January 2, 2014 ] The Lovell Chronicle 111
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Big Horn County Sheriffs Dept. received
the Wyoming Peace Officer Association
Valor Award for risking their own safe-
ty to save two toddlers from a gas-filled
apartment in Lovell. The two were sur-
prised with the award at a special confer-
ence held in Casper.
Lovell Elementary School is raising
funds to help fellow elementary school stu-
dents in Colorado who have been affected
by recent torrential rains and flooding.
6 Motivated students, great
teachers, good leaders and a
supportive community have
won Lovell High School national recogni-
tion as one of the best performing schools
in the country. The U.S. Secretary of Edu-
cation, Arne Duncan, officially recognized
Lovell High School as a National Blue Rib-
bon School for 2013 this week.
The Lovell Bulldogs are moving back to
Class 3A for all sports except football, the
Wyoming High School Activities Associa-
tion announced recently.
October
The barricades went up Tuesday
morning, sealing off the Bighorn
Canyon National Recreation Area
from visitors in the wake of the feder-
al budget impasse that has caused fed-
eral workers across the nation to be
furloughed.
The first phase of the new Affordable
Care Act (Obamacare) went into effect on
Tuesday, Oct. 1. A health care exchange of-
fered by the federal government is available
online for individuals and small businesses
from Wyoming to check out the health care
options that are available to them.
In anticipation of the complexity of un-
derstanding the new law, Northwest Col-
lege is hosting several informational ses-
sions in the area with the Commissioner
of the Wyoming State Dept. of Insurance,
Tom Hirsig, who will be on hand to answer
questions about how the new law will work.
It's a good news/bad news sce-
U
nario for the fall sugar beet out-
look as the 2013-14 campaign
Cranks into high gear. The good news is
that Big Horn Basin farmers have pro-
duced another bumper crop, perhaps a
record crop, but the bad news is that a
glut of sugar on the market has depressed
prices.
A love of small towns and an enthu-
siasm for what they have to offer has led
Jackie Heinert of Lovell to a job she sees as
a perfect fit. Heinert was hired last week as
the new office manager for the Lovell Area
Chamber of Commerce.
my For the first time since the Cow-
l
ley Log Gym was closed this
summer for not meeting the
state fire code, there's good news for the
venerable Cowley icon that re-opened in
July after an extensive restoration project,
only to be locked up days later. Cowley
Mayor Joel Peterson said this week that
the Town of Cowley has worked out an
agreement with the Wyoming State Fire
Marshal's Office to not only install a fire
suppression system but to also re-open the
facility for public use.
4 A team of painters from Carr
Coatings of Lovell, using a
special scaffold, could be seen
painting the landmark silos at the West-
ern Sugar Cooperative on the west end of
town during the past few weeks.
The gloom of a partial federal govern-
ment shutdown turned to joy at the Big-
horn Canyon National Recreation Area
Thursday as furloughed park employees
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A horse drawn carriage travels down Main Street in Lovell during the Mustang
Days Parade held in June.
returned to work at the visitor center and
throughout the park.
1 The Town of Lovell announced
in a letter to utility customers
this week that water and sewer
replacement fees that over time are pay-
ing for the town water and sewer infra-:
structure project will now continue on all
temporarily suspended accounts.
Tall structures are now within reach
of the Deaver-Frannie Fire Dept. with the
recent donation of a pumper truck that is
equipped with a 55-foot aerial boom.
November
There are phases within phases
within phases in regard to the on-
going remodeling project at Lovell
High School, but one thing is clear: folks
will hardly recognize the "new/old" LHS
building when the work is completed.
Lovell schools are getting a little bit
safer for students and staff members
thanks to an ongoing project to construct
security vestibules at the main entrances
of the three Lovell facilities.
The North Big Horn Search and Rescue
Squad successfully found and brought off
Little Mountain a 57-year-old hunter from
Guernsey who had become exhausted while
attempting to retrieve his elk Monday.
1 4 BigH°rn C°unty school District
No. Two Superintendent Dan
Coe announced that he plans to
retire at the end of the school year on June
30, 2014. The District No. 2 school board
of trustees accepted Coe's resignation at
their regularly held meeting on Monday
night.
Artists and art lovers gathered at the
Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area
Visitor Center Saturday morning for an art
show and demonstration that was the kick-
off to a planned artist in residence program
at Bighorn Canyon.
The Cowtown Caf has returned to
Cowley. After the Prairie Grill closed its
doors for a few days, Deanna Lewis of Cow-
ley announced last week that she is tak-
ing over operations of the popular .Cowley
restaurant and returning the establish-
ment to its former name.
1 The CPA performing the Town
of Lovell's annual audit in-
formed the town council last
week that the town may be in a position to
pay off the water and sewer bonds much
earlier than originally scheduled.
When you watch the Macy's Thanks-
giving Day Parade next week, you might
catch a glimpse of a familiar face - or at
least the trombone in front of that famil-
iar face. Lovell High School junior Justin
Mickelson was selected this summer to
perform with the Macy's Great American
Marching Band.
8 The Big Horn Mountains east
of Lovell will be swarming next
week with winter sports enthusi-
asts passionate about a sport that is gaining
popularity around the world - snowkiting.
Her first recollection of him was that he
was a bit annoying. After all, what kind of
guy would carve his name on the back of a
girl's chair during a high school class? His
first recollection of her was that she was by
far the prettiest girl in all of Byron. In fact,
the prettiest girl he'd ever seen, with eyes
that twinkled like diamonds. Eighty years,
three children, 18 grandchildren and 44
(plus two more on the way) great-grandchil-
dren later, Edwin and Jeri NeVille spent an
afternoon with family and friends in Byron
this week celebrating the many happy and
productive years of their 80-year marriage.
December
Members of the Lovell downtown
business community and Main
Street residents are encouraged
to attend one of two information meet-
ings next week regarding next week
regarding next summer's highway
improvemente project in downtown
Lovell.
Big Horn Basin residents interest-
ed in trying the sport of snowkiting
are invited to head for the Big Horns
this weekend for an introduction to the
sport.
North Big Horn Hospital has report-
ed confirmed cases of pertussis in the
local community, the medical staff an-
nounced this week.
2 Merchants and business
owners gathered at the
Lovell Community Center
Monday for a pair of meetings designed
to continue the process of getting the
word out about next summer's wa-
ter, sewer and street project on Main
Street in Lovell.
During a Wyoming water strate-
gy "listening session" Friday a rushing
stream of ideas, concerns and questions
ran freely as approximately 70 attend-
ees offered commentary on varied as-
pects of the precious liquid at the Lovell
Community Center.
The cell phone airwaves were buzz-
ing Thursday afternoon when a School
District No. 1 bus clipped a pickup east
of Byron, but parents were relieved to
discover there were no injuries.
It's no secret that the road
to affordable health care for
all citizens has been a rocky
one. Reports of glitches in the feder-
al government's health insurance ex-
change website and negative side effects
of the new law, especially in relatively
low population states like Wyoming, are
rampant in the national news.
A clean separation of inpatient and
outpatient services, a covered entryway
protecting patients from the elements,
more square footage for physical and oc-
cupational therapy services, more effi-
cient centralized check-in and business
operations, a bigger emergency room
and a layout that provides more priva-
cy and less physical distance between
patient services are all ideas being ex-
plored during the very early stages of
North Big Horn Hospital's future expan-
sion and remodeling project.
6 The cooperative efforts of
employees at a local con-
struction site, a brave fe-
male undercover officer and a tip from
a concerned citizen allowed Big Horn
County Sheriffs deputies to nab a sus-
pect accused of stealing large quanti-
ties of red diesel fuel on at least three
occasions beginning around Thanksgiv-
ing from construction vehicles parked
at a GK Construction site.
A Lovell writer has spun a rhyming
tale about a little boy who gets himself
in trouble with stealing in the children's
book "Gary," which has been recently
published by WestBow Press. Jaci Hoop-
er authored "Gary" many years ago but
recently had the story published as the
first in a series of children's books.
The North Big Horn County Muse-
um and Historical Center received the
go-ahead from the Town of Lovell to es-
tablish a mini-museum in the Lovell
Area Chamber of Commerce Building
on Main Street in Lovell during the Dec.
10 council meeting at town hall.
We said goodbye to ... •
Julia 'Vee' Lynn Paris
Anny Btrkholz
July 8
July
July 17
July 19 Daisy Estelle Sessions
July 30 LaVerne Robertson Jones
, , : Ap't7 " Rtota Ernest Tucker :Aug. 3
Jan. 26 Maxwell Mike Ray Barnes April 20 AliCe 1 (AkerS.Moore Campbell)Schitd hauer _ Aug 4
Jan, 26 Leo Samuel 'Jack' Dunn Jr, April 23 Wace 'Walley' Glatter Aug 8
Aug. 11
Aug, I4
Ronald Mn Jensen Jan. 31
Feb,2
Jesstca
Anita Manene Graves Aug. t8
Feb. 12 Ronald E Lindsay •
Feb. 15: Patti Sue Decker Tuffie
Feb. 21 • MarieA. Wambeke
..... ; June i2
Walter Jay McNiven , ,, ,,
R'ed :Fritz Fink "
Verlee Over'pack Bischoff Van Hee
LouiseW: Merchant March 19 .: Mstba G, Bridges ...... JUne 30
Aug. 19
Aug, 21
Aug, 27
Sept. 4
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Sept. 6
Sept. t2
Jesse D. Winzenrled
Ila Brown Jensen
