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The inaugural Red Nose Day in the United States will be Thursday, May 21 and Days Inn Thermopolis will be participating to help feed the hungry. Red Nose Day is a fundraising campaign thrown by the nonprofit organization Comic Relief. In the UK, Red Nose Day has been going for 30 years. According to general manager Mary Mills, Days Inn will be donating 10 percent of restaurant proceeds May 21 to the local People for People Backpack Program. The program operates under the Episcopal Church’s non-profit status and provides backpacks of food to s...
Local runners will compete with Hot Spring County’s largest residents during the Running with the Buffalo event Saturday, May 30 beginning at 7:30 a.m. The race will start on the street outside the TePee Pool and runners will trek through the buffalo pasture and back towards the start. There will be both a 4K run/walk and an 8K run, making it possible for people of all ages to participate. Pre-registration for the event costs $15 dollars and comes with a T-shirt. People can also register for $10 if they do not want a T-shirt. For more i...
Rev. Samuel J. Needham will be installed as the new Lutheran pastor at St. Paul Lutheran Church on June 7 at 4 p.m. Pastor Needham grew up in Boise, Idaho graduating from Boise State University in 1995 with a degree in construction management. For ten years he worked in the construction industry, managing projects in Las Vegas, Phoenix, and the Lake Tahoe area. In 2004 he enrolled at Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne, Ind. He served his vicarage at Lutheran Church of the Cross in Port Charlotte, Fla., and graduated from the seminary...
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department trapped and relocated a sub-adult male grizzly bear May 14, 2015. The bear was captured for killing domestic sheep on private land northwest of Thermopolis. In cooperation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Shoshone National Forest, the bear was relocated to the Fox Creek drainage of the Clarks Fork River approximately 15 miles northwest of Crandall, Wyoming. The release site is located in currently occupied grizzly bear habitat. Grizzly bear relocation is a management tool afforded bear managem...
Pheasants Forever will be having their annual banquet Saturday, May 30 starting at 5 p.m. in the Hot Springs County Fair Building. There will be a live auction, a silent auction, raffles, a special drawing and dinner. All proceeds from the event stay in Hot Springs County. Tickets for the event cost $75 for a couple, $45 for a single ticket, $10 for children age nine to 15 and children under the age of eight are free. Tickets are available at Canyon Sporting Goods, the Chamber of Commerce, Thermopolis Hardware or by calling 864-4215 or...
Public comment is requested by the Wyoming Division of State Parks Historic Sites and Trails until June 12, on draft alternatives for the future development of Hot Springs State Park. The alternatives are for a 20-year Master Plan which will guide management of recreation, natural and cultural resources. The planning process has included a series of steering committee meetings and community outreach. Three alternatives are presented. They range from a limited action plan which maintains existing facilities and amenities to the legacy plan...
Applications are being accepted for the Big Horn Basin Folk Festival scheduled for August 1-2 in Hot Springs State Park. This will be the first folk festival in Wyoming in 20 years. Vendors have three opportunities to participate. There will be a Juried Art Show & Sale, Kiwanis Trading Post and food vendors. The deadline for applications is July 1. Application forms and a full schedule of events can be found at www.wyomingfolkfestival.com/ Sponsors of the event include the Hot Springs Greater Learning Foundation, National Endowment for the...
The Thermopolis Future Farmers of America chapter had their 76th yearly banquet Monday, where both students and other community members were given awards for their dedication to working with and promoting FFA. FFA Advisor Britton Van Heule said that the students made the night possible. But in addition to the work done by the students in order to make the FFA banquet a good experience, without FFA alumni and other community members help – very few of the activities, events and experiences t...
It’s been more than 10 years in the making, has been through it’s ups and downs and has been a source of controversy in the eyes of the community, but the new Hot Springs County Airport is just months away from accepting its first landing. During a final walk through for phases III and IV with the state inspector from the Wyoming Department of Transportation’s Aeronautics Division, the county commissioners and GDA Engineering last Friday morning, the goal is to have the new airport up and runni...
Thank you all for coming here today. Will anyone with small children or sensitive hearing please cover their ears. (Jim lash says runners to your mark, get set, bang) I want to apologize right away for the vast use of symbolism, analogies, or allusions, along with many pop culture references and any inside jokes that we as a class are apart of. I will do my best to keep it appropriate and comprehensible for all: for example the symbolism behind the starter pistol has many different approaches....
Welcome family, friends, and Hot Springs County High School class of 2015. As Paul Ryan once said, "every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together." Throughout high school, our class was able to work together to achieve many things.. Now, I would like to recognize some of these successes. If I name an accomplishment that you have participated in or plan to in the future, please stand up. •Drama club 4 peat state champions. •The aw...
