August 28, 2014 I The Lovell Chronicle I :].3
PATH CARPENTER
Senator Mike Enzi and his wife Diana spoke at a small gathering of residents
on Aug. 15, in Veterans Park in Lovell.
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Senator Mike Enzi visits with Terry Wilkerson and Rep. Elaine Harvey during
a visit to Lovell on Friday, Aug.15.
Senator Enzi makes pitstop in Lovell before primary
BY PATTI CARPENTER
Senator Mike Enzi and his
wife Diana made a quick vis-
it to Lovell on Friday evening,
Aug. 15, to chat with residents
during a special ice cream social
held in Veterans Park. The En-
zis mingled with residents an-
swering questions and listening
to their concerns.
"Diana and I are doing our
normal August thing right now,"
he said. "In August we put in
about 5,000 miles across Wy-
oming, not just in an election
year but pretty much every year.
We get around to communities
like this to find out what peo-
ple are thinking and doing and
to find out what kinds of things
we should be doing in Washing-
ton. We do that pretty much ev-
ery weekend all year, too. We
may not get 5,000 miles in on the
weekend; it's more like 500.
"In Wyoming, people are
pretty happy to tell us what's on
their minds. Sometimes those
concerns don't necessarily need
to have legislation and I'm hap-
py to work on those and have
done more than 12,000 of them
since I've been in office."
In a brief speech, Enzi, a
vocal opponent of Obamacare,
called it one of the nation's big-
gest problems and said that
it will become an even bigger
problem after the election. He
blamed the president for delays
in important matters.
"When they talk about noth-
ing getting done in Washington,
it's because the President makes
it happen that way," he said.
He said the thing that
"keeps him up nights" is worry-
ing about the national debt. He
summarized his "penny plan"
as a possible solution to the
problem.
"The way it works is that we
quit spending 1 cent out of ev-
ery dollar we currently spend,"
he explained. "According to the
Congressional Budget Office, a
non-partisan office, we would
balance the budget in three
years if we did this. If we did it
for another seven years, it would
pay off another $7 trillion of our
debt. I think that is really where
we need to go, so our kids and
our grandkids have the same op-
portunities that we had."
He also expressed his oppo-
sition to a national school board.
He also said he thought the tax
system could be simplified and
better and that a transition to a
"fair tax" would work well.
Diana Enzi pointed out that
her husband has passed more
than 100 bills since he has been
in the U.S. Senate. She not-
ed that though he is known as
the second most conservative
senator, he has passed the sec-
ond most bi-partisan bills in the
Senate.
'Expe,nses paid' noted for Byron Days event
BY BOB RODRIGUEZ
With thanks to Victoria
Dickson and Rebecca Bates,
co-chairmen of this year's
annual Byron Days celebra-
tion, a first-time "expenses
paid" situation was noted
by the Byron Town Council
during its meeting on Tues-
day night, Aug. 12.
Bates and Dickson re-
ported to the council that
money from advertising,
fee events and concession
charges "covered the ex-
penses for the first time,"
said Mayor Pam Hopkin-
son. Major events and at-
tractions, including the ex-
tremely popular fireworks
show on the evening of the
final day, ran for three days
(July 10-12) for the first
time under the direction of
the co-chairmen.
Bates and Dickson
said that they are looking
forward to starting earli-
er with their planning for
2015. Some businesses have
already contacted them to
help fund the pyrotechnics
display, they said. "The
goal," stated Hopkinson, "is
to fund the fireworks from
donations this coming year.
The report from Pyrotech
Professionals was positive,
as they feel that moving the
main launching platforms
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farther north was a definite
advantage from a safety
standpoint without compro-
mising the great fireworks
display.
Hopkinson had as-
sured the council, especial-
ly Councilor Alan Bair, that
the financial picture this
year would be the best in
history. Bair has continual-
ly been critical of the town
spending part of its budget
for public entertainment in-
cluding the fireworks sho.
In another matter,
which also was broached
during the July meeting
(which only lasted 40 min-
utes, setting a record for the
past several months), there
was some discussion on
new higher rates imposed
by the Byron Drainage Dis-
trict Board of Directors.
Hopkinson explained: "It
seems that in early spring,
the drainage board voted to
raise the minimum acreage
to be assessed from one acre
to two. The assessment had
been $10 per property own-
er on a minimum acreage of
one, whether you owned an
acre or not.
"Now," she continued,
"the minimum payment
will be $20 with the raise
to a' two-acre limit, with
the acreage over and above
the minimum of two acres
staying at $10. This will be
a raise of payment to the
drainage district on the tax-
es of every town property
owner. People on the sur-
rounding farm land will
only see a raise on the mini-
mum two-acre parcel."
Byron Clerk/Treasur-
er Donna Booth said that of
316 parcel owner accounts,
67 are for properties larger
than 2 acres.
Hopkinson added that
it appears that "the drain-
age board deal was done
without any input or notice,
but I guess that is what
they are allowed to do." She
noted that, "I have been too
darn busy with other town
stuff to do much digging"
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