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Shay Allen and Braden Sassman were named Expedition Academy's students of the month for October. The school recognizes one male and one female student each month for their hard work and dedication to both the school and community. Selections come from the school's staff, as well as student input received throughout the month. Only 18 students each year are named Student of the Month, with each recipient being awarded a certificate and are recognized during the school's Friday morning meeting....
The Boy Scouts will be conducting their annual food drive this week. Bags in Green River have already been distributed through local churches, though residents who did not receive a bag can participate as well. Residents can take their bag food donations to Boy Scouts and Green River Police Department officers at Smith’s Food and Drug and at the Green River Food Bank, located behind Golden Hour Senior Center between 8:30 a.m., and noon Saturday. For residents of Rock Springs, residents who received a bag at their door can leave bagged d...
November is Picture Book Month, a month celebrate and recognize the importance picture books have in developing reading skills. The Sweetwater County Library System is celebrating Picture Book Month with a month-long reading challenge. “Picture books are important to young readers as they learn basic literacy principles such as vocabulary and story composition,” said Lindsey Travis, Assistant Library Director. The Picture Book Month Reading Challenge is simple. Children will be encouraged to read picture books by authors with names sta...
The work of eight art students is on display through the end of December at the Sweetwater County Library in Green River. The students are all part of the "For the Love of Watercolor" class instructed by Sandra Banks and offered through Western Wyoming Community College's Community Enrichment program. The exhibit displays 44 original paintings that use different compositions and watercolor techniques. Students featured in the exhibit are Judy Graham, Deborah Gasper, Jackie Herwaldt, Kathy...
The Sweetwater County Historical Museum Board of Directors is excited to announce the promotion of Dave Mead to the position of Executive Director. Mead has been with the museum as the Exhibit Coordinator for eleven years. His exhibits have been admired in the museum and offsite at other locations across the county. Mead has led countless tours of the museum and downtown Green River, plus birding field trips and treks to historic trails sites. The former Executive Director, Brigida Blasi, resigned in July to take a position as the Public...
Curative oral swabs are now being used at the Drive-Thru COVID-19 Specimen Collection Center at Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County. Sweetwater Memorial is transitioning to the new specimen collection system this week. All residents who need to be swabbed for COVID-19 at the drive-thru are asked to first sign on to curative.com and make an appointment. The test is free, made possible by the Wyoming Department of Health, Public Health Division, which is making tests available to swabbing centers through Wyoming’s County Health Departments. I...
Pulling on Spiritual Heart Strings Email Scam: An email from donnamcinneslouise@gmail.com claiming that God lead her to contact you to help distribute funds to charity as a dying wish was reported by a Laramie citizen. These types of emails are often money laundering scams. Never respond to unsolicited offers from people you don’t know, even if they quote the Bible and claim to want to support ‘orphanages and justice for the poor.’ Two PayPal Email Scams: Two PayPal Email scams were reported by a Laramie Citizen. The subject lines on each were...
National Association of Counties (NACo) President Gary Moore today announced the formation of a broadband task force. The task force, comprised of nearly three dozen county government officials from across America, including Lauren Schoenfeld, Sweetwater County Commissioner, will study the lack of reliable broadband with a particular focus on the challenges facing underserved communities. A report, titled Understanding the True State of Connectivity in America, released by NACo and partner organizations earlier this year, found that nearly...
By Audrey Harton Western Wyoming Community College Western Wyoming Community College launched a new website in 2019. The new website is a powerful tool that helps prospective students gain valuable insight into what it is like to attend Western. The site includes information on the Top Ten Reasons Why to attend Western, campus events calendar, financial aid information, applications, campus tours, student life information, details on courses and anything students may want to know about the College. One of the website pages, the Be an Outsider p...
Operating hours at the drive-thru COVID-19 specimen collection site at Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County will change beginning Monday, Oct. 26. Daily swabbing will continue to be available, said Deb Sutton, Sweetwater Memorial spokeswoman. However, the new hours will be from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. weekends. "This is when our lab workers are seeing the most traffic," Sutton said. "And, with shorter, cooler days on the way, hospital leaders want to take every...
A woman with a strong background in coding and clinical documentation is Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County's new Health Information Management Director. Carrie Canestorp started work earlier this month, overseeing Sweetwater Memorial's HIM Department. She moved to Green River from Kemmerer, where she has worked as a remote coding manager for Aviacode since 2013 and as an advanced Emergency Medical Technician for South Lincoln Emergency Medical Services since 2017. "I had worked remotely...
While the coronavirus pandemic may have halted a number of high school activities related to homecoming, the tradition of designating the homecoming royalty continued. King and Queen Brogan Yost is the son of Shelly Yost and Ian Yost. He is a part of the football team. He likes to ride dirt bikes, target shooting, and hang out with friends in his spare time. Lauren Jensen is daughter of Casey and Heidi Jensen. She is a part of NHS, art, the cheer team and a captain of the swim team. In her free...
A program providing meals to Green River’s children has been extended to June 30, 2021. According to a release from Sweetwater County School District No. 2, the food service program was granted meal flexibility to allow students to receive meals under its Summer Food Program through the end of 2020. The program was originally set to end Dec. 31, 2020. “We will have breakfast and lunch available for pick up at Lincoln Middle School Monday through Friday from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m., each day that school is in session,” Leah Kenison, director of nu...
Two of Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County’s nurses recently were recognized by the Wyoming Nurses Association in its annual statewide awards for excellence. Ashley Jenkins, a registered nurse on the Medical/Surgical floor, and Rachelle Harris, a registered nurse in the Post-Anesthesia Care Unit, received two of WNA’s six awards. Jenkins received WNA’s 2020 Nursing Excellence in the Workplace Award, given to a registered nurse who exemplifies consistent high-quality nursing practices and displays professionalism, according to the WNA. “I am...
This month’s 2nd Saturday event focuses on an Art Stroll with several artists setting up pop-up displays on Saturday, October 10 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in downtown Rock Springs. Local businesses have invited an artist or two to set up their artwork for the public to see. A free event for the public, along with the visual art there will be live music by Steven Davis on the corner of Broadway and D Street, a poetry jam at Coal Train Coffee during the afternoon and the Actor’s Mission returns with a performance of “The Waverly Gallery” that ev...
Sheridan Schultz, a registered nurse at Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County's Intensive Care Unit, is the 2020 DAISY Award recipient. The award, which she received Wednesday, is part of the DAISY Foundation's mission to recognize the extraordinary, compassionate nursing care they provide patients and families every day. Schultz was nominated for the award by Tiffany Marshall. While Marshall is employed by Sweetwater Memorial as Executive Director of the Memorial Hospital Foundation, she said...
There is something appealing about quilts -- maybe it is the bright colors or intricate patterns that draw the eye. Several pieces of quilted art are on display in the annual Sweetwater Quilters Open Exhibit at White Mountain Library now through October 31st. Local quilters participating in the display include Janet McCann with two unique purses and a patriotic themed table runner. McCann has been a seamstress since she was a child, but she did not start quilting until after she retired. She said she falls in love with the colors and designs...
Kristy Nielson once took care of a young woman whose virus left her unable to walk. The woman was a patient in the nursing unit of the hospital in which Nielson worked. "I and the others on the healthcare team were committed to seeing this young woman walk," Nielson said. "And, she did. She walked out of the hospital a year after she was first admitted. One day, about a month after she left the hospital, I saw her out in public with her friends. It is etched in my brain. She was having a good...
A Green River student will appear on a podcast produced by Wyoming Public Media and the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. Molly Stanton, 13, a student at Lincoln Middle School, joins two students from Cody in exploring the Bureau of Land Management and public lands for "Kids Ask WhY." The podcast features journalists aged seven to 13 asking questions and exploring topics related to Wyoming and the modern American West. Stanton will appear on the podcast's second episode, which releases Oct. 13....
Sepsis is the body’s extreme response to an infection. It is life-threatening and, without timely treatment, can rapidly lead to tissue damage, organ failure and death, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is a complication of an infection that can be contagious, but sepsis is not itself contagious, the CDC says. Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County’s Sepsis Project Team has worked to get the word out on sepsis, Gabrielle Seilbach, a nurse in the Quality, Accreditation and Patient Safety Department said. The tea...
Cancer physicians from across the country recently participated in the 2020 ASCO Advocacy Summit. Dr. Banu Symington was among them. Symington is an oncologist/hematologist at Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County’s Sweetwater Regional Cancer Center. She participated in the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s virtual summit Sept. 15 & 16. “I met with U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney, U.S. Sen. John Barrasso, and an aide to U.S. Sen. Mike Enzi as part of the ASCO Advocacy Summit,” she said. The ASCO hosts the meeting annually to advocate for legisla...
The YWCA of Sweetwater County is pleased to announce the grant award of $25,000 from the Wyoming Community Foundations local Rock Springs Board. “We truly appreciate the Foundation and all of their hard work to build a better Wyoming. These funds will be used towards our Tuition Assistance program that helps our families afford quality childcare,” Kayla Mannikko, development director for the organization said. YWCA is a nonprofit organization serving Sweetwater County with services that include quality childcare and preschool; domestic vio...
