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As the cards were passed around the table as fast as one could, the tension started to brew. Each of the players would quickly glance at their cards to see if they had collected four of a kind yet. As they would get closer and closer to completing the task, they would start glancing at the spoons in the middle of the table, at their cards and then at the other players to see if any of them had taken a spoon. All of a sudden, one player grabbed a spoon, which left the other players scrambling to...
A mother-daughter duo hosted their first book launching party as co-authors on Thursday night. Brigida R. Blasi and Christine Alethea Williams’ book “Women in Sweetwater County” celebrates women who made an impact in the southwest region of Wyoming. The authors are excited to have their book come out the same year as the 150th anniversary of the women’s suffrage movement in Wyoming. The book launch and signing included guest speaker, historian Ann Chambers Noble, whose grandmother is featured in the book. Noble spoke highly of our state a...
The Sweetwater Board of Cooperative Educational Services Summer Theatre for Youth will present two productions over the next two weeks. Their production of “The Wizard of Oz: Young Performer’s Edition” will be presented at the Western Theatre on the campus of Western Wyoming Community College, Thursday at 7 p.m. Admission is free, and doors open at 6:30 p.m. The cast features 45 young adults from ages eight to 18 under the direction of Western musical theatre professor Eric-Richard de Lora and nine Western students. This year marks the 80th...
Dakotah Houchin Beck will take her singing talent to the Wyoming State Fair in August. After coming in third place at the Futures Farmers of America’s talent show in April, Beck, a 17-year-old senior at Green River High School, readies herself to perform at the state fair in Douglas. Each year, the Wyoming State Fair asks FFA to provided entertainment for the midway Pepsi stage. After placing third in the FFA talent show, Beck didn’t think anymore of it. She was just excited to do the talent show. She has been singing since she was two yea...
YWCA of Sweetwater County is pleased to announce they have been awarded grants in the amount of $49,600 from United Way of Southwest Wyoming for the 2019-2020 year. Funding will support two of the agency’s programs; Center for Families and Children (Shelter), and the Financial Empowerment program. United Way of Southwest Wyoming works to advance the common good by focusing on education, health and basic needs. The primary goal of the United Way of Southwest Wyoming is to create sustainable and measurable results to improve lives through c...
United Way of Southwest Wyoming awarded a $46,000 grant to Food Bank of Sweetwater County for the 2019-20 fiscal year. This grant helps fund operational expenses of The Emergency Food Program that provides emergency food to the low-income community in Sweetwater County. The Emergency Food Program aligns with United Way of Southwest Wyoming’s Basic Needs initiative to provide quality services to support independent living for individuals and families. Food Bank Clients will receive nutritious food to last for three to five days twice monthly. ...
Ciner successfully took home the trophy for first place overall at the Southwest Wyoming Mutual Aid Surface Rescue Competition. Ciner also placed in several other individual events. Thirteen teams from Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and Nevada competed, including Green River teams from Ciner, Tata Chemicals and Solvay. Ciner surface rescue team members are Bobby Volcic, Jason Herbin, Bobby Cudney, Scott Anderson, Ric Flores, Jared James, Skeeter Hicks, Frank Pharr, Cody Phillips, Cody Rider, Todd...
A high school trip inspired a seventh-grade teacher to provide the same opportunity for students in her school. Lincoln Middle School teacher Bridgette Nielsen recently took 32 students and nine adults on a trip to visit Washington D.C. and New York. "I took a trip like this when I was in high school and it changed my life," Nielsen said. "Seeing things in person changes a person." Nielsen said the trip offered to LMS seventh and eighth-grade students to go on was similar to the one she took in...
Dancing, bubbles and fun were rampant at Centennial Park Wednesday afternoon. As part of the Sweetwater County Library's summer line-up, The Micah and Me Music Show entertained kids and adults for more than an hour. The musical duo sang songs like "Baby Shark," "Itsy Bitsy Spider," "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes" and a few original songs to a group of more than 100 people. The two stay-at-home dads began singing five years ago as a way to entertain their kids and have expanded to regular gigs...
4-H'ers learn valuable life skills while raising animals for the Sweetwater County Fair. Most residents look forward to the fair each year for Wyoming's Big Show, but for these kids it's the time that all their hard work and dedication pays off. This year more than 30 kids from the Green River and Jamestown area are participating in 4-H Club. One of the clubs, Project Hope, is celebrating the 20th anniversary of their swine barn located in the horse corrals on East Teton Boulevard. Most of the...
The table was filled with miniature cookie cutters and molds ready for residents to use. On Friday, residents at The Mission at Castle Rock Rehabilitation Center and The Villa were busy picking out which molds or cutters they would like to use for their air-dry clay project. Craft class leader Kathy Elliott said the participants had the opportunity to make a necklace, bracelet or magnet out of their clay. Elliott told the group they were using glue and cornstarch clay. Elliott knew the class...
After competing at nationals, several Green River Speech and Debate students gained experience they can bring back to their team. Green River High School students attending nationals were seniors Hannah Thomas, competing in domestic extemporaneous speaking, Raymond Garcia, competing in humor, Rachel Heisinger, competing in Lincoln Douglas debate, Rebecca Shamer and Levi Hren, competing in cross examination debate and Matthew Pickering and Ramsay Taliaferro, competing in public forum debate, juni...
Staying calm and having fun during competition is something this Green River student did to end up 13th in the nation. Green River High School sophomore Jessica Petri competed at the National Speech and Debate competition in Dallas a couple weeks ago and came home 13th out of 64 in the big questions debate category. “She made it to round 10, which is exceptional and in that round she lost on a split ballot, meaning one of the three judges voted for her,” head coach Carina White said. Petri sai...
Green River artist Leslie Webster will be featured in the next exhibit at Sweetwater County Library, which will run through Aug. 30. Webster is a self-taught artist, having originally been drawn to the popular painted rocks movement where people leave their colorful creations somewhere for others to discover. She credits this new interest in art to helping her through some health issues and difficulties in life. “It gave me a purpose and helped me regain my happiness,” Webster said. Moving from rocks to canvases, Webster studied online vid...
A Lincoln Middle School student received state, district and national awards for an essay she wrote about the American flag. Sixth-grade student Lily Harris wrote her essay on the VFW Patriot’s Pen theme “Why I Honor the American Flag” in her class. Her teacher Lori Hastert asked all of her sixth-grade classes to write an essay based on the theme. Lily said Hastert also asked the students who would be willing to submit their letter in the VFW’s competition. Lily said she figured she put the tim...
After each name was called, a bell chimed. Its sound symbolized each name being called represented a soldier who was no longer with us. They each gave their lives during World War I. On Saturday afternoon at Bunning Park in Rock Springs community members gathered to pay tribute to those who made the ultimate sacrifice during the World War I and American Legion Centennial ceremony. This ceremony was organized by the High Desert Chapter of the Daughters of the American Legion and took place in...
For the past 25 years, a Green River man has been a resident of GreenRock Apartments. Over that time, Glenn Gardea, 59, has remained in the same room and has witnessed first hand the changes GreenRock has gone through. He moved in April 1, 1994, on the day it opened. He said he was told the reason it was going to be called GreenRock Apartments is because half of the residents were going to be from Green River and the other half from Rock Springs. Gardea was happy to celebrate his 25th year at...
Returning favorites and a few new faces will kick off the farmer’s market next week. The Green River Farmer’s Market begins July 10 and will run until Sept. 11 on Roosevelt Street. The market will welcome four new vendors with 15 returning to make 19 total for the summer. URA/Main Street Administrator, Jennie Melvin, said all their vendors are kept to the city’s standards for the market which is handmade, homemade or food related. They want to keep it friendly to small businesses. She encourages the residents to come out and keep the suppo...
The Golden Hour Senior Center is in need of volunteers to deliver meals to home-bound residents. Melynda Lenling, GHSC home-delivered meal coordinator, said the program provides meals to home-bound residents who are unable to leave their homes. On Mondays through Fridays, regardless of the weather, drivers deliver the meals to the patrons. Even though meals aren’t delivered on the weekends, the patrons still receive frozen meals, a fruit cup and a drink during the week to use on the weekends. T...
Teens who attended the library's Dippin' Dots program learned the science behind making ice cream. Marc Straub of Cool Science visited the Sweetwater County Library last week showing the teens how they can use liquid nitrogen to make ice cream and Dippin' Dots. First, he started off the program by asking the teens where milk for ice cream comes from. Most of the teens answered cows, however after Straub said any mammal can produce milk teens added goats, cats, dogs and camels to the list. He...
Learning how the government and court system works were just a couple of the highlights for one student. Green River High School junior Alexander Shafe recently traveled to Douglas to attend Wyoming Boys State, which is sponsored by the American Legion. Shafe's trip was paid for by the American Legion Tom Whitmore Post 28. "This wouldn't have been possible if it wasn't for the legion," Shafe said. According to the website www.wyoboysstate.com, Boys State takes place annually in June and is a cha...
Several local ham-radio enthusiasts conducted a real-life, 24-hour emergency practice scenario. On Saturday, the Sweetwater Amateur Radio Club members gathered in Rock Springs near the Rock Springs Coal sign downtown to participate in Amateur Radio Field Day. From noon Saturday until noon Sunday, the enthusiasts gathered with campers, food and anything else they needed to make 24 hours. Sweetwater club president Rick Breininger, call sign N1TEK, said when hurricanes hit Puerto Rico and Florida,...
For a fourth year in a row, a free summer food program continues to serve the community. Linda Martin, Sweetwater County School District No. 2 nutrition service director, and Leah Kenison, nutrition service assistant director, have implemented the summer food program since 2015. It is a federal grant given to areas based on the yearly census. Once approved, it is in place for five years. The census is reassessed each year and the five years is extended accordingly. Currently, Green River has three elementary schools in the program; Monroe,...
