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The seniors were busy heckling and teasing each other about failing to pick up a spare or getting a split. All was part of the Golden Hour Senior Center's Wii Bowling game Tuesday morning. About eight seniors were taking turns bowling. Much like regular bowling the teams would keep score, switch lanes and take turns. A couple of big differences of course is they are using hand-held Wii controllers instead of a ball and a TV screen shows, the ball, the lanes and pins. Chairs were placed in...
An award-winning play about body image and eating disorders will come to life on stage at the high school. Tonight is the last opportunity for residents to see the Green River High School Theater's rendition of "Eat (It's not about food)" by Linda Daughtery. Tickets to the in the round play are $3 for students and seniors and $5 for general admission. The show starts at 6:30 p.m. This play is quite different from other plays because the audience is on the stage with the actors, GRHS theater...
A couple who pleaded no contest to charges related to the death of their infant have both been scheduled for sentencing hearings. It’s been more than two years since the death of the infant, but now Jacob Anthony Triplett, 28, and Amanda Dawn Triplett, 26, both of Rock Springs, are scheduled to appear in the Third District Court of Judge Nena James for a sentencing hearing. Jacob’s two-day sentencing hearing is scheduled to take place Oct. 24 and 25, while Amanda’s is set for Nov. 21 from 9 a.m...
Last Thursday, Expedition Academy students learned the importance of community service by serving lunch at the Golden Hour Senior Center. At the AARP luncheon, students were busy setting up tables, serving food and coffee to residents and picking up dishes. All the while, the students were smiling politely to those they were serving. Expedition Academy principal Ralph Obray said before assigning students to help with a community-service project, they look at which students are doing well at scho...
Senior citizens attending the AARP luncheon focusing on medication were not disappointed with the speaker. Last Thursday, Renee Petty, a registered pharmacist with Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County, gave a presentation called "Let's Talk About Meds." Petty covered numerous areas of concern, gave out tips, and answered attendees questions. According to Petty, the average 45-year-old person takes four medications every day, while the average 65-year-old takes an average of nine medications ev...
Thousands of students have learned how to hold their own ground in the art of public speaking and debate thanks to the help from this Green River coach. For more than a decade, Dan Parson has been involved in speech and debate on the local and state level. Parson, who is the Wyoming High School Forensics Association president, was recently inducted in the Wyoming Speech and Debate Coaches Hall of Fame. According to the National Speech and Debate website www.speechanddebate.org, “The highest h...
A man accused of using brass knuckles to hurt another man pleaded not guilty to two felony charges. Joshua S. Moody, 31, of Green River appeared in the Third District Court of Judge Richard Lavery for an arraignment to aggravated assault and battery and burglary. If Joshua is found guilty of both felonies, he could face a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a maximum fine of $20,000. A jury trial has been scheduled to take place Nov. 14 at 9 a.m. According to court documents, on May 9,...
I, like millions of other people, have a Facebook account. I don’t use it all the time; and when I am on vacation I don’t even bother looking at it. I am not one of those people who are constantly updating my Facebook status on what I am eating, where I am eating it at, what I am watching, what I am reading and just about anything else one can think of posting. A lot of my posts are about my kids, but in that area too, I don’t go overboard. On Thursday, I was trying to find story ideas. Every...
The Green River Lady Wolves volleyball team took on two of the toughest teams in the 4A conference and lost to both teams. Head coach Rikki Shantz said she knew they would have their work cut out for them when they took on Natrona County and Kelly Walsh. The two losses take the team to 2-2 for the conference season so far. During the Natrona County game, the Lady Wolves lost to the Fillies in four sets. The Lady Wolves won the first set, but had problems in the second, third and fourth set....
Friday evening, seniors were busy dancing, listening to music, getting their photos taken or playing bingo. All of these activities were part of the Golden Hour Senior Center's Hoedown event. Marketing and activities coordinator Summer Holdsworth said about 50 to 60 seniors attended the event and considered it a success. However, even though attendance was good, she doesn't necessarily consider it a success based on the attendance. "It didn't matter if we have five or 500, if they are having a...
Seniors may have noticed a new face at the Golden Hour Senior Center. Summer Holdsworth took over the position as marketing and activities coordinator at GHSC about a month and a half ago. Prior to moving to Rock Springs, Holdsworth worked in the oilfield in California. She said when the oilfield industry crashed, she didn’t know what to do. Her best friend and godchild lived in Rock Springs and she decided to move closer to her friend. “I figured I’d give it a shot and see how small-town life i...
During the past couple of weeks, about 39 new informational signs have been strategically placed throughout the city. Project engineer Holden Wright said 22 large, metal signs at 5-feet wide by 12-feet tall, 14 small, metal signs at 5-wide and 4-feet tall and three little, metal parking signs at 2-feet wide by 31/2-feet tall were purchased; and almost all of them have been placed in the city. Wright said two more signs will go up after the street construction has been completed on East Teton...
An unoccupied truck that rolled down a hill and into a power pole caused a power outage Thursday around noon. According to Luke Benson, Green River Police detective and public relations specialist, at around 11:55 a.m. the GRPD received a call about a truck hitting a power pole on Shoshone Avenue. The accident happened after a 1986 gray Chevy truck, which was being worked on by Green River resident Daniel Gilbert, 54, rolled 81 feet downhill into a power pole. Gilbert told officers he was...
And so it begins. Another school year, another year of sick kids. This was the thought I had the minute my youngest son, John, 4, said he wasn’t feeling well. I had just returned home; and he was hiding underneath a blanket with his favorite monkey, while my oldest son Matthew, 6, was running around the room playing with toys. I didn’t even have to ask. I just knew something wasn’t right. For any of you who have met my John, you can vouch for me when I say that boy is always running, jumpi...
Friday morning, a few Mission at Castle Rock residents were busy working on a patchwork project. During this session of Crafts with Kathy Elliott, residents laid 3-inch to 4-inch pieces of precut fabric onto a tablecloth-sized orange fabric. Elliott had spent most of Thursday evening cutting the fabric for the residents to use. The autumn-colored fabric, which had been cut into strips, had various designs on it. From pumpkins, leaves, flowers and acorns to checkered, polka dot and striped, the...
Grants, community support and volunteers keep the Sweetwater County Food Bank going. Recently, the Food Bank, which operates Green River and Rock Springs locations, received a $60,000 grant from United Way of Southwest Wyoming. This money will go toward operating expenses, including building and van insurance, pay roll and office supplies, Executive Director Kathy Siler said. With these items covered, the food bank can focus on what’s really important — providing food to those who wou...
The Green River Lady Wolves volleyball team took on their biggest rivals and a new team they have never played before and still walked away with two conference wins. During the Rock Springs game Friday, the Lady Wolves won the first set 25-16, and the second set, 25-20, pretty easily, but struggled with the third set, 20-25, and fourth set, 23-25, losing both. During the fifth set, 15-10, the girls regained their focus and made it to the 15 points before Rock Springs, giving them the conference...
A man accused of stabbing another man to death in Rock Springs will undergo an examination to determine if he is capable of understanding court proceedings. Charles K. Carter, of North Carolina, who was charged with first-degree murder after he allegedly stabbed another man in front of the Rock Springs Loaf N Jug Foothill Boulevard location, filed an order suspending proceedings and for examination by a designated examiner under the provisions of Wyoming Statute 7-11-303. Prior to this filing,...
This year, there were no tears from anyone in the family. I guess you could say I was more prepared or maybe it came so fast I didn’t have time to react. Yes. My son Matthew is now as we like to call him a “hot-shot first-grader;” and John started his second year of preschool. While other parents were once again encased in death grips from their children, who were crying uncontrollably as they attempted to drop them off for that first day of preschool, my John just ran off. Once again, witho...
They may not have even played their first conference game, but the girls have already set their season goals. One of the Lady Wolves volleyball team’s season goals is to make it back to state. Head coach Rikki Shantz said she usually gives the girls the first couple of weeks to set goals. Shantz also takes the time to assess the team and make her own goals. “I would like to obviously make it back to state for the third year in a row,” Shantz said. Shantz’ goals coincided with the girls. Most had...
Ten Mission at Castle Rock residents enjoyed a fishing trip to Flaming Gorge Reservoir; and some even caught some fish. On Aug. 18, the residents, eight care partners and seven volunteers ventured out on an all-day fishing trip. It's the second year in a row the center has offered this trip. Castle Rock administrator Bobbi Jo Drozd said due to the increased participation in the fishing trip, the group had to rent three pontoon boats from Cedar Springs Marina. "We are trying to focus on quality...
Armed with his handheld Global Positioning System device, a Green River resident embarked on a short cache hunt. Local geocache treasure hunter, Ellis Nelson, didn't even know what a cache was until 2006 when he went on a four-wheeler trip with friends in Utah. It was on this trip that Nelson got hooked on the hunt and the find for geocaches. Long before Pokemon Go, geocaching was the fun finding game people not only across the country, but across the globe have played and continue to play. Acco...
Deciding whether or not to allow for primitive camping in FMC Park is an issue the council will have revisit. During the last Green River City Council workshop, the Council gave its approval for several groups to start looking into the possibility of camping in FMC Park. Gary Wolfe, who was representing the Green River Greenbelt Task Force, Green River Parks and Recreation Advisory Board and Sweetwater Mountain Biking Association, asked the council for permission to explore camping options for...
A registered sex offender who failed to report his change of residence, which happened to be near a school, will serve time in prison. Lonnie Phillip Moffitt, 41, of Green River was convicted in 1999 of third-degree sexual assault. Since then, he is required to notify the proper authorities on his employment or residential changes, however, he failed to do so. Moffitt appeared in Third District Court of Judge Richard Lavery at a change of plea and sentencing hearing to two felony charges and...
Residents and children had the chance to look at small planes at the Greater Green River Intergalactic Spaceport Saturday. During fourth annual Spaceport Day, children and their parents were encouraged to have breakfast, eat a cookie, drink some water or juice and make their way over to the planes. Though most of the planes were small one and two-person planes, the children thought they were huge. Some of the pilots were kind enough to let the children climb into the planes to look at the...
