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4 I The Lovell Chronicle I March 1, 2012
Guest columns Letters to the editor
How to get your dirt dishes washed U.S. government: Get
Received a phone call the other day
from an old friend of mine whom I haven't
talked to in years. Ignotin called (yes, that's
his real name) and we spent a while chat-
ting about old times. When I mentioned
my story about how to defrost a freezer, he
laughed and reminded me about a few of
the things that happened when we used to
be roommates many moons ago.
Back in those days, we used to make
soup from scratch, not from a can. Well,
good ol' Ignotin decided one winter day
to make some bean soup so he filled a pot
full of water, added raw beans and covered
them up to set for a day or two. Come about
a week or so later, and that there pot was sure putting
out a horrible odor. So I did what any person would do
and took care of it -- but more about that later.
When springtime rolled around, Ignotin would
get on his scooter, aka Iron Horse, aka Gold Wing
1000 motorcycle, and go for cruises. He came back
from one such cruise with his girlfriend and they
made themselves a full meal using just about every
pot and pan and all the dishes in the house. After
they ate, they piled 'em up in the sink and off they
went. Come a week or two later and there they still
sat. It seems that Ignotin was expecting me to do the
dishes and since I contributed one plate I was deter-
mined to watch him do them.
When day 30 arrived, the kitchen was getting
pretty rank from the smell, so I decided it was again
time to do something. As I laid prone on the couch
reading the Sunday funnies (I never understood
why they waste all that paper writing all them there
other stories about all the bad in the world) Ignotin
Gary Noth
Sweet Noth-ings
came down the stairs from his room and
gave a 'hey." I 'hey'd' back and he head-
ed through the kitchen towards the back
door to go for a cruise. When he saw the
kitchen was all spic and span, he stopped,
turned around and said, "Hey, I see ya
cleaned the kitchen." You can see that
nothing gets past Ignotin, so I said, "yep"
and he heads out the back door.
Upon stepping outside he stops, turns
around and says, "Hmmm, I see ya did
em the easy way." I again gave my usual
"yep" and off he went. He returned about
an hour or two later with his lady and
they proceeded to pick all the dishes up
out of the back yard. He came in laughing and said
how he was hoping I'd do 'em and how he decided to
see how long they sat there before I caved and I told
him I had decided that since I only used one dish,
nope, they were all his.
As they were about done cleaning the back yard
of pots and pans and dishes, I heard an "Oh, man,
that stinks!" Ignotin came in again laughing as he
apparently found his pot of beans from last winter.
"I forgot all about them and wondered what hap-
pened to 'em." I laughed and told him that once they
got to stinkin' I had put them out back in the snow,
as I hate to waste food.
I thought cleaning the refrigerator's freezer out
with a garden hose was fun, but I have to tell ya,
them there dishes sure did make nice Frisbees that
day and as it ended up I didn't even have to wash
'em. Plus, the kitchen was once again fit for us hu-
mans. I guess that's why they invented paper plates
- to keep the peace between roommates.
Extremely orief snow bird outing
Time now for Baby-sitting II,
the slightly soggy story (because it rained
in sunny Southern California for around
two hours one day) of yet another trip to
Oceanside, Calif., to take care of a strick-
en granddaughter. As she's only 6 there
were worries about scarlet fever and strep
throat; plus, her morn just started a job
and was concerned about losing it if she
called in sick for several days.
So offI went by air: Billings to SeaTac
who's 9, joined us in the chorus of, "Why
didn't you tell us while we in the town
with restrooms all over the place?" The
younger sister's response was, "Well, I
didn't have to go until we got on the free-
way." Right. Down the road we pulled off
and stopped at a Sears store. The park-
ing lot was nearly full. When our daugh-
ter came back with the little one she was
frazzled, reporting that the store was hav-
ing a 75-percent-off sale so the place was
out of my bedroom
Dear Editor,
There is no free sex in the
world. There is always a cost:
health, pregnancy, abortion.
For me, I have six daughters
and seven sons, and one wonder-
ful woman (wife) and all are con-
tributors to society. There is no
greater joy than to hold a new-
born baby in your arms when
they take hold of your finger or
reach out to touch your face, say-
ing "thank you," "I love you" and
"please love me."
If a man and woman want to
engage in casual sex, both should
share in the cost for birth control,
not the government or any of its
agencies. To prevent pregnancy
from occurring the man should be
respectful, responsible and, above
all, accountable. If he impregnates
a woman, he should be responsi-
ble for the baby and mother. Be a
man, not a male contributor.
If abortion is done or needed,
the woman needs love and sup-
port of family and friends. The
man, in my opinion, needs to face
up to his responsibility as a man
and be accountable for the abor-
tion. The government wants to
control the population by selec-
tive breeding based on IQ, looks
and talent.
Do not be taken in. This
has been done again and again
throughout the world and has
failed every time. Do not let it
happen here in the U.S. To do
this they, the government, prey
on women in the worst possible
way by cheapening their status as
a human being. Woman is God's
greatest gift to mankind.
Roger Hiser
County needs to show they
can maintain what they have
before building new
Dear Editor,
I read with interest the news
that the county wants to build an
indoor arena at the fairgrounds.
The question everyone should be
asking is, Why?
The county is going to use
$100,000 in county consensus
money and maybe get another
$50,000 from the Daniels Fund.
Perhaps some of the wealthy peo-
ple living in Big Horn County
would like to donate the remain-
ing funds for this wanted but cer-
tainly not needed project. The
allocated by the Legislature; it is
undesignated in that the state is
not telling us how to spend it. It
is the responsibility of the elect-
ed officials to make good decisions
about the best way to use these
funds.
Surely one of the nine incor-
porated towns or 73 special tax
districts in the county could bet-
ter utilize these funds.
The county is being fiscally ir-
responsible in promoting the con-
struction of a new building when
we have not been able to maintain
to San Diego. But first, as many travel- Bob shoulder-to-shoulder. But the restroom more responsible use of county
ers know: Lovell to Billings by car, lav .... Rodriguez was available ....... , ..... money would be to fix the existing
ing quite early to be aboard a flight that :' The San Diego area is:full of f011s: 'flr0blems we have instead of put-
boards at 5:30 a.m. All went well, and so running around (actually running, nV . thg up a new building.
is the child at this point now that I've returned from
my six-day outing.
It is so good to be back home in Lovell because
my hometown of San Diego keeps growing and grow-
ing. There are way too many people down there. Ac-
tually, the freeways and even the larger surface
streets are gridlocked. But no one will admit it. And
the price of gasoline: the cheapest I could find was
$3.86 per gallon and that was at one of the stations
where you pay cash, no charges. The major stations
were charging in the vicinity of $4.15 per gallon. So
I stayed out of their vicinity.
Traffic was so bad on Presidents Day that it
took us 90 minutes to travel less than 30 miles on
Interstate 5 from Oceanside to San Clemente. Our
daughter knows a "good hamburger joint" there so
we went. The burgers were super good, so they were
pretty much worth the drive. Especially because
she drove. We then moved on to Capistrano, but the
streets were so crowded that it took a long time to
drive a few blocks, turn around and get back to I-5.
The place was packed not only with people but with
cafes, drive-throughs, service stations and conve-
nience stores.
Then as soon as we finally made it onto the lanes
for southbound I-5 travel, our 6-year-old announced
that she had to use a toilet "right now!" Her sister,
Letter to the editor
just strolling) in shorts and T-shirts. Especially
around the beaches, but also in every neighbor-
hood. Many of the runners are equipped with de-
vices to measure their pulses, temperatures, times
and who knows what all. And there are lots of bi-
cyclists. Way too healthy down there. Of course,
with warmer temperatures most of the time, it's
easy to see why they want to be fit. So that they
can wear clothing that shows off their physiques,
I think.
There also is the aspect of so many restaurants
down south that one can obtain about any style of
food from a wide variety of countries. And there are
more fast food restaurants than I could count. So
I guess that people have to exercise a lot because
they keep trying all the different food. I have to ad-
mit that I made a stab at it myself.
The trip was what I would call a working vaca-
tion, but still fun, especially being with family and
being of help. After staying in that SoCal weather I
decided that it's nice to be warm, but it's even bet-
ter to come home no matter what the temperature.
This was brought home (pun mostly intended) upon
landing in Billings at close to midnight last Sun-
day. With memories of sunny days I stepped into
27-degree weather with a chill wind blowing. But
the San Diego memories will help keep me warm.
Let the people decide on an indoor arena
assured of receiving. If the exist-
ing facilities are in need of re-
pair and there is enough money
to make those repairs then that
would be the most sensible plan.
The maintenance on a newer,
bigger building would put quite
a dent in an already over-ex-
tended budget.
Maybe this should be put be-
fore the general public for a vote
as it appears that the Fair Board
is not unanimous on this deci-
sion.
Denise Ellison
Burlington
County Commissioners and Fair
Board:
Big Horn County Fair is
one week during the entire
year! Why would an indoor are-
na be a necessary expense? This
is a gross misuse of funding,
funding which you are not even
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How many people in the coun-
ty will benefit from an indoor
arena that would primarily be
used for one week out of the en-
tire year? I would guess less than
5 percent, so should this be a pri-
ority project? Really, is an indoor
area the best use of these monies?
I sincerely doubt it.
Consensus funding is money
the existing buildings at the fair-
grounds. It doesn't make sense to
ask WYDOT ibgant money to
fix the bathroom'when the coun-
ty has $100,000 to spend on proj-
ects in the county. It would be a
good idea for concerned citizens
to contact the commissioners and
fair board members and ask them
to exercise fiscal constraints and
common sense when spending
public money.
Linda Harp
Basin
Mustang Days needs help or
events will be cancelled
Dear Editor,
The time has come again for
the Lovell Mustang Days com-
mittee to begin planning for this
year's events. The meetings are
held at least monthly for the first
few months and then as we grow
closer to June they are scheduled
every two weeks. Our next meet-
ing is March 20 at 6:30 p.m. at the
Big Horn Federal Bank; everyone
is welcome to come to these meet-
ings.
As last year's chairman I
must say that I was very disap-
pointed in the participation of our
community with this time-hon-
ored week of events. The Lovell
Mustang Days have been around
for over 100 years. We risk hav-
ing events canceled because of
lack of help! Last year I ran ads
in the paper, put up flyers, talked
to people and even begged for vol-
unteers. I know that volunteer-
ing for events as big as this one
can be very frightening. However,
sometimes we only need someone
for an hour here or there. Or even
just helping with making calls or
selling Follies tickets. The com-
mitment can be as large or as
small as you are comfortable with.
When someone volunteers we try
to match them with what they
are interested in doing and what
they are comfortable with doing.
Everything that is planned, orga-
nized, scheduled and done is all
volunteer work.
Last year the volunteers that
assisted were awesome. I can't
thank the people of Lovell who
helped enough. Many devoted
long hours to the events while
others were only able to give but
a few hours. All was appreciated
and welcomed. I had volunteers
that have assisted in some way
for 10, 20, 30 and even 40 years
with Lovell Mustang Days. They
have spent countless hours and
years helping to make this week-
long event wonderful for all. We
are in need of more.
Everyone wants to come to
the events and have fun, but the
committee is in need of assistance
to make the Lovell Mustang Days
an event to enjoy for everyone.
As chairman, I cannot tell you
the countless hours that I worked
to get the week organized and
make it a fun-filled week for ev-
eryone to attend -- hours that I
was willing to do, but hours that
would have made things easier if
more volunteers would have been
available. We try to have events
that will appeal to the young and
the old. We have a lot of events
that are free to participate in and
other events that are at a low cost
so that people are able to attend
as well.
The first committee meeting
was held last week with only five
people attending. Each year these
events are participated in by hun-
dreds of people. Many from our
community and many who travel
here come to the events and en-
joy the fun. This year we may be
at risk of canceling several events
because there is nobody to help
with the event. The free concert
on Monday night has had low at-
tendance and still requires vol-
unteers to make it happen. The
Family Fun Night, which was a
huge success last year, may have
to be canceled this year, as well as
the Mustang BBQ, which every-
one loves, and even the parade,
which is the oldest time-honored
event of the week.
We need volunteers of all ages
and willing to help with anything.
If we don't get them we may not
have all the events that we all en-
joy so much. Is this how our Lovell
Mustang Days will end?
Linda Mangus, Chairman,
Lovell Mustang Days Committee
