10 IT he Lovell Chronicle I January 1, 2015
After many years of steadily ramp-
ing up over-the-counter sales, the
Queen Bee Gardens honey candy com-
pany of Lovell has taken the full plunge
into retail sales by opening a new store-
front on Main Street in Lovell.
July
Max Maxfield is an honorary cit-
izen of Lovell. Lovell leaders hon-
ored the Wyoming Secretary of
State Saturday morning for his many
years of considering Lovell as his home
away from home by presenting him
with a key to the city and proclaiming
that Maxfield is an honorary citizen.
A locally-made film was the People's
Choice Award winner at the 2014 Hyart
Film Festival, Director Jason Zeller an-
nounced this week. "Absaroka," made
by part-time Cody resident Patrick Mi-
gnano, was a runaway hit at Saturday
night's final session (June 21) of the
film festival.
Big Horn County School District
No. i Board of Trustees appointed Ed
Riding interim trustee during a spe-
cial teleconference board meeting on
Monday. Riding will temporarily fill
the shoes of Jim Thomas, who left his
post early due to a job promotion with
his employer WyDOT. Since his pro,
motion with WyDOT required him to
move from the Byron area, he no lon-
ger meets the requirement that trust-
ees live in the area they represent.
0 Dr. Richard Jones will miss
his practice, but he will, most
of all, miss the people. Jones,
who opened Family Vision Clinic in
Lovell and Cody in 1981, retired June
30 after 33 years helping people see
better in the North Big Horn Basin.
A big shovel pulverized the medi-
an strip in the 200 block of East Main
and a portion of the 100 block in Lovell
Tuesday as the Lovell Main Street re-
construction and water and sewer proj-
ect moved closer to Phase II, when total
Main Street closures and traffic de-
tours begin.
It has taken 14 years of dedicated
efforts by many individuals and fami-
lies, but the new and improved Byron
Memorial Park at the east entrance to
the Town of Byron is complete as of a
few weeks ago.
7 The Town of Lovell is once
again seeking funding for a
project to build sidewalks on
the Shoshone Avenue Hill, allowing
school children a safer way to reach
Lovell schools, all three of which lie be-
low the hill.
Family Nurse Practitioner Shelby
Frost hit the ground running this week
as a new provider at the clinic at North
Big Horn Hospital. Frost, who began
seeing patients on Monday, saw seven
during her first day on the job.
A brand new mobile medical unit
will soon be visiting communities in
Big Horn County, providing convenient
services to members of some of the less
populated communities in the area.
During events that will be scheduled in
advance, sports physicals, flu shots and
DAVID PECK
Bank of Lovell employees Bridgette Rodriguez and Bekah Anderson post
results on the board during the primary election party on Aug. 19. Several local
positions changed in last year's elections.
other services will be made available
through the van.
4 Unanticipated delays created
iby additional asbestos materi-
al removal requirements and
other construction-related change or-
ders will delay the start of the school
year for students in Big Horn County
School District 2 by seven days.
The Western Sugar Cooperative
has been hit with a new round of pro-
posed fines stemming from the Jan. 4
death of Anfesa Marie Galaktionoff
at the Lovell sugar factory and subse-
quent investigations.
1 A fire that flared last week
on the Big Horn Mountains
east of Lovell was declared
100 percent contained Tuesday, accord-
ing to information from the Bighorn
National Forest. The lightning-caused
Roane Creek Fire started last week in
timber and grass about 2½ miles south
of U.S. Highway 14A in the Pete's Hole
area."
Scientists are returning this week
to one of the most remarkable paleon-
tological sites in North America as they
re-open exploration of Natural Trap
Cave on Little Mountain east of Lovell.
August
It wasn't exactly a meeting of the
minds, at least not like minds,
but area mayors and proponents
of the proposed North Big Horn Coun-
ty Museum District met in Cowley last
Thursday night to talk about the issue,
which will be on the Aug. 19 primary
election ballot.
Piles of clothing in all shapes and
sizes and household items are up for
grabs this week at the annual Days of
Goodwill event held in the LDS Gym
on Shoshone Ave. in Lovell. The event,
now in its fourth year, offers free used
items to anyone who feels the need.
In celebration of community mem-
bers who have both won and lost their
battle with cancer, the Relay for Life
will light up the night on Saturday
night with hundreds of luminaria can-
dles and other activities.
4 Voters in Wyoming will go to
the polls Tuesday to nominate
a variety of candidates for of-
fice on the Republican and Democrat-
ic tickets including national, state and
county offices, as well as finalists for
nonpartisan municipal offices.
About 30 people crowded into the
Big rn County commissioners meet-
ing.rgpm Tuesday, Aug. 5, with a few
standing out in the foyer, to voice sup-
port for public health.
Students at Rocky Mountain schools
in Cowley will start the 2014-15 school
year on Thursday, Aug. 21, while Lovell
students will wait until Tuesday, Sept.
1, due to an earlier-announced con-
struction delay.
1 After 16 years, there will be
a new commissioner for Big
Horn County with longtime
commissioner Keith Grant losing out
to Felix Carrizales and John Hyde in
his bid for a fifth term during Tues-
day's primary election.
Voters in North Big Horn County
on Tuesday rejected the formation of a
museum district that would have sup-
ported the proposed North Big Horn
County Museum and Historical Center,
voting 577 in favor and 884 against the
district in the primary election.
Big Horn County will have another
new attorney with Shell attorney Kim
Adams defeating Greybull resident and
incumbent Michelle M. Burns for the
Republican nomination with 71 per-
cent of the votes in Tuesday's primary
election.
John Bundy, a 36-year veteran of
the National Park Service, has been
named superintendent of Bighorn Can-
yon National Recreation Area in Mon-
tana and Wyoming. Bundy will assume
his new post on Aug. 24, according to
Intermountain Regional Director Sue
Masica.
8 Always related but with
slightly different missions,
the Absaroka Head Start and
Early Head Start early childhood edu-
cation programs are both moving into
a newly remodeled building on East
Main Street in Lovell.
When asked what the focus of his
ministry is, Jim Barth, recently ap-
pointed pastor of the Lovell United
Methodist Church, said, "Relation-
ships - building relationships with peo-
ple, building disciples in the church
and building relationships outside of
church."
September
It's been a challenging summer
for Lovell Main Street business-
es with the dust, noise and dis-
ruption of the Main Street reconstruc-
tion and water and sewer project, but
as the project finally moves west of
the central business district, busi-
ness owners feel they've weathered the
storm.
The sugar campaign will begin ear-
ly this year on Monday, Sept. 8, when
beet trucks begin rolling into town. Lo-
cal farmers are expected to start dig-
ging beets as early as this weekend.
An international team of scientists
has completed its first field season of
cave study and excavation at Natural
Trap Cave, located in the flanks of Wy-
oming's northern Big Horn Mountains,
northeast of Lovell.
11 ¸
A tanker truck hauling some
5,500 to 6,000 gallons of liq-
uid latex crashed and rolled
about 25 miles east of Lovell on U.S.
14A on the face of the Big Horn Moun-
tains early Tuesday morning, partially
blocking traffic and sending the driver
to the hospital.
Wheels are turning on local roads
and at the Western Sugar plant in
Lovell as this year's campaign begins
a bit ahead of schedule. Trucks could
be seen rolling through the gate at the
Lovell operation on Monday, Sept. 8.
The first beet piles are already growing
in size and the 24/7 operation of pro-
cessing them into sugar is in motion.
8 School Resource Officer Kris
Brimhall said things look
pretty familiar to him in
School District No. 1.
The venerable Hyart Theatre, and
those who have lovingly cared for her
over the years, were honored Friday
night by the Wyoming State Historic
Preservation Office during a banquet
and awards ceremony in Powell.
5 If all goes according to plan,
closing on the sale of TCT to
Meeteetse/Burlington resi-
dent Neil Schlenker will be Dec. 21.
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