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LOVELL, WYOMING - VOLUME 109, NUMBER 14 • THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2014 "75¢
Senior Drake Welch glares at Lovell High School
Spanish teacher Bob Weber during Favorite Sports
Team Day for homecoming Monday morning.
Dressed as twin nerds during homecoming Twin Day Tuesday
are Garet Fowler, left, and Sloan Colvin.
DAVID PECK PHOTOS
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• BY DAVID PECK
Ifs three days down and two to go for the Lovell High School 2014
Homecoming celebration with the theme "Light My Fire."
The fun began Monday with Favorite Sports Team Day, and Tuesday
was Twin/Couple Day, capped by a powder puff football game. Wednes-
day was Superhero Day.
Thursday is Class Color Day, with seniors wearing white, juniors
black, sophomores purple and freshmen green. Friday is Bulldog Day.
The annual chili and cinnamon rolls dinner will be held from 5 to 7
p.m. tonight (Thursday) at the Lovell Elementary School Cafeteria, fol-
lowed by the spirit walk at 7:15 to the LHS Johnny Winterholler Gym for
the annual pep rally, followed by a bonfire.
The pep rally will include class competitions, the LHS dance team,
the recognition of fall sports teams and activities and the announcement
of the homecoming royalty.
Classes are making a class flag or banner to go along with the theme,
sponsor Katie Hernandez said, and the week features a fundraiser for
the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Students have been putting money in jars
to nominate their favorite teachers - Hernandez, Danielle Malson, Bob
Weber, Bret George and Supt. Dr. Rick Woodford. The teacher with the
most 0ney bythe end of the day Thursday will geta pieface at
the pep rally.
There will also be a 50/50 raffle at Friday's football game.
There will be two culminating athletic events Friday. The Lovell
Bulldogs will host Rocky Mountain for volleyball matches at 3 (fresh-
men), 4 (JVs) and 5:30 p.m., followed by the Bulldogs taking on the Pi-
nedale Wranglers on the gridiron at 7 p.m. A street dance will follow the
football
Posing on Twin Day Tuesday for the LHS Homecoming
celebration are (l-r) Katie Powell, Teann Tippetts, Mya Meier
and Tori Aiken.
Freshman Mandi Baxendale sprints for yardage
during the powder puff football game Tuesday night,
part of this week's homecoming festivities.
Walk to End
Alzheimer's
Saturday
The North Big Horn Senior
Center is sponsoring a "Walk to
End Alzheimer's" this Saturday,
Sept. 20, from 8 to 10 a.m. at
the Center, located at 757 Great
Western Ave., in Lovell.
A raffle is also under way
for a handmade quilt. Tickets
are available at the Center and
the winning ticket will be drawn
at the event. A 50/50 raffle will
also be held the day of the event.
A continental breakfast will be
served courtesy of North Big
Horn Hospital.
All proceeds from the event
will be donated to the Alzhei-
mer's Association for research
that may help understand the
disease.
BY DAVID PECK
The Lovell Main Street Proj-
ect has finally made the big jump.
After weeks at Montana Avenue,
the east detour has moved two
blocks west to Kansas Avenue,
almost totally freeing the down-
town business district to normal
traffic.
The move was made Tuesday
evening.
With the recent progress
made; and with the Extreme
Weight Loss show being filmed
on Main Street Saturday, Proj-
ect Supt. Lloyd Wulf of Reiman
Corp. said at Tuesday's public
project update meeting that the
concrete and water and sewer
crews would not work this com-
ing weekend, working through
Friday and resuming work on
Monday.
Wyoming Dept. of Transpor-
tation Public Relations Special-
ist Cody Beers said Tuesday that
Wilson Brothers Construction
has about three weeks of excava-
tion and pipe replacement to go,
currently digging between Idaho
and Jersey and working west to
Hampshire.
After last week's cold snap,
the weather has been perfect
this week, Beers said, and is
forecast to remain good for some
time to come. He said the goal is
to fairly quickly move the east
detour to Jersey Avenue to free
SEE 'MAIN STREET PROJECT,'
page3
BY PATTI CARPENTER work being down was a big thing
Administrators reported to for us at our school."
trustees at the Big Horn County He said it delayed students
School District No. 2 board meet- getting their iPads because the
ing held on Sept• 8 that the first network was unavailable to set
week of school began with the them up properly. He said they
compute.r network down and a received them on Monday, Sept.
power outage but ended well. 8, which was later than expected.
"Well, it was a challenge, but"I think it's going well,
everything went well," said Lovell though," he said. "The kids are
Elementary School Principal really excited about it and we're
Cheri Hoffman. "We had a powertaking things kind of slow. I think
outage, and we had the networkwe made some good decisions not
down. I had one teacher comment to let them take them home right
that the only thing that hadn't away."
happened was the sewer going He said he thought the teach-
down and about a half hour later ers at the middle school had a
it did. But in the end everything very good start to the year and
worked out all right•" he commented that the two new
District Supt. Rick Woodford teachers at the school were doing
added that it was an opportunity a "phenomenal job."
to learn that a lot of the emergen- "It's been a bit glitchy, but I
cy lights didn't work at the school, think overall it's been outstand-
and said the district needs to get ing," said Hazen.
them fixed• Special Ed director Jeanette
"We found lights, and we Ohman reported that her depart-
moved to different classrooms,ment is excited about having a
The teachers were great," saidnew teacher at the high school.
Hoffman. "They were very flexible The special education students at
and they made everything work the high school are displaced right
out OK." now because the construction
Middle School Principal Doug isn't finished on their classrooms,
Hazen added, "We found the net- but Ohman said they are excited
about moving into their new area will go about working on their
in the near future, which will in- curriculum plans for the district.
clude a kitchen and a shower. "It's a system that will main-
LHS Principal Scott O'Trem- tain a level of autonomy in the
ba was not present to give a schools, but as a system I think
report, it will unify us and provide a lit-
tle more cohesiveness than we've
TEACHER TRAINING had in previous years," he ex-
Woodford informed the board plained. "So we're excited about it
on some staff activities that took and it is something we'll be work-
place during the first week teach- ing through over the next several
ers reported for duty, which was years. It's not a quick, get-it-done
a week before students reported type of thing. It's a process."
to school. The activities included
a number of trainings including FACILITIES UPDATE
suicide prevention training, some Woodford said a week prior to
advancED training and learning the start of school some individu-
about the concept of professional als expressed doubts that school
learning communities and teach- would start on time, but it did
er collaboration, start on time•
"In the old days, the curricu- "Honestly, if you walked
lum director would sit down in his through on the first day, you
or her office and work it through," could walk through the classroom
explained Woodford. "Those days wing and almost forget that it was
are over• Now teachers are very a construction zone," he said. "It
involved and it is a collaborative looked like a school for the first
process. I think it's exciting work time in months."
and in the end we will be better He said the contractors met
because of it." their deadlines and any construc-
He said all three schools will tion that's still happening is hap-
submit plans by the middle of Oc- pening after hours. He said there
tober, which will include what is still a large punch list that the
their teams look like and how they contractors are working through.
The family and consumer sci-
ence and music classes are still
displaced, and students are be-
ing bused to the middle school as
well as to lunch. He expected the
cafeteria to be up and running
within a few weeks. He added the
multi-purpose room will be ready
for use around Oct. 1 and the ad-
ministrative wing and family and
consumer science areas are ex-
pected to be ready around Oct. 15.
He reported the new strength
and conditioning facility is well
under way and is currently wait-
ing for lights and flooring mate-
rial to be installed. He said the
equipment that will be used by
students is in the process of being
planned and ordered.
"We're going to spend a good
chunk of money on equipment,"
he said. "It doesn't make sense to
spend nearly $1 million on a facil-
ity and not put nice equipment in
there. It would kind of defeat the
purpose."
He said the equipment is ex-
pected to cost slightly less than
$80,000. He said Athletic Direc-
SEE 'CONDITIONING FACILITY GETS
NEW EQUIPMENT,' page 3
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