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As a senior citizen with steadily declining health, I'm forced to think about my own mortality. Last week's newspaper stated Wyoming as having “one of the nation's highest rates of suicide, often leading the U.S.” You know what else we lead the country in? Elderly. According to the WY Dept. of Health: Aging Division, “it is projected that by the year 2020, WY will have the highest proportion of people between the ages of 65-74 in the U.S WY population is aging fast intensified as the baby-boomer cohort reaches retirement at an annual rate inc...
Through years of attendance to State Park facilities, we have been impressed with the staff that we have met in these facilities. Friends, family and guests have come to our State Park and have been very impressed with the appearance of the grounds and efficiency of the workers there. A personal thank you is given to the employees of these Parks. My wife and I, and others in our community, have attended a number of meetings in regard to the Hot Springs State Park and the formation of a 20 year master plan. In many of these meetings we have...
On Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015 there was a range fire on Copper Mountain. It was not known how the fire started but the from the time 911 was call the Thermopolis Volunteer fire fighters and BLM fire fighters arrived on Copper Mountain it seemed like a very short time. Their teams went right to work and had the fire contained within a couple of hours. The wind stayed calm and the borate bomber was able to keep the fire from really getting out of hand. We would like to thank all the men that were involved, their fast response and for keeping the...
Harry and the “Just Say No PAC” pretty well summed up their stance in the opening paragraph of Harry Hughes’ letter to the editor in the Sept. 10 Independent Record. They would like a hospital in our community, they just don't want to have to help pay for it. In fact, one of their group said that very thing at a hospital board meeting. That is their interpretation of “The Wyoming Way” as near as I can tell. As someone who was born in, raised in and lived nearly my whole life in Wyoming that interpretation is frankly kind of embarrass...
I am President of the Just Say No Political Action Committee (PAC). Some folks in town believe that we are opposed to a new hospital. Nothing could be further from the truth. Every member of our PAC thinks that our county needs adequate health care. We are opposed to a special use District; because the recent developments in Washakie and Fremont Counties demonstrate that there are other business models available to provide quality health care without taxation. We have a management model in place that has not worked, is not working now and will...
America has now reached a very dangerous crossroads, a time in history far more treacherous than during our civil war. For the very first time since the founding of this nation, we and our Constitution are betrayed by all three branches of our federal government: executive, legislative, and judicial. I write this as Kim Davis, a County Clerk in Kentucky, sits in a jail cell, imprisoned by our legal system when she should have been protected by it. She could very well be America’s first political prisoner, jailed for her beliefs. I sincerely hop...
In the August 27, 2015, issue of the Independent Record there appeared a picture and article about the removal of the yellow rose bushes, expect for a few from the south end of the Bicentennial Park. These bushes have added beauty and protection of users of the park from dangers to which they were exposed to along the alley going next to the south end of the park. The park was established in honor of the Bicentennial of our Nation. It was and is for the enjoyment of adults and children alike. There is a children’s play park elsewhere. This p...
As technology relentlessly consumes low-end jobs, the skill-ladder has become a skill-pyramid, i.e., there is not room for everyone at the top. Whenever I can, I try to tell young people that they need to find a skill that cannot be outsourced, cannot be automated, and is still useful when our house-of-cards begins to collapse. The recent book, “Rise of the Robots,” by Martin Ford, speaks to this issue in ways that should scare us all. Jim Harvey, Salt Lake City, Utah Former Thermopolis resident...
I am so glad I taught at the schools at the time when vocational education was looked upon with enthusiasm. Today at Hot Springs County schools we no longer have the courses for the world of work. Our business education is nil, family and consumer science is nil, industrial arts is not good and auto mechanics is good but should have a full day to meet the student’s needs. We used to have two full time industrial arts teachers and the person building your house, making changes in your house, roofing are all graduates of the high school p...
Fifteen years ago this week, the Kate’s Basin Fire was raging up on the divide between Hot Springs County and the Wind River Reservation. On August 11, 2000, in a place called Mexican Pass a firefighter lost his life in that fire. His name was James Alan Burnett. Mr. Burnett was 51 years old and though he lived in Hatfield, Arkansas, he worked for Oklahoma Forestry Services. He came to Wyoming as part of a five man team, first to battle the Enos Creek fire and then the enormous Kate’s Basin fire. Through the winds and flames some very bra...
Well, it seems there is at least one unhappy person in our community, someone who leads such a melancholy life that he/she can only attain satisfaction by spreading his/her misery to others, including our local businesses. This person sought to attack my employer by filing an anonymous (of course) complaint with the fire chief. This person hides behind the cloak of anonymity just as others have done recently through complaints on social media. Such brave people. The complaint was that my employer was creating the business’s main product u...
After reading about the proposal about the park issue – it’s way redundant. There is no way a building like that wouldn’t affect the beauty of the park. Looking down at that end of the park is the most beautiful scene that you can ask for. A wooden structure, stone structure – what ever – it would be a distraction. The building, parking spaces, etc. would eliminate about one half of the park. And using the lack of parking as a reason for the project – it’s a park. A park is for walking and relaxing. As for the Starbuck’s style restaurant, a l...
“The best fly fishing in the country,” is what some are calling the short stretch of the Big Horn River from Wedding of the Waters through Thermopolis. Newspapers, magazines and television have been luring anglers from all parts of the country, as far as New York, Louisiana and Texas, giving the local economy a ‘shot in the arm.’ A history of other rivers, once considered, great fisheries, are fished out and only “so-so” today. The Big Horn is now the champion attraction. Along with the increase of fishermen and “tubers” comes empty cans, plast...
Every citizen able to vote should boycott any or all groups who want to keep us from hearing every Presidential candidates explanation of why they believe they are the best....
I see that the no-trespassing signs are up again at the ‘King-Spiller Learning Center.’ Cal had a good idea to set that land aside for that. The tourist could come up and learn something. Kids could spend time at the park and then do some exploring up there. People could talk about everything that they had seen up here. Now they can go back and talk about everything they couldn’t see. Heck, they can take pictures of the sun setting over a no-trespassing sign – beautiful. We need something for people to see and enjoy. I hope the town had eno...
Flag Day will soon be here so this is a good time to remind business owners and individuals to replace your tattered, dirty U.S. flags with new ones. Please dispose of them properly....
A representative of the Set Free Church seems to want the Law Enforcement Center rules changed to suit himself and some family members of inmates of our local jail. Someone should remind him, our jail is not a WalMart, open 24/7 for a reason. Possibly the inmates could have used his ministering before they committed their crimes. Then they might be on the outside, not incarcerated....
Thanks to everyone who supported trying to change the city ordinance to let chickens in the city limits. I got about 100 signatures in less than a week, but for the town council that wasn’t enough. They commented that all they got was people calling them and saying “no” to the chickens. It would have been more fair I felt if they would have given me more time, or told me how many signatures I needed. Then it sounded like I should have rules and regulations for keeping them. Only one council member had an open mind to take it further. I’ll...
It is my understanding that changes are being made to the rose bushes at the south end of Bicentennial Park at 5th and Broadway in Thermopolis. At this time it is good to remember why they were planted there in the first place and the history of the park. After fire destroyed much of the area the idea of making it over into a park in honor of our Nation was considered. Much work of the people of the county went toward its establishment. The Hot Springs County and The Thermopolis Bicentennial Committees undertook the park’s establishment as a p...
We want to express our appreciation of the Rural Medical Care Transition Program provided through the hospital. The program is offered statewide and is designed to reduce hospital costs by assisting patients who are 65 years and older with one of ten qualifying diagnoses and by reducing re-hospitalization of those patients. We have enjoyed the relationship built with the nurse coach assigned to work with Gene following two separate hospital stays. The program provides nurse coaches to assist patients as they transition from doctors, hospitals...
Recently, a Nevada Senator had an unusual moment of honesty and declared he knew he was lying when he said a former Presidential candidate had not paid any taxes in twenty years. When asked about lying he said, “We won.” I appreciate the U.S. Senator reminding us that there are many in politics that have no problem doing whatever they must do to get what they want and to win. Why is this important? Simply go to the Bible and read John 8:44. Pastor Chuck Cooper...
