trigger Article 50 using ancient powers known as royal prerogative, which enable governments to join or leave international treaties.

Government lawyers argue that Parliament has already had its say, by pass-ing the 2015 law that made June’s referendum on EU membership possible.

But David Pannick, one of the lawyers arguing against the government, said Wednesday that the government does not have the power to take Britain out of the EU — removing rights granted to citizens by membership in the bloc — without the approval of lawmakers.

Lawyers from Scotland and Northern Ireland argued Wednesday that their legislatures also must give consent before the gov-ernment can act, creating another potential obstacle.

The hearing is due to end Thursday, with the judges giving their ruling next month.

The high-profile case has raised the temperature of Britain’s debate about how — and whether — to leave the EU.

Police said Wednesday they had arrested a man on suspicion of making online threats against financial entrepreneur Gina Miller, the lead claimant in the law-suit against the government over Brexit.

Pizza Hut opens Little Free Library

SHERIDAN — To give back to the local Sheridan community, Pizza Hut recently installed a Little Free Library outside of its restaurant in Sheridan.

The Little Free Library enables greater access to books and inspires readers of all ages. This one-of-a-kind library, in the shape of the restaurant’s famous “Hut,” was created by Little Free Library spe-cifically for Pizza Hut. The restaurant is encouraging its customers and community members to “take a book, return a book” when they come to visit the library.

Pizza Hut has fostered a love of read-ing for more than 30 years through the BOOK IT! Program. Roughly one in five Americans have participated in BOOK IT!, including more than 14 million students this year in 620,000 classrooms in the U.S. As part of the initiative, Pizza Hut is cele-brating by giving a book to each student at Coffeen Elementary School.

The company recently announced a global commitment to literacy and reading through Pizza Hut: Literacy Project. The campaign seeks to transform the lives of 100 million people over the course of 10 years by helping them become their best through literacy and reading.

FROM STAFF REPORTS

COURTESY PHOTO |

Celebrating five years in businessTeresa Rice, left, was honored Tuesday morning at Java Moon, the Main Street coffee house and restaurant she owns, by friends and family. She celebrated five years in business. Last year, she bought the building. Joining her Tuesday morning were her children, from left, Craig Rice, son, Emma Johnson, daughter, Rob Johnson, Alex Rice.

Dakota Access pipeline

company fighting small state fine

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The company building the Dakota Access oil pipeline is fighting North Dakota regulators’ efforts to impose a fine of at least $15,000 after work-ing on land where Native American arti-facts were found without running it by the commission that oversees pipelines.

The Public Service Commission main-tains that Dakota Access LLC, a subsidiary of Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners, failed to get its approval before proceed-ing with construction on private land in October in southern North Dakota.

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