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LOVELL, WYOMING " VOLUME 114, NUMBER 12 OCTOBER 3, 2019 $1
Lovell- Kane
Area Museum BY DAVlDPECK "September 2019 was the
fo record-setting Septem- wettest September ever since we
fundraiser ber r precipitation in north Big started recording data in 1898,"
Horn County has left many sugar Lipson said.
. ::IturcI :IV ( v nin f beet farmers in a quagmire as the That word jibes with what
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2019 Western Sugar Cooperative longtime Western Sugar Senior
BY DAVID PECK campaign is scheduled to pick up Agriculturalist Mark Bjornestad
Plenty of tickets are still steam, has observed.
available for the big event of the But so far farmers have been "In 2011 we had some mois-
year for the Lovell-Kane Area
Museum: the Fall Fundraiser and
Auction to be held this Saturday,
Oct. 5, at the Lovell Community
Center.
The event begins at 6 p.m.
Board chairman Karen
Spragg said tickets are avail-
able from any board member
and may be obtained by call-
ing her at 548-7212 or 272-0959
or by calling Shari Loegering at
548-7002.
Tickets will also be available
able to dig enough beets to keep
the factory running.
According to Dave Lipson of
the National Weather Service of-
fice in Riverton, Lovell received a
record 2.91 inches of precipita-
tion in September, breaking the
previous record of 2.81 inches set
m 2016.
potato sausage and hamburg-
er, tomato and macaroni soups,
at the door, Spragg said. BY DAVID PECK
The evening will begin with Rocky Mountain High School
a soup and dessert dinner fea- is celebrating a "Blast from the
turing chicken noodle, Italian,Past" for homecoming this week.
The nostalgic theme has
been playing out in a series of
special dress-up days that start-
plus John Wayne's chili. A vari-
ety of desserts will be offered,
as well.
Leanne Winterholler will
sing during the dinner.
A live auction will follow the
dinner, with Kurt McNabb as the
auctioneer.
"We have beautiful auc-
tion items, some pricey auction
items," Spragg said.
She said auction items in-
clude "very valuable" crystal,
collectable Christmas orna-
ed with Twin Day on Monday and
continued with Throwback TV
Show Character Day Tuesday.
Wednesday was Class Col-
ors Day and featured the annu-
al Homecoming Olympics in the
auxiliary gym.
Thursday is Decades Day,
with middle school students
dressing like the 1920s, staff
members the 60s, freshmen the
90s, sophomores the 80s, juniors
the 50s and seniors the 70s.
ments, afghans and quilts, jew- The annual Navajo Taco Din-
elry, gift baskets, gift cards, din- her will be held from 4 to 7 p.m.
her at the Irma Hotel in Cody, in the cafeteria, sponsored by
homemade chaps, a knife and the Junior Class. Prices are $5
more. for a single taco, $2 for a plain
Spragg urges the public scone and $I for p0p. Proceeds
support the fundraiser, go to support prom and next
"It's. Our, only income, besides year's semor" activities.
donatxons, she said. "We're not As the dinner wraps up, the
funded by anybody." powder puff football game will
be played at 6:30 p.m followed
ture in September like this one,
but I think we're pushing three
inches," Bjornestad said. "This is
the wettest September I can re-
call since I moved back here in
2002. Typically we'll get a storm
in September, but this is the third
or fourth event we've had (the
weekend rain). It's crazy."
by the pep rally and bonfire at
Powell hunter featuring cheers, the intro- the elementary school to rev
duction of fall sports teams and up school spirit for the football
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The rains make harvesting
difficult, Bjornestad said, but so
far - since it's been early harvest
- the factory in Lovell has been
operating steadily since oper-
ations began on September 16,
with digging getting going about
two days before that.
"We've maintained a suf-
ficient supply for factory op-
erations," Western Sugar Vice
Preside/at of Agriculture for the
North Region Randall Jobman
said Tuesday. "We start regular
operations Friday. It's kept the
(Lovell) factory operating, but it's
definitery been a wet September.
"We'll open all stations for
regular harvest Friday. We har-
vest around rainstorms. We har-
vest when we can. We!ve been
able to do that."
Asked if mud coming in with
the beets has been a problem,
Jobman noted, "We have good
growers. . They do their best to
bring us a good, clean beet."
This week's cold weath-
er hasn't been a problem so
far, Jobman said. Cold days
cool the ground and cool the
internal temperature of the
beets, he said.
SEE 'RAIN SLOWS BEET
HARVEST' page 6
Big Horn County Search and
Rescue and deputies searched
throughout the night and locat-
ed Brockie at 7:40 a.m.
Blackburn said evidence
suggests that after hunting in
DAVID PECK
Perfectly matched on homecoming Twin Day Monday are Rocky Mountain students (l-r) Gena Mader,
Taylor Despain, Zach Simmons and Jaxon Jolley.
found deceased the crowning of the homecom- games, and the high school
stu-
ing royalty. ~ dents will hand out Grizzly cards
outside of Byron Friday is Brown and Gold to the elementary students.
Day and will feature a talent The Grizzlies will host the
BY RYAN Frl-ZMAURICE show and class videos at 8:45Shoshoni Wranglers for the
An overnight search througha.m followed by the homecom- homecoming football game at
the badlands south of Byron re- ing parade to the elementary 6 p.m. Friday. The homecom-
suited in the discovery of a de- school at 10:15 a.m. The parade ing royalty will be introduced at
ceased Powell man, who died af- will run north to Main Street, halftime.
ter finishing one last successful west to Division and south to the The homecoming dance will
hunt. elementary school. The public is be held at the Log Gym this year,
According to Big Horn invited and encouraged to watch Arnold said, and will begin at 8:30
County Sheriff Ken Blackburn, the parade, student council ad- p.m. Saturday with semi-formal
Richard Brockie, 74, was foundvisor Vicki Arnold said. attire. The homecoming royalty
deceased in his truck upon An assembly will be held at will be introduced at 9 p.m.
emergency service's arrival.
Deputies received a call
from Brockie's wife that he had Wyoming Alternative Well
gone antelope hunting and had
not returned at 11 p.m Thurs-
day, Sept. 26. BY R 'AN FWZMAURICE don't understand what it is and -
Deputies carried out a phone It's not a pot shop. what it s trying to do, William
trace of the last phone contact William and Jazmyn Hen- Henton said.
the subject had made and were ton opened Wyoming Alternative The first task of Wyoming A1-
able tO receivea location outside Wellness in September in Lovell ternative Wellness is not even
of Emblem. on Nevada Avenue, and the first selling their products. It's educa-
challenge for the business is just tion. It's important, Henton said,
telling the community what they because CBD can do the resi-
actually are. dents of Lovell a lot of good.
Much of that education takes "We kind of started this lit-
place in the form of concerned tle business to help out the com-
citizens entering the store to ask
area 78, Brockie shot a buck an- questions, but even family mem-
telope and dragged the antelope bers have been alarmed.
back to his truck. "Before we had even opened,
Tire tracks suggest that . I was talking to my grandmother
upon beginning his drive back and talking to her about it and
into town, everything was nor-she was like 'oh, you!re opening
mal, but the car began to veera weed store,' Jazmyn Henton re-
off the road slowly, coming to
rest in a divot on the side of the
road.
Foul play is not suspected,
Blackburn said. Brockie suffered
calls. "And I was like 'no grandma,
no we re not
William Henton said it's a
common reaction they've been
getting since they opened their
doors.
"People look at this store and
they're like 'we don't want that
store here,' but it's because they
from a health condition and it's
believed the cause of death was
SEE 'HUNTER FOUND' page 6
munity, to get people off, the pain
pills and stuff, because it s a great
non-addictive alternative to the
pain pills, they're so prevalent in
our little town. We're trying to do
what we can to help people out."
CBD is an abbreviation for
cannabidoil and is the second
most active ingredient in can-
nabis, but Wyoming Alternative
Wellness derives its productive
from hemp, a cousin to marijuana
that does not contain THC, which
causes the high associated with
cannabis.
SEE 'WYOMING ALTERNATIVE
WELLNESS' page 6
DAVID PECK
Assuming the pose Tuesday for Throwback TV Character Day
Tuesday are Charlie's Angels (l-r) Zoey Davison and twins Anna
and Victoria Arnold.
introduces itself to Lovell
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Jazmyn and William Henton stand at their store counter, where
a number of CBD products are displayed. The Hentons' shop,
Wyoming Alternative Wellness, opened last month.
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