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By LILLIAN PALMER Staff Writer With September fast approaching, so is a national and local staple winter sport. Bowling leagues will start back up soon in Green River, with the first league bowling night at 7 p.m., in September at the Fish Bowl. Many members of the bowling leagues in Green River have been bowling in the leagues for years and years. Rodger Lundgren Jr. is one of those bowlers. He's been bowling since he was very young, around eight or nine years old, as he recalls. He enjoys...
The 11th annual Art on the Green is this weekend, starting Friday, with a new event; an art battle. It’s a no contact battle, unless the contact between paintbrush and canvas counts. The Battle on the Green is a live art competition where the artists competing have to create a piece of art in each round of the competition. The art battle was a suggested idea to the art council Jeremy Gomez of the Green River Arts Council said. Each round is 45 minutes long, each round narrowing down the pool of...
The 14th Annual River Festival will provide lots of family fun as summer comes to a close. The festival will take place Friday and Saturday at Expedition Island. Both days are filled with fun activities, and there is something for everyone to enjoy. “The festival is a fundraiser for the chamber so we appreciate any help from the community,” the Green River Chamber’s Public Relations and Marketing Specialist Destinee Rael said. Rael said the festival provides great entertainment for the community. The Micro Brew Gardens will kick the festi...
Ever want to meet a U.S. Senator? While residents of many more populous states don’t have the opportunity, Wyoming’s low population allows residents to see and meet their Washington D.C. representatives more commonly than residents of other states. Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., is scheduled to appear during the Cajun Shrimp Boil at Expedition Island Friday evening. Barrasso attends the event yearly, spending time to talk to people at the island, as well as to partake in the yearly shrimp feast....
Learn about the history of the railroad in Wyoming at an upcoming presentation at Rock Springs Library. Historian Greg Nickerson will present his program “Wyoming, the Railroad State” tonight at 6 at the Rock Springs Library, 400 C Street. This Wyoming Humanities Council event is free and open to the public. The railroad is responsible for the Wyoming residents know today. The construction of the Union Pacific in 1868 gave rise to the towns, the geography of settlement, the economy and even the politics of Wyoming. When the Chicago Bur...
Della Mosley, 72, passed away Aug. 10, 2015. She was born September 6, 1942 to Sam and Edith Mandros in Wyoming. She married Robert Lee Mosley Dec. 17, 1960. They made their home in the Ogden, Utah area. Mosley worked at the Continental Bakery (Wonder Bread) for many years. She loved to cook for her family and was an excellent role model for her children and grandchildren. She loved to golf after retirement and made many friends while golfing in Green River Wyoming and around the Ogden, Utah...
Hazel Anglesey Cody and LaNette Anglesey of Green River recently announced the birth of their daughter Hazel Anglesey. She was born July 19, 2015, at Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County. Penelope Phoenix Ramirez Dave Ramirez and Rebecca Bentley of Rock Springs recently announced the birth of their daughter Penelope Phoenix Ramirez. She was born July 20, 2015, at Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County. Raelynn Marie Gibson Austin Gibson and Ashlie Cantu of Green River recently announced the birth of their daughter Raelynn Marie Gibson. She...
The second annual summer festival took place at the Immaculate Conception Catholic church Saturday. Children enjoyed a variety of activities and games on the warm, sunny day. There was bowling, bean bag toss, face painting, musical chairs, canvas painting, bingo and more, and prizes for every activity. Madison Korkow frequented the bowling game through out the afternoon the most. “I want to do that again,” Madison said. “The bowling is my favorite.” For the adults, there was a silent auction...
Imagine waiting in emotional agony for days, waiting for blood work results for your sick furry, four-legged family member. This family member has been your beloved pet for many years. It would break your heart if anything bad were to happen to your beloved pet. Now imagine mailing out your monthly bill payment on the usual day you send it out to get there in time. Only this time, it’s much too late and you receive a late fee for the bill in the mail weeks later. The bill keeps rising. Now f...
A Green River woman who pleaded guilty to one charge of falsifying bacteriological reports sent to the Environmental Protection Agency was sentenced. Margaret R. Jones appeared in the Third District Court of Judge Richard Lavery at a sentencing hearing to five felony forgery counts, which come from five separate incidents. Pursuant to a plea agreement, in exchange for Jones guilty plea on one count of forgery, she will receive a four-to six-year suspended prison sentence, a 30-day jail sentence...
Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County may have a method of working around the county commissioners for funding its proposed ambulatory surgery center. Last week, hospital officials hosted a public meeting to present funding options for the surgery center they’ve researched, as well as to highlight the need for such a facility at the hospital. Barbara Bonds, a bonding attorney from Cheyenne working with the hospital, said a bonding method exists that would allow the hospital to receive bonds w...
What once was a place of worship and reverence has become a place for learning. Construction on Expedition Academy’s new home on Upland Way completed and the school district celebrated with a ribbon cutting ceremony Monday. Steve Core, chairman of the Sweetwater County School District No. 2 Board of Education said the completed school is a “win, win, win, win” for the United Methodist Church, the state, the district and the community. The building originally originally served as a church, which...
Wanda Darlene Monroe, 83, of Rock Springs passed away at her home Aug. 8, 2015. A long time resident of Rock Springs and former resident of Hanna and Mulberry, Kan. Monroe had been in ill health the past several years. She was born on Feb. 27, 1932 in Mulberry, Kan., the daughter of the late Francis Gaston and Katie Greer Gaston. Monroe attended schools in Mulberry and Hanna and was a 1949 graduate of Hanna High School. She also attended Western Wyoming Community College. She married Harold R....
Daniel Milton Stewart, 63, formerly of Green River, passed away July 10, 2015 due to complications of a sudden illness in Casper. Born Dec. 20, 1951 in Rock Springs, Stewart was the first of six children born to Leo and Louise Stewart. He attended schools in Green River and graduated from Lincoln High School in 1970. He later married Denise Durrans and they had two children, Tracy Lynn and Jason. In 1992, He had a third child, Jareb with Wendy Fischer. Dan worked at Allied Chemical before...
Elsie Madsen, 93, of Casper, formerly of Green River and Bondurant, passed away Aug. 4, 2015. She was born Dec. 28, 1921 in Lincol, the daughter of Romeo and Mary (Terrone) Paravicini. She was a graduate of Green River High School. She was a member of Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Green River. Elsie married Lawrence L. Madsen on Oct. 7, 1943 in Green River. He preceded her in death on August 7, 2004. Survivors include two children, Larry and wife Beth Madsen of Casper and Irene and husband Jim Brinkerhoff of Bondurant; three...
Crystal Lee Hermansen, 31, passed away Aug. 8, 2015 in Portland, Ore., surrounded by family and friends. Hermansen was born July 16, 29184 to Tom and Victoria Hermansen in Rock Springs. She graduated from Green River High School in 2002 and later the Southwest Beauty Academy. She married Wilson Robertson Aug. 5, 2006. They later divorced. She moved to Kenai, Alaska, where she enjoyed fishing for king salmon at Fish Camp, drawing, art, camping and traveling. She has a passion for rescuing...
We’ll admit we were skeptical about if the Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County’s proposed ambulatory surgery center is truly the necessity it was billed as when hospital officials approached the county about their project earlier this year. After all, the hospital has been the site of ambitious renovation and expansion work since 2008, with its most recent construction project, the medical office building we paid for through the Sixth Penny Tax, opening a year ago. However, during the hospital board’s presentation last week about options it...
With the end of summer reading fast approaching the library has been overrun with excited youth turning in their reading logs for books and prizes. Many of them have the $100 cash drawing is sight and are working hard to reach the 2,000 minutes needed to enter. The reading program will end on Aug. 15, so there is still time to turn in those reading logs! With the change of seasons on the horizon we have turned our attentions to the fall. This year we are offering Story Time and STEM Story Time for ages three to five, Toddler Time for newborns...
It’s that time of year again, and Art on the Green looms before me. What is it about Art on the Green that compels me to enter the competition year after year? Painting non-stop for 24 hours ought to be enough of a deterrent, yet 38 of us are registered to compete once again. Art on the Green was initiated in 2005 as a 24-hour live sculpting competition for amateurs and professionals. In 2006, high school students were invited to sculpt and in 2007 the 2D (painting and drawing) component of the contest was instituted. Over the years, Art on the...
It started innocently enough. A bottle of Hidden Valley ranch dressing (yes, the brand name is important here) sat on the dinner table and immediately threw a spark into my curiosity. “When was ranch dressing invented,” I asked myself. I immediately consulted Google and find the dressing’s history to be much shorter than I would have imagined. In fact, there are people a lot older than the recipe is. According to the Hidden Valley website, the dressing was developed in the 1950s by Steve and Gay...
Every summer since 2009, my uncle, dad, brother and I go on a hike, and every summer I wonder why I let my family drag me up these godforsaken mountains. My first trip was to the Wind River Range. The goal was to hike up Fremont Peak. I did not achieve that goal. Instead I got a minor case of altitude sickness and had to sit just below the peak with my dad while my uncle and brother finished the summit. This was the same trip where my sleeping bag’s zipper broke which caused long, cold nights, and the cooker didn’t work very well so we end...
I have children. Therefore, I can tell you that when they were small, I “lost” every board game, card game or sports game we played together. If my children are reading this right now, I say to them, “Yes, I used to let you win.” When my children were small, I had to work hard to peek at their UNO cards so I’d know which color to play so they would win. I used to make horrible decisions on which properties to buy in Monopoly , again so they would win. I let them win despite the competitiveness in me that hated losing. As they got a bit older...
When Merrilyn Shanebrook found out she was selected to represent Wyoming for the Fabulous 50 program, she didn’t even know what they were talking about. “I didn’t even know much about it until I was told I won,” Shanebrook said. In fact, she is still finding out about the program. The Older Americans Act is celebrating its 50th year; and as a way to celebrate, they decided to select one outstanding senior from each state to act as the face of the National Association of States United for Aging a...
