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What started out as a one-time thing with a bored eighth grader in the stands at a basketball game has turned into a three-year mini "career" for sophomore Hayden Mayne. If you haven't heard yet, Mayne is the teenaged voice of the Bobcats, calling the games using his cell phone so those who can't make the games can still hear them via Facebook. For a time, Mayne was the manager for boys basketball and even did some of their video, but his heart lies in calling the games and he's well on his way...
Varnie Striplin moved to Thermopolis in 2000, though he was originally born and raised in Albany, Ga. He graduated in 1956 from Moultrie High School. As to what brought him here, Striplin said it was "to find a nursing home that would take my mom and dad, and put them in the same room," that home being Canyon Hills Manor. His brother-in law, who was born and Lusk and lived in Casper, and his dad worked at the old Sideboard. They encouraged Striplin to come up and see the facility, and on that...
Joe Doak and the Worland Football Officials Association has been selected by the Wyoming High School Activities Association to officiate the Class 3A Semifinal playoff game between Powell and Cody. The game will be played in Cody on Friday, Nov. 8 at 6 p.m....
Its time to pull out that saw, a little paint and all your creativity for a great cause. Items made from wood, even those that have been repurposed for a new life, are being sought for the Wonders with Wood charity event to benefit the People for People backpack program. The silent auction will be held on Saturday, November 23 from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. at the Thermopolis Middle School. All proceeds for the event will go directly to the backpack program, which provide easy to make food items for children to eat over the weekend. Many of our...
Joe Doak and the Worland Football Officials Association has ben selected by the Wyoming High School Activities Association to officiate the Class 3A first round playoff game between Jackson and Riverton. The game will be played in Riverton on Friday, Nov. 1. Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital employees Alyssa Lempka, Heather Castro, Kayla Wood and Connie Hart recently completed the Intermediate Fetal Monitoring Course. Castro, Jeri Slover, Crystal Merrill, Jennifer Paris, Bree Christiansen, Tara Henrie, Jeri Umbdenstock, Elizabeth Oliver,...
Thermopolis' own Don Bjorhus was honored as the 2019 Hall of Fame recipient for the Wyoming Recreation and Parks Association (WRPA) on Oct. 2. Bjorhus has a long career in both sports and recreation having received his Associates Degree from Otero Junior College in Business Administration while playing varsity baseball, then moved on to receive his Bachelors degree in Human Performance and Sport at Metro State College while again, playing varsity baseball. He went on to become the assistant...
Waiting to get some lunch at the Hot Springs County Senior Center, Betty Tuffner visited for a few minutes about her move to Thermopolis. "I moved here this time in 2004," Tuffner said, "but I lived here before in 1988 and '89." Her most recent move was from Sheridan. Raised in southern Utah, Tuffner said what brought her to Thermopolis in the 1980's was her husband Ken's work. "My husband is an electrician and we were following the oil patch." This last move was after he decided to retire. "He...
Ashley Cleare’s smiling face at Ralph Witters Elementary is a familiar sight to students, staff and parents, though the past year has seen her come and go at the school during her battle with breast cancer. “Almost a year ago,” she said, “I felt a lump. I randomly thought I would do a self-check and found it.” She waited a month to see if it would go away and when it didn’t she went to the doctor in early January. A mammogram and ultrasound were performed, “and things really went fast from the...
After a 27-year career Hot Springs County Jail Administrator Beth Price will bid farewell, with her official last day on Nov. 6. Price moved to Thermopolis from Grand Junction, Colorado in 1975. "People around here have been nice enough to stay," she said with a smile. While in Colorado, she was a hairdresser, a profession she continued after the move. She went back to school, attending Central Wyoming College, earning a Computer Science degree. However, her career path took her to work at Hot S...
Among those seen at the Hot Springs County Senior Center are couple Frank and Colleen Rhodes. The two recently started going to the center and said they have good food and a very accommodating. Colleen jokes that her husband is "a foreigner," having been born in Meeteetse but moving here when he was seven years old. The two met in high school and were married shortly following graduation; they recently celebrated the 60th anniversary of their wedding, Aug. 30, 1959. "Sixty years out of school...
Dick Hall said he got here when he was 12 years old, coming from Great Falls, Mont. "Before that we lived in Shelby, and before that we lived in Midwest, and before that we lived in California, and before that we lived in New Mexico." As to why he moved around so much, Hall said his father was a petroleum engineer who was later appointed the district engineer here, for the United States Geological Survey. After he graduated high school in 1948, "on a Sunday afternoon, and Monday morning I was...
Hot Springs County High School is home to three international students this school year, and among them is Aurora Sanfelici from northern Italy around the same region as Milan, who arrived on Aug. 16, and is attending school as a senior. Sanfelici is visiting through the Rotary Youth Exchange program, the same which provided Hyrum Rich the opportunity to travel to and study in Aguascalientes, Mexico. She noted the United States was among her choices to travel, and it's one of the best places...
About 78 years ago, Nancy Haynes came into the world in Sunnyside, Wash., in a building that was a combination nursing home and hospital. “I have a picture of it,” she said of the building, noting her friend bought the house several years ago and currently lives there. “It still had the original wiring in it.” Haynes said her grandparents, her father and his family had come from Iowa to Sunnyside, where his uncle had a pear and apple orchard. She recalled working at a restaurant in Oregon later in her life when the assistant manager informe...
On July 15, Darren Kennedy took the final step in becoming a U.S. citizen, a process that began with a temporary visa and an online connection. Born in 1989, in Randalstown, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, Belfast City, Kennedy lived there until he was 23, including five years of schooling as a chef at Trostan Avenue University in Ballymena. "Then I met Cyle," Kennedy said of his meeting Cyle Hart online in February of 2011; the two would meet in person more than a year later - September of...
On July 19 at the 36th annual Wyoming Coaches Association and Wyoming Sports Official Association Hall Of Fame Banquet, Joe Doak was inducted in to the Wyoming High School Activities Association (WHSAA) Hall of Fame for his contribution to the youth of Wyoming through his years of service as a sports official in football and basketball. The WHSAA presented Doak with a gold lifetime pass and a hall of fame ring, and a pictured plaque of Doak will be on display at the Casper Events Center. Doak is...
At 90 years old, reading a newspaper and waiting for lunch to start at the Thermopolis Senior Center, Frank Walker has seen and done plenty in his life. A Thermopolis resident since 2016, he and his family were born in Lucerne. He recalled growing up in the second house across the tracks on the right side and going to school in the red brick school house that has since been torn down. "There used to be a white post office right at the corner," he further recalled, "and Mrs. Allen ran the post...
Later this month, junior Hyrum Rich will be leaving Thermopolis for a 10-month stay at Aguascalientes, Mexico - also named for its hot springs - through the Rotary Youth Exchange program. Rich noted this is the first such exchange in several years for the local chapter of Rotary International. Through the program, he explained, students are selected from Wyoming, Colorado and Idaho, and put in something of a "mixing pot." From that pot the students are sent to different countries; those...
Hitting bookstores next month in the United Kingdom will be "Lord of Secrets," written by Breanna Teintze. Born in Thermopolis, Teintze lived here until she was about 11 to 12 years old. The area still feels like home, she said, and the red dirt and sagebrush settings tends to show up in her writing. When she was younger, she explained, her father's job moved and so did she. Also, her husband works for a cement plant and tends to move around. Writing is "just kind of something I've done my...
Among the regular faces at the Hot Springs County Senior Center is Mike Kelley, who not only stops by for lunch or to visit, but has helped in various capacities. Kelley and his wife Joyce, who has passed away, moved to Thermopolis in 2001. Kelley has worked for several phone companies including Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph, U.S. West and Qwest, retiring from the work in 1990. It was that work that brought him to Thermopolis. As he explained, Kelley hired on in 1959 in Colorado, and...
Those who stop in at the Hot Springs County Senior Center on a Friday might spot Mary Jo Mason off of the main dining area, providing blood pressure readings. "I come every Friday," Mason said, "and I'm here from 10 until noon." She described the center as "the neatest place. The food is good and the people are wonderful. They have all kinds of events." Born in Arlington, Texas, Mason moved to Thermopolis in 1991. She had a portrait studio here - Picture This Photography - for seven years, and...
by Mark Dykes Independence Day is one of several days throughout the year where we have the time to reflect on what it means to be an American, the freedom we enjoy and the soldiers who made that freedom possible. Jeff Strong enlisted in the United States Air Force in January of 1971. The first three quarters of the year, he said, were various kinds of training at locations including Sheppard Air Force Base, Brooks Airfield and Lackland Air Force, undergoing jet engine training and helicopter...
A walk up the stairs at Mortimore Funeral Home calls to mind scenes from timeless silver screen treasures such as Back to the Future and Hook, but for Mike Mortimore, there's riches of another kind in his clock repair shop. Mortimore said he wants to work in the arena of clock repair, and between his shop and his home he has 80-100 clocks that he plans to sell. He's gone to shops in other towns and seen that they sell for $400-500, but he plans to sell them for half that price. The clocks in...
The public is invited to attend Father Joe and Ellen Galligan's retirement barbecue on Saturday, June 29 from 11:30 a.m. until 2 p.m. on the lawn of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church. Joe Galligan was born and raised in the Episcopal Church, in a number of different dioceses around the country. He further explained he was born in Connecticut and was a member of the church growing up and while in the service. He and his wife married in 1969 when he was on assignment to a naval academy as a...
Nothing is more exciting in the spring than the birth of all the new animal babies, and this year, at the Bar None Morgan Ranch, they've had their fair share of excitement with the arrival of 17 new foals. Harvey and Lois Seidel are the owners of the Bar None Ranch and if you look to the east on your way into the canyon, you just may catch a glimpse of the babies and their mothers running and playing in the grass. The Bar None pedigree begins with a mare named Shawnee Lass and a stallion named...
If you’ve ever been to one of the ArtStrolls on the second Friday of the month, stopped out to hear some acoustic or Bluegrass at Southside or been to a live concert at the state park, chances are you’ve seen John Brooks play. Brooks was born in and went to high school in Denver, then went to Powell and worked with Marathon Pipeline on the summer crew and remained there, attending college at Northwest. His wife, Trudi, is from Powell and the two recently celebrated their 49th anniversary. As...
