8 J The Lovell Chronicle J July 28, 2011
www. LovellCh ronicle.com
The Old White Church on Main Street in Lovell and an early downtown street
scene are two of the quilt panels to be included in the historical quilt being
raffled as part of the fall fundraisers for the Lovell-Kane Area Museum.
The Lovell-Kane
Area Museum Board will
be holding a fundraiser
Saturday, Sept. 17, at the
Lovell Community Center
for the future museum.
A concert will be held
featuring Bret Marchant,
singer and songwriter. His
specialty is ballads and
songs about the local old-
timers and the area. He
will have CD's for sale and
all proceeds will go to the
museum.
The book written by
Bill Scott, "Pioneers of
the Big Horn," is being
reprinted. Daughter Wilma
Scott Terrell will be at the
fundraiser to autograph the
books. The photos that are
in the book came from her
photo album; she helped her
dad put the book together.
There will be a dinner
of pulled pork, baked beans,
coleslaw, dessert and
drinks. 200 tickets have
been printed.
A raffle will be held
for a quilt with old photos
of Lovell, Kane, Hillsboro,
the ML Ranch and many
others. A knife made by
Wayne Spragg will also be
raffled.
Tickets for the dinner
and raffle are available
from any board member.
There will be a silent
auction throughout the
evening.
Anyone wishing to
donate to the silent auction,
or if anyone has an old
photo they would like to
see on the quilt, may also
contact a board member.
There is room for three
more photos on the quilt.
Board members with
tickets are: Karen Spragg,
548-7212; Rich Fink, 548-
2965; Peg Snell, 548-2107;
Jeff Pearson, 548-6692;
Sharon Cornwall, 548-
7642; Betty Hubbell, 548-
2655.
Also on the board are
Cindy Norum and Christy
Fleming.
The museum board
was formed in February
and is working to establish
non-profit status, though
the organization is
incorporated.
The board is working
to obtain a building and
is looking at facilities and/
or possible plans to build a
new structure.
Karen Spragg and
Fink stressed that all of
the proceeds from the
fundraisers will go directly
to the museum building
fund, with the board
operating off a $10,000
allocation from the Town of
Lovell.
Citizens are welcome
to become a member of the
Lovell-Kane Area Museum
organization for $10 per
year. The group meets
the third Tuesday of each
month at the Lovell Fire
Hall at 7 p.m.
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A visitor center employee contacted the
Lovell Dispatch Center, which made radio
contact with Ranger David Baker and also
dispatched Big Horn County Sheriffs Dep-
uty Jeff Angell to the scene. Meanwhile, a
member of the field school picked up Finn
and met up with Baker near the NPS con-
tact station at the turnoff to Horseshoe
Bend.
The officers administered a field sobri-
ety test, then arrested Finn for DUI and
transported him to the annex in Lovell
where an intoximeter test was adminis:
from the field school.
After a followup investigation, Kissner
reported Monday that Finn was cited for
DUI, driving a vehicle with a breath alcohol
concentration of .08 or greater, unsafe op-
eration of a vehicle/failure to maintain con-
trol, destruction of natural resources and
moving a vehicle from an accident scene.
Finn will appear before a U.S. Magis-
trate Judge in Lander to answer the charg-
es.
Bighorn Canyon NRA reminds drivers
to be aware of horses, deer, bighorn sheep
tered and Finn allegedly blew levels of.093 and other wildlife on and near park roads
and .096, both over the legal limit, and was and to use caution when driving in the
cited for DUI, then released to a third party park.
DILLON Continued from page I
yearling son Kapitan - also
a dark bay - off the west
side of the highway a few
yards north of Admiral.
"This is the first time
it's happened in the history
of that highway- it's a com-
monly asked question," Dil-
lon said. "They do know how
to get off the highway, but
obviously not when some-
body is going that fast.
"Admiral was one of my
favorite stallions. This has
really been hard."
Admiral was a true Wy-
oming wild mustang, born
at Crooked Creek Bay and
living his life in the area,
Dillon said. He was the son
of the black stallion Sam,
who lived for many years in
the Crooked Creek area.
A young stallion, Admi-
ral got his harem in 2006,
displacing another harem
stallion, Sitting Bull, and
taking two mares, his own
mother, Hightail, and his
"real" mare, Seneca.
"I feel for her (High-
tail)," Dillon said. "She lost
Sam last year and now Ad-
miral.
"We saw the two mares
Sunday around Crooked
Creek Bay, about a mile
away from Sitting Bull. I'm
hoping they will meet up
with him and come back.
It will be interesting to see
if they get back with him.
I hate to think of Crooked
Creek Bay without hors-
es. Since the 1940s peo-
ple have seen horses at
Crooked Creek. That's why
I hope they get together
with Sitting Bull because
he used to live there."
Dillon noted that, al-
though he was a young
stallion, Admiral does have
a living offspring - the
2-year-old stallion Jesse
James, a bachelor stallion
he called a "striking horse
with a T-shaped blaze." A
red bay, Jesse James can
be seen often in Mustang
Flats to the north.
"He'll have a big bur-
den to carry on his dad's
legacy," Dillon said.
There are around
30 wild horses along the
Transpark Highway, he
said.
"It's been a really good
year for seeing horses on the
Dryhead," Dillon added.
And having watched
Admiral grow up from a
colt, Dillon was still dealing
with the emotions of losing
a friend Monday.
"It has been really hard
dealing with this one," he
said. "Horses die all the
time, but this isn't natural.
It was totally out of the blue.
It wasn't the horses' fault at
all, and it could have been
prevented. He was a young
stallion, just getting his life
going.
"A lot of people from
all over know Admiral. He
was special to a lot of visi-
tors from around the world.
Sometimes his band is the
only horses people see. He
was really fun to watch. He
was a fun stallion.
"A lot of people are pret-
ty affected by this, too."
Extension office
closed
Big Horn County Ex-
tension office will be closed
during fair, Monday - Fri-
day Aug. 1-5.
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work-related
accident at
American L,
Colloid
ti
on July4.
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at the Fire Hall
Friday
August 5
5 and 6 pm
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