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Several local churches are sponsoring a Prayer Service in connection with the National Day of Prayer to be held, Monday, May 9 at 12:15 p.m. in Bicentennial Park next to the Independent Record. The public is invited to attend. President George Washington issued the first proclamation on February 19, 1795, calling upon Americans to set aside a Thursday in May for a national day of prayer and fasting. In 1988, a bill was introduced which fixed the annual National Day of Prayer at the first Thursday in May. It received broad bipartisan...
The Thermopolis Post Office is gearing up for the National Association of Letter Carriers’ Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive Saturday, May 14. All food collected will go to four local pantries including People for People, Community Church, Risen Son Christian Church and River of Life Church. Watch for donation bags in your mail box next week. Food items should be nonperishable items, such as canned meats, soup, fruits and vegetables; and packaged nonperishables such as pasta, cereal, powdered milk. Food bags will be picked up May 14 during postal r...
Fourth grade teacher Toby Emery gives fourth grader Mari Ford an award and a high five during the Ralph Witters Elementary awards ceremony....
The Children’s Resource Center is sponsoring a showing of “The Incredibles” Saturday, May 7 at noon at the Ritz Theater. Come dressed as your favorite super hero and receive a prize. Cost is $5 per person. Proceeds go toward the Dolly Parton Imagination Library providing free books to children birth to five years old. For more information, call 864-9227....
Reserve your table now for the second annual Eagle RV Park Garage Sale set for Saturday, May 15 from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Everyone is welcome to participate. Seller is responsible for their own items and taking any of their unsold items home when done. To reserve a table or for more information, contact (307) 315-0332....
The NED Show, which promotes positive behavior and academic achievement in elementary schools, did a presentation on April 27 at the auditorium for both Ralph Witters Elementary and Thermopolis Middle School students....
Ralph Witters Elementary fourth graders, split into two separate trips, visited Yellowstone National Park. The first trip was April 15-18 and the second trip was April 29-May 2. Fourth grade teacher Anna Wassing took the first group of students to explore the park. "The students were excited to see a grizzly bear," Wassing said. "They also had a fox trot along within 100 feet of the group. And of course, there was the always exciting event of one group of girls finding a mouse in their cabin."...
The Thermopolis Gymkhana series will start Sunday, May 1 at the Hot Springs County Fairgrounds. The gymkhana features fun events for horseback riders up to the age of 18. Events include barrels, poles, a flag race, goat tying, dummy roping and an egg race. Age groups will be lead line (5 and under), peewee (6-8), junior (9-13) and senior (14-18). The series will run once a month through Sept. Participants can pay a family membership fee of $40 or an individual membership fee of $20 to compete toward year end awards or they can participate as...
La Leche League of the Big Horn Basin meets at 10 a.m. on the last Saturday of each month at the Hot Springs County Library. La Leche League Leader Heather Olsen said the group is open to anyone in the community. "It's a free support group so anyone in the community can attend - breastfeeding moms, husbands, support partners," she said. "They are all welcome to attend." Olsen said the group covers a large amount of information. "We talk about pregnancy, breastfeeding, childbirth, when to...
Kim Enis, of Kim's Daycare, brought children for a picnic lunch and to play in Bicentennial Park April 21....
The Hot Springs County High School FFA Banquet will be held Monday, May 2 beginning at 6 p.m. in the High School Ag Shop. FFA advisor Britton Van Heule said everyone will have a free milk can dinner in the shop and then move to the school auditorium for the awards. FFA officers will be presenting chapter members and community members with awards from the year, Van Heule said. "The banquet is important because it is a chance for the students and I to show our appreciation for members, their...
Abigail Flowers and Oliver Bihr take laps on trikes inside the fair building Saturday for the Children's Resource Center St. Jude Trike-A-Thon fundraiser....
Hot Springs County High School will be holding their junior/senior prom from 9 p.m. – midnight Saturday at the Days Inn Ballroom. This year's theme is "Paris Masquerade." The Grand March will be from 8-9 p.m. in the school auditorium. King and Queen nominations were not available at press time....
Jeff Strong mixes up the raffle tickets before drawing for a winner during the Bill McCormick Memorial Scholarship fundraiser Friday evening. Assisting him are past scholarship winners Dawn Jones and Belinda Moore. Raffle winners were Madonna McIntosh and Dave Weber. Amanda Dinsmore and Eryn Robinson presented their speech duet "A Piece of My Heart" to the audience....
The Hot Springs County Pioneer Association will hold their annual meeting Saturday, April 23 at 1:30 p.m. at the Hot Springs County Museum and Cultural Center. Following the business meeting, honey bee experts Dr. Jack States from Lander and Don Bryant of Bryant Honey will present an interesting and educational program on the history, present challenges and future of the bee/honey industry in Wyoming and the world. The public is invited to attend. Refreshments will be served....
Author, historian and working attorney John W. Davis, of Worland, presented his research on Tom Horn at the Hot Springs County Library on Thursday. Following the presentation, Davis signed copies of his books The Trial of Tom Horn and Wyoming Range War: The Infamous Invasion of Johnson County. "Horn is one of those people that is not admirable by any means but fascinating nonetheless," he said. "Horn did kill men - there's no doubt about it. He was a killer, but he had a remarkable amount of...
Hot Springs County Extension Service is hosting a Home and Garden Workshop Thursday, April 28 from 5:30-8 p.m. in the meeting room at Big Horn Federal. A variety of presentations will be given including: fermentation, pumpkins, landscaping with native plants and gardening without a rototiller. Light refreshments will be served. Everyone is welcome....
Risen Son Christian School fourth grader Jeffrey Lewis shows off one of the many items up for bids during the spaghetti dinner and auction fundraiser Saturday. Auctioneer Shawn McWilliams is in the background and Phil Scheel is watching for bidders. The event raised $22,729, with 100 percent going to the scholarship fund. When added with new monthly tuition pledges, the scholarship fund came to $24,500 on Friday....
Antiques Roadshow star John Sollo visited Thermopolis on Saturday at Broadway Bygones where he appraised antiques brought into the store by local residents. Sollo said he was invited to do this event by his friend, Barb Heinze. "We've done all kinds of fun things today," Sollo said. "We've done a little bit of furniture - a little bit of everything to tell you the truth. I haven't found anything yet that people will be able to retire from - no Rembrandts, but I did see a lot of nice stuff and I... Full story
Hot Springs County held its Democratic Caucus on Saturday at the Hot Springs County Library, resulting in one delegate representing Bernie Sanders and one delegate representing Hillary Clinton at the Wyoming Democratic Convention on May 28. Local delegates and alternates who will represent each candidate at the state level will be announced later this week, after receiving approval from the state. There were no votes for Roque “Rocky” De La Feunte and no uncommitted voters at the county cau...
The Thermopolis Middle School Destination Imagination team recently was chosen, during State Competition at Casper, for a Wild Card position at Globals, but the team — made up of eighth graders Erica Meier, Jasmine Steadman, Katie Burrows, Breeze Petty, Hannah Hu and Naomi Bishop — needs some help from the community to get there. Known as the Pretty Little “DI”ers, the girls have already done some fundraisers involving cabbage burgers, cinnamon rolls, fried rice and sesame chicken, and were pa...
Hot Springs County Library will sponsor a free presentation by John Davis on Thursday, April 14 at 7 p.m. “The Trial of Tom Horn” explores the hard-fought battle against vigilantism in Wyoming. It presents every twist and turn of a fascinating trial, and his account illuminates a larger narrative between the power of wealth and the forces of law and order. John Davis is a published author who graduated from Worland High School in 1961 before receiving his law degree from the University of Wyoming. He retired after practicing law in Worland for...
Terry Sani participated in the ArtStroll Friday evening with his Cardbirds & Creations. Sani said he has lived in Thermopolis for eight years. Originally from California, Sani built his first cardbirds in 1995 to use as dove decoys for dove hunting. His artwork has evolved from there. "I put the dove decoys on a barbed wire fence and hunted dove over them," he said....
The Hot Springs County Library kicked off National Library Week on Tuesday night with a Dinner and Movie event. The library served chili with garnishes and beverages, and showed the 1971 classic drama "The Last Picture Show."...
Longtime Thermopolis resident, Joe Doak, presented "Growing up in Thermopolis" as part of the Hot Springs County Historical Society meeting on Saturday at the Hot Springs County Museum. Doak said as a referee he was not used to giving presentations. "I'm not used to talking to people like this," he said. "I'm used to people yelling at me." When he was growing up, Doak said everybody knew everybody and everybody knew his father was Alvy Doak. "It was quite interesting how many businesses this sma...
