2 I The Lovell Chronicle I August 19, 2010
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Summer's over, school starts
in Dist. No. 1 Wednesday
BY BRAD DEVEREAUX
For teachers, students,
parents and others, the
summer of 2010 may have
gone too fast. However, it is
a fact that school starts this
week in Big Horn County
School District No. 1, and
staff is scrambling to get ev-
erything ready for when stu-
dents hit the halls Wednes-
day, Aug. 25.
The district communi-
ty came out to help move fur-
niture and equipment Sat-
urday, Aug. 7, from Rocky
Mountain High School in By-
ron to the Rocky Mountain
Junior Senior High School
in Cowley. Teachers have
spent the past week moving
into their classrooms at the
new school. As of Monday, a
few rooms looked classroom
ready, but most were still
filled with unpacked boxes.
Principal Tim Winland
said teachers were brows-
ing furniture left at Rocky
Mountain High School and
Rocky Mountain Middle
School and taking a few
things with them to the new
facility.
For the upcoming year,
tices were held in the new
gymnasium starting Mon-
day, football practices are
being held in Byron while
construction is completed
on the track that surrounds
the Cowley field.
Because of the construc-
tion, the district will hold
the first few home games
in Byron, but Simmons
said they plan to have the
homecoming football game
in Cowley. The concessions
area in Cowley is also yet to
be finished, he said.
Landscaping continues
outside the building and
theatrical lighting and the
stage sound system was be-
ing installed this week, Sim-
mons said.
While the school has
come a long way in recent
months of construction,
Simmons said it would take
about a year to test all of
the facility's systems during
four seasons.
PRINCIPAL'S
PERSPECTIVE
Principal Winland said
teachers and staffhave been
doing their best to move
in and set up the building
While a few teachers have nearly completed their
classrooms, most are still waiting to be transformed
from empty spaces into learning environments.
A row of desks sits in the hallway of the school,
waiting to be brought inside.
the district Will continue to wle nt.vctors are still
heat RMHS in Byron be-
cause several departments
will still be housed there in-
cluding special education,
technology and transpor-
tation. Those departments
will eventually move to the
new administration build-
ing, scheduled for comple-
tion in late 2010. RMMS
will be shut down complete-
ly for the school year, Sim-
mons said.
In the new building,
books are in the library,
phone and Internet was in-
stalled last week, and the
kitchen received their food
license from the state in
early August. The kitchen
will receive another inspec-
tion this month before it is
set for the school year, Sim-
mons said.
While volleyball prac-
working in the same space.
"We're trying to coex-
ist," Winland said.
Winland mentioned
a few features of the new
school that will change the
way the stelff does business.
The school features a mag-
netic door lock system that
allows administrators to
lockdown the school from a
central location. A surveil-
lance system with 16 camer-
as feeds into the main office
so administrators can keep
tabs on all areas of the prop-
erty on recorded video. Even
the school's new PA is a wel-
come change, Winland said.
At RMHS, the PA did not
feed every classroom and
was made up of old equip-
ment.
The school is hooked to
RMES and the district ad-
min offices by fiber connec-
tions, and the phone system
is integrated so calls can be
transferred among the dif-
ferent buildings. There is a
phone in every room, which
is an upgrade from the for-
mer high school where some
teachers had to use two-way
radios to stay in touch, Win-
land said.
Winland said the big-
gest challenge at the start of
this school year will be get-
ting staff together and fig-
uring out routines and pro-
cedures to make the school
run well and to help stu-
dents make a smooth tran-
sition. Details to be talked
about include managing two
lunch periods and adjusting
to a eight-period schedule
for all students.
With construction go-
ing on in some of the meet-
ing spaces of the school,
even getting together to
talk about those procedures
could be a challenge, he
said. Staff were required to
be at school Wednesday.
Despite the challenges,
Winland said he has heard
mostly positive comments
about the rooms and the
school in general.
High school teacher
Geranne Rasmussen was
ahead of most teachers Mon-
day, with books filling her
bookshelves and cupboards
filled with her supplies. Her
mother helped her to get the
room ready for the school
year.
Rasmussen said the
new building is great and
she is excited for the year to
begin.
"It's almost like a fresh
start," she said, adding that
now the district can focus on
education instead of spend-
ing a lot of time on facili-
ties.
She said she likes that
her classroom is a little big-
ger than her previous room,
the adequate storage and
natural lighting throughout
the building. The two new
gymnasiums will be great
for students and the com-
munity.
"I think the facility will
boost school spirit," she
said.
Outside her window is
a beautiful view of the Big
Horn Mountains, wfiich is
nice, Rasmussen said.
At RMES, principal Kar-
ma Sanders said initial en-
rollment looks to be slight-
ly up this year, with a few
new families bringing their
children to the district. The
school hired several new
part-time aids to help with
the increase in students.
Teachers began Wednes-
day, and the building had
been pretty quiet before
then, Sanders said, except
for a few small projects that
were carried out.
Virginia Kay
Brosius
Oct. 20, 1940 -
Aug. 13, 2010
Virginia Kay Brosius,
69, of Lovell died peacefully
in her sleep at the New Ho-
rizons Care Center in the
early morning hours on Fri-
day, Aug. 13, 2010.
She was born Virginia
Kay Hall in Decker, Mont.,
on Oct. 20, 1940, to Aaron
Clyde Hall and Clara El-
eanor Patton, on the home-
stead of her parents on the
Montana-Wyoming border
on Tongue River. She went
to grade school at the small
one-room Squirrel Creek
School in Decker. She then
graduated from Sheridan
High School in 1959.
She married Edward
Kukuchka in 1959 in Sheri-
dan. They later divorced
and she married Jimmy Lee
Brosius in 1968 in Lovell.
They separated in 1984 and
were later divorced but still
Bernita
Elizabeth
Kylander
Moody
April 28, 1917 -
Aug. 3, 2010
Bernita Elizabeth
Kylander Moody, 93, died on
Aug. 3, 2010 at the New Ho-
rizons Care Center in Lovell.
Bernita was born on April 28,
1917, in Pine Bluffs, Wyo. to
Arthur and Lulu Kylander.
She was raised in Powell
with her brothers Emil, Er-
nest and John Francis and
sisters Verna Mae, Letty
Irma, Mary and Leatha.
On March 18, 1939, she
remained close until his
death on Dec. 23, 2004.
She worked in retail
sales at the Anthony's loca-
tion in Lovell until a virus
took away her voice. She
struggled with this condi-
tion as her voice was re-
duced to only a whisper from
that point on in her life.
Virginia enjoyed the
beauty of nature and gar-
dening, especially her iris
garden and roses. She liked
going to the Big Horn and
Pryor Mountains to see the
beautiful wildflowers and
abundant local wildlife. Vir-
ginia enjoyed dancing and
country music, especially
fiddle and violin. She ac-
companied her father Clyde
many times to local and re-
gional fiddler competitions
in Montana, Wyoming and
South Dakota in which he
participated.
Pets were a big part
of her life. She especially
treasured the many dogs
and cats that shared her
home over. the years. She
also was an avid reader and
enjoyed learning about sci-
ence, especially astronomy,
geology and Native Ameri-
can history and culture.
She was a member of
the Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints. She
was active in genealogy and
family history. Virginia en-
joyed discovering old pho-
tos and stories of her family
tree and kept many photo
albums of her children and
grandchildren. She also
liked spending time doing
married Wayman Mangus
Moody in Red Lodge. They
made their home in Lovell,
first living on Third Street
and then later out at the
farm on Foster Gulch. After
Wayman's death, she moved
back to the home on Third
Street where she remained
until just a couple of weeks
before her death.
Bernita wasn't afraid of
work and spent many a day
out working the farm with
her husband and family.
Friends and family were al-
ways welcome at her home.
Whenever anyone showed
up around meal time, they
were always invited to stay.
When she still lived on the
farm, you could be sure there
would be fried potatoes and
fresh bread at almost every
meal.
Besides spending time
with her family, Bernita
really enjoyed her friends.
There was a group of wom-
en that had formed a little
club. They celebrated each
other's birthdays, joined for
dinners and often got to-
gether to play games. She
also enjoyed peacocks, hav-
ing raised them on the farm.
She had many pieces of jew-
elry and decorative items of
these in her home.
Bernita is survived by
crafts and sewing, espe-
cially quilting. She made
a special quilt by hand for
each of her children. She
loved Lovell and when she
would travel to visit her
children, she would always
be so happy to return to her
beloved home and town and
her many special friends,
especially Rena Croft, Su-
zie Winterholler, Alma Jol-
ley and Emily Brandt. She
was so grateful to them for
their love and support.
She was preceded in
death by her parents; hus-
band Jimmy Lee Brosius
and daughter Carol.
Virginia is survived by
four children: daughter De-
nise Clem (John) of Moreno
Valley, Calif.; son Robert
Brosius (Tawnya) of Chan-
dler, Ariz.; son David Brosi-
us (Claudia) of Miami, Fla.
and son Timothy Brosius of
Deaver.
She had nine grandchil-
dren, Michelle Ann Padilla
(Joe) of Bothel, Wash., Eric
Romero of Riverside, Calif.,
Tyler Clem of Moreno Val-
ley, Calif., Stephanie and
Tawsha Brosius of Chan-
dler, Ariz., Kristi Plow-
man (Dale) of North Ogden,
Utah, Kimberly Brosius of
North Ogden, Utah, David
Alexander Brosius of Miami
and Erica Brosius of Buffa-
lo. She also had one great-
grandchild, Felicity Padilla
of Bothel, Wash.
Haskell Funeral Home
of Lovell was in charge of
the arrangements. Crema-
tion has taken place.
her sons Francis (JoAnn)
of Lovell, Larry (Sharon) of
Ten Sleep and Ran (Dixie)
of Newcastle; 12 grandchil-
dren; 18 great-grandchil-
dren, and their families. She
was preceded in death by her
parents, her husband, all of
her brothers and sisters and
three grandsons Dan, Jeff
and Brook.
Funeral services were
held on Friday, Aug. 6, 2010
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