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Ann M. Flathers, 87, passed away on Monday, December 6, 2016, at the Care & Comfort Home. Ann was born on July 18, 1929, in Long Prairie, Minn., the youngest of several children born to Vincent and Elizabeth (Lensing) Nanik. She was raised in the Long Prairie area, until her high school graduation at 16. Following her graduation, she moved to Havre to help her Sister Hattie during the birth of her first child. While in Havre, Ann attended Northern Montana College and received her Associate Degree as a legal secretary. She also met a wonderful... Full story
If there’s one thing for certain in these past few weeks, it’s that the snow isn’t leaving anytime soon. In addition to making sure your vehicle is equipped with an emergency kit, should you happen to get stuck, the best thing you can do is be more cautious while behind the wheel Yes, there are plow vehicles that are going to regularly keep the streets and highways clear. Keep in mind those trucks might not get to your neck of the woods as quickly as you hope, but they do get there. Just like nearly every job, they have their priority and s...
“December 7th, a day which will live in infamy.” President Franklin D. Roosevelt It was a beautiful Hawaiian morning in 1941. I’m sure the skies were blue and the scent of exotic native flowers filled the air. Until 7:48 a.m. when the naval base at Pearl Harbor was attacked by 353 fighter planes, bombers and torpedo planes from the Imperial Japanese Navy. Eight of our country’s battleships were damaged. Four were sunk. Three cruisers, three destroyers, an anti-aircraft training ship and a minel...
A lot of people are angry. Some of that is caused by fear of the unknown and of what will become of our families and friends as we head into a new political era. It’s natural to fear what we don’t know and to be angry at what we cannot understand. And we’re sorry to say that we in the media shoulder much of the blame. If you peruse the national headlines you’re not likely to find much of anything along the lines of news. Most of what our national media covers these days is nothing more than speculation. Those things once relegated to a few pag...
The day before Thanksgiving, we were involved in an accident just a few miles north of Thermopolis. Our rental car hit a deer and the side airbags deployed. We are all from Wyoming originally and were coming home to see our mother/ grandma for Thanksgiving. We’d planned a road trip from the Denver airport “for old time’s sake,” as when the “girls” (now women on either side of 40) were little, we spent lots of time together. Now all four of us live in different states. After we hit the deer, what had been a wonderful day of reminiscing...
The Governor of the great state of Wyoming, Matthew H. Mead, has proclaimed Wednesday, Dec. 7 as Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. It is earnestly recommended by the few remaining veterans in Wyoming of the attack on Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941, that we all honor the many heroes that fell that day at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and the many that were wounded. It is also requested by the same surviving veterans that all school teachers in this area bring to the children’s attention what happened at Pearl Harbor and that is was the first day of WWII. For more i...
Do you have that one person on your Christmas list that is impossible to buy for? You know, the one who already has everything or is so picky about what they have that you finally give up and just give them a gift card? Yeah, we’ve all got one. Me, I’m pretty easy to buy for. No matter what my kids have bought me for Christmas, I’ve always loved it, even if it was just a drawing they did or the requisite colored macaroni necklace. The snub-nosed .38 and mop I got for Mother’s Day from my ex w...
With our nights getting longer and colder, this gives me an excuse to watch my favorite movies that take place in our state, feature our state or include themes about Wyoming. Here is my list of favorites: Most recently, the best movie of the year according to the Academy Awards was The Revenant, which has over-riding Wyoming themes with much of it filmed as if it were here. A very cold, wintry Wyoming was depicted. Other western movies dominate these selections. In Hollywood jargon, cowboy movies were often called “oaters.” Most of these on th...
Mother Nature reared her ugly head and dropped seven-inches of white stuff across Hot Springs County last week, reminding us that the days of flip flops and sunscreen are surely over for a few months. With that in mind, are you prepared should a big storm hit? Everyone should have a few days supply of food and water in the house, things that don’t require cooking in case the electricity goes out. Oh, and that electric can opener probably won’t do you any good either, so an old fashioned one would be good to have in the junk drawer. Extra bla...
Referencing the recent Rex’s Ramblings column, it’s obvious on which side of the political aisle he stands. It’s obvious that the author still reads from the tired old Democrat playbook - the one Democrats relied on to defeat President-Elect Trump (oops, that didn’t work for them, did it?). The playbook that states it doesn’t matter if a charge is true or false, what’s important is the seriousness of the charge. Of course, as with all trumped-up charges brought to every election season in October by the Democrats, the charges have been proven...
All the police reports of dogs running loose and barking I wonder if one person is doing much of the complaining. I like to hear dogs barking. They alert us if somebody’s around that shouldn’t be. Unless maybe they’re being abused, hungry, thirsty, left out on a cold night. They’re just four legged family and need love. Burglars claimed dogs, even little ones, are better deterrent to crime than any other alarm. The most intelligent animal with their sharp smell and hearing are able to do many tasks impossible for man. They risk their lives,...
November is National Caregiver’s month. I hope we will all take a moment to recognize and thank the ever-growing group of unsung heroes in Wyoming. In our communities and counties, rural and urban, they do things like give baths and help others get dressed. They dispense medicine and provide transportation to doctor’s appointments. They are family caregivers. In our state, more than 66,000 people are caregivers. Chances are, you know, have been, or are a family caregiver. It is estimated that in Wyoming they contribute upwards of 62 mil...
Though it always feels a bit redundant when I say it — especially considering the season we’re in — I would like to take this opportunity to remind everyone to be thankful. Like I said, redundant, with the great “turkey day” less then 48 hours away. I, like many of you, am grateful for my family and friends, who are just a drive across town, a phone call or an email away. I’m especially looking forward to spending a few days with my in-laws, enjoying the ham, turkey, potatoes, and everything...
With the hectic 2016 campaign season behind us, what better time for the holidays to come and remind us of working together? As Thanksgiving and Christmas draw ever closer, plans are made for travel, if necessary, and when to start shopping for presents. To this latter, we remind people to take advantage of the shopping opportunities here in Thermopolis. Several businesses will be open early on Nov. 26 for shoppers’ convenience. Before taking your lists online or out of town, take advantage of what shopping locally can afford you. First, t...
Last Tuesday when you carefully colored in a lot of ovals in near record numbers, you accomplished what Congress, our State Legislature, and even our local Representative could not. You stood for supporting healthcare at the local level. At a time in our nation when Congress is more concerned with partisanship than governance , and sadly our state Legislature is trending that way, you the voters chose to take matters in your own hands and pocketbooks and support rural healthcare. Nearly two years ago when the legislature defeated Medicaid expan...
President-Elect Donald Trump told his fans that if he won, he wouldn’t question the outcome of the election, but if he didn’t, it would be only because the election was rigged. Heads I win; tails I win. He won, and he lost. He won because forever more he’ll be the outsider who overcame the odds to win the filthiest campaign in most people’s memory, and despite errors and incidents that would have doomed and did ordinary candidates of the past, he was re-markedly untouched and seemingly untroubled to any extent by the seriousness of charges...
Maybe it’s an age thing, but more and more I find little things that trigger memories from my childhood. That was the case this week when someone mentioned the old Rio Drive-In. Those of you of a certain age will surely remember pulling up to the post holding the speaker and fussing with the window to get it just right and then having to play with the volume until the scratchy audio was loud enough for everybody in the car to hear. I have vivid memories of seeing every Elvis movie at the d...
I was so humbled to see the election night results that we had gotten enough votes to pass the Hospital Initiatives. The PAC members were jumping up and down and cheering! We had all worked so hard to get to that moment! This campaign has been hard fought on both sides. The Common-Sense PAC had some great advocates. Their voices were heard in the community, and I hope will continue to be heard. We need to continue to have conversations with those individuals in opposition to figure out why they feel that way, and make changes to incorporate...
The 2016 general election proved to be a nail biter across the nation as states went from red to blue then back to red or vice versa in some cases. The race for President of the United States was so close in some states they could not be called even with over 95 percent of precincts reporting. Unlike Wyoming, which was called red just as polls were closing with zero percent of precincts reporting. Here in Hot Springs County we had our own important races to follow. An amazing 2,644 voters turned out for this election. There were record numbers...
Well, it’s come and gone. The election run of 2016 has officially come to an end. Like I‘m sure many of you were, I was glued to various television news stations for the national results and to my social media feed for the local results. Allow me to first extend my congratulations to those who won the offices for which they were running. To those who didn’t, I encourage you to look ahead and prep for the next election. Don’t let this election discourage you from that. In the meantime, I’m sur...
The 2016 general election is just around the corner where a number of important local, state and national races will be decided on. There are also four important propositions on the ballot for Hot Springs County voters. This issue of the Independent Record, along with several previous issues, contains an abundant amount of information on local candidates and ballot propositions along with a some information on state candidates. The presidential race has taken over the national media as well as making for some interesting, even when not...
My freshman civics teacher, Mr. Cormack, assigned many writing projects throughout the year requiring him to repeat his favorite admonition to be “brief, concise, and to the point.” When he assigned a paper extolling the right to vote, I took him seriously and wrote, “If people don’t vote, our country will die. But what if they vote wrong?” Mr. Cormack responded, “Mr. Clothier, it is possible to be TOO brief, concise, etc.” Given the state of our election campaigns, I’ve been thinking of historians’ controversies 1000 years in the future (sh...
Our pets become a huge part of our lives, whether it’s a fluffy kitten, playful puppy or a little gerbil running on its wheel, they are like family. Which makes me wonder exactly what my “family” is thinking. Punkin and Cupcake, my little fur-ball family members, are a delight. Most of the time. I’ve heard it said that animals will bring you “presents” when they love you. I’ve also heard those presents can be because they think you’re a lousy hunter. I’m going with the latter rather than the f...
The Internet is not the latest, “greatest” thing to come along and threaten to upend the newspaper industry. In 1927, Charles Lindbergh’s historic flight across the Atlantic Ocean was covered by Fox Movietone News. It sparked rumors and fears of the end of the newspaper industry. The advent of radio news and later, television broadcasts, led to the more rumors that newspapers were done as an industry. But ink and pulp have persevered. Not every newspaper from 100 years ago is still around, but many of the ones that are left are stalwarts of wh...
To the good people of Thermopolis, We want to thank you for the treasure that you have in Hot Springs State Park and the good people who work there. At the end of August we stopped in Thermopolis to enjoy the hot springs on our way home from visiting family and friends in the Southwest. I removed my wedding rings before enjoying the mineral springs and, somehow, lost them between the locker room and my car. We reported the loss to the police and received excellent help there. When we returned to the pool, the people on duty that day diligently...
